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Editor’s Note

What do you see when you look at the picture of me? Probably just an Indian girl. It’s hard to understand who I truly am by just seeing the picture. It’s hard to tell that I enjoy PC games, blasting heavy metal when I’m driving around and going to anime conventions during the summer. It’s also hard to tell that I’ve got family in Africa, England and Scotland, and that not all of them are Indian.

San Jose State is known to be a diverse college campus, but what does that diversity mean to us if we don’t know who our neighbors are? Every day we are surrounded by new people who have different stories to tell, but it seems as though being diverse means nothing if we don’t know each other’s stories.

In this issue of Access, students can read the tales of different types of people: the LGBT community’s recent donation, two brothers who try to balance their American lifestyle with their parents’ heritage, war veterans and their experience as both students and soldiers, and a former anorexic who relates her story with the pro-anorexia community.

The woman on the cover of this magazine has a story to tell, but is prevented from talking because of the duct tape. Did she put it there herself? Did someone else? It doesn’t really matter. Don’t let the tape or anything else stop you from telling your story.

Kaajal Morar

Editor-in-chief