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TAKE NOTE CityWorks journal seeks entries City Works, the literary journal for San Diego City College, is accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography and cover design submissions from students as well as faculty, staff, administration, and students from across the district and the community at large. City College students are eligible for $100-$150 awards for best cover design, best poem, best fiction, best personal essay and best photography/art work. Non-student submissions are also eligible for the National Writer Award. The submission deadline is Feb. 23. Submissions can be mailed to: City Works, San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101. Guidelines and entry form can be found at www.cityworkspress.org/ journal.html.
Literary Series kicks off Feb. 19 The San Diego City College Literary Center kicks off its 2008 Spring Literary Series with a “One Book, One San Diego” event Feb. 19. The series is sponsored by San Diego National Bank and City College’s radio station, Jazz 88. “One Book, One San Diego” is a community effort to increase literacy through selected readings. “One Book, One San Diego” author Greg Mortenson will discuss the book “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time” on Feb. 19, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. on campus in the Saville Theatre. For more information on the 2008 Spring Literary Series and on the developing lineup for the Third Annual SDCC International Book Fair, visit www.sdcitybookfair.com.
Valentine’s Day bake sale Feb. 14 San Diego City College’s Classified Senate will hold a Valentine’s Day bake sale in Gorton Quad on Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. All of the proceeds will benefit this year’s Classified Senate Awards Ceremony fund.
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Volume 62, Number 9
Covering the San Diego City College community since 1945
February 5, 2008
Fate of Prop. 92 in voters’ hands David McAtee City Times
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Members of City College’s softball team took coach Peter Gregory’s daughters on a shpping spree Dec. 20.
Coach’s children get holiday gifts thanks to City athletes Peter Gregory and family lost home in October wildfires David McAtee City Times It is a common sentiment around the holidays every year that giving is far better than receiving. The fulfillment and validation that is brought with the recipient’s reaction is usually evidence enough that we’ve done something good in the world. Imagine then that the person isn’t receiving some small token of our appreciation, but an array of necessities for the purpose of feeling normal again following a massive tragedy. This was the idea behind last season’s charity event “Shop With a Jock”. Coordinated by Kathy McGinnis, chair of Health and Exercise Science, the plan came together when the softball team, led by Head Coach LeeAnn Taylor, conceived of a shopping trip for the two daughters of Assistant Cross Country Coach Peter Gregory. The Gregory family’s home burned during the wildfires last
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City softball players stand with cross country coach Peter Gregory (middle back row, with goatee and glasses) and his daughters Dec. 20 at Target in Rancho Bernardo. The Gregory family lost their home in the October wildfires. October, taking most of their belongings with it. In desperate need of everyday items, Amy, 14 and Crystal, 8 years old, made their way through Target in Rancho Bernardo, each with about half of the women’s softball team at their side. Both girls cruised right through the toy section, nothing seeming to grab their eye. Their carts filled with a selection of shirts, jackets, tennis shoes, books and the one noted impulse purchase of a Razor Kick scooter.
This kind of attention to the community’s needs isn’t anything new to the softball team, or to McGinnis and Taylor. The team regularly participates in breast cancer walks in the fall, and in the spring operates free camps and clinics for girls all around San Diego County. According to McGinnis and Taylor, the team members are often ready and willing to do such volunteer work. Even as
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Proposition 92 will be voted on Tuesday February 5th, and could lower the student fees from $20 a unit per semester to $15, and would change the budget arrangement for the remainder of a three year period. These two major points to the proposition have garnered it a great deal of attention, positive and negative. Supporters of the proposition include the California Federation of Teachers, the California School Employee Association, and our own school president Terrence Burgess. Under the measure, a separate stream of funding would be established for community colleges. At the moment, most of the funding for public schools is regulated under proposition 98. The amount of money is determined based on the population of children attending K-12 schools each year. Proposition 92 would change the funding arrangement so that community colleges are funded based on the young adult population of the state and the unemployment rate. According to an interview with the KPBS radio program “These Days,” Burgess said that the new funding arrangement would be more appropriate considering K-12 enrollment is dropping while community college enrollment is growing every year. “We are the poorest funded community college system in the nation. And we’re very much operating on a shoe string to begin with and when we’re faced with having to make reductions on a very lean budget it always translates into losing people and therefore access to students,” Burgess said on the program. Jim Mahler, the president of the Associated Federation of Teachers’ local chapter 1931, says that the Federation supports the measure for the same reason. “(The proposition) stabilizes funding for community colleges, which will enable better oppor-
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College participates in Recycle Mania Shanika Whaley City Times “Recycle, Reduce, Reuse and close the loop!!” I’m sure we all remember this recycling jingle from a while back. The popular jingle from the mid ‘90s is making a comeback here on campus. The City College campus as well as other college grounds from across the country will be part of a recycling competition that will help keep the institutions clean and have a little fun while trying to save the planet. Recycle Mania is a contest in which different college and university campuses compete to collect the most recyclables. For duration of 10 weeks, each school will gather and report on how much recycling they have collected from their campus. While the event is going on, a weekly report will be submitted based on the largest quantity of recyclables, the lowest trash rate collected during the contest and how
Holiday Continued from page 1 these comments were being recorded, members of the team began throwing in cash from their own pockets to add to the account. Most of this willingness to participate is due to the knowledge that they are supported as a team on campus, and as students, Taylor says. The money for this charity event, before
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much the campuses are actually recycling. The purpose of this competition is to get the students and faculty from each campus excited about wanting to recycle. It also shows that people are conscious of what’s going on with the planet and how recycling your can of soda or newspaper will have a huge effect on the future. Depending on which college or university assembles the most recycling, they have a chance to bring back the Recycle Mania Trophy and get total acknowledgment for what the school has done. Other schools that have been involved with the competition are: Princeton University, University of California, Davis, Ithaca College and Kalamazoo College. It doesn’t matter how big or small the campus is, it just matters that you want to help and make a change. So get the word out there everybody and do your part to Recycle, Reduce, Reuse and close the loop!
being beefed up by the personal donations of the softball team, was initially gathered by the Nursing Department and the Health and Exercise Department. In addition to the donation, each department wrapped gifts for victims of the fires, and the American Federation of Teachers will be donating a new computer and printer to the Gregorys. Anyone willing to donate to victims of the October wildfires, be they student or other citizen, can make a check payable to the San Diego City College Foundation and write “Wildfire Relief Fund” in the memo line. Checks may be delivered to Vice President Carol Dexheimer in A-105 (a).
February 5, 2008
Clinton stops at SDSU Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) addresses an estimated crowd of more than 7,400 in San Diego State’s Cox Arena on Feb. 1 during a campaign stop. Clinton is running for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination. Both Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) are running historic campaigns for president in the Democratic party. As the two candidates for the nomination, they would both make history as either the party’s first woman or African-American candidate, respectively. JIMMY Thibault Contributor
Prop. 92 Continued from page 1 tunities and enhanced access for our students.” Among those opposed to the proposition are the California Teachers’ Association, the University of California Board of Regents, the California State Trustees, and even the authors of the proposition. Opposition to the measure cites that the funding arrangement doesn’t offer any real plan to cover the funding gap already reeling from a deficit of 14 billion dollars. The Legislative Analyst’s office states that the proposition would increase spending to the tune of $300 million dollars a year and at a three year standing, would cost the state almost a billion. And since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget for the state cut school funding across the board, this
could cause even more damage. According to California School Superintendent Jack O’Connell, a community college ballot measure is not the right way to go. A push for state lawmakers to approve more education funding is the real solution. “We need to make sure we enlarge that pie and not fight over slices of the pie...We need to make an additional investment in public education.” The University of California Board of Regents’ argument insists that as the proposition is enacted higher taxes and student tuitions at University of California schools will be called upon to cover the chasm formed by a lack of foresight, while the arguments included in the voter information guide online state that no such tax hikes are going to be needed. According to a local report, almost 70 percent of college students in California are enrolled in a community college, and close to 10 colleges in San Diego County would benefit from the measure.
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February n Feb. 5 & 6 Recyle mania Kickoff 10am - 2pm Cafeteria http://www.sdcity.edu/esc/conserveenergy.asp n Feb. 8 Last day to receive, add codes & Deadline to drop classes with no “W” Recorded n Feb. 13 Last day to drop and be eligible for refund of enrollment fees and/or non-resident tuition
n Feb. 13 Chic Streetman-Music Performance Saville Theatre 11:10am - 12:35pm n Feb. 15 & 18 Holiday - Abraham Lincoln Day, George Washington Day** n Feb. 19 Greg Mortenson-Author Saville Theatre 11:10am - 12:35pm n Feb. 19 Photography of George LeBeaud Saville Theatre 11:10am - 12:35pm
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CityTimes The primary importance of Super Tuesday Volume 62, Issue 9 February 5, 2008 Published as: The Jay Sees / 1945-1949 Fortknightly / 1949-1978 City Times / 1978Incorporating the newspapers Tecolote, Knight Owl and Flicks Luis Bahena Editor-in-Chief Nailah Edmondson Managing Editor Sports Editor David McAtee Arts Editor Photography Editor Shanika Whaley Features Editor Shevaun Brandom Calendar Editor Whitney Lawrence Alissa Wisniewski Copy Editors City Times Staff Sonjiala Hotchkiss, Mayumi Kimura, Shannon Kuhfuss, Kristina Long, Rachel Martin, Cara Peters, Heather Richards, Susan Roden, Michael Southard, Heidi Stenquist
What is Super Tuesday? Why is it called super Tuesday? I’m disgusted by my peers , given the lack of knowledge they seem to acquire, or should I say do not acquire, about the nation we live in. Well for everyone who has been living on planet “Politics Don’t Affect Me”, who hear the phrase “Super Tuesday” and need a translation, as if I just spoke a foreign language, get a grip. For those of you who live in a bubble, more than 20 states including California will take part in primaries today, also known as Super Tuesday. That means tonight, we will have a good grasp on who will be the presidential candidates for the Democrats and Republicans for the November ballot. Excuses, excuses. “It doesn’t make a difference
colleges in a great way, but when I witnessed a conversation about it between some City College students recently, I saw confused faces. I mean come on people, this isn’t top secret CIA information withheld from the citizens of California. Voting “yes” on Prop. 92 on Super Tuesday would mean $15 a unit; the state would be limited on increasing fees in the future and the school districts would have a required minimum amount of funding. Search Prop. 92 on the Internet, even if you’ve yet to register. Of course, if it’s too late to participate in primaries this Super Tuesday, there is never harm in informing yourself about a subject that can affect you. It’s rather humorous that the same people with no clue about Super Tuesday and Prop. 92 seem
to have heard about the subject matter of tax rebates. “When am I getting my check?” This is the No. 1 question I have heard in the past month. I bet that when those same individuals are asked why tax rebates were even an option for 2008, most will respond,” Who cares? It’s free money.” Consumers are not spending as much money, and some experts say we are entering a recession. This free money you call it hopefully will help the economy. Having a right to vote didn’t even exist 100 years ago for many of us. Many individuals struggled to create this right and now it is taken for granted. So what is it? Continue with living on planet “Politics Don’t Affect Me” or welcome yourself back to reality on this thing called Earth?
Alyssa Nieblas, 17 Criminal Justice “Like, probably the best day of he week? Something special going on.”
Chad Cross, 22 Business “It almost reminds me of home, like Fat Tuesday.”
The inspiration to do good things is derived from love. Our love for our country, our love for our families, friends, communities and our love of home inspire each of us and guide every human being on Earth. If we are living in a home devoid of love, empty of caring and absent of thought, then the inspiration guiding us is hate. Hate for self is not a human emotion because it is not found in nature. The oceans from which
Louis Carman, 26 Undecided “It’s the day for the primaries.”
Diana Lopez, 35 Photography “Change. Progress towards (a) positive future for America. Possible end of the war.”
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Naliah Edmondson
if I vote, my voice will be swept under the political carpet and forgotten.” Now I know you might think it’s brain surgery and a long drawn out all day process to register to vote. It’s not. It simply takes two minutes to fill out the form — but sorry, I don’t want to drag you from your gossiping phone calls, video games or Myspace and Facebook. That would just be the end of the world. That wouldn’t be cool to miss a new friend request or bulletin post. The right to vote can only affect your future. Proposition 92 specifically affects community
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What do the words “Super Tuesday” mean to you?
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George Rivera, 27 Public Relations “Class all day.”
Fighting the “freshmen 10” gain It is known throughout many campuses that when starting college for the first time new students have a tendency to gain what is called “The freshmen 10,” the phenomena in which many students will gain at least 10 pounds in their first year of school. Considering the ease of access Americans have to fast food, that title has been slowly changing from 10 to 15 to even 20 pounds in gain in as little as six months. It’s not hard to try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. However, keeping it a top priority can get tough when starting a new lifestyle such as that of the working student. The sense of freedom to eat whatever you want after a day of classes and chill the rest of the day may sound exciting to some, but it isn’t something that is necessarily healthy. One must remember to stay active or at least practice some sort of physical activity to burn off some of those extra calories. There are simple rules that one can follow to maintain a healthy lifestyle and keep from gaining those extra ten pounds.
LIVE AND LEARN Luis Bahena
For one, walking from place to place is a good form of activity. It gets your blood flowing, keeps you awake and burns a few calories or more depending on the pace and distance. Same goes with food. There is a plethora of fast food places available from one block to the next, but one must remember that if a fast food joint is the only option, there are some healthy selections in the menu. Don’t be fooled by the salad options some fast food places offer. For instance, you may think that you’re eating healthier because you purchased yourself a chicken BLT salad from Wendy’s. But on second glance, the salad packs at least 330 calories according to www.wendys.com. Add the homestyle garlic croutons and honey mustard dressing and you are looking at a 650-calorie salad. At that rate you might as well go the distance and enjoy a Jr.
Bacon Cheeseburger and some Small Fries for the same amount of calories and at a lower cost. Skip the soda since drinking it is just adding more unnecessary calories and sugar to your diet. Either way, you are looking at a 650-calorie meal. Most Americans tend to eat this with a soda and dessert, bringing their total of calorie consumption to over 1,000 calories in one sitting. This is a huge amount considering that a healthy diet should consist of an average of 1,500 to 2,000 calories a day. A healthier option from the same menu could be something like a small chili (minus the cheese) and a side salad with a reduced fat creamy ranch dressing. This meal, which is under 5 bucks for those on a budget, is totaled at 340 calories. That’s almost half the amount of calories the Chicken BLT Salad contains. Looking and paying attention to little things such as this can make the difference day by day when it comes maintaining a healthy lifestyle and fighting off the infamous “freshman 10.”
Practice love, live rich
VIEWPOINT Emily Pfaff
humanity are born were not created to destroy one another, the process is part of a broader organism known as Earth. Earth’s sole function is to sustain all life. Destruction of nature is a modern invention meant to separate humankind from their land. Hate inspires ignorance. The more widespread, the greater the ignorance becomes; the more easily we are manipulated. Modern man has been guiding humankind in our understanding of time. It will be the modern man who is also a thinking man that will liberate life on earth. Tribes like the Kumbai of Papua, and every other instance of tribal living, maintain a respect for nature and a respect for home. Any forests modern man inhabits are destroyed; the forests previously respected by humankind must have the thinking man fight to protect them. If our modern means of living is destructive to our environment, and thereby detrimental to our home, the means by which we’re living is contrary to human survival. Our love for ourselves as human beings should be the uniting force of the next century. Our love for our way of living should not overshadow our longing to live.
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Bears get best of low-scoring Lady Bruins Stephanie Lowe UCLA Daily Bruin LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) — A lowscoring performance is never a positive way to describe a game. It was also not the ideal way for the UCLA women’s basketball team to start off the second half of the Pac10 season. The Bruins (11-10, 6-4 Pac-10) fell to No. 9 California (18-3, 9-1 Pac-10) 67-53 on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion, the lowest number of points the team has scored all
season. UCLA was not able to put points on the board, as California led throughout most of the game, by as many as 19 points. Freshman guard Doreena Campbell had the most productive night for UCLA with 10 points, five rebounds and three steals. She was the only Bruin to finish in double figures. “Doreena was very aggressive,” coach Kathy Olivier said. “She came in and made some things happen and she made some good decisions.” UCLA also got support from junior
center Chinyere Ibekwe’s nine rebounds, and junior guard Tierra Henderson and freshman guard Darxia Morris each had eight points. The Golden Bears were able to hold senior forward Lindsey Pluimer and freshman forward Nina Earl to single digits in scoring, an unusual feat considering Pluimer and Earl are the only Bruins averaging double digits in scoring. No other team has been able to stop both Pluimer and Earl from their normal offensive production. “The reality is that they never got easy
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Wednesday, Feb 6th M. Basketball @ Imperial Valley 7:00 p.m. W. Basketball @ Mira Costa 7:00 p.m. Softball @ Golden West 5:00 p.m. M. Volleyball @ Santa Barbara 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb 7th M. Tennis @ Long Beach 2:00 p.m. Friday, Feb 8 Baseball vs. AZ Western @ Home 10:00 a.m. Baseball vs. East LA @ Home 2:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb 9 Baseball vs. Orange Coast @ Home 12:00 p.m. M. Basketball @ Mira Costa 5:00 p.m. W. Basketball vs. Southwestern @ Home 5:00 p.m. Softball @ College of the Desert 10:00 a.m. Softball @ Pierce College 12:00 p.m.
Sunday, Feb 10th Baseball vs. El Camino @ Home 11:00 a.m. Monday, Feb 11th Softball vs. Imperial Valley @ Home 1:00 p.m. Softball vs. Mt. San Jacinto @ Home 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Feb 12th M. Tennis vs. Cypress @ Home 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb 13th W. Basketball vs. Grossmont @ Home 7:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb 14th M. Tennis @ Cerritos 2:00 p.m. Friday, Feb 15th Softball @ Chaffey 1:00 p.m.
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February 5, 2008 shots because they had to work so hard defensively,” Olivier said. “They never got easy looks on the offensive end.” Pluimer was limited to only seven points, her lowest point total since she scored six points in a loss to San Diego earlier this season. On a positive note, according to Olivier, the Bruins were satisfied with their effort on the defensive front. UCLA was able to force California to turn the ball over 19 times. The Bruins made sure to contain California from scoring in the paint but were unsuccessful in stopping the Bears from the perimeter. “That’s where our focus is: our defense,” Olivier said. “(California) did a good job. They have quickness and they have a strong post (presence), so they can do a little bit of both inside and out.” Both teams had a slight scare in the 12th minute of the second half. Henderson went after a loose ball, causing a collision between the Bruins’ Morris and California’s Shantrell Sneed and Devanei Hampton. Sneed had both legs taken out from under her and Morris fell on her left knee. “She actually got hit hard and she went down along with two of Cal’s players,” Olivier said. “She actually was a little stiff, but she is a competitor. ... She came back in after that.” The three-player collision was enough to worry Morris’ teammates. Morris only recently recovered from a right knee sprain and rejoined the team just last weekend. “It was a big concern going on because she had just come back,” Campbell said. “The way she had fallen, and from my point of view, it looked like her leg was bent out. She didn’t get up right away, which was a little concern, but after she got up she was walking pretty well.” Despite the loss, the Bruins are optimistic for a better showing against No. 7 Stanford on Saturday. “I think it just comes down to more concentration and hopefully, for the next game, they will fall for us,” Campbell said.