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File found: BY JAMES DUFFY V
OPINIONS EDITOR
JDUFFY@CCCLARION.COM
The Glendora Police Department responded to nine Clarion records requests including two alleged felonies committed on campus. The Clarion received four unredacted arrest logs from the Glendora Police Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for records. After several attempts to obtain
Fight against cancer ‘Biology of Cancer’ course educates those feeling affected by it or motivated to take action for the cure BY ANDREW PEREZ
STAFF REPORTER
APREREZ@CCCLARION.COM
Professor June Han is offering a new course this spring, ‘Biology of Cancer.’ The course is geared towards non-science majors and is split into several units which talk about how cells work. It also discusses how cancer cells form, are caused, the appearance of a cancer cell and available treatments for cancer. Han’s father was diagnosed with colon cancer and was not doing well. Han struggled with the idea of teaching the class as she felt it may be too difficult to teach the course in the event of her father’s death. As her father got better Han said she hoped to use her experience with cancer to help others who have dealt with it as well. “I do hope to share my personal experiences with cancer, mostly in relation to my father’s experience with cancer, to not only students who have been affected by the disease but also to those who have not,” Professor June Han said in an email. Her father is now in better health and she looks forward to teaching the class. Han described the experience as “unreal” or “sadly part of [her] ‘normal life.” “I felt a very heavy burden to give ‘my all’ to this class,” Han said. “Pretty much everyone knows someone who has it.” A goal of the course is to have more people with knowledge working together to help aid in the fight against cancer. Han said there is a study which says if everyone were to put into action their knowledge and resources towards cancer the number of cancer related deaths
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March 11, 2020
Missing files finally released from police but some remain heavily redadcted
records in writing, email and over the phone, without a response from the police department or city of Glendora, the Clarion filed FOIA requests to access the records. Some of the arrest logs were still redacted by the Glendora city clerk’s office who responded to the request. One unredacted log shows the arrest of Citrus Foundation employee Clarence Cernal for the charge of aggravated rape. Police
received a complaint against Cernal on Sept. 28 and arrested him on campus on Oct. 10. The Glendora Police Dept. gave a redacted version of the arrest log in December to the Clarion, but the charges against Cernal were not visible. Another log shows retired Citrus employee Tim Jaquette was charged with carrying a firearm on campus Sept. 16, two days before his retirement on Sept. 18.
A Los Angeles County employee at the Pomona courthouse found a record of the case on Jan. 17. The record shows Cernal posted bail for a rape charge on an alleged rape on Oct. 15, 2019, at the Pomona Superior Court. The employee’s record also shows Los Angeles County District Attorney has not filed charges against Cernal, so further court records are unavailable. County records on courthouse
computers available to the public also say Cernal does not have pending criminal cases. The employee said the L.A. County district attorney’s office is conducting an investigation into the allegations against Cernal. The DA has up to a year to file charges against Cernal before releasing his bail. More information to come. Vicman Thome contributed to this article.
WOMEN’S MONTH
“You can actually do it” These women find college success in their own way BY NICOLE MARIONA EDITOR- IN - CHIEF
NMARIONA@CCCLARION.COM
& MEG TRAVIS
STAFF REPORTER
MTRAVIS@CCCLARION.COM
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usiness major, Raychal Henmen, 32, is the vice president of fundraising for Phi Theta Kappa and participates in events hosted by Alpha Gamma Sigma and Phi Theta Kappa -the two clubs she’s been a part of while studying at Citrus to receive an associate’s degree for business. Henman has had a significantly large gap from the time she graduated high school in 2007 to the time she plans to graduate this spring. While most students have a two-to-three-year gap between the end of high school to the start of their academic career, Henman is deemed as a non-traditional college student because of her 10year gap. Other women also experience setbacks or decide to take alternative paths before they can decide on going to college. For Henman, it was the complications of having to pay up to life’s demands. Henman said her mother gave her an alternative to either going to school and not having to pay rent or working and pay rent. “I know my mom,” Henman said with a chuckle. Henman said regardless of circumstances she knew her mother would charge her for the rent. “I took the working route; I worked and paid rent,” Henman said. Earlier life experiences can also provide insight to future interests. Criminology major, Andrea Sanders, 47, said before she came back to school in 2018, she was in the Navy for 21 years. Sanders said she believes her past involvement within the Navy has guided her to
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