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New app addresses student safety concerns

By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times San Diego City College Police say effor ts to make the college safer thr ough the use of a smar tphone application called L iveSafe have been successful since its intr oduction in 2016.

The app, which can be downloaded on your smar tphone or tablet, is a multi- pur pose application that connects the police depar tment to students, faculty and staff. I t is also a safety monitor which allows people to r epor t suspicious activity or safety concer ns with a click of a ?r epor t tips? button.

As of Mar ch 14, the L iveSafe app has gar ner ed one- ar r est fr om the 807 r egister ed user s fr om City College, said L t. L ou Zizzo, fr om the San Diego Community College Distr ict

TheSafeWalk functionof theLiveSafeapp, whichconnectsstudentswiththecampuspolice, allowsthepoliceand/or theusers' contactstovirtually walk withthemtotheir destination, March 17. ALANHICKEYCity Times Police Depar tment. He added that City College has par ticipated with the app since last August, and because of the app, his depar tment has r eceived an additional 47 tips, 18 emer gencies and 130 r equests for

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safety walks (escor ts).

A nur sing student, Aisha Molina, said she r ecently downloaded the app. She r ecalls the Diana Gonzalez mur der on campus in 2010. ?I was in my Tr igonometr y class when that

happened and I still wor r y when I have class at night. I t?s dar k in certain ar eas and this (app) will be extr emely beneficial.?

Molina specifically r efer r ed to the SafeWalk function ? which allows the police to vir tually walk the user (via dir ect communication and GPS coor dinates) ? fr om point A to point B. ?I nstant emer gency help with location shar ing? is another featur e that can speed up the pr ocess of the emer gency r esponder s. ?The app has been a positive addition to the way that we can pr ovide ser vice to our students, faculty, and staff,?

Zizzo said. ?The mor e tools we have only makes our job that much easier.?

June Cr essy downloaded the app.

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Democrats fight for debt-free college

By JAMESCALL City Times Califor nia State Assembly Democr ats have made a pr oposal for debt- fr ee college. Titled, ?Degr ees Not Debt,? the plan would pr ovide for living expenses and book costs, as well as tuition costs not cover ed under other pr ogr ams.

Assemblymember Kevin McCar ty lists the goals of the plan on his website: ?1. Make community colleges tuition fr ee for any full time in- state student. 2. Expand the ?Successful Gr ants? pr ogr am for low- income CCC (Califor nia Community College) students. 3. Reject Gover nor Br own?s pr oposal to eliminate the ?Middle Class Scholarship.? 4. Cr eate the ?Degr ees Not Debt Scholar ship? to addr ess nontuition r elated costs associated with attending UC (Univer sity of California) or CSU (Califor nia State Univer sity).?

This plan will make college affor dable for as many as 2.8 million under gr aduates. ?Degr ees Not Debt? will be phased in over a fiveyear per iod to make the anticipated costs manageable in the budget.

Assembly Democr ats ar e opposed to the gover nor ?s pr oposal to eliminate the ?Middle Class Scholar ship.? For the past thr ee year s this scholar ship has r educed up to 40 per cent of tuition for appr oximately 55,000 students. Democr ats want to expand this pr ogr am, not eliminate it.

Phil Ting, an Assembly Democr at fr om San Fr ancisco, said, ?Getting into college is challenging. Figur ing out how to pay for it should not be mor e difficult.?

Assemblymember McCar ty said, ?As Chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education and

Finance, I have made it a pr ior ity to expand access and incr ease affor dability at all of Califor nia?s public colleges and univer sities. ? Califor nia is once again leading the nation in making debt fr ee college a r eality.?

The Califor nia Senate is attempting to make college mor e accessible too. Senate Bill 769 aims to expand the community college baccalaur eate pr ogr am that allows cer tain community colleges to offer fouryear degr ees. The or iginal bill that

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OFFICE established the pr ogr am, SB 850 signed by Gover nor Br own in 2014, has a sunset pr ovision, which will end it in 2023. The new bill would r emove the sunset pr ovision and would double the number of community colleges offer ing bachelor degr ees. SB 769 is offer ed by State Senator Jer r y Hill (D - San Mateo). ?This bill incr eases the oppor tunities for mor e students to ear n four-

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year degr ees that lead to the jobs that fuel Califor nia?s economy,? he said.

San Diego Community College Distr ict Chancellor Constance Carr oll voiced her suppor t too. ?The community college baccalaur eate effor t is a win-win situation for Califor nia,? she said. ?We have consider able infor mation fr om the pilot pr ogr am demonstr ating the need for this type of wor kfor ce tr aining, the suppor t of employer s, and the diver sity and enthusiasm of the stu-

dents.?

Car r oll also does mor e than mer ely speak on behalf of the pr ogr am. She was chair per son of the campaign in suppor t of SB 850 and is co- chair of the cur r ent effor t to pass SB 769.

Acr oss the countr y student debt continues to r ise and U.S. education standing is slipping inter nationally.

With the Tr ump administr ation and

the Republican Congr ess gear ing up to slash social pr ogr ams, Democr ats ar e r allying to pr otect educational aid at the feder al level.

House Repr esentative fr om San Diego Susan B. Davis noted in a r ecent editor ial in the Mission Valley News that: ?college is out of r each for too many students,? that ?college tuitions on aver age have mor e than doubled since 1995,? and that ?between 2008 and 2012, 44 of 50 states decr eased their funding suppor t for public colleges.?

Davis is now a r anking member of the Higher Education Subcommittee, a key position for deciding national higher education policy.

She says that making a degr ee mor e affor dable will be a pr ior ity for her in any r eauthor ization of the Higher Education Act. ?Pr otecting Pell Gr ants is cr ucial for pr oviding access for low- income students.

The Pell Gr ant pr ogr am needs to be pr otected and expanded,? she said.

Davis points out that mer ely pr otecting pr ogr ess alr eady made will ?be a full- time job.? She notes that this pr ogr ess is alr eady being under cut. The House of Repr esentatives r ecently voted to undo feder al suppor t for higher education teacher pr epar ation pr ogr ams.

Davis finds ?especially distur bing?

Tr ump?s plans to appoint L iber ty Univer sity pr esident and cr eationist, Jer r y Falwell Jr. to his higher education task for ce. ?We need the best educated wor kfor ce to compete in today?s global economy,? says Davis. ?The futur e of Amer ica?s success depends on our commitment to a quality education and investing in our nation?s best r esour ce ? its people.?

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March for women's rights Hundreds take over downtown streets in honor of International Women's Day

By GRIFFINDEHNE City Times Appr oximately 500 people mar ched in downtown San Diego on Mar ch 11 in an effor t to r aise awar eness on issues concer ning women and femmes of color. The event continued the activism of I nter national Women?s Day thr ee days ear lier.

Star ting at San Diego City College, pr otestor s took over Br oadway, stopping tr affic, busses and the tr olley. The gr oup mar ched to the San Diego Police station on Br oadway, continued to Hor ton Plaza and then r etur ned to City College.

At each location, the gr oup stopped and hosted speeches addr essing L GBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, tr ansgender, questioning or queer ) community issues, women in pr ison, police br utality against women of color, victims of domestic violence, and homeless women.

While mar ching, pr otestor s chanted, ?When women of color ar e under attack, what do you do? Str ike back!? and ?ยกAr r iba las mujer es, viva!? which tr anslates to, ?Rise up women, live!? in English.

People wer e encour aged to wear r ed in solidar ity with I nter national Women?s Day and also Day Without Women, a pr otest or ganized by the same people r esponsible for the Women?s Mar ch on Washington in Januar y.

The Br own Ber ets de Aztlan wer e ther e to pr ovide secur ity for the people taking par t in the mar ch.

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CITYNEWS APP Continued frompage 1 (Campus Community Emer gency Response Teams) captain on campus. ?We have a police for ce but they cannot be ever ywher e at once, and par ticular ly in the event of an active shooter situation,? Cr essy said, ?we must do what we can to save as many as we can with the tools we have lear ned to use.?

The app has additional r esour ces and emergency plans for ?ultimate pr epar ation,? and contains a featur e to ?tar geted mass notifications to update students, faculty and staff dur ing emergency situations,? accor ding to the website.

Bathrooms for all Single-stalls now gender-neutral

By ANDREAMORIN City Times The San Diego Community College Distr ict is intr oducing gender- neutr al bathr ooms at San Diego City College.

Distr ict gover nance r epr esentatives in concer t with the chancellor 's cabinet have cr eated a plan to have gender neutr al bathr ooms available in all the community colleges of the distr ict.

Accor ding to state law, all single-stall toilets in Califor nia must be designated as gender-neutr al

by Mar ch 1.

City College Associated Student Gover nment?s Public Events coor dinator I vonne Arr iaga said no new infr astr uctur e is going to be built to comply with new law; instead, signs on cur r ent unisex bathr ooms will be r eplaced. ?We ar e wor king on getting some of the plaques r eplaced in the most popular buildings like the MS, the AH and the S,? said Ar r iaga this past week. ?Ther e ar e alr eady gender neutr al bathr ooms situated in the P and P- 2 buildings (the Gym), on the nor th side of campus?.

L ance L ar eau, the distr ict ar chitect in char ge of new infr astr uctur e for City College, stated that ther e will be gender neutr al bathr ooms in new buildings cur r ently under constr uction, which ar e scheduled to be completed by 2018.

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District invites attorney to discuss new immigration climate in U.S.

By CALEBDANIELSON City Times An immigr ation attor ney spoke at City College on Wednesday about changes to U.S. immigr ation enfor cement.

She had been invited by the San Diego Community College Distr ict.

Attor ney Elizabeth Camar ena is the associate dir ector at the Casa Cor nelia L aw Center. She said the or ganization is a ver y specialized, nonpr ofit law fir m. ?We offer all of our ser vices for fr ee to those who qualify for our ser vices,? Camar ena said. ?We see victims of cr ime, childr en, and asylum seeker s. That is our specialty.?

City College Pr esident Denise Whisenhunt intr oduced Camar ena to the audience and set the tone for the immigr ation session. ?The infor mation we?r e going to have today is cr itical to our community,? Whisenhunt said. ?She is par t of the effor t distr ict- wide to educate our campuses and communities to feel mor e empower ed.? ?A lot of these issues impact each and ever y one of us,?

Whisenhunt said, ?be it our family member s, be it ourselves, be it those who we wor k with, those who we study with.?

A student at City College, Antonio Tor r es, said he attended the event so that he could be a r esour ce to his family. ?I tr y to be involved in this because I have family who ar e per sonally being affected by all of this,? Tor r es said.

Event or ganizer s passed out small r ed car ds that outlined civil r ights, such as the r ight to r emain silent. ?That r ed car d is cr itical,? said Whisenhunt. ?That r ed car d outlines what you might say if you or someone that you know is stopped.?

Accor ding to Camar ena, the Casa Cor nelia L aw Center pr ovides ser vices for over 2,000 individuals in San Diego County each year. Nine attor neys and 22 staff member s wor k dir ectly for the non- pr ofit law fir m. ?I n or der for us to multiply our impact in the community, we engage the pr ivate BAR,? she said. The or ganization par tner s with over 100 outside attor neys

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Times to offer their ser vices fr ee of char ge.

The Defer r ed Action for Childhood Ar r ivals pr ogr am r equir es r ecipients to pr ove ever y two year s that they continue to qualify, Camer enas said. ?People, within those two year s, can lose it if an immigr ation officer thinks you ar e a danger to the community,? she said.

Camar ena said that for people who cur r ently have DACA status, ?The gover nment alr eady knows who you ar e, wher e you ar e, and wher e they can find you.? However, she said that this is not actually a bad thing, even with the new administr ation. She explained, ?I f at any time, their policy changes towar ds you, you need to know. And they?r e going to send a notification or a letter to the last addr ess that they have.?

For that r eason, Camar ena suggested that it might not be a bad idea for those with DACA who still meet the r equir ements to r enew their application. ?So absolutely, it is extr emely impor tant that now that they have your infor mation, they know how to get a hold of you.? She r ecommended that those who ar e consider ing r enewing their application or applying for DACA for the fir st time speak with an immigr ation attor ney fir st.

People should never lie to feder al author ities about their immigr ation status, Camar ena

emphasized. ?I f you say you?r e a U.S. citizen and you?r e not,?

Camar ena war ned, ?that can actually bar you (fr om citizenship) for the r est of your life.?

She said that immigr ants should not use fake names, fake social secur ity number s, or lie about their citizenship.

I n an inter view after the event, Camar ena descr ibed why she thought it was important to speak at City College. ?I find that the immigr ant community and those who ar e inter ested in assisting the community, who ar e dir ectly impacted by immigr ation law and policy. ar e in dir e need of education on immigr ation law,?

Camar ena said.

Mar ciano Per ez, the school?s dean of student affair s, said of the event, ?This was a distr ict initiative to essentially educate all of our faculty, staff and students ar ound immigr ation issues.? ?We want people to take this infor mation and take it to other folks. We know that ther e ar e going to be folks that ar en?t going to come to this,? Per ez said. ?And so our hope is that we?r e getting the infor mation out, and that folks ar e going to be able to pass that on to the ones that r eally need it.?

The next two immigr ation sessions or ganized by the distr ict will be ver y similar to this one, Per ez said. Those sessions ar e on Tuesday, Mar ch 21 fr om 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Thur sday, Apr il 6 fr om 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Progress continues on Makers Quarter development

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The cluster of for mer war ehouses tur ned luxur y apar tment buildings called Maker s Quar ter is beginning to take shape next to City College.

I n a little under a year, the $60 million Br oadstone apar tment building, which sits just south of the V Building, has gone fr om an empty foundation to a busy, multi-stor ied constr uction site.

Rober t Gettinger, a r epr esentative for SL P Ur ban Development, which is r esponsible for the Maker s Quar ter development, spoke about the impact of Maker s Quar ter on City College last year. ?I think cr eating a vibr ant community in this ar ea could r eally benefit City College and City College?s futur e,? Gettinger said.

Accor ding to Gettinger, Maker s Quar ter is expected to be completed sometime in the ear ly 2020s, Past r edevelopment effor ts for the ar ea fell thr ough, and it wasn?t until 2013 that the cur r ent $900 million master plan for Maker s Quar ter was announced.

The Br oadstone apar tment building is scheduled to open mid- 2018, accor ding to the developer ?s website.

Scammers pose as IRS agents: professor on receiving end BYENRIQUEZUNIGARODRIGUEZ City Times Tax season is her e, and along come the scammer s; accor ding to the U.S. I nter nal Revenue Ser vice, scammer s ar e calling taxpayer s posing as I RS agents.

The fake I RS agents call seeking per sonal infor mation and cr edit car d number s.

For year s the I RS has been r eleasing ?Dir ty Dozen? lists on their official website that consist of ?wor st of the wor st tax scams? that peak during filing season. These phone call scams can r each any taxpayer -- or that is what they hope for.

They call infor ming the taxpayer that a lawsuit has been filed against them for not paying a certain amount of tax money. I f the victim does not comply, the fake agent war ns the victim they will be ar r ested by local police. Many victims fall for these fr ightening wor ds and lose a lot of money.

Accor ding to Beatr iz, a feder al licensed HR Block agent, the I RS never calls you. Many people have fallen into the scammer s wor ds and have paid thousands of dollar s. ?Once you pay, you lose it? said Beatr iz in a inter view. For people who ar e being called by these fake agents, Beatr iz suggested to ?play the game [with caution] or hang up.?

Pr ofessor Car los De L a L ama, fr om the mathematics depar tment at City College, r eceived a voicemail fr om a fake I RS agent on December saying the I RS had filed a lawsuit against him.

Pr ofessor De L a L ama called back and they mentioned ?you have two ways to deal with your lawsuit. The lawsuit could be dealt by either going to

feder al cour t or by paying x number of dollar s.?

Pr ofessor De L a L ama star ted asking questions and the scammer ?kept on getting fluster ed a little bit because she kept r epeating her self over and over again.?

Becoming nuisance by questions asked by the pr ofessor, she tr ansfer r ed him to her super visor, James McGr egor who had a thicker accent and the pr ofessor kept on demanding for them to point out in his 1040 for m wher e it indicated that he owed money.

After fifty minutes, the scammer ended the call with a thr eat that he would submit De L a L ama?s name to the sher iff ?s county office and have him ar r ested. The r esult: he never hear d anything fr om the depar tment or the I RS. Another cautious pr ofessor when it comes with answer ing unknown or vicious phone calls is business Pr ofessor, Tania Ser han. When Pr ofessor Ser han r eceives phone calls and they r equir e per sonal infor mation fr om her, she says ?I will call back, what is the number ? and then ?r esear ch the number ? to make sur e it is a legit caller.

Accor ding to the I RS website, data shows that the Tr easur y I nspector Gener al for Tax Administr ation (TI GTA) ?has r eceived r epor ts of about 736,000 scam contacts since October 2013.? Almost 4,500 people have fallen as victims and over $23 million have been paid to scammer s as a r esult.

Her e ar e a few tips fr om the I RS website to help you avoid falling victim to I RS scams: ?Call you to demand immediate payment. The I RS will not call you if you owe taxes without fir st

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sending you a bill in the mail. ?Demand that you pay taxes and not allow you to question or appeal the amount you owe. ?Requir e that you pay your taxes a cer tain way.

For instance, r equir e that you pay with a pr epaid debit car d. ?Ask for your cr edit or debit car d number s over the phone. ?Thr eaten to br ing in police or other agencies to ar r est you for not paying ?Remember, always be cautious when r eceiving calls r egar ding your taxes.

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Officer plays dubstep at Coffee with a Cop

By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times Tr ap music was bumping fr om a police car outside of the BT and the AH buildings. One officer bobbed his head and gr eeted students as they exited and enter ed the quad patio. ?They ar e astonished that ther e is a cop car blasting this kind of music,? said Officer Richar d Fer r ell fr om the San Diego Community College Distr ict Police Depar tment about the sur pr ised students. ?They can?t believe it,? Fer r ell said. ?This totally just br eaks the mold of what law enfor cement does.?

This was the fir st evening ver sion of ?Coffee with a Cop,? an infor mal meet- and- gr eet wher e students can ask the police officer s anything that they want. ?I t doesn?t have to be law enfor cement r elated,? Fer r ell said, ?we just want to engage our community.?

Not ever ybody was impr essed with Fer r ell?s loud tr ap, dr um- andbass, psy-tr ance, and dubstep music booming fr om the vehicle. ?I was not dr awn to Richar d?s choice of music,? said June Cr essy, ?but it pr obably did get the attention of our much younger students.?

Cr essy, a lead pr oduction ser vices assistant, has been wor king on campus for over 28 year s.

Fer r ell and thr ee other police officer s welcomed students and staff as they walked by their booth. Compli-

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MADRIAGA- JOHNSUAREZ City Times PHOTO I L LUSTRATI ON mentar y coffee, cookies and chocolates wer e laid out on the tables. ?Seeing the same per son (a police officer ) and talking with them in a non-emer gency situation is a way to build r elationships and tr ust that benefit both students and police,? she said. ?I think at the moment, and I don?t know this, but I suspect that the national political climate and incidents involving some police and some people of color over the past year have led to mistr ust in equitable enfor cement of the law.?

Giuliana Or landoni, 25, agr eed with Cr essy?s statement and said that she suppor ts the Black L ives Matter movement. ?I r espect them (the police) but I am a little bit skeptical when it comes to seeing those

situations with cops and people in the str eets.?

Fer r ell got bombar ded with a var iety of questions. What ar e your hobbies? What do you like to do? What do you think about this type of enfor cement ? or something that happened in another incident that was seen in the media?

Or landoni is studying at City College to be a social wor ker. ?I like it,? she said. ?I think that having the cops talking to the students ? it might change our per ception of ever ything that we ar e seeing in the media.?

Some undocumented students on campus ar e fear ful to ask the police questions. ?I think some of our students whose families ar e in danger

of depor tation ar e justifiably leer y of law enfor cement contact,? said Cr essy.

Fer r ell was quick to r eiter ate the sanctuar y-status of our campus. ?Our depar tment has pr acticed for many year s (that) we don?t get involved with I CE or Bor der Patr ol,?

Fer r ell said, ?and we ar e definitely going to maintain that policy especially after the San Diego Community College Distr ict passed a r esolution saying that we ar e a sanctuar y distr ict all thr oughout our campuses and continuing education.?

One question r emained on the table for some students though. ?They actually come up and ask me ?do you actually listen to this stuff??? and I can actually have a conver sation about the music and some of the exper iences that I have. We do the same things that you do, and enjoy the same things that you do, and we want to build a better and str onger r elationship with our community,?

Fer r ell said as he packed up and tur ned off his ster eo at about 7 p.m.

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Suicide Awareness

City food pantry receives big donation

By MICHELLE BOTELLO City Times

Many students don?t get the chance to see the San Diego City College Emer gency Pantr y because of its location, but a gr ocer y stor e company has set an eye on it.

On December of 2016, the Emergency Pantr y pur chased a lar ge food and supply or der fr om a near by Smar t & Final to r estock the pantr y, and caught the attention of Judy Rueda, the business and community r elations r epr esentative of Smar t & Final stor es of the Souther n San Diego ar ea.

Accor ding to Pr ofessor Tania Ser han, the food pantr y coor dinator and coach of the entr epr eneur ship pr ogr am (Business 245), Rueda came along with the deliver y tr uck to make sur e the pantr y r eceived its or der and to meet its people. She saw all the wor k that was being put into the pantr y that ?she stayed like four hour s helping us pack and unpack.?

After war ds, Pr ofessor Ser han

The Mental Health Center her e at City College r ecently held the "Dir ecting A Change" competition for the best 60-second video on the subject of r aising suicide awar eness. Winner s wer e awar ded their pr izes at a cer emony in the MS building on Mar ch 15.

The fir st- place awar d of $500 went to Br andon Shir ini for his video, "You'r e Not Alone." Alison L itthachak placed second with "You Matter," and she was awar ded $150.

Par tha Ranadive won thir d place for "Her e For You" and r eceived $100.

Ther e wer e 19 submissions in the competition.

Those in need of immediate cr isis assistance ar e encour aged by the Mental Health Center to call the San Diego Access and Cr isis 24hour Hotline at 1-888-724-7240.

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Times FI L E and Rueda spoke about how Smar t & Final can conduct a food dr ive for the pantr y.

On a inter view thr ough email with Rueda, she says ?we?ve determined these food dr ives will be a gr eat way to r eplenish the pantr y each semester.?

Yves Antonio, a student at City College, says ?it?s a gr eat thing for a [cor por ation] to be helping with a food dr ive, especially students in need of snacks or something to get them going thr oughout the day.?

A total of 14 Smar t & Final stor es

scatter ed ar ound San Diego will be par ticipating in the food dr ive for the City College Emer gency Pantr y.

Also, all par ticipant stor es ar e ?inviting the community to come in and dr op off food donations? says Rueda.

The Smar t & Final stor es will began the food dr ive on Apr il 3 and will conclude Apr il 16. On Apr il 24, the Emer gency Pantr y will be r eceiving the donations and the help fr om ?all 14 stor e manager s, the distr ict manager, the assistant distr ict manager, and [Judy Rueda]? in the stocking and packaging of emer gency food kits of the pantr y.

This will not be a one- time food dr ive for the City College Emergency Pantr y, Judy Rueda says ?[Smar t & Final plans] to continue suppor ting the college food pantr y with a food dr ive per semester going for war d.?

The student oper ated pantr y is located in the Business and Technology building, r oom BT 211A.

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City Knights Darien McClain #1 Men's basketball point guard named PCACPlayer of the year

By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times A 19-year-old who gr ew up in Saint L ouis, Missour i has changed the path of the San Diego City College Knights men's basketball team in just one year and 4.1 seconds.

Dar ien McClain is a quiet, humble guy who is also a star sophomor e point guar d at San Diego City College.

The Mesa College Spar tans wer e his fir st choice to play for, but he changed his mind dur ing the summer after meeting Knights player s who invited him to tr y out for the team.

He liked the envir onment, the coaches and the player s, so he decided to stay. ?All the player s invited me in,? he said.

Befor e the season star ted, McClain took time off fr om wor k to make a bigger commitment to the basketball team. ?Fr om day one we had a goal, and it has come to a moment in which we have to stick to our wor d and keep going,? McClain said befor e going to the Califor nia Community College Athletic association (CCCAA) state tour nament.

His decision paid off. The team had its best r ecor d in City College histor y with a 31-5 r ecor d.

The Knights also won their fir st state title, which was the fir st for San Diego county too. McClain said it never cr ossed his mind they could lose the state title but he knew ?it wasn?t going to come easy.? He added that at some point ?it was going to click for us, and it happened at the end of the game.?

McClain ear ned his title as the MVP twice this season. The fir st one was in the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence South, and the second one dur ing the CCCAA state tour nament.

With only 4.1 seconds left in the game, he r aced the length to the other side of the cour t and scor ed the winning bucket for the Knights. He untied the 51- 51 scor e against the Fuller ton Hor nets on Mar ch 11 at L as Positas College in L iver mor e. ?When I got the ball, it was a wide open line to the r im, so ther e was no need to pass it. I t was my time to go,?

McClain said about the incr edible buzzer beater that blew away the audience and the opponent.

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?I t is a shame we only had him for one year,? said assistant coach Joe D?Ambr o. ?He r eally enjoys being on the floor and being par t of our pr ogr am, and I think it is r eflected on how comfor table he feels on the floor, and the success he had all year.?

The San Diego MVP is humble about his high caliber season. ?My teammates wer e a big par t of my success her e. They ar e willing to sacr ifice their scor ing and their oppor tunities to help me out,? McClain said. ?He is a leader on the floor,? said teammate Rober t Taylor, and he added that McClain guides and communicates well with them on the cour t.

McClain star ted playing spor ts when he was about 5- year s- old following in his par ents footsteps.

Playing spor ts r uns in the family and his par ents have been ver y suppor tive of his athletic car eer, McClain said. They both played spor ts in college; his dad was a basketball player and his mom a soccer player.

When McClain was at O'Fallon Township High School, he played basketball and soccer. He was captain and won the r egional championship on both teams.

One aspect he integr ated fr om soccer to basketball was endur ance. ?I feel I can r un for ever,? McClain said.

After high school, McClain had to make a tough choice and pick one

spor t for his college year s. The decision wasn?t easy and it was made at the last minute.

Many wer e discour aging him fr om pur suing basketball, he said to The Union Tr ibune, because they thought soccer was a better fit. But in the end, he decided to follow his passion.

He moved to Tampa, Flor ida and played for the Tampa Spar tans.

Dur ing his fr eshman year, he only played 17 games and his highest scor e was 13 points dur ing a game against Easter n New Mexico on Dec. 20 2016. He also was a key player against Puer to Rico- Bayamon on Nov. 28 the same year.

With the Knights, his highest scor e was 39 points against the River side City College Tiger s wher e the team won 113- 81 and their place in the state tour nament. He star ted 30 out of the 34 games and gar ner ed 55 steals and 114 assists this season. ?He is a fantastic shooter. He is r eally, r eally fast,? said McClain?s teammate Jair e Rober ts. Rober ts thought McClain was good but said, ?but I didn?t think he would get this cr azy.?

McClain is 5- foot- 9 so he is not a big, tough- looking dude. Sometimes he is under estimated and he takes full advantage of it. He always looks for open spaces, jumps ver y high and is able to scor e 3- pointer s far away fr om the 3-point line.

Dur ing the games, McClain cemented sever al 3-point shots, effor tlessly making it look like a piece of cake. But of cour se it took wor k.

Fr eshman guar d Wonder Smith went with McClain ever y night to the cour t to master the 3-point shot. ?We put about 300 or 400 shots,? he said.

The championship has put McClain and his teammates in the spotlight at school and on local news. For McClain it has been ?a cr azy exper ience.? he wasn't expecting to get all this attention.

Now that he?s back in town, he is focusing on academics, keeping up with his classes, homewor k and his 3.0 GPA. His favor ite player is Stephen Cur r y. ?I feel I want to be a shooter just like him,? McClain said.McClain said he would like to play basketball pr ofessionally and said, ?I will do whatever it takes.? But befor e embar king on this path, he said he plans to tr ansfer and finish his college education.

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The Knights' championship season

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By GABERIVERA City Times You may have missed it, and if you did I am tr uly sor r y for you, but your City College Knights men?s basketball team just made histor y in a most epic fashion.

On Sunday, Mar ch 12, the Knights put the finishing touches on what was the most magical season on r ecor d for all of San Diego, by winning the 2017 Califor nia state championship for the fir st time in school histor y and distr ict histor y. No other team in all of the community colleges in San Diego has ever won state. Your Knights ar e the fir st.

The r oad was a difficult and the end of the jour ney left the team with a feeling of sur r ealism almost beyond wor ds. Knights head coach Mitch Char lens descr ibed it this way. ?I t was unr eal. Only one team gets to win the final game each year. I t just doesn?t happen,? Char lens said. ?I t doesn?t matter how good of a coach you think you ar e; it doesn?t matter the gr oup you have; it doesn?t pan out that way, especially on a last-second shot to get it done.?

The Knights star ted the state tour nament down 11- 0 to Yuba College, but the Knights player s wer e never r attled. Coach Char lens will tell you that it was just the makeup of his team. But tr uth be told, he put his team in a mindset thr oughout the season always to stay together and face adver sity and, despite the cir cumstances, never to point the finger. This attitude kept up all the way to the Knights? impr obable comeback victor y on a last- second

coast- to- coast layup by sophomor e point guar d Dar ien McClain against Fuller ton in the state final.

Char lens was named Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence (PCAC) South Coach of the Year for the sixth time as the Knights?head coach. He has led the Knights to confer ence titles six times (2005, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017) since joining the pr ogr am in 2004. Now he adds a state championship to his r esume The Knights? coach was not the only one who was honor ed by the PCAC. McClain was named PCAC South Player of the Year and California Community College Athletic Association state tour nament MVP. He aver aged team- bests in scor ing (10.7), assists (3.5), steals (1.7), and led the team in fr ee thr ow per centage (85.6). Six other Knights wer e also named to the All- PCAC South team along with McClain, including fr eshman guar d Wonder Smith and sophomor e guar d Romar io Wilson who wer e selected to the All- PCAC fir st team. Fr eshman for war d Rober t McCoy and sophomor e center Alex Wilbour n wer e named to the second team. Sophomor e guar d Mar cus Br umsey and sophomor e guar d Jahmer e Mitchell ear ned honor able mentions.

Don?t let these player s?slightly diminished stats fool you, though. The lower- than- expected number s wer e not due to an inability by the Knights team. Mor e accur ately stated, it is a testament to their willingness to buy into Coach Char lens? system. ?Our whole team could?ve gone to any other college and played over 30 minutes a game and they could?ve

been the star, and I asked them ever y day to sacr ifice and I said it will be wor th it in the end when we accomplish something gr eat,? explained the Knights coach. ?Most of the year, I don?t think guys played mor e than 20 minutes a game. So their stats didn?t look like other kids at other colleges, but they?ll never have the exper ience that they had.?

Now that they ar e state champions, Knights player s ar e being r ecr uited by colleges fr om all over the nation. Ever y sophomor e will be taken car e of and be able to move on to the higher level. ?When you win it all or win at a high level, even then when we didn?t win it all (2009 team) we had guys that aver aged thr ee points a game but they still got full r ide scholar ships,? explained a pr oud Char lens.

L egendar y basketball coaches like Hall of Famer s L ute Olson and Jer r y Tar kanian ar e a couple of other names found on the list of Califor nia community college state champions that now includes Mitch Char lens. But don?t expect this San Diego native to move on to a bigger, mor e r eputable school just yet. ?I ?m fr om San Diego. I was bor n at Mer cy Hospital downtown. I ?m bor n and r aised in San Diego. I ?m r epr esenting San Diego and we just br ought the title her e. I ?m thr illed to be her e,? said a deter mined Coach Char lens.

So it?s okay, City College. You can br eathe a sigh of r elief because Coach Char lens will be her e for year s to come, and we expect the Sophomoreguard, RomarioWilson, goesupstrongfor the winning ways at our school will con- Knightsintheir homegameversusSouthwesternCollege, tinue as long as he is at the helm.

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Daylights Savings Time persists in spite of detractors

By NANITZIAELIZABETHCOMPARAN CUADRASand ALANHICKEY City Times

Hated by many and loved by some, Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes ar ound ever y second Sunday of Mar ch and stays for mor e than half a year of your life.

City student Mรณnica Mor an says ther e ar e two sides of the stor y for DST. ?The positive is that you can go to mor e places and have mor e daylight to do your activities. The negative side is that, if you ar e used to wake up ear ly in the mor ning, take a specific bus and have a r outine, it is har der to do that when it is dar k outside.?

The effects of DST ar e numer ous. Some will ar gue that it benefits the envir on-

ment as well as your health; while other s will constantly say it is useless and unnecessar y.

The DST was fir st intr oduced in 1918, dur ing Wor ld War I , with the hope and pur pose of r educing ener gy consumption in the United States. However almost a hundr ed year s later, the Depar tment of Ener gy of the United States of Amer ica r epor ted, ?the total electr icity savings of Extended Daylight Saving Time? cor r espond to 0.5 per cent per each day.?

DST also affects each of us on a per sonal level, fr om the hassle to adjust the clocks, missed appointments, and most impor tantly its impact on our sleep cycle.

City student, Car los Sanchez, explains that the

r eason why he dislikes this change of hour s is because, ?I lose an hour of sleep, and I need to wake up a little earlier and that thr ows off my sleeping schedule.?

Sanchez added that he finds it har d to focus in class because he ar r ives tir ed and not in a lear ning mood. He finds himself ?wr iting something down not r eally absor bing the infor mation.?

Sociology pr ofessor, Jessica White-Magellan, noticed that her students seemed to have less ener gy, wer e ?mor e tir ed and less pr epar ed.? She also said that her students came in later to class the following week of Spr ing For war d and think that this ?is definitely something we could get r id of and it would pr obably make ever ybody?s life easier.?

The I nfor mation Assistant of Mental Health, Winona Gar cia, said that students have not appr oached her to talk about DST. However she explained that an adjustment per iod exists dur ing the fir st couple of days in order to get used to the new hour s.

Although most of the people feel affected by Mar ch For war d, some other s appear to not be bother ed by this. As City College student Jamele Polk said, ?I pr etty much don?t car e about it. My sleep is my sleep. I wake up r egar dless, go to school, go to wor k. I t doesn?t r eally matter to me.?

L ove or hate it, ther e ar e no indications that DST is going away anytime soon.

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easier way Cannabis vaping cartridges Admission The to get tickets to Impossible? Comic Con found to contain pesticides

By JAMESSTEVENSONJR. City Times San Diego Comic Con has been notor iously difficult to gain access to in r ecent year s. This is due in par t to r ising annual attendance, as well as a complex r egistr ation pr ocess involving a signup which begins up to a year in advance. Ticket sales last year sold out in r ecor d time ? just under an hour.

For this year ?s Comic Con 2017, histor y is almost assur ed to r epeat itself when tickets go on sale in ear ly Apr il, accor ding to the event's official website. I n the event that you ar e not able to obtain tickets to the San Diego Comic Con, ther e?s another option to find a way in.

The easiest way to gain access into the convention besides pur chasing a ticket is volunteer ing. Over the year s of Comic Con?s existence, volunteer ing has become one of the go- to ways for people to get in fr ee, escape the hassle of dense lines, and see their favor ite celebr ities being inter viewed on panels or showcasing new and exciting pr ojects.

?I t's totally wor th it,? said Shaylyn Mar tos, a student at San Diego City College who volunteer ed at Comic Con last year. (Full disclosur e: Shaylyn Mar tos is an editor at City Times.) ?You only have to do menial tasks for thr ee hour s, and if you'r e lucky you'll wor k in a panel,? Mar tos said. ?The line I was managing was for Stan L ee. I ver y near ly had to wor k inside.?

The volunteer ing pr ogr am r equir es you to sign up almost a year befor ehand, and you must wor k thr ee hour s each day you attend the convention. You can choose fr om a schedule when you would like to volunteer, and ther e ar e multiple jobs to wor k in.

After your thr ee hour s of ser vice you can spend the r est of the day in the con for fr ee. Those who volunteer ed in pr evious year s have a better chance of being asked to r etur n as a volunteer at futur e Comic Cons.

Those who would like to volunteer need only to go to Comic Con?s official website: http://www.comiccon.or g and follow the dir ections that explain how to do so.

By DARIANSANTANA City Times City College student Susana Alvar ado was in for a shock when she r ealized the oil car tr idge she has been vaping was one of the 41 medicinal mar ijuana pr oducts r ecently tested for high levels of har mful pesticides.

Steep Hill L abs in Ber keley, Califor nia tested 44 popular medicinal mar ijuana pr oducts for pesticides fr om 15 differ ent medicinal mar ijuana dispensar ies in L os Angeles, Or ange, San Ber nar dino, and River side Counties.

Only thr ee passed the pesticide scr eening.

Alvar ado uses a medical mar ijuana car d to pur chase cannabis to tr eat her back pains, migr aines, and insomnia. She pr efer s this in place of pr escr iption dr ugs which she said ?cr eates mor e pr oblems.?

Bifenthr in, r epor ted to potentially cause damage to the lungs thr ough r epeated inhalation, and myclobutanil, which when heated

can pr oduce hydr ogen cyanide, wer e some of the linger ing pesticides found in Alvar ado?s oil car tr idge.

Alvar ado pointed out sever al other items on the list of pr oducts containing poisons, that ar e also pr oducts she fr equently sees at local dispensar ies. ?I t r eally is scar y. I had no idea that any of these contained pesticides, and since it was a medical dispensar y I assumed it would benefit me instead of potentially poisoning me,? she said. ?I didn't know it wasn't r egulated at all.? ?I t makes me feel a lot mor e uneasy, because I thought it'd be a little mor e r eliable, since it's for medical pur poses,? said City College student Mar cos Rodr iguez upon hear ing of the pesticide findings.

Rodr iguez takes advantage of the medical benefits of mar ijuana but became r eluctant to buy anything fr om dispensar ies when shown the r esults of the pesticide scr eenings. Rodr iguez said that r egulations need to be set and

?hammer ed down? in or der to avoid adulter ated mar ijuana.

Since mar ijuana is consider ed a Schedule 1 dr ug, Califor nia cur r ently does not have any r egulations on cultivation. This gives the upper hand to industr ies to claim they have pr ivate labs that test their pr oduct as safe when that may not be the case.

City College student Jimmy McI ntyr e is not a consumer of mar ijuana but says he?s ?all for it.? McI ntyr e said he finds it idiotic that mar ijuana is classed as a Schedule 1 dr ug and that it enables industr ies to potentially poison the community with pesticides all in the name of pr ofit.

What is needed is sensible r egulator y over sight.

I nstead, taking a big step backwar d that leaves the issue to an unr egulated black mar ket, the San Diego County Boar d of Super visor s opted for pr ohibition and passed 3- 2 to ban all mar ijuana r elated businesses in the county?s unincor por ated ar eas.

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Journalism is a dying art that needs to be revived

By ESAI MELENDEZ City Times Jour nalism in this day and age is mor e r elevant than ever in Amer ica.

I n the last year and a half the countr y seems mor e divided than it ever has been. As a student jour nalist, this is something I should take pr ide in because it shows me that people want the facts and they want the news. But I ?m not taking as much pr ide as I should because jour nalism today is in a steep decline.

Pr esident Donald Tr ump?s push for immigr ation r efor m hasn?t sat well with a cer tain por tion of the U.S., and with pr otests ar ising all over the countr y, some violent and some peaceful, jour nalism is exper iencing a r ise in attention fr om all age demogr aphics.

However, some shar e my opinion that jour nalism isn?t what it used to be, and they have a good point. Journalist and comedic host of ?L ast Week Tonight,? John Oliver, feels that the quality of jour nalism has taken a tur n for the wor se.

While doing a segment on jour nalism Oliver stated, ?The newspaper industr y is in big tr ouble ? And that affects all of us.? He went on to say, ?I t doesn?t matter if you get your news fr om Facebook or Twitter, those places ar e just r epackaging

the wor k of newspaper s.?

News outlets and ar ticles r egur gitating the same or similar stor ies is a ver y r eal thing today.

One example of this, is when a jour nalist for Fox News, Bob Ponting, wr ote an ar ticle about Pr esident Tr ump?s goals for immigr ation legislation. A collabor ating gr oup of jour nalists for CNN, including Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer, and Tal Kopan, wr ote a str ikingly similar piece on the same stor y.

Not only do both ar ticles shar e similar titles ? Bob Ponting?s ar ticle is titled, ?I n a major shift, Tr ump wants bill allowing many immigr ants to stay in U.S.,? and the collabor ating ar ticle titled, ?Tr ump envisions bill allowing many immigr ants to stay in U.S.? ? but about the fir st par agr aph and a half of both ar ticles say almost the exact same thing.

Not only that, but both ar ticles even use this exact same line: ?... the bar they wer e told to abide by under Bar ack Obama?s tenur e.?

This is not r eal jour nalism. This is r ecycling news fr om one big news outlet to the other.

Other lines in both ar ticles that ar e exactly the same include, ?... with the possible exception of ?Dr eamer s?- those br ought into the US illegally as childr en,? and, ?The Pr esident is eager to pass a compr o-

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mise immigr ation bill.?

This is what Oliver was talking about. People do want to hear about har d- hitting news and ther e ar e news outlets that cover the same stor y, but wr iting it the exact same way should cause some concer n not only among other jour nalists, but among the public as well.

How many times do people want to not only hear about the same stor y, but r ead it in the exact same way they r ead it fr om a pr evious sour ce?

Jour nalism is getting a bad r ap alr eady thanks to the r ecent r ise in fake news acr oss the countr y.

One example of this is an alleged stor y fr om The Guar dian, a Br itish daily newspaper, wher e wr iter Zach Staffor d wr ote on Twitter that the suicide r ate of tr ansgender teens had skyr ocketed due to Tr ump being elected as the Pr esident and that ther e wer e 10 teens who committed suicide the day after the election.

Accor ding to Daniel Payne, a journalist for the online magazine ar ticle The Feder alist, the stor y of these tr ansgender suicides had been shar ed over 12,000 times on Facebook and Staffor d?s tweet was

r etweeted over 13,000 times.

Elizabeth Nolan Br own, a blogger for Reason.com, also wr ote about the alleged suicides and even did her own r esear ch about these tr ansgender teens who took their own life.

However, she did not find pr oof of these 10 individuals?suicides. Br own wr ites in her blog, ?Most of their names don?t exist in web sear ch r esults outside of the numer ous shar es on this list.?

She also wr ites about how neither age nor descr iption match what was explained in the or iginal claim and that ?the mor e common names yield some people with those names, but none that appear to be dead (that is, they'r e still posting on social media).?

Jour nalism in Amer ica is in a decline in ter ms of quality. The number of stor ies being published is r ising dr amatically, but nobody seems to be tr ying anymor e with their stor ies.

Fr om posting ar ticles that sound like complete car bon- copies of one another, to jour nalists making false claims and accusations.

Until all of this stops, this is the state of jour nalism today.

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What's in your fast food?

By GABRIELLETOBACK City Times I t?s no secr et that most fast food menu items lack nutr ition and contain pr ocessed mater ials. However, new studies r evealed something even mor e distur bing r egar ding ingr edients utilized by fast food r estaur ants acr oss the globe ? including the ones scatter ed ar ound the vicinity of City College campus.

Fast food r estaur ants typically or der their meats fr om mass supplier s (mcdonalds link), meaning they do not necessar ily have dir ect knowledge of what these meats contain. This could explain why a study perfor med by Tr ent Univer sity this year found that chicken fr om cer tain fast food r estaur ants (some which publicly pr ide themselves in their use of 100 per cent white meat) actually contain less than 50 per cent chicken DNA. Chicken pr oducts fr om McDonald?s and Wendy?s contained only 84.9 per cent chicken DNA. Some pr oducts aver aged a bit higher, but all peaked at a DNA content levels below 90 per cent.

Subway chicken filets contained just 53.6 per cent of

chicken DNA, while their chicken str ips contained a star tling 42.8 per cent.

So when we walk acr oss the str eet to or der a sandwich fr om Subway or nuggets fr om McDonalds, what ar e we actually putting in our bodies?

Accor ding to a food scientist at the Univer sity of Guelph, Bob Bohr er, the r emaining DNA found in these popular menu items ar e soy filler s and ?r estr uctur ed pr oduct.? These ambiguous filler s ar e used to bind small pieces of meat together and make the food cheaper to pr oduce, delay meat spoilage, and ar tificially impr ove taste.

While it has been confir med that these filler s ar e ?safe? for consumption, some fast food chains in the study wer e unawar e of its pr esence in their meats.

When questioned about their lack of chicken in their chicken pr oducts, McDonald?s maintained that their gr illed chicken sandwich is made with 100 per cent chicken br east, and that they do not r elease the per centage of each ingr edient for ?competitive r easons? (link).

I am amused by the sneaky wor ding in this statement.

For example, a glass of

water with a tablespoon of bleach could technically be adver tised as ?made with 100 per cent water,? because water is one of the ingr edients. But that statement doesn?t account for the other har mful substance, and it doesn?t mean you should ingest the mixtur e.

Additionally, McDonalds not r eleasing the per centage of each ingr edient of their end pr oduct for ?competitive r easons? sounds like a gr eat business-sounding excuse to hide the fact that they?r e using an absur d amount of filler s.

Subway admitted that their chicken pr oducts contain ?less than 1 per cent of soy pr otein? to ?stabilize the textur e.? However, I ?m still extr emely suspicious. Assuming the findings of the study ar e cor r ect, 1 per cent of soy pr otein plus 42.8 percent of chicken DNA still leaves 56.2 of Subway chicken str ips unaccounted for. I ?m definitely not going near a chicken str ip that, per centage- wise, mostly isn?t chicken.

A statement fr om Subway to the Canadian Br oadcasting Company communicated their genuine concer n about the alleged findings of the DNA study r egar ding their

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food pr oducts (link). Subway stated they would check in with their supplier to ensur e their chicken is meeting the ?high standar d? they set for their ingr edients and menu items.

While I ?m r elieved that their concer n mir r or s mine, why isn?t Subway 100 percent cer tain about ever y single ingr edient that goes into their meals? This is a multibillion dollar br and. I t?s time for them to spend some ex-

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tr a cash figur ing out what?s going into their own food.

I t seems that since almost all fast food chains obtain their meat fr om a supplier, they do not have contr ol over wher e the meat comes fr om.

So the cor por ations do not have full knowledge of what they ar e selling to their customer s. That being said, think twice befor e you walk acr oss the str eet to purchase a $5 footlong or a box of nuggets.

VOX POPULI Voice of t he People Questionsandphotosby MelissaDePiĂąeres

Howhasnot havinga school Cafeteria affected you? ?I have to br ing my own lunch or go to Moody?s. Good thing we have the food tr uck or else we wouldn?t have food?

- Quan Pham 21, Gr aphic Design

?I t hasn?t r eally affected me much because I go to Moody?s food tr uck and also I have used the lunch ar ea in the MS building.?

- Jaime Melendr ez 20, HVAC

?The cafeter ia was my hangout spot and that?s wher e I would go to do homewor k or to wor k in the mor nings. Now it?s r eally har d to find a spot to sit for when it?s gloomy out and that has food.?

- Desir ee L awr ence 21, Studio Ar t

?I t was mor e better to meet up with fr iends in the cafeter ia, not having it now it does feel inconvenient. I f they wer e to finish it, it would still be cool to keep the food tr uck.?

- Bor is Rivas 18, Gr aphic Design

?I have to br ing my own lunch now or find a place wher e I can eat comfor tably. I t is a str uggle because I ?m always r unning late.?

- Abigail Ramir ez 20, Nutr ition

?I have to walk to subway or just anywher e to eat, and that takes a lot fr om my limited time that I have for studying.?

- L eslie Gonzalez 25, Biochemistr y.

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¡Viva la cinema latino!

24th Latino Film Festival begins in Fashion Valley and North Park

By SHAYLYNMARTOS City Times

Mar iachi music, food and wine fr om la Valle de Guadalupe, and the laughs of movie star s and dir ector s set the tone for opening night of the 24th San Diego L atino Film Festival.

Held Mar ch 16 at Fashion Valley Mall?s Neiman Mar cus, the opening night pr ess confer ence was attended by mor e than 60 people. Actor s, dir ector s, a mar iachi band, ar tists, chefs, sponsor s, pr ess, and L atino film fans filled the depar tment stor e.

L uis Cr uz and Paola Her nándezJiao, the master s of cer emonies for the night, inter viewed the cast and pr oduction cr ew fr om multiple films.

They also invited the chefs and winemaker s who cater ed the pr ess confer ence and the Sabor L atino Food and Wine Festival on Satur day, Mar ch 5 to addr ess the audience.

One of the movies discussed that night featur ed newcomer s and seasoned veter ans in a binational film. ?Ruta Madr e,? dir ected by Augustin Castaneda, follows a br okenhear ted young Mexican- Amer ican singer who leaves his home in San Diego and takes a r oadtr ip down Baja Califor nia with his uncle.

Paul Rodr iguez, famous MexicanAmer ican stand up comedian and actor, and Hector Jiménez, known for his r ole as Eskeleto in ?Nacho L ibr e,? pr ovided comedic gold in the

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film. ?We all became Bi!? Rodr iguez joked when the dir ector explained that the filming of ?Ruta Madr e? r equir ed a cast and cr ew of people fr om both sides of the bor der.

The film is a par t of the ?Fr onter a Filmmaker s? showcase at the festival, which spotlights movies made by filmmaker s that r eside in the San Diego- Tijuana r egion. The movie is in both English and Spanish, and the soundtr ack includes 10 or iginal songs.

And how does Hector Jiménez think bor der dweller s her e in San Diego will r eceive the film? ?I think they?r e going to love it,? he said. ?I t?s an epic r oad tr ip thr ough Baja, it?s so

beautiful and ver y touching.?

Another film they discussed was ?Vico C: L a vida del Filósofo,? which depicts the life of the popular Puer to Rican r ecor ding ar tist. Vico C was joined by his son, L uis Ar mando L ozada Jr., and the dir ector of the movie, Eduar do Or tiz.

L uis Ar mando L ozada Jr. had the challenge and the pr ivilege of portr aying his father in his acting debut.

He r efer enced the movie ?Str aight Outta Compton,? wher ein O?Shea Jackson Jr. had the daunting task of playing his father, r apper and actor I ce Cube. ?I feel the pr essur e of having to be my dad,? he said. ?I still had to lear n a few things, like pr actice my accent

and his manner isms on stage.?

L ozada said although his father is fr om an older gener ation, younger audiences still connect with his music and message. ?He?s constantly r einventing himself,? L ozada said.

But the pioneer of Spanish r ap didn?t attain star dom without his str uggles. L ozada explained that dr ugs, ignor ance, and pr otecting music r ights ar e issues that still affect ar tists today, which is why people connect with his father ?s stor y.

The festival will r un until Mar ch 26 at the AMC Fashion Valley and the Digital Gym Cinema in Nor th Par k.

Coach resigns, City loses men?s volleyball team

Former volleyball coachKevinPratteinspiringhisKnightsduringtheFeb. 13, 2015 homegameagainst El CaminoCollege.

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By MICHELLE BOTELLO City Times I f you wer e wonder ing wher e the Knights men?s volleyball team is, you ar e not alone. Tr uth be told, ther e isn't a men's volleyball team or a coach at City College cur r ently.

2016 Knights volleyball coach,

Kevin Pr atte, had to r esign fr om the team for unknown r easons, but City Times was able to r each out to one of his for mer player s for some insight. ?He was a good coach. Ever yone was ther e for him. He helped us get jobs. Coach Pr atte had us together.

We wer e suppor tive of each other,? admits Sean McPher son, ex-

volleyball player for the Knights. ?The men's volleyball team had a tight bond with Coach Pr atte.? He added that the coach leaving the team had nothing to do with misconduct or any kind of abuse on Pr atte?s behalf.

McPher son added fur ther, ?that the r eason the team lost their coach was that a student had been playing for the team without having the paper wor k of his physical clear ed yet.

Coach Pr atte was then asked to r esign. The name of this student is undisclosed. After coach Pr atte r esigned, the team did not want to continue at City College so they split up and joined volleyball teams at Mesa College and Mir amar College. ?I was alr eady enr olled in the semester at City so I had to dr op out and I had to tr ansfer to Mesa. I had a bond with the guys dur ing the semester. Ever yone found a good situation for themselves,? McPher son explained. ?The college (City) br ought in another coach but ever yone was alr eady on the other step about coach Pr atte's leaving.?

City College is a school r ecognized for pr oviding the highest quality staff coaches for its player s. Kevin Pr atte ear ned a 3.25 team gr ade point average in the Fall 2014 semester for the City Knights. He led the team to a championship in the fir st ever Califor nia Community College Athletic Association beach volleyball tour nament. Coach Pr atte also has ear ned the blue badge with the Downtown San Diego Br eakfast Rotar y Club fr om completing ser vice r equir ements and is r egar ded in high pr estige.

Randy Bar nes, head of the Athletics depar tment at City College, will be in char ge of putting together a new team. Even though the school does not have a men's volleyball team this year, Communications Dir ector Jack Ber esfor d said, ?the school is dedicated to offer ing a volleyball team next year.? City College is focused on pr oviding a men's volleyball team and plans to br ing mor e exciting games with success in the near futur e.

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Jordan Peele's "Get Out" is a masterpiece

By JAMESSTEVENSONJR. City Times War ning cont ains M ASSI VE spoiler s Ther e is a scene in ?Get Out? when Chr is, a black man (Daniel Kaluuya), expr esses to a black house maid (Betty Gabr iel) that he gets a little ner vous in a r oom full of white people. ?Get Out,? the featur e dir ector ial debut of Jor dan Peele (of Comedy Centr al?s ?Key and Peele?) is a masterpiece.

Ther e?s a whole lot to unpack about this br illiant piece of cinema which tackles ever ything fr om r elationships between blacks and whites, to institutionalized r acism, to pander ing ignor ance of white pr ivileged liber als, to the massive amount of black cultur e appr opr iation. These ar e topics that r ar ely get discussed in Hollywood filmmaking, let alone in today?s enter tainment and pop cultur e zeitgeist.

The biggest theme and topic of conver sation that Peele r aises in his film is the idea of mass black cultur e being assimilated and monetized.

He showcases the notion that black identity and consciousness ar e being manipulated to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the white major ity. One of the ways Peele pr esented this was in the concept intr oduced in the film as The Sunken Place.

The Sunken Place is the mental pr ison in which Chr is is sent to dur ing the ther apy session with

Missy. The Sunken Place I think r epr esents the walled- off, inter nal pr ison which many people of color, in this case black people, find themselves in when they witness occur r ences like the str angely per sistent number of unar med black men shot and killed by police.

I n fact, the over all goal of the ther apy pr ocedur e that Chr is is subjected to is to r emove his conscious contr ol over his actions. This leaves him as only an obser ver while his body is manipulated.

This is why this film wor ks so well: it dar es to explor e these taboo and often hushed topics that ar e still ver y much with us today. As both a dir ector and incr edible stor yteller, Peele deliver s a potent social satir e in film for m.

Other s have cr iticized and questioned the film?s use of the char acter Rod William (L il Rel Hower y), pointing out that Rod is a cliched, loud and abr asive side char acter. However, Rod is a touchstone char acter for the audience. He is ther e to tr y to aler t Chr is about the danger of the envir onment he is going into. As he r eacts, or in his case, over r eacts and speculates, he highlights Chr is?s situation. ?Get Out? is a tr uly exceptional film that br illiantly r aises topics of social satir e. I t car efully constr ucts a mor e fully fleshed out discussion of ?RottenTomatoes?hasgivenGet Out a99 percent ratingfor thisintense issues pr eviously br oached in his show ?Key and ?horror/comedythrill ride.?COURTESYUNIVERSALPICTURES Peele.? ?Get Out? is a master piece.

Kong misses his usual trip to New York

By NANITZIAELIZABETHCOMPARANCUADRAS City Times A classic film without a classic scene was r eleased on Mar ch 10, the sixth King Kong movie based on the or iginal 1933 with a little twist and a whole lot better special visual effects. ?Kong: Skull I sland?, dir ected by Jor dan VogtRober ts, focuses on a gr oup of scientists joined by militar y for ces and adventur er s, who explor e the unknown Skull island in the Pacific r egion. L ittle did they expected to encounter inimaginable giant monster s, including a 100 foot tall ape, known as Kong, who would later be known as the king and pr otector of the island.

The per for mance of Tom Hiddleston, as captain James Conr ad, r epr esenting an action her o for the fir st time was not that bad. He was able to live the jour ney along his char acter star ting with a cynical and sar castic attitude and ending with a humanity and natur ist vision of the wor ld.

Meanwhile, Samuel L Jackson was able to tr ansmit the ar r ogance of his char acter, Pr eston Packar d, that at the end tr ansfor ms into the r eal enemy on the movie making his tr oop have no choice but to tr y and kill Kong ?honor ing? the fallen soldier s.

Mor eover the movie, as I per ceived it, does not focus on these actor s but on the appr oach of Kong. Although in some par ts Kong seems as a scar y monster, in other the dir ector is able to show the emotional side of Kong. For instance ther e is a scene wher e Kong r eaches out to a cr eatur e and help him get out of a tr ap. The stor y

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LEGENDARYPICTURES also tells how he is the last one of his specie and to cer tain extent has the r esponsibility of taking car e of the island as well as the cr eatur es who live in it.

Visual effects played an impor tant r ole on this movie consider ing that the monster s wer e all mostly cr eated by technology. Kong was able to look as a r eal giant monkey and inter act with other computer cr eated monster s and appear as if they wer e having a r eal life fight. The special effects used dur ing the movie such as the lighting stor m that sur r ounded Skull island, the palm tr ees thr own by Kong cr ashing on the helicopter s as well as the fight scenes between Kong and Packar d as well as Kong and the other cr eatur es, made a good attempt of r epr esenting r eal life.

However at some point I think that the effects tr ied to har d and instead of making a scene cr edi-

ble it just did not wor k out.

However, the main idea of the entir e King Kong saga is r epr esented in the movie. Fir st of all an enor mous and fer ocious monkey with the name of Kong appear s. Second, a gr oup of people find him and ar e ter r ified about not knowing exactly what he is or does, and what do people do when they do not know about something? They get scar ed and pr efer to tr y to kill him. Thir d, a damisel in distr ess appear s and have a close and tr usty r elationship with a giant ape.

As King Kong-nesc as it might seem this movie lacked of one of the most impor tant scenes, in my opinion, of this classic film. When you think about King Kong, what image pops into your mind? I t is pr etty obvious that, as said befor e, a giant monkey holding a woman, but wher e is this ape standing at? Exactly, on top of the Empir e State Building at New Yor k City.

I tr uly under stand the fact that most of the viewer s do not want to see this scene over and over again, however my expectation of having this classical scene on the scr een, as clichĂŠ as it might seem, was pr etty high and when I did not get that I felt that something was missing out. The end, for me, was abr uptly cut and unexpected. I t was one of those moments when you feel it is about to end but at the same time you ar e waiting for that last scene, a closur e, an appr opr iate ending. Mor eover if you ar e smar ter than I was, you should wait for the end of the cr edits because a special clip will appear giving you some juicy details about the next upcoming movie.

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Black Box Theater hosts eight student plays

By SHAYLYNMARTOS City Times The second annual Festival of New Plays showcased eight 10-minute plays wr itten by City College students. The festival r an Fr iday, Mar ch 10-Sunday, Mar ch 19 at the Black Box Theatr e. . ?Wor ds, Wor ds, Wor ds? gave City students the oppor tunity to see their cr eative vision br ought to fr uition. The one- act plays wer e submitted fr om the playwr iting class on campus and fr om the English depar tment as well.

The head of the new playwr iting depar tment on campus, Matt Thompson, was one of the thr ee dir ector s for the festival including English pr ofessor s Patr ice Amon and Far r ell For eman.

Thompson and his depar tment will also hold the annual Pr ofessional Playwr ights Confer ence of San Diego. Mor e infor mation on the confer ence will be available soon.

The Black Box Theatr e is an intimate space which fits about sixty people. After each show, the playwr ights and the dir ector s held ?talk-backs? wher e the audience asked questions about the pr oduction pr ocess of each of the plays. ?At oms? by Aar on Newbor n Star r ing Daniel Woods and Stephanie Robles Adam, a physicist, attempts to find the meaning of life thr ough logic and mathematical equations. Sam, a poet, sees life as a r ose; ther e is the sweet scent and beautiful petals but also shar p thor ns.

The two have a str ong fr iendship and maybe the capacity for mor e despite their differ ing ideas. Sam seemed to have feelings for Adam that she wanted to expr ess, but he was oblivious in his own obsession with scientific certainties.

Playwr ight Aar on Newbor n said that his piece has inspir ed him to wr ite a full- length play. Hopefully we?ll get to see these two character s develop soon.

?Confused L ove? by Aileen Donovan Star r ing Mar tha L opez and Stephanie Robles A ver y r elatable play, ?Confused L ove? showcased a phone call between two women the mor ning after they spent the night together.

The conver sation began awkwar d and for ced, but neither of them wanted to stop talking.

I n time the audience lear ned that Sage and Penny had a son together, and Sage left the family because she didn?t want to hur t her par tner any longer. She went on to date another woman, but didn?t love this woman like she loved Penny.

Both women expr essed that they wanted to be a family again, but the lack of tr ust left them confused over what they should do.

?Rifleman? by Roosevelt Gr een Star r ing Stephen L effler This play was a 10- minute long soliloquy.

The lone r ifleman explained how his r ifle was his fr iend, and how he made sur e to teach his son the lessons he lear ned while deployed.

I t is a testament to the playwr ight?s and actor ?s abilities that the r ifleman held the audience captive for the entir ety of the play.

Playwr ight Roosevelt Gr een said that he had difficulty tr ying to wr ite the speech so it wouldn?t seem like a long lectur e. He said he wanted to convey that the goal of a soldier is not to win the war, but to pr otect their br other s in ar ms.

?Ouch.? By Michelle Biddiscombe Star r ing Rose Yesil and Fer nando Rodr iguez This play was the most captivating and difficult to watch. The audience shifted in their seats and audibly gr oaned as they watched a man ver bally, physically, mentally, and financially abuse his wife.

Thr oughout the play, the scene would pause as Alyssa stood downstage and deliver ed jarr ing facts about domestic violence. She commanded the attention of the audience in br ief moments of clar ity in between the violent accusations and actions of her husband Ethan. ?Ouch.? br ought the complex topic of domestic abuse liter ally into the spotlight. The play, though br ief, gave the audience a deeper under standing of abuse in its many for ms. ?I t Appear ed Fr om Not hing? by Caelan Cr ockett Star r ing Rukiayah Fallahi and Roosevelt Gr een Eliza sat on the edge of the stage, r eady to fall into the waves below. Yur i, visibly afr aid, appear ed and ginger ly stepped onto the cliffs.

He couldn?t under stand why she would want to end her life.

He asked the wr ong questions and made her mor e upset, as people may do when someone they car e about contemplates suicide.

They then sat together and talked about the death of Eliza?s par ents, God, faith, and their r elationship. The situation de- escalated, the two r ealized that they still had feelings for one another. The play ends with a touching kiss, and a deeper mutual under standing.

?Ar t ificial Cast ling? by Br ody Gogatz Star r ing Car la Bana, Br ody Gogatz, Mar tha L opez and Camr ie Blatnika The setting was New Yor k City. A beggar sat in the cor ner as Basque walked past, heading to an over sized chess set. Basque asked Nico, a pr ofessor, for a game.

Nico shar ed that he lear ned to play on a beautiful wooden set that his father would make him wash his hands befor e using.

Basque played with her father on Sundays at the penitentiar y.

Dur ing their game, a young woman jumped out of the audience and deliver ed a dynamic monologue, r efer encing Bob Dylan?s ?Ballad of a Thin Man.?

After winning the game, Basque gave five dollar s to the beggar and left the stage. The beggar r emoved their coat to r eveal that they wer e dr essed in a suit the whole time, and came downstage and gr abbed the white king chess piece and yelled, ?Amer ica!? ?The B ig Finale? by Cynthia Aloese Star r ing Tina Atin, Daniel Woods and Stephen L effler A police officer had two suspects for the death of a high school gir l. Emily was the lead in her school?s play. Her char acter ended the show with a pistol in her mouth, only that night ther e wer e live r ounds in the gun.

Officer Hale questioned Pr ofessor James, the play?s dir ector, and Scott Walker, Emily?s ex- boyfr iend. She finds that James and Emily wer e having an affair, and that Emily was pr egnant with his child.

Officer Hale ar r ests Pr ofessor James for Emily?s mur der, but the r eal culpr it was her ex, Scott. After the ar r est, he called the pr ofessor ?s wife and thanked her for her business.

?Teacher ?s L ounge? by Car la Zuniga Star r ing Daniel Woods, Stephen L effler and Andr ea Romer o ?Teacher ?s L ounge,? a mor e comedic play, followed two pr ofessor s and old fr iends who ar e falling for the same gir l: Rober t, a family man with a baby on the way, and David, a car efr ee bachelor.

Rober t str uggled with his attr action to his student, while David br agged about his vivacious gir lfr iend. Big sur pr ise! I t was the same gir l, named Sabine.

Sabine then came into the teacher ?s lounge and dr opped her bag, spilling photos of both men and their families on the floor. Another twist: she stalked the both of them to get r evenge for her lover, who they killed in a dr unk hit and r un.

Playwright AaronNewbomworkedthedoor onMarch 17. ALANHICKEYCity Times

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Theaudience'sreactstoMichelleAnderson'shardhittingplay ondomestic violence, Ouch., March17(top). TinaAtrinsmilesfor thecameraastheactorspracticetheir final bow, March17(secondrow, left). StephaneRoblesgetsincharacter for her first play of thenight AaronNewbom'sAtoms, March17(secondrow, middle). Playwright andactor, Roosevelt Greengetsinalast minutereadthroughthescript of CaelanCrockett'sIt AppearedfromNothing, March17(secondrow, right).

StephenLeffler captivatestheaudienceduringhisone-personplay, TheRifleman, March17(thirdrow,left). Director MatthewSalazar-Thompsonhelpsmaintainthecastshighspiritsasthey wait for their stagecall, March17(thirdrow, right).

After eachnight'sperformances, theplaywrightsheldaTalk Back wherethey answeredtheaudiencesquestions, March17(bottom). ALANHICKEYCity Times