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This was supposed to be a night to remember on Montezuma Mesa.

Senior forward Dwayne Polee II was supposed to make a triumphant return to his home floor with a booming Viejas Area behind him.

San Diego State (22-7, 12-4 Mountain West) was supposed to get its revenge against Boise State University (22-7, 12-4 MW) and clinch at least a share of the regular-season MW title.

But things didn’t go according to plan, and the Aztecs lost 56-46.

Polee didn’t play. He didn’t even suit up. SDSU coaches and doctors chose to sit Polee after he got abnormal readings from a cardiac monitor implanted in his chest.

The game began well for the Aztecs, though.

Junior forward Winston Shepard tamed Boise State senior guard Derrick Marks in the first half and Steve Fisher’s squad jogged to the locker room with a 24-21 halftime lead.

The top two teams in the conference traded baskets for the first few minutes of the second half, but Viejas bellowed at 110.3 decibels when redshirtsophomore forward Matt Shrigley drained a corner 3 to break the 29-29 tie at 16:28 to go.

Shrigley then plucked the ball from Marks, and in the same possession Shepard made layup to go up 34-29 with 15:37 to go.

Once again: 110.3 decibels.

SDSU soon stretched its lead to 39-32 — its largest since 8:41 remained in the first.

But then suddenly everything grinded to a halt — for the home team, that is.

“We didn’t make plays. It’s as simple as that,” head coach Steve Fisher said after the game.

First, senior guard Aqeel Quinn nearly air balled a jumper early in the shot clock.

Then, Boise State redshirt-senior guard Rob Heyer converted a tough andone and Quinn sat with his fourth foul.

Shepard missed jumpers on two straight possessions.

Five-foot-9 junior guard Montigo Alford shot a deep rainbow 3 in to pull within one point, and soon sophomore forward James Webb III calmly knocked down a wide-open corner 3.

Just like that, Boise State was ahead 47-41 with six minutes to go.

The Broncos closed the last 11:12 on a 24-7 scoring run and won convincingly 56-46 in a game that saw non-student fans streaming out of Viejas before the final buzzer.

If SDSU and Boise State win their final two games, they will share the regularseason MW crown. But the Broncos

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will get the No. 1 seed in the MW Tournament.

Bracket projection experts suc ESPN’s Joe Lunardi pegged Boise State as an NCAA Tournament “bubble team” entering Saturday’s tilt. With the win, Boise State will likely now sit in the more comfortable in the field of 68 in most bracket projections.

“I haven’t won here before, so it means a lot to me,” Marks said. “For (SDSU) to be ranked, this means we might get in the tournament.”

Boise State’s win also ends SDSU’s 29game home winning streak.

Shepard led SDSU with 16 points in 37 minutes. No other Aztec scored more than eight points and the team shot 33 percent for the game.

The Broncos didn’t shoot much better, recording a 35-percent clip, but they outrebounded the Aztecs 42-30 and scored 10 second-chance points.

Marks led Boise State with 18 points on 6-22 shooting, and Webb added 16 points along with 12 rebounds.

SDSU next travels to play University of Nevada, Las Vegas (16-13, 7-9 MW) Wednesday at 8 p.m.

“UNLV is a rivalry game for us, and as a competitor, I know every person in that locker room, after a loss, has a bad taste in their mouth and wants to play, maybe right now,” Quinn said. “We have one coming up Wednesday, and we’ll definitely be ready.”

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2 NEWS

MAR. 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: DAVID HERNANDEZ • NEWS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

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A higher minimum wage and a resource center are among the requests in the petition.

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A new group on campus is collecting signatures for a petition that aims to eradicate student poverty and homelessness at San Diego State.

Students Overcoming Struggles, a student group that began about a month ago, has collected 2,000 signatures, co-chair Bo Diego said.

The group demands three actions from the university: Establish a minimum wage of $15 an hour at SDSU, including the wage of student employees.

Repeal the Student Success Fee imposed in the fall of 2014.

Establish an on-campus resource center that provides emergency and long-term support for students facing food and housing instability.

The petition opens with research that suggests students struggling financially because of tuition is a growing problem. A California State University, Humbolt study included found one in five students said they regularly skip meals because they didn’t have enough money for food.

The petition has been gathering signatures since last week, and Diego said about 50 percent of all students who signed the petition so far have also marked “yes” in the section that asked if they would want to get involved.

INCREASING WAGE The “Fight for 15” movement throughout the nation is an organized effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. It has gained attention and is part of the petition at SDSU. The debate over the economic effectiveness of raising minimum wage has been argued over for years. Despite opposition, the fight to raise minimum wage has won over some politicians.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September of 2013 that will raise the minimum wage in California from $8 to $10 an hour by 2016.

REPEALING THE SUCCESS FEE The Student Success Fee was implemented last semester after the Campus Fee Advisory Committee

made its recommendation and SDSU President Elliot Hirshman approved it. The fee will be increased by $50 each semester until it reaches $200 per semester by the 2017-18 academic year.

Recently two California State University Associated Students presidents resigned from their positions, both citing their administration’s use of money was a reason.

Jacob Bloom, the former A.S. president at Humboldt State University who resigned last year, said the Student Success Fees and other fees like it have become taxes on students, and that this could be detrimental to someone who is already struggling to pay for his or her education.

“It also directly impedes on students abilities to focus on their studies, by adding more stress and bills to pay, sucking up free time that could go into diving deeper into their studies or pursuing extracurricular activities, which directly hurts the state that set up the CSU to have an educated and democratic workforce,” Bloom said.

Gary Daniels, the former A.S. president at San Jose State who also resigned said that the “alternative consultation” process the Student Success Fee goes through removes the student’s basic democratic right to vote on the necessity of the fee.

“It allows campus administration to sit down with three or four A.S. members and decide a fee and amount, as opposed to having an entire student body of 30,000 vote,” Daniels said.

STARTING A RESOURCE CENTER “We think it’s important that if these resources do exist, and we hope they do, to just make it easy and put them in one place,” Diego said.

SDSU has various programs that direct students toward scholarship opportunities and other financial aid assistance. Different financial aid offered by the school includes loans, work study, grants and scholarships.

SDSU’s Guardian Scholars program assists homeless students, as well as those exiting the foster care system or wards of the court, through scholarships and on-campus housing.

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MAR. 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: DAVID HERNANDEZ • NEWS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

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CSU provides insurance education ADRIANA MILLAR STAFF WRITER _____________________________________ A California State University program helped educate students about the Affordable Care Act prior to the Feb. 15 open enrollment deadline.

According to a survey conducted by the CSU Health Insurance Education Project, 50 percent of CSU students can obtain insurance coverage through Medi-Cal or Covered California for less than the fine for not purchasing insurance. The fine for this year is $325.

In San Diego, premiums offered by the Affordable Care Act can be inexpensive for those who qualify. According to the CSU, premiums for a 21-year-old student earning $18,000 or the typical family of four earning $45,000 are virtually $0 in San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento.

Vanessa Grau, manager of statewide student outreach for the Health Insurance Education Project, said 12 of the 23 CSU campuses are staffed with coordinators that primarily give presentations within classes about health care options and responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act. Aside from presenting information in classes, SDSU’s two campus coordinators, Brittnie Bloom and Kim Benzie, posted fliers around campus and hosted several events, including a salsa performance at the Conrad Prebys

Coordinators through a California State University program informed San Diego State students about their health care options up until the Feb. 15 deadline.

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“We had a little bit of extra money, so we thought why not throw a concert?”

Bloom said. “We thought about the population we were trying to reach, and trying to think of a genre that would draw that crowd out, and we got this amazing salsa band.”

Bloom said getting word out on a campus as big as SDSU proved to be more difficult than expected for two coordinators.

“I don’t think we thought it would be as hard as it was,” she said. “But toward the end, students starting recognizing us.”

Public health junior Nick Grossberg said the program is beneficial, but there is room for improvement.

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“First step to getting people on board is outreach,” Grossberg said. “Programs like that are beneficial. I think it was a good start, but I don’t think it was perfect by any means.”

The CSU Health Insurance Education Project is still counting the number of students who signed up for insurance with help from the program.

“The numbers look good, we definitely reduced uninsured rates,” Grau said.

“Hundreds of students were assisted, and a lot applied on their own.”

According to Bloom, CSU coordinators visited approximately 1,200 classrooms combined, and they reached about 38,000 students.

“In college-age students, the uninsured rate is usually 20-30 percent,”

Bloom said. “After looking at preliminary data, the number might be down to single digits.”

Although the program officially ended Feb. 28, health care education won’t disappear from campuses. The Health Insurance Education Project will provide enrollment services, aside from solely resources, in the future.

“We aim to educate students,” Grau said. “Hopefully they take initiative to enroll and stay enrolled.”

The Health Insurance Education Project has been educating CSU students about their health care options and responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act since the fall of 2013.

A grant provided by Covered California funds the program.

4 OPINION

MARCH 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ELPIN KESHISHZADEH • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Who’sWho?

“In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics.” - Henry Paulson

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A general lack of ethical practices in media organizations and other occupations hinders our ability to make decisions best suited for society.

Media reports assault values I

t was not very long ago I wrote an opinion column demanding for Greek Life, in all of its debauchery, to be eliminated from the face of San Diego State.

This sentiment came after a sensational amount of media attention on the sexual assault problem on college campuses across the nation. It was in a month of media attention that the terms “sexual assault” and “fraternity” became seemingly symbiotic, and Greek Life became the target this anger.

They say hindsight is 20/20, and while my stance hasn’t changed, I’m willing to be sympathetic to the very community I was willing to denounce. While it can still be argued sexual assault culture on college campuses are greatly aggravated by Greek Life, the discrepancies in the media reporting regarding this sensitive topic can’t be denied.

The disproportionate and

sensationalist take that much of the media has taken on the vogue topic of sexual assault on college campuses, has raised ethical questions about media coverage of the topic itself.

The journalistic mess that was Rolling Stone’s story on sexual assault at University of Virginia fraternities raised a question of whether it was ethical to jettison one’s journalistic integrity to bring awareness to the sexual assault culture on college campuses.

The lack of ethics in a field that demands credibility and objectivity, especially when it comes to covering sexual assault, not only delegitimizes the movement to end sexual assault, but destroys the credibility of reports on sexual assault and thereby, sexual assault victim testimonies.

Through a month of relentless reports on the sexual assault issue SDSU, it became clear these small and minute errors would have larger detrimental effects, both on Greek Life and sexual assault victims.

The sad reality of the lack of ethics in reporting is that it comes from reputable news organizations that have a stronghold within San Diego.

It was NBC San Diego, in its

news article about the arrest of Francisco Sousa (who has since been acquitted of sexual assault charges) which lined a major discrepancy by falsely stating the sexual assault took place specifically at the Theta Chi fraternity house, as reported by campus officials. Although the updated version, published the next day, corrected the mistake, the damage had already been done in the mind of most readers who would never bother to check for the update.

This misreport on behalf of SDSU’s campus crime alert was pervasive throughout media outlets.

It’s crucial and essential when news organizations report on sensitive topics, such as sexual assault, to recall the ethics of transparency and accountability. As seen with the poor reporting involved with the Rolling Stone story, unethical journalism doesn’t just hurt news organizations, but it hurts those who have banded together under signs and protests to fight for sexual assault victims whose cries for justice have been ignored.

There is no excuse for unethical reporting.

Unethical journalism while covering topics relating to

campus sexual assault is destructive to the victims of sexual assault, to the Greeks who are largely lumped in with the few bad seeds within the organizations and the social justice movement to stop sex crimes against women.

For every false unethical sensational grab at the topic, there exists a public who seeks to delegitimize the crime of sexual assault and therefore, the cries of the victim.

False and inaccurate reporting has dire consequences that equate the power of words in modern society. What is written and projected into society has power. To appropriately quote a “Spiderman” cliche I’m sure everyone is tired of hearing: “with great power comes great responsibility.”

Journalism is about truth, it’s about stories and it’s about objectivity. The moment we let go of our ethics in both producing news and consuming news, is the moment we damn ourselves to a life of ignorance. For journalists, it’s of essence to pursue ethics in a field where it becomes too easy to compromise integrity for exposure being the first to report.

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Sensational journalists on the rise EMILY ALVARENGA STAFF COLUMNIST _____________________________

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oday’s media has evolved greatly from what it started as centuries ago, and not for the better. Society greatly influences what the news focuses on and what topics are reported, but what most don’t realize is the influence the quality of our news stories have on the general public.

Sensational news about celebrities and big, bold events take precedent over coverage of global happenings. People want excitement and drama, even in their news.

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Because of this, journalists today lead incredibly stressfilled lives. The types of news stories viewers demand lead some journalists to believe they are given no choice but to compromise their ethics in acquiring content. Getting the story and keeping the flow of a steady paycheck take precedent over credibility for a lot of people. So, who’s to blame?

Most know to take what the news says with a grain of salt, but when did it become normal for the news to report complete falsities and get away with it?

Journalists have become too quick to focus on the timeliness of their stories, rather than accuracy and it shows. This is not only causing ethical discrepancy, but credibility concerns.

“I don’t read or watch the news very often,” engineering

graduate student Josh Pactin said. “But when I do, I know that most of what is being reported has to be a half-truth.

I don’t know when the news got this way, but it is certainly the biggest reason that I don’t pay more attention to it in the first place.”

Just look at the variation of stories published across different news outlets. Reporting a breaking story has become more like a game of telephone than news. As the first news outlet reports the story, others quickly follow, cutting corners and posting the first facts they find, no matter the source.

It seems as though journalism has come down to making a choice between keeping a job or doing the right thing.

This shouldn’t be an option; we should be held to higher standards than we are now.

“Online journalism has created scales of efficiency,” Journalism and Media Studies Professor Carrie O’Connell said. “Consequences of speed, when to post and present the information received, that create new situations regarding journalistic judgment and responsibility.”

A journalist has an obligation to the public to report the facts and this shortcoming is proving to have dire consequences.

According to a recent study, 60 percent of Americans say that they don’t trust the press.

News organizations should hold employees accountable for the stories that are reported, and the public shouldn’t be as willing to forgive the news outlet at fault.

This isn’t about some little fib — it’s about what is going on in the world around us. It’s about the important stuff.

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MARCH 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ELPIN KESHISHZADEH • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

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ROFESSOR PETER ATTERTON, CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF

PHILOSOPHY, PROVIDES BROADER INSIGHT ON ETHICAL CONCEPTS

THE DAILY AZTEC: WHAT IS AN ETHICAL ISSUE YOU FEEL LIKE IS RELEVANT OR TOPICAL THAT STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? PETER ATTERTON: One of the most relevant ethical issues today that students should know about, owing to the sheer scale of the problem, is the despicable way we treat nonhuman animals. I hardly know where to start to describe the pain and suffering that animals undergo every minute of every day due to factory farming, or the use of animals in science, or the sports and entertainment industries (for example, hunting, zoos and circuses).

Take it in slowly: In this country alone, 8 billion — that’s right, “billion” — animals are killed each year just for food (and that doesn’t include fish).

These animals are treated in the most obscene and abominable ways before their corpses are served up at mealtimes. I can’t stress enough the atrocity occurring here.

Just imagine being told that 8 billion human beings were being tortured and killed each year in the United States.

Imagine the moral outcry! I don’t deny that some will argue that we can’t really compare the suffering and killing of humans with that of animals. Animals don’t have the same rights or interests as human beings have. Well, is that true? Is it the case, for example, that the interests of human beings, no

matter how trivial (the taste of a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese), override the interests of members of other species? That’s an important and legitimate philosophical question that I urge my students to think about. Indeed, it’s one we should all be asking because all of us, in various ways and to various extents, are implicated in the historical abuse of animals. Unless students understand how their dietary preferences, among so many other things, impact negatively on the lives of animals, then they will have no occasion to call those preferences into question and lead more reflective and individuated lives.

Part of my job as a philosopher is to teach them that.

tolerance and multiculturalism.

By no longer imagining that one’s own cultural practices are automatically “correct” (if for no other reason it seems than the fact that they are one’s own), then one is almost certainly less prone to be hostile to what we in the academy call “difference” and “otherness.” However, there is a consequence to this viewpoint that many philosophers find troublesome. If there is no independent standpoint by which we can determine what is right or wrong outside of a particular culture, if all judgments are based on the values and beliefs of the place in which one happens to live, how is it possible to criticize other cultures?

DA: IS MORALITY RELATIVE?

DA: HOW CAN STUDENTS DISCERN WHAT IS ETHICAL OR NOT ETHICAL WHEN THEY PURSUE THEIR STUDIES OR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS?

PA: Some philosophers believe there is no absolute ethical standard independent of the culture to which one belongs by which to judge what is morally right or morally wrong. Consider the types of practices that were once tolerated in other cultures, and even in some cases encouraged, but which in our own culture are almost universally condemned as immoral: incest, pedophilia, polygamy, slavery, cannibalism and infanticide.

Are we right to condemn such practices? The relativist would reply, “It depends on your culture. If you live within the culture in which these things are practiced they would not be wrong.”

There is no denying that ethical relativism has some attractive features. One obvious one is that it promotes

PA: The first thing to say is that you can never know for sure that it doesn‘t. Take the profession of philosophy as a case in point. Even the great canonical figures have said and taught some very ugly and unethical things for which they never apologized: Aristotle defended slavery — human and animal — and was a misogynist, Kant was a racist, and Heidegger was a card-carrying Nazi! Now, in drawing your attention to this I don’t mean to suggest that we shouldn’t pursue philosophy!

On the contrary, perhaps if Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger had been better philosophers, they wouldn’t have said what they did. Nor am I suggesting

that whatever career path you choose to go down is just as good (or bad) as any other as long as you get paid enough money.

It’s pretty obvious to me that someone who enters the socalled caring professions (social work, nursing, teaching, etc.) contributes a lot more good to this world than someone who “speculates” on the stock exchange making heavy profits while perhaps inadvertently raising the price of grains commodities, so much so that someone in the Third World will be one of the 10,000 people who starve to death each day.

That to me is unconscionable.

I’m not merely talking about the “Wolf of Wall Street.” I’m talking about all beneficiaries of stock exchange speculations.

And who isn’t? Name me a retirement pension fund of any profession, including CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System which manages the pensions of all the professors at San Diego State University), that isn’t caught up in lucrative markets that negatively affect the Third World! Do you see how awkward and embarrassing these questions get when pushed to the limit by philosophy?

DA: WHAT’S A BIG MISCONCEPTION ABOUT ETHICS IN THE MODERN WORLD? PA: I think there are two. The first is that ethics is somehow connected to religion. This to my mind has been catastrophic for humans and nonhumans alike. Not only has it totally distorted the very nature and character of ethics by identifying

it with the will of God, it has also justified the most callous immoral acts. Witness the recent atrocities committed by certain self-described members of Islam. Anyone with an ethical bone on their bodies will tell you that cutting off the heads of journalists, burning alive prisoners, gunning down cartoonists or assassinating police doing their job, is the very antithesis of ethics.

Let me mention another closely related characteristic misconception about ethics — and this is one that most philosophers are guilty of — namely, that ethics or ethical behavior amounts to following certain rational principles or rules of conduct. I can’t say enough about this type of silliness. Excuse me, but we do not walk around with a set of rules in our heads — actually or potentially — that we then apply to particular situations in which we find ourselves.

I am proud to say that I have never followed a moral rule in my life! When I see a homeless woman on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach, I don’t think to myself: “I make it a maxim that I will always help people whom I can help who are in distress because there is a Categorical Imperative that enjoins me to adopt principles that are universalizable!” No, rather, I see person who is in dire need, I see her face, I feel compassion or empathy for that person, and I put my hand in my pocket and give a dollar. I then walk away and feel absolutely awful and wretched because I know with mathematical certainty that I have not given or done anywhere near as much as I should have, that all I did was offer a sop to my conscience.

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t happened again.

You’re browsing your Facebook feed and you come across a link titled: “This Woman Does Something … You Won’t Believe What Happens Next!” or “Nine Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This MindBlowing Fact!”

It sounds so interesting, and it could even be accompanied by an image of a half-naked woman. The only thing is, once you’re taken to the page, all you get is a face full of advertisements and ambiguous, dry-bone information.

This is the definition of “clickbait.”

It’s where an online publication misleads readers through its vague, hyperbolic and provocative title so

viewers go onto its website, subsequently allowing it to reap advertising revenue and boast high readership.

This is the journalistic and entertainment equivalent to junk food.

It offers an enticing reward that has a short-term payoff, but if it’s something that readers look to for full-time nourishment, they’ll be left unhealthy and intellectually stunted.

The history of Buzzfeed — a very early example of an online publication jumping onto viral media bandwagon — is an excellent example of the state of online media and its potential future. Thanks to the advent of social media, BuzzFeed became the king of viral content, with 130 million unique visitors by the end of 2013.

The popularity of BuzzFeed has resulted in a slew of copycats: ViralNova, Zergnet

and Distractify are a few of the most popular of the bunch.

However, it’s difficult to blame them. Clickbait sites repeatedly benefit from high readership numbers, and can therefore be a cash grab.

Often, these websites will attempt to present social issues in an effective and impactful manner. However, when articles such as “24 Stereotypes Women Are Sick And Tired Of Hearing” are placed right alongside “21 Waffles That Would Make Leslie Knope Proud,” one has to question how serious its social impact is. It’s undeniably odd that the broad and serious topic of gender stereotypes would be approached in an equal manner as the culinary preferences of a fictional character There’s even more of an ethical gray area when the content that gets published

isn’t even original. This was the case just last year, when Buzzfeed editor Benny Johnson was fired for over 40 instances of plagiarism. The lack of ethics doesn’t end there. When BuzzFeed presented something as unsettling as high male suicide rates as a gif humor article with a clickbait headline, they trivialized a tragedy.

But, the Buzzfeed of yesteryear is a very different place than it is now.

In 2012, Ben Smith of Politico was hired as editorin-chief for Buzzfeed, where he would subsequently add a greater focus on hard-hitting news stories and long-form journalism, all while keeping the lighter portion that the website was known for. In fact, as reported by The New Yorker, Buzzfeed would delete more than 4,000 posts because “as time passed, they looked stupider and stupider.”

Buzzfeed now hosts a parallel universe of decent, balanced reporting.

However, sites that utilize “clickbait” titles, such as Buzzfeed, aren’t truly harmful as a whole. “Clickbait” is not the end of modern intellectual society as we know it. Go ahead and take a quiz to see what Disney princess you are, or find out what’s behind that playful, mysterious title. It’s refreshing see a new generation of online media: one where users decide what content is published.

The only worry is that this may become the future of news media. Since the introduction of the Internet, the news has constantly changing. It’s embraced the 24-hour news cycle and citizen reporting, among other things.

If viral media sites become the information status quo, than ethics and journalistic transparency will cease to exist.

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El profesor Gabriel Martínez se destaca no solo por su conocimiento multicultural al desempeñarse como maestro trilingüe, sino por su versatilidad al mostrarse multifacético en el dominio de diversas culturas tales como la anglosajona, mexicana y zapoteca.

Este semestre la escuela de periodismo y medios de communicación de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego (SDSU) da la bienvendia al profesor.

“Cortito de altura y quizás moreno, pero me preparo para que mi preparación pueda defenderme de cualquier prejuicio que pudiera existir”, dijo Martínez.

Según el profesor oaxaqueño, la disciplina es pieza clave en la carrera de un periodista ya que se espera que el profesionista siempre ostente conocimientos no solo en el ámbito del periodismo sino en diversas áreas profesionales tales como la cultura, política y salud, entre otras. Con una audiencia de aproximadamente 98,000 personas al año, Martínez ofrece discursos de capacitación a los gobiernos de diferentes condados sobre la riqueza que predomina en la cultura zapoteca, así como el trato que se les debe dar a los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos.

Martínez se encuentra actualmente compartiendo su amplio repertorio cognitivo por medio de un nuevo curso de periodismo junto a la profesora Amy Schmitz Weiss. El enfoque de dicha clase es enseñar a los estudiantes técnicas de escritura en español con un enfoque en los medios latinos que se encuentran en EE.UU. y en el mundo.

Jocelyn Salas, estudiante de relaciones públicas, dijo que este nuevo curso juega un papel importante para los estudiantes periodistas. ”Yo creo que esta clase es un gran beneficio especialmente por la comunidad en la que vivimos, estamos

no solamente en la frontera, pero nuestra cultura ahora no es solo americana, y tenemos que aprender a cautivar a diferentes audiencias”, dijo Salas.

Salas aprecia la ayuda y el conocimiento que Martínez contribuye a la clase.

“Admiro su dedicación y pasión por enseñarnos como acercarnos a una historia y todo el apoyo que nos da”, dijo Salas.

En tan poco tiempo Martínez ha sido galardonado con el respeto y la admiración de sus alumnos, los cuales son latinos en su mayoría, toda vez que los impulsa a no establecer barreras en su carrera como comunicadores.

“

...ME PREPARO PARA QUE MI PREPARACIÓN PUEDA DEFENDERME DE CUALQUIER PREJUICIO.”

- Gabriel Martínez, profesor de periodismo

“Yo nunca he enfrentado limitaciones porque yo siempre me preparo, leo mucho, y estudio mucho, siempre me capacito”, dijo Martínez.

El profesor espera integrar nuevos métodos educativos el próximo semestre, utilizando herramientas innovadoras tal como un pizarrón de cristal transparente, el cual favorece la interacción entre maestro y alumno toda vez que genera un efecto visual de manera que permite al profesor escribir libremente de frente a su audiencia.

Martínez ha venido a impactar a la universidad gracias a su amplio breviario cultural y a su gran variedad de conocimientos y experiencias que ha compartido con la facultad de periodismo.

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MAR. 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: KRISTIAN IBARRA • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#AZTECWTENNIS

Aztecs riding high after Honolulu MAXIM GARSHMAN CONTRIBUTOR _____________________________ The No. 43 San Diego State Aztecs swept a much-needed two-match series in Hawaii last weekend.

Their first of two was played against Grand Canyon University on Friday. The Aztecs started out hot, sweeping the doubles matches to earn themselves the first point of the match. The domination, much to Grand Canyon’s displeasure, continued on into the singles matches.

SDSU took five of the six matches, all straight set victories.

Sophomore Kennedy Davis, senior Hailey Johnson and junior Tami Nguyen all earned doubles and singles match wins, propelling the Aztecs to a 6-1 victory.

The next match was on Saturday against No. 48 University of Hawaii. Strong winds, slight rain and lots of humidity looked to slow down SDSU, but the Aztecs would not be denied.

A commanding doubles sweep, yet again, led the Aztecs to the first point of the match.

The singles matches, however, would not come as easily.

Both freshman Paola Diaz de Regules and senior Kristin Buth lost in straight sets, leaving the match in doubt for the Aztecs.

They would be led, though, by Johnson and Kennedy to victory.

Johnson would pull out a tough three-set victory over junior Sarah Gealer and Davis would end up clinching the match for the Aztecs, defeating senior Martina Kostalova 6-4, 6-1.

The fuel the Aztecs had been missing in recent matches had been the doubles point, and picking those up this weekend proved extremely beneficial.

“It’s a lot different than if you lose that doubles point,” Johnson said. “You kind of feel like you have to already start fighting back instead of just capitalizing on the win. So you’re energy is already on a high and so it’s easier to kind of keep that going and keep that energy going instead of having to build it up yourself again.”

The Aztecs now have a threematch winning streak and come home for three out of their next four matches.

“I mean home court is always

San Diego State freshman Jana Buth won doubles and singles matches this weekend in Hawaii.

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great,” Johnson said. “It’s where we’re comfortable so, I think even coming from wins away from home going to a home match is big. So, we’ll have that much more confidence going into it.”

The winning streak has some

of the Aztec players riding high.

“Now from here on there’s going to be a lot of wins, that’s what I see right now,” Davis said when asked what this threematch winning streak means to the team. “To me, we have it all figured out and it’s good.

Everyone knows what to do and everyone has the same expectations and goals right now.”

The Aztecs play next at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 8 against University of North Texas at the Aztec Tennis Center.

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Men’s hoops has a night to forget in Viejas

San Diego State coaches try to draw up a play last Saturday night at Viejas Arena.

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lot of things happened Saturday night. From the way people reacted to San Diego State’s loss, one might assume it set off a chain of events that resulted in an increase of alcohol sales in San Diego, a couple of broken windows, an earthquake, the disappearance of California’s drought and two black holes.

SDSU men’s basketball’s 56-46 loss to Boise State University on Saturday was neither surprising nor season-ending, but it was troubling.

It was troubling that head coach Steve

Fisher didn’t change the game plan in the second half when the Broncos took advantage of a spineless Aztecs team to snatch the Mountain West title from the hands of SDSU and its spoiled fans.

How about that 1-3-1 zone, or something other than the man-to-man defense that BSU head coach Leon Rice was picking apart? It’s not like BSU was shooting lights out to where a zone defense was like giving up.

It was troubling that the supposedly improved Aztecs offense ran out of ideas down the stretch. They varied away from the inside-out game that was working in the first half and started chucking up contested shots right and left. What ensued was another scoring drought so typical of the 2014-15 season, only this one was very ill-timed.

It was also troubling how badly SDSU choked the MW title away.

The Aztecs led 39-32 with 11:12 left in

the second half. Boise’s leading scorer, senior guard Derrick Marks, was on the bench. The Aztecs got scared and knew if they didn’t put the game away soon, the Broncos would take over.

And the Broncos took over.

They went on a 24-7 run to cement their spot as the favorite to win the MW regular season and tournament titles.

That one person who voted for BSU in the preseason media poll is smiling somewhere.

The Broncos knew SDSU’s man-toman defense would switch assignments on the ball-screen hand offs, which is what BSU did until they got a good matchup, then exploited the Aztecs’ inside defense that’d been sliced apart all night.

The other side of the coin was the Aztecs’ supposedly improved offense, that again ran out of ideas and scored 46 points against BSU again (they scored 46

up in Boise).

As a result of the stagnant offense, senior forward J.J. O’Brien, typically referred to as “Mr. Reliable,” vanished in the second half, drawing criticism from Fisher after the game.

“We’ve got to get him the ball more, but he’s got to be more assertive and aggressive and say, ‘I’m going to find a way to get to the rim and get a shot,’” Fisher said.

At the other end, Boise dominated the Aztecs’ inside with a 42-30 rebounding advantage and also took advantage of very shaky officiating, going to the foul line 18 times in the second half compared to SDSU’s five. The fouls weren’t the reason the Aztecs lost, but it was a big reason why they were unable to mount a comeback.

That might have changed had senior forward Dwayne Polee II played on Saturday. He didn’t practice Thursday or Friday and was held out after doctors found an anomaly in the readings his cardiac monitor and adjusted his medication dose to see if the anomaly would disappear.

Polee not playing hurt the Aztecs, but it was the right decision. Aztec nation is happy to see him back and playing again. It’s also good to know that when SDSU went to play San Jose State University, a doctor traveled with the team, took Polee’s heart rate before and after warmups, and before, during and after the game itself. There was an incredible amount of scrutiny.

Fisher said he doesn’t think a doctor will travel with the team for the next two road trips, but Polee should be fully monitored. Doctors have told him his cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) is 100 percent non-life-threatening. That doesn’t mean there’s no health risk.

Being cautious is best in this situation.

MARCH 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: NICK KNOTT • ENTERTAINMENT@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

ENTERTAINMENT 9

#UNFINISHEDBUSINESS

“

...I JUST LISTEN TO MYSELF AND MAKE SURE I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE CHOICES I MAKE.”

- Vince Vaughn, star of ‘Unfinished Business’

Vince Vaughn leads co-stars Dave Franco and Tom WIlkinson on a business trip adventure full of comedic chaos.

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VAUGHNISBACK Vince Vaughn returns to the big screen in typical fashion with new comedy ‘Unfinished Business.’

COURTNEY BROWN STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ It’s been a while since audiences have enjoyed an authentic Vince Vaughn movie on the big screen, but rest assured, Vaughn is back and he means business. For starters, the trailer for his new comedy, “Unfinished Business,” shows scenes of boozing, partying, and debauchery reminiscent of “Old School” and “Wedding Crashers.”

In “Unfinished Business” Vaughn’s aspiring entrepreneurial character is joined by Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson to land a critical business deal in Germany. What should’ve been a routine trip ends up completely off the rails as the group endures outrageous obstacles, most of which involve a bar or a brothel.

To complicate things even more, Vaughn’s team is competing with his ex-boss, played by Sienna Miller, and her company’s intimidating franchise including James Marsden and Nick Frost — all of who creates a recipe for hilarity.

Vaughn, who is known for his work with buddies, Jon Favreau and Owen Wilson, said acting with Franco and Wilkinson was a lot of fun on set. He described them as sweet guys who are hilarious to work with. As for writer, Steve Conrad, and director, Ken Scott, Vaughn previously worked with them on “The Delivery Man”.

In an Google Hangout group interview, the charmingly witty Vaughn said he was drawn to playing the underdog roles because he can relate to them personally.

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«««« “What I like about the movie is that these guys are in a position that they don’t like in life. They are involved in a job that they are not passionate about.

In a moment he pushes all in and thinks that things could be different,” Vaughn said. “It makes it rootable that you have a group of guys that are in a position where the stakes are high and you are rooting for them.”

Vaughn, who stars in the highly anticipated second season of “True Detective,” illustrated the mentality of taking on dramatic and comedic roles with the explanation “dying is easy, comedy is hard.”

“In a drama, you have to be truthful and present and have to experience the moment,” Vaughn said. “Comedy you have to do that, but you have to make people laugh, with comedy, you either make people laugh or you don’t.”

It may be unbeknown to most people that Vaughn actually came

from a dramatic background. After his breakout role in “Swingers” the young actor gravitated to dramatic, independent films.

“Then the director wanted me for ‘Old School,’ but the studio didn’t want me to because they didn’t feel like I could do comedies,” Vaughn said. “Once I did ‘Old School’ I went on a longer run of doing mainly comedies. For me I’m kind of returning on some level to dramas, which was the first thing I broke out with.”

Vaughn said he’s always been drawn to storytelling and creative things.

He packed up his life and moved to California in pursuit of acting at a young age because it’s what he was passionate about. He advises young people, however, that it’s OK to have no clue what you want to do with your life yet.

“Don’t let other people’s wants or results dictate your process,” Vaughn said. “Success is knowing you did the best you could at something; get engaged, read about stuff, watch stuff, be involved in what’s going on around you, form your own opinions and be open to others opinions.”

The reality that Vaughn brought up is not only refreshing for a college student to hear, but reflective of what kind of person he is. Underneath an eccentric personality and sardonic sense of humor is a brilliant mind full of thoughtful insight. He’s the type of person you can strike a conversation with about anything, and he’ll be able to teach you a lesson about it in the least condescending way possible.

On moving forward in a career, Vaughn said, “the biggest goal is to get

the most out of what you do next.”

“Have the best experience, grow from it, find material and people that excite you, find the sparkle. I’ve never had much of a plan, I just listen to myself and make sure I feel good about the choices I make” As for Vaughn’s unfinished business, he said he doesn’t have any.

“I don’t think there is anything that is incomplete at the moment,” he said.

Audiences looking for a good laugh and a fun time are highly advised to close the deal on March 6, when “Unfinished Business” hits theaters.

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MARCH 2 - 4, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: KELLY HILLOCK • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#AZTECPRIDE

PRSSA praises professionals LILIANA CERVANTES CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________ At San Diego State, students look to build valuable networks and receive internship opportunities that will benefit their futures. Every student should be raising his or her hand up high when professors make announcements in class regarding on-campus student organizations that offer these very things. Public Relations Student Society of America is one of these student organizations and is focused toward those in the public relations major.

Members have a platform to build networks and make connections with professional public relations practitioners across the country.

Diana Brodskiy, the new Executive Board President for the spring semester, has been a PRSSA member since her freshman year. She considers her time in PRSSA to be the brightest highlight of her college experience and is happy she gave it a try so early on, she said.

“It’s an awesome opportunity to network in San

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Diego and way to set yourself apart in the competitive job market,” Brodskiy said. “We provide a healthy learning environment that offers a type of interactive teaching you can’t get in a classroom.”

PRSSA has certainly grown these past few years. This semester promises to be one of its best yet because of the amount of planning for new events and opportunities, she said.

PRSSA meetings consist of professional guest speakers and interactive workshops focusing on topics such as resume building, social media branding and ethical media practices. A series of tours to public relations agencies across California are also scheduled throughout the semester for members.

The idea is to give members as many opportunities as possible to make them stronger professional individuals that have built a network for themselves, Brodskiy said.

Journalism major and PRSSA member Katie Higman said PRSSA is highly beneficial.

There are multiple internship and scholarship opportunities presented to members and it can help develop your leadership skills, she said.

“All majors are welcome, public relations is applied in

public relations professor Kaye Sweetser and Stalwart Communications President David Oates.

Sweetser is the new faculty adviser to the organization and Oates is the new professional adviser. Both are eager to be part of PRSSA and dedicated to helping the organization meet its goals and objectives Brodskiy said.

It’s not too late to drop by and check it out. PRSSA meets twice a month on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Park Boulevard

“

WE PROVIDE A HEALTHY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT OFFERS A TYPE OF INTERACTIVE TEACHING YOU CAN’T GET IN A CLASSROOM.”

- Diana Brodskiy, PRSSA Executive Board President

many industries and every major can benefit,” public relations junior and member Kalyca Becktel said.

This spring, PRSSA welcomed two new essential members to their team,

of the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union.

“We want what’s best for our members and we are striving to do that this semester more than ever so we are all looking forward to it,” Brodskiy said.

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#BLOGGERSTYLE

Blogger shoots for the stars An Aztec shows us style inspiration.

ALICIA CHAVEZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________ With the right idea, enough creativity and resources, essentially anyone can be a blogger. However, it takes a certain sense of style and confidence to be a successful fashion blogger.

Marketing junior Veronica Garcia recently celebrated her blog’s first birthday on Feb. 22. For a year, Garcia has been using “Sunday Threads” to post her opinions about trending fashion choices. This includes different styles, outfits, hairdos and jewelry.

“I post what’s in season and my personal style,” Garcia said. “I like to post outfits I put together for certain occasions like going to your internship or work or just spending the day at the mall.”

Garcia has managed to gain a following of 145 fans. Even though her following is small,

she has managed to catch the attention of big names such as Teen Vogue. Garcia is currently being featured as a spotlight blogger for the magazine’s website, an honor only few people get the chance to brag about.

In fact, her blog has also opened the door to many other fashion opportunities such as flying out to be a part of New York Fashion Week, a dream that almost came true for Garcia this past year.

“A designer emailed me asking if I wanted to go to New York Fashion Week, which is invite-only,” Garcia said. “I was so excited and agreed to go — money or school was not going to be an issue. But then I realized I couldn’t.”

Garcia realized that during NYFW she had two exams for class and was not going to sacrifice her education, even though an opportunity like this only comes around every so often. However, Garcia is using this disappoint as motivation to attend NYFW in the future, maybe as soon as next year.

For now, Garcia is using “Sunday Threads” as a tool for her future endeavors. As a

San Diego State student Veronica Garcia is behind “Sunday Threads,” a growing fashion blog.

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marketing major, she wants to continue selling herself and different brands online.

“A lot of what bloggers do is market themselves with the clothes they wear, and usually companies will send them free stuff to promote on their blogs,” Garcia said. “Actually, this past week, two companies reached out and want to send

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me clothes.”

Garcia wants to continue growing her following and hopes to catch the attention of more designers. Garcia is the model for her blog and her sister is her photographer.

Together, the team wants to continue doing more photo shoots in fun places similar to their recent trip to the Los

Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles.

For fashion lovers, Garcia is taking advantage of boyfriend jeans this season.

However, if San Diego ever experiences cold weather, Garcia admitted she would support the oversized poncho trend happening in the fashion world.

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Forever binge-watching CONOR NORDBERG STAFF WRITER ___________________________________

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mericans love doing things in excess. Whether that is overeating, binge-drinking, or just having too much freedom, we’ll always be at the forefront.

The propensity many of us have to overindulge reaches into entertainment as well, with the recent phenomenon of binge-watching TV. Let’s get something clear: streaming services are some of the best things to happen to online entertainment.

Nothing else allows for the instant gratification and long-form amusement capabilities that these kind of forums offer to viewers. But beware — a productivity black hole tends to arise from these habits.

What do I mean? Well gosh, that new season of “Breaking Bad” you thought you just started? Looks like you’re already on episode four. “Oh, I’ll just watch one episode of ‘The Office’ and get started on studying for my midterm right after.” Nope, before you know it you’ve fallen into the rhythm of laughing at Michael Scott’s lame jokes and suddenly the next day is already here.

It can happen to any of us.

When choosing what you’d like to watch, you have to pick your poison.

Will you use Netflix, Crackle, Hulu Plus, or other less available options, like HBO GO? It really depends on what you would like to see. Want movies and a huge number of archived TV shows?

Then Netflix is your best bet. Want to see the newest episodes of shows like Parks and Recreation or The Daily Show? You’re going to want to choose Hulu. Oh, and your only legal way to watch recent Game of Thrones episodes is going to have to be through HBO GO. It’s crazy to remember that at some point in history, everyone had to wait a week or even another year to see what happens in some of their favorite shows. But this didn’t have to be a bad thing. Take the show “Lost” for example, with its general cliffhanger tendencies leading to viewers having genuine debates and exchanging fan theories on online forums about what the next episode may hold. Things like

whereas before they would have to wait for the next news cycle or take a trip to the bookstore.

Just like binging of any kind, bingewatching amazing shows (House of Cards, anyone?) can also lead to health risks. Sure, you won’t be mentally stunted as habitual over-drinking would cause, but you’ll be sure to face things like muscle degeneration, poor leg circulation and an increased rate of heart disease. With an already unhealthy populace and how easy it is to fall into binge-watching, it goes without saying that this new trend has a few major downsides.

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But for those who have decent timemanagement skills, binge-watching offers a opportunity to quickly experience a great show. An activity that would be dragged out for half of a year can now be finished in just a couple of days. This is indicative of how much has changed from the days before widespread online streaming.

Anyone can look up the latest news or download a book nearly instantly,

evident through the recent push to create legislation quick enough to keep up with changing demands.

Binge-watching doesn’t need to be an inherently bad thing. As odd as it sounds, binging isn’t necessarily unhealthy, as long as it’s done in moderation. We as viewers need to recognize the great and convenient gift available to all of us, but also understand its potential health risks. So go ahead and watch a few hours of "An Idiot Abroad," but be sure and do so smartly.

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Your services are in demand. There's an opportunity for a bonus. Conditions are ripe to begin, although possibly chaotic.

Spend what's necessary.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) - Today is a 7 - Quiet solitude can get quite productive.

Replace something that's broken. Keep instruments tuned. Make bold plans.

You have others on your side. Consider motivating factors. Once you figure what you want, friends happily assist.

Delegate and trade.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) - Today is an 8 - Accept a challenge. Learn from the experience of others. There's extra work available. Re-affirm a commitment. Do what you can to help. Use what you've been saving. Accept rigorous coaching and support. Gain more than expected.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) - Today is an 8 - A professional dilemma requires a solution. Consult an expert. Find what you need far away. Play by the rules. This game could get fun. The action is behind the scenes. Follow a loved one's lead.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) - Today is a 9 - Today favors a business trip, class or conference, especially online or close to home. Hold meetings, and accept assistance from your team. Costs may be higher than expected. Work it out. Learn voraciously. Get creative together.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Today is an 8 - There's more work coming in. Pace yourself, and keep it organized (especially the numbers).

Track efficiency and savings. Set lofty goals. Work out each problem logically.

Encourage your associates and they amaze you. Words travel farther today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Today is an 8 - You and a partner can really make something happen today. Set your goals high. Invest in comfort, and earn increased productivity. Entertain a generous offer. Launch a new program.

Pay back a debt. Emotions drive effort.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) - Today is an 8 - You're on fire at work. Keep the momentum up. Push boldly forward.

Come up with a motivating tagline or slogan, and post it where you can see it.

Offer a nice gesture to someone who's stood by you.