SEE FULL STORY PAGE 7 SEE THIS VIDEO AND MORE AT SPARTANDAILY ON YOUTUBE THE LIFE OF A MUSIC STUDENT SJSU JIU-JITSU Volume 147. Issue 41 www.sjsunews.com/spartandaily Thursday, December 8, 2016 BrennanSJSU FOOTBALL has no room for error Brennan is from the Bay Area and is a former UCLA player. He has been a well known recruiter and developer of wide receivers. He has seen and helped develop names such as Brandin Cooks THE MISTRY SPOT from the New Orleans Saints and Markus Wheaton from the KAVIN MISTRY Pittsburgh Steelers. The ties to SJSU for Brennan San Jose State has found its man stretch beyond his fi ve-year to take over as head coach of the coaching stint. His father and Spartans. Wide receivers coach mother both went to SJSU. from Oregon State Brent Brennan His father Steve Brennan played will take over the head coaching football here and when Brent left duties and fi ll in the void left by SJSU to Oregon State, both his the fi ring of Ron Caragher. parents stayed and helped out Brennan was at Oregon State with the program. since 2011 and before that was Brent will be taking over a an assistant coach at San Jose football program in dire need of State from 2005 to 2010. At a re-build and will have to start SJSU, he held the positions of his recruiting process right away PHOTO COURTESY OF SJSU ATHLETICS wide receivers coach, offensive to get the team back on top. coordinator and tight ends coach. “We are thrilled to have Brent MEET BRENT BRENNAN “We want to recruit high- back at San Jose State,” said 43 YEARS-OLD character young men that are Athletic Director Gene Bleymaier UCLA GRADUATE tough and love to play football in yesterday’s release. “He is HOMETOWN and also take their academics an exceptional football coach REDWOOD CITY, CA seriously,” Brennan said in a and one of the most respected COACH AT SJSU FROM 2005-10 release yesterday. “We’re going recruiters in the country. His COACH AT OSU FROM 2011-16 to help them grow from young coaching background and ties BOWL HISTORY men into men and put a product to San Jose State make Brent a 2006 NEW MEXICO BOWL PHOTO COURTESY OF SJSU ATHLETICS on the fi eld that anybody who perfect fi t.” 2012 HAWAII BOWL San Jose State University’s new head coach Brent Brennan will take over the Spartans’ has a connection with Spartan 2013 ALAMO BOWL football team after fi ve years at Oregon State. football can be proud of.” See COACH page 2 INFOGRAPHIC BY KAVIN MISTRY COMMUNITY GROWTH INSIDE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Staying strong at Standing Rock the cold wind was blowing knew it was right to be here. it’s ideas. It is everyone’s through but the wind was Danny was talking to me souls fi ghting against money, making the fi re stronger. I’ve earlier. He said everything this imaginary wealth. This learned a lot these past few we ever needed was there wealth, is imaginary, it’s a days, about myself, about for us, it was in the earth, it lie and it gets between us everyone around me, about was in those four elements. and the real wealth is in the world and about God. We never needed the the ground, it’s in the air, God is all around us, people railroads, we never needed it’s in the water we drink. are right about that. God is in the internet, we never needed We can’t stop it, this fi ght JEREMY CUMMINGS the earth, in the fi re, in the anything and we forgot that that we were all brought here water and in the air. Everyone because people made us for. It will never stop. It can’t COLUMNIST in this camp recognizes that forget. The capitalism, the because the love is there and and that is why everyone colonialism, the violence, the the power is there. And it can So I’m sitting here, in a tent in this camp is fi ghting so greed. It got in the way of what only keep going. The fi re is right now. My new brother hard through all of this. really matters for us to stay going wherever. The fi re is in Danny, he just talked to me for Nothing can stop that alive, for us to stay together, my heart now, it’s in Danny’s BENJAMIN SIEPAK | SPARTAN DAILY a while and taught me a lot. It because God took people. and that’s what this fi ght is. It’s heart, it’s in your heart. is cold outside but it’s warm God took me from San Jose more than just an oil pipeline. That’s going to keep us warm Cubamex mixes in here because we got fi re. and brought me here. People That matters a lot and their through this cold winter. Out earlier, I was sitting from Palestine, people from pipeline needs to stop, but two cultures at the sacred prayer fi re, all over because we all this is a fi ght, it’s a struggle, See NODAPL page 2 MERCY MOBILE BY BENJAMIN SIEPAK STAFF WRITER After moving to the United States from People help restock stolen donations Cuba 18 years ago and working as a dental assistant, Iliana Moreno decided BY LUKE JOHNSON which has a partnership with to trade the scrubs for an apron and open STAFF WRITER CHAM, has received 20 to 30 up a sandwich shop with her husband. times more donations than usual Iliana Moreno has integrated her Cuban South Bay Area residents since the theft occurred. These heritage with her husband’s Mexican more than refurbished the contributions consist of clothes, heritage to open a shop offering a tasty Mercy Mobile’s loss last blankets, toiletries and food. fusion of both cultures, Cubamex. Thursday after donations for Wagers said he has been “We always wanted to open a new homeless people were hijacked working with the homeless for business,” Moreno said. “My husband has out of the recreational vehicle. 25 years and has been a pastor over 30 years of experience in the food The Mercy Mobile is a for 19 yea rs. He was i nspi red a nd industry and we got the opportunity to get deliverance ministry affi liated motivated to create the Mercy mon ey f r om t h e ba n k t o m a ke t h i s p o s sible.” with the Community Homeless Mobile after the city of San Cubamex opened on Aug. 22 of this Alliance Ministry (CHAM) Jose dismantled “The Jungle” year. It is located on First Street and that was founded by San Jose — the city’s largest homeless San Carlos in downtown. Business has State University alum and encampment — in 2014 LUKE JOHNSON | SPARTAN DAILY Nallely Carrillo (left), Erica Tutton (middle) and Joe Hill (right) carry donations been steadily increasing every month. full-time pastor Scott Wagers. and released approximately at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church in San Jose. Moreno said they are becoming a “It’s awesome,” said Joe 400 homeless people. popular downtown lunch destination as Hill, the director of Youth “San Jose is a city in this only 2,000 of them in shelters. many people as possible because and Family Ministries at St. country with one of the worst This is more than the San he said the homeless usually See CUISINE page 4 Timothy’s Lutheran Church. homeless problems,” Wagers Jose’s 2015 homeless census do not have enough mobility “With a problem as big as said. “I think it [The Jungle] which counted 4,063 people to go where they can fi nd help. WANT MORE NEWS? SPORTS? A&E? homelessness here in San was an embarrassment to with 69 percent unsheltered. Ten 4 to 5 square feet plastic FOLLOW US: Jose [it’s good] to know that the city and they wanted He invested in the 1985 RV bins fi lled with goods for the @SPARTANDAILY there really are people who to do something about it.” in order to travel to thousands homeless were stolen out of the are compassionate about According to Wagers’s of homeless people recently Mercy Mobile. St. Timothy’s what’s going on in the streets.” estimations, San Jose has about scattered across the city. This Hill added that his church, 7,000 homeless citizens with enables him to connect with as See LOSS page 2 Thursday, December 8, 2016 NODAPL ACCOLADE Continued from page 1 It’s cold, it’s night time now and it’s Steinbeck fellowship program gives awards only going to get colder. The ice is out there, the water is frozen and it’s BY BENJAMIN SIEPAK John Steinbeck. program receives 100 backgrounds and are researching and writing blowing in the wind. Long night of STAFF WRITER The fellowship was to 200 applications a not required to have a biography of San Jose’s the soul, all of that love and all of that originally funded by year before selecting any connection with most well-known painter, energy that has brought us together San Jose State Martha Heasley Cox two to four fellows. As Steinbeck’s works. Astley David Middleton here is going to fl are up stronger than University recipients and was created to of now, the program However, Bermejo Cooper. “It was great to any glacier, any fl are on top of an oil of the Steinbeck help writers who have only offers fellowships has an obvious bond be here as the recipient refi nery, that doesn’t matter because we Fellowship Program published promising in creative writing and with Steinbeck as she of the literary fellowship are here and we can’t stop.