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Students can look to Washington for good news this week with the passing of the new College Cost Reduction and Access Act in Congress, which will provide the largest increase in federal student aid since the Montgomery GI Bill of 1944.

Bush is expected to sign the bill into law today.

College costs have gone up 40 percent in the last five years while middle-and-lower-class incomes have remained stagnant. The bill would increase the maximum amount awarded by the Pell Grant Scholarship to $1,090 and will cut interest rates on federal student loans from 6.8 percent to about 3.4 percent without any burden on taxpayers as money will be deducted from excess federal subsidies currently being paid to the student loan industry.

Congressman Pete Stark of California’s 13th district voted for the passing of this bill along with the rest of the Democratic House majority, assuring it of solid political support as it goes before the president for approval.

“College costs are skyrocketing, forcing more students to graduate with more debt than ever before,” said Stark. “In response, President Bush and past Republican Congresses doubled the interest rates on students loans, putting college even further out of students’ reach. The College Cost Reduction Act takes America in a new direction, making good on Democrats’ promise to make college more affordable for students and families.”

Most middle- and low-income families make anywhere between $28,000-68,000 each year, with the median income being $45,000 in 2003 and $54,000 in 2004. As this bill will slice interest rates in half, it also guarantees that borrowers will contribute no more than 15 percent of their annual income to repaying their loans. And even with lowered interest rates and annual payments, the loan itself will be forgiven if not fully paid off after 20 years.

As a whole, the state is set to receive an extremely generous portion of the benefits offered by this bill. Under this bill, California will receive $3,034,928,000 over 5 years as part of the total increase in Pell Grants and student aid given to Continued on Page 6

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The Thinker of the 21st century - art forged from flesh and blood Left, the body of a man, preserved in resin, sits in an exhibit called “Body Worlds,” which opens at The Tech museum in San Jose today. Below, Albert Einstein’s face is reflected in the glass surrounding a woman’s body. The exhibit runs through Jan. 26. See story, Page 4.

By Sandeep Abraham Staff writer

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Women’s volleyball misses one.

Fremont, California

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Bill: more cash for students

Treadway to link Ohlone, China.

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Stage set for Shakespeare compilation.

Photos by Lila Salinas

Field causing injuries

By Elise Leon Staff writer Sports Director Chris Warden claimed that the baseball outfield was causing injuries to players at the College Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday.

Warden introduced seven Ohlone baseball players as well as Head Coach Tom Kunis at the meeting.

“The current standards of the field are deplorable, it is dangerous,” said Kunis. He explained that the field’s grass had turned into a mucky clay-like consistency, which he said was extremely unsafe to the Ohlone players.

Kunis requested that the matter be taken into consideration and fixed immediately. “The outfields are terrible. Something must be done,” said first basemen Justin Landon.

The Board concluded that this matter would be further discussed at the next board meeting.

ASOC inducts secretary

By Brian Chu Staff writer

Childhood development conference set Oct. 13

By Kathy Sung Staff writer The Ohlone College Early Childhood Studies Department’s 3rd Annual Early Care and Education Conference will be held on Saturday, Oct. 13. The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will be located in the Ohlone Kidango Child Development Center. Childhood education professionals and interested people are all welcome.

Janice Fonteno, the professional development coordinator for the Early Childhood Studies Department, said that she hopes the conference will have a little something for everyone.

One goal of the conference will be to continue to learn about case studies. “Early childhood educators benefit from continued education,” said Fonteno. “As an example, there may be children who display challenging behavior, so we need to hear from experts how to observe and listen in order to better understand what the behavior represents.”

The idea of the conference is to provide several lectures and workshops for childhood education pro-

fessionals. It can be taken by Ohlone students for one-half a credit, but separate registration is required.

The conference will provide useful information on working with children up to five years old. The idea is to educate on how to provide better education and early care for all children. The co-sponsors of this event include of the Alameda County First Five Every Child Counts, the Child, Family, Community Services Inc. (Head Start) and Kidango.

Some topics that will be covered consist of infant to toddler training, working with behaviorally challenged children, taking care of children in a professional and personal atmosphere and child health.

The overall theme of the conference is diversity and ways to deal with young children. There will also be different workshops on how educators and students can stay motivated and take care of themselves in the classroom.

There will be three workshops in total covering various topics. Counselor Rosemary O’Neill will be presenting “Taking Care of You,” teaching about selfcare and how to deal with stress as a teacher Continued on Page 3

Kelly Kita was voted into the position of secretary at the Associated Students of Ohlone College (ASOC) meeting Tuesday.

“I think Kelly will make a fantastic secretary,” said ASOC Senator Ken Steadman.

There are also a number of senators interested in filling the vacant representative at large as well as treasurer positions. Three senators applied for each position respectively.

The ASOC also named Oct. 19 as the first date for the “Battle of the Bands,” a weekly series that would feature bands facing off on the Quad for a championship.

In club news, there is a new Christian club called “Crossroads” applying for Ohlone interclub council certification.

News from outside council included a representiave from Rudy Giuliani’s campaign in the local voting district region. A former ASOC rep at large, she urged students to go out, vote and participate in the upcoming presidential primary elections.

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Iran president should be allowed to speak freely

By Andrew Cavette Staff writer This past month both Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current president of Iran, have received invitations to Stanford University and Columbia University, respectively.

Rumsfeld received a one-year appointment as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, while Ahmadinejad spoke Monday at Columbia.

Both incidents were met with strong protest from students and

faculty because some believed institutes of higher education should not voluntarily turn themselves into platforms for extreme ideologies.

Though there is great potential for such a thing to happen and, in a free society, such invitations should be met with a healthy amount of suspicion, I do not think giving them an opportunity to speak is a mistake.

Regarding Rumsfeld’s appointment, members of Stanford’s faculty circulated a petition which, in part, reads: “We view the appointment as fundamentally incompatible with the ethical values of truth-

fulness, tolerance, disinterested enquiry, respect for national and international laws and care for the opinions, property and lives of others to which Stanford is inalienably committed.”

Ahmadinejad has been repeatedly accused of human rights violations, including torture and denying free speech to his citizens.

He is also prone to using anti-Semitic rhetoric including calling the Holocaust “a myth.”

By appointing Rumsfeld as a fellow and allowing Ahmadinejad to speak, some believe these universities have fully endorsed men

who have sanctioned illegal imprisonment, torture, governmental suppression and war.

Rumsfeld might use his Stanford appointment to wield even more neo-conservative, hawkish influence over those still in power and on Monday, Ahmadinejad certainly used Columbia’s podium to spread his skewed, Anti-Zionist propaganda.

The furthering of their delusional, hate-filled ideology is a shameful waste of a forum, but a university should never strive to provide their communities with a limited perspective.

They should present vastly different world views at every opportunity, even if that means suffering through the nauseating diatribes of the hateful, the dishonest and the cruel, to encourage critical analysis of all of them.

This sentiment can be found in another educational institution much closer to home, the Alameda County Library. Their Book Selection Policy reads: “It is the library’s responsibility to provide material which will enable the citizen to form his own opinions. Therefore, the library provides books representing varying points of view.”

Frugality at the cost of retail customer service

By Kathy Sung Staff writer “Big box stores have no personality... The customer service of small businesses far exceeds that of big box stores,” said Balwant Ramakabir, manager of Learning Express.

In this day and age, in order for a big company to survive, they have to provide some level of

good customer service. However, in the back-to-school rush, I’ve discovered that customer service is nonexistent.

Name any three major chain stores and think about the times you’ve actually been greeted when you walked in the door. Now walk into Learning Express, or any small store, and at least someone will ask you whether you need help.

The employees know all of their products and can describe the benefits of each one. The prices are

slightly cheaper at major stores, but I say pay the extra money for quality service.

I find that the stores with quality service instruct their employees on exactly how to treat their customers, guaranteeing a higher level of courtesy and respect.

The issue I have with chain stores is the management. In a recent personal experience, I was stood up by an assistant manager of a major bookstore twice.

The assistant manager got away

with it because managers are often too busy to double check what their underlings are doing. Thus, the lower level employees suffer.

Small stores have a different policy - a more personal aspect.

Had an assistant manger pulled something like that in a small store, they would be fired. With the way the employees are being treated by their higher ups in a big name company, it is little wonder that they provide lower quality service.

Employees will learn how to treat

customers by the way they are treated as an employee.

Major retailers try to increase profit by hiring as few people as possible. I’m tired of seeing the repeated scene of one employee struggling with a cash register while a long line of people are tapping their feet.

It is unreasonable that customers should have to waste their time and money at a store that provides little to no service just because the prices are cheaper.

Campus Comment > > > Who do you think should speak at Ohlone?

lukas grippa English “Barak Obama.”

TOny Lenci Geology “Jack Horner [Paleontologist]. ”

Mayra Gonzalez Business “I really like Hillary Clinton.”

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“George Bush. So we can all throw eggs at him.”

“Calvin and Hobbes.”

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College aims for foreign connections CHINA: Treadway exploring partnership with college in Suzhou.

By Eric Dorman News editor China is home to over 1 billion people, 668 developed cities and 16 million college students. And, according to College President Doug Treadway, by next fall it could also be home to a little bit of Ohlone.

Treadway, after a week-long stay in the Chinese city of Suzhou, said that Ohlone is close to an agreement with the city’s university concerning an Ohlone College Center in China, an arrangement that would mean Ohlone faculty traveling to teach Chinese students there and Suzhou teachers coming to instruct here. Agreements are set to be finalized this spring, and the connection could start as soon as next fall semester.

The choice to build a relationship with Suzhou was an easy one, said Treadway.

The city lives up to its moniker, the “Silicon Valley of China,” as many American tech firms—including some from Fremont and Newark—have production units located there.

From microprocessor chips to laptop computers, many of the companies’ products are

actually created in Suzhou.

However, Treadway noted that Suzhou caters not only to tech companies, but also to education. It is home to the so-called “Higher Education Sector,” a cluster of eight universities that were built together with the city. This would be an ideal stage, said Treadway, on which to place an Ohlone representative. In turn, the Suzhou liaison would have an office at the Newark Campus.

Treadway said both Ohlone and Suzhou have strengths and weaknesses, and the relationship could benefit both schools. For example, China has shown itself to be a stronger player in areas such as multimedia and nanotechnology, but few Chinese are able to learn English well enough to market their products to America.

If an English teacher traveled to teach in China and a Chinese scientist came to teach at Ohlone, both parties could easily benefit from the others’ teaching.

When instructors traveled between colleges, though, both American and Chinese would teach in English.

Treadway said that one of the aspects of China that struck him was their dedication to education. Because of the limits on the number of children allowed in China, he said that parents tend to devote a huge amount of energy toward educating one child, even going so far as to place their child in a private

high school at age 20 months.

By 18, the child would be completely prepared for college.

Continuing on that theme, Treadway said he was also struck by the number of young people in “positions of responsibility.” For example, he attended one meeting with a manager, a senior designer and several tech officers. The average age of all the senior designers in the company, he said, was about 24.

“I find it very telling that there are a new generation of leaders in China,” said Treadway, adding that while college graduation rates are going down in America, they are steadily increasing in China. He attributed this to the intense competition in China, and the need to get an education in order to compete.

Treadway also noted that while the advantages of opening up a relationship with China are great, the risks of not doing so are also sizable. As China becomes a bigger player on the global market, said Treadway, “one can’t help but compare the U.S. [to China] and wonder if we’re going to stay competitive.

“It used to be that people thought of going to China as kind of a missionary thing, to help them out,” continued Treadway. “In the global economy, it isn’t like that at all…that’s what students need to understand.”

CHINA, VIETNAM, TAIWAN: West seeks partnership opportunities.

By Margarita Kitova Staff writer Director of International Programs and Services Eddie West will be traveling to Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan next month to promote Ohlone College. He will be representing Ohlone in local educational events.

The first stop will be in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Tuesday, Oct. 9 during the first anniversary of the Institute of International Education. West will visit Hong Kong on Saturday, Oct. 14 and participate in the 2007 IIE U.S. Higher Education Fair. Students from Hong Kong who wish to study in the U.S. will meet with representatives from around 95 U.S. colleges and universities.

Ohlone’s international programs director will explain about the application procedures, required exams, English language programs and short-term programs as well as the required documentation for obtaining a student visa for the United States. Last stop will be Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, Oct. 16 -Thursday, Oct. 18. The place and time are to be determined.

Foundation to award $16,000 in scholarships

By Inez Black Staff writer The Ohlone Foundation has more than $16,000 in 30 scholarships to award before the Thanksgiving Holiday break. Over the summer, Foundation Executive Director Dave Smith and the Ohlone Scholarship Advisory Committee revised the application process, streamlining it to facilitate an earlier disbursement date. The scholarship application deadline is Oct. 31, 2007.

The revised Ohlone Foundation website uses a summary grid format to list each scholarship and its specific requirements. Smith said, “We selected this format so students can see at a glance how much is available, how many are available, how many units you have to carry, what the GPA needs to be, is a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) required, is there a specific major required, and we have some that are gender specific.” There is

a wide range of criteria, some of which are not scholastics based, such as ethnicity, gender and major, depending upon who is offering the scholarship.

Smith and the Scholarship Advisory Committee developed an “Eligibility Checklist” because he realized that two-thirds of the applications were disqualified during the Financial Aid screening for lacking required elements, such as the number of units the student is enrolled in or the GPA. Although an applicant meets the general requirements of the Ohlone Foundation, they did not meet the additional requirements connected with the specific scholarship. Smith commented, “The student put all this effort into completing the application, but we had to take them out of consideration because they missed something…For myself, I know that I could not have gone to college unless I was scholarshipped. So I take this as a serious

responsibility.”

Director of Financial Aid Deborah Griffin said, “We don’t approve the scholarship; we sit on the Advisory Committee of the Ohlone Foundation…We verify that the application fits the criteria of the scholarship. Then, the final determination is made by the Scholarship Committee and Ohlone Foundation.”

“It seems that this fall there are more scholarships with FAFSA requirement – a financial need requirement,” said Smith.

Smith continued, “I’m surprised at the number of students who don’t apply for financial aid. I think we have less than 13 percent of the Ohlone students apply for financial aid.” He said that most community colleges have 30-40 percent of students who apply. With the demographics of Ohlone, significally more students are eligible for financial aid than are applying for it.

The new “Eligibility Check-

Child development experts to convene at conference Continued from Page 1 in the classroom. Ken Waters will be doing a workshop on motivation.

He will discuss with the audience some strategies to stay motivated from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Vella Black-Roberts will be doing a workshop on “Body Mass Index.” Marva Lyons, Margie Castello-Chevis and Melody Angles will be doing a workshop concerning promoting leadership and advocacy in early childhood.

The keynote speaker, Charlotte Diamond, a children’s recording artist, will be performing a few of her songs to sing with children. She will also be doing the first workshop and promoting different techniques of dealing with young children.

Diamond will also teach early

childhood educators how to cover all curriculum areas through music. Her CD will be on sale at the conference.

Discount School Supplies will be there with a representative allowing people to order school supplies through a catalog. One of the representatives will demonstrate how to use art materials such as paint, glue and safety scissors to create special projects in the classroom.

There will also be several booths run by different vendors with varied things that can be used inside the classroom.

The registration fee for this annual event is $20. This fee includes all three workshops, performances

by Charlotte Diamond and continental breakfast as well as a box

lunch. There will also be a raffle during lunch and entertaining Sudanese drum performers. Anyone who wants to enjoy learning and relaxing on a Saturday should fill out a registration form at www.ohlone. edu/instr/ecs/profdev.html. In addition, Ohlone students who want to receive one-half a unit of credit should apply for this event on the Ohlone website. This event is expected to have about 225 attendees, not including vendors, counselors and workshop developers. Parking is limited and located in parking lot K. This is an annual event and will not occur until next September.

For more information on this event, contact Fonteno at (510) 979-7496 or Mairi Tsiftsi at (510) 659-6450.

list” requires the student to check off each block on the form for the particular scholarship, to be qualified for consideration for that specific scholarship. To obtain the “Eligibility Checklist” forms for a specific scholarship, merely click on the name of the scholarship in the summary grid listing.

A student does not have to have a 4.0 GPA to obtain a scholarship, as many scholarships are based on financial need or other criteria. For example, the Ohlone Foundation also has four $500 scholarships, and its scholarship criteria are: (a) enrolled in at least 12 units at Ohlone College, (b) a cumulative Grade Point Average of 2.5 or better, (c) and a letter of recommendation from an Ohlone faculty member, counselor or administrator.

Smith emphasized that students must be careful to provide every piece of information requested and every required document, as a simple omission disqualifies

the scholarship application. Each application must submit the documents and information required by the Ohlone Foundation, as well as the “Eligibility Checklist” unique to each scholarship, plus the “Ohlone College Scholarship Application.”

Smith said, “We will convene the scholarship committee in early November. I put out an announcement to that effect because I am looking for some additional volunteers to serve on the Scholarship Committee.” If anyone writes a letter of recommendation for a student for a scholarship, they would be disqualified from evaluating that scholarship only, and they can be on the Scholarship Committee.

If a student has not completed a FAFSA already, they can still do it, either online or on paper. Students can fill it out on the Financial Aid Website (http://www.ohlone.edu/ org/finaid/), or can contact Financial Aid at 659-6150 for assistance.

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Political Challenge

By Emily Burkett Features editor

Register as a donor When most people hear the words “bone marrow transplant,” they usually think of huge needles plunging into flesh. It’s a scary thought, I’ll admit, but the benefits of it far outweigh the pain.

But what if there were no pain involved?

Registering with the local bone marrow bank isn’t as difficult as many seem to think. It doesn’t involve any needles or any pain, for that matter.

In fact, the easiest and most beneficial way that I found was to register at Vans Warped Tour.

That’s right, going to a rock concert. As my friends and I were quick to discover, registering ourselves as potential bone marrow donors gave us backstage access to the entire festival concert.

No, we didn’t go through a complicated procedure that resulted in us walking around munching free cookies and brandishing bandages on our arms; it was even easier than giving blood.

Contrary to popular belief, registering as a bone marrow donor only involves rubbing the inside of your cheeks with a couple of Q-Tips, certainly not that traumatizing. The tissue cells collected on the cotton swabs contain enough genetic material to detect a match for individuals suffering from leukemia, individuals like my friend Travis.

Leukemia wasn’t something I figured happened very often. I didn’t expect to encounter anyone who had ever suffered from it.

However, at a debate tournament last spring, I met two individuals just a few years older than myself who were both cancer survivors.

One of them, Travis, contacted me a few months ago to ask if I was a registered donor. At the time, I wasn’t. The idea of being a donor brought to my mind the same thoughts it brings to so many others: needles, hospitals and excrutiating pain.

Travis asked that I change my donation status. He had been diagnosed with leukemia in his senior year of high school but he’d been in remission for a few years. Unfortunately, his oncologist had recently discovered a resurgence of cancerous tissue.

Travis is only 23 years old but has had to quit school twice in order to undergo chemo therapy and radiation and is currently awaiting a bone marrow transplant.

Travis is one of the millions of people around the world awaiting a bone marrow transplant because a match has yet to be found. You can help by registering; it’s an easy, painless process that requires no commitment but can give hope to cancer patients.

Registering gives you the option of making the decision to donate if a potential match is found and allows you to become the cure that may save someone’s life.

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Bodies as art, science and curiosity

By Lila Salinas Staff writer Most people have studied themselves in the mirror, but how many have ever wondered what they look like on the inside?

Now they can find out.

The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose will host the new Body Worlds II and The Three Gem Exhibit, opening today.

In this exclusive Northern California debut, anyone can look at human bodies preserved in resin and cut open to show the insides.

Is it art or is it science?

From conception to death, to every intricate layer of the body, the exhibit displays extraordinary structures that will change the way people perceive their body to be.

This is unlike any other exhibit ever constructed.

The show is more than a journey through one’s self; it’s an extensive

learning experience compressed into one day.

When a visitor first walks into the hall, they can hear ambient, twilight melodies guiding their path. There seems almost too much to see; every display is accompanied by literature explaining in detail what the visitor will be viewing. From the smallest piece of the body to the largest, the exhibit bares it all.

It’s a bit like watching the Discovery Channel, as the sights presented are not something the layman could see in physical form until now.

Every body displayed is covered by actual cartilage and muscle. Some even contain real eyeballs, giving viewers a sense that these skinless structures are alive – creepy, yet fascinating.

But how does this all stay perfectly conserved?

A corpse starts to decompose within a matter of days. Shouldn’t

there be flies crowding the air?

On the contrary, said Dr. Gunther von Hagens, anatomist, inventor of “plastination” and Body World creator.

He has been gathering bodies and planning his dream for many years; he has invented a unique way to conserve the dead.

Dr. Angelina Whally, creative and conceptual designer of the exhibition, assisted von Hagens in this unprecedented display.

There are more than 200 authentic specimens featured, each having a special theme that offers an intellectual insight into the form and function of the human body.

Healthy and diseased bodies are compared, to show the importance and the consequences of the lifestyles people choose.

Or perhaps the curious would enjoy an excursion into the complex and mysterious brain.

Everything featured there is an

updated exposition inspired by the latest findings in neuroscience.

The Tech will feature the Body Worlds II exhibit through Jan. 26, open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The best part is that all Ohlone College students will receive free entry (a $22 value) into the exhibit as well as the rest of the museum on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 5 to 9 p.m. with a student identification card.

Ohlone Biology Instructor Joe Zermeno wholeheartedly endorsed the enterprise.

“It’s a great exhibit. I always tell my students that this is the sort of thing they would benefit from.”

Zermeno pointed out that one of the best things about the show is its unique combination of art and science, ensuring its appeal to non-science majors.

And, no, he doesn’t think the exhibit likely to gross most students out.

The night Ohlone equipment burned

In 1968, when The City of Fremont was only 12 years old and Ohlone College had not yet found a permanent home, almost $5,000 (1968) worth of equipment owned by the college, including football gear and remnants of the college’s past theatrical productions, were lost in the worst fire in the young city’s existence.

The fire was reported by two men who spotted the fire at the same time; an unnamed college custodian as well as off-duty Fremont police officer, Richard Phillips who was

taking classes at Ohlone. At the time, Ohlone College was still conducting course work on a temporary campus site along Washington Boulevard, which had been leased from the Dominican Sisters of San Jose in 1967. The fire gutted a single 100-year-old building that Ohlone was then using for storage.

Historically, The building itself had been a sanitarium, a convent, a finishing school and then finally the Junipero Serra Center for emotionally disturbed girls before the college took over the property. Since that time the building site and much of the surrounding property has been sold and redeveloped. Today, the land that housed Ohlone’s first temporary campus can still be found behind the lengthy, white walls of the Mission Palms housing development. The lone building caught fire on a Monday night in May and

burned to the ground behind a lingering statue of Madonna and Child.

Fire Capt. Al Kenney arrived first to the site and scraped together the assistance of Phillips and three other students, who all helped to move the hose lines within reach of the still turbulent flames. They were soon joined by Fremont Fire Chief, Tom Estudillo as well as Newark Fire Chief Dean Holzgrafe, who had been teaching a class on the campus and stayed on until morning to assist Estudillo. The blaze was fought by 20 volunteer firefighters while students and passersby carried file cabinets and office machinery out of a nearby records bungalow. Fighting the fire did not go well that night.

For almost 25 minutes, the snorkel truck used by the fire department was unusable because no hydrants were close by. By daybreak on Tuesday, the building was gone. The

flames had been extinguished, the nearby palm trees had been saved, but the remaining embers were still too hot for investigators to examine.

According to a News Register article dated May 29, 1968, many of the nuns who had once worked and lived in the building traveled from other local convents to survey the aftermath.

One nun said she had attended Mass in the chapel every day for 35 years. An Argus article also dated May 29, 1968 notes that Dr. Stephen E. Epler, who was president of Ohlone College at the time, said that no other college facilities were damaged. Fire Marshal Bob Reeves later found that the fire had started in a small pile of rubbish under a veranda at the back of the building, but reported no evidence of arson.

The exact cause of the fire remains unknown.

The Ohlone Disabled Students Program and Services is sponsoring Disability Awareness Week, with events planned next Monday and Tuesday.

On Monday, Oct. 1, Christy Pimental will relate how a diagnosis of kidney failure at the age of 26 led her to need a life-saving transplant and motivated her to help author AB 689, the California Organ Donor Law. She has remained active on the legislative and volunteer fronts

while maintaining a 3.8 GPA at Folsom Lake College, where she is currently a student.

Pimental will speak Monday from noon to 1 p.m. in the lobby of Building 1. Refreshments will be provided prior to the presentation.

The title of her talk is “Making My Lemons into More Than Just Lemonade: Life with Kidney Failure.”

On Tuesday, Reid Kimball, a game designer, will present “Closed Captioning In Videogames.” Kimball has worked professionally

since 2003 at Ritual Entertainment and currently at LucasArts. He advocates for the use of closed captioning (text representing sound) in videogames as a benefit to all players.

He will appear from 11 a.m. until noon in the Jackson Theater in the Smith Center.

Also on Tuesday, there will be an Orientation and Mobility Workshop. Students and faculty from the California School for the Blind as well as current students at Ohlone

will simulate visual impairment and blindness for the sighted. They will also show off some of the latest assistive technology they are using, including a Global Positioning System for the blind.

The workshop will be from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Lower Quad in front of Building 1.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Victor Cardenas of the Disabled Students Program and Services at vcardenas@ohlone.edu.

EDITOR’S NOTE – This is the first in what will be an occasional series on the quirky and largely unfamiliar history of Ohlone College.

By aNdrew Cavette Staff writer

Disability Week events scheduled

Psychology Club attends conference Ohlone’s Psychology Club attended the national APA convention in San Francisco this summer. Attendees at right, from left, included Joe Uelig, the club’s financial consultant, Adele Mitchell, the club president, and Lisa Beck, the vice president. Both Beck and Mitchell received the “Psychology Student of the Year” award.

Photo courtesy of Adele Mitchell

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Devil’s Advocate

Complete Works of Shakespeare tomorrow Smith Center Presents! is bringing the comedic troupe The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged to Ohlone. They will be permforming Friday at 8 p.m. and the show is expected to last two hours. Tickets are on sale now: $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and students and $15 for youths and children. Tickets may be purchased at the Smith Center box office or call (510) 659-6301 Photo courtesy of Carol Rosegg

Math Club plans Sudoku event

By Barry Kearns Staff writer The Math Club president Jason Jun Fang has announced that there will be a Sudoku competition held on Oct. 5 in Room 3201 from 3:45 to 5 p.m. There will also be a Sudoku lecture held in the Math Learning Center in Hyman Hall this Friday from 4:50 to 5:50 p.m.

The intent of the competition is to bring attention to the Math Club, present mathematics in a fun way and help the club recruit new members. Fang stressed that “no math skills are required to enter the Sudoku competition or lecture but a strong sense of logic will help with completing the puzzles.”

Sudoku is a logic game that consists of a nine-by-nine grid where the purpose of the game is to complete a partially solved puzzle. The way to solve the puzzle is to write in new numbers in smaller three by three squares, simultaneously avoiding any repeating numbers. While the game was invented in the United States in 1979, it achieved more popularity in Japan in 1986 and has reached worldwide recognition.

The Sudoku competition will have an entry fee of $3 at the door and $2 if admission is purchased in advance. The price of admission will include a slice of pizza and a drink. There will be prizes awarded for the top three contenders at the competition; the first place prize

will earn $50, second place $30 and third place $20. The Math Club was awarded $120 from the ASOC to finance the competition. Fang said the Math Club plans to hold more events to raise money for activities during the winter break.

The Math Club competes on a national level and last year ranked eighth place out of the 160 other colleges competing. The Math Club selects the top five students from within the club to compete and represent Ohlone College. The majority of members in the Math Club are in fact not math majors; Fang is a business major and many members are pursuing degrees in engineering.

While all questions are at a precalculus level, many of the questions are worded to be trickier than what one might find in a textbook. The first round is held in November of the fall semester and the second round is held in March in the spring semester. There is also the chance for students to achieve individual ranks as David Zimmerman had when he ranked 9th in the nation.

The Math Club has also seen success last semester, when they achieved

1st place at a competition in Monterey. The math club has 15 active members this semester, including eight officers; this is a dramatic rise from the two or three active members of last year. The Math Club is making banners to announce and advertise the Sudoku events on Sept. 26.

The Math Club will also be promoting the event in classes such as business and physics. Barry Parks, who teaches at James Logan High School, will be lecturing on the best strategies for completing Sudoku puzzles. Along with Parks, Robert Smedfjeld, who teaches linear algebra at Ohlone, will be teaching more time-efficient solution methods for finishing Sudoku puzzles.

Parks has shown past success in teaching Sudoku to his wife who had had no previous experience with Sudoku, but can now complete puzzles ranked as the most difficult within 30 minutes. Fang of the Math Club is hoping to improve his time, which is currently an hour to an hour and a half.

The Math Club meets every Friday in the Math Learning Center from 4:50 to 5:50 p.m.

By Anna Nemchuk Editor-in-chief

Drivers are stupid jerks I’m very hypocritical when it comes to driving. When I’m late to work and reenacting the Indy 500, all’s right with the world.

But when there’s another jackass swerving their way across five lanes at once and merging in a highly lateral fashion, I remember those signs I keep meaning to cobble together – inscribed with helpful advice like: “Get off the road, moron!” “You drive like a bleep-bleep.” and the classic “You know why they call it shotgun?”

They’re sure to improve the lines of communication on the road and foster a sense of community and brotherliness. Or at least get the bastard out of my way.

However, none of this means I’m necessarily speeding or even breaking any laws. While I’m unlikely to win any perfect citizen awards in the nearest century, driving offensively instead of defensively has more to do with using your head than your gas pedal. Which is much more than I can say for my favorite brand of road nitwit, the roadkill-waitingto-happen on cell phones. There’s a ban set for sometime next year that will outlaw the use of phones while driving, apart from wireless headsets. Congratulations, that’s sure to get the less tech-savvy idiots off the road. Everyone else will continue not paying attention to anything other than their great aunt’s colonoscopy as they blithely chat their way within inches of death.

You see, the problem with wireless headsets is that they give you a false sense of security; now that there’s nothing in your hands, you forget you’re actually distracted. At least the handhelds remind you you’re actually talking.

I get so irritated holding up my teeny pink Razor, I’m constantly switching hands, which just serves to make me more cautious, since I now have more built-in blind spots which, oh wonder of wonders, I check!

And the second place Darwin’s-spirit award while driving goes to buying the $50,000 car with all the trimmings but opting out of the blinker.

This one has me stumped. It’s the first lesson I learned; be the road empty as the Sahara or doing a good imitation of a sardine can, if you’re going in any direction but straight ahead, you use the cute little lever provided for your convenience and signal, dagnabit.

But where’s the fun in that, say about 50 percent of the population bearing licenses. I don’t want to be too predictable. They might take me for granted. I want to stand out. I want to be unique!

Actually, at this point anyone actually operating a blinker is likelier to raise eyebrows. “Really, dahlink, did you see that cahr actually signal? How bourgeois of them. It’s quite uncouth.”

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Dutra breaks ground for development north of college Dutra Enterprises broke ground on their development near the college’s north entrance Friday.

From left, John Dutra, Sr., Bernadine Dutra, Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman and John Dutra, Jr. cut the ribbon. Dutra did not reveal what businesses would be located in the development, saying only that 30 percent of the space has already been leased, and that it will be a mixture of retail and office space.

The two-story, 21,000 squarefoot building is scheduled to be completed by Photo by Jack Husting summer 2008.

Bill would mean $20 billion for students Continued from Page 1 families. This will then be distributed to the 228,489 students who take out need-based loans at California’s four-year public universities, each of whom, on average, accumulates a student loan debt of $15,125.

University students with loans also stand to save $4,380 on interest

payments through this bill.

Those students who decide to go into public service or teaching—careers in the public sector with low starting salaries—will find relief in the bill’s forgiveness of and assistance in the payment of student loans. Public school teachers and college professors, whose start-

ing salaries are sometimes as low as $31,000, will receive up-front tuition assistance of $4,000 a year with a maximum of $16,000.

At least 21,500 undergraduate and graduate students planning to go into educational professions stand to benefit from this assistance.

Two-hundred fifty-seven thou-

sand public servants will receive $5,000 in loan amnesty and complete loan amnesty after 10 years.

The passing of this bill has the potential to revolutionize education and bring hope to thousands of current students.

“Over President Bush’s objections, it makes a historic investment

in financial aid, increasing the Pell Grant Scholarship and cutting in half the interest rate on student loans,” said Stark.

“It takes an important step toward my ultimate goal of ensuring that no student be denied the opportunity to attend college because of a lack of resources.”

Speaker presents four secrets to college success

By Barry Kearns Staff writer Life coach and speech instructor Clint Pardoe dispensed tips on college life at the “Four Secrets to College Life Success” workshop last Friday. The talk, which took place in Room 2133 from 2 to 4 p.m., covered several aspects of college life, ranging from interpersonal relationships to money management.

The seminar was moved from Room 8205 to 2133 and delayed for about 10 minutes so that students could find the new location. Before divulging the four secrets, Pardoe started the presentation by talking about himself, his past and what led him to the concept of the four secrets and the seminars. While talking about his past, Pardoe discussed his attendance at San Diego State University on the five-and-a-halfyear plan and pointed out some of the flaws that he saw in himself.

Pardoe, who holds a Master’s degree in communication from San Jose State University, went on to talk about how he came to recognize these issues and work past them, ultimately becoming a life coach for other people. During the seminar, Pardoe also announced that he was pursuing an opportunity to appear on the Oprah show to discuss his four secrets strategy.

Pardoe then outlined the four secrets in improving the college life of students. The secrets addressed areas of life such as the attention one pays to themselves as well as the health of the relationships that they are in. Pardoe also offered insights in the management of finances and proposed methods to increase motivation and meet set goals. Pardoe announced that he would be holding a day-long seminar in San Jose. The seminar ended with a raffle with a novel concept of awarding prizes; to win a prize the student had to walk up to where Pardoe was holding

it and take it. Pardoe’s reasoning for this method of raffle was that “the universe rewards action.” A thermos, several bags, teeshirts and EOPS bucks were raffled off in this manner.

Pardoe will hold a day-long seminar in San Jose on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The seminar is restricted to college students between the ages of 18 to 24. The specific location for the day-long seminar has yet to be disclosed. A seat at the upcoming seminar was valued at $150, but attendees to that day’s seminar were offered seats for free under the condition that they signed a $20 “no show” waiver. Alex Varnava, an anthropology major who plans to attend the day-long seminar, said that he expects “advice on basically how to manage your life in either college or outside of college.”

Speech Instructor Kay Harrison and Head of Extended Opportunity Programs and Services at

Ohlone Sandy Bennett proposed the seminar. Harrison had previously presented Pardoe to her class and was eager to see Pardoe perform in front of a larger audience. Harrison had met Pardoe at the Western States Communications Association speech conference. Harrison had thought that the seminar was “absolutely fabulous,” and when

asked if she thought that he would be asked back for another seminar she said “definitely.” Pardoe has previously held seminars, lectures and speeches at West Valley and Cabrillo colleges.

More information about Clint Pardoe and upcoming seminars is available at his website, www. fourfortyfour.net.

Campus Events CLASSIFIEDS Sharks Ice is Hiring -- Sharks Ice in Fremont is looking for energetic and motivated Ohlone students.We are hiring for the following positions: bar tenders, snack bar attendants, skate guards, pro shop and cashiers. Apply online at www.sharksice. com or call (510) 6237200 for more information.

NOW HIRING $11$18 -- Do you love working with children?

Become a substitute.We need teachers, aides & directors for preschools, daycares and after school programs all over the Bay Area. Schedules are flexible. You pick your days, hours, region and age group. We will work around your availability.

Pls call (866) 994-7823, email at calstaff@sbcglobal. net or visit our website: www.CaliforniaStaffingService.com.

Seeking piano instructor -Looking for a person to take piano lessons from.

Must be affordable and in the Fremont area. Must already teach lessons to others. Please call (510) 304-2538.

September 27 New Art Gallery Exhibit -- Available to view from now until Oct. 26 in the Louie Meager Art Gallery. This exhibit is Beneath the Surface by Karen Luk. Karen Luk is an illustrator who paints with chalk pastels and watercolors. Her diverse work encompasses subjects ranging from Adam and Eve to social commentary to comics. She is a graduate of the California College of Art and an Ohlone College alumna. The gallery is open Monday to Friday from noon to 3 p.m.

27 New Library Exhibit -- Summer English 101B class was given an assignment to visually interpret pieces of poetry. Their artwork can be viewed in the library throughout the rest of September. Come and see how they showed their sense of the poem through an artistic and creative medium.

27-29 Sidewalk Sale -- 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the bookstore. Come see what

items are for sale.

28 Performance: Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) -- 8 p.m. in the Jackson Theatre. Tickets are $20 for students and $25 for adults.

For more information or to buy tickets please visit the box office or call (510) 659-6031.

28 Women’s Water Polo -- 3 p.m. vs. Laney College here at Ohlone.

28 Women’s Soccer -- 2 p.m. vs. Chabot College here at Ohlone.

October 2 Women’s Soccer -- 3 p.m. vs. West Hills College here at Ohlone.

3 Women’s Water Polo - 3 p.m. vs. College of San Mateo here at Ohlone.

3 Men’s Water Polo -4:15 p.m. vs. Solano College here at Ohlone.

3 Women’s Volleyball -6:30 p.m. vs. West Valley College here at Ohlone.

3 NASA-Ohlone College Science Night -- 7 to 8 p.m. in the Jackson Theatre. Presentation will be by Janice Voss. Dr. Janice Voss became an astronaut in July 1991. She has completed numerous space missions.

Most recently she served on STS-99. This was an 11day flight during which the international crew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour worked dual shifts to support radar mapping operations. Ticket information: Advance tickets are recommended. Tickets are free.

You may get advance tickets online at boxoffice@ ohlone.edu or in person at the box office.

4 Last Day To Apply For Graduation -- This is the last day to turn in the paperwork necessary to apply for graduation or a certificate of achievement.

All day.

4 Campus Tour -- 4 p.m. in the lobby of Building 1.

The Ohlone Student Ambassadors conduct campus tours the first and third Thursday of every month.

Tours will begin promptly and will last approximately one hour. Please make sure to wear comfortable shoes, as you will be doing quite a bit of walking.

Presented by Dr. Jose Cabrera, Stanford University researcher and chemistry professor at Ohlone, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 2133.

Free refreshments are available prior to event and the event is free. Check the Ohlone web page for more information on upcoming Brown Bag seminars.

5 Men’s Soccer -- 4 p.m. vs. Hartnell College here at Ohlone.

9 Women’s Soccer -- 2 p.m. vs. City College of San Francisco here at Ohlone.

9 Men’s Soccer -- 4 p.m. vs. Skyline College here at Ohlone.

10 National Depression Screening Day -- Screening all day in the Ohlone Health Center, Building 16.

This event is free.

10 Women’s Water Polo -- 3 p.m. vs. Cabrillo College here at Ohlone.

10 Men’s Water Polo -- 4:15 p.m. vs. Cabrillo College here at Ohlone.

10 Women’s Volleyball -6:30 p.m. vs. San Jose City College here at Ohlone.

12 Women’s Soccer -- 2 p.m. vs. Skyline College here at Ohlone.

-- 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Ohlone Kidango center.

Topics include: InfantToddler, Working with Children with Challenging Behaviors, Curriculum, Taking Care of the Personal and Professional Self, Family Child Care, Child Health, and much more.

Register early. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The registration fee is $20 and includes breakfast and lunch. To register, visit the Kidango center or call Janice at (510) 979-7496 for more information.

14 Ohlone Chamber Orchestra: Fall Concert -- Performance in the Smith Center at 2 p.m. For more information on this event, or to buy tickets, please visit the Box Office.

16 Men’s Soccer -- 4 p.m. vs. Mission College here at Ohlone.

17 Ohlone Community Band -- Performance at 8 p.m. in the Smith Center.

For more information or to buy tickets please visit the Box Office.

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month. Tours will begin promptly at and will last approximately one hour.

Please make sure to wear comfortable shoes, as you will be doing quite a bit of walking.

19 Brown Bag Seminar -Chemistry demonstrations:

by Jim Klent, chemistry professor emeritus, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 2133.

Klent is renowned for his entertaining teaching style.

He will perform chemistry demonstrations to inform and delight the audience.

Free refreshments are available prior to event and the event is free. Check the Ohlone web page for more information on upcoming brown bag seminars.

19 Men and Women’s Water Polo -- 3 p.m. vs.

West Valley College here at Ohlone.

19 Men’s Soccer -- 4 p.m. vs. Cañada College here at Ohlone.

18 Campus Tour -- 4 p.m. in the lobby of Building 1. The Ohlone Student Ambassadors conduct campus tours the first and third Thursday of every

12 Men’s Soccer -- 4 p.m. vs. Evergreen Valley College here at Ohlone.

13 Super Flea Market -8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in parking lots E and H. Vendors sell a variety of things like jewelry, food, tools, gift items, toys, household supplies and collectibles.

Flea markets are held on the second Saturday of each month. Parking is $2 per vehicle and admission is free. All proceeds support Ohlone College programs.

13 Teresa Walters, Concert Pianist -- Performance in the Smith Center at 8 p.m. For more information on this event, or to buy tickets, please visit the Box Office.

13 Third Annual Early Childhood Conference

5 Brown Bag Seminar -Molecular Flash Photography: Following Chemical Processes in Real-Time.

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The Monitor invites your comments. Letters should be 250 words or less and include your name and relationship to Ohlone. Letters become property of The Monitor and may be edited for spelling and length. Campus Events listings are free for college-related events.

To have your event added or to place an ad, contact Danelle Meyer at (510) 659-6075 or e-mail monitorads@ohlone.edu

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Women’s volleyball loses in five dramatic sets

By Tomás Ortega Sports editor If sports is what you love, what could be a better setting than this: cloudy Friday night, rivalry game and a bunch of people in the stands rooting for their team? Oh, and it’s a home game for you.

Well last Friday, the Women’s Volleyball team put on a great show for the folks in the stands and also for the ladies across the net.

Although Ohlone was not able to pull out a victory, they damn well came close. Ohlone lost the match three sets to two to rival school Chabot College from Hayward.

After pulling out their first win of the season Thursday night against Laney College, the Lady Renegades put up a great fight against Chabot.

The first set of the match was a blowout, and Ohlone looked like they really needed to get their juices flowing, losing it 30-17.

The second set showed much more offense from Ohlone’s side of the net, seeing as they took it to the Gladiators 30-19.

Since the first two sets of the night were such blowouts, it was a bit hard to gauge how the night was going to turn out.

Especially when you realized that the Lady Renegades squad from last year failed to win a single game

and this Chabot team was the second best team in the conference.

Either way, all the fun began in the third set.

With the sets squared up 1-1, Ohlone did what they could to jump out to an early lead in the third set, but Chabot’s experience in big games helped them keep the score close.

Big shot, after big shot, Chabot kept trying to pound the ball into Ohlone’s side of the floor.

However, Ohlone’s Jamie Munson played the defensive side of the net very well, not letting many of the shots get past her.

Whenever you’d see a Chabot player spike the ball Ohlone’s way, you could both see and hear the thwack! sound that would blare off of her forearms and wrist.

During the set, neither team was able to string together a long chain of points. It was back-to-back the entire time. The Renegades were able to hold off, though, winning the third set 30-26.

Now, if the fans had a good time watching a close set like the third one, they would be in for even more of a thrill ride.

The fourth set of the match mirrored the third in many ways. Demi Wilson and Jaime Munson teamed up to get their bodies in front of the net to seal off any type of shot the Gladiators tried.

Seeing that Ohlone had a good duo protecting the net, the Gladiators did what they could to fake out the Renegades by setting the ball up and having two girls jump one after the other and allow only the trailing girl to spike it.

This gave them enough time to let Munson and Wilson get back on the floor and give them an open lane to shoot.

After both teams traded point after point, the score was knotted at 29 all. Ohlone was serving and needed just two points to close out the game, but ended up making two mistakes that cost them the set, and eventually the match.

They wound up losing the fifth and final set 15-9.

After the final shot, the people in the stands let out a big sigh after the great game that was played out on the court.

When asked about the game, Coach Jamie Cortez said, “This game was huge. This is the game they wanted. This is the game they knew I wanted.”

The game, according to Cortez, was more than just that. It was more like a battle among two ex teammates. “[Chabot’s coach Amber Sammons] and I are friends.

And we used to play together.

So it was really a pride thing, a vengeance thing.”

Coach Cortez didn’t look like

Men’s soccer bags first win

By Tomás Ortega Sports editor After waiting an hour for the officials to finally get to the game, the game between the Ohlone Men’s Soccer team and Napa Valley College finally began at 5 p.m.

Friday.

Even with the first rains of the season looking to shower the 60plus people out on the soccer field, the Renegades were able to pull out a victory 2-0.

Prior to the game starting, coach felt that the key for the game was basically to “put the ball into the net. We’ve kind of been struggling with finishing and we’re hoping we can get our forwards inside of the box.”

He didn’t need to wait long to see his team take a lead. At about the fourth minute of the game, Salvador Cerna took in a cross that bounced off a few of the defenders at the top of the box and was able to get a good shot past Napa Valley’s keeper for the first goal of the game.

Ohlone’s defense played great the rest of the first half, not allowing Napa to get very many shots on the goal. Even when they did, the Renegades goal keeper Marc Pecson kept all shots in front of him and out of the back of his net.

When the second half began, the clouds overhead started to let out some rain over the field. That didn't stop Ohlone’s offense from getting there second goal of the afternoon.

In the 80th minute of the game, Abel Leon, after getting a Yellow

Photo by Tomás Ortega

Jaime Munson’s leadership and hard work plays a key role in the team’s improvement. she had her pride hurt, though. Once it was all over, she was all smiles, either because of the way her team played or because the amount of support her team received in the stands.

She said, “that’s the thing that we need. That’s what we look forward to. We give so much back to the school, and it’s good to see them come out and give some of that

energy back to us.”

After taking this confidencebuilding loss, the Lady Renegades brought their season record to 1-4.

Their next home game will be Wednesday, Oct. 3. And in the words of Coach Cortez, “ we need more school support. We need more people here because we feed off your energy.”

Men’s waterpolo 5th in tournament

By Vanessa Baumann Staff writer It was rainy and cold last Friday and Saturday, but that didn’t stop Ohlone College from hosting its Men’s Waterpolo Tournament.

The tournament had a total of six teams competing for the championship. Among the teams were Ohlone, Chabot, Sierra, Delta, Modesto and DeAnza College.

Ohlone finished in 5th place, with three losses to Delta (11-15), Sierra (6-15) and DeAnza (13-11), and a win against Chabot (9-8).

Head Coach Gene Kendall said, “[they] are improving every week, but [they] need to stop forcing passes to players that are not open and [they] need to get better at [their] front court offense.”

The tournament’s final game was between Modesto and Delta fighting for the championship. The game had a strong back and forth offense and defensive transition. There was a numerous amount of chances to score, as well as several .hard earned blocks and saves.

Both teams were working very hard to score, but also defend at the same time. At the final buzzer, the game’s victory sided with Modesto, just beating Delta 12-11.

Ohlone Men’s Waterpolo record as of now is 1-11. “We have played some very good teams so far, which is why we are just 1-11 so far this season,” said Coach Kendall. The team’s leading scorer is Nate Gill, and Kevin Lundt is playing well as goalie.

The team’s next home game will be Wednesday, Oct. 3 vs.

Solano College.

Photo byTomás Ortega

Ohlone’s aggressiveness showed best up close. card in the first half of the game, received a pass from down-field.

While taking it up to goal, he somehow managed to push down the defender without drawing a foul,

then take the ball and shoot it passed the goal keeper’s left side for the second goal of the game.

When asked about the play after the game, Leon said, “I was

just trying to get that goal. Break through and try to get our first win.

You know, trying to do what we got to do.”

Ohlone improved their record to 1-3-1 on the young season.

Salvador Cerna’s goal was a good contribution, but his greatest one was his aggressiveness.

For a large portion of the game,

Cerna and number 14 for Napa were shoving elbows and shoulders into each other trying to get the better positioning for the ball.

Cerna later commented on his style of play saying, “We were just having fun, playing soccer. That’s all it is man, having fun.”

The Renegades’ next game is tomorrow at S.F. City College.