Mediocre gladiators:
Editor-in-chief Julius Rea and Managing editor Troy Patton review the new film, “The Eagle.” See page 4.
Education sees red:
Inquirer Editorial Board discusses cuts to education and the lack of perceived value it impliesby the state. See page 5.
How to Heal: Take a look into DVC’s sports medicine program. See page 6.
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Marching Band Techniques • Introduction to Music Skills • Introduction to Drawing, Color, and Two Dimensional Design • Introduction the Music Industry • Introduction to Reason and ACID • Introduction to Color Drawing and Composition • Figure Drawing • Printmaking: Monotype • Animation and Interactivity • Fundamentals of Stage Production • DVC Philharmonic Orchestra •Introduction to Printmaking •Watercolor • Introduction to Technical Theater • Introduction to Engineering •Beginning Guitar • Watercolor Workshop • Oil/Acrylic Painting • Technical Drawing • Horticulture • SCOTT BABA Features editor Color Theory and its Application to 2-D Media • Basic Principles of Acting • Nursery ontinuing budget prob- • Skills and Practices Introduction to lems for the Sculpture and 3-D Contra Cos- Design• Piano Ensemble Symphonic Band • ta Community College Pedagogy for Music and DVC have Teachers • Night Jazz District • Energy, Society, and forced the school’s adthe Environment • ministration to propose Landscape Design • Metal Art • Basic a reduced course sched- Principles of Acting ule for next year, heavily • Advanced Styles in damaging many depart- Scene Study • The British Blues Invasion • In- ments across the campus, troduction to Pro including art, drama, horTools • Directing Proj- ticulture, and engineering. ects • Applied Voice Training • Introduc- While planning the next tion to Electronic budget, the CCCD Music • Introduction year’s to Digital Video • 3D came up with three sceModeling and Anima- narios taking into account tion • Plant Propagation • From Be Bop to the possibility of Gov. Trip Hop: Fifty Years Jerry Brown’s tax increase of Small Ensemble either passing or not, and Jazz •Metalsmithing and Jewelry • Figura- whether Proposition 98 – tive Concepts • Typogdedicates at least 40 raphy • Percussion which Ensemble • Introducpercent of the state budtion to Music Litera- get to K-14 education – ture • Stage Makeup • Wheel Thrown Ce- will be suspended or not. ramic Art • Marching Chancellor Helen BenBand Techniques • In- jamin said the district had troduction to Music Skills • Introduction chosen the in-between to Music Literature scenario assuming that • Stencil and Screen the tax increase would fail Print Relief • Introduction to Circuits but Proposition 98 would and Devices • Printbe suspended, and making: Wood Block not Hand-Built • Chamber the district would take a Singers • Brass En- $15.8 million reduction. semble • Ceramic Art • Jazz Combos • Vocal To offset this budget Jazz Ensemble • Black cut, which is roughly equal and White Photog- to the losses of the last raphy • Digital Illustration • Introduc- two years combined, the tion to Digital Auplans involve redio • Major Produc- district’s tion • Concert Choir ducing workforce, course • Beginning Piano • schedules, and operating Woodwind Ensemble • Properties of Engi- budgets, as well as con- neering Materials • solidating and eliminating Advanced Photogra- programs and services. phy Workshop • Digital Imaging Process At DVC, this calcula- and Technique • Detion means that for the sign, Advanced Con- school to reach its low- cepts Programming for Scientists and ered budget it will have Engineers • Computer Aided Drafting • to make a 6.2 percent Band English Choral • Music Concerto for Multiple Solo InstruBUDGET, Page 2 ments • Digital Illustration • Engineering Drawing • Applied Projects in Music Industry Studies • Alan Hovhaness: Maximum Minimalism • Introduction to Digital Audio • Introduction to DigitAl Photography
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Speaking out costs jobs, coaches claim MIKE ALFIERI Copy editor
Two former DVC track and tennis coaches are suing the district since, in their opinion they lost their jobs for exposing illegal gender discrimination in sports programs at DVC. “I was told it was because of financial and budget issues,” said Peter Benko in a phone interview, on why the school chose not to rehire him. Hunter Pyle, the lawyer of Peter Benko and Daniel Cruz, tells a different story in his press release: “It appears that DVC was motivated by a desire to punish those who spoke out, and to frighten others from speaking out in the future.” Athletic Director Christine Worsley, cited in the lawsuit as the person who terminated the coaches’ employment, declined to comment on the matter. The district filed a response to the charges on Jan. 28, denying all claims. Repeated attempts to contact the district’s attorneys have gone unanswered. Benko and Cruz filed the federal lawsuit with the Contra Costa Community College District for wrongful termination they say was retaliation against them for the complaint they filed against the college. “It is clear from the school district’s actions that we were treated adversely after bringing to their atCOACHES, Page 2
New project addresses achievement gap, student stereotypes KEVIN HAYES Copy editor
The negative effect stereotypes may have on academic ability is brought to the spotlight this semester in the “Whistling Vivaldi” project. The program, organized by Lisa Orta, staff development coordinator, seeks to address the achievement gap at DVC through presentations, discussions, college events and film showings. She came up with the idea after hearing a radio interview with Dr. Claude Steele, the author of the book for which the program is named. In it, Steele discussed how people internalize stereotypes about their identity and can later be affected by them. “Whistling Vivaldi” was a technique black journalist Brent Staples used to defuse the perception that he might be a mugger while walking down the street at night. Whistling classical music helped him break the stereotype. One example Steele used in his book involved an experiment in which questionnaires were given to three groups of Asian women just before a math VIVALDI, Page 3
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