Mountaineer Spring 2012 Issue 3

Mountaineer A First Amendment Newspaper of the Mt. San Antonio College Journalism Program

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Volume 77 Issue 3

MT. SAC RELAYS

2012

MOUNTIES PLACE IN TOP FIVE IN 21 OF 39 EVENTS, SET MEET RECORD PAGE 10-11

STUDENT SPEAKS ON GAY BULLYING PAGE 7

AVIATION PROGRAM HELPS ASPIRING PILOTS PAGE 13

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012

Community college newspapers face cancellation and closure !"#$%&'( !"#$%&'!()**'+&$("& The financial woes of commercial newspapers have made their way into the student press.

In light of the recession and cuts to education, student newspapers across the nation have made cutbacks, but with the fast changing industry model of the printed press coupled with the rising cost of printing, many schools have reduced the frequency of their print editions down to a weekly or monthly paper; some have abandoned the print medium and are completely online.

In extreme cases, journalism programs are also cancelled, particularly at the community college level.

In California, some community colleges are doing just that.

A few years ago, in Ventura County, the journalism programs at Ventura and Oxnard College’s were cancelled and consolidated into one newspaper at Moorpark College.

Mt. SAC journalism professor and adviser of student media Toni Albertson was the adviser at Oxnard College in 2005 when the paper was cut.

“It was devastating to me, and more importantly the students,” Albertson said.

According to Albertson, the college used budget cuts as the reason for canceling the journalism program at Oxnard College, but she does not believe it.

“They hated us and tried every way to cancel the paper,” Albertson said. “They even confiscated all of our papers when we ran an unfavorable story about the administration.”

Albertson, who conducted a comprehensive study in 2004 on the vulnerable status of community college journalism programs, said she is not surprised that newspapers are eliminated when budget cuts hit.

“So many of the advisers that participated in the study expressed their fears of having their journalism programs axed, and many said that their administrators just don’t like the student press,” Albertson said.

Albertson, along with former part-time Mt. SAC journalism adviser Rosa Santana, also helped restart a cancelled journalism program and student newspaper at Los Angeles Trade Tech College.

“We fought hard with the students to keep the press alive, but the administration won,” Albertson said. “After the first issue that contained an unflattering story about the college vice president, we were told there would be no more paper.”

In February, journalism professor Paul McLeod arrived at Los Angeles Harbor College to find that the beginning newswriting course was cut, leaving only a newspaper class and a mass media class. The printing budget for the Harbor Tides newspaper was already cut, leaving student journalists wondering why there is a newspaper class if they lack money to print one.

Also in February, the Shasta College student newspaper, Lance,

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Last month in Riverside County, Norco College announced that it eliminate its newspaper, The Norco Voice, and the newspaper class for the 2012-13 academic year. The chancellor later agreed to allow the newspaper class to be offered for now and said it was improper for administrators to decide to eliminate programs without first notifying the affected faculty (the student newspaper and journalism program were to be eliminated without any opportunity for the affected faculty to make their case in support of them.

He also said that he will let the administrators know that they must contact affected faculty whenever their program is being considered for elimination. Allen Lovelace, professor of journalism at Riverside City College, said that student newspapers are critical.

“I think it’s important for every college to have a newspaper so that the students have a voice,” said Lovelace. “After all a college is supposed to be for the students, right? Kids have to have a voice and this is the way for that to happen.”

And in Los Angeles, Pierce College’s Roundup newspaper lost its printing budget. Jill Connely, media arts department chair at Pierce, met with the president and is trying to restore the budget.

In the current economic climate, all programs in higher education are experiencing difficulties.

Student Media Adviser at Cal State Northridge, Melissa Lalum, 42, who is the outgoing president of the California College Media Association, said that journalism is no exception.

“I’ve observed in the last few months a lot of programs are being threatened, that they don’t have the funding for them anymore,” said Lalum. “I just think that’s really disturbing. A critical part of what we do in our society depends on the free press.”

Additionally, both commercial and college newspapers are making less money from advertisements.

“They can be a little bit expensive to run when you consider printing budgets,” said Lalum, who is also the student media adviser at Cal State Northridge. Her school’s administration supports the program, but she said that other schools are not always as supportive.

“The state budget has definitely

impacted education and the resources we have, so we’re getting bombarded by that,” said Lalum.

Major newspapers are struggling to find an effective way to sell advertising on the web, and the technology has quickly evolved to now include mobile platforms such as smartphones and tablets. Failure to do so ultimately means the end of the publication. And many major commercial newspapers have failed.

According to the blog Newspaper Death Watch, 13 metropolitan daily newspapers have folded in the United States since the blog was created five years ago.

Surviving newspapers are trying their best to adapt and have made cutbacks to their print publications due to the loss of revenue, such as reducing the amount of pages and laying off employees.

Lalum has had to live through this circumstance. Prior to her position at Cal State Northridge, Lalum was the managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily News.

“The editor and I, one afternoon, had to lay off 22 people and reduce our staff to 100. That was the most painful thing professionally I’ve ever done,” she said.

Current social and technological norms indicate that the next likely step is to go completely digital, which according to Lalum, is cheaper to produce than a print publication.

“It’s significantly less but print revenue still dominates; that’s the problem,” she said. “We still make most of our money from print so we’ve seen that decline.”

College publications are in fact doing their best to adapt and experiment with digital alternatives.

“We’ve had a website since 1997,” said Lovelace. “We were one of the earliest student newspapers at the community college level to have a website.”

At CSUN, Lalum’s program is experimenting with selling social media marketing services.

However, the readership at a college campus is different, and that is why print publications still dominate many colleges, Lalum and Lovelace said.

Lalum does not think budget issues should be an excuse to cut journalism programs.

“There’s always a way to publish whether it’s just online or not,” she said. “I don’t advocate in any way taking away the print product, although I do think eventually it will

be gone.”

“I think it’s sad,” said Albert Fulcher, 53, a senior staff writer with The Sun, Southwestern College’s student publication. “Regardless of what people think of print dying or whatever medium that you’re going to be doing the news in, you still need trained journalists that are ethical and understand the process,” he said. “People need to know that their information is coming from a reliable source.”

Fulcher ended up at The Sun after losing his job as an executive assistant for an internet advertising company that collapsed in 2006.

“I had no college education at all and people were trying to rehire me at $25,000 [a year], so I came to Southwestern to get a degree in Microsoft Office just so I’d have a degree and could get back to work at least starting at $35,000 or something. Money was a big issue then,” Fulcher said.

While at Southwestern, Fulcher took a mass communications class under Max Branscomb, who is also the adviser for The Sun. Branscomb recruited Fulcher to write for The Sun in 2009.

“I wrote poems and would do stuff along the side as a hobby, but never took writing seriously or never even thought I was a writer. It was my adviser who saw that in me and brought me in,” Fulcher said. “He’s changed my life. Trust me, I had to let go of the money thing because I’m not making the money that I came to school to make!”

Fulcher arrived at The Sun during a difficult period of the publication’s history. The school president at the time, Raj Chopra, and his administration, were not supportive of the school newspaper.

“No one would interview with us; they were all terrified of our superintendent, Fulcher said.” “He had put down the hammer saying not to talk to anybody with the press, especially The Sun.” “When we came back in fall of 2010 we were getting ready to come out with our first issue [of the semester], and we were told by administration that we couldn’t print—that they were freezing our print budget,” Fulcher said.

Chopra decided to enforce a 20 year old policy that required The Sun to have printing companies bid

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However, it does raise a question of how prepared students and faculty are for what has come to be known as an inevitable occurrence.

A main concern in the event of an earthquake would be the safety of the classrooms and other buildings.

“There are some of the buildings that we have here that were built to the structural codes of the time they were built. That doesn’t mean at all that they’re not safe, that just means that they may not have the same enhancements that current codes have,” Gary Nellesen, director of facilities planning and management, said.

According to Nellesen, Mt. SAC and other community colleges have the some of the safest buildings because they are built to the same standards that are required for small children.

“The way that it works is if you have a serious earthquake and you’re thinking, ‘How does

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After the time has come and passed for the duck and cover method, professors are instructed to lead their students and report to specified locations.

In cases such as this, they will rely heavily on the public safety department to direct traffic and manage the situation.

“In the event of a major emergency, public safety would work together with local and state officials to ensure the security of all bodies on campus,” Michael Montoya, public safety assistant director, said.

According to Montoya, the Campus Emergency Notification System, which contacts faculty, students and staff via personalized voice, email

or text message, would issue out instructions and further updates to keep all who have signed up for it informed.

Some professors presently are not aware of these plans or what their course of action is should an emergency arise.

In a survey of 50 randomly selected faculty and staff, when asked if they were aware of current emergency procedures, 20 responded that they were aware, 20 responded that they were not aware, and 10 responded that they had a vague recollection of what they were supposed to do.

When asked if they were signed up for the CENS, 25 responded that they were and the other half were not.

Lastly, faculty and staff were asked if they had participated in any emergency practice drills so far this year, 18 responded they had and the remaining 32 responded that they had not, nor had they been

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Summer intersession classes reduced by half )'3'$%F/2/G"@)#)C$#C'8B$(%& Thanks in large to the recent years’ state budget cuts on higher education and Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed state budget for the next fiscal year, Mt. SAC may be cutting 50% of the units offered during the 2013 six-week summer intersession, thus shutting out approximately 1,500 full-time students from taking classes in between the spring and fall semesters.

“If we get the news, and it’s based on the governor’s budget and what the state adopts, and we’re told that we need to implement further workload reductions, then we’d look at Summer of 2013,” said Virginia Burley, vice president of instruction. “And the general principle would be to ask ‘what do students need? What are the most impacted courses for our students that we need to maintain so they can continue to establish progress?’”

Burley added that there are a number of vocational and technical programs that they need to support.

“We also look really carefully at our career and technical education programs because

there are a number of those that require by outside accrediting agencies that they have to have certain courses and be done by a certain point, and so those are no-brainers,” she said. “We have to support them.”

Students, who have already suffered from the dramatic fee hikes the past four years, are less than optimistic about the news of the summer intersession’s offered units being cut in half.

“Students are already staying here longer than they want to,” said Sherril Chambers, 19, who plans on trying to take courses both this summer and the now jeopardized 2013 summer intersession. “This means students are going to be at Mt. SAC for even longer. The classes they’ll still offer in the summer will probably be really overcrowded. Overall, it’s just a huge loss of opportunity for the students.” According to Burley and English department chair Kristina Allende, the 2013 winter intersession is not yet in danger of being cut.

Further cuts to school funding may come as little surprise, especially given that California’s education system has seen the largest decrease in state funding on a nationwide basis. Gov. Jerry

Brown proposed a budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year that would decrease funding for community colleges by an estimated $100 million in 2013 if Californians vote against his proposed tax hikes in November, adding to the already $769 million that has been cut from the institution since 2008.

A resolution to this issue is most likely not going to come on a local basis. “Perhaps a fix, if there is one, lies at the state level,” Allende said. “I always encourage students to become actively involved in political issues that affect them.”

On March 5, thousands of students and faculty did just that and protested against the proposed cuts at the state capitol, 72 of whom were arrested and detained after orders from law enforcement to disperse.

The event was coordinated separately but supported by a twin protest at New York’s state capitol that same day.

Comparably, Mt. SAC will fare well next to other California community colleges in facing funding cuts thanks to its large student population, a factor that determines the amount of money it receives from the state.

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She added that other schools may face closure soon. “We’re getting to the point where if there’s another big cut like this, there are a number of community colleges that won’t make it. It’ll be mostly small colleges in rural areas,” she said. “The problem in those schools is that they don’t have enough students because their population is so small and limited, and so what happens is they can’t meet their enrollment targets and their funding gets cut, and then they get cut additionally because of these other state reductions and they just run out of money.”

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Grant for minorities provides Mt. SAC with $2 million 96H/3*%)/32' D"E0'8B$(%& In September of 2011 Mt. SAC was awarded the AANAPISI grant supplied by the U.S. Department of Education to assist Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander serving institutions.

The grant, which was written in part by Dr. Audrey Yamagata-Noji, will delegate $2 million over a five-year period, with $400,000 becoming available each year.

The grant is currently the center of some controversy due to the English and literature departments’ refusal to participate.

According to English department chair Kristina Allende, the department would take part in learning communities, which it has always participated in, but in no other aspect of the grant.

The reason the department has decided against participating is due to a perceived lack of communication between the grant writers and the department.

“We are proponents of learning communities and the benefits they can have for students.

With the exception of that, that is where our responsibility in the grant ends,” said Allende.

Allende said the reason they chose not to take part was because the department as a whole felt they had not been properly informed during the grant writing process.

“Christina Allende and I were invited to a brainstorming session for the grant and which we participated, and our understanding was that there would be other meetings to actually formalize the proposals for the grant,” said former English department chair and professor of English, Gary Enke.

“And then what we would have done which is what we have done with other grants in which

we participated is we would have brought that back to the department for approval,” said Enke. “But for whatever reason none of that ever happened and the next thing we saw was actually the completed grant with a variety of responsibilities assigned to our department.”

Enke added that the department felt that the assigning of duties violated the collective bargaining duties between the faculty association and Mt. SAC. “Our concern in the English department was that our work duties are assigned as part of collective bargaining between the college and the faculty association and so we saw the listing of an English department member, assigning him duties as violating that agreement,” said Enke.

Yamagata-Noji said that part of the writing process is gathering faculty who may be interested in advising for the grant and that they would not be bound in any way. “[The English department] believe they were not thoroughly consulted in the development of the grant. In our opinion when you write a grant you get different ideas from different people as you get the grant and as you meet you develop more specifically what you want to do,” said Yamagata-Noji. “It was at that time that they believe they weren’t consulted sufficiently and when we met they said they would discuss it and they said they didn’t want to take part.”

Yamagata-Noji said that during the grant writing process, various faculty members were consulted and brought up as people who may want to participate as mentors, and were brought in to brainstorming sessions to discuss the possibilities.

These faculty members were then listed in the grant with the intent of bringing them in and assisting in the learning communities.

“I can understand and appreciate the concern about this idea, when you’re having to write the grant there is sometimes a very short

time in which you actually have to facilitate the different aspects of the grant writing process then to get it to the government in time for what they need,” said Aida Cuenza interim director of the AANAPISI grant. “And then you try to solicit information, it’s not that to complete exclusion but there was involvement not all the way through so I think the feeling of not being included was something that was felt, and I can only say that from observation.”

“I think because they do values the needs of students I think they of course see that, that there is their ability to participate through support of learning communities,” Cuenza added.

However, according to Enke some of these faculty members were not informed about being listed in the grant.

“There was a group of people who were listed as part of an advisory board who would also serve as mentors and they were assigned duties under the grant. If you say you’re going to do something on a grant you’re supposed to do it.

They were not informed,” said Enke.

“I think with that portion of the grant the intent was really to identify API faculty who have been with this campus and showing the diversity of faculty and staff of this campus that we’re representative of the AAPI population and the intent was to invite those that we knew of to invite them to advisory meeting for the grant program. There was no intentional harm or expectation that they would have to.”

Despite the decision to not take full participation in the grant the English department is still committed to education and student success.

“We plan on participating in the things that we were already doing which is providing the linked classes in the learning communities,” said Enke. “And the English department will certainly be committed to the success of all our students.”

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When English is not enough !"#"$%&'(')*+ -#)#56)5%3"6789 I am nauseous. My head is spinning; the bout of the stomach flu that I had been fighting for the past four days has chosen to linger and follow me like an unwanted admirer. I had decided this morning that I was not nauseous enough that I cannot go out and look for work, the thing that had so far eluded me in the city of Alhambra, just east of Los Angeles, since I moved here.

The bus is humid and stuffy, as it tends to be in the summertime.

The bus comes to a stop and a particularly…robust Asian woman decides to occupy the seat next to mine.

I immediately notice two things.

One, she is sitting so close that it should constitute some form of sexual molestation, and two, she smells as though she has recently bathed in a tub full of boiled cabbage and urine. I suppress the bile rising in my throat and think maybe I should just get it over with and puke on her. Anyone who smells this bad is pretty much asking for it, right?

I sit there for another ten minutes or so before my stop thankfully comes into view. With a pull of the yellow chord running along the side of the bus I am on my feet, looking down at the woman expectantly.

I try to inch towards the aisle from my window seat but she is still sitting, sedentary, apparently oblivious to the fact that I need to get by her.

“Excuse me,” I say politely, trying my hardest to contain my irritation. She just looks up at me, squinting, trying to figure out what I’m saying.

“I have to get through here,” I explain, gesturing with my hands that she needs to move for me to allow me to leave the bus. My stop is nearly upon us and I am now in jeopardy of missing it entirely.

“Lady, please move,” I plead and the woman across the aisle turns to her and says something. Maybe it is Cantonese, or Korean, or Mandarin, but frankly all I know is that this cow needs to get out of the way now. She gives an “Oh!” once the other woman has explained it to her and decides to rotate 20 degrees clockwise in her seat. Her minor action changes nothing; she is still completely blocking my way.

This is no woman that would be easy to squeeze past, mind you. She takes up her entire seat, about a quarter of mine, and a small portion of the aisle. I try to push past her and collide hard with her knees, hoping that maybe she will get the point and get her ass up and into the aisle.

Instead, she looks at me like I have committed a mortal sin, yelling at me in that same dialect, specks of spit flying and landing on my face.

Aaaand here is my stop. The doors open briefly and when no one rises from their seat, they close promptly, the bus moving on once more.

This is when I have had it.

I know she will not understand me, but I still want to vent my

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anger on her. She is still yelling, and my common courtesy decides to sit back and let me do the talking. “JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE YELLING DOESN’T MEAN I UNDERSTAND A WORD COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH,” I snarl.

People are staring, mouths agape at my insolence, and she continues to holler at me before I bowl through her legs, managing to somehow finally push that heifer far enough to the side.

She emits a sharp, exaggerated cry at the rough contact before continuing her barrage of insults that I do not understand. I pull the cord and step off the bus when it rolls to a stop at least three blocks past where I want to be.

I decide to make do with the situation and evaluate the surrounding businesses. A large portion of them do not have a single word of English on the front of the buildings; instead, they are completely adorned with Asian characters. I have to ask myself, “where the hell am I? Is that a doctor’s office or a massage parlor?

A thrift store? A library…?”

After a few fruitless attempts that ended as soon as my inquiries

were met with uncomprehending stares, I decide to try a little bakery on the corner of the street that looks like it may give me a fairer opportunity.

The place is cute enough at first. Then I look closer and see that there is one of those white cat sculptures that I see in a lot of the local businesses, and my heart sinks slightly.

That cat is never a good sign.

He mocks me with his waving paw every time I try to apply at a place like this. It often means that the person working the counter will have no idea what I am saying when I ask them about their hiring status.

Regardless, I walk up to the counter, which is laden with stale samples of various frosted cookies and some assorted cupcakes.

The girl behind the counter cannot be a day over 16, and she looks up from painting her nails as though I have inconvenienced her with my very presence. “Excuse me,” I ask. “Are you hiring right now?”

A grin splits her face, which is completely inappropriate for what comes out of her mouth next. “Oh, yes. But we not hire white people.”

I am staring at her, brows

raised, hoping that I misunderstood her. Did she really just say what I think she said? What country am I in? “What did you just say to me?” I ask, the volume of my voice rising.

Her grin is gone, now, replaced with a nervous grimace that I can tell she hopes passes for an apologetic smile. “No white people,” she repeats timidly with a nod of her head.

I crack my knuckles, wanting nothing more than to send my fist crashing through her face, but I decide to settle for the next best thing. “Get me your manager,” I demand. “Now.” There is real fear in her eyes now, and she takes a step back from the counter as though I am a rabid animal coiled to strike. “She not here.”

“I see,” I say, unconvinced.

With that I deftly flip the plate of samples so that it is face down on the glass counter, unceremoniously smearing the cupcake frosting in a circle while she watches, horrified.

“I cannot blame you,” I say as I turn to leave. “White people are so mean, aren’t they?”

This would not be the last time I ended a job search in this fashion.

At every turn I am asked the same questions: “Do you speak Mandarin?

Or Korean? Or Spanish?” “Can you deal with customers that do not speak English?” “Do you plan on taking a foreign language any time soon to improve your chances in this job market?”

And when the answer to these questions is no, they give me a polite yet unimpressed smile, a shake of the hand, and I am sent on my way.

The only time that this has not been the case was when I managed to find employment at a little place called O’My Yogurt in Monterey Park, where the owner said upon hiring me without even bothering to have me fill out an application: “Yeah, our token white girl is leaving us next week…so looks like you’re going to have to fill that role.”

Looking back on it, that is the least of the problems I have with that guy.

I care more about the fact that he kidnapped an employee, knocked her out, stripped her down before dressing her in an adult diaper and a dog collar and placing her in a metal box strategically hidden in a makeshift, soundproofed sex dungeon he had built above the shop. That definitely takes the cake.

But still, my point is that was the only guy within a five mile radius who would willingly hire me knowing that I only speak English.

And I have been here for a year and a half.

By being monolingual in the only town where I could find a decent residence, the locals treat me as if I am an alien. I have become a second class citizen. I do not have much value in the eyes of most employers in this city if I cannot cater to those that live here and are either unwilling or unable to learn the de facto language of the general masses.

And because of this, I have become a foreigner in my own country, or at least in Alhambra.

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Fight the assault on women’s rights ,-*%%*&.-%/$(+ *$+,,%-)($.)

I live in the land of the free. I live in a country where my voice matters. I vote. I vote for the best representative to represent me. I want to make sure that somebody out there is looking after me. One of the things that I love about our country is that a woman has the right to choose.

Obviously, I am pro-choice. I may not always agree with every situation these women are in that led them to this decision, but I will always defend their right to make that decision. It is their right. I love this country. I feel safe here. But when these rights are being secretly crafted to turn against me, I get nervous.

When the government starts making rules based on their own personal beliefs rather than for the welfare of everyone I stop feeling safe and start feeling scared. Actually, I am terrified. Recent changes to the rules of how a doctor may perform these abortions have made the chances of getting them pretty much impossible.

It started when I was getting ready for school one morning. I always turn on CNN, MSNBC and yes, even FOX News right when I wake up in the morning.

I had overheard a little about the Arizona abortion laws being voted on on April 10. I heard the ridiculous laws and laughed. There was no way these laws would go through.

Abortion is a constitutional right, and a state cannot violate federal law.

I was absolutely dumbfounded when I heard the news that it passed the state legislature and that Governor Jan Brewer signed it into law. The 18th week bill makes it illegal for a woman to have an abortion after the 18th week of

pregnancy in Arizona. These weeks do not start at conception. The current bill starts counting your weeks from the first day of your last period! Not only is Arizona telling you when you can get an abortion, they are also telling you when you can have sex.

Not scary enough for you yet?

If a woman does choose to have an abortion within the legal time limit, the bill is accompanied by a mandate that says the doctor must conduct a sonogram, and the woman is forced to see the fetus and hear the heartbeat.

When I had first heard the news of this bill passing, I got angry. I am strongly opposed to interfering with a woman’s right to choose.

According to Brewer, this law improves the health of women! “This legislation is consistent with my strong track record of supporting common sense measures to protect the health of women and safeguard our most vulnerable population–the unborn,” she said.

It is actually the opposite. These women Brewer is attacking are the vulnerable population. An unwanted pregnancy is already scary, and to take away a woman’s right to choose, whether you disagree with it or not, is just ignorant and cruel.

This new law will force many women into unwanted pregnancies and condemn those who choose to go through with one.

The more I researched the bill, the more I got scared. I found out that women’s rights were not only being taken away in Arizona, they were being taken away everywhere.

Nebraska, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. There are reports that South Carolina is entertaining this nightmare too.

What is going on here? A woman’s right to choose is a constitutional right, so how exactly is this happening?

These politicians are so good at getting what they want that they find ways around it. They understand that they cannot outlaw abortion. What they can do is change the rules of conducting an abortion to intimidate doctors.

Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, signed a bill on April 20 that mandates women having nonsurgical abortions visit the same doctor three times and that doctors ensure that the woman is having the procedure voluntarily and without interference from another party.

Failure to follow those requirements could result in felony charges against the doctor.If a woman chooses to see her own doctor after having an abortion, the original doctor that performed the abortion gets fined. That is not fair.

This bill also removes information about contraception from sex education. These politicians want to educate people on sex, but they refuse to teach how to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Well, that is a bright idea.

It should be alarming to us all that these laws are passing. I may not agree with a woman’s decision in certain situations, but I will always defend a woman’s right to choose.

Where you stand on abortion should not matter because the truth is that it happens.

The real issue is bigger than that.

These states may not be outlawing abortion, but they are taking away a woman’s right to a safe procedure.

They are threatening doctors with fines and even jail time. This makes the doctor choose not to perform these abortions, which is a right.

By forcing women to see their fetus and hear the heartbeat, they are trying to sway the woman into changing her decision, which is protected under the constitution as her right to choose. I believe that is the cruelest thing you can do to a woman who already has a hard time with her decision.

I will not stand for this. I will petition and fight. I want people to be aware. I will spread the word.

Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, the way that these states circumvent these laws should raise an eyebrow or two. They changed a constitutional right in their favor and got away with it.

Is that scary enough for you?

that was the death of Tyler Clementi. I remember flipping through channels trying to find something to watch on television. As I was browsing through the channels, CNN reported that Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, jumped off the George Washington bridge due to being a victim of bullying.

Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, secretly filmed him and another man engaging in sexual activity, and then posting on the Internet.

Because of this stupid incident and his invasion of privacy being taken away, this promising young musician who had barely begun his college life, is now dead as a result of being a victim. When will students realize that any form of harassment, torment, and humiliation is a form of being a bully towards others? Even teenagers who posted comments about others on Facebook, which is called cyber bullying; it’s just plain stupid and needs to stop. These actions lead to nowhere and only create havoc and chaos for others that have to deal with the pain and burden of loved ones now gone.

This particular story brought up painful memories of middle school and high school, and the consistent bullying that remained a theme in my youth. Being harassed, torment-

ed, even humiliated with words like “FAG” and “QUEER” were a daily routine for those who bullied me.

The pain and anguish of words such as those, really hurt me deep down inside. It broke my spirit and made me extremely depressed. At the time sports became the only positive outlet and block any negative activity that stood in my way. Later when arriving to college, that same theme was present and followed me anywhere I went. Because of the pain and torment that occurred in my life when I was young and into the beginning years of college, I too thought about taking my own life.

During those years, I felt as though I couldn’t take it anymore; I felt all alone, like the world was against me. The pressures of societal norms and feeling like I was being judged everyday played with my mind consistently.

During that time period in my life, being a victim of bullying was an unspoken conversation. If a kid was bullied for being gay, bullied for the way they were, or how they look, the conversation was swept under the rug and not talked about. Thank god for people like Dan Savage and his partner who created the “It Gets Better” campaign, which assures teenagers that

life does get better as you get older.

The campaign lets young adults and even adults share life stories through video, which helps teenagers understand that life is so much rewarding when you get older. I wish an organization such as this was around when I was younger; it could have helped me out with painful experiences I was going through.

It’s wonderful to see celebrities getting involved with this campaign, to spread awareness around the world.

It’s also wonderful to see Lady Gaga create the “Born This Way” foundation, which helps teenagers embrace their individuality and to love themselves. Foundations and campaigns such as these make life easier for teenagers and young adults growing up and experiencing life.

Why do bullies prey on the weak or even others that are cheerful about life? Is it because they’re insecure with themselves? Is it because they have nowhere else to let go of such anger? Is it because they want to be the cool guy? The answers in my opinion are “all of the above.” Everyone is unique with different qualities and we all must put up with each other. Stories about teens being bullied should not even exist. There is so much more to life.

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!"#$%$&'($))*%$+ !"#$#%&'($#) Enough is enough; bullying, especially gay bullying, needs to end.

I like to think of myself as a person who is very private, who only shares personal information to close friends. However when I see news stories about teens being bullied, or teens committing suicide because of being bullied, it breaks my heart.

Hearing those stories only reminds me of my own painful past, a past in which I have been a victim of being bullied, especially gay bullying.

In 2010, headlines throughout the news world ran rapid with stories that talked about teenagers who had taken their own lives due to being bullied consistency at school. News story after news story described how ordinary teenagers were bullied and harassed just for being they way they were. Even today, those headline remain consistent as ever, teens taking their own lives due to being bullied and harassed for who they are. So the question is, when will people stop bullying others? How many others lives need to be destroyed as a result of being bullied?

There was one story in the news that had a huge impact on me, and

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May is melanoma awareness month !"#$%&#'' !"#$%&"'()*+$,& May is National Melanoma Awareness and Prevention Month and with spring here and summer fast approaching, temperatures are going up and clothes are coming off.

Less clothes means more skin open to the sun’s harmful rays, a major factor in the development of skin cancer.

Skin cancer is one of the most preventable types of cancer, but melanoma has become one of the fastest growing cancers worldwide.

According to the American Cancer Society, one in 58 people will develop melanoma and approximately every hour one person dies from it.

The most dangerous form of skin cancer, melanoma develops when unrepaired DNA damage to skin cells trigger mutations that lead to the development of malignant tumors.

Melanoma is caused mainly by intense, occasional UV exposure, normally resulting in a sunburn.

Melanoma is the second most common cancer for people between the ages of 15 and 29 and the incidence of people under 30 developing melanoma is increasing more rapidly than in any other demographic, especially for women in their 20s.

Despite this fact, most young people are not concerned about their sun exposure. In a survey of 52 students, 29 said they did not worry about sun exposure and 30 said they do not worry about sunburns.

Fair skin, light hair, and green or blue eyes are some of the traits that make a person more susceptible to developing skin cancer, but anyone of any race or age can develop skin cancer anywhere on their bodies.

Melanoma is less common among those with darker skin, but this can often lead to having a false sense of security. When it is detected, it is far more likely to be fatal than it is in cases of lighter skinned individuals, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

Many people, especially young people, are not taking the proper measures to avoid sun exposure because the damage is not immediately evident.

Mikel McCay, 19, majoring in game design, said he does not worry about sunburns because he has never experienced long term affects from a burn.

Tanning to any degree always causes damage to the DNA of skin cells.

Tim Turnham, executive director of the Melanoma Research Foundation, said, “Any time we tan, it is a sign that damage has occurred to the DNA of skin cells. In other words, a tan is a symptom of genetic damage.”

Even if skin is not showing signs of severe damage, such as turning bright red or peeling, it may still sustain significant damage.

According to the Mayo Clinic, it only takes one blistering sunburn, especially at a young age, to more than double a person’s chance of developing melanoma later in life.

Some students believe that alternative tanning solutions, such as tanning beds, are safe. Autumn Avar, 21, sociology major, said she does worry about sun exposure because of the risk of skin cancer.

She regularly spends time tanning her skin, both outdoors and in tanning beds.

“We are seeing alarming patterns in young people with regard to sun exposure,” Turnham said.

Turnham links an increase in the number of tanning salons to the increase in young people’s disregard to sun exposure.

“Every city in the U.S. has more tanning salons than they do Starbucks or McDonald’s, and most tanning salons target teenagers,” he said.

Tanning beds can even be found on college campuses.

“Many campus housing locations offer on-site tanning beds as an incentive to recruit residents,” Turnham said.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer Lancet Oncology

publication in 2009, exposure to tanning beds before the age of 30 increases a person’s chance of developing melanoma by 75 percent, and younger people who regularly use tanning beds are eight times more likely to develop melanoma than those that have never used them.

Even occasional use can triple a person’s chances.

Tanning may even be addictive for its users.

“Evidence is growing that tanning results in a release of endorphins and so it may be addictive,” Turnham said.

Concerned individuals can take several easy measures to help prevent the possibility of developing melanoma or any other kind of skin cancer.

The easiest things a person can do include avoiding excess sun exposure by covering up, with hats and other clothing, and wearing sun block with and SPF of 15 or higher everyday.

Most students are not wearing enough sun block to protect themselves. Out of the 52 students surveyed, 20 said they either rarely or never wear sun block.

“I feel less guilty if I have it (sun block) somewhere,” Claire Panosian, 20, sociology major, aware of the danger of sun damage said just having sun block somewhere on her body makes her feel better even if it is just through lotion with a small SPF rating.

Besides taking the necessary precautions it is important for people to check their skin regularly. The Skin Cancer Foundation suggests that a person self examine their skin every month, head to toe, and make note of any skin changes or new moles. They also suggest seeing a physician yearly for a skin exam.

Since skin cancer is visible on the skin, it is easier to detect in early stages than most other cancers, and most melanoma that is caught in the early stages has approximately a 90 percent survival rate.

Moles that are asymmetrical, with uneven borders and color, or moles that change over time are signs of possible melanoma.

Campus is on top for energy efficiency ()*+',+%-#*'+',#.

-$#..(/&+$"& Mt. SAC has one of the most energy efficient costs with respect to energy used per square foot in the state.

The college has increased its building space by 25 percent over the past 10 years, but used 25 percent less energy, resulting in a savings of nearly $800,000 per year.

In fact, the college is surpassing the state requirement of recycling 50 percent of its waste by recycling about 70-72 percent of its waste stream.

According to Gary Nellesen, director of facilities and project management, “There’s a lot more to it than recycling aluminum cans.”

Recycling plastic bottles may also come to mind with regards to environmental sustainability efforts on campus.

“I mostly see the blue recycling bins for paper in my classroom and then a few of the bigger recycling bins, but that’s about it,” said Jonathan Mota, 22, business major.

The budget cuts are inf luencing recycling on an operational level. There are approximately 13 recycling bins for cans and bottles on campus for about 80 buildings.

Nellesen said the goal is to have a bin for

every building, but costs have discouraged this so far.

The bins cost about $700. There are also costs for waste hauling and diversion, which involves separating the recyclable materials off-site.

There are several ways in which the building planners are working to save additional energy, such as training and hiring an energy technician and manager to oversee operations and ensure efficiency.

A new computerized energy management system is in place; it includes CO2 sensors in classrooms that detect whether or not people are present in the room.

This conserves energy by turning off the air conditioning system and lights when they are unneeded.

The science labs draw a large amount of energy in order to keep air pumping from the fume hoods that protect people from harmful chemicals fumes.

A new system has been installed that detects if actual chemical fumes are present and adjusts the fume hoods accordingly.

Nellesen said that making technologically advanced improvements and introducing innovative conservation systems is an area in which the school is becoming significantly more energy efficient.

Construction projects in progress on campus integrate energy efficient strategies as part of the overall sustainability effort of the college.

The projects recycle somewhere between 75 percent and 95 percent of their construction site waste, and materials are also locally sourced when possible to eliminate pollution that would be emitted if the materials had traveled from farther.

The new Design Technology building is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified on the silver level.

According to the U.S. Green Building Council’s website, some of the categories that determine certification are: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, indoor environmental quality and innovation and design.

The wood frame in the child development building is Forest Stewardship Council certified to be grown in sustainable forests.

Nellesen said that a lot of people are interested in solar energy, but that at this point it would not be efficient enough because a lot of space is needed to capture the sun’s rays in a cost-effective manner.

If a parking garage is built, the facilities department would consider placing panels atop the structure.

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Students show emotion through tattoos Photos by Beatrice Alcala and Mikaela Zhao

Tattoos can be seen on students throughout campus.

For some, it is an expression of life experiences, for others the roots go much deeper.

Clockwise from top right: Darvin Agbara, a 24-year-old philosophy major has a tattoo of a woman who represents his mother. The roses on his arm represent her three children. He also has a Bible verse on his rib.

Yvette Whitman, a 48-year-old sociology major, has dolphins with a heart on her lower back. The heart is to commemorate the loss of loved one.

Libby Freeman, a 33-year-old photography major, has a creature tattooed on her left arm. She has been drawing creatures without legs for many years and allowed her friend to use the “stick-and-poke” method where there is no proper gun used, just a needle and ink.

Valerie de la Puente, a 24-year-old public relations major, has the words “peace out” on her fingers because she thought it was funny.

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!"#$%&$%'(#)*" !"#$%&'()*%#$ The 54th Annual Mt. SAC Relays featured thousands of the best track and field athletes in the world on April 14, 19, 20, and 21.

Athletes from high schools, community colleges, universities and the elite level filled Hilmer Lodge Stadium to show off their skills and talents.

The relays started on April 14 with the community college level events.

The Mounties’ placed in the top five 21 times in 39 different events with Ke’Nya Hardge winning and breaking the womens open 100-meter hurdles (13.93) meet record and winning the 400-meter hurdles (1:02.54).

The Mt. SAC’s relay team in the mens 4x100 meter relay (40.57), Jordin Andrade in the mens meter hurdles (51.54), Justin Bethea in the mens high jump (6-08.75), and Ryan Sanders in the mens triple jump (49-03.50) all won their respective events.

April 19-22 the high school, collegiate and elites competed with highlights from world champion Brittney Reese breaking

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the meet record in the womens long jump (23-04.50), Jason Richardson breaking the 13 year-old long mens 110-meter hurdles meet record (13.20), Olympic sprint medalist Walter Dix in the mens 100 meter dash (9.85) and Redondo Union breaking the high school state record (20:01.38) in the girls 4x1600 meter relays highlighted Friday night’s activities.

Also competing were Americans Olympic gold and silver medalist Jeremy Warner, sprinters Allison Felix, Carmelita Jeter and former U.S. champion Greg Nixon.

Track clubs joined in the activates during the three-day event as well as Oregons Track Club’s Russell Brown and Jesse Williams both set meet and stadium marks in the mens elite invitational 1500-meter run (3:35.70) and high jump (78).

National team members from across the world such as Great Britain, Mexico and Japan to name a few competed in the relays as they prepare themselves for the Olympics in London, England this summer.

For full results of the Mt. SAC Relays, visit www.mtsacrelays.com.

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Aviation program gives students opportunity to fly

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!"#$%&$%'(#)*"% !"#$%&'()*%#$ One might think that they walked into an aerospace museum upon seeing the antiquated planes such as the Pitts Special and Beechcraft Sierra, but these are just a few of the planes housed in the aviation hangar in building 28.

The largest two-year college program of its type in California, the aeronautics program at Mt. SAC is nationally recognized as one of the finest in the state with 600 students currently enrolled in the program.

As one of the original 12 air traffic control college programs in the United States, the aeronautics program has been here since the inception of the school.

The program, located in building 28, currently has eight non-flyable aircraft that are used for students to work on.

There are five flyable aircrafts that are housed at Brackett Field in La Verne which the students use for private, instrument, commercial and flight instruction.

“The students that are in the program fly them for the purpose of getting a private pilot rating or an instrumental rating or a commercial rating,” said Robert Rogus, aeronautics co-chair. Students must go through their flight training to able to receive one of the four common required licenses for flight.

“Private pilot [license] allows us to fly visually. The instrumental allows us to fly in these highways in the sky that the government controls, and commercial gives us the skills and knowledge to act as a professional so

that the government can trust us to carry passengers,” said Rogus.

In order to fly through the Mt. SAC’s college aviation program, the student must be accepted in to the Flight Training Association, FTA. “FTA is the Mt. SAC’s flight school at Bracket Field that teaches the flying in the Mt. SAC airplanes,” said Rogus.

The FTA accepts only 50-60 students. Despite receiving about 80-100 application every semester, the program looks at a student’s GPA, flight experience, performance in the classroom and an overall show of passion, to be able to fly with the program.

For Jessy Devine, 24, aviation science and commercial flight major, applying for the FTA was not easy at all. “You fill out an application in the first week of the semester and they only accept 50 students,” said Devine.

“It’s pretty competitive and a lot of people apply.”

As a flight instructor for the program, David Todd said that because the program gives out priority registration to full-time, career-oriented students, it will be difficult for a student who wants to take the classes as a hobby to get in.

“Someone in the English department who just want to fly for fun would probably have a harder time getting in the flight school then somebody’s who’s in the aviation department that wants to do it for a career,” said Todd.

The Mt. SAC flying team has an outstanding repertoire; they have won the Loening Trophy, which is awarded to the best overall collegiate aviation program in the United States. A rare

feat for two-year colleges, Mt. SAC has won the award in 1987 and 2005.

Established in the late 1940s, Mt. SAC’s flying team competed in Intercollegiate Flying Competitions throughout the 1950s and 1960s against colleges like USC, UCLA, Stanford, University of Washington, and other local colleges.

A home away from home for the pilots and air traffic controllers, the program has a simulator room that houses six simulators for the students to practice on.

“Simulators are run for a fee; they pay $35 per hour, but that includes the machine and the instructors through the non-credit class,” said Rogus.

“The reason the students would want to do this is it’s a $100 an hour to use an airplane plus the instructor,” he added. “So they come over here so its $35 and the instructor is included for the portion of their training they’ll do it in the simulators.”

As part of their training, students must travel to hone their skills while flying to achieve their license.

“As students, it’s part of the training that they are required to fly to other airports, to practice landings, travel to airports other than your home airport because you want to fly to unfamiliar airports to see if the student can do it,” said Rogus.

Students benefit from instructors like Todd, who are dedicated to helping them as much as possible to achieve their goals in becoming a pilot.

“Our goal here at college aviation is to provide them with affordable training, provide them the best academics in flight training that we

could give them, while maintaining a safe environment for the students,” said Todd.

Flying over a year and logging in 50 hours of flight time, Matthew Barr, 22, aviation science and commercial flight major has already experienced the training of a cross-country flight.

“You’re still a student pilot and you have to fly more than 50 nautical miles from your first take off point and you have to follow a flight plan and get flight following from air traffic control,” said Barr. “The entire time you’re flying you’re talking to air traffic control and they’re giving you instructions, then you land on the other airport and fly it back. It’s a pretty cool feeling to do it all by myself.”

For students taking classes to be a mechanic, pilot, air traffic control, or an airport manager, the opportunity will be there for them.

“It’s mandatory for air traffic controllers to retire at 56 and pilots retire between 60 and 65 depending on their circumstance,” said Rogus.

“The job outlook for aviation is very good for the next 10 years.”

Rogus said that the people who were hired in this industry were hired back in the 70s and 80s are now getting older and are choosing to retire.

Barr wants to continue in aviation, but has financial and other concerns as well.

“I would like to continue to get on my instrument rating and maybe then commercial rating and then become a certified flight instructor,” he said. “It just depends on time and money. My goal is to become an air traffic controller and fly when I can.”

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Cont. from Newspapers P.2 on printing services; the policy had never been enforced before.

“My adviser who has only been here 15 years [at the time] had never even seen the paper and that’s what they used, trying to get us not to print until we revised this policy,” Fulcher said.

According to Fulcher, the whole debacle came at a time when Chopra and members of his administration were up for reelections (which take place every two years) in the district.

“Our governing board members at the time are facing charges of felonies and misdemeanors for mismanaging public money and accepting bribes and gifts from contractors,” Fulcher said.

Ultimately, The Sun turned to the community for support. Within two days they had raised more than enough money to cover their expenses for the entire semester.

“We’re the only community college in south San Diego so we cover our college, but we also cover the Chula Vista community,” Fulcher said. “The community around us depends on our coverage on the politics of our school and whatever else is going on that we’re talking about.”

While the scenario at The Sun

is not the case at all colleges, Lalum said she thinks that it may be the reason why no one is rushing to save journalism programs.

“You’re training students to go out and look for stories and those stories are not always going to be flattering,” she said. “But that’s our job—to tell the truth to go out and find out what’s wrong. At times it’s to find out what’s right but it’s to tell real stories, and that can be threatening.”

She added, “Journalism, in my opinion, isn’t broken. We’re doing more than we ever have before.

We’re telling great stories; there’s more content being consumed than ever before.”

In the 2012 State of the News Media Report by the Pew Research Center, “the spread of mobile technology is adding to news consumption, strengthening the appeal of traditional news brands and even boosting reading of longform journalism.”

The report also states that “to capitalize on that potential, however, the industry will need to do a better job than it did in the desktop realm of quickly coming to understand audience behavior and developing technology and revenue models to adapt to it.”

Lalum agreed with the report.

“We have to adapt our business model and our storytelling model.”

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Cont. from Earthquake P.3 notified of any such drills.

Montoya said that a drill of the CENS took place on March 20.

“We have to have at least one drill per year but we do several for good measure,” he said.

“We normally announce our drills [to the staff] so that nobody panics when they happen.”

According to the office of Safety and Risk Management there are 9,018 students signed up for CENS out of approximately 29,064 students attending Mt. SAC, and the last field drill was performed on Oct 11, 2011.

On the Mt. SAC website under the faculty section, there is a link to an emergency response guide located under campus services.

An excerpt from this guide provides some insight to what is supposed to occur in the event of an emergency: “This brochure provides an outline of the Mt. SAC Emergency Response Plan, which will be implemented in the event of any major emergency or natural disaster. It tells you what to do and where to go during an emergency.

Please keep it handy as a quick reference at the time of need. We also encourage you to consult the complete plan for more detailed

information.”

The brochure lists instructions to follow such as take immediate shelter, referencing the duck and cover method.

Evacuating the building when it is safe to do so, assisting any injured or disabled people, and concluded by instructing to proceed to the nearest evacuation area identified on the campus map and a map outlining those areas is shown on the back for clarification.

Student reactions concerning earthquakes and evacuation policies vary.

“More information would be nice, if the staff was given more direct instruction then there might be less confusion on the subject,” said Elisa Marin, international relations and diplomacy major.

Dennis Lee, economics major, said, “Maybe if they put up more posters or announcements that would create more awareness.”

A student staff member who prefers to remain anonymous said, “It would be a lot better to have the information in our face rather than something happen and all we can do is scream and run out the door with our hands raised over our heads.”

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Student becomes famous online didn’t want to do it by myself; I wanted my friend Sarah Chu to do it with me, and she was like ‘yeah I’d totally do it,’” Im said.

So they picked up her MacBook, and they Link, follow, like, re-blog, repeat. Twenty started recording. Im said that consistency is the years ago, this would have sounded like some kind formula that created such a buzz around Clothes of foreign chant, but in today’s ever expanding Encounters. universe of social networking, this has become the “We put a video out every week. We took second language for today’s generation. filming seriously, we would have brainstorming Jennifer Im, a 21-year-old former Mt. SAC sessions, we would find different songs we wanted student, and Rebekkah Castellanos, a 20-year-old to use,” Im said. environmental studies student, have made a name Unlike Castellanos, Im’s view on her videos for themselves through the social networking are less about the artwork, and more about the world, one idea at a time. documenting.

Im, co-founder of Clothes Encounters, has “I want to remember everything that happens gathered almost 100,000 YouTube subscribers and in my life; that’s why I’m so obsessed with my over 7 million video views. own personal blog,” she said. “I don’t think it’s “I didn’t expect any of this at all; this started pure expression for me, it’s more of just the off as a pure hobby back in 2010,” she said. “I actual thing that happened.” think it’s amazing that as T.V. is dying, everything Castellanos, on the other hand, uses Vimeo is moving to the internet. I happened to be in the instead of YouTube for uploading and sharing her right place at the right time.” personal videos.

According to YouTube’s press statistics page, 9:;";%=;+'")0>%;$%?)--($)'%7@ “I don’t think YouTube has that much of a the amount of video content that is uploaded I%8$%*'5*#1.%&8$)A'2*%%$3*#'J0H' creative direction as Vimeo because Vimeo has to YouTube in one month is longer than the some great visual shorts and some videos that are entirety of programming that the three major really cool to look at and get inspiration from,” U.S. networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) created in multiple online magazine interviews.

Castellanos said.

60 years.

“Now I have 3,030 followers, which is a lot Both of the ladies said that gathering a For Castellanos, it all started when she got a because I don’t have 3,030 friends at all. It’s crazy, strong following online is primarily a matter hold of her dad’s film SLR camera in 2009. most of these people are from all around the of persistence and generating original content “It was basically my own random discovery world,” said Castellanos. frequently. of my dad’s old camera in the garage,” she said. “I Im’s idea to start a fashion YouTube channel “Keep on posting, you’re going to improve wanted to bring it back to life.” came from her love of thrifting back in 2010. She your writing and content, and it’s going to get Castellanos now records and gives her and her boyfriend used to frequent a thrift store picked up eventually, as long as you stick to it,” creative perspective in many of Clothes in San Francisco called Clothes Contact.

Im said.

“Be yourself; don’t try to be someone else Encounter’s videos and photographs.

“Me and my boyfriend always messed up and “Every time Jenn would post a video that would call it Clothes Encounters. I was like, dang, and don’t try to jack someone else’s shit.”

“The internet is just a means for people to I would film for her, she would link me, people that would be a really cool name for like a screen get their work out,” Castellanos said. “Stick to a would just click it, follow me, and instantly I name or a fashion blog.” social network, and motivate yourself to keep at it would have like 20 or 30 new followers every day Im said she always wanted to do something in because chances are you’ll be recognized for your from just her YouTube channel,” said Castellanos. the blogging world, but hated writing. work.”

Castellanos now has over 3,000 followers and “I wanted to do something like a video. I

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Different from Evening With Forensics, Evening with Readers Theater brought out dramatic performances emphasizing entertainment and humor.

There were different moments of laughter, sadness, and even silent performances.

Mike Drake and Simon Rhee

provided comic relief as the hosts of the evening, while the Forensics team performed six different skits.

The evening also brought two winners, scholarships for their academic performance.

Professor J. Edward Stevenson presented Jennifer Lee with the Anderson Mcleod Scholarship and Naseem Akramian with the TanGoulet Scholarship.

Sunday, May 6 in the Music Recital Hall, the Forensics team presented Readers Theater once again, competing against other local community colleges.

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!"#$%&'()*+, !"#$$%&'(")' In order to reach a greater demographic, I will try to write something as uplifting as a 90’s Robin Williams film. When it comes to writing a nice attention grabber, often times called a hook, you must become The Timekeeper, making sure you stay current. If you wait more than “Nine Months,” then you obviously don’t know Jack: in other words, I should not write about me dressing up as Mrs. Doubtfire doing the Dougie and yelling “helllou!,” which never happened but hey, that’s the magic of writing right? The other question is this: why in the hell did I consider that awesome? Suffering from Insomnia I decided to break the Big rules and mention a Tom Hanks film, which is also uplifting. I have the Model Behavior of a moocher, no longer giving a Hamlet about diet and exercise (that did not work but whatever) thus gaining yet another 10 pounds of Flubber. After publishing this column, I went from just Being Human to Everyone’s Hero; I now have a case of Happy Feet but my life of Stagnation makes me Dead Again. I’m going In The Wild by randomly inputting the

name Jumanji because it’s just that awesome. I would also like to add that Bicentennial Man, aside from the film Starman, made me cry as hard as a preteen at The Hunger Games’ movie premiere on the account that Andrew the Robot’s accidental A.I specification created an even better lover than most humans. The Terminator, Rosie the Robot, and GLaDOS are not as heartwarming. Okay, GLaDOS, I’ll take that back. Here, I’ll make it worth your while: how about a dinner and a movie with Andrew?

It’s a robotic Robin Williams, he’s about as funny as he is hairy; here, I’ll set up the date as long as you don’t release that nasty neurotoxin of yours. As you are a pretty big girl, please go easy on the lovemaking, as Andrew is not that flexible. I know this was not heartwarming, but I tried, so shoot me.

Anywho, is it that time of the month again ladies? Yes, it’s time for me to play yet another piece of shit video game. Which one should I talk about? Well, let’s look at the Sega Genesis. Sega was once a prominent software and hardware developer, which means that you have the big say of what goes on the company’s hunk of hardware. I personally feel that Nintendo’s infamously awesome “seal of approval” was the thing that forever set the standard of “not sucking often.” Sega, on the other hand, didn’t have that early on.

Sega in the 90’s in many ways did what “Ninten-don’t” did and that included having a high tolerance of terrible video games; things got even worse with add-ons like the Sega CD and Sega 32X. However, that doesn’t mean that Nintendo doesn’t have a share of terrible video games as well. So choosing the right game to write about is not as easy as it sounds. So, I wound up with a winner and runner up.

THE RUNNER UP: Beethoven 2nd: The Ultimate Canine Caper (SNES: 1993).

This game is so terrible, it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page!

It’s often said that a kid remembers practically everything about his childhood; it’s sad to say but I don’t remember much (other than having that one dream about riding the pizza roller coaster). Then it hit me, having lack of childhood memories could be a result of spending too much time with this awful piece of garbage. The cartridge belonged to my grandmother’s gaming box (so you didn’t ask for any pot roast huh, I’ve only invited you so I could feel like somewhat of a celebrity but no, you decided not to go). I figured that this game was going to be just like the movie, and because of this, I decided to play. Even the smallest failed expectations could very much be detrimental to a kid.

The objects of the game are simple: reach and rescue your four puppies from four different worlds.

The title screen is a bland picture of a happy pappy St. Bernard family as the background plays a crappy version of Funiculi, Funicula, played by something that sounds like ping pong balls. The game begins as you hear a warped out police siren (okay?) introducing you to a simple suburban platforming stage with an even more craptacular version of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (that one song that goes “DA DA DA DA……DA DA DA DA…..”) which sounds like musically tuned bed springs, pipe drums, Indian flutes, and “Seinfeld” styled bass; in other words, the music arrangement is tacky is all hell.

What’s even worse is the gameplay. The dog is slow and sluggish as you defend yourself, barking at spinning tornado cats, lame-ass skateboarders, and fat dogcatchers shooting tranquilizer darts. Oh yes, French poodles kill you too. You could rejuvenate yourself with dog bones and pieces of chicken so in other words, who needs shelter if you got food? You

could also eliminate everyone on the screen with what I call an epic “wet dog shaking off water attack” which is not as exciting as it sounds; if you get wet, shake off, they run off. After reaching your puppy, you defend yourself as you put down the puppy, picking him/her up makes you defenseless. It’s not the worst thing in the world but it’s tedious.

You go through other levels like what appears to be a playground in New York that goes on for miles, a dog pound, and a canyon wilderness.

That’s all there really is to it; no ending, you just rescue puppies, that’s that. Sure, it’s not about the rewards and more about the journey but come on, the game has neither.

Beethoven (the dog) should have done what a real St. Bernard on the defensive would do and go Kujo on their asses! Poodles and skateboarders being torn to pieces as the demonically possessed dog starts tearing the guts out of dog catchers, gobbling it down the same way Epic Meal Time downs a twoton Italian-American spaghetti and meatballs meal garnished with bacon, veal, ostrich neck and its eggs with a cookie on top.

Beethoven finds his lover and they make epic love (doggie style of course). Beethoven then finds his puppies and arms them with a jaw apparatus that can carry guns. As ammo is stored on the back of the puppies, they could easily pull the trigger by barking. Beethoven’s children decide to go on a shooting rampage to blast away the human opposition so they could fight for the right to no longer be house pets.

The game ends when they throw rice in the meat grinder. Sure, it’s nothing like the movie but if you seem to be going towards that direction anyways, then this would have been more way more exciting.

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“Cabin in the woods, it’s not what you’re expecting at all, a total twist, and not like anything I’ve seen.”

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Spring ends successfully for the Mounties !"#$%&$%'(#)*" !"#$%&'()*%#$ The season usually ends as Spring Semester comes to a close but for four of the eight Spring programs at Mt. SAC winning the South Coast Conference Championships in their respective sports will continue their season through the playoffs.

For baseball, being seeded fourth in the playoffs, Head Coach Stacy Parker will lead the Mounties who are one of the favorites to advance to the state final four.

Finishing the season with a (28-8, 17-4) record, the Mounties won their first outright conference championship in 43 years and first championship since 1996 when they were cochamps with Long Beach City.

Their longest losing streak was four, but when

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conference play started, those losses were forgotten as the Mounties controlled the SCC with a record of 17-4.

One of those victories came in a dominating fashion facing Pasadena City College and defeating them 31-1.

The Mounties will now face No. 13 seed Golden West College (18-17-1) in a best of three game series.

Finishing second to conference rivals Cerritos College, the Mt. SAC softball team (33-7, 19-2) will be seeded fourth in the playoffs.

Riding a 17-game winning streak during the middle part of the season, the only thing that halted the winning streak was a defeat by Cerritos, 9-8.

Despite the loss, the Mounties continued to chug along defeating the 12 opponents with a combined score of 93-31.

With the only conference losses coming to Cerritos, the Mounties will be looking forward to face them in the playoffs.

Their first opponent will be No. 12 seed Santa

Ana College in a three-game series to decide who will continue to the next round.

As the 2011 South Coast Conference champions, the members of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis team will be competing in the Southern California Regional.

With the only lost coming from conference opponent El Camino College (13-2, 6-2), 4-5, the Mounties recorded a (14-1, 8-1) record and posted six shootout matches Going in into California Community College Athletics

Dual Team Tennis Regional Championships, the Mounties were seeded sixth and faced off against number four Orange Coast College.

OCC ended up defeating the Mounties 5 to 1 to transfer to the next round.

For the first time in school history, the Mounties will serve host to the Team Championship match because of being seeded this high marking a first time in school history.

Winning their twenty third and sixteenth South Conference Championships respectively, both the mens and womens track and field teams will head into the Southern California Community college Track and Field Championships.

After successful relays during the only home event of the season and finishing in the top five in 21 of the 39 events held at the Mt. SAC Relays, the track and field team will be looking forward another successful run.

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Being the third highest drafted Mountie since Chris McAlister (1st round, 10th overall pick) and Leonard Russell (1st round, 14th overall pick), Irvin will join the ranks of other Mt. SAC players that have continued on to professional football. Other notable Mounties; Antonio Pierce, Anthony Calvillo, Alfonso Boone, Max Montoya, Don Shy and Don Warren all shared time playing on the gridiron.

As the first major surprise of the draft, Irvin was predicted to

be drafted in the later rounds with scouts ranking him near No. 50.

The Sports Xchange reported that Seahawks officials believed that they’ve got the best pass rusher in the draft and considered trading back as teams like N.Y. Jets, Chicago (Bears) New England (Patriots) had Irvin in their sights in the second half of the draft.

“We didn’t want to get too cute with it. Obviously we viewed him as the best pass rusher in the draft,” said Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider.

“There was a certain area we thought we could get to. And then we talked about going back again but we decided to just go ahead and lock it down.”

As a defensive end for the Mounties, Irvin helped the football team to the 2009 State and

National Championship. Irvin went on to transfer to WVU. He became a fan favorite racking up more than 40 sacks in this three seasons with West Virginia. One of the finest moments for Irvin was when he participated in the 2012 Orange Bowl against Clemson; the Mountaineers ultimately lost that game, 70-33.

Another former teammate of Irvin at Mt. SAC, Hebron “Loni” Fangupo, a defensive tackle for Brigham Young University signed a free agent deal with the Houston Texans after going undrafted Fangupo earned a 5-star rating on Scout.com during his time playing for the Mounties from 2007 to 2008.

Before completing his senior season with the BYU football

team, Fangupo transferred to the University of Southern California for one year.

Although Fangupo caught the attention of NFL scouts and ESPN rated him the No. 17 defensive tackle prospect and No. 187 prospect overall, teams passed on him in the draft.

According to cougarblue.com, Fangupo would be disappointed if he didn’t get drafted. “ I know I’m better than some of those other guys,” said Fangupo. “Pit me in a room with them and I’ll be the one coming out. If I don’t get drafted, I may go hulk on everyone-but then I’ll get to work and show what I can do.”

His chance will come in the Texans’ training camp as he works out and practices with the possibility of making the team’s final roster.

Mounties shutout Cerritos 9-0, win conference title M8*.97.+1(N94.+ 9':$8;':$'()%738$#( A dog pile near home plate, dousing the head coach with a five gallon Gatorade jug, sounds like the stuff of movies but this was the scene taking place at Mazmanian Field when the Mt. SAC baseball team took the South Coast Conference Championship.

The game ended with a shutout against Cerritos College, 8-0.

The Mounties have never won this conference outright, twice before they were co-champions with two different teams.

The first was in 1975 when they cochampioned with Cerritos and the second was in 1996 when they co-championed with Long Beach City College.

This win marks the first time that the Mounties have won the ability to call themselves the sole South Coast Conference Champions.

The game did not deviate from the 0-0 score, as both teams had no runs and no errors, until the bottom of the fifth inning.

The inning took off after two outs, when center fielder Jacob Shirley hit a line drive to right field allowing Robert Meyer to round second and stop safe at third.

With two players in scoring position, third baseman Marcos Flores’ was hit by a pitch allowing him to walk to first.

With bases loaded, catcher Jake Bailey hit an RBI double, bringing in two runs, after a wild pitch brought Flores home.

A hit from first baseman Adrian Franco brought in Bailey for a run.

Later right fielder Dwight Tardy hit to right center and brought in two runs. The inning ended with a score of 7-0 on four hits.

Cerritos switched out 3 different pitchers throughout the game and the eighth run was made by Aaron Orona.

Head coach Stacey Parker was named South Coast Conference coach of the year.

When asked how he felt about the win Stacey said, “I’m super excited for them, the coaches and the players deserve it and they’ve been working hard all year. We thought we could accomplish this back in august and it was fun to be able to win it here at home and celebrate.”

The Mounties will move on to the Super Regional. Bailey, who was named All-SCC First Team, said, “Words can’t explain it, we came as team and we played as one. There are no words to describe how this feels.”

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