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SF STATE’S STUDENT-RUN PUBLICATION SINCE 1927
VOLUME 111, ISSUE 6
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Dancing while death addresses disability issues RIP TO THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
Xpress honors fallen presidential candidates BY: shaylyn martos SMARTOS@MAIL.SFSU.EDU
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Antoine Hunter at the Longmore Lecture in Disability Studies, Dancing While Deaf presentation. ( Dyanna Calvario / Golden gate Xpress )
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e moved his hands mostly, speaking and dancing without words or music. Deaf dancer and American Sign Language teacher Antoine Hunter shared his experiences and passions with an audience of SF State students and faculty. Longmore Lecture in Disability Studies hosted the Dancing While Deaf lecture, which included Hunter, in the J. Paul Leonard Library. Hunter shared his journey of being deaf and finding and loving
himself through his disabilities. The event was also streamed through Zoom live chat where the audience was able to join in on the lecture. The lecture started off with Hunter, who was born and raised in Oakland, introducing himself to the crowd of students. Hunter also had two interpreters for him to sign people’s questions to him, and to also say what Hunter was signing to the audience. Hunter described himself by saying he is 6-foot-2-inch and wearing a black dashiki and black pants. He also describes
himself as an African Indigenous, deaf, two-spirited person who is brilliant and beautiful. In the presentation, Hunter goes over his contributions towards the deaf community, such as being the founder of his Urban Jazz Dance Company and becoming the director. Which is a dance company he created for anyone and everyone to join. He is the former president of the Bay Area Deaf Advocator, and also creator of the Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival. The rest of his bio also includes
School budget cuts put the arts at risk
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he Trump administration has decreased the Department of Education funding by $5.6 billion or 7.8% in the fiscal year 2021 budget. As the shortage in budget trickles down schools will begin to make department and program cuts. With a shortage to the budget, question who and what departments need to be cut ring louder than the quality of education students will receive. As departments make their way onto the cutting board it is crucial that art within the classroom and curriculum stay intact. The 2018-2019 academic year ended
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BY: PAMELA ESTRADA & CIERRA QUINTANA CESTRADA3@MAIL.SFSU.EDU CQUINTANA@SFSU.EDU
with a total of four students with the diploma of Art, nine with Art Education, nineteen with Art History and 57 with a degree in Studio Art. “Growing up in Wilmington, CA that [museums/art] wasn’t talked about. The first museums that I would go to were on field trips because that is all you could afford,” said Kayla Hernandez, a transfer student from Los Angeles Harbor College majoring in Art History at SF State. “Through education and through school giving me that opportunity is how I fell in love with it [museums/art]...why I’ve always wanted to do it since I was in high school.” A reputation or criticism of this field is evident through comments and the constant need to see if it adds value within other fields of education. We have all
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heard the snarkiness, “but a child could do that” or “does it stimulate the thought process in order to accelerate in math,” as mentioned in a feature article by American Psychological Association attempting to shed light on the myth of it all. According to the experiments conducted for the American Psychological Association article it has found that people can actually tell the difference between a child’s art piece and a professional artist piece. There is clear intentional movement between a professional artistic piece that won’t show in a child’s piece. Art is often used to accelerate other fields of education, but does it have to? According to American Psychological Association, art is proven to not boost any
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A&E
BY: JAZZMENE LIZARDO JLIZARD1@MAIL.SFSU.EDU
flyer flitters past me, twirling in the wind as I walk to my favorite cafe on Ocean Avenue. As it tumbles I see the face of Andrew Yang, former presidential candidate and favorite of the Chinese community in Ingleside. I stepped on it as I passed. On this Super Tuesday we honor the fallen Democratic runners. Yesterday Amy Klobuchar, senator from Minnesota, announced she was dropping out; Mayor Pete Buttigieg bowed out the day before. I hadn’t even locked down how to say his name yet. Yang, Williamson, Harris and Booker, Gillibrand, O’Rourke, Castro and Steyer. We will likely never think about you all again. So we, the Xpress, wish you all the best. From billionaires and tech executives, to bureaucrats and new-age lecturers, one by one these candidates quit campaigning and resolved to whatever they were doing before. All of these businesses and homes are covered in Yang’s posters, where will these people turn? Between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, and Michael Bloomberg, who out of these five white(ish, I see you Gabbard) democratic candidates can make communities like that of Ingleside feel seen and supported? According to the Guardian, both Klobuchar and Buttigieg are endorsing Biden for president. While I’m not surprised, I beg for those of us who can vote to think deeper than tacitly following endorsements. Look to the San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters, who publish a handy print-out guide each election season. Look to publications that you trust, like the SF Chronicle or the SF Bay View. And please, for the love of god, don’t miss the polls tomorrow.■
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