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By Chris Padilla & “With our large population and 11 with no deaths so far, according Mauricio La Plante the amount of travel to China to the World Health Organization. STAFF WRITER & for both personal and business Computer science senior Trinh Numbers at a glance: ASST. NEWS EDITOR reasons, we will likely see more Nguyen said she is worried about cases, including close contacts to the spread of the virus at SJSU. cases At least two people are infected our cases,” Cody said. “I hope the school does something confi rmed globally with the new coronavirus in Santa The virus can be transmitted about it, like hand out (medical) 17,391 Clara County, according to a news after close contact with someone masks and hand sanitizer,” Nguyen release from county health officials infected, according to the World said. deaths Sunday. Health Organization. She wears a medical mask and confi rmed globally Both patients are in isolation The symptoms of novel has hand sanitizer on hand. 362 as of Sunday, according to the coronavirus are similar to those of Nguyen said she is worried about Santa Clara County Public Health the common cold or flu, Barbara how dangerous the virus can be, cases in Department. Fu, San Jose State interim clinical because there is no known vaccine, California “I understand that people are supervisor, said. and carriers of the virus might 6 concerned, but based on what we Two more people in San Benito spread the virus while remaining know today, the risk to [the] general County are infected with novel asymptomatic. cases in Santa Clara public remains low,” Dr. Sara Cody, coronavirus, according to The Fu recommends frequent hand Santa Clara County Health Officer, Mercury News, bringing up the washing to help minimize the risk 2 County as of Feb. 3 said. total confirmed cases in California of catching the virus. However, public health officials to six as of Feb. 3. SOURCES: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, THE MERCURY are prepared for more infections to The total confirmed cases of new Follow The Spartan Daily NEWS; INFOGRAPHIC BY CHRISTIAN TRUJANO, arise, Cody said. coronavirus in the United States is on Twitter @SpartanDaily MAURICIO LA PLANTE Lawmakers to sustain county initiatives

Briana Conte STAFF WRITER Environmental We need to preservation efforts and access to affordable focus energy and housing for people resources to teach vulnerable to displacement took the spotlight during people not to hit, Santa Clara County’s not to rape and not Annual State of the County Address Wednesday night. to assault other “This will require human beings. every department to think about how we Cindy Chavez deal with sustainability,” Santa Clara County Board Cindy Chavez, Santa of Supervisors president MAURICIO LA PLANTE | SPARTAN DAILY Clara County Board of Supervisors president, said. Santa Clara County Chavez addressed the Advocates petition to Supervisor Dave Cortese continued need for reform asked the board to declare within the justice system a climate emergency in to prevent violence against September, last year. women. preserve sacred land “It passed unanimously Chavez advocated for on our board and we are taking more preventative finishing up a sustainability measures against sexual Briana Conte master plan,” Chavez said. assault as well as reforming STAFF WRITER The Santa Clara Valley evidence processing Water District, labor procedures. Without federal recognition, the Amah unions and various local “We need to focus Mutsun Tribal Band continues to petition 101 nonprofit organizations energy and resources to throughout Santa Clara County to protect gathered for the State of the teach people not to hit, not their ceremonial place from approval as a sand County address, which fell to rape and not to assault and gravel mine. on the 100th anniversary of other human beings,” “The destruction of spiritual sites is a crime the 19th Amendment. Chavez said. against humanity,” Valentin Lopez, chairman In honor of the women’s of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, said. suffrage movement, COUNTY | Page 2 The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library Gilroy hosted a panel on the culture and ecology of the tribe’s sacred homeland, Juristac, Thursday evening. Sports Lopez, conservation ecologist Stuart Weiss and Alice Kaufman, legislative advocacy Women’s tennis director for the Committee for Green team serves up Foothills shared their insight on the cultural victory and environmental damage the project could Proposed Mine cause. Lopez said he believes preserving the land Page 3 is a cultural responsibility and expressed his desire to care for Mother Nature, which he calls “Creator.” “When the people started taking care of A&E Mother Earth, they learned that the lands were sacred,” Lopez said. “They recognize Insta-worthy that [the] Creator made these lands perfect cafe serves . . . They created prayers, ceremonies and protocols such as reciprocation. Such as not mediocre sweets taking more than what you need.” Lopez anticipates that lawmakers will Sargent Page 4 ignore the sacred significance of the Amah Mutsun Tribe’s land. Ranch “If this was Catholic, if this was Buddhist, if SOURCE: PROJECTJURISTAC.ORG; INFOGRAPHIC BY JOHN BRICKER this was Muslim, they would not dare think of Opinion Top: The Amah Mutsun sacred lands stretch along mining a spiritual site,” Lopez said. the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The space stretches along the Southern ‘Wokeness’ is Foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains near counterproductive Gilroy, California. Below: The zoning of the mine borders Highway 101 and the in creating The area was purchased in 1992 and many hillside of the Santa Cruz Mountains southwest of Gilroy. political change Critics of the project say that construction would destroy FOOTHILLS | Page 2 sacred land and an essential wildlife corridor. Page 6 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 2020 NEWS

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She announced the employment of a dedicated group in Santa Clara County to process rape kits within 30 days. ABOUT In 2019, a rape kit was processed within 14 days, The Spartan Daily prides itself on being the San Jose on average, Chavez said. State community’s top news “We have set a new source. New issues are national standard. This is published every Tuesday, something we are going to Wednesday and Thursday be asking all counties in throughout the academic year and online content the State of California and updated daily. the nation to follow,” said Chavez. The Spartan Daily is written She also seeks funding and published by San for housing survivors of Jose State students as an expression of their First domestic violence and Amendment rights. human trafficking. “I really want to think Reader feedback may be about the county in its submitted as letters to the biggest terms. So let’s talk editor or online comments. about our community.” said Chavez. BRIANA CONTE | SPARTAN DAILY EDITORIAL STAFF Top priority for the board Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors president, evokes applause from listeners while EXECUTIVE EDITOR of supervisors president CHELSEA NGUYEN FLEIGE discussing environmental issues, the county’s housing crisis and other issues during the 2020 State of the County. was the homelessness MANAGING EDITOR BRENDAN CROSS epidemic in Santa Clara County and its correlation to afford an apartment,” Supervisor Cortese programs. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN BRICKER to the lack of mental health said Chavez. is taking preventative The county is almost

CREATIVE PRODUCER resources and income But Chavez looked measures to provide halfway through building MELODY DEL RIO inequality trends. beyond the high cost of We have the children with mental the 4,000 new homes NEWS EDITOR “We have the largest living as the main cause largest income health programs. promised by the Board last CHRISTIAN TRUJANO income gap in the of housing insecurity and “Susan and I will year. ASST. NEWS EDITOR gap in the state MAURICIO LA PLANTE state of California, the said income inequality be putting together an She said she aims to build fourth highest homeless is most likely to affect of California, office of child policy 1000 new homes through A&E EDITOR ALYSON CHUYANG population in the nation children the most. the fourth and advocacy,” Chavez Measure A funding, an OPINION EDITOR right here in our valley,” “One to five [people] in highest homeless promised. affordable housing bond, CHRIS CORE said Chavez. the homeless community In the past year, Santa and have it approved this SPORTS EDITOR She acknowledged that at some point were in the population in the Clara Supervisor Susan calendar year. JESUS TELLITUD since last year the rate of foster care system,” Chavez nation right here in Ellenberg put forward PHOTO EDITOR homelessness has increased said. the first budget proposal JOHANNA MARTIN our valley. 31%. Chavez promised to for such mental health SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR VICENTE VERA “In order to afford a rent reform foster care and Cindy Chavez programs, consolidating Follow Briana on SCIENCE & TECH EDITOR here, you need to make an government aid in the Santa Clara County Board over $70 million dedicated KUNAL MEHTA average of $108,000 a year county. of Supervisors president to children’s services and Instagram @muaybri SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR JAILEANE AGUILAR

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SPANISH COPY EDITOR requests to modify Juristac If this was DIANA AVILA for residential development Catholic, if this GRAPHICS EDITORS were rejected, Kaufman CINDY CUELLAR NATHAN DOYLE said. was Buddhist, if “It was completely out SENIOR STAFF WRITERS this was Muslim, DIANA AVILA of line with what’s in the PAUL HANG BRIANNA SHEATS county’s general plan for the they would not EDUARDO TEIXEIRA area, which is agricultural AUSTIN TURNER dare think of ranch lands,” he said. STAFF WRITERS JOCLYN AGUIRRE Kaufman said the former mining a spiritual BRYANNA BARTLETT owners of the land filed for BRIANA CONTE site. ANDREW GLENN bankruptcy in 2010 and the SHRUTHI LAKSHMANAN Valentin Lopez DAN NGUYEN space was bought by the Chairman of the CHRIS PADILLA GIA PHAM Debt Acquisition Company Amah Mutsun Tribal Band BRIAN SO of America. PRODUCTION CHIEF In 2015, the new land MIKE CORPOS owners submitted for a sand most conservation takes NEWS ADVISER RICHARD CRAIG and gravel mine capable of place at a local scale,” said passing as an agricultural conservation ecologist ADVERTISING STAFF ranch land, Kaufman said. Weiss. ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kaufman said the mining Last spring, The United MARCI SUELA space dubbed “Sargent Nations assembled the ASST. ADVERTISING DIRECTOR KUNAL MEHTA Ranch” will be as large as Intergovernmental Panel on 320 acres, divided up as Biodiversity and Ecosystem ADVERTISING STAFF BRIANA CONTE | SPARTAN DAILY LIZZY ALVES four separate pits, each Services, which classified PARKER D’ENCARNACAO Valentin Lopez, chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, gives a speech sharing the TIANA LAM hollowing out the land the comprehensive study of SABRINA SALAS hardships, cultural values and eff orts to invested in the environmental preservation JESUS TRUJILLO hundreds of feet deep. earth as a massive extinction ARMANI WARD That requires 40-50 crisis. of the tribe’s sacred lands, Thursday at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. ADVERTISING ADVISER million tons of material “I think one of the biggest TIM HENDRICK to be excavated from the factors in it, especially one of the connecting lands including the Coyote Valley Creek and Pajaro River. BUSINESS MANAGER ecosystem, Kaufman said. for large animals, is the that allow the network of in between San Jose and It will soon be the end of CINDY LUU “The state of California fragmentation,” Weiss said. conservation lands to be Morgan Hill. Sargent Creek as a viable requires every mine to have “Creatures are not free continuous and allow the The Sargent Quarry watershed.” CONTACT US a reclamation plan once to move around and that free movement of wildlife.” obtrusion flows directly The advocates said you’re done with your might be the single most If pumas, a keystone into the Pajaro River which that these issues need EDITORIAL – mining,” Kaufman said. important component that animal, go extinct, the could alter water quality, to be examined for the MAIN TELEPHONE: “You put the overburden Juristac provides.” deer population will not Weiss said. 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The final doubles match when you know a team was won by freshman Tess has won or lost,” Skorupka Menten and sophomore said. “Although it takes a Alba Pedrero Galindo little pressure away from against Hornets freshman us. [Sacramento State] Grace Dodd and senior stayed on it and showed Ege Tomey with another that they were going to score of 6-2. have a pretty good year.” “I think [the doubles In the next set, Galindo point] really helped us a fought hard to defeat lot,” Culibrk said. “It gave Dorian with final scores of us the confidence to go 6-7, 6-1 and a tiebreaker out in singles and play of 10-8. well and step up on the Skorupka said, “I court and not back down.” think the best point of The Spartans lost their [Galindo’s] match was at first singles set but went match point where she on to win the next five. ran that ball down and Sendar began the run of hit that slice and [Dorian] wins for the Spartans and was just so tired and defeated Hornets senior all she did was change Tomey 6-0 and 6-4. direction with a backhand “I think it is very slice across court.” important to get some In the final singles set early wins,” Sendar said. of the match, Youseva ANDREW GLENN | SPARTAN DAILY “To get the energy from fought hard to come out Sophomore Alba Pedrero Galindo (back) returns the ball in her doubles match with freshman Tess Menten (front) the other courts and on top to defeat Nielsen against Sacramento State on Saturday. The Spartans swept the doubles matches and won fi ve of six singles matches. confidence really helps with final scores of 7-5, when you’re out there.” 5-7 and a tiebreaker of By Andrew Glenn junior Jenna Dorian Malsert and Culibrk 11-9. STAFF WRITER and sophomore Jayden won the next two singles “You really want to Nielsen with a score of sets for the Spartans. please the crowd and give The San Jose State 6-0. In the final two matches them some good tennis,” women’s tennis team Senior Tamara Culibrk the Hornets would fight Sendar said. “So that’s swept its doubles matches what got me extra pumped and dominated the singles up today. You never know contests in a 6-1 win over how many people are Sacramento State in the going to come out but opening match. You really want to please the crowd and when you see that crowd “We told them that this you just want to give it team is never going to give give them some good tennis. So that’s 110% and play extra well.” up and you can see from what got me extra pumped up today. those last two matches out there,” head coach Chad Savannah Sendar Skorupka said. junior Follow Andrew The Spartans took on Instagram the doubles point in @nnelgwerdna dominating fashion as the Hornets’ duos could not and junior Laura Malsert back and show resilience, UPCOMING keep pace with SJSU. took the second match making the sets close but The first win came from 6-2 against Hornets ultimately falling short. HOME MATCH ANDREW GLENN | SPARTAN DAILY junior Savannah Sendar freshman Paige Alter “Even though the match SCU vs. SJSU and freshman Rozalina and sophomore Megan was already decided it’s Freshman Rozalina Youseva reaches to return the ball Febuary 28 @ noon on her way to winning her doubles and singles matches. Youseva against Hornets Tagaloa. very hard to compete

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By Briana Conte The small cafe had STAFF WRITER an aromatic mix of floral scents and buttery The ethereal aesthetic pastries. of K Cafe Patisserie & Gaping windows let Tea House may attract in the golden hour rays Instagram lovers, but so customers can take unfortunately the food a plethora of selfies and drinks are pricey and while sipping a small $7, do not deliver in flavor. 8 ounce ‘eggpachino’. K Cafe is sure to catch K Cafe pairs their your eye with a rosy pink signature ‘eggpachinos,’ exterior and botanical made with fresh organic patio full of kumquat brown eggs, with a trees and succulents flowery jasmine green tea. as you head down It wasn’t the flavors, Bascom Avenue. but the act of chasing a

I walked in expecting great selfi e opportunities and drinks to match, but shortly afterward I was looking around the cafe wondering if other customers’ pretty BRIANA CONTE | SPARTAN DAILY K Cafe serves aesthetically pleasing drinks and pastries, giving customers an Instagram-worthy visit. pastries tasted like Easy-Bake but my drink tasted of if they used cute Oven recipes. acetic water despite the food review coffee mugs. tasty fragrance. As I left, I plucked a “K Cafe Patisserie Cuisine: The garnishes and kumquat off their tree to Bakery toppings were the only & Tea House” establish the authentic The glamorous fairytale drink with another that additions that made Location: flavors of the fruit and cafe was exactly as awe- was awkward for a cafe. It my fruit tea better, so Rating: 923 S Bascom Ave how unparalleled the inspiring as the pictures would be more relevant at I strongly recommend  Price: dragon fruit and kumquat of it on social media. a college party. paying those extra dollars. $$ tea was. As you enter, your I ordered the I decided to try their I’d probably only return eyes are drawn to the dragonfruit and kumquat tiramisu which consists to the cafe to pluck some blooming chandeliers fruit tea with boba and of a mellow egg custard, more kumquats from hanging delicately from a basil seeds which was layered on an espresso, I walked in expecting Despite knowing that their patio. ceiling of faux vines and garnished with mint and a anise and rum cake. great selfi e opportunities and many customers are there flowers. lemon slice. The cake base had the drinks to match, but shortly for the atmosphere of the Giant pink plush velvet The boba was made density of clay with no aft erward I was looking cafe, they use disposable love seats brighten the perfectly, with no tough distinct flavors resembling around the cafe wondering pink cups for every hot room and invite you to sit or mushy textures and tiramisu, yet the custard if other customers’ pretty drink order. It would and relax with your cup of the basil seeds were was enjoyable with just the pastries tasted like Easy-Bake make more sense ethically Follow Briana on Twitter coffee or boba tea. a delightful addition, right amount of sweetness. Oven recipes. and presentationally @muaybri ‘1917’ puts you on the battlefi eld

By Nathan Doyle The technique GRAPHICS EDITOR movie is well executed by review cinematographer Roger The path ahead feels Deakins, a 2018 Academy bleak and unknown “1917” Award winner for Best for two British soldiers Cinematography for trekking across a corpse- Rating: “Blade Runner 2049.” strewn landscape to save  Sides on both the the lives of their fellow German and British front comrades along the attempt to gain enough Directed by: French countryside in an power to attain a final epic World War I film. Sam Mendes victory during the peak of Directed by famed Starring: The Great War, with both filmmaker Sam Mendes, Benedict Cumberbatch, aerial and land forces the film “1917” is cast George MacKay taking center stage. with seasoned actors such Genre: In the midst of this, as Benedict Cumberbatch Lance Corporal Tom Drama/Action alongside newcomers Blake is assigned a dire such as Dean-Charles mission by his superiors to Chapman. prevent a German attack The ensemble cast With an even on a British battalion. comes together to tell distribution of both Accompanied by a a story that depicts personal journey and the comrade, Blake must a tenuous moment struggles that came with travel across war-torn during WWI between the time, Mendes shows France to deliver the British forces who were us how the war affected message to the British attempting operations those involved on both an battalion and stop the in German-occupied individual and emotional bloodshed before it France. level. begins. In the same spirit as With war scenes that Mendes once again Christopher Nolan’s draw parallels to films proves himself to be “Dunkirk,” the film tells like “Saving Private Ryan” a capable filmmaker the fictional story of and “Fury,” the movie through the small young reluctant soldiers takes its similarities by moments that humanize within real historical not shying away from the German soldiers keeping contexts, with some moments battles rage on familial mementos with incidents dramatized. through small towns and them. Mendes started his leave them in smoke and Released Dec. 25, 2019, career as a filmmaker in ash. “1917” is a film well 1999 and has based his Audiences will feel they worth viewing in theaters, work off books, creator- are watching this journey with the film being up for owned properties and through the protagonist’s multiple Academy Awards original screenplays. eyes as they run through including best picture and From the facade of the trenches toward and best director. suburban life in “American away from danger. Beauty,” to the inner turmoil Mendes accomplished of James Bond in “Skyfall” this by filming through Mendes excels in creating a series of uncut shots to character pieces, so he was give the impression of one Follow Nathan on Twitter the perfect choice for director. continuous long take. @nathan.doyle.doc sjsunews.com/spartan_daily ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 2020 5 ‘High Road’ delivers high quality

By Chelsea Nguyen Fleige her narrative by giving On “Honey,” Kesha but the end result is still EXECUTIVE EDITOR album review nuance to the raw rehashes a confi dante’s thoroughly enjoyable. feelings unleashed on betrayal of the “golden rule” However, the lyrics

Aft er dominating the pop Artist: the unharnessed ballads through girl group vocals mark a clear emotional charts of the early 2010s “High Road” Kesha of “Rainbow.” heavily infl uenced by ’90s progression for Kesha. with her low bassline and Release Date: “High Road” doesn’t R&B, further solidifying On “Praying,” Kesha bratty-pop style, Kesha fell Rating: Jan. 31, 2020 negate any of Kesha’s past the specifi c nostalgia the crawled through the desert into a fi ve-year-long silence  Genre: discography. Instead, it’s album encapsulates just only to channel divine during a highly publicized Pop unfl inchingly honest about when you think it will only forgiveness for her abusers. and acrimonious legal the way that she has and be a resurrection of the Now on “Shadow,” she’s battle against her former may continue to evolve as old Ke$ha. tripping in the desert while producer, wherein she a person. “Cowboy Blues” and bluntly telling critics, “If alleged sexual abuse and back with her fourth album mullet; don’t worry, it’s not Th e fi rst song on her “Father Daughter Dance” you’re here to throw shade/ civil harassment. Kesha lost “High Road.” a regression into her dark album, “Tonight,” opens serve up slow-tempo then you’re in the wrong appeal aft er appeal before On “Rainbow,” Kesha days. with tinges of a piano heartbreak tunes between place.” dropping the charges in crooned, “Dress in black, Kesha looks and sounds ballad only to switch to delightful servings of glitter What’s most enjoyable is 2016. act so heartless, but more maniacal in this new an obnoxiously auto- pop. the chorus, which is fi lled Following this, she now/ I see that colors are evolution, but she’s actually tuned rap and dizzying with sonically pleasing released her third album, everything”. more in control than ever. electric beat. invitations to suck it. “Rainbow,” which marked In this new era, she With a haphazard energy A cliché record scratch “Chasing Th under’’ a dramatic turn away from has swapped out the that seems simultaneously would not have been out sounds like a single that was her debaucherous roots. “kaleidoscopes in [her] accidental and meticulously of place. Th e false start lays Kesha makes meant to be on “Rainbow” Now the party girl is hairdo” for an inky, mussed cultivated, Kesha furthers open the confl ict between but got hit with a shot of Kesha and her own public it clear that adrenaline and a couple image at the heart of the she’s back on thousand volts. album. Lively drums and gravelly “My Own Dance” takes her bullshit vocals complement a gospel over quickly with a meta rhythm as Kesha sees the hook, taking a playful jab at and ready to silver lining in her club Kesha’s Jack-swigging 2009 nomad ways. Rightfully so, alter ego, Ke$ha. misbehave. it makes her latest album It’s an irresistibly catchy sound instrumentally and song about the dichotomy lyrically one dimensional. of “party girl” and “tragedy” In the wake of #MeToo, and her exasperation with Kesha is redefi ning what both labels. Th e latter is a it means to be a survivor. She construes this devastatingly dolorous Victims don’t need to carefree attitude with the number where Kesha is continually live in the raunchy lyrics, “But life’s brutally honest about shadows, cloaked in piety a bitch, so come on, shake how vulnerable she felt or demureness. your tits and fuck it.” during her abuse and in “High Road” is the Th e titular track is her healing process with epitome of “well-behaved rife with the same sleazy the aching lyrics, “Would women seldom make Ke$ha, but it’s apparent he have protected me from history” and Kesha makes that the self-awareness all the bad shit? Th e bad it clear that she’s back on of her previous album men?” her bullshit and ready to “Rainbow” has not been “Shadow” feels like a misbehave. forgotten. “High Road” is sister song to “Praying,” the about Kesha partying with zenith of her 2017 album. a vengeance, because that’s Th e track fuses gospel- just who she is, not just an inspired vocals and F6 Follow Spartan Daily on PUBLIC DOMAIN PHOTO FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONS escape mechanism. whistle tones predictably, Twitter @SpartanDaily Correction

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Th e myriad criticisms are a representatives from other vain hope that the allegations democratic candidates will tank the public’s view have asked to be on of Sanders, but if anything, the show. it shows the true political “I have requests from all of climate for some of these them: Biden, Warren, Mayor 2020 presidential candidates. Pete [Buttigieg],” said Rogan. Th e allegations that Sanders is consistent Rogan is transphobic are in merely stepping onto aimed toward a podcast in platforms, no matter what which Rogan talks about they are, to give his authentic transgender MMA fi ghter and direct message. Fallon Fox. In 2019, Sanders walked In his response to the onto conservative outlet Fox endorsement controversy, News. His appearance on the Rogan said “If you’re really show received large criticism in support of transgender from other democrats, people, it’s very bad for the despite a Fox News stream cause if you have a transgender showing the entire audience woman, who doesn’t disclose raising their hands to him. that she is transgender and Sanders doesn’t seem to is beating the fuck out of be rolling around in ‘woke biological women.” culture.’ He is not a politician Rogan repeatedly states throwing stones through in his podcasts that he his phone if not for change. has nothing against the Sanders is chasing the transgender community, microphones for the purpose but is against Fox who of getting his political views had been transgender for out to all populations. two years and never told Nothing but respect should anybody. Rogan claims that be attributed to Rogan, for Fox quite literally broke a he at least recognizes the ILLUSTRATION BY NATHAN DOYLE woman’s skull. authenticity at play.

“I think I’ll probably vote and you cut out everything Bryanna Bartlett for Bernie.” else, and you only display STAFF WRITER Th e endorsement those moments.” provoked endless political Ironically, that is exactly The endorsement backlash and proved just how what these critics are doing far ignorant politicians will to Rogan in order to criticize controversy is fundamental go in order to throw shade Sanders’ endorsement. Th e army of ‘wokeness’ the Democratic party and on Sanders. Rogan went on to say that proof that Sanders rarely was up in arms on the Twitter “woke culture” as a whole. Sanders received huge you cannot fi nd many of has bad moments. battlefi eld the past few Former President Barack criticism from the head of the these moments throughout weeks aft er podcast host Joe Obama described woke Human Rights Campaign, Sanders’ career, making his Rogan endorsed presidential culture best at the third which is the nation’s largest career extremely consistent. candidate Bernie Sanders. Obama Foundation summit LGBTQ+ advocacy group, Who else could politicians On Jan. 23, Rogan praised in 2019. He said achieving and other Democratic call out in their headlines His podcast is routinely Th e endorsement Sanders’ career, but you’d change is a much more Congressmembers for then? It’s Rogan. one of the most listened- controversy is fundamental think from the response diffi cult issue than simply promoting “racist and “It’s strange to watch to podcasts in the U.S. and proof that Sanders rarely has from Sanders supporters that using social media. “transphobic” Rogan. it, it’s so obvious what attracts an audience outside bad moments. Rogan spit in his face. “Th at is not activism, that In the same podcast that it is,” Rogan said during the liberal mainstream, If most of the political An uproar to the support is not bringing about change, Rogan promoted Sanders, his podcast following the according to CNN. climate was not playing caused fans to be upset if all you’re doing is casting he said, “You can dig up endorsement, “Th ey’re Putting Rogan’s audience games of slander in their that the deemed despicable stones,” Obama said during dirt on every single human using me to make [Sanders] under scrutiny is not a valid headlines, they would look a Rogan would support the summit. being that’s ever existed look bad, that he’s using criticism of Sanders, in fact, lot more like Sanders. their beloved Bernie, During his weekly if you catch them at their me . . . And all I said was its hypocritical. when in reality, the hate podcast, “Th e Joe Rogan worst moment, and you ‘I’m probably going to vote On an earlier podcast, Follow Bryanna on Twitter should refl ect poorly on Experience,” Rogan said, magnify those moments for him.’” Rogan even said that @brybartlett Impeachment: it’s not unusual

Chris Padilla STAFF WRITER

Speaker of the House impeached, making the Nancy Pelosi signed the process unusual in itself. articles of impeachment The three lucky on Jan. 15 against members of the President Donald Trump impeachment club are with multiple pens, Andrew Johnson, Bill handing them out as Clinton, and of course, souvenirs for her fellow Donald Trump. House representatives. Former President Thus began the strange Richard Nixon’s famous saga of an already Watergate scandal strange process: the doesn’t count, because impeachment of a United he resigned before his PUBLIC DOMAIN PHOTO FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONS States president. impeachment trial could But now, at the tail even be issued. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi strikes down her gavel after the House passes the two articles of impeachment. end of the process, how Signing the articles with strange was it really? a rumored $15,000 worth For instance, the The most unusual Andrew Johnson takes impeachment hearing, commemorative pen thing about the signing the cake, with 11 articles according to Politifact. thing is common practice and transmitting of the of impeachment levied This is a fairly big deal, in the signing of historic articles of impeachment against him. because what kind of trial bills and was done during was the timing. Of course, being such doesn’t have witnesses the impeachment of After the House voted an uncommon practice, and a jury (in this case the Signing the articles with a Bill Clinton. to impeach Trump, Pelosi every presidential Senate) with a majority The notion that delayed the delivery of the impeachment has unique vested interest in seeing rumored $15,000 worth of pens the pens add up to be articles of impeachment, details. the accused exonerated? and having a weirdly solemn worth $15,000 would seemingly changing And President Trump’s Some would say, not be eyebrow-raising, but nothing but the start date impeachment has a doozy any kind of trial at all. procession still doesn’t make according to Snopes, the of the impeachment trial. of a unique detail. In any case, the price of the pens were What about the It is the only impeachment of Trump Trump’s impeachment too inflated by Facebook number of articles of impeachment trial not to will most likely be strange. rumors and were actually impeachment? call witnesses. ho-hum in the most $15 a pen, adding up Trump’s is also pretty Other presidential important way. to $450. pedestrian in that regard. trials had witnesses, with As with Clinton and As for the almost- He has two articles of Bill Clinton having three Johnson, it will most likely ritualistic walk of the impeachment against and Andrew Johnson result in an acquittal. House impeachment him, as did Clinton. having a whopping 41. The answer is: not very. of pens and having a managers to the Senate, Nixon had three A lack of witnesses There have only been weirdly solemn procession that has been done heading for him, is strange, not only for Follow Spartan Daily three instances when a still doesn’t make Trump’s for every presidential rendered moot by presidential impeachments, on Twitter U.S. president has been impeachment too strange. impeachment. his resignation. but for any senate @SpartanDaily