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THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO<br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2024 • VOL. <strong>12</strong>1, <strong>ISSUE</strong> <strong>12</strong><br />
OPINION<br />
FOGPOD<br />
What’s the deal<br />
with the Stanley<br />
Quencher?<br />
Daniela Jarratte’s The<br />
Velvet Underground tee<br />
shows the album’s cover<br />
art. Photo by Samantha Avila<br />
Griffin/ SF Foghorn<br />
SPORTS<br />
<strong>12</strong><br />
Sophia Hansen went<br />
with the “school-girl”<br />
aesthetic, popularized<br />
by the 1995<br />
film Clueless. Photo by<br />
Veston Smith/ SF Foghorn<br />
USF Roundnet<br />
Club shows a new<br />
way to play.<br />
STRUTTING<br />
INTO SPRING<br />
SEMESTER<br />
Students show off their back to school style
02 03<br />
THURSDAY<br />
FEB. 1<br />
2024<br />
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STAFF EDITORIAL<br />
STUDENTS SHOULD GET<br />
INVOVED WITH USF’S<br />
CURRICULUM REDESIGN<br />
The Undergraduate Core Curriculum<br />
Redesign Task Force sent<br />
out a survey to students on Jan. 23<br />
asking for their input on upcoming<br />
redesigns to the core curriculum, expected<br />
to launch in the fall semester<br />
of 2025.<br />
The Foghorn commends the<br />
University for its efforts to receive<br />
student input on such an important<br />
subject. Students should be aware of<br />
the efforts the University is making<br />
to deliver the full value of the education<br />
they pay for. As stakeholders,<br />
students should involve themselves in<br />
these processes.<br />
The Redesign Task Force is part<br />
of a broader university-wide effort<br />
from the Office of the President to<br />
revitalize USF. In 2022, USF launched<br />
its five-year plan aimed at positioning<br />
the university to adequately prepare<br />
students to take on the rapidly changing<br />
world. This effort is coordinated<br />
by the Strategic Plan Advisory Council<br />
(SPAC), a representative group<br />
that “includes faculty, librarians,<br />
staff, and students.” According to<br />
the USF website, “the strategic plan<br />
articulates a vision for USF as deeply<br />
engaged in transformative social and<br />
environmental justice, responding<br />
thoughtfully and courageously to the<br />
multiple crises of this moment, and<br />
advancing a vision of a more just, sustainable<br />
future.”<br />
Underneath SPAC are several<br />
“Working Groups,” each charged<br />
with ensuring a specific part of USF<br />
is ready for the future. For example,<br />
Working Group 2 is charged to “invest<br />
in and promote the scholarly,<br />
creative, and community-focused endeavors<br />
that advance justice and address<br />
the pressing challenges of our<br />
time.” Working Group 4 is focussed<br />
on leveraging USF’s partnerships and<br />
public outreach to increase school<br />
visibility.<br />
Working Group 1 is aimed at reimagining<br />
Jesuit education, and while<br />
that includes many things, one of the<br />
objectives is to “revise USF’s curricula.”<br />
As students may know, USF core<br />
curriculum includes a variety of subjects<br />
making up a liberal education:<br />
communication, mathematics and<br />
the sciences, humanities, philosophy,<br />
theology and religious studies, ethics,<br />
social sciences, and visual and performing<br />
arts.<br />
In the survey, one of the questions<br />
asked was, “What skills and<br />
competencies are essential for a USF<br />
graduate to have acquired?” Though<br />
there were many options available,<br />
the Foghorn believes that in the age<br />
of both increased access to knowledge,<br />
but also the rapid proliferation<br />
of critical misinformation, information<br />
literacy is a critical skill that USF<br />
students must learn to be effective<br />
global citizens. Developing this skill<br />
must be a focal point of the core curriculum.<br />
The content of the core curriculum<br />
isn’t the only thing up for redesign.<br />
The survey also asked students<br />
which classroom activities<br />
best promote learning. While each<br />
method of organizing classes, from<br />
lecture-based to small group-centric<br />
has its benefits, the Foghorn believes<br />
USF’s discussion-based classes are<br />
conducive to the kind of social-justice<br />
oriented learning the school<br />
strives for.<br />
As USF embarks on this five-year<br />
plan, students play a crucial role in<br />
assisting the University to prepare us,<br />
and the students who will follow us,<br />
for the future. While the Foghorn has<br />
highlighted certain skills and formats<br />
we would like the University to emphasize,<br />
it is important that students<br />
across campus express their voices.<br />
The redesign of the core curriculum<br />
is one of many avenues to make yourselves<br />
heard.<br />
UPDATE ON LAWSUIT AGAINST<br />
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH<br />
NIKI SEDAGHAT & MEGAN ROBERTSON<br />
Staff Writers<br />
The University of San Francisco and the Athletics Department<br />
are still in the throes of the Marta Galic et al vs. Molly Goodenbour et<br />
al case. Former USF Women’s Basketball players Marta and her twin<br />
sister, Marija Galic, initially filed a lawsuit against women’s basketball<br />
coach Molly Goodenbour and the University of San Francisco in June<br />
of 2021 due to what they alleged in the lawsuit as Goodenbour’s “archaic<br />
and abusive conduct.”<br />
For the past three years, the University, the Galic twins and Goodenbour<br />
have been in a legal standoff. In November of last year, the San<br />
Francisco Superior Court entered their final judgment on the lawsuit, <br />
reflecting that Marija Galic won her claims — totalling $250,000 —<br />
while Marta Galic lost.<br />
A hearing will take place on Feb. 2 in which both USF and the<br />
A motion for a new trial for Marta Galic (pictured above) filed by Randolph Gaw was overturned.<br />
Photo courtesy of Chris Leung/Dons Athletics.<br />
Galic twins will petition for funds reflecting the costs from the trial.<br />
This hearing comes at the same time as Marija Galic undergoes a<br />
related petition through the appellate court to reinstate the original<br />
punitive damages awarded on July 20, 2023. The original $750,000,<br />
awarded by a jury at the San Francisco County Superior Court, was<br />
reduced on Sep. 21, 2023 after USF’s motion to vacate the $500,000 in<br />
punitive damages was granted.<br />
On Nov. 20, the Galics’ legal council, Randolph Gaw, appealed<br />
USF’s motion to vacate. The Foghorn spoke with Gaw to investigate<br />
the current state of the motion to appeal.<br />
“Following the trial, the University was able to get the punitive<br />
damages portion of the verdict vacated,” Gaw said. “They haven’t challenged<br />
…the compensatory damages and liability.”<br />
The Foghorn requested an interview with the University of San<br />
Francisco’s outside legal counsel, Micheal and Ross Vartain, and a direct<br />
comment from Coach Molly Goodenbour.<br />
When contacted, USF’s spokesperson Kellie Samson<br />
offered the following statement in lieu of a direct<br />
interview. “The University of San Francisco is pleased<br />
the Superior Court of San Francisco ruled in favor of<br />
USF,” she stated. “We are also pleased that the Court<br />
denied the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. As we await<br />
the final judgement by the court, USF remains committed<br />
to supporting Coach Goodenbour and the women’s<br />
basketball team.”<br />
In the Foghorn’s conversation with Gaw, he recounted<br />
key moments from the trial process. “I was<br />
very touched by how [Marija Galic] was brave and willing<br />
to share the darkest memories of her life,” he said.<br />
Gaw noted that during pre-trial preparations, there<br />
were incidents that were too painful for Marija Galic<br />
to recount. “There were experiences that she related<br />
to the jury that all of us heard for the first time,” Gaw<br />
said. “She dug in and brought it out, and re-lived some<br />
of those moments, which was very painful for her to go<br />
through again.”<br />
The allegations of abuse cannot be confirmed or<br />
denied by the Foghorn. The jury sided with Galic following<br />
her testimony.<br />
“To hear from a disinterested jury, people who have<br />
no stake whatsoever, who their job is to find the truth,<br />
and they found in her favor that she was right, that the<br />
University and Ms. Goodenbour had done inappropriate<br />
things to her, unlawful things,” Gaw said.<br />
“I handle business disputes so I’ve won verdicts of<br />
multi-million dollars,” Gaw said. “That is completely<br />
different, as rewarding as that is and arguably, in the legal<br />
world, that’d be considered more important, than a<br />
$750,000 jury verdict. But, this was rewarding in a way<br />
that none of those can ever match.”<br />
For further information, refer to the Foghorn’s May<br />
2022 in depth coverage of the lawsuit filing. The court<br />
documents are available for access on the online edition<br />
of this article. The Foghorn will continue to report on<br />
breaking developments as this case continues.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Managing Editor:<br />
Jordan Premmer, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, News<br />
Editor: Niki Sedaghat<br />
NEWS
04 05<br />
THURSDAY<br />
FEB. 1<br />
2024<br />
THE FOGHORN’S GUIDE<br />
TO PRIMARY PROPOSITIONS<br />
NIKI SEDAGHAT<br />
Staff Writer<br />
On Mar. 5, San Francisco voters will be presented with a series of local ballot measures. The Foghorn has compiled a simplified guide of<br />
the ballot propositions for the 2024 primary elections. Propositions A-F include possible policy changes ranging from affordable housing to<br />
developments in education. All information about the propositions has been sourced from the San Francisco Department of Elections Voter<br />
Information Pamphlet.<br />
Proposition A: Affordable Housing Bonds<br />
Breed, pictured above, wrote in her statement: “I must uphold the safety and cohesion of San Francisco. The anti-semitism in our City is real and dangerous.”<br />
Photo courtesy of WikiMedia Commons.<br />
A<br />
Proposition A would enable the city of San Francisco to use a general obligation loan of up to $300 million to be<br />
applied towards affordable housing efforts for low-income households, senior housing, and workforce housing.<br />
If passed, a majority of the funds would be directed towards new rental housing, while the remaining funds would<br />
be directed towards existing housing, and efforts to provide housing for individuals who have experienced “trauma<br />
related to homelessness,” according to the San Francisco Ballot Simplification Committee. Prop A has the possibility<br />
to fall back on tenants, as landlords would be allowed to tack potential property tax increases on their rent.<br />
NEWS<br />
PHEBE BRIDGES<br />
Staff Writer<br />
MAYOR LONDON BREED CONDEMNS<br />
CEASE-FIRE RESOLUTION<br />
This past month, San Francisco became the largest city in the U.S.<br />
to enact a cease-fire resolution for Gaza, according to KQED. On Jan.<br />
9, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to pass a resolution<br />
calling for a sustained cease-fire in Gaza. Some items the resolution<br />
also called for included: humanitarian aid to be sent to the region, the<br />
release of hostages, and the condemnation of antisemitic, anti-Palestinian<br />
and Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks.<br />
Mayor London Breed condemned the resolution and refused to<br />
sign it. On Jan. 19, she released a statement addressing her refusal.<br />
According to Breed, since the resolution’s passing, San Francisco<br />
“has been angrier, more divided, and less safe.” She did not go as far<br />
to veto the resolution, citing concerns that, if she did, “it would likely<br />
lead to yet more divisive, harmful hearings,” which would “fan even<br />
more antisemetic acts.”<br />
Breed’s statement has sparked student conversation on the Hilltop.<br />
Sadiya Kazani, a senior history major, said, “I think Mayor London<br />
Breed’s description of what’s going on, and the protests as just<br />
division and hatred in San Francisco is not accurate at all.”<br />
San Francisco has now joined cities like Detroit, Oakland, and<br />
Atlanta that have passed cease-fire resolutions. These resolutions are<br />
signs of support that are not legally binding.<br />
“I know that cease-fire resolutions… don’t do too much in effect,”<br />
Kazani said. “But, I think they’re still pretty useful in showing the federal<br />
government that the people of the U.S. support cease-fire overall.”<br />
Claire Mattingly, a junior history major with a Jewish-studies minor<br />
said, “It’s a disappointing choice that she made not to sign it.”<br />
“I feel like there’s not even that much that a resolution in San<br />
Francisco can even achieve nationally, so it’s confusing to me why you<br />
wouldn’t just sign on,” Mattingly continued. “[The refusal] just feels so<br />
political, it doesn’t make sense to me.”<br />
James Taylor, a USF politics professor, said, “Mayor London Breed<br />
recently rejected peace, even while she led the City’s celebration of<br />
Martin Luther King Jr., a symbol of nonviolence and the Beloved Community.<br />
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ call for a cease-fire is<br />
symbolic. It has no sanction or teeth.”<br />
In her statement, Breed denounced the decision of the board to<br />
introduce and pass the resolution. “The Board of Supervisors should<br />
never have put our city in this position,” according to Breed’s statement.<br />
“We should be coming together, supporting each other, seeking<br />
the cohesion at home that we hope for abroad. The board has done the<br />
opposite, and I worry their irresponsibility will continue,” said Breed.<br />
In her statement, she said that she was heartbroken, “for the people<br />
of Gaza, the victims of this war on all sides, and their relatives and<br />
friends around the world.”<br />
The first version of the resolution was introduced on Dec. 5, 2023<br />
by two Jewish members of the Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston and<br />
co-sponsor Supervisor Hillary Ronen.<br />
“I am engaging very thoughtfully in a conflict fueled by my and<br />
my constituents’ tax dollars. And this conflict is deeply rooted in my<br />
personal life and my identity,” said Ronen. “The world must finally<br />
stand up and demand a lasting peace for Israel and Palestine.”<br />
Despite the mayor’s refusal to sign the resolution, Preston told the<br />
San Francisco Chronicle he was happy about the lack of veto, and was<br />
proud that the Board of Supervisors were “officially on record for a<br />
cease-fire, humanitarian aid and the release of all hostages.”<br />
According to Al Jazeera’s live Israel-Gaza war tracker as of Jan.<br />
28, at least 26,422 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, with another<br />
65,087 or more injured. In Israel, approximately 1,139 people have<br />
died, and at least 8,730 have been injured.<br />
To read a USF student’s op-ed response to Mayor London Breed’s<br />
condemnation, turn to page 9.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Managing Editor: Jordan Premmer,<br />
Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, News Editor: Niki Sedaghat<br />
C<br />
D<br />
F<br />
Proposition C: Real Estate Transfer Tax Exemption<br />
and Office Space Allocation<br />
Proposition C would create a tax exemption for buildings converted from commercial to residential use.<br />
If passed, the transfer tax exemption would be granted for a collective 5 million square feet of property in<br />
San Francisco, as long as permission is granted to the property owner prior to January 1, 2030. Additionally,<br />
Prop. C would allow the Board of Supervisors to create changes to the transfer tax without voter approval,<br />
with the exception of transfer tax increases. If Prop. C passes, the City of San Francisco would be able to use former<br />
commercial spaces for development – such as many of the Financial District’s abandoned office buildings.<br />
Prop D: Changes to Local Ethics Laws<br />
Proposition D would instill more ethical practices and guidelines for San Francisco City officers and workers. This<br />
includes expanding the list of gifts that are unacceptable for City employees or officers to accept, and adjusting policies<br />
defining bribery to include the acceptance of anything of value for themselves or a third party. If passed, new<br />
guidelines would be added for City employees that require department heads to report gifts received within their departments,<br />
provide stronger rules regarding prohibited nonwork activities, as well as strengthen rules about disclosing<br />
personal, professional and business relationships. Prop. D would require all city employees with decision-making power<br />
to complete annual ethics training. The passing of this proposition would make it so any further changes to City<br />
ethics laws will require voter approval or supermajority votes from both the Board and the City Ethics Commission.<br />
Proposition F: Illegal Substance Dependence Screening<br />
and Treatment for Recipients of City Public Assistance<br />
The passing of Prop. F will require adult recipients of County Adult Assistance Programs who are suspected of drug<br />
dependence to enroll in treatment in order to continue to receive benefits.<br />
NEWS
06 07<br />
THURSDAY<br />
FEB. 1<br />
2024<br />
SCENE<br />
HEART,<br />
BODY,<br />
AND SOUL<br />
“Offerings Somatic”<br />
on Display at Thacher<br />
Gallery<br />
PHEBE BRIDGES<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Write down a heartbreak, big or small. Put the paper in the bowl<br />
of water, take a deep breath, listen to the soundscape of rainfall, broken<br />
up by gently plucked strings and speech. Watch your heartbreak<br />
dissolve. In her installation, artist Chris Evans invites us to heal and<br />
reflect by providing an altar “to create a therapeutic moment through<br />
an evocative and collaborative ritual,” as written on the wall sign<br />
alongside her piece, “Transmuting Heartbreak.”<br />
Thacher Gallery’s current exhibition, “Offerings Somatic — the<br />
body as a substance of ritual,” features Evans’ interactive installation<br />
along with the work of artists Evelyn Leder, Tossie Long, and Midori.<br />
Somatic, meaning related to the body, refers to the usage of the body<br />
in the artists’ works. The collection is a multi-sensory experience that<br />
incorporates audio, video, and performance elements.<br />
“Offerings Somatic,” which opened Nov. 30, 2023, was curated by<br />
USF’s Curatorial Practicum class throughout the fall 2023 semester,<br />
led by USF Professor Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen. While Evans’ artistic<br />
offering relates to matters of the heart, each of the four Bay Area<br />
artists featured in the exhibition explore themes surrounding rituals<br />
and bodies — their own and others.<br />
For Grammy-nominated artist Tossie Long, her featured works<br />
center the experiences of Black communities, particularly those who,<br />
according to the installation placard, have been “displaced due to ongoing<br />
gentrification and systematic removal from their homes.” One<br />
of her most striking pieces titled “Listen to the Robes | voices” features<br />
Baptist church choir robes suspended from the ceiling. According to<br />
MacFadyen, the majority of the featured churches still exist, “but their<br />
choirs have suffered from extreme attrition as the Black population<br />
rapidly declines [in San Francisco.]” Past the suspended robes stands<br />
a collection of items from the displayed churches and communities,<br />
preserving their experiences and<br />
history. Encased in glass boxes are<br />
photos accompanied by a variety of<br />
personal belongings — a splayed out<br />
wallet, a “How-to-do-It House Wiring<br />
Guide,” and a recipe book. These<br />
items were contributed by Long and<br />
two Baptist churches, among others.<br />
Centered in the Gallery, Midori’s<br />
large performance art piece was created<br />
on-site at the exhibition’s opening.<br />
This piece was made with internationally<br />
recognized suspension<br />
artist and frequent collaborator Samar,<br />
who is seen in the videographed<br />
performance piece. Samar, bound<br />
Chris Evans, whose work is featured above, is a member of Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen’s group, A Simple Collective, which,<br />
according to MacFadyen’s portfolio, is “an organization dedicated to fostering creative independence for professionals, and<br />
professional independence for creatives.” Photo by Phebe Bridges/SF Foghorn<br />
with tree limbs and leaves, was doused with ink, and from there created<br />
additional pieces through the impressions the body ink would<br />
leave on a large canvas. In her work, Midori frequently includes an<br />
“innovative use of rope,” not as bondage, “but as a medium resonating<br />
with folk and craft,” as described in her artist statement.<br />
Also in the gallery is “The Parts” by Evelyn Leder. With illuminated<br />
body parts contrasting a black background, pieces of “The Parts”<br />
can be displayed in any order. Here, a picture of a torso is lined up<br />
with a different person’s legs, and someone’s back and arms appear<br />
where the legs of another person should be.<br />
MacFadyen worked closely with their class to come up with the<br />
current display.“[Leder] said they didn’t want to have anything to do<br />
with the actual selection or orientation or anything,” said MacFadyen.<br />
“That’s the whole point, allowing the folks who are either purchasing<br />
or curating the works to be able to play with them, almost like puzzle<br />
pieces.”<br />
“Offerings Somatic” is on display until Feb. 18 with a pop-up event<br />
happening on Feb. 15 from 11:45am-<strong>12</strong>:45pm. According to Gallery<br />
Director Glori Simmons, the event centers Black art and encourages<br />
Black students, staff, and faculty to bring their own work. The theme is<br />
“Being Black at USF,” and Tossie Long will attend.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel,<br />
Managing Editor: Jordan Premmer, Scene Editor: Inés Ventura<br />
Midori, whose work is featured above, often collaborates with Samar. In<br />
2013, one of their projects titled “Bridge of Mud & Feathers,” debuted in<br />
Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by Phebe Bridges/SF Foghorn<br />
Tossie Long, whose work is featured left, contributed to the album “Rise<br />
Shine #Woke” by the Alphabet Rockers, which was nominated in 2018 for<br />
the Best Children’s Album Grammy. Photo by Phebe Bridges/SF Foghorn<br />
CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE<br />
LEILAH BROWN<br />
Staff Writer<br />
You look good, you feel good. And for the first week of the semester<br />
filled with icebreakers, first impressions and syllabi reviews, it<br />
seems as if feeling good is critical to a successful first week. Science<br />
backs this up — the psychological term for this concept is “enclothed<br />
cognition.” There is a field of research dedicated to how the clothes<br />
you wear impact your psychological processes, meaning a reasonable<br />
first step to feeling good is looking good. The Foghorn went around<br />
campus to ask students to describe their first week fashion choices.<br />
Daniella Jarratte, a sophomore communications major, said they<br />
typically rewear their favorite jeans and t-shirt, “but I love for the first<br />
week of school to wear my best outfits…I always wear band tees and<br />
things, and I was listening to The Velvet Underground this morning,<br />
and I honestly forgot I had the t-shirt in my drawer, so I was like ‘I’m<br />
gonna wear this’.”<br />
Kamila Portero, a first-year politics major said that her goal for<br />
the day “was to dress cute for my first full day of classes.”<br />
First-year psychology major Ivy Saunders said that she has “many<br />
different styles.” She displayed her versatility, contrasting a fairy-esque<br />
black dress layered with a white corset and black platform boots.<br />
“I love big chunky boots. I’m not that short, but I just love the look of<br />
chunky shoes,” she said.<br />
Expression through fashion can provide a way to stand out. Katherine<br />
Anthony, a junior computer science major said that the reason<br />
she dresses in lots of color and creativity is because “as a computer science<br />
major I want to take up space as a woman.” Anthony paired her<br />
bold look with a pair of dangling cheese-and-cracker earrings, adding<br />
some playfulness and an idea for a post-class snack.<br />
Courtney Reaves, a senior psychology major said, “I just painted<br />
my nails blue, so I went with a shirt that has a little bit of blue on it,”<br />
referencing her Care-Bear shirt.<br />
Family inspires one student’s style. Zack Willson, a first-year design<br />
major said he has always been inspired by “my dad’s old style. I<br />
don’t like his new style, though,” he said with a laugh. Willson dresseddown<br />
his dad’s old brown button-down with baggy jeans and thrifted<br />
‘90s Skechers, completing his old school skater vibe.<br />
Aziza Rabah is looking<br />
too cool for school with<br />
his 70’s style sunglasses,<br />
reminiscent of artist John<br />
Lennon’s iconic look.<br />
Photo by Veston Smith/ SF<br />
Foghorn<br />
Courtney Reeves’ outfit<br />
was a collaboration<br />
with her dog Uzi, who<br />
left dirty paw prints on<br />
her crisp white pants.<br />
Photo by Samantha Avila<br />
Griffin/ SF Foghorn<br />
We’ll see if the campus continues as a runway for students through<br />
the rest of the semester.<br />
Inés Ventura contributed to the reporting of this story.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel,<br />
Managing Editor: Jordan Premmer, Scene Editor, Inés Ventura<br />
Maya Mendoza kept her<br />
look comfy with a pair of<br />
gray tall Uggs, which have<br />
been making a comeback<br />
with the resurgence of the<br />
“Y2k” fashion aesthetic.<br />
Photo by Veston Smith/SF Foghorn<br />
SCENE
08 09<br />
THURSDAY<br />
FEB. 1<br />
2024<br />
OPINION<br />
WHAT’S THE HYPE WITH STANLEY CUPS?<br />
ELINA GRAHAM is a junior<br />
media studies major.<br />
I am tired of social media<br />
influencers telling me to buy<br />
TikTok’s product of the month. This<br />
time, it’s the Stanley Quencher Cup.<br />
Content about it seems impossible to<br />
ignore, from an instance of a woman<br />
arrested for allegedly stealing $2,500<br />
worth of Quenchers to shoppers<br />
racing through Target to grab the<br />
latest version — an event which was<br />
filmed and racked up 34.2 million<br />
views on TikTok. With actions like<br />
these, you’d think the cup was gold<br />
plated. Is this product really worth<br />
engaging in such extreme behaviors?<br />
Is it worth $35-45, or more on resell<br />
sites for sold out colors, if you already<br />
have a perfectly usable water bottle?<br />
For me, the answer to both is<br />
a resounding no. The trend of buying multiple in different colors to<br />
use as accessories is tone-deaf and against the point of owning this<br />
reusable product. It blows my mind to imagine people paying almost<br />
10 times the original prices on eBay for a limited edition cup — this<br />
“Pink Pearlescent” Quencher sold for $375 last week after receiving<br />
59 bids.<br />
According to CNBC, Stanley’s annual sales in 2023 were upwards<br />
of $750 million, a significant increase from just four years ago, when<br />
they were approximately $70 million. Stanley’s current president,<br />
Terrence Reilly, hired in 2020, helped usher in that increase. Reilly<br />
previously worked in marketing for Crocs, where he helped flip the<br />
shoe’s once unfashionable image. Now at Stanley,<br />
he is working similar marketing magic.<br />
When Stanley was founded in 1913, their brand<br />
focused on making dishware for outdoorsmen. The<br />
brand rose to prominence in the past few months<br />
not for their campware, but because they targeted<br />
a new demographic: affluent young and middle<br />
aged women. When the Quencher was featured<br />
on a mom-focused blog, the Buy Guide which<br />
has 180,000 Instagram followers, Stanley was in.<br />
Mommy bloggers and lifestyle influencers like<br />
Emma Chamberlain made the product a hit.<br />
The Quencher is a perfect example of marketing<br />
a product as the key to achieving a certain<br />
lifestyle aesthetic. Carrying a water bottle lets you<br />
emulate someone who takes pilates and drinks<br />
kale smoothies, the picture of superior wellness.<br />
The Quencher’s price tag also makes it exclusive.<br />
By walking around with one in a limited edition<br />
color, you’re telling the world that you’re wealthy,<br />
you’re healthy, and you’re in the know. It’s similar<br />
to wearing Lululemon leggings instead of off-brand<br />
leggings. The appeal isn’t the functionality of the<br />
item, it’s the luxury associated with the brand that<br />
gives an elevated social status to the wearer. The<br />
term conspicuous consumption, coined in 1899 by<br />
American sociologist Thorstein Veblen, describes<br />
this phenomenon in which consumers value excess<br />
status symbols over practicality.<br />
The frenzy around Quenchers is unwarranted<br />
when looking at the product’s design. Water bottles<br />
should be durable and leak-proof — reports show<br />
that Quenchers are not— and while different colors<br />
are fun, it’s ultimately nothing special. Quenchers<br />
are going viral largely because the Stanley team<br />
Graphic by Madi Reyes/Graphics Center<br />
knows how to market using social media. Pop musician Olivia Rodrigo<br />
told GQ Magazine, “I was actually TikTok influenced into buying [a<br />
Quencher]. I was like, I need this, it looks like it’s going to change<br />
my life. And it did.” I’m skeptical that it radically took Rodrigo’s life<br />
in a new direction, but her statement shows how powerful social<br />
media is for advertising. It’s unclear if Stanley compensated her for<br />
this promotion but regardless, her 60 million monthly listeners on<br />
Spotify, the majority being young women, are now more likely to buy a<br />
Quencher too. Rodrigo’s statement both perpetuates the consumerist<br />
cycle and also shows how easy it is to fall victim to TikTok’s influence.<br />
Reusable water bottles are actually life changing. They reduce<br />
single use plastic consumption and having one encourages me to stay<br />
hydrated. So if a Quencher is the right bottle for you, buy one! Just<br />
don’t buy 20 in different colors. People filling their cupboards with<br />
Quenchers has completely defeated the purpose of owning a reusable<br />
item. Reilly described the Quencher as “akin to a woman’s handbag<br />
and how a woman might own multiple handbags, and match it to<br />
whatever outfit she was wearing that day.” Consumerism at its finest<br />
— a sustainable product becoming dispensable for profit.<br />
It probably won’t be long before the Quenchers fill Goodwill<br />
shelves. The trend will come and go, similar to the plight of Hydroflasks.<br />
For some, Quenchers already are on their way out, according to some<br />
TikTok tastemakers who predict Owala bottles are the next big thing.<br />
In the end, Quenchers are just another cog in the consumerist<br />
machine that owes its popularity to strategic marketing. To me, they’re<br />
bulky and awkward to carry. The hike to Lone Mountain is hard<br />
enough without adding 40 ounces of water to my load.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel,<br />
Managing Editor: Jordan Premmer, Opinion Editor: Chisom Okorafor<br />
CHISOM OKORAFOR is a<br />
sophomore politics major.<br />
DIVISIVE OR DEMOCRATIC?<br />
Following three months of<br />
enormous pro-Palestine protests,on<br />
Jan. 9, San Francisco became the<br />
largest U.S. city to call for an<br />
immediate and sustained ceasefire<br />
in Gaza, Occupied Palestine.<br />
The Board of Supervisors<br />
resolution calls for “Sustained<br />
Ceasefire in Gaza, Humanitarian<br />
Aid, Release of Hostages, and<br />
Condemning Antisemitic, Anti-<br />
Palestinian, and Islamophobic<br />
Rhetoric and Attacks.” The<br />
legislation was introduced by<br />
District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston,<br />
who is Jewish. After hours of public<br />
comment and revising over the<br />
two-day period, the non-binding<br />
resolution passed in an 8-to-3 vetoproof<br />
majority.<br />
Upon the resolution’s success, City Hall erupted into cheers and<br />
chants. Supervisor Preston noted the unprecedented passion of the<br />
crowd.<br />
However, not all San Franciscans were fans of the legislation. The<br />
Jewish News of Northern California reported that SF Mayor London<br />
Breed faced calls from mainstream Jewish organizations to veto the<br />
resolution. She also received a letter requesting the same from the<br />
mayor of Israeli city Haifa, one of San Francisco’s sister cities which<br />
was ethnically cleansed of nearly 60,000 Palestinians in the 1940’s,<br />
according to Palestine Remembered and Middle East Eye. While<br />
Mayor Breed did not go that far, she did condemn the resolution, and<br />
refused to sign it — a rare move.<br />
This action represents Mayor Breed’s failure to grasp the<br />
importance of such a motion, and it is ultimately another instance of<br />
the mayor departing from the will of the people she claims to represent.<br />
Mayor Breed released a statement on X claiming the legislation<br />
Graphic by Madi Reyes /Graphics Center<br />
Mayor Breed’s Cease-fire Condemnation is Appalling<br />
made the city “angrier, more divided, and less safe.” Breed acknowledges<br />
legitimate concerns from the Jewish community about this<br />
resolution, citing instances of anti-semitic harassment at the hearing.<br />
Antisemitism is completely unacceptable, no matter what. She’s correct<br />
about that. However, it’s hard to see why someone who, according to<br />
their statement, wants to “show that life is sacred,” wouldn’t approve of<br />
San Francisco’s opposition to the indiscriminate killing of about thirty<br />
thousand people, the vast majority being civilians.<br />
Pro-ceasefire organizations, such as the Arab Resource and<br />
Organizing Center, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and<br />
Jewish Voices for Peace, pushed back against the mayor’s rhetoric. The<br />
groups have coalesced to call the statement “inaccurate, racist, and<br />
divisive,” as well as demanding a retraction and apology.<br />
In many ways, they’re right to do so. Mayor Breed’s stance seems<br />
to be exponentially more divisive than the stance of the ceasefire<br />
legislation. In November, Reuters found that nearly 70% of the country<br />
supported a ceasefire in Gaza. That number jumps to 80% among<br />
Democrats, according to Data for Progress. At the council meeting<br />
public comment session, nearly 400 people expressed their support<br />
for the resolution, with only one person speaking in opposition. The<br />
tens of thousands protesting in San Francisco for a ceasefire illustrate<br />
this quite clearly. The Foghorn has previously covered pro-Palestine<br />
protests on campus and statements released by USF’s own community.<br />
If there is a divide, it is between the American political class and the<br />
people.<br />
In fact, an Economist poll found that 50% of Biden voters believe<br />
Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians. One can assume<br />
this reflects the views of many San Franciscans, as in the 2020<br />
election, 85% of ballots in San Francisco were for Biden. This comes<br />
as the International Court of Justice ruled on Jan. 26 that allegations<br />
of Israel committing a genocide in Gaza are “plausible.” Mayor Breed<br />
refusing to back a ceasefire on what a plurality of her voters believe is a<br />
genocide is alienating at best and morally outrageous at worst.<br />
Backing a ceasefire is the normative position of not just Democrats,<br />
San Franciscans, and Americans, but also the world. Last month, 153<br />
out of 193 countries voted at the United Nations for an immediate<br />
humanitarian ceasefire. It is the position of<br />
the United States, and American politicians<br />
like Mayor Breed, that is polarizing, not the<br />
rest of the world. Sorry, Mayor Breed, but<br />
democracy is not “divisive.”<br />
Breed’s condemnation exposes her as<br />
being out of touch with those she claims to<br />
represent. Though her statement claimed to<br />
want peace,the mayor seems to be unwilling<br />
to take any steps to materially demonstrate<br />
that desire. Her stance may be costly in her<br />
upcoming bid for re-election, as the Nation<br />
reports that 60% of Democratic voters<br />
prefer pro-ceasefire politicians.<br />
In her condemnation, Breed said she<br />
“must choose unity.” It seems she would<br />
have preferred if the SF Board of Supervisors<br />
stayed silent and didn’t engage with calls<br />
from the constituency. But at some point,<br />
one must stand for something. The people<br />
of Gaza are undergoing a humanitarian<br />
catastrophe. If San Francisco’s mayor won’t<br />
stand for Palestinians, the rest of the city<br />
will — with or without London Breed.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief<br />
Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, Managing Editor:<br />
Jordan Premmer<br />
OPINION
10 11<br />
THURSDAY<br />
FEB. 1<br />
2024<br />
DONS BASKETBALL HITS MID-SEASON STRIDE<br />
DONS VOLLEYBALL WELCOMES 2024 SIGNEES<br />
SERENA FINNEY<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Following the end of the 2023 women’s volleyball season, USF head<br />
coach Diogo Silva announced the 2024 signing class for the upcoming<br />
season. The Dons welcomed three new members to the team for the fall<br />
of 2024 — Shannon Sheehy, Delaney Ewing, and Shannon Knight.<br />
The Foghorn spoke with Ewing about her commitment to USF.<br />
Ewing is eager to get to the Hilltop after signing her letter of intent<br />
on Jan. 17. She is finishing her final year of high school in Fort Collins,<br />
Colorado, and said she “couldn’t be more excited about moving.”<br />
Coach Silva said, “I have no doubt she is going to succeed. She<br />
knows the lesson of wanting, working hard, and achieving.”<br />
Ewing has been to San Francisco many times, but her most recent<br />
visit sealed the deal for her commitment to USF. She said, “At the time<br />
of my visit the freshman girls were amazing and so welcoming.”<br />
She recalls connecting with sophomore libero Abby Wadas when<br />
she visited the Hilltop. She says “I find it surreal that I am now seen as<br />
a leader. When it feels like just yesterday I was the nervous freshman<br />
walking on.”<br />
Ewing said, “It was the best visit I went on. So special and so<br />
magical in a way.”<br />
The process of commitment for Ewing started in her junior year<br />
of high school. Through the college commitment process, she received<br />
offers from Colorado State University, Colgate College, California<br />
State University, Sacramento, and California State University, Fresno.<br />
For Ewing, “USF always piqued my interest- and it felt good knowing<br />
[Silva] was extremely interested.”<br />
With the guidance of Wadas, Silva, and the entire team, Ewing has<br />
a community awaiting her on the Hilltop.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, Managing Editor:<br />
Jordan Premmer, Sports Editor: Chase Darden<br />
Three new Dons will be making their way onto the court for USF Volleyball in the Fall of 2024. Pictured from left to right: Shannon Knight, Delaney Ewing, Shannon Sheehy.<br />
Photo Courtesy of Dons Athletics.<br />
The Dons are hoping to make a run at March Madness. Pictured from left to right: Ryan Beasley, Josh Kunen, Marcus Williams, Chris Gerlufsen, Stefan Todorovic, and<br />
Malik Thomas. Photo courtesy of Chris M. Leung/Dons Athletics.<br />
THE 49ERS ADVANCE TO SUPER BOWL LVIII<br />
SPORTS<br />
JORDAN MARALIT<br />
Staff Writer<br />
With the West Coast Conference (WCC) tournament approaching,<br />
the Dons Basketball program is gearing up to make a run for the<br />
conference title. Both men’s and women’s basketball kicked off WCC<br />
play since USF left for winter break on Dec. 6.<br />
On Dec. 22, guard Malik Thomas led the Dons men’s team to<br />
victory against Fresno State, scoring 22 points in a game that ended in<br />
a 77-57 victory. In the Jan. 13 home game versus the Portland Pilots,<br />
Thomas gave a 26-point performance, in addition to five rebounds.<br />
On Jan. 18, guard Marcus Williams scored 24 points in addition<br />
to forward Jonathan Mogbo’s 23-point, 11-rebound double-double<br />
giving the Dons a victory against the Loyola Marymount University<br />
(LMU) Lions, ending with a score of 90-76.<br />
On Jan 4th, Mogbo’s contributions against the University of the<br />
Pacific Tigers led to a Dons overtime victory. He had 30 points, 18<br />
rebounds, three assists, and one block against the Tigers. In a recent<br />
interview with NBC Bay Area, Mogbo described his skill as “very<br />
versatile, offensively and defensively.” He added, “I feel like I can<br />
contribute in every area on the floor and just play hard.”<br />
The men’s basketball team has a 5-2 conference record and a 16-6<br />
record overall. They are currently the No. 4 seed in the conference<br />
standings.<br />
The Dons Women’s Basketball team took a win in the Conference<br />
Opener against the LMU Lions on Jan. 4th, with a 63-38 point victory.<br />
Guard Jasmine Gayles and forward Deborah Dos Santos scored<br />
in double-figures. Dos Santos tallied 14 points to go along with 18<br />
rebounds, marking her eighth double-double of the season. In addition,<br />
Gayles finished with a game-high 20 points.<br />
The Women’s Basketball Team had a comeback win against the<br />
University of the Pacific, with Gayles putting up a career-high 40-point<br />
performance. She became the WCC player of the week for a second<br />
time, with her conference-high 40-point game. Dos Santos posted a<br />
<strong>12</strong>-point, 13-rebound double-double, marking her 11th of the season.<br />
The women’s basketball team has a 4-3 conference record and<br />
a 8-<strong>12</strong> overall record. They are currently the No. 4 seed in the West<br />
Coast Conference.<br />
If the Dons continue to stay on top, they have the opportunity to<br />
continue the pace to get an opening-round bye in the WCC tournament.<br />
The winner of the WCC tournament will be guaranteed a spot in the<br />
NCAA Division 1 March Madness Tournament.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, Managing Editor:<br />
Jordan Premmer, Sports Editor: Chase Darden<br />
CHASE DARDEN<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The San Francisco 49ers punched their ticket to Las Vegas,<br />
following a 34-31 victory over the Detroit Lions in the National<br />
Football Conference (NFC) Championship. The team will take on the<br />
Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII.<br />
The 49ers will be making their second Super Bowl appearance<br />
in the last five years. The Chiefs are reigning Super Bowl champions,<br />
and this game will be their fourth appearance in five years. This year’s<br />
Super Bowl will be a rematch of Super Bowl LIV from February 2020,<br />
where the Chiefs beat the 49ers with a score of 31-20.<br />
Although the 49ers were down 24-7 to the Lions at the end of<br />
the first half, they played a strong second half, scoring 27 points. The<br />
49ers’ win secured their Super Bowl spot while also preventing the<br />
Lions from their first Super Bowl in their 94-year history.<br />
The San Francisco Bay Area and the 49er Faithful as a whole will<br />
be gearing up for the big game on Feb. 11, so stay tuned to the Foghorn<br />
for updates regarding the best spots to catch Super Bowl LVIII.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, Managing Editor:<br />
Jordan Premmer, Sports Editor: Chase Darden<br />
The 49ers look to take down the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIIII. Pictured left to right:<br />
Fred Warner, Brock Purdy, Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, and<br />
Deebo Samuel. Photo courtesy of @49ers/Instagram<br />
SPORTS
<strong>12</strong><br />
THURSDAY<br />
FEB. 1<br />
2024<br />
USF ROUNDNET CLUB MAKES A SPIKE<br />
AMANDA HERNANDEZ<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The USFCA Roundnet Club is a campus<br />
organization founded by students Thompson<br />
Yang, William Durrill and Emmanuel Flores.<br />
Initially meeting for weekly games at Welch<br />
Field, the group became a recognized campus<br />
organization in February of 2023. They are<br />
currently in the California Roundnet Division II<br />
bracket.<br />
The purpose of the game is for two players<br />
to spike a ball on a trampoline in a manner that<br />
the other team can’t return it. The sport is more<br />
commonly known as Spikeball, referencing one of<br />
the nation’s top roundnet manufacturers.<br />
USF’s team plays against other colleges<br />
including California Polytechnic State University,<br />
San Luis Obispo, the University of Southern<br />
California, Arizona State University, and more.<br />
They were ranked last place at the start of<br />
fall, and moved up to sixth place by the end of<br />
sectionals last November.<br />
As a first-time club president on campus,<br />
Durrill plans to continue developing the club<br />
with the same vision that Yang, Flores, and<br />
himself started with. Durrill said, “Roundnet is<br />
a club that helps students improve their skills,<br />
create community and have fun with other USF<br />
students. We do more than just play roundnet. We<br />
host dinners, social events, and trips.”<br />
Though Yang served as the club president<br />
when the organization was established, he<br />
stepped down this semester to give his teammate<br />
the opportunity to hold a leadership position.<br />
They currently meet for weekly practices<br />
on Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Raymond Kimbrell Park and<br />
Fridays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Welch Field.<br />
Jeslyn Theodore, the Roundnet Club events manager, said, “Ever<br />
since I joined the roundnet club, I’ve been more active. Roundnet<br />
definitely gives that flexibility to practice and have fun, but even<br />
outside of the sport itself, the roundnet community is one of the<br />
funnest groups I’ve encountered here at USF. The togetherness that<br />
the roundnet club creates really leaves a core memory in my college<br />
USF Roundnet club travels around the state competing in tournaments against colleges and universities from<br />
across the country. Photo courtesy of @usfca.roundnet/Instagram.<br />
experience.”<br />
For students interested in joining the club, you can contact the<br />
president at usf.roundnet@gmail.com, message them on Instagram @<br />
usfca.roundnet or stop by one of their practices.<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Megan Robertson, Chief Copy Editor: Sophia Siegel, Managing<br />
Editor: Jordan Premmer, Sports Editor: Chase Darden<br />
SPORTS<br />
The Roundnet club meets for weekly practices on Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Raymond Kimbrell Park and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Welch Field.<br />
Photo courtesy of @usfca.roundnet/Instagram.