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Hundreds of students, faculty and community members gathered on Aug. 21 for an eclipse viewing party at the American River levee near the Hornet Bookstore to watch the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland United States since 1979. Follow us @TheStateHornet for live-tweeting from similar campus events. Saturday was National Dog Day and our readers sent in photos to show off their beloved pups. On the left is a picture of Tina Tee’s “baby” Maximus. Like our page at Facebook.com/TheStateHornet for updates on campus news.
With the closure of about 1,200 parking spaces this semester, first day of school traffic was more congested than usual. The State Hornet staff interviewed a few students about their commute as they departed parking structures or lots. Senior FACS major Marissa Guisande said that she arrived at school at 6:30 a.m. when her class didn’t start until 10 a.m. Follow us @ StateHornet for more photo features. SPORTS EDITOR
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GRADUATION: Winter 2017 commencement ceremonies will be held on December 15th and 16th at the Golden 1 Center. Graduates will receive 12 guest tickets to the ceremonies, as opposed to last semester’s 9 guest ticket limit. President Nelsen’s August 28th President’s Update did not say how much this semester’s commencement ceremonies will cost the university, but last semester, the ceremonies cost $190,595. In order to lessen the overall cost, the City of Sacramento declared Spring 2017 commencement commencement as a civic event. Nelsen’s update did not mention whether the same would be done for this semester.
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CLAIRE MORGAN - The State Hornet A steady stream of cars lines University Drive East on the way into campus from J Street before 8 a.m. on Aug. 28. Many students arrived to campus hours before class to find parking.
Parking shrink hits students As record enrollment comes to campus, student parking spots dissappear and options dwindle
Claire Morgan @jemapelleclaire
Traffic and parking on campus has been notably different this semester — Sacramento State is temporarily losing around 1,200 parking spots as well as undergoing construction of Parking Structure V, Science II, and the Union expansion project. Parking Structure V will replace faculty/staff parking lot 1, which housed around 405 staff
parking spaces. Additionally, Science II will replace faculty/staff parking lot 4, which housed around 160 staff parking spaces. In order to make up for staff spaces due to construction, the lower three floors and ramps of Parking Structure I have been converted from student parking to staff parking. As previously reported, University Transportation and Parking Services (UTAPS) has proposed several ideas to ease the pain of this loss, such as promoting off-campus Ramona Lot, limiting the sale of on campus parking permits, and a ride hailing service called Zimride.
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As of press time, 640 Ramona Lot parking passes have been sold. The majority of the students purchasing these permits are students who have gone through new student orientation, according to UTAPS Senior Director Tony Lucas. “A lot of students who came to our information sessions and heard about our facility did some soul searching and decided they could afford to do this,” said Lucas. “Primarily those have been students who have attended our transfer orientation or our freshman orientation. Even when we did the Sac Send to all students to tell them they were available, we saw an uptake in the number of Ramona passes sold.” Ramona Lot is open from 6:30 a.m. until 8.p.m., and shuttles will bring students to and from campus every 15 minutes. Lucas does not have a specific number in mind in regards to how
many on campus parking passes are to be sold throughout the semester, and said that he would “rather not” limit on campus passes at all. “We’re really hoping that students who do have a little more flexibility in their schedules will choose to park at the Ramona location so that we don’t have to limit the number of passes we sell for the campus,” Lucas said. “We’re actually up on parking spaces and if we can get students to park out there we won’t have to constrain it. But, having said that, I’m not gonna sell 17,500 parking passes again for the campus and then set people up for failure. It’s not our desire.” Zimride, the ride-hailing service meant to help students find an alternate way to get to campus, has been delayed due to contract issues. “We really had hoped for it to be up at the beginning of this
semester, but it’s not likely to happen because of the contract talks,” Lucas said. “It wouldn’t help the first couple of weeks anyways, we still have to train the students how to use it. We expect it to be very helpful for the spring semester, and absolutely helpful for next fall because, by then, all of the returners will know how to use it.” To beat peak traffic hours and to find parking, some students got to campus earlier than their class time. On the first day of classes, senior kinesiology major Samuel Arias got to campus at 10 a.m. to find parking for his 1 p.m. class. “I got here early because I didn’t want to struggle finding parking,” Arias said. “I did cheat the system though because I went to the front of the structure and asked a guy if he was leaving. I gave him a ride to his car to get his spot, which only took about 10 minutes.”
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CSU ELIMINATES REMEDIAL CLASSES NEW CSU EXECUTIVE ORDER AIMS TO INCREASE GRADUATION RATES WITH CREDIT-OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES Vu Chau @vchau2020
The California State University system plans to eliminate all math and English placement exams along with remedial courses by fall 2018 in an executive order issued on Aug. 2. The Executive Order 1110, signed by Chancellor Timothy White, directs all 23 CSU campuses to stop using the English Placement Test and Entry Level Math scores to pinpoint students’ college-level readiness in the two subjects. As of this month, a new approach will instead rely on each student’s high school grade-point average, grades earned in math and English; ACT, SAT and Advanced Placement scores; and Smarter Balanced assessments to determine whether incoming freshmen should be placed in remedial courses. Last fall, about 28 percent of CSU freshmen were placed in remedial math and 23 percent in English during the school year. Cal State spokesperson Elizabeth Chapin said that by fall 2018, students who need additional academic assistance will enroll in credit-bearing classes while receiving support on the side, which is an attempt to allow those students to earn graduation units like others, save money and obtain their degrees faster. The executive order is another step forward for Graduation Initiative 2025, a system-wide plan that aims to increase fouryear graduation rate from 19 to 40 percent by 2025, according to
Chapin. “(Cal State) is changing remedial education to give students opportunities to be more successful in college,” Chapin said. “By not receiving the full 30 units that first year really decreases the likelihood that they’re going to persevere through the rest of their time in college.” The executive order will also affect the Early Start Program, a series of remedial classes offered to under-prepared students to take over the summer instead of during the school year. By summer 2019, all ESP classes will be offered with credit toward graduation. English department Chair David Toise said that the new policy will not affect his department as much since all English classes at Sacramento State are credit-bearing—except for ENGL 1, a basic writing skills course offered every spring semester to a number of students who aren’t prepared for the yearlong ENGL 10, 10M and 11, as well as ENGL 5. Assistant Math Learning Skills professor Ravin Pan said in an email to The State Hornet that he is worried that a well-structured support system for these students will be removed with the new policy. “The math department and the Center for College Readiness, have been working with the local high schools and community colleges to solve this (remediation) issue,” Pan said. “(It is) a much longer process to reduce remediation, but sets up the structure to fix other issues.” During fall 2015, then-freshman communication studies ma-
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jor Adrianna Fletes was required to take at least one semester of MLSK 7A for no graduation credit based on her low ELM score. It took Fletes — now a junior — two attempts to pass the course before becoming eligible to take MATH 1, a three-unit mathematical reasoning class. “That first semester was difficult, especially as someone who was new to college and my MLSK professor wasn’t too attentive compared to my second semester’s professor,” Fletes said. “It just depends on who you have to help you prepare for higher lev-
el classes.” Math professor Sarah Ives said that the student demographic that enroll in remedial classes tend to skew toward underrepresented minorities and people of color, in addition to students who were ill-prepared by their high schools. “As an instructor for these courses, I find it to be fairly difficult to accommodate all groups of students based on their personal experience with math,” Ives said. “Personally, I’d try to keep the pace of my class similar to the pace of the rest of the campus, but at the same time, I don’t want to leave students behind.”
Ives has worked in Texas and North Carolina, and said she’s been “wanting this change to happen” here at Cal State and believes that students who aren’t academically ready for math and English at the college level should still belong in college. “I have always believed that remediation isn’t just a Sac State issue, but mutually shared among the K-12 and community colleges,” Pan said. “Now, I really don’t know how this policy will affect our work, but I’m wondering if we as a nation have given up on ‘algebra.’ ”
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Nelsen calls for ‘hate-free’ campus Joseph Daniels @joseph64daniels
During his annual fall address Thursday, Sacramento State President Robert Nelsen spoke about the effects of the Finish in Four initiative, parking, construction and his hopes to make the campus “hate-free.” Nelsen invited Shannon Swanson, an incoming freshman, to read a letter which denounced the Unite the Right rally that occurred on Aug. 11 and 12 at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. According to the New York Times, protesters were chanting “Jews will not replace us” and racially-charged epithets. Swanson said she lead a group
of new students to collaborate on an open letter to incoming students at the University of Virginia. “I just felt so terrible for the students who are going through what I’m going through right now,” Swanson said. “Starting a new school, which is very scary, let alone being in a climate like that is turbulent and scary and frightening, so I think it is important to establish that sense of solidarity.” Nelsen said that he plans to make inclusion and diversity a priority at Sac State. “We have watched campuses fall apart and exploded,” Nelsen said in reference to the protests like the ones that took place at on Feb. 2 and April 27 at Berkeley. “Do we want this degradation (to) take place on our beloved
campus?” Associated Students, Inc. President Mia Kagianas, who attended the fall address, said that it was gut-wrenching for her to watch footage of the white nationalist protest in Virginia. “Sometimes you can’t even see (prejudice), but it comes out,” Kagianas said. “I think that it’s important to continue training our students, our faculty, and our staff on unconscious bias training, and being inclusive, and eliminating any idea that prejudice could occur ... that’s what sets (students) up to be global citizens is looking out for each other.” Nelsen also used his speech to address how the Finish in Four initiative has affected graduation rates. Sixty four percent of this year’s
incoming freshmen pledge they will take 15 units or more, which was a 20 percent increase from the previous year. The graduation rates for fouryear students have increased to 12 percent from 8 percent, and the graduation rates for six-year students has increased to 48.9 percent. The graduation rate for transfer students has increased from 27 percent to 32 percent. At the end of his speech, Nelsen said the student body will have to make adjustments due to losing 915 parking spaces. The campus will lose a total of 1,250 student and staff parking spaces due to the construction of Parking Structure V, Science II and the Union expansion project. Once construction is finished, campus will gain 1,750 parking
spaces. Nelsen said the school is required to have the same number of parking space for professors as it did last semester. He asked for professors to be patient for students who may be late to class. Parking Structure V is designed to be potentially reused in the future as a dormitory in the event that students are not as reliant on their vehicles, according to Nelsen. Nelsen described Sac State as a school that is transforming from a small university in which students can park next to their classroom, to a campus which requires a student to do more walking. “I am hoping you are all counting your steps,” Nelsen said. “And logging them into calorie counters.”
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THE FIVE NEWS STORIES YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED OVER SUMMER BREAK By Claire Morgan
On Aug. 25, Sacramento State opened Riverview Hall, a brand new student living hall. The hall will house 416 students of all grade levels, and will eventually have features such as a fitness center, game and movie rooms, shared kitchens, and a range of study spaces including computer labs. Students are already living in Riverview this semester, which features single and double room dorms. Juniors and seniors are given single rooms mandatorily.
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The California State Auditor’s Office has begun an investigation into health and safety at Sacramento State. A group of California State legislators requested an audit of four CSU campuses, also including Sonoma State, San Diego State, and CSU Channel Islands. Sac State’s inclusion in the audit is in relation to the lead contamination levels in drinking water sources, as well as chemical containment procedures in science departments.
A Sac State student saved a choking man’s life when he performed an emergency Heimlich maneuver, and soon after on the same day landed an internship as his his chosen profession as a paramedic. William Stewart, 23, was in the San Luis Obispo cafe with other Sac State students waiting for their interviews when a man began to choke. Stewart, who wants to be a flight medic, jumped to the rescue. Stewart was honored by President Nelsen at the Fall Address last week.
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As of this Friday, all tobacco use on CSU campuses will no longer be permitted, including “traditional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, hookah, snuff, vapes, and chewing tobacco,” according to the official page for the initiative. The order came from CSU Chancellor Timothy White for all CSU campuses last semester, citing health concerns and cost of labor spent on cleaning up different forms of tobacco use.
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Sacramento State student Marissa Martinez died after her vehicle left Highway 50 and crashed into a pole in Rancho Cordova on July 28. Martinez was a junior with an expressed interest in nursing, and a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She attended Franklin High School in Elk Grove before coming to Sac State. She was 21.
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5 QUESTION THE BIGGEST UNKNOWNS HEADING INTO THE 2017 FOOTBALL SEASON
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Whose quarterback is it anyway?
One of the most important athletic positions on any college campus is the quarterback spot, which is still unfilled after former starter and junior Nate Ketteringham transferred to Big Sky rival North Dakota in May. Sacramento State has had a quarterback competition over the last four months — between freshman Roman Ale, juniors Kevin Thomson, Wyatt Clapper and senior Kolney Cassel — and the frontrunners appear to be Thomson or Cassel. “I think each one of them brings something different to the table, but right now it’s a dead heat,” Sac State head coach Jody Sears said. “We’re going to keep evaluating here in the next few days before Thursday and then we’ll start ironing stuff out with personnel and game plan.”
Leave it to Ajeigbe? The Hornets lost a combined total of 1,499 rushing yards, 15 rushing touchdowns and 40 percent of their total offensive production when running backs Jordan Robinson and Demetrius Warren graduated last year. To try and fill the void, Sac State recruited graduate-student transfer Joseph Ajeigbe. In three seasons at Duke, Ajeigbe rushed for 319 yards and scored one touchdown. But questions remain on if he’s “in shape yet,” so freshmen BJ Perkinson, Elijah Dotson and Isaiah Gable will be relied on as well, Sears said. “They’re very capable backs, but it’s not highschool anymore,” Sears said. “You’re not sure what’s going to happen when they get hit in the mouth, but I’ve been pleased with all three of our young guys.”
Full house of production at wide receiver? One of Sac State’s strongest position groups could turn out to be at the receiver position which is headed by honorable mention all-Big Sky honoree Isiah Hennie. The senior led the team with five touchdowns and 49 receptions for 594 yards in 2016. The list also includes junior Jaelin Ratliff (five touchdowns, 26 receptions for 405 yards) and sophomore Johnnie Rucker (two touchdowns, 20 receptions for 301 yards) — alongside junior Andre Lindsey who caught five passes for 149 yards against Idaho State on Sept. 24. “Right now, we have a really good core group of guys,” Hennie said. “When it comes to play making, (we) can take a hitch route and take it 90 (yards). Any single one of us, so I think we’re legit there.”
Everybody loves defense, right? Another question mark for the Hornets will be whether or not they’ll be able to keep up with opposing offenses. Sac State finished 12th out of 13 teams in the Big Sky in both interceptions (four) and points allowed per game (40.0), while giving up the most amount of total yards in the conference with 526.7 a game. “My biggest concern is our run defense and lack of consistency during camp,” Sears said. “We just gave up too many big, long runs last year. And we’re giving up too many in camp, so that’s going to be the big tell-all is how’s our run defense?”
Who’s the boss next year? Sears was elevated from defensive coordinator to head coach in 2014, but has since posted an 11-23 record in his three seasons at Sac State. He is currently coaching under a one-year contract which means another below .500 finish could leave him without a job after the season. “That’s completely and totally out of my control in terms of what six months is going to look like from now,” Sears said. “I was hired to get this football team to a championship level and that’s all I’m going to do — day-by-day make sure we’re raising these guys to be men of character and good leaders and good people and get them a game plan where they can be successful — put them in a position to make plays.” Sears and Sac State will see if these plays can be made come Thursday when the Hornets kickoff the season at Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho at 6 p.m.
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Hornets narrowing down QB competition Will Moon
@MoonMan0305 With one day remaining before the season opener, the Sacramento State football team has yet to announce who will start at quarterback Thursday against the University of Idaho. Following the departure of Nate Ketteringham — the former Hornet starter who transferred to North Dakota last spring — Sac State has considered multiple candidates for a replacement. After two seasons and 15 starts, Ketteringham ranked 11th in program history in passing yards (3,391), eighth in completions (293), fourth in yards per game (199.5) and fourth in 300-plus yard passing games (five), while averaging 15.7 rushing yards per game from 2015-16. At the Big Sky Conference media day in July, head coach Jody Sears said the team would select a starter among four contenders — senior Kolney Cassel, junior transfers Kevin Thomson and Wyatt Clapper and freshman Roman Ale. Cassel, the only quarterback with experience playing for Sac State, appeared in six games over the last two years — including one relief stint in 2016 against Weber State. Since transferring from Southern Methodist University in January 2015, Cassel has undergone three shoulder surgeries that have sidelined him from numerous events, including the Hornets 2017 spring camp. Through five appearances in 2015, Cassel completed 48 of 80 pass attempts for 521 yards with three touchdowns and zero interceptions. “He’s a really fine passer and I don’t think there’s any question about that,” Sears said. “Obviously, it’s the health thing — he’s battled it his whole career and lord willing he’ll be able to finish
MATTHEW NOBERT - The State Hornet Sacramento State junior quarterback Kevin Thomson, front, senior Kolney Cassel, left, and freshman Roman Ale, right, practice during training camp Aug. 21 at Hornet Stadium.
out the next couple of days and finish with some consistency.” During his first redshirt season and one year as a reserve quarterback at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, Thomson suffered injuries and underwent Tommy John surgery — preventing him from playing a snap of NCAA football. Thomson, who drew attention from Sac State with his speed and athleticism, practiced with the team during the Hornets spring camp and said he is excited for a chance to play behind this year’s offensive line. “I think our lines made some really good strides from spring up until now,” Thomson said. “I know we’re bringing back a lot of guys from last year, so that’s kind
of encouraging as a quarterback when you have a line with some experience.” Clapper, the tallest passing contender at 6-foot-3, is also approaching his first season with the Hornets after playing two years at Modesto Junior College. In 2016, Clapper started most of the season, and threw for 2,078 yards and 17 touchdowns with five interceptions. He also ran for seven touchdowns en route to earning all-Valley Conference honors. After redshirting last season at Sac State, Ale is the only freshman listed among the team’s quarterback contenders by Sears. The Southern California native arrived to Sacramento after being named City Player of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 2016.
In his senior year at Narbonne High School, Ale helped lead his team to a California State Division I-A championship. That same year, he broke a school record with 3,558 passing yards and 45 touchdowns with six interceptions. Though the winner of the quarterback battle will be expected to help resurrect a program in the wake of two consecutive 2-9 seasons, Cassel said the team has embodied an optimistic outlook, and the quarterbacks have enjoyed the training camp. “We’re making plays in practice and our confidence is up,” Cassel said. “We’re all just having fun — it’s a good competition. (We’re) all friendly about it and we like watching each other
succeed.” It remains unclear whether Sac State will select a lone starter or return to the rotating quarterback strategy used last year. Regardless, sources with the team said they foresee Cassel and Thomson as the two frontrunners. Senior wide receiver Isiah Hennie, who has played with Cassel since 2015, spoke on both players. “I’ve caught plenty of passes from Cassel. We’ve been friends for a long time,” Hennie said. “They’re both competitors, (Kevin Thomson) and Kolney (Cassel) — so (they’re) both going to put us into a position to win.” Additional reporting by Angel Guerrero
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From June 22-25, Sacramento State hosted the USA Track and Field Junior and Senior Nationals at Hornet Stadium. The Hornets were represented by sophomore triple jumper Jah Strange who placed fifth out of 10 athletes in the final round of competition with a leap of 49-08.50.
Rhys Hoskins — who played at first base for Sac State from 2012-14 — made his MLB debut with the Philadelphia Phillies on Aug. 10 against the New York Mets. Since then, Hoskins became the first player in MLB history to hit 11 home runs in their first 18 career games as of press time. During his time at Sac State, Hoskins was the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a Louisville Slugger All-American as a junior.
Former Sac State gymnast Mary Peck qualified for the 2017 Pan American Senior USA team. The event took place in Miami, Florida where Peck finished fifth overall in the 63kg weight class and was the only American to compete in her weight division. After graduating from Sac State in 2013, Peck decided to change directions in her athletic career and begin weightlifting. Peck had previously competed for a spot in the 2016 Rio Olympics but was unable to land a position with Team USA. Photo by Michael Zhang
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Rich Scangarello, who graduated from Sac State in 1996 with a business administration degree, was the newest addition to the San Francisco 49ers coaching staff as the quarterbacks’ coach. Scangarello has coached at several NCAA universities such as UC Davis and Northern Arizona. Scangarello first began his NFL coaching career with the Oakland Raiders in 2009.
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Eric Stuteville — who played center for the Sac State basketball team from 201317 — became the first Hornet to play in the NBA Summer League. Stuteville played five minutes while scoring one point and grabbing two offensive rebounds with the Sacramento Kings on July 9 against the Memphis Grizzlies.
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NOONERS RETURN WITH SOL PELIGRO LATIN REGGAE BAND BRINGING ‘INFECTIOUS’ SOUNDS TO SAC STATE Sharlene Phou @sharlenephou
Latin reggae band Sol Peligro will make its last stop of the year at Sacramento State, where it will bring infectious melodies and Latin grooves to the Nooner stage. The 9-piece ensemble consists of founder and lead vocalist Sam Miranda, keyboardist Will Scharff, guitarist Todd Perez, bassist Cesar Mena, drummer Curtis Blankenship, percussionist Kenny Rego, saxophonist Marti Sarigul-Klijn and trumpeters Mario Bonilla and Richard Gonzalez. “I’ve been very fortunate with the guys I have now and very grateful for them as well,” Miranda said. “We’re all on the same page, with rehearsal and writing. When we’re on stage, we’re all in tune. We just click with each other.” Sol Peligro started out playing at Sacramento venues like Concerts in the Park, Harlow’s Restaurant & Night Club and local festivals. As the band began to gain more traction, they branched out to play at venues in different regions of California. Last year, they performed at Dodgers Stadium for Viva Los Dodgers, a free pre-game festival for ticket holders held every last Sunday each month. Miranda described Sol Peligro as Latin reggae, Latin alternative or dance music. He said that their sound is a combination of reggae, Spanish lyrics and a traditional Latin rhythm called “cumbia.” A majority of the lyrics are sung in Spanish and although not everyone can understand the words, Blankenship said they are still able to get a response from the audience. In fact, it’s not rare to see people dancing at a Sol Peligro show. “I barely speak Spanish, there are many times where I’ve asked Sam, ‘Ex-
actly what are you saying there, Sam?’ Just to find out exactly what the heck our song was about,” Blankenship said. “So, I know what it is (that gets people responding to our music). It’s the rhythm and the melodies that are just infectious.” Ajamu Lamumba, UNIQUE Programs adviser, said that he booked Sol Peligro as the first Nooner of the semester because of the band’s ability to get the audience excited. “They are an awesome band that gets people up and moving,” Lamumba said. “Last time (they played here) they had like 35 people up and dancing, which is a rarity for a Nooner.” The band’s lone album, 2005’s “Los Gritos de Mi Pueblo,” may soon have a partner. After years of performing and building their fanbase, Miranda said he and his bandmates want to take the next step by releasing a second album, hopefully by next year. “It’s a great thing that we are at Sac State because it was earlier this year that we played for a Nooner and the crowd was great,” Miranda said. “When Ajamu asked us back for the opener, and to know it’s gonna be outdoors in that plaza area, I was like, ‘Wow, yeah, this is the way to kinda put an exclamation point on 2017, as far as what we’ve been doing and what we intend to do going forward.’ ”
Sol Peligro’s Nooner performance is scheduled for Aug. 30 from noon to 1 p.m. at Serna Plaza.
Courtesy of Sam Miranda From left to right, band-members Will Scharff, Todd Perez, Cesar Mena, Curtis Blakenship, Sam Miranda, Kenny Rego, Mario Bonilla, Richard Gonzalez and Marti Sarigul-Klijn of Latin reggae band Sol Peligro will give their last performance of the year at the Nooner concert at Sacramento State’s Serna Plaza on Wednesday.
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What was it like moving out for the first time?
The addition of Riverview Hall will allow up to 416 more students to live on campus starting this fall semester. For some students, new living quarters and roommates can be a source of stress or a much-needed freedom from their family home. We asked five students to share their first moving experience. Join the
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“It was tough and sometimes I missed my parents. Living with my parents was my favorite part of my life because now I have to work to pay for books.” - Anh Nguyen Biology
“So far, it’s been really good. I’ll be excited to meet new people. Because I’m from Hawaii, I’m isolated on an island. I’ve been (here) before but it’s been strictly (for) business.” - Aaliyah Fesili Biology
“Disappointing because I expected my roommate to be more involved with campus. He stayed in the dorm almost all day.”
“It was fun and then it became awful. My roommate clogged the toilet yesterday and did not get a plunger and kept using it. Roommate’s a cool person, just a loony toon.”
- Max Coh Psychology
- Helyce Roberts Business
“I was living with an international student who was from Holland. I grew up in a really small town (so) I wasn’t really aware of a world different from me culturally. It motivated me to think more about travelling.” - Noemi Cocone Pre-med
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SEPT. 6 PHLAGlEBLAST 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. The annual open-house for the University Union is back again for its 18th year. Despite the surrounding construction, Union staff are embracing the situation by adopting an “under construction” theme. As always, students can collect stamps from various locations to redeem for prizes.
SEPT. 13 FARM-TO-FORK 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Students will be able to enjoy a festival in the quad that features cooking demonstrations and free produce from the ASI Pop-up Pantry. The dinner will once again take place at Guy West Bridge, with the food being prepared by students of a food production and sustainability class. All proceeds will go to the College Assistance Migrant Program on campus.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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By Sharlene Phou
Sac State’s physics department held an eclipse viewing party on Aug. 21 t at the American River levee near the Hornet Bookstore. Special welding lenses were provided by the department for people to safely look at the eclipse without harming their eyes. View our live coverage of the eclipse at statehornet.com
Courtesy of Mathieu Bertrand Struck / Flickr
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Wide Open Walls was a mural festival that ran from Aug. 10-20 that spread colorful works of art across the Sacramento area. Over 40 national and international artists participated, including Sac State alumnus Bryan Valenzuela. Although special events for the festival are now over, the murals are still up for the public to view.
Sac State alumnus Leandro Damasco performed on “America’s Got Talent” alongside his fellow members of the Diavolo, a dance troupe that specializes in what it calls “Architecture in Movement.” Diavolo’s next live performance is scheduled for Aug. 29, and a results show will take place the following night.
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison and Sac State professor Nigel Poor started the first season of “Ear Hustle,” a podcast about life in prison. Poor co-hosts the series with Earlonne Woods, a San Quentin inmate serving 31 years to life for second degree robbery. “Ear Hustle” currently has five episodes, each one exploring a different aspect of prison life such as gang loyalty and sharing a cell with another inmate. Photo by Nicole Fowler
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Students and alumni from Sac State’s Student Fashion Association showcased their designs at Golden 1 Center as part of the annual Green Sports Alliance Summit. The theme for the show was sustainability and designers were required to use materials that were recycled, repurposed and eco-friendly in their sports-inspired designs.
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THE FIVE CULTURE STORIES YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED OVER SUMMER BREAK
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EDITORIAL
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THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP Congrats, fam. You’re doing it. Amid a hurricane of turmoil, you’re not stopping. You haven’t been scared off yet, as the U.S. is in its most vulnerable position since the Cuban Missile Crisis. You haven’t jumped ship yet to another country — perhaps your home country, or one where you have family, or one that will give you a free college education. You haven’t been disheartened by the unsure promise of a good future, or even any kind of future at all. North Korea, Russia, the KKK or Antifa haven’t made you descend to your bomb shelter, be it a decked out $2 million apart-
ment or a basement from home built the last time the country feared nuclear annihilation. Either way, you’re ready to, as some of the older professors on campus might remember, “duck and cover.” You haven’t been intimidated by the increase of the word hate, and all it’s twisted permutations by differing groups of humans, lobbied at other groups of humans. Undocumented, disenfranchised and/or marginalized. You haven’t gotten so tired of “fake news” comments on Facebook or seeing the word “cuck” in writing that you unplugged and
lived in the wilderness Bear Grylls style. You haven’t been lured off by the promise of a low-paying fulltime job. After all, it is tempting. Easier to pay rent than it is to pay tuition and rent at the same time. You’re here. You have continued, despite these reasons and more, to continue getting an education, improving not only yourself, but potentially the lives of others around you somewhere down the road. All with no proof that we’ll have functioning roads when you walk across that stage, or get the real diploma in the mail soon
after. It takes a certain courage to get up every single day. And this isn’t political; all things listed above should concern a reasonable adult. So maybe someone reading this isn’t a student. Maybe you never were, or were but didn’t finish. Something got in the way; money, obligation, time. Or maybe it was, as many have felt for almost a full year now, a sense of dread. For those of you, for any reason, thinking about giving up — Don’t. Don’t give up.
The world needs more bright, trained and integrated minds, now more than ever. College, more than anything, will bring you into contact with people and ideas that you might never have had you stayed home. It will teach you how to think, not like others, but like yourself. And express what you think, and decide what you think. If more of us can think for ourselves, more of us can take an active role in making the world a better place. The next generation (millennials, but with a z maybe?) deserves a chance.
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OP-ED
Please get your incitement out of my First Amendment Khanlin Rodgers @khanlibear
Riots and rallies are nothing new, and in today’s social and political climate gatherings like the ones we saw in Berkeley and here on our own campus are becoming more commonplace. While both are a practice of our First Amendments Rights, violent actions and tendencies of select individuals raises the question, where do we draw the line between freedom of speech and incitement? In February, a riot broke out at UC Berkeley for the sole purpose of preventing professional internet instigator turned Breitbart Editor, Milo Yiannopoulos, from presenting a speech that had already been approved by the campus. While the overall consensus was that the rioters were within their rights to speak out against what they considered to be hate speech, some groups expressed their frustration by pointing out that all the rioters did was suppress someone else’s rights to voice their opinion in a public forum. The Sacramento State College Republicans was one of those groups. Their chairman, Mason Daniels, even issued a statement calling for Presidents Robert Nelsen and Patrick Dorsey to either denounce the riots in Berkeley or resign. Coincidentally, these
demands came shortly after the College Republicans attempted to hinder a group of anti-Trump demonstrators that were making their way around Sacramento State. We fast forward to August 12th, and unsurprisingly, very little progress has been made in this discussion. I’d even argue that we’ve taken a few steps back as most of the conversations regarding this topic have a tendency to quickly devolve into screaming matches. In the wake of the “Unite the Right” riot held by White Nationalists and various other “alt-right” groups in Charlottesville, VA, not only are we in danger of engaging in the same cycle that we were subjected to earlier this year, but we have the potential to escalate as well. For the first time, we have footage that portrays what appears to be a car accelerating from down the street and intentionally being driven through a crowd of counter-protesters. This incident led to the death of Heather Heyer and the arrest of James Alex Fields Jr., who was charged with five crimes, including second-degree murder. Despite the various buzzwords and titles thrown around when discussing Fields and his actions, it is imperative to keep in mind that Fields was not a lone wolf, nor did he commit these violent actions on a whim. He had plenty of sup-
Photo by Cville Dog / CC BY Emancipation Park (formerly known as Lee Park). The “Unite the Right” rally initially took place at this statue in an effort by various far-right groups to prevent the sculpture from being torn down and preserve Confederate heritage.
port. In fact, he had a whole rally standing with him. Another member of the White Nationalist movement, Chris Cantwell, was very blunt with his motives and intentions. He cited his concealed weapons and many trips to the gym in his quest to become “more capable” of violence if he deemed it necessary. Because he was actively
promoting violence against certain groups, his discretion wasn’t sufficient for the Charlottesville Police Department, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. His fear of unjustly being killed by the police (insert eye roll emoji here) led him to turn himself in and avoid confrontation. Alt-right figures like Fields and Cantwell are beginning to be held
accountable for the things they say and do. Even though it’s a small step forward, it’s important that we as a community stay vigilant in upholding Freedom of Speech for everyone, even those we disagree with, and continue to shut down violence and incitement at every possible turn.
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