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DACA students fear deportation under Trump By MELISSADEPIĂ‘ERES
City Times San Diego City College DACA students sat down with City Times for an interview about r ecent fear s that Pr esident Donald Tr ump will end the Defer r ed Action for Childhood Ar r ivals pr ogr am (DACA), which pr otects undocumented childhood arr ivals to the U.S. fr om deportation. Defer r ed Action for Childhood Ar r ivals is a two year r enewable pr ogr am that allows undocumented students to go to college, wor k, and tr avel within the United States legally. However, not all students living in the
City Collegestudentsattendingaworkshopgivingby AmericanFriendsService CommitteeinMS-162, whereadvicewasgiventoDACA recipients, March2. ALANHICKEYCity Times countr y illegally ar e appr oved under this pr ogr am. One 20 year- old law student came to the US when she was a year old. Using a r elative's documents,she and her family came fr om Guer-
r er o, Mexico to seek better oppor tunities. (None of the DACA students inter viewed for this ar ticle wer e willing to be identified.) ?The fear has always been ther e, even when Obama was
in. I always asked myself, ?What if he changes his mind? What's going to happen when Obama leaves?? Now, I feel unpr otected, even when car r ying my I D all the time. I ?m always at r isk of being depor ted, being at-r isk of being taken back to the place I don't know,? said this student. A middle daughter of four kids, she was gr anted DACA, but the r est of her siblings wer e not appr oved because of missing documentation. She says the pr ocess of getting documented is not only long, but ver y expensive and difficult. ?I wor k at a sock shop to help pay my house bills. I 'm
always afr aid that my par ents might get taken away,? she said. Although the San Diego Community College Distr ict pledged in a Feb. 3 email to pr otect undocumented students by not shar ing any immigr ation infor mation with feder al author ities, some students still say they feel unsafe outside of campus. M.E.Ch.A., an activist gr oup with a chapter at City College, has joined with the Association of Cor por ate Counsel in pr oviding wor kshops and for ums for undocumented students to better pr epar e them in case of depor tation pr oceedings. See DACAon page 3
SeaWorld settlement funds reach City College The checks come after customers sue the park for unexpected renewal fees By MIKEMADRIAGA
City Times On the second and thir d week of Febr uar y, some City College students and alumni r eceived par t of their $328,333 settlement fr om SeaWor ld. ?Why did I r eceive this (check in the mail)?,? asked Patr icia, a 2014 City College alumna. ?I have no pr oblems with SeaWor ld whatsoever.? Appr oximately two year s ago, Patr icia signed her family up with an ?EZpay? option for their annual SeaWor ld passes. EZpay, descr ibed on SeaWor ld?s website as a ?simple monthly payment pr ogr am designed to make Member ships fit easily into people's budgets,? allows people to pur chase annual passes to the par k thr ough a contr actual r epayment plan of 12, or 24 months. Patr icia said she was excited to take her husband and daughter to meet at SeaWor ld with their extended family and fr iends fr om City College.
?We all did it (pur chased annual passes thr ough EZpay) ? it was cheap,? Patr icia said. ?Our payment (for a family of 3), is only, like, $30 a month.? Since 2013, however, other s who had pur chased their year ly passes thr ough the EZpay payment option on SeaWor ld?s website wer e not so happy. Many didn?t r ead the ?fine pr int? and stated on social media sites that EZpay continued to char ge their cr edit car ds after the per ceived one-year commitments wer e over. ?That was not fair,? said Andr ew Ruthenber g, a linguistics major at City College, ?and I ?ve been going ther e since I was a young kid.? Mar cos Gonzalez Rod- r iguez, 20, is a biology major at City College and wor ks at SeaWor ld as an assistant super visor for vending. ?I nstead of paying one lump sum, it is better to make monthly payments,? he said, ?especially if you have a big family.? I n 2014, Jason Her man, a Flor ida r esident, sued SeaWor ld Par ks & En-
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ter tainment at his location for the EZpay issues. I n 2015, the San Diego Reader r epor ted on a L os Angeles woman, Sher y Gar gir, when she sued SeaWor ld San Diego ?for over zealous car d swiping.? On Oct. 21, 2016, the Super ior Cour t of Califor nia, County of San Diego, Centr al, handed down a verdict in the case, outlining the ter ms of the settlement as follows: ?Defendant SeaWor ld Par ks & Enter- tainment, I nc. (Defendant) will pay $500,000.00 to settle their claims with plaintiff (Sher y Gar gir ). Thus, the net Settlement Amount should be at least $328,333.? Ruthenber g, who signed up for annual passes thr ough EZpay said, ?I agr ee with this decision. I f people wer e misled or confused by the explanation (on the website), this is r ight.? Accor ding to cour t documents, the $328,333 settlement is spr ead between an estimated 88,214 member s
SeaWorld'ssettlement checkshavestartedto arrivetoCity Collegestudents. VANESSA FLORESCity Times /Photo Illustration in the EZpay pr ogr am with a California home, or billing addr ess. ?We got a check for $11.05,? said Patr icia. ?I do not even want this. How can I send it back?? On the settlement website, Patr icia said ther e ar e no dir ections to r etur n the check. Patr icia had the option to opt- out by July 6, 2016. She would have had to send in a letter to Dahl Administr ation, L L C,the class action administr ator s of the case in Minneapolis.
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Letter from the Editor: The press under fire By JAMESCALL
City Times Jour nalist Dan Rather calls it "an emer gency." And it is. Said Rather, "The time for nor malizing, dissembling, and explaining away Donald Tr ump has long since passed. The bar r ing of r espected jour nalistic outlets fr om the White House br iefing is so far beyond the nor ms and tr aditions that have gover ned this r epublic for gener ations, that they must be seen as a r eal and pr esent thr eat to our democr acy. These ar e the danger s pr esidents ar e supposed to pr otect against, not cr eate." The staff her e at City Times consists of jour nalism students. We ar e lear ning jour nalistic standar ds and the r easons for them. Cr edibility is a jour nalist's gr eat need. You cannot be an effective r epor ter if you have been caught car eless with the tr uth. A bond of tr ust is best established by faithfulness to facts. We jour nalism students her e at City dedicate our selves to that ideal. Tr ump has called the pr ess "the enemy of the people." Ther e is ir ony in his aggr essive antagonism towar d the pr ess. This factually challenged pr esident has espoused "bir ther " claims, alleged voter fr aud without evidence, made over ly br oad statements about immigr ants, women, etc. and made many exagger ated claims of the vir tues of Tr ump. (The Huffington Post titled a r ecent ar ticle, "Tr ump's Fir st 100 L ies.") He should not thr ow stones in his cr ystal palace. A million journalists ar e looking on. I t is time for the give- him- achance cr owd to open their eyes and take a close look at what they've done. Using the might of the U.S. gover nment they?r e going after Muslims. They?r e going after Mexi-
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defenseimager y.mil FI L E cans. They'r e going after the pr ess. They'r e going after pot smoker s. They'r e boosting pr ivate pr isons. They'r e enlar ging the feder al police for ce. I n a r ecent letter to Feder al Bur eau of Pr isons dir ector Thomas Kane, Attor ney Gener al Jeff Sessions ominously cited "futur e needs" as a r ationale for enhancing gover nment r eliance on pr ivate pr isons. The administr ation has declar ed
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war on all those opposing them. This could get ugly quick. 1968. Cities in flame. We haven't seen an Amer ican public this ar oused in a long time. And Amer icans have been joined by lar ge number s of people ar ound the wor ld who have ver y vocally leveled unpr ecedented opposition to a U.S. pr esident. Histor ically, Amer icans don't take well to being pushed ar ound by their gover nment. I t isn't even Tr ump.
He's been taken fir mly in hand by some har d fascists. These guys make the neocons look like Mr. Roger s. But it's time for fascists to take a giant step back. I t's time for fascists to r emember what an enr aged people look like. I n 1970 hippies bur ned down a Bank of America in Santa Bar bar a and r oasted mar shmallows in its glowing ember s. We don't have to wonder anymor e if the r eckless, tough-guy talk in the campaign was just talk. They ar e alr eady cr eating their police state. We don't have to wonder if people will actually be hur t by this administr ation. I t is alr eady happening. We don't have to wonder what people will do who feel a gover nment mobilizing against them. They push back, and that is alr eady happening too. The pr ess bear s some r esponsibility for the Tr ump catastr ophe. Dur ing the campaign many r epor ter s and editor s bit their tongues in a knee- jer k dedication to objectivity. A jour nalist must be fair and honest. But r epor ting Tr ump's outr ageous behavior, without pointing out the danger of his r ecklessness, was not being fully honest. The scale was tipped towar d a slavish objectivity at the expense of an even mor e impor tant pr ess function ? watchdog. As this administr ation r atchets up militar y and police power s and is doing who knows what with the most per vasive surveillance networ k in the wor ld, maybe Tr ump making the pr ess his per sonal enemy is good ? in a bad sor t of way. Maybe a thr eatened pr ess will r etr ieve their delinquent backbones. I t's looking like backbone will be ver y much needed.
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Committee plans immigrant student support By CALEBDANIELSON
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tion for pr ior ity immigr ation enfor cement tar gets have made the futur e for DACA r ecipients uncer tain. A second DACA r ecipient, Josue Romer o, was ar r ested on Feb. 15 for possession of a small amount of mar ijuana, and was subsequently detained by I CE officials in San Antonio. However, he was r eleased the next day. Enr ique Davalos, a Chicano studies pr ofessor at City College who also led the meeting, descr ibed some of the uncer tainty sur r ounding immigr ation enfor cement. ?Ther e is a gr ey ar ea,? he said, for immigr ants detained for minor cr imes. Davalos told the gr oup that he r egular ly asks tr ansit enfor cement officer s what
they would do if they caught someone r iding on the tr olley without a ticket who told them that they did not have legal status. Some of them say that they would just let the per son go, said Davalos, but other s tell him they would have no choice but to tur n the per son over to immigr ation officials. Tr ansit police usually patr ol tr ansit center s and walk thr ough tr olley car s checking for tickets and passes. But Davalos said that the officer s have sometimes gone beyond their author ity and asked people for their legal documentation. The committee also talked about cr eating an immigr ant suppor t center on campus. Committee member s de-
scr ibed the plan to cr eate a dedicated space for holding infor mative wor kshops and offer ing ser vices to immigr ant students. ?We would like to see a center that could be open at least full time (40 hour s per week),? said Schmeltz. She said that she wanted ther e to be time for counselor s to wor k in the center and r elease time for instr uctor s to hold wor kshops. Schmeltz suggested that the center have a full time staff including student wor ker s, and also br ought up the possibility of offer ing fr ee legal assistance at the center. Hector Mar tinez, an English pr ofessor at City College, said that legal and mental health ser vices at the center
would depend on what r esour ces the center has access to. Mar tinez r epor ted to the gr oup that the school administr ation seemed open to the idea of opening an immigr ant suppor t center. ?The concer ns tend to be oper ational,? Schmeltz said. She r efer r ed to the costs of staffing the center and the logistics of pr oviding space for it. The I mmigr ant Suppor t Committee meets Fr idays at noon and is open to anyone willing to actively suppor t immigr ant students. Those who ar e inter ested in joining can email Enr ique Davalos at edavalos@sdccd.edu.
The I mmigr ant Suppor t Committee at San Diego City College held a meeting on Feb. 24 in the Math and Social Sciences building to discuss ways to better suppor t immigr ant students at the school. The committee also r epor ted on challenges that some immigr ant students face. Yvonne Schmeltz, a lear ning community assistant at City College, expr essed concer n over DACA students who have been detained since Pr esident Donald Tr ump?s inaugur ation. ?We?ve had at least two, maybe thr ee students who have been detained alr eady.? Daniel Ramir ez Medina of Seattle was the fir st known DACA r ecipient to be detained under the Tr ump administr ation. He was r epor tedly detained by I CE agents on Feb. 10. The Defer r ed Action for Childhood Ar r ivals pr ogr am delays immigr ation enfor cement action against qualifying immigr ants who enter ed the countr y illegally as childr en, accor ding the Citizenship and I mmigr ation Services website. Those who have been convicted of a ser ious cr ime or ar e consider ed to be a thr eat to the countr y ar e not eligible for the pr ogr am. But expanding definitions under the Tr ump administr a- CommitteemembersgettingsituatedbeforetheImmigrant Support CommitteemeetingheldinMS-451, Feb. 24. THOMASCHESYCity Times
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DACA Continued frompage 1 month visiting visa which eventually expir ed. At six ?They teach in the fo- year s of age the student r um that they should not and his family decided to open the door in case of stay in the United States. ?My mother r ecently an I CE inspection but the kids don't know that,? mar r ied a US citizen. My City College Chicano sister qualifies to bestudies Pr ofessor En- come a citizen because she is a minor, but I 'm r ique Davalos said. M.E.Ch.A. Pr esident not. DACA is the only Joanie L opez said self thing helping me stay in defense classes will also school,? he says. While Pr esident Donbe available for undocumented students who ald Tr ump has thr eathave been ver bally and ened to defund Califor nia cities which r efuse to cophysically attacked. Another City College oper ate with feder al imauthor ities, DACA student tr aveled migr ation Gover nor Jer r y Br own fr om Per u on a six-
told the L A Times: ?We will defend ever ybody, ever y man, woman and child who has come her e for a better life and has contr ibuted to the wellbeing of our state.? The DACA student said he wants to gets his associate degr ee and attend SDSU to study business. Eventually he wants to r etur n to Per u to become pr esident of that countr y. The law student says she wants to be a lawyer to help people that have the same migr ator y issues as her.
By MICHELLEBOTELLO
City Times I t is time for San Diego City College to be accr edited again, as it is once ever y 6 year s. A team will visit the school to evaluate its academic per for mance. The team will cer tify whether the school meets r equisite academic standar ds. I t assur es that an education at City College will be r ecognized for tr ansfer s to other colleges in the pur suit of advanced degr ees and will be accepted by the business community. Accr editation is also r equir ed for the school to be eligible for feder al aid.
The pr ocess for 2017 accr editation began 2014 with a r eview of new standar ds with the Boar d of Tr ustees. Since that time ther e have been numer ous meetings and r epor ts culminating finally on Mar ch 12 with the Chancellor ?s Distr ict Over view to the accr editation team. I t then only r emains for the team to visit the campus between Mar ch 13 - Mar ch 16 and make its deter mination. City College is accr edited by the Accr editing Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Wester n Association of Schools and Colleges, 10 Commer cial Blvd., Suite 204, Novato, CA 94949.
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M.E.Ch.A, AFSC explain immigrant rights By CALEBDANIELSON
City Times M.E.Ch.A., a student activist gr oup at San Diego City College, held a ?Know Your Rights? wor kshop on Feb. 15 in the Math and Social Sciences Building. A guest speaker explained how immigr ation enfor cement wor ks in the county and what immigr ants can do to pr otect themselves fr om depor tation. The guest speaker was Benjamin Pr ado, who is the pr ogr am coor dinator for the San Diego U.S.- Mexico Border Pr ogr am of the Amer ican Fr iends Ser vice Committee. The U.S.-Mexico Bor der Pr ogr am was cr eated to ?secur e human r ights and selfdeter mination for migr ants and bor der communities,? accor ding to its website. The atmospher e in the r oom was tense thr oughout the meeting, but especially when Pr ado showed videos of r aids and descr ibed the depor tation pr ocess. Over a dozen questions wer e asked by member s of the audience. Pr ado told the 50 or so people in the audience, ?Your most impor tant r ight is the r ight to r emain silent.? He said that, if stopped and questioned on the str eet, people have the r ight to ask why they ar e being questioned and whether or not they ar e being detained. He also said that people ar e not r equir ed to give police or immigr ation agents any information other than their name.
I f a per son is detained, Pr ado said that they should exer cise their r ights to speak with a lawyer and make a phone call. He also said that ever yone should have a plan for what to do if they ar e detained. He asked the audience, ?Who will you call? Who will contact your lawyer ?? He said that people should tr y to communicate as much infor mation as possible during their call, including which agency detained them and wher e they ar e being held. Ther e ar e thr ee main feder al agencies r esponsible for immigr ation enfor cement, accor ding to Pr ado: Customs and Bor der Pr otection (CBP), I mmigr ation and Customs Enfor cement (I CE), and Citizenship and I mmigr ation Ser vices (CI S). However, he said that CI S mainly handles applications for citizenship and visas, making it mor e of a bur eaucr acy than an enfor cement agency. Agency r egulations give CBP jur isdiction over any par t of the United States within 100 miles of a land or coastal bor der. Since much of the U.S. population lives near the coast, CBP has author ity over about two thir ds of Amer icans, accor ding to the ACLU. Pr esident Donald Tr ump is seeking to incr ease the effectiveness of the countr y?s immigr ation enfor cement effor ts, in par t by dir ecting I CE to hir e 10,000 additional immigr ation officer s. This would
Guest speaker, BenjaminPrado, fromAFSCtaught howtoidentify agentsfromthethreeimmigrationenforcement agencies: U.S. CustomsandBorder Patrol, U.S. ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement, andU.S. CitizenshipandImmigrationServices. ALANHICKEYCity Times
incr ease the size of the agency by 50 per cent. Tr ump is also looking to cr ack down on so- called sanctuar y jur isdictions. He has thr eatened to cut funding to cities and states that do not cooper ate with immigr ation enfor cement effor ts. Pr ado said that Tr ump ?wants to make ever y agency a ?migr a? agency.? Migr a is the wor d in Spanish for immigr ation police or bor der patr ol. Pr ado, M.E.Ch.A.?s guest speaker, explained that the main function of I CE is to investigate people suspected of living in the countr y illegally and to conduct r aids in or der to detain and depor t such individuals. Pr ado played footage of I CE investigations and r aids in San Diego that wer e videotaped by him and his colleagues. He said that the videos of agents staking out people?s homes and sear ching public buses showed that I CE was enter ing immigr ant neighbor hoods and ?ter r orizing our communities.? He AmericanFriendsServiceCommitteebrochures, that explainyour rightsand descr ibed I CE tactics as a howtoprotect youandyour family duringimmigrationraids, wheredistributed for m of ?psychological duringtheM.E.Ch.A. workshopheldinMS-162, March2. AFSCSanDiegocanbe war far e.? Pr ado encour aged the aucontactedat usmexborder@afsc.org, 619-233-4114 andfacedience to r espond to these book.com/AFSC.SanDiego. ALANHICKEYCity Times
tactics by or ganizing within their communities. He said that people should videotape r aids, make an emer gency plan with their family and shar e infor mation about legal r ights. ?I t?s impor tant to know that ther e ar e only two entities that can depor t you,? said Pr ado. The two entities, he said, ar e your self and an immigr ation judge. When someone is detained by immigr ation author ities, he said, they can only be depor ted by an immigr ation judge, unless they sign a voluntar y departur e for m. This means that, in most cases neither I CE nor CBP has the author ity to depor t people living in the countr y illegally. I nstead, immigr ation officials can r efer detained individuals to the cour t system or convince them to leave on their own by signing a voluntar y depar tur e for m. ?We usually r ecommend, ?don?t sign anything unless you?ve spoken with an attorney,?? Pr ado said. However, he also said that people living in the countr y without legal per mission ar e not entitled to a public defender. He r ecommended that those who need legal assistance find an hon-
est lawyer ; he said that immigr ant advocate or ganizations often have a list of r eputable attor neys. I n an executive or der on Jan. 25, Tr ump or der ed the Depar tment of Homeland Secur ity to pr ior itize the r emoval of anyone living in the countr y illegally who has been convicted of a cr ime or who has ?been char ged with any cr iminal offense,? anyone who has misr epr esented themselves to a gover nment agency, or anyone who ?in the judgment of an immigr ation officer, other wise pose(s) a r isk to public safety or national secur ity.? These pr ior ities, in addition to other s listed in the executive or der, give I CE br oad discr etion to depor t people for even minor cr imes. Pr ado said that his or ganization focuses on pr epar ing people for what to do if they ar e confr onted by immigr ation officer s, because once they ar e detained, it is easy to be put on tr ack for depor tation. ?Either they (immigr ants) ar e going to know their r ights, defend their r ights, (and) exer cise their r ights, or they?r e going to get caught up in the system,? Pr ado said.
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Activist author talks politics and diversity By MELISSADEPIĂ‘ERES
City Times The San Diego City College Diversity Committee br ought activist and author Kevin Powell to talk about his latest book, ?The Education of Kevin Powell: A boy?s jour ney to manhood.? The event was held in the V building on Feb. 27. Powell opened the for um by br inging up the r ecent Oscar ?s awar d ceremony. He discussed the nominated movies and has talked about the impor tance of diver sity thr oughout his tour. ?Ther e is a lack of diver sity in Hollywood because ther e ar e no films about Muslims, Asians, L atinos, you take away ?Moonlight? and ther e is no L GBT movies,? Powell said. ?We have wor k to do: movies like ?Hidden Figur es? about black women who help NASA put the fir st man into space should not be a shock. Ther e ar e thousands of stor ies like this but not enough movies like this put on the r egular basis.? Powell made his fir st television appear ance on MTV?s fir st season of ?The Real Wor ld,? after battling with alcohol addiction. He made a r un for Congr ess which led him to become a political activist and author of twelve books, accor ding to his website. During his tour, ?What do we do now? Amer ica in the age of Tr ump,? Pow-
ell talked about histor ical events that led to Tr ump?s pr esidency. ?Tr ump is not a new phenomenon. He is saying the same things that have been going since 1964 and 1980,? Powell said. Politics aside, the activist explained to the City College audience that r egar dless of the political parties, the people ar e the ones that make democr acy. Powell compar es his life with a hip hop insight which led him to inter view Tupac Shakur befor e his death. ?The definition of hip hop is making something out of nothing; poor Afr ican-Amer icans and poor L atinos cr eated hip hop,? Powell said. Gr owing up as a poor Afr icanAmer ican with a single mother, Powell r eminded listener s of the importance of education and diver sity. ?What kind of human beings ar e we?? Powell asked. ?I don't want to live in a countr y wher e a small percentage of people get to contr ol the decisions for the r est of us and we have to accept those decisions, that?s not called a democr acy,? Powell explained. ?I don't car e if you'r e Republican, liber al, Democr at ? what kind of human beings ar e we?? Powell asked the audience. Although Powell is no fan of Tr ump he shar ed that this pr esidency leaves space to fight
KevinPowell impressedupontheCity Collegeaudiencetheneedto"read, study, travel" toequip themselvesfor Americaintheageof Trump, duringhispresentationinV-101, Feb. 27. ALAN HICKEYCity Times back. ?I believe in justice for all people,? said Powell. ?I am a heter osexual black man, but if a queer sister or br other is hur ting I feel it.? I n his r ecent autobiogr aphy, Powell shar es a memoir of his life as a heter osexual Afr ican- Amer ican gr owing up in a poor class neighborhood. He descr ibes how he dealt with r ace and gender issues not gr owing
up with a father r ole, and the impact that it took in his life. He has tr aveled all 50 states to pr esent his book in colleges and schools. ?For me the most valuable schools in Amer ica ar e the schools like this one (San Diego City College), because of the diver sity,? Powell said. ?This is the r eal Amer ica.?
Students find success By JOSHUANELSON
City Times The San Diego City College chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Jour nalists met for the fir st time this semester on Feb. 27. NAHJ is a gr oup dedicated to suppor ting pr ofessional and student jour nalists within the Hispanic community. The or ganization is multicultur al, and accepts anyone inter ested in jour nalism or communications, accor ding to chapter adviser Pr ofessor L aur a Castaneda. Based in Washington D.C., the NAHJ was founded in 1984 and has over 2000 member s. Ther e is a pr ofessional chapter based out of the San Diego- Tijuana ar ea and a student chapter on campus. City College is the only student chapter listed on the website that is not a four year univer sity. NAHJ pr ovides student jour nalists with networ king oppor tunities, scholar ships, confer ences and many other r esour ces, accor ding to the gr oup's website. ?I t?s a gr eat way to make connections and to be able to show your wor k. They ar e an amazing suppor t to the L atino community as well.? Said Gabby Fer nandez, a content pr oducer for Telemundo Phoenix. ?The fir st time I went to a job fair, I was discr iminated for being L atino, and because of my accent. I was about to give up on my dr eams, ? Fer nandez said. Fer nandez, a for mer City College student, is a cur r ent NAHJ member and was pr eviously a par t of the college?s student chapter. She cr edits
the association with helping her land her fir st job in br oadcast jour nalism. Students involved with NAHJ ar e connected with Newscene, City College?s weekly newscast pr oduced on campus. L aur a CastaĂąeda is the depar tment chair for City College?s Radio, Television and Film depar tment. She has been a pr ofessional member of the NAHJ for mor e than 20 year s. As the adviser, she ensur es the students follow the r ules for on-campus clubs, and also wor ks closely with member s to ensur e they take advantage of scholar ship oppor tunities. ?Since I ?ve been teaching at City College, now 16 year s, at least ten of my students have been selected fr om thousands of applicants for scholarships, and have been selected to take par t in a unique week long student pr oject. NAHJ flies them out to their annual national confer ence wher e they cover the confer ence as par t of the convention student jour nalism team,? Castaneda said. At the NAHJ meeting, they also discussed panels they hope to hold on campus r anging fr om local br oadcast news outlets taking tour s of the City College studio, to editor s of wellknown fact checking or ganizations giving discussions on fake news. A potential fundr aiser for the gr oup was dubbed, ?Real News, Alter native Pies,? by Vice Pr esident Jake Domecus, the idea being a classic pie- in- the- face stand, with student jour nalists as the tar get. The fundr aiser is still in the planning phase. The next scheduled meeting for the City College chapter of NAHJ is Tuesday, Mar ch 21 at 2:30 p.m., in C-204.
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"Women in Light" showcases local photography
Studentsof City CollegeandSanDiegolocalsadmiredthephotography duringthe"WomenInLight" exhibit openingreceptiononFeb. 26 intheLuxeGallery, Vbuilding. GRIFFINDEHNECity Times By SHAYLYNMARTOS
City Times The Women in L ight photo collective held the opening r eception for their four th annual show in the L uxe Galler y on campus on Fr iday, Feb. 24. Women in L ight: A Perspective featur es wor k fr om City College students and faculty, and local photogr apher s r egar ding womanhood, femininity, and the societal str uctur es and gender r oles that define women?s lives. The show will r un in the photogr aphy depar tment at City College until Mar ch 24. The L uxe Galler y is located on the fifth floor of the V- Building and is open Monday-Thur sday fr om noon until 9 p.m. and on Fr iday fr om noon until 4 p.m. The collective is also holding a discussion panel on the futur e of photogr aphy for women on Thur sday, Mar ch 23 at 6 p.m. The four founder s of the collective met at City College while studying and volunteer ing in the photogr aphy depar tment. Char cee Star ks, Paula Mir anda, Car iely Benitez and Nicole Espina all volunteer ed as lab techs on campus, wher e their fr iendship blossomed into a cr eative par tner ship focused on documenting and discussing the female exper ience. I nspir ed by Women?s Histor y Month in Mar ch, Car iely
Benitez came up with the idea for a women?s photo exhibit four year s ago and shar ed her idea with her peer s. ?The boys wer e like, ?Why a women?s show?? Well because we don?t have many of them,? Benitez said. Benitez said she believed photogr aphy that focuses on the female per spective is ?highly impor tant? to the ar t community, especially in the cur r ent political and social climate. ?I ?m a mom. I take car e of my kid; I take car e of my mom. I ?m her car etaker. Ther e?s many differ ent hats that we wear and we don?t get r eally r ecognized,? she said. Benitez is also an educator that wor ks in the Poway Unified School Distr ict and with local photogr aphy or ganizations. Benitez?s wor k for this year ?s show is a ser ies of ten black and white photogr aphs featur ing the women in her family in her hometown, shot on her smar tphone. ?Dear To Me? is a celebr ation of the str ength, vitality, and humor (among many other qualities) of Benitez?s family. Another founder of Women in L ight, Char cee Star ks, was the pr incipal or ganizer for this year ?s show. Star ks has volunteer ed as a lab tech at City College for the past seven year s. Star ks explained that her schedule is busy but she always cr eates content for the Women in L ight show. ?This
is like my one thing a year that I make sur e to do,? she said. One of Star ks?pieces, ?Ego and choices,? focuses on the duality of the Super ego and the I d of human psychology. The two models per sonify temptation and mor al decision in this black and white pr int. Star ks? photo ser ies, titled ?L ondon in Summer. For My Mother and My Sister s,? commemor ated her tr ip to L ondon dur ing the Br exit vote with her family. Amidst the political discour se, Star ks said she was inspir ed by the beauty and str ength of flower s and plants she saw, and how they r eminded her of her
own family member s. Flower s wer e plentiful thr oughout the exhibit, as a depiction of the connection between women and natur e. City College student and photo lab tech Adr iana Rosalinda Escandon said she used flower s in her submission to depict our society?s obsession with consumer pr oducts and the way women ar e fr equently tossed to the side for ?new and impr oved? ver sions once they lose their youth and vitality. Escandon also said she believes flower s symbolize the five stages of life for women: bir th, blossoming, matur ing, wither ing, and death. She explained how her pieces for
this year ?s show, black and white pr ints with heavy contr ast and shadow, wer e much mor e mor bid than her usual wor k. ?Finger ing Natur e,? a ser ies by photogr apher and educator Rebecca M. Goldschmidt, or ganizer of the tr ansbor der photo pr oject Bor der Click, showcased a mor e sensual depiction of natur e. The photos featur ed Goldschmidt?s hands car essing var ious flower s, plants, dir t and water. ?I want them to have these under tones of er oticism, or r ather your connection to natur e,? she said. Another theme appar ent in the Women in L ight show is the per vasive issue of physical abuse towar ds women, fr equently by their significant other s. The most vividly mor bid ser ies of the show, titled ?Death of a Gir l,? showcases women mur der ed in var ious ways. Elizabeth Tr aughber, City College student and photo lab tech, featur ed her daughter s and a fr iend fr om her chur ch in her photos, ?Bur ned,? ?Stabbed,? ?Death in the Deser t,? ?Str angled? and ?Body Dump.? Tr aughber explained that she wanted to br ing attention to the abusive r elationships that women become stuck in and how they can end violently. I n her photo?s label, Tr aughber wr ote that the pr oduction of the ser ies, Charcee Starks, a founding member of Women In Light, was the principal organizer ?helped me to heal in ways I for this year?s exhibit. Starks and her co-founders met as lab techs in theCity College never expected.? photography department. GRIFFINDEHNECity Times
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Theater festival features seven short plays By SHAYLYNMARTOS
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MarthaLopez rehearsingAileen Donovan's"ConfusedLove," oneof thisyear'sstudent-writtenplaysthat opensinthe Black BoxTheatre(AH-120) at 8 p.m., March10. Talkbackswiththeplaywrightswill takeplaceat theendof eachnight's performances. SHELSAVAGECity Times
Wor ds, Wor ds, Wor ds: Festival of New Plays opens this Fr iday! The second annual Festival of New Plays showcases seven or iginal pr oductions wr itten by San Diego City College students and dir ected by faculty. The festival r uns for six days over two weeks in the Black Box Theatr e, located at AH- 120. All seven of the 10 minute plays will be perfor med at each showing. This year ?s festival will featur e: ?The Big Finale? by Cynthia Aloese ?Ouch.? by Michelle Ander son ?I t Appear ed Fr om Nothing? by Caelan Cr ockett ?Confused L ove? by Aileen Donovan ?Ar tificial Castling? by Br ody Gogatz ?The Rifleman? by Roosevelt Gr een ?Atoms? by Aar on Newbom ?Teacher ?s L ounge? by Car la Zuniga Showtimes: Fr iday, Mar ch 10 and 17 at 8 p.m. Satur day, Mar ch 11 and 18 at 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar ch 12 and 19 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15 for gener al admission $10 for students, senior s, militar y, and SDCCD employees Can be pur chased online at: https://citycollegetheatr e.eventbr ite.com Can also be pur chased at the door, but with cash only!
Hugh Jackman shines in his last X-Men film By ESAI MELENDENZ
City Times On Fr iday. Mar ch 3, dir ector James Mangold's film, "L ogan," was given its wor ld- wide r elease. "L ogan" is the latest entr y in the "X-Men" film ser ies, which is based off the comic books of the same name. This movie is a sequel to Mangold's film, "The Wolver ine," r eleased in 2013. I t focuses on an aged and much mor e matur e Wolver ine (L ogan) in 2029 who is tr ying to live a life of solitude as a limousine dr iver. Str ange events occur that involve a myster ious young gir l, which in tur n causes him to leap back into action as Wolver ine. "L ogan" intr oduces a new and ver y differ ent exper ience fr om past X-Men films. For star ter s, it's the fir st X-Men film to be given an "R" r ating by the Motion Pictur e Association of Amer ica, and it mar ks the last time that Hugh Jackman and Patr ick Stewar t will be in an X-Men film as Wolver ine and Pr ofessor Char les Xavier, r espectively. Both actor s have played those char acter s since the fir st X- Men film which was r eleased back in 2000. Dur ing an appear ance on The Gr aham Nor ton Show, Jackman explained why he isn't r etur ning as Wolver ine. "This will be my last one. I t just felt like it was the r ight time to do it." Patr ick Stewar t was also a guest on the show and expr essed his feelings about why he didn't want to r etur n to the ser ies either. "I r ealized ther e will never be a better, a mor e per fect, a mor e sensitive, and beautiful way of saying au r evoir to Logan, nowopennationwide, isthefinal X-MenfilmtofeatureHugh Char les Xavier than this movie," Stewar t claimed. JackmanandPatrick Stewart andthefirst tobegivenan"R" rating. The film itself is an emotional r oller- coaster COURTESY20THCENTURYFOX
r ide that takes not only the char acter s, but the audience thr ough themes of depr ession, r edemption, and agony in its two- hour r unning time. Hugh Jackman steals the show thanks to his honest, stellar, and sometimes unsettling per formance as the title char acter. Jackman is in the fr ont of that r oller- coaster r ide and shows the audience how tr ue anger and pain have affected the char acter over time. At the same time, Jackman also juxtaposes his char acter 's feelings of self-hatr ed and guilt with some humor and compassion thanks to his sar castic and cynical quips while also showing he can be ver y selfless. Patr ick Stewar t is a gr eat foil as Pr ofessor Char les Xavier to Jackman's L ogan. Stewar t's per for mance also sees him as a guilt- tor n and hur ting individual, but unlike L ogan, Char les shows that he still has hope for both him and his old student and fr iend. Stewar t also plays the emotional and mor e accessible char acter of the two, which gives the audience a chance to r eally catch their br eath after seeing how aloof and pessimistic L ogan can be sometimes. Dafne Keen, who is in her fir st movie r ole, also gives a solid per for mance as L aur a. The myster y of this char acter is accentuated by Keen's silent acting thr ough most of the film. Her r ole also seems to be a mix of both L ogan and Char les as she shows that she can be just as r uthless and unfor giving as Wolver ine, but also that she is capable of loving life as it comes, as well as help those in need.Don't be sur pr ised if L ogan generates some Oscar buzz dur ing awar ds season later this year. L ogan is just simply a downr ight good film and people of all ages should enjoy it.
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CITYART "Algo Sucede" con Julieta Venegas By NANITZIAELIZABETHCOMPARANCUADRAS
City Times Julieta Venegas is coming downtown. Gr ammy Awar d and six- time L atin Gr ammy Awar d winner, Mexican- Amer ican singer, songwr iter, and pr oducer Julieta Venegas will per for m Mar ch 17 at the House of Blues San Diego. On Feb. 13, Venegas confir med via Facebook thr ee Califor nia "Algo Sucede" ("Something's Happening") shows for Mar ch 2017: Santa Cr uz, Anaheim and San Diego. Venegas has been on tour since 2015 pr omoting her latest album as well as singing old hits like "Er es Par a Mí" ("You?r e for Me"), "L imón y Sal" ("L emon and Salt") and "Me Voy" ("I 'm Gone"). Door s open at 7 p.m. and the "Algo Sucede" show star ts at 8 p.m. All ages ar e welcome and tickets ar e available fr om $42 to $170 at livenation.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000 to or der tickets by phone.
JulietaVenegasperformingduringthe GuadalajaraBook Fair, Nov. 29, 2014. Venegaswill takethestageat theHouseof BluesSanDiegoat 8 p.m. onMarch17. MINISTERIODECULTURADELANACIÓNARGENTINA FILE
Latino films arrive in SD LGBT film wins By SHAYLNMARTOS
City Times The 24th annual San Diego L atino Film Festival opens on Mar ch 16 in Mission Valley and Nor th Par k and will r un until Mar ch 26. The film festival was or iginally cr eated as an oppor tunity for film students to showcase their wor k focusing on the L atino cultur e and exper ience, but has now gr own into a r espected and lar ge festival that takes over the AMC Theater at the Mission Valley Mall and the Digital Gym Cinema in Nor th Par k. This year, the San Diego L atino Film Festival will showcase 160 films fr om 20 different countr ies. Ther e will be 18 differ ent showcases dur ing the festival, including ?Viva Mujer es,? ?Fr onter a Filmmaker s,? and the 12th annual ?Cine Gay? L GBTQ showcase. Ther e will also be multiple special events, such as the opening night par ty on Mar ch 16, daily musical per for mances called Sonido L atino, and the closing night par ty on Mar ch 26. The film festival is now put on by Media Ar ts Center San Diego, an or ganization cr eated out of the festival that pr ovides educa-
tion for amateur cinematogr apher s and exposur e for films pr oduced by mar ginalized filmmaker s. You can pur chase your tickets online, ther e ar e also multiple packages available. For a single movie, gener al admission costs $11.50. For senior s, students, and militar y, tickets cost $9.50. For $45 you can pur chase a movie ticket package to five films of your choice. I f you want to watch a few mor e films, you can pur chase an 11 movie film pass that also includes VI P ear ly seating. And if you want the whole exper ience, for $225 you can have access to all the movies you can watch, VI P seating and r eceptions, entr ance into the after par ties, and var ious discounts ar ound the festival. Visit the festival?s website, http://2017.sdlatinofilm.com, to pur chase tickets and for mor e infor mation.
Inthisimagereleasedby theSanDiegoLatinoFilmFestival, Mextasy isanewTVseriesbeingshowcasedby FronteraFilmmakersinthisyear'sfestival. It explorestheLatinoexperiencebothinsideandoutsidetheU.S. border. COURTESYSANDIEGOLATINOFILMFESTIVAL
By JAMESSTEVENSON
City Times At the 89th Academy Awar ds, something unexpected happened: ?Moonlight? won Best Pictur e of 2016. This signifies pr ogr ess within the Academy Awar ds establishment, which has long been cr iticized for its lack of var iety and diver sity in both the films they select for Best Pictur e and amongst their own member s. Befor e the big inclusive dr aft, which took place after the famous # oscar ssowhite campaign, the academy was 94 per cent white and 77 per cent male. I t is felt that this is the r eason the academy has favor ed movies that make Hollywood look good, such as ?Ar go,? ?The Ar tist,? ?Spotlight,? and ?Bir dman.? These movies often feel safe and uplifting. The academy had a chance to r epeat this patter n and awar d the cr itically acclaimed musical ?L a L a L and? the coveted Best Pictur e statue, a movie that in ever y way checks off all the tr aditional mar ks of a movie that would nor mally be awar ded Best Pictur e. However, on awar ds night, they chose ?Moonlight,? a somber and har r owing film about the cr ossr oads journey of a young black man who str uggles to sur vive in a hostile envir onment, all the while coming to a r ealization that he is gay. The movie is unconventional and its win br eaks long r epeated Academy pr actice. The awar d signals not only a new attitude to r acial diver sity, but as the fir st L GBTQ movie to win Best Pictur e, it indicates that the academy is at least star ting to consider mor e inclusiveness in consider ing what types of films ar e selected. After all, what?s the point of expanding the list of nominations if the same kinds of films keep on winning?
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Urban Scholars promote education to prevent incarceration
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VOX POPULI Voice of t he People Questionsby AndreaMorn/ Photosby NanitziaElizabethComparanCuadras
Should City Collegehavegender neutral bathrooms availableon campus? "Absolutely. I t?s like a safety issue. We want them to feel safe so they would have a safe place to go." -Car ly Stacey, 19, Theater
"Yes, because not ever yone confor ms to the gender binar y and I think they should be accommodated." -Mir anda River a, 23, Child Development
TheUrbanScholarsUnionmeetsat 4 p.m. onWednesdaysinMS-440. OnMarch8, they will beholdinga panel onthe?Pathway throughHigher Education: Our NarrativesOneStepat aTime.?Thetalk isopento all, 11:10 a.m. - 12:35 p.m. inMS-162. JESSICACASTILLOCity Times By JOSHUANELSON
City Times The Ur ban Scholar s Union will be hosting a panel entitled, ?Pathway thr ough Higher Education.? For mer ly incar cerated students will tell per sonal nar r atives, with an emphasis on how higher education impacts r ecidivism r ates, which r efer to a per son?s likelihood to r elapse into cr iminal behavior. The Ur ban Scholar s ar e planning for over 80 students, pr ofessor s, and community leader s to attend the event. I t will be held in MS- 162 at 11:10 am on Wednesday, Mar ch 8. Founded by students at City College, the Ur ban Scholar s Union is an organization that wor ks onand off- campus to suppor t those who have been thr ough the cr iminal jus-
tice system. They hold weekly meetings, Wednesdays at 4 pm. At these meetings, they discuss activism and outr each, such as an ar t exhibition they attended that was put on by Pr oject Paint, a pr ogr am at the Richar d J. Donovan Cor r ectional Facility in San Diego that pr ovides inmates with visual ar t wor kshops. Pr esident and Cofounder of the Ur ban Scholar s, Mar ia Elena Mor ales, said the or ganization is looking to get involved with mor e par olees. ?We ar e curr ently wor king to get some of them out to our campus for a tour to let them know that education is also another r oute they can take,? she said. The Ur ban Scholar s ar e involved with other community colleges in
the ar ea like Southwester n, Mesa, and Gr ossmont. They have also wor ked with the Nosotr os Men?s Recover y home, pr omoting school as a way to combat r ecidivism. Accor ding to the Califor nia Depar tment of Cor r ections and Rehabilitation, 61 per cent of inmates will be r eincar cerated within the fir st thr ee year s of being r eleased. Ur ban Scholar s Vice Pr esident, Ryan Flaco Rising, believes that shar ing per sonal stor ies with the public is ver y ther apeutic. ?We walk out of the pr ison system with so many stigmas,? he said. ?These panel discussions ar e a way for us to heal, and a way for us to gain the community?s suppor t.? ?Pathway thr ough Higher Education? is fr ee and open to the public.
"I think they, tr ansgender people, should be able to pick whatever bathr oom they want to choose. I n my opinion I don?t think it?s necessar y. I think it would have them feel like that they ar e being separ ated fr om the r egular bathr ooms ? women?s and men?s bathr ooms. " -Andr ew Sanchez, 28, Chicano Studies
"No, because just because you can?t identify with your own sex that doesn't mean that somebody else should have to pay for your confusion. You ar e what you ar e." -Julian Boe, 20, Political Science
"Yeah, sur e. I don?t think it would har m anything and I think it only has positive implications. I t?s definitely something that should happen." -Gabr iel Snydur, 18, Undecided
"Yes. I t cr eates a safe place wher e people who just want to use the r estr oom will be able to pee in peace without any fear of judgment fr om their peer s." -Meer ji, 19, English
On this episode of City Bites, we tr y out Alber t?s Fr esh Mexican Food which is located acr oss the str eet fr om City College at 1177 C St. This is Alber t?s four th location in San Diego and the r estaur ants ar e known for their ?Big Rolled Tacos.?
City Bites By MIKEMADRIAGA
City Times CaliforniaBurrito, $7.35, fromAlbert'sFreshMexicanFood. Therestaurant isopenfrom8 a.m. to10 p.m. MIKE MADRIAGACity Times
Have you found a new and delicious eater y close to campus? L et us know - because ever ybody?s got to eat.
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What happens when you lose your health care? By JAMESCALL
City Times Republicans ar e scr ambling to ?r epeal and r eplace? Obamacar e with little consensus so far on how to accomplish it. Citizens ar e worr ied about their cover age. The student health car e that our $19 per semester pays for is fair ly compr ehensive, but it won?t last for ever. I f the Affor dable Car e Act (ACA) is r epealed, then what? What will be available when we leave school? Hopefully, Califor nia will step into the br each. Two state senator s aim to do just that. Senator s Toni Atkins and Ricar do L ar a last month submitted SB- 562 to enact a single- payer healthcar e plan in Califor nia. This is in dir ect r esponse to the danger posed to ACA by the Tr ump administr ation and by Republicans in Congr ess. David Rolland, Atkins? communications dir ector, says the details of the bill ar e yet to be fleshed out. The bill signals intent to cr eate a health car e plan to cover all Califor nians. For a good compar ison between a single- payer plan and the U.S. under ACA, one need look no fur ther than our nextdoor neighbor, Canada.
Inthisphotoreleasedby National NursesUnited, SenatorsToni AtkinsandRicardoLararally withnursesat theCaliforniaStateCapitol buildingonFeb. 22for SB562, asingle-payer healthcareplanfor thestate. COURTESYNATIONALNURSESUNITED some time to obtain and elective sur ger ies longer still. Yet, 14.4 per cent of Amer icans claim unmet medical needs against 11.3 per cent of Canadians. To use cancer as a benchmar k, Canadians ar e able to claim lower incidence and mor tality r ates than the U.S. for all cancer s, accor ding to the U.S. Cancer Statistics Wor king Gr oup and the Canadian Cancer Society.
What is single- payer healt h car e? Br oadly speaking, it is a system in which the state funds all health car e costs r ather than pr ivate hospitals or insur ance companies. This may be accomplished in a number of ways. The gover nment might own the hospitals and employ the doctor s dir ectly; the gover nment might B ut wait , wouldn?t t hat contr act pr ivate health car e make t axes ext r emely high? pr ovider s; or it may use some Accor ding to Hackett, combination of these Canadian taxes ar e only methods. slightly higher than in the U.S. However, counting Ar en?t t her e long wait s t o money saved on out-of-pocket see a doct or and ot her com- healthcar e costs, as well as pr omises on qualit y? cheaper higher education, Rhonda Hackett is a Cana- family allowance, and other dian clinical psychologist who tax cr edits, Canadians keep lives in the U.S. and who has 82 per cent of their gr oss inmade a compar ison study of come, while Amer icans r etain the health car e systems of 81.9 per cent. Canadians have both countr ies. She says that near ly fr ee health car e and in Canada ther e ar e no waits actually have mor e money to for ur gent car e. The car e of spend after taxes. cer tain specialists may take Accor ding to Physicians for
a National Health Pr ogr am (PNHP), r eplacing thousands of differ ent pr ivate plans and hundr eds of insur er s with a single non- pr ofit pr ogr am would save mor e than $400 billion, which would be available to pay down the actual costs of a tax suppor ted pr ogr am. PNHP estimates the savings on administr ative costs alone could top $150 billion. What about co- pays and deduct ibles, which under ACA have r isen? Under ACA insur ance companies deter mine co-pays and deductibles. I n a singlepayer system the law would deter mine how much they would be. I n Canada, for instance, for most people they ar e non-existent. I sn?t st at e r un healt h car e an expensive and inefficient bur eaucr at ic mess? The Or ganisation for Economic Co- oper ation and Development (OECD) r epor ts
that 10 per cent of Canada?s GDP goes to health car e for 100 per cent of its population. The U.S. spends 17 per cent of its GDP on health car e, yet 15 per cent of Amer icans have no cover age at all and millions mor e have too little. Accor ding to Single- Payer Action, a website advocating single- payer health car e, about 64 per cent of U.S. health car e costs ar e picked up by the taxpayer. Many poor people, having no plan of their own, must r esor t to emergency r oom visits, which ar e mor e expensive than pr imar y car e. When they cannot pay, the gover nment does. I n r eality, Amer icans ar e paying for univer sal health car e and not getting it. I t is U.S. health car e that is an expensive, bur eaucr atic mess.
ACA. I n Canada it is doctor s who decide what pr ocedur es ar e necessar y and only doctor s. Not the gover nment, not an insur ance company. I n r eality, it is the U.S. that has socalled ?death panels.? I f Califor nia is able to implement some for m of singlepayer health car e it would be a big impr ovement over even ACA. We should cut out the middleman ? the insur ance companies who take a cut of our health car e costs without pr oviding any healthcar e at all. And I would think employer s would want to get out of the health car e business altogether. I t is our system that is bloated and inefficient. Health car e is not something that ever yone is ?entitled? to. I t is not an entitlement. But single- payer is affor dable and humane and What about ?deat h something that we, as decent panels?? human beings, should do for I n the U.S. insur ance com- each other. panies decide who gets what health car e. That has been mitigated only somewhat by
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Knights tennis team takes fifth conference win
TheSDCCLady KnightsdefeatedPalomar College8-1at home, March2. Theteamiscurrently 5-1inthePCACConference. #3 BriannaLeigh-Pink, #4 MarilynKathka, and#5 KacieMcBarronareundefeatedinconferencesinglesplay. #3 Doublesduo, EricaLetzring &NatashaVargasareundefeatedinconferencedoublesplay. BriannaLeigh-Pink (So.) (TopLeft). EricaLetzring(Fr.) (TopMiddle). DoublesteamBrianaHook (So.) &MarylinKathka(Fr.) (TopRight). EricaLetzring(Fr.), BriannaLeigh-Pink (So.), BrianaHooks(So.), CoachJami Jones, NatashaVargas(Fr.), KacieMcBarron (Fr.) andMarilynKathka(Fr.) (Bottom). CELIAJIMENEZ& CODYULSHOFFERCity Times
Knights softball players make strong moves
Knights' freshman, MadelineLey, attemptstoget tofirst baseafter hittingapitchintheir homegameagainst theEagles. (Left). Eagles' SavannahRuizsteals3rdbasewhileKnights' freshman, Avery Bruce, triestoget her out (Right), March1. GRIFFINDEHNECity Times
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Knights smash Tigers, move on to "Elite 8"
By GABERIVERA
City Times The San Diego City College Knights men?s basketball team?s histor ic season continued Satur day, Mar ch 9, as they dismantled the River side City College Tiger s 113- 81 to advance to the state championship quar ter finals for the fir st time since 2009. The contest star ted as competitive as was expected but after the game was tied at 21, PCAC South Player of the Year, Knights sophomor e point guar d, Dar ien McClain lit Har r y West Gym up like never befor e, hitting four 3-pointer s in a thr ee minute span, and six in the fir st half alone, which put the Knights up for good. McClain finished the game with an absur d 39 points on 13-of-18 fr om the field, including 8- of- 10 3pointer s and adding four assists, two steals and zer o tur nover s. What is it that is making it so har d for McClain to miss? ?Our coaching staff,?? McClain exclaimed. ?Got the best tr ainer s in the wor ld, Coach Scott, Coach Mitch, ever ybody has confidence in me, so it?s
just coming to me,? explained McClain. Knight?s fr eshman guar d, Wonder Smith was the per fect complement to McClain, adding thr ee mor e 3-pointer s on 4-of -9 shooting for 13 points, five r ebounds, and four assists. Knight?s sophomor e guar d, Jahmer e Mitchell added 12 points and sophomor e guar d, Mar cus Br umsey scor ed 16 points, with five assists and two steals. Sophomor e center Alex Wilbour n went per fect fr om the field for nine points. Knight?s fr eshman for war d, Rober t McCoy pr ovided the punch coming off the bench for 15 points, six r ebounds, two steals, and one block. The Knights wer e simply unstoppable, shooting 59.4 per cent fr om the field for the game, while also hitting a season high 12 3-pointer s for their 14th consecutive win. River side was led by Br andon Thomas' 22 points and the Tiger s shot 49.2 per cent but it wasn't enough to keep up with San Diego. The Knights tur ned 18 Tiger s tur nover s into 27 points and outscor ed Riverside 11- 0 on second chance points. ?Shoot. I ?m excited. Our guys
played har d, they played well,? said an exuber ant Knight?s Head Coach, Mitch Char lens on how he feels about his team r epr esenting San Diego in the ?Elite 8?. The r oad to a state championship won?t be easy. The state quar ter finals will be played at L as Positas College in L ivermor e, Calif. beginning Mar ch 9. The ?Elite 8? consists of the states last eight teams left. Four schools fr om souther n Califor nia and four schools fr om nor ther n Califor nia r emain to compete for the r ights to the state championship. The Knights (28- 5) will be pitted against the Yuba College 49er s (28- 2) on Thur sday, Mar ch 9 at 7 p.m. Yuba is led by fr eshman guar d, Jo?sef Zamor a?s 18.3 points per game and sophomor e guar d, Bar r y Ogalue?s 17.9 points per game. The 49er s shoot 51.3 per cent fr om the field and 42 per cent fr om 3-point land while dishing out 18.7 assists per game, giving the Knights defense a huge task Thur sday night. I f you?r e not able to make the tr ip to L as Positas, you can follow the live stats at the CCCAA website.
PCACPlayer of theYear, Knightssophomoreguard, DarienMcClaingoesupfor oneof hiseight made3-pointers. TheKnightsdemolishedtheRiversideCity CollegeTigers113-81andaremovingonto thestatequarterfinalsfor thefirst timesince2009. (TopLeft). Tigersfreshmanguard, BraeIvey (2) canonly look onasKnightssophomorecenter, AlexWilbournslamshomethetwo-handeddunk. (Top Right). Knightssophomoreguard, MarcusBrumsey skiesover theTigersdefendersfor theoffensiverebound. (BottomRight). GRIFFINDEHNECity Times