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December 10, 2014ISSUE 15VOLUME XCIX
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Serving the San Francisco State community since 1927
San Francisco became the first city in the nation to adopt a bill of rights for retail workers Dec. 5, which addresses issues with unfavorable working con-ditions and inconsistent sched-uling.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the legislation on Nov. 26. The law will take effect this summer and will apply to chain stores with 11 or more locations nationwide.
“Over the summer, I begged my manager for more hours, but many weeks I couldn’t get over 24,” said SF State student Michelle Flores. “Not having hours to work means I’ve had to choose between milk and eggs. I’ve learned to eat on the cheap.”
Flores works for a chain gro-cery store and said her managers prefer hiring part-time workers because it decreased the likeli-hood of having to pay overtime.
Insufficient and unpredict-able hours are common prob-lems for retail workers with some stores deliberately hiring
only part-time workers, said the program director for the San Francisco Labor Foundation Conny Ford. According to Ford, awareness of worker’s issues is growing and several other major cities are looking into introduc-ing similar legislation.
“We heard from workers that they’re working involuntarily part-time,” Ford said. “We heard this over and over.”
Ford learned of how wide-spread the problems of insuffi-cient hours and erratic schedules are while campaigning for the minimum wage raise. Many of the retail workers she talked to said they wanted to work full-time but were only given part-time hours.
The rise in scheduling software has led to an increase in irregular schedules that are designed to be cost-effective but do not consider the human needs of employees, Michelle Lim of Jobs With Justice said. The software has become especially common with large national chain stores.
College faces major changes
T hree and a half years ago on a navy ship off the coast of Papua New Guinea, Daniel Bernardi phoned then-Dean Paul Sherwin of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts to negotiate a job as chair
of the cinema department. This summer he succeeded Sherwin and walked the Univer-sity’s halls to determine how he could better allocate space.
Bernardi, now interim dean, has major changes planned for the LCA this winter,
including moves for the English and anthro-pology departments along with the Division of Information Technology, with hopes of freeing up needed space for the University.
“Space is a true challenge for the college
and the University,” Bernardi said. “What we discovered was that our colleagues in HSS are two to three to an office. Their space is pretty dilapidated.”
During the winter recess, anthropology will relocate to the fifth floor of the Fine Arts building from the Science Building, accord-ing to Bernardi. Additionally, the department will receive roughly $100,000 for renova-tions needed to make the fifth floor suitable for students. About $300,000 of non-curric-ular funds have been set aside for the LCA reconfiguration, according to Bernardi.
Students join Berkeley protest
against police brutality
Nearly 50 SF State students rallied in Malcolm X Plaza Monday before joining a mass march through the streets of Berkeley to protest recent police killings of unarmed black men.
The rally was organized by SF State’s Black and Brown Liberation Coalition and focused on the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both killed by officers who were recently not charged of any crimes by two separate grand juries. After the rally on campus, students joined more than 1,000
protesters in Berkeley.The marchers shouted slogans, shut
down traffic and forced buses to reroute. Interstate 80 and Amtrak trains were both blocked by protesters. Students chanted “no justice, no peace, no racist police,” and waved protest signs that read “a badge is not a license to kill” and “black lives matter.”
“A lot of people were really angry and were like ‘what can we do right now?’” said BBLC member Imani Davis. “It’s not that we want no police, but we don’t want them
shooting people and not getting indicted.” The coalition first started when several
SF State students gathered to hear a speech about Brown’s death, according to BBLC founder Brittany Moore. She urged student groups to work together to address issues in marginalized communities, such as police violence and inequality in the education system.
FLAG: SF State students and the Black and Brown Libera-tion Coalition hold signs and flags up at Malcolm X Plaza for a protest against police brutality Mon-day, Dec. 8.
FORUM: Interim dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts Daniel Bernardi responds to questions from Xpress staff members during a formal interview in the Humanities Building Wednesday, Dec. 3.
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I’ve had to choose between milk and eggs. I’ve learned to eat on the cheap.
Michelle Flores,SF STATE STUDENT
CHLOE [email protected]
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Ramifications of past University decisions have caught up to an SF
State college, causing a new dean to reconsider department spaces
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San Francisco leads nation in workers rights
After much anticipation from educa-tors, students and other community mem-bers, the San Francisco Board of Educa-tion unanimously passed a resolution Dec. 9 to implement an ethnic studies program in each of the district’s high schools.
The resolution, set to unroll in 2015, is estimated to cost $469,833 per year and will expand the ethnic studies pilot program already in place of five of the dis-trict’s 19 high schools, according to Gen-tle Blythe, chief communications officer at San Francisco Unified School District.
Gabriel De La Cruz, an ethnic studies teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, rallied with his students in front of the district administrative office before the board meeting to demonstrate his support for the resolution.
“I support the resolution because we live in a multicultural city,” De La Cruz said. “There’s not just one culture or dominant culture in San Francisco. I think we’ve all culturally made San Francisco what it is, so I think it’s important to learn about our culture and the cultures that are out there.”
Teachers in support of the program said it equips students with knowledge about the historical contributions of ethnic minorities and offers a more accurate account of history.
Thurgood Marshall is one of the five high schools that adopted the pilot pro-gram in 2010. De La Cruz said he sets his classroom up with a community-oriented approach where students are encouraged to share personal stories and take respon-sibility for one another’s learning.
“The way they learn closes this ethnic
divide,” De La Cruz said. “They see more similarities than differences through ethnic studies and by sharing stories so they can start working together on build-ing against the things that are separating them.”
His students assisted in the campaign for the program by gathering signatures for a petition, making posters for the rally and posting messages of support on social media, according to De La Cruz.
The Ethnic Studies Now coalition organized an ethnic studies campaign, which included the signature petition and encouraged supporters to post 15-second videos on Instagram describing what ethnic studies means to them. Hundreds of people across the nation, including teachers and students of all grade levels,
submitted photos and videos with the #ethnicstudiesSF2014 hashtag.
SF State graduate student Desiree Cook shared a photo with a message on Instagram relating the need for ethnic studies to the recent police killings of un-armed black men Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Cook held a sign in the photo that read, “Ethnic studies is the difference be-tween life and death,” adding the #blacka-ndbrownlivesmatter hashtag below.
Cook said her statement in the photo meant that inequality at every level, in-cluding education, results in unjust deaths at the hands of authorities.
“Ethnic studies is the light,” Cook said. “It brings a whole new perspective. It brings more awareness of the issues and inequalities happening in the community.”
SF State ethnic studies professor Roberto Rivera was a lecturer during the 1968 student strike that established the first and only College of Ethnic Studies in the country.
Rivera was born in Guatemala and became aware of his ethnic identity upon arriving in the United States in the 1950s. He said that until the establishment of the college, there had been no outlet for students of color to make sense of their experiences
“We felt in 1968 that we needed a place where we could talk about our history, about our situation, our values and our traditions,” Rivera said. “Most importantly, somewhere where we could talk about our contributions to this society, so that we wouldn’t see ourselves only as problems.”
Rivera said the program will help create a future with children who have a more comprehensive education.
“They are going to be more complete human beings,” Rivera said. “They are going to have a more accurate perspective of global history. Students of color are not going to be tempted to think they are strangers in this land because they are not European or because they don’t have a European culture.”
Board commissioner Jill Wyns voted in favor of the resolution and said the biggest challenges standing in the way of the program are money and teachers. She added that the district’s high schools will need to allocate funds to the program, which could result in cutting costs to other areas.
“This is complicated,” Wyns said. “What we voted here tonight doesn’t make this happen. We need to make it happen, that’s our job.
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Supervisor spearheads effort to address Ferguson investigation
Supervisor John Avalos amended a resolution Dec. 9 that would urge the U.S. Department of Justice to expedite its inves-tigation of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and lead to countrywide protest.
Avalos proposed a revised version called the Equal Jus-tice Resolution that affirms the board’s commitment to equal jus-tice under the law and the First Amendment right to protest.
Changes to the previous resolution also acknowledged the United States’ broken and racially-biased justice system and urged the Department of Justice, Congress and President Barack
Obama to review national po-licing and judicial practices.
“John felt it was an issue that consumed a lot of people,”
said Jeremy Pollock, legislative aide to the supervisor. “He want-ed to have the board weigh in with their opinion on the events.”
Protests spread across the country after a St. Louis County Grand Jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Brown Aug. 9.
The new resolution states “the recent incidents of officer involved killings of people of color, overwhelmingly impacting young black and brown men, has led to sustained, large-scale protests across the country and underscored the United States’
centuries old, failed promise of racial equality.”
The supervisors will vote on the revised resolution at the Dec. 16 board meeting, which was originally introduced last month. Supervisors Jane Kim, Malia Cohen and David Campos signed as co-sponsors.The City saw Oscar Grant and Alex Nieto fall victim to officer-involved shootings that caused tension between the San Francisco Police Department and the communi-ty. The connection between the New York grand jury decision to not indict Daniel Pantaleo on the killing of Eric Garner raised questions about police brutality.
Nieto, 28, was killed March 21 by SFPD on top of Bernal Heights Park where he was shot
multiple times, according to the medical examiner’s report. The resolution also addresses a lack of transparency within the police department.
“Not only should the actions of law enforcement agencies and the use of the grand jury
process be scrutinized,” said criminal justice lecturer Greg Woods. “But also police training in the use of force, its escalation, and whether or not we, as a country, choose to endorse such measures.”
City’s high schools adopt ethnic studies program
EDUCATION: Supporters rally in front of the San Francisco Unified School District Building before the Board of Supervisors met to discuss the implementation of Ethnic Studies Tuesday, Dec. 9.
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COURTROOM: Supervisor John Avalos reads documents in a Board of Supervisor meeting at City Hall Tuesday, Dec. 9
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“The ultimate goals are to address institutional and structural racism,” Moore said. Since the group started, the BBLC has worked with diverse student groups like the Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavour and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. Other activities the BBLC organized this semester include the “die in” in late October, where students wore the names of victims of police shootings on their shirts and mimicked death to raise awareness of police violence.
Some BBLC members said they have personally experi-enced police discrimination and violence that has resulted in the loss of family members and friends.
“I worked in the East Bay in a very suburban neighbor-hood,” said BBLC member DeMareon Gipson, who said his previous interactions with police have been less than civil. “I’ve been pulled over a lot.”
Members of the BBLC said they want to raise awareness of instances when officers kill civilians so that they will be held accountable for their actions.
“I never would have thought there would be extra-judicial killings in the United States,” said SF State student and BBLC and PACE member Patrick Racela. “It is our duty to break free from these chains that have us shackled.”
“In the last six years, there has been a rise in technology for scheduling,” Lim said. “It means that schedules are not set and workers’ shifts may be cancelled with very short notice. Or, con-trarily, they might say ‘we have a rise in demand today’ and call a worker in. These provisions are creating a strong incentive for employers to plan better.”
According to Lim, the legislation will grant workers more opportunity to move from part-time to full-time work, more predictable schedules and half-pay for days when they are on call.
“I’ve been working at Macy’s for a year now and still don’t have a regular schedule,” said SF State student Geof-frey Malveaux. “Because I’m a student right now, I can’t do opening shifts, so it’s a struggle.”
Malveaux said that having a more dependable schedule would help him and his co-workers, especially those who are also in school or have a second job.
“We have other jobs and oth-er lives,” Malveaux said. “We’re people too.”
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GROUP: SF State students gather at Malcolm X Plaza with the Black and Brown Liberation Coalition, who encouraged people to join in a protest against police brutality Monday, Dec. 8.
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At 9 years old, Ron and Reggie Richardson amazed passersby while dancing in sync to Michael Jackson’s music in their neighborhood streets. To-day as adults, they have taken their connection further, into their new jobs as co-principals of an Oakland high school.
The 38-year-old SF State alumni recently started their positions at San Leandro High School in Oakland during the current fall semester, after leaving another co-principalship at Oakland’s Claremont Middle School.
“It’s not that we are broth-ers or twin brothers, it’s that we have a very similar mindset,” Ron said. “We are spiritually connected as twin brothers but as coworkers as well. We keep stability to a high school, which is important at the that level.”
Ron and Reggie were born and raised in Oakland and spent most of their childhood in the west side of the city where they attended Logan High School. They grew up in a single-parent household with their mother
Jacqueline Richardson and older brother Russell.
After their mother faced housing discrimination, the family relocated to San Lean-dro. During the late hours that Jacqueline had to work, Russell was responsible for taking care of his younger brothers, and from that the three brothers developed a lasting bond.
“We were a close-knit fam-ily and we were like a nucleus,” said Jacqueline. “It was just us.”
As young teens, the twins played tricks on teachers and employers. Ron went to multi-ple interviews for Reggie and secured job offers the next day. Despite fooling others, they could never get anything past their mother.
“They tried to pull tricks on me,” Jacqueline said. “I know you are Reggie and Ron. I’m your mother, I know who’s who.”
Ron and Reggie grew up doing almost everything togeth-er. Jacqueline dressed them in similar outfits when they were babies, but as they grew older,
the decision to remain close was their own.
“They chose to be togeth-er,” Jacqueline said. “I really think it’s a twin thing. They are one.”
Ron and Reggie completed their undergraduate studies at SF State, where they were the co-captains of the men’s track team, and each of them grad-uated in 2000 with a degree in liberal arts. The twins finished their masters program togeth-er at University of California Berkeley in the Principal Lead-ership Institute, which focused on training aspiring principals and connected them to the local Bay Area districts.
The brothers started at Claremont in 2012 and left in May of this year to take on the co-principalship at San Leandro High. Ron and Reggie went through numerous panels with parents, students and communi-ty members before earning both positions at Claremont and San Leandro. With similar ideas, the twins seemed to be a good fit for the school.
“There were other can-
didates that we were well qualified, but the skills we had were a good fit for San Lean-dro High,” Reggie said. “It so happened that we were twins and it so happened that we had a shared vision.”
Horizontal leadership, the idea that no one person is higher than another in terms
of power or importance, was the main focus the twins aimed to bring to the school and the community.
“It all goes back to horizon-tal leadership,” Ron said. “Our students, parents and communi-ty members are leaders just as much as us.”
Ron and Reggie not only want to help prepare their students for college, but want to help them become better people, they said. According to assistant principal Irma Munoz, the twins create a sense of unity within the school.
“They are inspirational and courageous, they took risks,” said Munoz, one of the four assistant principals who works with the twins. “It is something magical.”
After spending their entire lives together, Ron and Reggie still believe that having a twin is priceless.
“Being a twin has honestly been a blessing,” Ron said.
After hearing his broth-er’s response, Reggie added, “Through thick and thin, family always has your back.”
MICHAEL DURAN [email protected]
BROTHERS: Twins Ron, left, and Reggie Richardson sit for a portrait in Reggie’s office at San Leandro High School, where they are co-principals Tuesday, Nov. 18.MICHAEL DURAN / XPRESS
It’s not that we are brothers or twin brothers, it’s that we have a very similar mindset. It is how we are spiritually connected as twin brothers but as co-workers as well.
Ron Richardson,CO-PRINCIPAL
Twin alumni partner up to lead high school
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SF State’s Crime Blotter
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Wednesday, December 3
Friday, December 5
Saturday, December 6
Thursday, December 4
AUTO BURGLARY Officers were notified by a subject reporting that his vehicle was burglarized in the Stonestown Mall parking lot. The total damages were reported at a loss of $2,700. The crime occurred between 12:40 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.
MEDICAL ASSIST Officers contacted the SFFD Medic 84 for a subject suffering from a kidney infection at 8:21 p.m. The subject was transported to the UCSF Medical Center for further evaluation.
DRUNK DRIVING An officer determined a driver was intoxicated while conducting a traffic stop at 1:18 a.m. The subject was taken into custody for driving under the influence of alcohol and was transported to county jail.
MEDICAL ASSIST Officers re-sponded to reports of an intoxicated and uncooperative subject outside of the Towers at 12:57 a.m. The subject was transported to UCSF Medical Center for further evaluation.
POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA FOR SALE While conducting a traffic stop at Font Boulevard, an officer determined the subjects in the vehicle were in possession of marijuana. The subjects were cited for possession of marijuana for sale and were released at the scene without incident.
MINOR IN POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL Officers reported to a loud party at 2:02 a.m. and determined three subjects under the age of 21 were in possession of alcohol. The subjects were cited and released at the scene without incident.
GRAND THEFT Officers responded to a call from someone reporting the theft of his iPad, iPhone and wallet between 11:20 a.m. and 11:50 a.m. in Burk Hall.
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This one-day forum on Friday, Dec. 12 is open to faculty, staff, community activists and local educators who work with the Latino community in the Bay Area and focuses on success in higher education. The event is sponsored by the Cesar E. Chavez Institute and the College of Ethnic Studies and will be held in Jack Ad-ams Hall in the Cesar Chavez Student Center. Speak-ers will include Estela Mara Bensimon from the Center for Urban Education, Aida Hurtado from University of California Santa Barbara and Marcos Pizarro from San Jose State University. Contact Miguel Casuso at [email protected] or call 415-405-7579 for more information.
The student-run choir group, the Gospel Gators, will hold their fall concert from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 in the Student Event Center on State Drive. The concert costs $10 for general admission and $5 for stu-dents. Contact [email protected] or 415-338-2352 for details.
University of Oregon professor Michael Allen will speak about his latest book, “Picturing the World: The Global Routes of Early Cinema,” which studies the Lu-miere brothers, early filmmakers who traveled across the Middle East and North Africa from 1896 to 1903. The event is sponsored by the foreign language and lit-erature departments and will be held Thursday, Dec. 11 at 4:10 p.m. in room 473 in the Humanities building. For details, contact Mohammad Salama at [email protected] or call 415-338-7413.
The Theatre Arts Department’s mask characteriza-tion class will perform acts as masked characters from plays by Samuel Beckett, Moliere Tartuffe and others. Directed by Professor Yukihiro Goto, shows will run on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in room 203 in the Creative Arts building. Contact the SF State Box Office at 415-338-2467 for more details.
News Briefs
Latino/a Students in Higher Education: Identifying Critical Issues and New
Possibilities at Bay Area Universities
Gospel Gators
Reframing Orientalism
Concerning Dramatic Passions
Between Wednesday, Dec. 3 and Sunday, Dec. 7 the University
Police Department responded to 20 incidents. Here are some of
the highlights.
I think it’s always been there, that the race relations haven’t been great, especially between police and people of color.
Jesse Elkin, 22BIOLOGY
I think that it’s a culmination that things still haven’t been resolved and that there’s still minorities that feel that they aren’t being represented enough or that they feel that they aren’t equal with other races.
Athena Colozza, 18CREATIVE WRITING
What do you think the recent protests say about race
relations in the U.S.?
Joanna Jackson, 21ENGLISH LITERATURE
I think there is reaction to the institutionalized racism in our system.
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“This space, it ought to transcend us,” said James Quesada, the department chair of anthropology. “The only drawback is that the biological anthropologists need what’s called a wet lab. It’s going to be a little expen-sive and that’s a long-term plan.”
The cre-ation of a cen-tralized location for information technology students on the first floor of the Humanities Building is also planned for the winter recess, according to Bernardi. An advising center with three advisors and a lab of four computers are ready to move over the break, with hopes of adding more computers down the line.
English is currently spread over four floors of the Humanities Building but will move to the former dean’s suite on the fourth floor during the winter recess, which will free up approximately 2,200 square feet in the building, Bernardi said.
“In general, the entire English department is excited for the new move and to have everyone together in one office suite,” said Lisa Poehlmann, assistant to the chair of the English department.
The international rela-tions and political science departments, currently in the HSS Building, along with the communication department, already in Humanities Building, are set to fill in the space over the summer, according to Bernardi.
These moves will free up approximately 17,000 square feet that will be given back to the University for the College of Science and Engineering to use, Bernardi said. The college has grown from 4,584 undergraduate majors
in 2007 to 5,482 in 2013 according to SF State’s 2012 and 2014 Data Books.
“Biolo-gy has 2,200 undergraduate majors,” said Sheldon Axler, who has been dean of the College of Science and Engineering for 13 years. “It used to have
1,200 in the same space.”In addition, the Science Building closure
in January caused a semester-long relocation of classes, some of which Axler said still hav-en’t moved back into the building.
CHOREOGRAPHING THE CONVERSATION
After his appointment last spring, Ber-nardi said he spent the sum-mer analyzing the LCA and campus, finding ineffective usage of space and strategized solutions.
The student body first heard news of Bernardi’s proposed changes to the LCA in October when they were informed of plans to convert the FA 203 dance studio into the University Museum over
winter break. Dance major Matthew McKines took on
a leadership role in organizing his peers and, through their efforts, sparked a month-long discussion that culminated in a flash mob and
town hall meeting in November.“The accommodations they would have to
make would render training here and studying here, as a dance major, dangerous and point-less,” McKines said at the time of the debate.
After dance students cited safety con-cerns with McKenna Theater, the proposed temporary dance space, Bernardi reevaluated the move and postponed the conversion until Fall 2015, when they hope to find a permanent dance studio.
While the LCA prepares its changes, the college faces budget cuts of 10 percent to in-structionally-related general funds, according to Bernardi.
“The University has not stipulated a 10 percent across the board cut for all colleges, but has asked colleges to conserve and handle additional expenses because enrollment this year resulted in more than $3 million less than budgeted projections,” said Provost Sue Rosser.
RIPPLE EFFECT
The LCA is a relatively new college that materialized as part of a major merger in 2011 which consolidated eight university colleges into six. It was an effort to cut costs that the University Planning Advisory Council project-ed would save $1 million annually, according to University spokesperson Ellen Griffin.
The former colleges of Humanities and Creative Arts combined to form the College of Arts and Humanities, now named the LCA, while departments in the College of Behav-ioral and Social Sciences dissolved to other existing colleges. The merger caused contro-versy at the time, with many faculty members criticizing the move.
“It was a smoke-and-mirrors gambit by President Bob Corrigan, who wanted to look like he was doing something,” cinema profes-sor Steve Kovacs told Xpress at the time of the merger in 2011.
As a result, the LCA became the largest college at SF State, housing approximately 22 departments spread throughout six different buildings in HSS, Humanities, Fine Arts, Burk Hall, Creative Arts and Science, according to
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New interim dean looks to reconfigure college
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The LCA is a relatively new college that materialized as a part of a major merger
in 2011 that consolidated eight university colleges into six in an effort to cut costs
and save $1 million annually.
As a result the former colleges of Humanities
and Creative Arts became the College of Arts and
Humanities, now the LCA, with departments in the
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences moved to
other existing colleges.
Bernardi hired as dean
effective July 1
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Dean Sherwin resigned in April 2014
TOWN HALL: Students, parents and faculty gathered in Knuth Hall for to discuss the future of the dance department’s studio in room 203 in the Fine Arts Building Monday, Nov. 3.
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JENNAH FEELEY [email protected]
DAYVON DUNAWAY [email protected]
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Flash mob and town hall cause
resonsider of McKenna Theater
Bernardi postpones conversion of FA 203 due to saftey
concerns
Dancers informed of plans to convert a dance studio in Fine Arts into a University Museum
Faculty votes unanimously to
merge dance with Theatre Arts
Reports surface of Persian Studies suffering
from low enrollment with the consideration of
cutting classes
A total budget of $300,000, from non-curricular funds, has been set aside for moves and partnerships within the LCA.
Biology
English
CommunicationsInternational RelationsPolitical Science
Anthropology
BREAKDOWN OF ENROLLMENT
Bernardi. He now aims to unify the college.
A LONG-AWAITED HOMECOMING
Anthropology was one of the departments that joined the LCA but never felt at home, according to Quesada.
“That was dif-ficult, it was a lot of adjustment and changing deans, changing different kinds of relation-ships,” Quesada said. “We’ve always considered ourselves part of the behavioral and social sciences.”
In addition to the Science Building closure last semester, Quesada said he felt like he was “living out of a suitcase.” He hopes that the move to the fifth floor of the Fine Arts Building will settle feelings of unrest within the depart-ment.
“This move, I’m hoping it’s going to be another 35 (years) there,” Quesada said. “The way that it is spatially arranged, it’s going to really create more of a sense of community and camara-derie, I think.”
Apart from physical reloca-tions, Bernardi hopes to build partnerships within the different departments in the college. The starting process of one of these partner-ships occurred in October when faculty mem-bers voted unanimously to merge the school of theater with the dance program.
Bernardi, along with Rosser and President Leslie E. Wong, later approved the partnership to create the School of Theatre and Dance, effective Fall 2015.
Ray Tadio, one of two tenure-track dance professors, hopes that this partnership will be a strong step in setting the dance program up for growth.
“I hope to see the musical theater empha-sis grow and a development of dance the-
ater,” Tadio said. “More important-ly, I hope for the continuation of our vibrant and relevant dance program focused on contemporary and modern-based presence.”
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Despite fac-ulty votes for new partnerships, some
faculty shared cases of miscommunication with administration, much like during the 2011 merger.
“Every dean that I’ve known has been fairly transparent,” said cinema screenwriting professor Larry Clark. “Obviously we don’t need to know everything, but something as
big as this, we need to know. It’s been done very fast and that’s also suspicious when they’re doing it this fast.”
Bernardi acknowledged that he should improve communication within the LCA staff and faculty, which has been an issue while the
large college undergoes change.“The more I talk, the more they see good
things happen-ing,” Bernardi said. “I still think they’re suffering from the merger and from the transition of their dean, and obviously I’ve asked them to do more change, space-wise. I think that’s hard.
But I think the light is definitely now visible at that tunnel.”
While Bernardi hopes the unification will boost morale in the college, upcoming chang-es have spurred conflicting emotions among faculty.
“What I think is that someone is playing musical chairs with space,” Clark said. “Ba-sically keeping themselves busy doing some-thing, to look like they’re doing something. But what they’re doing is destructive to the educational system, to the learning system. A very hostile environment is being created here because of the actions coming from the active dean.”
Bernardi will consider his tenure as a dean a success if he is able to bring together the college through plans that extend past the summer, in-cluding a move of the history department that is still in devel-opment.
“You can see why people are like, tired and skeptical, you know,” Bernardi said. “But I’ve always thought of leadership as being responsible for sort of not letting them get the best of innovation and
change, the best of students and faculty.”
allotted to Anthropology Department
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8 LIFESTYLE & CULTURE GOLDENGATEXPRESS.ORGDECEMBER 10, 2014
The sound of a Fender electric guitar filled the room and a sweet melody followed as Rowie Walsh and Fin May of the blues-folk band, Pal-ladino, jammed out to their song “Time” in their Sunset apartment on a quiet Saturday afternoon.
The two are students at SF State but originate from Norwich, England, where they formed their band in October 2013.
Walsh and May have been a duo since the two performed in a jazz band and found common ground in their similar musical style.
“Fin messaged me and said, ‘Hey do you want to join my band?’ and that’s what inspired me to play music,” Walsh said.
Walsh, who studies litera-ture, mainly acts as the vocalist for the band but also plays the acoustic guitar, which she calls “Bunny.” The singer said she always knew she had a voice for singing.
“I realized I just become a diva onstage,” Walsh said. “I
dig it.”After realizing she didn’t
want to be a solo artist, Walsh saw the invitation to join May’s band as an opportunity to grow as a musician.
May, who studies history and politics, first started playing nine years ago when he had a music test at school. He initial-ly wanted to learn how to play bass, but thought it was too dull and decided to switch over to electric guitar after his first year.
May now performs on his black and white Fender and writes his own music alongside his bandmate and best friend, Walsh.
Being a massive fan of John Mayer, May drew inspiration for the band’s name from Mayer’s electric guitarist, Pino Palladino.
“I wanted that name so it would all tie together,” May said. “It just kind of stuck out.”
SF State neuroscience student Jackson Kilsby said he enjoys listening to Palladino’s music because of the group’s unique sound, which he de-scribed as lyrically soul-hitting with threads of classic blues undertones.
“The sounds are magnetic
and draw the listener in with fantastic vocals and electric so-los, sending the message home,” Kilsby said.
Kilsby is friends with both band members and has been to almost every show Palladino has played in San Francisco. He said he believes their best perfor-mance was at the Brick & Mor-tar Music Hall in November.
“I liked it because it was the first time they’ve played a gig at a club and rocked the socks out of the place,” Kilsby said.
Back in England, Palladino performed in a talent show to a crowd of 400 people in March. Although they didn’t take home the grand prize, they considered it to be one of their most mem-orable moments because Elvis Costello, an iconic singer-song-writer from London, once played on the same stage.
“Basically we shared a stage with Elvis Costello,” Walsh joked.
Neither band mate is searching for fame and fortune but they both agreed that they would like to make enough money to avoid getting a “real job.”
“Enough money to not have to do anything else would just be great,” Walsh said.
Although May enjoys playing alone, he said it does not compare with the experience of playing with his best friend,
and housemate. The two look forward to growing as a group and continue playing shows in San Francisco.
“It’s nice to have someone to experience everything with,” May said.
International students double as blues-folk duo
GUITARS: Fin May, left, and Rowie Walsh hold guitars for a photo in their apartment in the Sunset District on Saturday, Dec. 6.
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While California’s drought has dried up vegetation through-out the state, rain arrived just in time to support new mushroom growth during the Fungus Fair Dec. 6 and 7 in Golden Gate Park.
The Mycological Society of San Francisco hosted its 45th annual Fungus Fair, attracting mushroom and fungus enthusiasts from all over the Bay Area.
Founded in 1950, the MSSF is a community dedicated to all things fungi, from pre-serving mycological habitats to sustaining the right to harvest mushrooms locally.
Jackie Shay is an SF State graduate student study-ing ecology, evolution and conservation biology with an emphasis in mycol-ogy and has been a volunteer at MSSF for two years.
“I want to teach people about fungus everyday for the rest of my life,” Shay said as she operat-ed the microscope station where attendees examined microscopic fungal elements. “People are coming here to learn more or they know a lot and want to share their knowledge. It’s a really great
place to learn and teach.”Shay delved into the details
of the current fungus she is studying at SF State, new species Marasmius androsaceus. Small crowds gathered around her microscope table on Saturday afternoon and listened to her description of how the tiny mushroom plays a huge role in aiding the natural decomposition in forests where leaf litter is
abundant.The two-day event provid-
ed cooking demonstrations, a fabric dyeing station, education on cultivation and informative
discussions. Children and adults explored exhibits on mushroom cultivation, ecology and toxicol-ogy and were able to touch and inspect hundreds of recently har-vested species of fungi on display.
Saturday was the less-crowd-ed of the two-day event, and peo-ple perused the displays bordering the room with cups of mushroom soup in hand. Children gathered in the center of the venue around the arts and crafts tables where they painted cardboard mushroom caps made of cut-up egg cartons and attached them to wine cork stems.
At the dyeing station, SF State ecology graduate and Fun-gus Fair volunteer Linda Dinneen pulled a reddish silk scarf from a five-gallon bucket mixture of
mushrooms, miscellaneous plant parts and water that looked like maroon sludge.
"You pretty much soak the pieces of fabric in this bucket of dye that just comes from plant roots and mushrooms boiled in water," Dinneen said. "You just leave your fabric soaking in the dye for an hour or more, depend-ing on how dark you want it."
Hundreds of additional mushrooms were displayed Sunday, attracting three times more attendees than the previous day, according to MSSF President David Gardella.
"There were around 250 different mushroom species collected on Friday and Satur-day for the fair," said SF State biology professor J.R. Blair, who
has volunteered with the group for eight years and helped gather mushrooms for the festival.
The annual fair takes place at the end of the year, when the fungi flourish in dark, damp envi-ronments.
Thanh Dam, a third-year health education major at SF State and student of Blair's World of Plants class, volunteered for the first time at the Fungus Fair this year.
"I never would've thought about volunteering here if profes-sor Blair didn't offer the opportu-nity," Dam said. "I got to learn so much about mushrooms that I had no idea about. It was a really cool experience and I will definitely come back next year."
Fair showcases all things fungi
INSPECT: San Francisco resident Nili Rot examines bright red mushrooms at the Mycological Society of San Francisco’s annual Fungus Fair Sunday, Dec. 7.
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TAYLOR LONIGRO [email protected]
I want to teach people about
fungus everyday for the rest of
my life.
Jackie ShaySF STATE
GRADUATE STUDENT, ECOLOGY
GOLDENGATEXPRESS.ORG 9SPORTSDECEMBER 10, 2014
GATORS
Basketball: both women’s and men’s teams had their first CCAA games Friday night.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
LOSS
LOSS
VS. Humboldt State University 73-57
VS. Cal State San Bernardino 64-53
MEN’S BASKETBALL
WIN
WIN
VS. Humboldt State
University 67-58
VS. Cal State San
Bernardino 68-53
WRESTLINGThe Gators placed 33rd out of 37 teams at the 33rd Annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational
SCOREBOARD Cross-country
ELIZABETH CARRANZA [email protected]
After two years of sitting on the sidelines and almost losing his ability to walk, SF State cross-country runner Drew Feldman
overcame the hurdles of his injuries and bounced into a break-out 2014 season.
“It was a tough time,” Feldman said. “I wasn’t sure if I would be able to run again at all, ever, for my life. To be able to come back this year, to compete, it was really rewarding.”
Redshirting his freshman year in 2012, Feldman didn’t step foot on the track. Instead, he stood on the sidelines and witnessed his fellow teammates enter the NCAA Division II National Championship race for the first time in SF State history.
Feldman said he was happy to see his team go to Nationals, but wished he could have participated. Hungry to join the team on the track, Feldman developed a rigorous training schedule during the summer of 2013 that in-cluded running an average of 18 miles every day. By the end of the summer, Feldman was running anywhere from 90 to 100 miles a week.
Training for what would have been his first season as a Gator, Feldman saw himself on the sidelines for a second
consecutive season due to a stress frac-ture in both of his legs caused by his strict training.
“I remember (the doctor) told me ‘your season is done. You’re done run-ning, you can’t come back,’” Feldman said. “I couldn’t be on my legs too much but I still had to keep working to pay rent, so I was on crutches at work.”
Despite the physical obstacles Feldman faced, the cross-country run-ner finally competed after two inactive years, by finishing first in four out of five races. His hard work and passion for running set him apart from his teammates.
“He’s a leader,” said men’s cross-country head coach Tom Lyons. “He’s the first guy at practice. He never cuts corners and he’s such a positive person.”
Feldman was a first-time recipient for the All-California Collegiate Athlet-ic Association award and was the 2014 CCAA Newcomer of the Year. He was one spot shy of clenching a ticket to
Nationals as an individual runner. Michael Garaventa, who has been
friends and teammates with Feldman since high school, said Feldman is al-ways looking for new ways to help out the team and has a special talent that sets him apart.
“I have known Drew since our Monte Vista cross-country days and as a teammate, he has the drive to win,” Garaventa said. “He leads by example of what you have to do to do well in this sport. He will only get better each year because he never stops making goals for himself.”
With the track season approaching, Feldman plans to compete in distance runing and will continue to train for the 2015 cross-country season to secure a spot for Nationals whether as a team or as an individual.
“I was one spot off. I was the first loser in my opinion,” Feldman said. “I’m going to do the same training for Nationals. It makes me more hungry for success.”
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Drew Feldman holds up the medals he won from the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships and California Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Cox Stadium Thursday, Dec. 4.
ANNASTASHIA GOOLSBY / XPRESS
runner leads team after injuries
Women’s Basketball vs.
Sonoma State at
The Swamp 6 p.m.
UPCOMING GAMES
Wrestling at Simpson University
at the Heritage Student Life
Center in Redding at 2 p.m.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
It was a tough time. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to run again at all, ever, for my life. To be able to come back again this year, to compete, it was really rewarding.
Drew Feldman,SF STATE CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNER
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12
Men’s Basketball vs. Sonoma
State at The Swamp 8 p.m.
President Barack Obama’s action on immigration completely changed the lives of millions of undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S. for better lives.
The president’s immigration reform proves our country’s dedication to freedom and helping others. Republicans will con-tinue to refute, but implementing the reform will keep families together and give hope to millions of immigrants that a better life is within close reach.
There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants residing in the U.S., according to a 2011 estimate by Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project.
After a long road of outwardly bitter debate with congressional Re-publicans over the nation’s immigration policies, Obama finally made the executive decision to temporarily shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deporta-tion and allow them to seek employment legally.
The president announced that he would provide a three-year deferment of deporta-tion to qualified undocumented parents of legal U.S. citizens and provide more protec-tion to Dreamers, children who entered the country illegally with their parents. This will allow those within the two groups to legally work and live in the U.S. after agreeing to a mandatory background check and paying a fee.
Although the president’s executive decision does not promise ultimate citizenship, the three-year deportation relief of select undoc-umented immigrants is a good decision with a positive outlook on the future of the econ-omy. In recent years our country has been striving for an economic boost and Obama’s new policy could be the answer.
With new work authorizations and
the ability to apply for a wider range of jobs, the reform will permit undocumented immigrants to obtain jobs based on skill and experience without obstructing workers who have the proper qualifications. Increasing the population with undocumented immi-grants who can legally work in the U.S. will increase the total population, resulting in increased consumer spending, demand for residential housing and wages overall.
In addition to the economic benefits, this reform brings a sense of safety to the immigrants living in the U.S., assuring that they will return to their families safely with-out facing the risk of immediate deportation. Keeping families together is an important value that we should support regardless of a person’s national origin.
One of the main counterarguments directed toward the president’s proposal is that it will attract even more undocu-mented immi-grants to the U.S. with the thought that if they come to the states, stay here long enough, create a strong family and stay out of legal trouble, they will eventu-ally be granted
legality.Obama
lived up to his campaign promise with this
immigration reform. It will relieve so much anxiety and strife from people and their families, employment status and living situ-ations while simultaneously putting Repub-licans into a tight corner. It would be brutal to reverse the president’s proposition after promising U.S.-born children that their par-ents could stay and would not look good for future Republican presidential candidates.
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Professor responds to opinion on raceJAVON L. JOHNSON, PH.D. [email protected]
On Dec. 3, Golden Gate Xpress published their weekly newspaper filled with articles on everything from World AIDS day to student registration. Amidst this country’s current racial turmoil sparked by the recent decisions not to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Mike Brown or Daniel Pantaleo for the murder of Eric Garner, Social Media Editor Michael Duran opined that in the case (or lack thereof) of Wilson, “racism isn’t the issue.”
As a relatively young and passionate professor, I love to see students share their ideas and exercise their right to free speech, but it is that same pas-sion that does not allow me to sit idly by when students make misguided, problematic, and unsubstantiated claims.
Duran’s ultimate point is not that Brown’s death was justified, but that his death had nothing to do with race, and we would
do better “to focus on the real problem, which is a cop shooting an innocent civilian.”
What Duran fails to recog-nize in his troubling piece, in which he claims the “anger is completely unnecessary” that “the situation is blown out of proportion” and that “we tend to ignore those other deaths and focus on the ones that involve race,” is the rich and robust his-tory of state-sanctioned violence enacted on black, brown and indigenous people that not only happens too regularly but is the foundation on which the U.S. was built.
The killing of Mike Brown was not an aberration, nor was it simply a cop murdering a ci-vilian. Wilson feared for his life because he testified that Brown “had the most intense aggressive face” that could only be de-scribed as “a demon.”
In our God-fearing country that historically constructs black males as innately violent, Mike Brown was not portrayed as a prospective college student, not even a human, but a demon that needed to be exorcised so that this house could be livable for all of us good people.
Whether it is Mike Brown, Eric Garner, 17-year-old Tray-von Martin who somehow over-powered the bigger and trained
Zimmerman, John Crawford III, who was murdered in Wal-Mart after picking up a BB gun off of the store’s shelf, 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tarika Wilson who was shot in her home while hold-ing her baby, 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, unconscious Tyisha Mill-er, Oscar Grant, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, 93-year-old Kathryn Johnston, Emmett Till, all the names I do not have the space to list here, all of the lynching and murder before that and after, black bodies are still treated like disposable bricks used to build safer spaces for state-sanctioned white supremacy.
How is the current state of affairs not about race when, according to ProPublica, cops kill black persons from the age of 15-19 at a rate of 31.17 per million and only 1.47 per million white males within the same age range?
How are we blowing this out of proportion when white males shoot up theaters and political rallies and still live?
While trying to prove how this is not about race is unnec-essary, the anger is extremely necessary, and we would all do well to be angry that it appears to be open season on black people. Instead, many believe that the names I have mentioned were justifiably killed, or that
black people are out of control, or that these incidents highlight “bad” cops.
It is easier to believe those narratives than to wrestle with the fact that the system, which was built on racialized, sexu-alized, gendered and classed violence and murder, is out of control.
The last time I was pulled over, the police officer ap-proached my hybrid car with his gun drawn. Despite my respect-ful replies of “Yes, sir” and “No, sir,” he yelled at me because he could not tell whether or not my car was completely turned off. He made the entire situation tense and asked why I seemed nervous, as my reaction seemed to have put him more on edge.
Regardless of my Ph.D., my hybrid and my cute little French bulldog sitting in my passenger seat, he saw a “dangerous” black man and I was reminded once again, that U.S. figures treat black people as criminal before citizen.
Every day I wake up wondering if I am one nervous, frightened, angry or just plain regular cop away from being the next dead black person. But, go ahead and tell me how this is not about race.
ILLUSTRATION BY KAITLIN AGUILAR / XPRESS
10 OPINION GOLDENGATEXPRESS.ORGDECEMBER 10, 2014
Keeping families together is an important value that we should support, regardless of a person’s national origin.
Golden Gate Xpress embraces each person’s ability to have an opinion and would like to thank Assistant Professor Johnson for this week’s contribution.
I gave up on my plans to attend the University of Oregon in Eugene so I could be close to the pin-up girl of my dreams. My revised strategy to earn my degree locally and then one day se-cure a writing position with the Sacramento Bee was a tough decision, but at the time I knew everything was going to be OK because I had her.
All of that came to an end when she decided to end our relation-ship.
“I have to tell myself everyday I’m in love with you,” she said over the phone.
I sat at the foot of my bed in disbelief, obsessing over everything I had given up. I did my best to be tough and contain my grief, but I was hurting. She was supposed to be
the one. I became reclusive, forgetting to eat, and questioned my life. In silence and starvation, I felt truly alone, isolat-ed from friends and family.
Three weeks later, a near col-lision in a parking garage
caused me to swerve and nearly lose control of
my Chevy Camero. I was furious, not be-
cause he almost hit me but because he didn’t hit me and end all of the pain I was experiencing. As I sat in my car, my chest pound-ed and sweat ran down my face, finally meeting my tears. “How could
she leave me when I needed
her the most?” I cried. This dejec-
tion was getting the best of me.
In shame and disgrace, I concealed my
depression, but I knew I needed support. No one should have to feel that way. Those battling de-pression should seek help
as soon as possible to talk to somebody who is willing to listen, whether it is a close friend, a family member, a hotline or a mental health care provider.
Many people go through the first stages of depression while attending col-lege. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 75 percent of lifetime cases of depression begin by the age of 24. Unfortunately, many don’t seek help.
In 2011, the American College Health Association released a report stating that 64 percent of college dropouts are no longer in school due to depression and 31 percent of all col-lege students said that they often could not function because of overwhelming depression.
Some of the main reasons college students go through depression are due to living away from family for the first time, missing family or friends, feeling alone, isolated or facing new and sometimes difficult school work.
The problem is that college stu-dents don’t look for advice because of the shame they feel. Forty percent of college students who were dealing with mental health issues did not seek help, according to the National Association of Mental Illness.
Seeking help for my depression was the smartest thing that I’ve ever done and those experiencing depression should do so as well. One silver lining of struggling with depression in college is that it can bring you closer to family
or loved ones. Luckily, I had a family member with
whom I could confide my troubles. My mom was the only one that wanted to talk, the only one to give me a shoulder to lean on. She reminded me what it was like to love myself again and encour-aged me to understand that I don’t have to do anything for anyone but myself. I can be whomever I want to be and she will still be proud. If I hadn’t told her, I don’t think I would be here today.
Telling someone how I felt was the best thing I have ever done. People should understand that it is acceptable to feel sad.
GOLDENGATEXPRESS.ORG 11OPINIONDECEMBER 10, 2014
Family support helps overcome depressionSERGIO PORTELA [email protected]
ILLUSTRATION BY SOFIA LIMON / XPRESS
I became reclusive, forgetting to eat, and questioned my life. In silence and starvation, I felt truly alone, isolated from friends and family.
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