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“Clickers,” also known as Classroom Response Systems (CRS), are at the forefront of new educational technology. The devices, about the size of a small remote controller (a little bigger than a business card), have been the source of some contention at Ohlone, with some wanting to purchase the devices with school funds and others disputing their usefulness in the face of their at-times limited use and nonfunctionality. Math, Science and Technology Coordinator Yvette Niccolls and Adjunct Biology Instructor Angelique Walt are requesting a grant for $999 to pay for a set of 30 clickers that could be shared among the science faculty at Ohlone. The two gave a presentation at the ASOC meeting on Tuesday. After some ASOC members expressed concern over the functionality of the devices, the decision was postponed until next week. Niccolls has been working with a representative from clicker manufacturer Cengage Learning for several months. As is, the clicker comes bundled (at a lesser cost than buying the unit separately) with textbooks for general chemistry courses CHEM101A and 101B, and for Preparing for General Chemistry (CHEM-102). The nursing and math departments have purchased batches of clickers with their own funds, at the special rate of $999. This offer was extended to Niccolls as well, but funding wasn’t available at the time, and the deal expired on Jan. 31. The representative has re-offered a smaller batch—about 30 as Continued on Page 6
Fremont hit with first homicide of year By Eric Dorman News editor A man was killed and another wounded when a group of party crashers fired into a crowd at a wedding reception in Niles Saturday night. As of press time, police had arrested one suspect in connecton with the shooting. The refused to release his identity.
Police identified the fatality as Francisco Sanchez, 35, of Livermore. Another unidentified man was shot in the stomach, but is expected to survive. Niles Banquet Hall, the location of the shooting, is owned by Ohlone Trustee John Weed. Although he witnessed the shooting, he declined to comment on the details, referring all questions to the police. “This is certainly a very tragic
incident,” said Weed, who has owned the hall since 1995. The shooting occurred after a group of party crashers demanded entry to the reception about 8:50 p.m., according to Press Relations Officer Bill Veteran. After the group was denied entry, a fight ensued. One man from the group of crashers crossed the street to get a gun from his car, then proceeded to fire into the crowd of 20-30 people standing
outside the building, said Veteran. Police are calling the incident gang-related, but the relationship between the shooter and the attendees is unclear. “I think [the shooter] was aiming at somebody, but the person they hit may not have been the person they were aiming at,” said Veteran. The Banquet Hall, located at 37270 Niles Blvd. in Fremont near the Sullivan Underpass, is a popular
site for wedding receptions and parties. Built in 1929, it seats as many as 400 standing attendees. The attendance Saturday was estimated to be between 200 and 300 guests. Weed has served on the College Board of Trustees for 30 years. The Banquet Hall is one of several properties he owns in the area. Anyone with information on the shooting may contact the Fremont Police at (510) 790-6800.
ASOC welcomes new senators, plans music By Barry Kearns Staff writer The Associated Students of Ohlone College (ASOC) welcomed 10 new senators to their ranks this Tuesday. With the addition of the 10 new senators, the ASOC is now 23 members strong. During the ASOC meeting, duties and expectations discussed with the new senators included their mandatory participation in two committees. The new senators to the ASOC are Rebecca Chao, Kuan-Chih (Allen) Chen, Cynthia Garcha, Fnu Hashmatullah, Exmeralda Leon, Aaron Moss, Farrah Naqvi, Isidore Niyongabo, Jorawer Parmar and Tina Sayadi. The structure and function of different parts of the meeting were also explained to the new senators. ASOC President Tatyana Hamady announced that the fast food chain Chipotle
would be giving free food on Feb. 27 and 28 to students who presented an Ohlone Student ID. Hamady also announced that college staff would also be eligible for free food on Feb. 25 and 26. The food choices range from burritos, to burrito bowls, salads and tacos. There are three Chipotle locations offering free food to staff and students: the Automall location, the Mowry and Paseo Padre location and also the Newark Boulevard. and Jarvis Location. Board of Trustees Student Representative Ken Steadman outlined his plan to the ASOC for the live music events for the rest of the semester. The first event is planned for the afternoon of Feb. 28 and will take place at the Ohlone College Amphitheater. The bands arranged to appear on that day are Drunk in Public, Anthem and Dro-Gues for Feelings. Along with asking for assistance with the Live Music Committee, Steadman also made
a money request to fund the events. The money request for $5,000 consisted of $1,500 for PA equipment and management, which includes video recording of the events, $750 for food at the live music events, $750 for promotional materials and $2,000 for prizes for the bands performing. Steadman explained the costs he expected to incur during the semester and said that some of the funds may not be used as he anticipates that some of the events might be rained out. Currently, Steadman has a pool of 40 or so musical acts that wish to perform at the upcoming events. He also said that from the experiences of last semester, the rental of PA equipment was necessary as the Ohlone equipment might not be able to handle the needs of the live performances. Steadman said that he plans for six shows throughout the semester and that he would also like to see these events become a way
for the ASOC to create fundraising opportunities. Steadman added that he plans to get coverage from the various media outlets in Ohlone College, as well as the local Argus. The $5,000 amount will represent 21 percent of the ASOC’s spending budget for the semester. The ASOC has also received a written agreement in regards to the use of Room 1200 in the Newark Ohlone Campus in exchange for their donation of $50,000. In return for the amount of money they have pledged, the ASOC is expecting to get $20,000 to furnish the room. The written agreement, which was received last week, will be discussed and voted upon next week. ASOC Adviser Debbie Trigg made a money request for the amount of $6,721.38 for the purchase of a new Student ID cardmaking device that would be placed in the Continued on Page 6
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Be less dismissive & less trusting of food staff By KYLE STEPHENS Staff writer Often, people are two separate things that, when combined with food, lead to unpleasantness. They are simultaneously too dismissive and too trusting of food service staff. I work at a local food service business. We have a glass display case to show off our wares. Despite my chronic warnings, children frequently abuse this display case. I don’t know what compels the wee ones to use a breakable surface as a drum, but perhaps they know
more about rhythm than I do. I tell them not to bang on the glass. I tell them for their safety, but I also tell them for the sake of their parents’ wallet, lest Mom and Dad come to spend $2.29 on food and leave $4,000 lighter. Just the other day, one woman’s two children were practicing a well-intentioned impression of their favorite red, hairy, drumming Muppet. I told them not to bang on the glass. The mother heard me and got indignant about my “startling” her 4-year-old son. Then she gathered the little animals and left in a huff.
It’s really too bad she left so quickly. Had she stayed long enough, I’d have let her know the following: Madam, once you place an order, the lowly server is alone with your food before you receive it. In this gray nebula of time, out of your sight, out of your control, who is to say what strange and interesting things may find their way into your order. Perhaps, if you are polite, if your child behaves and shatters nothing, the server will add nothing extra to your meal. However, if the server was offended by your behavior,
if you snipped indignantly at him rather than controlling your child, you might leave with a much fuller stomach than you realize. Not that I, personally, would ever maliciously add ingredients to something I was working on (I’m a good kid – an Eagle Scout, no less), but think about every other place you have eaten. Do they also employ such an upstanding young lad as myself? Perhaps, but if not and you do something to annoy one of these “slightly more vengeful” workers, you may get more than you paid for. Soup à la Fight Club doesn’t seem
too far off now, does it? Of course, you can mitigate the chances of bad things happening to your meal if you just play nice and assume good faith when someone is trying to stop your child from hurting himself. I think we all can agree a face full of glass is more traumatic than getting told off for touching something you shouldn’t. In the end, what favors are you doing protecting your children... from protection? If you’re the only one who’s allowed to discipline and keep your progeny safe, how will they fend on their own?
Internships important part of college education By ANDREW CAVETTE Opinions editor I am an old man of 30 years and, despite this fact, I am going to ask that you trust me. I have been to college, received a degree and afterward spent many hours under florescent lighting at the office. I’ve done what you’re about to do. College is important, but it gets you to zero. Again, for clarity: college is very, very important and you should give it every ounce of yourself, but your efforts will get
you a piece of paper. This piece of paper, no matter how hard you wave it around in the air, will look remarkably like every other piece of paper tumbling in the breeze. If you are pure and strict in your academic pursuits, if you show up to class, do the assigned work, study for (and then take) all the tests given, you will do rather well in college when you transfer. However, a bachelor’s degree from the best college in the world will only get you up to speed with the rest of the world and then it will stop; it will get you to zero. You could get a higher degree, and it would be a more impressive
piece of paper, but the thing you should be doing right now (no matter what your field) the real trick to college...is the internship. I have returned to college (with my cane and my false teeth) to do the one thing I forgot to do during my four years of college. Work. Pursue any internship in your field, no matter how removed from your final goal it seems. Nag all five of your favorite professors about summer opportunities and speak often with Ohlone’s fine collective of counselors about what they know. While you are here learning about the thing you want to do, try DOING the thing you want to do.
My peers are at the end of their “jobs” and at the beginning of their careers. Every one of them is where they are because they spent a decade working crap, do-nothing jobs within their industry. They got those crap, do-nothing jobs because in college, they had crap, do-nothing internships and impressed good people by doing well. A friend of mine interned at three or four different magazines during college and got a lot of experience. Once he got his degree, he worked for a few more magazines after college (among other things prepare to be poor, kids). And now,
many years and many part-time writing jobs later, he is a senior editor for CNET.com. Without a doubt, he is there now because he has a degree, but he is also there because of his experiences outside of class. I returned to Ohlone to work at the Monitor and then, through the college, to begin interning for newspapers and magazines. I now work at the Argus two days a week while keeping this page looking pretty. It is a lot of fun and a lot of work, but work is what it is all about. Work is what you’ll spend most of your life doing. Start now.
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Astronomy students witness eclipse up close At right, Danielle Racey of Eric Wegryn’s Astronomy 102A class takes a closer look at Wednesday’s lunar eclipse, while her classmates view the phenomenon from farther off. Though cloud cover in the east obscured much of the event, the class was still able to put the telescope to good use, focusing on Mars and its moons. “It's a little disappointing because of the clouds, but it's not a total washout,” remarked Wegryn. The telescope is one of two the college owns, but Wegryn hopes to add more to the college's collection by stationing several on the Newark Campus, where there are fewer hills to block the view of the sky. Wednesday's eclipse, which lasted from 7:01 to 7:51 p.m., was the last total lunar eclipse for three years. Photos by Eric Dorman
Quinta to receive award for leadership By Barry Kearns Staff writer Science, Engineering and Technology Dean Ron Quinta will receive the 2008 Excellence in Leadership Award from the California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCCAOE). Quinta said that the award is a “great feeling of acknowledgment.” The award noted in particular his work in leading education and training in the fields of bioscience and biotechnology. One of the main reasons for his nomination was for a program he created called LAB, which stands for
Learning Alliance for Bioscience. The program helps high school students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics; many of these students may not have had exposure to such disciplines without the program. Quinta, who has been dean for 11 years now, said he still enjoys his job. Of his many accomplishments, he said that the grants his department has secured over the past three years—one federal and five state—are a special source of pride. One of Quinta’s latest achievements is in bringing awareness of the biotech sciences to middle school students. He said that he had a great amount of help in this endeavor from Vivian
Larson, who helped write the grant. He is also pleased about working with other institutions including high schools, other colleges and creating partnerships within the industry. Quinta started his college career as an art major but, during his freshman year, took many science courses and ultimately went into the field of biology. He also remembers a dynamic science teacher who inspired in him an interest in science during his senior year in high school. The organization providing the award, CCCAOE, an association for community college career and technical education, will present Quinta his award in Sacramento during their conference March 12-14.
Forensics team talks its way to victory By Jerome Nepacena Staff writer If anyone has seen the movie “The Great Debaters,” you may have heard the line, “Debate is Combat.” If that’s true, then Ohlone has some of the best fighters in the state. The Ohlone Forensics team has seen plenty of success recently, due to the work of team members Emily Burkett, David Taube, Chen Lin, Natale Seybold, Scott Holcom and Manika Casterline and Advisors Kay Harrison and Matt Freeman. At the recent Northern California Forensics Association (NCFA) tournament, which Ohlone hosted, the above-mentioned team members all placed highly and earned several awards. Burkett was ranked number 5 for the entire tournament and made it to the open division finals, and Taube ranked number 9 and was also a finalist. “I’m very pleased when any of them win,” said Harrison when asked how she felt about her team and the nice run they’ve had this
semester. The success of the team also carried over into the Diablo Valley College Tournament, which ran from Feb. 8-10. Harrison explained the significance of Burkett’s success at DVC. “Emily won first place in Open Extemporary Speaking, which was a real achievement because every single person in that round was from the University of Pacific, which is a four year school, except Emily.” Sammy Obeid also did well, placing first in After Dinner Speaking. Other highlights from the NCFA tournament include Lin’s reaching the finals in Open Extemp, Holcom becoming a finalist in Novice Impromptu speaking and Casterline first place in Novice Extemporanious speaking. “Our students are doing a great job,” said a proud Harrison. Students interested in joining the debate team may come to the Argumentation and Debate workshop on Tuesdays and Thursdays and speak with either Harrison or Freeman. The workshop usually lasts from 1:45 to 3:20 p.m. in room 3204. “The teams are usually really
big; we usually get about 12 to 13 participants,” said Harrison. If you’re feeling jittery about getting in front of a crowd and
speaking your mind, joining the debate team can be very helpful. “A lot of people don’t feel good at it in the beginning,” said Harrison,
“but when they join the team they can learn to improve as well as get support and feedback from the other members of the team.”
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Weighing Anchor By Eric dorman News editor
The folly of biofuels Often it seems that the main criteria for a new technology to be welcomed by the industry is that it be sufficiently similar to the old technology. Unfortunately, the inevitable result of this practice is remarkably bad ideas being hailed as good ones, and widespread incredulity and head-smacking when the ideas are revealed for what they are. One such idea, and one proceeding rapidly toward the headsmacking stage, is that of biofuels. When viewed objectively, it is an exceptionally bad one; it calls for using our own food supply to fuel our vehicles. When thoroughly researched, it proves to be a worse one; new research suggests that the deforestation necessary to grow the requisite amount of crops to be converted to ethanol could ultimately prove more damaging to the planet than oil. The idea of using ethanol (created from food crops such as corn) to power our vehicles is an attractive one to automakers, since it requires relatively little retrofitting to switch a car from gas to ethanol. However, from the beginning, the process generating ethanol has relied on fossil fuels for energy, so much so that the energy needed to produce one gallon of ethanol expends far more than the energy in the ethanol itself. From beginning to end, the process of producing ethanol is expensive and unsustainable. And as if the idea of biofuels needed one more nail in its coffin, the recent findings of Smithsonian researchers suggest that due to the environmental destruction that could result from the mass planting of popular biofuel crops, a widespread use of ethanol could contribute to global warming even more than oil. Thus by attempting to free ourselves from our oil addiction, we have unwittingly exposed the planet to an even greater danger. Faced with such undeniable proof of the financial and environmental costs of an “ethanol economy,” one would wager that GM and Washington would transition into the head-smacking stage and pour their funding into other, more feasible, ideas. If one were to wager, that bet would be lost. Badly. GM continues to relentlessly pursue an ethanol future, with plans to add a dozen more “flex fuel” vehicles to the ’09 model year. Washington has followed the ethanol dream with equal vigor, spending between $5 billion and $10 billion a year on ethanol subsidies. There is a time to reach for the impossible, but there is also a time to concede defeat to the infeasible. GM and Washington need to recognize the latter truth and turn their attention away from biofuels and toward other, more practical technologies.
Chris de la Cruz flashes a grin and peace sign as he advocates the speech communication club.
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Milton Chavez and Sareeta Patel browse around as Anahita Dadnum tells them about her club.
Students meet all Ohlone clubs By Sandeep Abraham Features editor ASOC is holding its spring semester Club Days Wednesday and today in the cafeteria. Wednesday’s event was well attended, though certain clubs found their attendance had waned a little from last semester. There were 26 clubs on show in Building 5, each of which had put on the equivalent of their Sunday best on tables arranged in semicircles at either end of the cafeteria. The primary incentive for attendance offered was the ASOC’s (Associated Students of Ohlone
College) raffle for three coveted parking spots in the new Lot N. Students had to visit the tables of three clubs, get information and a corresponding stamp from each club on their raffle sheets and fill out a survey to be entered in the raffle. LIFE, AMSA and Peer Mentors received the most students at their tables. Scott Berkenkotter, the president of the Games Development Club said, “It’s good to have a chance to be here.” Like all the other clubs present, the game developers recruited members, sometimes working in conjunction
with the adjacent Christian club, Crossroads. Crossroads hopes to attract Ohlone’s Christian students and those generally interested in Christianity. Its president, Alvan Jiing, summarized the club’s goals as hoping to reach out to Ohlone through worship and to provide its students with a better understanding of their faith. In addition to the raffle, LIFE also gave away a lot of fliers and free packets of vegetable seeds, among other things. Their ubiquity on campus and the introduction of Ohlone’s new
environmentally friendly Newark campus brought many to LIFE’s table. Club President Farrah Naqvi opined that Club Days are “extremely useful” and allow LIFE to “put ourselves out there and let people get to know us better.” Jeremy Boselly, recording secretary and ICC representative for Alpha Gamma Sigma, echoed Naqvi’s sentiment in noting that each semester’s Club Days play a tremendous role in bringing to light the various clubs on campus most students usually only know by the signs near the Palm Bosque.
Facebook: Ohlone’s new great uniter? By Kathy Sung Staff writer The onslaught of Facebook is apparent; it’s all over the news every other day. Closer to home, Ohlone’s ASOC, Peer Mentors, and other clubs are suing Facebook to keep in touch with members throughout Ohlone. With the help of Facebook, people are able to spread news about club events and invite people quickly and efficiently. Kevin Feliciano, ASOC treasurer, said that he started out as the Facebook administrator for the
ASOC and eventually became the administrator for all three groups related to Ohlone. Because Ohlone does not offer each student an Ohlone e-mail address, needed to create an official college group, the group is not an exclusive group but a group that anyone, even students not attending Ohlone, can join. Three groups associated with Ohlone currently on Facebook are: Current Students of Ohlone, ASOC and Ohlone College. Each group has about 150 members each except for ASOC, which is reserved for ASOC members.
Feliciano said that as the administrator for these groups, he is in charge of checking the Facebook group every one to two weeks to send information and recent news to the students. He mostly uses it to update the students on the happenings around campus. Student-oriented upcoming events such as future vacation dates, Club Days and Brown Bag seminars are posted by Feliciano. Feliciano said he’s “gotten good responses” from the use of Facebook, as well as requests for more information.
He encourages students to join the Ohlone Facebook groups in order to stay updated on what’s going on around campus. One of these recent “Facebooked” events, Club Days, offered students a chance to win three spots in parking lot N put aside by the ASOC if they participated in the event by exploring different clubs. Facebook is a free site, open to all. Students who would like to learn more about the activities around campus and the Ohlone Facebook groups can sign up at www.facebook.com.
Features Ohlone alum shows ‘Dragons’
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Devil’s Advocate By Anna Nemchuk Editor-in-chief
Carnivore, no more
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Two dragon paintings at Guevara’s exhibition
Upcoming theatre By Elise Leon Staff writer Starting March 18-20, Ohlone will be presenting 14 short skits written and directed by a group of students at Ohlone. The students who are involved with the play’s production are: Sora Baek, Salem Barner, Ryan Bentley, Kelley Greer, Jay Mohan and Anthony Wickizer. They took a directing course last semester for skills, blocking, script analysis, character analysis and production elements revolving around costumes, sounds and setting. “All the elements tie together to all add up to the message you’d like to send out to the audience,” said Theater Instrtuctor Tom Blank about the material taught in the class. The students also learned about the “production book” - a script with all the blocking, character analysis, the research and breakdown of the play and its designs. As Blank stated, “page to stage.” The students are also involved with the performance from the directing, writing, lighting, sound, scenery and costume sides. Matt O’Donnell, Audrey Walker, Fred Allen and Steve Wthen are supervisors for the play in their own departments.
The students are also a part of the Student Repertory Company. Each of the directors wanted to bring their own personalities and their unique ideas into the play. All of them aimed to give a different experience to the audience. For instance, “Beyond the Fringe,” written and directed by Bentley, is a Monty Python comedy; most of Bentley’s plays are comedies, while Greer, who wrote and directed “Ladies Alone,” brings a more serious side to the production. Baek, the writer and director of “Conversation 2045” and “Original: Mother F*#*^ER,” wanted to make the audience think about how time and the future affects us. Wickizer concentrated on how ironic life can be with his work of “Midnight World’s End.” Seven of the 14 plays which include: “Faith,” “Beyond the Fringe,” “It’s Not You,” “Midnight World’s End,” “Check Please,” “Conversation 2045,” and “Ladies Alone,” will play on March 1820. The last seven plays: “Miss you,” “Dog Accident,” “Scripted,” “Espresso Depresso,” “Post It,” “Original: Mother F*#^ER” and “How to Capture and Keep a Husband,” will be presented May 8-10 at the Smith Center at 8 p.m.
The myth and mystique of ancient times come to breathtaking life this week at Cal State East Bay at Oscar Guevara’s art show aptly named “Dragons.” Oscar, an Ohlone graduate of 2006, went on to CSU East Bay with an associate’s degree in Fine Art. The gallery will have its showing from Monday, Feb. 25 to Friday, Feb. 29 in the university’s Art and Education Building in Room 274. The show will begin with a reception on Monday evening at 7 p.m., ending at 8:30 p.m. It will be open on Monday and Wednesday from noon to 6 p.m., but will have a shorter showing on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, showing from noon to 2 p.m. The exhibition will feature two
prints of watercolor etchings: one 4” x 6” and the other 7” by 7.5”. The exhibit will also feature monotype prints and oil paintings of dragons. Of these, some will be original works by Oscar, while the rest will be appropriations of other dragonrelated works. Guevara was also featured on Ohlone’s Valentine show in 2006 and in CSU East Bay’s Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition in 2007. He also won the Pioneer Bookstore Award for his piece “The Legend of Zelda: The Master Sword.” As an artist, he said he has been drawing for as long as he can remember, but began professionally painting only in 2004 when he took classes with Associate Professor of Art Kenney Mencher. He also hopes to put on an art exhibition at Ohlone in the near future, though plans are still tentative.
Faculty spotlight: Angelique Walt
Photo by Tseten Dolkar By Tseten Dolkar Staff writer “I love Ohlone,” said microbiology Professor Angelique Walt with an air of undeniable enthusiasm. Walt was born in Montana and raised in Washington. Last September, Walt married her fiancé, a Danville native, and moved to the Bay Area.
Walt is very impressed with the quality of education that Ohlone College offers students at such a low cost. She said the programs and facilities that students here have are more advanced than those in some universities in other states. Walt is a molecular biologist specializing in protein and DNA. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Washington State University. She first taught as a teaching assistant in graduate school. She loves the students at Ohlone and appreciates the fact that professors here can have one-on-one time with their students. Having to commute from Pleasanton to Fremont and Newark, Walt is still getting used to California’s notorious traffic. Nonetheless, she likes what the Bay has to offer. She believes every student can succeed in science and is eager to get younger children interested in science. She would like to bring up the “excitement level” of science, “not [the] fear.”
I love meat. The tangy, hot smell of it, the way it mounds on your plate, oozing bloodily at every stab, the heft of as it slides down your throat. Though I like vegetables, I’ve always maintained that I couldn’t be a vegetarian. Even if I wanted to, on top of my flesh addiction, I’m allergic to soy and nuts, two of the staples of a vegan diet. Then came along a book. So there I am, munching my way through a huge pile of raw vegetables and an only marginally smaller gob of dead something. I’ve seen “Super Size Me,” including the Meatrix and skimmed “Fast Food Nation.” I KNOW it’s bad to kill adorable helpless bunnies and cows and baby chickens and devour them but...they’re just so tasty! And I’m a big fan of Ostrich Zen - when something goes wrong, it’s head-sand time. “Pigs on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them-beat them to death with a pipe.” That’s one of the less gruesome quotations from “Slaughterhouse” by Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association. She interviewed workers and supervisors of slaughterhouses, all of whom admitted, in sworn affidavits, to either personal or observed gross abuse and neglect of the animals involved, never mind sanitary violations so flagrant they might as well be wearing sequins. Apparently, according to the USDA, feces is now only a “cosmetic defect.” “These hogs get up to the scalding tank, hit the water and start screaming and kicking... Sooner or later they drown. There’s a rotating arm that pushes them under, no chance for them to get out. I’m not sure if they burn to death before they drown, but it takes them a couple of minutes to stop thrashing.” That was right around the point I got up, the blood in my face having long departed for greener pastures, and threw away the halfeaten meat in front of me. I don’t have anything against hunting in general - circle of life and all that. But tasty is as tasty does; suddenly the whole animal-cruelty deal was driven in pointy-end first. I can only speak for myself. But I’ll be damned if any other living thing has to go through the things I read because of me. Vegetables everywhere, run for your lives.
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TechComm discusses Tech Master Plan By Tseten Dolkar Staff writer The Technology Committee (TechComm) made further steps toward fulfilling the Technology Master Plan (TMP) at its meeting Tuesday. The TMP “incorporates the Title III goals and objectives, which are also part of the College’s strategic plan.” The TMP was approved by the committee during fall of 2007. In addition, new Chief Technology Officer Bruce Griffin was introduced at the meeting. TechComm members questioned him on
tech issues at Ohlone, many questions to which Griffin, who took the position in January, replied that he would research in depth and get back to the committee later. Ohlone’s Board of Trustees voted to outsource the IT Department last November. Among the items discussed was the replacement of old computers. Some faculty members are using old Hewlett Packards and some are using Macs. To balance support and administration, if everyone had the same system, the support process could be easier. However, Vice President of Academic Affairs Jim Wright said that there is only a bal-
Nursing scholarship Washington Hospital is offering a $1,000 scholarship to an Ohlone nursing student. In total, the Washington Hospital Medical Staff is offering seven scholarships to students living within the Washington Township Hospital District working toward a degree in the health sciences. Applicants are asked to provide school records, income tax information and three letters of reference, two of them from teachers. Applications are available online at www.whhs.com/community/scholarships.htm. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 14, 2008 at 2 p.m. For more information, call (510) 791-3446.
Clicker intrigue Continued from Page 1 opposed to 35—of used clickers. However, they will come with a one-year warranty. If the department owned the clickers, it would be up to them— not cash-strapped students—to maintain and replace the units. The clickers retail new at the Ohlone bookstore for $52.75. Adjunct Physics Instructor Lowell Hazelton and Adjunct Math Instructor Terry Maguire both had access to the clickers last year for four weeks, to favorable results. (This writer was in one of Maguire’s classes at the time, and liked the devices, finding no fault with them). Students gave the clickers mixed reviews. ASOC Treasurer Kevin Felciano said in an e-mail, “I bought them once for two of my classes and never used them.” Senator Tina Sayadi recalled clickers as being often inaccurate; in her class, quiz results collected using the clickers often revealed totals that added up to more than 100 percent. A website about the clickers by Ohio State University, lists some advantages of the clickers, “Facilitate discussion by polling students’ opinions and discussing the reasons for their opinions,
collect immediate feedback about students’ understanding of lecture topics so confusion can be addressed quickly, allow students to share, discuss, and change their opinions before answering a question, collect data on course topics or learning preferences throughout the cycle of a course, decrease grading time by using clickers to collect student answers to quizzes and exams [and] record attendance in large lecture courses.” Furthermore, the clickers are said to facilitate more active learning in large classes and allow for anonymous expression of answers. This helps deter students from just raising their hands in union with the apparent most “popular” answer and, with reagrd to personal questions, provides privacy. Niccolls was careful to point out that she would respect whatever decision the ASOC would come to, that at her proposing the purchase of clickers to the ASOC council the council was very polite and had good questions and that she was very grateful to the ASOC for their various and multitudinous sponsoring of science-oriented events at Ohlone, from Brown Bag seminars to stipends for speakers to food at events, etc.
10 join ASOC Continued from Page 1 Newark Ohlone Campus (NOC). The arguments for the new device are for the convenience of the NOC students and to lessen the number of NOC students coming to the Fremont campus to get a student ID. Trigg shopped around for prices on the device until she felt she had the best deal. The device consists of a database system, integration software, a video camera, a card printer, a cleaning kit and a ribbon on which the cards will be printed. The ASOC will vote on the matter next week. In closing, Hamady also brought up her plans for an Ohlone College open house event. The event will display the various programs that Ohlone offers and is scheduled to take place on March 18 and 19. Hamady plans to have the open house offer food to visitors and a DJ for music. The ASOC will vote on this event proposal next week, as well.
ance of $25,000 for new faculty members. The committee wants to put together a plan where money is not the issue but rather, when and if the money is available, the plan can be successfully put into action. Nursing Professor and TechComm member Deb Parziale explored the possibility of separation between the IT and the educational in the TMP. Parziale also suggested the usefulness of a separate committee that would process the faculty’s input and feedback before they head over to the IT department. Vice President of Administrative Services Mike Calegari will be now in charge of the IT department and therefore will be joining
the TechComm. English instructor Rakesh Swamy brought up the issue of teachers commuting between the Fremont and Newark campuses who are having problems accessing docking stations that don’t have an optical drive and possible solutions to the problem. The committee welcomes Ohlone students and faculty to its meetings, which are held every third Tuesday of the month in Room 1407 from 2 to 3 p.m. Minutes from the meetings are available online at http://dev2. ohlone.edu/people2/joconnell/tech. Students and faculty can also voice their issues and concerns on the TechComm blog at www.techatohlone.blogspot.com.
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27 Men’s Basketball - Nor Cal Play-In Away Game. All-day event. 27 Women’s Basketball -- Nor Cal Play-In Away Game. All-day event. 27 New Employee Reception -- Hosted by Human Resourses in the Staff Lounge, Room 5209. 28 Softball -- Away vs. Foothill College @ 3 p.m. 28 Baseball -- Away vs. Gavilan College @ 2 p.m. 29 Brown Bag Seminar -- Industrial Engineering department at SJSU will give a presentation to stimulate more awareness in engineering in Room 3201 @ 11:45 a.m. 29 Men’s and Women’s Swimming -- Away vs. Foothill College @ 2 p.m.
February 21 Club Days -- Find out how you can join a club. Music, free stuff and much fun in the Cafeteria from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 21 Men’s Basketball -Home vs. Diablo Valley @ 2 p.m. 21 Environmental Sustainability Meeting-Third Thursday of each month @ 3:30 p.m, rotating between main campus and Newark. 22 Last day to petition -- Last day to petition to complete a class on a credit/ no credit basis 22 Men’s and Women’s Swimming -- Away vs. DeAnza College @ 2 p.m. 22 Baseball -- Away vs. Diablo Valley @ 2 p.m. 22 Women’s Basketball -Away vs. Monterey Peninsula College @ 7p.m. 23-24 Softball -- Napa Valley College Tournament in Napa. All-day event
March 1 Baseball -- Home vs. Hartnell College @ noon. 1 Smith Center Presents! Kitka -- In the Jackson Theatre @ 8 p.m. Tickets available online or the Smith Center Box Office. 2 Ohlone Chamber Orchestra -- Winter Concert in the Jackson Theatre @ 2 p.m. Buy tickets online or at the Smith Center Box Office. 3 Art Exhibit -- Eleanor Dickinson: Black Velvets & Dreams on display in the Louie-Meager Art Gallery until April. 3 College Council Meeting -- College Council will meet from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. in Room 1307. 4 Baseball -- Home vs. Chabot @ noon. 4 Softball -- Away vs. SFCC @ 2 p.m.
23 Baseball -- Away vs. Lassen College @ Sierra College. Game starts at 2 p.m. 23 Men’s Basketball - Home vs. Chabot @ 5 p.m. 24 College Council Meeting -- Open to the public. Meeting held in Room 1307 @ 3 p.m. 26 Softball -- Away vs. Foothill College @ 3 p.m.
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Lady Renegades crushed; make up with win By Jerome Nepacena Sports writer and Tomás Ortega Sports editor It wasn’t easy and neither team was able to pull away, but the Lady Renegades were able to pull out a close win against San Jose City College Wednesday night. It was an inspired win for the whole team as they saluted the team’s sophomore players before the game. The sophomores, who are playing in their last season for Ohlone College, were given flowers and commended for their contributions to the school. In the end they were all given a reason to celebrate as they came back from a 5-point deficit late in the second half due to some timely three-point shooting and some much needed team defense. “I don’t think we played particularly well, but we played well down the stretch and I think that was a joint effort of all five players that were out there,” said Head Coach Elizabeth Stanley. “It was that seven-minute mark where we decided to play defense and that was a unit thing.” In that late seven-minute stretch, the Renegades were able to force four straight turnovers on San Jose, including a five-second violation with 48 seconds left in the game. After sophomore guard Tytiana Tobin went 1-2 at the free-throw line, giving Ohlone a 62-59 lead, San Jose still had a chance to tie the game. Unfortunately, that defense Coach Stanley mentioned came through once again when they forced San Jose City College into a tough off-balance three-point shot as the game clock expired. The Lady Renegades were led in scoring by Taylor Lyons who finished with 19 points. “Ty and Taylor in particular played well, I’d hate to say one particular name as I think it was a collective team effort, but they both hit some key
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Christina Dixon, right, plays D vs the second-leading scorer in CA, Derisa Taleni. buckets when we needed them,” Stanley said. Again it wasn’t easy, the Renegades were forced into a lot of three-point shots in the first half when San Jose went to a zone defense to keep the Renegades from getting to the basket. “We were trying to bust the zone up with the threes, but it didn’t work. It’s pretty difficult not having the inside presence with Keke being out with an injury,” Coach Stanley said, refering to her sophomore center, LeKreeya Hairston, who’s
been out nearly a month with a leg injury. The end result was a 62-59 victory for the Lady Renegades that helped give the sophomores more reason to celebrate. “I think that these sophomores have done a great job representing Ohlone College not just here on campus but outside in the community” Coach Stanley said. “Basketball is just a part of the Renegade family. There are other things we do in regards to the community, but I think they represented well.”
Chris Warden pushes for five more AED’s on campus
Blowout in gym Friday night was a battle between the top teams in the Coast-South Conference when the No. 2 Ohlone women’s basketball team hosted No. 1 DeAnza College. Their last meeting turned into a nine-point loss for the Renegades and this time they were ready to turn things around against the Coast-South Conference powerhouse. DeAnza entering the game was 10-0 in conference play and
20-7 overall. Unfortunately, things didn’t kick off so well for the Lady Renegades. DeAnza got off to a quick start, by dropping an 11-point lead on the Renegades nine minutes into the ball game. Normally, Ohlone has a go-to inside scorer in Kelly Fisher or a deep threat with Caprice Hall. Going into halftime, the leading scorer was Kelly Fisher, who wasn’t having the night she had hoped, with 7 points. Taylor Lyons was right behind her in scoring, but she only had 4 points. There were very good signs for the first half though. The No. 2 scorer among California, JC players plays for DeAnza. Derisa Taleni, who averages 25 points a game, was limited to just 7 points in the first half, thanks to great defense applied by the Renegades. Also, as the final seconds were ticking off in the first half, Tytiana Tobin hit a basket from half court, a second too late. The second half of the ball game got ugly. Both Geneaya Rogers and Taylor Lyons both fouled out during the second half while only contributing 4 points each. That was just the beginning of the nastiness. The Renegades started giving up easy buckets inside that led to a 12- point run for the Dons. Lakreeya “Keke” Hairston, when in the game, is a huge presence in the paint and on the boards for the Renegades. Unfortunately she wasn’t a factor due to a knee injury that’s lingered for about a month now. Head Coach Elizabeth Stanley said that Keke’s injury was a major component that was missing for the Renegades Friday night. Mostly because C.C. Swaggerd got into early foul trouble and not having Keke to sub in screwed with the rotation of players. Stanley also added that both Kelly Fisher and Christina Dixon are slightly banged up. Moreover she mentioned that “adding up all those variables, we’re half the team.”
Baseball falls in late frame via homer
By Tomás Ortega Sports editor
By Jerome Nepacena Sports writer
Yesterday afternoon the Health Care Coalition held a meeting with guest speaker Chris Warden, Ohlone’s athletic director in Room 5209. Warden spoke to the club, which is in its first full semester, about the need for five additional Automatic Emergency Defibrillators or AED’s on campus. Right now, the campus as 3 total AED’s in case of emergency: one in the fitness center, one with the athletic trainers and the third with campus security. Warden believes that the addition of five more AED’s would greatly increase the survival of a person experienceing Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Through six innings, the Men’s Baseball team held a 4-1 lead against Diablo Valley College. Then came the top of the seventh. Three straight batters reached base with Shane Murchison’s pitching. He was pulled in favor of submarine pitcher, Kurtis Sherer. Sherer’s first pitch was singled into left scoring two. The next batter he faced ended up striking out on three pitches, just to be followed by a first pitch three run home run by DVC's Mike Gonzalez. That 3-run dinger would put DVC ahead for good and give them a 6-4 victory. The game’s collapse was similar to a loss they suffered at last weekend’s Cuesta-Hancock tournament. The loss had Ohlone leading Cuesta college 6-1 but collapsing and losing the game 11-8. “We had those guys beat, and then we played very poor defense and didn’t pitch very well out of the bullpen.” Coach Kunis explained of the loss over the weekend.
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An AED is pictured in the fitness center. He also stated that Ohlone is a high-risk area, mostly due to the stairs that are climbed every day from the parking lot to the top of
the campus. Unfortunately, there is no money in the budget to purchase the AED's. An AED costs a hefty $1,300.