OHLONE COLLEGE
THURSDAY
MONITOR
APRIL 10, 2014 Vol. XLVII No. 6
Ohlone College Scene Shop provides a blast from the past. See story on pages 4 and 5
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ASOC
Student government holds open house With elections approaching, meet-and-greet held in Building 7 MONITOR STAFF
LOUIS LAVENTURE / TAM DUONG JR. / MONITOR
Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Jason Manella, an Ohlone College student, won the 2013 Army Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year award.
LOUIS LAVENTURE Editor-in-chief You might think you have little in common with the 2013 Army Non-Commissioned Officer of theYear, but you’d be wrong. He’s a student at Ohlone College. Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Jason Manella picked up a slew of awards last year, including Army Non-Commissioned Officer of theYear. He also became the first reservist to nab the Army Best Warrior Competition in November, making his student status even harder to fathom. “You put down schooling for a year and a half,” Manella said. “It’s not easy to pick up some of those fundamentals that are supposed to carry over from semester to semester.”
Coming from a very military, trained standpoint where everybody does what they’re supposed to be doing, to showing up where kids are complaining about a test being on Monday. Manella, 27, of Hayward has served two tours of duty in Iraq – from 2005 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2009 – and one in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012. Manella started attending Ohlone in 2006, after his first tour of duty. Those long absences from school to serve his country have made for a tough transition process for the awardwinning reservist. “Going from combat to calculus is tough,” Manella said. “Coming from a very military, trained standpoint
where everybody does what they’re supposed to be doing, to showing up where kids are complaining about a test being on Monday.” Ohlone College Board President Garrett Yee, a brigadier general in the Army Reserve, was impressed with Manella. “Jason is a remarkable young man,” Yee said. “The transition process that he continually goes through and his commitment to everything that he does are truly inspiring.” Yee can relate to the pro-
cess; he is set to deploy to Kuwait for a tour of duty in May. Manella said Ohlone’s Veterans Affairs Office and many of his professors have helped make his transition back to civilian life a much smoother one. “I am extremely blessed to have Ohlone College help me on the way,” Manella said. “It’s not easy being a veteran student at Ohlone. A lot of duties that you have cause you to end up missing a lot of school.” Manella grew up in Fremont and joined the Army Reserve the summer before his senior year atWashington High School. He graduated from basic training in 2004 and shipped off to Iraq the following year. “I was 19 years old, so I wasn’t even legally old Continued on Page 3
The Associated Students of Ohlone College held an open house Tuesday and Wednesday, the week before student government elections will be held. ASOC members and candidates met one another, and other students, during the two-hour meet-andgreet Wednesday in Building 7. “This is an open house where everybody gets to know who their student government is, and we also get to know who the students are,” ASOC candidate Bert “Bubba” Manzo said. Polling will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, in the cafeteria on the Fremont campus and in the lobby on the Newark campus. Students also can vote online on the ASOC website at www.ohlone.edu/org/ asoc/onlinevoting.html. The ASOC’s role is to act as a liaison between the college administration and the student body, and expresses students’ opinions and concerns. For more information, contact Student Activities Coordinator Renee Gonzales at rgonzales@ohlone. edu or 510-659-7311.
FRONTAGE
Bids received on Fremont campus frontage proposal
LOUIS LAVENTURE Editor-in-chief The Ohlone College Board of Trustees received two written bids and one oral bid to develop the frontage property along Mission Boulevard, by Wednesday’s deadline. Clark Realty Capital LLC and Carmel Partners each submitted a written bid, and Carmel Partners later submitted an oral bid as well. The deal involves nearly 15 acres of land along Mission Boulevard at the front of the
Fremont campus. All of the deals included a lease of the property for 60 years with an option to extend the lease for another 30 years. The base rent to the college would be $600,000 a year paid in monthly installments for the duration of the lease. Clark Realty would develop nearly 300 multifamily units of rental housing and 20,500 square feet of retail space, while Carmel Partners would develop 314 housing units and 25,000 square feet of retail. Financially, the two writ-
ten bids were identical. After the two written bids were presented, Carmel Partners representative Mark Garrill submitted an oral bid offering “an additional $200,000 rent in month 60 in the form of a one-time cash payment.” The bids met with a mixture of positive and negative reactions during the public comment portion of the board meeting Wednesday evening. “This is something that will be great for not just Continued on Page 3
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The Ohlone College Board of Trustees accepted bids to develop the frontage property on Mission Boulevard on Wednesday evening.