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TAKE NOTE Authors to read at Book Fair event The City College Book Fair continues with authors Susan Straight and Bill Luvaas, who will read from their books on April 15 from 12:45-2:10 in D-121.

Straight is the director for the creative writing department at University of California, Riverside. A novelist and essayist whose work has been published in the New York Times, and Harper’s Magazine, Straight recently won the Lannan award for literary excellence.

Luvaas is a former professor from San Diego State who will be reading form his recent collection of short stories, “A Working Man’s Apocrypha.”

Both authors will offer a question and answer session at the end of their readings.

— Heather Richards

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Volume 62, Number 12

Covering the San Diego City College community since 1945

College district faces massive budget cuts Nailah Edmondson City Times

Free jazz concert at Saville Theater Up and coming jazz musician Joshua Nelson is coming to City College April 15 with the Joshua Nelson Quintet.

Nelson is a native of Southern Californian, released his first album at nineteen and has been praised as a pianist and composer by his peers and critics alike. A Monk Competition finalist, Nelson has recently released a new album, “Let It Go,” portions of which will be highlighted at his show.

The free concert will be at 8 p.m. at the Saville Theatre April 15.

— Heather Richards

Art experience planed for Saville The Arts Department is preparing a show incorporating fine art, photography, dance and music, “Dancing on the Fine Edge; a moving exhibit” The show is designed to be “ a sensory experience for the audience,” says Alicia Rincon, the department chair for the visual and performing arts department. The show will be site-specific, integrating the artistic medium with the space. Intricate stage design, dance performances and photography make for a visual spectacle.

The show will be held in and around Saville Theatre, May 9-11 at 8 p.m.

— Heather Richards

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David McAtee City Times

De-building the L building The downstairs hallway of the L building is cluttered with debris on March 27. The debris will eventually be cleared as renovation of the building begins. Take a look at past and present photos of the L building on page 6 and 7.

“This is a moving target and we are keeping our eye on it,” said Terry Davis, vice chancellor of Business Services.

An informative budget development forum took place March 25, when Davis and Chancellor Constance M. Carroll discussed how the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) plans to stay afloat through the massive budget cuts.

“This is the worst time to not invest in “This is the worst community colleges,” time to not invest in said Carroll.

Proposition 98 is a community colleges.” major component in Constance Carroll, funding for K-12 and District Chancellor community colleges because it provides 40 percent of educations revenue.

The funds for the proposition come from state General Fund and local property taxes, and it was envisioned to create a growing, secure fund for education.

In order for Proposition 98 to achieve its sole purpose, the economy must prosper.

“We knew last year the 2008-2009 school year was going to be difficult, that’s why we began planning early,” Davis said.

City College students will be affected in the 20082009 school year. City College plans to cut 250 course sections between the fall, intersession and spring semesters. The 2008 summer program will run the same as previously, except for the absence of one course section, according to President Terrence Burgess.

Another measure that will be taken includes plans to increase the average of students per class. This was subject to change when the 2003-2004 year, averaging 34 students per class, was compared to 2006-2007 when each class averaged only 28.

See BUDGET, page 2

Associated Student Government elections only online Nailah Edmondson City Times For the first year, voting in City College’s Associated Student Government elections will be completely online. With elections quickly approaching, dedicated students are greatly needed to run for office.

Elections will take place online April 28-May 2 around the clock.

City College was the first in the district to use online voting in spring 2007, when students voted yes or no on a Student Center Fee.

A couple thousand students participated in a new era of voting.

Yet, using the normal paper ballots for electing officers in the same election brought out only 600-700 students, according to Dean of Student Affairs Secretary Gail Rodriguez.

Lynn Neault, the vice chancellor of Student Services, was a huge part in bringing the online voting to life.

Anyone interested in holding a position should stop by the Office of Student Affairs to pick up an application packet. All packets

will need to be turned in no later than April 4 at 3:30 p.m.

The Office of Student Affairs will announce the applicants who are eligible to campaign April 8 at 3:30 p.m. An election forum will

be held for the student body to meet their candidates April 16.

The benefits that come along with the positions include a paid stipend, traveling to retreats and conferences, college management and student leadership training.

A mass email will be sent to all City College students with a valid e-mail on file, to remind students of the online voting procedure.

Students unable to vote online can stop by the Office of Student Affairs, room D-106, to cast their vote.

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Budget Continued from page 1 With a larger average of 34 students per class, the year ended with a $2.6 million surplus. On the other hand, the average of 28 students per class ended the year with a $6.4 million deficit.

How will this budget affect transfer students at the community college level?

Each California State University campus plans to reduce their enrollment by 10,000 students for the upcoming 2008-2009 school year, according to Carroll. As many know, SDSU will not be accepting students for the spring semester and all other CSUs plan to take the same action.

The acceptance of fall 2008 transfer students was also reduced. SDSU accepted 3,900 transfer students in fall of 2007, while this fall only 2,800 transfer students were accepted.

The community college district does not plan to lay off classified faculty and administrators. City College will put a hold on 65

percent of job openings and 60 percent of the funding for those vacancies will be put aside for the future of the campus, according to Davis.

“Cutting costs alone will ruin the state, both cutting and increasing revenue is key,” Carroll said.

The deficit continues to grow $1.5 billion every month, according to the legislative analyst’s office, which is the resulting factor of the governors 10 percent cuts across the board. An additional $2.9 million snuck up on the SDCCD when there was a property tax shortfall this year in the Orange County area.

If it were up to the legislative analyst office, student fees would be increased to $26, with no mid-year cuts or 10 percent cuts across the board. On the other hand, the governor’s view is completely opposite on the same issues.

The college district is currently planning for the future as well. Once face-lifts are finished, the district will more than double square footage, meaning more staff, grounds keepers and custodians. This will increase the need to maintain the funds of at least $13.1 million per year.

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Chancellor Constance M. Carroll discusses San Diego Community College District’s plans to stay afloat through the massive budget cuts during a forum March 25 on campus.

The college district isn’t the only local school system struggling right now. The San Diego Unified School District alone is in an $80 million deficit, forcing a lay off of 1,600 employees in 2008. Programs such

Worried about how to land that job you’ve always dreamed of? Well, worry no longer because April is Career Awareness Month. City College will be hosting a number of workshops to help students prepare for those heart-thumping, palm-sweating interviews. The month will kick off with a “What Not to Wear” fashion show.

Students who are less concerned with finding a job and more concerned about graduating are also in luck. City College will hold numerous workshops and visits from advisors from many four-year universities.

Some workshops to look for are the San Diego State University Guarantee Work-

shop, to be held on April 9, and the University of California San Diego Transfer Admission Guarantee Workshop will take place on April 11.

City College will also play host to many four-year-university advisors this month, including advisors from Alliant University, Cal State University San Marcos, University of California Santa Cruz and University of San Diego. Check the Transfer/Career Center in Room A-111 to see if your school of choice will be visiting our campus this month.

To receive the latest transfer or career news subscribe to the free monthly Transfer/Career Center E-Newsletter by e-mailing citytran@sdccd.net or by visiting room A-111.

as art, music and athletics will also feel the effects of the budget crunch.

“What’s happening in K-12 is criminal,” Carroll said.

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April is Career Awareness Month Kristina Long City Times

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n April 3 “What Not to Wear” to an Interview, Fashion Show Cafeteria 10:30am-11:30am

n Tuesday Amnesty International B-202 2-3p.m.

n April 10 Health Industry Career Fair A-Quad 10a.m.-12p.m.

n Tuesday Study Skills Workshops L-214 4p.m .- 5p.m.

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n April 11 Withdrawal deadline - No drops accepted after this date n April 11 42nd Street - Broadway Musical $10 Students/Sr/Mil/ general $15 Saville Theatre 8p.m. n April 16 American Red Cross blood drive 9a.m.-2:30 p.m.

n Tuesday Alcoholics Anonymous meeting D-105 11a.m.-12p.m. n Wednesday Associated Students Meeting D-105 2:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. n Tuesday Study Skills Workshops L-214 5p.m. - 6p.m.

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Students and staff mourn sudden death of John F. Sullivan SONJIALA HOTCHKISS City Times John F. Sullivan III, who had served the college district for over 30 years, passed away suddenly in his home on March 16.

At press time, the cause of death was unknown.

Most recently, Sullivan had been a counselor in the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services office at City College.

“He fully expected to see us on Monday,” said Donna Carter of her friend and colleague. Her computer screen displayed verses she had composed in memory of Sullivan.

“He was a Kappa brother. You have to put that in there,” Carter said.

Carter added that students often remarked that they could talk to Sullivan about anything without fear of being judged.

“Look, Mr. Sullivan, I’m through,” Lisa Price remembered saying to Sullivan in his office.

“No, you’re not,” Sullivan responded. Price credits encouragement from Sullivan as one of the reasons she is now three classes away from attaining her college goal after 10 years of parttime study.

City College Vice President Gerald Ramsey said that a schol-

arship fund for students will be established in honor of Sullivan, as Sullivan often personally funded students in crisis.

Sullivan was born in Illinois.

There he obtained an undergraduate degree in English. His later obtained graduate degrees in Educational Psychology and Educational Administration and Supervision.

Sullivan enjoyed sports, classic jazz and R&B and frequently entertained his colleagues with storytelling.

Sullivan was past president of the San Diego Community College District Teacher’s Union. He served as president of the San

Diego Community College Counselor’s Association four times.

“It’s like he’s part of the building,” said Price on behalf of students like herself who first met Sullivan while he was working at ECC. Visitation and final services were held for Sullivan at El Camino Memorial on March 27 and 28. Sullivan is survived by a brother, Sean Sullivan.

Contributions to the Sullivan Scholarship Fund may be sent to: John E Sullivan Memorial Scholarship Fund, C/O G Ramsey, San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd, San Diego, California 92101.

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Sullivan, who passed away March 16, will have a scholarship fund in his honor.

Union-Tribune reporter speaks on importance of determination, investigation Mayumi M. Kimura City Times “Question everything.” This was the advice that San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Dean Calbreath gave to San Diego City College students during an interview after speaking at Saville Theatre on March 12 about the uncovering of one of the biggest bribery scandals in congressional history.

Calbreath, a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that exposed a congressman and the corruption that reached into the highest levels of the CIA, the Pentagon and Congress, discussed the story behind “The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught,” as part of the 2008 Spring Literary Series.

“Dean Calbreath was a perfect choice. His story is extremely relevant and it’s big news. He was an obvious choice – it deals with public and local affairs,” said director of City College’s International Book Fair and English professor, Jim Miller.

Calbreath explained how a small tickle of his colleague’s investigative nose began the fall of former California Rep. “Duke” Cunningham.

Tipped off by undocumented trips to Saudi Arabia that were personally financed, reporter Marcus Stern initiated a lifestyle audit on Cunningham to see whether he was living beyond a reasonable means of a congressman’s salary.

They found that Cunningham had bought a home in Rancho Santa Fe for $2.55 million and a previous one, which he had sold, in Del Mar for $1.67 million.

And if the price of these homes wasn’t reason enough for suspicion, the buyer of the Del Mar home was.

More digging led the team to a business by the name of 1523 New Hampshire Inc. This name was immediately recognized as an address in Washington D.C. The address was home to a corporate defense contractor, MZM.

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Dean Calbreath, Union-Tribune reporter The team knew then that they were about to unearth something big, especially after going over MZM’s public records. It showed the corporation’s defense contracts went from zero to worth more than $100 million, which coincided with the purchase of Cunningham’s Del Mar home.

They were in the midst of a scandal, but they were missing one thing. Quid pro quo, or the “something for something, one thing for another.” What was Cunningham giving in exchange for the extra $100 thousand he pocketed from the sale of his Del Mar home?

In a phone interview with Stern, Cunningham admitted to supporting defense contract programs, including MZM contracts, but never acted with bias. He was unaware that the reporter had knowledge of his home sale. On June 12, 2005, a short article on Cunningham’s possible bribery was printed.

And then the revelations began to surface. More names were introduced into the story, one being Brent Wilkes. Stern had gotten the name from a lead but found that it pointed back to San Diego, so he passed it over to the Union-Tribune team.

Calbreath began digging and found that Wilkes was a Chula Vista local who seemed to have no significant ties to Cunningham; but they continued to search.

See REPORTER, page 5

Nailah Edmondson City Times

Red Cross takes donations Robert Liwag, an American Red Cross technician, took a blood donation from student Lourdes Guerrero on March 25 in Gorton Quad. Though the Red Cross did not hit their target of 24 donations, the bus will be back at Gorton Quad April 16 from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. The American Red Cross supplies donated blood to San Diego County hospitals, according to a San Diego chapter fact sheet. About 150 units of blood are given each day for children with leukemia and adult cancer patients; accident, trauma and burn victims; patients undergoing scheduled surgeries; and many others who require blood transfusions. Find out more at www.sdarc.org.

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OPINION

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Volume 62, Issue 12 April 1, 2008 Published as: The Jay Sees / 1945-1949 Fortknightly / 1949-1978 City Times / 1978Incorporating the newspapers Tecolote, Knight Owl and Flicks Nailah Edmondson Editor-in-Chief Heather Richards News Editor Whitney Lawrence Opinion Editor David McAtee Arts Editor Photography Editor Shevaun Brandom Advertising Manager Calendar Editor Whitney Lawrence Alissa Wisniewski EJ Pennine Copy Editors Susan Roden Michele Suthers Graphic Artists City Times Staff Evonne Ermey, Jacob Fredericks, Sonjiala Hotchkiss, Mayumi Kimura, Shannon Kuhfuss, Kristina Long, Heidi Stenquist Roman S. Koenig Journalism Adviser City Times is published twice monthly during the semester. Signed opinions are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily represent those of the entire newspaper staff, City College administration, faculty and staff or the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.

District policy statement This publication is produced as a learning experience under a San Diego Community College District instructional program. All materials, including opinions expressed herein, are the sole responsibility of the students and should not be interpreted to be those of the college district, its officers or employees.

Letters to the editor Letters to the editor are welcome, 350 words or less. The staff reserves the right to edit letters for grammar, spelling, punctuation and length.

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Opposing viewpoints — weighing in on reality TV Real or not, it’s really entertaining “Will you stay in this house and rock my world?” Bret Michaels asks his rock goddesses, in “Rock of Love 2,” where he tries another stab at love with millions of viewers watching, including me. Reality TV is wildly entertaining, and among the top rated shows today by far.

Anyone of us would make for great viewing; each person is so different in their response to things, facial comments and body movement. It’s live people watching. A certain voyeurism we deliciously eat up. Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist said “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

If you enjoy special features and documentaries, you might also gravitate to TV shows involv-

VOX POPULI

Question and Photos by Heidi Stenquist

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ing real people versus scripted shows with industry stars. Reality TV goes back to the days of “Candid Camera,” “The Gong Show,” “The Newlywed Game,” “The Dating Game,” “Laugh-in,” “Star Search” and “Love Connection.”

Those shows have paved the way for “Dancing With The Stars,” “Americas Got Talent,” “Cops,” “American Idol,” “Punk’d,” “Hell’s Kitchen” and hundreds of others. Even the American Gladiators are back.

See TURN UP, page 5

Sick of “Survivor,” bored of Baio This year’s writers’ strike has left television viewers with few options of what to watch in place of their old favorites. Network executives seem to think the answer to the lack of well-written television is reality TV. What kind of society are we living in where replacing awardwinning shows such as “The Office” with shows with titles such as “My Dad is Better than Your Dad” is okay? Instead of watching other people live their lives on television, how about getting off your couch and living your own?

It makes me cringe to think that the area of television that I want to get into is being taken over by reality television. It makes me even more sick to see

TURN IT OFF Shannon K . Kuhfuss

the people that are being chosen to have their own reality shows.

These people have done nothing to deserve their second chance at 15 minutes of fame, let alone their first. Just because all the talent in Hollywood is fighting for their paychecks doesn’t mean the fifth string of burnt out “celebrities” should be called in.

“Scott Baio is 45 and Single?”

More like “Scott Baio is 45 and Jobless.” Or even better, “Who is Scott Baio?” Personally, I don’t care if he ever finds love or what-

See TURN OFF, page 5

What is the craziest April Fools’ Day joke someone played on you or that you played on someone else?

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“My friend called and told me he was on the run from the police and they were looking for him, but I didn’t believe him because he called from his house. Other people are gullible, but not me.”

“My brother-in-law told me on my wedding day, the Groom had left the church and wasn’t coming back … ending in, APRIL FOOLS’ DAY!”

Andrew Murphy, 24 Radio/Television “When I was about 15, I got my parents and some family members together and told them I had gotten a girl pregnant.”

Daniela Villa, 26 Nursing “I had an ex-boyfriend surprise me with flowers; supposedly he wanted to break-up.

Then he told me it was an April Fools’ joke. I cried, and then was laughing.”

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Turn up Continued from page 4 The “Amazing Race” is a great adrenaline rush, and every “Bachelor,” or show like it, I’m going to watch. The human struggle is very engaging.

The travel channel, the history channel, HGTV and countless other shows teach you things of significant value and take you places. People like watching the plight of

Turn off Continued from page 4 ever they’re paying him to find. It will only last until he’s offered another season to display another one of his pathetic problems to the public. Oh wait … isn’t that the premise for the new “Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant?” Wow, a year older and that much more pathetic. I can just feel the creativity flowing out of that one.

I will admit that when shows like “Survivor” first came out, I was interested. That was a big sum of money to win on national television and those contestants really had to work for it. Once it hit about the sixth season, it got a little old. The different tribes were struggling to get by living in tents and hunting for food while the sunbronzed host slept in a nearby Hilton and sipped mai-tais.

love, the exchange of words in conflict, and the “Dirty Jobs” of others.

I like to see human free-style emotion, I don’t care that it’s set up. Its fun to see who’s going to win a challenge of sorts, how they behave, what is said. Editors have to cut a tight show, which means splicing transitions, background noise. They have a story and their intention is to move it forward with what they’ve got, placing the audience where it wants.

Behavior is very telling. Reality TV is the study of others, entertainment, and real people we don’t already know about.

As VH1 puts it, “Watch and Discuss.”

It is also rumored that VH1 is scheduled to put out six new reality shows, one of which is about Brooke Hogan out on her own. Since when does anyone care about the Hogan family or the manly, less-talented member Brooke? Granted, it must be hard to live in your father’s shadow, but not when the shadows are literally the same size. Do us a favor and drop the microphone, pick up some yellow spandex, and jump in the ring. Then we’ll talk.

Overall, reality television has been lacking entertainment and even more so, quality. I hope that by the time I finish my studies and am ready to be a television writer, the industry will have vomited all of this reality garbage out of its system.

Network television will have to eventually take their mulligan on this one and move on.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I would set aside a giant chunk of money so I could single-handedly pay the writers to come back to work. They would have to take me along, however.

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URBANALITIES By Michele Suthers

Ticket or no ticket, that is the question Dear Editor: Dear San Diego City College Police Force: The beginning of the Spring 2008 semester was certainly hectic in terms of parking. The lot at C and 16th saw cars parked anywhere and everywhere, in marked and unmarked spots. Yet, I did not see one ticket on a car, and I’d like to thank you for being so compassionate to students during this time.

When permits became required, it was still rather crowded in the lot. For the first time, I parked at the end of a row of parked cars, as several others had done the same.

That day, each car parked in this manner received a $25 parking ticket, cited as a

LETTER TO THE EDITOR City Times Readers “hazard.” That was in February. Since that time, people have continued to park at the end of rows, but I have only seen these cars ticketed perhaps three or four other days.

Dearest parking enforcers, either ticket all of these cars or none, and let us know which action you intend to take. Your inconsistency is quite a nuisance.

A.B. Nichols City College student

Thank you for recycling this paper.

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Dean Calbreath autographs his book and speaks to students at the Saville Theatre.

Reporter Continued from page 3 Calbreath and his team were astonished by what they discovered. Wilkes had become quite the businessman. He worked as a liaison between companies that needed defense contracts and the congressmen who could get them.

In the span of two years, Wilkes had given over $80 million worth of gifts and “political contributions” to Cunningham in exchange for defense contracts for the companies he represented.

That was the end for Cunningham and those associated with him.

On Nov. 28, 2005, former California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham resigned and soon pleaded guilty for accepting more than $2.8 billion worth of bribes from defense contractors for government contracts. He was sentenced to eight years and three

months; the longest sentence ever given to a congressman.

Persistent investigation and an obsessive drive to find the truth led to the fall of one of the biggest known bribery cases in congressional history.

“I think this story helps students look at the larger political structure and what is involved. It shows the process of investigation and to not take everything at face value,” said assistant director of the International Book Fair and English professor, Kelly Mayhew.

And although there are always risks in investigating such high profile people, the need to know became stronger than the fear.

“I like Calbreath’s drive to find the facts. It’s not easy, especially dealing with the C.I.A. It took a lot of guts,” Darnell Ford said, radio/television writing student at City College.

Ultimately, Calbreath stressed the importance of demanding the truth when things just don’t seem right.

“When you doubt it, when you question it: investigate,” Calbreath said.

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FOCUS

April 1, 2008

L

Looking through L building from where the South entrance once stood. The tiled wall of the women’s bathroom is visible in the center, with the elevator shaft on the left, behind the caution tape.

That’s it, et it all out.

Demolition of building in full swing Photos and Layout by David McAtee Text by Heather Richards

The insides of the L building, pictured above, are being completely gutted. Opened Jan. 4, 1970, as City College’s library, The L building has had its day and then some.

Official word is that these renovations will take approximately 18 months.

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The former home of Trio/Aspire.

The desolate classrooms and eerie hallways of the L will welcome back some of the old programs housed their before construction, but a new Math Center, English Center and Tutorial Center are planned as well. The L dates back to the 1970s, but while disco and the BeeGees disappeared, the L building carried on. This renovation is the first the L has seen since it was opened.

The L building, foreground, in the early 1970s.

Students, and the occasional dog, spent time in the building when it housed the library.

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A pile of rubble fills a section of the L building’s first floor.

ARTS

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Experience yields results on ‘42nd Street’ set for June Richards HEATHER RICHARDS City Times

“7”, from Bradley Streeper’s exhibit, ‘Ma’, which showed at Point Loma Nazarene.

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Art From Above Artist’s paintings view grand scheme David McAtee City Times Bradley Streeper’s exhibition at Point Loma Nazarene, which closed on Feb. 14, displayed 10 of his recent works in a series titled Ma. The term refers both to the words Meaningful Absence, and to the Japanese term Ma that describes the space in between beats in Taiko drumming.

Streeper developed his style while attending Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington, IL, graduating in 1999. He concentrated on painting and printmaking and moved to San Diego in 2002, attending San

Diego State University, where he received his Masters in Fine Arts degree in 2006.

While in San Diego, Streeper was highly sought after by collectors and galleries alike, with exhibitions in Los Angeles, at Uncommon Ground in Chicago, Simay Space in downtown San Diego and was even nominated for the San Diego Art Prize in 2007. In 2004, Streeper began teaching drawing and composition at San Diego State and Mira Costa College in Oceanside.

The paintings for his most recent show at Keller Gallery at PLN visually reference topographical satellite photos,

David McAtee City Times Streeper in 2007. which were a direct influence on much of Streeper’s painting style.

See STREEPER, page 11

Two of the actors are stopped, yet again, by June Richards’ sharp voice.

“No, no, no. I will scream from the audience. It’s an ugly gesture — what I said nine thousand times.”

Fifteen other students gathered on the edges of the stage ham it up to one another as Richards holds court from a metal folding chair upstage. This is a rehearsal for “42nd Street,” and June Richards is the director.

“Good. Perfect,” Richards says to the tortured-looking man whose gesture was so unattractive, but stops him again, “No, don’t be cute.”

A small woman with a warm, intense presence, Richards has been the artistic director at San Diego City College for, “10 exquisite, beautiful years.”

“42nd Street” is the latest production, and with three weeks to go, the actors are still missing cues and bumping into one another. Richards remains calm and commanding. Rising to act out a bit of a song, castigating, threatening and encouraging the actors she admits are mostly green, Richards still appears confident that the show will succeed.

She has been in her students’ shoes many, many times.

“When there is a movement the people involved don’t know that they are setting precedents…

This is when no one had moved to New York yet,” Richards recalls of her early days in the business right before New York’s theater scene had a significant revival.

Her memories are dotted with powerful names: Jose Ferrer, Amy Irving, Morton Subotnick.

She began acting as a teenager through her high school though her family had no involvement in theater. “Not at all, nothing.”

Richards says she fell “madly in

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Broadway musical comes to the Saville Heather Richards City Times The City College production of the Broadway musical “42nd Street” will have their opening night April 11 at 8 p.m., and features an ensemble cast aged 18 to 79.

Swept along by catchy musical numbers and the tip-tap of dancer’s feet, “42nd Street” is a light-hearted look at the psychology of people in the theatre business, particularly the rise and fall of those who chase fame. The play follows a group of actors as they struggle to rise from anonymity in small cities to stardom on New York’s 42nd St, the epicenter of Broadway, where one of the chorus girls gets her big break by becoming the lead in the show.

“It has its own charm,” said June Richards, artistic director for City College, who is directing the show with Alicia Rincon, the department chair for visual and performing arts. “Everyday we are bombarded with violence … this show is an antidote to that.”

City College puts on two shows a year, auditions being held early in each semester.

“It’s the cheapest ticket in town. You get an orchestra, a full production … for the price of a movie ticket,” said Richards.

“42nd Street” will run every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., April 11-27 at the Saville Theatre, 1313 Park Blvd. For tickets call (619) 388-3676.

DJ Johnny Flores to obtain degree after long delay HEIDI STENquist CityTimes At 49, John Flores can finally say he is. Sober now four years, he’s looking forward to graduating this June having earned his Associates of Science in radio/ television.

Thirty-three years after dropping out of high school, he’s making up for lost time and years of not being so good.

“I didn’t know I’d be able to do it,” he says of college. “In the past, I couldn’t stay focused because I was always [messed] up.” Now, after a little more than two years, his focus has been on school. He is picking up the pieces of his life after years of addiction.

Flores grew up in Linda Vista,

a self-described “Americanized Mexican or “Poncho,” raised by hard-working parents who believed in the American dream.

His dad signed him up for baseball by the age of 7, and he would play all night on the street with his friends after practices. Things gradually began to change when a friend, “David”, started smoking.

Flores did too. He was 13.

The next two years, he was “messing up, partying,” drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, marijuana, pills, basically drugs “A-Z.” The two “partied too much together,” and by 15, after eight years, Flores no longer played team sports. Once a “good defensive player,” his antics got worse, and so did his drug use.

“I didn’t want to go by any

John Flores behind the microphone. rules,” recalls Flores, who says he used crystal meth on a regular basis; he drank and partied with his friends, finally dropping out of

JOHN FLORES Courtesy Photo school and running away to join the Army at 17. He enlisted 10 months after the U.S pulled out of Vietnam, during a time when

drug use was prominent and drug tests were still not in place.

Within eight months he was overseas in Germany, where he found himself getting into unnecessary trouble.

“I didn’t listen to authority,” Flores says, “drugs were found easily in the form of liquid speed, and sold over the counter in the villages.” He was also smoking hash and drinking alcohol. After six years, he left with an honorable discharge for time served.

In 1987, Flores quit a speed habit that lasted 20 years. His drinking got worse, and the same year within the same week he got two DUIs. Before the final

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Radios and records: The life of “T” Herring Sonjiala Hotchkiss City Times “The old joke is, I play records,” Ted Herring answered with a laugh when asked whether he played an instrument. Herring is a jazz DJ at KSDS Jazz 88, the City College all-jazz radio station.

Herring has been on the air at City since September 1978.

Herring said he learned Jazz working at KSDS. Well before which, he always loved the radio.

He spoke of being a boy walking with his little transistor radio held close to his ear during the day and close under his pillow at night.

Many years passed between the boy and the man now playing records at KSDS. “I can be good enough,” Herring said to himself once he made the decision to give radio a try.

He met Damajale while looking to break into radio at a company that used to reside at 4th and Broadway. Damajale, who has become a pillar of the San Diego music scene, told him that the place to learn radio was City College.

Now it has become part of

JAZZ 88 Courtesy Photo Disk jockey Ted Herring.

Herring’s almost 30-year routine to head off to “Jazzland,” the name by which he and his fellow disc jockeys refer to coming to work.

Herring, known as, “T,” hosts sets on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Herring got his nickname from a little boy who couldn’t pronounce, “Ted.” Herring thought it sounded like a cool name for a jazz guy, adding that this was long before the show with Mr. T. Herring got his Saturday night gig upon the departure of one

of the station’s founders, Doug Coffland. When Coffland left, so did his personal library of blues records.

Herring, left to make do with the station’s less-than-stellar blues collection, decided to add in music from other blues-related genres such as jazz, gospel, and New Orleans zydeco, thus the set’s title, “Every Shade of Blue,” which airs from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Herring got off to a rough start at KSDS as a newsreader. It didn’t take long for him to realize that news reporting had shades of blue he didn’t want to cover.

“The PSA crash happened my first day on air,” Herring said. He was the only one who showed up to work that day, so the whole day’s news coverage fell to him.

He quickly asked the instructor, Hope Shaw, if there were anything else he could do. At that time, there was a hard-to-fill 9am to noon slot waiting.

Like most of the DJs at KSDS, Herring has a second job. He performs weddings. Herring calls them truth-and-life weddings. He said that he enjoyed getting to

know the couple and telling their love story during the ceremony.

Herring’s own love story began at Olive Grove Park when the sister of a friend’s wife ran up to introduce herself.

“My middle name is Olive. I can prove it to you,” said futurewife Connie before running off to gather her driver’s license from her purse. Herring’s friends explained the license wouldn’t be much help to Herring because he was blind. This moment of embarrassment was the start of Herring’s love affair and the end to his 49 years of bachelorhood.

Herring talked openly about Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), the degenerative eye disease that eventually resulted in his complete blindness. As his loss of vision progressed, Herring adjusted his studio routine.

Herring explained that he picked out the music for the next weekend before leaving the station and put his sets together during the week at home. Though he was reluctant to make the switch from vinyl to CDs, he is now grateful for the new technology.

“I can’t find a groove with a needle,” Herring explained, but he could click through to the right selection on a CD. He said that figuring out the sets beforehand actually allowed him to enjoy the music more during the show instead of always fumbling around for the next selection.

Herring said that he was especially fond of jazz guitar. He hosts a jazz guitar hour on Sunday evenings from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Herring also hosts “Is It Late Sunday or The Monday Blues?” from 12 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Monday mornings.

Ike Turner provided him with his most memorable interview.

Herring said that one question was enough to launch Turner into 45 minutes of non-stop storytelling, including the story of his bass flying off the top of the car on the way to a gig. On that night Turner learned to play electric bass because that was the only bass at the local pawnshop.

“Going to Jazzland has never stopped being fun,” said Herring.

“When it stops being fun, I’ll know it’s time to quit.”

Can thrift store jeans make you feel like a million bucks?

A wardrobe is a must. We don’t live in an episode of Survivor. Clothes that fit and represent our individual style are important.

Many of you max yourselves out financially by buying the latest brands at retail prices, buying clothes can be both cheap and much fun at the same time.

Millions of people buy things for themselves or others and for whatever reason constantly donate things they don’t use, need, didn’t like, never fit, outgrew, updated, etc. to thrift stores.

After all, it’s a tax donation. Benefit from it. Thrift stores, re-sale/ consignment shops, offer the wardrobes of others for a small fraction of the retail price tag.

Each a Pandora’s Box, filled with long racks of hundreds of styles, sizes and brands, thrift stores have isles of centuries of trend to behold. Shirts, shorts, pants, dresses, women’s and men’s, anything you can think of, you’re going to see. One can sift through, let’s say, two hundred pairs of black pants for the perfect pair you can afford, fit in to and love.

Thrift stores have a unique appeal because you can look at so many designs in one place.

The variety alone, rummaging through decades of styles, is fabulous! Or if you’re looking for a funny T-shirt, cool worn vintage jeans, costumes or local sports wear, there is so much to look through and find.

You find many new pieces that have the tags hanging off them.

I have found Banana Republic suede pants with the tags hanging off them for $110, and I got them half-off, for just $7.50! Versace dresses, BCBG handbags, Lucky Brand Jeans, Ralph Lauren, South Pole, LRG, you name it, I’ve seen it. All await the smart shopper.

After you buy that pair of jeans

ADVENTURES OF THE FRU-GAL Heidi Stenquist for $50, they become used, right?

Why not buy the jeans in the first place for $5? As a pirate huntress of deals since an early age, I have always gone to thrift stores. This is the way to add core pieces to your wardrobe. Hunt for the deals, which are everywhere, that include your favorite looks.

You will get so much for your money at thrift stores you might become addicted like me. Very rarely will I shop retail; I get so much for my money, why would I? I go just to wander around for strange, unusual items or possibly the deal of a lifetime. Most thrift stores have daily specials with certain tag colors on sale. So pay attention to everything, you never know what you’ll find.

Really close to campus are three of my favorite thrift stores, including two that you can walk to. The Salvation Army is a couple blocks from campus at 901 Park Blvd. and has plenty of free parking. They have a calendar of daily specials, usually buy two get one free on clothing. Seniors and military get a 10 percent discount, but are closed on Sunday.

The Goodwill Thrift Store on the corner of 16th St. and Broadway offers a 10 percent discount to students, military and seniors with the proper ID. It’s open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., except Sundays, when it closes at 6 p.m. With shirts for sale at around $4.49 and being so close to campus, it’s very much worth a weekly visit.

Amvets, located off the Pacific Coast Highway at 3441 Sutherland St., is number one in my book.

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On Wednesdays and Saturdays all tags except the new color are 50 percent off. The place is huge, with a smorgasbord of finds available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. They have everything. On a Saturday morning before 9 a.m. there’s a line at the door waiting to get in. Go see what you can find.

Spending a couple of dollars for an article of clothing is a deal for anybody. Remember there are so many new or slightly used clothes of all kinds out there. Go check some out; it will change your perception, especially when you start finding so many deals. People buy new all the time. Remember – classic cool stuff never goes out of style. If you’re looking for core basics or funky stuff to freak out your closet, thrift stores are a place that will have you spending less and saving more. I’ll see you there!

Pictured above, some of the finds available at Baras thrift store in Imperial Beach.

Spending a couple of dollars for an article of clothing is a deal for anybody. Remember there are so many new or slightly used clothes of all kinds out there. Go check some out; it will change your perception, especially when you start finding so many deals.

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Service Learning gives back to community Mayumi M. Kimura City Times San Diego City College has made history. SDCC’s Service Learning Program is taking its first steps toward building a relationship with its community partners.

Although, students’ community involvement and service at SDCC goes back many years, the Service Learning Program was officially formalized Fall Semester 2007. The program now includes 22 faculty members and over 400 students. “Incorporating and sustaining service learning as part of any curriculum requires considerable time and effort,” said Faculty Service Learning Coordinator, Francisco Moreno, also a sociology professor here at SDCC. “It is an honor to be a part of such a premier movement.”

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Service Learning meeting held March 7.

So what is the Service Learning Program?

“Generally, service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful com-

munity service within instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civil responsibility, and strengthen communities,” said Moreno.

Simply speaking, the Service Learning Program is one that leads students to volunteer in their community with the guidance of the service learning faculty.

“This service learning project can greatly impact, as well as improve, our societies. By volunteering for less fortunate causes, we will all be able to gain from these experiences. The only way to improve our societies is if we learn from each other,” said SDCC student, Mitchellie Lim. “This program was extremely beneficial and gave me insights that I can use to improve how I interact with handicapped individuals in the future. It was a very positive experience,” said SDCC student, John Arnold, of his experience assisting in a special education class.

Since becoming a formally recognized organization, the pro-

gram has begun reaching out to agencies in the community for an even larger impact. March 7 marked the first community partners training for agencies that wanted to partner with City College on Service Learning projects.

SDCC hosted the event to discuss the purpose of each community partner and its future goals for the program.

“Service learning helps both the community and the student. Agencies are helped when students volunteer to fill many needed positions that help the agencies meet their goals. Students are helped by learning how to apply what they learn in a classroom, and utilizing that knowledge in a way that is useful, and beneficial to a cause that they believe in,” said SDCC student, Adam Conn.

Newscene crew in need of new production resources Shannon K. Kuhfuss City Times Students involved in Newscene at City College have been facing difficulties in terms of equipment, or lack thereof, for the production of their television news show in the past few semesters.

Newscene is a class provided by City College for Radio/Television Communication (RTVC) majors, which gives students hands-on experience in television production. The class, which has been part of the curriculum for about 30 years, provides the student body with campus, district, city, national and international news, as well as sports and entertainment.

The past few semesters, however, have been a struggle for Newscene for many reasons. First, the cameras are beginning to malfunction. The cameras used in the Newscene television studio were donated

by KPBS-TV around 30 years ago and have slowly but surely begun to break down.

The cameras are very expensive, therefore not easily replaced. Field cameras are now being used in place of the old cameras,

which means the students are not provided with a teleprompter. This limits the number of cameras that can be used out in the field.

Remaining optimistic, the students make do without the studio’s usual necessities.

“Working without a teleprompter can be both a disadvantage and an advantage.

I always tell my students if you can do your job without one and do it well, the day your prompter goes dead in the real world, you will be able to deal with it professionally and smooth as silk,” said Laura Castañeda, Assistant Professor of Radio TV. Newscene will have more challenges ahead: high-definition turnover. The Federal Government requires the turnover from analog TV next year. A plan is in the works for Newscene to convert to HD technology and replace its old equipment simultaneously.

Though Newscene students do a lot of the preparation work for the show, they also have help from Castañeda on the editorial side, Mike Kaye in the technical areas such as directing, audio, and cameras, Craig

Chatfield who helps tie up the loose ends of the production that are vital to airing a newscast and former Newscene student, Chris Acedo, who now works as videotape editor at NBC 7/39, and helps the students with the technical aspects of their work.

Newscene, or RTVC 145 Television and News Production class, gives students a chance to learn what their future careers could entail while providing an experience that many other universities and colleges do not. Though the situation with the broken equipment is not ideal, the students and staff said they still find ways to produce the show every week.

“Our students get hands on experience everyday dealing with news from pitching stories, writing stories, to producing, to shooting, interviewing, editing, and then delivering the news on air. We tape as though it was live and sometimes the mistakes get on the air-waves, In the real world, they only get one shot at it, so our philosophy is it’s okay to make mistakes; it’s how you recover,” Castañeda said.

Newscene airs every Friday on channel 16 at 6:30 p.m.

CKP

the campus kitchens project teach • reach • feed • lead

welcome to the newest classroom on campus: the kitchen.

Fight hunger in your community!

Email: info@campuskitchens.org

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Students make do with old equipment.

Student symposium seeks applicants The Student Project and Research Symposium, an annual event at City College that showcases artwork, scientific posters and oral presentations, is accepting applications until April 11.

The symposium is open to all students, though artwork and presentations must be created under the advisement of a faculty member. Posters will be displayed on a 4-feet by 4-feet board and can be artistic or scientific in nature.

The oral presentations must be six minutes or less.

The Symposium will be held in Gorton Quad on May 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m..

Guidelines, applications and sample works are available at the symposium’s website, www. sdcity.edu/support/urc/symposium.asp.

— Heather Richards

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ARTS

Richards Continued from page 8 love with performing,” and so joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she met the daughter of Uta Hagen; Hagen was already a significant name in theater. “Much of life is accidental,” Richards says.

At that time, what is now the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre was the San Francisco Actors Workshop. Richards performed numerous plays with the workshop and eventually moved with the company to New York City.

The Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre was intended to be the cornerstone of theater in the U.S., and Richards was involved in the beginning of that movement. She then joined the Herbert Bergdorf Studio in lower Manhattan under the tutelage of one of New York’s prestigious and most respected acting teachers, Uta Hagen.

She was “very intense, very smart,” Richards says of Hagen.

Hagen’s theory is sometimes compared, sometimes contrasted, to Stella Adler who was teaching just across town at what is now the New School University.

Flores Continued from page 8 sentencing, Flores eluded the police, and went underground for 10 years, working small odd jobs and managing properties. Finally tired of looking over his back, he turned himself in 2000, deciding he needed “a stable life.” He went through inpatient treatment for

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Marlon Brando are other students associated with these two acting teachers.

Richards’ years in New York, about four in all, saw many shows and many friends and acquaintances who would later become famous. But when looking back on her life, she said the raising of her two daughters as a single mother, and putting them both through college, is her most significant accomplishment.

“The reality of supporting them made it clear that being an itinerant actor, which is what you are, was impossible,” she says.

Faced with leaving the profession of acting, Richards said she realized she would have to go back to school. In three and a half years, she obtained her associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and became the artistic director at Contra Costa College in the Bay Area. “Almost from day one, my strength is in developing programs,” she notes.

Much of what she did in the ethnically diverse atmosphere at Contra College is visible in her work at City College, where she created a new curriculum and expanded a somewhat beleaguered program.

Richards says San Diego is alcohol at the veteran’s hospital in La Jolla. Part of the outpatient program was work or school.

It wasn’t until the drugs and alcohol stopped that Flores was able to focus on the things that were always so important to him.

He began taking classes at City College, and soon began to feel mentally stronger with each completed course. He was interested in the radio/television department and set to work challenging himself to get a two-year-degree

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June Richards directs the cast of “42nd Street” during rehearsal.

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unique as a border culture and thus has its own “signatures and identity.” When she directed “The Whiz,” she collaborated to make the lead bi-lingual, translating some of his lines into Spanish.

Because of the diversity of City College’s students, Richards says she is constantly looking for ways to incorporate ethnic diversity.

Students refer to her as blunt, a fact that surprised Richards. “I try hard to create a situation in which there isn’t anything other than

encouragement.” However, “that is who I am, as an individual.”

“Passion can be intimidating,” said Alicia Rincon, department chair for visual and performing arts, who co-directs “42nd Street” with Richards. “June is completely committed to her art … (and) has a unique balance between great passion and intense clarity of communication, so she can pin point issues and communicate to the students who may misunderstand the situation at hand. She is

always compassionate.”

Richards grasps the hands of the lead singer, kissing each of them, her voice too low for the rest of the company to hear. After three hours of tedious repetitions the rehearsal is over. Richards singles out the actors to affirm their work. The man with the bad gestures smiles nervously as she commends his efforts.

“The hardest thing for students,” Richards said, “is rejection … you have to be resilient.”

in it.

“The choices I made, I made. I was influenced by friends, but ultimately it’s all on me, I don’t blame anyone but me,” say’s Flores, who is most proud of his sobriety.

Taking a very active role in the communications field, he has been an intern for World Talk Radio, 92.5 FM, and has volunteered as an on-air host for KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM, now a production assistant for the station on campus; he can be found

tutoring students who come in as scared as he once was. Students like Antonio Marquez, who says Flores is “a student who’s been through the whole program, he knows a lot of information from a student’s point of view.”

He is also executive producer of Soft Soul Productions, which can be found at http://myspace. com/softsoullatino. Flores is currently working on a second CD with Kennis Jones, a former writer for Smokey Robinson and

longtime friend he has always been inspired by. “It’s his lyrics and the stories,” he says, proud of his involvement.

Out of everything in his life, he is most proud of his sobriety, and graduating this June is the next important goal to meet. He is one of many adults re-entering school, going for a higher education, and getting it. “You’re never too old to learn,” he says “and if you have a dream follow it through. Things will happen for you.”

Streeper Continued from page 8 Arrayed on the walls of the gallery, one can see the influence of composite maps from NASA in the highly texturized paintings. Streeper worked feverishly on them for three months as an elaboration on his 30-piece thesis exhibition entitled ‘Topography’, from 2005.

In addition to the topographical maps and composite photographs compiled by orbiting satellites, major influences include artist Robert Ryman, filmmaker David Lynch and of course, comic books.

“They were an early influence on a lot of my work. Mainly the visual element in comics that convey a direct narrative, said Streeper” He later returned to the more moody and indirect narrative style conveyed with darker, less definite images from aforementioned artist Ryman.

Ryman’s square paintings from the 1960s strip the Renaissance format of horizontal or vertical rectangles determining whether a painting is a portrait or landscape of meaning. “I started making things that set a mood and created an environment rather than directly told a story or narrative,” said Streeper.

Streeper began working on a project in July 2003 that involved making a full 15-inch square painting every day for 31 days. The

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Keller Gallery at Point Loma Nazarene. challenge of making something new from start to finish everyday was an intense project, and he began to use materials and substances more akin to home repair than making art.

“To be cost effective while working on such a large-scale project, I decided to buy random gallons of ‘oops’ latex paint from the hardware store.” ‘Oops’ paint is color incorrectly mixed for customers and thus sold at a reduced price. “I liked the idea of recycling this unwanted paint into something interesting and desirable.”

Streeper used everything from gesso to decoupage glue, on varying surfaces such as plywood and pounded copper. He discovered that the natural process of drying

at different rates with different caustic reactions could produce something more interesting and wholly unexpected than simply brushing acrylic or oil paint onto canvas.

He was also inspired by Sigmar Polke, a German born painter and photographer who used caustic and unstable materials to create large scale paintings. “My goal was to manipulate these materials into something unrecognizable and extraordinary. The daily paintings, I pushed till it went too far in some cases. I was using all different materials. It wasn’t pure abstraction, though.”

Streeper began to develop themes that carried over into his later, and more current, work. “I

was interested in the shift between micro and macro, and where that shift took place. I noticed the similarities between the biological and the topographical.”

With the current exhibit, Streeper asked himself, “How can I get back to being really connected to these paintings?” In searching for where he wanted the paintings to take him, he removed the extra layers that made up certain older paintings and reduced.

Realizing that the work he does is constantly in flux, Streeper says “If these [paintings] sat in my studio much longer, I’d probably start working on them again.”

Challenges to the process tend to be simple but pivotally difficult,

the largest of which is trying to keep the paintings themselves from becoming formulaic.

He works on the pieces as they lie flat on his studio floor, letting the paint do what it does naturally when poured instead of brushed on. He pours, lets the paint dry, adds more paint, carves into the wood, pours, repeating this process up to months at a time for certain pieces.

When asked what he hopes or expects the audience to get out of his work, Streeper says, “I don’t edit a lot out of the exhibit. I want the process to be seen, so they can get a sense of the time spent on the work.”

Bradley Streeper’s art can be seen at www.streeperart.com.

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Captain shoots for bright future Kristina Long City Times Basketball has always been a passion of San Diego City College’s junior point guard Jesse LeBeau. Enough so that in high school LeBeau would boat every morning at 6 a.m. from the island that he grew up on in King Salmon, Alaska to his high school to practice his game.

In LeBeau’s case, all of the hard work paid off. LeBeau, then a true freshman received a scholarship to play basketball at Point Loma Nazarene for the 2005/2006 season. When his options ran out there, he moved on to play for the City Knights.

LeBeau wrapped up his final year at City at the pinnacle of his game. He averaged 12 point per game as starting point guard for the Knights. According to the Knight’s Assistant Coach Joe D’Ambro, LeBeau brought more than his athletic skills to the team.

SUSAN COOPER Courtesy Photo Basketball captain Jesse LeBeau.

D’Ambro said, “Jesse is unselfish, takes instruction well, and gives 110 percent at all times.”

As team captain, LeBeau was able to help the team with his leadership skills and basketball experience. “Heart and hustle are key to a successful team,” said LeBeau. A player that is committed enough to boat to practice every day should have a lot to share about heart and hustle with

his teammates.

At this point in his life, LeBeau is using basketball as a stepping stone to get to his ultimate goal; a successful real estate career.

LeBeau is currently seeking a school to transfer to where he can continue to play basketball and move forward with his earning his degree in business administration. Santa Clara University is currently at the top of his list.

After college, LeBeau hopes to continue to keep basketball in his life. He would love to play overseas or on a team for the American Basketball Association like former PLNU teammate Brian Graham who plays for the San Diego Wildcats.

Former PLNU teammate Kevin McGuire said, “Jesse will do well for any basketball team that he chooses to play for. He is the type of guy that keeps your head up when the score is down.

With that kind of attitude, Jesse will be a great asset to any team.”

April 1, 2008

Are you wearing the right proper shoes?

David McAtee City Times As part of an ongoing lecture series, the Fitness Center will be hosting a lecture on April 7 regarding how to select the correct athletic shoe. Organized

by Fitness Center Director Paul Greer, the lecture will be given at 5p.m. by Michael Rouse, Director of Footwear Product for Zoot Sports, in the Harry West Gym, room 206.

The lecture, titled “Selecting the correct Athletic Shoe”, will cover such indicative topics as overpronation, pronation and supination of the foot, fallen arches and sizing, among others.

According to Greer, the presentation will be most important for athletes, but the importance of selecting the correct shoe affects most athletic activities.

“This lecture is to help individuals select the correct athletic shoe for their activity,” Greer said.

Selecting the correct shoe for your activity requires a more scru-

FILE PHOTO City Times City College’s Fitness Center. tinous science than simply trying on a few pairs, Greer believes .

“Most exercises and activities require good equipment for sufficient use. It’s not just about getting the right size, it’s about fitting your foot. This is not a trivial part of athletics,” Greer stated.

Some of the problems that arise from selecting the wrong shoe are bunions (an enlargement of the bone and tissue around the joint of the big toe), shin splints (inflammation of the connective tissue in the shin and around the tibia) and arching heels.

The Fitness Center hosts three lectures every semester, with 2008 being the fourth year of the lecture series.

SDSU baseball comes out strong against Utah EDWARD LEWIS SDSU Daily Aztec SAN DIEGO (U-WIRE) — Garett Green believes his team has finally turned a corner.

After the San Diego State baseball team beat Utah twice at Franklin Covey Field in Salt Lake City, the senior second baseman is confident that SDSU has arrived.

“Our team is starting to click,” Green said. “It’s about that time where we’re starting to figure things out.

“We’re starting to see results and doing what coaches have been telling us and it’s helped us out.”

The Aztecs came out strong on March 22 and never looked back as they scored five early runs on five hits in the top of the first inning. Junior third baseman Nick Romero hit a three-run homerun with no outs in the inning and finished 2-for-4 with three RBI’s and one run scored.

SDSU would go on to score three more runs in the second inning, providing J.R. Murphy with more runs than he would need to pick up the win.

The senior pitcher went 7 and 1/3 innings, allowed just two earned runs, struck out eight batters and picked up the win in the Aztecs’ 9-3 victory over the Utes.

“J.R. Murphy, pitching wise, has definitely (been impressive),” Green said. “Coming into the game (Saturday) against Utah we were 1-1 (in the series) and he pitched as well as I’ve ever seen him pitch.”

The win marked SDSU’s fifth Mountain West Conference victory of the year and the difference between league play and non-conference games has been night and day. The Aztecs (12-10, 5-1 in MWC play) have outscored their two conference opponents, BYU and Utah, by a total of 45-27, but lost nine of 16 non-league games.

“One thing we’ve seen is that we’re a streaky team,” Green said.

“It’s good for us to start out the season (well) in league and if we can keep this going it’s only going to benefit us.

“Of course, we’d like to keep the streaking on the winning side.”

Green and SDSU looked to continue the winning streak against UCLA at 6 p.m. March 25 at Tony Gwynn Stadium. The Bruins came to San Diego fresh off three straight losses to Long Beach State over the weekend, and also carry a losing streak against the Aztecs. Last season, SDSU swept UCLA (10-8) in three games and Green is certain they’ll have revenge in mind.

Campus Track Club seeks members San Diego City College athletics is on an ongoing search for new members to join the Track Club, according to Fitness Center director Paul Greer.

Anyone interested in joining can call Josh Wheeler at (619) 269-6211 or coach Peter Gregory at (619) 929-2617 for more information.