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!"#$%&'()##%*+,-'."&./&')%,'+*0%&,+(/ MARIA GARCIA-HERNANDEZ Staff Writer The “Community Dialogue on Race and Social Injustice” on Friday b ro u g h t t o g e t h e r s t u dents and staff to interact about some of the issues that have been affecting our society. Speech and communications Professor Larissa Favela and other facilitators tried to encourage openness and different perspectives on issues such as the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine
in Paris and controversial grand jury verdicts in the death of two black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo. The event included Pow e r p o i n t p re s e n t a tions about racism, prejudice and social injustice. Large writing pads with hashtag phrases such a s # Mu s l i m L i v e s M a t ter, #BlackLivesMatter, #ThinBlueLine were hung around the room. Everyone who attended the event was given a felttipped pen and asked to write how the phrase
made them feel. The facilitators then gathered everyone in circles to discuss what they felt about the phrases and comments they saw. They were told to promote honest, passionate and respectful responses, rather than debilitative emotional ones. One student said she once had been the victim of a racial slur. “Although it was a joke, it bothered me, making me become physical, Continued on Page 2
Onlone Pony carts students up hill MARTHA NUNEZ Staff Writer If we had to describe Ohlone in a word, “stairs” would be the one. The walk to any building on the upper campus leaves students out of breath and almost crawling, but college officials have come up with a solution to help students survive the dreadful stairs
and construction detours: the return of the Ohlone Pony. The new Pony shuttle picks up and drops off riders from a number of stops around campus to make it easier to get to class and avoid the oftenchanging detours due to construction. Student Mary Kate Dizon said she found the Pony useful.
“After walking up the hill so many times and you’re down here again, you need something to take you up again: the Pony is here,” she said. Starting at parking lot G, the pony makes its way through lots H and E, and then up the hill, stopping on the north side of the portables. It then Continued on Page 4
Festival to premiere plays MONITOR STAFF Beginning next week, the Ohlone College Playw r i g h t s Fe s t i v a l w i l l s h owc a s e w o r l d p re m i e re s o f 1 0 - m i n u t e plays written by profess i o n a l a n d e m e rg i n g playwrights around the country. Ohlone’s Student Repertory Theatre Co., made up of student directors, producers, actors and designers, is producing the festival. The selection of comedic and dramatic plays explores topics oriented toward young adults, including love, hate, dating, murder, relationships, family, racism and fame. “For years, one of the biggest concerns in professional theater is that, as our audience ages, we are not attracting younger people to theater,” said Michael Navarra, the producer of the festival and Ohlone College faculty member. “We started this festival, soliciting original work from playwrights all over the country, to pro-
mote and cultivate new plays that will engage and speak directly to a younger audience.” The playwrights’ published work has been seen Off Broadway and at other venues including the Metropolitan Playhouse, Soho Playhouse, Milwaukee Reper tor y Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, San Jose Re p, P l a y g r o u n d , L a MaMa ETC, Playwrights Fo u n d a t i o n a n d t h e American Globe Theatre. The festival’s first bill will be on March 12 and 13, and the second on May 7 and 8. The plays for the first bill are: “Brendan’s Damn Good Day” by Jeffrey Lo; “Brothers of Emery” by Jake Arky; “Poetic License” by Karen Macklin; “Peabrain” by Jacob Marx Rice; “Stupid Dividers” by Jacob Marx Rice; “A Joke” by Cleavon Smith; “Changing Colors” by Me rc e d e s S e g e s v a r y ; “Tumble Dry Low” by Syche Phillips; “Hooking Up” by John FranceContinued on Page 3