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Assault leaves student shaken
BY JADA PORTILLO Opinion Editor
April 24 at 4 p.m., a sexual battery occurred at Cunningham North Path near Cunningham 2 parking lot. Later that evening, students and faculty were issued a Mustang alert.
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Robert Andrew Marquez, 29, was arrested on April 25 by State Parole and was transported to San Joaquin County Jail by campus police after allegedly touching the buttocks of a female.
The female victim reported at 4:32 p.m. on April 24, the suspect started a conversation with her. The victim continued to walk toward her car in the parking lot and stopped talking to the suspect but he continued to follow her. The suspect stumbled and touched the victim’s buttocks with his hand.
“30 minutes is enough time for somebody to hop in a car and get way away from here or even walking, get to an area where we’ll never be able to find them,” Police Sergeant and Public Information Officer Jim Bock said, noting how State Parole saw the alert and was able to provide a name and an interview for the suspect.
“In this case, it just shows a great partnership with State Parole.”
See SUSPECT, page 11
National Library Week features author Sarah Lohman
BY ARIANNA JUÁREZ Editor-in-Chief
On Apr. 26, author Sarah Lohman held a virtual talk for Delta students to discuss her new book Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine.
The event was held in part to commemorate National Library Week at Delta. Delta hosted a variety of events meant to highlight the services provided by the Goleman Library. These events included raffles, workshops, and book sales.
Wednesday’s event was hosted by history professor Dr. Sarah Seekatz, who is also chairperson of the Cultural Awareness Program at Delta.
Seektaz is featured in Lohman’s upcoming book Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods, where she and Lohman teamed up to research date fruits in California’s Coachella Valley.
During the National Library Week event, Lohman spoke extensively about Ranji Smile, an Indian immigrant chef, known for introducing Indian cuisine to Americans in the early twentieth century.
See LOHMAN, page 11
