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2 NEWS

NOV. 16- 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: EMELY NAVARRO • NEWS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Timeline: Post election at SDSU EMELY NAVARRO NEWS EDITOR ____________________________________ TUESDAY NOV. 8 At the Associated Students Rock the Vote viewing party students waited for the results of the election.

Kim Johnson said the results on this election would affect her family directly.

“My mom has cancer and can only afford her treatments and has only been able to stay alive because of what Obama has done. Knowing Trump wants to reverse that, I’m shaking,” Johnson said.

Mark McBroome, accounting senior, is a Trump supporter and wanted Donald Trump to win the presidency.

He said Trump’s experience as a businessman is part of the reason he will be a good president.

At 11:46 p.m. Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election.

WEDNESDAY NOV. 9 An SDSU student was victim of a strong-arm robbery which police are investigating as a hate crime for wearing a hijab in Parking Structure 12.

A statement from SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, Vice President of Student Affairs Eric Rivera and Interim Chief of Police Josh Mays said the comments made

Students at an Anti-Trump protest outside Hepner Hall on Nov. 10.

KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

to this student indicated she was targeted because of her Muslim faith.

The community safety alert from SDSUPD said two men, a white male adult and a Hispanic male adult in their twenties, grabbed the woman’s purse and backpack before leaving PS 12.

When campus police arrived to the scene the victim’s car was missing.

Aisha Sharif, sociology senior and friend of the robbery victim, said the men who robbed her friend told her to pack her bags because Trump was now president.

“It’s sad that it hadn’t even been 24 hours since he’s been elected and we’re already getting this type of hate,” Sharif said.

THURSDAY NOV. 10 Students gathered outside Hepner Hall at an anti-Trump protest organized by the Womnyn’s Outreach Association and MEChA from noon to 1:30 p.m.

During the protest over 200 students marched throughout campus shouting “No hate at State and “not my president.”

Junior political science and public health double major Chase Whittaker said he was not surprised by the turnout of students at the protest.

“There are so many people Trump has alienated and personally attacked,” he said. “If we continue to resist these awful changes our voice will be heard by

congress and they will have to act.”

Mohawned Alsalmi, mechanical engineering senior, said to him the protest showed students standing with each other and gave him hope.

The Department of Women’s Studies released a statement in which they said they do not support “a leader whose campaign was built on hate and abuse.”

“We reject any attempt to normalize sexual assault, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia, as well as the vilification of immigration and the differently-abled,” the statement said.

There were over 100 Women Studies student and faculty signatures in the statement.

SUNDAY NOV. 13 The Muslim Student Association cancelled their SDSU Demonstration Against Islamophobia after the victim of the hate crime asked them to cancel it .

MONDAY NOV. 14 The Women’s Resource Center held “Looking Forward and Building Power: A Post-Election Discussion.”

At the event, faculty talked about how they felt after the results of the presidential election and offered support for students and talked to clubs that were at the event.

SDSU student attacked for supporting Trump ALEX HALL STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego State communication junior Feras Jabro was attacked and beaten to the ground during a protest in El Cajon after the shooting of Alfred Olango on Sept. 28.

He was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat at the Black Lives Matter protest.

Jabro recorded the incident through Periscope where over six thousand people watched it live. Viewers saved the video from his Twitter and uploaded it to YouTube and Facebook where it now has over 7 million views.

Jabro is a resident of El Cajon and went to the protest to observe what was happening in his community.

He said someone in the protest called him out for his hat and soon after the crowd started attacking him.

After beating him up, the protesters

burned his hat, which was signed by Donald Trump.

“I was beaten to the ground and savagely attacked, kicked, stomped on and spit on just for wearing a hat,” Jabro said. “It was like I was an animal to them.

I wasn’t treated like another human being just for expressing my views.”

Jabro said he was so scared after the event that he completely privatized his Twitter and all other social media.

During the incident, he said he was in a state of disbelief and feared for his life.

After the attack he received death threats on Facebook from people telling him they were going to come find him.

“It’s extremely hypocritical,” Jabro said.

“Here are these people assembling to protest a supposed unjust death, yet on a moment’s notice they go from exercising their first amendment right to a peaceful protest to assaulting me essentially for my choice of clothing that happened to have a political opinion behind it.”

Jabro did an interview with Gina Loudon which aired on YouToo America where he talked about his El Cajon protest incident. He said a few other media outlets reached out to him for interviews, but he declined out of fear for his life.

Trump’s campaign put out an official statement in regards to the incident.

John Woodrum and Patti Siegmann from the California Trump campaign reached out to Jabro on Facebook after noticing the video was getting a lot of media attention.

The indicent eventually got back to Trump himself, and he sent Jabro two new signed hats.

“I think part of the reason these people felt like what they did to me was okay is because we have such hateful rhetoric spewing out of this election,” Jabro said. “When you have a presidential candidate who reaches millions of people and says that half of Trump supporters are deplorable people, by definition

racist, sexist homophobic people, that’s dangerous, scary rhetoric.”

The results of the election have caused protests all over the nation including on campus.

“We’ve already seen so much violence and hatred on campuses across the nation as well as off campus,” international security and conflict resolution senior Shaila Homan said. “We can’t and we shouldn’t be digressing in our progress because we have a lot to fight for still and we can’t go backwards” Students in opposition to Trump’s election as president protested on SDSU’s campus on Thursday.

Christopher Garcia, psychology premed senior, said he thought there was a divide in the country prior to the results.

“I honestly feel like we were never the United States to begin with,”he said.

“We were always on different sides we just never really voiced it out until the election happened.”

NEWS 3

NOV. 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: EMELY NAVARRO • NEWS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Support for student arrested in Iran WILL FRITZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Faculty and staff at San Diego State signed a letter affirming support for SDSU graduate Gholamrez “Robin” Shahini, although a friend of Shahini’s, Sevil Suleymani, said she was unhappy university administration had not previously stated their support for him.

Shahini is a dual Iranian-American citizen and a 2016 international security and conflict resolution graduate of SDSU. He was arrested in Iran in July and sentenced to 18 years in prison by an Iranian judge on charges relating to espionage, collaboration with a hostile government and blasphemy on Oct. 22.

Sevil Suleymani, who is an SDSU student, said she has not heard from Shahini since he left her a voicemail from prison after he was sentenced.

In the voicemail, he said he would go on a hunger strike to facilitate his release from prison.

The letter of support for Shahini was the idea of political science professor Madeline Baer, who previously taught him.

“Robin’s detention and harsh sentence are of great concern to members of our campus community,

particularly the students and faculty who have shared a classroom with him,” the letter read.

Shahini took classes in ISCOR, Political Science, Women’s Studies, and Religious Studies while at SDSU. The letter also stated concern for Shahini’s health because he suffers from asthma that requires medication.

“The purpose of the letter is in part spread the word about Robin to faculty and staff that maybe aren’t aware, of what’s going on and to give them an opportunity to learn about it and to show their support,” Baer said.

She said the letter was supposed to bring attention to Shahini’s situation.

Baer said in the past, this kind of awareness has helped speed up the release of dual-national citizens imprisoned abroad like Shahini.

“My understanding is that their release has come, in pretty much every case, in part as the result of pressure,” Baer said. “My goal is to show support and show it publicly because we know that in the [cases where] other dual nationals have been released, they did have a lot of public support.”

Baer said by Friday, Nov. 4, the letter had received 78 signatures in four days.

Suleymani said she was happy Baer and other faculty were supporting Shahini, but was critical of campus

administrators, including President Elliot Hirshman, for not commenting on Shahini’s situation.

“This is the first support we are getting from the university, because [the] President’s office did not release anything,” Suleymani said.

She called the administration’s response to Shahini’s imprisonment disappointing.

“At least they can comment on it,” Suleymani said. “Robin was a student, and he graduated from here and was going to do his master’s here, so he’s one of our community members at SDSU.” Shahini planned to attend graduate school at SDSU in the Fall 2016 semester.

Suleymani said Shahini hoped to eventually work for a non-profit to promote peace in the Middle East.

She said he was a very recognizable student.

“If he had a class with any of the professors, for sure they remember him,” she said. “He was kind of the black sheep of the class. No way to forget him, with his questions and actively participating in class and getting involved in a lot of discussions.”

Allen Greb, the program advisor and coordinator for the international security and conflict resolution major, confirmed this.

“He was always in my office,” he said. “We were always talking about international issues, whether they related to the middle east and Iran or other parts of the world. So he was an excellent student.”

Greb, who signed the letter and assisted Baer in formulating it, said it was “devastating” when he learned Shahini was arrested.

“Many of us had advised him not to go back,” he said. “That doesn’t negate the fact that all of these charges are, as far as I’m concerned false, and we’re hoping that the government comes to its senses.”

“Whatever behind-the-scenes negotiations might be going on, get him released sooner rather than later, so he can continue with his life.”

Suleymani said she thinks President Hirshman should have made a clear declaration of solidarity with Shahini.

“At least I was thinking SDSU, as a liberal university, can involve or give a statement, or comment on it, but unfortunately they didn’t,” she said.

SDSU Chief Communications Officer Greg Block said the university is “very concerned” about Shahini’s welfare.

“We appreciate the efforts of the State Department to secure his release and we stand ready to support the State Department’s efforts in any way we can,” Block said in an email.

AIESEC offers global internships to students GIOVANNI REYES STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ The Association for International Exchange of Students in Economics and Commerce is an organization that fosters leadership development by allowing people to engage in volunteer work and internships abroad.

It is the world’s largest student run organization. It is present in 124 countries with 60,000 current members and 945,000 alumni.

The organization’s San Diego chapter has two upcoming study abroad programs for this year: “Illumina Mexico” and “Phi Son Nong.”

The programs are formulated in collaboration with the United Nations under one of the group’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The first option is based in Mexico City and runs from Dec. 12 to Jan. 20.

The Sustainable Development Goal of this program is reduced inequalities.

Students will work with the elderly in a nursing home, design recreational activities for youth, and help distribute toys and clothing to low-income children.

The second option is located in East Asia from Dec. 24 to Jan. 20.

The Sustainable Development Goal is “Quality Education.” Students will be teaching elementary English at primary schools in the rural provinces of Thailand by organizing lesson plans for students.

To begin the application process, a personal exchange manager reaches out to the applicant to discuss which program may suit the participant best.

Then the applicant will need to fill out forms which are reviewed by each country’s representative and an online or in-person interview will follow.

If selected, one week is given to decide if the participant would really like to head abroad.

SDSU AIESEC President Kasey

AIESEC helps students get internships abroad.

COURTESY OF AIESEC

Roualdes said she joined AIESEC after studying abroad in Heidelberg, Germany.

“I wanted to help others have an international experience,” she said.

As Roualdes prepares to graduate, comparative international studies sophomore, Marjon Saulon is getting ready to assume the presidency next year and continue to grow the club.

“I have been working closely with the Executive Board while paying close attention to the organization, planning and ensuring that all members are held accountable for their work,” Saulon said. “I have also reached out to many presidents from chapters around the U.S. The support has been incredible.”

Members said the club allows them to develop professionally while dedicating their time to altruistic causes.

“I have grown a lot in professionally gaining communication, organizational, and public speaking skills that I can carry into my career,”

business information sophomore Kristi Shiau said.

She said her six-week volunteer experience in Thailand was lifechanging.

“I learned to live with what was given to me. The children were so willing and excited to learn English,” Shiau said.

“I came into the program wanting to help them grow, but they have helped me grow a lot in return. They remind me to appreciate and to always give to others.”

Club members said they believe these experiences will allow them to continue to grow beyond SDSU. “I know that I want to be in a profession where I am able to travel and constantly communicate with people,” Shiau said. “Being in AIESEC has made me become more openminded about cultural differences and motivated to learn about more cultures.”

The final deadline to apply is Friday Nov. 18.

4 OPINION

NOV. 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANDREW DYER • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Writers react to election TALIA RAOUFPUR STAFF COLUMNIST ___________________________________

KEMI GIWA STAFF COLUMNIST ___________________________________

Tuesday’s election results left me confused, astounded and speechless. I thought of each candidate’s campaign as I laid in bed pondering how Trump’s win was even possible.

Despite the outcome, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was more successful in marketing her personal and political brand. Human beings are visual creatures, and Clinton utilized this to her advantage. Her online shop featured pins, signs, stickers, tote bags, caps, buttons and even a woman card, all adorned with her signature logos and phrases.

The campaign collaborated with fashion designers Tory Burch and Marc Jacobs to design unique t-shirts for purchase.

Like the Obama campaign, Clinton’s created an iconic logo that was easily identifiable to her message: “stronger together.” While Obama chose a sun rising on a horizon — the sun signified the O of his last name and the change he strived to create — Clinton chose the letter “H” with an arrow across the middle signifying her plan to move the country forward.

Additionally, Clinton partnered with various A-list celebrities such as Katy Perry, Amy Schumer and John Legend, as well as famous YouTubers who marketed the hashtag #ImWithHer across social media.

Her opponent’s red Make America Great Again caps were made a mockery. The first Trump/Pence logo, in which the T and P were first thought to resemble male genitalia, was also ceaselessly mocked.

This election has taught me that personal branding only goes so far in creating a positive rapport with a candidate’s own supporters, and might not resonate outside each camp’s selfselected information bubbles.

The election of Donald Trump will have a profound impact on the future of the U.S. Supreme C ourt. Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the court’s available seat, but the election of Trump has all but guaranteed he has no chance of being confirmed. Even worse, any hope for a liberal majority on the court for the first time in half a century is dead.

Trump will now be able to fill late Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacancy and he has said whomever he chooses will be a far right leaning judge.

However fearful many may be in regards to the future of the vacant seat, most observers, including the L.A. Times, noted that the replacement of Scalia with a like-minded justice would not change the court overnight, but rather restore it to where it was before his death last February. The L.A. Times said Justice Anthony Kennedy’s role as swing vote suggests that the court will operate similarly.

However insignificant filling Scalia’s seat might be, the odds that Trump will have other vacancies to fill within his first term is high. Since 1971, the average age of retirement for a Supreme Court justice has been about 79. Ginsburg is 83, Kennedy is 80 and Breyer will be 78 in August.

JULIANNA MCDOWELL STAFF COLUMNIST ___________________________________ Donald J. Trump’s politics, especially regarding women, are startling. His campaign was built upon a foundation of misogyny.

The President-elect’s blatant misogyny did not start with the now infamous “grab em by the pussy” line and I doubt it will end on Inauguration Day. Trump has called women “dogs,” “fat pigs,” and “disgusting animals.” He has ridiculed women from Miss America pageant winner Alicia Machado — urging people to “check out her sex tape” — to politicians such as Hillary Clinton, whom he called a “nasty woman.” He has said women who have abortions should be punished, has been accused of multiple sexual assaults and has an active rape of a minor lawsuit filed against him.

Yet somehow Trump was able to grab women where it mattered — their ballots. Forty-two percent of Trump’s voters were women, which means they were either unaware of his comments and actions or they just did not care.

Regardless, Trump’s election will affect generations of women who seek to be heard, especially through politics.

His Republican majority in congress and possible Supreme Court nominees threaten important reproductive rights decisions including Roe v. Wade, which

AULANI CAPUCHIN STAFF COLUMNIST ___________________________________ This election season has left many of us exhausted and severely disappointed.

Although Trump’s victory has mainstreamed a lot of the terrible ideas that were the foundation of his campaign, there are also things to be celebrated.

Kamala Harris, a person of color and California attorney general, was elected to the senate. During her term as attorney general she helped victims of improper foreclosures by mortgage institutions after the housing market crash, refused to take away marriage rights from the LGBT community and implemented the “Back on Track” program that significantly reduced the amount of criminal re-offenses.

Ilhan Omar made history when she became the first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States after being elected as a state representative in Minneapolis. She is a mother, a Muslim and a refugee from the Somali civil war.

Despite the presidential results, there were definite examples of American citizens saying “no” to the sexism and Islamophobia of Trump.

legalized abortion. His party has also repeatedly moved for legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, which receives federal funds to provide various form of healthcare to women, such as mammograms and birth control.

It is our responsibility to resist and to make sure the progress won for women with each wave of feminism is not reversed. Women do not want equal outcomes, but equal opportunities.

Nasty women are not afraid of Trump, and we will make sure he — and America — knows it.

The possibility of Trump filling additional vacancies means that he has the power to reshape the entire country, a frightening possibility.

Even more so considering there is still much to be decided by the court, including sensitive issues such as women’s reproductive rights, affirmative action, LGBT rights, climate change, voting rights, gun rights and possibly even Citizens United.

Though we have no idea who Trump will select to fill potential vacancies with, the new justices will set the direction of the Supreme Court and the values that guide it for the next generation.

We can only hope the justices selected do not undo years of progress this

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MADDY PERELLO STAFF COLUMNIST ___________________________________ Between ocean acidification, global warming, extreme weather, sea-level rise, species extinction and disease, climate change is the number one problem facing the world. In the last year, 195 countries have signed the Paris Agreement promising to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level.

The Paris Agreement has a high level of global commitment and includes the two single greatest emitters of carbon dioxide: the United States and China. Together, the two countries are responsible for about 50 percent of global CO2 emissions and therefore have a huge impact on the success of the Paris Agreement. The election of Donald Trump is a serious threat to this commitment, as he and Vice Presidentelect Mike Pence are both climate change deniers.

Trump once tweeted “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

“Obama says the biggest problem we have is global warming, and by the way, it’s supposed to be 70 degrees today.”

Trump said during his campaign. “It’s freezing. Where is global warming? We need some global warming.”

“I’m not a big believer in man-made climate change,” he told The Miami Herald. Nobody knows for sure.”

The problem with this statement from the President-elect is that it is not true.

NASA has made its position clear.

“97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities,” their website says. “In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position.”

In his first major speech on energy policy, Donald Trump said that he would cancel the United States’ commitment to the Paris Agreement and dismantle Obama’s Clean Power Plan. He has also tapped avowed climate change denier Myron Ebell to oversee the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency.

This might be the scariest thing the 2016 election has brought to light. The majority of the country, including the next president, has a complete distrust for proven science. That distrust could set the United States and the world back at least four years in the fight against global warming,and potentially past the point of no return.

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En contra de la violencia doméstica MONSERRAT TORRES ESCRITORA ____________________________________ La violencia doméstica es un problema en la actualidad, y cada vez hay más esfuerzos para poner fin a este daño que afecta a hombres y mujeres.

La organización Romper el Silencio en contra de la violencia doméstica, se presentó el miércoles 9 de noviembre en San Diego State University para concientizar a los alumnos acerca de la violencia doméstica.

Los presentadores del evento fueron Terry Josiah y Kristen Faith, fundadora de la organización.

Faith fue víctima de violencia doméstica durante cuatro años mientras cursaba sus estudios en SDSU. “Mientras estudiaba en SDSU sufrí violencia doméstica y abuso financiero”, dijo Faith. “Fui afortunada de tener becas pero estaba dando este dinero esperando que él lo apreciará. Las víctimas de violencia doméstica no pensamos que hay una forma de salir de ahí pero todo es posible, me pude graduar con honores y empezar esta organización”.

De acuerdo a Faith, una de cada cuatro mujeres sufre violencia psicológica, física, económica y sexual en su relación mientras que uno en cuatro hombres también ha sido agredido por su pareja.

El daño psicológico puede ocurrir cuando tú pareja te pone sobrenombres, no confía en ti y te monitorea para saber

donde estas.

La violencia física puede incluir empujones, golpes y jalones de cabello.

Por su parte, el de abuso financiero ocurre cuando hay un tipo de agresión para controlar ingresos del hogar, así como cuestionamientos con respecto a la forma en que dicho ingreso se gasta y cuando tu pareja te roba.

El abuso sexual no solo se da cuando uno es abusado sexualmente, también cuando se obliga a su pareja a que se arregle como a ti te gusta.

Terry Josiah creció dentro de una casa donde su papá abusaba de su mamá.

Josiah sabía que él nunca le pondría una mano encima a una mujer porque sabía el daño que esto hacía.

Pero Josiah no sabía que la violencia doméstica también se podía dar verbalmente y así fue como llegó a maltratar a su ex-pareja.

“En el 2012 me di cuenta que la violencia doméstica no solo es física”, dijo Josiah. “Yo odiaba a los abusadores, fue difícil para mí saber que era un abusador, gritarle, degradarla, decir está bien mientras que no le ponga mis manos encima, estaba mal”.

Para prevenir la violencia doméstica y lograr una relación saludable debe de existir la confianza, la comunicación y los límites.

La confianza debe de empezar con uno mismo y después se debe de transmitir esta confianza a nuestra pareja. De acuerdo a Josiah, si uno no es capaz de confiar en la persona que ama,

Los presentadores compartieron sus experiencias con la violencia doméstica.

ELISSA TAUSCHER, FOTóGRAFA

quiere decir que no está calificado para una relación.

Otro aspecto importante de toda relación debe de ser la comunicación porque sin este vínculo uno no puede adivinar lo que le pasa a su pareja.

Los límites son necesarios en una relación para que la persona que uno ama no se sienta preso y sin identidad. Se le debe de dar un espacio a tu pareja para que los dos tengan su independencia y no se odien.

Para muchos puede ser fácil pensar que una víctima de violencia doméstica puede ponerle un alto a esa situación pero para una víctima de violencia

doméstica salir de esa zona es difícil ya que está aterrada de lo que su abusador pueda hacer.

Jennifer Johnson, estudiante de enfermería, piensa que el maltrato doméstico es horrible y agradece que la organización Romper el Silencio, haya venido a la universidad.

“Yo solo había escuchado de la violencia sexual y psicológica en una relación mas no de violencia económica y de religión”, dijo Johnson. “Es increíble que haya gente tan mala pero ahora que estoy informada me siento más segura que no seré una victima de violencia doméstica”.

Celebración de cultura Latinx en SDSU ANDREA LOPEZ-VILLAFAÑA ASSISTENTE DE MUNDO AZTECA ____________________________________ De día el centro de la unión de estudiantes no tenía nada fuera de lo normal, pero esa noche varias organizaciones de San Diego State University lo transformaron a un sitio de celebración Latinx.

El 10 de noviembre estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad de participar y celebrar la cultura Latinx con música y comida gratis.

Los aromas de enchiladas y chiles rellenos y platillos comunes de la comunidad Latinx, le ponían sabor al ambiente. El grupo de Jarabe Mexicano tocó música durante el evento.

El evento fue patrocinado por ASUB, la comisión de diversidad estudiantil

(student diversity commision), Lambda Theta Alpha y Sigma Lambda Beta.

La fraternidad y hermandad se enfocan en la cultura Latinx, pero también son inclusivas de otras culturas.

No pudo haber una oportunidad más adecuada para tener una noche enfocada en celebrar la cultura, ya que hubo una protesta durante el día en la universidad.

La protesta se llevó a cabo por el asalto que le ocurrió a una estudiante musulmán de SDSU un día después de la elección del presidente Donald Trump. Estudiantes caminaron por la universidad y llevaban letreros que decían “Soy Latina y tengo miedo” o “inmigrantes son bienvenidos aquí”.

Alex Ceal, estudiante de comunicaciones de SDSU, dijo que ahora más que nunca con las elecciones

es importante celebrar las diferentes culturas en la escuela.

Ceal es un miembro de Sigma Lambda Beta y viene de padres blancos y japoneses. El dijo que es importante tener gente de diferentes culturas en su organización para tener más participación.

Daniela Marquina Cuevas, estudiante de cuarto año, es parte de Lambda Theta Alpha y dijo que es muy importante tener organizaciones culturales.

“En mantener nuestra cultura, también proveemos un modo de demostrar la cultura del campus”, dijo Marquina Cuevas.

Estudiante de SDSU, Macaulay Davis, dijo que estaba estudiando en las mesas cercas del centro de la unión cuando escucho música y decidió ver qué estaba pasando.

Jarabe Mexicano toco musica durante el evento.

KATELYN MULCAHY, FOTóGRAFA

“Me encanta la comida Mexicana”, dijo Davis. “Me encanta la cultura Mexicana y aquí estoy comiendo un chile relleno y escuchando música de buen gusto”.

Fashionista no pierde su estilo en esta época NANCY MOELLER ESCRITORA ____________________________________ Taylor Lee, estudiante de administración de negocios, está usando todos los colores de este otoño.

Su look es estupendo y aún más porque logro combinarlo con sandalias ya que ha hecho mucho calor estos días en San Diego.

Lee dijo que el calor fue lo que inspiro su atuendo.

La combinación de un crop top con una falda a la cintura es perfecta, ya que la hace ver más acinturada.

Una falda de gamuza como la que está usando Lee, es algo esencial para tu closet este otoño.

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NOV. 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANTHONY RECLUSADO • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Lark ready to shed labels at SDSU

Junior guard Khalia Lark brings the ball up the floor during an exhibition game.

DERRICK TUSKAN, SDSU ATHLETICS

MAYER POHLOD STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Sometimes one situation that could look good in hindsight is not the best option.

That was the case for San Diego State women’s basketball junior guard Khalia Lark, who will play her first season on the Mesa after transferring from the

University of Washington.

“It just wasn’t a good fit,” Lark said of her time at UW. And that’s more than okay, especially considering she chose to finish her collegiate career on the Mesa.

Though she will not be able to make an impact in games right off the bat — she transferred last spring and is not eligible to start until Dec. 22 in the Aztecs’ game against Cal State Fullerton

— her presence is already being felt. “[Lark] is going to be a huge addition to our basketball-program-familysuccess,” head coach Stacie Terry said.

“I hate that I don’t have her come Nov. 11 [the season opener].”

In her time at Washington, Lark averaged 2.5 points and 1.5 rebounds per game in 29 appearances.

While there, she was mainly considered a threat from beyond the three-point line, where she shot 38 percent.

While she is officially listed as a guard, she believes she can play nearly any position on the court, and is excited to show off her skill set with the Aztecs.

“People labelled me as a shooter at Washington but since I have been here they know I’m bigger in this conference … this offense allows for a lot more versatility in players,” Lark said.

That versatility is one reason why Terry is so excited to have her here.

“She is so much more than just a three-point shooter,” Terry said. “She can attack off the bounce, she can pull up at the rim, she can be a really good rebounder when she puts her mind to it and I believe that she’s going to be one of our better defensive players when it’s all said and done.

“She has tremendous upside and I think her potential is limitless.”

Even before her time up north, Lark built an impressive résumé in high school.

Hailing from Irvine, California, she led Mater Dei High School to two California Interscholastic Federation championships, one state title and even a national championship.

She originally signed with Mountain West rival Fresno State out of high school, but opted out after a coaching change while being recruited by other schools including Oregon State, Rice University, Stanford University, Harvard University, UC Santa Barbara and University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

But everything about that is behind her now.

Despite having to sit on the sidelines for every game last season, Lark feels she already knows what the team is all about from both a personal and competitive standpoint.

“It helped me get to know the girls better because I was able to kind of be an outsider while still being on the inside,” she said. “Being able to be on the sidelines and see the actions they run, the different kind of sets, the defensive schemes have prepared me.”

Not only that, but Lark is excited to lead this team forward and see where it takes them.

“I’m really excited to see where we take it but I think that we’re committed, we’re driven and we want more than what we’ve wanted in the past,” she said. “I’m happy to be here, happy to be somewhere that is fitting for me as an individual and a basketball player.”

Play ‘em or sit ‘em: The life of a bench player Lastly, his ability to stay in the game gave the red and black the luxury of not using freshman forward Jalen McDaniels, keeping the option of redshirting the lanky 6-foot-9 forward on the table.

Going into the game, there were grumblings that the Aztecs could be cornered into using McDaniels, with only eight scholarship players available to begin the season.

Williams ensured that didn’t happen.

Under Coach Fisher, having a 10th or

10 straight games where he did not play during Mountain West play last season.

Fresno State freshman forward Sam Bittner went six straight games without playing, and due to injuries, had to log 19, 41, 33 and 11 minutes in four straight games during the heat of the MW regular season race for the Bulldogs.

And lest we forget UNLV, which by season’s end were down to eight available players, including one walk-on.

It can happen at anytime, the call to action for the last man on the rotation,

IT MAY BE DUE TO POOR PLAY, FATIGUE, FOUL TROUBLE OR INJURY, BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THEY NEED TO BE READY TO JUMP IN AT ANY TIME. Senior guard D’Erryl Williams sizes up the University of San Diego defense during the 69-59 win.

KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

BRENDAN PRICE STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________________ Being the last guy on the bench sucks.

You practice hard, you work hard, you do everything that is asked of you and more because that’s your role. If he’s your guy, you feel bad for him. If he’s the other team’s guy, the student section mercilessly heckles him.

But when the time came, senior guard D’Erryl Williams stepped up big-time for the Aztecs in the City Championship win over University of San Diego last Friday night.

Williams played a career-high 29 minutes, recording a career-high five steals and keying a 15-2 second half run with a 3-pointer. The long range bucket

was just the fourth of his career, and put the Aztecs up for good, providing a bow for a fantastic night.

Williams was instrumental on the defensive end, his calling card when he was recruited to the Mesa along with senior guard Dakarai Allen. University of San Diego freshman guard Nassir Barrino had six of his 11 points in the first two and a half minutes. Fisher inserted Williams to stop him, and the move payed dividends - Barrino didn’t make a shot with Williams guarding him.

His consistent, heady play at the point guard position chewed up minutes and at different points allowed junior guard Trey Kell and sophomore guard Jeremy Hemsley to rest. He also gave head coach Steve Fisher an option when Allen got into foul trouble early in the first half.

11th man in the rotation that does not see significant minutes is largely a new phenomenon, something that has only emerged over the last five or six years.

It’s a common enough practice in sports, but it’s something that can come back to bite a team down the stretch run in conference or postseason play.

No one is advocating that the last guy on the bench needs to get major minutes every single game, but having a player sit for a string of games and not see any action is bad for the team’s depth.

The nature of the substitutes on a team requires them to be ready at any moment to be called into action. It may be due to poor play, fatigue, foul trouble or injury, but the fact of the matter is that they need to be ready to jump in at any time.

Realistically, it’s difficult to maintain that required sharpness when you rot on the bench. Williams had a stretch of

and he has to be ready. The players can only do so much in practice, it is up to the coaches to try and find the minutes in order for a player to get game reps.

It goes beyond fighting for the little guy or giving everyone a chance, or any other platitudes or narratives that can be written on this issue.

With the way games are officiated, especially in the postseason, foul trouble is a hurdle every single year for teams, and it’s not going to be good to have to turn to a player who hasn’t seen consistent game action for days, weeks or sometimes, months, with your season on the line.

As Allen Iverson once put it, “We talkin’ about practice. Not the game, but practice.”

It can only do so much. Give the players some minutes, and you might get a D’Erryl Williams performance out of them.

THE ART ISSUE 7

NOV. 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Dark room photography seems a thing of the past, but the on-campus art facilities help to change that perception.

CHRISTINE WHITMAN, A&C EDITOR

Darkroom photography is not lost CAMI BUCKMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Pictures nowadays can literally be taken with the touch of a finger.

Practically every individual has access to a camera and can be a photographer in their own way.

However before the age of selfies and snapchats, photography was an intense experience perfected with hours of practice and precision.

Dark room photography seems to be a thing of the past, but the art facilities at San Diego State have a darkroom changing that perception.

Tucked in a corner of the elaborate art buildings lies a photography classroom.

A small section of the walls are covered with aged blankets taped together.

A large space is scattered with racks of unrecognizable parts and equipment that seem to fit together once connected.

The sinks are littered with tubes and small photographs dangle from the ceiling.

Resting behind a revolving door, which seems to be a gate into a secret room, is a space of complete darkness.

Once safety lights are turned on, it’s clear what the room’s purpose is. The printing room, containing numerous enlargers and workspaces, is where a blank white paper turns into a tangible image.

Professor David Hewitt teaches Art 407, “Black and White Photography.”

While digital photography is the widespread practice of today, Hewitt said that darkroom techniques teach students how to use their hands.

“Students are physically making decisions using their eyes and hands and we think that’s good training for other types of art making later on,” Hewitt said.

Hewitt explained that there are two types of darkrooms.

One darkroom is a smaller, more intimate setting where individuals load the film into cameras and developing tanks. The other is a larger room where the developed negative images undergo a chemical process to then be transferred onto photo paper.

“It’s pretty magical,” Hewitt said.

Darkroom techniques were developed during the inception of photography in the early nineteenth century.

However, darkroom photography quickly decreased in popularity after

the rise of color and digital markets.

Unlike digital imagery, the darkroom process allows the individual complete control over a particular photograph.

“The art world is big enough for both practices,” Hewitt said. “But there is a training that comes from the intricate and detailed process in darkrooms.”

Darkroom techniques provide the creator with a tangible photograph.

For example, Hewitt said he snaps numerous digital pictures while on vacation.

However he admits to never going back and actually viewing them.

He believes print images provide a more immediate reaction, whereas digital images can easily become lost in a camera roll.

The art world is constantly evolving.

Certain practices come and go in popularity, and certain techniques naturally change.

“You know there are probably few people who have actually carved out a marble or maybe even painted with oil paint,” Hewitt said. “But everyone has a phone and everyone takes pictures so I think that has sort of democratized the act of taking pictures and being a photographer.”

Even though the accessibility to taking photographs is so widespread, Hewitt believes that photography as an art comes from the photographer’s intent.

In Art 407, students work hands on with darkroom techniques and black and white photography.

Interior design senior Melinda Lam is currently taking the course and said she didn’t realize how interesting the class would be.

“You get to learn about the process of the past,” Lam said.

In this course, Hewitt assigns students a specific theme each week.

These themes include subjects like 'experimental,” “transformation” or “body.”

Students interpret these themes with their own free will and document their findings in the darkroom.

Art education senior Veronica Doa said each image developed involves a very painstaking process, but it feels more organic.

“Film captures what digital cameras can’t,” Doa said.

The processes involved in darkroom techniques allow individuals to intentionally underexpose or overexpose images.

This gives the artist creative freedom to produce a physical image from the photographs they shot.

Hewitt described darkroom photography as an anachronism, or something that belongs in another time.

Even though it is a dated practice, darkrooms continue to educate students in today’s digital world.

Many universities have taken out dark rooms and renovated the spaces for computer labs.

While there is a need for computer labs, some of these universities have

re-established torn out darkrooms after realizing the importance in darkroom techniques.

Hewitt said he believes there is something to be learned from darkroom techniques that cannot be learned of digital photography.

While darkroom photography may be a thing of the past, the elements of precision, skill and technique benefit art students of all backgrounds.

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NOV 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Engineer doubles as photographer KELLY KERRIGAN CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ A simple gift from grandma could change your life forever.

At 16-years-old Josh Goldstein received an old digital single-lens reflex camera from his grandmother, sparking his initial love for the art of photography.

The aerospace engineering freshman began by taking pictures of anything and everything, teaching himself how to use the camera and capture photos with the best use of exposure and lighting.

“That is exactly what drives me to do what I love doing most, to just be able to express myself to others with photos in ways that words can’t even begin to describe,” Goldstein said.

He said he enjoys all types of photography, although his favorite is composite photos.

A composite photo is made by layering photos on top of each other to form a piece using Adobe Photoshop.

“There’s just so much you can do and I really love seeing how far I can push myself to show my passion and literally just pour my heart and soul into the photo,” he said. “This could be as easy as just adding a different background or a simple object to something as complex as completely altering the image from the original to create something that you have pictured in your mind that you try to replicate using that image.”

Goldstein said he often spends days on end editing and creating work until he gets the image to look exactly as imagined.

Most of his pictures include a combination of the ocean, people, nature and even stars.

Majoring in aerospace engineering and minoring in astrophysics, space and the galaxy are things that have always interested Goldstein.

He said his favorite photo to date features Maui with a sky full of stars, his friend Max and a mountain he created himself and layered onto the image, a prime example of his composite artwork.

“The original photo was an iPhone picture of my friend Max in one of our classes last year, I then took that photo and merged it with a few landscape photos I previously had laying around that I never used,” he said. “Then I placed the masked photo of him in the picture and blended everything together to make it look more realistic.

After that I got some photos of stars that I had from shooting in Maui that summer and masked those on top of the photo and added a gradient mask to make it blend with the gradient of the sky’s colors.”

Through Goldstein’s skills he is able to make whatever he imagines in his head, creating dream-like photographs.

Goldstein said he has many inspirations ranging from Jorden Keith, a Los Angeles based photographer who captures emotions through people in

Aerospace engineering freshman said he likes to shock fellow engineers with his photography skills.

COURTESY OF JOSH GOLDSTEIN

his pictures, to Dan Franco, a wedding and event photographer.

He said these photographers inspire all of his art pieces and influence him to do different types of photography from weddings to portraits and even conceptual photos.

“It is really cool to see Josh when he is doing what he loves,” music composition freshman Michael Gould said. “You can tell he really cares about his art and will spend hours working on small details for one piece.”

Like any modern-day millennial, Goldstein shares most of his pieces on his Instagram, @JoshTheHuman.

He said he is unsure of where photography will take him in the future, although he always plans on keeping it as a hobby.

Goldstein said one of his favorite hobbies is shocking his fellow engineers with his photography skills.

He said he wants to continue traveling to new places and combining aspects from all of them into different pieces.

Goldstein might have not realized it at the time, but he now knows the birthday present from his grandma was the best thing to come into his life since he turned sixteen.

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THE ART ISSUE 9

NOV 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Theatre designer makes abstract art ALEX NOBLE STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Theatrical design is a process. The costumes, sets, props, makeup and so much more serve to realize the characters and world of the play.

Every minute detail helps to ease the audience into the “make-believe.” The talented group of artists who make up the theatrical design and technology program facilitates this journey from the real world to the fantasy world.

Few can evoke more theatrical magic than graduate student Nao Kobayashi.

She is responsible for the spectacular puppetry of last semester’s production of “The Big Friendly Giant.” In addition, she also served as craft artisan and costume designer for “Alice: Curious and Curiouser!” and “Dr. Faustus: Light the Lights” in 2015.

Kobayashi received her Bachelor of Arts from Sonoma State University in 2005 and worked with independent artists in Japan and other countries for 10 years before arriving at San Diego State.

Although she is also skilled in drawing, sculpting and dancing, Kobayashi is pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in theatrical design.

“I love using my imagination to create abstract designs,” she said.

Kobayashi’s puppets were instrumental in bringing Roald Dahl’s classic novel to life.

She created the titular big friendly giant as well as his foes. She admits that the process was challenging yet rewarding.

“The BFG was a huge thing for me,” she said. “But I really wanted to expand my possibilities as an artist.”

Each production requires a high degree of care and dedication from artisans like Kobayashi.

“I start with the script, then I research, collecting information according to what the designer wants and what the director wants,” she said. “Especially for BFG, I did lots of research for the type of structure we could create for a puppetry system. My sketches were very helpful for me to go through what kind of designs I wanted.”

Kobayashi loves the collaborative nature of theater. For “The BFG,” she designed the giants’ faces to reflect the features of the actors playing them. She said this not only helped her to form the characters, but that it also gave an added layer to the actors’ performances.

Margaret Larhlam, director of “The BFG” and “Alice” has praised not only Kobayashi’s talent but also her work ethic.

“It was wonderful working closely with Nao,” she said. “She’s very committed and has wonderful ideas. She pays attention to the small details, she’s a perfectionist in the best way.”

With the immense success of the show, it’s not surprising that Kobayashi is currently shifting her focus from costume design to puppetry.

However, whether she’s constructing a costume or a giant, Kobayashi’s philosophy is the same.

“It’s always about supporting the story,” she said.

Despite her knack for design, Kobayashi’s background is actually in

Graduate student Nao Kobayashi adds a layer to the actors’ performance by adding design elements.

CHRISTIAN HICKS, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

performance art, specifically in dance.

“I’m really into the art of movement,” she said. “My interest was in dance and body movement and the body’s involvement in performance. I don’t just design what I personally want to see, I design to explore the way that the body moves. The body is always interesting to me.”

Kobayashi believes that her dancer’s sensibility has enhanced her ability to replicate movement in her creations. Since her puppets move in a realistic manner, the audience is able to suspend its sense of disbelief that much easier.

“Nao’s multidisciplinary background endeared me to her,” Larhlam said, “She doesn’t restrict herself to one medium and that makes her an absolute joy to work with.”

Just as she draws inspiration from movement, Kobayashi is endlessly

fascinated with what inspires others as well.

“I’m always interested in what local artists in Los Angeles or here in San Diego are doing,” she said. “I like looking to all disciplines. I’m quite curious about how people create art based on their environment and their background. I’m curious about their honest vocabulary as to each discipline.”

It is this openness to new experiences that makes Kobayashi a great artist. This creative freedom is essential to honest and evocative storytelling.

“She is first and foremost a real artist,” Larhlam said. “She’s an artist to the bone.”

Kobayashi does not confine her ambitions to the theater world. It may only be a matter of time before she moves on to master yet another medium.

“Anything I can do using my skills, I’m open to,” she said.

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NOV. 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Graphic designer shares inspirations JULIANNA RESS SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego State graphic design sophomore Douglas Quan has been drawing his whole life but is now ready to share his art and culture with the world.

Although he said he doesn’t have a specific memory of when he become interested in art, drawing has been ingrained in him since childhood.

“Ever since I was little I’ve been drawing and doodling and [my art] has just progressed from there,” Quan said.

Childhood friend and music sophomore Justin Adu-Acquah has gotten a firsthand look at how Quan has grown artistically over the years.

“I’ve known [Quan] since the second grade and he’s always been very creative,” he said. “From then to now his art has really matured and he’s at a point where he’s comfortable sharing and selling his pieces.”

Quan usually uses ink or pencil for his drawings. He also tries to explore different kinds of subjects for his pieces, but he often uses his art to celebrate the world he comes from.

“I’m really inspired by Japanese tattoos,” he said. “A lot of my art is based around the imagery and subjects that Japanese tattoo art has. It’s kind of my culture, I’m half Japanese and half Chinese, so it’s kind of a part of me.”

He said his art acts as a medium for him to educate others on his background.

“For me, [my art] is more about showing

other people my culture,” he said.

Quan’s pieces typically feature koi fish, dragons or mythical beasts as subjects.

Adu-Acquah said he’s impressed by the intricateness and attention to detail in all of Quan’s drawings. “[His art] is really precise and defined as if he creates it using a computer but it’s all by hand,” Adu-Acquah said. “All of the lines and curves and shadings are really impressive.”

Quan said he enjoys enveloping his art in a fantasy world, rather than drawing inspiration from the real world.

“The subject matter (in my art) is different from a lot of art nowadays,” he said. “I see a lot of art that’s really realistic, like photorealism and everyday subjects.

So mythical beasts are pretty different from what’s typically portrayed in art.”

However, art classes at SDSU have forced Quan out of his comfort zone with still life subjects.

“I’m not a big fan of still life,” he said. “I like to take [subjects] out of my mind and be creative with it instead of just drawing what I see. But [drawing still life] teaches you how to study an object and get the right proportions and shading.”

Quan said some of his biggest accomplishments as an artist have been possible from the help he’s received from SDSU’s art department.

“There are a lot of elements and principles of art that I didn’t really grasp before [coming to SDSU] that now I’ve got down,” he said. “[I’ve learned] a lot of new techniques and elements to implement in my art.”

Douglas Quan said he wants to share his art and culture with the world.

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One of the techniques he’s learned at SDSU is chiaroscuro, the blending of dark and light colors.

He said this technique has helped him with his shading and making his art more realistic.

Quan entered SDSU as a studio art major, but decided to switch to graphic design due to the larger market and wanting to translate his drawings into digital paintings.

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His long-term goal as an artist is to commission his art enough to be able to support himself and be his own boss.

“I want to work for myself,” Quan said. “I want to make art and sell it, and have that be my full-time job.”

Last summer Quan began selling his art through Etsy and promoting his work through Facebook and Instagram. He plans to start his own website in the near future.

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Art education junior wants to inspire NICOLE SAZEGAR SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ When Jesseca Aquino was 8 years old, her mother took her to visit an art gallery.

Seeing mannequin parts coming out of the ceiling inspired Aquino to join a community where she could have her own space.

Since that moment, Aquino dedicated herself to art so much that her friends even consider her to be “walking art.”

“I think if you just saw her walking down the street, you could immediately tell that she walks and talks art,” computer engineering junior Trisha Tolentino said.

Since Aquino is an art education junior, she has the privilege of dabbling in different mediums from photography to ceramics to paintings.

Although she has always been involved in art classes as a child, it wasn’t until she got to college that Aquino realized she wanted to make a career out of art. Part of her choice to become an art teacher was due to her high school art instructor who became her mentor.

When she saw his dedication to his job and his students, Aquino said she realized that being a vessel for someone in the same way her teacher was a vessel for her would be a rewarding career.

“A lot of the time you don’t get teachers that care about you [or] want you to succeed,” Aquino said. “They want you to dole out assignments, but with him, it was like ‘I care about what you’re doing’ and ‘I’m going to be critical about it, but I’m

going to be nurturing about your process.’”

Tolentino sees Aquino as a future art teacher who will inspire her students in the same way Aquino’s mentor inspired her.

“I think when it comes to her specific teaching style, she will definitely involve intersectionality of different problems and conflicts,” Tolentino said. “She’s definitely a type of ‘if you feel it, you should do it’ kind of person, so I don’t think she will hinder any of her students in their creative paths.”

With the help of her art instructor, she was able to find her identity and bond it with her artwork.

“Writing about certain experiences helps you connect with your community,” Aquino said. “I think that creating art that’s tied to your identity is very important.”

Aquino relates her art to pop art and describes it as contemporary. Aquino said she uses a lot of lines and colors to create an aura and energy in both her paintings and drawings. Since Aquino uses different forms of mediums to create her art, each medium expresses a different side of her.

She uses her visual art to express her inner feelings, expressions and thought processes while her writing mostly deals with her identity, emotions and trauma.

Aquino came to San Diego State as undeclared, but ever since she joined the School of Art and Design, she’s felt more connected to the art community on campus.

“I think that even though SDSU has its certain focuses, I think that the School

Jesseca Aquino wanted to join a community where she could have her own space.

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of Art and Design is a great resource for artists out there,” Aquino said.

Through SDSU, she was able to find a job as a gallery assistant at the SDSU Downtown Gallery.

“If I wasn’t able to get the job at the gallery and if I didn’t know about the downtown location at all, I don’t know where I would be,” Aquino said.

Aquino’s biggest art influences are Frida Kahlo, Barbara Krueger and PANCA, a Tijuana based artist.

“I really like women artists, especially queer women artists who kind of just don’t have enough visibility but should because their perspective really brings something to their art,” Aquino said.

Like the women artists and queer women artists who influence Aquino, Tolentino says that Aquino uses her

intersectional knowledge of women’s studies, gender rights and reproductive justice to help and inform people with her art. Tolentino has noticed how Aquino’s art affects every aspect of her life from the way she dresses to her involvement in the community.

Tolentino said that Aquino has become a strong influence in the world of social media and the art community.

“Walking down the street with her is difficult because people will always stop her to talk about what she just did or how she’s dressed because her art extends to how she dresses and how she looks,” Tolentino said. “Even if she doesn’t realize it yet, we tell her this all the time, I think she’s a true artist and every single aspect of her life is touched by a certain aesthetic.”

Student sells sea glass by the sea shore JANELLE LAFOND CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ Liberal studies senior may actually be the girl in the tongue twister, she sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Except, she sells sea glass.

Danika Brown harvests sea glass from local beaches to create jewelry.

Around a year ago Brown started a business selling sea glass jewelry and decor called “San Diego Sea Glass.”

“It’s so cool to take something that was once floating around in the ocean, getting carved by the sea and just wear it or have it for display,” Brown said.

Brown harvests most of the sea glass at local beaches, but has collected some abroad in Spain and Italy as well. She finds her local sea glass in Coronado and at “Garbage Beach” and “No Surf Beach” at Sunset Cliffs.

Being able to find sea glass has to do with more than just location.

Brown said that the tides and weather play a part in her search as well.

“You don’t necessarily find it in the ocean,” she said. “It is kind of where the waves crash. Sometimes I’m waist deep in the water searching, but sometimes its just sitting there on the shore. It’s so addicting to look for.”

For Brown, her whole process starts with searching for sea glass. She said that sometimes she’ll fill a whole bucket and other times she’ll only find a few pieces.

“The way it’s formed is so cool because only the ocean can make that,” Brown said. “For a good piece of sea glass it takes 20 or 30 years to be molded down into the shape that it does.”

Brown isn’t always alone in her search. Sometimes she takes trips to

Mexico to harvest sea glass and local children will help her in her search.

“There’s a school in Rosarito and we’ll take the kids down and we get to all find sea glass together and we’ll pay the kids for the sea glass they find,” Brown said.

Brown loves getting the community together, whether its in Rosarito or San Diego, to search for sea glass. She said it’s something that she wants to do more often.

Once she finds the sea glass Brown begins the process by rinsing off the sand off and leaving the pieces in the sun to dry. Once they’re dry she will put coconut oil on all the pieces.

“It gives it a shine,” she said. “I like it when they’re kind-of dried out, but still shiny. It gives them a good texture.”

Brown then separates all the sea glass pieces by color and decides which pieces to use for different types of jewelry. Brown says she uses the older pieces for necklaces. Some of the pieces are sold in bottles or made into wall decor as well.

From there, Brown begins making the jewelry.

“I’ll find a piece that I think is pretty and start wrapping the wire. If I don’t like the way I do it the first time, I’ll do it again,” Brown said.

Brown said she tries to use different wire colors, which come in variations of gold or silver, for different pieces.

Brown also uses charms and shells, among other things, to create her jewelry. She has even begun to experiment with soldering.

“I’ve never said I’m an artsy person and I still wouldn’t, but you just take it and go and do,” Brown said.

When it comes to inspiration for her designs, Brown says it’s all about the unique aspects of the sea glass.

“It depends on the piece of sea glass

Liberal studies senior Danika Brown constructs jewelry from sea glasss found at local beaches.

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and what I think would complement it best,” Brown said.

Brown is currently relaunching “San Diego Sea Glass with a new logo and different jewelry. Brown’s friend Madie McKay recently helped to take new photos for the shop’s website and social media.

“I love that she’s been able to incorporate her love for the ocean and the sea as a way to bring other people joy,” McKay said.

San Diego Sea Glass is currently sold in a few shops and boutiques around San Diego County including “Dana’s Boutique” in Alpine and “Rare Bloom” in Point Loma. Brown hopes to sell her pieces in more stores.

According to their website, fifteen percent of the profits made from

San Diego Sea Glass goes to an organization called Give and Surf, which is a charity based in Panama where they build and run schools to educate locals and teach them how to surf. The money donated goes toward these schools and gas for the boats that take the children to and from school.

Brown’s involvement with charity doesn’t stop there. She also works with a non-denominational Christian ministry organization called Young Life.

In the future, Brown hopes to hold more sea glass hunt fundraisers to raise money for both the Give and Surf organization and Young Life.

“Sea glass is just so awesome, so why not find it and share it with people?”

Brown said.

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Stage manager pursues passions NICOLE BADGLEY STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Stage managers are some of the first roles to join the process of a play or musical.They are incorporated into auditions, castings, design meetings and rehearsals and directors’ decisions.

They are the ones calling the light and sound cues, costume quickchanges and scenery movements.

As a theatre, television and film senior with an emphasis in stage management, Aimee Holland knows all about this art form.

As a stage manager, Holland works hands-on with directors, making sure that they are updated with any changes made the previous day and helping to move along the actors during rehearsals and final shows.

Ever since she can remember, Holland said she had a passion for theater.

She first pursued this passion by performing in the theatre at a young age and learning to play instruments and read music in junior high school.

Her father and brothers all pursued careers in engineering, while her mother was a history and English teacher.

While she was the first one to pursue a career in the arts, she said her family

was always supportive of her passion.

Holland was originally a performance major when she transferred to San Diego State.

After taking a stage management class, she knew that it was something that she wanted to pursue.

“It kind of just fell into place and I was like ‘this is it, this is what I want to do,’” Holland said. “My mentor, Jay Sheehan, has been great with sort of filtering me into the system here and he’s gotten me some professional work outside of school.”

Holland worked many different venues this past summer. She worked as a stage management intern on “Macbeth” at the Old Globe Theatre.

She also worked backstage as a production assistant for the MLB AllStar Game concert series at Petco Park.

Her favorite performances to stage manage are musicals because there are so many different elements that are incorporated.

Holland is currently stage-managing the production of “Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert.” This production is a score, meaning there is no dialogue between scenes. She says being able to read and follow along to music is essential to this job, since it’s essentially all sheet music.

Holland says the collaboration between the other workers is her favorite part of stage management.

“I get to work with the actors and the directors and the designers,” Holland said. “They’re all different sorts of people and they all need to be taken care of in their specific ways. I think that’s the best part of the job.”

Holland said her inspiration in this art form is doing what she loves to do and not letting anything stop her from pursuing that passion.

“In the department, we recently lost a good friend of ours, a recent MFA graduate and something that we’ve all pulled from that is to not stop fighting for what we want,” Holland said. “That has been my inspiration as of recently ... not taking life for granted and just doing what I love to do and just believing in and holding true to that.”

Sheehan is the production manager and a stage management professor at SDSU. He is also Holland’s mentor.

Sheehan said likability, organizational skills, relational skills, exceptional timing and the ability to multitask are all attributes that make a great stage manager.

Sheehan said Holland is so successful at stage managing because she naturally possesses all these skills.

She is also impeccable with her word and follows through with what she says she will do without fail, he said.

“She gets the job done and I think that’s why she is requested so often is because she goes beyond the show,”

Sheehan said. “In the short time she was here, she’s been an exceptional stage manager and the professors are asking for her personally to do shows and that’s a great thing to have when you’re getting ready to go out of school is relationships that you built be in place so that you can use them later in your life.”

Sheehan says Holland’s ability to make and maintain relationships is exceptional because she is well-liked and respected by her peers in the department.

Holland is what the department calls the senior production stage manager.

This means that she stage manages her own show and nurtures the other stage managers in her department.

She also lets Sheehan know how all the productions are coming along throughout the semester.

During every production she oversees, she helps Sheehan teach the other stage managers what needs to be done on stage.

She said she wants to relocate to the East Coast and eventually make her mark on Broadway.

“She just has to be passionate about what she wants to do,” Sheehan said.

“In that passion she’ll find her own motivation. I think as any art form, if you’re passionate about it, it will come naturally. She’s exceptional because she is who she is.”

Navigating a career in stage management KAYLEIGH VENNE STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Sometimes our passions find us in the most unconventional and unexpected ways. San Diego State television, film and new media senior Beonica Bullard never wanted to be a stage manager until the position chose her.

“I’ve always loved theater,” she said.

“I actually always wanted to be an actor until I came here. [During] orientation someone came in and asked ‘So, who wants to do stage management?’ and no one raised their hand.”

That someone was Hannah May, a then TFM senior, who would become one of Bullard’s biggest inspirations and friends.

“She gave me an in depth tour of the theatre department and a breakdown of what stage management would entail,” Bullard said.

May told her that not many students were interested in stage management, but that she was willing to take Bullard under her wing to teach her as much as she could if she was up for it.

At this moment, Bullard decided to take the plunge and dive into the unknown.

She recognized a role that needed filling and could provide job security while also maintaining her passion for theater.

At SDSU, stage management is not it’s own major, but is still vital to every theatrical production. The university does offer one 400 level stage management class. During her first semester, Bullard took it and fell in love.

“I realized that I had a new direction in life and I’ve been doing it ever since,” she said.

Stage managers are at the very heart of a production and are responsible for making sure the show goes on, no matter what.

“We are the go-to people of the theatre,” Bullard said. “We are almost on the same level as the director. We are the director’s

right hand man and act as the mediators for everyone. We make sure that everything is going smoothly at all times.”

The entire process to produce a show only takes three months, at the most.

The first month is full of weekly design meetings with the directors. Next, comes about a month and a half of rehearsals.

The rehearsals lead into tech week, dress rehearsals and then the final production.

Bullard’s first show was “The Jungle Book,” by Margaret Larlham.

It was her first role ever as an assistant stage manager and enjoyed the entire experience.

Although the grueling production felt like an eternity, Bullard said she found it extremely rewarding.

She went on to be an assistant stage manager for “Water by the Spoonful,”

by CJ Keith and “ALICE: Curiouser and Curiouser,” by Margaret Larlham.

Bullard dropped her “assistant” title and had her debut as a stage manager during her junior year.

She managed “Into the Woods,” a full-fledged musical by Paula Kalustian.

Bullard said this was her most difficult show and her biggest learning experience.

“So much went into (Into the Woods.)

This show was very hard, because I had to know all of the choreography and call over 600 cues,” Bullard said. “I stayed in the building until 3 a.m. to get the rhythm and everything down.”

Bullard also had the opportunity to stage manage director and playwright Margaret Larlham’s last on-campus show, the “Big Friendly Giant.”

Bullard works alongside Jay Sheehan, the school of TFM’s faculty-production manager.

“Beonica works very hard at trying to be the best that she can,” Sheehan said. “As a stage manager, she works with directors exceptionally well and is well liked by her peers, which is one giant trait that a good stage manager must possess.”

Sheehan said he is especially proud

Television, film and new media senior Beonica Bullard showecases her talents in the theatre.

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of Bullard’s off campus work at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park.

Bullard works with the Department of Community Engagement and helps to produce art festivals for families. For someone who never planned to become a stage manager, Bullard is making great strides in navigating her future career.

She said her dream is to stay here in her hometown of San Diego with her family, but she isn’t opposed to moving back to where she lived in high school, Las Vegas, if an opportunity presented itself.

“I could see myself working at the San Diego Repertory Theatre in Horton Plaza, downtown,” Bullard said.

She recently spent a day participating in a stage reading at the theatre and had the chance to discuss future opportunities with an employee there. Bullard is interested in joining the Repertory Theatre’s fellowship upon graduating, which would be a full-time position.

“The employee said that he would love to interview me and if that goes through I would love to stay here and become a

professional stage manager in San Diego,” Bullard said. “The Repertory Theatre seems very interested in me, and if I could stay [here] I would love that so much.”

As far as Big Hollywood dreams go, Bullard isn’t interested. The idea of moving to New York or Los Angeles intimidates her. The theatre community in San Diego is smaller than it seems.

“San Diego is the biggest, smallest town ever,” Bullard said. “I’ve worked with a few of the theatre companies here in San Diego, and everyone knows everyone.”

Bullard feels that SDSU has given her a strong network of people who can propel her to success.

“There is always someone that I can go to,” Bullard said. “I think it’s a really great network here.”

Bullard just finished up her last production at SDSU, “Julius Caesar.”

“I’m shocked that it’s been four years,” said Bullard. “It’s exciting to close a chapter and open a new one, but it’s scary and sad. Julius Caesar was the most lovely show, and I’m proud to call it my last.”

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Film student creates alternate world DAVID AYALA STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ The voices on the television continue to speak, as the man makes up his mind and enters the room.

He wields the knife behind his back and locks his stare on the woman.

“Hey we need to talk,” he said.

“Let’s talk,” she said.

The video titled “Perfect Shot,” ends.

San Diego State film student Faruq Tayo Oyekan, creates short films that convey a wide range of characters and themes.

“His work is very artistic, deep and universal,” Crystal Ciara, a local actress and model, said. “He can do a film that can induce certain feelings in so many different people and that is very powerful.”

Ciara has appeared in several of Faruq’s works, including “Perfect Shot.”

Oyekan was born and raised in San Diego to Nigerian parents. As a kid, he was a fan of films, but it wasn’t until high school that film and screenwriting became his passion.

“I really liked Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks.’

I loved the writing of that [film] and basically, I read the script, and from reading that screenplay I got really interested in screenwriting.”

“Clerks” became a template for Oyekan, who began to model much of his

style based on that film.

Oyekan focuses much of his style on dialogue, themes, and characters, as seen in his short, “Perfect Shot.”

Many of his other shorts have the same focus and much like “Clerks,” have an indie touch.

Much of his work can be found on Vimeo and YouTube.

During his high school and community college years, Oyekan began writing his own work.

“I made my own scripts,” Oyekan said.

“I would write little sci-fi stories in the vein of the Twilight Zone, kind of like that.”

Science fiction has come to be one of his favorite genres.

Oyekan has also modeled his style after films by great directors including Richard Linklater, who directed the critically acclaimed film “Boyhood,” and Martin Scorsese.

But no other movie scene has caused an impact on Oyekan’s work like that of Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi film, “Blade Runner.”

“Toward the end [of the film], the main villain android is about to die, facing the protagonist, but before he dies, he delivers one of the best monologues in film history regarding existence and humanity,” Oyekan said. “It’s a very powerful scene.”

The scene from “Blade Runner” has influenced many of Oyekan’s shorts. It

is a common trope for characters in his shorts to deliver emotional monologues.

Themes of humanity and existentialism have carried on into his works, like his longest and most passionate film, “Together.” “‘Together’ is about a man whose wife passed away so he hires a woman so she could just pretend to be her, it’s kind of like a romantic comedy,” Oyekan said.

The film has become his most enduring product and the one he is most proud of.

“It’s [a film] about losing love, finding it again and unveiling a world,” assistant director Ciara said. “It is a very touching and universal film, anyone can watch it and feel the theme. At the screening there was a very diverse audience. Old folks, young folks, the majority of people cried during that film, I was so caught up and I was so happy of the teamwork and execution of everything.”

But for the great detail and quality of his work, no one can truly know the artist behind it.

“He is beyond professional,” Ciara said.

“He improves so much and he is a very mature person. He is a very calm to be around and everyone around him feels his energy and can bring their best to the set.”

Oyekan said filmmaking is the ultimate storytelling device. It allows him to create worlds and alternate realities.

“It’s compelling, it creates conversation and it’s magical,” he said. “It’s given me

purpose in life by providing me with something to be passionate about.”

Oyekan said his admission to the university has opened many doors for him.

“My experience at State is awesome,” he said. “I love the community, I love the environment and the equipment we have access to. The professors give you really good advice. There is great guidance here.”

Oyekan’s filmmaking has even been used on campus by the administration.

One of his shorts films “Party Scenario,” details the different possible scenarios where a fun night of partying can go wrong.

His short has been used by the university to caution freshmen about the dangers of unsafe partying.

“The film program is pretty much the best in San Diego because they give you so many opportunities to really explore and make your own type of films,” he said. “It really encourages you to be creative and to be experimental.”

Although gratful for its lessons, Oyekan said that SDSU only highlights the beginning of his career.

“After I graduate, I plan on moving out to L.A.,” he said. “Hopefully I get to direct small experimental films or TV 1-hour dramas.”

Oyekan is currently working on a documentary based on Poway’s allegedly haunted McKamey Manor.

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Striving to break into the ‘boys club’ SYDNEY OLMSTEAD STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego State theater graduate student Caroline Andrew is a light designer for various theatrical productions, art projects and music shows.

This means she is in charge of how a set or stage will look under the lights and how the colors and light placement should illustrate what is going on in the production.

She works on various projects on campus as well as around San Diego.

Most recently, she was involved with the on-campus production of “Julius Caesar,” which was open last week.

Before that, Andrew was a lighting intern at Kaaboo Del Mar. She is also currently assisting a local lighting designer on a show called “Bad Jews” at the Cygnet Theater.

Next semester she will be working as a lighting intern at the Los Angeles Opera.

Andrew’s journey in theater technology began in high school and has only grow from there.

“It all got started because the boys told me I couldn’t, that’s genuinely it,” she said. “I had done almost every other sort of type of theater technology at that point. I was really interested in the light board and I asked if I could try it out and

they said no, because I would ‘break everything.’”

In her efforts to prove the boys wrong, Andrew came to realize that she loved lighting as the “perfect mix of electrical technology and art.”

In the theater department, the lighting techs fulfill all roles, such as basic and master electrician, various assistants, programmer and designer.

The room for creativity combined with a sense of pressure is one of Andrew’s favorite parts about the job.

Lighting design is typically done on the spot, usually even in front of the director and other people.

“There are moments that need to be specific to different moods and what’s going on with the music and the choreography,” musical theatre professor Stephen Brotebeck said. “From the beginning, Caroline was a great influence with that and using color to set mood for directions and choreography.”

Brotebeck directs and choreographs all of the on-campus musicals after leaving Broadway.

He worked with Andrew last year on “The Drowsy Chaperone,“ where she was the lighting designer.

He said when he starts to work on the choreography of a musical, he thinks about the story and what sort of world that story takes place in before

developing characters’ behaviors and movements.

After reading a play three to five times and going to design meetings to determine what the production’s world will be like, Andrew works on how the lights will illustrate mood and location.

These needs are then translated into equipment, which is then put into the air where “the fun begins.”

Once the equipment is in the air, creativity can take over as the designer messes around with the lights and how they feel in relation to what’s going on onstage.

Some of the design aspects are predetermined before the lights are set up in the air, but there is a sense of “visceral creativity” that surrounds the job once it’s more hands-on.

“Musical numbers have natural build to them and Caroline was able to replicate that build through her lighting,” Brotebeck said. “The best theatre isn’t when someone walks away saying ‘Oh wow, the set design was so good’ or ‘the lighting was so good.’ The best theatre happens when people walk away saying ‘Oh my goodness that was such a good show, everything worked so well together.”

“A great man always told me that his favorite project is the next one and I entirely subscribe to that,” Andrews said.

“Each project I’ve done has been great for different reasons. I’ve done terrible shows that still fulfilled me emotionally, I’ve done great shows that made me feel like crap. It’s all about the experience and what the audience gets out of it.”

One of Andrew’s overarching goals is to break into the “boys club” that is theater technology.

Even though a woman, Jean Rosenthal, pioneered the field of theatrical lighting, it is largely dominated by men today.

Research from lighting designer Porsche McGovern spotlighted the distribution of jobs within the League of Resident Theatres.

The League is the largest professional association of theatres in the United States. This research shows that in 2015 women filled only 13.7 percent of lighting design positions, while men held 86.3 percent.

The numbers are similar in sound design, where men hold 91.2 percent of the positions.

“I want to see how far I can get and I want to see how awesome I can be,” Andrew said. “And I want to save the world from bad lighting.”

Andrew will also be the lighting programmer for the School of Television, Theatre and Film’s production of “Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert” on Dec. 1 through 4.

Graphic designer creates start-up company NATHAN YICK STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Art is a form of expression, a lifestyle and a reciprocated emotion.

For Mackenzie Hansen, art is also a pathway to an exceptional career.

A graphic design junior at San Diego State, Hansen has taken her passion for graphic design and created a design and marketing company called Mash Marketing and Design Co. At a young age, Hansen said she knew that graphic design was her calling.

“I got started in sixth grade when I went to work with my aunt who is a graphic designer,” Hansen said. “From then on, I knew I wanted to do that for my career.”

To many art students, their work means so much more than just a step toward an art degree. It is a form of

personal expression or a start to an artistic legacy.

“Graphic design has always been special to me because it is a way to communicate to the public using art,” Hansen said.

Hansen’s art style stems from organic shapes and natural imagery from everyday visuals, but specifically, she said she wants to blend styles together to create something fresh, unique and never before seen.

“I am inspired by nature and organic shapes,” she said. “I love water color and hand lettering and I love to incorporate that with modern graphic design styles.”

Her company, Mash Marketing and Design, was created with a combination of great student minds, bringing together her artistic vision with her friend, business partner, co-founder and marketing junior Natasha Woode.

“We decided we wanted to start a

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company,” Hansen said. “Since she was a marketing major and I was a graphic design major, we thought it was perfect to start a marketing and design firm.”

Through the ambitious startup, Hansen said she is able to push herself and create exceptional designs for the public to see.

“Mackenzie is always trying to learn new things to do with her art and advance her skills,” Woode said.

“Working with her is really great, she has such an open mind to everything, so it is easy to bounce ideas off of each other and she accepts all suggestions really well.”

After four months of development, the company has grown noticeably larger and is currently working with a couple of clients, including another student startup, Soul Spot Sunscreen, an allnatural sunscreen company.

Hansen creates designs for logos and packaging, while coming up with strategies for brand expansion and marketing for their clients.

As a graphic designer, Hansen is able to design and brand a company on multiple social media platforms and across all mobile devices.

The company is also able to advertise and promote a business through the use of their graphic design work.

However, working with clients can be tough when balancing school and other responsibilities.

The process is slow, but Hansen makes sure that the work is exactly what the client wants.

“Sometimes it can be really hard to find a balance,” Woode said. “School can be very demanding and even draining, but Mash is really important to us and we don’t see it as work. [It] lets us take a break from our schooling and lets us spend some time doing what we enjoy while simultaneously developing our company.”

Whether it is creating a new logo and graphic for the brand, or making sure

the color scheme is consistent with the brand’s theme, Hansen said she enjoys the work that is put into their company every day.

While taking art classes at SDSU, Hansen stays motivated and looks for ways to grow.

Her passion makes running a startup company in college a win-win situation, improving artistic skills while applying them to the development of her company.

Even if the company does not turn out the way she expects in the future, Hansen has solid plans for her graphic design career.

“I would love to work for a design agency and be working towards being a creative director,” Hansen said. “I would also like to do freelance work on the side or have a hand lettering company.”

The future is bright for Hansen as she continues to grow as a graphic design artist.

“Art is an abstract field of study and an even more abstract concept,” Hansen said.

As an art student, finding your calling and the time and motivation to maintain your passion is hard, but Hansen said she somehow makes it work.

She said her art-driven state of mind allows her to take much more out of her artwork and convert that effort into honest progress involving herself and her company.

“I want to create a firm that combines the art of graphic design with print and more organic handwork,” Hansen said.

“I hope to continue to develop Mash further [as] graphic design is something that I both love, which is why I decided to major in it. The idea of making Mash my career is encouraging and motivates me to always try to progress my skills, knowledge and experience.”

Companies looking to partner with Mash Marketing and Design can contact Hansen at mashdesignco@gmail.com.

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If. Dance Theater crushes tradition CARLY YRIBARREN STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ There is no denying that San Diego State has a talented performing arts program.

The program has inspired many students to challenge the meaning of performing, leading to the production of unique works of art and expression.

If. Dance Theater is a group of three dancers who want to change the way people perceive dancing and performing.

By utilizing the techniques of improv, the group wants to encourage individuals to think and step out of traditional stereotypes.

Chloe Freeman, Krista Nelson and Aubrhe Yruretagoyena are the three women who make up If. Dance Theater, a practice-focused dance studio.

Yruretagoyena is currently a dance senior, while Freeman and Nelson are alumni who also graduated from the dance program. Freeman was Outstanding Dance Graduate last year, and Nelson holds the same title for the 2015-2016 academic year.

“The three of us began practicing spontaneous choreography and improvisation, but something more crafted than just following the flow,” Nelson said.

Although the group originally started out with six to seven members, Freeman, Nelson and Yruretagoyena still hope to have the same impact while they are performing.

“We have never gotten together and said we want to make something about this,” Yruretagoyena said.

The group wanted to create a compositional practice where they were

responsible for themselves.

“We started a group that was larger than the three of us,” Nelson said. “[A group] unsupervised by faculty, something that was different than the normal school week of dancing.”

If. Dance Theater’s practice is unique due to the fact that after a busy day of practice, the group will talk about it in order to bring in their personal research outside of the faculty-led research.

“ ALL THREE OF US COME FROM A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE. IT’S IMPORTANT

TO ME WHAT WE’RE DOING BECAUSE WE ARE TAKING AN APPROACH THAT MAKES SPACE FOR NOT JUST THE HETERONORMATIVE REPUTATION OF GUY-GIRL DANCE.”

- Krista Nelson, dance alumni

“We all show up at one specific time in the studio, we’ll have music or don’t, have talking or don’t and we just start jamming,” Yruretagoyena said. “If we were musicians we would all show up with our instruments and just play and whatever happens, happens.”

Yruretagoyena said practice and rehearsal are two different things and although both are essential to the company’s successfulness, practice involves evaluating the generation of material.

For If. Dance Theater, it involves finding out what the group is interested in doing at the moment, which enables

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Performance art is the group’s main focus, and a typical week consists of collaborating, practicing and making work.

Nelson said that the group would most likely bring in someone who is not from within the dance field, maybe musicians or visual artists.

Some pieces of work that the group

has put together include the new, “It’s a little bit ‘uh huh,’” that was performed at the San Diego annual Fringe Festival this summer and “slowly but surely, becoming slightly,” that was performed oncampus.

If. Dance Theater performed “slowly but surely, becoming slightly” in front of Hepner Hall in order to “interrupt someone’s day with art,” Nelson said.

The three members said their work has values that challenge the status quo and shake up normal stereotypes with dance.

“There’s something important to me about what we do,” Nelson said. “All

three of us come from a post-modern perspective. It’s important to me what we’re doing because we are taking an approach that makes space for not just the hetero-normative reputation of guygirl dance.”

The three members of If. Dance Theater said they were inspired by the dance department to start their own company. Nelson said that the faculty within the dance department encourages students to be in charge of their own dance education and dance artistry.

They want to pave the way so that by the end of each student’s fouryear career, they will have the tools to take over and perhaps start their own businesses.

This is exactly what If. Dance Theater has done.

Yruretagoyena also said the dance faculty have encouraged each individual to go beyond their comfort zones and to be their own teachers.

The group credits dance professors Leslie Seiters and Jess Humphrey for their growing success and inspiration.

They said the two professors have pushed and challenged them to have their own voices and to be overall wellrounded human beings.

“We have found each other and have found something special with each other,” Yruretagoyena said. “We are excited for the challenge of how do you continue to make dance with people who aren’t in the room, how do you continue to share ideas and collaborate across borders and across states.”

If. Dance Theater’s unconventional and inspirational form of pop-up art lacks the traditional stage setting and opens up a new form of creativity.

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NOV. 16 - 20, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Leaving my legacy on a trash can AHMAD DIXON CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________

I

am just about midway through my first year at San Diego State and I am already concerned about my legacy.

I want generations of students to see my name and think, “Ahmad Dixon, what a great man!”

Or at the very least, “Ahmad Dixon, he was a man.”

I would even settle for, “Ahmad Dixon, he was.”

There are plenty of ways I could go about this.

I could discover a new element to add to the already way too long periodic table.

Maybe I could write a classic American novel, or even paint a masterpiece.

But then again, seeing the amount of funding this university gives to physics, literature and art I doubt any of these things are going to happen.

Maybe I should just start playing men's basketball for the university under the direction of Steve Fisher.

At least my efforts would be properly funded.

Plus, there is the fact that I have no career ambitions whatsoever and am most likely the laziest person who has ever written for this paper.

But hey, don't take my word for it. Go ahead and contact my current editor by reading the information at the top of this page and ask her if I am actually the laziest person who has ever written for this paper.

As if she could tell you. It's not like she has actually been alive for the 103 years this paper has been published

for. Unless she is a vampire.

So instead, I have devised another way to immortalize myself and have my name among the most revered alumni, including but not limited to: Gregory Peck, former Mayor of San Diego, Jerry Sanders, and that one guy who founded Jack in the Box. The way most people are venerated at universities is by having a building named after them, e.g. Hepner Hall, Love Library, Kardashian Auditorium, etc. I may have made up that last one, but you understand my point.

I am not so egotistical to ask for an entire building to be named after me, but I am egotistical enough to ask for a trashcan.

That is why I am extending this offer

student body.

You could buy one fifth of a little Caesars Pizza.

You could power the Arts and Letters building for another .00000078 seconds.

You could go to the bank, exchange that dollar for 100 pennies and make a hundred wishes by throwing the pennies into one of our university’s gorgeous fountains.

The only limit to what you can do with amazing wealth is your own beautiful imagination and all I ask is for some recognition of my greatness via a trashcan.

If you are not interested in liquid capital, I am also willing to make a donation to Love Library, which

MR. PRESIDENT, I AM PREPARED TO OFFER THE UNIVERSITY A HEFTY DONATION OF ONE DOLLAR ...

to President Elliot Hirshman.

"Editor's Note: The following may or may not be a serious letter to President Hirshman."

Dear President Hirshman... that is how a letter is supposed to start right?

Mr. President, I am prepared to offer the University a hefty donation of one dollar on the condition that you rename a trash can outside Storm Hall, “The Ahmad Dixon Trash Can for Sanitation Excellence.”

Mr. President, think of all the ways that one dollar could benefit the

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currently houses a vast collection of books that have aided scholars in their studies for generations.

I am willing to part with my valuable collection of magazines that I have stolen from doctors’ offices if it means getting these trash cans.

Whenever I go to the doctors’ office, which is often considering I fall off the roof of my house ever couple of weeks, I steal a magazine or two.

Not because I am interested in magazines, but because I enjoy feeling like I have some slight power over

those who work in the hospital and I get that feeling from stealing trash.

At this point, the carpet on my bedroom floor is no longer visible because it is covered with piles and piles of stolen magazines.

Really, you’re doing me a favor in accepting my donation because I have been told that dozens of magazines of my bedroom floor could be a fire hazard.

With this generous donation, students will have access to secret knowledge previously unknown to them.

Knowledge such as a 2006 Time Magazine critique of the Bush Administration, Cosmopolitan’s “Top 10 Ways to Get Washboard Abs in Time for Swimsuit Season” and an ad telling you that the Surgeons General advises against the use of tobacco products.

For too long I have seen students with less than stellar abs in the midst of swimsuit season and I have to be honest, it is a complete disgrace.

These magazines would be a fantastic addition to the university’s library and all I ask in return is a silly concrete trash can to be named after me.

I have heard that immortality is something all men have craved since the dawn of civilization.

It does not have to be a trash can. I know that is a lot to ask, as it’s a large piece of prime real estate.

I will settle for a bathroom on the third floor of Storm Hall, a power outlet in Nasatir Hall and I would even settle for an auditorium.

Please consider my offer seriously and allow me to share my immense wealth with the entire university.

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