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SOME BRIGHT IDEAS For three years, Citrus has been on a path of sustainability. Now the college has plans to further its goal of conserving energy

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$ $469,518

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$160,005 TOTAL THERMS SAVED

$16,937

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$221,142

he 2016 - 2021 Citrus College Strategic Plan isn’t just about college success. With sustainability as one of the strategic plan’s 18 objectives, a sustainability committee has already established a plan for the future generations of students at Citrus.

Citrus has been doing some saving since 2013, but an update on the plan was presented at the Aug. 16 Board of Trustees meeting.

Fred Diamond, director of facilities and construction presented the update that highlighted a summary of success for projects that are both completed and ongoing.

Most of the projects are changes that the average Citrus students may not notice, such as the LED lighting installations in parking lots and on campus, but the sustainability committee’s intent is also to promote energy conservation awareness through green practices.

An integral form of energy conservation is found in retro commissioning.

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Visual Arts building dedicated

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After twelve years of collaboration and $121 million in bonds, the new Visual Arts Building has been completed. The dedication ceremony on Sept. 6 included the Citrus College board of trustees, administration, staff, faculty and community right outside of the building.

The VA building is the final construction project of the Measure G facilities construction bond that was voted on back 2004. The VA building cost about $19.2 million.

“While we did have to jump through a few hoops to secure the financing for this project I can confidently say it was well worth the wait,” said Vice President of Financial and Administrative Services Claudette Dain at the ceremony. “Today, two years after I got started on this project, I know that many of our faculty and staff are thrilled to call this new building home.”

This building is replacing the old art building that Dean of Visual and Performing Arts Bob Slack said desperately needed the upgrade. “The other one was built in the sixties and was completely outdated,” Slack said.

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Planning for completion: Objectives 1 through 4 New Strategic Plan Model includes measurable outcomes

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A lot of planning is involved to keep Citrus College students up to speed and to remain an institute of completion. The plan for the last five years has ended and a new plan has been created and approved for 2016 to 2021.

The new plan was approved by the Board of Trustees on Aug. 18 and is now published online on the Citrus website.

The vision statement for this new model is to “provide excellent educational opportunities that are responsive to the needs of the community and help students meet economic, social and environmental challenges to become active participants in shaping the world of the future.”

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The Huntington Hospital Blood Drive will be held in the Campus Center from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for four days to give students an opportunity to donate blood.

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• SEPT. 13 & 14 - CLUB RUSH

Fall 2016 semester club rush will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Campus Center Mall. Stop by to find out about clubs and honors programs around campus.

•SEPT. 22 - MENTAL HEALTH FAIR

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center Mall, the annual Mental Health Fair will be in session. Students can get a better understanding of various mental illnesses as well as get a support system.

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• OCT. 6 - VOLUNTEER FAIR

The 18th annual Volunteer Fair will happen from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center.

This is a great chance for students to find some volunteer opportunities.

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EDITORIAL

Sign mental health bill to support students As a campus with limited mental health resources, we support AB2017, the proposed bill for increasing the funding for mental health services on all college campuses.

The California Senate passed the bill to the Assembly on Aug. 23 and is now waiting for Governor Jerry Brown’s signature.

AB-2017 would create a grant program to provide better access to mental health resources for college students.

College students are more likely to experience depressive symptoms today than thirty years ago, yet the students of that time were twice as likely to seek help, according to four surveys conducted by Social Indicators Research in 2014.

AB-2017 states that one in four students has a mental illness, 40 percent of students never reach out to mental health services, and one in 10 students contemplate suicide.

The Student Health Center at Citrus College sponsors anxiety support group and grief counseling, but these only meet a few times a month.

If a student is suffering from mental health issues then they should not have to wait a week or more for their appointment. They should be able to have access to services as soon as they feel they need it.

The importance of the counseling appointment is lost when there is no immediacy, because the student may not be concerned with

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what they were feeling days prior.

When someone is suffering from a mental illness, they may not want to wait for the next campus event to roll around.

There are a wide range of mental illnesses as well. Though anxiety and depression are common, there are students also suffering with other mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders and many more.

To show support, ASCC hosts the annual World Suicide Prevention day each September.

Last year students wrote notes of encouragement and stuck them on letter boards that read “NOT ALONE.” Booths were set up for students to help them with their internal struggles.

The event is an opportunity but not an end all solution. We must remain active in supporting and raising awareness for mental ill-

nesses.

This upcoming World Suicide Prevention day on Sept. 22 is going to be similar unless ASCC receives suggestions on what else to add.

Although this mental health awareness day is a start, Citrus must do more to support students and faculty with mental illness.

Not every student who would like to attend is able to, causing them to miss out on information that can help.

Despite the commonality of mental illness, it still seems like a taboo subject, which may explain why many students do not seek treatment.

Some students do not speak out for fear that they will be perceived as different. They are unaware that many of their peers are probably going through the same situations as they are. Simply knowing how common mental illness is among community college students can help them feel less alone.

And let’s not forget staff and faculty may also suffer.

Mental illness is not something that should be kept in the dark.

Failing to address these issues in a timely manner does not help anyone and may ultimately harm the student or faculty member. Students and faculty should be able to make appointments to speak to a counselor whenever they need to.

When problems are kept inside, they tend to intensify, eating at the individual from the inside out.

The high rate of mental illnesses among college students cannot be lowered within a few days. It is an ongoing process which cannot begin if the issue is not being addressed.

We must be working at a rate faster than the growing mental illness rate to fix it, but progress will likely start off slow.

For Governor Brown not to sign the bill would be to deny students the chance to be the best they can be.

OPINION

sustainability A FOCUSED EFFORT

BY CHRISTOPHER AMURAO

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For Citrus College, the immense task of thinking about forever has been outsourced to a group of people called the Sustainability Committee.

On Aug. 17 the committee released an update on their report as part of the Strategic Education Plan.

I learned nothing about sustainability from this. Of course, the report wasn’t meant for me.

On paper, which was ironically printed single-sided, the sustainability committee produced charts and figures implying they have made differences and changes.

However, these changes are not visible.

In the men’s bathroom on the first floor of the TC building, the same faucet from last year is still there today. This faucet runs full blast when the handle is left up and doesn’t stop until someone turns it back off, dumping gallons of clean, potable water down the drain.

I had a classroom during the summer where the air conditioner was so powerful and unregulated that it fell to below 50 degrees.

The class was taken outside in 90100 degree weather, where it was more comfortable.

The culture of sustainability is the idea that each thing we do matters and has an effect on the world. At the heart of sustainability as a culture is the firm belief that our actions have substantial meaning – today and forever.

The perceived lack of culture makes me believe that none of

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the actions taken by the committee actually matter.

Citrus’ campus gives us all mixed messages. In the campus mall there is a banner advertising the free Foothill Transit bus pass.

“Get extra credit with Mother Nature!,” It says. This, along with the Metro Gold Line has been well-executed in encouraging students to ride alternative transportation.

At the same time, most of the food sold is junk food and Pepsi products are sold exclusively in plastic bottles that the campus has no visible organized effort to recycle.

The responsibility is on the administration to care and to show it with action. Administration must educate, innovate, communicate and put citizens and students in a position to help themselves.

On Citrus College’s website, there is no trace of community sustainability involvement since

2013. There are mandated, indecipherable reports. They have to actually believe in forever, or it is just a meaningless piece of flair to take up space on a blank sash.

The weight is on all citizens to execute. We must believe that all our actions add up eventually to create and maintain the world that we have worked hard for. We have to point out the problems to get them fixed, if we can’t fix them ourselves. No one is a bystander in saving the world.

I understand that making sustainability happen is not easy.

There are hundreds of leaky holes on a ship and only so many hands to plug them up with.

It is so hard for just one person to think about forever. We make plans and are limited by what is right in front of us.

When people have a reason to believe that their effort matters, we can focus together to last a long time.

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Members of the Citrus College Board of Directors Barbara Dickerson, Citrus College Superintendent/President Geraldine M. Perri, Ph.D, Susan Keith and Patricia A. Rasmussen cut the ribbon to dedicate the opening of the new Visual Arts building at the dedication ceremony on Sept. 6.

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“So the faculty spent a lot of time looking at other facilities and what they hope to achieve with this building...It’s got tremendous capacity, it brings the performing arts and the visual arts closer together.”

As stated in the dedication pamphlet, the previous building was only one story with only 12,000 square feet on the new building’s 36,938 square feet.

Each floor is dedicated to a specific kind of art. Ceramics and Art History classes are located on the first floor, Photography, the newspaper and computer art classes are located on the second floor and drawing and painting resides on the third floor.

Construction for this building was finished in 23 months and was considered right on schedule.

“It’s been built to really start a whole new generation of our students on the right path in the industry we represent, arts and media,” Slack

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they need to graduate.

The second objective is to increase the pass rate of noncredit ESL. The third objective is to increase the course completion rate of students below the college average by 1 percent each year.

“The college average is in the 70s but we have some courses with a 90 percent success rate and there’s not too much room for growth,” Hao said. “But we also have courses like

The plant maintains 650,000 gallons of chilled water that pumps into buildings to keep the inside of classrooms cool during instructional hours.

As the demand of energy goes up with the consistent increase in population in our region, energy utilities provide incentives with lower rates for using energy during nonpeak hours.

“We are paying a much lower rate in the middle of the night than you pay in the daytime,” said Diamond about running the central plant

chillers at night.

Robert Goodman, an instructor in the natural and physical sciences department, has served on the sustainability committee since 2012.

Goodman lends the success of sustainability efforts to subtle classroom improvements such as light motion sensors, computers shutting down when not in use, and the air-conditioning retro commissioning that has been done across campus.

“It’s a step by step process to identify goals...they can’t be fixed by a

snap of your fingers,” Goodman said.

Goodman also added that by something as simple as reducing Citrus’ class offerings on Fridays not only reduces powering a class for an hour and a half, but also reduces cars on the road thus reducing our carbon footprint.

Despite construction on new buildings and updating older ones, solar panels have not been installed but the 2016-17 sustainability plan projects states there will be exploration of solar power options for Citrus.

“That’s why we say a 2 percent increase per year and increase 10 percent for year five to reach a success rate of 56 percent.”

Even if the goal is met, 56 percent means almost half of the students in basic skills math and English classes are still failing.

The reason this objective is so important is because if the basic skills classes are not passed, then students cannot move on to take the classes

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have a total of three phases, two of which have already been completed.

Phase one updated the central plant, phase two addressed the most outdated buildings and phase three is going through the planning stages but will still focus on updated Citrus’ older buildings.

Diamond’s presentation laid out the numbers of both energy savings in dollars saved in incentives and energy avoidance.

The central plant is responsible for most of the money saved, located adjacent to the softball field complex.

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Retro commissioning or RCx, is when buildings undergo makeovers and upgrades to keep our campus operating at high efficiency.

“RCx in layman’s term is like a car tune-up...if a building is running at 95 percent efficiency and drops to 80, RCx is engineered to bring back up to high efficiency again,” Diamond said.

Retro commissioning at Citrus will

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and are figuring out some minor details before being completely settled.

“It’s daunting but it’s good,” he said on the building being open.

“We can really collaborate, do so much more and can offer so many more opportunities for students.”

these with lower success rates and something can be done to help those students.” Disproportionately affected groups are the focus for the fourth objective, to raise their pass rate by 2 percent each year.

The objectives laid out in the plan are all supplemented by 11 focus areas that are the means to measure the objectives. Each objective will pull from multiple focus areas at any time to be completed.

“Each are meant to touch on and be a part of all the different components and link back to the objectives,” Spor said.

Focus areas include preparedness, enrollment, instructional quality, instructional responsiveness, student support and diversity and equity.

Some focus areas are more spe-

FIRST OBJECTIVE

Increase course completion rates in basic skills classes (math and English) annually by 2 percent. Basic skills courses are the classes prior to college level classes.

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said. “We are in Los Angeles. It’s a huge market and how we collaborate in the businesses how we work together how we give the students that opportunity, it’s challenging.”

Slack said departments and classes are still in the process of moving in

cific to departments such as sustainability, safety, technological advancement, image and community relations.

Each focus area is broken up into three or more strategies. Preparedness, for example, focuses on Strategy 1.1 “increase college readiness through K-12 and adult education programs,” Strategy 1.2 “improve the transition of enrolled students to collegiate courses,” and Strategy 1.3, “increase students’ participation in activities designed to facilitate their transition to the collegiate environment.”

The strategic plan itself is supplemented by an annual implementation plan to break up what can or will be accomplished on a yearly basis.

“Not everything we are going to do in five years is done in the first year,” Spor said. “Some are in a planning phases this year, some things may not start until the second, third, fourth or fifth year.”

Spor said the plan is not a static document that never changes and will adapt to needs.

He said the plan will show that Citrus has been very active in the next five year period.

“We are doing our best to increase by those percentages each year,” he said.

“If we can help students be better prepared with their college experience... they’ll do better in class.”

The institutional goal this plan is supposed to accomplish is to increase student success and completion.

This plan differs greatly from the last plan, featuring 18 measurable objectives and to achieve these goals there will be 95 measurable activities for students.

“This time I think it’s going to be more effective because we put more into giving us something measurable,” said Vice President of Academic Affairs Arvid Spor who is apart of the Strategic Planning Work Group.

Three out of the first four objectives focus on course completion, the other objective focuses on English as a Second Language.

The first objective is to increase course completion rates in basic skills classes in math and English annually by 2 percent. Basic skills courses are the classes prior to college level classes.

There are 2,000 students in math and English basic skills courses this semester.

“The college wide success rate is 71 percent but with basic skills math class is 46 percent,” Hao said.

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Faculty, administrators and members of the Citrus College community take a tour of the new Visual Arts building with art professor Maryann Rachford. The building is the final project for the Measure G facilities construction bond.

SECOND OBJECTIVE

Increase the pass rate of noncredit ESL.

THIRD OBJECTIVE

Increase the course completion rate of students below the college average by 1 percent each year.

FOURTH OBJECTIVE

Raise pass rate by 2 percent each year.

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If we can help students be better prepared with their college experience... they’ll do better in class.”

-ARVID SPOR

Vice President of Academic Affairs

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Free speech zone gives traveling preacher platform

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School speech rules protect rights of aggressively loud preacher

I understand we go to a community college, people are allowed to say what they want, but this is just flat out disrespectful.”

BY MEGAN BENDER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MBENDER@CCCLARION.COM

Students already dealing with overcrowded parking lots and adding classes on the first week of the fall semester found themselves loudly interrupted by a man shouting scripture in the Campus Center Mall.

Sebastian Bryan, a preacher for In Christ Is Life Ministries located in Upland, loudly expressed his personal beliefs in front of passing students, leaving no controversial subject untouched.

“I believe women should be educated,” he shouted, next to his wife Karla Bryan who was filming him.

“So I made sure my wife got a few cook books...” His remarks would occasionally tie back to the Bible and even support other claims with hymns that quoted verses.

Other shouting matches included generalized harsh statements on topics such as homosexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and love gathering a crowd of students who decided to shout back. Students Jacob Gomez and best friend Ryan Grosjean held hands and sat next to Bryan while he preached on as a sign of peaceful protest.

“I understand we go to a community college, people are allowed to say what they want, but this is just flat out disrespectful,” Gomez said.

Gomez said even though he is straight he wanted to support his friend , Grosjean.

For Bryan, Citrus is just one stop on a tour of colleges and high schools that he chooses to visit.

The ministry website has an itinerary of colleges and high schools from Pasadena, Irvine and Riverside. Currently the ministry is only made up of Bryan and his wife.

“Well my general purpose here is to speak the truth,” Bryan said. “I’m an open air preacher, I’m confrontational by nature and it’s on purpose because it sparks dialogue.”

Bryan said he preaches at colleges because of the influence students will grow up to have on the world.

“There is a multiplicity of different cultures,” Bryan said. “Different people from all kinds in the world are coming here for education.

These are going to be our world leaders, these are people that are going to be taking care of us.”

“All these people that are going to be influencing the world around us

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Student Rhianah D’angello facetimes her boyfriend, Jazkion Sims, while listening to the preachings of Sebastian Bryan Aug. 25 in the Campus Center Mall.

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Students and best friends Jacob Gomez and Ryan Grosjean ask preacher Sebastian Bryan to take a selfie with them during his open air preaching Aug. 25 in the Campus Center Mall. Bryan was speaking out against homosexuality when Gomez and Grosjean held hands and sat down next to him in protest.

and so this is a place of higher learning so trying to be there to influence the most important learning of all, to love God.” As Bryan continued to practice what he calls “open-air preaching,” students crowded around him grew visibly uncomfortable with his presence on campus.

As tempers grew short and tensions were high, students ques-

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tioned why Campus Safety was only standing by instead of engaging the preacher and removing him from campus.

“We’re simply there to make sure if we need to respond to make sure there’s no violence that occurs,” said Campus Safety Supervisor Ben Macias. “We’re not there to shut things down or end or have them stop speaking.”

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS? “I think it’s really cool. People can say what they want.

Everyone has their own opinion.

It doesn’t matter if it’s negative.”

“I think people can say what they want as long as it’s positive.

Not if it focuses on hate and is needlessly negative.”

Jessica Doell, 22 Major: Undeclared

Board Policy 3900 on “Speech - Time, Place and Manner” states, “Acts shall not be considered ‘hate violence’ based on speech alone.”

In order for Campus Safety to get involved, the speech must contain a threat of violence against specific people, the person expressing the speech must cause reasonable fear of violence or must cause concern of violence because of the speech.

It also states “the person threatening violence (has) the apparent ability to carry out the threat.”

Macias said so long as the person exercising their right to free speech follows this policy, it is allowed.

Changes to the Citrus College free speech policy was a result of former Citrus student Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle filing a lawsuit against the college for infringing on his First Amendment rights in July 2014.

Prior to the lawsuit, the campus had a designated “free speech zone” that was located within the Campus Center.

Sinapi-Riddle, former president of the Citrus College chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, a Libertarian political activist group, with the aid of the free speech advocacy group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, sued the Citrus College School District.

Administration threatened to have him removed for stepping outside of a free speech zone while soliciting signatures.

The 2014 lawsuit was settled out of court, with Citrus paying both FIRE and Sinapi-Riddle a cash settlement of $110,000 and agreeing to expand the free-speech zone to cover the entire campus.

This allowed anyone to speak their mind as long as they were within behavioral administrative procedure codes and 25 feet of doorways opening to outdoor areas of campus, all indoor areas and anytime free speech disrupts the normal educational process.

Macias suggests exercising self-restraint and ignoring those who have opposing or conflicting beliefs or try to use free speech to draw attention from students.

“Sometimes the type of speakers that want to get a reaction from people do things on purpose to upset people or get them outraged because they want that reaction or interaction,” he said.

“The person that’s utilizing and evoking that right, if students or employees don’t like what they’re saying, they can simply walk away.”

Jacqueline Doell, 17 Major: Computer Generated Imagery

Chris Roman, 19 Major: Psychology

“We’re all entitled to free speech.

When it comes to negative aspects, it should be kept to themselves. But you don’t have the power to tell people what to do.”

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Mother accomplishes lifelong dream at 45

BY SAHARA BARBA STAFF WRITER

SBARBA@CCCLARION.COM

Emma Collins, a mother of five, decided to attend Citrus College to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse last year after working to support her family for about 30 years.

Collins was one of 19 students to receive their nursing pins on Aug. 25, finally accomplishing that dream.

The pins represent the nursing students’ new titles as licensed vocational nurses.

When she was nine years old, Collins knew she wanted to work in the medical field. As a teenager she got her first taste by getting a job as a Spanish interpreter for doctors in the emergency room.

“My life took a different course.

Instead of going to college directly after high school, I became a mother,” Collins said.

As the mother of five children whose ages now range from 18-27, she had to work, putting her hopes of becoming a nurse on the back burner.

Nursing Education professor Julie Wong said Collins was one of the students that held the class together.

“Students starting the program after age 35 can be in a scary position,” Wong said, “because they have to distance themselves from their family in order to do something for themselves and better their family.”

When Collins turned 45, her husband told her to quit her job at Master Halco, a fence manufacturing company in Corona, and start going to school.

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Emma Collins (bottom right) poses with the other newly liscensed vocational Nurses Aug. 25 at the Campus Center Mall.

“If you’re not in the academic swim for a long time, then you think that maybe you can’t swim as fast as the rest of them,” her aunt and god mother Rebecca Butler said. “But Emma has had exceptional grades.”

The day of their pinning, Collins received the award in recognition of professional academic and clinical excellence.

Coming to Citrus, her biggest obstacle was fear. She was afraid that without her income, the family would not be able to keep afloat.

“My husband said, ‘We will be OK.’ I trusted him,” Collins said. “He allowed me to live my dream.”

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My life took a different course.

Instead of going to college directly after high school, I became a mother.”

-EMMA COLLINS Vocational Nurse.

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She took a leap of faith and started off her year on the wrong foot by failing her second exam.

Though Collins was shaken, her family was supportive of her going to school. They pushed her and asked what needed to be done to help Collins get through the program.

There were times when Collins took one class a semester because she was busy with work, slowly working towards her goal.

She was raising a family, buying a home, caring for her husband, and taking care of her late incapacitated mother full time.

The past year in the nursing pro-

gram has been a roller coaster, with tears of joy and sadness and having to live off of granola bars and coffee, Collins said.

In spite of difficulty, her patients positively influenced her.

Collins and fellow licensed vocational nurse Rebecca Búcaro, took care of a patient who was taken to the ER at the Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora.

Though the patient was curious to know about who the nurses were and what school they were from, at the time Collins did not think anything of it.

She did not expect to receive a handwritten note from the patient expressing their thanks.

“It was invigorating to see the excitement and smiles on their faces while they attended the patients,” the letter read.

“I myself am a 75 year old retired LVN that graduated from Mt. Sac and seeing the manner in which they perform their duties brought back many memories and a smile to my face.”

Collins said she is going to complete her general education at Citrus and then wants to either get her associate’s degree or transfer to get her Bachelors of Science in nursing.

Her ultimate goal is to become a nurse practitioner.

Collins is just one of 19 nursing students who will go on to live out their careers as licensed vocational nurses.

She, along with other LVNs, are planning to continue their path in education to becoming registered nurses.

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take a ride down the gold line: opportunity to explore arcadia The Metro Gold Line provides access to the Santa Anita Mall, racetrack, the arboretum and more

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BY JOHN MICHAELIDES SPORTS EDITOR

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Since the Metro Gold Line opened in February, many have used the opportunity to discover new places.

Although there are many great landmarks to check out in the greater Los Angeles area, there are several stops along the way of the Gold Line to check out. And with a projected opening of the Citrus/APU stop for Sept. 12, Citrus students will want to visit these stops along the way.

One of those stops heading out to Los Angeles is Arcadia.

The city of Arcadia is known for being a popular horse racing spot thanks to the Santa Anita Park.

The historic race track opened back in 1934. Seabiscuit, a famous thoroughbred racehorse, raced at the track in 1940 and several stars of the past, such as Bing Crosby, have owned horses at the park.

The race track is located in the same parking lot as the Santa Anita Mall, so planning a day at the races and an evening at the mall makes for a great day to spend with family and friends.

From the Arcadia Gold Line stop, Santa Anita Park is about a 17-minute walk east on Huntington Drive.

Along with the race track, Arcadia is also home to the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. The arboretum is a must visit while exploring Arcadia. With $9 admission for adults and $6 admission for students and children, it will not cut into much of a student’s savings to view the beautiful nature the arboretum provides.

Inside the arboretum, one can tour the Queen Anne Cottage, constructed in 1885. The Victorian cottage is one of the last remnants of Southern California’s Golden age. The arboretum features plants, flowers and wildlife from around the world, including Africa and Australia.

The best part of the arboretum

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Visitors to the Arboretum have the chance to watch peafowl families roam. The Arboretum has a student discount allowing entrance for $6.

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The Queen Anne Cottage in the Arboretum is one of the last remnants of Southern California’s Golden age.

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The arboretum is a 7-minute walk from the Santa Anita Mall.

The hardest part of the walk from the Arcadia Gold Line stop will be walking through two massive parking lots between the race track and mall.

An easy way to save time and to survive the September heat on a trip to the arboretum is to walk through the two parking lots and then cut through the mall and exit through JC Penney. By doing that, one saves walking around the mall’s massive parking lot and also gets to enjoy the mall’s air condition-

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ing before walking the seven minutes from the mall to the arboretum.

Downtown Arcadia provides food and entertainment for everyone. From the Arcadia Blues Club to Matt Denny’s Alehouse and Restaurant to Carcadia, a monthly car show in the Denny’s parking lot, there is lots to check out.

The Gold Line provides people a way to go on new adventures, minus the L.A. traffic and gas prices. There is more to explore around Arcadia and its surrounding cities in Los Angeles County.

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FIGHTING OWLS RESULTS/SCHEDULE H O M E

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OWLS WIN FOOTBALL OPENER AGAINST CHAFFEY IN OVERTIME SHOOTOUT CHAFFEY CITRUS

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Citrus freshman running back Devin Floyd carries the football in the second half against Chaffey on Sept. 3 at Citrus Stadium. Floyd had a team-high 83 rushing yards and one touchdown.

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With five minutes left in the first game of the season, Citrus College converted a field goal to give the Owls a narrow five-point lead over the Chaffey College Panthers.

On the next play, Panthers’ sophomore kick returner Ryan Kinard took the ensuing kickoff back 99 yards to give the visitors their first lead since the first half. After a twopoint conversion, Chaffey led by three with 4:46 to play.

The sequence was reminiscent of a game last season when Citrus lost in the final minutes to Golden West on a game-winning punt return for a touchdown. The 2016 Owls answered back.

With help from a roughing the passer penalty against Chaffey on 4th down, sophomore quarterback Brian Meyette orchestrated a 13play drive that set up a 26-yard field with three seconds to play in regulation, sending the game to overtime.

In overtime, Citrus sophomore running back Lawon Carney found the end zone on a 7-yard run and the defense stopped Chaffey on 4th and 14 to secure a 48-41 win.

“We had our ups and downs, but we fought through adversity and we came out with the win,” sophomore

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Citrus sophomore wide receiver Gino Mastandrea makes a catch in the second half against Chaffey on Sept. 3 at Citrus Stadium. Mastandrea had a team-high 105 receiving yards and returned a kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter of Citrus College’s 48-41 overtime win.

wide receiver Gino Mastandrea said.

After a scoreless first quarter, Chaffey got on the board first when sophomore linebacker Jedadiah Lulu jumped a Meyette pass for a 15-yard interception for touchdown with 9:56 to go in the second half.

Citrus had a big first half from sophomore defensive back Carlos Delgado, who intercepted Chaffey sophomore quarterback Jordan Velarde three times.

Delgado’s second interception of the day led to Citrus’ second touchdown, a 3-yard run from freshman running back Devin Floyd. Citrus went into the half with a 14-6 lead.

“We didn’t execute on offense, came out flat and they got us,” Velarde said.

Early in the third quarter, Meyette extended the lead with a 42-yard scramble for a touchdown. Chaffey responded less than a minute later with a 64-yard rushing touchdown from sophomore running back Robert Hampton, but Mastandrea quickly answered with a 97-yard kick return for touchdown to give Citrus a 28-13 lead with 10:11 to go in the third quarter.

Chaffey’s running game kept the Panthers in the game. Hampton scored his second touchdown of the day and freshman running back Justin King scored on a 4-yard run, narrowing the deficit to two, 28-26. The Panthers ran for 307 yards as a team.

Meyette and Velarde traded touchdown passes early in the fourth quarter before the game went to overtime.

Chaffey entered the game ranked No. 14 in the state. Citrus head coach Ron Ponciano said it was a big win for the Owls.

“The offense did what we expected to do, except on play,” Ponciano said, referring to the pick-six. “Defensively, we did good. They came back in overtime.”

Meyette finished 22-38 for 301 yards, with one touchdown and one interception, including his 42-yard rushing touchdown.

Mastandrea finished with a game-high seven catches and 105 yards to go along with his 97-yard kick return for a touchdown.

“All the hard work we put in the summer, we expect to be on the winning side,” Delgado said.

The Owls will play away from home the next two games.

Citrus (1-0) faces Santa Ana (0-1) at 6 p.m. Sept. 10 at Santa Ana College.

Santa Ana lost their first game of the season 56-17 to Fullerton College.

Spalding prepares her players in classroom

Women’s soccer prepares for six-game homestand

BY JOHN MICHAELIDES SPORTS EDITOR

STAFF REPORT The Citrus College women’s soccer team finished 2-0 at the Oxnard Seabreeze Tournament and have a 2-2 record on the season with a nineday break between games.

When Citrus continues play, the team will begin a six-game homestand.

The Owls have an opportunity to take advantage of a home-friendly schedule early before conference play begins in October.

With eight freshmen with at least two games started, the schedule can be favorable for head coach Tim Trac-

Chaffey had an opportunity to extend their lead, but freshman defensive back Tamas Stewart muffed a punt and Citrus recovered.

The Owls capitalized on the turnover with a 5-play drive that ended with 1-yard touchdown from Carney.

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Citrus freshman forward Briana Barajas throws the ball in play in a 2-1 loss against San Diego Mesa on Aug. 26 at Citrus Stadium.

ey as he works to construct his starting eleven for conference play.

Freshman forward Jaqueline Mejia scored two goals and had one assist

during the tournament to lead the Owls.

Citrus will host Pierce College at 6 p.m. Sept. 13 at Citrus Stadium.

New women’s water polo head coach Jennifer Spalding expects success in and out of the pool.

Along with coaching with the goal of a conference championship, Spalding said she stays on top of her players’ schoolwork so they can transfer after two years.

“We have a team goal where they need to be above a 3.2,” Spalding said.

Spalding said she does the team’s class scheduling to make sure they take the right classes to be successful.

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Citrus head coach Jennifer Spalding

“I want the girls to have a really positive experience here,” Spalding said. “I want them to look back and think this is one of the best decisions I made.”

For what the new season holds, Spalding said the team is going to be very good.

“We have a positive feeling about this team this year,” Spalding said.

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1. Search for "Rave Guardian" on the Apple App Store (for iPhones) or Google Play (for androids). Download the free "Rave Guardian" app and when prompted, enter your Citrus e-mail address. Upon confirmation as a Citrus College student or employee, the "Rave Guardian" app will become "Citrus Guardian."

2. Once installed, use "Citrus Guardian" fo protect yourself and others by using the following components of the app: Panic Button: Call Campus Safety or 9-1-1 with one touch of a button in case of an emergency. Campus Safety will immediately respond to your location on campus.

Text-A-Tip: Send text messages, including photos, to Campus Safety if you see something suspicious. Campus Safety will respond to your texts, provide guidance, and will respond to the location.

Set a Safety Timer: Notify people you trust to check in on you if you are alone or in an unfamiliar place. If your timer expires and you are on campus, Campus Safety will be notified and will respond to your location.

Manage & Message Your Guardians: Invite family, friends, or others to be your Guardian, and communicate with them within the app as needed.

Our Commitment To Your Safety As part of an ongoing proactive safety plan, the Citrus Guardian app adds an additionnal layer of safety and is provided as part of Citrus Community College District’s commitment to the safety and security of our campus.

Campus Safety looks forward to our continued partnership with the Citrus community, while providing a safe and secure learning environment, conducive to a College of Completion.

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