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Check Your Privilege Campaign hits campus and sparks discussion on the meaning of privilege.

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USF WARMLY WELCOMES FATHER PAUL J. FITZGERALD AS 28TH UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

The inauguration ceremony on Saturday of Rev. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J. wasn’t all for-malities. One of Fitzgerald’s oldest friends and one of the ceremony’s distinguished guest speakers, Janet Napolitano, recalled attending high school with the newly chosen president. “We even went to prom together,” Napolitano said as the audience erupted in laughter, before adding, “I have pictures.”

With the installation of the University of San Francisco’s 28th president, USF redefined its core values of a comprehensive liberal arts education and a strong affinity for social justice in the Jesuit tradition. A wide array of distin-guished guests, current students, faculty and alumni, as well as members of the public, at-tended to honor Fitzgerald as he was officially sworn in to his position. Leaders who represent USF’s relationships in educational, religious, and governmental realms witnessed and af-firmed Fitzgerald’s formal confirmation as uni-

versity president. The ceremony focused on Fitzgerald’s “global vision” for the diverse and rapidly changing university. Appropriately, Fitzgerald’s vision for USF focuses on the theme of “unity in diver-sity,” a trait that USF continues to champion as the eighth most diverse university in the coun-try. Fitzgerald will be ushering in a new era for USF that emphasizes compassionate and reflec-tive social justice. Among the renowned political guests were

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Interior of Saint Ignatius Church during Rev. Fitzgerald’s Installation ceremony, which officially made him the president of USF. DANIELLE MAINGOT / FOGHORN

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Nothing brings the people of San Fran-cisco together like the San Francisco Giants being in the World Series. Even those who are not avid baseball fan, find themselves sucked into the excitement of a win -- the third victory in five years. Last Thursday, San Francisco residents and visitors showed their love for our City by the Bay in costly damages, graffiti, toilet-papered Muni lines, burning fires, broken windows, and up-ended vehicles. Forty people were arrested and two shootings occurred. More than half of those arrested came from out of town, ac-cording to the San Francisco Police Depart-ment. At the time of print, no official num-bers had been released reflecting the cost of these damages, but the last time the Giants won the World Series in 2012, victory riots resulted in up to a million dollars in dam-ages, including a burned Muni bus that cost the city $700,000 to repair. San Francisco is well-known for being a small city filled with big dreams. Har-vey Milk was a pioneer in politics in the 1970’s, recognized as being the first openly gay elected official in California, as well as one that spearheaded the gay rights move-ment in the Castro District. Haight-Ash-bury was a hippie haven that allowed for social experimenters and proponents of the “free love” movement and counterculture to gather and exchange ideas over music and drugs. The 1960’s also brought with it increasing opposition to U.S. military action in Vietnam and conscription of the nation’s young men, which fueled the Peace Movement and the Summer of Love, dur-ing which up to 100,000 men and women gathered on Haight-Ashbury in 1967 to increase public awareness on issues like just war. These insurrections led to San Francisco being globally and unofficially dubbed the capital of liberal activism.

Yet since then, the level of activism San Francisco prides itself upon has sig-nificantly decreased in the streets. When residents do decide to take to the streets for a cause en-masse, it is not to coerce the city to accommodate for certain political, economic or social issues, but to riot for a beloved sports team. The scenes pictured on Instagram and the front pages of our city’s newspapers are comparable to the snapshots we see of overseas revolutions and conflicts in Egypt and the Ukraine. It is no secret that USF students partook in the raucous celebrations downtown and in the Mission, as evidenced by Snapchats, Instagram posts, texted selfies in front of burning objects, and other mediums of social media. The blatant disregard for the city’s property not only costs the city money -- money that could be better spent elsewhere -- but it also reinforces the “Me Me Me Gen-eration” image attached to us, millennials, by publications like TIME Magazine. There is no doubt that the times have changed and social media is now a readily available outlet for conversation and ex-change of ideas, just as Haight-Ashbury was a central location for like-minded individu-als in the sixties. But the way we use these tools and resources needs to evolve as well. We should be checking Twitter for when the next protest for education or healthcare is, just as much as we check for crowdsourced information on our next photo-op: the burning couch in the midst of a sports riot. Check out accounts like @SFPublic-Press and @SFist for updates on local is-sues and events. Follow the right Facebook pages which represent issues you know you would like to keep up with and organiza-tions that are doing something about them. What if your next photo-op was a protest? What if you and like-minded friends dressed the part, scribbled a few posters, and ensured that a message you care about reached up to 200 friends on your feed? It might even get more likes than that riot picture you posted last week.

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COLLEGE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLDKIMBERLEE PARTONStaff Writer

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANSaskatoon, SK, Canada

Canadian artist Jaime Black aims to raise awareness of Canada’s missing or mur-dered Aboriginal women by putting up an installation art piece at the University of Saskatchewan. The REDress Project was launched in 2010 in Black’s home-town of Winnipeg, and has since spread to college campuses and other public spaces across the country. Black collects donations of red dresses from the public, and then hangs the clothing from trees and buildings. The Native Women’s As-sociation of Canada has estimated that over 600 Aboriginal women have gone missing since 1994, and the United Na-tions has recently launched an inquiry to investigate the issue.

PARIS-SORBONNE UNIVERSITY Paris, France

The hijab debate is making headlines again after a female student was asked to take off her “thing” by a geography lecturer at the Sorbonne. After refusing to do so, the student was asked by the lecturer to leave the class. In 2004, the French government passed a law that prohibits wearing or openly displaying religious symbols in schools, but did not include universities. In 2010, another law banned the full-face veil often worn by Muslim women, known as a niqab or burka, but did not include the headscarf. Although the names of both the student and lecturer have not been released to the public, the university president, Phi-lippe Boutry, apologized to the student, citing the lecturer’s misunderstanding of the 2004 and 2010 laws.

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICKCoventry, England, UK

The University of Warwick men’s row-ing team’s naked calendar is up for sale -- and this time, for a good cause. Since 2009, the Warwick Rowers have posed nude for the calendar, but when they discovered those buying the calendar were mostly gay men, the team estab-lished a charity called Sport Allies. Ac-cording to their website, proceeds from sales go to support the charity, a “pro-gramme to reach out to young people challenged by bullying, homophobia or low self-esteem.” The university’s wom-en’s rowing team also annually produces a naked calendar whose proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITYIstanbul, Turkey

Law professor at Istanbul Aydın Uni-versity, Hayrettin Ökçesiz, was fired last month after he filed a public com-plaint against Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, stating that after the Aug. 10 elections, the politician was acting as the country’s president, prime minister and party leader at the same time, which violate government regu-lations. The university claims Ökçesiz acted against the Higher Education Board’s Institution’s Administrator, In-structors and Civil Servants Disciplin-ary Regulations, which prohibit scholars and academics from making statements to the press about non-academic issues without prior consent from their uni-versity. Ökçesiz plans to file an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights, asserting that his termination is an issue about academic freedom.

RITA MCNEILContributing Writer

USF Communication Studies Professor Bryan Whaley was in the oncology unit at the Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland back in 2004 with his then nine-year-old daughter, facing a situation he never thought possible. His daughter had been sick for weeks, and Whaley was told she might have colon cancer. As he sat in the waiting room, he watched as an-other young girl went in for chemotherapy and thought to himself, “I don’t believe I’m living through this.” As it turned out, Whaley never had to watch his own daughter go through chemotherapy as his it was just an odd colon infection. His experience in the hos-pital with the staff gave him the idea for his newly published book, Research Methods in Health Com-munication, which was released on June 30, 2014. The book investigates various research methods within health communication. According to Whaley, what makes communication in health different are the types of messages medical practitioners are required to communicate and the wealth of interpersonal skills they need to have, even though college curriculum of-fers little practical experience. Whaley mentioned that messages dealing with social support, bad news, medi-cal adherence, and reassurance to patients and families are extremely important to their patient’s health. Watching the staff employ these communication tools caused Whaley to realize that there was no book out there of this kind. “The whole idea kind of crys-tallized watching them and going through this experi-ence [with my daughter],” said Whaley. Mindi Golden, an associate professor in the communi-cation studies department at San Francisco State Univer-sity and co-author of a chapter in Whaley’s book, said that

PROFESSOR BRYAN WHALEY'S NEW BOOK ON COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE GOES BEYOND GOOD BEDSIDE MANNER

just amazing what these people are doing,” said Whaley. He said that the health profession is so unique be-cause “not only do we expect medical practitioners to have the latest clinical expertise and technology, but we expect them to have the most cutting edge inter-personal skills, too.” But when you have someone like Betts, they have it all, according to Whaley. “They’re just too damn good at what they do over there.” Whaley has since contacted Betts and they plan to meet up over winter break, along with Whaley’s daughter, to present a copy of his new book to him and the Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland staff in gratitude for their support.

this is the first book of its kind that focuses on a variety of research methodologies in health communication. “Readers can see how different research methods illuminate our understandings of health communica-tion, and how methods can coexist to produce more complete understandings of health communication phenomena,” said Golden. Golden, who has collaborated on projects with Wha-ley in the past 20 years, said, “During what was likely the most frightening time in Dr. Whaley’s life, he watched doctors engage in a careful process of hypothesis testing. The nature of his daughter’s condition was accurately identified and successfully treated through this process, although its root cause remains unknown.” Whaley got a large part of his inspiration from Dr. James M. Betts. Betts was the main doctor involved in help-ing Whaley and his family cope with the difficult situation. Whaley recalls that when he first went into the hos-pital room with his daughter in the oncology unit, the nurses told Whaley that he was in good hands. Betts is a world-renowned surgeon and “really just a wonderful guy,” said Whaley. Whaley also remembers when his daughter first went in for surgery with Betts. At this stage, the medical team thought they would be removing her appendix. But when they realized the infection they found was like nothing they’d ever seen before, they called in Whaley and his wife to discuss their next plan of action. Whaley left it up to the discretion of their med-ical team and remembers Betts saying, “Look, when your kid is on the table, she’s my daughter,” Whaley recalled, “And I really appreciated that.” Whaley dedicated the book not just to Betts, but to the extraordinary staff that made the whole experience that much better. “From the parking attendants, to the cafeteria people, to the people that clean your rooms, it’s

Professor Bryan Whaley dedicated his new book, which addresses health communication in health care, to the Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland. DANIELLE MAINGOT/FOGHORN


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INAUGURATIONU.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who spoke on behalf of the United States House of Representatives, Lieu-tenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who presented on behalf of the state of Cali-fornia, and Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor. The event also featured religious lead-ers, such as Sister Geneviève Médevielle, Fitzgerald’s doctoral professor at L’Insti-tut Catholique de Paris, and Bishop Mc-Elroy, the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in addition to around 50 Jesuits. Médev-ielle received a warm hug by the newly in-ducted president after her speech, which revealed what a strict teacher she was, and Fitzgerald’s impressive ability to speak and study in French. Napolitano, who formerly served as the United States Secretary of Home-land Security, and who is the current president of the University of California system, reintroduced the importance of “unity in diversity.” She spoke about the established relationship between the UC system and USF. She commended both institutions for “stimulating students to think critically with a strong education to provide for the ever-changing future,” while citing statistics on student demo-graphics to draw a parallel between USF and the UC system. Newsom noted that although recog-nizing the need for diversity is impor-tant, it is engaging in a diverse environ-ment that makes the greatest difference. “What makes our city and nation great is this: we don’t just tolerate diversity, we embrace it,” he said. By embracing diversity, people are exposed to the un-familiar, encouraged to reevaluate the way they think, and are obligated to critically challenge their beliefs by rec-ognizing others’. Fitzgerald was then presented the in-vestiture of the president with a gold me-

dallion of office containing the seal of the university. Students Eva Long, ASUSF President, and Alexia Thompson, Grad-uate Student Senate President, formally offered the medallion to him. “There was a lot of local, national, [and] international dignitaries,” Long said, alluding to how impressed she was about the high-profile speakers at the event. She also added that “it was a very, very beautiful ceremony,” and how she enjoyed the prayers that were given in different languages. “It really kind of shed light on how diverse USF is, and how appreciative we are of dif-ferent cultures.” Fitzgerald also highlighted that eco-nomic diversity is critical in expanding the experiences of students at USF. Ap-proximately 42% of the student body are considered to have come from ‘low-in-come’ households, and are able to attend USF through generous financial aid. So-cial justice includes the easier accessibility to education for all. Fitzgerald plans on focusing his at-tention on educating students as leaders for the global world. His concentration will lead USF to academically engage with the thriving technological indus-try in San Francisco, particularly since he intends to develop favorite majors and programs that embrace these new economies. Moreover, Fitzgerald hopes to educate students thus through faith and justice. In his first official presidential address, Fitzgerald said, “Faculty colleagues of di-verse religious traditions and philosophi-cal backgrounds may use diverse vocabu-laries to describe our shared mission, yet all contribute essentially to a project that engages our students to broaden their ho-rizons, advance their intellectual abilities, and strengthen their confidence and ca-pacity as creative, compassionate and eth-ical leaders for a global tomorrow,” said Fitzgerald. It was clear that diversity is a big priority.

Kimberlee Parton and Elizabeth Silva con-tributed to the reporting.

CLAUDIA SANCHEZStaff Writer

McLaren Conference Center was covered in student research projects, art, and volunteer work presentations last Wednesday to celebrate student life as part of the events honoring the inaugura-tion of the Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, S.J. This exhibition was not only meant to display student work, but also show how it per-sonifies the university’s mission. Students performed an interpreta-tive dance called "Fitzgerald's Recipe for Success," playfully highlighting USF's new president's love of cooking, as well as his life story and achievements. Sienna Williams, a Performing Arts and Social Justice Major, was a part of the dance en-semble who performed for the president. Williams said the performance for the inauguration was nerve-racking, "but we wanted to do something sweet and special for Father Fitzgerald’s Inauguration." Fitzgerald praised the student work. “We’re celebrating the students, you are the reason that we are here. Your success, that you thrive, that you flourish, that you bring to bear all your gifts and talents, this gives us joy. We the faculty, the staff, the administration, the trustees, we all are here for you,” he said. Eva Long, ASUSF Senate President, in-troduced Fitzgerald, who gave a short speech about the importance of student involvement at the university. With the exception of Fitz-gerald’s introductory speech, the whole event was completely centered on undergraduate and graduate students and their work. Justin Brillo, a senior Design Major, also exhibited his art at the event. His paintings focus on raising awareness for the Filipino Veteranos. They are a group of veterans who joined the US Army for benefits and citi-zenship, but were unfairly deprived of these things, and erased from the history books. This was Brillo’s second time exhibiting this particular series of artwork, which served as his thesis project. “The concept of my project is on the Veteranos and the representation of them,”

Brillo said. “They are only represented in small history book paragraphs, but I wanted to expand on it and show their involvement.” The four paintings showed the his-tory of the Veteranos through four major events: the US Army attacking the Phil-ippines with Filipino soldiers that fought for the US Army for government bene-fits, the suffering of both Americans and Filipinos in the Bataan Death March, the final attainment of their US Citizenship and benefits, but subsequent poverty and separation from their families, and the Filipino youth now fighting for the recog-nition and benefits for their family mem-bers who gave so much to the country. Dylan Moore, a sophomore Psychology major, exhibited her project which ana-lyzed whether or not transgender or gender dysphoria should be present in the Diag-nostics Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Moore was part of the Martin Barrio Scholars program and did most of her research there. This scholar program focuses on teaching greater goal skills to examine social issues. Moore said that exhibiting her research at the Student Life event was “awesome and intimidating, but I've enjoyed seeing what other students have done and talking about my project.” Moore also expressed her happiness about USF’s pushes towards gender inclusivity, particularly the gender neutral bathrooms, and the upcoming all-gender floor. She voiced her feelings by adding, “I feel great about the push to gender neutral bath-rooms and upcoming floor. I like the slow integration of them, it's very responsible.” Fitzgerald touched upon the university’s diversity, which seemed to be the most im-portant aspect of his inauguration, as well as on the importance of the student popula-tion and its involvement. “If you look at our diversity and our student population, we’re the envy of most big universities, we’re won-derfully successful through our students...You come in very gifted, very capable, but [through] your education here, you take it to a whole deeper level because of your deep engagement, your deep involvement,” said Fitzgerald.

Janet Napolitano embraces Rev. Fitzgerald and congratulates him on his official installation as USF president. Front row guests from left to right: Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Sister Genvieve Medveille, Willie Brown. DANIELLE MAINGOT / FOGHORN

Students and faculty admire Justin Brillo’s presentation at the Celebration of Student Life Event. CLAUDIA SANCHEZ/FOGHORN

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION: A CELEBRATION OF STUDENT LIFE

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Posters of the privilege campaign were posted all over campus to promote awareness and prompt conversations about privilege. The campaign also went viral on Tumblr and Facebook. PHOTOS COURTESY OF PROF. WALKER AND THE PRIVILEGE CAMPAIGN TEAM

ELIZABETH SILVAStaff Writer

Check Your Privilege, a cam-pus-wide social marketing campaign that seeks to raise student, faculty, and staff awareness around social inequali-ties and privilege, hit campus last week and is reminding the USF community of its own privileges. “We just hope that people use this as an opportunity to think critically about the world around them and chal-lenge themselves to really consider the implications of structural inequalities and how they, as an individual, can help mitigate the negative effects of so-cial inequalities,” said USF psychology professor Ja’Nina Walker, who is a key member of the campaign team. The idea for the campaign stemmed from Walker’s research about priv-ilege and the desire to find a way to talk about privilege. In the psychol-ogy department, Walker teaches psy-chological diversity courses and she noticed there was not always a way to talk about privilege. Thus, the idea of a privilege awareness campaign was born. The team has been working on the campaign for six months. The posters, which ask the USF community to check the different ways that they are privileged, include race, gender, religion, sexuality, and physical ability, will be on campus for two weeks. T-shirts were also distrib-uted to students last week, although the campaign has recently run out.

They are also considering having a forum in the spring to continue the discussions on privilege. The campaign supports USF’s Je-suit mission of being men and women for others, according to marketing professor Sonja Poole. “In order to effectively advocate for others, one needs to have an awareness of self and the biases and positions within the society in which we live,” said Poole, a member of the campaign team. “Privilege is a touchy subject and it is often unrecognized by those who have the most. It is important to identify and confront issues that affect marginalized people so that we can re-duce social and economic injustice and increase societal well-being.” Design Professor Scott Murray, who is also a part of the campaign team, hopes that at the very mini-mum, “this will spark more conversa-tions about privilege, and ideally help us all recognize and acknowledge the privilege we each have.” “I think privilege is something im-portant to recognize that we have,” said junior design major Ray Choi, who formed part of the campaign team, “because it brings to light issues that might go unnoticed otherwise.” The campaign has officially gone viral. The posters were shared thou-sands of times on social media sites, especially Tumblr and Facebook, and published in feminist online publica-tions Jezebel and Bitch Media. As a result, there have been numerous re-

quests from colleges across the nation to use the materials on their campuses. Other media outlets also want to fea-ture the campaign. “I never expected this campaign to reach the audience that it has,” said Walker. “Although there have been some negative responses, I would say 99% of the responses are positive and people are enjoying the campaign and what it stands for.” Walker mentioned that the nega-tive comments, which are very few, were typically about people not un-derstanding why there is a need for the campaign and people not agreeing with the wording of certain posters. “I’ve seen some negative comments [on Tumblr],” said Camille Esposito, a senior double major in design and French studies and design assistant on the campaign. “They’re mostly about the specific situations used to exemplify each type of privilege...The thing is that there are many ways that a person can be privileged--there could have been at least a hundred different situations represented. It’s more com-plex than the examples on the posters.” USF’s feedback has been very posi-tive. Students have shared and posted about the campaign on social media and there has been a buzz around campus. “I think it’s a good reminder of how fortunate I am, even though some-times it doesn’t feel like it,” said soph-omore business major Celeste De San-tiago. She added that there were some privileges on the posters that she did

not think about before like the able bodied privilege. Research assistant and junior psy-chology major Kristian Balgobin said that he has noticed the positive feed-back. “Different professors are trying to get involved [and saying] ‘How can we help?,’” he said. “It’s been all posi-tive feedback, but apparently there was one faculty member that called and was like, ‘I don’t understand this.’” “I can’t say that I am surprised that a professor is confused as to why our campus needs this campaign, it’s why we created one of our slogans, ‘If you don’t have to think about it, it’s a priv-ilege, but I do find it unsettling,” said research assistant and senior psychol-ogy major Sienna Williams. Williams explained that professors are looked to for encouragement to explore different concepts from different lenses. “If a professor is not able to under-stand that privilege lenses should be applied to theory and practice [in the same way as an objective lense], then I don’t see how we as students can feel [that] we’ve gained comprehensive and invested understandings of topics be-ing taught to us,” added Williams. The campaign team includes Walker, Poole, Murray, Balgobin, Williams, research assistants senior Caleb Banks and alum Alex Stallings. Design assistants include Choi, Epos-ito, junior Veronica Cabanayan, and senior Catherine Bagg. Poole’s Mar-keting and Society students are also involved.

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MIA ORANTIAStaff Writer

As a woman, I never understood the way men wore their baseball caps. Forward or backwards, so many differ-ent prints and fittings, tags kept on — I always wondered, is there a certain politics to how guys wear their ball caps? “I’ll wear my SF Giants cap because it compliments what I’m wearing and I’m also a huge sports fan of baseball, basketball, and NFL. I just want to display my fanhood,” said junior media studies major, Nick Schebetta, whose cap brim always points forward, like a baseball player’s. Sophomore biology major, Alex Avanzado, wears his caps backwards, and often his caps are not sports-affil-iated, but rather have prints that he personally likes. “The reason I wear my hats backward is because it looks cooler, and primarily the main reason I wear hats is because I don’t want to style my hair,” he said. “Some people wear hats for the primary purpose of keeping the sun out of their eyes, but for me I just wear it for style.” The baseball cap is a hat style that evolved from sim-ply being used to represent baseball teams and other sports teams. Today, baseball caps come in a variety of styles and designs that have nothing to do with sports. In a recent article, USA Today said the baseball cap has endured for generations as the all-American hat. They credit the amateur baseball team, the Brooklyn Excelsiors, as the originators of the baseball cap in 1860. The team wore the ancestor of the modern, round-ed-top baseball cap, and by 1900, the "Brooklyn-style" cap, with a long visor and a button on top, became popular. In 1954, the brand New Era, which has been mak-ing caps for 85 years, was producing a uniform hat for each baseball team, and now produces about 2,000 per team each season, according to USA Today. That’s just a small slice of the company’s market. According to New Era’s own “stat sheet,” the company made 40 million caps in 2012. Baseball caps have also received what you might call the ultimate compliment. Add them to the list of things – Gucci and Louis Vuitton purses – counterfeited in China and smuggled into the United States.

THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE BASEBALL CAP

YANNAN SHENContributing Writer

Every last Thursday of the month, classical music is performed by USF’s Chamber Ensemble at Thacher Gallery. For a special performance in celebration of the Day of the Dead, the Chamber Ensemble collaborated with the uni-versity Classical Choral Ensemble and Conjunto Folklórico to perform music inspired by the Dobles Vidas exhibit currently on display last Thursday. “It was such a success,” said Cham-ber Ensemble director Daria D’An-drea. Teaching violin and directing Chamber Ensemble for many years, she confidently believes this was the most successful Final Thursday Cham-

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ber music performance she has ever held. She is proud of her students and the PASJ department. Under the PASJ department are various performance groups, including USF Classical Choral Ensemble led by Rebecca Seeman, and the Latin Amer-ican music ensemble, Conjunto Folk-lórico, led by Francesca Rivera. During the event, the three USF ensembles performed works by Ju-ventino Rosas, Telemann, Hennessy, and Tomas Luis de Victoria. The Chamber Ensemble’s biggest challenge has always been attracting students that may or may not have an understanding or appreciation for clas-sical music. This time, however, more students came to sit down and listen

to the whole concert instead of simply walking by. Contrary to earlier perfor-mances, the gallery was now filled with mostly students and USF affiliates.

A Spanish professor saw the flier and brought most of her class to the concert. Crowded in Thacher Gallery, students in the class sang along to the music and en-

The fear of having a fake may help explain a trend I’ve observed recently: people wearing their caps with the stickers and tags still on them. People do this specifi-cally with New Era caps to signify the authenticity, according to Cesar Martinez, USF senior Business Administration ma-jor and hat addict, as described by himself and his friends. Avanzado said, “It shows that your hat is legitimate because there’s a lot of third party brands. It’s a status symbol that says ‘Hey I bought this hat for $50’ versus spending less elsewhere.” Baseball caps today usually have five panels shaping the “dome” and a flat brim, compared to eight-panel ball caps back in the 1900s. New Era sells their caps from $20-$100, with their post-season official sports caps at around $37.99. The five-panel cap is also characteristic of urban culture with urban brands such as Obey, Supreme and HUF. These brands focus more on prints and colors in their hats, particu-larly worn with classic street wear, according to their websites. “I see a lot of Obey hats and HUF hats,” Avanzado said. “HUF and Obey have some quality hats where the fabrics are thicker so it holds it shape. Other hats lose [their] shape. Mostly I like [them] for their prints.” While ball caps have transitioned to more progressive styles, some contemporary brands still produce ball caps with the classic eight-panel design with curved brims. Hat aficionado Martinez works at the Brooklyn Cir-cus store on Fillmore Street, a menswear store that sells

pieces reflecting vintage America. “Ebbet’s Field Authentic Flannels produces [our vin-tage-styled] hats. They’re based out of Seattle, and they do a wonderful job at up keeping the vintage ball cap aesthetic, paying homage to American style.” The Ebbet’s Field brand has been around for 25 years and produces the ball caps sold at J.Crew. They’re known for their wool caps with the green satin brim, according to Martinez. The company apparently cares about what happens to its products once they leave the store, according to Umar Issa, social media manager and store clerk at Brooklyn Circus. “Our company did a blog post with Ebbets Field,” Issa said. “The founder Jerry really appreciates the way baseball caps are made and are worn. He’s really against people wearing baseball caps backwards because that’s not how they’re supposed to be worn and it’s sloppy.” However, Issa, a recent graduate of USF, said he’ll wear his hat backwards because it just looks cool. “It’s really up to you. It’s all about image and comfort,” he said. Issa, a Los Angeles Native, remembers his first ball cap being an LA Dodgers cap, but he said he doesn’t necessarily wear caps for a team. “Aesthetically, caps could be a subtle pop that complements an outfit.” In the morning, “If I don’t want to do my hair or if I’m in a rush, I’ll throw on a cap,” he said. While Issa recognizes his passion for fashion, he also said that men usually don’t think too deeply into baseball caps.

Students perform various Latin American influenced pieces in celebration of the Dia De Los Muertos exhibit at Thacher Gallery. COURTESY OF THATCHER GALLERY

Baseball caps have evolved to representing other sports teams, and junior media studies student Nick Schebetta wears a ball cap of one of his favorite NBA teams, Utah Jazz. DANIELLE MAINGOT / FOGHORN

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Matthew McConaughey stars in Christopher Nolan’s latest science-fiction thriller. COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES

An intricate Dia De Los Muertos altar set up among the Thacher Gallery exhibit to honor the passing of loved ones COURTESY OF THATCHER GALLERY

The three USF music ensembles performed around the gallery's center piece, a Felipe Linares Day of the Dead inspired sculpture.DANIELLE MAINGOT / FOGHORN

joyed the refreshments that were offered. Darin Villanueva, a cellist who has been with the Chamber Ensemble for three semesters, said she also played in

Conjunto Folklorico last semester, and this event allowed her to appreciate the two different ensembles at the same time. It was a fun collaboration for her.

Even though this is the last Final Thursday Chamber music of Fall 2014, D’Andrea was highly encouraged to pre-pare for a chamber orchestra since USF

musicians are no longer satisfied with small chamber groups. Certainly, all USF members are warmly welcomed to join regardless of their instrumental skills.

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With Christopher Nolan’s knack for visual intensity and his notoriety for spending near decades on developing his stories, “Interstellar” is expected to be the blockbuster film to take us into the

new year. Movie buffs and science nerds waited on the edge of their seat for the film to finally premiere in theaters, but did it live up to everyone’s expectations? The setting of the film takes place in the somewhat distant future where hu-mans can no longer rely on technology and science. The central conflict of the

movie is that Earth is dying with corn be-ing the only food source available. Nolan treats this devastation as a sort of Dust Bowl 2.0, instead with the concern of a dying planet as opposed to severe eco-nomic troubles from land degradation. With the dependence on agriculture, humans can no longer find solace in technology and the only gadget we see in the first act of the film is an out-of-date laptop. The film goes so far to empha-size the distrust of science, implying that the new generation firmly believes in the conspiracy against the moon landing. The premise of the film lies within a secret NASA team entering a recently discovered wormhole, in trying to find a potential new home planet in another galaxy. The journey becomes question-able. The one believable quality of the film is Matthew McConaughey, serving as the team’s pilot, hoping to get home to his family alive. However, after view-ing this film along with Nolan’s previ-ous science-fiction flick, “Gravity,” I cannot help but get the impression that Nolan assumes all space personnel to be emotionally unhinged, yet somehow

are all equipped to handle heavy ma-chinery light years away from Earth. As far as the visuals go, they were of course stunning. Nolan accompanied the beautiful cinematography with a powerful poetic score. The added orchestral inten-sity to the scenes seemed like the director was heavily inspired by avant-garde film-maker Terrence Malick, the 2012 Oscar nominee for “The Tree of Life.” Given Nolan’s years of dedication to cinematography with “Inception” and “Gravity,” I was not concerned with whether or not the film would meet my vi-sual expectations, but rather I was mostly hesitant about the quality of the story. The entirety of “Interstellar” seemed to be comprised of one plot twist after another and the storyline lacked focus. I found myself aching for the end of the movie just to finally be gifted with a resolution. I would not say that seeing “Inter-stellar” is a complete waste of time. If you want to be thrilled with the cine-matography and score, then this film will surely deliver. However, I would not go so far as to say that it deserves the hype it’s been getting.


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In 2012, Pamela Geller funded similar adds referring to Palestinians as savages. COURTESY OF STEVE RHODES

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Grant Bonham is a sophomore economics major.

If you are planning on riding the 14L bus this week, keep your eyes open for the newest ad taken out by Pamela Geller, founder of the American Freedom Defence Initiative. In response to the recent Islamo-phobia surrounding ISIS, Geller depicts Muslims as a radical group of extremists showing how one's devo-tion can only be measured by their radical acts of ag-gression. Geller’s ad deserves the triple crown for not only being polarizing, but also for being uninformed and mistargeted as well. Two years ago, Geller made headlines when she took out similar ads on New York buses equating Muslims to savages. When her ads were pulled by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Geller sued the MTA, and with the federal court ruling in her favor, was able to continue to promote her proudly anti-Is-lamic views. With the recent obsession with ISIS and Ebola, how could Geller not capitalize on the state of fear that the mainstream media is perpetuating? Geller is painting an entire religion, culture, and re-gion of the world as terrorists causing fear against Mus-lims in the United States. This xenophobic response to war is not new and it is a stark reminder of how little has changed since the Japanese Internment camps of the 1940s. Geller has the attention of many Americans peaked because of the recent military gains ISIS has made, as well as the footage they released of their execu-tions of American and British citizens. The association then becomes jaded; if Muslims are only mentioned for their acute actions of violence then one would assume it is a culture inherently full of bloodshed. This could not be more wrong. Associating an entire religion, an entire culture, and entire region of the world with these small organized radical groups causes harm to the Muslim Identity and further alienates Islam from other religions. These ads -- not only harmful to Muslims, but lump Sikhs and Hindus into the same group because of slight similarities in their religious clothing -- further perpet-uate an intolerant stereotype. It is religious collectivism that is not grounded in any sort of number, statistic, or study. With every religion, there is a radical minority that defaces the tradition in order to gain political lever-age and a larger following. But the association that has been made between Muslims and violence must end. Geller is subject to fear, just as we all are. This fear has caused her to demonize and destroy what she be-lieves is a threat -- Islam. Is she wrong? Definitely. But this is no different than it has ever been. This fear comes from an unrealistic view of what Muslims are and what their culture consists of. As for every group that we are fighting, there is propaganda created by fear that leads to a radical view from those who would otherwise be neutral. However, these ads do not condemn ISIS. They attack every man in a turban and every woman in a burka. They fuel the growing Islamophobia in the United States instead of substantiating Islamic culture and beliefs. They are ignorant of any cultural identity as well as ethnic background. They perpetuate violence and hatred where understanding is necessary.

Ads like this and organizations like the American Freedom Defence Initiative will never disappear. It is within their constitutional rights to exist and es-pouse their views in whatever nonviolent way they choose. But, these ads are misleading and wrong in scope. These ads do nothing to stop ISIS. They do

nothing to further defend the United States from their aggressive advances, and do nothing to stop the terrorist organization’s rapid recruitment. These ads instead perpetuate hatred and ignorance -- hatred for those who do not deserve it and ignorance in re-gards to why they do not.

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DON ON THE STREET: COMMERCIAL SPACE TRAVEL

KATIE WARDStaff Writer

Richard Branson’s commercial space travel company “Virgin Galactic” recently experi-enced another setback after one spacecraft crashed in the Mojave desert. The com-pany was supposed to begin space tourism this year, and over 800 guests had already paid to travel. This crash is being seen as a blow to the entire commercial space travel industry, and the number of skeptics is growing. Do you believe that commercial space travel will ever be made available to the public? If so, would you participate? Why?

SONJA GIRAUDfreshman kinesiology major

"No I don’t think [commercial space travel will happen] because it costs so much money. To waste that money just to have fun doesn’t make sense to me and I think to a lot of other peo-ple as well. If I had the opportunity, though I would do it, because I think its a very cool experience, but I don’t think I will ever have that opportu-nity, just because, like I said, it’s too much money."

JOHANNA LOACKERsophomore biology major

"I do believe that space travel will be commercially possible, even though there are setbacks, that’s the whole process of inventing something new. It probably won’t happen in the near future but even-tually the ships will get better and better. I don’t know if I personally will do it, I would like some more safety checks to happen, but travelling in space would be amazing. In terms of being excited about space travel, I would like to experience something that is completely different than what we are living with right now, being in space or another planet would be completely mind blowing, but space trav-el’s kind of scary because you don’t always know what you’re getting into. There are so many things that could go wrong, but there’s also the chance it could go right. "

DAVID VILETAsenior computer science major

"I absolutely believe that public, com-mercial, space transit and journeying will be a thing that’s happening in the future. I just see this as a small setback, this sort of thing happens all the time especially if you look at scientific expedi-tions, like NASA or Russia’s programs, there were things that happened like this all the time but we kept going. Especially with the commercial market, they’re go-ing to keep pushing for innovations as it becomes more affordable and feasible. It’s going to be a while, and yes this is going to be a setback, but I think this is going to be an inevitability, yes. It has to become affordable, but if that happens, then by that time they’re going to have to work out a lot of the safety concerns, and it will be regulated to some degree, and it will be just like flying around on a commercial airliner, by the time I’m

Many U.S. politicians have been urging Congress to place stricter travel bans on people entering the United States from affected areas in western Africa, but this will not stop the Ebola virus from spreading. If anything, it will make it worse. First, the Ebola virus is not airborne and can-not be transmitted through food or water. Persons affected with the Ebola virus are only contagious if they are experiencing symptoms or through the transmission of bodily f luids. So unless persons are joining the mile high club, air travel is safe for

other passengers. Secondly, the Ebola virus does not show symptoms until anywhere from two to 21 days. This renders strict travel bans pointless unless there will be a quarantine implemented for 21 days. This leads to my next point: If travel will be banned altogether from flagged coun-tries such as Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, people will simply travel to other countries to get a connect-ing flight into the United States, just as Thomas Erin Duncan did, the first man to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. Ultimately, this migration to surrounding countries could render the chance of an even greater spread of the Ebola virus. Third, health and security experts, including the World Health Organization and the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention have cautioned against an outright travel ban. They say it could complicate efforts to send in medical personnel and supplies where they are needed most and could also drive pa-tients underground, making it even harder to halt the the spread of the virus. Also, these entities are pro-viding crucial protective gear and expertise to handle and treat Ebola patients safely without spreading the disease. Without proper equipment and expertise, the chances of stopping the virus are drastically reduced. If the Ebola virus worsened because of lack of aid and expertise, this would only heighten the affected population’s sense of desperation, increasing their de-sire to leave, and thus producing political instability, especially if their governments try and stop them due to pressure from the international community. The Ebola virus needs to be contained at ground zero, and the faster we act and send supplies, the greater the chance we have to stop the spread and panic.

More time, money, and manpower are being wasted in attempts to create strict bans on travel when instead those resources should be used on conducting medical research, helping victims, ed-ucating the population on safety, and containing the virus. Currently, the Ebola virus has a 50% mortality rate and there is no treatment or cure. So far, the United States has decided not to shy away from the f ight. However, some states are not exactly providing aid workers returning from the front lines with a warm welcome home. Currently, Connecticut is putting travelers re-turning from West Africa in mandatory quar-antines even after testing negative for Ebola. Travelers are outraged and have even complained of “inhumane” conditions in isolation. As more rumors spread, they discourage aid workers to pursue helping victims in Africa. Australia has gone much further by placing a blanket visa ban on Ebola-stricken regions of Af-rica. As the first nation to shut its doors on the Ebola crisis and look away as many men, women, and children suffer, Australia has refused requests to send aid to help battle the outbreak. As a nation that is looked to as one with power and resources, it is vital that the United States con-tinues to limit the amount of bans that we place on travel to and from West Africa. Our actions are being watched by other nations and serve as an in-fluence. Our country should take actions that are based in science, not in panic and fear. And most importantly, it is our responsibility to not only aid those that are suffering, but to support the brave people who are trying to make a difference.

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CHASE FOSTER (right) If Chase Foster can adapt to play-ing at sea level, he will be a formidable weapon off the bench for the Dons. Foster, a Colorado native, aver-aged 20.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game in his senior season, leading Valor Christian to a 21-5 overall record. The Chauncey Billups Elite Basket-ball Academy product can play all back-court positions and is a proven three-point shooter. In other words, Foster fits the mold of a Rex Walters guard. "Chase is a big time athlete who can really get off the f loor," head coach Rex Walters told usfdons.com. "He comes from a winning program and is a competitive, tough kid.”

HAYDEN GEHRStaff Writer

USF freshman Frankie Ferrari is not the prototypical ultra-athletic, attacking point guard that has become so preva-lent in today’s basketball world. Instead, Ferrari’s game is a throwback to earlier smart, sharpshooting floor generals. “I get a lot of Steve Nash, John Stock-ton comparisons,” Ferrari said. “The small, gritty white guy that can shoot it.” The five-foot-11, 160 pounder may not be able to rely on superhuman jumping ability or dizzying speed, but he has an at-titude and work ethic that can more than make up for it. In his biography on his

Twitter page, Ferrari boldly claims to be “the hardest working player in the country.” “I’ve just always tried to outwork ev-eryone,” Ferrari said. “I wasn’t blessed with athletic ability, and hard work has always been a part of my life. In the off-season, I’m working five, six, seven hours a day, and it’s something that not a lot of other people do. I think if you’re the hardest working player, it sets you up to be the most successful.” Ferrari is from Burlingame, Cal-ifornia, a town on the San Francisco peninsula just a 25-minute drive from the city. He played three years of high school basketball at local Burlingame High School, averaging 22.4 points and

7.1 assists per game as a senior, and spent his junior year at Archbishop Riordan in San Francisco. Ferrari earned numerous offers from Division II schools, as well as Idaho State, a Division 1 college, but when USF emerged as an option, it did not take him long to make the decision to become a Don. Ferrari cites the coaching staff as the primary reason he chose to play at USF, and since he began working out with team over the summer, his relationship with head coach Rex Walters has grown. “[Walters] is really good with player development,” Ferrari said. “He can show you one thing, and it can really change your game. He has a different outlook on basketball. It’s his life, and that’s how I am. All I do is work out and watch film, so we’ve connected a lot.” Although this is his first year on the Hilltop, Ferrari is no stranger to Dons bas-ketball. When he was in fifth grade, his cousin played for USF, and Ferrari’s family had season tickets to the games. And last year, after committing to USF, he made frequent visits to campus to watch games, work out, and spend time around the team. “I knew the guys, I had personal rela-tionships [with them] before [I] even started here,” Ferrari said. “It’s different, I feel like I have a different relationship with the players than maybe another freshman would.” Ferrari’s high school teammate, six-foot-eight forward Nick Loew, is a fresh-man walk-on for the Dons, and the two Burlingame High products have been able to continue their friendship into college.“To have somebody that’s been through a lot with you, to lean on, it’s great,” Ferrari said. “I talk to him all the time,

MEET FRANKIE FERRARI, THE HARDEST WORKING PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY

drew Bogut because I feel that they both rebound really well and are overall team players,” Loew said. Like David Lee, Loew can put the ball on the floor and finish at the basket with either hand. Although Loew has yet to play his first collegiate game, he’s not afraid to voice his confidence about the future of the men’s basketball program. “This season I expect us to play in the WCC Championship game and then get a tournament bid,” Loew said. “Long term, I expect to win several conference titles and make a run in the tournament.”

DEVIN WATSON (middle) Devin Watson had an opportunity to replace the void left by star point guard

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Shabazz Napier at Connecticut, but de-cided to bring his ankle-breaking cross-overs to USF instead. Watson, who earned All-San Diego Section first team honors, averaged 24 points, eight assists, and four rebounds during his senior season at El Camino High School. The six-foot-one point guard is an offensive Swiss Army knife: he gets to the basket with ease, is a crafty passer, and can step out and hit the three. “[Watson] is athletic...he can re-ally score it. Not only do I see him as a point guard,” Frankie Ferrari says, “I see him as a combo guard.” Whatever position he plays, Wat-son will definitely make an impact for the Dons.

NICK SCHEBETTAContributing Writer

NICK LOEW (left) For freshman walk-on Nick Loew, earn-ing playing time and the trust of his coaches will come down to one thing: hard work. “As a walk-on, I feel that I just need to show the coaches that I can play really hard and give a great effort,” Loew said. Loew, who has been close friends with fellow freshman Frankie Ferrari since eighth grade, averaged 14.5 points and 11.6 re-bounds per game in his senior season while playing alongside Ferrari at Burlingame High School. The six-foot-eight forward fin-ished his Burlingame career with an impres-sive 39 career double doubles. Loew, a loyal Warriors fan, models his game after the Golden State Warriors’ versatile starting frontcourt. “I try to play like David Lee or An-

we’re together every day.” This year, Ferrari joins a loaded Dons backcourt that features seniors Matt Glover and Corey Hilliard, as well as freshman Devin Watson as other via-ble options at the point guard position. With Ferrari and Watson, as well as a trio of transfers (Derrell Robertson, Montray Clemens, and Uche Ofoegbu), all poised to make an impact on the court, the Dons have added many new pieces and are armed with a roster as deep as any that Rex Walters has seen in his six years at USF. After finishing tied for second in the West Coast Conference last season, the Dons were projected to take a slight dip this season and finish fourth in the recently released WCC preseason poll. However, Ferrari isn’t preoc-cupied with preseason rankings. “If people buy into their roles and we find [that] it’s a team before the individ-ual, I think we can be awesome,” Ferrari said. “This is a year that we can make the NCAA Tournament.” Regardless of how the Dons perform in the WCC this year, Ferrari’s underdog mentality and relentless drive to improve should certainly help USF’s chances. “Hard work doesn’t guarantee any-thing, but it gives you a hell of a chance,” Ferrari said. “That’s something Coach Walters always says, and I’ve always bought into that. I [was always] working as a little kid. I’ve been going to the gym and working out every night since I was in third grade. So it’s always been some-thing, and this year when I stepped into college I said to myself, ‘I want to be the hardest working player in the country,’ and that’s what I’m going to try to do.”

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MEN’S SOCCER: KIRKLAND'S GOAL GIVES DONS LAST-SECOND VICTORYMARIANA OSORIOStaff Writer

On a Halloween afternoon, the Dons travelled to St. Mary’s looking to extend their conference winning streak to three games. The game took many turns, but a goal from senior midfielder Danny Kirkland with 36 seconds left in the match helped the Dons eke out a 2-1 win over the Gaels.

St. Mary’s controlled the ball for most of the first half, but the Dons still managed to hold off the Gaels’ six shots and have the lead going into halftime. In the 12th minute, freshman midfielder Mitchell McPart-land collected the ball inside the box and knocked it past Gaels goalkeeper Andre Rawls and into the net. It was McPartland’s first collegiate goal. The Dons kept St. Mary’s scoreless deep into the second half, and thought they had a 1-0 victory put away until the Gaels finally struck in the final min-utes of the match. The goal came in the 89th minute, when Riley Hanley drove home the equalizer to level the score at 1-1. With little time for the Dons to counter, overtime seemed inevitable. But with under a minute left in regulation, freshman midfielder Jonathan Fabulich made a cut towards the goal when he was fouled in the penalty box by a Gaels defender. Kirkland, the Dons’ leading goal scorer, stepped up to take the penalty kick and sent a shot past Rawls for the game-winner. It was the third time this year that Kirkland scored a go-a-head goal in the second half on a penalty kick. "We worked a little harder at the end and we pulled it off," head coach Eddie Soto told usfdons.com. "We played well and the guys are excited. Our team is play-ing with confidence.”The win kept the Dons undefeated (3-0) in West Coast Conference play. USF is now 9-4-2 overall on the sea-son, and sits atop the WCC standings. The Dons were scheduled to play a game against Pacific last Sunday, Nov. 2, but that match was re-scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13. Next, USF will travel to Los Angeles and challenge Loyola Marymount on Friday, Nov. 7th at 7:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER: DONS BLOW LEAD IN LOSS TO GONZAGA, TIE PORTLANDNICHOLAS WELSHStaff Writer

Anja Segota and Kim Gutierrez high-five each other during the Dons' three-set victory over San Diego. DANIEL BERBERI/FOGHORN

VOLLEYBALL: DONS DOMINATE USD, GET SWEPT BY BYUANDREW NOERRStaff Writer

This past week saw USF look fantastic in one match but overpowered in another. On Thursday, the Dons swept San Diego 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-21), but were then caught on the losing end of a 3-0 sweep against No. 11 BYU (20-25, 24-26, 14-25). Senior outside hitter Anja Segota led USF with 25 kills and 16 digs in the two games combined, and the Dons got great performances from senior middle blocker Valentina Zaloznik and sophomore outside hitter Katarina Pilepic on Thursday as well. With the 1-1 homestand, USF is now 12-12 this season and 5-7 in the West Coast Conference. On Saturday, USF could not continue the momen-tum it gained from its win over San Diego. Facing WCC-leading BYU, the Dons looked overmatched, and were unable to take a single set from the Cougars. BYU was led by junior outside hitter Alexa Gray, who had 10 kills, and senior outside/opposite hitter Jen-nifer Hamson, who had nine kills. USF got a strong game from Segota, who had 12 kills and seven digs, and freshman outside/opposite hitter Jessica Gaffney earned nine kills and eight digs on the day as well. The loss dropped the Dons to 0-6 when playing a ranked team this season. Two days earlier, the Dons dominated San Diego in what was arguably their best match of the year thus far. USF avenged an earlier loss to the Toreros by sweeping them handily, with major contributions coming from Pilepic, Zaloznik, and Segota. Pilepic had 13 kills, and Zaloznik had 10 kills for her fifth straight match with double-digit kills, but Segota may have been the most important player in the match. She paved the way to vic-tory for the Dons with 13 kills, nine digs, and three aces. “Before the game, we told each other, we were go-ing to lay it all out on the court,” Segota said. “The setters spread the ball really nicely, we all had a chance to score, and it was a really good day.” Next, USF will go back on the road for a two-game trip. The Dons will battle Portland on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m., and then travel to Washington on Sat-urday, Nov. 8 to face Gonzaga at 12:00 p.m. After consecutive losses, the Dons came close to tak-

ing a pair of victories over Halloween weekend. The Dons dropped a 3-2 match against the Gonzaga Bulldogs on Sunday, Nov. 2 in a game they let slip away, and settled for a 2-2 tie against the Portland Pilots two days earlier. The Dons (6-10-3, 2-5-1 West Coast Confer-ence) were looking for a bit of Halloween luck to help them conclude their season on a high note, but the weekend did not go exactly as planned. Against Gonzaga, the Dons seemed to be in complete control after establishing a 2-0 first-half lead. The first goal of the game was scored on a header from junior for-ward Sydnie Telson. Later, in the 19th minute, the Dons extended their lead, and this time it was junior forward Alex Alugas who made the aggressive play to knock the ball in off the bottom of the crossbar. Gonzaga showed resilience, though, and cut the deficit in half before intermission, scoring a goal in the 36th minute. Coming out of the break, Gonzaga seemed to have taken the momentum from the Dons. In the 64th and 66th minutes, the Bulldogs scored two goals off of cor-ner kicks to stun USF and take a sudden 3-2 lead. The Dons had a golden opportunity to tie the game when they took three consecutive corner kicks in the final minute of the match, but came up empty handed in

what was a painful finish for the unlucky USF squad. Unlike the game against Gonzaga, the Dons were the ones who were forced to make the come-back against Portland last Friday. The Pilots scored quickly, lofting the ball into San Francisco’s net in the eighth minute of the game, but the Dons re-sponded in the 40th minute of the match, when Tel-son, just as she would do against Gonzaga, headed the ball into the Pilots’ goal. In the opening minutes of the second half, Port-land caught the USF defense sleeping and took the lead on a goal from Emily Sippel. San Francisco, once again, stayed poised, and freshman midfielder Sonja Giraud was able to convert a shot in the 56 minute to tie the game. The game wound up going into overtime, and while the Dons outshot the Pilots eight to three in the two extra periods, the game-winning goal never came. The game concluded in a 2-2 tie.USF’s final game of the season will be played at Ne-goesco Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 1:00 p.m. against the Pacific Tigers. Saturday is Senior Day for the Dons, and the athletes playing their last collegiate soccer game will be honored.

Danny Kirkland scored USF’s winning goal against the Gaels on a penalty kick. HAYDEN GEHR/FOGHORN

Sydnie Telson scored a pair of goals last week, knocking in headers against the Bulldogs and Pilots. JOHAN SAMUELSSON/FOGHORN


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Friday, November 7

Women’s Tennis at San Jose State Hidden Duel, All Day Friday-SundayMen’s Soccer at Loyola Marymount, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 8

Men’s Tennis at San Quentin Community Service (Exhibition) in Marin, Calif., All DayCross Country at DOC Adams Open in Davis, Calif., 10:00 a.m.Volleyball at Gonzaga, 12:00 p.m.Women’s Soccer vs. Pacific, 1:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 9

Men’s Soccer vs. San Diego, 3:00 p.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS

USF students pose mid-celebration during the frenzy that erupted in downtown San Francisco following the Giants’ World Series-clinching 3-2 win over the Royals. DANIEL BERBERI / FOGHORN

A contingent of loyal Giants fans cheer on their team at the Civic Center during Game Seven of the World Series. DANIEL BERBERI / FOGHORN

The Giants’ third World Series title in five years did not come easily. Instead, it took a full seven games and a heroic series from Giants’ starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner for San Francisco to shake off the relentless Kansas City Royals. Still, when Pablo Sandoval collapsed to the ground, fists extending into the air after making the final out of the season, the result was the same as in 2010 and 2012: The Giants were back atop the baseball world. Post-World Series-winning celebrations have become rather routine for San Fran-cisco residents in the last five years, but you could never guess that from their reac-tion after the Giants defeated the Royals 3-2 in Game Seven of the World Series on

Wednesday, Oct. 29. The streets flooded with die hard fans, casual supporters, and pretty much anyone looking for an excuse to have a wild time. Throughout the night, riots broke out, items were set on fire, and police were deployed to calm the hysteria. On Halloween morning, the Giants’ World Series parade coincided with rain showers, but the spirits of fans and players were not dampened in the least. With the baseball season and the post-victory festivities now wrapped up, Giants followers are now eager to see if the team can come back in 2015 and repeat as champions to cement their status as a modern dynasty.

GIANTS RETAKE THE THRONE

Foghorn 11/6/14

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