NXT Puts SJSU in a Headlock
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SEE THESE VIDEOS AND MORE AT SPARTANDAILY ON YOUTUBE ICICLES ICE CREAM A.S. HAUNTED HOUSE PIE SMASH FUNDRAISER Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Volume 147. Issue 27 www.sjsunews.com/spartandaily ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NXT puts SJSU in a headlock BY LUKE JOHNSON become the fastest rising promotion Asuka and left an astonished crowd STAFF WRITER in sports entertainment with shows cheering, “This is awesome!” Attending a WWE NXT Live in Brooklyn, Dallas and London, Berenato’s high-level intensity and event is something every avid reaching crowd numbers in the tens MMA-inspired move set meshed professional wrestling fan must of thousands. well with Asuka’s Japanese strong do before he or she dies. It has a Its return to SJSU’s Event Center style and submission expertise. second-to-none production value last Friday brought thousands of It will be a shame if this match with a small-scale and intimate wrestling fans who began shouting doesn’t make it to TV, but I assume setting that allows the crowd to chants before the show started. it will considering it makes Asuka become a part of the show. What was originally thought to look vulnerable before her next title NXT’s last appearance at the be a squash match ended up being defense at NXT Takeover: Toronto PHOTOS BY LUKE JOHNSON | SPARTAN DAILY San Jose State University Event the best match of the night. When on Nov. 19. (TOP LEFT) NXT Champion Shinsuke Nakamura shows off his eccentric personality Center was on March 27, 2015, and newcomer Daria Berenato entered I didn’t get to see the wrestler before the main event at the SJSU Event Center. was one of its fi rst tours outside of the ring fans immediately started I wanted to watch perform the (BOTTOM LEFT) Patrick Clark forcefully grips Oney Lorcan into a rear chin lock in Florida. It was NXT’s largest show chanting, “Asuka’s gonna kill you!” most: “The Greatest Man That the opening match of WWE NXT Live last Friday night. (TOP RIGHT) NXT Women’s Champion Asuka poses on the ring ropes before her at the time, with approximately But despite being inexperienced, Ever Lived” Austin Aries. I knew singles match against Daria Berenato that stole the show. 5,000 spectators, according to she put on the performance of her REVIEW (BOTTOM RIGHT) Former tag team partners Welsey Blake (left) and Buddy Wrestling Inc. Since then, NXT has life with NXT Women’s Champion See page 3 Murphy (right) trade blows in a singles match that saw fans provide entertainment. CAMPUS NATIVE AMERICAN DIA DE LOS MUERTOS NASO opens heritage month BY JEREMY CUMMINGS their stomachs with hearty CONTRIBUTING WRITER food, their ears with ceremonial songs and their eyes with vivid The smells of burning sage costumes and energetic dances. and sweet frybread wafted Miriam Mosqueda, one of the over the crowd of San Jose event’s organizers, had multiple State University students who important reasons for helping to attended the second annual put it together. opening ceremony for Native “It’s super important for us to American Heritage Month come together as a community at the Smith-Carlos Lawn and honor native culture, Tuesday afternoon. native traditions especially “Native American Heritage now with everything that’s month kind of just puts other happening out in Standing ESTEPHANY HARO | SPARTAN DAILY people in perspective that we Rock,” Mosqueda said. are still here that we are still The Standing Rock Sioux PHOTO BY RAYMOND BALTAZAR | SPARTAN DAILY Anecita Hernandez of the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley, led attendees doing these cultural traditions,” tribe is currently facing in a dance called the Friendship Round Dance. Lives honored in Joey Montoya, president of violence, mass arrests and SJSU’s Native American human rights abuses for its The tribe has been protesting tribes and its allies nationwide. Day of the Dead Student Organization and one protest of an oil pipeline, the for a few months now, and its This backdrop of civil unrest of the event’s organizers, said. Dakota Access Pipeline, that is ranks are growing as its calls BY ESTEPHANY HARO Those in attendance fi lled being constructed on its land. for help from other indigenous See CULTURE page 2 STAFF WRITER Day of the Dead is a Mexican FIND YOUR COLOR tradition that commemorates the dead with fl owers, food and drinks and Does country is celebrated on Nov. 1. People who Mixing up a metaphor celebrate this tradition go to cemeteries and take music with them to celebrate music represent BY DARCIE ORTIQUE Arts hosted a reception been doing the project with their dead relatives and acquaintances. STAFF WRITER entitled, Cafe con Leche: small groups since June and The majority of South American Conversations on Skin Color. it’s just an on-going project countries and some cities in the United American values? The Herbert Sanders This event took place on that I hope to continue after States also celebrate this holiday. Gallery was transformed Tuesday, Nov. 1 from 6-8p.m. this,” Eliason said. Mexico City celebrates Day of the Vote on Twitter into into a cozy, living-room- in the Herbert Sanders This public art project Dead with an annual festival that style environment fi lled with Gallery, located inside the gave members of the SJSU attracts hundreds of tourists every year. pastries and the smell of Industrial Studies Building. community a chance to mix This year’s Day of the Dead Parade took freshly-brewed coffee. “In June, I was invited to coffee and milk together to place on Oct. 29 and lasted four hours Carmina Eliason, one of be a resident at the Museum try and match their skin color. and covered approximately 4.85 km. @spartandaily San Jose State University’s of Art History in Santa Cruz This activity was followed by Graduate Students from and they wanted an event to See CELEBRATION page 2 the Department of Fine engage people and so, I’ve See COFFEE page 2 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 CULTURE heartfelt speech about his experience which the Standing Rock Sioux use for desire to stand with Standing Rock. visiting the Standing Rock protests. He everything from drinking to bathing. “I’m half japanese and half english, Continued from page 1 was there in August, during the early If the pipe were to burst in this area it so for me it’s easy to be like, ‘oh that’s days of the unrest. When he left, there would contaminate the drinking water not my culture,’” Ricks said. “I could be gave emotional weight to the prayerful were about 1,500 people there, but at for thousands of people, both on and off just a standby, and watch it all happen, songs and ceremonial dances that made this point, their numbers have grown to of the Indian reservation. or I could stand up with them and make up the bulk of the ceremony. over 4,000. Mosqueda urged students to not be sure that everyone gets their fair share In the middle of the performances “It’s for protecting the water, but it’s passive about this issue. of equality.” Anecita Hernandez, one of the dancers, also all these issues that we face as “It’s important for us to show our Native American Heritage Month lasts invited everyone to join hands in a circle indigenous people,” Montoya said. solidarity and just send a lot of love to until the end of November. A schedule and participate in a Round Dance. She led The phrase, “Water is life” has our relatives out there in standing rock,” of the events planned can be found on them in a winding circular path around defi ned the movement of the self-titled Mosqueda said. NASO’s Facebook page. the area in front of Clark Hall to the beat “protectors” who are opposing the The words of Mosqueda and Montoya of a song sung by Michael Andrews. pipeline construction. The intended did not fall on deaf ears. Chantel Ricks, Follow Jeremy on Twitter @jeremycummings3 Montoya closed out the event with a path goes through the Missouri River, four-year advertising student, felt the DARCIE ORTIQUE | SPARTAN DAILY Students mixed coffee and milk to match their skin color and then participated in a discussion and refl ection at the Cafe con Leche: Conversations on Skin Color reception. COFFEE she identifies as a person of color, into small glass jars, they realized how for example, that help make up one’s considering the fact that her mother is DARCIE ORTIQUE | SPARTAN DAILY Continued from page 1 Mexican and her father’s ancestors are Junior studio art major, Gabriel Powers, pours milk into his coffee as he participates in the interactive event, from Sweden. Cafe con Leche: Conversation on Skin Color. open discussions regarding social Based on Eliason’s observations, issues, stereotypes and race. discussing race or skin color in difficult it is to create the perfect shade skin complexion. “I like the interaction,” Abiam Alvarez, public settings is not an easy of coffee to match their skin color. “I wanted to talk about skin color MFA spacial art student said. “It was conversation to have and is a topic “I don’t think that your ethnic because it’s a social issue that we don’t really inviting and homey-feeling.” that is often overlooked. background could always say what your talk about, like it’s taboo,” Eliason said. Eliason was inspired to bring this For many years, people have used skin skin color should be because ethnicity “Either people are scared to bring it project to life after reflecting on her color as a basis to draw assumptions or might have a different color than what up at work if they feel discriminated own experiences, growing up in a stereotypes about individual people or it might be perceived as,” Alvarez said.