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City gets $2.6 million Latino grant

By GABERIVERA City Times

More than 1,000 people marched around downtown El Cajon on Oct.1 calling for justice in the fatal shooting of a Ugandan refugee, Alfred Olango, by a police officer. Civil rights and faith-based leaders organized the event, and urged everyone to unite and demand a stop to what they called the criminalizationof dark-skinnedresidents. CELIAJIMENEZ City Times

Community demands justice

By CELIAJIMENEZ and ROBERTODELAPEĂ‘A City Times The national tr auma and outr age of police killing unar med black men r eached San Diego in r ecent days.

A family's call asking for help soon tur ned into tr agedy when a police officer in El Cajon shot to death an Afr ican r efugee, Alfr ed Olango, on Sept. 27.

He was in emotional distr ess and was not following instr uctions, police said. He suddenly dr ew an object fr om his pocket and pointed it at an officer, who fatally shot him.

The object he was holding tur ned out be a vape smoking device.

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Olango?s death has spar ked outr age at police tactics and calls for the local communities to wor k together to br ing change. Since his death ther e have been near ly daily pr otests in El Cajon. Afr ican- Amer ican faith leader s, activists and local r esidents demand justice for the fallen man and an end to r acial pr ofiling that they said people of color, par ticular ly young men, per sistently exper ienced.

On Oct. 1, a cr owd of mor e than a 1,000 people assembled at a par k near downtown El Cajon at 10 a.m. Multir acial and inter faith leader s denounced the killing of Olango and called for lasting solutions to pr event mor e deaths. ?Ther e is no way that all lives matter if a black life doesn't matter,? said

L ee Muhammed. He emphasized that the community should see this tr agedy an oppor tunity to wor k together to effect change.

Bishop Cor nelius Bowser, of Charity Apostolic Chur ch, ur ged the public to r emember Olango as an individual, not somebody shot to death by police or ancr iminal.

He said he no longer wanted to hear that police just wanted to do their jobs so they could go home. ?We all want go home," he told the mar cher s. "And somebody didn?t go home that day.?

Bowser said the solution was See JUSTICE on page 2

The San Diego Community College Distr ict announced that City College has been awar ded a $2.6 million gr ant to help boost gr aduation and cour se completion r ates by Hispanic students.

The distr ict?s Boar d of Tr ustees accepted the gr ant at its Sept. 22 meeting.

The gr ant is funded thr ough the U.S. Depar tment of Education?s Title V HispanicSer ving I nstitutions Pr ogr am. These institutions must have at least one-quar ter L atino student population to qualify for the gr ant.

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Enrollment woes continue

By THOMASCHESY City Times The shar p dr op in enr ollment felt at San Diego City College since 2010 is beginning to r ever se, but not enough to save many longafflicted classes fr om being eliminated this semester.

"Classes keep getting cut; it means it?s a longer pr ocess for me, and then I ?m not going to be able to get a job in the field that I want,?

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CITYNEWS

'Trauma of racism' described

By MELISSADEPINERES City Times

Topphoto, Richard OlangoAbukademands justicefor thedeathof hissonat thehandsof El Cajonpoliceandcallsfor Police Chief Jeff Davis tostepdown. Community andinterfaithleadersledthemarchonOct. 1 throughdowntownEl Cajon, oneof several emotional protestsheldafter theshooting. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

JUSTICE Continuedfrompage1 to change the cr iminal justice system to be tr uly fair for ever yone.

After hear ing var ious speaker s, the cr owd mar ched along sever al str eets, ar r iving at the City Hall complex. Ther e, sever al people spoke, including Olango's father. He called the officer who killed his son a cow-

ar d and demanded that El Cajon Police Chief Jeff Davis step down.

After war d, the mar cher s par ticipated in a pr ayer led by the Rev. Shane Har r is, pr esident San Diego chapter of the National Action Networ k.

Then he r equested cash contr ibutions to help the family with bur ial expenses, and many people donated.

Then pr oteter s mar ched thr ough downtown str eets.

They held a banner with the message "# notonemor e" and

signs that r ead ?Black lives matter ? and ?I am Alfr ed Olango.? They chanted ?Alfr ed Olango? ?No justice, no peace.?

One of the mar cher s was Gr ossmont student Joseph Waikel.

"We have to r ealize that they (the police) ar e tar geting people with dar ker hues. They ar e mor e violent? against them, Waikel said, noting that people stoppedwith a gun who have a lighter skin ar e not killed.

Days after Olango was killed, City College students consid-

er ed what his death meant.

Feven Fessehaye expr essed her incr easing concer n over deaths such as Olango's.

"To see it in the news, it was kind of scar y, but to hear (that it) happened her e, its even mor e scar y... especially being a black woman," she said.

Alex Redding, another City College student, had a differ ent r eaction.

"I 'm kind of numb to it now.

I 'm not sur pr ised, another black guy killed. I t's not going to stop."

Days after a national leader of the Black L ives Matter movement spoke in San Diego about "the tr auma of r acism," an unar med Afr ican r efugee was shot to death by police in El Cajon.

DeRay McKesson spoke at San Diego Sate Univer sity on Sept. 24 about the ser ies of shootings acr oss the countr y and what r acism feels like. Just in the pr evious week, white officer s had fatally shot Afr icanAmer ican men in Tulsa and Char lotte. ?Tr auma is when people?s power is taken away and that is exactly what r acism is, and the r eason why people ar e so afr aid of pr otests is because we ar e telling the tr uth about r acism in public," McKesson said.

On Sept. 27, a white El Cajon police officer shot Alfr ed Olango, whose family had r epor ted him acting er r atically. The shooting spar ked days and nights of pr otests in the city.

McKesson was one of the speaker s at Politifest, an event that br ought together people who believe in social change for the countr y. I t was pr esented by the Voice of San Diego, a news website, and the SDSU School of Jour nalism and Media Studies.

The event also featur ed wor kshops for the November elector al ballot, and other national speaker s, such as political author Reihan Salam. ?We need mor e events like this to br ing a sense unity and infor mation so that San Diego r esidents can be awar e of what is going in the Countr y,? said Rebecca Taylor, an SDSU Political Science student.

Author and Editor- in- Chief of The Voice of San Diego, Scott L ewis, interviewed McKesson about the r ecent shootings by officer s of unar med Afr ican- Amer ican men and women, the pr otests of Fer guson and Charlotte, and the Black L ives Matter movement.

Accor ding to an CNN inter view, McKesson str esses that the movement itself was cr eated in 2014 by the people of St. L ouis and that he consider s himself mor e of an or ganizer and a pr otester in the movement, r ather than a leader.

"The moment I got tear ed- eyes (fr om tear gas) by the police was the fir st time I consider ed myself a pr otester. I 'll do whatever I can so that people don't have to exper ience this tr auma and that is what people usually don't r emember, that tr auma is r eal and still ver y pr esent. This or ga-

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CITYNEWS

MS elevators called 'towers of terror'

By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times Some students blamed the faulty ?Tower of Ter r or ? elevator s in the Math and Social Sciences (MS) Building for being tar dy or sweaty for a few days last month.

Since ear ly mor ning on Sept. 19, thr ee of the five elevator s in the MS Building wer e shut down. ?The loud thunder shaking the building was the cause of the elevator not wor king ear ly this week,? said Der r all Chandler, City's Regional Facilities Officer at the San Diego Community College Distr ict. He said that the ?ear thquake sensor was tr igger ed? on one of the elevator s dur ing the thunder stor m.

He did not specify which one. ?The elevator door never closes, it takes maybe four times to finally close,?

I tzel Vega said, ?and ther e?s nobody even ther e" (tr igger ing the sensor s or buttons).

Some students said that they waited for ?up to ten minutes? for the one oper ational elevator to stop on their floor.

Then when the sliding door s opened, the elevator was at full capacity.

Vega, 21, an Administr ation of Justice major, wor ks on the four th floor at the Pr ice Scholar ship office. She said that the students r efer to the elevator s as the ?Tower of Ter r or.? ?I was by myself and it felt like the elevator was going to fall so I held on, gr abbing the walls. Once the door s opened on the fir st floor, I r an outside,?

Vega said. ?Then later that day ther e was an 'out of ser vice' sign on the elevator.?

On Sept. 22, one of the elevator s in the par king side and one on the left side

TRAUMA Continuedfrompage2 nization is for people to r eclaim or r estor e power to its people."

He explained that his most power less moment came when he was under ar r est for 17 hour s in Baton Rouge after police order ed the gr oup he was in not to walk on the str eet even though he was not doing so.

"I n that moment, I was power less because I had no contr ol of my body or space. And tr auma does that to people ? those small moments amplified ever y single day is what r acism feels like," he said.

L ewis asked McKesson about the fear that police officer s feel

Voter registration deadline is Oct. 24

By DANIELWRIGHTSr. City Times

MS elevators were shut down on Sept. 19 for repairs. MIKEMADRIAGACity Times by the classes wer e under r epair, so the alter nate elevator s wer e packed. The elevator s wer e said to be slow and another student waiting said that ?they had to stop on ever y floor pr ior to going up or down.?

The elevator was a sour ce of concer n last year, too.

Pr ofessor Jessica White-Magellan, a Sociology instr uctor, was quoted by City Times: ?The door s closed and the elevator star ted to go up, like nor mal. I wasn?t r eally paying attention to be honest, and all of a sudden it stopped going up and it felt like the elevator dr opped fr om under neath me.?

Chandler said that the custodians in the building have told him that they witnessed students jumping in the elevator s. He added that buttons and lights wer e also damaged due to being pushed by umbr ella tips.

when having to appr oach a black per son who may be car r ying a weapon.

McKesson r eplied: "Black communities ar e afr aid too; and people don't get to shoot officer s just because they ar e afr aid."

McKesson said that police depar tments might not be equipped for mental health issues and that is why a 21-year-old-man got shot by a police officer.

"He had a car accident.

He sur vived. He gets a seizur e and police shot him because he was acting 'er r atic.' Of cour se, he was. He just had seizur e."

Accor ding to McKesson, one out of thr ee people killed by the police have mental issues.

He concluded with the obser vation that the most impor tant solution to

str eet violence is education and that the solution for social justice is to fund mor e education. A sixth-gr ade math teacher, McKesson said the countr y needs mor e good educator s for poor public schools.

Politifest was a full day event that was held fr om 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Conr ad Pr ebys Aztec Student Union at SDSU. Students and r esidents of the San Diego r egion attended .

Taylor, the SDSU student, said the event had been wor th while.

"This day left us all with a lot of inspir ation for social change.

McKesson has the r ight mind for solutions and coming to San Diego has made us all awar e that we have to be a community to be able to change.?

The deadline to r egister to vote is Oct, 24 in what is being consider ed one of the most important elections for Commander-and-Chief in U.S. histor y.

Registr ations must be postmar ked or submitted to a Califor nia election office by that date, 15 days befor e Election Day, Nov. 8.

To r egister to vote in the state, you must be a U.S. citizen, a r esident of Califor nia, at least 18 year s old and not be on par ole for a felony conviction.

You will need a Cali-

for nia dr iver 's license number or Califor nia identification car d number and your Social Secur ity number.

You can r egister online or in per son in English, Spanish and other languages.

You have sever al options if you want to do it online: r ockt hevot e.com: I t's a national non- pr ofit organization that "builds the political power of young people." This website is gear ed to get the younger gener ation inter ested in politics, and the over all voting pr ocess. I t allows visitor s the option to take the "Be seen. Be Hear d." pledge, pr omising to be in-

for med, volunteer, watch debates, show up to the polls, and encour age other s to get out and vote. sdvot e.com: I t's the website of the county's Registr ar of Voter s. You can also check your r egistr ation status in the county thr ough this site, and get a summar y of ever ything that will be on the ballot. r egist er t ovot e.ca.gov: I t's the website to the Califor nia Secr etar y of State A var iety of or ganizations ar e r egister ing people to vote in per son, including some who set up tables at City College.

Mor e infor mation is available by phone at (858) 565-5800.

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Disturbing 'Good Kids' is staged

By GABERIVERA City Times

"GoodKids" is thedramatic story of a highschool girl that issexually assaultedby football playersandher assailantsexposetheir crimeonsocial media throughcomments, videosandphotographs. BekahChurch (top), HarmonieRose(left) andCesar Magana(right) arepicturedduringthedress rehearsal onSept. 29 at theBlack BoxTheatre. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

I magine going to a par ty with your fr iend to have a fun night. The next thing you know, you ar e laying in a hospital bed without your under wear and you'r e in excr uciating pain. You wer e r aped.

That?s the pr emise of the fir st theater pr oduction of the fall at City College, Naomi I izuka's "Good Kids," which opened Sept. 30 and continues to thr ough Oct. 8 at the Black Box Theatr e.

The play deals with the after math of a r eal-life sexual assault that took place in Steubenville, Ohio, in 2012. The evidence that br ought the per petr ator s to justice was pictur es that wer e spr ead thr ough social media. Many wer e accompanied by vile messages dir ected at the victim.

The tr ial exposed the behavior of other teenager s, who wasted no time spr eading the cr ude photos of the victim unconscious and naked. Many people in the community felt these kids wer e acting cr uel and inhumane to one of their peer s.

Ther e is a "talk- back" session after ever y per for mance between audience and cast to explor e the play?s themes.

Gener al admission is $15. Students, community college distr ict employees, militar y and senior s $10.

Please see r eview on sdcit yt imes.com.

These films are worth finding

By RICARDOSOLTERO City Times

City Bites: Influx Cafe Influx Cafe is five minutes away from campus and offers a variety of coffees, pastries and sandwiches. MIKE MADRIAGACity Times I nflux Cafe is a stylish alter native for the City College student. Scan the QR code to watch a video of our r eview.

Tell us about your favor ite culinar y spot at info@sdcitytimes.com because ever ybody?s got to eat.

The 15th annual San Diego I nternational Film Festival gave us a fir st look at many films befor e they hit theater s and many films that r emain undiscover ed.

The festival showcased mor e than 100 films, including dr amas, comedies, thr iller s, documentar ies and shor t films, dur ing its five- day r un that ended Oct. 2.

Her e is a City Times? selection of films we'r e r ecommending once they ar e available.

?Opening Night?

Directed by IsaacRentz This musical comedy chr onicles the backstage dr ama that stage manager Nick faces on opening night of the new Br oadway musical ?One Hit Wonder land,? ? fr om an accident- pr one leading lady to tem-

per amental pr oducer s. Nick must make sur e that show indeed must go on by putting out as many fir es as he can. Topher Gr ace and Taye Diggs ar e joined by Anne Heche and * NSYN?Cs JC Chasez for this R r ated comedy about a musical.

?Spaceman?

Directed by Brett Rapkin Based on the tr ue stor y of for mer Major L eague Baseball pitcher, Bill ?Spaceman? L ee. I n the twilight of his car eer, the eccentr ic for mer AllStar is r eleased fr om the Montr eal Expos but r efuses to quit the game.

He finds himself blackballed for his outspoken politics and notor ious dr ug use. L ee must move on as it becomes clear that he would never get back into the big leagues

?Violins of Hope ? Strings of the Holocaust?

Directed by LanceK. Shultz

Academy Awar d- winner Adr ien Br ody nar r ates this documentar y about an I sr aeli master violinmaker who attempts to r estor e violins r ecover ed fr om the Holocaust. These instr uments wer e played by Jewish pr isoner s in concentr ation camps and now ser ve as testaments to the r esilience of the human spir it and the power of music.

?Neither Wolf Nor Dog? Directed by Steven LewisSimpson As he shifts thr ough the contempor ar y Native Amer ican landscape, a white author is tasked by a L akota Elder with wr iting a book. Str ipped of his pr econceptions of the native cultur e, he begins to exper ience the wonder and pain of their wor ld, falling deep into to the hear t of the Native Amer ican exper ience. ?Neither Wolf Nor Dog? is a movie adaptation of Kent Ner bur n?s awar d winning Native Amer ican novel of the same name.

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CITYLIFE

San Diego's largest tasting room KylieBunbury asGinny Baker, abaseball pitcher whoiscalledup by theSan DiegoPadres inthenewseries"Pitch." Social Media photo

AlesSmithhasthelargest tastingroominthecounty andoffersmorethan20 different beers. RICARDOSOLTERO City Times

By RICARDOSOLTERO City Times AleSmith Br ewing Company celebr ated its 20th anniver sar y last year with the opening of its new state- of- the- ar t br ewer y in Mir amar but this is year we finally get to enjoy the facility in full.

Founded in 1995, the San Diego based cr aft br ewer y specializes in handcr afted ales inspir ed by br ewing methods found in Belgium and Gr eat Br itain.

The new AleSmith br ewing facility, the lar gest beer tasting

r oom in San Diego County, featur es an expansive ar ea to enjoy one of its many awar d- winning beer s on tap, a Pr ohibition- er a decor ated tasting r oom for its bar r el- aged beer s and the newly unveiled Tony Gwynn Museum honor ing the San Diego Padr es baseball legend.

Gr anted, taking a tr ip to AleSmith will have you step outside the comfor t of the downtown ar ea and towar ds the commer cial distr ict of Mir amar. But once ther e, you will be able to r ewar d your taste palate with Eur opean- style

inspir ed ales, made her e in San Diego.

The Anvil ESB, AleSmith?s inter pr etation of a tr aditional Br itish-style pub ale, is the per fect star ting point. A handsome looking pour, deep amber color with a thin layer of head. I t?s a solid tasting beer with subtle touches of car amel and a toasty char acter.

I t?s a per fect beer to get the evening star ted, simple, smooth and well balanced.

Within the Br itish style br ews See TASTING on page 7

Celebrating SD's R&B soul

By JAMESCALL City Times I f you wer e among the lucky cr ew at the Saville Theater Sept. 14 you witnessed a r ollicking celebr ation of 60s style R&B music.

This pr esentation is par t of the City College?s Wor ld Cultur es Pr ogr am.

Thr oughout the semester the pr ogr am offer s a ser ies of pr esentations, lectur es, music, theater, film, etc., cur ated by Elizabeth Meehan and Sofia L aur ein.

I n "Dancing in the Str eet: The Histor y of Soul Music," local musicologists,Bar t Mendoza and Steve Thor n gave a talk on the unher alded Soul Music that was bor n r ight 'er e in San Diego in the '50s and 60s.

The per for mer s, the

TheAmandas, ledby AmandaSuter, providedtheperfect soundtrack toaWorldCulturesevent. Courtesy of TheAmandas r ecor ds and their local labels wer e color fully br ought to life. Mendoza is himself a longtime, car d car r ying member of San Diego's or iginal music scene, emer ging fr om the ear ly 80s punk/New Wave er a her e in his band, Manual Scan.

Mendoza and Thor n's r ecr eation of San Diego's

Soul er a pointed the way for music lover s to discover a little known local tr easur e tr ove. Ar tists and their music wer e descr ibed and their stor ies told ? people such as L ittle Mar ie Staten, Mickey Champion, June Jackson, and Joe L iggins; and bands like the Aladdins, the Dr ops of Joy, and the

Pinker tones.

After the talk this music was power fully r ecr eated by The Amandas.

This 60s style R&B band benefits fr om the exper ience of five veter an musicians and a power house vocalist, Amanda SĂźter.

The Amandas took contr ol the moment they kicked off their fir st song, the old James Br own piece, "I ?ll Go Cr azy." SĂźter stepped up her own soul str ut with author ity.

Their set was made up of many 60s R&B hits.

I f you want to "Boogaloo," or if you just want to know what a "Boogaloo" is, The Amandas will be whackin' and smackin' the 60s Soul Funk for a dancin' extr avaganza ever y fir st Fr iday of the month at the Whistle Stop Bar in South Par k.

Fox knocks it out with 'Pitch'

By ESAI MELENDEZ City Times

A new spor ts dr ama pr emier ed on Fox by the name of "Pitch" and the setting of the show just so happens to be sunny San Diego.

The show focuses on the fir st woman to become a pitcher in Major L eague Baseball. Ginny Baker, played by Kylie Bunbur y ("Under the Dome," "Pr om"), pitches for the San Diego Padr es, with and against males who doubt that she has the skills to play in pr ofessional baseball.

She attempts to overcome the obstacles that women today face, not in only pr ofessional spor ts, but in any kind of pr ofessional setting. The show takes an inter esting tur n, showing actual Major L eague teams in the fictional stor y.

The show's use of flashbacks to por tr ay Baker and her r ise to star dom ar e ver y effective, giving viewer s a detailed look at her r elationship with her father, played by Michael Beach, and her jour ney fr om L ittle L eague until her Major L eague debut.

While the stor y is solid, not ever ything is per fect.

Some of the wr iting feels a

bit for ced, tr ying to make the dialogue between char acter s seem funny, quir ky, or over ly dr amatic; something that will likely be fixed as the actor s settle in their r oles.

However, Baker and her team captain, Mike L awson, played by Mar kPaul Gosselaar ("Saved by the Bell," "NYPD Blue"), demonstr ate sur pr ising amount of depth and chemistr y fr om the get-go, giving the show a lighthear ted touch while r etaining some ver y ser ious and dr amatic under tones.

Their r elationship is perhaps one of the gr eatest assets of the show.

San Diego takes a step into the spotlight as viewer s see Petco Par k in all its glor y. Other locations include Nor th Par k, downtown San Diego and such local landmar ks such as the Cor onado Br idge.

City College students were used as extras in the TV pilot Keep in mind that "Pitch" is not aimed at spor ts fans. I t's accessible for ever yone. I t's wor th waiting for once a week, so go ahead and give it a shot, or swing.

"Pitch" air s Thur sdays on Fox. Play ball!

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CITYVOICE VOX POPULI Voice of t he People Questionsby AndreaMorin I Photosby MelissaDePineres

"Howdoyou survivelivingin San Diego?

Illustration by KARINAFLORESCity Times "I live with my par ents. With the financial aid that I get for being a full-time student I help them."

I vonne Valdez, 20, Child Development

A marginal anthem

By JAMESCALL City Times

"I was pr ior to the Navy. I did my ser vice for that so they ar e basically paying for it.

They give me an amount ever y month to pay r ent."

Hunter Smar t, 28, Biology

"I 'm bar ely managing; I wor k at least 40 hour s a week and then I come her e to school.

I t's just knowing how to manage time because I need to wor k in or der to live her e."

I vonne L eol, Astr ophysics, 20

"I cur r ently live with my par ents but I wor k as a waiter. School is my pr ior ity r ight now."

Nattpong Aph, 19, Computer Engineer ing

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Should they have the r ight? Should they show mor e r espect?

These ar e among the questions br ought up by the r ecent br ouhaha over the 49er s Colin Kaeper nick sitting out the national anthem. Many other player s have joined him since then. An entir e high school football team in Seattle r ecently "took a knee." And "South Par k's" fir st episode of the season looks at the pr otest's r elationship to the national anthem.

Kaeper nick was r oundly booed at a r ecent game in San Diego. He didn't specifically mention police conduct in his initial explanation of the sit- down, but many pr esumed it. He quickly r emoved all doubt in subsequent statements. One comment, about police on paid leave while people of color ar e being killed, elicited a letter of complaint fr om Mar k Hallor an, pr esident of the San Fr ancisco Police Officer 's Association. He demands an apology fr om the 49er s for Kaeper nick's "ill advised statements" and "total lack of sensitivity towar ds police officer s."

The hur t feelings of police aside, what is mor e r emar kable is how quickly many, especially in San Diego, r eflexively equated the sit-down to a lack of r espect for the militar y. I t?s ir onic that this sensitivity comes so often fr om people who have dir ected unpr ecedented disr espect to our cur r ent Commander- in- Chief.

Kaeper nick himself denies it, claiming

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gr eat r espect for men and women in unifor m. I t's the conduct of the gover nment he objects to.

I s ther e a jingoistic under pinning to the national anthem?

Befor e "The Star- Spangled Banner " was adopted as the official national anthem by Pr esident Hoover, the de facto anthem was "Hail Columbia," which was wr itten in 1789 for Pr esident Geor ge Washington?s fir st inaugur ation. I t was used for official state functions fr om the beginning of the United States until it was displaced in 1931.

I n 1814 Fr ancis Scott Key wr ote a poem about a battle in the War of 1812.

He called it, "Defense of For t McHenr y."

He wr ote of his suspense thr ough a night bombar dment of the for t, and of his r elief in the mor ning that it had not been lost. I t was set to the music of an 18th centur y Br itish men?s club song and eventually came to be called "The Star-Spangled Banner."

I t was not until 1916 that Pr esident Woodr ow Wilson selected it for official state use. Ther e is some ir ony that it was him. Wilson had been extr emely sensitive to cr iticism of his push for the U.S. to enter WW I . I n 1918 he signed the Sedition Act, the most ser ious abr ogation of Fir st Amendment r ights in our nation?s histor y. Mer ely cr iticizing gover nment conduct ear ned hundr eds of citizens pr ison sentences of 10, 15, and 20 year s.

Eugene Debs, a leader in the I ndustr ial Wor ker s of the Wor ld (I WW), was See ANTHEM on page 7

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Hispanic enr ollment at City College has gr own fr om 28 per cent in 2003 to 50 per cent in 2016, and mor e than one- thir d ar e fir st- gener ation college students.

The gr ant will pr ovide help for students with low incomes, or if they ar e the fir st in their family to attend college. ?San Diego City College is an innovative college, and we look for war d to implementing this gr ant to help our students achieve their goals,? said City College inter im Pr esident Denise Whisenhunt.

Accor ding to the distr ict, the money will pay for : - Up to four new Cultur al Competency Center s on campus, also known as cultur al hubs, which wher e students, faculty, and staff can help build a str onger sense of community thr ough cultur al activities and social justice pr ojects. The center s also will be a place wher e all students can for m study gr oups, wor k on pr ojects, and have a centr alized meeting/shar ing space.

- New pr ogr ams to r educe the time it takes for students to complete basic skills cour ses that do not

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BetoVazquezhelpsa newstudent outsideof theAHBuildingandgivesher directions howtoget around City College during thefist week of theof theFall semester. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times count towar d college cr edit.

Studies show the chances a student continues his or her college education decr eases with each additional basic skills cour se that is r equir ed.

- Development of a peer suppor t networ k for at- r isk students. This will include tr aining peer mentor s to pr ovide academic guidance and supplemental

instr uction.

- A pr ofessional development pr ogr am leading to mor e cultur al awar eness among faculty and staff, and r edesigned cour ses to incor por ate cultur ally sensitive assignments into the classr oom.

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STRUGGLE Continuedfrompage1 Cr ystal Mar tinez, a Radio, TV, and Film (RTVF) major told the San Diego Community College Distr ict tr ustees at a bi-monthly meeting last spr ing, ur ging them to maintain classes.

Accor ding to data collected by the distr ict's Office Datacollectionand graphicsby THOMASCHESYCity Times of I nstitutional Resear ch body began the academic "We'r e used to it," said and Planning, the number of year with unfilled Academic ASG Pr esident, Dar on students attending City Col- Senate positions and no act- Woods. He explained that lege at the star t of the Fall ing Scholar ship Officer.

ASG member s have had to 2016 semester stood at Most of these positions lear n to be flexible in the 16,483 students. Enr ollment have been filled by appoint- face of vacancies. has hover ed at ar ound 16,000 ment as of Sept. 23.

Though the enr ollment since 2014, and while no "When we don't have cr unch would seem to cor r elonger declining, these fig- somebody who's dedicated to late with the ASG's openur es still r epr esent a 7.5% this, the wor k gets spr ead ings, Bar ba said the issue is dr op fr om an all-time-high of ar ound which makes it diffi- mor e complicated. near ly 18,000 students in the cult to put events together," "I don't think ther e is a diFall of 2010.

I nter- Club Council Pr esi- r ect r elationship ther e," As of Sept. 12, a total 12 dent, Gr egor y Bar ba, said in Bar ba said. " I think the isclasses in the RTVF Depar t- r efer ence to the open posi- sue is student apathy." ment wer e cancelled this se- tions after an ASG meeting I t's unclear why City's enmester, accor ding to the on- on Sept. 2. r ollment is declining. Enr ollline class schedule.

Accor ding to the ASG ment at Mesa and Mir amar, City College's Associated website, many administr a- the two other colleges in the Student Gover nment is also tive jobs also r emain open distr ict, has seen stable and feeling the cr unch of low in- but have been unfilled for r ising, r espectively, since ter est, as the student- r un some time.

2010.

lated to integr ation, sense of belonging, validation, motivation, self-efficacy and college identity.

City College expects to see success r ates in basic skills cour ses impr ove by at least five per centage points by the end of the five- year gr ant per iod, higher success r ates in histor ically difficult cour ses, and impr oved r etention r ates.

ANTHEM Continuedfrompage6 convicted for the following utterance: "The master class has always declar ed the war s; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has nothing to gain and all to lose ? especially their lives." He was sentenced to 10 year s in pr ison for this "cr ime." Nonetheless, at this time ther e was br oad dissent against the war and gover nment over r each under the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act. I t was in this climate of nationalism and jingoistic war fer vor that the effor t to make the "Star- Spangled Banner " the national anthem emer ged. A bill to that effect was intr oduced in 1918. I t failed. I t subsequently failed sever al mor e times. Finally, after a 1930 push by the Veterans of For eign War s the bill passed and was signed by Hoover the next year.

L uckily for cr itics of the gover nment, Fir st Amendment r ights have been r estor ed and gr eatly br oadened since WW I . Many people cr itical of Kaeper nick's pr otest have acknowledged his r ight to speak out. However, many police ar e indignant. Much of

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their r esponse to this pr otest and Black L ives Matter has been as in Mar k Hallor an?s letter to the 49er s, ?How dar e they!? As if any such cr iticism of police behavior or methods is not only unacceptable ? but demands apology.

The fur or that the national anthem is the chosen mode of pr otest and that it automatically disr espects the militar y suggests something. Maybe we need a less mar tial anthem. One that wasn?t bor n of a small battle with a small outcome in a war that had nothing to do with the founding of the countr y. One that isn't all "bombs bur sting in air " and uncomfor table r efer ences to slaver y. One that wasn?t pushedfor war d by a pr esident who arguably had the highest disr egar d for the Fir st Amendment of any befor e or since.

Maybe one that wasn?t advanced pr imar ily by veter ans. (Maybe one that ever yone could sing.) I t would be fine to go back to the or iginal, "Hail Columbia," whose mar tial r efer ences ar e to our founding str uggle and the blessings of liber ty thus achieved.

Ther e is an appealing sweetness to "My Countr y ?Tis of Thee."

Maybe best would be an anthem about the beauty of this land and how it belongs to ever yone who lives her e.

Ther e is such a song ? Woody Guthr ie's, "This L and is Your L and."

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Knights win home tournament

By ESAI MELENDEZ City Times The Knights women's volleyball team is on a r oll.

On Sept. 24, the team won the the San Diego City College Tour nament. Two days after that a player pivotal to winning that competition, outside hitter Chloe Gr uwell, was named one of two Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence Women?s Athletes of the Week.

And on Sept. 28, the team beat Mount Jacinto 3- 1 in a home game in which Gr uwell again shined, with 4 spikes and 23 kills.

The Knights team, with a r ecor d of 7- 5, next plays on the r oad against L ong Beach on Oct. 5.

The women came into the City College tour nament with a 44 r ecor d, but demonstr ated that the team is a for ce to be r eckoned with this season.

"Once they get to that flow level, we ar e going to be unstoppable," Knights head coach Dede Bodnar expr essed.

"They'r e just doing gr eat. I 'm happy with all of them."

The team had a str ong showing in the fir st r ound of the tour nament. They won two out of the fir st thr ee matches, beating the Cuyamaca Coyotes and the Chaffey Panther s both in thr ee sets. Gr uwell was out-

However per fect they wer e in the fir st two matches of the tour nament, their thir d match, against the Pima Aztecs, pr oved to be a lot mor e wor k. Things looked gr im for the Knights as the Aztecs had jumped out to a 2-0 set lead in their match-up.

The Knights cr awled back into the game, winning the next two sets to br ing it to a game five. Boosted by another gr eat per for mance fr om Gr uwell, who finished the thir d match with 21 kills and 4 ser vice aces, teammates Page (14 kills and 3 service aces) and L ysette Ser na (12 kills and 2 ser vice aces) also helped br ing the team back into the game.

Pima, however, managed to gr ab game five, 15- 13, despite's City College's mantr a of "I t ain't over, till it's over."

Going into the playoff r ound, the Knights knew they had to shake off that hear t- br eaker against the Aztecs.

I n their playoff match, the Knights managed a 25- 19 win against the Chaffey Panther s and advanced to the champiKnights freshman outside hitter Lysette Serna goes up to tap the ball over the Pima Community College defenders during the onship match, wher e the women's team would get an10thannual volleyball tournament onSept. 24 at West Gymnasium. DAVIDPRADEL Newscene Contributor other chance to tr y and defeat standing in the opening sets.

Not only that, shel also man- hitter for the Knights, also had a the Aztecs.

Gr uwell helped pr opel the aged to ser ve up 7 aces in the str ong per for mance in those This time ar ound the Knights team to victor y as she led the fir st match, followed by 6 aces in fir st two matches, with 8 kills took the r ematch 25-17 and beKnights in kills in both games the next match against Chaffey. and 2 ser vice aces in the fir st came champions of the second with 11 against Cuyumaca and 9 Taylor Page, who plays out- match, followed by 9 kills and 3 tour nament they play this kills against the Panther s. side hitter as well as opposite ser vice aces against Chaffey. season.

Knights soccer team suffers another tough loss

By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times The City College women's soccer team continues to str uggle this season.

On Sept. 30, the team lost 1- 2 to the Cuyamaca Coyotes at City College's soccer field.

After the game, Knights Head Coach Andi Milbur n showed her disappointment and said that the team had given away some victor ies, including the just conluded match.

As of Sept. 30, the Knights have won one game and lost eight.

Neither Milbur n nor her assistants would comment fur ther about the game and their team?s per for mance.

Dur ing the fir st minutes of the game against the Coyotes, both teams moved the ball acr oss the

field and had some shots on goal that wer e unsuccessful.

The Knights br oke into the left side of Coyotes defense and fr eshman forwar d Aunica Abbott scor ed the game's fir st goal at minute 10.of the fir st half.

Cuyamaca was better at sending passes and r ecover ing the ball.

Cuyamaca fr eshman for war d Kayla Kinney played aggr essively and City''s player s had a tough time over taking her and blocking her .

X Kinney got a pass need the center of the midfield and neither fr eshman defender Dulce Castillo nor sophomor e midfielder Felicia Valenzuela could stop her.

Kinney shot on goal and scor ed for the Coyotes, tying the game 1-1.

Dur ing the second half both teams wer e pr essing and the Coyotes almost

but the ball died at the hands of the Knights goalie A few minutes later Kinney attacked again.

Gar cia stepped out of the goal ar ea to block Cuyamaca?s for war d. Despite this, and Valenzuela's defense, Kinney managed to scor e.

Dur ing the last 10 minutes of the match, the Knights stepped up their attack and star ted to bombar d the Coyotes with shots on goal but never managed to scor e again.

This was the Coytotes' fir st win of the season.

"We played for the fir st time, how (we) should be playing,"" said Jennifer Cuyamaca freshman forward Kayla Kinney (No. 16) outflanks Knights sophomore midfielder Felicia Tomaschke, Cuyamaca's ValenzuelaandgoalieLisaGarcia andscores her secondgoal of thematch. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times head coach and for mer Knights assistant coach.

The next home match scor ed after a few minutes. She shot on goal but Guer r er o- Diaz r eacted Kinney inter cepted a sophomor e goalie L isa quickly to Gar cia and shot for the Knights s is on Oct. pass and dr ove it for war d, Gar cia stopped it. on on goal but it bounced 7 again at Mount San Jacover taking fr eshman midCuyamaca fr eshman on the cr ossbar. Guer r er o- into at 3 p.m. fielder Mar iah Estr ada. for war d Elizabeth Diaz tr ied a second time