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AFTER YEARS OF TENSION, the California Faculty Association is voting today on whether or not it should move forward with its proposed one-day strike set to take place on two California State University campuses Nov. 17.

The strike is in response to the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 CFA contracts in which faculty members were promised a raise, but due to the economic crisis, were later denied the pay increase. The CSU system defended its actions by say-ing that the contract states that it can be altered due to economic conditions.

Cal State East Bay and Cal State Dominguez Hills were the selected loca-tions to strike because they represent the true demographics of the CSU population

in terms of student and faculty demo-graphics and composition, said Brian Ferguson, CFA spokesman.

“Faculty will strike at CSU East Bay and Dominguez Hills and faculty from other schools will join if they are not doing action on their own campus,” said Joe Tran, CFA spokesman. “Faculty have joined students in budget protest before, but they can’t strike for any reasons other than pay. Right now, that’s their only weapon.”

The CFA is currently working through QHJRWLDWLRQV��EXW�KDV�QRW�EHHQ�VDWLV¿�HG�with the proposals it has been given.

Other forms of striking will begin either Nov. 8 or 9 on the other 21 cam-puses, respectively.

“Different forms of striking can vary

and don’t necessarily have to be full-on protests and boycotting,” Ferguson said. “The other 21 CSU campuses will hold informational strikes the week before, which can vary between wearing union T-shirts and holding signs. But these forms are not concerted actions demand-ed by the CFA but rather each individual CSU chapter.”

According to Wei Ming Dariotis, president of the CFA’s SF State chapter, SF State faculty would join the one day striking professors at CSU East Bay, if the effort materializes.

“Our participation in concerted action would be to travel to Cal State East Bay for our colleagues there but visibly as

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Board members will decide today whether or not to protest the denial of wage increases in the past two years.

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*RLQJ�WR�VFKRRO�FDQ�EH�GLI¿�FXOW�with the burden of high tuition costs, long work hours and an endless amount of homework assignments. While most students struggle to carry the heavy load associated with going to school, SF State student Khay Hembrador takes it in stride while holding her 2-year-old.

Hembrador, 23, sets her eyes toward graduating in the spring with a degree in Asian American studies; however the situation is proving to EH�GLI¿�FXOW��6KH�ZRUNV�WKUHH�GLI�ferent jobs and does her homework while her son Kairese constantly craves her attention.

“I hate letting go of my time

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SF State art major Ricardo De La Torre always wanted to tell his parents about his sexuality, but other horror stories about coming out kept him postponing the date.

“A lot of my friends who had come out to their Latin families said they went through drama, and they went through arguing, and getting temporarily kicked out of home,” De La Torre, 21, said. “They told me ‘don’t do it, just wait. I went through hell.’”

As for De La Torre, it’s safe to say his own coming out story was not ideal.

De La Torre was usually comfortable sharing information about his new life in San Francisco. He never thought any negative backlash would occur when he became open about his sexuality on Myspace several years back.

Then in October of 2007 De La Torre found himself “outed” by a cousin who had come across his page and took it upon herself to inform De La Torre’s parents about their gay son.

De La Torre was scared. He had heard all about Latino friends and their families’ reactions. He didn’t want to be kicked out of his home or to be treated differently by his parents.

“I’m Mexican and being gay isn’t a good thing. It’s really looked down upon and I thought it was going to be an intense confrontation I was going to have with my dad but he was actually very understanding about the whole thing,” De La Torre said. “They were just kind of waiting for it. My mom’s biggest issue was that I never talked to her about it because growing up with her I was very close to her and I told her everything.”

According to De La Torre, gender roles were given to him at a very early age.

Men are expected to follow the rules of “machismo,” the Spanish term to describe masculinity, he said. De La Torre was raised to think that to be a homosexual man means to be a failed man because of the religious teachings he received growing up Catholic.

³*URZLQJ�XS�0H[LFDQ�$PHULFDQ�GH¿�QLWHO\�KDV�LWV�prejudice against LGBT people,” said SF State liberal studies major Victoria Guzman. “I remember protesting against Prop 8 and my mom would be mad that I was out there because she said it wasn’t right, that we’re Catholic.”

People in Latino communities have to deal with an extra layer of racism in America in addition to homophobia, ac-

COMING OUT: Art student shares his story Ricardo De La Torre was always afraid to tell his family that he is gay, but after several years he now knows that he does not need to hide who he is any longer.

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FACULTY RECEIVED27%

RAISE IN WAGES WITHIN 13 YEARS

STUDENT FEES INCREASED 263% AT STATE UNIVERSITIESIN LAST 13 YEARS

ADMINISTRATION RECEIVED

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While each candidate

for mayor of San

Francisco has a

general idea of how

to handle education

woes in the city, few

candidates have a

solid plan of how to deal with the issue of

funding for education, the root of the prob-

lem.

³:H��6DQ�)UDQFLVFR�8QL¿HG�6FKRRO�District) get it worse than the universities...

at least the universities can raise tuition. We

can’t raise money,” said SFUSD Superin-

tendent Carlos Garcia. “It’s just unfortunate

that... we say we value education but we

don’t put our money where our mouth is.”

The state legislature has consistently

reduced funding for education throughout the

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its the amount of money the state can receive

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Yet, the budget continues to get slashed.

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class sizes and reduce or eliminate summer

school.

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ing to the California Budget Project. The

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“The reality is that we are going to have

WR�SD\�PRUH�WD[HV��ZH�DUH�JRLQJ�WR�KDYH�WR�do this, but isn’t the future worth it?” Garcia

said. “How short-sighted could we be that

we’re not willing to invest in our own fu-

ture?”

In the meantime, the reduced funding has

taken its toll on higher education at SF State,

and some students hope that the new mayor

will be able to help.

“More focus on education for sure, I think

that would be the biggest necessity,” said

%ULHDQQD�:ULJKW������FRXQVHOLQJ�JUDGXDWH�student at SF State. Her biggest hope for the

QH[W�PD\RU�LV�WKDW�KH�RU�VKH�ZLOO�SXW�PRUH�energy into advocating for education. Wright

wants the mayor to “focus on not allowing re-

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$OWKRXJK�WKH�PD\RU�RI�6DQ�)UDQFLVFR�has no direct control over the budget and

its implementation, the position does

allow the mayor to propose a budget to

the Board of Supervisors. The mayor can

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ment.

“The mayor doesn’t have direct re-

sponsibility over education,” said District

���6XSHUYLVRU�-RKQ�$YDORV��³,�ZDQW�WR�EH�a mayor with a lot of education connec-

tions.”

Some mayoral candidates, including

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DQQD�5HHV��,QWHULP�0D\RU�(G�/HH��6WDWH�6HQDWRU�/HODQG�<HH�DQG�&LW\�$WWRUQH\�Dennis Herrera, believe they can make a

change by simply making the mayor the

primary supporter for education.

“I believe the mayor should be the chief

education advocate for the city and thinking

about public schools and how to improve

them in relation to job creation, in relation to

community, in relation to safety and security

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reason she is running for mayor.

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both Chiu and Yee believe that the mayor

should be the primary advocate for increased

funding for education. Yee has a track re-

cord in the state Senate of opposing tuition

increases for students and has consistently

advocated for increased education funding.

&KLX��5HHV�DQG�3XEOLF�'HIHQGHU�-HII�$GD-chi want to use private sector and business

involvement to integrate private and public

schools, and work with businesses to get

internships for students.

³$V�PD\RU��,�ZLOO�VHHN�WR�HVWDEOLVK�internship programs with private sector

companies to facilitate the transition from

school to work for students in our schools,”

$GDFKL�VDLG�RQ�KLV�FDPSDLJQ�ZHEVLWH�Ultimately Garcia thinks it’s up to the

students to make the change.

“We stand up to the governor, the legis-

lature and we say ‘Hey what you’re doing

is wrong,’ but it can’t be done with single

voices,” Garcia said. “It has to be done with

everybody caring enough to walk, to talk

DQG�VD\�WR�RXU�OHDGHUV�µ(QRXJK�¶´Lisa Carmack contributed to this report.

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Mayoral candidates appeared at City College of San Francisco

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ing for higher education and affordable housing in the city.

$VVRFLDWH�9LFH�&KDQFHOORU�RI�*RYHUQPHQWDO�5HODWLRQV�/HVOLH�Smith, who helped facilitate the forum, felt it would provide a

unique opportunity for students to be involved in local politics.

“We’re hoping to educate the students and encourage them to

be a part of our democracy,” Smith said.

Several students in attendance were there to get information

as part of a class. Broadcasting student Tom Morrow admitted he

didn’t know much about the role of the mayor in city politics.

“I know a little (about the mayor),” Morrow said. “I think he’s

got a lot of politics, and really very little power,”

6WXGHQW�PHPEHU�RI�WKH�%RDUG�RI�7UXVWHHV�-HIIHU\�)DQJ�VDLG�the forum was overall a success.

“It was informative for the students and it will help them

make decisions about who they’ll be voting for,” Fang said.

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dents, organized the forum and delegated the questions to candi-

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with a ten minute intermission for a CCSF student video.

However, due to long-winded and convoluted answers from

the candidates, the intermission and closing statements were

skipped.

Smith thought imposed time constraints demonstrated which

candidates fully understood the issues.

³7KHVH�ZHUH�QRW�GLI¿FXOW�TXHVWLRQV�´�VKH�VDLG�ZKHQ�GLVFXVVLQJ�how several candidates had trouble coming up with succinct and

appropriate answers to the students’ questions.

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Some candidates were concerned with restoring jobs in the

struggling San Francisco economy.

³:H�QHHG�WR�¿JXUH�RXW�KRZ�WR�UHYHUVH�WKH�IDFW�WKDW�ZH¶YH�ORVW��������jobs in the last two years.” said Presi-

dent of the Board of Supervisors David

Chiu.

-HII�$GDFKL��6DQ�)UDQFLVFR�SXEOLF�defender, told the room that the best

way to encourage the growth of busi-

ness would be through Proposition B,

which would provide legislation to

create micro loans.

“That way we can invest in your

future and you can choose the kind of

MRE�\RX�ZDQW�´�VDLG�$GDFKL�The conversation was civil, aside

from the occasional overlapping ideas

and candidates clarifying that they too

have supported an issue when another

said he or she was the “only one” who

had taken previous actions.

When improving Muni was brought

up, Chiu asserted that he was a stakeholder in the issue and had

dealt with the shortcomings of public transportation.

³7R�¿[�0XQL��\RX�QHHG�D�PD\RU�ZKR¶V�DFWXDOO\�JRLQJ�WR�ULGH�Muni,” Chiu said.

$IWHU�VLPLODU�0XQL�FRPSODLQWV�IURP�&&6)�PXVLF�WHDFKHU�:LOPD�3DQJ��&DOLIRUQLD�6WDWH�6HQDWRU�IRU�'LVWULFW���/HODQG�<HH�responded in good humor on the subject.

“I’m going to be the mayor that makes sure that David Chiu

and Wilma Pang have a bus when they need it,” Yee said.

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didates were asked how they would ensure that all students in San

Francisco have access to a quality education.

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-RDQQD�5HHV��YHQWXUH�FDSLWDOLVW�DQG�HGXFDWRU�DW�6DQWD�&ODUD�University, said that addressing the issue of education was her

“moment of obligation” and took this as an opportunity to discuss

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future. Whether it be through creating jobs or prioritizing educa-

tion, candidates emphasized the importance of the students sitting

in front of them.

“The overall interest of students was good,” Fang said. “They

were sitting and listening the whole time.”

SAN FRANCISCO MAYORAL RACE CCSF STUDENTS HOST COMMUNITY

INFORUMCANDIDATES FACE SF EDUCATION WOES

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FREE RIDE: PROPOSAL MIGHT GIVE KIDS A PASS ON MUNI COSTS, EASING PARENTS’ EXPENSE

W hen the bell rings at 3 p.m., many of San Francisco’s younger residents crowd the buses and light rail trains as they spider

out into the city back home. Like many an SF State student, these kids sometimes encounter ¿QDQFLDO�GLI¿FXOWLHV�DQG�FKRRVH�to sneak on through the back of the bus.

A new plan with various community supporters has been proposed by the Board of Super-visors which would allow youth to ride Muni for free, helping alleviate the concern of parents who are struggling to send their children to school after budget cuts that have eliminated 11 yel-low school buses.

Muni generates close to $200 million of their $800 million dollar budget through fares. With fare evasion always a prob-OHP��DQG�ZLWK�HYHU�LQFUHDVLQJ�GH¿FLWV��FXWWLQJ�IDUH�IRU�D�large population of school-aged children could have a large impact on a transportation system that is heavily strained.

However, offering free ridership which could pos-VLEO\�LQFUHDVH�WKH�GH¿FLW�PD\�EH�WKH�RQO\�ZD\�WR�KHOS�get children to school.

During a San Francisco Youth Commission meeting on Sept. 19th, community members spoke up about the resolution.

Kate Faria, member of People Organized to Win Employee Rights who has spoken with bus riders and FRPPXQLW\�PHPEHUV��KDV�VHHQ�WKH�GLI¿FXOW\�ORZ�LQ-come families have experienced in trying to take public transportation.

“For people with multiple children, $22 a month

is just undoable and it’s a matter of buying groceries that week or buying the passes for your kids to go to school,” Faria said. “With yellow school buses getting cut and more dependency on the Muni to get to school, work and the opportunities the city has to offer, that shouldn’t be a question. You should be able to access the city.”

“The youth commission strongly urges the mayor, the Board of Supervisors, the Board of Education and SFMTA to continue to work together to support, im-prove and implement free Muni for all San Francisco’s young people,” said Youth Commission Chairwoman Leah LaCroix.

Several community members have shown support for the measure.

“We’ve been collaborating with Supervisors David Campos, John Avalos, Malia Cohen, Jane Kim,” Faria said. “The SFUSD is supporting this, also the SF Bike

coalition and Women Advocates for Youth.”

“Financial restrictions have IRUFHG�WKH�6DQ�)UDQFLVFR�8QL¿HG�School District to cut its transporta-tion budget nearly in half, from $6 million down to just under $3.5 mil-lion over the next three years,” said Laura Lane, deputy policy director to Senator Leland Yee. “That means no more bus service for 11 schools this year with more to follow.”

A majority of San Francisco’s public school students depend on Muni for transportation.

In 2008, a YouthVote Student Survey found that nearly 70 percent of the 8,000 students that were part of the survey use some form of pub-lic transportation to get to school.

Almost 44 percent of the stu-dents require more than one train or bus to get to school.

To make matters worse, the price of the Muni Youth Fast Pass

recently increased 100 percent, rising from $10 per month to $20 per month as of May 2010.

$V�WKH�6)07$�GH¿FLW�NHHSV�ULVLQJ��PDQ\�SHRSOH�are asking where the money will come from if school children get to ride the bus for free.

Lane said funds can be generated through cutting back on spending in other areas.

“Identifying and trimming wasteful spending within Muni, like putting an end to golden parachutes for exec-XWLYHV��ZLOO�KHOS�XV�¿QG�WKH�QHHGHG�IXQGLQJ�UHVRXUFHV�´�Lane said.

Some San Francisco Muni users don’t see a reason to be against free ridership.

“It will help low-income children get to school. Just that is reason enough to be behind this plan,” said Stephanie Fowler, 28, a San Francisco Muni rider.

“In the bigger picture it won’t cost that much more out of our pockets, and we’ll be helping children get to school. It’s a no-brainer.”

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Although the price of youth passes doubled last year, community-supported plan would help kids get to school in lieu of lost yellow buses.

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IN A CAMPUS THAT IS HOME to students of different religions, races, ages, ethnicities and classes, there is one group whose absence is palpable. If Republicans do in fact exist at SF State, some students might think they’ve gone into hiding.SF State’s Republican voice has gone

somewhat muted in the year-and-a-half long absence of an established campus organization.

The last time the College Repub-licans were recognized as a campus organization was during spring 2010, and the group hasn’t sought recogni-tion since, according to Sarah Bauer, the managing director of Leadership, Engagement, Action, Development, the body that approves groups on campus.

Philip Fabian, a former vice president of the College Republicans and SF State alumnus, attributed the dissolution of the College Republicans to a mixture of “a hard time attracting new members” and dissent within the organization itself with the club president.

“She did a few things that embar-rassed us in the front of the state-wide chapter,” Fabian said. “She wanted to do a charity event instead of campaign for Republican candidates. Campaigning for candidates is something we needed to focus on instead of running a marathon.”

According to Jason McDaniel, an assistant professor in the political science department, a conservative void and fail-ure to reestablish the campus GOP could also be due to the city’s Democrat-dense population.

“Politicians and people on campus respond to general climate of what people want here and that tends to be more lib-eral,” said McDaniel, who specializes in urban politics and voting behavior.

SF State falls under San Francisco’s 7th district, which had 55 percent of voters registered as Democrat and 14 percent

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“This campus has a history of activ-ism against conservative government,” McDaniel said.

Though Republicans may currently not have a visible organization on campus, there could still be a sizable minority, ac-cording to McDaniel.

“Just because you see more liberals doesn’t mean there’s a huge dispropor-

tion,” McDaniel said.Despite the sizeable conservative

minority, many young people feel vocally restricted due to social morays, according to Daniel Higa, the manager at the San Francisco Republican Party.

“College is a very social thing and a lot of times it’s hard to state what you really want to say when your teacher may look down on you, your colleagues might look

down on you,” said Higa, who is also a student at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. “Colleges are mostly liberal-run, they don’t want to be singled out.”

Republican students on campus IDFH�GLI¿FXOWLHV�expressing them-selves in a class-

room setting as well, Fabian said.“It can be a very hostile environment

for conservative students, very intimidat-ing for a student who doesn’t know much about life but might have a general idea of their beliefs,” he said.

Fabian recalled his experience in a

communications class, where he said the professor made an example of a student essay that expressed conservative ideals.

“He showed it to the faculty and everyone in the class, and everyone started laughing,” said Fabian, an active member of the College Republicans during his four years at SF State. “I automatically had a fear I was going to fail the class.”

While giving a speech in that class DERXW�WKH�SUR¿W�KH�WKRXJKW�PHGLD�JLDQWV�

like Michael Moore gained from cer-tain depictions of George W. Bush, he was taunted as a bigot by a fellow classmate.

“I was like, I’m brown like you!” said Fabian, a Filipino-American.

Republican Nathaniel Cabrera doesn’t hide his views, but doesn’t

volunteer them either.“I usually keep my political views to

myself unless someone asks me,” said Ca-brera, a junior in biology, who was raised conservative and is a registered Republi-can. “It’s not something I throw out there because it’s a very touchy subject for some people.”

While young GOP members might be intimidated into silence, Paul Murre, presi-dent of the College Democrats at SF State, attributed the lack of Republican visibility to student disinterest instead of an absence of student Republicans.

“There’s a lot of apathy going around. The big story isn’t so much of a lack of Republicans; it’s about a lack of interest in SFSU and lack of student involvement in politics,” Murre, a junior in political science, said.

Dell Brooks, a registered indepen-dent and member of the Political Science Student Association, regularly acts as the conservative counterpoint during debates in his club, and viewed a viable Republi-can presence as opportunity for a viva-cious exchange of ideas.

“I wish they were (here). It made for great debates,” Brooks said. “It was nice to have that conservative opinion, and that quid pro quo.”

Many SF State students with conservative viewpoints are met

with animosity when speaking their minds in the classroom.

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with him. I feel so guilty,” Hembrador said. “I should be home taking care of him.”

Hembrador stays with her parents during the semester and, although they help out when they can, she has to drop off Kairese with the baby sitter during the week. A typical day starts when she wakes up at 7 a.m. and drops off Kairese at the babysitter. She arrives to work at the Asian American Women Artist Association by 9 a.m., then when she’s off at 3:30 p.m. she heads to SF State to make it to class by 4 p.m.

Weekends are no time for leisure; some days she has to work 12-hour shifts. Mon-day and Friday she teaches a karate class at Karate Team USA while her little one watches off to the side.

Hembrador’s karate instructor Andrew Rodriguez has known her for almost three years and admires how hard she works at keeping multiple jobs and going to school, still making time for her son.

“She’s handled it pretty well because

everything she does is for her son,” Rodri-guez said. “She makes me feel like I got to get three jobs just to keep up with her.”

Before Hembrador became pregnant with Kairese, she was trapped in an abu-sive relationship that resulted in a miscar-riage. Her parents saw her second preg-nancy as a tragedy, but Hembrador saw it as her drive to succeed. Now that she has broken away from the abusive relationship and has full custody of Kairese she can concentrate on creating a better life for the both of them.

“I wasn’t thinking straight back then,” Hembrador said. “But now Kairese moti-vates me to reach my goals.”

2QH�RI�KHU�ELJJHVW�VWUXJJOHV�LV�¿QGLQJ�an affordable place for child care. She cur-rently pays her baby sitter $800 a month, but hopes she will be able to get into free childcare at the Early Childhood Educa-tion Center located on campus.

ECEC Director Sarah Johnson said the center takes in about 81 student parents each semester, with undergraduate low-LQFRPH�IDPLOLHV�UHFHLYLQJ�¿UVW�SULRULW\��There are more than 150 families currently

on the waiting list.“Families on the list can wait up to

six months to a year,” Johnson said. “We try to accommodate everyone including students who’ve graduated still seeking childcare, but we have to enroll based on undergrad status and household income.”

While she waits, Hermbrador focuses on other ways to get by.

Hembrador said whenever she gets to spend time with Kairese outside at the park or at Chuck E. Cheese’s the goal is to get him tired because she can’t do her homework while he’s awake. She either has to leave the house to do it or wait until around 11 p.m. when he falls asleep. She usually gets her homework done around 3 a.m., which means she must consume at least three cups of coffee the following day.

Not only will getting Kairese enrolled in the center save Hembrador money, it will also allow her to spend more time with him.

“The best thing I can do for my son is to graduate,” Hembrador said. “I’m doing this for the both of us.”

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cording to Amy Sueyoshi, director of the Race and

Resistance Studies Program.

“When you come out you risk losing not only

your family, but also your community. For folks

of color in the U.S., the family and the community

are two ways in which it creates a kind of buffer

or comfort in an America that is largely racist,”

Sueyoshi said. “And so what folks of color then

have to deal with if they come out and they lose

their family and their community, is to be basically

at sea in a white world where there is even less

support.”

Homophobic remarks and attitudes are

extremely common in high schools and middle

schools, with more than 80 percent of LGBT

students of color in the United States reporting ho-

mophobic language, according to a 2009 survey by

the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

Because of environments such as these De

La Torre used a “beard” throughout high school,

a term used in his hometown to describe LGBT

students who have heterosexual relationships as a

cover.

De La Torre had two girlfriends throughout

high school, which he described mostly as un-

comfortable, but something he had to do to avoid

harassment.

“It was awkward because it’s not something I

wanted to do,” De La Torre said. “I really wanted

to be able to come out but I knew it was dangerous

to do it.”

Four years after coming out, De La Torre is

happy. He recalls the special moment when he said

aloud, “I’m gay.”

“I felt that happiness that makes your eyes

water a little. This burden had been lifted off my

shoulders I could feel the freedom,” said De La

Torre about the time when he told his roommate he

was gay. “I don’t give a shit anymore. It was just

like I said it out loud and nothing happened. The

world didn’t end, I didn’t get struck my lightning.

It’s like, okay I’m done. I’m free.”

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HAYES VALLEY EDITIONHayes Valley has become

a destination neighborhood in the last few years for those with some cash to burn. The streets are lined with upscale

boutiques and manicured Victorian apartments.

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Street mean that people from all walks of life pass through the area on a daily basis, and

they all need to eat.

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CHANTAL GUILLON MACARONSHINT: In the tradition of doing

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for the adventurous eater like rose and jasmine green tea.

437 Hayes St.

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MERCURY CAFEHINT: This little cafe serves up

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seasons. A great place to sit, snack and study.

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398 Hayes St.

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Sunday morning the Stonestown Galleria looks like it does most days. Cars make their way through the parking lot and teenagers saunter along with shop-

ping bags as Muni trains rumble down 19th Avenue.

However, the scene is wildly differ-ent in the shopping center’s back park-ing lot. Around the corner and into the western parking lot behind Macy’s is a sea of white tents and food trucks.

Vendors and patrons gather there every Sunday morning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for one of San Francisco’s lesser known farmers market.

The market, which opened in June 2009, is one of the eight markets organized by the Agricultural Institute of Marin.

Katy Chapman, who serves as manager for the market, said a large part of their strategy involves connecting con-sumers with farmers at the markets.

“When you are shopping at a farm-ers market, you are making a difference,” Chapman said.

According to Chapman, produce at su-permarkets typically goes through a round RI�À�DVK�IUHH]LQJ�DQG�WKHQ�FROG�VWRUDJH�IRU�weeks before arriving on store shelves.

Compare that to the produce at the Stonestown market, which sometimes was hanging on a tree the previous day.

The Stonestown market attracts a wide variety of vendors from the greater Bay Area and beyond. In an effort to maintain a market of local sellers, vendors must be based roughly within a 100 mile radius.

Organizers and vendors alike hope to attract more local customers who might not even know the market exists.

“We still get people who live here, even three blocks away, who don’t know about the market,” Chapman said.

Some of those people include students who live within shouting distance from the market in student housing. When asked about the number of students at the market, vendor Michelle Lane said that while she sees a few, it would be great to see more.

Lane is part of a small team of em-ployees behind Teeny Cake, a small bake-to-order cupcake bakery. They are regular ¿�[WXUHV�DW�WKH�6WRQHVWRZQ�PDUNHW�

“I think there are a lot of great food options as well as a great selection of produce,” Lane said.

Asha Kalonia, an art major who lives on campus, didn’t even know about the market.

“I usually buy groceries at Trader Joe’s or Safeway,” she said.

Even though the market seems to be one of the lesser known in San Francisco, the customers who come on a regular basis tend to build lasting relationships with vendors.

It is this connection that market orga-

nizers seek to build.“I’ve gotten to see kids growing up,

families coming and going, celebrations and hard times,” Lane said. “It is lovely to have that relationship with my custom-ers.”

The Stonestown market is uniquely different from others in the city. Whereas other markets are purely seasonal, the Stonestown market is year-round, and is ¿�OOHG�ZLWK�DPSOH�IUHH�SDUNLQJ��ZKLFK�QR�other farmers market in San Francisco can offer.

Chapman wants to bring the market to new audiences. Students who live on campus are in an especially advantageous position to take advantage of vendors at the market.

Prices for fruit and vegetables at the market are consistently cheaper than what is carried at some chain supermarkets.

In the end, Chapman said the philoso-phy is simple.

“Eat good while doing good,” Chap-man said.

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When an artist is given free creative control, this power can JLYH�ELUWK�WR�URPDQFH��LQWULJXH�DQG�HSLF��DZHVRPH�¿�JKW�VFHQHV��sometimes all on one page.

This energy was showcased at the 18th annual Alternative Press Expo Saturday and Sunday at the The Concourse Exhibi-tion Center. The conference featured work ranging from indepen-dent publishers of web comics to individual artists.

APE, a subsidiary convention of Comic-Con International, which hosts Comic-Con as well as WonderCon, is an attempt to educate about comic book artists and history. Focusing on alter-native comics and art, it is a much smaller convention, boasting less than a quarter of Comic-Con’s 125,000 person attendance cap.

Independent art welcomes a do-it-yourself mentality, offering a lot more freedom than working for a larger company like Mar-vel or DC Comics. Rather than working with pre-created worlds and characters, artists and writers can take the reins on their own creativity and run with it.

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For independent projects like Fajardo’s, the road is not necessarily easy; with creative control comes more on his plate. Although he has a publisher to produce his books, Fajardo said

he attends six to 10 conferences a year to promote his project, which he started in 2001.

Jacob Sulay, a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, said DOWKRXJK�WKLV�ZDV�WKH�¿�UVW�FRQYHQWLRQ�KH�KDG�HYHU�DWWHQGHG��WKH�variety created by independent artists did not disappoint him.

“I really like how it’s unique, that it’s its own thing,” Sulay said. “There are so many independent styles rather than just be-ing one big superhero theme.”

For some independent artists, especially for web comics, a majority of funding comes from the sale of merchandise as well as advertising and appearances.

Tom Neely, creator of works such as “The Wolf” and “The Blot,” publishes his own books but only because he also works as a freelance animator for Disney.

While freelance animation is his day job, Neely said his inde-pendent works are what he enjoys most.

“I’m not interested in working with other people’s charac-ters,” Neely said. “Independent is a lot more work but I’m getting better at it I’d like to think, and I’m having more fun with it.”

Former SF State student and conference attendee Robert Rad-kins said he loved the energy of APE because it really bolstered his creative energy. Radkins, previously a physics major who left SF State before graduating, said he has more time now to pursue his artistic endeavors.

“I’m writing my own comic book and I’ve had the idea since high school,” Radkins said. “This is smaller, which is nice because the artists are there and I can see how it’s all done on a smaller scale.”

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Remember that public space that we used to travel to when we were kids? You know, a library. It’s where physical books lined an endless sea of wooden and metal shelves, and a librarian would help you VRUW�WKURXJK�WKH�FDUG�FDWDORJ�WR�¿�QG�ZKDW�you were looking for.

Well, the card catalog has gone elec-tronic and so has the process of checking out books. Even the books themselves are slowly disappearing. And now there’s the possibility of a virtual library where you can simply download ebooks to your Nook, Kindle or smart phone.

It seems completely harmless. But it could do permanent damage to the library system and San Francisco’s 369,914 patrons.

Libraries are gearing up to begin - if they have not already - renting e-readers to their patrons. Due to the high demand for this type of technology, libraries are slowly housing fewer physical books and are compensating by offering them as downloads.

Currently there are 28 public librar-ies within the city of San Francisco not counting specialty libraries, or the one at SF State. All of them have shiny new self-check-out systems and offer e-books for rentals through the eLibrary which offers hundreds of titles available to download onto a Kindle.

With an electronic library, like the one online retailer Amazon has been planning, what’s to keep people from just logging in to their account at home and queuing up “The Hunger Games” and the latest Anita Blake novel? Why even bother with the local public library?

Amazon’s venture into creating an electronic library for books isn’t new. The idea has been tossed around like a hacky sack lately, going from Amazon to book publisher to author and back around again. However, it has yet to turn into a tangible idea for fear from publishers about what that would mean to the current world of books.

Traveling to a library to browse through the stacks would become obso-lete. People would be able to pick what they want when they want it.

Library books are a novelty of our past. The time when we would be giddy FKLOGUHQ�UHFHLYLQJ�RXU�¿�UVW�OLEUDU\�FDUGV�and checking out a book are long gone. A shelf that we could always rely on for help with those science reports and those pesky term papers for college has changed.

Books offer a more intimate experi-ence when diving into new adventures, while electronic versions will take some of those elements away.

And not only will they take away from the reading of books, but it will also take away from the atmosphere and experience you get when going to a library, browsing the shelves and getting lost and side-tracked in the stacks.

Books are tangible, you can smell them - crisp and fresh when they’re new, slightly musky when they are old - and you can fold the spine back on a paper-back. This will be lost when archives of books, new and old, are digitized for e-readers.

It’s saddening to see technology slowly wiping out library books. Our children will not know what a library full of books looks like.

Booksbecoming obsolete With the title you want just a few clicks away, the real pages are a thing of the past.

For a university that prides itself as being one of the most diverse schools in the country, Republicans have become quite the endan-gered species on a liberal SF State campus.

In fall 2010 the College Republicans, WKH�RI¿�FLDO�8QLYHUVLW\�RUJDQL]DWLRQ��GLGQ¶W�renew its status after seven years, leav-ing many students to wonder where the Republican population is hiding. It’s sadly reminiscent of the dwindling number of tigers in China.

Former club president Carl Clark claimed that all the members graduated, leaving no one left to be a part of the club. But with more than 30,000 students attending SF State, there has to be more than a handful of Republicans on cam-pus.

SF State is known to lean to the left on most political issues, but it’s crucial to have an opposing voice on topics both inside the classroom and out.

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Many Republicans have reported to Xpress that they have received rude reac-tions in the past when they tried to share their viewpoints in class.

A classroom should be an environment in which no students’ opinions are shunned. Have liberals become so tolerant that they have become intolerant of the opposing party?

/LEHUDOV�PDNH�XS�D�VLJQL¿�FDQW�SDUW�RI�WKH�6DQ�)UDQFLVFR�%D\�$UHD�DQG�6)�State is a campus that is known for protesting against conservative politics.

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With the threads of rudeness and hostility, you can’t blame conservatives for hiding in the right-side corner.

While the College Republicans did have incidents on campus that provoked negative responses, it’s time to put the past behind us.

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faculty of SF State,” Dariotis said.

It is expected that the impact to students will be equivalent

to that of a furlough day, Tran said. The CFA is prepared to

strike for more than one day, but it is its last resort.

“(The CFA) does not want to strike,” Tran said. “If the

administration gives in to demands, there won’t be a bigger

strike and it will be a big victory for faculty and students.”

Dariotis said that if there are other means to achieve a fair

contract, then a concerted action could be avoided but that

negations have gone on for over a year now.

“I’m hoping we don’t have to resort to this because nobody

is hoping for something like this to happen, you know, but our

baraganing process has been going on for quite some time, for

RYHU�D�\HDU�QRZ�ZLWKRXW�DQ�RI¿FLDO�FRQWUDFW�´�'DULRWLV�VDLG�One of the main reasons behind the push for a strike is that

the faculty wages have been disproportionate in comparison to

the wages of members of the administration.

Faculty wages were raised 27 percent in the past 13 years,

whereas executives such as university presidents and the

chancellor received a 71 percent increase in the same amount

of time.

³�$�VWULNH��LV�VRPHWKLQJ�,¶G�GH¿QLWHO\�EH�LQ�VXSSRUW�RI��They put so much effort into educating us and creating a better

future for us that they deserve better pay,” said Katie Yamagu-

chi, pre-nursing major.

While some students support the faculty’s cause, they still

believe that it will be detrimental to their education.

“I do support the cause but I don’t agree with the means

and action that could be used to carry out their cause,” said

Jose Medina, 23, psychology major. “I understand that profes-

sors aren’t being paid appropriate, fair wages and this could

rectify and warrant a strike but I’m paying out my pocket right

now for my education and I want to get my money’s worth. If

teachers sign up for a job, they should at least go through with

it.”

Juan De Anda contributed to this report.

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pay increases

While the students at SF State pursue their four year

degrees, others search for new ways to expand their education

and culturally enrich their lives.

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ing the most applications to study abroad programs. SF State

received 195 applications, followed by Sonoma State Univer-

sity, which received 92 student applications.

7KH�2I¿FH�RI�,QWHUQDWLRQDO�3URJUDPV�RQ�FDPSXV�RIIHUV�study abroad programs in more than 20 different countries.

Students can earn academic credit while participating in either

semester or year-long programs.

“Once you get on that plane and arrive where you are

exchanging it’s completely breathtaking,” said Nicole Cuda, a

sociology major who participated in the exchange program to

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ports student exchange and international education on campus.

Even though the IEEC is one of the newer organizations

on campus, it has quickly become one of the largest and most

active. They encourage students to participate in student

exchange and international education as a way of culturally

enriching their lives.

“We introduce people from other cultures to San Francisco,

our culture. We introduce American students to international

students in order to make friends and if they are going to study

abroad they can have connections, learn about other areas and

get set up and have a stepping stone to their study abroad pro-

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The IEEC also has different programs and committees

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scholarships. The language exchange program is a program

where students teach others their native tongue.

“Because we have members from all over the world,

people offer their services of teaching their native tongue to

other students who are interested in learning and that just aids

the whole process of developing international education,” said

Jamar Taylor, an international business major.

Study abroad program encourages student travel

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UNIVERSITY Police aren’t the only people work-ing to keep SF State’s students safe. The members of

the Taekwondo club, led by several high-degree black belts, work toward a safer campus by expanding their own knowledge of self-defense and teaching others.

Master Bill Dewart, a disciple of Taekwondo for 45 years, is the volun-teer leader of the Taekwondo club at SF State. Dewart is an eighth-degree black belt who has been teaching beginner Taekwondo at the University for four years. In 2007 he decided to create the club to allow students to take their skills to the next level. He hopes to spread the principles of self-defense and respect to his students and the University as a whole.

“I realized there was nowhere for students to go after they left my class,” Dewart said. “I wanted to give (the students) a chance to continue their training.”

Club members have many personal goals, but on a social level they hope to create a safer campus for their peers. The members are putting on a seminar for both faculty and students Oct. 29 in Burk Hall from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The seminar, open to all ages and skill levels, will focus on self-defense and the importance of knowing how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Dewart also hopes to extend the ethics of Tae-kwondo: honesty, integrity, focus and achieving goals beyond people’s comfort zone. Dewart, with help from assistants Master Mike Wong and Master Evan Ballar teach their students about the emphasis of contributing to society.

Dewart said all members of the club who are pro-PRWHG�WR�EODFN�EHOW�PXVW�¿UVW�EH�FHUWL¿HG�LQ�¿UVW�DLG�DQG�CPR in case of an emergency on campus.

“You can’t measure your worth on this earth by money,” Dewart said. “It’s the question of ‘Was your community better off with you being a part of it?’”

The members of the club expand on these values three times a week.

“It’s nice to know I can defend myself and others if I have to,” said Jessica Canonoy, a freshman at SF State and member of the club.

'HZDUW�DQG�:RQJ�VDLG�WKHUH�LV�D�VSHFL¿F�VHOI�defense technique that was created by the club called “tiger defeats the bull.” Dewart said this idea is derived from a tiger-like stance and grab, and bull is concep-tualized from bully. This concept was designed to be a practical, street-oriented defense mechanism that can be used by students.

Wong, also an eighth-degree black belt, hopes to inspire his students to teach others these kind of self-defense mechanisms along with Taekwondo values. Wong said he volunteers to persuade his students to challenge the world.

“I want the next generation to have the tools to make a differ-ence,” Wong said.

Club president Jihong Oh, a junior at SF State, has been a part of the club for two years and said that being on the team has helped him to be more courageous. His role as president has taught him to be a leader and take care of his fellow members.

“The (club) has taught me self-defense and self-discipline,” said Oh, an international business major. “(Taekwondo) gives me courage to do things and I hope it helps me in the future. I want to teach.”

Oh said the sport has also helped to cultivate his relationships, a value taught to him by Dewart and Wong.

The club is also preparing for their annual Friend-ship Tournament set for Nov. 19. The tournament is arranged by Dewart, who is the regional director for Amateur Athletic Union Taekwondo programs for Cali-fornia and Nevada. It will invite Taekwondo participants IURP�VXUURXQGLQJ�DUHDV�WR�¿JKW�LQ�ZKDW�'HZDUW�FDOOV�D�“friendly and competitive” environment.

Each contestant will compete according to age, gender, weight and skill.

Dewart continues to teach many levels of Taekwon-do, but he enjoys his volunteer work at SF State because the students give him energy and he said he loves work-ing with people who want to expand their horizons.

“It’s not just setting goals, but breaking those goals down to achievable steps,” Dewart said.

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Cox Stadium field suffers wear and tear

Consistent overuse of the facility leaves groundskeepers, athletes and coaches

frustrated at the often muddy and poor condition of their practice and game turf.

In feel-good sports movies, the big game is always a visual and emotional treat. The stands are packed with IDQV��WKH�SOD\HUV�DUH�GULSSLQJ�VZHDW�DQG�WKH�¿HOG�LV�SULV-tine. Never do you see dry patches or uneven surfaces, but at SF State that is what athletes face every day.

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known as ryegrass, but the annual bluegrass that grows naturally “outcompetes” the ryegrass, Evans said.

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Others are not so forgiving.

“It should not look like this,” said men’s soccer coach Joe Hunter. “This is getting to the point now where it’s an embarrassment not only to the University, it’s an embarrassment to my team. (The University doesn’t) see the big picture. Nobody wants to take the WLPH�WR�VD\�WKLV�LV�D�SULRULW\��ZH�QHHG�WR�JHW�WKLV�¿JXUHG�out. That’s the biggest problem.”

As it is, there is a lot of work that the athletes have to put in on their own. The baseball team in particular dedicates several hours to the upkeep of Maloney Field.

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“In the long run, it’d probably be cost effective,” Cummins said. “But, up-front costs, it’s going to be a good price tag. Obviously, we’d love to have that, but with the economy the way it is I don’t think it’s in the foreseeable future.”

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GATORS’ SPORTS SCHEDULEFRIDAY, OCT. 7

CROSS COUNTRYSF State Invitational;

Women at 2:30 p.m., and Men at 3:15 p.m. (San

Francisco, Calif.)

WOMEN’S SOCCERSF State at Cal State East

Bay at 4:30 p.m. (Hayward, Calif.)

MEN’S SOCCERSF State at Cal State East Bay at 7 p.m (Hayward,

Calif.)

VOLLEYBALLSF State vs. Humboldt State

at 7 p.m. (San Francisco, Calif.)

SATURDAY, OCT. 8

VOLLEYBALLSF State vs. Sonoma State at 7 p.m. (San Francisco,

Calif.)

SUNDAY, OCT. 9

MEN’S SOCCERSF State at Cal Poly Pomona

at 11:30 a.m. (Pomona, Calif.)

WOMEN’S SOCCERSF State at Cal Poly Pomona at 2 p.m. (Pomona, Calif.)

Sept. 30 SF State vs. CSU Dominguez Hills 0-1

Oct. 1 SF State at Cal State L.A. 3-1

Sept. 30 SF State at CSU Dominguez Hills 3-0

Sept. 30 SF State vs. CSU Dominguez Hills 0-1

Oct.2 SF State vs. Cal State L.A. 0-1

Oct. 1 SF State at Sonoma State Invitational

Oct.2 SF State at Cal Poly Pomona 1-3

Oct. 2 SF State vs.

Cal State L.A. 0-3

SCORES FROM THE LAST WEEK OF GATOR SPORTS

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FOR THE SF STATE VOLLEYBALL TEAM’S HEAD COACH AND ONE OF THEIR ASSISTANT COACHES, the sport is more than

just a passion or livelihood - it’s a family affair.

That’s because head coach Michelle Patton, 35, and her brother, assistant coach Jason Patton, 38, come from a family of volleyball players.

The love of volleyball started with their mother, Virginia, who was playing at a park one day when she met a man named Scott Patton. She taught him how to play the game, something they would later pass on to their three children: Lisa, 48; Jason and Michelle.

“We’d go to open gyms as a family and almost have a full team walking in the door,” laughed Jason.

Michelle said they even played vol-leyball inside.

“It was a fun household to grow up in,” Michelle said. “We broke Christmas trees and lamps but our house has high ceilings and my mom didn’t really mind, she was just glad we were having fun. She wasn’t too stressed about the little stuff like that.”

It helped that in the Patton household volleyball was a choice, not a burden. Neither Michelle nor Jason, nor their older sister Lisa, were ever forced to play.“It’s in our blood,” Michelle added.

There is a large age difference between Jason, Michelle and Lisa, so it was the two younger siblings that spent the most time together. As children, Jason and Michelle often teamed up to

play in grass court doubles tournaments.“Our whole family’s always been

close,” Jason said. “Me and Michelle… growing up, we argued, basic brother and sister stuff. I think our mom instilled in us just a love for each other and for family.”

In 2008 Michelle was hired to restart the University’s volleyball program, and she knew immediately that Jason would be the one to help.

“I don’t know if I gave him a choice,” she said with a laugh. “It’s just kind of one of those things that whether it’s helping out with the team or help-ing out with my son, it’s kind of, you

ask and he probably feels obligated but WKDW¶V�¿�QH��WKDW¶V�ZKDW�EURWKHUV�DUH�WKHUH�for.”

Jason commends his sister for all of the hard work she has put in with the team. He said people don’t realize how much work goes into being a head coach, when the program was being completely rebuilt.

He said he enjoys coaching with his sister because the two can bounce things off of each other.

“I can kind of be an ear to listen and tell her my thoughts about what she’s saying or what she needs to do,” Jason said. “It works well, I think.”

Player Iris Tolenada says it’s obvious that her two coaches are related.

“It’s pretty funny when they both play, like against us, because they both play like brother and sister,” Tolenada said. “You can tell they grew up playing volleyball together. It’s just the chemis-try they have on the court.”

Although Jason can only make it to

weeknight or weekend games he still ¿�QGV�ZD\V�WR�FRQWULEXWH��+H�ZRUNV�DW�D�printing company in Concord, and de-signs and makes all of the team’s gear.

Michelle said it meant a lot to her to know she can count on her family. Even though their mother passed away six years ago and Lisa is an assistant coach at Eastern Washington University, the family retains its close bond.

Still, Michelle and Jason are just like any other siblings.

“(We) fought all the time. It’s kind of a hard dynamic to explain,” Michelle VDLG��³,W�NLQG�RI�WXUQHG�IURP�WKH�¿�JKWLQJ�and the arguing to where we always took

care of each other, but that’s my whole family.”

Michelle was an assistant coach at the University of Wyo-ming when her mother passed away. She was happy to accept the SF State’s job offer for several reasons, but she said she

was “coming home no matter what.”“To be able to come back to the

area you grew up in and actually have a coaching job at this level, I don’t know if it’s lucky but it’s very rare to be able to get back to your hometown,” Mi-chelle said. “I’m very blessed with that.”

Having her older brother as an as-sistant is an added bonus.

³+H�GH¿�QLWHO\�NQRZV�P\�VW\OH��,¶P�pretty feisty on the bench. I know what I want to happen and if it’s not happening, I’m very direct,” Michelle said. “I know that sometimes that brother-sister frus-tration can be there but he’s very good at getting (what I want) done.”

Underneath everything, the layer of trust their parents fostered in the family remains strong.“Volleyball was such a big part of our lives,” Jason said.

“Just growing up and having some-one that does the same thing and loves the same thing as you… It was a great thing, you know, something I’ll always remember.”

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Michelle and Jason Patton’s familial bond and history with the sport helps

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