BY RIGOBERTO GOMES

@AskRigo

Transportation Solutions, a pro-gram dedicated to serve San Jose State students and employees on commute information and alternative trans-portation, held its fi rst workshop of the Spring semester Wednesday at the Associated Students House.

Th e workshop covered a variety of topics for students and employees who attend SJSU using public trans-portation.

Students are able to pick up their Eco Pass in the new location for the transportation solution center.

Th e new location is located in the east wing of the Student Union. Stu-dents can also receive it through mail.

Th e workshop was an overview of how to properly use the Eco Pass sticker as well as transportation al-ternatives around the Santa Clara County.

“Our goal is to reduce the solo driv-ers coming to campus,” said Tiff any Rodriguez, the transportation solu-tions commute coordinator. “Th ere’s over 30,000 students that commute to campus and there is only about 6,500 parking spaces so we can’t even have the third of the population driving

to campus, so our mission is to solve that problem.”

Th e program’s speaker suggested students to take public transit be-cause it saves students money, helps the environment and it’s a way for students to get exercise.

Students pay for their Eco Pass through the Student Association fee. For someone not affi liated with SJSU, the cost of an Eco Pass would be $1,540.

Th e Eco Pass provides diff erent services for students around Santa Clara County such as VTA buses, ex-press buses, light rail and DASH.

Students have to show their val-id Eco Pass sticker to receive a ride on any public transit in Santa Clara County.

Students who attended the work-shop received plenty of information.

“We learned what kind of trans-portation is available, such as a Zip-car and the VTA can be reached, and what is included in a VTA pass, and where we can actually go, and the re-gional transportation,” Sidney Lai, a senior computer science major, said.

SJSU students and employees are able to access two apps called VTAlerts and Roadify.

BY TAYLOR ATKINSON

@haytayla

Th e Educational Opportunity Program at San Jose State University held its inau-gural “Lights, Camera, Fashion” show on Th ursday.

Th e free event was open to models of all sizes, genders and other forms of “perfectly imperfect uniqueness.” It was held in the Student Union Ballroom from 6-8 p.m.

“We felt awesome about the turnout,” said EOP academic adviser Crystal Cooper. “We were advertising in our EOP bulletin, we put it on Facebook and we had posters everywhere so we were just grateful to look into the audience and see all of those peo-ple having a good time.”

Cooper organized the show and began planning last semester, but it had to be postponed due to fi nals and the amount of work involved.

Attendees were encouraged to partic-ipate in EOP’s clothing drive for Sacred Heart by bringing new or gently-used clothing items to the fashion show.

“It actually was supposed to happen last month, but we couldn’t get everything we needed,” Cooper said. “We pushed it back to this semester because we wanted to have the right turnout so we ended up doing it and it fi nally came into fruition.”

EOP students modeled outfi ts of their choice while they walked the stage to mu-sic from Beyonce, Ariana Grande and Katy Perry.

“I really enjoyed it; I feel like it was a really good performance and everyone showed their own style and expression,” Lorena Dominguez, a junior athletic train-ing major and EOP student said. “I liked that they had the advisers in it as well—that was really fun.”

Advisers, including Cooper, choreo-graphed and performed a dance to Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” in the middle of the show.

Models opened the show wearing pastel-colored dresses for spring. Other themes included culture, exercise, date night, fi nals and business.

“I came up with it, but I cannot take credit for everything,” Cooper said.

BY JONATHAN WOLD

@jonanathanwold

Despite a strong showing through two periods, the San Jose Sharks fell 5–2 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night at SAP Center in Downtown San Jose.

It was a much closer game than the fi nal score indicated, with the Sharks trailing by only one goal in the last four minutes of the game.

A late goal by Lightning for-ward Cedric Paquette and an empty-netter sealed the victory for Tampa Bay, pushing the Lightning into a tie for fi rst place in the Atlan-tic Division.

“Th ere were moments where details got away from us,” Head Coach Todd McLellan said. “You don’t beat fi rst place teams like that.”

Th e Sharks fall to 29–21–8 on the season and still hold second place in the Pacifi c Division, but are only three points ahead of Minnesota, who are currently out-side the playoff picture.

“We thought we did some good things tonight,” McLellan said. “But not enough of them.”

San Jose out shot Tampa Bay 35–33 in the game.

Th e Sharks also led 66–50 in shot attempts according to http://war-on-ice.com, a site which tracks advanced hockey statistics.

San Jose had multiple chances on scrambles in front of the Light-ning net, but failed to get the puck past 6-foot-8-inch goalkeeper Ben Bishop on any of them.

Th e top two lines for each team put up plenty of chances, but a goal from Paquette on Tampa Bay’s third line was the big diff erence.

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Junior psychology major Laura Vazquez twirls eloquently in a traditional Mexican dress while Shakira’s “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” plays in the background during the EOP Fashion Show in the Student Union Ballroom on Thursday.

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MOSAIC tackles blackface, cultural appropriationBY ESTEFANY SOSA

@estefany_scs

Students learned about ap-propriation of black culture in a workshop on Thursday at the MOSAIC Cross Cultural Cen-ter.

The workshop was titled “Modern Black Face,” making reference to the term “black-face,” when white actors would paint their faces black and “act black” for the entertainment of white people.

Ashlei McPherson, A.S. di-rector of student resource af-fairs and diversity advocate intern at MOSAIC, began the workshop by providing the definition of cultural appropri-ation.

McPherson used a quote from Tumblr user named “my-cultureisnotatrend” to describe cultural appropriation as: “You have the agency to ‘try on’ those cultures, whereas other groups of people were forced to adopt another culture (while still be-ing discriminated against be-cause regardless of how they speak or what they wear, they still aren’t the right skin col-or).”

The workshop featured im-ages of artists including Iggy Azalea, Selena Gomez and Katy Perry in cultural garb. The workshop attendees were asked to give their reactions. Most agreed the artists inappropri-ately used certain aspects of Indian and East Asian cultures for the entertainment of an American audience.

McPherson then continued to give examples of “historical blackface.” The tensest moment was when the audience was shown a video of actress Judy Garland with dark paint on her body to resemble black skin,

overly exaggerated white-paint-ed lips and a series of braids.

Deja Thomas, senior child and adolescent development major, said she finds it repul-sive when black people’s fea-tures are used as a trend.

“Kylie Jenner for example and the whole lip thing,” Thom-as said. “But how I think about it is black women get mocked for having these facial features, but when someone else does it, it’s cool.”

After setting the scene with some historical background on blackface, McPherson dis-cussed modern blackface.

“Th e diff erence between the two is that modern blackface is much more hidden so it’s hard to point it out,” McPherson said. “Due to the fact that you no lon-ger have to paint your face black it is much easier to get away from it. We also live in a country that lives under this false notion of ‘post racial’ so it is diffi cult for

mainstream America to think that people are impersonating black culture.”

McPherson said hip-hop as we know it is much more than music; it goes back to African drumming and rhyming, and slaves’ story-telling in metaphors. Hip-hop, she said, began as a socio-eco-nomic political movement.

Th e workshop juxtaposed orig-inal hip-hop to contemporary hip-hop, and McPherson said people no longer see hip-hop as a culture.

McPherson also talked about the byproducts of hip-hop cul-ture. Hip-hop has inf luenced everything from fashion to lan-guage, television to film and music to dancing.

Zain Ahmed, diversity advo-cacy intern at MOSAIC and ju-nior sociology major, said what he liked most about the workshop was learning more about hip-hop.

“I took away a great under-standing of the history of hip-hop, and how it’s been histori-cally used to spread awareness and create a community for black people that have been systematically oppressed for centuries,” Ahmed said. “It’s been a way to resist and a way to share their stories.”

The last topic covered in the workshop was the use of the “N-word” by black and non-black people.

McPherson played a video of Julian Curry explaining the meaning of the “N-word” and why people still use it.

“The ‘N-word’ is still preva-lent because it is in music and you have all these people now having access to the word and they think because their favor-ite rapper can say it they can say it,” McPherson said. “Peo-ple feel like because they have black friends and they are not racist and they are using the word in a positive way it has no negative effect on people.”

Some attendees also admit-ted to having used the word. Thomas said she has been guilty of using the word even though she is black.

McPherson invited the workshop attendees to give their feedback in order for her to create future workshops on similar topics.

Estefany Sosa is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

Senior political science major Ashlei McPherson gives examples of cultural appropria-tion during her discussion about blackface on Thursday. Blackface is makeup used in theater to represent a black person and is often considered racist.

Estefany Sosa | Spartan Daily

Film series celebrates black historyBY RIGOBERTO GOMES

@AskRigo

Black History Month brings a new form of celebration every Wednesday on the f ifth f loor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library.

San Jose State students and members of the community were able to watch different Afri-can-American films following a discussion series.

An audience of 20 people saw the film “Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism.”

The film covered the topic of racial issues in the past and how they have continued today.

It showed how racism has been throughout generations and how it affects African-American people in this country.

The film provided insight into African-American life, and how they faced obstacles throughout history and present times.

The film also covered how white supremacy is not an accident and discusses well-known Afri-can-American authors, rappers and business individuals.

Students who attended the event were able to find out new facts about African-American history and culture that surprised them.

“I learned a lot of things I didn’t know about African-Amer-ican history like our inventions,” Shanelle Williams, a freshman business management major said. “I didn’t know a lot of it came from African Americans, and it was good hearing the opinions of black people and how white people felt in the event too.”

There were different sections and topics covered throughout the film and people gravitated differ-ently toward each one.

An SJSU student expressed the section of the film and part of the discussion that stood out to her.

“The divide and conquer, just to know that this started so long ago and when the man said no oth-

er races gets really rewarded for turning on each other but black, it really stood out, and its like that because we’re a huge threat to so-ciety,” DaMaya Wallace, a fresh-man political science major said. “If we were truly get together and become one, we would dominate.”

Other students showed support by attending the event for educa-tional purposes.

“It was a great event to come to, great event to meet other people like me, great event to educate myself, not just because it’s Black History Month, but for education, it’s great,” Danny McLane, a senior industrial and systems engineering major said.

The coordinator, Akubundu Amazu-Lott, a former adjunct Af-rican-American studies professor, planned out these film events and discussions explaining why Black History Month is important.

“An opportunity for people to get a more in depth understanding of African people who really built this country from the time of be-ing brought here as slaves and the contribution that we have made,” Amazu-Lott said.

These films show the story, his-tory and culture of African-Amer-ican people, and the diverse audi-ence members were able to interact with one another and express their opinions and emotions.

The audience spoke about slav-ery and racism in the past as well as in the present and brief ly touch the case of Trayvon Martin.

The African-American films and discussions are in the works to be extended throughout the se-mester and will be featured every other week.

Rigoberto Gomes is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

”“I took away a great understanding of the history of hip-

hop, and how it’s been historically used to spread awareness and create a community for black people that have been

systematically oppressed for centuries

Zain AhmedDiversity advocacy intern at MOSAIC and junior sociology major

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Chief of staff answers student concerns about SJSU

BY ROSA JASSO

@rosabjasso

Jonathan Wiens, stu-dent organizer for Save Our University Library, and Carmen Lara Kikpat-rick, a junior social work major, joined San Jose State Chief of Staff Stacy Gleixner in Tower Hall for coffee and cookies to talk about concerns on Thursday.

Wiens, a senior history major, attended the meet-ing prepared to argue his position on the library books that will be affect-ed by the “Library of the Future Plan.”

The plan has five goals set to advance the library, its resources and technol-ogy. One of the goals is to provide the library with more digital versions of books.

“What concerns me is that we have room to grow our collection,” Wiens said.

Wiens said the library has enough space to store more books and there is no need to remove the current print versions.

Wiens also had con-cerns about SJSU’s bud-get and how its distribut-ed. He said that science, math, technology and en-gineering classes are get-ting more funding than social science, art and hu-manities classes.

Gleixner explained the large number of students that graduated a few years ago allowed for a larger number of students to at-tend SJSU.

Each department was given the option to accept more students into its col-lege, and the engineering department did, she said.

Gleixner said the num-ber of students and the school’s budget are linked. Th e more enrollment there is in one department, the more funding that college will get. She mentioned a mathematical formula that calculated how many students are allowed to be enrolled in each depart-ment.

The meeting also dis-cussed online classes and its convenience.

Carmen Lara Kirkpat-rick, a social work trans-fer student from National Hispanic University, at-tended the meeting and said she found online classes to be beneficial. She had to take online classes because her uni-versity did not have a so-cial work department.

“I like them. I liked the experience,” Kirkpatrick said. “The teachers were available. I would ask for feedback … and they would do it.”

Kirkpatrick said she was scared to take online classes at fi rst but was con-tent with them and said they were easy to follow.

Kirkpatrick said she has friends who graduat-ed through online classes from National Hispanic University, and they are successful in their ca-reers.

Wiens was content with the meeting with Gleixner. He said Gleix-ner pointed him in the right direction in ref-erence to the Save Our University Library orga-nization.

However, he would have liked to speak to President Mohammad Qayoumi.

“The president hasn’t answered questions in a long time and I think it would be time now that the chief of staff has gra-ciously gone out and an-swered questions,” Wiens said. “He should answer questions along with ev-erybody.”

The next meetings with Gleixner are posted on the SJSU Events Cal-endar.

Rosa Jasso is a Spar-tan Daily staff writer.

Jonathan Wiens takes notes on Chief of Staff Stacy Gleixner’s response to his concern about replacing the print books in the King Library with digital versions. The two met during Gleixner’s coffee hour on Thursday.

Rosa Jasso | Spartan Daily

”“What concerns me is that we have room to grow our collection

Jonathan WiensOrganizer for Save Our University Library

“The models—I asked for their feed-back—they came up with some of the themes and the EOP staff so it’s really been a collaborative effort.”

The cultural theme featured dif-ferent looks from around the world to represent SJSU’s diverse student body while exercise showcased workout wear. Date night and business themes included blouses, dresses, suits and button-down shirts.

The “finals” theme showcased mod-els dressed as students wearing sweats, yoga pants, reading glasses and hats. Some even held coffee cups as an acces-sory.

“We had a good six different prac-tices, but we only had two other re-hearsals not including today,” Devon Pollard, a sophomore biomedical en-gineering major and EOP student said. “It was pretty good, especially for the first one.”

The show also featured a raff le and three winners won gift cards worth $100. The fourth winner won an iPad Mini equipped with a protective case.

“One thing we like to do at EOP is show pride,” Cooper said.

A fire alarm went off shortly after the show began, but Cooper told the audience it was planned and called for a quick intermission. There were a total of three intermissions.

“We plan events all year long and we try to have something monthly,” Coo-per said. “This was one of our large-scale events for the semester, but our next small-scale event is going to be a Chinese New Year event.”

The Chinese New Year event will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. in the EOP lounge.

Taylor Atkinson is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

The VTAlerts app can be downloaded through an iPhone, Android and iPad and helps students report any suspicious activity on any VTA bus and light rail.

The VTAlerts app helps students and em-ployees who take public transit have a more safe and comfortable ride by reducing any suspicious activity.

The Roadify app helps students know the bus and light rail schedules, how to get from one lo-cation to another and if there will be any delays on any VTA buses or light rails.

“I couldn’t find a good app on my smartphones and I always ended up finding and using the pa-per schedule and now I’m going to get more on the

Roadify app,” Elisabeth Thomas, an SJSU librar-ian, said.

SJSU students and employees can fi nd more information by attending the next two Transporta-tion Solutions workshops of the Spring semester held tomorrow and Friday from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Rigoberto Gomes is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

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Chancellor discusses fi nances in web conferenceBY RAVEN SWAYNE

@itsRavenDawn

California State University Chan-cellor Timothy P. White addressed school finances and answered ques-tions through a live web conference on Friday.

During his State of the CSU address in January, White spoke of the Gradu-ation Initiative 2025, but did not delve into the costs of attending college.

“Anytime that I talk about money, I want you to know that I am really very much aware and understanding of how sensitive and important of a topic this is,” White said.

According to White, the state of California approved a budget of $119 million to go directly to the CSU sys-tem next year.

On top of this, $25 million was awarded on a one-time basis to go into repairing campus buildings and anoth-er $25 million will be invested in facul-ty and staff.

White explained this was not enough and some San Jose State Uni-versity students agree such as linguis-tics major Karen Villeda.

Villeda believes the school is severe-ly underfunded and does not think it’s fair that on top of paying a high tui-tion, she and other graduating linguis-tic majors have to put in extra money toward graduation.

To put it in perspective, White broke down the cost of the amount it takes to run the university.

With 50 percent coming from the state and another 50 percent coming directly from student tuition, a state appropriation of $119 million falls about $100 million short of what it needs since it only covers half of the CSU operative budget.

White said this shortage would not only affect current students but also the thousands of qualified students who would need to be refused.

A request to increase this budget has been set in motion.

“Trustees have approved a budget that is almost $100 million more than what the governor has expressed inter-est in providing,” White said.

White stressed students must be supportive and have their voices heard

in Sacramento for this budget increase to happen.

“Advocacy is a really large multi-fac-torial effort that is organized out of the office in Sacramento, but I would en-courage people to really participate,” White said.

Some students are willing to put it all on the table to make this a reality.

“I would try everything in the book to try to keep tuition not going any further higher than what it actually has gone in past years,” said senior psy-chology major Miguel Gonzales.

White added this money in for stu-dent success and said it should be seen as an investment, not a cost to the gov-ernment.

White also explained at the moment due to the rising economy, there are no plans to increase tuition. He said if tu-ition had to be increased, it would be done in small increments to allow stu-dents to plan accordingly.

When asked about the transparen-cy of student success fees, White said everything will be posted online and the advisory committee is made up of students as well.

Freshman computer engineering major Preyrna Yadav believes that al-though this may help, it is ultimately up to the student to do their part and search where their student success fees are headed.

“If people actually wanted to find out, they would find it no matter what,” Yadav said.

White also answered concerns re-garding community colleges offering bachelors degrees in the near future.

“The whole concept was to not cre-ate bachelors degrees at the communi-ty colleges that are duplicative to those available at the CSU or UC campuses,” White said.

He added that degrees offered at community colleges are meant to ex-pand the workforce in California and will be more job-related.

Currently, community colleges are sending degree proposals to both the UC and CSU systems and will be vetted by the end of this month.

Feldmanstern urges students to use these free services while they still can.

Raven Swayne is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

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Sixth annual Meet the Brewers festival taps into craft beer culture in Downtown San JoseBY ESTEFANY SOSA

@estefany_scs

Over 20 local craft brewers from Silicon Valley and Monte-rey Bay showcased their beer at Hermitage Brewing Company for the pleasure of beer fanat-ics at the sixth annual Meet the Brewers festival on Saturday.

The festival has taken place every year since 2010, one year after the establishment of Her-mitage Brewing Company.

Crowds arrived at the com-pany’s gates well before the fes-tival’s start time of 1 p.m.

After checking in, people were given small beer glass-es and were directed to a large pop-up tent with brewers on the sidelines waiting to serve samples of their beers.

People had the opportunity to choose from a variety of beer.

A popular beer among the crowd was the Valley Surprise from Santa Clara Valley Brewing.

Tom Clark, CEO and presi-dent of Santa Clara Valley Brew-ing said it was his third time participating in the festival.

Clark said he began his com-pany in 2012 because he loves the independent spirit of craft brewing and creating new tastes and f lavors from old styles.

The lineup of brewers was composed of breweries new and old, including Eight Bridges Brewing Inc. that recently had its first year anniversary.

Justin Beardsley, owner and brewer of Eight Bridges Brew-ery, said he left his career as a paramedic to become a full-time brewer.

“I was looking for a different career from where I was at, and I had been winning awards as a

home brewer so my parents and I teamed up to open a brewery,” Beardsley said.

The festival, however, had more than just beer. After binging on craft beer, people’s appetites were quenched by food trucks part of Moveable Feast.

For the first time this year, the festival had a pop-up mar-ket featuring local artists in partnership with San Jose Made.

Esther Krenn, an attendee, said she came to the festival

as a designated driver for her husband, but she enjoyed other aspects of the festival.

“It’s a great environment,” Krenn said. “I like the mu-sic. The food, the food’s been great, so I enjoyed that part even though I didn’t drink.”

Preacher Boy, a Bay Area artist, and Irietide, a Central Valley band, provided live en-tertainment throughout the event.

Although it was a beer fes-tival, there were a lot of fam-ilies with children and family

members of all ages.Some of the festival-goers,

such as Michelle Hultz were also volunteers.

“I volunteered because it’s for a good cause—for MS—and it’s fun to drink,” Hultz said.

The Meet the Brewers Eventbrite page stated that proceeds of the event would go to Can Do MS, a non-profit organization which helps peo-ple with multiple sclerosis, and The Bay Brewers Guild, also a non-profit, promotes craft brewing and local breweries.

One thing that several peo-ple talked about in the festival was the taste of craft beers and its incomparable f lavors next to mainstream beers.

People’s confirmation of their love for craft beers was ev-ident as brewers ran out of beer toward the end of the festival.

The festival ended on a high note, with intoxicated people laughing, dancing and singing along with the live music.

Estefany Sosa is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

Stephanie Santolo, the area sales manager at Santa Clara Valley Brewing showcases some of the handcrafted beers to Amy Burns and David Sribnik, who are from the California Craft Distributors at the sixth annual Meet the Brewer event at the Hermitage Brewing Company on Sunday.

Estefany Sosa | Spartan Daily

Sorority hosts seminar about depression, suicide BY RAVEN SWAYNE

@itsRavenDawn

On Thursday evening the members of Delta Sig-ma Theta Sorority held its annual Soul Food Social, an event to educate the student body on differ-ent topics with keynote speakers, and this year the topic was depression and suicide prevention.

The Campus Village B Recreation Activities Center was filled with about 70 students who were eager to understand the cause and effects of depression and how to address it.

In 2011, a survey tak-en by students attending a two and four-year uni-versity found that 30 per-cent of students said they felt “so depressed it was difficult to function,” ac-cording to the American College Health Associ-ation–National College Health Assessment.

“The stress that we (students) go through ev-eryday, I can see how sad-ness leads to depression and possibly even sui-cide,” Lula Berhe, a senior child analysis develop-ment major and member of the sorority hosting the event said. “So we all need to know about the ways to get through it.”

Tova Feldmanstern, a faculty counselor and case manager at San Jose State, spoke to the students about the topic of depres-sion and suicide. She in-formed everyone about the QPR method—Ques-tion, Persuade and Refer.

“It’s important to know that those who are considering suicide usually want others to change their mind,” Feld-manstern said.

This was the main topic of the evening. She explained how talking about depression and possible suicide is always difficult, and sometimes uncomfortable, but it is important to discuss if signs of depression are noticed.

During the seminar, Feldmanstern had stu-dents get in groups of two to practice the way a con-versation would be if de-pression or the thought of suicide emerged.

Feldmanstern also showed a five-minute video about a young man, Kevin Hines, who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and lived. It showed his struggle with depression before and after he tried to commit suicide.

Aft er he survived the 219-foot fall, he discov-ered a new appreciation for his life and while he still deals with depression, he now speaks at seminars to tell others that suicide is not the answer.

T.J. Kaur, a senior health science and admin-istration major, was one of the students in attendance.

“I definitely think this affects a lot of stu-dents today because even if they’re not thinking about suicide, they could still be depressed and it’s really important to ad-dress that,” Kaur said.

Kaur said SJSU has great resources for stu-dents dealing with any sadness or depression, but a lot of students aren’t aware of these services.

“There needs to be a bigger push so that stu-dents know there is al-ways help,” Kaur said.

SJSU offers free coun-seling services where students can speak to a counselor about any is-sues they have.

There is also a Peer Health Education Pro-gram on campus.

This program allows current students to teach their peers about a vari-ety of health issues such as nutrition, sexual well-ness, violence prevention, body image, drugs and al-cohol intake and rest and relaxation.

Feldmanstern urges stu-dents to use these free ser-vices while they still can.

Raven Swayne is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

”“I defi nitely think

this affects a lot of students today because even if

they’re not thinking about suicide,

they could still be depressed and it’s really important to

address that

T.J. KaurSenior health science

and administration major

BY DARBY BROWN-KUHN

@darbk5352

With the advent of Fat Tuesday, I present three meaty, messy, greasy and delicious sandwiches from food establishments sur-rounding the San Jose State campus.

Th e food items will be ranked based on size—the smallest sandwich will be discussed fi rst and the larg-est one will be mentioned last.

Without further ado, let the countdown commence.

No. 1 is the Superman Deluxe from Hoagies Steak Out.

Hoagies is the small cheese steak place locat-ed on the corner of Th ird Street and San Carlos. Its menu consists of multiple varieties of Philly cheese steaks, sandwiches and Ko-rean food.

Th e most popular menu item is the superman deluxe, a cheese steak sandwich consisting of steak, diced

bell pepper, grilled onions, mushrooms, tomato sauce and provolone cheese.

Grease seeps out of the hoagie roll when the sand-wich is consumed. Th ere is a table section with sever-al varieties of sauces, both mild and hot, and a jar of pickled peppers to enhance the sandwich if needed.

Th is isn’t the most in-timidating sandwich on the block, but its amazing taste will tempt you to or-der it again.

Th e combination of steak, provolone and veg-etables is a satisfying and delicious combination. Th e amount of tomato sauce is perfect–it’s not overpower-ing but you know it’s there.

For an extra zap of fl avor and color add some Sriracha to the mix. You won’t be disappointed.

No. 2 is the Super Cuba-na from Mi Chalateca.

At 515 South 10th Street, there is a phenomenal Lat-in-American/Mexican cui-sine restaurant named Mi

Chalateca.Apart from its lovely pu-

pusas, there is a diabolical sandwich that waits for the brave soul foolish enough to order it.

It’s a meat and cheese sandwich on Cuban bread that has been supercharged to monumental levels.

Th e Super Cubana is over a foot across and about four inches tall; packed with a smorgas-bord of meats—sliced ham, linguica sausage, chorizo and milanesa, essentially Latin-American chick-en-fried steak—that will make carnivores melt with joy and vegetarians cringe in horror.

Yes, there is some veg-etable matter. Tomatoes, onions, pickled carrots, ja-lapenos and avocado make up the bottom portion of this incredible beast of a sandwich.

Eating it with a fork and knife is not recommended–it’s required.

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The Super Cubana is a staple at Mi Chalateca located at 515 South 10th Street. Mi Chalateca sells around 40-50 of these monster sandwhiches a week.

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“If you don’t know me by now, I doubt you’ll ever know me, I never won a Gram-my, I won’t win a Tony, but I’m not the only MC keepin’ it real, when I grab the mic to smash a rapper, girls go, ‘ill…” rapped 49-year-old hip-hop legend KRS-ONE as he took over Th e Catalyst club in Santa Cruz on Th ursday.

Knowledge Reign Supreme Over Near-ly Everybody, better known as KRS-ONE, controlled the crowd from the moment he came onstage at 11:15 p.m. and held the masses captivated for his entire set.

For 30 minutes, KRS-ONE had the disc jockey adjust his levels up and turn the music down so the crowd could hear his words. He fi nished freestyling by say-ing “Th is is all off the top we going down, you, you’re making your own DVD, I want you to make your own company, while I come back again this is how I spit it, I’m doing a soundcheck, I ain’t really ready to get down yet. Everywhere I go, it’s that raw MC, everywhere I go I say f—- MTV. Y’all know what it is, cuz my skills is insane, I go off the top like JFK’s brain.”

KRS-ONE had the crowd where he wanted them and began to dish out some of his 90’s hits such as “Step into a World (Rapture’s Delight)” from his 1997 album “I Got Next.”

“He was amazing tonight,” said 24-year-old Santa Cruz resident Ananta Govinda Das. “It was my fi rst time watching him and he did better than what I thought it was going to be. I’ve been listening to his music since I was 13 years old when I was in a dancing group and I still love his mu-sic and this kind of hip-hop today.”

Th e whole night showcased the best characteristics of hip-hop. Positive vibes united people to music that is hardly hear on today’s radio and fans watched each other break dance.

22-year-old Andreas Tillman Jr., who goes by the name Dre T, came from Sacra-mento to open up the show.

Dre T opened for KRS-ONE last month in Sacramento, describing this experience as something that he would never forget and as ‘unbelievable.’

“I’ve opened up for other artists before

but none of them are like him,” Dre T said. “KRS talked about the evolution of hip-hop and how people would tell him back when it fi rst started that aft er fi ve years hip-hop would be over, and look at it now, it’s still here today and still fi lling out ven-ues and traveling around the world.”

Aft er doing songs from “I Got Next,” KRS-ONE continued to freestyle over rap instrumentals and told the crowd the fi rst half hour was simply a “sound check.” Th en he went back to his original material starting off with “Th e MC” where KRS-ONE spits “Who am I? Th e MC, la-di da-di, I don’t wear Versace, I wear DJ’s out quickly at the party, Who am I?, If you’re like me hip-hop is in your body. ”

From that point on, KRS-ONE went into all of his classic hits from his 1987 album “Criminal Minded” like “South Bronx” and “Th e Bridge is Over.” He also did “My Philosophy,” “I’m Still #1” and “Sound of da Police.”

KRS-ONE even broke down what hip-hop has evolved to since he came onto the scene in 1987 and how it has changed in his song “Hip-Hop Knowledge.”

“To be onstage and rap with him was just something I would never forget,” Dre T said. “For him to call us onstage and let us do our thing with him and he remem-bered who I was, it was amazing.”

At the end of the show, KRS-ONE called on everyone in the crowd who con-sidered themselves a rapper to come up onstage and freestyle with him, something that no “major label” artist would ever think of doing today.

“Th is is my second time seeing him live,” 29-year-old Anders Steele said. “I saw him live when I was 16 in Virginia and didn’t even know about this show until my buddy from back home told me that KRS was going to be here. Th ere was no way I was missing this show because I’ve been listening to his music since I was kid.”

Once the show was over, KRS-ONE hopped off stage and walked into the crowd taking pictures and shaking hands leaving the crowd buzzing and walking out satisfi ed out of Th e Catalyst and into the Santa Cruz night.

David Bermudez is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

this behemoth will result in failure. All ingredients will spill out on your plate and its nearby surround-ings.

Restaurant owner Ka-tie Carnalla says they sell between 40 and 50 a week and the customers seldom fi nish.

“Th ey never fi nish the whole thing,” Carnalla said. “Th ey always take a half or a quarter to go home.”

Carnalla also said that there used to be a challenge that the restaurant would pick up a customer’s tab if they fi nished the whole cubana, but eliminated it because they were “giving away a lot of free food.”

No. 3 is the Kryptonite from Ike’s Place.

California natives are familiar with Ike’s, a sand-wich chain that has various locations throughout the state, including one at 75 East Santa Clara Street.

Its menu has sandwich-es of all kinds including

vegetarian and vegan vari-eties.

Its biggest creation, the Kryptonite, is a monster that dwarves the other sandwiches on this list.

Th e sandwich is called the Kryptonite because it’s designed to shut down your stomach.

Th e sandwich is actual-ly two sandwiches stuff ed with avocado, bacon, beer-battered onion rings, ham, mozzarella sticks, pastrami, pesto, roast beef, salami, stuff ed jalapeno poppers and turkey.

As one might suspect with all those ingredients, the Kryptonite is heavy and diffi cult to handle.

One of the two sand-wiches is cut into halves and even those will leave a trail of meat juices, pesto and avocado running down your hands and wrists.

Th e whole sandwich is even more diffi cult to deal with and leaves the cus-tomer pondering how they should go about eating it.

Th e manager of the local Ike’s, Ivan Garcia, hasn’t seen many customers fi n-ish the sandwich since he started working there about a year ago.

“I’ve seen like two guys and when that happens they win free cards for sandwiches,” Garcia said.

One famous name that has conquered the Kryp-tonite is Adam Richman, the host of the show “Man versus Food.”

Cashier Alix Rodriguez pointed out that even if someone doesn’t fi nish, they still have a consider-able amount of left overs.

“Th e good thing about those sandwiches is that if you reheat them they’re so bomb,” Rodriguez said.

If there’s someone out there who devours vast quantities of food and wants to challenge them-selves, the Kryptonite sandwich awaits.

Darby Brown-Kuhn is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

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Journalists should not fear to seek out truthI sat there on the dirt-strewn f loor. My hands were

in shackles and my chest felt heavy. As a large man neared my cell, I could hardly breathe, for I knew in a moment’s time, my life would end.

Suddenly, my eyelids opened wide, tearing the scene apart. I was set free.

I touched my chest to ensure I was unrestrained, pulled the blankets over my head and went back to sleep.

The fear nearly got me. But for me, this was only a nightmare. It wasn’t a reality.

I live in a country considered relatively safe for journalists.

The World Press Freedom Index annually ranks countries in terms of negative conf licts imposed on freedom of information—the top of the list as the least conf licted, the bottom as the most. The Unit-ed States placed 46 out of 180 last year compared to being ranked 32 in 2013.

Although conf licts in the U.S. have increased, I remain a firm believer that knowledge is power. How one expresses that knowledge is equally important.

I’ve dedicated my studies at San Jose State Uni-versity to learning how to create a more informed society. I am urged by my professors to question everything, think critically and be fearless.

Never did I think that, when I declared a major in journalism, I had chosen such a potentially danger-ous career path.

But in the wake of the many violent acts taken against journalists, the will to be a watchdog of soci-ety as my professor’s advice is met with caution.

According to a statistical analysis by the Commit-tee to Protect Journalists, 15 journalists have been killed this year alone for reasons directly related to their work.

Last year, 61 journalists met the same fate.This realization hit me hard when news of the

execution of U.S. journalist James Foley circulated through the media.

Foley, a freelance human rights and war reporter, was beheaded by the Islamic State in response to U.S. military intervention in Iraq. His murder was filmed and put online to promote fear.

In the video, ABC News reported that Foley stated the U.S. government officials were his “real killers,” and that he wished he wasn’t American.

This was an “act of violence that shock(ed) the en-tire world,” President Barack Obama said in a public address following Foley’s death.

Journalists act as a gateway to knowledge. When that knowledge is made accessible, it creates a more powerful citizenry. To prevent this, journalists have therefore been targeted with violence.

Despite the horrific violence, I feel we should not be scared to seek out the truth.

Fear limits freedom. And by shutting up the voices who advocate the truth, the goal to create conformity becomes obtainable.

Th is is something I hope to overcome. And whether or not you, the reader, are also studying to be a watch-dog of society, it is important that this fear does not prevent you from supporting these truth-seeking indi-viduals or hinder your own will to seek out the truth.

It’s important to know what’s going on in the

world. It’s easy to feel disconnected from the happen-ings in a far off land.

What would happen if this fear were to be hap-pening on our home soil? Let’s make an outrageous comparison that instead of journalist being targeted, it was SJSU students.

What if students were prohibited from ever raising their hand in class and if depending on which class they were taking, they could be punished by penalty of death?

Does this seem unjust? Do you think anyone would ever raise their hand?

It’s tough to relate when such disconnect exists. But if we think about this in context to our own bub-ble, it’s easier to understand these atrocities.

The truth is, I’m scared of the path I have chosen. This makes me wonder how this kind of fear effects the ways in which news is reported.

It is more important than ever that we as a society speak out against these injustices in support of those who risked their lives in the name of making the world a better place.

We’re in college. Most of us of are juggling, school, work and a plethora of other responsibilities. How can we possibly make time for this request I’m making?

Despite threats made against truth-seeking indi-viduals, more than ever the voice against prevention of truth or freedom of expression should be heard loud and clear.

Now I’m not suggesting we all run amuck against anyone in opposition to the right to have access to the truth and free expression. I’m merely asking you to care.

To do this, you cannot just absorb everything you see or read in the media. Reach out, ask questions and don’t ever take anything at face value.

Be proactive.This does affect us. All of us. Everyday.Rain Stites is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

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Love is a very strong word, but is it enough to get married at such an early age? I would have to say no.

We have our whole lives ahead of us, especially as college students, we have so much to learn and explore.

I can’t imagine being engaged right now and I’m 21 years old.

I am working on myself and still trying to fi nd out who I really am.

Before I start understanding why someone else is the way they are, I need to make sure I understand myself.

Jamie Bonwell, 21, recently gave birth to a baby boy and has been in a relationship with her boyfriend for a little over a year. She believes getting married right now would not be best for their family.

“We do plan on getting married but not for a few more years. Marriage right now will complicate things more than they already are. We plan to raise our son and prepare for our futures with career and schooling before deciding to get married,” Bonwell said. “Th e biggest struggle is trust for obvious reasons. Having a child and marriage will test your faith and trust in one another.”

People throw around the word “love” as if it is a toy.

Most young adults do not val-ue love the way people used to.

I see old couples around all the time and they are still going strong.

Back in the day, they stayed together even through the most diffi cult times.

My grandparents have been married for 41 years.

My grandma told me they have had a couple of separa-tions, but never talked about divorce.

Nowadays, if any argument

happens in a relationship, some-one in the relationship is bound to leave and give up.

We just don’t have patience anymore, especially women.

Women always want it their way and if it doesn’t go their way, all hell breaks loose.

I know because I used to be that way.

If the partner can’t handle it, he’ll either leave or cheat, which

is why we need to learn how to compromise.

It goes both ways.Jonathan Mack, 22, dis-

agrees. He was 21 when he pro-posed, and was with his fi ancee six years beforehand.

“We love each other and we’ve been together for so long and plan on staying with each other forev-er, so why wait any longer?” Mack said. “We are great. We have good communication and we hear each other out and have respect for one another.”

But with marriage some-times comes divorce.

I don’t think our generation realizes getting married is the easy part.

Divorce is the unfathomable part.

My parents are divorced and I saw the ugliness of it come out.

I was in high school when everything happened and I told myself that I would never get divorced because it ruins you.

Seeing the ugly happen right in front of my eyes honestly made me afraid of marriage.

You have to go into engage-ment knowing it’s going to be forever once you say “I do” and there is no turning back.

If you don’t see forever, then don’t put yourself through the pain that you will later experi-ence.

According to the Huffi ng-ton Post, 86 percent of people, single and married, aged 18–29 expected their marriages to last a lifetime.

We are in an era where the

divorce rate is 50 percent, this means a lot of young adults are going to have an unexpected di-vorce and their dreams turned upside down.

Many people who rush into marriage aren’t doing it for the right reasons.

Young couples are caught up in the honeymoon phase and haven’t seen their partner’s true colors come out.

Th ere is no rush! If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen.

What matters most is to fo-cus on you before anyone else.

Learn to make yourself happy before someone else does, that way no one can ever bring you down.

I learned that the hard way.I rushed into a relationship

my freshman year in college without even thinking about how much I still had to grow up and become an adult.

My relationship lasted about three years on and off . It was not a healthy relationship. I wasn’t happy half the time which brought my mood down and aff ected those around me.

I didn’t know how to be hap-py alone because I didn’t give myself the chance to adapt to a new lifestyle when I got to San Jose State. I rushed into some-thing I wasn’t ready for.

Enjoy single life because you have the rest of your life to share with your signifi cant other.

Vanessa Gongora is a Spar-tan Daily staff writer.

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President Barack Obama has offi cially requested the continued use of military force to fi ght the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, meaning we’re in the familiar position of possibly sending troops to the Middle East to try and stomp out a terror-ist threat.

During the ongoing crisis with the Islamic State, commonly referred to as ISIS and ISIL, the world has had to endure horrifi c executions, supplemented by ter-rorist propaganda and frequent news of the militant group’s violent expansion in the Middle East.

Right-wing news outlets such as Fox and the Independent Journal Review decided President Obama’s refusal to con-demn Islam is apparently a mistake, a view eagerly taken up by right-wing politicians as well.

Nevermind that the number of Muslims terrorized by ISIS greatly outnumbers the Americans we’ve lost, or that according to former ISIS hostage Didier Francois, the terrorists didn’t even seem to care much for religion and didn’t even bring up the Quran during his 10-month captivity, or that Muslims have become the sec-ond-most targeted group for hate crimes since the 9/11 attacks, according to the Washington Post.

Obama’s choice to not condemn an entire religion is political correctness gone wild according to Sen. Kelly Ayo-tte (R-New Hampshire) and cowardice according to former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Most critics seem to forget about the revenge attacks that happened aft er 9/11, where any American wearing a turban was liable to be harassed or killed because a small group of non-Americans decided to crash planes into the World Trade Center.

Th ere certainly wasn’t as much conver-sation about the revenge attacks in Europe following the Charlie Hebdo shooting in France, where a Muslim high school stu-dent was beaten and bullied and mosques were defaced with death threats.

If they forgot over the last decade, then hopefully the events that happened in Chapel Hill, North Carolina will jog their memories.

Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister Razan were murdered on Feb. 10—all three shot in the head, all three Muslim.

Th e charged suspect is Craig Stephen Hicks, and police said the murders may have been the result of an ongoing parking dispute.

However, three head shots is a rath-er meticulous way to kill people over a parking dispute so the online community

decided to dig up on the suspect.A social media profi le was found and on

it, Hicks was vehemently anti-theist and criticized all religions.

Th e profi le also had a picture that showed off a .38 caliber revolver.

Anti-theism diff ers from Atheism, in that it is the opposition of not only reli-gion, but the active worship of it.

Initially, this story wasn’t widely report-ed by major media outlets, which is highly ironic because if Hicks had been Muslim and his three victims had been God-fear-ing Americans, it’s a safe assumption that Fox or Independent Journal Review would’ve been over it immediately, along with a healthy critique of just why Obama’s rhetoric is so dangerous as we approach a decision on using our military force against ISIS.

Th ey’re quick to jump at Obama whenever he says ISIS is not truly Islamic, but they’re not as quick to refl ect on the dangers of their own rhetoric—the type of rhetoric that can incite violence against Muslims who may not have ever stepped foot outside of America in their lives, or make an elected offi cial in Texas try to force visiting Muslims to pledge allegiance to America and publicly denounce ISIS.

So all things considered, the president doesn’t have to publicly condemn Islam.

Th ere are plenty of people who are willing to play executioner with or without him passing judgment.

Raphael Stroud is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

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OPINION 7Tuesday, February 17, 2015

SPORTS 8 Tuesday, February 17, 2015

BY DAVID BERMUDEZ

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Th e University of Wy-oming ended San Jose State’s two-game winning streak 71–61 on Saturday aft ernoon at the Event Center.

Th e Spartans hustled, pressed and fought back from an 18-point defi cit and cut Wyoming’s lead down to six with 43.5 sec-onds left .

Unable to generate a turnover on the Cowgirls’ next possession, the Spar-tans were forced to foul which put Wyoming on the line to seal the victory.

“We didn’t make enough shots to win a bas-ketball game,” said SJSU Head Coach Jamie Craig-head. “We battled back but they made the key plays when they needed to. Any-time we made a run, they hit a shot and you have to give them credit for that.”

SJSU sophomore guard Rachol West’s 11 points and junior center Riana Byrd’s 13 of 15 points that she scored in the second half helped ignite the Spar-tans to go on a 14–2 run in the fi nal four minutes.

“We played better in the second half,” Byrd said. “We should’ve came out with as much as intensity as we did in the second half from the initial jump and that probably would’ve been the diff erence in the game.”

Byrd outplayed the Cowgirls’ post players fi nding easy putbacks fi n-ishing the night in double

fi gures in points and re-bounds.

“Riana stepped up and had a great game for us,” Craighead said. “It’s nice to have her in this moment of our season and moving forward and I hope she continues knowing how valuable she is. On the de-fensive end, she is our an-chor, she grabs rebounds and on the off ensive end we need her to score some points for us.”

Th e Cowgirls went on a 16–10 run and established a solid 51–35 lead over SJSU eight minutes into the second half.

Wyoming’s senior for-ward Kayla Woodward and junior point guard Mar-quelle Dent helped kickoff the Cowgirls’ big lead in the second half especially with Dent’s play who had a game-high 24 points and seven assists.

“She’s grown tremen-dously in a year,” Craig-head said about Dent. “She’s probably one of the best point guards in our conference. We felt that if we could contain her and keep her out of the paint, we would live with her hit-ting 3-point shots, but she stepped up and hit threes today. Th ey came in ready to win a basketball game. I felt they had a really good performance tonight and we still battled.”

Woodward ended the game in double fi gures with 20 points and 11 re-bounds. She shot 4–9 from the 3-point line.

Th e Spartans didn’t have a good shooting per-

formance in the fi rst half as they went 11–41 shoot-ing, 26.8 percent from the fi eld and 3–13 from the 3-point line.

SJSU played strong de-fense at the end of the fi rst half, forcing seven turn-overs and turned up its off ense. Despite the come-back, the Spartans found themselves down 33–25 at halft ime.

“We just got to learn that when we aren’t mak-ing baskets to keep on pushing through, and I feel we still need to work on that,” Byrd said. “Ulti-mately if we are able to say hey were not hot right now but keep on pushing then we should be fi ne, the shots will fall and everything will fall into place.

Th e Spartans shot 35.3 percent from the fi eld in the second half and out-scored the Cowgirls 21–5 in fast break points.

“Our defense was good. We were rotating and switching as a unit,” West said. “But what hurt us was when we were in our half court defense. We weren’t moving as fast as we should which was giving them open looks and open threes. I think that was a big diff erence between winning and losing this game getting in a 20-point hole.”

Th e Spartans will go on the road for the next two games starting with Utah State tomorrow in Logan, Utah.

David Bermudez is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

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A lack of scoring depth and defensive mistakes have slowed down San Jose all season long, a team that has been among the NHL’s elite in the past few seasons.

“When you’re making the same mistakes every single night, that’s when you need to take a look in the mirror and wonder what you’re bringing,” for-ward Logan Couture said.

Couture extended his point streak to six games with the Sharks’ fi rst goal in the second period.

Linemate Matt Nieto fi red a great pass out of the corner to fi nd Couture alone in front of the net for the goal.

Brent Burns had San Jose’s second goal while on the power play in the third period.

Th e goal was another

quick strike from the slot, aft er slick passes by for-wards Joe Th ornton and Patrick Marleau up at the blue line.

Unfortunately for San Jose, the defense still had too many breakdowns, leading to the Lightning’s fi ve goals.

“It’s a game of hockey,” defenseman Brent Burns said. “Th ere’s mistakes on every goal.”

One positive for the Sharks’ defense was the re-turn of reliable defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic to the blue line.

Vlasic missed the previ-ous four games due to the vague hockey description of an upper body injury.

“I felt good,” Vlasic said. “Th e puck was bouncing a lot tonight, so I had my work cut out for me.”

One of the stranger goals came from Light-ning forward Ondrej Palat, scoring 10 seconds into the third period to make it 3–1.

“I knocked it away from Palat, and (Burns) knocked it right to him,” Vlasic said. “Th en it hit off my skate and then Burnzie’s skate and went right in.”

San Jose is on the road this week against Nashville and Dallas before they re-turn to the South Bay on Saturday to take on the Los Angeles Kings outdoors in the Stadium Series game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

“We’re doing some good things,” Vlasic said. “We’re playing the best team in the league on Tuesday, so hope-fully we bounce back.”

Jonathan Wold is a Spartan Daily staff writer.

Cowgirls lasso Spartans, hold off late comeback

Sophomore guard Aniya Baker walks off the court in disappointment after the Spartans’ 71–61 loss to the Wyoming Cowgirls at home on Saturday.

Taylor Rush | Contributing Photographer Forward Tommy Wingels weaves through two defenders during the Sharks’ 5–2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday at SAP Center.

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