OHLONE COLLEGE
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MARCH 12, 2015 Vol. XLIX No. 4
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Board raises student parking fees student parking fees. After a half-hour discussion, an adjusted price hike was agreed upon. Starting in June, summer parking permits will cost $23, fall and spring semester parking permits will cost $40, and daily MITCHELL WALTHER parking permits will cost $4 Editor-in-chief – the maximum allowed by the state Chancellor’s Office. and Originally, administrators proposed increasing CHARLES TUTTLE the parking permit from Staff writer $35 to $50 for the spring The Board of Trustees and fall semesters, from voted Wednesday night to $20 to $26 for the summer raise daily and semester semester, and from $2 to
Daily parking permit increased to state chancellor’s office’s allowed maximum
$3 for daily permits. Trustee Jan GiovanniniHill moved to approve the original proposal, saying Ohlone parking fees are “very reasonable, one of the most reasonable expenses.” Nobody seconded the motion, though, and eventually Trustee Ishan Shah moved to approve the revised version. Shah said the daily parking fees should be increased by more than the semester-long permits to reward “responsible students” who get permits ahead of time. “If we’re going to hit stu-
dents with a fee increase, make it as fair as possible,” he said. Still, many students are unhappy at the prospect of any parking-fee increases. “Wow, I think that’s too much,” chemical engineering major Wan Nur Shazlin said when he was told about the original proposal. “Because most of us are students and working, and I think that’s too much.” The Associated Students of Ohlone College (ASOC) conducted an online poll on the issue.
Ohlone goes live with HD news ODEN, D. Staff writer
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College offers treasure trove of scholarships MONITOR STAFF
Ohlone news is a lot clearer now. The TV station is broadcasting in high-definition for the first time, with “industry professionals teaching the class, and state of the art equipment,” said Arnie Loleng, the video system engineer and instructor of BRDC 142 Live Television Studio. As students prepared for their second live newscast in HD from the Smith Center on Wednesday night, the control room was filled with bright, flashing colorful lights, mixers with faders and many metallic buttons. The monitoring bay hosted a series of screens with different clips of footage cued up and ready to play. To a bystander, it all looks Continued on Page 3
“Out of 1,000 responses, 70 percent of those responding were against the hike,” ASOC President Sonam Babu said. ASOC Vice President Rajbir Rai told the board Wednesday night that ASOC could not endorse the original measure. Little, though, said the district’s Parking Fund spending has exceeded revenues for the past three years, and will do so again this year. The Education Code does not permit districts to use gen-
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Latema Etemadi operates the camera while A.J. Kato anchors during a sound check on Wednesday night before the Ohlone TV weekly news broadcast, which is now in high definition.
T h e Oh l o n e Co l l e g e Foundation is looking for students to apply for more than $150,000 in scholarships by March 22. The scholarships are available to a wide range of students, from declared anthropology majors to those who are pursuing a career in business or insurance. The Dream Realized Scholarship, for example, offers four $2,500 awards to international students with an F-1 visa in a science, technology, engineering or math field, with a preference for computer science. The Evelyn Henderson Deaf Scholarship provides 10 $750 scholarships for deaf students, and the Continued on Page 3
Student pursues passion as event promoter MARTHA NUNEZ Staff writer “Do what you love and love what you do.” We often hear inspiring quotes like this, but how often do we actually apply them to our everyday lives? Well, one Ohlone student is doing just that. Communications major Mars Sartori developed a love for music from a very young age, and her passion has led her to become a promoter for some of the largest electronic dance music festivals in the Bay Area. “They always say, ‘Follow your passion,’ and music has always been my passion since I was little, I’ve always known that,” Sartori said.
Sartori, 19, has promoted events such as LED Borgore & Friends, Wobbleland, and festivals such as TBD Fest and Snowglobe. Sartori’s first EDM event was called “Identity Festival,” which she attended at age 15. “It was a huge turning point for me,” she said. “It essentially changed my life forever, because that’s when I found a new passion and that’s when I found a new love, and I was just so blown away by this lifestyle.” How did she get so far ahead of the game at such a young age? For Sartori, it was just meant to be. “The community in the rave scene in the Bay Area is so committed and so strong that I just kept running into
the same people over and over again,” she said. “You start creating those bonds with people.” When looking for a job, it’s not just about what you know, but who you know. Luckily for Sartori, this wasn’t too difficult for her. “It’s always all about the connections, but it’s not that hard to make connections in this community, because people are so open-minded and willing to just accept you as you are,” she said. “If you like to go to events and you like to talk to people, anyone can do it.” After meeting the right people, Sartori joined Vital Presents, one of the biggest Continued on Page 4
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Ohlone student Mars Sartori promotes large dance festivals.