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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Aztecs hang tough against No. 1 team

David J. Olender / Photo Editor

ELI BALRIDGE CONTRIBUTOR

The San Diego State women’s soccer team lost the game, but left the field Sunday afternoon feeling great.

“We’re very happy,” senior forward Michaela DeJesus said. “That was our best game all season.”

SDSU invited one of the most dominant teams in college sports history to the SDSU Sports Deck on a hot Sunday afternoon that brought a record-setting attendance. The No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels (6-0-1) beat the Aztecs 10 in a close, hard-fought game that had SDSU feeling proud.

“I could not be happier unless we won the game,” head coach Mike Friesen said.

The Aztecs (2-4-2) showed their confidence from the opening whistle. Immediately, SDSU mounted a charge down the right side of the field, proving that it could compete against the top team in the country.

The attack was stopped by the North Carolina defense, but the Aztecs kept the pressure on throughout the game.

The Tar Heels were able to net their first and only goal just 10 minutes into the contest when for-

ward Kealia Ohai received a cross from Alyssa Rich. Ohai shot the ball on her first touch and found the back of the net.

SDSU had its first real chance a few minutes later off a free kick from midfield. The ball was played in front of the goal where it bounced as Aztec sophomore midfielder Marisa Fraticelli tried to get a foot on it. The North Carolina keeper ran out and grabbed the ball just before Fraticelli could touch it.

The remainder of the half was evenly played and highlighted by good defense. The high-powered Tar Heel offense was held to only three shots while SDSU stayed competitive and managed two shots within the first 45 minutes of play.

The second half was also a defensive struggle. Neither offense had a scoring chance until the 54th minute when the Aztecs pressed forward. Sophomore defender Rachael McGlinchy kicked the ball across the field where she found DeJesus uncovered. DeJesus played it forward with her chest before blasting a shot from 12 yards out. The North Carolina keeper dove and batted it out of the way to save a goal.

“It was a nice ball and I hit it solid,” DeJesus said. “I just didn’t

hit a corner.”

SDSU had a final opportunity with just 15 seconds left.

Freshman defender Haley Palmer’s effort was stifled by Tar Heel goalie Anna Sieloff, and North Carolina was able to escape with a one-goal advantage.

The Tar Heels expect to win every game they play. They have won 20 of 28 national championships, including the last two.

The Aztecs were able to hold the defending national champs to seven shots, their lowest total since 2007, and senior goalkeeper Aubree Southwick credited their impressive play to execution.

“They are such a good team,” Southwick said. “But we had a game plan and we executed it perfectly.”

SDSU has had a tough schedule to start the season, playing the Nos. 1, 6 and 9 teams in the nation. Friesen believes this will benefit his young team as the season continues.

“We grew up today. We have confidence,” Friesen said. “No matter who is on the schedule, they’re not North Carolina. We can play with any team in the country.”

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OPINION

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

CUT THE BULL

Facebook Places threatens personal privacy

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acebook stalking has seriously been updated to Peeping Tom status. While one of the major functions of Facebook is its seemingly unlimited potential to share personal information, the border of common decency was crossed without the possibility of amnesty when Facebook unveiled its newest program: Facebook Places.

According to Tech Crunch, Facebook Places was launched on Aug. 18 and has three purposes: “(To) help you share where you are. Help you see who’s around you. And see what’s going on nearby.” Essentially, this application lets you know your friends’ physical location and vice versa. Thanks to previously established foursquare and Gowalla, one would think the GPS mobile location niche is so been there, done that. While that’s true, the release of Places makes headlines because the mothership of social networking recognizes the legitimacy of mobile-location tracking and has an audience of 500 million people now with the ability to use it.

If ever the “dislike button” was needed for a Facebook feature, your friends and your friends of friends should tag

ANDREW SLUTZKY S TA F F C O L U M N I S T

Places. In fact, I’d put both thumbs down.

According to the Facebook FAQs page, here is how Places works: You access it via your iPhone or touch.facebook.com. Click “check in” using your current location and select the “place” you are. You can write a description of your experience if desired and you can “tag friends with you” at the current place if your friends’ privacy settings allow it.

Places threatens privacy and security

rights, ironically diminishes social interaction and doesn’t have the consumers’ best interest.

When privacy and security camps are aligned next to each other, they are usually in opposition. Take the Transportation Security Administration’s screening process. Privacy advocates say the excessive patting down of passengers is invasive and simply provides an illusion of safety. Security fans shout back it is a necessary evil and believe, myself included, a full body scan is the best option.

Concerning Places, it is a double whammy. Both privacy and security are compromised. When friends, family and employers know where you are, they also know where you are not.

Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting Group asks, “Would you want a wide number of people to know that there’s no one home at your house? If you play hooky from work, or go to the beach rather than your mom’s birthday party, you might want to steer clear of using Places at least for those days.”

When you are doing something, the task, time and place are sacred. Not to preach to the choir, but living in the moment is important. Even though Places is an optional feature, the fact that it is offered infringes on this concept of alone time and thus privacy and self-security.

While you would think Places increases social information sharing, it actually decreases it.

No longer do you

have to call or text where you are, what you’re doing, or at what time you’re doing something. You already know Jimmy was at 4.0 Deli on Montezuma Road 30 minutes ago with Jack and Jill, and after reading his description, that he liked “The Godfather” sandwich, no mayo. The, “Hey what’s up homie?” text is no longer needed.

Facebook’s best interests aren’t yours.

First, the privacy settings are anything but clear and that causes suspicions. As Reuters reports, “One of the criticisms of Places is that opting out isn’t as simple as clicking on a ‘no thanks’ kind of button,” and features like “Friends can check me in to Places” are by default enabled, requiring you to disable them. Second, Facebook’s business model requires it to constantly provide more information-sharing applications. Facebook is like WikiLeaks in this matter, more information out there is better. Third, as Newsweek points out, Facebook users are products themselves sold to advertisers. Places FAQs even has a “How does Facebook Places benefit advertisers?” section.

While Places is optional, it is an excessive feature not needed in today’s ADD culture. If I really need to know where you are, I’ll text, call, e-mail, Skype or tweet you.

Sometimes not everything needs to be shared with the world.

—Andrew Slutzky is a media studies senior.

—The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Daily Aztec.

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Trial bike lanes open Students on wheels have a new option for how to get around campus ALEJANDRA PAZ CONTRIBUTOR

Returning students may notice a change this semester, when passing along Campanile Walkway. Those bright green lines are part of a yearlong bike lane trial facilitated by Associated Students.

Dr. Geoffrey Chase, dean of undergraduate studies at San Diego State, said the bike lanes offer an alternative for students to get to and from campus.

“It’s a great example of what student leadership can do when they set their minds to initiating and follow(ing) through on a project that really benefits the whole campus,” Chase said.

After a year of trying, the bill to create bike lanes on the SDSU campus was passed in

March of 2008. After the bill was passed through the University Affairs Board and A.S. Council, A.S. appointed a landscape architect to assist with the construction of the bike lanes. According to the bill written

by A.S., the dependence on vehicles will hopefully decrease by adding bike lanes on and around campus.

A.S. President Grant Mack has been working on getting this bill passed for three years, since he was a freshman. Mack elaborated on the benefits of having bike lanes on campus and how increasingly sustainable and accessible they are, as well as manageable and inexpensive.

“There’s a lot of students, faculty and staff that live only a mile or two from campus that drive to school and I’m just like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ That’s so expensive. You have to buy a parking pass, you have to get here early and there’s traffic,” Mack said. “If we had viable bike lanes, you can just bike from your house to here.”

The cost of the student-led initiative includes the paint, lockers, racks and labor. If the one-year trial is successful, A.S. plans to build more bike lanes around campus.

Ryan Lowly / Staff Photographer

New bike lanes constructed along Campanile Walkway are a part of a yearlong trial project initiated by A.S.

Although there are only stickers on the bike lanes now, if it becomes official, a red painted stain that will blend in with SDSU will officially mark the bike lanes.

“Capital projects are not cheap,” Mack said. “It’s not going to be a hundred bucks. It’s going to be in the thousands.

Labor is the biggest expense.”

The policy for bicycles and skateboards was that it was not permitted to ride either of them throughout SDSU. Now, students can bike or skateboard freely through the designated bike lanes.

“It’s expensive when a public safety pulls you over saying you’re not supposed to (be) biking or skateboarding on campus and you can get a $150 ticket,” Mack said. “That’s ridiculous, for skateboarding on campus? That’s not right.”

A.S. is currently working on conduct-

ing a study to test how many people are using the bike lanes every day.

“Up until now, I think they have been working fine,” Dan Zuzuarregui, a senior at SDSU, said. “People have definitely utilized them. The only problem I see is a lot of pedestrian traffic in it and that causes some back up with the actual bikes and the skateboarders.”

In accordance with the safety concerns, so far there have been no injuries and fewer than 10 complaints.

At 10 a.m. this Wednesday, businesses will visit SDSU to give, sell and educate students about bikes and skateboards. At noon, President Stephen L. Weber will make an appearance, biking down Campanile Walkway.

For more information, students are free to go to the Bike and Skateboard Access Safety Study at as.sdsu.edu/greenlove.

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won’t forget April 17. Or I can’t. The pillars holding up what I knew all fell at once, that comfortable pattern I saw in the regularity of every day.

It started in an art exhibit downtown. I walked down a hallway toward warm light and a rhythmic beat and stood in front a freestanding wall. I came to a dark room and a repeating video.

A girl in a red dress was dancing alone in a club with her arms up. The people sitting at the tables and lounge chairs talked around her like she wasn’t there. I crossed my arms and leaned forward to see her face through her dark hair. Her eyes were closed softly and she was smiling to herself like my sister did when she slept against the car window.

The sound of wind beyond the freestanding wall grew to a dull howling when I stood in the center of the next room. More videos ran on the walls, giving off a faint white glow in a room without lighting.

I didn’t know if there was supposed to be a sequence, so I started clockwise at nine.

The video ran a close-up of an old woman near a lake bed. She was a mother, holding her stare beyond the frame, against something. Fear. The video cut.

The old woman now sat on a bench far off in the distance. The girl in the red dress was standing in wetland grass by the lake in three different places at the same time with her arms outstretched against the wind. The dress clung to the shape of her thighs and her chest. The sun broke through dark pluming clouds.

The next wall held a funeral procession. People — no, a family — stood together in the sand holding hands as a priest read aloud from the Bible. She stood in the middle, in her red dress like she was really there. Far behind the ceremony against the waterfront there was a dab of red. The scene cut.

Two men from the funeral were carrying her on a stretcher through the sand where she sat hunched forward, limp and pale.

Angel wings poured out from her back, spilling over one man’s grip.

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Her head was bobbing, lifeless.

Sharp laughter rang out from beyond the freestanding wall.

Someone had tied a blindfold over her face and it clumped her hair over her eyes like a curtain. That feeling came up into the back of my throat and spread to my neck.

On the third wall, an imposing tree with thick shaded boughs.

There she was, two of her, strung up from the high branches by her feet with her wings drawn tight around her like a blanket.

The film cut. A close-up on her face. Eyes open and staring back.

My God. Her wet hair dangled in the broken light through the leaves. The frown was that same smile, turned on itself. I looked away and swallowed.

The last wall. I was standing at the calm edge of a lake looking through a clearing to the still water and the low set clouds. The wind screamed. She was floating face down, drowned and naked with her skin bloated and her wings spread. Christ. I clenched my fist in my pocket and exhaled.

In the late afternoon on the peak of a low mountain not too far north, my roommate stood nearby looking west. The sun had come through the textured underbelly of the clouds and lit up a lake with the reflection. He said it was Lake Hodges, where he’d done some reporting on a memorial walk for Chelsea King. It hadn’t occurred to me we were in Poway.

I brought myself back weeks before, to the hours I spent in my apartment writing a piece for the newspaper about what happened there, about the rape and murder and the other girls.

I had looked up John Albert Gardner’s photograph before writing it. His face said nothing of what was done. There was a blank look in his eyes, nothing behind them but a departed memory of the killing. She was nothing.

Those events, those which only he could know, were still trying to build themselves up and fill in the voids left with the piece I’d written a month and a half later. It was

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unknowing, loose threads weaving themselves together in an attempt at some makeshift resolution.

By the car, I was fixated on how close we were to where it happened. I didn’t want it pulling at me anymore, the bold terror of violence like that.

Much of the surroundings of the lake had been burned by a fire some years before. Dead, naked trees stood in the shallow water against the sky. It would be dark soon and my roommate and I had already walked the broad path of the lake for some time. I would never be back. I knew that.

Off the path in a knot of brush there was a dab of orange. A balloon ribbon strung up. Another.

They led us to a circle of sand enclosed by a chamber of tall trees tilted inward, leaving a ring of open sky. Footprints were everywhere in the dry lakebed before we stepped in.

A Ziploc bag hung on a branch at 12 clockwise across the circle. A sheet of paper, preserved: “May we resolve that our thoughts, words and deeds not add to the darkness in the world, for it was darkness that took Chelsea away from us.

May God give us the strength to carry out this resolution.”

I started blinking fast and my breath staggered. I read it again.

“Tom.” He stood through the brush looking down. The space on the ground enclosed by placed sticks.

My stomach turned on itself.

Crosses. A teddy bear. Flowers pouring over the plot of earth onto the branches. Her photographs. Her smile. Wilted roses were strung up from the branches.

I shifted my weight. Shaking. The sun broke through the dark pluming above. Oh god. I put my hand over my mouth and stepped toward the water. I was standing at the calm edge of a lake looking through a clearing to the still water and the low set clouds. The wind screamed. God no. God.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (9/14/10) Relationships will require concentrated attention this year.You may form a business or other partnership that can carry you far into the future. Understanding the fundamental logic you share with your partner comes first.Then you both can soar.

ARIES (March 21 - April 19) - Today is a 7 Although you're tempted to spread your wings, now's the time to focus energy intensely on one logical problem. Resolve this and you're home free.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) - Today is an 8 - An older team member recommends focusing everyone's attention on immediate requirements.There's plenty of time later to consider a broader perspective.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 21) - Today is an 8 Your mission today centers on grasping opportunities for change.Talk over the details with family members before taking a leap.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22) - Today is a 5 Keep your mental and emotional energy together as you take on a new family responsibility. Organization allows you to provide the attention required.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) - Today is a 6 Narrow your perspective.Your day runs more smoothly when you concentrate intensely on a logical problem.There's time later for intuitive inspiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) - Today is a 7 Focus today's efforts on yourself or on

projects that keep you close to home.You may have to explain why you're unwilling to go farther afield. Use logic.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) - Today is an 8 Fortunately, others are willing to let you work in peace.You need to focus closely on practical details and keep the logic in mind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) - Today is a 10 - This will be a productive day for you.

Take time to examine the beauty of every day life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) - Today is a 7 - Allow an elder group member to share an important meeting.This person has historical information that's critical to today's decision.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) - Today is a 6 - You'll communicate with someone today that you haven't seen in a long time.

You best deliver a difficult message by stating the facts and listening.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Today is a 9 - An older person designs the boundaries of today's lesson. Do your homework carefully to get the most from your research. Hand it in early.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) - Today is a 5 Awareness shifts to your partner's situation. Limited financial flexibility may resolve through your cooperation. Work from behind the scenes. © 2010,TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES INC.

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