golden gate xpress fall 2011 issue 13
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Issue 13 of the Golden Gate Xpress Fall 2011 semesterTRANSCRIPT
A FEW YEARS AGO, The Stone Foxes were falling asleep in 8 a.m. statistics classes at SF State and getting busted for smoking pot on campus.
Now, the four man bluesy rock band – who all hold degrees from the University – have hit the stage at Outside Lands and heard themselves in a Jack Daniels commercial.
“It was very humbling to know you live down the street from there and you gotta roll
out of bed and play a show in the park,” says bassist Aaron Mort, who estimates the festival crowd in Golden Gate Park was their largest yet.
And that’s only a few of their trophies. In April they opened for Grammy-winning band The Black Keys in Arizona, and just last month they appeared at Voodoo Fest in New Orleans alongside Snoop Dogg and Blink 182.
The Stone Foxes are Aaron Mort, broth-ers Shannon and Spence Koehler, and Elliott
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BY HUNTER MULICH | [email protected]
The Stone Foxes have moved from slacker SF State students to a successful touring band, performing at Outside Lands and Voodoo Fest.
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STATE SOUNDS: The Stone Foxes (from left) Elliott Peltzman, Aaron Mort, Spence Koehler and Shannon Koehler pose in the piano room in the Creative Arts building. The band plays its last show of the year at the Viper Room in LA tonight. PHOTO BY GIL RIEGO JR.
Band of alumni make big moves
SF STATE STUDENTS
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Hundreds gather in Malcolm X Plaza before march through campus, ending in hours-long sit-in of Administration building.
Pastel chalk covered the outside of the Administra-tion building. Yellow sticky notes covered the walls inside, declaring grievances against tuition hikes and class cuts.
Two students facilitated a conversation and vote of about 75 students on the bottom fl oor of the Administra-tion building as to whether to continue staying in the building after offi ce hours Tuesday around 4 p.m. after a planned walkout earlier in the day turned into a sit-in.
“We don’t have leaders,” said the student facilitator Fedrico Villalobos, an active member of the movement.
The group decided not to remain in the building overnight because of lack of preparation and a dwindling number of supporters as the day went on. After taking
a group vote, only a few protesters were in favor of an overnight occupation, so those attending the sit-in acted in accordance with the majority decision.
Associate Dean of Students Joseph D. Greenwell discussed the protesters’ concerns, which were written on sticky notes and posted all over the lobby of the Admin-istration building. Students voted in favor to keep the notes posted on the wall in hopes that they would be seen by President Robert A. Corrigan, despite concerns that the janitorial staff would remove them. Greenwell nego-tiated with maintenance staff to consolidate the notes to one wall so that they could remain visible without being disruptive.
Protesters also expressed to Greenwell their desire to
POSTING THEIR PROTEST: Andrew Cardoza, left, speaks to fellow students inside the Administration building. Hundreds of students walked out of classes and participated in the sit-in yesterday. PHOTO BY ADAM MORENO/SPECIAL TO XPRESS
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It never works out. It doesn’t keep the truth
between the friendship and it just ruins it. You never know what they really want out of it.
CHLOE SCHOLSSMANNPSYCHOLOGY, 18
Friendships always get ruined because
there is an emotional connection. Then
there’s a lot of jealousy involved.
MELISSA REJASKINESIOLOGY, 21
SF SPEAKS OUT
COMPILED BY BRIAN BALISIPHOTOS BY HENRY NGUYEN
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS RELATIONSHIPS?
It can get messy and friends end up
getting hurt.
RYAN BERGGRENCINEMA, 21
It doesn’t work out for me because once I connect
with someone on an emotional and
physical level I don’t want them with
anyone else.
KIMBERLY STRUBKINESIOLOGY, 21
WINDOW WATCHINGRemember the “Jurassic Park” scene where the
velociraptor were looking for the kids in the kitchen? Well, a similar scene went down last Thursday at noon when a person was caught snooping in apartment windows along Winston Drive. They were presumably searching for small children to consume or fertilized dinosaur embryos. The culprit was cited for reenacting 90s movies and was released at the scene.
THE ROOF, THE ROOF IS ON FIRE!Pyromania, a disorder where one starts fires to relieve
tension (or to take revenge on the neighbor’s cat) can be diagnosed at the age of three. And while it’s a rare disorder that affects fewer than one percent of the population, perhaps one affected individual may have been accepted into SF State. After various false fire alarm pulls this semester, an actual fire caused an alarm at 2 a.m. last Friday morning in Mary Ward Hall. Police concluded that the fire was deliberate. Students were evacuated from the building and the fire was extinguished.
BREAKING IN THE BIKE BARNCriminals often say”never return to the scene of a
crime” because, well, the police will probably be looking for them the next day. One thief stole a bike from the Bike Barn last Monday afternoon. A student reported the theft to the police who took a report. The next day, the police found a person who they suspected to be the thief from the day before at the bike barn. The person, who had burglary tools on them (presumably from ACME) and provided a false name to the police, was arrested and taken to jail.
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CRIME BLOTTERWHAT: Cesar Chavez Student Center Governing Board Election
WHERE: www.sfsustudentcenter.com/vote
When: Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. Nov. 16 - 11:30 p.m. Nov. 17
There are three representative-at-large positions open.
The term for those elected will be from Jan. 2012 - Jan. 2014
There are 11 candidates, as follows:Kyle Elliott
Justin FernandezMarques FieldsAudrey Harris
Samantha HoyleBrandon PricertChristine ReveloJillian RogersChrista SiniClayton Steel
Kimberly Vargas
To learn more about the candidates, visit sfsustudentcenter.com/vote
Band of alums gains steamCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Peltzman. Elliott, who plays keyboards and guitar, and drummer Shannon graduated with degrees in radio production. Mort graduated with a degree in painting and drawing, and Spence, who also plays guitar, graduated with a degree in graphic design.
Their songs can be simple and fun or massive and complex, so it’s no wonder they draw repetitive comparisons to Led Zeppelin and the White Stripes. At times their music is wailing and sexy, but they can willingly break that down and whip it up into a sunny mixture of stomping feet and Southern spice. All of the band members take turns on the mic and swap instruments at their leisure, so don’t be surprised if a harmonica or flute enter the mix.
“We never approached it as a front man type of project,” Mort said. “From our point of view we all write songs and we all help write them and we all help perform them. We kind of work as a unit.”
And while they have been on tour since May, they don’t always occupy themselves with instruments.
Mort uses his art skills by creating web-sites, posters and album art with his design company Boonie Blues.
He designed the band’s website, which also holds an archive of the colorful 1970s style posters - groovy fonts and all - that he and Spence create to advertise their shows. Shannon and Elliott both put their degrees to work at local radio stations, writing
jingles and editing audio.“The Stone Foxes are a hit, but I think
that Elliott and Shannon will enjoy suc-cessful careers in whatever they choose to do in future, Stone Foxes or not,” said Jeff Jacoby, a professor in the audio and radio department, who taught the two.
They moved to San Francisco from the Central Valley of California “to get away from the Central Valley.”
While living in the dorms, the band practiced using a full drum kit and are still surprised they got away with it. Eventually they moved to the Sunset district where The Riptide bar on Taraval Avenue became their hangout.
After getting their degrees in 2008 the band stuck together and chased the music industry.
Outside Lands was just a far out ambi-tion at the time.
“That’s kind of when it just picked up and we decided to not get serious jobs and try music out,” Mort laughed.
Since then they’ve released two full albums, played multiple festivals and toured the country. After wrapping up their summer tour later this year they plan to see family and friends, and then get right back to it.
“Outside Lands started around the time we were getting seri-ous, that was always our goal to try to play that,” Aaron said. “It was great to be a part of that local music scene that’s rising. It felt pretty special.”
FOXES: SF State alumni The Stone Foxes played this year’s Outside Lands as well as Voodoo Fest. All four hold bachelor’s degrees from the University and pursue other jobs outside the band. PHOTO BY GIL RIEGO JR.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1set up a future meeting with President Robert A. Corrigan.
Earlier, a crowd that swelled to ap-proximately 500 protesters took over the building around 1:30 p.m. and marched up to the fifth floor in an attempt to speak with Corrigan, only to find the door was locked. While some students responded by pounding on the door, most returned to the lobby for a sit-in.
Corrigan was not on campus at the time of the occupation. He was in Long Beach for a California State University Board of Trustees meeting in which mem-bers were to vote on the proposed 2012-13
budget, according to University officials.Many administrative offices were
locked and some asked their staff members to leave early in response to the occupa-tion, though the building remained opera-tional until the set closing time at 6 p.m., according to University spokeswoman Ellen Griffin.
Students vacated the Administration building at 7:10 p.m., more than an hour after the building had officially closed. Students were not officially asked to leave, but the remaining 75 students at the end of the night decided against attempting to stay in the building overnight.
There were no arrests, though there
were at least three confirmed campus police officers in plain clothes amongst the demonstrators. As the night wore on, students slowly filtered out of the adminis-tration building.
About 10 students were left at the end of the sit-in and cleaned up the lobby, re-placing the furniture that had been moved back to its original location before leaving as a group.
Students hope that their actions will not go unnoticed.
“I hope (Corrigan) reads (the notes),” said senior Megan Hendry, 21. “Some are hateful, but that’s not a way to get them to change their minds.”
PROTEST LEADS STUDENTS TO DOORS OF CORRIGAN’S OFFICE
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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS: UNLIKE MOVIES, IT’S COMPLICATED
BY DEVERY SHEFFER | [email protected]
Despite a recent string of films glamorizing
attachment-free sex, it doesn’t
always work out that way.
IN A POSTER FOR the movie “No Strings Attached,” Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher smile at each other while putting their clothes back on in a disheveled bed-
room; the tagline reads “Friendship has its benefits.” A similar movie about friends having casual sex and then falling in love also came out this year: “Friends with Benefits.”
These movies are among the in-fluences that have popularized the concept of having casual sex with a friend, but the Hollywood version is not in tune with reality.
“That’s what the media does — it normalizes it,” said sex and relationships lecturer Ivy Chen. “It often puts a really nice, neat ending, with a big red bow on top. But in real life not all couples evolve from a friends with benefits nicely and simultane-ously into a romantic relationship. A lot of times the friendships just break up.”
SF State senior Laura Sheets is a full-time personal trainer and kinesiology student, so finding time for a full-time relationship is difficult. She has a friend with benefits and has had them before, but she said this time is different.
“As I’ve gotten older, I think the definition (of friends with benefits) has changed a lot,” Sheets said. “It’s not an excuse to sleep around. It’s not an excuse to ruin your friendships. It’s the companionship that everyone wants, and you just happen to have it with
a friend.”Sheets saw the movie “Friends with Benefits”
and said it is not an accurate depiction of that kind of relationship.
“In the movie it’s more of a random hook-up. Well, that’s not friends with benefits. That’s a one night stand to me,” Sheets said. “That, and you’re not going to fall in love at the end of the day.”
While you might not fall in love in a friends with benefits relationship, it’s possible that you may become attached.
When the body has an orgasm, the brain releases oxytocin. According to Chen, this “attachment hor-mone” may cause someone to develop feelings for
the person they are having re-peated sexual encounters which often leads to complications in the friendship.
“It tends to get complicated really fast emotionally, one of the biggest things is that it’s hard for two people to stay at the same level emotionally,” Chen said.
Once someone starts wanting more in the relationship it can lead to jealousy, guilt and unfair pressure.
“It’s often difficult for a friendship to recover from all that, so the two people don’t usually end up being friends after all that,” Chen said.
SF State student Nick Hanna says that he has had friends with benefits in the past. He thinks
these kind of relationships are OK as long as there is clear communications about each of their intentions but that staying friends afterwards can be difficult.
“Humans are needy creatures and we tend to develop feelings whether it’s one person or another,” Hanna said. “Every time I’ve been in one of these situations it kind of goes to crap afterwards, unfortu-nately.”
Sheets recognizes that this is one of the negative aspects of her relationship. She shuts off her emotions to keep things from getting messy.
“You’re not allowed to feel those emotions. Not so much that you’re not going to, but you’re not al-lowed to in a friends with benefits relationship, and that can be difficult,” Sheets said.
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MANY GRADUATING SENIORS have mixed feelings of excitement and fear with the end of the school year rapidly approaching and the looming question of “What’s next?” hanging over their heads.
With unemployment still at 9 percent according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and financial woes affecting many students, moving back home with their parents may seem like the only option.
“Mostly it’s because of the lack of a job, which causes a financial burden and by extension a housing is-sue,” said Joseph Benjamin, an SF State undergraduate adviser. “Housing is, especially in this area, expensive. You need a steady, full-time job just to cover its cost and have enough for all of your new, freshly-graduated pursuits.”
Student housing on and around campus is cheaper than living in other parts of the city, but many SF State students have not been satisfied with the living condi-tions.
According to an SF State Student Voice survey, 48 percent of students were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with student housing, and would not recommend it to other students.
The same survey showed that 11 percent of students were sure they were going to move back home while 24 percent knew they would need to move to less expen-sive housing.
“For a time I lived in Parkmerced with some friends of mine,” said history major John Baxter. “After I finished a year of school we thought about renewing our lease but it didn’t work out. I was running low on money so I decided to move home to save. I’m working to save up and move out again.”
A student’s lifestyle can get expensive quickly. As tuition continues to increase, this leaves little money left over for student expenses.
Between tuition, books, rent and food, there is not much money for a social life.
“That’s the root of the problem,” Benjamin said. “Students aren’t building a good safety net for after they graduate.”
SF State graduate Jeff De Vera wasn’t able to afford moving out at all while he was attending school.
“I stayed home for mainly financial reasons,” De Vera said. “It was cheaper for me to stay at home than to try and get an apartment. I was living off of financial aid and as a full-time student there was no room for me to get a job.”
As students recognize the negative impact that the current economic conditions play on their career op-tions, many consider pursuing a graduate degree after school to help increase their chances of future employ-ment - 33 percent of students according to the SF State survey.
“The job market is tough right now for recent gradu-ates,” said Kimberley Altura, an SF State undergraduate adviser. “The cost of living in California and the Bay Area is high and there is a lot of competition for jobs.”
Economic difficulty, high cost of living and a lack of available jobs is causing more students to move back home with parents to save money.
Students make like E.T. and go home
THE AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL cycle is thought to be primary school, high school and then straight to college, but for some, returning to college after decades was the best life option.
SF State student Matt Heitland, 40, is transitioning into another
round in college after graduating with a master’s degree 13 years ago from Drake University in Iowa. Heitland’s traces of gray hair may not make you mistake him for your grandfather, but he can probably get away with sneaking into the teachers’ lounge.
“I’m not gonna lie, my first time on campus was initially odd,” Heitland said. “It was a different dy-namic. Some of these students could potentially be my children. I kept thinking they were saying ‘Hey look at the old guy in the back of the room.’”
According to statistics from the University, the aver-age age of students on campus is 24.3 years old.
Despite the initial awkwardness, Heitland said his overall experience of going back to college has been positive. It was hard for him to relate to other students, but he admitted he was overly conscious of the differ-ences.
Heitland left his management job at a sports memo-rabilia company in Los Angeles because his wife Rose received a job offer in the Bay Area. After a discussion with his wife, Heitland decided to not look for another job and instead pursue his interest in writing at SF State.
“I always enjoyed reading poetry and dabbled in writing, so I was ready to head back to school,” Heit-land said.
Heitland said Rose supported his decision and she was excited for him to go back to school.
“Writing has always been something that Matt has been interested in pursuing so I’m happy that he is get-ting that opportunity at SF State,” she said.
Heitland isn’t alone in the journey back to school.
According to an age study conducted by SF State in 2010, about 2,260 students that were enrolled during the fall semester were age 35 or older.
Lourdes Alarcon, 40, also found her way back to school after getting laid off. Alarcon said she decided to go to school because of the poor job market.
“There is a big job crisis right now,” Alarcon said. “I have two children so I can’t take a job that pays only $9 an hour. I have to get educated so I can find a job that pays good and gives benefits.”
Alarcon started her first year at SF State during the 2011 fall semester. She said the hardest part about going back to school hasn’t been interacting with younger students, but finding her way around campus.
“It was so confusing my first time here,” Alarcon
said. “There needs to be more signs that clearly show the names of the buildings.”
Alarcon said the biggest difference for her going to school now is the amount of homework students have to do.
“I have projects overlapping each other and there is so much reading,” Alarcon said. “Nobody can read 60 pages a week.”
The generation gap hasn’t distracted Alarcon as much as she thought it would. She said the younger students today think very maturely.
“They don’t see me as some loser who had to go back to school,” Alarcon said. “They recognize that I’m taking this opportunity to learn and pursue more knowledge.”
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Older students come back to classBY BRIAN BALISI | [email protected]
With today’s challenging job market and struggling economy, many are returning to school to get a competitive edge.
SCHOOLIN’: Matt Heitland, a poetry graduate student, poses in the Humanities building. Heitland, 40, has spent more than five years in school and already has a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in business administration. PHOTO BY NELSON ESTRADA
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BY MIKE HUBER | [email protected]
SF STATE STUDENT VOICE
SURVEY RESULTS
48 PERCENT OF
STUDENTS
WERE
DISSATISFIED OR VERY
DISSATISFIED WITH STUDENT
HOUSING
11 PERCENT WERE
SURE THEY WERE
GOING TO MOVE
BACK HOME
“Housing is, especially in this area, expensive. You
need a steady, full-time job just to cover its cost and have enough for all of your new, freshly-graduated
pursuits
JOSEPH BENJAMINSF STATE
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISER
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SAN FRANCISCO IS A CITY largely dependent on public trans-portation. Fare hikes have been the norm lately, but BART is now considering offering discounts to high volume commuters.
A new system discussed by the BART Board of Directors would
have riders who use the transit system on a daily basis pre-purchase a high-value ticket good for the month at a reduced price.
“That was one of the many things that were discussed during a two-day workshop,” said BART spokesman Jim Allison. “It was just a general idea so research and talks of pricing have not been done yet. BART is either going to replace the policy they have now, or renew it.”
This plan would be a change from the current policy, which raises the cost every two years.
“What we’ve done over the past eight years is raise fares every two years on a formula based on consumer price index,” Allison said.
Unlike other transit agencies, BART has a larger stake in rider rev-enue.
“What’s different about BART is that 60 percent of funds come from people paying their tickets,” Allison said. “Other agencies like Muni generate only around 20 percent of their revenue from ridership.”
In order to keep BART running, there needs to be a balance of profit and affordability, according to Allison.
“There is a balance to make sure it’s affordable, but to also have enough money to reinvest in the system to keep it going,” Allison said.
Tim Bell, a daily BART rider, is skeptical about the plan.
“They call it giving something for free but they are gonna take something away,” Bell said. “It sounds too good to be true. My mother says if it’s for free it
ain’t for free.”Others are cautious but remain more optimistic.“Because of the budget, it’s probably not the best
thing to do at the moment, but it sounds like a good idea,” said broadcast and electronic communications arts major James Vale.
The plan would decrease revenue for BART but also give loyal customers a much needed discount. BART is aware of many commuters’ recent financial woes.
“BART delayed the coming fare hike from Janu-ary 2012 to July,” Allison said. “The reason they did that was because they realized the recession has hurt so many people. We want to make sure BART remains cost-effective for those people.”
COMMUTERS: A SFO/Millbrae train is filled with riders during rush hour. The BART Board of Directors recently discussed the possibility of reduced-fare tickets for high-volume riders. PHOTO BY GIL RIEGO JR.
While fare hikes have plagued public transit, BART officials recently started
considering reduced-price ticket options for frequent riders.
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WHILE SOME SEARCH through the supermarket in pursuit of the perfect Thanks-giving turkey, others have to wait in line hoping to get a semblance of a Thanksgiving meal.
Ocean Merced Ingleside Family Resource Center will be providing 376 turkeys for families who need extra assistance during the holidays.
“Every year we do a turkey giveaway the Tuesday before Thanksgiving,” said pantry coordinator Atrecia Thomas, 24. “The food bank gives us a nice spread of Thanksgiving goods.”
Every Tuesday at Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center in San Francisco, about 300 people wait in line to get free food donated by the San Francisco Food Bank. Community members show proof of residency in the ZIP code 94112, 94116 or 94132, and are assigned a random number that dictates the order in which people can get food.
“Sometimes people at the end get more or less depend-
ing on how much food is left over. It goes by the number of people and the shipment,” said Client Services Coordinator Liana Orozco. “It can be one orange per day or 10, depend-ing.”
Sign-ups for the pantry service start at 9 a.m. and the food is provided between 11 a.m. and noon. Any leftovers are offered to those who are willing to wait.
The OMI wants to help those who are consistently in need rather than people who just want a free turkey for Thanksgiving.
“People who show up the day of will not be able to get a turkey unless there are leftovers,” Orozco said. “About 400 plus people come for Thanksgiving. Those who can’t get a turkey get a chicken.”
OMI has been around since August 2003 and is one of the 23 Family Resource Centers in the city, which is a part of the Urban Services of the YMCA. The FRC provides turkeys through fundraising and gets the other food directly from the San Francisco Food Bank. Along with the food distribution pantry, the FRC also offers mental health, mentoring, a truancy intervention program and other family services.
“It’s an eye-opener. Sometimes this is the only food they get for the week,” said Thomas, who chooses what
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This easy, no-cooking-involved recipe comes to us from Feelings Cafe in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. This pie has become a local legend that needs to be shared with the world, or at least San Francisco to start.
I N G R E D I E N T S :>> 2 chocolate pie shells (preferably Oreo)>> 1 cup confectioner’s sugar>> 1/2 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky, your preference)>> 1/2lb cream cheese>> 1/2 can sweetened condensed milk>> 16 oz Cool Whip
D I R E C T I O N S :1. Mix together peanut butter, cream cheese, confectioner’s sugar, and condensed milk.2. Slowly fold in 8 oz Cool Whip3. Put fi lling in pie shell and top with another 8 oz Cool Whip4. Refrigerate over night5. Top with crushed unsalted toasted peanuts if preferred.
I N G R E D I E N T S :
>> 1 tablespoon unsalted butter>> 1 large yellow onion, chopped>> 1 1/2 cups chicken stock (or vegetable if preferred)>> 1 tablespoon light brown sugar>> 2 cups cooked sweet potatoes>> 1/4 teaspoon ground mace>> 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon>> 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom>> 1 cup of heavy whipping cream>> salt
Directions:
1. In a heavy saucepot, over medium-low heat, melt butter. 2. Add onions and salt, cover and reduce heat. 3. After onions are translucent, add sweet potato, broth, and brown sugar, bring to a simmer. 4. Add spices and cream and bring back to a simmer, and cook for 5 minutes. 5. In a blender, puree the soup in batches. 6. Adjust seasoning to taste.
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MAIN DISH: HOW TO PREPARE YOUR TURKEY
BE GRACIOUS AND INCLUSIVE
One of your guests wants to bring a friend who’s “orphaned” on Thanksgiving? Never say no. This holiday is all about bringing people together and
sharing. Go borrow an extra chair from your
neighbors.
MAKE SURE THERE’S PLENTY OF ALCOHOL
A glass or two of wine will make everyone care less about the fact that you
burned the turkey and will help any newcomers at
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PEANUT BUTTER PIE
LEFTOVERS: TURKEY GUMBO
SWEET POTATO SOUP
A LITTLE SOMETHIN’ EXTRA
A traditional “day after Thanksgiving” dish in New Orleans.
I N G R E D I E N T S :
>> 1 turkey carcass>> 2 turkey legs or thighs>> 1/2 cup bacon grease>> 1/2 cup cooking oil>> 1 cup fl our>> 8 ribs celery, chopped>> 3 large onions, chopped>> 1 bell pepper, chopped>> 2 cloves of garlic, minced>> 1/2 cup chopped parsley>> 1 pound okra, sliced>> 1 cup smoked sausage (andouille), sliced>> 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce>> Tabasco sauce to taste>> 1 (12 oz) can tomatoes>> 1 1/2 tablespoons salt>> 4 slices bacon, cut in 1-inch pieces>> 1-2 bay leaves>> Cayenne to taste>> 1 teaspoon brown sugar>> 1 tablespoon lemon juice>> 4 cups rice, cooked
D I R E C T I O N S :
1. Crack the turkey carcass into several pieces. 2. Place the turkey carcass and legs in a soup kettle with 3 quarts of water and 1 tablespoon salt. 3. Boil for 1 hour. 4. Remove the carcass and legs and cool. 5. Remove the meat from the bones and discard the bones. 6. Reserve the stock and meat. 7. In a heavy Dutch oven over medium heat, heat the grease and oil. 8. Add the fl our, stirring constantly, and cook until dark golden brown. 9. Add the celery, onion, bell pepper, garlic, and parsley. 10. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring constantly. 11. Add the okra and sausage and continue cooking for 5 minutes. 12. Add 2 quarts of the turkey stock and 2 quarts of water, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, tomatoes, salt, bacon, bay leaves and cayenne. 13. Simmer, covered, for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally. 14. Add the turkey meat and simmer for 30 minutes. 15. Just before serving, add the brown sugar and lemon juice. 16. Serve in heated bowls over rice.
items to order from the food bank. “I try to fi nd stuff that the community wants and needs.”
Cecelia Sylvester, 43, one of 22 volunteers at OMI, said she would not be able to provide a turkey for her family without the help of the pantry.
“I don’t work,” Sylvester said. “I have twin boys and my husband is the one who works.”
Other people rely on the pantry throughout the year.“I’ve come here for a couple years because I need it,”
said Beatrice Evans, 84. “I’m hoping they will give me a turkey. You don’t care what time it is, if it’s Thanksgiving or Christmas. I need the help.”
Evans receives Social Security, which she said hasn’t aligned with the cost of living like it should.
“We didn’t get no raise for two years for the increase in cost of living,” Evans said. “Everything is higher now. When I come here and get some potatoes or some bread it helps me. Maybe I can save for my medicine.”
Evans said she takes advantage only of what she needs.“I don’t come to places if I don’t need it,” Evans said.
“If I was a Rockefeller, I wouldn’t be in line. I’d be helping people in line.”
Orozco will transport the turkeys from Costco to OMI Tuesday, Nov. 22.
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Nov. 9 SF State at University of the Pacific (Exhibition) 54-71
Nov. 12 SF State vs. SF State Junior College Invitational 14 pts.
Nov. 12 SF State at Humboldt State 3-0
Nov. 12 SF State vs. Academy of Art University 93-61
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NO ONE JOINS A TEAM to sit on the bench, but for SF State’s injured student athletes, that’s exactly where they fi nd themselves.
Student athletes already juggle school, sports and travel, but when they’re injured they also have to worry about rehab, eligibility and even allow-ing more time to get around campus.
“That’s why I want to get off my crutches as soon as possible. It’s just exhausting trying to get around cam-pus,” said soccer player Mike McNeill, a junior.
McNeill tore his right ACL during the Sept. 3 game, only the second game of the season.
“I just want to get out there and play again,” he said.
McNeill underwent surgery to repair the ligament three weeks after injuring the knee.
“There were six incisions in my leg. That’s obviously pretty painful, recover-ing from that,” McNeill said.
Unfortunately every case is differ-ent, he said, so there’s no timeline for his recovery. As a junior he only has one season left in his college career, so there will be a lot of focus on rehabilitating this spring.
In the meantime, it’s an injury that has turned every facet of his life com-pletely upside-down.
“I used to be able to walk to campus, (now) I have to take a bus, so that’s ter-rible,” McNeill said. “A lot of times you
end up not doing stuff that you usually do just because it’s so much of a burden to get around.”
It’s a concern of the conditioning staff as well, according to head athletic trainer Bryce Schussel.
“Getting around, especially in the winter with all the rain, and if they’re on crutches... that’s one of our biggest fears, (that) they’re on crutches, they’re in a brace and we’re doing rehab in here but then they go and rehurt themselves due to the weather,” Schussel said.
While there is the new, day-to-day minutia of living with the injury, Mc-Neill just misses being active.
“It’s crazy because soccer’s been a part of my life, you know,” McNeill said. “I’ve been playing every day for 12 years and to have it suddenly taken away, not just the soccer part, but the physical activity aspect, taken away from you, for whatever it’s going to be - fi ve, six, seven months - it’s pretty tough.”
Volleyball player Megan Johnson also knows what it’s like to tear a knee ligament. As a freshman at Cal Baptist University, she tore the PCL in her left knee at a practice drill.
“I thought it was just a zinger,” John-son said. “I kept running back and forth doing a drill and I realized that I would go one way and my knee would go an-other. I went (into) panic mode and was just like ‘What did I do to my knee?’”
Fortunately, she said, it happened during the spring so she didn’t miss any playing time. Still, the injury changed her life.
“Snowboarding, water skiing, stuff like that, those are some of the things that I love but I’m not going to do them until after volleyball because it’s way too big of a risk,” Johnson said. “I’ve kind of just accepted that it’s always go-
ing to be this way.”Her passion for the sport, however,
makes it all worth it.“It’s how you adapt to it. It’s how
you play with it,” Johnson said. “You can just roll over and give up or you can say, ‘I can beat this. I can play with this.’”
Teammate Melissa Horton agrees. Horton, a freshman, missed the fi rst seven matches of the season due to an aggravated stress fracture on her left tibia.
“It was hard because coming in as a freshman I was really excited, and then all of a sudden my pain increased so
Injuries take long-term toll
TO BE A COACH OF A SPORT AT ANY level requires a great degree of dedication, intelligence, patience and passion for the game. Newly-hired assistant basketball coach Alex Pribble, 26, possesses all those qualities and is ready to help the Gators
improve on last year’s success.He instantly felt an attraction to the technical aspects
of the sport when he started playing basketball in second grade.
“As a youngster, I always wanted to be a coach,” Prib-ble said. “I had an enjoyment for the game and treasured the X’s and O’s side of things and treasured the relation-ships that are built from the basketball court.”
In eighth grade, Pribble coached younger children while participating in Pirate Basketball Camp, a summer program in his hometown Marin.
“That’s where I started learning about the game and what it takes to be a coach,” Pribble said.
SF State men’s basketball coach Paul Trevor was involved in the same summer program and coached the fourth-grade Pribble.
Trevor remembers the passion and intensity with which Pribble played basketball, even as a young player.
The coach remembers one occasion when the fourth-grade Pribble launched his outstretched body to try to avoid the ball from exiting the court while maintaining possession for his team.
Pribble’s coaching philosophy has been infl uenced by his head coaching experience at the helm of the Tamalpais High School basketball team.
He coached the Red Tail Hawks from 2008 to the spring of 2011 and had success with the team in the 2009-
10 season, earning a spot in the North Coast Section play-offs after a 30-win year.
Pribble has also been infl uenced by his playing experience at UC Berkeley, where he played in 76 games throughout four seasons and was considered to be a player-coach on the court by the coaching staff.
“I think my experience as a player has shaped my views as a coach,” Pribble said. “When I’m thinking about coaching the players I try to put myself in their position, and I think about how I would’ve liked to be coached as a player.”
Senior guard Chad Delaney appreciates Pribble’s experience as a head coach in high school.
“Coach Pribble having some experience being head coach— it’s basically like having two head coaches,” Delaney said. “If Coach (Trevor) wasn’t around, Coach (Pribble) has all the capabilities of run-ning the team.”
Pribble’s affi nity with Trevor and their similar coaching styles will benefi t the Gators this season as they try to improve on last year’s 16-11 record and playoff appearance.
“He and I are two branches off the same tree so to speak. We both have very similar values on and off the court,” Pribble said. “I think that helps bring the culture of this program together.”
Trevor was worried SF State would be unable to hire the 26-year-old assistant coach. He was unsure Pribble would want to take a salary cut and give up the role of head coach at Tamalpais.
“He’s always had a passion, he’s always had the ability to do more with less,” Trevor said. “He’s not the most gifted athlete but (he is) probably the hardest worker; always driven, just pursuing to be great. Why wouldn’t you want to surround yourself with people like that?”
Since he was a child, Alex Pribble always had a passion for basketball and a desire to teach others the sport.
Getting hurt on the fi eld affects student athletes in every aspect of daily life.
New coach has game
BALLIN’: SF State’s men’s basketball team welcomes assistant coach Alex Pribble to the team this year. Pribble comes from a high school coaching background. This is his first job at the collegiate level. PHOTO BY ANDREW LOPEZ
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BY JAMIE WELLS | [email protected]
SERVING UP: SF State’s Megan Johnson (14) sets up to serve at a game against Cal State Los Angeles Nov. 4. The Gators lost the game in a 3-0 sweep. PHOTO BY ANDREW LOPEZ
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Junior forward James Albright excelled in SF State’s men’s basketball game against the Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks last weekend. The transfer student scored 32 points with 10 rebounds. Despite the Gators’ three-point loss, Albright proved his skills as one of the newest additions to the team.
PHOTO BY TYLER DENISTON/SF STATE SPORTS
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WRESTLINGat McKendree
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WRESTLINGat Embry-
Riddle (Ariz.)at 3 p.m.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLvs. Missouri Science and Technology
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much, so fast and I couldn’t tolerate it because I couldn’t even walk without having a shooting pain up my leg,” Horton said.
Before the season began she said her pain was at an eight or nine on a scale of one to 10. Now it’s under five, but she still has to arrive 45 minutes earlier than normal every day to warm up the leg.
Extra time in the training room is something the trainers see a lot.
“I would say that the athletes that are injured, and the ones that are trying to be preventative, they’re spending a lot of time,” Schussel said. “It’s not just a two or three hour practice; it’s an hour, you know, hour and a half before practice and they’re in here doing treatment and rehab after practice.”
Horton was given a large, plastic boot to wear and crutches to help take the pressure off the bone, and it helped the injury, but made daily life harder.
“It was really difficult, especially having it be like uphill for all of my classes,” she said. “The boot is really heavy so I felt like I was dragging my leg behind me.”
That was nothing, however, compared to miss-ing matches because of the injury.
“It’s just something that mentally, you have to overcome,” Horton said. “You have to just men-tally get over that and just push through the point of pain and just focus on something else. You love the sport so you do what you have to play it, when you have a passion for something and you have that drive to continue.”
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THERE IS A STUFFED BIRD carcass lying headless in the middle of your dining room table. It’s the only remains of an animal whose lifetime was spent immobilized in disease-ridden confi nement, force-fed
antibiotics and a subject of physical violence. Happy Thanksgiving.
Abstaining from turkey consumption on Thanksgiving is a way to protest inhumane practices by denying the industry your money and your mouth.
According to a 2010 investigation by the Hu-mane Society of the United States, young, sick turkeys are often fed through a meat grinder, alive.
Other fi ndings included turkeys being hung by their necks on conveyor belts while a laser burns off part of their beaks. During the trans-portation process alone, turkeys are thrown into crates, often breaking their bones. Many die en-route to the slaughterhouse in freezing weather conditions, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The survivors’ throats are slit while hung upside down by their feet.
Conditions while the animals are alive are equally abhorrent.
Their beaks are cut off so they won’t injure each other, and they are force-fed growth hor-mones. They live in cramped spaces so small they cannot stretch out their wings.
These are the same conditions that bred mad cow disease, and if your turkey dinner ate chemicals and stood in its own feces during the course of its life, you will be eating chemicals and feces as well.
Most turkeys and traditional farm animals such as cows, pigs and chickens are manufac-tured, not raised, in industrial, assembly line-like settings because it saves time and money for meat corporations.
It is no secret that the turkey industry is busier now than at any other time of year and many Americans aren’t blithely unaware of the meat industry, as they once were.
Despite the unveiling of meat industry practices in novels and documentaries such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” and Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” the US Census Bureau estimated that $3.6 bil-lion worth of turkeys were “produced” during 2009.
Thanksgiving is a holiday based on tradition and gratitude. There is nothing traditional about meat consumption in the modern age. Animals are no longer hunted in the fi elds or even bred on farms; they are manufactured in factories and killed on an assembly line.
Apathy is the order of the day, and hey, they were made to be killed, right?
According to a survey conducted by the Humane Society, nearly 40 percent of Ameri-can households own a dog or a cat as a pet, yet Lassie is hardly ever on the menu. Why eat one kind of animal and not another?
There are more humane, healthier alterna-tives such as Tofurkey, or just serving other vegetable and starch dishes. Giving up this year’s Thanksgiving turkey will help tell the meat industries that their inhumane practices are not acceptable by the American public.
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DON’T BRING DEATH TO THE DINNER TABLE
Thanksgiving traditions should not be used as an excuse for the inhumane treatment and living conditions of turkeys.
The Xpress staff is looking forward to the Thanksgiving break next week. In acknowledgement of the holiday we would like to take this time to refl ect with our readers about what we give thanks for.
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We all know the situation — Two friends blurring the line between friendly and friendlier. In all honesty, the idea of no commitment, no-strings-attached lovin’ may sound like a great idea at some point to anyone.
However, there are two words that can eas-ily be used in this situation: Bad. Idea.
The fabled friends with benefits situation can be a great way to meet those late night needs with someone who you know you’re already compatible with, however the negative risks can be greater than the benefits.
In a study done by Michigan State and Wayne State University, 65.3 percent of people who said they were in or had a friends with benefits relationship said the biggest downside was the development of feelings.
In other words, more than half of people in these situations ended up in the Broken Hearts Club.
These relationships are also notorious for not progressing into something more committed or long term.
The theory that these kinds of “relation-ships” don’t last for more than a few weeks or
months can sound great. However, after sharing something so intimate, if someone becomes emotionally attached when things go south, it can be hard to let go.
The likelihood that this person is going to be around when all is said and done is low. FWB relationships also don’t tend to last more than a few months.
In reflection of my own conquests, as well as those of my friends, it is only a matter of months before the theoretical shit hits the fan.
It’s best to take into consideration the value of this persons’ friendship.
The cliché term “sex changes everything” didn’t come from nowhere.
Having sex with someone can seriously change how you see him or her, and will cer-tainly change the dynamic of your friendship.
After sharing something so intimate, think of how awkward and weird things can get when you run into them anywhere else.
I was in a FWB relationship with someone and we had a lot of mutual friends.
It became a hot awkward mess every time we saw each other outside the context of our rendezvous.
The best advice that can be given in this situation is don’t go for it.
And if you decide it’s something you want to try, be honest with yourself and don’t be afraid to end it.
Remember this is just a friend, and it may not have been a good idea in the first place.
FRIENDS DON’T ALWAYS COME WITH BENEFITS
While most college students have had a more-than-friends relationship, it doesn’t mean that the friendship will work out in the end.
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