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Volume69, Number 8 | February 24, 2015
Random acts of Club Rush
Parking still an issue for students By TORREYSPOERER Ci ty Ti mes
Clubs on campus celebraterandom acts of kindness whileappealing to prospectivestudents By FRANCHESCAWALKER Ci ty Ti mes Students and clubs gather ed in the new quad of the Ar ts and Humanities and Business Technology buildings for Club Rush. Or ganized by ASG and the I nter Club Council (I CC), the event took place Feb. 11- 12 and featur ed booths fr om The Philosophy Club, Futur e L eader s Club and Visionar y Feminists clubs. The theme for the event this semester was ?Random act of kindness,? wher e booths, such as the ASG, ador ned a ?Fr ee Hugs and Kisses? banner and sold candy bags and r oses. Club Rush occur s at the star t of the spr ing and fall semester s and aims to pr omote clubs on campus and r ecr uit new member s. I CC member Kenneth Sandoval explained why I CC chose to do r andom acts of kindness. ?We?r e tr ying to do a hear t to hear t. So on the
r oses we?r e selling, we?r e tr ying to do little messages that have r andom acts of kindness,? Sandoval said. ?They may say messages for ever yday per sons. So when they r ead it, it has a special touch to their hear t, and maybe they?ll do it to pass it on the str eet.? The Visionar y Feminists, which has been active for seven year s, sought to not only r ecr uit mor e member s for its club, but wants to accomplish many goals. The club has alr eady succeeded one goal since the semester began ? or ganizing an event that discussed male pr ivilege and what people do on a daily basis for safety. ?We asked people ? without explaining what male pr ivilege was ? what they did daily specifically what they did for safety,? Rick Powell, a member of The Visionar y Feminists, explained.
PhotoIllustrationbyDAVIDPRADELCi ty Ti mes
Booyah! Sophomore Caleb Singleton records his 200th career three-pointer in the San Diego City College men?s basketball team?s victory during the last home game of the regular season and on ?sophomorenight.?TheKnightsrecordedtheir sixthconsecutivedouble-digit victorybydefeatingImperial ValleyCollege 108-80 onFeb. 18, andfor the secondyear ina row, the Knightsadvance tothe CaliforniaCommunityCollegeAthleticAssociationbasketball playoffs. See storyonpage 12.
See RUSH, page 9
Rachel Kennett, a 29year- old visual ar ts student, walks to the V building gar age, wher e she and many other students usually find some of the only available par king spots on the campus. ?The MS building is usually pr etty full, but the V building?s not that bad,? said Kennett. Accor ding to data fr om the distr ict?s par king pr ogr am, City College has 1,158 spaces dedicated to students and 424 for faculty, along with 60 for disabled and 20 spaces for motor cycles and scooter s. For the fall 2014 semester, a total of 4,036 vehicle permits wer e pur chased, making City?s per mit to space r atio of 3.8: 1. ?We do (for peak hour s) take a look at the car s that ar e par ked in Balboa Par k, and we take a look to see if ther e ar e per mits on them, and we also take a look at our par king lots on campus,? explains Debr a Picou, the par king pr ogr am super visor for SDCCD. ?Dur ing the fir st month of school, it is pr etty impacted for the fir st few weeks,? Picou said.
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