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Free speech settlement costs district A recent lawsuit settlement bring changes to campus administrative policies BY EVAN SOLANO
Five months into its two-year process, the new Fine Arts Building beginning to take shape
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After a recent lawsuit from a free speech advocacy group, on behalf of a Citrus student, the college has decided to pay an $110,000 settlement to the student and organization that assisted him in the suit and have been forced to change its free speech policy for the second time in a decade. Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle, a computer science major and president of the Citrus College chapter of Young Americans for Liberty along, help of the free speech advocacy group, Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), filed the lawsuit in July of 2014 after Sinapi-Riddle was threatened with removal from campus for solicit-
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Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle, president of Young Americans for Liberty.
ing signatures outside the campus’ free speech area in September of 2013. “I wasn’t aware of how [the free speech area] was being enforced until that moment,” recalls Sinapi-Riddle when an administrator confronted him and threatened to kick him off campus. This recent lawsuit filed by Sinapi-Riddle as part of FIRE’s “Stand Up
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fter much controversy over funding, the new Fine Arts Building is finally underway. This is after local media as well as open government figures disagreed with the type of funding that was affording the college to start the construction process. The main debate was over the Series 2014D Bonds.
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These bonds were the fourth set as part of Measure G, which was voted on in the March 2004 primary election. In essence, the funding comes from capital appreciation bonds (CAB) versus conventional bonds. Fortunately, the issue came to a resolution after California State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 182, thus lowering the interest on the CABs. Funding is one of the major hurdles that had to be overcome in order to break ground on the new Fine Arts Building. Now, the project S E E F IN E ART S • PA G E 5
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OWLS UPSET ANTELOPE VALLEY 86 - 82 BY MICKEY ROMERO MANAGING EDITOR
Constructions workers welding the staircase to the frame of the new Fine Arts Building in early February 2015. The 37,000 squarefoot structure is expected to be open for students by summer 2016. (Evan Solano Clarion)
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The men’s basketball team has begun to pile up the wins after a slow start to the season. The Fighting Owls (16-8, 9-3) picked up a big one on Feb.11 when they defeated Antelope Valley (23-5, 11-1) in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western State Conference South Division by a score of 86-83. Citrus seems to be fine tuning their game just in time for a late playoff push. Citrus’ resurgent defense was evident during the come-from-behind
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John Roach, Dominique Walker and Ryan Wiley celebrating the Owls’ win against Antelope Valley.
win against 1st place Antelope Valley College. The Owls found themselves behind from the tipoff with some lackluster defense and offensive troubles, including SEE ME N ’ S • PA G E 13
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THE YEAR THAT HAYDEN HALL, THE OLDEST BUILDING ON CAMPUS, WAS DEDICATED.