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Arturo GarciaStaff Writer

Library receives out-of-this-world collection

The San Diego State Love Library received a science fiction collection valued at $2.25 million. SDSU announced on Monday that Escondido real-estate agent Edward Marsh has been collecting books since the age of 9, donated works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, William Burroughs and other golden-age authors to the school.

SDSU Dean of Library and Information Access Gale Etschmaier said the collection includes first-edition items, memorabilia and artwork. SDSU’s full science fiction collection is currently comprised of nearly 5,000 titles.

The Department of Special Collections and University Archives put together an exhibition on the second floor of Love Library’s dome. The department’s librarian Anna Culbertson SAID, the displayed works were divided into several themes, including golden-age authors, fantasy and dystopia, space opera, and women and LBGTQ representation and authors.

“I hope all students enjoy the exhibit,” Special Collections student assistant Mario Delgadillo said. “We have worked really hard on it.”

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In this hard-hitting flu season, experts are turning to Twitter and crowdsourcing to track the virus.

This flu season, more than 2,000 people have been hospitalized and there have been more than 18 deaths from symptoms associated with the flu.

Brigham Young University conducted a study in which 24 million tweets were collected from 10 million random Twitter users. The researchers looked for recurring terms such as “flu,” “coughing” and “fever.”

Location data was collected for roughly 15 percent of the tweets, allowing researchers to get an idea about the distribution and prevalence of the virus. Further location information was gathered from user-generated profiles, which proved to be accurate 88 percent of the time.

Using the collective data, researchers were able to collect incidences of the flu at the state level. This tool allows health professionals to track the virus with more immediacy than the information provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which can take approximately two weeks to process.

New language-processing technologies are being developed to weed out “chatter” about the flu, eliminating noise from people expressing concern about the flu

national

Hannah BeausangSenior Staff Writer

Computer hackers seek to gain personal data from other peo-ple without their authorization. As technology continues to ad-vance, hackers have devised a new way to obtain access to private information through the use of a computer webcam. These particular Internet pred-ators start by sending the user an email containing content such as a link to a YouTube video or a notification saying the user has received an e-card. Once the user clicks on the link in the email, the hacker gains full access to not only the in-

f o r m a t i o n on the user’s c o m p u t e r , but also the webcam, al-lowing the hacker to watch his or her every move.

G r a p h i c design junior Marcus Pa-

pazian-Cowan, was shocked to hear such a virus existed. While he doesn’t believe his computer has been hacked be-fore, he advises others to take caution with the websites they visit and the emails they open.

“If someone else had an in-sight to my life through my webcam, I would be really mad and wouldn’t feel secure using my computer, especially if I had to use my credit card to make a purchase,” Papazian-Cowan said. “I definitely advise ev-

and honing in on people reporting actual flu-like symptoms.

Because social media is becoming a prominent part of people’s daily lives, this type of research has potential to thrive in the future. A 2012 Pew Research Center study indicated 69 percent of online adults use social networking sites and 16 percent of online adults use Twitter.

San Diego State School of Journalism & Media Studies assistant professor Rebecca Nee conducted a study through the Social Science Research Laboratory last fall that reported 30 percent of SDSU students use Twitter and 90 percent use Facebook. Because the technology-reliant younger generation tends to dominate the cyber world of social media, the online chatter is booming.

“College-age students are coming down with the flu and they may be more likely to be public about that,” Nee said. “They might be reporting it more to social media than to their health professionals.”

SDSU geography professor Ming-Hsiang Tsou, has been working closely with Anna Nagel, a public health graduate student since 2010 to use social media and online search engines, such as Yahoo and Bing for tracking.

The team has been tracking the flu via Twitter in 31 cities. Tsou says San Diego is one of the most highly correlated cities for accuracy of flu-related tweets matching CDC data.

The team is creating “word clouds” to aggregate weekly tweets to track the frequency of vocabulary to monitor the top keywords. The word clouds help detect the sentiment of the tweet and analyze the content to cut down on error.

“We want to create a linkage between cyberspace and real space,” Tsou said. “We think all the activity, chatting and buzz will reflect some level of truth in the real world.”

In the future, the team hopes to develop methods of linguistic analysis to examine writing styles in order to categorize tweets by age group. It will also be able to differentiate gender by user names and profile information to better understand data.

“This is much more efficient

than conducting a survey asking how you are feeling about the flu,” Tsou said.

Twitter has been successful in monitoring disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and tracking major events, such as the recent elections.

Although Twitter is a large source of data collection for this type of tracking, researchers also look at Internet search engine data.

To help monitor the flu, Google has created Google Flu Trends, a global flu-tracking system. HealthMap, another flu tracker from Boston Children’s Hospital, looks at online news about the flu to track outbreaks and Flu Near You, is an online project that collects weekly reports of illnesses.

Experts using Twitter to follow the flu

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Secure web-sites have a little lock picture on the side...casey carterComputer Science senior

Marsh told the U-T San Diego he wished for his golden-age collection to be preserved because kids today have no idea it even existed.

“They’ve never seen a pulp magazine with these lurid covers,” Marsh said. “And all the movies they see come from stories written by the golden-age guys.”

Culbertson said the golden age of science fiction carried themes of “hard” science fiction, with a big focus on things that had scientific and technical plausibility such as space travel and rockets. Culbertson described these themes masculine and said later in post-modern science fiction, the stories involved

social and political themes. Ninety-five percent of the

collection is from the 20th century. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was chosen as the start of the displayed timeline. Culbertson said lectures by former SDSU affiliates will accompany the exhibition later in the semester.

monica linzmeier, assistant photo editor Different science fiction titles are on display on the second floor of Love Library. An Escondido real-estate agent donated a $2.25 million valued science fiction collection.

monica linzmeier, assistant photo editorTwitter users from around the world are posting when they have the flu and experts are tracking the trends.

I still think a number of people know them as “They had that song from the Target commercials.”

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Crime BeatSuspicious Activity ReportedSan Diego State Police De-partment received reports of suspicious activity near the on-campus Chipotle on Hardy Ave. at approximiately 4 p.m. on Jan. 26. Witnesses report-ed seeing an unidentified male trying several door handles of the vehicles in the parking lot just west of the restaurant. The suspect was gone by the time police arrived on scene. No arrests were made.

MacBook StolenA report of grand theft was made by an unnamed SDSU student on Saturday, Jan. 26 when a MacBook Pro was sto-len from an unlocked room of Zura Hall, located off Mont-ezuma Road. SDSUPD were called to the scene at 7:46 p.m. A police report was filed for the incident, citing the estimated total in losses at $1,100. At this time, SDSUPD

has no suspects and no ar-rests have been made.

Public IntoxicationTwo SDSU students were ar-rested Saturday night for pub-lic intoxication. Shortly after midnight, police received re-ports of a male suspect sight-ed in the lobby of Tenochca Residence Hall on Montezuma Road. The suspect appeared to be visibly intoxicated and wit-nesses claimed the suspect may have been involved in a physical fight. Police arrested the suspect for public intoxi-cation and transported him to jail. Later that night, another arrest was made between Fra-ternity Row and Viejas Arena. Police took the male suspect into custody after receiving in-formation that he was unable to walk because of inebriation. The suspect was transported to detox and detained for pub-lic intoxication.

The decision to allow women to serve in combat has been met with both widespread support and criticism across the nation. Some echo President Barack Obama’s sentiments that it’s another step toward equality, further minimiz-ing the segregation between gen-ders which women’s rights activ-ists have been railing against since the early 1900s. Others fear for the effectiveness of the U.S. mili-tary, saying women may prove to be more of a hindrance than an asset on the battlefield.

In a statement issued by Obama, the president explained the lifting of the ban is the next “step toward fulfilling our nation’s founding ideals of fairness and equality.”

However, San Diego State ROTC 1st Lt. Heather Adams points out how women have already been en-gaging in combat prior to the de-cision to lift the ban.

“With the war that we’re going through today, it’s kind of differ-ent; we don’t really have a front-line,” Adams said. “So you have women engaging in combat as it is, being in military police, going out in convoys. Even though they’re not in a combat unit, or a combat arms unit, they’re still engaging the enemy as if they were.”

Adams said the ROTC program - which includes units at SDSU, Point Loma Nazarene University, University of San Diego, Univer-sity of California, San Diego and California State University, San Marcos - currently has approxi-mately 45 female cadets.

Recruitment Operations Offi-cer Major Richard Cotte said the physical requirements prospective cadets must meet in order to sign a contract with ROTC are stag-gered according to both age and

SDSU ROTC reacts to women in combateryone to not open suspicious emails.”

According to San Diego State Association of Informa-tion Technology Professionals club president Tyler Daher, hackers attach a Remote Ac-cess Trojan in the email they send out. This Trojan horse is one of seven types of Tro-jan horse malwares providing attackers absolute control of another person’s system and webcam. After clicking on the link, computer users may not realize their computers have been affected because of the hidden RAT inside the email.

Computer science senior Casey Carter recommends stu-dents stay away from random websites and always question the legitimacy of messages, emails and correspondences.

“If a website has ‘https’ in the website link, that means the site is actually secured and has a secure socket layer, also known as SSL,” Carter said. “Secure websites have a little lock picture on the side and it’s harder for hackers to transmit a computer virus on secure websites versus a web-site that is not secure.”

Students can better protect their computers from hackers by installing antivirus soft-ware that can detect and re-move various malware. Com-puter viruses can pass from computer to computer and behave in a way similar to biological viruses. The SDSU RezCon offices offer students two different antivirus soft-ware they can install on their computers: McAfee for com-puters running Mac OS X and Microsoft Security Essentials for PCs.

For students living in the residence halls, the RezCon office located in Olmeca on the first floor can help stu-dents who believe their com-puters have been targeted by a virus. For students that don’t live on campus, the Student Computing Center located in the library can also help re-store bugged computers.

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gender. “It’s a totally different grading

scale. Everybody has the same ex-ercises that they have to do, but the points that are earned based on how many push-ups you do, how many sit-ups you do or how fast you run the two miles are graded differently by age category and by male or female.”

Adams said women have dif-ferent physical training standards but she said there are some female cadets in the program who exceed the male standards.

“There’s a reason why they set those physical standards because that’s the strength required to safely and effectively be a part of that unit or conduct those mis-sions,” Adams said. “But if a fe-male can meet those standards, I don’t see why gender should be an issue.”

Adams added that people need to judge the capabilities and char-acters of the person, not just form an opinion because of his or her gender.

“Anytime you break a status quo, people flip out,” said Ad-ams. “You’re always going to have close-minded people and you can’t play into them.”

Allowing women in frontline com-bat has sparked conversation across the world.

photograph by eddie ledesma/contra costa times (april7)The decision to allow women in frontline combat has spurred conversation. San Diego State ROTC members speak up about their feelings toward this topic.

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FroNtcourt: Aztecs: Starting sophomore forward Erimma Amarikwa has done an exceptional job for the Aztecs this season leading their frontcourt with 9.1 points per game, in addition to grabbing 6.1 rebounds. Senior center Malia Nahinu brings a 6-foot-6 frame to the starting frontcourt, averaging 8 points, 5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game, all while shooting more than 50 percent from the field this season. Senior forward Gabrielle Clark has also been solid for the Aztecs this season, averaging 5.1 points per game and 3 rebounds, while leading the team in free throw shooting percentage at 89.5 percent.

Falcons: Senior forward Dymond James leads the frontcourt for the Falcons averaging 8.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game while playing a team high 29.4 minutes per game. However, James has struggled this season, shooting just 30.7 percent from the field, a team low for the Falcons starters. Standing at 5-foot-10, it may be difficult for James to contain the 6-foot frontcourt of the Aztecs. Edge: Aztecs

BAckcourt: Aztecs: Senior guards Courtney Clements and Chelsea Hopkins continue to be a dynamic force together for the Aztecs. While Clements leads the team in scoring at 17.2 points per game, Hopkins is right behind, averaging 13.6 points per game,

while leading the team with 7.5 rebounds per game. Hopkins is also currently the conference league leader with 7.4 assists per game. So far this season, she’s had three triple-doubles, two of them coming in conference play.

Falcons: The Falcons senior guard Alicia Leipprandt leads her team in scoring at 11.7 points per game, but failed to score in double figures against Wyoming, which the Falcons lost by 38 points. Her season average of points and rebounds per game are down from last year, as she is struggling shooting a career low of 69.6 percent from the free throw line. In the backcourt of the Falcons, Clements and Hopkins both outscore and rebound Leipprandt. Edge: Aztecs

The tournament took place Jan. 24 through Jan. 28 and suffered several delays because of bad weather. Woods’ 4-shot win is generating a lot of discussion among fans, analysts and competitors: Is Woods finally back?

Despite, what his critics may be saying, Woods is feeling optimistic about the upcoming year.“I’m excited about this year. I’m excited about what I’m doing with Sean (Foley) and some of the things that I’ve built,” Woods told The Associated Press. “This is a nice way to start the year.”

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national sports beatAdriana BushAssistant Sports Editor

tiger Woods clenches win at torrey PinesTiger Woods is in the headlines again. But this time not for his past, how well he hasn’t been playing or how his talents have been slowly deteriorating. It’s for finishing his 75th PGA Tour title at the Farmers Insurance Open last weekend.

This is the seventh time Woods has won this tournament and the eighth time he has won at Torrey Pines, thus setting a PGA Tour record.

coAchiNg: Aztecs: Head coach Beth Burns has San Diego State rolling in conference play after losing its first conference game to Fresno State. Since then, the Aztecs have won five straight games, most recently coming off a 24-point win at New Mexico last weekend. Coming off a 12-2 conference record last season, Burns has the Aztecs in first place after six games in conference play.

Falcons: Head coach Andrea Williams is entering her third season as the Falcons’ head coach. The Air Force last beat SDSU on Jan. 19, 2011 upon her arrival to the Air Force Academy in the summer of 2010. Williams has won a total of six conference games so far within her coaching career at Air Force and has

lost a total of 29 in conference play. Edge: Aztecs

iNtANgiBlES: Aztecs: The Aztecs are on a five-game winning streak and they’re currently in first place, leading the conference with a 5-1 record. They have won nine home games this season, while the Falcons are winless on the road, losing eight away games thus far.

Falcons: The Falcons are 2-16 overall this season, 1-4 in conference play. As the Falcons continue to have a struggling season, it’s difficult to see them coming out with a win at Viejas Arena. Edge: Aztecs

PrEDictioN: SDSu: 72 Air Force: 49

harbaugh answers obama about football safety Football has always been physical and will remain physical, especially as the popularity of the sport continues to grow.

The San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh hopes this aspect of the game will never change, even with the recently publicized concerns of the president. Not only for the sake of the sport, but also for players pursuing a professional career.

At a recent news conference, Harbaugh said he has high hopes his 5-month-old son will one day play football.

This was in response to President

Barack Obama saying to The New Republic that if he had a son he would think twice about letting him play football.

Harbaugh told reporters at the news conference, “If President Obama feels that way, then there will be a little bit less competition for Jack Harbaugh when he gets old.”As long as football remains a sport, people will continue to question the safety of its players.

Debates continue regarding ray lewis. The Super Bowl will officially mark the end of the Ray Lewis era and people are already talking about

who the MVP should or shouldn’t be. Many would love to see Lewis end his 17-year football career with another Super Bowl ring and perhaps another opportunity to say, “I’m going to Walt Disney World,” as MVP. However, others feel he doesn’t deserve MVP after accusations of banned drug use and because of his altercation in January 2000, which resulted in Lewis’ guilty plea to a misdemeanor for obstruction of justice. The Super Bowl is now only four days away and both fans and naysayers of Lewis are anxious to see who the next Super Bowl MVP will be.

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Kevin Smead Entertainment Editor

Is this year’s Coachella worth your money?

With the release of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival line-up, dudes looking to break the ice with that cute girl in their account-ing, business, physics, etc. class can breathe a sigh of relief. The awk-ward, “Uh, so, what classes are you taking?” question can now be re-placed with, “So, what do you think of the Coachella lineup this year?” It shows that you’re “hip,” “with it” and have a vested interest in their taste. I’m no Love Guru, but trust me, it’s way less awkward than the class thing.

Now, I’m going to do something no guy looking to make a new friend ever should: ask you a question and then respond with what I think first. So, uh, hey guys, what do you think of the new Coachella lineup?

This is the part where I cut you off, just as you’re about to speak.

Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed. I mean, not like I ever go to Coachel-la, but I hoped for something… bet-ter? More exciting? I don’t know. It’s not like I wouldn’t be super pumped to see blur, or Modest Mouse, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Oh, wait, what? That’s just Friday? Huh.

Well, I guess Saturday has Phoe-nix, Sigur Rós, and The Postal Ser-vice. All of those are…

Oh, hey! New Order.I’m definitely a fan of New Order.

I still think a decent number of peo-ple know them as “They had that song from the Target commercials.” Still, I’d love to be there when peo-ple go apes**t when it starts playing “Ceremony.”

Alright, so Saturday’s not bad. Sunday has the Red Hot Chili

Peppers, which in all seriousness is kind of unfortunate. I don’t think it’s been relevant since, I don’t know, 2003, maybe 2004? RHCP recently lost its guitarist, John Frusciante, and I’m pretty positive Anthony

Kiedis is still about as weird as they come, so expectations are mixed. Maybe he’ll freak out and be the “Tupac-o-gram/HoloPac” story of this year.

Even if that doesn’t happen, Sun-day still has bands such as The Faint, Dinosaur Jr. and Vampire Weekend. Not bad in my book. And oh, what’s this?

The Wu-Tang Clan?Wow, apparently Sunday ain’t

nothin’ to f**k with. So, I guess this year’s Coachella

lineup is pretty alright after all. I’m still not sure if it’s worth the hun-dreds of dollars, the heat, and hav-ing some girl drunkenly screaming the lyrics to every Vampire Weekend song in your ear, though. I guess that’s up to you, though 2 Chainz may be worth the price of admission alone.

Oh, sorry, what were you saying? Check out this year’s full lineup

below, and stick with The Daily Az-tec as we spotlight some bands com-

FrIDAYAesop RockAlt-JBand of HorsesBassnectarBeach HouseBeardymanblurC2CDam-FunkDeathfixDillon FrancisDivine FitsDJ HarveyDog Bloodearl sweatshirtFoalsFour TetGrindermanHow to Destroy Angels

infected mushroomio echoJake BuggJames mcCartneyJamie xxJapandroidsJello Biafra and the Guantanamo...Johnny marrJurassic 5lee scratch Perrylocal Nativeslord Huronlou Reedlucianometricmodest mousemodestepNicky Romeroof monsters and menPalma Violets

Passion PitPolicaPurity Ringsam Xl Pure Filth soundseth Troxlerskinny listersparksstarsTegan and saraThe Neighbourhoodthe shouting matchesThe stone RosesThomas GoldTNGHTTokyo ska Paradise orchestraTommy TrashWolfgang GartnerYouth lagoon

SATurDAY2 Chainz3BallmTYAction BronsonAllen stoneBaauerBat for lashesBen HowardBenny BenassiBiffy ClyroBingo PlayersBirdy Nam NamBooka shadeCafé TacvbaCassyDanny BrownDescendentsDropkick murphysel-PFedde le GrandFranz Ferdinand

Grizzly BearGuardsHot ChipHuoratronJanelle monaeJason BentleyKids These DaysKill the NoiseKnife Partyloco Dicemajor lazermoby DJ setmonaNew orderPhoenixPortugal. The manPusciferPusha TReignWolfRichie Hawtinsavages

shovels & Ropesigur Róssimian mobile DiscospiritualizedThe 2 BearsThe ColouristThe evensThe make-upThe Postal serviceThe selecterThe WombatsThe xxTheophilus londonTrash TalkTwo Door Cinema ClubVintage TroubleViolent FemmesWild NothingYeasayerParov stelar

SuNDAYAdrian luxAlex ClareCloud NothingsDanny AvilaDead Can DanceDeap VallyDiiVDinosaur Jr.DirtyphonicsDisclosureDub Fxeric Prydzexcision presents The executionerFather John mistyGhostGrimesHanni el KhatibHardwellJames Blake

RodriguezRoni size & Dynamite mCsmith Westernssocial DistortionTame impalaTanlinesThe Airborne Toxic eventThe FaintThe Gaslight AnthemThe lumineersThe Three o’ClockThee oh seesuNiCoRN KiDVampire WeekendWHiTe ARRoWsWild BelleWu-Tang ClanYeah Yeah YeahsZane lowe

Jamie JonesJeff the BrotherhoodJessie WareJoris VoornJulio BashmoreKurt Vilela Rouxladies Nightlittle Green Carsmaya Jane Colesmimosamord FustangNick Cave & The Bad seedsomDPaul KalkbrennerPaul oakenfoldPretty lightsRaider KlanRed Hot Chili PeppersRobert Delong

2013 COACHELLA LINEUP, APr. 12-14, 19-21

photo courtesy modest mouseModest Mouse is always a welcome addition to any bill. The band is currently working on its next album.

photo courtesy the yeah yeah yeahsThe Yeah Yeah Yeahs are releasing its fourth album, “Mos-quito,” April 16, in between both Coachella weekends.

photo by brian tamborelloMany fans rejoiced when they heard The Postal Service reuinted, and even more so since its Coachella announcement.

photo courtesy new orderBritish group New Order as an interesting addition to this year’s Coachella, line-up and is a reason to go.

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cELEb of THE WEEk: Jennifer Lawrence earned her spot as The Daily Aztec’s “celeb of the week” for winning best actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. The 22-year-old actress was recognized for her outstanding role in “Silver Linings Playbook” alongside co-star Bradley Cooper. In her acceptance speech, Lawrence gave a shout-out to MTV and said she first earned her SAG card when she was 14 years old and filmed a promo for MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16.” Since then, Lawrence has be-come known as one of Hollywood’s hottest talents and seems to be one step closer to winning an Oscar in February. Yes, it’s obvious J-Law is on fire with her career, but it’s never too early to anticipate her reprise role as Katniss Everdeen, the girl who is on fire, in the sequel “Hun-ger Games: Catching Fire” this No-vember.

cELEbriTy sigHTiNgs: Tiger Woods recently stayed in La Jolla while participating in the Farmers Insurance Open PGA Tour. The tournament, which was sup-posed to end Sunday, was extended to Monday because of bad weather conditions, leaving Woods in the San Diego area for an extra day.On Friday, Jan. 18, heartthrob Sean Lowe was spotted eating and hang-ing out with friends at E Bar Tex Mex in Dallas. While Texas may be a world away for us San Diegans, we can watch him (in slow-motion for those who have DVR) reveal those abs of steel and a heart of gold on “The Bachelor” on Mondays at 8 p.m.

romANcE: In a recent interview with W maga-zine, some of the biggest celebrities spilled the beans and confessed their secret crushes. “Argo” star Ben Af-fleck admitted that Brad Pitt is his

cinematic crush. He jokingly said Pitt is the perfect man and actor—even though his heart belongs to his wife, Jennifer Garner. Affleck isn’t the only person who has an unex-pected secret crush. Kristen Stewart said she used to have a “huge thing” for actor Harrison Ford. There’s no question Ford was a cutie back in his “Indiana Jones” days, but sorry Kristen, I think it’s safe to say this 70-year-old is just a little too old for you now.

Singer Marc Anthony and model Shannon de Lima called it quits in mid-January after dating for a little more than one year. On Tuesday, Jan. 22, Anthony had a 2 1/2 hour meeting with his ex-wife, Jennifer Lopez at The Mark hotel in New York. It may be too soon to tell if this was just a coincidence or if something is rekindling between the two, who have been divorced since last April. lionel hahn, abaca press (mct)Jennifer Lawrence is best known for her role as Katniss

Everdeen in the adaptation of “The Hunger Games.”

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Ashley WilliamsStaff Writer

SDSU looking to become Fair Trade University

small businesses the ability to flourish.

According to Fair Trade USA, “fair trade offers better prices, improved terms of trade, and the business skills necessary to produce high-quality products that can compete in the global marketplace.”

It does this by having importers work directly with small producers, thus cutting out some of the money that ends up in the hands of the middlemen. Fair-trade certification principles emphasize that producers form democratic co-ops, promote environmental sustainability and strictly prohibit child labor.

Fair Trade USA is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization and is the main third-party fair trade certifier in the U.S. It certifies coffee, tea, herbs, spices, cocoa, sugar, fresh fruit and vegetables, beans, grains, nuts, oils, butters, honey, flowers, wine and apparel.

The organization has generated $225 million worth of additional income for farmers and workers since fair trade began in 1998.

Thompson often explains the income benefits to people, adding that, “the response is usually positive, but it’s not socially recognizable yet.”

Thompson says she’s taking steps to make the concept of fair trade as recognizable as the organic trend. She has spent the last two years working on converting La Mesa into a certified Fair Trade Town. La Mesa was awarded certification in October— Fair Trade Month—at the Fair Trade Campaigns Conference held in

Chicago. Thompson joined the SDSU

Social Action Committee in September and presented the group with the idea of turning SDSU into a Fair Trade University. Her idea was acknowledged but with the November 2012 elections, the SAC was putting its resources toward registering voters and setting up an on-campus polling center. Now that the elections have passed, fair trade is at the top of the SAC agenda.

“It’s going to bring so much

recognition to San Diego State,” Thompson said.

The process of certifying a university as fair-trade certified involves forming a committee, spreading awareness among students, faculty and staff, getting on-campus vendors to offer fair-trade options and writing a resolution.

“It’s about getting people to switch their consumer choice and switch every time,” Thompson said.

The committee plans to increase

the fair-trade coffee available at the five Peabody’s Organic Coffee locations on campus.

Hopkins says she also hopes to have some sort of simple, succinct sign at the Peabody’s locations that defines what fair trade is in order to educate students. Apart from the administrative hurdles associated with SDSU becoming fair-trade certified, educating people is a major barrier.

The University of San Diego and the University of California, San Diego are already Fair Trade

The U.S is notoriously associated with freedom. The national anthem touts the U.S. as being the “land of the free,” the Pledge of Allegiance swears loyalty to a nation based on “liberty and justice for all,” and the Statue of Liberty asks for “your tired, your poor (and) your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

There is a Wal-mart about five miles away from the Statue of Liberty and if you Google “dollar stores near Liberty Island,” it looks like Google Maps has chicken pox.

In addition to being the “land of the free,” America is also the land of people who like to buy things for as close to free as possible.

But the dark underside to cheap products involves a world where producers are exploited and denied a fair, livable wage.

While college students are traditionally confined to small budgets, a few San Diego State students are agreeing to pay the extra pennies for equality and are working toward making SDSU a Fair Trade University.

Nursing junior Denise Thompson, who is a part of the SDSU Fair Trade movement, has posed the question, “What is fair trade?”

Fair trade is a certification process that works in developing countries to fairly compensate farmers, artisans, and workers and helps with community development. This alternative to traditional aid is meant to give

jordan owen, staff photographerFair Trade USA certifies coffee, tea, herbs, spices, cocoa, sugar, fruits, vegetables and other common consumables.

monica linzmeier, assistant photo editorPeabody’s organic coffee sells a selection of fair-trade certified coffee.

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Fair Trade USA uses two labels: one of a figure holding a container against a green backdrop and one of a black and white figure holding two containers. There are also fair-trade certification organizations in other countries that use different labels.

When she was working on converting La Mesa, Thompson ran into speed bumps associated with people not understanding the principles of fair trade. One misconception she noted is some people think fair trade takes away from American jobs. She explained fair-trade products need to be imported anyway, so it just means that the producers of American imports are treated better.

Another concern consumers have is higher cost. A 12-ounce cup of fair-trade coffee at Cosmos Coffee Café in La Mesa costs $1.50 while the same size at 7-Eleven costs $1.55 and is $1.65 at the SDSU Starbucks locations.

“People are working hard to be paid what they deserve,” Point Loma Nazarene University teaching graduate student Lisa Watson said. “No matter how much we work toward our own education, we should also be conscious of how we can help others.”

PLNU has also begun the process of becoming fair-trade certified.

Some SDSU students and alumni have already embraced fair

universities. “When I was a student at USD,

they started making the transition into fair trade,” USD alumna Meghan Avera said. “They did a great job of advertising to their students that the coffee we were drinking was fair trade. You can imagine on a college campus just how much coffee is consumed, so it was important for us to be conscious consumers.”

While molding college students into becoming “conscious consumers” is a goal of Fair Trade University certification, it can be challenging to educate so many people about a simple, yet relatively unknown, concept.

“Look for the labeling,” Thompson said.

trade in business models. SOLO Eyewear is a new company that was created in 2011 by graduate student Jenny Amaraneni. Purchasing bamboo sunglasses from SOLO helps raise money for those who cannot afford reading glasses and cataract surgery.

Another socially conscious business with roots at SDSU, VavaVida, sells made-in-the-U.S., organic, eco-friendly and fair-trade products. Its president, Antoine Didienne, received a Master’s degree in mass communication and media studies from SDSU and is an advocate for SDSU converting to fair trade.

VavaVida intern and SDSU marketing junior Angellyne De Perio has embraced the concept

of fair trade since she learned about it at the beginning of her internship.

“I think (making SDSU a Fair Trade University) will be a big challenge because moving to fair trade is teaching a whole new behavior,” De Perio said. “However, I think that SDSU is moving in a great direction by doing this and that college is the prime time for learning new behaviors that shape us in the future. Becoming a fair-trade campus would show the world that SDSU is an institution dedicated to the global community.”

monica linzmeier, assistant photo editorAztecs can order from a small collection of fair-trade certified coffee at Peabody’s Organic Coffee stands on campus.

jordan owen, staff photographerBen & Jerry’s ice cream is among the fair-trade certified products found on store shelves.

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Why we hate travel by flight

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With the holiday season now behind us, the airline industry is sure to see a

steady decline in business until sum-mer or fall springs upon us. Having taken four separate flights within the past two months, I, for one, am espe-cially glad that I will not have to set foot in an airport until the semester ends. The airport is my equivalent to purgatory; it is the temporary place of severe and unbearable punishment. And with a delayed flight, airports can feel like hell: a place of eternal, everlasting punishment. You know how after you ride “It’s a Small World” in Disneyland, and you feel the urge to lobotomize yourself while eating an overpriced churro for the next six hours? That pretty much sums up every airport experience I’ve ever had (the urge to self-lobotomize, mixed with high-priced, crappy food, with a dash of nonstop hullabaloo playing continuously in my head).

Flying is a colossal, chaotic, con-temptible construction created by crazy, cash-hungry corporations. Airports are like men: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. It’s a Catch-22. Upon entering an airport, one’s senses are immediately over-whelmed. It’s noisy, claustrophobic and a nightmare for germaphobes. On average, it takes a minimum of 35 hours to check your baggage and you’re always stuck behind the guy with 18 suitcases. Once you’ve finally checked your luggage, you make your way to your next 35-hour wait: the security line. After the TSA worker looks at your ticket and ID, making sure to give you an especially dis-gruntled glare, you make your way off to the lovely land of the X-rated X-rays, where you’re subject to sexual

violation by the new 21st century full-body scanning machines.

You know those signs posted before you ride a roller coaster that read, “you must be this tall to ride the ride?” I believe before you enter this part of the airport experience, there should be a sign that states, “You must be this sane to enter this portion of the security line,” because we all know once you step into that never-ending line-o’-doom, a little part of your soul dies. Not a huge part, but just enough to make you want to rip your brains out. And that’s when the aforementioned lobotomizing begins to play a part. This is where you really see human nature and all of its glorious stupidity come out full throttle.

Forced to disrobe shoes, jackets, jewlery, hats or anything else that might contain your homemade bomb, you quickly hustle through the line—for the people behind you are glued to your rear, making sure you spend no more than 22 seconds putting your carry-ons and clothes through the metal detector. Oddly enough, you are also required to take out your laptop and load it separately from your other belongings. Theo-retically, your laptop might contain a bomb or conceal a weapon, but the only thing I’m hiding in there is my previous internet history (insert rimshot here). Airports have been here since the beginning of mankind (or 1928, to be exact), so I have to laugh when I see people go through the metal detector and consistently set off the alarm. Oh wait, did I say laugh? I meant self-lobotomize. But you know those oblivious individu-als, who either forget to empty their pockets carrying their Mr. T gold chains or take off their belt buckles, which are made solely of aluminum? People, you know the routine: Empty your pockets, take off your jewelry and stop holding up the rest of the

line for everyone else! We have places to go and people to see!

After stepping through the metal detector and having the TSA agent (who obviously hates her life by the Kristen Stewart-esque pout on her face) check out your naked body, you’re off to your terminal. You take off your glasses, step on that weird moving walkway and transform from Clark Kent to freaking Superman. You out-walk everyone at superhu-man speeds, rush to your terminal and ... your flight is delayed. It’s another 35-hour wait, so what to do? Hit up the bar, buy yourself an obnoxiously over-priced $13 beer and befriend the 65-year-old drunk lady on her way to Seaside Heights for some much needed R&R.

After waiting for more than a combined total of 105 hours (give or take), you board the flight and all is well, right? Wrong. This is where the theoretical lobotomy would take place. You sit down and pray to the almighty gods that Chatty Cathy doesn’t sit next to you. But of course, she does, so you spend the whole flight making small talk with some necktie enthusiast 45,000 feet in the air. You’re then forced to turn off your cellphone, for if you don’t you’ll be sure to have a flight attendant scold you like a bitter Catholic school nun. If you’re anything like me and prone to intense panic attacks, they’ll be sure to hit you right as the flight takes off. Hooray. Add in screaming babies, children kicking the back of your seat, old men in front of you who recline their chairs directly into your sternum, turbulence and alti-tude-induced ear-clogging and you’ve got yourself one hell of a ride.

Ultimately, you land safely and the wonderful experience has ended. And then you’re notified the airline has lost your luggage. Thanks for noth-ing, Wright brothers.

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