Jareed Larez

            Trent Gallant chuckled with a slight grin on his face as he swiped left on his smart phone.               Gallant, an undergraduate of SJSU and part time personal fitness trainer, has found that the app has for the most part enhanced his experiences when using Tinder. “Personally, it’s worked great for me dude, it’s not as hard as you think,” said Gallant.   “I got it down to a science.”             He describes the whole experience for the most part convenient and much easier to talk to other girls without having to break the barrier of approaching them and breaking the ice.             Most people of the younger generation are familiar with the term of “swiping left,” basically translating to a “no thanks”.   This term is derived from the dating app Tinder and has been downloaded by over 100 million users.             Tinder started in 2012 and is known by many from its innovative swipe feature.   Tinder is a location-based social app that allows users to li

Although most of the eight classes I've taken so fair were fairly enjoyable for the most part, the first class that comes to mind as the "best" would have to be my Mass Communications 105 class. The class was about diversity in the media and was taught by professor Bob Rucker. What was interesting about his class compared to my other classes is that he really stressed on class participation, which at first I was taken away from and had a more pessimistic view of the class. I normally I'm pretty reserved as an individual and usually keep to myself, though he taught me to become more outspoken to say the least. I also enjoyed the guest speakers he had throughout the course.  Most of which where past Alumni students and news casters in the field of journalism. Rucker's speeches had a great deal of soul and passion to them, and shined new perspectives into how I viewed nationality, culture, and religion. It was surprising to think I assumed the class was g

The clock is ticking for our soon to be graduates of 2018! Every year SJSU has it's new commencement speaker to inspire those soon to make a difference in our society and the world.  Carlos Santana, one of the greatest living guitarists of our time, will be speaking for the first time at our campus on the day of the 2018 graduation. "Carlos Santana has made breakthroughs with his music, and on top of being a long time resident of the Bay Area and having a built a good sense of the community after all these years we thought he would make a great candidate to share his words with the graduates", said SJSU President Mary A. Papazian.  Santana was born in Mexico, but since has immigrated with his family and lived majority of his life here in the Bay Area.  "The Bay Area has people from all walks of life and has definitely had influence in how it has shaped me into the musical man I am today!", said Santana. Santana is first most noted for his uproar in his roc