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Students respond to Biden’s canceling of student loan debt
Quiet quitting speaks to generational, cultural shift
‘The Rehearsal’ will bend your mind, subvert assumptions
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Board revisits Uchida Hall mural By Nathan Canilao & Joshua Atkinson
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The San Jose State Associated Students (A.S.) Board of Directors discussed its ongoing efforts to create two full-sized murals honoring Japanese Americans outside of Yoshihiro Uchida Hall during the Wednesday meeting in the Student Union. The project is a collaboration with the Japanese American Citizens League, the San Jose/Silicon Valley National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and SJSU Stories for Solidarity. A.S. President Nina Chuang said the beginning of the mural’s installation is overdue because funding has been approved by the university for months. Chuang said the $10,000 funding goal for the two murals was met in April, but the university has not followed through. “The expected groundbreaking goal was supposed to be in May, but they haven’t done that yet,” Chuang said during the meeting. “So we’re just going to need a follow up and make sure that the project finishes.” SJSU was not able to comment in time for publication but the story will be updated online with its statement. The murals aim to honor Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps in February 1942 after then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized the evacuation of any persons who were deemed to be a national threat to security, a vast majority of whom were of Japanese American descent. World War II-era Executive Order 9066 remained in effect until 1946. Uchida’s family were interred under the order at the start of WWII, while he was drafted into the army while attending SJSU as a medical technician, according to an April 6 Spartan Daily article.
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A.S. President Nina Chuang talks about the proposal of two full-sized permanent wall murals outside of Yoshihiro Uchida Hall that depicts and offers resources regarding internment of people with Japanese ancestry during World War II during the Wednesday afternoon meeting.
meeting that the board of directors intends to follow up with the university to ensure progress gets started on the mural. “There’s a lot of reconciliation and things that our campus should go through and having a public display like this with signage is the tip of the iceberg and the first step,” Spadoni said after the meeting. Matthew Spadoni Chuang said A.S. will continue graduate student, member of Campus Community Garden to update the community through proper channels to keep the The U.S. didn’t formally only was that evacuation wrong but public informed about any updates apologize to the Japanese American Japanese-Americans were and are on the murals. community until Feb. 19, 1976 loyal Americans.” “l’ll be making updates when then-President Gerald Ford Matthew Spadoni, graduate throughout all of our board formally terminated the executive student and member of Campus meetings to get everyone in the loop order and said: “We now know what Community Garden, said he was and just to make sure that we all we should have known then — not really glad to hear during the work together as a team to make
There’s a lot of reconciliation and things that our campus should go through and having a public display like this with signage is the tip of the iceberg and the first step.
sure that everyone’s on the same page,” Chuang said. She said the short-term goal for the installation is to get the two murals completed on the premises. Chuang said she hopes the project will also include a walk-through space with benches that honor Japanese Americans through art, which she thinks will be completed after she graduates. “This project will continue that legacy to ensure the Japanese community receives the acknowledgement that they deserve,” Chuang said. Follow the Spartan Daily on Twitter @SpartanDaily
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Left: San Jose State students Brianna Granados and Skylar Barbero (right) give out flyers for the Panhellenic Council on 7th Street Plaza Tuesday. The Panhellenic Council is an organization that governs six SJSU women sororities. Right: For Weeks of Welcome, a large collection of fraternities, sororities and other campus groups set up tables for recruiting.
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NEWS
THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 2022
Campus Voices
Spartans react to President Biden announcing $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt relief Reporting by Alexia Frederickson PHOTOGRAPHER
resident Joe Biden announced Wednesday he will cancel up to $20,000 in st student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 in a mak year in income, according to a New York Times article. Student loan borrowers can St rece receive a $10,000 relief in their deb debts and Pell grant recipients with low-income families can rece receive $20,000, according to the sam same Wednesday New York Times artic article. “A “All of this means people can star start to finally climb out from under that mountain of debt,” und Biden said in a statement from Bide the White House.
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Ignacio Balunsat kinesiology junior
Alexis Dagar english junior
As a student [who] is going through a struggle with all the student debt I’m about to be in with all these loans, I’d say it will help a lot.
Alona Hazen history senior
John Kostka social studies junior
I think it’s really helpful because honestly everyone really needs the help and especially in this economy with the pandemic and everything, I think it’s really important to have as much help as we can get.
As someone who doesn’t intend to incur any debt in my education, I firstly do not feel that I will be affected by it . . . though, I do not know to what extent it is financially advisable for our country.
Emmanuel McGuire electrical engineering freshman
Shankar SJSU student
I definitely think that student loan forgiveness is helpful . . . I have a lot of siblings and family members whose idea of debt is making them not want to go to college.
He also announced that the hold on federal student loan payments, which has been in effect since March 2020, will end in January 2023. About 45 million people in the U.S. owe $1.6 trillion for federal loans taken out for college, which is more than they owe on credit cards, car loans or any consumer debt besides mortgages, according to the New York Times article. The timing for the debt relief is uncertain but the U.S. Department of Education stated it would set up an application process by the end of the year, according to the same article. Some San Jose State students express their feelings or concerns about the news.
Anything the government is doing for students education, where more students are capable of learning better is very good . . . but I don’t know if this is something being done just for the students sake or just some promotion for him.
Crime Blotter DUI alcohol, hit & run: property damage Aug. 21, 3:45 a.m. at Spartan Complex Arrest
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I think for now it’s still not enough. It’s helping but we need more.
Correction On Monday, Aug. 22, the Spartan Daily published a story titled, “SJSU president search goes on” in which the illustration misidentified former president Jon Whitmore. The Spartan Daily regrets this error.
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OPINION
THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 2022
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Quiet quitting amplifies workplace frustrations
Carolyn Brown OPINION EDITOR
The hottest new trend of the summer is quiet quitting, the act of working to live instead of living to work. Quiet quitting is “not outright quitting your job but you’re quitting the idea of going above and beyond,” said Zaid Khan in a TikTok post, which has more than 3 million views as of Wednesday. Before all you hustlers and girlbosses jump into the comments decrying quiet quitting, you need to realize: the name is not accurate. In reality, it is just setting boundaries and not taking extra work outside of your job description. That doesn’t mean you’re slacking off at your job. Still, why have people including Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of Huffington Post, come out against this practice? “Quiet quitting isn’t just quitting on a job, it’s a step toward quitting on life,” stated Huffington about a week ago in a LinkedIn post. Quiet quitting is also being considered as a part of a bigger cultural shift. “The very concept of people setting boundaries and not putting up with wage theft anymore is SO terrifying to the American employer that they had to put a marketing team behind it,” Jon Kung, a chef and
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Basically, your boss isn’t your daddy and you shouldn’t slave away for them. media personality, stated in a Twitter post Monday. In 2015, California workers lost nearly $2 billion to wage theft, according to a 2017 report by the Economic Policy Institute. The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit think tank
dedicated to having low and middle income workers included in economic policy, according to its website. Wage theft is when a company does not pay its workers, including making them skip breaks or not paying overtime, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations website. I’ve personally worked places that have had a culture where it is encouraged to work through your breaks, acting as if they were more of luxuries than rights. Quiet quitting is a way of rejecting the sort of work culture that excuses actions including wage theft. At 80% of my jobs, managers
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have parroted lines about how the company was “like a family.” Alison Green, a New York Times blogger, described certain jobs that can manipulate workers into feeling like a “family.” “Boundaries get violated and people are expected to show inappropriate amounts of commitment and loyalty, even when it’s not in their self-interest,” Green said in an Aug.13, 2018 New York Times article. Basically, your boss isn’t your daddy and you shouldn’t slave away for them. Quiet quitting is also an expression of exhaustion with the current structure of the work week. The trend of quiet quitting
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follows the growing calls for a four-day work week, according to the Four Day Week Global website. Four Day Week Global is a nonprofit organization that provides a platform advocating for a four day work week, according to its website. A trial run of a four-day work week in Iceland showed an increase in productivity and a decrease in burnout, according to a July 2021 BBC article. Perhaps quiet quitting isn’t just setting boundaries, but also finally admitting that we’re tired of how work pushes us too far. Follow The Spartan Daily on Twitter @SpartanDaily
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 2022
TV SHOW REVIEW
‘The Rehearsal’ manipulates expectations By Bojana Cvijic EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder’s latest HBO show “The Rehearsal” will make you question whether he needs jail time, therapy or an Emmy Award. The show is a spiritual successor to his 2013-17 Comedy Central TV series “Nathan For You.” “The Rehearsal” follows Fielder helping ordinary people with their problems by reenacting difficult conversations or life experiences, according to the show’s HBO webpage. It involves a full construction crew, a recreation of real-life places and a legion of actors all using Fielder’s “method,” which you would have to see how insane it is for yourself. The situations are carefully crafted with Fielder meticulously planning every step to ensure everything goes “right.” In the first episode, he helps Kor Skeete, a trivia-obsessed New Yorker who lied to his friends about having a master’s degree. Fielder introduces the “rehearsal” concept by practicing his first interactions with Skeete and hires an actor to play him so Fielder can anticipate his next moves. As I watched that transpire, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and asked myself, “Is this really happening?” and “Did he really just hire an actor to play the man he was trying to help to rehearse their first meeting?” The levels to that almost felt like I was in a dream sequence from Christopher Nolan’s 2009 film “Inception.” Fielder then bonds with Skeete by shooting blanks out of guns at clay pigeons to bring them closer by finding bond over both being terrible shooters. The two then go swimming at the communal pool and talk about their failed marriages while a carefully planted actor swims by to make sure the scene felt “realistic.” I was still very confused as to why this was needed, but I couldn’t stop laughing. After their bonding activities, Fielder hires a fake friend that Skeete would practice admitting his lie to, and if you think it stops there, you’d be very wrong. Fielder rented out an entire warehouse to build a replica of the bar Skeete and his friends frequent for trivia night, so Skeete would feel in the moment. I thought it was
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pretty funny that Fielder essentially created the show as his own elaborate therapy session with what seems like a massive budget from one of TV’s leading networks. It makes you wonder, if the show wasn’t already approved and HBO did not have a production deal with Fielder in the first place, would this have ever been made? Warner Bros. Pictures, the production company that owns HBO and HBO Max, have started a massive cost-saving plan, canceling movies including “Batgirl,” which was already completed, and overhauling the
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streaming service to create a merger with the Discover y Channel, according to a Tuesday Consequence Film article. Consequence Film is a website dedicated to the film industry, according to its website. More than $20 billion has been lost in trying to save $3 billion for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to the same Consequence Film article. That makes “The Rehearsal’s” budget spending all the more comical. As the rehearsal for Skeete continued, I began feeling less uncomfortable and felt as though I was rooting for him to make it through this difficult conversation. It started to remind me of all the difficult conversations I’ve had to face and wondered what it would be like if I was able to rehearse it with an HBO budget. Fielder also faces the issue of making sure Skeete would succeed in trivia because he told Fielder it would be very hard to get through the conversation without winning. Fielder poses as a social media influencer to go to the actual trivia bar to
get the answers for that night to post online for “people to follow at home” as an excuse. In reality, he finds the answers to the questions and plants actors around places he and Skeete would walk, like a policeman blocking the scene of the crime. The policeman says to the duo, “It’s times like this I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder,” a subtle way of making sure Skeete has the answers for when the time comes. The show is so meticulously thought out that I legitimately wish I could see the levels to people’s inner workings that Fielder explores. He tries to guess everyone’s next move, but as the show answers later on, that is next to impossible. Regardless, Fielder still succeeds in accurately predicting what people can do in difficult situations. It can be hard to get to the next step, as Skeete shows when he’s faced with the situation of talking to his actual friend about his deception. When Skeete goes along with what’s been rehearsed, Fielder captures Skeete’s anxiety
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and we see him frozen in time, nervous and not knowing what to do next even though he’s been through multiple rehearsals in the show. His fear in his actual friend’s reaction is realized. However, Skeete pushes through and admits to his friend that he lied to her and the rest of the group about his master’s degree, and not only that, has a full conversation about why and they get to talking about how hard it is to present a certain image to everyone. His friend was more than understanding and they came out of the situation with a stronger relationship. Fielder, fe eling successful, was happy with the results but also had to come to terms with his deception with Skeete because he faked the results of the trivia night. We see Fielder outside with Skeete on a bench, where he admits his deception to him, but that in itself is a deception because before you can blink, you realize that that’s not the real Skeete but the actor Skeete from the beginning of the show. That seamless transition
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tripped me the fuck out and I didn’t even realize it was the real Skeete until actor Skeete started berating Fielder for his lie. We are transitioned back from this to the real Skeete and Fielder chooses not to tell him about his own deception. As “Pure Imagination” by Gene Wilder plays us out of the episode, Fielder calls Skeete “a great person,” while we are left to absorb what just happened. I want everyone to go into the subsequent episodes blind because even with the first one, you are set up for the ultimate deception with the rest of the series. Fielder forces you to contend with knowing yourself, to see yourself reflected in others and explore the consequences of your interactions with others. All episodes of “The Rehearsal” are now streaming on HBO Max with the first episode free for all viewers to enjoy, or not enjoy, on its website.
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