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Volume 66, Number 7
December 6, 2011
Throughout the fall semester students coped with construction which will be stepped up during the winter break. During this period crews will determine if the fault is “potentially active” which may delay the renovation. Anulak Singphiphat, City Times
Is M Building on shaky ground? Crews to study whether fault line under it is active By Amanda Santoni City Times The renovation of the M Building, which currently houses mathematics and science classes, has been halted due to a seismic fault that runs beneath the building. It’s not surprising that various earthquake or seismic
fault zones have been discovered throughout the San Diego region and some run under downtown and City College campus. Building codes in San Diego restrict new buildings from being built within 50 feet of an “active” fault or fault fragment. If a fault is considered “potentially active,” there is no building code restriction. Because City College is partially located in this zone on the west edge of the campus, many of the Propositions S and N projects have
included a fault study. “The main goal is to understand how seismic activity impacts the design and construction of the buildings, so we can provide safe and reliable educational spaces for City College faculty and students,” says Tom Fine, campus project manager. Whether or not a fault is considered “active” is if it’s younger than 11,000 years old. To be able to determine the age of a fault, geologists look at the topmost, unbroken layer of soil.
However, geologists cannot determine the age of a fault if the top most layers are disturbed or are no longer the native soil. When this happens geologists have to dig multiple trenches in hopes of finding the fault again where the native soil has not been disrupted. This poses a problem for the soil around City campus. As we all know there is construction on campus, so the top most layers of soil have been disturbed and are no longer the native soil.
From ‘I don’t know’ to CEO By Nicholas A. Preston City Times
Many state universities have had students that have graduated and moved on to become successful people. What many people don’t realize is that there are several successful CEO’s and entrepreneurs that are the product of two-year community colleges. Before becoming Costco cofounder and CEO, Jim Sinegal, 75, was a shy and unfocused community college student. Sinegal earned an associate’s degree at San Diego Junior College in 1955, which was later renamed San Diego City College. Former City College student and “City College reenergized me for Costco CEO, Jim Sinegal. learning, it made me more educated
and well rounded,” said Sinegal. Now a successful CEO, Sinegal has very fond memories of City College and its campus. “It was small and the campus was shared with San Diego High School, but some of the friends I made there, I still have today,” he said. Sinegal intended to only take one semester of classes at City College, but he ended up liking it so much that he stayed for an extra three semesters and earned his degree. While attending, he was active in intramural sports such as football and basketball. He also enrolled in several classes including: history, political science, business law, math, and psychology. It took hard work and a love for his job to propel Sinegal to a higher
This is the case for the M building. The finding of this faults has delayed the renovations of the M Building. Until the trenches are dug and the age of the fault has been determined and reported, the renovation will be on hold. The trenches (depending on how many have to be dug) will most likely not affect students around City College “We are making every effort to perform the fault study/investigation at a time during the semester when it is least impacting to the
operations of the campus, so it will likely take place over the Winter break.” Fine said when concerns of traffic were expressed to him. Renovation of the M Building involves 1,500 square feet for student support services, new bookstore, common areas and related support space. Work on the remodel of the M Building cannot begin until the Math and Social Sciences Building is complete in the summer of 2013. The project is expected to be completed February 2014.
Costco at a glance • Warehouse store concept began in 1976 with Price Club on Morena Blvd • Costco opened its first store in Seattle in 1983 • Costco and Price Club merged in 1993 • Costco today has 596 stores in 8 countries • Annual revenue for 2010 about $88.9 billion • Biggest seller of all: toilet paper level of achievement. Being a college student that needed money, he took a job at FedMart and fell in love with retail. “I loved my job, so I worked hard and took on more responsibility,” he said. Sinegal has been in the retail business since 1954. In those years, he has lived and learned a lot.
Becoming an entrepreneur is not an easy task. Sinegal worked his way to the top of FedMart under the mentorship of Sol Price, eventually becoming Executive Vice President in charge of merchandising and operations. See CEO, page 3