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Construction transforms campus—again By Eric Dorman Editor-in-chief
For those looking for a change of scenery this fall, there’s no need to move away from Ohlone. Construction crews around campus have stayed busy over the summer, from the remodeling of the bookstore to the ongoing construction of the new Student Services Building (SSB). The most striking exterior changes on campus are from the SSB, where workers are completing the “exterior envelope” of the building, said Buildings and Grounds Director Lucky Lofton. In addition, crews are beginning to install interior walls and partitions. Students can expect a noisy campus for the next couple of weeks, said Lofton, as crews perform backfill compaction—the process of compacting earth behind retaining walls. Due to some weather delays, completion of the building is running a little behind schedule, said Lofton. The anticipated finish date has been pushed from spring to early summer of next year. Over the summer, crews laid the foundation and raised the steel superstructure of the building. They also made progress on the building’s roof and air conditioning system. Construction on the 45,000square-foot SSB began in May 2007. The building, which replaces the old Building 7, will be home to many programs and services currently residing in Building 1 and
Both the bookstore, left, and the new Student Services Building (SSB) have a new look after a summer of construction. The bookstore was completed early in August; the SSB is scheduled to be finished in early summer of next year. Photos by Japneet Kaur (left) and Eric Dorman
elsewhere, including Admissions and Records, Counseling, Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS), Financial Aid and the Student Health Center. For Bookstore Manager Mona Farley, the sweeping $200,000 remodel of the bookstore is the fulfillment of a vision she’s been planning ever since she was hired by Ohlone six years ago. The changes, which are designed to smooth and expedite the process of buying everything from books to clothes to snacks, render the bookstore almost unrecognizable from its former look: in addition to new shelves, lighting, flooring and paint, the checkstands have been repositioned, the texbooks
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have moved from the left side of the store to the right, and the food has been consolidated along the right wall. Farley’s rationale for the changes was simple. “I wanted to make the store a place people would want to come in,” she said, adding that she had felt the bookstore needed to be brought into “the new millennium.” With the creation of this lighter, brighter store, Farley said she feels she’s accomplished this goal. In an effort to make textbooks easier to see and read, lighting has now been installed on all the bookshelves. Furthermore, the shelves themselves are new, and much stronger than the old, less stable shelves.
Textbooks are far from the only offering in the renovated bookstore, though. The food is now stocked together, along the right side of the store, while it was more scattered in the old layout. Because the construction began toward the end of the summer semester and finished before the start of fall, relatively few students were affected by the closure. Although Farley was unable to
open the store the first Monday of August (her opening day for years) she said the availability of textbooks for the semester was unaffected by the construction. While Farley has some hopes for future minor changes to the bookstore to provide more floor space, she doesn’t anticipate performing another major remodel project like this any time soon. “Hopefully, [this renovation] is my last one,” she said, laughing.
Committee chides Board, issues warning to Ohlone
By Eric dorman Editor-in-chief
By Andrew Le Features editor
The Newark campus has been awarded Platinum LEED certification, making it the greenest college in the country, President Gari Browning announced at her first State of the College address Friday. Browning compared the trend-setting campus with a trend-setting Olympian. “Today, we are the Michael Phelps of environmental sustainability,” said Browning. “And tomorrow, we’ll be raising the bar.” Despite record-setting full-time student enrollment last year and impressive growth in its international student body, Ohlone will have to maintain a conservative budget outlook this year due to the state’s budget woes, said Browning. Still, the funds for the Fall semester are in no danger. Browning devoted special attention to Ohlone’s efforts in China, where former President Doug Treadway and Board of Trustees President Garrett Yee traveled last Spring to solidify a connection between Ohlone and a college in Suzhou, China. In addition to praising Treadway’s efforts, Browning outlined her personal approach for program improvement. The approach is comprised of five steps, said Browning: collecting data, analyzing the data, choosing a plan of action based on the data, taking action, and then reviewing how well the goals were accomplished. Browning also warned that campus construction is far from over; in the pipeline are two Fremont projects to combat underground water seepage into the foundations, plus a fire supression project.
The Accrediting Committee for Community and Junior Colleges issued a warning to Ohlone in July after reviewing the findings gathered by an accreditation team last spring during a campus visit. While this action does not directly threaten Ohlone’s status as an accredited school, it does require that Ohlone present the committee with two reports, the first due Oct. 15 and the second March 1, detailing the college’s measures to improve its operations. The accreditation report found fault with the Board of Trustees in serveral areas, citing the Board’s involvement with college policies, their inability to act as a cohesive entity, and the lack of efficiency of their “decision-making processes” as areas of weakness.
Despite high marks given to the academic programs and student services of Ohlone, these deficiencies were significant enough to put Ohlone on warning. In order for Ohlone to keep accreditation, the school is required to remedy the deficiencies exposed by the report. Even on warning, Ohlone will continue to be an accredited school for at least another two years. If the suggestions of the commission have not been heeded by that point, then the school will maintain the possibility of losing accreditation. Ohlone President Gari Browning has already hosted workshops educated involved parties about the definition of policy and operations, changed the guidelines of the meetings, and implemented pre-requisites for bringing up topics of discussion in order to assist the Board in meeting with standards
ahead of deadline. When questioned about her feelings toward the follow-up report due in March by the accreditation team, Browning was optimistic. Citing the Board’s receptive attitude to change, and their desire to benefit Ohlone, Browning was confident that the report would go well. In particular, Browning commended the efforts of Board Presiden Garrett Yee, calling him a “strong chairman” and an asset Ohlone is fortunate to have. Board members Bob Brunton and Nick Nardolillo are up for re-election this fall; Nardolillo is running unopposed. In addition, trustee Trisha Tahmasbi will vacate her post in the fall. The job of the accreditation team is to insure that the community colleges that they review meet state standards to be considered a legitimate academic institution.
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I have a page, a pen, a piñata, and a purpose By BRIAN CHU Opinion editor I’m going to let you in on a secret that only people in the Monitor know. Well, us and Steve Jobs. As well as the guys who run Alcoholics Anonymous. To be honest, your English professor knows, and so does your web browser. And the creep who just tried to pull some pickup artist moves on you yesterday definitely knows. But just them that’s it, I swear. So here it is: “Know your audience.” “Damnit, I’ve been gypped,” you’re probably thinking to yourself right now, but you’ll see in a moment why I’ve had to set up such a long and intricate introduction. Because I’m going to tell you to do something you may not want to do, so get ready. Okay ready? Here we go now. Register to vote. You’ve done one of three things
at this point. Either you’ve (1) thrown the paper down because you are bored and sick to death of hearing the word “vote,” (2) continued reading because you believe voting is an important issue, or (3) have thrown the paper down in disgust and have picked it back up to continue reading because you are bored and have nothing better to do. Ah, see? I do indeed know my audience. Readers in categories 1 and 3 are asking, why dig up the already-dead horse and beat it again for the ninth time? For the same reason the last guy did: because there is something important to be said that you most likely already know, don’t care about and ultimately won't change your mind anyway. So as a quick run-down (or a prebeating sprucing of the horse): You most likely have already heard that the upcoming presidential election is absolutely pivotal to
the future of this country. With two polar opposite candidates up for election, more so than ever has it become important to be part of an instrument of change as the visions each candidate has for the future America differ drastically. But you’ve heard that before. You heard it last election before you even could vote. You don't care that the “results will affect you!” (and you’ve been overly reminded of this by others) because you feel as if the situation is too far away to matter. Okay, check. You’ve heard that research groups spend millions of dollars to find out why your millions of votes aren’t used and then spend millions more dollars trying to convince you to. (The answer is, duh we’re young, lazy, politically cynical and apathetic). Check. You’ve been told that your vote matters and that it has power but the debate inside your head about
how much effect your one ballot will have has already been fought and the results were grim for the ballot. Check. P Diddy told you to “vote or die.” But aha! You don’t care about P Diddy. You gave the television the bird when he said that. You can’t fool me, MTV, I’m subverting unintelligent counter culture! Besides P Diddy ended up not voting himself. So go check off on that one. A snotty elitist armchair activist, overzealous pro-voting Nazi or even a teacher may have told you that you are not doing your patriotic duty and that not voting makes you a plethora of bad names, so you decided not to vote knowing that you’ll be pissing them off. Check. Author and war veteran Ed Howdershelt once said, “There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.” Although the Monitor can do nothing
about the tendency to throw away jury duty notices and neither do we advocate the use of firearms, we do encourage readers to be active and participate in the institution that governs them. Often all we need is that little push, the extra shove from someone else toward a direction to convince ourselves to make the effort to do something. So we’re going to give you that extra shove. An upcoming Monitor issue will have voter registration ballots included in it as well as drop-off directions. If nothing else, just do it because you never have before, and so that if you do choose to decide to vote, a step is already out of the way. The way I see it, the voting system is like hitting a piñata. Beat the crap out of it; that’s what its there for. And in return, it may just give you a little freedom and candy. Delicious candy.
ASOC welcomes you to the fall semester By Jackie McCulley ASOC President WELCOME to the Fall 2008 semester! My name is Jackie McCulley and I am your new Associated Students of Ohlone College Student Government President. The Associated Students of Ohlone College
(ASOC) Student Government’s mission is to represent the students’ NEEDS, WANTS, and CONCERNS. Your opinion matters. I want to hear from you. During the summer, your elected ASOC Executive Officers began working on various projects to benefit you, the student. Those projects include: furnishing both lobbies of Hyman Hall, furnishing the ASOC room at the Newark campus, improving cafeteria
service and food quality, coordinating the Club Days 2008 Carnival, organizing the Annual Thanksgiving feast, granting funding to more than 20 campus-wide programs and exploring different avenues to communicate with more students. I want to see more students get involved to represent our diverse population on campus. If you want to get involved in student government, apply today to become an ASOC
Student Government Senator. Applications are available in Building 1, on the first floor from now until Sept. 17. If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at ASOCpresident@ohlone. edu. Also, check out our new web site at www.theasoc.com. You can also drop by our office located in Building 1, on the first floor in Room 1130. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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JOBS For more information visit Transfer & Career Services. For more information on Jobs & Internships visit Transfer & Career Services in Building 1, 4th Floor, Rm 1405A. Hours: Monday Thru Thursday, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Friday.
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The GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) -- Meetings are every Thursday @ 2 p.m. in SC-116. Everyone is welcome. Environmental Sustainability Meetings --Meetings are the third Thursday of each month @ 3:30 p.m. and rotate between the Fremont and Newark campuses. 2-4 Bookstore Buyback! Be Green! Recycle your books. 2 Fall Semester Begins See the academic calendar for more important dates 2 Extended Hours - Student Services hours are extended for Fall 2008. See the Academic Calendar for
2 ASOC Senator Applications - Applications are now available until Sept. 17 at the EOPS window in Building 1. 2 Men’s Soccer - Home vs. San Joaquin Delta College at 4 p.m. 2 Women’s Soccer - Away vs. Sacramento City College at 5 p.m. 2 ASOC Meeting - Meeting in Room 6105 at 4 p.m. 3 Transfer Center - Transfer Admission Guarantee Workshop Room 6202 at 11:45 a.m. 3 Faculty Senate - Meet-
ing from 3:30 until 5 p.m. Please go to www.ohlone. edu/org/facultysenate for more details. 5 Academics - Last day to add full term class w/o instructor’s signature. 5 Academics - Last day students are added into classes from waitlists. 5 Women’s Soccer - Away vs. Skyline College in San Bruno at 2 p.m. 5 Men’s Soccer - Home vs. Chabot College at 4 p.m.
9 Women’s Soccer - Home vs. Canada College at 4 p.m. 10 Academic - Last day to drop full term class and be eligible for a refund. 10 Board of Trustees Meeting - Fremont campus at 7 p.m. in the Childhood Development Center 11 Transfer Center Transfer Admission Guarantee Workshop in Room 3102 at noon.
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12 All the Way LIVE - Urban Dance Festival at Smith Center. Performance at p.m. Admission $20, $15 Student with flyer and ID. 12 Men’s Soccer - Away vs. Napa Valley College in Napa at 4:30 p.m. 8-9 OPEN AUDITIONS - for Halloween Trilogy in the Smith Center at 7 p.m.. We need actors and some dancers, stage technicians and stage magicians. Contact Mark Nelson at mnelson@ohlone.edu for more information.
8 Golf Tournament - 24th Annual Fremont Bank and Ohlone College Golf Tournament at Castlewood Country Club. 8 College Council - Meeting at Newark Center, Room 1100 at 3 p.m. 8 Transfer Center - CSU East Bay Representative Visit in Hyman Hall Lobby at 11 a.m. 9 ASOC Meeting - Room 6105 at 4 p.m.
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Men and Women’s soccer fall in first games By Tomás Ortega Sports editor Ohlone picked up a new head men’s soccer coach this summer. Don Williams, formerly the assistant and goal keeper coach for the CSUEB women’s soccer team. Coach Wiliams spent 10 years with CSUEB before being offered the job at Ohlone. Coach Williams brought on two assitants under him, coaches Jan Nordmo and James “Butch” McGrew. Williams was surprised to find out that in previous years, the soccer team would only field about 15 players at the initial tryout. The men’s team always struggled with the tougher opponents in the league. From the first day of tryouts, Coach Williams got his hands on more than 20 players to work with. Then narrowed down his search to about 18. Williams’ first task with the Renegades was to get them past their first opponent, the Rams of Fresno City College, the number seven team in the nation. Fresno City’s soccer team is made up of players who normally would have attended Fresno State. Unfortunately, Fresno State cut its soccer program about six years ago. This presented quite a challenge for the Renegades on Wednesday. Ohlone had trouble matching up with the depth that Fresno City
brought with them to Fremont. While Ohlone had 20 players to sub in and out in the heat, the Rams had 30 total. Ohlone did what they could to hold off the Rams, but to no avail.
At the half, Ohlone was down 3-0 by way of a defensive mistake and a penalty kick. The final score came out to 9-0. “We ran into a buzz saw,” said Williams. “Our guys did what
they could against them, but ran into issues with fatigue and even some heat stroke. Fresno’s 30 guys went through 60 gallons of water. And would sub players in groups of seven.”
It was a tough day for the Renegades trying to match up against a group of players who are basically lined up to play at a D1 school. Coach Williams finished saying, “I don’t expect to run into a team this good the rest of the year. This is a one-time thing and we weren’t prepared for it.” Another tidbit for the record. A lot of the players on the squad also play for the Fresno Fuego, a developmental league for players seeking to move up in the ranks in North American soccer. As for the Ohlone women’s soccer team, they started the season off running into a tough opponent, Diablo Valley College, losing 40 Wednesday. “The score didn’t reflect how we played yesterday,” said head coach Larry Heslin, “we played well and kept a good team attitude. Unfortunately DVC was very opportunistic and took advantage of their chances.” The Lady Renegades are battling quite a few injuries on the team. During last Wednesday’s game against DVC, they had most of their team playing out of their normal positions, including three goal keepers out on the field. However, Heslin likes his team’s chances this year. Heslin said, “We might surprise some people this year because of our previous year’s record. So long as we can get and stay healthy we’ll be OK. Like every year, I like to aim for the playoffs.”
personal leave of absence in late spring, leaving the college to fill the position on short notice. When asked why PCC hired Engeldinger to temporary fill the position rather than hiring a more permanent fill, PCC Journalism Adviser Warren Swil told the Monitor that their college is in the midst of a “total turnover” and that most of the PCC staff is interim. The college Board of Trustees approved Engeldinger for a six-month leave without pay from Ohlone College to pursue this opportunity and will be back in Spring 2009. As a Milpitas resident, Engeld-
inger has been a significant asset to Ohlone for the past 10 years, according to staff members including Mike Calegari, Vice President of Administrative Services. “Lyle has played instrumental roles in improving human resources processes and procedures... His organizational skills have [managed] the successful integration of the Human Resources and Payroll Departments,” said Calegari in a mass email to Ohlone staff mid-July when announcing Engeldinger’s temporary absence for campus relations. Calegari also commended Engleldinger for his involvement in
the development of the “New Ways to Work” Program in 2006, which encompasses initiatives such as skill building and cross training. For the time being, retiree Carol Green will serve as the Interim Dean of Human Resources and Training. Prior to her retirement, Green spent 30 years in the Human Resources Department at San Mateo District. Since then, Green has been on a number of interim and consulting human resources assignments for many of the Bay Area community college districts including Peralta, West Valley-Mission, Foothill-De
Anza and Chabot-Las Positas, said Calegari in another email welcoming Green to the Ohlone Community. He added that Green spent several years as an adjunct instructor at the Santa Clara University graduate division. Green earned her bachelor’s degree from California State University at Los Angeles and her master’s degree from Golden Gate University. Green can be found in Engeldinger’s office and can be reached on Extension 6201. Engeldinger is expected to return just before the beginning of the Spring 2009 semester.
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eventually receiving a master’s degree from the University of San Francisco in 1981. In 1967, she married Ward Blanchard, one of the college’s first librarians and the library’s namesake. After being widowed in 1972, Blanchard married again in 1990, this time to Bob Denham, a local banker. Denham died in 2005. Despite her time-consuming work at Ohlone, Blanchard found time for other pursuits as well. In addition to presiding over Toastmasters and being a member of the Fremont Rotary Club, Blanchard was named California Business Woman of the Year. Elaine Nagel, community events coordinator at Ohlone and longtime friend of Blanchard, described her as having an outgoing personality. “I saw her as a flamboyant person.” After coming to Ohlone in 1983 as events coordinator, Nagel
found herself working closely with Blanchard to make the purchases she needed. “Jan was very generous, very helpful,” said Nagel, whose own husband Sheldon served as a professor of history and division dean at Ohlone for 36 years. “She was a good friend.” Nagel maintained her relationship with Blanchard off campus as well as on. Because their kids were around the same age and they both lived close by, the two families would often meet together. Blanchard is survived by her daughter, Nichole Winter, and her granddaughter, Shari Winter, both of Livermore; three brothers, Jack McDonnal of Turlock, Ray McDonnal of Tracy and Cary McDonnal of Midwest City, Okla. Services were held Friday, June 13 at Fry Memorial Chapel, located at 550 S. Central Ave. in Tracy, CA.
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Men’s coach Don Wiliams looks on as his players get back to work Thursday afternoon after a tough loss to Fresno City College.
Engeldinger fills in at Pasadena City College By Jacque Orvis Staff writer Students, faculty and staff will find more than just whole new bookstore and free WiFi on the main campus when they return to classes this week. They’ll also find that one of the most prominent staff members will be missing. Dean of Human Resources Lyle Engeldinger took a temporary position at Pasadena City College (PCC) in Southern California as the Interim Dean of Human Resources. The PCC Dean of Human Resources, Jorge Aguiñiga, took an unexpected
Deaf Studies Dean McLaughlin leaves By Kathy Sung Staff writer Genie Gertz will step into her role as the new Dean of Deaf Studies and Special Services today. She replaces former Dean Joe McLaughlin, who resigned this summer to return to his native Canada. During his time here, McLaughlin brought a lot of his energy and accomplishments. According to Vice President of Academic Affairs Jim Wright, McLaughlan brought a lot of good things to Ohlone. He was “very involved in planning the new Student Services Building – made sure of accessibility for deaf staff and students and people with disabilities.” Gertz is well qualified to step into the shoes of McLaughlin. She holds a B.A in Communication Art from Gallaudet University; a Master of Arts in Human Resource Management in Higher Education from New York University, and earned a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Comparative Education with a focus on Cultural, Racial and Ethnic studies from University California, Los Angeles.
Purchasing director dies Jan Blanchard, former Ohlone Purchasing Director and one of the college’s first employees, died of pancreatic cancer June 5. She was 69. Blanchard was hired in 1967, just two years after Ohlone’s establishment as a college. She retired in 1997 as director of general services. Born in Harden City, Oklahoma, in 1938, Blanchard soon moved to California and grew up in Modesto, according to an article by the Tracy Press. After marrying Rees Winter Jr. in 1957, she moved to the Bay Area, where she worked for AO Smith in Newark. After a divorce in 1967, Blanchard took on a job at Ohlone to support herself and her two children. She continued to educate herself,