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NewReg-E for 2017?

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six units at City College.

Candidates for pr esident and vice pr esident have to submit 100 signatur es and their year- long ter ms begin July 1.

The other positions have to have to submit at least 50 signatur es and begin in August.

Official campaign per iod is fr om Apr il 4 to 19, and a candidates' for um will be held in ear ly Apr il. The election is on Apr il 20. Online voting will be available on City College's website.

This year, mor e than 45,000 students of the San Diego Community College Distr ict star ted the spr ing 2016 semester in new, state-of-the-ar t buildings, but found themselves stuck in 2002 when accessing the distr ict's aging student ser vices website, Reg-E. Reg- E is used to access a var iety of r ecor ds and ser vices.

The online system is essential for r egister ing for classes, checking gr ades or purchasing a par king per mit.

The website, which launched 14 year s ago, has long been a sour ce of ir r itation for students because it's unavailable most of the weekend, dur ing holidays and college br eaks, and it's cumber some to use.

Collin Cady, a film major, and tr ansfer student fr om Gr ossmont College, was unable to access Reg- E the weekend befor e he began his fir st day at City College, and was sur pr ised to find that two of his classes had been cancelled without war ning.

"The main disadvantage Reg- E has is the unavailability on weekends. While Gr ossmont has all access 24/7," Cady said.

Fr ustr ation with Reg-E is not unique to students, however, and complaints by administr ator s go as far back as 2007, when then- Vice Chancellor L ynn Neault sought to make Reg- E available a few days pr ior to the star t of the 2007 inter session.

Neault was unable to accomplish this, as she explained to the SDCCD Online L ear ning Pathways Steer ing Committee on Mar ch 19, 2007.

"Reg- E is tied to Mainfr ame hour s.

(The) mainfr ame must go down nightly," she noted.

Keith Bar r on, assistant dir ector of the SDCCD I nfor mation Technology Depar tment, confir med that the I BM Mainfr ame used by the distr ict must be shut down r egular ly for updates.

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ALANHICKEYCorrespondent Lauren McCarthy and Hanin Sayat interpret "ASly Man," astory by Whitney Mathis, duringadress rehearsal for theFestival of NewPlays , which opened at theBlack BoxTheatre onMarch4 at SanDiego City College. See complete story on page 4.

Candidates sought to join ASG

By ALANHICKEY Correspondent What do you know about your Associated Student Gover nment? Do you want to change things fr om the inside? Help it to continue its mission?

Student leader s, "ar e committed to ser ving and advocating for the student inter est by pr omoting diver sity, community and academic success!? accor ding to the ASG mission statement.

You have the oppor tunity to par tici-

pate star ting Mar ch 4, when application packets become available for elections in Apr il. The packets contain the application for m, biogr aphy and signatur e pages.

Open positions include pr esident, vice pr esident, secr etar y, tr easur er, I nter Club Council pr esident and 14 senator s. These positions r eceive a monthly stipend: $200 per for the pr esident, $150 for vice pr esident, $125 tr easur er and secr etar y, and $50 for senator s.

Candidates must have a 2.0 gr ade point aver age and be car r ying at least

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VOX POPULI Voice of t he People

Tuesday, March 8 M en?s B aseball at Southwester n 2 p.m.

M en?s Tennis vs MSJC 2 p.m.

Women?s Tennis vs MSJC 2 p.m.

Thursday, March 17 M en?s B aseball vs Mesa 2 p.m.

Tuesday, March 22

Wednesday, March 9

Women?s Tennis vs Or ange Coast 2 p.m.

M en?s Volleyball at Mesa 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 23

Thursday, March 10

Social Just ice Confer ence

M en?s Tennis at Palomar 2 p.m .

Friday, March 11 Fest ival Of New Plays at Black Box Theatr e 8 p.m.

Friday, March 11-12 "Teaching chemist r y t hr ough social impact ." 213t h Chemist r y Consor t ium Nat ional M eet ing at Science Building (Bldg S).

Tuesday, March 15 M ar ilyn Chin, Poet H ar d L ove Pr ovince . MS-162 11:15 a.m.

?I llegible? Poet r y, M usic and D ance in the Black Box Theatr e 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 24

Questionsby BelindaMendozaI Photosby ThomasChesy

"What issuesconcern you themost in the presidential campaign?"

"I n gener al, if (Donald) Tr ump wins it's concer ning. I t's concer ning that a lot of people ar e behind him when most of his campaign is just insults."

Social Just ice Confer ence Spr ing L it er ar y Ser ies: VAM P-Face t he M usic in the Saville Theatr e 6:30 p.m.

March 28 ? April 2

Spr ing br eak

Mia Ramos, 18, Child Development

"I haven't r eally thought about this.

L ower ing the cost of college tuition, but I guess that's it."

Kyle Keller, 21, Computer Science

"Financial status. I n a way, I just think they just need to star t investing money into education, that might be a good place to star t."

Apollo Blatchley, 24, Film Pr oduction

"We'r e still fighting for the same issues about immigr ation and cr ossing the bor der. They'r e just playing the people, it's back and for th, Republicans and Democr ats."

L uis Figer on, 41, Physical Ther apy

"Donald Tr ump can't win, that's the only issue wor th noting. The blatant and unr ealistic r acism going on in the election is r idiculous, that would be the main issue r ight ther e."

Deshawn L ove, 28, English

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TheLatinoFilmFestival, March10 to20, presentsawidevarietyof stylesandgenres, including the movie "ELvira te daria mi vida pero la estoy usando" (pictured) with Cecilia Suarez and LuisGerardoMendez. Courtesy of San Diego Film Festival.

Latino cinema for all tastes

By RICARDOSOLTERO City Times The 23r d Annual San Diego L atino Film Festival r etur ns on Mar ch 10 for its week- long celebr ation of L atino cinema at AMC Fashion Valley 18.

A total immer sion into the L atino cultur e that is often ignor ed by mainstr eam media. That's what the film festival will deliver dur ing weeklong r un star ting Mar ch 10 at AMC Fashion Valley 18.

The festival highlights L atino r egions thr ough its 10 showcases and ar t shows. ?Ther e?s a per ception of what L atino cinema is. This will give ever yone a better per spective of what it tr uly is,? said founder and Executive Dir ector Ethan Van Thillo dur ing a pr esentation at San Diego City College. ?We do it because we want a better r epr esentation of the L atino community. Positive por tr ayals.? said Van Thillo.

Van Thillo visited City College on Mar ch 3 to pr omote the festival, offer ing a sneak peek of var ious shor t films and extending an invitation for students to attend the event as volunteer s.

The festival will include featur e films, documentar ies and shor t films fr om Mexico, United States, Argentina, Spain and Per u.

Some of the most r ecognizable L atino movie star s included in the movies' casts ar e Salma Hayek, Jaime Camil, Gael Gar cia Ber nal, Damián Alcázar and Rosar io Dawson ar e included in the movies' cast.

The festival star ted 23 year s ago as a student film festival that focused on wor ks by L atinos and the L atino exper ience. Van Thillo focused on br inging the then ignor ed L atino filmmaker s fr om East L os Angeles and acr oss the bor der.

WHAT: San Diego Latino Film Festival WHEN: March 10 -20 WHERE: AMC Fashion Valley 18 and MACSD?s Digital Gym

JamesLaRoseandAlexisPatterson interpret "TheWallet." Alan Hickey Correspondent

PRICE: General Admission: $11.50 Student, military and senior

Afestival with brain and heart

$9.50 www.sdlatinofilmfestival.com The festival has developed into one of the lar ger and well-r espected L atino film festivals in the countr y.

Among this year 's r oster ther e ar e thr ee standouts gr oups, Fr onter a Filmmaker s, a showcase that featur es films by San Diego and Tijuana filmmaker s; Cine Gay, a showcase of the best L GBT L atino cinema; and Un Mundo Extr año showcase, with films that r ange fr om fr ighteningly r ealistic to dr eamily fantastical. ?Ther e?s plenty of differ ent styles and genr es,? said Van Thillo. ?Ther e will be something for ever yone. We like to pr ogr am in a ver y diver se way,? said Moises Espar za, San Diego L atino Film Festival pr ogr ammer.

Gr owing in attendance each year since its inception, 20,000 plus attendees ar e expected this year. ?A lot of these films don?t have distr ibution deals, so the L atino film festival offer s a unique platfor m for them to showcase their wor k to a wider audience? said Espar za.

The San Diego Film Festival will kickoff on Mar ch 10 with an opening night concer t and par ty featur ing Gr ammy-Awar d nominated band L os Amigos I nvisibles. The festival r uns thr ough Mar ch 20. Scr eenings will take place at AMC Fashion Valley 18 and MACSD?s Digital Gym Cinema in Nor th Par k.

By Destiny Ortiz City Times

Death can be funny.

I n ?Death?s Monologue,? by Daniel Sosa- Por ter, the main char acter Death had a long conver sation with himself about how he's misunder stood.

"When you think about it, I 'm kind of a super her o," Death said, keeping a balance in the wor ld by deciding who needs to go.

Death was just one of sever al intr iguing char acter s who took to the stage in "The Festival of New Plays," which pr emier ed Mar ch 4 in the Black Box Theatr e and continues on Mar ch 11 and 12.

The festival mar ked two fir sts. I t was the fir st time a theater pr oduction had been pr esented in the Black Box and the fir st time wor ks wr itten by students wer e being pr esented by the Visual and Perfor ming Ar ts Depar tment.

The ver satile theater is located in the thir d floor of the Ar ts and Humanities Building. On opening night, 60 of its 78 seats wer e filled.

Each play lasted an aver age of 10 to 15 minutes and dealt with ver y differ ent themes, fr om suicide to domestic violence to a light look at how Batman and the Joker would have existed in Shakespear e's er a. ?The Tools of their Tools,? by Michelle Malham, was a comical look at a blind date

hundr eds of year s into the futur e.

The simple scenar io tur ned into something mor e in ?The Wallet,? which dr ew the night's loudest applause. Two homeless men come to r ealize the har m they caused when they stole a woman's wallet. ?The Sly Man? had a lot to offer besides smooth jazz music. The audience got a glimpse of a woman suffer ing fr om a mental illness contemplating suicide. ?My Good and Faithful Ser vant? touched on the consequences of gr eed and how those who have power, like a pr eacher, can take advantage of it. ?Kitchen Alter cation? delved into the danger s of domestic violence and asked for compassion for the victims. At the end, each cast member shar ed one statistic about domestic violence.

"The Dar k Knight Cometh? explor ed how William Shakespear e would have develop a super her o in his time.

Students submitted 15 plays and seven wer e chosen to be pr oduced. Most came fr om the playwr iting class taught by Matt Thompson.

The festival continues Mar ch 11 and 12.

Tickets can be pur chased at the door or thr ough Eventbr ite. Gener al admission is $15; for students, senior s, militar y and distr ict employees, $10.

To pur chase a DVD of the show visit the City College theater blog, http://citycollegetheatr e.blogspot.com.

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CITYVOICE We are earning our dreams

I became the fir st in my family to go to college. I won a $10,000 Pr ice Scholar ship and I ser ved as an inter n at a TV station.

Yet I still r emember the fir st time I br oke down and cr ied in anger and sadness when I was sent to clean r estr ooms at a fastfood r estaur ant.

I wonder ed what I did wr ong. I got good gr ades. I gr aduated fr om City College with an associate?s degr ee in br oadcast news. I had never done anything to upset my par ents and yet I had to do a job that gave me no hope for a better futur e.

I had come to this countr y when I was 7 year s old with my mother, who, like millions of other s, had ar r ived without author ization desper ately seeking a better life for us.

Regar dless of how good I was, without that author ization, all good jobs wer e out of my r each. I had to accept the fact that I would never be sitting in fr ont of a desk as an anchor.

So I stopped going to school and moved to Washington state.

Ther e, I wor ked ear ly mor nings in the fields or in a packaging factor y for fr uit that was going to wher e I wanted to be: my home in San Diego.

One day, I got the chance to step back into my old life. I became a volunteer at KDNA, a r adio station in the town of Gr anger, wher e I was given the oppor tunity to pr oduce my own enter tainment segment. That led to a r epor ting job at a near by Spanish-language newspaper, El Sol de Yakima.

I r ealized how many people listened to me on the r adio and r ead my stor ies. One time I in-

PERSPECTIVE AntonioMarquez tr oduced myself to an elder ly lady. She r ecognized my voice and told me she listened to me ever y Fr iday and she looked forwar d to my show. I knew I was making a differ ence.

Running away fr om my dr eam was no longer an option. I got the confidence to finish by bachelor ?s degr ee and headed home.

Her e, in Califor nia, I not only have the suppor t of my family but am benefiting fr om two lifechanging pr ogr ams.

The Assembly Bill 540, signed by then-Gov. Gr ay Davis on Oct. 12, 2001, allows undocumented students who meet cer tain r equir ements to pay in- state tuition to attend Califor nia's higher education institutions instead of ver y expensive out-of-state r ates.

Then ther e?s the Califor nia DREAM act, which allows undocumented young people to apply for financial aid if they meet cer tain r equir ements.

These two pr ogr ams have allowed me the oppor tunity to take additional classes at City as I pr epar e to attend a univer sity.

Some r eject these pr ogr ams as unfair, saying that not ever yone can take advantage of them.

I want these people to know that thousands of students like me ar e not her e to take anybody?s place. We?r e her e because we wer e taken away fr om our own space in our native land.

I want them to know that I have wor ked ver y har d for an oppor tunity to pur sue my dr eams.

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Transfer to City with caution I am what seems to be a r ar e occur r ence - a tr ansfer student between junior colleges - and I discover ed that tr ansfer r ing to City College is much mor e difficult than one might think.

L ast fall, I was in my thir d semester at Butte Community College in Chico, Calif., and decided to move her e to attend San Diego State University instead. But befor e moving to a four- year college, I had to finish my gener al education at City College.

I n theor y, all I needed to do was r egister as ear ly as possible, r equest my tr anscr ipts, and get my Reg- E date, and add the classes I needed, but a pr er equisite war ning on Reg- E fr oze my enr ollment.

When I r eached out to a staff member fr om Administr ation and Recor ds, she implied that it was my fault that my r ecor ds wer e not updated, despite having ever ything fr om Butte College.

My tr anscr ipts wer e not evidence enough.

They told me that I ?should have known? and ?should have been pr epar ed? and sent my AP scor e for English, and new gr ades fr om my math class, as pr oof befor e attempting to enr oll any class. They told me that it would take up to

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PERSPECTIVE NatalieHanson thr ee weeks after the r egistr ation per iod to update my infor mation by mailing in the scor es, and only after that time would I be able to add any class.

She coldly infor med me that since I was personally ther e for a meeting, ther e was nothing they could do to help me, and I had to wait.

I met with a Butte counselor and she contacted a City College Administr ation and Recor ds employee, but she r efused to speak to me or her.

The only option available was walking in with my AP scor e on my fir st Monday in San Diego in or der to get help fr om a counselor.

Appar ently, San Diego City College does not accept faxed or emailed documents, even in these situations. So I had no choice but to wait.

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Volleyball games live streamed

By Luisa Sausedo City Times For the fir st time, City College's men?s volleyball team is live str eaming most of their matches dur ing the 2016 season, and is the only team on campus to do so.

Head Coach Kevin Pr atte decided to offer live str eaming after City College hosted the Califor nia Community College Athletic Association Final Four matches in 2015.

Pr atte hir ed the play-by-play announcer used for the Final Four matches, Mike Zepeda, to br oadcast the men?s volleyball games. Zepeda teams up with the coach?s father, Bob Pr atte, who does color commentar y.

Kevin Pr atte had seen the oppor tunities live str eaming gave his athletes when he was on the Univer sity of Nebr aska women's volleyball staff in 2009 and decided that this could be a gr eat oppor tunity for his athletes at City. ?We believe that it will take our pr ogr am to gr eater heights,? the coach said.

The str eaming featur e not only allows fans and family member s to view their favor ite player s but it also allows coaches fr om univer sities to follow the athletes.

Befor e each match, the men?s volleyball staff sends out an email to each head coach at ever y univer sity with a men?s volleyball pr ogr am.

Sophomor e L ucas Timm was invited to tour Califor nia State Univer sity- Nor thr idge, an NCAA Division I school, after the coach ther e had viewed a few games via live str eaming.

The games can be seen by typing ?SDCC1? into the sear ch engine on the website, www.ustr eam.tv.

On aver age, 140 people view each game. The highest number of viewer s was 205, when the Knights defeated Santa Monica Cor sair s, dur ing the season opener .

Pr atte explained that the live str eaming featur e is being funded by booster s of the team, and fr iends and family member s but declined to say how much it?s costing.

The next match to be str eamed will be on Mar ch 11 when the Knights take on Golden West College at 6 p.m. at home.

Knights struggling City CollegeKnights outfielder Addison Hull scored arun against Grossmont in theMarch 5 gamein El Cajon. TheGriffins went on tobeat theKnights 13-6. The lossdroppedtheKnightstothe.500 mark 12gamesintotheseason. GRIFFIN DEHNECorrespondent

Guard named Player of the Year

By Luisa Sausedo City Times The Pacific Coast Athletic Conference South gave Knights' sophomor e guar d Taylor Nelson and his coach, Mitch Char lens, top honor s as the basketball season came to an end.

Nelson was named the league's Player of the Year. He assisted his teammates to win the PCAC South Champions title by scor ing a total of 447 points, gather ing 101 r ebounds, scor ing an aver age of 25.3 points per 40 minutes, and sinking 33.6 per cent of his thr ee- point shots. He also star ted 25 out of 30 games played this season.

Meanwhile, Char lens was honor ed as Coach of the Year for the fifth time in the 12 year s he's been at City. The Knights finished with an over all season r ecor d of 22-8, and wer e undefeated 8-0 in confer ence.

The team's season came to an end Feb. 26 when they wer e defeated in the second r ound of r egional playoffs by the Antelope Valley College Mar auder s 8387 in L ancaster. ?I t?s definitely humbling,? Nelson said of the Player of the Year honor. ?And it?s a validation of all my har d wor k. I took two seasons off and didn't think I was going to play basketball again.?

When Nelson was asked about what his motivation was this season, he

br ought up his daughter, Mila Nelson.

He explained that Mila is 100 per cent the r eason he wor ks har d on and off the basketball cour t.

Char lens was unavailable to comment about Nelson. However, assistant coach Joe D?Ambr o commented on the honor. ?Complete 180. He's a differ ent person fr om when he played for us in 2012,? D?Ambr o said in an inter view. ?He seems mor e focused and dr iven and I think he r eally made the most out of his oppor tunity this year.?

D?Ambr o explained how the voting is conducted thr oughout the confer ence.

Each coach submits player s to be nominated for the Player of the Year title, then the other coaches in the conference vote. I t was a unanimous decision that Nelson be named.

Nelson is continuing his studies as a communications major and is undecided about wher e he will be playing in the futur e. ?Being a leader, tr ying to under stand what it r eally takes to win. You can have a bunch of guys with unlimited potential and talent and it won't wor k unless you find it in you to become a family.?

He r eflected on the season." "I ?ve lear ned to cher ish ever y day and wor k har d ever y day because at the end of the day all these days ar e going to go by and you don't want to have any r egr ets.?

Knight sophomore guard Taylor Nelson was selected the top conference player of the year and made the All-State Honors team. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times