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Fremont, California
Vol. XXXXII No. 1
Plans for new center move ahead
Students back raise for president
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Treadway:
Noisy project
'Emergence of Ohlone as a Learning College'
By Omer Ahmed Opinion Editor While students were off on vacation, the Ohlone College Board of Trustees were still at work. Over the break, the Board approved a number of motions affecting Ohlone’s many building projects. At the Dec. 14 meeting, the board authorized tBP Architecture to create a working design for the planned Student Support Services Building and initial designs for a new parking lot, baseball field, field house and maintenance building. The board transferred $1 million to the Student Support Services Center project from funds set aside for the renovation of vacated space. The board explained that this money was necessary due to the increasing cost of steel and concrete during the rebuilding period after Hurricane Katrina. The board also gave Ohlone College President Doug Treadway the authority to enter into purchase contracts for the future Newark Health Sciences and Technology Center’s structural steel as long as the price was below $5 million. This was done to avoid the delays that would be caused by having the board vote on contracts. The new center’s date of completion has Continued on Page 3
By Joyce Leung Staff writer
Photo by Corie Howell Jose Ramirez breaks up some old concrete with a jackhammer. As the semester starts you may notice some serious jackhammering and other construction going on in and around the Quad. In case you were wondering: the work around Building 1 is to prevent flooding, the work around Buildings 6 and 4 is to construct wheelchair ramps.
Ohlone College President Dr. Douglas Treadway marked the beginning of the Spring 2006 semester in a less than typical fashion. Instead of providing attending faculty and staff with a general college update, Treadway spent the better part of last Friday’s early morning Flex Day presentation introducing the topic, “The Emergence of Ohlone as a Learning College.” Bringing to light the odd disparity between a growing population of student dropouts and a decline in California community college enrollments, Treadway addressed the need for Ohlone to reach out to those who opt out of higher education. Treadway stressed “a new learning agenda, one that will not only serve those who have been successful in school, but also the multitudes who were not served well by their primary and secondary schooling, whether in this country or elsewhere in the world.” In his speech, Treadway encouraged a reevaluation of standard teaching methods that emphasize memorization, a technique that he felt fell short of the needs of today’s Continued on Page 3
Maria tells 'Chicana Her-Story' in New Zealand By Morgan Brinlee Staff writer While most students and faculty were preparing for finals at the end of last semester, one Ohlone faculty member was going back to her ancestral roots. Ohlone College counselor and instructor Maria Ramirez spent 6 days in Hamilton, New Zealand at the seventh World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education. In an effort to help and support Ramirez, staff development and the Ohlone Foundation both donated $500 toward the $1,100 airfare. In return, Ramirez will present for staff development the happenings of her trip. She is also planning to integrate the things she learned at the conference into the curriculum for her Chicano Studies 112 course: contemporary issues of la chicana. “With all of the indigenous peoples the women are taking more of a leadership role in education, in
politics, in everything, and that fits in well with the class,” Ramirez said. At the conference, Ramirez served as a delegate from California as well as a performer. Her performance piece, Chicana Her-Story, tells the history of the Chicana people from the eyes of an indigenous female. This is not Ramirez’s first time performing Chicana Her-Story. She has performed during Unity Week at Ohlone and in Finland at the American studies conference in 2002. Chicana Her-Story is a mix of storytelling, oral tradition, music, spoken word, and theater. It begins with Ramirez hobbling to the stage disguised as an old woman; however, she changes characters throughout the production. “After I did it [Chicana HerStory] I had a lot of people come up to me and say “that’s our story.”” Ramirez said. Chicana Her-Story was such a hit that after her performance Ramirez was interviewed by the Indigenous Network.
The World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education was hosted by the Maori, also known as the whale riders, at the University of Waikato from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1. “The Maori were the best hosts. I made such great contacts, we’re still writing to each other...there really is a global communication happening,” Ramirez said. With each story Ramirez tells of her trip to the Indigenous Peoples conference her passion and excitement for the future of indigenous people around the world becomes increasingly clear. “I think it’s a story that speaks to the human spirit, that a people can go through so much calamity and pain and still regain their strength. There is potential and there is hope in this time then things are so bad, but we [the indigenous people] just have to get our minds and our hearts in the right place or we [the indigenous people] won’t go on,” said Ramirez.
Maria Ramirez at the Indigenous Peoples Conference.
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Welcome to Ohlone's Spring 2006 semester By Jerome Engelberts Editor-in-Chief As I’m writing this, my first column as Editor-in-Chief, I have some pangs of “What did I get myself into?” but I’m sure it’ll wear off. We’re going to try to make the Monitor as good of a paper as we can this semester, in keeping with the efforts of our predecessors. Some of you may notice that we’ve made a few minor design-
related changes which we feel will improve the general readability of the Monitor, and if all goes well, the Monitor will have its new and improved web site up soon, with active pages, no less. While on the topic of improving the paper: the one thing we’re lacking after the departure of photo editor Devina Deo (who will be sorely missed), is - you guessed it - a photo editor, and staff photographers. So if you’re taking a photography or
art course and want to get your feet wet on some photojournalism, step up to room 5310, which is in Building 5, above the cafeteria (and right between those jackhammers in front of Buildings 6 and 4, where they are working on making brand new wheelchair ramps). Other things we’re looking forward to this semester: Starting in Spring 2006, most evening classes will be offered on a 15-week calendar instead of the traditional
18-week calendar. Check your calendar ! Three new degrees designed to meet discipline-specific transfer requirements are now available in Business Administration, English, and Exercise Science. The degree requirements for these three new transfer degrees can be found online (www.ohlone.edu) or in the Counseling Department. Also, there are new courses available and many other noteworthy things about your options at Ohlone,
so be sure to check www.ohlone.edu for details. You can also find more news in this week’s coverage of the Ohlone Board meeting by Omer Ahmed, on Page 1. I guess the only thing left for me to say at this point is: We do value your opinion and like your input so we can keep making this paper relevant, so I encourage you to write, email, send carrier pigeons or let up smoke signals if you want to be heard. Have a great semester!
If you're gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk By Anna Nemchuk News Editor Since old enough to view the idea of money as something not habitually manufactured out of mud, I’ve heard stories of the boss from hell. The one who’s always late, never fair, and filled so high with excuses of a certain quality his eyes are of a very particular hue. He doesn’t value his workers, puts up a sheer façade of believing in the job, is cloyingly charming and complimentary only when getting his way, and firmly upholds the tenet “Do as I say, not as I do”. I’ve had a boss who flirted with
the above, playing good cop/bad cop, literally, as he was a police lieutenant. I have a boss who is, though I am hardly prone to expressing in these terms, a veritable angel. Dealing with disgruntled employees and persnickety customers, in almost two years, I have yet to see him lose his cool. Unfortunately, I’ve also unwittingly ended up with a boss who embodied succinctly all those qualities that serve as water cooler gossip in the worst way. “A leader is a dealer in hope,” pronounced Napoleon Bonaparte. Management is not, contrary to some opinions, the haven of ghouls and lawyers only; it can be an area most fitting for the talents of a
particular personality - the made leader. A person who inspires people to look down from the dizzying heights of mediocrity and reach for the uncharted depths of their possibilities. The problems start when someone who believes himself to be a born leader while resembling more a sore loser than a natural authority slaps on the big enchilada cap and has his way with the gavel. A leader walks, and people follow, for a true leader will not lead others where he will not go himself. Any parent is intimately familiar with and constantly guarding against breaking one of their own rules for, inevitably, that cranky kid will demand to know why Mommy
can feed her green beans to the cat but poor Timmy has to choke down the lot all by his lonesome. Never mind the cat’s opinion. “The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it,” commented Theodore Roosevelt. One of the very worst things you can do is lead your crew to understand you don’t trust them. These are the people you’re working with - either give them enough rein to do what they do well, or work with different people, especially when in a creative field. “You do not lead by hitting
people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership,” intoned Dwight D. Eisenhower. To assume obedience, demand compliance, arrogantly decree and expect fidelity is insulting to a dog, and, while I’m of the mind that canines deserve just as much respect as human beings, bets are that people tend to be much more vexed at being barked at. I don’t work for, or with, people I don’t respect. Happily, to gain my respect involves such simple things as respecting others and being either good at what you do or willing to accept help. And once you lose my respect, you’ve lost it for good. But, hey, you could always get a dog.
Campus Comment > > > What do you think of President Treadway's new raise?
Gabriele Quillman Biology “I hadn't heard about it.”
Maryam ArghandiwaL Nursing “I think he deserved it.”
Saadia Arghandiwal Gynecology “It's good that he got a raise.”
Angelica VilA English “I don't think he should have been the only one to get a merit-based raise.”
Steve Brian Fajardo WaldoW Film Chief of Police “With all he has done for the school, I think he deserves it.”
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Campus Events Trustees Treadway's speech Treadway called for a classroom Continued from Page 1 kept busy that appeals to today’s “multigeneration of students. Today’s sensory” learners and integrates over break students, reared on television, textbooks with social interaction
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center’s date of completion has already fallen a semester behind schedule. The trustees also awarded Treadway a 5 percent raise for his performance as an administrator. The raise was retroactive to July 1, 2005 and brought his salary to $185,995 from $178,120. President Treadway also informed the board that Sobrato Development Co. had been chosen over two other bidders to work on the mixed-use project’s frontage development but that the southeast parcel would simply “sit for the time being without any activity.” The southeast space was the subject of considerable controversy last semester, when the board voted not to sell the property after advertising that they were willing to sell or lease. Currently, the option to lease or “swap” the land has no offers. The board has experienced its share of drama over the break during its election for board president. Bob Brunton received the position after two deadlocked ballots. The position of board president was traditionally elected to different trustee members on a rotational basis, with the vice president of the previous year being voted in unopposed. Trustee member Garrett Yee nominated fellow member Nick Nardolillo despite the tradition because he believed that Nardolillo possessed communication skills that would help the school through the next two years of construction projects. In the final vote, Nardolillo withdrew his nomination, leaving Brunton as the sole candidate. Brunton was voted in 6-0 with only Yee abstaining. Nardolillo receive the position of vice president and Treadway was named board secretary. The board meets twice a month on the second and fourth Wednesdays in the Child Development Center and a recording is played on Ohlone TV at 7 p.m. the following day.
computers and the Internet “are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach,” remarked Treadway in a quote from “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” from “On the Horizon” by Marc Prensky.
and multimedia. Though the use of these methods are meant to complement Ohlone’s Learning College model, a classroom that ultimately relates the world at large to our individual, personal experiences is what Treadway strives for.
Free pizza and soda to attract TV students Ohlone’s television department will offer free pizza and soda today and Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. In an attempt to attract students to a career in the video world. In part of a wide-ranging marketing plan, television instructors will be standing by in the Quad to demonstrate the department’s digital video cameras. Students who stop by will be given tickets for free pizza, which will be available in the TV studio in the Gary Soren Smith Center for Fine and Performing Arts. Gary Kauf, director of Television Services, said the courses he especially wants to promote are: • Broadcasting 136, Shooting Film and digital Video, taught by Bill Moore, a veteran cameraman with 20 years of experience at KTVU. • Broadcasting 138, Avid Film and Video Editing, taught by Bob Gottman, who has edited at a variety of Bay Area TV stations, including KICU, KNTV and others. Avid is a non-linear editing program used to produce many advertisements and feature films. Kauf said other efforts being
made to increase enrollment include distributing Ohlone class schedules containing fliers promoting TV classes. The schedules are being distributed at the Newpark Mall, Fry’s and other locations. Kauf also plans to send TV students to every high school in Ohlone’s district to recruit new students. For more information about the TV Department, contact Kauf at (510) 659-6295.
JANUARY 17-19 Textbook Buy Back Days – In the Bookstore from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and again from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 17 Gay Straight Alliance Club Meeting – In the Green Room (Smith Center) from 3 to 4 p.m. A student club for gay/ straight/bi or curious students to meet, talk, and make friends. Some social events off campus. Meetings every Tuesday. 18 Women's Basketball – 7 p.m. Versus Hartnell College at Ohlone. 18-20 Student Rep. Auditions – From 2 to 5 p.m. in the NUMMI Theatre, Smith Center. Calling all students interested in acting, directing, designing, promoting, building and presenting a variety of plays throughout the Spring 2006 semester.
20 Textbook Buy Back Days – In the Bookstore from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 20 Last Day to Add Semester-Length Class Without Instructor's Signature. 21 Men's Basketball -- 5 p.m. vs. Chabot College at Ohlone. 25 Relapse/Neosurrealism – In the Smith Center from 6:30 p.m. A varied show of 20-30 something year olds, emerging artists who are "edgy" via the skateboard, underground comics and alternative publications, local club art events. 25-28 Literally Dancing Auditions – Performances on April 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. and April 23 at 2 p.m. in the Jackson Theatre. Ballet: January 25 at 3:30 p.m. Tap: Jan. 26 at 11 a.m. Modern: Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. Hip Hop: Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. Jazz: Jan. 28 at 9 a.m.
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