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Shakeout supplies safety skills
School executes earthquake drill with the state of California during the school day BY RACHEL MILLS
NEWS EDITOR
RMILLS@CCCLARION.COM
Duck, cover and hold is what students and faculty did, following proper safety guidance from prompts given at 10:20 a.m. Oct. 20 as part of a routine earthquake drill. The drill was conducted as a part of a larger effort of California called “The Great ShakeOut.” The shakeout is a worldwide effort to get people prepared should an actual earthquake occur. Southern California’s business, governments and schools have been a part of the effort since 2008. Last year in 2021, according to the ShakeOut’s’ website about 30 million people participated. The drill’s supporters also want to have the public aware that an actual earthquake can happen at any time without notice. The drill’s supporters also stress that it is important to practice frequently as one only has sometimes seconds to respond to an earthquake, and a few seconds can be the real difference in surviving an actual earthquake. At Citrus this year, that effort looked like a public service announcement being released on campus letting students know to drop under their desks, cover their necks, and then to grab the desk. Students were then to remain
RACHEL MILLS - STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Student Austin Urena ducks under a desk during the California earthquake drill on Oct. 20 at the Citrus Library classroom LI120.
under the desks for at least a minute before getting up and following their teachers to a designated evacuation zone. Participants then
remained outside until given the all clear either by campus security or by a level representative. Most students did not seem bothered by
the drill and seemed comfortable out in the zones. Other students who did not have official classes did not seem to even notice a drill
was going on as they sat on benches around campus. Student Bee Magallenes said she felt the drill was helpful for preparing if there was actual earthquake that was to take place. Ali Rojas, another student, said he felt the drill was good as well to prevent problems in the future if an earthquake were to happen. A problem Magallenes found during the drill was that there were no teachers or staff posted at different entrances to the buildings. She said that this was a problem because she had seen students enter the buildings. Outside of the drill itself, the Great ShakeOuts’ literature encourages being prepared in other ways for an earthquake by keeping emergency supplies stocked and also making sure that the supplies are functional and accessible in the event of an earthquake. They also suggest asking a department to come out and inspect a property to find things that may fall. The ShakeOut then suggests securing these items. They also encourage people to receive Community Emergency Response Team training. The ShakeOut’s literature suggests that people become familiar with the California Integrated Seismic Network’s software or at least become familiar with their website, www.cisn.org.
After 5 years, TeCS leader says goodbye
Citrus’ chief information services officer plans his retirement after winning prestigious award BY ROBERT DAVIS
MANAGING EDITOR
RDAVIS@CCCLARION.COM
After nearly five years as the head of the Citrus College TeCS Department, Chief Information Services Officer Robert Hughes plans to retire. Hughes officially retires Dec. 31 but will be off campus starting Nov. 1. Hughes looks back on his nearly five years spent at Citrus College as a good time in his life. “It’s been a really good experience,” Hughes said. “I just had a really good time working here, a lot of challenges but it seems we were able to overcome them.” Hughes attributes this good experience to his colleagues. “We’ve got a lot of really dedicated staff, everybody’s passionate about their job and works hard to get things done,” Hughes said. Technology Operations and Support Supervisor Tom Cheng, who works with Hughes in the TeCS Department, said Hughes has “been a great boss.” “He’s made my job a lot easier,” Cheng said. On Hughes’ executives, Hughes had nothing but good things to say. “Both presidents I’ve worked for were very supportive of things I needed to do and got done,” Hughes said.
Hughes was recently praised for his hard work and dedication by the Chief Information Services Officers Association, which is a nonprofit organization supporting technology leadership in the California Community College System. Hughes received the CISOA Board award, recognizing him for his service to CISOA, service to colleges, and outstanding leadership in the evolution of technology. Hughes assured that there is nothing to worry about concerning a gap in leadership, as there is already a replacement for him lined up who will “be starting right after I leave so there shouldn’t be too much break in service for oversight of IT,” Hughes said. Hughes’ replacement, Eric Calderon, said that although he’s excited to start working at Citrus, “it’s really hard to follow superstars.” Calderon will remain employed at The Riverside County Office of Education until shortly after Hughes officially retires Dec. 31. Hughes is looking forward to retirement, as he plans to relocate and spend some quality time with his family. “My wife and I purchased a property in Conway, Arkansas,” Hughes said. “Both my son and my daughter will be out of college and (I’ll) just retire and take it easy.”
ROBERT DAVIS - STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Superintendent/President Greg Schulz, left, and Vice President of Student Services Richard Rams speak at the retirement party for Bob Hughes, center, on Oct. 27 at the Owl Cafe Patio.
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3 compete for 1 board seat Citrus Board of Trustess has election for Area No. 3 BY ASHTON NIEVES
STAFF REPORTER
ANIEVES@CCCLARION.COM
The Area No. 3 Board of Trustees position has some competition this coming election. In-person voting will take place on Nov. 8. The candidates running consist of Cheryl Alexander, Paul Naccachian and Irene Murray. Area No. 3 represents portions of Duarte, Arcadia, Irwindale, Covina and Monrovia. Naccachian and Murray will run for a first term, whereas Alexander is running for a re-election, since she was appointed to fill the position as a trustee for Area No. 3 in December 2021. The candidate who wins the election for the Board of Trustees will have a term of four years. The seat for Area No. 1 is also up for election, but trustee Anthony Contreras is running unopposed. On Alexander’s website, she lists her “Top 3 Priorities” for her term as a trustee, which is to “Create an easily accessible bridge for students
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Area No. 3 Candidates Cheryl Alexander, Paul Naccachian and Irene Murray.
to pursue college, certificated and technical careers, increase post high school options for students of all ages, and to expand early college participation to help reduce costs for working families.” Alexander’s website also has a work plan listed for the next four years with there being a numerous amount of things listed, with some of them being to “engage with parents, students, teachers and other community stakeholders to build relationships and develop appropriate action plans, to ensure equitable access to education for a culturally and economically diverse student population, and to ensure that Citrus Community College
keeps its cost affordable for students; remain fiscally sound and offers fair, competitive compensation to thowse employed.” Alexander has been a professional educator with the K-12 community and has formal training, which includes bachelor degrees in education-elementary/special education, computer science; and a master’s degree in teaching with a reading specialization from National University, according to her website. According to ballotpedia.org, Naccachain was a candidate for Azusa Unified School District Board of Trustees and was first elected in the general election on Nov. 5,
2013. Naccachian campaigned for the Azusa board on a platform supporting learning through the arts, transparency and community involvement. Naccachian’s bio on Ballotpedia said he is a university professor, owner and primary consultant of Collaborative Solutions. He was an attorney and mediator for several community organizations and has a bachelor’s from University of California before attending the Quinnipiac University School of Law. According to Votersedge.org, Naccachian’s top three priorities are to “collaborate with faculty, staff, and the board to ensure all policies are legal, ethical, fair, straightforward,
and appropriate, ensuring fiscal responsibility and sound business practices in managing your tax dollars in implementing the Educational and Facilities Master Plan, and to improve student learning environment through communication, individual counseling, and mentorship resources while providing students access to high-quality courses.” Murray served on the Duarte school board. Her top three priorities of what she wants to accomplish if she’s elected to the Board of Trustees are listed on Votersedge.org. Her priorities are to “ensure student educational options for a post-pandemic education for in person, hybridity, and asynchronous options, providing security and sustainability for ethnically and gender diverse faculty members and students, and exploring and establishing student retention in a community college educational pathway.” All three candidates did not reply to several interview requests from the Clarion via telephone and email. While gathering this information, everything has been verified off of a personal website of a candidate or a website where the candidate’s information is present.
Paris is popular for winter session Study Abroad maxes student enrollment for courses next semester BY MARK SNOW
EDITOR- IN - CHIEF
MSNOW@CCCLARION.COM
Study Abroad is seeing some unusual and welcomed surges in its winter program. The winter semester, which plans to visit Paris, has a full roster of 50 students. Study Abroad specialist at Citrus John Morris said in an email he credits an interest in Paris and the two chaperoning professors, anthropology professor Jennifer Miller-Thayer and history professor Senya Lubisich, for the enrollment. Morris said he hopes this is a trend as he believes in the benefits of cultural understanding and international fluency. “I just want students to know they can 100% participate in a study abroad program with the resources they currently have,” Morris said in an email. “They will have to plan, budget, and fundraise, but I’m
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certain this type of experience is more accessible now than it will be at any other point in their lives.” Morris said that he promotes the program through a combination of online, around campus, in the Clarion and with in-person and online
information sessions. “This includes information meetings for our programs, as well as fundraising and scholarship workshops,” Morris said. Miller-Thayer said in an email she believes they’re several reasons for
the increase in interest, one being that people are excited to travel again after the pandemic. “Going to Paris, France is an exciting opportunity for students and Paris has a strong draw due to its reputation as a city of culture, romance, history, etc.,” she said. “We get to go to several exciting places such as the Louvre, Normandy beach, the Palace of Versailles, a river cruise on the Seine, etc. with guides, all of which are included in the cost.” Miller-Thayer said several students decided to enroll in the honors class and applied for that option specifically to go to Paris. Miller-Thayer said she believes studying abroad has value for students. She wrote that her class is on anthropology and students would be “learning about French and Parisian culture through exploration, observation and experience.” “It (Paris) is a living classroom instead of just reading about culture or humanities, they will be learning through their experiences,” Miller-Thayer said. The Study Abroad website lists the winter semester as four weeks from Jan. 6 to Feb. 4, 2023.
Supply drive donates dinero Citrus bookstore gives money to department on campus and provides students with essential supplies BY HEILY GARCIA
STAFF REPORTER
HGARCIA@CCCLARION.COM
The Owl Bookstore held a supply drive starting in August that will conclude at the end of this month. The drive provides students with supplies such as pens, pencils, index cards, notebooks and anything that a student would commonly need. Bookstore manager Jon Bennett said that people can donate $1-3
to their transaction to put towards receiving the supplies. “They can also bring in any supplies that they have currently and donate that,” Bennett said. When donating, people can fill out an owl with their name and place it on the wall inside the bookstore. So far, 50 people have donated and placed an owl on the wall. “There have been some people
who didn’t want to fill out an Owl,” Bennett said. At the end of October, the Bookstore will donate the money received to a department on campus. Although the supply drive is coming to an end this month, it will pick up again in January and last until the end of April. The bookstore is hoping for a bigger turnout when the supply
drive picks up again in two months. In fact, they are hoping to place the Owls people fill out on the glass outside of the bookstore for more people to see. This might also aid in more people discovering there is a supply drive where they can donate and receive supplies. For more information, visit the Owl Bookstore on campus or on their website.
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner wars Round 1
Round 2 BY ROBERT DAVIS
Round 3
MANAGING EDITOR
RDAVIS@CCCLARION.COM
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n Sandwiches will be judged head-to-head by the grand master of chicken n n n n n n
Sandwiches judged in original form Sandwich will be judged alone, no combo meals Bun, Sauce, toppings, breading and chicken will be scored individually Bonus points for size, price, presentation and chicken to bun ratio Categories and bonus will be given flavor score of 1-10 Overall flavor score will determine winner
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Chicken dinner wars round 4! BY ROBERT DAVIS
MANAGING EDITOR
RDAVIS@CCCLARION.COM
Talk about a blowout! The latest battle between the Wendy’s Classic Chicken Sandwich and the Raising Cane’s Chicken Finger Sandwich left no questions to be answered. With the fourth matchup finished, the first round of the Chicken Dinner Wars has been battered, fired and devoured! If you didn’t catch last week’s match-up, scroll down to the bottom of the page for a refresher on the rules! Starting with the individual elements scores, both Cane’s and Wendy’s got off to a rocky start. The bun on the Wendy’s sandwich was barely toasted and only toasted on one side. It was also thin, a horrible combination considering the amount of toppings and sauce the bun had to encapsulate. This left the sandwich without any structural integrity and all over the floor of the car it was examined in, earning a 6. The bun on the Cane’s sandwich performed slightly better but still left something to be desired. The inclusion of sesame seeds on the bun is something I appreciate as it gives the sandwich a classic feel absent from most fast food buns. However, the seeds did not add anything to the actual flavor of the bun, which was bland and insufficiently toasted, earning a 7. The sauce category was less competitive. The sauce on the Wendy’s sandwich was a remarkably bland mayonnaise. It wasn’t a bad sauce but it gave me little to judge
as it tasted of basically nothing. Its biggest contribution to the sandwich was in soaking the bun, causing the sandwich to fall apart, earning a 4. The Cane’s sauce was a completely different story. My biggest problem with this sauce was that I wanted five more containers of it to dip the sandwich in. The sauce was a sweet blend of garlic, pepper, mayonnaise and ketchup. It was absolutely phenomenal, earning a 9. Wendy’s made up some ground in the toppings category. Wendy’s, along with The Habit, is the only sandwich in the Chicken Dinner Wars to include more than just one topping, which is a huge advantage in this category. Wendy’s included tomato, pickles and lettuce as opposed to the standard of solely pickles. Each of the toppings tasted fresh and brough the value of the sandwich up significantly, earning a 9. The same cannot be said about Cane’s toppings, which consisted of just one piece of lettuce. This lettuce disintegrated after being soaked in the oil from the chicken, adding no value to the sandwich. The lettuce was barely noticeable in the sandwich, and when it was noticeable, it was a negative influence on the entire experience, earning a 3. Like past battles, this round was decided by the most important part of a chicken sandwich, the chicken. Cane’s chicken was easily the highest quality chicken tasted in this competition so far. The choice to use three chicken fingers in place
of the usual chicken breast patty was a risk that paid off. The chicken was exceptionally juicy, tender and flavorful, earning a 10. The Wendy’s chicken was not remotely comparable to the Cane’s chicken as the Wendy’s rib meat was dry and mostly tasteless. Although it was tender, it earned a 5. The breading on the Cane’s chicken fingers was everything a good chicken finger needs. It was a thick, flaky, well-seasoned coating around what was already delicious chicken, earning an 8. The breading on the Wendy’s sandwich was some of the worst tested in the competition so far. Its biggest problem was its lack of crispness. The breading was incredibly soggy, to the point where questions were raised as to if the sawich had been prepared properly. The sandwich was surprisingly flavorful but that was not enough to save it from earning a 4. Since the prices of both sandwiches are close, Cane’s being priced at $5.39 and Wendy’s being priced at $5.09, which means that no price points will be awarded in this matchup. Wendy’s earns one extra point for a fast service in a busy drive through. This brings the final scores to 29 flavor points for the Wendy’s classic chicken sandwich and a dominant 37 for the Cane’s Chicken Finger Sandwich. This makes Cane’s the final round 1 winner, set to face off with The Habit in round 2! Be sure to catch our next battle between round 1 winners, Jack in the Box and Popeyes!
Saturday I November 19, 2022 I 7PM HPAC audience favorite, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, is back to deliver their unique and spirited swinging celebration of the holidays! Tickets: $52 Senior: $47 12 & Under: $26
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