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wednesDAY, February 15, 2017 – Tuesday, February 21, 2017 volume 103, Issue 23
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1913
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Relationships affected by ban Kayla jimenez News Editor ____________________________
Infographic by Aidan Prehatny, Graphic Designer
Rape kits absent from campus health centers jamie ballard Managing Editor ____________________________ Of the four major universities in San Diego, none of them have rape kits available in their campus health centers, despite the fact that college populations experience a high rate of sexual assault. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center estimates one out of every five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college. Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network reports that female students between ages 18 and 24 are three times more likely to be raped than other women. Jenny Harper, who works as a San Diego State campus advocate with the Center for Community Solutions, said the kits are not available at Calpulli Center. University websites for UC
San Diego and the University of San Diego both state students who wish to have a exam must go to an offsite facility, although the university does provide assistance in connecting students with these resources. A nurse in the Wellness Center at Point Loma Nazarene University said the kits were not in the campus health center. “It’s not that shocking to hear that none of these universities stock rape kits,” said Anna Voremberg, managing director for advocacy organization End Rape on Campus. “Most universities don’t have them, but it really depends on the health center.” She explained that if the kits are to be taken into court as admissible evidence, they need to be collected by trained personnel in an appropriate facility — which isn’t always possible in a
campus health center. “Schools really just have the obligation to make sure students can get to a place to have the kit done, like a hospital,” she said. But students who are sexually assaulted also cannot turn to a hospital — at least not in San Diego. “It’s really important for people to know that in San Diego, if you want this kit done, you don’t go to the hospital,” Harper said. “You can call 911 or walk into a police station, and you tell them ‘I was sexually assaulted and I’d like to have a rape kit collected.’ They will escort you to the independent forensic services facility.” Title IX, which largely guides campuses on how to handle sexual assault, does not currently require campus health centers to maintain a
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Freddy Gonzalez, a Mexican Muslim mechanical engineering senior, said he is heartbroken when he visits a mosque because he sees people who know their family members will not be able to share their dreams in the U.S. A Black Muslim psychology neuroscience senior, who requested to be unnamed, said the immigration ban has affected her relationship with her Turkish Muslim husband because he is scared he will not be able to see his family. Layla Abdi, a Somali sociology junior, said she is scared her sister may have a problem bringing her husband from Somalia to the U.S. because he is Somali. Forty students attended San Diego State with student visas from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Libya in Fall 2016. Zero from Somalia were reported. Director of SDSU Media Relations Gina Jacobs said the data for international student citizenship for Spring 2017 is being evaluated and will be released next week. “The number doesn’t necessarily encompass every single student that would be actually impacted,” Jacobs said. The number of students could potentially be higher than 40. These interviews were conducted between Feb. 7 and Feb. 13, during which changes were made to the status of the ban against Muslim refugees
entering the country. A federal appeals court unanimously rejected a bid to reinstate President Trump’s travel ban on Feb. 9 because they said it did not advance national security. Layla Abdi, sociology junior, Somali Q: How has the executive order affected your family? A: We were scared. We had to let (my sister) know to come (to the U.S.as soon as possible.) Although she didn’t face any trouble or anything, if they start doing this, they will do more, and there’s a (possible Muslim) registration coming up which I hope doesn’t happen, but it affects everybody. I do have family who want to come here who will be affected in that way, but it does affect everybody because even if I want to go back to Somalia and see family or see someone who’s graduating or anything. I cannot go back, my sister is married right now, and if she wants to bring her husband here it will be a problem because he’s a Somali. So any Somali refugees cannot come here and it will affect us in that way too. It did affect my sister, and that’s my family so it affected me that way. She’s always checking on the news and everything. Q: How did the executive order affect you as a student? A: Trying to focus on school, and every day going back home
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Men’s tennis’ wild weekend homestand Degan loewe-pollock Contributor ____________________________ After a dominating victory, and pulling out another win by the strings of their rackets, the San Diego State men’s tennis team (3-4) ended the weekend by narrowly falling to UC Davis. The weekend started early for the Aztecs, as they faced Northern Arizona University (0-2) on Friday and were in control wire-to-wire. They started off winning the doubles point thanks to the team of senior Marko Goles-
Babic and sophomore Sander Gjoels-Andersen, as well as the freshman pair of Joel Popov and Rafael Gonzalez Almazan. The Aztecs, with the doubles point momentum, carried their strong start into singles play. They won five of their six singles matches to dominate what head coach Gene Carswell called “a scrappy NAU” team, 6-1. Carswell said it was a great bounce back victory for his team, which dropped three in a row. SDSU looked to make it backto-back victories in as many
days, but this time against UC Irvine (1-3), the Aztecs took the doubles point yet again. GolesBabic and Gjoels-Andersen won their doubles match 6-2, making that two-straight for the senior and sophomore pair. SDSU clinched the momentous doubles point when Popov and Gonzalez Almazan defeated sophomore Vatsal Bajpal and freshman Bruce Man-Son-Hing, 6-3. Popov is no stranger to doubles matches as he has
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Sophomore Sander Gjoels-Andersen completes his swing. Kelly Smiley, Photo Editor