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FINISH LINE: Lisa Castellanos (left), a community activist, and SF State alumnus Marcos Tapia (right) arrive on shore after swimming 1.5 miles during the

Alcatraz Invitational Sunday, Sept. 13. Castellanos and Tapia participate in the event along with other SF State faculty and community activist, part of a fundraiser for the Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence Scholarship, available for AB 540 and undocumented students at SF State who are not eligible for financial aid, according to the University.

The “Swim for Sueños” fundraiser draws awareness about undocumented and AB 540 students. It also serves as a way to fund the Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence scholarship, which awards five students with a $500 scholarship.

The idea was conceived when SF State clinical counselor Karla

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SF State faculty members and community activists swam from Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park Sept. 13 to raise awareness and funds for Continue the Dream scholarships for AB 540 students.

Castillo and financial aid advisor Nancy Jodaitis went swimming in Aquatic Park to train for the Alcatraz Invitational Swim last year. They decided they would use the mile-and-a-half swim as a fundraiser, Castillo said.

Community activists Jose Carrasco, Marcos Tapia and Lisa Castellanos were part of the

seven members who participated in the swim for AB 540 students.

“This is our second year swimming,” Castillo said. “There are so many struggles and needs for AB 540 and undocumented students, and we didn’t know where to start.”

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Campus police must undergo 36 hours of training before the University provides them with Tasers, according to a Statewide University Police Association official.

Campus police won't be allowed to touch or hold a Taser until they complete an eight hour training class according to Jeff Solomon, the president of SUPA. He said officers will then have to complete 24 hours of training with the device. Officers who complete the necessary training must take a refresher course once a year, Solomon said.

Providing campus police access to Tasers necessitates effective and verifiable police training, said SF State criminal justice lecturer Greg Woods in an email.

Woods said he believes the use of Tasers by California State University campus police will be handled similarly to the current approach used for firearms, chemical agents and batons, to which campus police were granted access 15 years ago through CSU Executive Order 756.

“The rule is, police must use reasonable force based upon the totality of the circumstances,” Woods said.

There are policies in place that regulate any “use-of-force option” for police, which correspond with case law and Department of Justice guidelines, according to SF State University Police Chief Reggie Parson.

“We hope to not be in situations where we have to use

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Line-ups without lines: Hair-cutting service gets dorms buzzing

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In their senior year of high school, Randy Tovar and his friend Simon Orlovsky had the idea to set up a chair in a parking lot and cut random people's hair.

“We didn’t do that, 'cause I thought that was

dumb,” Tovar said. “No one’s ever gonna want a haircut from a stranger.”

Three years later, in the era of Uber, Lyft and Airbnb, Tovar turned that “dumb” idea into Dormcuts, a personal barber service that he plans to launch at SF State.

Dormcuts connects students to high-quality barbers and allows them to

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schedule appointments in their dorm rooms based on the barber’s availability, according to the business website.

“With the whole sharing economy, we came up with the idea to allow students to schedule an appointment with a barber to get haircuts in their dorm,” Tovar said.

Tovar, a junior in business marketing, co-

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Orlovsky said he began the business in Carleton in February 2015, initially offering free haircuts to those who asked.

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SECURITY: A Taser, gas mask and shield displayed in an office at the SF State University Police Department Wednesday, Sept. 2 are now mandatory provided equipment for all California State University police through a collective bargaining agreement between the CSU and the State University Police Association.

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Police say Tasers to help with campus safety tasers Continued from the front

force,” Parson said in an email. “However, if a use-offorce situation arises, officers will use a Taser when it is the most appropriate measure to be taken.

For example, a situation might not necessarily call for deadly force, but may be too dangerous for officers to use other less-thanlethal options.”

Woods said that, if handled properly with adequate training, Tasers can serve as a potentially life-saving tool for campus police, but he also cautioned that there have been negative incidents involving the electroshock weapon.

“Unfortunately, we have ample examples of the discretionary use of Tasers going horribly wrong, resulting in excessive force claims against officers, civil rights violations of citizens and recoveries in wrongful death by suffering families," Woods said. "Though infrequent, these sad occurrences perpetuate a critical narrative of an oppressive authoritarian stereotype rather than

the police serving as guardians of the community.”

Jenny Debevec, a graduate student studying counseling, said she witnessed a person being Tased by a security officer. She said that the experience triggered concerns and made her question the need for Tasers.

"To what degree are they insuring safety and to what degree are they interfering with students' rights to express themselves?"

Debevec said.

Controversy over Taser use has touched the Bay Area before, like the case of Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a BART police officer at the Fruitvale BART Station, Jan. 1, 2009. The officer said he mistook his service revolver for his Taser. Woods referenced four separate deaths in Texas, New York, Virginia and Florida, all reportedly resulting from Tasing by police officers.

“Though designed and employed to be nonlethal, we're ultimately talking about a device that delivers 50,000 volts of electricity into the human body, disrupting the ability to control muscles,” Woods said. “For those

with specific preexisting medical conditions or who are under the influence of a variety of narcotics, such altercation has been fatal.”

Despite mentioning many negative incidents involving Tasers, Woods said he believes campus police should have access to tools of non-lethal force, including Tasers.

“Properly deployed Tasers on campus are appropriate and must be used with the highest standard of care as an alternative to lethal force to maintain public safety,” Woods said.

Solomon shared Woods’ opinion, saying he believes students have the wrong idea regarding Tasers. "(Campus police) need to have an option other than lethal force," Solomon said. "This equipment isn't to attack our own students.

It's to protect them against the people that come in harassing and stealing."

The bargaining agreement between the CSU and SUPA that armed campus police with Tasers was a labor relations contract, according to CSU Public Affairs Communication Specialist

Stephanie Thara. Thara said students and members of each university were not involved in the negotiations, but initial proposals are made public through a meeting of the Board of Trustees.

“The tentative agreements are made public and the public is entitled to comment upon them prior to the Board of Trustees’ consideration of them for final approval,” Thara said.

SF State President Leslie E. Wong said in a meeting with Golden Gate Xpress that he was not consulted prior to the release of the agreement and that SF State was the last CSU to arm campus police with Tasers. Past agreements allowed room for Wong to decide whether or not to deploy Tasers at SF State, Wong said.

“And those contracts evolve over time,” Wong said. “… The agreement that just ended... allowed a little bit of wiggle room over equipment. That allowed me to work with students to find out what was the best possible thing.”

Wong included Associated Students, Inc. in previous discussions regarding Tasers, and

ASI passed a resolution against allowing them at SF State, Feb. 19, 2014, according to ASI President Phoebe Dye. “It was a concern to us that our students and campus president took a firm stance on an issue, and it was disregarded by the (CSU) Chancellor’s Office,” Dye said in an email. “Student voices are crucial, especially when it comes to decisions of this nature.”

Dye also said ASI has plans to host an open forum/panel discussion with University police in the future.

The Chancellor’s Office will share the cost of providing the equipment to each school, according to Thara, who said they will also help create and fund additional training for campus police.

Equipment the CSU must now provide officers access to includes pepper spray, AR-15 rifles, ballistic visors and helmets, gas masks and cartridges in addition to Tasers, according to Article 10 of the collective bargaining agreement.

“The ultimate goal is to prevent injuries to officers and the public,” Parson said.

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Our campus isn’t safe, so it’s a good thing that they have Tasers. I get scared to walk on campus at night.

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I think there are more dangerous alternatives than Tasers, such as having a gun. I believe it is a reasonable mandate.

I haven’t heard reports of violence coming from students. I don’t find that officers on campus carrying Tasers is necessary. This school doesn’t have that reputation.

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I think it’s terrible. They should never have to go to that extent. I’m surprised myself just hearing it.

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It’s crazy. I haven’t seen anything that would require an officer to have a Taser.

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IMPATIENT: Students wait in line for the SF State shuttle to Daly City BART on 19th Avenue at the top of campus Thursday, Sept. 10.

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Long shuttle lines frustrate riders

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F State students who use the school's free shuttles to Daly City BART said they are frustrated with the long wait to board buses.

Their concerns come only a semester after the University contracted transMETRO, a fullservice shuttle company, to operate a new fleet of buses between campus and Daly City BART, according a Golden Gate Xpress article.

“It makes me irritated, because sometimes I have to take Muni instead and pay extra just to get to the BART station,” said Amanda Campbell, a junior who takes the bus three times a week. “It worries me because I don’t want to show up to class late. SF State is a commuter school, so why is the shuttle taking so long?”

The free shuttles are scheduled to come by campus every 10 to 15 minutes, according to SF State's parking and transportation website. TransMETRO operates the fleet of five buses that run from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m. until 7:15 p.m. on Friday, the Xpress article states.

Monica Ramirez, a senior English literature major, said long shuttle lines make her commute from the East Bay more time consuming.

“It is kind of a pain having to wait a long time for the shuttle and then waiting again for BART,” Ramirez said. “Rather than my regular hour and a half commute, it can take two and a half to three hours to get from school to my destination. So due to that, I’ve had to change my availability for work and cut down to two days of work.”

The SF State shuttle service webpage provides students with a GPS link and smartphone app to track the express shuttles. These services show that the shuttles are running on time, according to Patricia Tolar, transportation coordinator at SF State.

“Due to the longer lines, it may seem like the shuttles are coming less frequently, but our GPS tracking systems indicate that, on average, the shuttles are arriving under our advertised wait time of 10 to 15 minutes,” Tolar said. “We will continue to monitor the passenger counts and adjust accordingly. Due to the longer crowds, we do have one extra shuttle during this peak time to help ease the longer lines.”

Approximately 6,000 riders travel between campus and Daly City BART each weekday, according to

Wendy Bloom, SF State’s campus planner, who said that the large number of students arriving on campus during the start of the semester could be a reason for the long lines.

On the first day of school, Ramirez said she waited 45 minutes for the shuttle. She was the second person in line and only one shuttle came during that time, she said.

Both Bloom and Tolar suggested that students commuting by BART should take advantage of the free 28/28R Muni transfer from Daly City BART rather than wait in line for the shuttle. A free roundtrip transfer for the 28/28R is loaded onto a student's Clipper card when they exit the Daly City BART station. The transfer is valid for the end-of-the-day return trip, according to Bloom, who said this is true even if students take the shuttle in the morning.

Only BART riders are eligible for this free transfer, which can be used with a Clipper card, Bloom said.

Students who don't own a Clipper card can pick one up at the information desk in the Cesar Chavez Student Center.

No changes in the shuttle service between Daly City BART and campus are planned for this semester, Bloom said.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015 goldengatexpress.org EMBRACE: SF State faculty

member Michael Ritter (middle) hugs Nancy Jodaitis (left), an AB 540 financial aid counselor at SF State, after completeing the swimming at the Alcatraz Invitational Sunday, Sept. 13, in San Francisco to fundraise for AB 540 and undocumented students at SF State.

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Faculty strive to ease financial struggles of DREAMer students AB 540 Continued from the front I must have a visa. (If you are an “My experience in the water was second to childbirth,” said Lisa Castellanos, a community organizer for Sacred Heart Community Service in San Jose, who said it was her first time swimming in the invitational.” It was all mentally and emotionally challenging, but I would do it again to raise awareness for the DREAMers.”

AB 540 students are undocumented students who are exempt from paying out-of-state tuition fees unlike non-AB-540 undocumented students, according to the AB 540 website.

Many undocumented students struggle to afford college, especially because the majority of scholarships require a social security number or proof of citizenship, SF State AB 540 website said.

“You don’t know how it feels to see that only AB 540 students can apply (to the Continue the Dream Scholarship), when it says no citizens or permanent residents,” said 26-year-old business marketing major Jessica Iñiguez, an AB 540 student who came to the U.S. from Mexico at

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Undocumented people and students are the most financially and academically vulnerable

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2 years old. “My whole college experience – my whole life – I’ve seen that I must be a citizen;

undocumented student), you’d be lucky if you can apply to five scholarships.”

Many undocumented students receive funding through the California Dream Act, which provides grants for students depending on their taxes, but these students are still not eligible for federal financial aid to cover the remaining cost of college, according to the Dream Act website.

Securing a well paying job to afford college is a problem many undocumented students face, according to Janet Lopez-Galindo, a 20-year-old political science major who came to the U.S. from Mexico City when she was 10 months old.

“When someone is undocumented, you don’t have the ability to work and if you do, you don’t have a choice to do it in a way that is legal and the jobs that you can get aren’t good paying jobs,” Lopez-Galindo said.

Castillo started a Go Fund Me account that has currently raised more than $2,300 for the Continue the Dream scholarship.

The scholarship is also funded by SF State faculty, who volunteer to have a payroll deduction that donates a portion of their monthly check to fund the scholarships, according to Castillo.

In addition to these efforts, students and faculty members are pushing to create an AB 540 and undocumented student resource center.

“Undocumented people and students are the most financially and academically vulnerable because there is a different process,” Lopez-Galindo said. “It’s

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splash: Lisa Castellanos (left), a community activist, and SF State alumnus Marcos Tapia (right) arrive on shore after

swimming 1.5 miles during the Alcatraz Invitational Sunday, Sept. 13. They, along with other SF State faculty and community activists, swam to fundraise for Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence Scholarship, available to AB 540 and undocumented students at SF State that are not eligible for financial aid.

really important to have a center to go and ask questions. When you’re new, you don’t know who is knowledgeable of your situation.”

The main concern for most AB 540 students is increasing faculty and staff awareness of the needs and struggles of undocumented students.

“Each student has a different need,” said Miguel Castillo, third-year industrial design and visual communication major. “I want to study abroad while I’m in my youth, but no one can help

me because they don’t know how I would be processed. Will I be an international student or will I get funding? Nobody knows.”

Miguel Castillo said he has received some information from University of California, Berkeley about the opportunities and resources available to him as an AB 540 student.

A resource center for undocumented students is included in President Leslie E. Wong's 2015 strategic plan as a goal for SF State.

“(Building a center) would send a strong message that the University supports and cares (about AB 540 students),” said Eurania Lopez, a lecturer from the graduate College of Education.

The faculty's eagerness to swim in ice-cold water and secure funds for students is appreciated, Iñiguez said.

“To see that there is a scholarship for students like us is really refreshing and encouraging,” Iñiguez said.

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Queer community calls for safe spaces EVA BARRAGAN

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hen the new assistant director for SF State's Queer and Transgender Resource Center arrived from University of California, Davis, she expected to see a lot more support for queer and trans students than what currently exists on campus.

“I came to SF State for grad school because I wanted to find

more queer students of color like myself,” Lindy Velasco, the new assistant director, said. “I chose the ethnic studies program because I wanted to focus on a thesis that focused on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race” However, she discovered upon her arrival that the Campus Pride index didn't include SF State on its list of the top 25 most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. Velasco said she

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ADVOCATE: Lindy Velasco, assistant director of the Queer and Trans

Resource Center at SF State, poses for a portrait in front of the wall of LGBTQ posters in her office in the Cesar Chavez Student Center at SF State Thursday, Sept. 3.

feels the student body as a whole needs to hold the administration accountable to support all students.

“Safe spaces for queer communities are extremely important,” Velasco said. "It gives them a chance to feel like their identities are being respected and represented. It's like, 'This is literally a space that was made specifically for you,' and having that kind of space is what really allows (students) to thrive.”

With The Lexington, the last full-time lesbian bar in San Francisco, closing its doors after 18 years of service in April of this year, the lesbian community in the Bay has been left to create safe spaces of their own.

Velasco defines a safe space as a space that can be both private and public. While she said she acknowledges the importance of these type of spaces, Velasco said the reality of why these spaces even have to exist is a brutal one.

“LGBTQIA students/folks, especially those of color, should understand all spaces as a safe space," Velasco said. "Yet the reality of violence, police brutality, homophobia, racism, transphobia, transmisogyny, etc. still remains.”

She said she feels that her role as assistant director of the QTRC will give her a platform to amplify student input and opinion for the betterment and inclusion of all students on campus.

For 38-year-old Susannah

Smith, The Lex was more than just a bar or a pick up spot, it was a space where she said she felt people went to form a community and empower each other.

Smith is a Bay Area filmmaker and the co-producer and co-director of “The Lexington Project Archival,” a project dedicated to documenting the stories, sounds and images from San Francisco's last fulltime lesbian bar. When Smith first moved to San Francisco in 1999, The Lex was the first bar she visited.

“For me, since I mostly dated cis men at the time, The Lex was just a place where I could meet up with the community of feminist women I was friends with," Smith said. " I could just go hang out with my girls, have a beer, and we didn't have to worry about getting hit on or feeling harassed.”

The Lexington may no longer be in service, but there is still a large queer community in San Francisco. East Coast Eden Inc. is just one of the many event and marketing companies that strive to fulfill the unmet need for lesbian nightlife in the LGBT community.

“There are a lot of gay events, but the majority of the LGBT crowd that show up are men, and there aren’t many nights designated for women,” said East Coast Eden's CEO, Bekah Love.

While Love's company is based in Orlando, they throw events from coast to coast. Their

next event will be “Color Me Wet" in San Francisco, Nov. 7. “'Color Me Wet' is definitely one of the most energy-filled LGBT events that you will ever go to," Love said,” and our objective is to keep it that way

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For me, since I mostly dated cis men at the time, The Lex was just a place where I could meet up with the community of feminist women I was friends with. “

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and embrace its growth.

Smith said that the owner of The Lexington Club, Lila Thirkield, was really into promoting other people's parties, like the kind East Coast Eden produces. Smith said the absence of these spaces can be detrimental.

“Imagine if you are battling with your sexual identity or figuring out who/what you're comfortable with all day or all week, and you don't have space where you can just rest and figure out these issues,” Smith said. “It is so important for queer individuals to have a place to come together, to make change or to simply hold hands with or make out with their partner.

Some people find this at church and some people find it at a gay bar.”

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“Absinthe Green” kicks off Fringe Goes Long play series ISABELLA OHLMEYER iohlmeye@mail.sfsu.edu

“Absinthe Green,” a dramatic production teeming with mystery, obsession and gunplay, will open the Fringe Goes Long series Sept. 25.

Fringe Goes Long, SF State’s annual series of full-length, one-act plays, features student compositions. Fringe is an instructional program that began in 1994 and grants student writers the opportunity to work on the final stages of script development.

The show’s director, theatre major Elyssa Mersdorf, said her personal goal as director of “Absinthe Green” was to express herself.

“I want my view and my weirdness to come through in ‘Absinthe Green.’

Every artist is unique, and, for me, directing is a great outlet for my creativity,” Mersdorf said.

According to Mersdorf, “Absinthe Green” is a play that challenges concepts of time and spatial relationships. Audiences will be left asking themselves what really happened and how the relationships between the characters in the play may mirror the audience’s own personal relationships.

RYAN MCNULTY / XPRESS “My character, Paul, empathizes ENACT: Evan Doherty, an undeclared major, rehearses a scene for the play “Absinthe Green” in the Creative Arts Building at SF State Monday, Sept. 14. deeply with classical literary works more than he respects any human life,” Green,’” Pasikov said. the pieces together to be able to envision the whole.” said junior theatre major Nate Budroe. “That connection Roy Conboy, professor of play writing, creative Terry Boero, instructor for the three-unit Fringe leads Paul down a rabbit hole of absinthe, addiction and writing and theatre and dance, said that Fringe's plays course and artistic director of the four plays, said that the constant need to fulfill his baser desires.” give students real-world experience. there are a lot of benefits to participating in the program.

Mira Pasikov, a graduate student in English with an “Fringe Goes Long parallels a common experience in “Many actors, directors and playwrights are given a emphasis in creative writing, is the show’s playwright. the professional world, where many theaters work with wonderful opportunity to showcase their talent through She said she drew inspiration for the play from her original ideas on a regular basis,” Conboy said.

Fringe and become noticed even more by the SF State passion for books.

Pasikov said that each scene of this play is like a community," Boero said.

“I frequent places where books can be found. As piece of a kaleidoscope, which makes “Absinthe Green” “Absinthe Green” will take the main stage Sept. 25 a result, people who are around books – writers and different from the other three Fringe plays this semester. and Sept. 27 at The Lab in the Creative Arts Building. readers, booksellers and librarians – have shared unusual “As you view each piece, the fragments shift as There will be an off-campus performance Sept. 26, at a experiences they’ve had in these bookish places. I’ve you’re shown different, sometimes contradictory location to be determined. incorporated some of these incidents in ‘Absinthe information,” Pasikov said. “It’s up to the viewer to put

Order-in barbers to bring style to dorms HAIR CUTS Continued from the front Dormcuts is currently fully operational only at Carleton College, but the business is expanding its services to Westmont College in Santa Barbara and SF State, according to the Dormcuts website. Tovar said that potential legal issues may block Dormcuts’ expansion to SF State.

SF State’s 2015 Housing License Agreement states that licensees are prohibited from conducting business on the premises, such as using the dorm as the business mailing address or hosting a website. Tovar said he lives in University Park South, which makes him a licensee, but said he hasn’t breached the agreement.

“I’m not using the dorm as a mailing address, I’m not giving out haircuts (in my home) and the barbers aren’t licensees or residents,” Tovar said. “We’re trying to find a way to establish this legally. I don’t want anyone to get kicked out or anything.”

Kevin J. Kinney, interim director of residential life at SF State, said Dormcuts is technically in the clear since the barbers would be considered

guests of the residents.

“They become (the licensee's) guests,” Kinney said. “Whatever they do is (the licensee’s) responsibility. If they’re just letting someone in to cut their hair, then that’s their business.”

Tovar said he needs to contact SF State administrators to see if the license agreement will be upheld. But he said Jason Porth, executive director of University Corporation SF State, gave him an encouraging push.

“I think there’s a lot of opportunity there, and we want to be supportive in his effort,” Porth said. “It can ultimately be incorporated into the campus.”

Porth said it’s pretty rare to hear from students about business ideas, and when they do, it’s easier to launch if they’re backed by a faculty or staff member.

Dormcuts is currently supported by Financial Analysis and Management Education, an independent student organization that provides its members with professional experience and business education, according to Tovar.

Mohammad Naqvi, a senior

in business administration and president of FAME, said that the organization launched FAME consulting this semester, a program that will assist SF State entrepreneurs with market research, competitive positioning and consumer awareness of their business.

“Randy Tovar has been an invaluable member of FAME for several years now,” Naqvi said. “His founding of Dormcuts coincided with our founding of FAME Consulting – it was a perfect match.”

Orlovsky said that, business aside, Dormcuts’ ultimate goal is to give students and barbers a good experience.

“We’re just having fun,” Orlovsky said. “Everybody involved in the organization is really passionate about cutting hair and giving haircuts and making sure everyone is comfortable.”

Dormcuts is currently interviewing for barbers and isn’t due for release at SF State until October or November, according to Tovar, but he said they're working toward it.

“Our idea isn’t just an idea anymore,” he said. “It’s turning

into reality.”

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INNOVATIVE: Randy Tovar, marketing director of Dormcuts, poses for a

portrait in the Village at Centennial Square at SF State Monday, Sept. 14.

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Beer magazine earns praise for alumnus ISABELLA OHLMEYER iohlmeye@mail.sfsu.edu

Sitting in a classroom, anxiously awaiting his fate, SF State alumnus Samuel

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FOAM: SF State alumnus and editor-in-chief of Liquid Bread Magazine

Samuel Molmud raises a glass of craft beer in a portrait Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Rosamunde Sausage Grill in San Francisco.

Molmud said he was laser focused when judges from local publications came to his contemporary magazine class last year to judge the students’ ideas and business plans.

His Liquid Bread Magazine project– focused on the beer scene in the Bay Area– won the judges over unanimously. Now, as a fully-fledged online publication, Liquid Bread has won SF Weekly’s 2015 Best Drink Publication award.

“When you are doing something new, its not always easy to tell when you’re hitting the right notes, so getting the nod from SF Weekly was a pleasant temperature gauge on how we were doing,” Molmud said.

Molmud graduated from the journalism department in Fall 2014 and is currently the founder, owner and editor-in-chief of Liquid Bread Magazine in San Francisco.

Molmud said his idea for starting Liquid Bread Magazine was born in the contemporary magazine course that he took at SF State in Spring 2014.

“I made up Liquid Bread for a class project in contemporary magazine, and after the class, I fine-tuned it to be an online-only and Bay-Area-focused online publication,” Molmud said.

Molmud explained that the main project of the class was to create the concept for a magazine, pitch the idea to the class, get into groups and make a business and a launch plan.

“When I started putting my ideas on paper for the project,

I quickly realized that I had something really strong, so I decided I would make Liquid Bread a reality after the class,” Molmud said.

Maegan Tingling, photographer for Liquid Bread Magazine and SF State journalism alumna, was there when Liquid Bread Magazine was first transforming into a reality.

“I was present during the first talks of turning Liquid Bread from a class project to a live publication, so I was at the right place at the right time to become, in the future, a part of the photo staff with the magazine,” Tingling said.

Managing editor of Liquid Bread Magazine and 2014 SF State journalism graduate Lovelie Faustino first met Molmud in class with the Golden Gate Xpress newspaper.

“Initially, Sam was the quiet guy who sat in the back of the classroom. He kept to himself, but spoke with true eloquence," Faustino said. “I quickly learned that Sam was the one to listen to when he raised his hand in class because whatever he was going to say was going to be thoughtful and add to the class lesson. He didn’t raise his hand just to participate; he spoke with purpose.”

Faustino said Molmud is an industrious leader whose ambition and passion for producing quality content is evident.

“Sam’s a diligent editor-in-chief. He hustles to produce content and will make sure Liquid Bread Magazine

has a story in the pipeline ready to go, even if he has to take the pictures, interview and write the story, edit and publish the article,” Faustino said. “He is a one-person team when he needs to be and that’s why Liquid Bread Magazine has sustained over the year. Sam is Liquid Bread Magazine.”

Molmud said he enjoys writing about beer because of the taste and because of Bay Area festival organizer’s heartfelt mission to give back.

Bay Area Festivals, such as the Monterey Beer Festival and the SF Craft Beer Festival raise money for charities to donate money to the local community.

“I was really surprised when I first started writing about beer how community oriented and nonprofit a lot of the beer industry is,” Molmud said. “So many beer festivals are geared toward raising money for good causes, like fighting cancer or youth recreation, and many of the breweries and businesses partner with their neighbors to help bring awareness to each others’ businesses.”

Liquid Bread Magazine is currently an online-only publication, but Molmud said he hopes to expand to print in the future.

“Craft beer, like music and any other art forms, is very unifying at the local level,” Molmud said. “And, of course, it usually tastes awesome.”

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he fact that women make 78 cents over their lifetime to every dollar that men make over theirs has become well known in the last few years, but recent data from the U.S. Department of Education compiled by the New York Times paints an even grimmer reality.

According to the article, women enrolled at elite colleges are earning less than men across the board, even at colleges like Harvard and Stanford. The graph shows the average salaries of both men and women at 33 elite U.S. universities 10 years after enrollment. The largest gap between men and women’s earnings was at M.I.T., arguably the most prestigious technical college in the world, with a difference of $58,100 per year.

This data contradicts the popular argument that women make less than men because they tend to choose less lucrative fields. Women are more often humanities

Gender wage gap among graduates of elite schools demonstrates that the pay inequity epidemic in the United States is ongoing

majors than men, and are less-well represented in the tech, business and engineering fields, which often have the most well paying jobs. The most striking thing about the New York Times graph is that M.I.T., had the largest pay gap 10 years on.

Perhaps even more depressing, the Times found that, at hundreds of institutions, more than half of graduates made less than $25,000 a year 10 years after enrollment, which is about what high school graduates make.

Why should we care? After all, SF State students’ median annual salary 10 years after entering the University is $46,900, and our graduation rate is only 46 percent, according the U.S. Department of Education.

We should care because the gap is biggest at M.I.T., Harvard and Stanford, institutions whose graduates are the most privileged in the nation. Surely what affects women at the top schools affects women at lower-tier schools ever more.

What the article fails to do is account for the additional hurdles that women of color, women with disabilities and poor women have to navigate while fighting for fair wages.

While it is important for us to rally together and demand wage equality, it is even more important to hold politicians and corporations accountable for change.

Change can only come from recognizing that the problem exists.

#BlackLivesMatter isn’t an exclusionary message CHANTEL CARNES ccarnes@mail.sfsu.edu

Last week I received a Facebook message from an old high school classmate who criticized me for posting “too much black stuff” on my social media. “#BlackLivesMatter is ignorant and rude; not all white cops are racist and, besides, all lives matter,” he said. “You’re not promoting equality.”

This message was very disturbing for me to read. As an African American, I have the right to post or discuss any issues regarding my black community. One of those issues is the outrageous police brutality against black people.

Personally, I see #BlackLivesMatter as a message that is taking a public stance against oppression, racism, stereotypes and inequality in the work force, education system and law enforcement.

I want to stress that #AllLivesMatter is only reiterating something we already know, and it allows people to ignore the message behind #BlackLivesMatter. I see this phrase and I view it as a positive message that emphasizes that black lives matter just as much as others, and we should be treated as equals. This phrase began as a response to the outrage over the number of African Americans being killed by police officers.

Since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, nearly 30 unarmed black men have been killed in police shootings as of August, according to USA Today.

Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray are just a few names that have made their way onto my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter news feeds. I share these stories on my social media in hopes that people will see the injustice and speak out against it.

The phrase #BlackLivesMatter promotes equality, if people chose to look at it in the way it’s intended. Many people see the hashtag and are filled with hostility and negativity. Consequently, the common response is, “Not only black lives matter; all lives matter.”

American actor Matt McGorry tweeted, “#BlackLivesMatter doesn’t mean other lives don’t. Like people who say ‘Save the rain forests’ aren’t saying,

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‘Forget all other types of forests.’”

The phrase “all lives matter” serves no purpose because we as a society already know that. #BlackLivesMatter is saying “black lives matter too.” Over the last year the hashtag has received more attention and yet, people are still either keeping quiet or being silenced.

The Facebook message I received was telling me to be quiet. It was saying that although problems such as racial profiling and white privilege exist, I should ignore them because not talking about a problem essentially makes it go away. People either find a way to justify problems facing the black community or remain silent.

Celebrities like Iggy Azalea and Kylie Jenner are quick to defend themselves against cultural appropriation, but never speak out about matters surrounding the black community. Concerns with the racial gap in U.S. arrest rates are often kept quiet and ignored.

African Americans now make up approximately 1 million of the nearly 2.3

million in prison in America, according to the NAACP website, and “are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites.” #BlackLivesMatter takes oppression, stereotypes, racism and injustice and says, “No more.” Black lives have been seen as less than equal and less than human in past generations. This phrase is a reminder to those who treated blacks as less than equal and a reminder to those who find it so easy to dehumanize black lives. The phrase is a positive message that is trying to convince white America that black lives are just as important, and we as a black community will no longer be silenced or tolerate being treated as less than.

This hashtag is one of many steps toward creating awareness about social and economic problems surrounding the black community and putting an end to them.

In order for things to change, we have to reconstruct the mindset of society from the ground up.

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Bigots ruin Caitlyn costume Reid It and Weep is a weekly column highlighting the frequent disappointments in contemporary pop culture.

REID CAMMACK

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Halloween is the time of year when everyone breaks out their skimpy, scary and tacky costumes and parade around, pretending to be someone else for one, fun night. While many costumes sold in stores like Spirit Halloween are fun and campy, Halloween costumes often lend themselves to perpetuating offensive stereotypes of minority communities.

This month, a picture of an overtly masculine model with stubble and hairy legs advertised a Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair costume that outraged trans people and trans supporters. Dressing up as any trans person and applying masculine or feminine attributes that weren’t originally there is a transphobic act.

Jenner is a major celebrity, and dressing up as her is fair game if the outfit is worn by someone who genuinely wants to look like Jenner. But, if the costume owner accessorizes it with a beard, hairy legs and a

crotch bulge, then the costume takes a violently unpleasant turn.

There is still the potential for good with the costume though.

Spirit Halloween is currently advertising their “Caitlyn Corset & Wig Set” with a feminine model. The model is wearing the appropriate makeup and there are no hairy legs in sight. If you’re going to dress up as Jenner, that is how it should be done. The model actually looks like Caitlyn and is paying tribute to her, not mocking her.

Anyone can wear a twerking Miley Cyrus costume or a throwback Lucille Ball costume, and the same should hold true for an icon like Jenner. A Jenner costume is just an imitation of a famous, female celebrity from a groundbreaking magazine cover. It's when the costume owner uses masculine attributes to mock Jenner's transition that there's a problem.

Jenner herself thinks the costume is great.

“I’m in on the joke.

No, I don’t think it’s offensive at all,” Jenner told the Today Show.

And while Jenner is not a spokesperson for the entire trans community, I think she understands that she’s a huge public

figure that is going to be made into pop culture staples, like Halloween costumes.

People should be allowed to call themselves Caitlyn on

Halloween all they want, but it's up to the general public to not turn the costume into something offensive. The costume should be shifted from something that

could be potentially extremely offensive and made into an outfit celebrating an important public figure for the transgender community.

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New talent sharpens ice hockey team

DEFENSIVE: Goalie Patrick Maris performs drills with teammates during practice at Nazareth Ice Oasis in Redwood City Sunday, Sept.13.

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PROGRESSION: Coach Dakota Yackel runs the SF State hockey team through drills at Nazareth Ice Oasis in Redwood City Sunday, Sept. 13.

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he florescent lights of Redwood City's Nazareth Ice Oasis snap to life at 11 p.m. sharp every Sunday, illuminating the crisp red and blue lines on the rink ice that are soon grated into fine powder by the steel skates of the SF State hockey team.

The late practices, which often last until 1:30 a.m., are a testament to the team's hunger for wins in the wake of a disappointing 2014 season. New acquisitions have fueled the squad's appetite, according to players and head coach Dakota Yackel, who said they look forward to a fresh start.

“I’m most excited about the new talents we have this year,” said returning player Corey Bemis. “I think they are really going to help the team.”

Bemis said he expects a fun season ahead of him and said he hopes the team can start winning.

“I’m really looking forward to playing with the new guys and building chemistry with them, which is important to helping us win,” Bemis said.

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I’m really looking forward to playing with the new guys and building chemistry with them, which is important to helping us win.

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improvements on offense and defense.”

One of the team’s new additions, goalie Patrick Maris, said he is confident that this season will be better than previous ones. Maris said he learned

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Yackel, who took over the job with only two games remaining last year, said he looks forward to improving the program and gaining recognition at SF State.

“We have a handful of new guys that we can depend on, and players have been practicing a lot in the summer,” Yackel said. “I've seen a lot of

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9/10 Win 3-0 vs Dominican University of California, Scoring 31:38 Joe Rousseau, Assist Emmanuel Jimenez; 72:45 Jakob Velega, Assist Robert Kelly, Ayden Bowers; 81:30 Max Talbert, Assist Nigus Solomon 9/12 Loss 0-1 vs Academy of Art University

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new techniques from studying abroad in the United Kingdom last semester that have made him a better goalie.

“I am going to make a positive impact with the team,” Maris said.

“I’m a very good goalie. I’ve been conditioning with the rest of the team, and I will do whatever it takes to help us win.”

Maris’ mentality is one reason why the team said they are optimistic about the upcoming season and hope they start winning. “I’m ready for the season, that's for sure,” Maris said.

Bemis believes that working as a team is the key to having a good year. “(We need to) focus on keeping our heads up when we get knocked down because there are going to be a lot of big bodies, making sure to pass and don’t do everything yourself,” Bemis said.

With the first game of the season approaching against University of California, Davis Oct. 3, Yackel said he hopes to keep his players focused.

“I want them to have an ‘I want to win’ mindset and give it their all,” Yackel said.

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San Francisco yields new experiences for English soccer player TYLER LEHMAN

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oving to a new country can be a daunting task.

For 23-year-old Ashley Watson, the opportunity to come to the United States to get a master’s degree and play soccer was one that he said he wanted to embrace.

“I like it in San Francisco, and I was ready for a change,” Watson said.

Watson, a Park Royal, London native, plays attacking mid-field for the SF State men’s soccer team and is on a full scholarship. He said he is adjusting to his new life in America day by day, as he bonds with his teammates and embraces the opportunity given to him through his previous years of coaching experience.

Two years ago, the U.K. International Soccer program gave Watson the opportunity to come to the United States and coach children, where he was scouted by current Gators assistant coach Mike Sharabi.

Sharabi said he saw Watson practicing, and the rest was history.

“I saw (Watson) training and saw he was a skilled player,” Sharabi said. “I saw that he was athletic and could cut well, and that he had a great left foot.”

Sharabi said he talked to Watson after the assistant coach saw him practice, and the two

discussed Watson’s desire to continue his education and get a master’s degree.

It wasn’t until this past year that Sharabi contacted Watson to come play for the Gators, and Watson said he happily accepted.

“I wanted a new experience,” Watson said. “I didn’t want to live at home my whole life.”

Before coming to study at SF State, Watson earned his bachelor’s degree at University of East London. He was offered a scholarship into the master's program at University of East London, but he said he decided to choose SF State instead.

Watson is eligible to play soccer for two years at SF State and plans to earn a master’s in kinesiology. He said he isn't sure about his plans after college, but is happy with the master's program he chose.

“Kinesiology seemed practical,” Watson said. “I wanted to do something where I am active, not something where I have to sit around all day.”

Co-captain and midfielder Emmanuel Serrano said Watson’s activity on the field is easy to see. Serrano said the team enjoys Watson’s different style of play, which incorporates elements of speed and physicality.

“They play a bit differently in England than we do here,” Serranno said. “It’s cool seeing how Ashley plays. He’s really smooth and smart on the ball.”

Watson currently resides in Daly City, where he rooms with fellow players Daniel Herrera and Ilja Golubevs.

“It’s fun living with those guys,” Watson said. “We all have the same expectations coming into the year to be successful, which is nice.”

Watson said his transition to American life is going well. As much as he enjoys San Francisco, he said he still misses some aspects of home.

“I still try to do a lot of things here that I did at home," Watson said. “I still eat the same things and try to keep the same daily routines.”

Watson said he is getting along great with his teammates, and head coach Matt Barnes said he agrees.

“We’re excited to have a grad student from London on our team,” Barnes said. “He is a quality player and nice guy.

His teammates respect how he plays. The guys can see that he is a good player.”

Watson said he is looking forward to adapting to the American collegiate style of soccer, which has unlimited substitutions and no stoppage time. He said that he wants to keep improving as a player and continue to adjust to living in America.

“Coming halfway across the world and immediately playing soccer is a bit challenging.”

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CONCENTRATION: Ashley Watson (11) a Park Royal, London native, juggles the ball to warm up before practice Friday, Sept. 11 at Cox Stadium.

Watson said. "But overall it's been great. I love San Francisco.

It's a nice place, full of nice scenery and nice people.”