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Volume 66, Number 6
‘Don’t glorify war’ Veterans gather in Gorton Quad to share the horrors of war as they honor fallen soldiers
By Jennifer Manalili City Times War is not a game. Several combat veterans delivered tha mesage at a special event at San Diego City College Nov. 10. The Veteran’s Day event included Arlington West, a display of 252 cardboard tombstones that were set up around Gorton Quad to commemorate the soldiers who have been killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The tombstones included the names of soldiers hailing from different areas in California including San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange and Imperial counties among others. This was the second year that the event was held. The event was put on by Maurice Martin, a veteran and the president of the San Diego City College chapter of Veterans for Peace. Veterans for Peace is a non-profit organization made up of veterans from various wars who draw on their own experiences to help spread public awareness on the consequences of war. A significant number of the student population at City is made up of veterans, according to Martin. “Arlington West honors fallen veterans, those who are living and dead, and those whose sacrifice is still ongoing through homelessness, PTSD (PostTraumatic Stress Disorder), depression and traumatic brain injury,” said Martin. Speakers at the event included World War II, Vietnam,
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A memorial was set up to commemorate Jesus A. Suarez Del Solar Navarro, a Marine that lost his life in the Iraq War. Troy Orem, City Times
November 15, 2011
Peeping Tom twice arrested in campus bathroom By Kevin Stover City Times
Korean, Iraq and Afghanistan wars veterans, Congressman Bob Filner and City College President Terrence Burgess. The president of the San Diego branch of the Veterans for Peace, Barry Landendorf, was on hand to support Martin and help get wthe message out to young people in the community. Landendorf, 69, is a Vietnam War veteran who served as an engineering officer in the U.S. Navy during 1965 to 1968. “We tend to glorify war when war is not a game,” Landendorf said. “You can’t help but be affected by it. If you aren’t serving then you prob-
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Campus police have detained a man twice for peeping on women while they were using the restroom at the Fitness Center this semester. William Brown, who has twice been arrested for peeping in a women’s restroom and once for public intoxication on campus, is described as a light-skinned black male, standing about 5’8” and weighing about 180 pounds, according to campus police. Both times Brown was arrested for being in the same women’s bathroom in the Fitness Center in the early morning hours. He is not a student at City College. The arrests are among several crimes committed on campus this semester, said Sgt. Jordan Mirakian, head the City College Police Department. Among them was a recent burglary in the A-Building, where an unknown number
of individuals stole computer equipment and damaged property. According to Mirakian, there is reason to believe this crime was committed by a students or people familiar with the building’s layout. Mirakian said that “Crime is unpredictable; we can go months with no crime then suddenly get hit with a (wave) of crime back to back to back.” Budget cuts have forced campus police to be more creative in how they allocate resources to meet the campus’ needs. Mirakian said they have done a good job of managing with the cuts. There are around 28 officers in the district, which inclides three campuses, and around 10 working each shift. “We need and encourage students to report crimes while it happens. This is the best way to effectively lessen crime,” Mirakian said. Campus police dispatch can be reached at (619) 3886405.
Data from SDCCD Police Department, annual security report “Safe and Sound.” Data for 2011 is not yet available.
Food baskets for the needy By Nicholas A. Preston City Times The City College Food Pantry is putting together and distributing ten holiday dinner baskets to needy students. Five of the baskets will be distributed for Thanksgiving and the other five will be distributed during Christmas. Although there are only ten baskets that will be distributed, the food pantry staff said those ten baskets will help. “Even if you only help one person, then you made a difference,” said Food Pantry Advisor
Cherie Bromley-Taylor. The holiday meals will include items such as dressing, vegetables, fruit cocktails, sweet potatoes, ingredients for green bean casserole and a grocery store gift certificate so that you can buy a turkey, ham, or any other ingredients that one may want or need. These baskets are designed to feed about four to six people. The food pantry advisor and its volunteers are very proud to provide students in need with complete holiday dinners. “To be apart of this is really cool. It feels good to help out others,” said food pantry volunteer Jackie
Castillo. Students in need of a holiday meal can go to L-121 and place their name in the jar to enter the drawing. The deadline to submit your name for the drawing for the holiday baskets is Nov. 16 for the first set of baskets and Dec. 14 for the second. If you enter your name for the first holiday dinner basket and do not get picked, your name will transfer over to the next drawing. For more information about the holiday baskets, contact Cherie Bromley-Taylor via email at cityfoodpantry@sdccd.edu or call 619- Cherie Bromley-Taylor prepares one of the ten holiday baskets the Food Pantr y is going to donate. Nicholas A. Preston, City Times 388-3797