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Brightside Radio hosted San Di-ego State’s GreenFest Artist Show-case on Saturday to determine the opening act for the GreenFest concert next month. A wide vari-ety of different student perform-ers, ranging from hip-hop to DJ electronic-house music, competed against each other to win votes from spectators. The winner was determined solely by the audience. Each person in attendance could text in their vote for a chance to see their favorite artist perform along-side the headliner of this year’s con-cert, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Of the five artists that performed on Saturday, the top two perform-ers were acoustic music duo Bran-don Pierce and Ryan Smith and pop singer Julianne Manalo. Ul-timately, Pierce and Smith were announced the first place winners and will be the opening act for the GreenFest concert this March. “I know, for both of us, this is one of the bigger things that has hap-pened in our lives,” Pierce said. “It’s really a dream come true to be performing on stage and to be the opening act for Macklemore.” Other performers included last year’s GreenFest student hip-hop and rap group, Sincere Entertain-ment. Sincere opened for the 2012 GreenFest headliner T-Pain, al-though, this year, the group came in third place at the showcase. “We hip-hop artists and I feel like that’s disappearing these days. We

just trying to bring it back,” found-er of Sincere Carl Sharpe said. All of the contestants from the showcase were awarded with free studio recording time courtesy of Hindsight Rehearsal Studios. GreenFest is a four-day event pro-moting sustainability through social, cultural and educational campus community events. Orga-nized by Associated Students, Cul-tural Arts and Special Events board and Green Love, GreenFest was organized to bring environmen-

tal awareness to the SDSU student population and the local San Diego community. This year’s events will include a Know Your Food Cam-paign, Enviro-Fashion Show and Zero-Waste Events among others. According to the GreenFest website, four key terms are used to describe this year’s events: fun, education, Aztec pride and sustainability.

A.S. Vice President of Univer-sity Affairs Matt Cecil, A.S. Ex-ecutive Vice President and co-chair of the festival Chanelle McNutt,

said they are excited for all the GreenFest events and to help pro-mote a more sustainable campus. “I think what I’m really looking forward to is celebrating Aztec pride and sustainability while re-ally creating a campus culture that really unites together,” Cecil said. GreenFest will begin at 10 a.m. on March 18 with a Bike Brunch at the south end of Campanile Walkway. For more information about Green-Fest, visit as.sdsu.edu/greenfest.com

Balboa goes to court

A $45 million plan to reduce car traffic from the center of Balboa Park was called into question and set aside because the plan could vio-late San Diego’s municipal code.

The project was proposed by Qualcomm cofounder Irwin Jacobs in 2010 and financed through a $15 million parking revenue bond issued by the city and $25 million raised by Jacobs, according to a U-T San Diego article. The project was set to be completed by 2015 in time for Balboa Park’s centennial cel-ebration.

On Friday, Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor voiced concerns of the Save Our Heritage Organisa-tion, which filed to block the plan to avoid the construction of a bridge, which would divert traffic from the Plaza de California and Plaza de Panama, while declining to give an official ruling. SOHO argued it was agreed prior to approval of the En-

localAna CeballosAssistant News Editor

vironmental Impact Report, which is against the law.

If the plan is put on hold, the 1915 Panama-California Exposi-tion centennial celebration in the park would be difficult to proceed, Taylor said. But he also said in the 9-page tentative ruling “the posi-tives from the project seem to far outweigh the negatives.”

The Plaza de Panama project is community-based. It has held more than 200 meetings and has seen “ex-treme community outreach and in-

put,” according to a statement issued by the Plaza de Pana-ma Committee. The statement also said “it’s disappointing that SOHO has chosen to waste taxpayer dollars by suing the city of San Diego.”

The project was processed with a unanimous planning commission recommenda-tion and a 6-1 City Council vote.

According to a letter to the editor to the Voice of San Diego, “this ex-citing opportunity has been marred by the opposition of a small group of people who would derail any public improvement.”

Balboa Park’s multi-million dollar project to remove traffic from center hits a legal barrier.

Lecture heals hearts

Save a Child’s Heart Foundation has focused on raising money to provide surgeries to children with heart problems. The program’s co-founder Dr. Arie Schachner and chief surgeon Lior Sasson came to San Diego State last Thursday on behalf of the Israel Start Up Nation Series organization to raise money for children who need surgery.According to The Children’s Heart Foundation, one out of 100 children suffer from a congenital heart defect. The program is non-discriminatory and reaches out

to children from different back-grounds, religions and cultures, who all have heart problems that can be detrimental to their devel-opment.Ami Cohen, the founder of SACH, had a vision to change the world by helping others whose governments or financial situations could not af-ford treatment for children in need of surgeries. The organization started in 1995 and has helped more than 2,800 children in more than 44 countries. To provide the surgeries each cost-ing $10,000, the program relies on

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jenna mackey, staff photographerSave a Child’s Heart foundation co-founder Dr. Arie Schachner and chief surgeon Lior Sasson give a lecture

hutton marshall, managing editorStudents await the entertainers competing for the chance to win a performance with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis for GreenFest. The concert will be on March 21.

David slays Goliath again.For the second straight year, the No. 22 San Diego State men’s basketball team watched cadets and fans storm the court after the U.S. Air Force knocked off the Aztecs 70-67.Last season at the Clune Arena, the No. 13 Aztecs lost by two points to an Air Force team that won only three conference games last season. This year, the No. 22 Aztecs were victims of a 3-point loss.The loss gives the Aztecs a 4-3 conference record, good enough for a tie for third place.Junior guard Jamaal Franklin, who led all scorers with 25 points, and senior guard James Rahon both missed game-tying 3-pointers in the final minute. The polls picked Air Force to finish last in the Mountain West Conference in the pre-season. Unfortunately for the Aztecs, Air Force took that as a challenge. “We have some great teams in this league, but ninth? Come on!” Air Force head coach Dave Pilipovich told CBS Sports Saturday as he basked in the Falcons’ victory. “I joke that there were a couple of guys that picked us 10th – and we’re in a nine-team league. We con-stantly remind ourselves: This is what people think of us.”

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SDSU student competes on

“American Idol”

“She looked like she had a ray of light behind her.”That’s the way San Diego State kinesiology senior Marvin Calde-ron describes the first time he saw “American Idol” judge Mariah Carey during his audition for the reality singing competition last November.

For Calderon, who began sing-ing and playing piano when he was 10, the journey from aspiring singer to “American Idol” contes-tant has been a longtime coming. He sings for his church choir and acts and dances for a San Diego-based Filipino performing arts company that performs at the Ly-ceum Theatre downtown. “Constantly being able to sing and dance on a lot of super cool stages in San Diego has pushed me to be a performer,” Calderon said. “To move from there to the ‘American

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donations and fundraisers. These funds cover transportation for the child and a loved one to the Wolf-son Medical Center in Holon, Is-rael. It also covers expenses for the surgery and pre- and post- opera-tion care. According to the lecture, half of the group’s patients are cur-rently Palestinian children. One of the organization’s main ac-complishments is promoting medi-cal training in countries in order to

have reliable surgeries worldwide. Some developing countries can complete minor procedures, but lack the knowledge and equipment to perform major surgeries for conditions such as congenital heart disease.

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the world coming to the patient house, volunteering, spending time with the children after and before the surgeries,” Sasson said. “They get a sense of what it is like to save a life, it cannot be described

courtesy leetal elmalehThe group in charge of the “Save a Child’s Heart lecture take a picture with staff writer Tara Kistler (third from left).

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey was attacked by a sui-cide blast on Friday. The bomber killed himself and a Turkish se-curity guard and injuring three other people.

Turkish officials identified the suicide bomber as 40-year-old Ecevit Sanli, a member of an outlawed leftist-extremist group called Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, which was responsible for attacking U.S. bases in Turkey during the early 1990s.

The SITE Intelligence Group distributed a statement released by the group on Saturday that referred to the U.S. as “the mur-derer of the people of the world.”

According to images captured on the U.S. Embassy’s security

We have students from all over the world coming to the patient house, volunteering, spending time with children ...lior sassonChief surgeon

camera, Sanli entered the secu-rity checkpoint and panicked when the metal detector sounded. A Turkish security guard yelled,

“Run away—a bomb!” as the man detonated, ending the footage.

The attack occurred amidst a mission to deploy American and German Patriot missiles along the Syria and Turkey border, raising questions among officials whether or not the attack was motivated by Syria’s civil war.

According to Reuters, Turkish police detained 85 members of the suicide bomber’s party, also known as DHKP-C, which may also be a reason behind the at-tack.

The U.S. State Department warned American citizens, say-ing they should avoid American bases in Turkey for now and “to be alert to the potential for vio-lence, to avoid those areas where

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in words and I think they will be better people that can serve us and our children the best.” The foundation has gained recog-nition from the European Union and the United Nations. Through-

out the years, the organization has trained 77 medical professionals and is working to improve its telecommunications unit that can teach hands-on training to sur-geons and medical personnel.

SACH is hoping to build its first international hospital within the coming years. With the support of donors and surgeons, the organi-zation can continue to save lives around the world.

disturbances have occurred, and to avoid demonstrations and large gatherings.”

“We strongly condemn what was a suicide attack against our embassy in Ankara, which took place at the embassy’s outer se-curity perimeter,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

This is the second deadly attack on a U.S. facility in five months, following the terrorist attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, on Sept. 11, 2012, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

James Jeffrey, a former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, told the Los Angeles Times the DHKP-C is not a major threat compared to al-Qaida. Jeffrey said the DHKP-C attacks with small arms along with periodic assaults “just to make sure people know they’re still out there.”

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No phones at the table!” Every parent in America has

probably said this at one time or another. At least mine did—a lot. Growing up in a generation when new technology is released faster than you can refresh your newsfeed, life becomes a constant battle between virtual communication and reality. This isn’t necessarily bad, as long as you maintain a balance. The trouble comes when an obsession with technology comes at the expense of real-life communication skills.

For all of you out there thinking, “Well that’s not me, I can stop when-ever I want,” I would first like to say you sound like an addict. Secondly, you’re probably lying. Of course, there are plenty of people with supe-rior intelligence who don’t have this issue and are perfectly well-rounded, productive members of society. For the rest of us, however, it’s time to admit we have a problem and begin the healing process.

Eva Restaurant in Los Angeles is working to aid in the society-wide re-covery from technology enslavement by offering a 5 percent discount for customers who agree to turn in their phones during their meal. Executive chef and restaurant owner Mark Gold told Southern California Public Radio, “It’s about two people sitting together and just connecting, without the distraction of a phone.”

Although the offer obviously isn’t a requirement, Gold went on to explain that nearly half of all customers choose to partake in the discount offer and engage in real-life, face-to-face conversations.

Similarly, a New York restau-rant, Momofuku Ko, has forbidden customers from taking pictures of their food. They believe the food is there to be enjoyed and cameras are distracting to both the amateur food

photographer and others patrons in the restaurant. Chef David Chang told Serious Eats: New York, “It’s just food. Eat it.”

And eat it they will, because viola-tors who don’t are reportedly called out in front of the entire restaurant for their foodie faux pas. Clearly, there is a demand for a return to traditional socialization and the burden for change rests on the din-ers. I heard about this new trend of intentional phone-free time several weeks ago and decided to put it to the test. When I went out to eat with my friends, I proposed we could put our phones away for the duration of the meal and just talk. It took some con-vincing and several weird looks and annoyed glares. I heard a lot of “Why can’t I just leave it on the table, I promise I won’t touch it” and “What are we even going to talk about?”

Apparently, without parents forc-ing their children into proper table manners, it doesn’t come naturally.

When the phones were finally put away and a technology-free environ-ment was established, I was unpre-pared for what lay ahead. As it turns out, without the ability to retreat into our comfort zone of checking Instragram during awkward silences or scanning texts for our friends’ happenings, we couldn’t think of much to talk about. And that is just sad. Technology has integrated itself so far into our lives, it leaves a gaping black hole where our social skills used to be.

Our generation is the first with the available technology to distance ourselves from any real interactions, and we have abused that power to an extreme. Take dating, for example. You could meet someone, hit it off,

exchange numbers and then find out everything about that person before you even go out. Between social net-working sites and constant texting about every facet of our lives, there isn’t a whole lot left to say when you actually see each other. Where is the mystery in that?

I’m not saying technology doesn’t have its benefits. Texting is a great tool for exchanging quick information or even the occa-sional conversation. But at an average of 110 texts a day for 18-24 year olds, we’re going a bit overboard. Just be-cause the opportu-nity is there, doesn’t mean we have to take advantage of it constantly. Putting the phones away at the dinner table is a great step toward separating reality from the virtual world, but it shouldn’t stop there. Most teach-ers frown upon the use of cell phones in class anyway,

Put your phone away and start the real conversationtechnology

Madison Hopkins Assistant Opinion Editor

so why not just leave the phone at home while you head to campus for the day? If that is too much too soon, start small with a phone-free trip to the grocery store or an afternoon

with it turned off. The point is not to cause anyone

separation anxiety, or leave you stranded without means of communi-cation, but to gain some perspective.

Texting will always be there, but your social life will not. It’s time to step away from the phones and rejoin the real world.

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The Internet has a funny way of turning average Joes and couch potatoes

into armchair crusaders. A prime example of online vigilantism came when a waitress at an Applebee’s in St. Louis received a rather unique note on a receipt. On it, a customer who identified herself as a pastor scratched out the automatic 18 percent gratuity—added because she came with a party of 20—and instead wrote, “I give God 10 percent, why do you get 18?”

As far as we know, the waitress on the receiving end of the impressive display of unchristian greed took the affair in stride. Her coworker, however, found the note Internet-worthy and posted it on social sharing site Reddit. The rest of the drama played itself out exactly the way anyone who’s ever been on the Internet would expect. With just the signature to work with, amateur sleuths identified the customer as Alois Bell. Faced with the full anger of the online community, a notoriously vicious bunch, Bell said every single person at Applebee’s should be fired. Why she didn’t demand the entire company shut down on the spot—because why not—eludes me. Still, Bell did manage to get the waitress who posted the picture online fired.

The moral of this story isn’t that people who don’t tip are misers—which they are—or whether Applebee’s was justified—which it wasn’t—in firing a hardworking waitress just because a customer got called out for being cheap. The real lesson is that tipping is a scam where waiters and waitresses are at the mercy of bullies such as Bell and restaurant owners get away with forcing customers to directly subsidize their employee’s wages.

The way wages work in the

U.S. is simple. The federal government sets a bare minimum anyone can pay an employee, currently $7.25 per hour. Each state can then set its own minimum higher, which is why no Californian gets paid less than $8. However, people who work in jobs where they may earn more than $30 a month from tips can be paid an alternative minimum wage, set by the federal government at $2.13 back in 1991. California and a handful of other states don’t allow this tipped wages minimum. But drive a few hours east and the waitress serving you coffee at Denny’s in Yuma, Ariz. makes $3 an hour, which isn’t even enough to buy a stack of pancakes.

In theory, if a worker doesn’t earn enough in tips during a given hour to make minimum wage, the employer fills the gap. This means the employer is off the hook in paying its own workers unless absolutely necessary. Even Mr. Krabs would blush at the injustice. If a waiter is lucky and the customers are generous, maybe they will make a living wage. If he or she is unlucky and has customers such as Bell, it’s back to minimum wage and treading water, at or below the federal poverty line.

No one should have to live with this massive wage instability. Week to week, a waiter should be able to look at how many hours he or she is working and know how much money will come on payday. We wouldn’t put anyone else’s livelihood almost entirely up to customer satisfaction. Pilots don’t get paid less at the end of the week if they have a couple of turbulent flights, and a doctor wouldn’t earn less for an

operation if the patient thought the stitches were a little crooked. Of course, there’s a case to be made for tips as incentives for better service. Tips should be rewards for outstanding service, not a requirement because the restaurant owner doesn’t want to pay fair wages.

And here we find the real winners from tipping: the owners. If they’re lucky, customers easily pay more than 70 percent of their servers’ salaries. Even if tips don’t cover the full minimum wage, customers still subsidize a large part of it.

Of course, most restaurants would balk at the idea of paying waiters and waitresses a living wage. Even in California, where they automatically earn $8 an hour, a full-time worker would earn a little more than $16,600 a year, minus taxes. Even with tips—which are also taxed—it’s hardly enough to scrape by. But if restaurants had to pay workers $10 an hour, it’s possible many of them would go out of business, to which I say, “Too bad.”

If the only way for a business to stay afloat is to pay employees less than a third of the federal minimum wage while forcing customers to directly cover the rest, then it’s time for a new business model. If a waitress at Denny’s has to make $3 an hour and pray for good tips just so I can have unlimited $4 pancakes, then the human cost is too high.

What we need is a model where waiters’ wages are factored into food costs at restaurants and no one is required or even expected to tip. Maybe then, a tip can go back to being a rare sign of appreciation for excellent service and men and women working service jobs can have the financial stability they deserve.

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Love GuruStaff Columnist

Love Guru solves relationship conundrumsfmL friend Zone: Dear Love Guru,Ever since I moved into my apartment last semester, I got the sense that my roommate was interested in me (I’m a girl; he’s a guy): He would do and say little things that raised red flags (bringing flowers home when I was sick, bringing home a bottle of wine on nights when I wasn’t sick). True, he may have just been be-ing thoughtful, but I was still wary nonethe-less, so I took extra care to friend zone him and not send any kind of romantic signals his way. About a week ago, he asked me out on a date and I had to say no. Now it’s really awkward whenever we’re in the apartment together. How do I help ease the tension and restore a comfortable atmosphere at home?

Love Guru: For a guy, being “friend zoned” is one of the most difficult things to handle, so I’m not surprised things are awkward in the apartment. My

best advice would be to sit down and talk (if you haven’t already) about how you feel regarding the awkwardness of the situation. Tell him you can’t continue living this way, and that you miss how things were before. If he brings home any more wine, humor him

by having a glass together, but just be friendly. Try to have other friends around when he’s there as well, because being one-on-one with him is where things are going to be the most awkward. It doesn’t sound like he is willing to make the effort to eliminate the awkwardness, so it’s up to you. You’re going to have to be friendly and do your best to make him feel better.

Luckily for you, I have just the solution to make him stop being such a Debbie Downer—set him up on a date! If you did that, not only would he most likely be super grateful, but it would drastically help him accept the fact that you want to just be friends. Teenaged dream: I recently met a guy at a party and we hit it off pretty quickly. We get along really well and our personalities just seem to click. The problem is, he’s 18 and I’m 21. In all of my dating experiences, I’ve always had a general rule to never date anyone younger than me. But with this new guy, I don’t seem to mind our age difference so much. In the time we spend together, I almost forget the issue altogether. I am starting to really like him, but I don’t know what other people will think of the two of us together. What do you think? Does age even matter anymore? Love Guru: It’s 2013. We’ve come

a long way from the ancient dating rituals reminiscent of our parents’ and grandparents’ generations. We see celebrities, political figures and others in the public eye marrying people outside of their age brackets all of the time. Does the name Hugh Hefner ring a bell? When you enter the college arena, people’s ages come from all ends of the spectrum, making dating life seem like a giant free-for-all. However, when it comes to a person’s age, it truly depends on the individual. Theoretically, he could be someone who is “wise beyond his years,” or on the flip side, a person who is advanced in years but downright immature. In your case, you have to decide if this guy’s age even reflects his personality at all. But the real issue at hand is the fact that you two are in very different stages of your lives. While you may already have certain life experiences under your belt, you have to realize he may not. As hard as it is, it might be more fair to let him have those experiences instead of only thinking of yourself and how he makes you feel. Remain friends, and wait a few years until he is in his 20s’ with you. Then see what happens. As for the future, keep an open mind. Only time will tell.

Idol’ stage is amazing.”But Calderon’s passion for music

isn’t the sole reason he has made it to this season’s Hollywood Week. Perseverance and the will to continue gave him the opportunity to audition for the fifth time on “American Idol.”

“There were times where I wanted to quit,” Calderon said. “But I knew I wanted to be a part

of it. ‘American Idol’ is the biggest opportunity for a regular person to be seen as a singer because it’s considered to be the golden standard of this type of show.”

Calderon said even though rejection was hard, he learned from each time he didn’t make it to the next round. He explained there is a long road to travel before being given the chance to audition for

the celebrity panel of judges with the beginning rounds moving at a rapid pace. Potential contestants fill a stadium and have, “literally seconds to sing,” before a decision is made Calderon said.

But there’s one experience he will never forget.

“The previous year when the auditions were held in San Diego, I tried out and I know I did good. At the first stage of the competition, they never really talk to you. Normally they just say, ‘step forward’ and it’s a no,” Calderon said. “But this time, they said, ‘It’s a no, but we want you to come back next year.’ They told me there was something there and that I just needed to find myself as an artist.”

That was the year Calderon focused on becoming more diligent with rehearsals and practicing. He used his performing arts company

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SDSU kinesiology major Marvin Calderon recieves his ticket to Hollywood after auditioning for “American Idol.”

to gain valuable stage experience and when he came back the following year, the disappointment of previous rejection disappeared into a unanimous “yes” from the panel of celebrity judges.

“Right when I finished, Nicki Minaj winked at me,” Calderon said. “I figured that was a good thing.”

Upon hearing the final “yes,” the crowd of approximately 20 family members and friends who came with Calderon rushed to the stage and embraced him.

“I was lucky to have them there with me throughout the experience,” Calderon said. “When I ask them for advice they just say, ‘Be you.’ They’re very inspiring to me.”

After contestants receive their golden ticket, it’s off to Hollywood Week, where they are tested to the best of their abilities. This was the

chance Calderon had been waiting for, and the busy nature of the week would not deter him.

“Hollywood Week is the ultimate test. The schedules are crazy because it’s one audition after the next,” Calderon said. “But you enjoy every moment of it because you’re surrounded by people who are just as passionate as you. That’s what motivated me to keep going. It was a blessing to be a part of that.”

The shared passion contestants bring to the table made Calderon’s experience that much better and even though it’s a competition, contestants always bring the best out of each other.

To find out how Calderon’s “American Idol” journey continues, tune in at 8 p.m. this Wednesday and Thursday on Fox for “Hollywood Week.”

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On Saturday, Viejas Arena looked less like a basketball arena and more like a battlefield during the San Di-ego State women’s basketball game. Players dove, collided and shoved to get possession of the ball in one of the most physical games of the sea-son. But the Aztecs were prepared for the U.S. Air Force and ended the game with a 68-46 win, moving the Aztecs to 15-5 overall on the season and 6-1 in conference play.

“I think, as a team, we played really well,” senior guard Court-ney Clements said. “I think we played tough. We were expecting Air Force to be physical and so we came in with that mindset ready to be pushed around a little bit, and I think we handled it well...”

Once the game began, SDSU wasted no time getting on the scoreboard as it scored the first 6 points of the game. The immediate back-to-back layups by senior cen-ter Malia Nahinu and Clements left Air Force worried it might be in for

a very long day. From then on, the Aztecs con-

trolled the ball and defensively held the Falcons to 6 points for the first 10 minutes of the game. However, the Falcons remained persistent and caught up to the Aztecs, who strug-gled shooting from the field. With seconds left before halftime, Air Force was only behind by 3 points.

But with a second left before the half, senior guard Chelsea Hopkins hit a 3-pointer as the buzzer sound-ed, sending the crowd into a frenzy and giving the Aztecs a 6-point lead heading into the locker room.

The Aztecs shot 31 percent from the field and made 5-of-9 free throws, while the Falcons shot 33 percent from the field and made 3-of-4 free throws in the first half.

The Aztecs returned to the court ready to send the Falcons flying home.

SDSU spent the rest of the second half building a point gap that was nearly impossible for Air Force to narrow. With 3 minutes remaining in the game, the Aztecs were up by 23 points and the game was all but

sealed. “I think we did OK,” Hopkins

said. “We had an anxious start and rushed a lot in the first half which contributed to us shoot-ing so poorly and missing a lot of layups. But, overall, I think we picked it up in the second half and I think we did what we set out to do, which was win the game.”

Five of SDSU’s players ended with double-digit scoring totals. Clements lead the team with 15 points, while Hopkins contrib-uted 14 points. Hopkins and sophomore forward Erimma Amarikwa both led the team with eight rebounds.

The Aztecs made 40 of their 68 points in the paint and shot 46 percent from the field and 71 percent from the free-throw line.

The crowd of 1,842, a season-high, witnessed SDSU’s sixth straight win of the season.

SDSU will play Boise State University next at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Boise, Idaho.

Some of San Diego State’s smallest fans flocked to Viejas Arena on Sat-urday, not only for the women’s bas-ketball game, but also to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day.

Girls of all ages, sizes and back-grounds ran around the concourse of Viejas Arena, grasping checklists to make sure they visited all of their fa-vorite SDSU women’s sports teams.

Lacrosse, swim, track and field, volleyball, softball, tennis and soccer teams set up areas where they could meet, coach and play a mock version of their sport with the kids.

It was 11-year-old Anyah Smith and her 9-year-old sister Aleighna’s first time at the event.

“It’s pretty cool,” Anyah said. “We were excited to meet the swim team.”

Both sisters are swimmers, though, Anyah wants to pursue a career as a professional swimmer and hopes to make it to the Olympics one day. Anyah and Aleighna’s mother, Sarah Smith, also enjoyed the activities.

“This is great,” Smith said. “It’s good for girls to see the opportunities they have when they grow up.”

This is the sixth year this event has taken place at Viejas Arena and soft-ball head coach Kathy Van Wyk looks forward to participating with her team every year.

Adriana BushAssistant Sports Editor

“We have a really fun-hearted group of girls,” Van Wyk said. “This is a great way for the team to be good role models.”

Children surrounded the concourse outside the arena, shooting penalty kicks against the soccer team, practic-ing their shotput and hurdles with the track team and playing a game of soft-ball on a chalk-drawn field with the softball team.

“We have such an energetic group,” junior softball player Katie Mathis said. “ We can do this all day long with the kids and we love it.”

Once the activities ended outside, the fun continued to the inside of the arena, where the kids anxiously wait-ed to watch the women’s basketball game. Despite their small statures, their cheering and screaming rivaled The Show, the well-known men’s bas-ketball student section.

After the game ended, every person in attendance had an opportunity to get autographs from the players and take pictures with the players, which was the capstone to a perfect day for most of the kids.

“I loved having all the support,” se-nior guard Chelsea Hopkins said. “I think that really helped us get some momentum in times when we were struggling. Just to know that we could look around and see that we had girls counting on us and girls watching us, and I think that really helped.”

Girls and Women in Sports Day a success

women’s basketballAdriana BushAssistant Sports Editor

SDSU wins sixth straight

jenna mackey, staff photographerSenior guard Chelsea Hopkins drives to the basket against Air Force.

jenna mackey, staff photographerMembers of the SDSU basketball team sign autographs after the game.

jenna mackey, staff photographerSan Diego State fans hold up signs during Saturday’s game versus the Air Force Falcons.

jenna mackey, staff photographerJunior guard Kiyana Stamps prepares to shoot against the Air Force Falcons.

jenna mackey, staff photographerSophomore point guard Ahjalee Harvey plays defense.

jenna mackey, staff photographerHopkins guards Air Force’s Camille Thompson.

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“To win a game like this you have to make plays. You have to get a lucky bounce on a play and they had one more than we did,” SDSU head coach Steve Fisher said. “We still had an op-portunity, but we didn’t get it.”

The Falcons won their fifth straight game at home and now own a home record of 10-1 this season, while the Aztecs lost their second game in 10 contests against Air Force.

The Falcons went on a 19-2 run to take a 59-47 lead to counter Franklin’s 18 second-half points.

“Franklin’s a good player,” Fisher said. “You play to your strength and make your opponent do something different to stop what they’re doing and he made plays the last 10 or 12 minutes that allowed us to fight our way back in.”

The Aztecs’ shooting continued to struggle as they only hit 2-of-19 from behind the arc. Yet despite holding a 15-5 offensive rebound advantage, the Aztecs could not fend off the Falcons.

“Our strength for us, against Air Force should be offensive rebound-ing,” Fisher said. “I believe we had 17 or 16 last year and got beat by two points. That was one of the things we talked about that should be a huge plus for us. It was, but it wasn’t quite enough.”

Sophomore forward Marek Olesin-ski scored a career-high 8 points for the Falcons as Air Force’s bench out-scored the SDSU bench 23-6.

“We got beat today,” Franklin said. “I always say, when I’m on the court, I’m enemies with everyone I play against, but after the game you have to show good sportsmanship and give credit when it is due.”

The Aztecs face off against Boise State on Wednesday at Viejas Arena to wrap up the first eight games of conference play.

Shocker alert, everybody: there’s more performance-enhancing drug scandal in the world of sports.

Major League Baseball stars Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colón, and Gio Gonzalez are among a group of players named in a Miami New Times article exposing records of PED use at Anthony Bosch’s “anti-aging clinic” in Miami.

Cabrera and Colón come as no surprise, as they both served 50-game suspensions last year. But Rodriguez and Gonzalez on the other hand? Rodriguez claims to have been clean since 2003 but appears in the report 16 times, from 2009 to 2012. Gonzalez states he has never, nor will he ever, use PEDs in his life.

In an Outside the Lines report by ESPN, Bosch describes the allegations as absurd, though the words he used were much stronger.

This story comes to light after Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and players on the 2012 Alabama Crimson Tide national championship football team were accused of using “antler spray” containing insulin-like growth factor-1, a hormone which helps stimulate muscle growth. Lewis was said to have used the hormone to recover from a torn triceps, which forced him to miss most of this season, but vehemently denies these claims. The man reported

to sell Lewis the IGF-1 claims he never witnessed Lewis use the drug. These scandals are nothing compared to the transformation of once-superhero Lance Armstrong to a sports villain.

If I had written that opening paragraph about 10 years ago, it would be big news. Nowadays, it’s barely a blip on the radar of sports fans for this simple reason: a scandal becomes much less scandalous when it happens repeatedly.

Leagues such as the MLB and NFL have put an increasing number of measures in place to prevent PED usage. However, when video game statistics are expected out of top-contract athletes on a yearly basis, players will always try to gain an edge—even illegally.

To be quite honest, I skimmed these stories at first, because seeing the acronym “PED” in an article seems almost a norm in modern sports. Since the early 2000s, when baseball players began falling off the pedestal like raindrops, sports fans have been bombarded with news story after news story of a professional athlete “juicing.”

But drugs, steroids, juice, whatever you want to call it, are bad for the game, right? So fans will always care if players cheat

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with PEDs, right? If you’re like me and answered a desperate, yet hopeful, “yes” to both of these questions, you would be wrong. Unfortunately, a home run today will often signal the possibility the player is juiced. A linebacker knocking the quarterback to next Sunday will most likely be seen as evidence that he’s on ‘roids. Any extraordinary performance now comes with questions. These are sad truths in modern sports and with no end in sight, many fans just don’t really care anymore whether players cheat or not—they just want to watch the game.

There are even some people out there who believe PEDs should be legalized in sports. In an article by Forbes Magazine, Chris Smith argued the main reason steroids are criticized in sports is because they give players “an unfair advantage over the rest of the field.” Smith proposes a solution to this problem: realize we can’t stop everybody from juicing and, instead, “level the playing field,” by allowing every athlete to use steroids.

Smith isn’t alone. I’ve asked many people what they think of PEDs in sports and a good chunk of the time, I receive jaded, yet steroid-affirming answers along the lines of “I really don’t care, everybody’s doing it, and it makes for good sports.” When they say “makes for good sports,” they’re talking about watching a baseball player hit 70 home runs in a season, watching a football player outrun his opponents by miles, and watching a cyclist win seven consecutive Tour de France titles. Sports are

entertaining to fans when they get to see exhibits of superhuman strength and endurance on a day-to-day basis. Consequently, many people take the attitude of, “We can’t stop it, so why try?”

Many of us now accept the fact that our children’s role models lie and cheat in their profession. Fans are tired of being let down repeatedly. As a result, PEDs have become an accepted part of the game for many fans. This acceptance not only stimulates players and owners to keep cheating, but it encourages high school athletes to emulate their role models and use steroids.

The integrity of sports has taken a big hit in the past few years because its culture has changed to one in which almost everybody is a suspected cheater. As paying customers, should fans be OK with it?

We provide the home-field advantage, the endless support throughout any season, and, above all, fans provide the money. If more fans showed disdain for the decreasing integrity of the game, leagues would make less money, causing players to make less money. If the only way to make more money is to reverse the trend in modern sports, maybe something might happen. Unfortunately, people love sports too much to turn their backs on them and this results in acceptance and desensitization to PEDs. Fan desensitization to PED usage is detrimental to sports because it breeds a sports culture where cheating is accepted and lying is the norm. Who can respect that?

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The keeper of the flamesMaggie St. Claire’s computer

beeped. She glanced at the chat icon blinking in anticipation. She clicked it and saw the username that haunted her: VoxPopuli79. It had been a year since she first met the elusive Vox. The first time, he supplied her with evidence of waste being dumped into sea turtle breeding grounds. Vox asked her to consider both sides before making any decisions too quickly, but it had been too late. She had gone to the press and exposed the dumping.

He was right. Newly-appointed CEO James Castle was in the process of cleaning up the old company policies, such as polluting the ocean. His actions were driven by a rival company led by Bobbie Slater (who Maggie thought to be an evil woman). He never finished because the media seized the story. The bad headlines and negative publicity eventually sank the company, causing more than 300 layoffs and millions of dollars lost—dollars which would have been used to clean up the breeding grounds, but not anymore. Maggie, a socially active marine biologist, had been distraught for months. Vox hadn’t sent her a message since then. He had deserted her when she needed him most.

The message said: “Need to meet. Some new information you might be interested in. Marina in 1 hour.”

Maggie was irritated at how Vox felt he could come back into her life so easily.

Another message: “Yes I’m in Florida. Have been for a week. Also pay your phone bill. Nearly expired.”

Maggie was stunned. She glanced at the clock before grabbing her keys.

After grabbing a cup of coffee from a local vendor, she arrived and waited for what felt like three hours. She was about to leave when she felt a tap on her shoulder.

The vendor wore a thick woolen coat and a Greek sailor’s hat. He carried a pipe and sported a pepper-colored beard.

“Hullo Maggie,” he said. “Kept me here just to spy on

me? And what about my bill? Do you go through my trash?” Maggie muttered.

Vox lit his pipe. “No, 8 p.m. is closing time. And please. I go through everybody’s trash.”

Annoyed, Maggie asked, “Who are you?”

“No one of importance,” he said. “I just ask questions. Every investigation starts with a question. Sometimes I can tell how they will end depending on the question. In the case of that whole messy dumping affair, I knew it would happen. Lost money, lost jobs, all of it.”

“Fine! You’re right! Why bring me here?” Maggie said furiously.

“That, my dear Maggie, is the right question.” He pulled a manila folder and gave it to her. “This file contains a year of investigation on one CEO, Bobbie Slater, who has recently resurfaced. This file links her to one of the biggest insider trading collectives. If brought to public light, the ramifications are huge. We’re talking prison time, Maggie.”

“So why give it to a post-grad marine biologist with only a blog and a low paying city job monitoring water waste levels?” Maggie protested. “Why don’t you do it? It’s your research,” she said, offering it back to him.

“That’s not all,” he said, pulling another file. “What if I told you there are two sides to every story? There’s the one you see, and the one you don’t? This is that other side. It documents the costly chemo process her father is going through, as well as her son who had terminal brain cancer. Just because she’s a CEO doesn’t mean her pockets are that deep. Imagine yourself in that role. A report is published documenting the mistakes of a rival company which has tried to drive you out before. All your advisors are telling you if you sink them, your company’s stock will go up. At the same time, you’ve been trying to get enough money to pay for treatment. Short-term risk, long-term benefit. In addition, this file contains her reasons as well as goodwill toward hiring displaced employees of the former company and giving out bonuses.”

He pointed to the first one.

“If you choose the first one, you’ll reveal to the masses what they know and crave to know: The rich get richer by any means, illegal or not. It means personal satisfaction for you, as well as exposing the insider trading. You’ll make waves, rattle the cages and people won’t forget your name soon.”

“If that’s what the people want, I’ll deliver the first report … ” Maggie asserted.

“ … which will doom Bobbie Slater and her family. That first report only contains the evidence of wrongdoing, the reasons for which are known by you and me. She’ll attempt to offer up her justifications, but the media will swallow her whole. I’ve seen it before,” he added grimly. “That second folder will vindicate her, and place the blame solely at her financial advisors, who were just doing their jobs. No mention of insider training or of the evidence, which I will incinerate myself. So you see Maggie St. Claire,” he said, spreading his arms, “you must choose.”

Maggie was torn by Vox’s revelation. “Why are you making me choose?”

Vox took a long puff and exhaled. “For the longest time, I lived my life only for the ruthlessness of pursuit. I’ve withheld information, fed lies and broken people for the extraction of it. I did it for what I thought was ‘the greater good.’ Save the most by telling the truth of a few. I exposed people and their secrets. And in the aftermath, the wicked fled and the innocent were punished. It took me 30 years to finally realize that.”

“Realize what?” Maggie questioned.

“I shouldn’t have been trying to save as many as I could,” said Vox. “I should have been trying to save every single one. I’m trying to teach this to you now. That’s the reason you’re choosing. Vengeance or vindication … which will it be?”

Maggie bit her lip and reached forward.

The fire burned bright as Vox added the second folder to the fire. He, who once fed the fires of truth, was burning down everything. Now he would be its guardian—the keeper of the flames.

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