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Students campaign for special mayoral electionBY JACOB ROTH

STAFF WRITER

The Nov. 19 special mayoral elec-tion to replace former San Diego Mayor, Bob Filner is fast approaching, and each candidate’s campaign staff is working hard to prepare.

Four front-runners have emerged from the field of 11 candidates: former State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, City Councilman David Alvarez, former City Attorney Mike Aguirre and City Councilman Kevin Faulconer. Of the four men, three are Democrats; only Faulconer is running as a Republican.

Justin Vos, president of the PLNU College Republicans Club, said PLNU students are making a big impact on Councilman Kevin Faulconer’s campaign. Faulconer has three paid staff members and seven interns from PLNU, in addition to occasional volunteers.

“We have a pretty good showing,” said Vos. “I think almost one fourth of [Faulconer’s] campaign staff are Point Loma students. It’s pretty crazy to think about that.”

Senior Davis Newton spends his weekends performing a number of tasks for Faulconer’s campaign. The business

major spends time walking around differ-ent San Diego neighborhoods and mak-ing phone calls in order to meet with and talk to voters about the campaign.

“It’s great speaking to different people and listening to their com-ments and concerns,” said Newton

Best place to find a spouse?Christian colleges

BY MIRANDA BROWN

STAFF WRITER

Private, religious universities are some of the best colleges for finding a spouse, according to Facebook data scientists in their “From Classmates to Soulmates” study.

Facebook’s data science team re-searchers Sofus Macskassy and Lada Adamic analyzed users over the age of 25 and found that 28 percent of couples had attended the same college. From this, they calculated what the top uni-versities’ married couples had in common.

The top 25 schools for men to meet their wives were all private, Christian universities. For the women, 16 of the top 25 schools were Christian colleges. These two lists had 12 schools in com-mon, all of which were Christian.

Although PLNU did not appear in the study, Olivet Nazarene Univeristy and Northwest Nazarene University-made it on the list of popular schools for men to meet their wives, ranked 15 and 24 respectively.

Psychology professor Chair John T. Wu teaches PLNU’s Intimate Couples Marriage Course. Coming from UCSD, he was surprised to see so many married couples when he first started teaching here.

A possible explanation for the phe-nomenon is that many students on secular campuses live together at the

PHOTOS BY OLIVIA MOWRY Students returned for the annual Lomapalooza event Saturday to hear from The Bluffs, Coastal Access and techno musician Nick Leng. Student Body President A.J. Wolf also spit out some rhymes with Julius Obregon on the guitar and Aaron Burgett accompany-ing him on vocals. Point TV and Point Radio also set up shop, while students enjoyed free food to in front of the gym and on the lawn from 3 to 6 p.m.

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Facebook COO brings small groups to college campusesBY KATHLEEN RHINE

STAFF WRITER

“Men still run the world.” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg

began the live stream of “Lean In on Campus” with a heavy statement to campuses across the United States. She expanded upon her book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” released earlier this year. A viewing event took place at PLNU Monday afternoon in the ARC for a

small crowd of students — including Paige Woodward, Nolan Stephenson, and Jillian Heckman — one alumna and five faculty members.

The mission of “Lean In” as de-scribed by Sandberg in the live stream, is to provide tools and resources for women to achieve equality in the workplace, in leadership and in the home. Linda Beail, director of the Margaret Stevenson Center for Wom-en’s Studies, said Sandberg is attempt-ing to go beyond this mission by tap-

ping into women’s potential. “Part of what Sandberg wants to do

is inspire women and forget about mes-sages you’ve internalized about what you can’t do,” said Beail. “It’s okay to be passionate and follow your dreams.”

Beail said she appreciates that Sand-berg’s status as COO of Facebook has opened up the way for more discussion.

“One thing I’m happy about is somebody with her amount of suc-cess and celebrity wants to have this conversation about gender and where

women are in the 21st century and in the workplace,” Beail said.

During the live stream, Sandberg focused on four steps for women to “lean into their ambitions”: have con-fidence, change the working-woman stereotype, start out aiming high and support each other. A small group discussion between students and fac-ulty followed the video, for sharing thoughts about Sandberg’s ideas.

“It’s important as women to talk about because we do limit our-

selves,” said Paige Woodward, a senior political science major, who attended the event. “But it’s not just about doing. There are biases at work against women.”

In the group discussion, students and faculty raised questions about the gap between Sandberg’s steps for women gaining confidence and actual-ly achieving success in the workplace. Beail said this forces women to come together in the workplace for change.

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“She’s saying to change the ste-reotype and have women step up and aim high, but when they do

that, they’ll hit a wall of judgment or dislike,” Beail said. “They’re leaning in, but getting pushed back. I do think you need a sus-tained, ongoing political and social movement that calls attention to

supporting each other.”Sandberg’s organization launched

“Lean In on Campus” at Howard Uni-versity earlier this month. Across the na-tion, college campuses host small groups to support each other through discus-

sion about preparing for the workplace using resources from the organization.

Reyna Sund, executive director of the Office of Strengths and Vocations (OSV), said these groups could be suc-cessful if managed effectively.

“They could help if people chal-lenge each other and take it seriously,” she said. “You would have live, fish-bowl interactions to challenge each other to grow and give real, solid, valuable feedback.”

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in an email. “And any feedback I get from voters, I make a note of, and relay the information to Kevin.”

Kris Ashton, another PLNU senior who works on Faulconer’s staff, said the opportunity also provided him with valuable political experience.

“I was thrilled to get involved in the campaign because I knew would be a great learning experience,” said Ashton via email. “I really wanted to see how the process worked, and I knew it wouldn’t

hurt to put on the résumé.”Several PLNU students are also

contributing to Alvarez’s campaign, who was officially endorsed by the San Diego Democratic Party.The PLNU College Democrats have also thrown their sup-port behind Alvarez, according to Club President Jacob Schultz. Schultz said there are two students working officially on Alvarez’s campaign.

PLNU senior Kayla Cook has spent a lot of time working the phone lines to reach out to voters for Alvarez’s campaign.

“It’s always an exhilarating experi-ence to know that you’ve been a part

of making history, no matter how small or incremental,” said Cook via email. “I love talking with people on the phone and hearing what they think about our current political climate.”

Cook, a political science major, also said the experience has taught her about more than just the political process.

“I’ve learned quite a bit of pa-tience,” said Cook. “Phone banking can be trying at times. People don’t want to talk about politics oftentimes, it’s kind of taboo. Or they don’t know enough about it and they’re embar-rassed to discuss that over the phone.

I totally understand.”Recent alumni have also been con-

tributing to the various campaigns. Ben Carney, a 2013 graduate, began interning for Alvarez this past summer and currently runs most of the cam-paign’s volunteer field operations.

Carney said he often spends 14 to 16 hours a day working for the campaign. He focuses on organizing walks around the city, called “precinct walks,” for vol-unteers to go door-to-door speaking with voters. However, Carney says his job changes almost every day.

“The thing about campaigns is

that you wear many different hats,” said Carney. “You do a lot of things wherever there’s the need.”

Ashton said the campaign has taught him many lessons about the political process and helped him sort out his own beliefs.

“From this experience I have defi-nitely learned more about San Diego’s political arena and issues than I ever knew in the past,” said Ashton. “I have identified more with what my own val-ues and political ideas are as well... I am really glad I chose to get involved in this upcoming special election.”

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BY AUTUMN SHULTZ

STAFF WRITER

In addition to choirs, chapel bands and the shower, female students now have one more outlet for their vocal talents. AnarKey, the newest female a cappella group, started this semester. It currently has 11 members.

Students Mandie Lira and Kate Arndt created this group as a way for students with busy schedules to still have a chance to sing with one another. The group chose its name as a reflec-tion of its democratic creed that there will be no set leaders and all members will play a part in making decisions.

“In a cappella all the voices apart from each other, one individual voice each, is chaos if they’re not synced,” said Arndt. “If you put them together it’s beautiful in that chaos.”

AnarKey doesn’t have any events planned yet, since the group was founded only two weeks ago. However, members of the team are already planning auditions and events for them to participate in.

“Adding a new group on campus simply adds more opportunity. Our goal has just been for people to come together

and make music, and we stand by that. We really just want to be a place where people can have an outlet,” said Lira.

AnarKey is the second all-female a cappella group on campus. Key of Sea, the other all-female group, started last year.

The men’s a cappella group, Point-less, began 11 years ago. Pointless member A.J. Wolf said that PLNU’s all-male group will support any new a cappella group, so long as it was formed out of a love for music.

“I think I speak for Pointless when I say, if you sing a cappella music, then I support you,” said Wolf. “I’m willing to support AnarKey and Key of Sea equally.”

According to former Key of Sea member and current AnarKey member Haley Courtney, AnarKey’s split from Key of Sea caused some unnecessary tension between members and was handled poorly by the parties involved.

“We just wanted to sing and hang out, work better for our schedules and do things a little differently,” said Court-ney. “It was not a hit on anyone; I think things just got blown way out of propor-tion in regards to the reasons and moti-vation behind what we were doing.”

Members of both groups were

quick to dispel rumors of any linger-ing tension from the group’s creation.

“[M]usic is music and it doesn’t matter who’s making it as long as someone is,” said Alyssa Salter, Presi-dent of Key of Sea. “If they’re happy making music, I say go for it. There’s no reason for me to have any sort of negative feelings towards them be-cause it wasn’t about me.”

AnarKey only recently started, but members of the group are already bond-

ing through their love of music.“I really like the group of girls that

I’m working with, and I’m becoming friends with them really quickly,” said Courtney. “It’s really exciting that we all feel that everyone’s on board and we like what we’re doing.”

AnarKey is already planning for the coming school year. The group seems to be intent on embracing its creed and creating something beauti-ful out of the tumult of its creation.

“If you think about it, music in gen-eral is chaos. It’s a chaotic combination of different things, but when you bring them together it turns into something truly beautiful. That’s kind of what we’re trying to do,” said Kate Arndt.

Discolsure: Abby Hamblin, editor-in-chief of the Point Weekly, is a member of AnarKey.

AnarKey: Third group joins PLNU a capella ranks

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANARKEYMembers of AnarKey include Kate Arndt, Mandie Lira, Kaylee Dogtree, Emma Hayman, Rachel DenBoer, Jana Russick, Abby Hamblin, Karlie Mohun, Melissa Fox, Gabbi Noa and Haley Courtney.

same age as some Christian stu-dents get married, Wu said. The study’s results could be an indicator of Christian students’ values and a desire to honor God in marriage.

“The big question is how success-ful these marriages are. I think there’s

a general assumption that couples who marry as undergraduates won’t be suc-cessful, but that’s not necessarily true,” Wu said.

The divorce rate among PLNU alumni is 16 percent, according to a research project by Wu and fellow psychology professor Dr. Kendra L. Oakes Mueller.

“I’m not advocating for early mar-riage, but people who marry young aren’t necessarily doomed, like people may think they are,” Wu said.

AJ Wolf, associated student body president, said that while it can be a beau-tiful thing for younger couples to pursue Christ together in marriage, there is a danger in church culture of becoming

wrapped up in finding a spouse.“In the Bible, Paul talks a lot

about singleness and the sacrifice that comes with marriage in being able to serve the Lord,” Wolf said. “I wonder if the Christian story, as it should be told rightly, has been hijacked by the American story of the nuclear family.”

Vice President for Spiritual De-

velopment Mary Paul also emphasized the need to see the Christian life as more than marriage and family.

“Staff and faculty work hard to make people see bigger than that,” Paul said. “There are bigger dreams in life than just getting married. Put-ting marriage off can give you time to dream and grow in yourself.”

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monday, november 4, 2013 | the point weekly

BY JOHN INFRANCO

STAFF WRITER

Each day students, professors, staff members and Point Loma locals drive past PLNU’s guard shack and think nothing of it. Considering that the beautiful campus lays ahead, passersby often disregard the individual work-ing inside the guardhouse. Senior Staff Officer of Public Safety Richard

Duarte is one of those individuals who is always seen around campus but who the community knows little about.

The Point Weekly sat down with Duarte to talk about his life, his jour-ney and how the seven years he has spent working at PLNU have been.

The Point Weekly: So tell me about what you do in Public Safety.

Richard Duarte: Well, I’m one of

two senior staff officers. My primary responsibility is to do staff training. So I create different types of training sce-narios that help the staff to better do their jobs. My secondary duty is to be visible. This basically means that we want people to feel safe knowing that public safety is here; we care and we want the students (or anyone on cam-pus) to have a sense of safety.

PW: What do you train the staff to do?RD: It could be report writing, re-

sponding to medical emergencies, suspi-cious activity, vehicle patrol, foot patrol, encountering volatile people, building lock-ups, giving escorts, or even dealing with drug and alcohol incidents. Day to day stuff, whatever it is.

PW: What brought you to PLNU ?RD: Before I worked here, I

served in the United States Navy for eight years. I served on a ship (S.S. Dubuque) for three and a half years. After that I was stationed at North Island for about four and a half years. Just before I got out, I did shore pa-trol as well as building security for the barracks and officer quarters. I was also on a special response team who would run drills for simulated terror-ist attacks and we would have to try to recognize when someone was trying to breach the security of the fence line.

PW: So what happened after the Navy?

RD: After the Navy, I went to work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Af-ter working in different prisons in Texas and Oklahoma, I went to work for a prison in Long Beach. But after that, I transferred to a private Correc-tions Company in San Diego at the County prison. We dealt a good deal with inmates waiting for their trial re-garding their deportation. I was there for five years, and after that I worked for a general defense contractor. Since they had contacts with all four branch-

es of the military, you had to have se-cret clearance to work there.

PW: That’s quite the work history. I see from that how you got into se-curity but how did you manage to go from government security to working at a private Nazarene college?

RD: Well, I knew personally that the Lord wanted me to move into a different job, a different location, doing something, well, different. At the time, I had no idea what it was. I started to put out my resumé and I originally thought I would be working for the San Diego school district. Of all the places I applied to, I was picked up by Point Loma first, but even after I accepted the job here, I had over 30 offers from schools in the district that were interested in hiring me.

PW: With all those job offers how did you know that this was the one you wanted?

RD: It was clear to me when I was going through the interview process here that it was right. You know that feeling when you go into somewhere and you just know this is the place for you? It was like that. There was this strange calmness, instead of the usual anxiety or nervousness that comes with a job interview, because the Lord made it clear to me that I had to be here.

PW: And what are your thoughts about the job seven years later?

RD: This is the best job I’ve ever worked at. I’m thankful that I can

PHOTO BY OLIVIA MOWRY Senior Staff Officer of Public Safety Richard Duarte has worked at PLNU for seven years. He works to train other Public Safety officers and helps keep campus a safe and welcoming place.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CHIRISTINE LICATAJunior Biology-Chemistry major Christine Licata rides in a canoe through the Amazon jungle in the trusted hands of her Ecuadorian guide. Her forehead was painted by a member of one of the indigenous tribes that she visited during her travels. She is studying in Ecuador through the Knowledge Exchange Institute.

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“You are sons and daughters of the King. Start acting like it.” — Jared Callahan in chapel on Oct. 28 preaching from Matthew 14:1-14.

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Martial Arts class teaches self defense

BY ANNA GOFORTH

STAFF WRITER

Since 2006, PLNU has offered students the opportunity to learn mar-tial arts, a sport of combat and self-de-fense, under fourth degree black belt and adjunct professor, Tom Blamey.

The PED 102 section 3 martial arts quad class focuses mostly on Ko-rean Tae Kwon Do, which is known as a grappling art.

“In striking arts you are using your body against an opponent,” said Blamey. “In grappling arts, you are using your opponent’s own body against them. It is much more technically difficult to learn. I teach it though because that’s what I am a master instructor in.”

Students are not required to have any martial arts experience to take the course and do not need to meet any physical requirements.

PLNU sophomore Josh Gillespie had never done martial arts when he took the class in the spring of 2013.

“I just took the class because I wanted a fun way to get my activities

credit,” he said. The main focuses of the hour and

forty minute course are in core exer-cises, the building of strength and in-creasing flexibility.

A typical class starts with run-ning a lap around the soccer field and stretching then, transitions into the martial arts portion, which includes learning basic defensive techniques as well as forms and sparring.

In the past Blamey has given mini-mal written work in the class and al-lows the final to be a take home exam.

“For some students, the class is an easy A,” said Blamey.

According to Blamey, students can only get as far in martial arts as their mindset will take them.

“Everyone makes a big jump in their physical abilities and are able to balance, stand on one leg and throw kicks,” said Blamey. “Everyone moves on to the next belt. But some people just have a mindset that they wouldn’t be able to defend themselves while some people have no problem. For those who are apprehensive, it can

take years of training.” PLNU alumni, Nathan Hirst had

the right mindset when he signed up for the class with no martial arts ex-perience. After taking the course he continued his martial arts training and achieved his black belt.

“I signed up for the it because I just found martial arts to be interesting,” said Hirst.

He started taking classes in the fall of his sophomore year and received his black belt the same year he graduated in October of 2009. In all, it took a little over three years of classes.

Blamey hopes to not only give stu-dents martial arts experience, but also the ability and the confidence to de-fend themselves.

“We hope in our lives that we will never be in a situation where we need to defend ourselves,” Blamey said. “But in a situation like that a student would think of what I taught them and know what to do.”

Blamey said that a lot of his classes have an even amount of men to wom-en. But over the years, there have been

more women in the class, he believes for self-defense reasons.

“I think that taking a martial arts class is important for women in particular,” said sophomore Shelbie Walters who also took the course in the spring of 2013. “We need to know how to defend ourselves.”

Christi Robell, who studied under Blamey in 2004, is now using the ex-perience she gained from the course to give back to the community. Since tak-ing the course Robell has earned mul-tiple black belts and teaches children and families at the non-profit Ocean Beach Martial Arts School with her now husband Tom Blamey.

“There is a common thread and sincerity of ‘paying it forward’ in mar-tial arts,” said Robell. “The only thing the student really needs to bring to the table is desire and fortitude.”

Alumni Jonathan Hussey is also us-ing his PLNU martial arts experience and Tae Kwon Do black belt to teach at the Ocean Beach Martial Arts School.

“I started Tae Kwon Do at the end-ing of my freshman year at PLNU,” said Hussey. “I think what initially at-tracted me to the class was that I am of Korean descent and I wanted to be able to learn something from my cul-ture. One of the best parts of the class was getting to learn to break boards. As a kid, I’m sure everyone has tried to break through things once or twice when you do you feel that you have accomplished something pretty cool.”

In spring 2014 students will be offered a martial arts quad two class. The course will be Tuesday and Thursdays from 5 to 6 p.m. The class sizes have ranged from one stu-dent to thirty and this year there has already been eight students interest-ed in taking the class. Blamey invites any students to contact if they are interested, regardless of experience.

GREY AREA

In a few short years (or months), you’ll be sending out resumés, calling for interviews, and doing whatever you can to get yourself that dream job. There’s always that nagging worry - Am I going to make it? It seems like

career advice comes with a lot of mixed messages, so The Point Weekly tracked down some of your professors to get the real story.

What’s the most valuable thing a college student can have going into a job search?

“In teaching the Music Department’s capstone course for the past 10 years or so, a consistent theme has emerged from conversations with our most successful graduates. They tell us that it is important to take ownership of one’s own learning and vocational path rather than to wait for opportunities to come looking for you.”

- Paul Kenyon, Professor of Music

“The most valuable asset for students to have is a well-rounded, inquisitive mind capable of understanding multiple inputs and placing them in context so they can make informed decisions. It is important because it allows students to realize what is important and to make good decisions.”

- Bruce Schooling, Professor of Business

“While communications skills, subject-matter knowledge and entry-level work experience in the industry are extremely important, a senior internship at a firm that the student would like to work for wins every time. Internship experience is the biggest win-win for both the student and the company!”

- Nancy K. Murray, Professor of Fashion & Interiors

“In the field of Computer Science, GPA, internships and communication skills work together as the most important indicators to an employer. These show a person’s ability to work hard and follow directions, to apply what was learned and to be an effective part of a colleague/customer team.”

- Lori Carter, Professor of Computer Science

the black the white and the in between.

Compiled by Miranda Brown

BY MORGAN CARNE

STAFF WRITER

The office of Spiritual Develop-ment has a new Assistant Director of International Ministries: Esteban Tru-jillo. He is no stranger to PLNU, mis-sions or working abroad and has lived cross-culturally most of his life.

Trujillo returns to this cam-pus after graduating from PLNU in 2003 with a degree in Church Music and Youth Ministries. He also received an MA in Christian Education from Nazarene Theo-logical Seminary and worked for 10

years in both church ministry and banking management. He loves to preach, teach and lead worship and also knows how to plan budgets and manage ministry programs.

As Assistant Director of Interna-tional Ministries, Trujillo oversees the Ministry with Mexico programs, works with every detail of finances and will help to develop Loveworks trips and other cross-cultural opportunities each year.

Recently Trujillo and his wife re-turned from serving as missionaries in Spain for a year, working with the Spain District of the Church of the

Nazarene. They helped develop out-reach programs and resources for the church’s youth group, working to draw the church community together.

Since officially starting work at PLNU just last month Trujillo says he has already felt a strong sense of community with the staff and stu-dents he encounters.

“It’s been great,” he said. “God re-ally moved me to bring me back here, since I always wanted to come back and work here.”

His first official week on campus was Spiritual Renewal Week, during which he experienced a new power in chapel worship he had not seen be-fore, even during his time as a wor-ship leader.

“You can tell the students really want to be there,” he said. “I’ve just loved adapting and seeing how there is a new generation of student lead-ers coming on who are so passionate about ministry.”

Current Ministry with Mexico leader and PLNU senior Katie Hu-backer looks forward to working alongside Trujillo this year.

“I believe Esteban is bringing his life stories and experiences to PLNU, and he is supportive of the students and is genuinely interested in getting to know the Point Loma commu-nity that has grown since he attended school here,” she said.

Others among the PLNU com-

munity have known and loved Trujillo for some time, including Director of International Ministries Brian Becker.

“I was his RA,” said Becker, who attended PLNU and sang in choir at the same time as Trujillo. “Some of his friends were pretty silly. They pulled pranks, but as I recall their hijinks, Esteban was usually watch-ing from nearby, shaking his head at them and smiling.”

Becker also said that Trujillo’s sense of positivity has always carried him through the daily tasks of life.

“Esteban is a kind, relational and highly skilled man,” Becker said. “He loves Jesus Christ and his church, and he loves people really well.”

Looking to the future, Trujillo said has nothing but optimism.

“I hope to continue the legacy Me-lissa Tucker [previous Assistant Director of International Ministries] left behind, and continue moving forward with all of the great changes she made,” he said.

Trujillo intends to create new programs and recruit more of the student body with a call to interna-tional ministry.

“I want to reach students not reached before, and bring in pastors from the Church of the Nazarene on both sides of the border,” he said.

Welcoming Esteban Trujillo

MORGAN CARNEEsteban Trujillo returns to his alma mater and begins work as the new Assistant Director of International Ministries.

“A KILLER resumé that matches job description qualifications and meets employer needs, a winning smile and sense of humor and, finally and most-importantly: a genuine humble-servant attitude.”

- Alan C. Hueth, Professor of Communication

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM BLAMEYThe Fall 2011 Martial Arts class taught by Professor Tom Blamey practice their jabs and kicks on the field.

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BY JENNA HUSSEY

STAFF WRITER

Musician and entrepreneur Ernesto Figueroa is making waves in the San Diego music scene.

Figueroa, a PLNU sophomore, has been rapping and making music for several years and recently chose to become a media communications major to further his audio production knowledge. The City Heights resident spends his free time producing and recording music with his close friends at home and in their studio.

Aside from performing in Kaleo chapel in spring 2013 and being a serious independent artist who has his own albums and singles and regularly performs at local concerts, one of Figueroa’s biggest accomplishments is his contribution to the local artist support company, Shoebox Collective.

Shoebox Collective is a group of artists, musicians and other performers that showcase their talents in San Diego through a live radio broadcast that streams 24/7 on their website.

Tanner Blackwell, an artist and audio engineer for Shoebox Collective, described the concept. Blackwell and fellow audio engineer and brother, Dustin Blackwell, are the creative forces behind Shoebox Collective.

“It’s really hard to get anywhere in the music scene in San Diego,”

Blackwell said. “The way the music scene works is pretty much ‘You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours.’ Well, the goal of Shoebox is to be the exact opposite. It’s more like: ‘I’m gonna help you out because I want to and I believe in you. If you want to help me out too, that’s cool, but I don’t expect you to.’”

Tanner not only broadcasts but also records many of Figueroa’s songs.

“Me and [Ernesto] have been working together since he put out his first album back in 2011 and we’ve been friends since our freshman year of high school,” Tanner explained. “We definitely work well together and I think that shows in the songs we record. If you go back and listen to some of the earlier things we’ve done, I think you can hear both of us progressing as artists.”

Figueroa joined Shoebox Collective in early 2013 and has enjoyed the atmosphere and work concepts it embodies.

“Shoebox is more than just artists showcasing their stuff,” Figueroa said. “I’m in this for the long haul. We are actually going on tour this January 3-11 in San Diego, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle with the main Shoebox Collective groups like iamdustinblackwell, Slow Graffiti and me.”

Another featured artist from Shoebox Collective and one of Figueroa’s musical colleagues, Christian Alvarado, has worked with Figueroa and frequently contributes

to the Shoebox Collective broadcasts. Alvarado and Figueroa created an EP track, “Hey!”, that was featured on BBC Radio 1 on the Annie Nightingale Show and two weeks later was followed by another broadcast of Figueroa’s opening spoken word track.

The exposure Shoebox Collective

gives local artists provides musicians a step-up from others trying to succeed in the cut-throat business.

“Shoebox Collective is where artists have the opportunity to have their voice heard,” Alvarado said.

“Tanner and the rest of the gang have really helped and encouraged me to keep making music,”

Figueroa said. “It’s all about the passion and when I can create a message with my music and share it with others.”

Check out Figueroa’s music at shoeboxcollective.com.

Student rapper featured on music site

PHOTO BY EMILY RICHARDSSophomore Ernie Figueroa works the microphone during one of his performances at the Shoebox “End of Summer Trash” Live Broadcast on Sept. 20, 2013.

BY EDDIE MATTHEWS

STAFF WRITER

Singer-songwriter Mason Jennings will be performing at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach on Nov. 13, with his new album, “Always Been,” coming out the day before. He talked with The Point Weekly about “Always Been,” the

prevalence of love in his songs and the changes in the music industry.

Point Weekly: In the Bio section of your website, you said the most important part of songwriting was “staying open to the feeling of awe, the feeling of being moved by things.” What things were you moved by to

write these new songs?

Mason Jennings: I think I was moved by how intense it is to be growing older. I feel like I’m 38 right now and I think a bunch of the last couple years of my life have been really weird because, growing up, I didn’t ever expect to be in this position; I

don’t know why, but this is kind of like the invisible years . . . Also, just as I get older, people that I know pass away and new babies get born, so the idea of that circle of life, where death and birth [are] way more prevalent in my life than it was in my twenties.

PW: The subject of love seems to really pervade “Always Been,” especially in “Patti and Robert,” “Dreaming,” “Instrument” and “Just Try.” As a songwriter, what do you say about love in “Always Been”?

MJ: I guess the word magnetic comes to mind. It just keeps pulling my attention and maybe at a deep level, it’s just feeling like ‘Is love real at all? Is there true love? . . . Is there a higher power that loves us? Or are we alone down here?’ I think deep down, it’s just trying to figure out if I really feel love in my life or if it’s a little more dark than that.

PW: At this point of your life, do you think we are alone or do you think there is something higher?

MJ: I think there probably is something higher. For me, when I really get quiet, when I’m meditating or when I’m in the woods, too many things are too connected; everything feels connected to me in a way that definitely feels like there’s some higher planet work. But I also don’t feel like I have any idea really how it works. The more I have faith in something bigger,

maybe at the same time the less I have any idea of how it works in my life.

PW: What do you get from music that you don’t get from literature, films, paintings and other types of art?

MJ: I feel it more physically. I’ll put on a John Lennon song or a White Stripes song, and sometimes I physically feel like it’ll make me cry instantly or I’ll just feel really a ton of energy coming off it physically.

PW: In this age of independent music, how do you see music changing? Is it becoming more rare to be a full-time musician?

MJ: For me, it’s really changed because I travel mostly solo now, whereas in the past, I’d travel with a band. The recording part of the business was like half of how I made my money, half of it was through records and half of it was through live music and now it’s almost a hundred percent of the live show business-end . . . [Music is] really changing in a good way. It’s making it accessible so the people that might not have had a chance to make these recordings [can] get them out to the world. These are all great artists. They’re going to be able to get music out there. I think that’s really cool.

Mason Jennings talks life, love and music

PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONSSinger-songwriter Mason Jennings will visit San Diego on Nov. 13 to promote his new album, “Always Been.”

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Freshman plays for home crowd in Oregon Exhibition

BY ABBY HAMBLIN

STAFF WRITER

Growing up, Evan Garrison dreamed of playing college basketball in the state he was raised in.

What he never expected was that he would indeed play there, but that his home state would be his opponent. PLNU faced the University of Oregon Saturday.

“A lot of kids around here dream of playing for the Ducks,” said Gar-rison’s high school coach Shawn Al-derman, via email. “It will be a great experience for the entire team to not only play against a Pac-12 team who

made it to the Sweet 16 last year but to also play in Matthew Knight Arena. It is one of the premier college basket-ball facilities in the nation. That being said, it might be a little more special having grown up here.”

Special might be putting it lightly. Before coming to PLNU, Garrison spent a lot of time at the University of Oregon with his family, whom he de-scribes as fans that “bleed green and gold.” His father, Mark Garrison, can remember sitting through many Or-egon football games in the pouring rain with his father back when the team rare-ly won a game. So, of course, he carried

on the tradition with his own son.“Until just recently we were season

ticket holders for football for probably thirty years,” Mark Garrison said. “We went to pretty much every home game. I would drag Evan to these games as soon as he was just old enough to sit through at least half of the game.”

Mark Garrison said he joined what he thought was either 30 or 40 peo-ple, including Coach Alderman, other former coaches, family members and friends there just to watch his son. He wore a PLNU t-shirt and said it wasn’t hard to root against his beloved Ducks when his son was on the floor.

“Walking into the arena and see-ing Evan down on the court warming up, that was pretty cool,” Mark Gar-rison said. “That’s big time basketball. To be able to see your son down there, that was a thrill.”

While plenty of people Evan Gar-rison knows from Oregon were in the stands cheering him on, there were also a few on the court that he knew.

A.J. Lapray, a freshman at Oregon who also saw a few minutes of playing time, has been a friend of Garrison’s through high school basketball in the state. During this previous summer at a 4th of July party at Lapray’s house, Garrison found himself in the middle of a pickup game against many of the Oregon players he ended up playing against Saturday.

“Bottom line is, there a team that’s trying to beat us,” Garrison said. “I don’t care who it is, I don’t care if I’m going up against my own mom, I’m going to want to beat them and em-barrass them. So it might seem cool that it’s Oregon but I’m not going to drool over them. I’m going to go against them like it’s anybody else.”

As a freshman, it was also his first game as a PLNU athlete.

“It’s a great opportunity for Evan to quickly get back to his home state and play in front of his family and friends,”

said PLNU head coach Bill Carr. “It’s exciting for him. It’s exciting for all of us to play against a top program.”

But Garrison said he didn’t look at this as any sort of homecoming game.

“It shouldn’t be about just me,” Garrison said. “It’s about what we have to do to go in there and beat them. It’s not really like a big emo-tional game for Evan, it’s the first game for Point Loma. It’s definitely special but I’m looking at it more as our first game and our first game of a really good season.”

Garrison logged 13 minutes on the floor during the course of the game. PLNU led 37-35 at the half, but ulti-mately lost the 52-68.

“It’s kind of mixed emotions be-cause it was a lot of fun playing there but I feel like we definitely should have pulled it out. It was fun to play in front of fans but a loss is a loss. Never get too high or too low,” Garrison said.

While only time will tell if the team will play in the state of Oregon again in his four years at PLNU, to the Gar-rison family, just having him back home even once was an emotional experience.

“His mom and I were proud as you can be,” Garrison’s father said. “To see him out on the floor was just a capper on all the effort I’ve seen him put in for so many years.”

PHOTO BY ERIC EVANSEvan Garrison guards Oregon’s Dominic Artis in Saturday’s exhibition against the University of Oregon.

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BY KELSON BOYER

COLUMNIST

As each October ends and November begins, a time of reflection for baseball fans settles in. Did your team finish well? How do the roster and signings look for next spring training? Well, if you’re a Boston fan, it wasn’t too shabby.

In between midterms and internships, some of you may have seen the Boston Red Sox win the World Series this 2013 Major League Baseball season. Carried by David “Big Papi” Ortiz, hitting over .500 in the postseason, including two homeruns in the World Series, Boston beat the St. Louis Cardinals to call themselves the 2013 world champs.

If you’re a fan of any other team, it probably wasn’t the best your season could have been; unless of course you’re a Pittsburgh fan. The Pittsburgh Pirates made it to the playoffs this year after waiting 21 years. To give you an idea of how long ago that is, the movie Aladdin was released the same year the Pirates last moved past the regular season into the playoffs.

Then, of course, there are teams like the Chicago White Sox, Miami Marlins or the Houston Astros who each finished last in their division and lost 99 or more games with Houston at a catastrophic 111.

But no matter how your team finished, it seems that in baseball, more than any other sport, the glass is

nearly completely full for next season.“I mean, I’m a Red Sox fan so I’m

going to soak this one in for awhile,” says Evan Deverian, a junior at PLNU. “We haven’t won it since ’04 and I plan on enjoying it until spring training all that I can.”

Deverian has been a Sox fan for years now, but he wasn’t the only one who took notice to the increase in Boston hats floating around school this October.

“It’s like this every year here,” says Garret Levsen. “One example in particular is the last three years with Giants fans. All year, nobody wears the hat or shirt, and then once the team gets into the playoffs, let alone the World Series, everyone is a fan all of the sudden.”

Whether or not this is actually the case, fans will be fans.

One team looking forward to next season are the Kansas City Royals. While they didn’t make the playoffs, they made a strong run at the end of the season with some young talent making appearances and giving hope for the 2014 season.

The Padres on the other hand seemed to fizzle all season.

“I’m from San Diego and have been a Padres fan for years and this season is one I won’t have a problem forgetting,” explains Tyler Davis, a graduating senior at PLNU.

In reality, the entire National League West suffered in the 2013 season. Teams like the San Francisco Giants who had won the previous two

World Series in the last three years, had a very below-average year. Even the Los Angeles Dodgers, who did make it to the make it to the playoffs but lost in the second round after spending a lot of money on a team that was expected to win the World Series, found a way to be a disappointment.

But, no matter who you root for, the 2013 Major League Baseball season was fun. Break out players shined, a few old guys showed they still have some glow, and the every year All-Stars made the lights bright each and every night.

So, now that the season has concluded, it’s only onward and upward for each team in Major League Baseball. The only question is, how full is your cup?

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Ender’s Game: Where all begins at the endProfessor deems book, movie worth talking about

PHOTO BY ABBY HAMBLIN“Ender’s Game” hit San Diego this summer at Comic-Con 2013. The Ender’s Game Experience in the Gaslamp seen here let fans to walk through actual sets from the movie.

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Since the news of the cinematic adaptation of one of the most popu-lar modern science-fiction novel by Summit Entertainment reached my ears three years ago, I have counted the days to the fatidic (prophetic) November 1st pending date release. This summer, I patiently trampled four hours in line with the company of overzealous marvel characters at ComicCon 2013, to get a T-Shirt, one small movie poster and to hear the director and actors crew interview. Ender’s Game is one of the three sci-fi/Fantasy cinematic anticipations of this end of the year season (with Hun-ger Games: Catching Fire (November 22) and The Hobbit II: The Desola-tion of Smaug (December 13)).

You can say I am a Wigginsian and a Potterhead. Point Loma former students introduced me to the Ender-verse and I decided to include Ender’s Game in my science-fiction/novel class 5 years ago where it had been one of the students’ favorite readings. Alas, this year LJML decided to kill my sci-fi and Fantasy classes to show administration we can cut literature classes and “save money” in these dif-ficult economic times... Henceforth, Fantasy is pushed forward to summer session in May 2014 but science fic-tion felt in the Time Dungeons. So, as I do not have 48 students to blabber-mouth about it this semester, I am us-ing this space to share my impressions about the Formic War with Star Wars’ jazzy Cantina song in background…

For the philistines not yet contam-inated by Ender’s alternate universe, Ender’s Game is to modern readers of science fiction what Harry Potter is to Fantasy literature. Initially an avant-garde novelette published in 1977 in

Analog Magazine, Ender’s Game was upgraded into a novel in 1985. Or-son Scott Card, a Mormon author from Utah, harvested the Hugo and Nebula Awards. At this day, there are thirteen novels and thirteen short sto-ries in the Enderverse. Ender’s Game is a required reading for anybody in the military as its powerful analyze of military training is considered a well oiled machine.

A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy not so Far Far away before the release of the movie, a continuous controversy rose against the author anti-gay per-sonal positions aligned with the Mor-mon Church, and it is not a surprise that the very first question asked to the movie director Gavin Hood this summer revolved around this heated issue. The movie director stressed there was nothing related to gay is-sues in the book/movie; the movie crew likewise, had gay people amidst its members. “The book is a fantastic book full of wonderful themes like compassion and tolerance, and I am distressed by Orson’s position on gay marriage,” Hood said (The Salt Lake Tribune, Oct 31 2013).

As usual, it is always prefer-able not to throw the baby with the bath/bad water! It is astonish-ing because Ender’s Game is truly a story about being different, and moreover, about surviving margin-alization in a world full of bullies, jealousy and high competition.

Ender’s Game is an extraterrestrial invasion plot largely influenced by Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles (1950), and enemy is-not-the-one-you-think-it-is. The real theme of these recurrent modern stories (in-cluding District 9) is a self-reflective thrill about being Human. The sub-genre allows a view on humanity at its worse–when fear and basic instincts

lead the game–or at its best–when hu-manity learns to view the Others for who they are. It always takes a mes-sianic figure, a unique savior-like indi-vidualistic character (Ender … Martin Luther King) to sort the dilemma.

Our view of the Others (aliens) has changed radically since H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds (1898) villains’ Martians invaders. Thanks to Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) who pushed the full-of-gremlins philo-sophical barge in a more introspec-tive direction. The diversity of our modern societies and need for more comprehension on one side and fear of loosing its identity on the other is the paradox we live with everyday.

Ender’s Game is a rich text that reflects today paradoxes, philosophi-cal and theological questions. Ender is a child in search of an identity fal-tering between Peter (violence) and Valentine (love); a reminder that our

world cannot survive without equi-librium. The unceasing existential question Ender keeps asking himself is: Am I Peter? Am I doomed to be a violent person? Ultimately it is the question of predestination and free will that keeps entertaining the dis-course. One of the main philosophical questions raised by the book/movie is: Does ends justify the means? And, by extension, does the collective counts for more than the individual?

Ultimately, you should really read the book. A movie is never a substitute for a good book. In literature, a richer universe awaits you, with interesting discoveries behind closed doors…

Alain Lescart, Ph.D., M.Div, is professor of French in the De-partment of Literature, Journal-ism, & Modern Languages.