weekly PRINT EDITION
wednesDAY, april 26, 2017 – Tuesday, May 2, 2017 volume 103, Issue 32
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1913
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Student dress questioned by SDSUPD officers
Will Fritz Senior Staff Writer ____________________________
Bins of food sit at the mobile food pantry at the farmers market. The food pantry will be open two days a week starting fall semester. PHOTO COURTESY OF GERARDO CABRAL
Mobile food pantry to expand in fall KAYLA Jimenez News Editor JOCELYN MORAN SENIOR Staff Writer ____________________________ After encounter food insecurity at San Diego State, alumnus Rachel Beck, along with the Agape House, created a resolution that would make the current mobile food pantry accessible to more students on campus. Beck, who graduated in December 2016, said she remembers going to a fellow student’s house and asking if he had any food. When the student opened his pantry, only Cup Noodles with three different flavors lined his shelves. “He had the chicken, the beef and the veggie flavors,” Beck said. “He was like ‘this is my
breakfast, lunch and dinner.’ The different flavors gave him a sense of variety.” She said he made a joke out of it, but it was something she felt awful about because she was going home to vegetables and other necessities. Resolution to Fight Food Insecurity and Expand Food Pantry Beck and the Agape House turned in a resolution on Feb. 24 to fight food insecurity at SDSU by proposing to make the current mobile food pantry available two days of the week, instead of the one day it is currently. The resolution passed with a unanimous vote at an Associated Students University Council meeting on April 19. Beginning in fall 2017, the
mobile food pantry will be available two days a week for four or more hours per day, and starting in fall 2018, the pantry will be open three days a week for the same amount of hours. It will also expand to include toiletries and sanitary items. Originally, the resolution proposed the establishment of a permanent food pantry, but Beck said the A.S. Student Support Commission removed the word “permanent” because they thought of its technical definition as “unchanging,” or binding. “(The Student Support Commission) wants the food pantry to change if it needs to be expanded to help more students,” Beck said.
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A San Diego State student said she and two friends were stopped by university police officers and told their clothing made them susceptible to sexual assault the morning of April 13. Business administration freshman Anita Wang said she and her friends were walking back to her dorm room in Chapultepec residence hall from a party at around 1 a.m. that Wednesday when they were approached by four SDSU police officers across the street from the university police station on 55th Street. A pedestrian stop was recorded in front of the station at 12:45 a.m. on April 13 in a police media bulletin, though SDSUPD did not confirm it was the same incident Wang reported. The involved parties were “advised,” according to the bulletin, meaning officers spoke to the involved parties but no arrests were made. Wang said one of the officers asked one of her friends how much she had to drink before asking all three students for identification. At that point, she said one of the officers told them it was dangerous for them to be walking around at night, and then asked her how her father would feel if he saw her in the outfit she was wearing.
“That’s so uncalled for,” she said. “I don’t see how you can pretty much just sexualize my body when I’m doing nothing but the right thing.” She said it was particularly insulting because of a sexual assault that occurred a few hours earlier, on Wednesday, April 12, in which a woman was touched inappropriately while sitting in her parked vehicle on Montezuma Road. This sexual assault incident was later reported to students in an email two days later. “She was literally just sitting in her car. She was not intoxicated. She was probably not wearing anything provocative,” she said. “She did everything right in their eyes and she was still in that uncomfortable situation. So if someone is going to assault you it’s not because you’re asking for it or anything — it’s because they’re an awful person.” Twitter user @karly_nolan tweeted a screenshot of a text message regarding the incident the morning of April 13. SDSUPD’s twitter account responded with two tweets within four hours of @karly_ nolan’s tweet. “We do not condone this behavior,” one of the tweets read. “Our goal is to provide superior services while maintaining respect and professionalism.” The next tweet advised the Twitter user to contact the chief of police to discuss the incident.
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Aztecs’ road to NFL begins on Draft night Austin Gayle asst. sports editor ____________________________ Four former San Diego State football players are set to start the next chapter of their careers on the league’s biggest stage the 2017 NFL Draft. The three-day event scheduled for April 27-29 should feature former Aztecs Nico Siragusa (OG), Damontae Kazee (CB), Donnel Pumphrey (RB), and Calvin Munson (LB), as all four players are currently projected to come off the board within the seven rounds of the draft. Former SDSU offensive tackles Daniel Brunskill and Kwayde Miller and defensive end Alex Barrett are also preparing to take their talents to the next level, but the three are not expected to be selected
in the draft. However, both Brunskill and Barrett are expected to draw significant interest as undrafted free agents. Headlining the slew of drafteligible Aztecs, Siragusa is considered a lock for Day 2 of the draft, meaning he should hear his name called in either the second or third round on April 28. The Chula Vista native first came to the Mesa as a threestar recruit out of Mater Dei High School to play offensive tackle. However, he was soon kicked inside to play guard with SDSU and never looked back. A three-year starter with SDSU, Siragusa is an experienced athletic guard prospect with proven ability as a run blocker. He started in 41 games over the last three
seasons with SDSU, leading to back-to-back first-team AllMountain West honors (201516). Siragusa paved the way for Pumphrey to help him break the NCAA’s all-time career rushing yards record last season, drawing attention to both him and Pumphrey. In 54 career games at SDSU, Pumphrey rushed for 6,405 yards and 62 touchdowns and brought in 99 receptions for 1,039 yards and five touchdowns. At 5-foot-8, 176 pounds, Pumphrey will be limited to a rotational role in an NFL backfield, as he simply doesn’t have the necessary frame to bang in between the tackles on first and second down.
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Former Aztec running back Donnel Pumphrey breaking a run against San Jose State. File photo