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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.

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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.

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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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TurtleRockStudios?latest release?Evolve? pushesthelimit onfirst-personshooters andmultiplayer gaming. Life, page7

Newsitcomrethinks, revamps andreinforcestheAsian-American experience. Opinion, page5

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Beholdtheturtle. Hemakesprogressonly whenhesticks hisneck out. ? JamesBryant Conant

Spring musical set for this April The San Diego City College dr ama depar tment?s pr oduction of the fan favor ite musical ?Gr ease? is set to open Apr il 10. The 1971 musical tur ned 1979 classic film showcases the life of the leather jacket wear ing gr easer s, the T- bir ds and their companions the Pink L adies, enjoying the Califor nia sun as aimless teenager s in the ?50s.

?I t is a fabulous, funny, wonder ful show,? June Richar ds, pr ofessor and dir ector of the theatr e and dr ama pr ogr am, said. ?Gr ease? tells the stor y about an Amer ican boy, Danny Zuko, leader of the T- Br ir ds, and an Austr alian gir l, Sandy Olsson, whose summer fling can?t be for gotten after unexpectedly seeing each other attending the same school.

Ther e will be nine perfor mances total for this semester ?s pr oduction of ?Gr ease.? Shows will r un Fr idays and Satur days at 8 p.m. Apr il 10- 26 with additional showings on Apr il 12, 19 and 26 at 2 p.m. For mor e infor mation visit www.sdcity.edu/savilletheatr e ? Ri char d Lomi bao

Newexhibit March 13 at City Gallery The City Galler y is hosting a new exhibition star ting Mar ch 13 entitled ?Dialogues: Poster Ar t of the Soviet Union.? Or ganized by the faculty and students of the histor y pr ogr am and the gr aphic design and the visual and

per for ming ar ts depar tments, the exhibition will featur e r ar e Soviet Union poster s fr om the Per estr oika and Glasnost per iod of Soviet histor y as well as new ar t cr eated by var ious illustr ator s, designer s and ar tists.

Opening night is slated for Mar ch 13 fr om 6 to 9 p.m., and the exhibition will be open on Monday thr ough Thur sday fr om 1 to 4 p.m. until Apr il 13.

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Jazz station getting back into the swing of things Campus radio station KSDS goes livewith new location, technology By ALDORAMIREZ Ci ty Ti mes With the r enovation of the C Building under way at San Diego City College, longtime City College r adio station KSDS has had some inter ference in tr ansmission r egar ding its br oadcasts. L ast fall, the studio moved fr om the C Building, wher e it had been located since pr ogr amming began in 1973, to a new facility in the L building that will act as a tempor ar y headquar ter s for the college r adio station. Accor ding to I nter im Station Manager Claudia Russell, the move to the station's new location has caused some pr oblems with the tr ansmission and for ced KSDS to do automated pr ogr amming. ?I t was a little challenging because our studios wer en?t r eady over her e and our offices wer en?t quite r eady so we had kind of a challenging tr ansition per iod and we'r e still moving

in,??Russell said. Also moving into a mor e digital technology, KSDS now has new equipment that per mits the backup of their entir e CD and vinyl collections and four new studios equipped with state of the ar t machiner y, such as new boar ds and additional micr ophones. ?Things that we used to have to wor r y about, CDs getting scr atched or disappear ing, things like that we don?t have to wor r y about that anymor e,? said Russell. The r enovation also includes completely new electr ical and mechanical systems that pr ovide KSDS with mor e quality space and capacity for mor e people in their cabins, which will help the live per for mances and inter views. With the tr ansition, KSDS also exper ienced some momentar y tr ouble with the way they connect with their audience due to technical difficulties like the connection

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A fresh face for the M building At thesouthendof theGortonQuadsitsthenewlyredesignedandrevampedMbuilding. Oncethehometoall of thescienceclassesoncampus, thenewlyopenedbuildingwill bethenewhomeof CityCollege?sAssociatedStudentsGovernment (ASG) andstudent services. Inside the upper level are large bright rooms that host ASG, student services and various clubs. The lower level has been turned intoa consolidatedspacefor maintenanceandfacilities. TheMbuilding, likeother newadditionsoncampus, isdesignedfor efficiency. Thebuildinguses anatural ventilationsystemthat makesthewindowsopenandcloseandtheair conditioningengagewhenthebuildingreachescertaintemperatures. Hot andcoldwater pipeshavealsobeeninstalled, whichwill makethegasandelectriccostsgodownover time, accordingtoproject manager ThomasJ. Fine.

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Veterans Affairs provides support for active, retired armed services members By PHOENIXWEBB Ci ty Ti mes San Diego is identified as a militar y town. As a r esult of this, San Diego City College has a sizable veter an and active militar y population, which makes up 11 per cent of the student population, accor ding to the San Diego City College Fact Book. The Veter ans Affair s office is located in A- 109. Student SerThe Veterans Service Center office provides computers and a place to relax for both vices Super visor for Admissions, Recor ds and Veter ans Office activeandretiredarmedservicesmembers. JOEKENDALLCi ty Ti mes

Megan Soto and Senior Student Ser vices Assistant for Veter ans? Affair s Elaine Er ickson both wor k dir ectly with veter ans. William Har cour t is one such veter an, having ser ved the U. S. Navy for six year s. Now a student wor ker for Veter ans Affair s. He was completing his Cer tification of Per for mance in Business Pr esentations at City College at the time of the inter view for this stor y. Har cour t and other veter ans went thr ough the pr ocess of en-

r olling and getting cer tified for their educational benefits. Veter ans enr oll at City College the same as any other pr ospective student: to complete the admission application. Veter ans then follow a different pr ocess for enr ollment: r esidency must be deter mined, a DD214 ? a cer tificate of r elease or dischar ge of the militar y, accor ding to Ar chives.com ? and official tr anscr ipts fr om any and

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LASTMINUTECARTOONSBy Edgar Inda

Park-athon Par king is an issue that is no str anger to a City College student. The scr amble of leaving your home or wor k to get to class only to find that you?r e fighting tr affic tr ying to get into an alr eady at capacity par king gar age. Ther e?s always the option for students utilizing all of their nickels, dimes and quar ter s on str eet par king ? if ther e is any, that is. Then ther e?s the last option of par king in Balboa Par k and completing a 2-mile tr ek to campus, an option that many on campus ? including faculty and staff ? default to. With the opening of the Math and Sciences building in 2013, students also saw the opening of a br and new seven stor y par king gar age, which helped the par king situation for a while. Accor ding to the City College Par king Sur vey, students curr ently have 1,158 par king spaces available in the lots that allow student par king. Which may look a lar ge number on paper but the r eality is City Times Editorial Board that ther e ar e mor e students than ther e ar e par king spaces. Another dose of r eality for students is that if they tr y to look for a space dur ing the peak after noon hour s, the pickings ar e guar anteed to be slim. I f students do not have an ear ly mor ning or late evening class then they just have to br ave it out and hopefully find a space. A possible ? and gr eener ? solution would be to take advantage of San Diego?s public tr anspor tation system. However, public tr anspor tation isn?t a viable option for all students as not ever yone has near by access to it. Fur ther mor e, why would a student take ar ound and hour or two tr ansfer r ing fr om bus to tr olley just to get to a class that would have taken them maybe 10 minutes maximum by car ? The answer : they wouldn?t. I t wouldn?t make any sense to spend $72 on a monthly pass when a student could easily pay maybe $40 a month for gas to get to and fr om City to wher ever else they might go. Another possible solution to this gr owing issue is to utilize r esour ces in the sur r ounding downtown ar ea. City College could

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par tner up with a local or ganization or business to use its par king gar age dur ing the week and pr ovide a shuttle ser vice to and fr om the location. This par tner ship between the two would be a win-win for the campus since it will minimize the cost of another par king facility and the campus won?t have to go thr ough a long seemingly never ending constr uction pr oject, accor ding to a 2010 Univer sityBusiness.com ar ticle. Not ever y student dr ives to campus, but par king should not be a hassle for those who do.

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Valentine?sDay isa sham Valentine?s Day is known as a day of love. Media images show it as a day to expr ess love, usually with mater ial items like jewelr y, flower s, food, things a woman would love. Men evidently don?t need to be gifted with anything until Chr istmas. The r eality of Valentine?s Day is that it?s a sham. The histor y of Valentine?s Day is not exact. I t has been suggested that the Catholic Chur ch may have hijacked what was or iginally a Pagan festival and tur ned it into a St. Valentine feast day. Accor ding to Histor y.com, Valentine?s Day was celebr ated as ear ly as the Middle Ages, then in the 1400s wr itten notes followed by handmade Valentines in the 1700s and pr inted car ds in the 1900s.

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Now it?s blown up. BusinessI nsider.com r epor ts that the aver age Amer ican is expected to spend $116.21 on their sweeties this year and Hallmar k r epor ted 141 million

PERSPECTIVE Phoenix Webb car ds ar e exchanged wor ldwide. That?s a lot of love. Ther e seems to be a lot of pr essur e associated with Valentine?s Day. BusinessI nsider.com published a list of ?20 Cr azy Facts About Customer Spending And Valentine's Day? including statistics on the number of engagements, the sales of: jewelr y, condoms, flower s, car ds and candy and the fir st ?fact?

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of the list is the per centage of women who would br eak up with their boyfr iends who did not give a gift for Valentine?s. Per haps, not sur pr ising, Valentine?s Day has been mar r ed by violence thr ough the year s. The Valentine's Day Massacr e was a gang war between Al Capone and Geor ge ?Bugs? Mor an. ?The 7 Most Br utal Valentine's Day Murder s? on Ranker.com lists four instances of men killing their wives, one wife mur der ed her husband, a young man murder ed his gir lfr iend and in the seventh case both boyfr iend and gir lfr iend wer e found dead, appar ently mur der ed by a thir d par ty. A quick Google sear ch pulled up many news stor ies about Valentine?s Day

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I am?Fresh Off the Boat?and American I told my par ents ABC was going to pr emier e a show based on an Asian- Amer ican family ? they didn?t know what to expect. My dad immediately r emember ed the time when, comedian Mar gar et Cho?s ?All- Amer ican Gir l,? made television histor y. But the label ?Fr esh off the Boat? was fr owned upon within my family and fr iends. ?FOB? is a r acial slur dir ected at Asians who car r y a heavy accent when speaking English and lack adaptability to the Amer ican cultur e ? an immigr ant fr om over seas. Anyone who knows the wor d can use it. Even I , as an Asian- Amer ican, have used it poking fun at fr esh catch. Bor n and r aised in San Diego, my dad moved to Amer ica fr om

the Philippines in 1983, later mar r ying my mom and establishing a life together in 1987. They later gave bir th to two kids: my sister and me.

PERSPECTIVE Richard Lomibao ?Fr esh off the Boat? is based on chef and jour nalist Eddie Huang?s memoir of the same name. I t chr onicles his family?s stor y, star ting with their move fr om Washington D.C.?s Chinatown to the subur bs of Or lando. I n the second episode, Eddie, who voiceover s for his 12- yearold self (played onscr een by Hudson Yang) exploits the mean-

ing of love in the Huang household. ?Our family loved each other, but we never said it,? he says. ?We showed our love thr ough cr iticism and micr omanaging. So if you wer e saying, ?I love you,? you wer e hiding something.? I ?ve dealt with this. Gr owing up my par ents thought showing vulner ability didn?t make you str onger. Battling with my parents for position was common at home, but no matter what we all had each other ?s back. That was how we showed tr ue love. ?I love you? was har dly said. A myr iad of Asian char acter istics hit home in the fir st few episodes, fr om Eddie getting teased at school for packing Chinese noodles for lunch to being

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What is themost important social issueto you?

?People don?t communicate per sonally enough. They use technology as an excuse for ever ything when situations can be avoided with something simple like eye contact.? Er ika E. Bar r ios, 34, Undecided

?Students need to get mor e involved in the actual school. The classes I have so far, it just doesn?t seem like it. Maybe mor e adver tising on what?s going on ar ound school.? Alexandr ia Camacho, 25, Business

?Under paid! Minimum wages, they need to r aise them high. We?r e going to be able to spend mor e money towar ds our taxes: Medicar e, Obamacar e and all those pr ogr ams that we need.? Eden E. Ar slan, 21, Biology

?I nter r acial couples. Someone I was r eally close to, he wouldn?t date me because his mother didn?t like Afr ican- Amer icans. That actually hur t me because he?s not a r acist per son. I wish that ever ybody look the same and just spoke a differ ent language. But then we would have an issue with that.? Patr icia Rucker, 19, Br oadcast Jour nalism

called a ?chink.? ?Chink? is a r acial slur for Chinese- Amer icans. The wor d dir ected my way by Amer ican ignor ance of my r ace back in the ?90s. I f you wer e br own, not quite Mexican looking and had an Asian quality to you, you wer e Chinese by default. Young Eddie is called a ?chink? in fr ont of the cafeter ia dur ing lunch, silencing the entir e r oom. Eddie?s par ents, Jessica and L ouis Huang, played by actor s Constance Wu and Randall Par k, defend Eddie?s obscenities after lashing back at the kid who called him names. The Huang par ents team up against the pr incipal?s wishes to suspend Eddie ? scolding him

for allowing such r acial teasing to be disr egar ded. I felt for that kid. Being called ?names? for his appear ance. Attending schools wher e a major ity of the school was white. On the fir st day of school, teacher s would always have tr ouble pr onouncing my last name. I never r ealize how differ ent I was. I was Amer ican, but I was Asian, not knowing how to br idge the gap. I r emember my mom packing me sandwiches with bacon and cheese so that I could be like ever yone else. She stopped packing me adobo or sinigang, which we r eser ved for dinner and weekends. I n the second episode, Eddie

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Hip hop revolutionizes social media platforms Hip- hop has always por ter of same- sex marbeen an outlet of expr es- r iages, r esponded to the sion to br ing social events in Fer guson in a change and to addr ess tweet. ?Humanity identity. When hip- hop loses...No justice. I pr ay took off back in the ?80s for Mike Br own & his famand ?90s, music was a r e- ily. So sad.? sponse to black oppr esAs Twitter is utilized as sion r esulting in songs a platfor m for thoughts, it like ?Fight the Power ? by also pr omotes newly r ePublic Enemy. Now with the means of social media, it?s another for m of r eaching out to fans outside of Richard Lomibao the music. Rather than waiting to unleash those leased music. When 140 thoughts in a song, follow- char acter s ar en?t enough, er s can find out instantly ar tists opt to addr ess iswhat ar tists ar e thinking. sues on Tumblr. A platThis makes hip- hop for m that Tyler, the Cr ear tists r evolutionists in ator of the hip hop collective Odd Futur e is most their own r ight. Thr ough Twitter, they famous for. Tyler, known for his ar e finding themselves inidiosyncr asy, is a social cline to tell their stor y, media mar vel. His tweets shar e their opinion about r eflect the way he sees orsocial issues and shar e their per spective on mass dinar y life in a pr ovokingly hilar ious way. I t?s media. Rapper J. Cole spent sheer enter tainment how time in both Fer guson and he puts str anger s or even New Yor k to show suppor t his close fr iends in check, for the communities. Pho- only wanting the best for tos of him alongside pr o- them. ?I WAL KED I N MY testor s sur ged on I nstaROOM YESTERDAY, I T gr am and Twitter. WAS 6 PEOPL E SI TTI NG Taking it at hear t for DOWN, AL L ON THEI R the injustices that have been histor ic amongst PHONES. WHAT THE black men ? seeing F* * * , WE NEED TO Michael Br own and Er ic STOP. L ETS TAL K TO Gar ner become victim to EACH OTHER,? Tyler obit, Cole tweeted, ?STOP ser ved in a tweet. With the I nter net and F* * * I N KI L L I N US.? this instant access on so?The system that incial media platfor ms it?s stills & pr otects white sueasy for people to cr eate a pr emacy wins again,? faรงade and exer cise a difMacklemor e, a big supfer ent per sona all-

together. This gives life to ?tr olls,? who seek to upset and ar gue towar ds a specific individual. Recently Twitter has been an outlet for ar tists to publicly debate, but none have boiled mor e than r apper Azealia Banks' account. Some of Banks?victims include I ggy Azalea, Action Br onson, L upe Fiasco and Kendr ick L amar. She can be over ly passionate about hip- hop cultur e and the histor y it stands for (seen in a r ecent r adio inter view with Hot 97). Banks fr ustr ated, shuns white r apper s for their possible ignor ance. ?I t?s funny to see people L ike I gloo Austr alia (I ggy Azalea) silent when these things happen ...? Banks tweeted. ?Black Cultur e is cool, but black issues sur e ar en't huh?? Befor e r apper s would ?diss? each other in fr eestyles, now if you have a pr oblem tag the individual and tweet it. I nstant news. I nstant access. War. I t doesn?t matter to Banks who follows her or not, but she won?t be minimalized to status when addr essing her contr over sy. She wants you to question ever ything and it?s hidden messages. Azalea finally took her shots after the r elease of Banks? emotional

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CommonGroundTheatretroupeperformsanexcerpt fromtheupcomingplay?NorthStar Shining?at theSavilleTheatreonFeb. 5.

?North Star Shining?lights up the Saville Theatre By FRANCHESCAWALKER Ci ty Ti mes The r ed stage lights dimmed down onto the stage as the sounds of Afr ican dr ums str eamed thr ough the speaker s of the Saville Theatr e. The cast, all Afr icanAmer icans, enter ed the stage in a chor eogr aphed dance illustr ating a stor y of native Afr icans being captur ed by settler s, then their jour ney to Amer ica to become slaves in colonial times. The cast of the upcoming play, ?Nor th Star Shining,? per for med an excer pt for City College students, faculty, and

those inter ested on Feb. 5. The per for mance kicked off the fir st event for the semester 's Wor ld Cultur es Pr ogr am and for Black Histor y Month. ?When the call came and asked to pr esent something at City College, I ?ve always wanted to do Hildegar de Hoyte Smith as a fully staged pr oduction. I t was a gr eat oppor tunity to tr ansfor m this book ? into a full pr oduction,? Char les W. Patmon Jr., ar tistic dir ector of The Common Gr ound Theatr e said. The show continued as each actor per for med multiple personalities of notable Afr ican Amer icans while photos and il-

lustr ations of Afr ican Amer icans wer e displayed behind them.

?The people that we are talking about today are true pioneers...? Charles W. Patmon Jr., artistic director The actor s por tr ayed known and unknown Afr ican Amer icans who impacted and made

a differ ence in histor y. Public figur es such as Fr eder ick Douglass and Har r iet Tubman wer e br ought to life. The actor s also por tr ayed those who have affected the United States and Black histor y gr eatly who ar e over looked or given much cr edit such as Mar ian Ander son, an oper a singer and Dor is Miller, a militar y her o dur ing the second Wor ld War. Patmon adapted the play fr om the 1971 book of the same name wr itten by Hildegar d Hoyte Smith. Patmon enlightened the audience about why he feels celebr ating Black Histor y Month is

impor tant by detailing a var iety of topics. Some of the things he said ar e cor e to the play?s stor y. ?Black Histor y Month allows us to r ejoice, to celebr ate some of the accomplishments and be r eminded of some of the str uggles that no one wants to r epeat,? Patmon said. He continued to say, ?The people that we ar e talking about today ar e tr ue pioneer s who over came hur dles long befor e the r est of us, and we have to give them cr edit, because I think we ar e still standing on their shoulder s.?

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Songsfor the lovers, the haters and everyone else in between By ANGELICAWALLINGFORD and RICHARDLOMIBAO Ci ty Ti mes Ah, r omance. Gr ab some flower s, a box of assor ted chocolates, a gener ic Hallmar k car d with a gener ic ?I ?m your s, be mine I love you, hoor ay for us? message etched inside the fold, dinner r eser vations, maybe tickets to a movie or a show and you?r e a moder n day cassanova. On the flip

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bat an eye to one to the ar t of r omance and either mocking other s who fall into the r outine or sit at home and mope over the fact that they'r e single. Whatever your case may be, her e?s a list of some tunes for the lover s, the hater s and ever yone in between. 1. The Black Keys ? ?Never Gonna Give You Up? Fr om The Keys? most dynamic album entitled ?Br other s.? ?Never Gonna Give You Up,? is a vintage tale of the depths of emotional waves

that love can weigh one down with. A stor y about tr iumph thr ough sacr ifice and faith, hope instilled in a way that ther e is no measur ement to infinite love. A song embodying the will beyond odds that love is r eal thing ? Dan Auerbach?s tr ansfor ms the song into a r ugged r endition of a Jer r y Butler classic. 2. . SKE 48 ? ?E scape? SKE48, AKB48?s second sister gr oup in Sakae, Nagoya

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Felines and espresso in the Gaslamp Quarter Since opening its door s on Jan. 5, a new café in downtown San Diego has been attr acting plenty of locals and tour ists alike within just their fir st month of business.

STUDENTEATS Torrey Spoerer That?s because it?s not an ever yday café, but a café with feline companions that keep patr ons company. L ocated at 472 Thir d Avenue in downtown San Diego?s Gaslamp distr ict, the Cat Café is mer ely a few blocks away fr om the

Convention Center tr olley stop. Accor ding to the café?s website, the fir stever cat café opened its door s in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. The cafe became popular with both tour ists and locals wanting to enjoy the oppor tunity to inter act with their feline fr iends. Since then, cat cafes have spr ead thr oughout Asia and Eur ope. Cat cafés made their Nor th Amer ican pr emier e in Montr eal last year. Oakland was next, followed by New Yor k City. Now, San Diego has followed in line with the spr eading thr oughout Asia and Eur ope. Cat cafés made their Nor th Amer ican pr emier e

Patronsat the Cat Café caninteract withcatsupfor adoption, suchasPatra, while enjoyingthe café?swide varietyof drinkselections, pastries andsnackfoods. MARKELLIOTTCor r espondent in Montr eal last year. Oakland was next, followed by New Yor k City. Now, San Diego has followed in line with the spr eading tr end. Their wide selection of

coffee dr inks featur es espr esso dr inks fr om Café Vir tuoso and dr ip coffee fr om West Coast Coffee Roaster s, along with packaged pastr ies and snack

foods. Cat playpen visitor s ar e asked to pur chase a dr ink or snack for entr y. I n the United States, the ar ea wher e the cats ar e must be completely

separ ated fr om the ar ea wher e food and dr inks ar e ser ved, accor ding to Cat Café?s FAQ Web page.

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Free the beast Themonster-hunting first-person shooter ?Evolve? lacks story but makes up with immersing multiplayer gameplay The hunter and the hunted. I t?s a concept that gamer s ar e too familiar with. Fr om the 1996 PC side- scr olling classic ?Hunter Hunted? to Sucker Punch?s stellar 2009 r elease ?inFAMOUS,? this gaming tr ope isn?t going away anytime soon. Tur tle Rock Studios latest r elease, ?Evolve,? takes that concept of hunter and hunted and tur ns it on it?s ear ? in the most inter esting way possible. ?Evolve? gives a fantastic

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new appr oach to multiplayer, hinder ed only by a lack of a stor y mode and r eally captur es the feeling of teamwor k ver sus br ute str ength with its engr ossing gameplay. I n this game, ther e ar e options of playing one of four hunter s or playing as a hulking monster. The four hunter s ar e r esponsible for taking down the monster befor e it gets too lar ge and nearunstoppable. As the monster, its job is to feed on wildlife until becoming big enough to take down the hunter s single-handedly.

Ther e ar e four hunter classes. Fir st is tr apper, who is r esponsible for keeping the monster contained within a deploy able dome. Assault is the damage dealer acting as the ?tank? for the team. Thir d is suppor t, who pr ovides the team with valuable damage buffs or invisibility. And lastly, the medic, whose pr imar y job is keeping their teammates alive. The monster has a differ ent objective than the hunter s. Monster player s begin at Stage 1, able to dish out some decent damage to lone hunter s, but ar e vulner able if cor ner ed by all four simultaneously. Monster player s must hide, using the monster ?s heightened sense of smell to find wildlife to consume, building enough ener gy to evolve to Stage 2 and eventually Stage 3. At Stage 3, the monster is much lar ger than it was at Stage 1, able to withstand an ambush against multiple hunter s, and becomes a massive thr eat to any hunter player s that don?t coor dinate their attacks well enough. Playing with a gr oup of fr iends is ideal, as communication is impor tant for str ategizing

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song about the only thing that r eally matter s when star ting a r elationship ? chemistr y ? and selfishly giving into it. ?Escape? falls far fr om the typical sugar y sweet bubblegum pop idol sound and dives into the r ealm of an electr onic dance pop fusion master piece. Right fr om the star t the cascading notes of the synthesizer and the mesmerizing chanting echoes of ?take me, take me, away? will captivate the listener and make you want mor e.

3. Spooky Black (formerly known as L il Spook) ? ?Without U? ?Without U? is a vir al video gone classic, sur e to be a hit for you and your significant other. Released last Febr uar y, it took awhile for people to catch on to the ghostlyCaucasian, dur ag- wear ing 17- yearold Minnesota br ed singer. With a combination of eer ie tr ap music, he sings lush R&B with an unconventional concept. ?Without U? is a ser enade anthem tr ack to tell

that special someone just how you feel about them. 4. 2PM ? ?A.D .T.O.Y.? (All D ay Think Of You) Kor ea?s unique br and of pop music has been gr owing in popular ity since 2010 and is slowly r eaching the point of global domination. The industr y is known for spitting out gr oups left and r ight however, ther e ar e some gr oups who manage to br eak thr ough and become amazing successes. 2PM is one of those cases. Their 2013 single

?A.D.T.O.Y.? is a str aight up sexy R&B influenced pop song about not being able to get your mind off of a cer tain special someone. ?A.D.T.O.Y.? is also one of those r ar e K- pop songs wher e the English tr anslation of the lyr ics actually make sense and flow r eally well together. Unlike other K- pop boy bands whose lyr ics tr anslate to something bizar r e and completely r andom along the lines of ?I ?ll take you in one mouthful like cheese.?

Dec. 21,? Tony Wang, gener al manager of the Cat Café, said. On days when lar ge Continuedfrompage7 amounts of people ar e Thr ee door s and walls coming thr ough, the cat wer e constr ucted in or der playpen cir culates gr oups to comply, with the thir d of people over 30 minute door being put in to keep per iods, while the cats get adopted cats fr om passing a 10- minute br eak inbetween said per iods of by the ser ving zone. ?We star ted constr uc- patr on cir culation. Thr oughout the cat tion in the middle of October, and we finally got our playpen, ther e ar e a handappr ovals all completed on ful of hideaway posts and

small blue car dboar d boxes for lounging cats to bunker down in, along with var ious cat toys. Behind the playpen is a r esting r oom for the cats to enter via cat door whenever the felines want some sleep and pr ivacy. ?That?s wher e their food, their litter and ever ything is,? Wang explains. ?And that?s wher e they can go to r etr eat if they just don?t feel like in-

ter acting with people. So it?s kind of like their sanctuar y if they want to get away for a bit.? All of the cats at the café ar e r escued fr om shelter s and ar e up for adoption to visitor s. Since opening day the café has had, ?... 11 adoptions so far,? accor ding to Wang. ?The Humane Society kind of sees us as almost like a public foster home,?

Wang added. ?They can br ing the animals her e, and hopefully they can get adopted. ? For now in San Diego, it?s the only café wher e you can both get a good cup of coffee on and suppor t the San Diego Humane Society at the same time. For mor e infor mation, contact the café by phone at 619-839-9568 or by email at tony@catcafesd.com.

played by computer contr olled ?bots,? so the game can be enjoyed casually Continuedfrompage7 and paused whenever a br eak is needed. The bots against the monster. Any ar e sur pr isingly intelligent, hunter r oaming solo will ver y closely mimicking huget left behind and mauled man gameplay tactics, by the monster or even the which is impor tant for taking down the monster wildlife. ?Evolve? is r emar kable when playing alone. The game does have its because it encour ages the dr awbacks. The lack of a two most common play pr oper stor y mode takes styles used in multiplayer games. I f player s pr efer away fr om a player being teamwor k, it is r ecom- able to engage in the unimended to play as one of ver se. A missed oppor tuthe four hunter s. But if a nity, because ?Evolve? has player would r ather play a huge wor ld, full of lively solo, then the monster char acter s and br eathtakmight be mor e to their lik- ing scener y. The other pr oblem with ing. This is not to say that the game is a lack of ?r eal? gamer s ar e for ced to play var iation. Sur e, ther e ar e online, as ?Evolve? offer s a four gametypes, but the solo mode of sor ts. I n solo mode, all r e- game types themselves maining char acter s ar e don?t offer much var iety.

The only mode that r eally stands out is ?Defend,? wher e the monster has to destr oy a fueling station for a human tr anspor t ship in thr ee waves while hunter s defend it. The game is best played with a full gr oup of human player s, so if you have four buddies that have the game, you?r e in for a tr eat. I f you plan to play this game pr imar ily alone, you?ll still have a gr eat time, but you?ll be missing out on the haphazar d situations found when playing alongside humans. Ultimately, ?Evolve? is wor th a r ental, maybe a pur chase when it goes on sale, if you ar e looking for an unconventional multiplayer game that isn?t your standar d militar y fir stper son shooter.

sition fr om mor ning to noon still sees heavy tr affic going both in and out of the campus. ?The closer we get to 10 o?clock, when we know that all the 7 a.m., 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. classes ar e all in session, the people that come for 11 o?clock classes gener ally have the har dest time finding spaces,? said Picou. Typically, L ot 3 and the MS building gar age tend to be popular with students, which is why they?r e mor e often full than the V building gar age, and the athletic depar tment lot only has par king fr om 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Some students who still can?t find par king after the mor ning cr owd leaves often par k not only in the I nspir ation Point public lot, but on the str eets of Golden Hill. While Kennett does find available par king at the V building, she still had suggestions based on what she hear d fr om classmates. ?I think they need mor e par king on the other side of the campus,? Kennett explains, ?and I ?ve hear d fr om other disabled students that handicap par king isn?t r eadily available either ... They should wor k on that.?

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City College Pr esident Anthony Beebe intr oduced the play and said a few things about the Common Gr ound Theatr e, which he was involved with for about a decade while pr esident of Continuing Education sites. ?The Common Gr ound Theatr e has ver y deep r oots in the San Diego community and par ticular, the south San Diego community,? Beebe said. ?I t?s so nice to have those r oots now spr ead to City College.? The Common Gr ound Theatr e or iginated in 1963. I t is the oldest Afr ican Amer ican theater is San Diego, and thir d oldest in the United States, accor ding to Pr oduction Manager and boar d member Dor othy Smith. The theater ?s latest home r esides at the Educational Cultur al Complex (ECC) in Southeast San Diego.

has a plethor a of love songs under their belt. All of them ar e gr eat, but if ther e?s one that stands out fr om the pack is the gr oups 2013 r elease ?Escape.? L ed by for mer member Mizuho Yamada, ?Escape? featur es the SKE48 Senbatsu ? or selection of usually most popular member s ? per for ming a fier ce

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Parking Continuedfrompage1 One of the main contr ibutor s to the fir st few weeks? over whelming demand for par king, accor ding to Picou, ar e the cour se cr asher s. Sur pr isingly, though, accor ding to Picou, ?we did not fill up the V building par king str uctur e after the fir st couple of weeks. The 8th, 9th, 10th floor s, sometimes the 7th and 6th floor s, always had spaces in them.? Even after the fir st month, however, the tr an-

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Fresh Continuedfrompage5 gets tur ned down to sit at a table for unleashing a Chinese noodle dish, ?Eddie?s eating wor ms!? yelled Eddie?s white classmate. The pitfalls of being a young kid: I didn?t have the knowledge to defend myself and I didn?t know how to talk to my par ents about it. At the time, I let the wor ld box me into whatever they wanted as I

adjusted accor dingly. I was for ced to question my Filipino r oots, while my identity within those values lost touch tr ying to belong. What I didn?t know was that instead of shunning my Asian her itage, I chose what I put on my plate to be fed. Was it going to be r ice or br ead? One of Huang?s goal for the television show is exposur e to a gr eater demogr aphic, by r evamping the phr ase ?FOB.? Within

success in hip- hop game, Azalea still defer s to answer her status of Continuedfrompage5 appr opr iation. With ar tists on Twitter, fans can easily connect to inter view with Hot 97, their r ole models. They ?Special msg for banks: see that they?r e r eal peoTher e ar e many black ple, full of opinions and ar tists succeeding in all have the need to defend genr es. The r eason you their state of mind. Wher e haven?t is because of your hip-hop holds a higher r episs poor attitude.? gar d is in staying knowlWith how Banks has edgeable to social issues ?tr olled? Azalea for her which is something that

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a cultur e full of immigr ants it cr eates an open discussion about r ace. Some families like the Huang?s embr ace the Amer ican cultur e and push to under stand it, but my family was mor e arr ested in development and this is why the show is impor tant. People can finally find out why my mom was tough on us, why we sing kar aoke and why we r efuse to pay full pr ice when ther e ar e sale pr ices for almost anything.

ence, ?The people that suppor t Jazz 88 is people who suppor t their community and education, when they got the explanation they under stand, they ar e excited that we ar e able to pr ovide better cooper ation with students and student pr ogr ams.? Although glitches caused some inconveniences, KSDS has managed to str engthen its r elationship with its audi-

ence thr ough live events like the Jazz L ive concer t ser ies at the Saville Theatr e, which have given the community an oppor tunity to connect with the station in a mor e dir ect envir onment and has been a cr ucial par t of their statement as a station and nonpr ofit or ganization. For mor e infor mation on KSDS, including upcoming events, visit jazz88.or g.

Step Up to L ive Well is not only a club on campus, but an or ganization that is Continuedfrompage1 par tner ed with L ive Well Powell also said, ?The San Diego, a nonpr oift ormen had 14 (things wr itten ganization that assists eldown), and the women r an der ly people and educate out of r oom. I t was r eally a them about health. The lear ning exper ience for club's pur pose is to edumen to lear n what women cate students about health did for safety.? and impr oving it. Other goals the FemiThis semester, Step Up nists club is looking to ac- was able to pr ovide mor e complish is a mur al of options for students in the slain student Diana Gon- cafeter ia. I ssanna L oughzalez, who was mur der ed man, who is in Step Up in 2010, and open a gender and also vice pr esident of equity r esour ce center for Psi Beta, the psychology women and L GBTQ club, said the C-Stor e sells students. vegan food and ther e is

now a smoothie bar in the cafeter ia which uses kale fr om the gar den on campus. Other clubs that ar e star ting this semester include Geeks United. This club offer s a var iety of geek cultur e things such as cosplay, manga and gaming. Accor ding to member Cassandr a May, instead of cr eating individual clubs for each ar ea, the star ting member s of Geeks United decided to inter twine all of these into one singular club that would benefit ever yone inter ested.

being designated for domestic violence awar eness. L ove has been the subject of countless poems, songs, visual ar t pieces, plays, movies, books, etc. The Beatles sang ?All you

KSDS Continuedfrompage3 of phone lines and failur es on the I nter net str eam. ?The audience is used to being in touch with us and it was difficult to get in touch with us dur ing that automated per iod,? Russell said. Russell expanded about the connection to the audi-

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chapter each veter an falls under. Another r esour ce for vets on campus is the Veter ans Ser vice Center, located in A- 220 and is staffed by Veter ans Affair s wor k study students. ?The VSC offer s vets a place to come together to exchange r elatable exper iences both as students and active duty,? said Har cour t. The Veter ans Ser vice Center offer s desks, computer s and a space for veter ans to wor k, r elax and talk to other veter ans. For mor e infor mation on veter an r esour ces and benefits at City College, visit sdcity.edu /Militar yVeter ans.

mor e ball games as they ar e poised to become a Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence contender for that number one spot. ?We ar e definitely going to get better at hitting ? this won?t be our last victor y, ther e will be many mor e to come and if we play defense and pitch like

we did (against West. L .A.) I think we ar e going to do gr eat as the season moves for war d,? Jones said. The Knights will play their fir st home conference game on Feb. 24 against Southwester n College at 2 p.m. at Mor ley Field.

Shamonique Malone- Boyd was ecstatic about winning the last home game and Continuedfrompage11 explained, ?I think that we finally came together and achieved this season and ?... We?r e in thir d place kicked it back up. And we r ight now which is the lower ed our tur nover s. highest we?ve ever been at That?s impr essive.? City so that?s huge,? The women's basketball Aguilar added. team did not advance to Sophomor e for war d the playoff stage but fin-

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ished the season on a positive note with a thr ee game winning str eak after defeating Mir aCosta College on Feb. 20, 57-55. With an over all r ecor d of 13- 13, the team equaled last season's r ecor d but finished with their best confer ence r ecor d of 9- 5 since the pr ogr am was r einstated in 2006.

walls?,? Taylor added. ?With a young talented squad, I feel the sky is the Continuedfrompage12 limit for this gr oup of student athletes. At pr actice we ar e still wor king on the like how they star ted their basic fundamentals of volthir d set against El Camino leyball,? said Head Coach and is looking for war d to Kevin Pr atte. ?We have to the next couple of weeks take car e of our side of the at pr actice so the team net. We ar e playing ver y can impr ove and flip talented teams, but we their season ar ound. ar e making their job easy ?We star t pr actice at by committing many hit6:40 ever y mor ning, Mon- ting and ser ving er r or s.? day thr ough Fr iday and I I n the game against feel that we have to come the War r ior s, the Knights out str ong ever y day at committed a total of 28 pr actice ? no time to wake hitting er r or s and 11 up, we just have to go out ser ving er r or s. ther e and go ?balls to the Pr atte also expr essed

that the main focus in the next couple of weeks at pr actice will be making sur e the team impr oves on their swings and mor e impor tantly finding a way to keep their composur e when things get out of hand dur ing a match. As the Knights ar e looking towar d getting out of their ear ly season slump, they will also be looking towar d defending their home cour t once again as they will be playing their fir st conference game of the season against I r vine Valley College on Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Har r y West Gym.

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love? Humans must have been able to befor e the middle ages, because the human r ace didn?t phase out. I f money and mater ials things ar e taken out of Valentine?s Day, chances ar e people can find mor e sincer e ways to expr ess love without instances of blood shed and loss of lives.

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Other r equir ements var y among individual veter ans accor ding to their backgr ounds and needs. Accor ding to Er ickson, the pur pose of her office is to identify veter ans thr ough their applications on the G.I . Bill website, then cer tify them to r eceive their benefits within one to two months?time. ?I t?s r eally about getting their benefits,? Er ickson said. Soto explained that veter ans under the post 9/11 Montgomer y G.I . Bill of Rights may r eceive physical, mental and/or vocational r ehabilitation. The Depar tment of Veter ans Affair s deter mines what

all pr evious colleges or univer sities. Militar y tr ainings must be submitted to the Tr anscr ipt Office at the San Diego Community College Distr ict. Then the submitted tr anscr ipts must be evaluated by r equest of the veter an, ther e may also be English and math assessments and an educational plan must be completed. For fir st- time use of G.I . benefits, a veter ans? or iencomes natur ally with the tation must be completed. Application for financial aid spor t of hip-hop cultur e. Fans can see what po- is r ecommended to pay for lice br utality is to Cole and classes. what homosexuality is to Macklemor e. Ther e becomes a r esponsibility to live up to. As r eputation is Continuedfrompage12 constantly on the line public figur es like hip- hop After his clutch hit ar tists ar e held under the against West L .A., Jones gun. Ther e ar e no bound- expr essed that the team ar ies to be expr essive, but can always impr ove and ther e is still a lot of games be wise. left wher e they can win

need is love,? but I f love is all we need, then why do we need a holiday for it? I n this society, holidays ar e pimped out by the media to inspir e consumer s to spend money in or der to show their significant other how they feel. What if ther e was no Valentine?s Day? How else would people expr ess the basic emotion of

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Rackets rattle for Knights By DAVIDPRADEL Ci ty Ti mes Ther e is a unique sound that is cr eated when a tennis r acket connects with the tennis ball and sends it twir ling over the net and that sound now echoes thr oughout the tennis cour ts at San Diego City College as it mar ks the Knights tennis season. For both teams it has been a slow star t to the season as the men?s team sits with a 2- 9 over all r ecor d and the women?s team with a 1- 3 over all r ecor d. The men?s team opened their season by losing against Saddleback College at home 9- 0 on Jan. 27 and lost their following two games but wer e able to pull a 8-1 home victor y against Cypr ess College on Feb. 5. On Feb. 12, the men?s team defeated Victor Valley College 9-0 with fr eshmen Sebastian Villalba, L ogan Rinder and Dale Gutier r ez leading the team in singles. But after their victor y against the Rams, the Knights fell into a five game losing str eak that put the team in sixth place in the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence.

?This year, the team is a lot better than last season and we ar e tr aining r eally har d at pr actibegant I think we need to be a little mor e gr itty in the upcoming matches,? said sophomor e David L in. ?Our fr eshmen this year ar e r eally good and have the ability to win matches and as a team our main objective is to compete and qualify for the confer ence tour nament in Ojai.? The women?s team, who began their season ear lier this month lost their opening match against Cypr ess College 9- 0 on Feb. 5 but wer e able to bounce back by defending their home cour t with a 9-0 victor y over Cuyamaca College on Feb. 12. Following their win, the team lost their next two matches which put the team in four th place in the PCAC. Fr eshman Kar en L opo expr essed that although the fr eshmen filled team has lost a few matches, the team has a lot of fight in them. ?Ever yone is putting their best effor t and r ight now we developing all of our skills since a lot of played doubles in high school and not singles so we need to figur e who wor ks better with who on doubles,? L opo added.

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Rec center rolling This begins in a place most fighter s fir st lear n their cr aft. Befor e this sandy town by the beach had foam lined gyms ar ound most neighbor hood blocks. I f it was not your dad teaching you to use that good r ight hand, a person usually lear ns to fight in str ip mall dojos or r ecr eation center s found by wor d of mouth. Her e in San Ysidr o, in a r oom behind air hockey tables, we br eathe in accumulated sweat and all the used air we can befor e a choke sinks in. I ?m surr ounded not by testoster one dr iven monster s looking to collect heads and taps. All that?s her e is a band of ner ds who talk Super ior Spider man inbetween tight leg locks. I t's her e I spend thr ee hour s of my life getting bent into funny balloon animal shapes by these technical wizar ds, and their teacher who went beyond 10th planet. Kimur a, Ar mbar, Tr iangle, Guillotine, Omo Plata and cr ucifix ? none of these moves I used; but they wer e used on me plenty, anytime my seasoned par tner s choose to. What was str ange about these lopsided str uggles wasn?t the weir d angles my ar m had been contor ted. What?s weir d was feeling

Knights Continuedfrompage12 Singleton said. Although the team followed their home victor y with a 70- 65 loss to Southwester n College for the confer ence championship, which ended their winning str eak and would've cr owded the Knights as back- to- back champions, the team is still looking towar d the playoffs as they begin at the end of this month. Bur ton expr essed he has been impr essed with ever yone on the team. ?Ever y fr eshman we

awe as a submission took hold, then asking to be put back into those moves willingly. I t was all to lear n ? r eally lear n ? and although a r oll would end fast after just shaking hands, I never had so much fun while losing that bad. Her e?s a r eenactment. ?Br eath ? L ock up, gr apple- quick tr ansitionHe?s got my back. br eathe I got his wr ist- No he?s got a hook- - Choke. Tap! Tap! Tap!?

I ?m lear ning and loving this ar t I can?t expr ess in a r ear naked choke. Jiu Jitsu is magical, for in the moment a for ear m feels the car otid ar ter y. That pulse becomes all life and in an instant one becomes awar e of how fr agile it is. What I hold is pr ecious; it?s delicate and if one is noble enough. This is what you lear n and must pr otect. This pulse is what we all have and Jiu Jitsu made people believe that. This is ar t. This is why ther e ar en?t much egos in gentle ar t gyms. Jiu Jitsu is beyond pr otecting you, it?s pr otect-

ing you and your attacker and this ar t builds on sweat, and patience makes men sincer e in that intention. That?s why we laugh after this nights pr actice, because we know we have this to lear n and enr ich. Gr appling is why we tr ust and ar e unafr aid of life, for we took the str uggle head on in a r oll; gi or no gi. That?s why Jiu jitsu men don?t bother hunting heads. I nstead, they gr ow minds after they?ve felt that humbling pulse. I don?t car e that the next day my ever ything hur t and my limbs felt 10 pounds heavier. Jiu Jitsu, hell the entir e mar tial of ar ts and even college, too. Whatever is thr own at me, JJ shows a per son to adapt to near ly ever y bit of pr essur e life tr ies catching you in. So br eathe and r oll with it. Ther e?s no pr ofound lesson in life her e. Think simple a lot of times, get cr eative, get beat up and take a loss. I t?ll take a whole lot of hur t some of the time; it is after a gr appling gr ind. But I f you lear ned it isn?t a waste of time. So don?t think Jiu Jitsu, think of the wor d "life" in place. Then jump into your str uggle, if you give it a good tr y. You?ll be gr inning at the end of it. Even if you'r e out of br eath, wor ds or any given str ength.

have has come in and played an essential r ole on the team. For a couple of games we had a total of eight player s and now we have nine so ther e is no time for anybody to be a r ookie, fr eshman or even a sophomor e ? ever yone has stepped up and played gr eat thr oughout the whole season,? Bur ton said. With an over all r ecor d of 20-9, it is the four th time in the 11 year tenur e of Head Coach Mitch Char lens on r eaching the 20- win mar k in a season. As the Knights pr epar e for the playoffs, they will be looking to per for m better than they did last year as they lost in the second

r ound against Chaffey College. Bur ton went on fur ther to expr ess that although the team is winning, ther e is always r oom to impr ove on both sides of the cour t as they pr epar e for the playoffs and with the most of the team having exper ience last year he hopes they can continue their impr essive season. ?L ast year was a new team; we wer e all new and it was a young squad put together and we still did well and meshed pr etty well but this year we have seven r etur ner s and we have been together for a long time now and we don?t want it to end,? Bur ton said.

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SPORTS

Rough start for Knights softball By DAVIDPRADEL Ci ty Ti mes

SophomoresNyaduopLam(left), Daniesha Davis(topright) andDarrianCastillo(bottomright) leadthe women?sbasketball teamtoa 48-41 victoryinthefinal homegameof theseasonagainst Grossmont College. PhotosbyDAVIDPRADELCi ty Ti mes

Last buzzer rings for Knights A third placeconferencefinish for thewomen?s basketball team By FRANCHESCAWALKER Ci ty Ti mes I n their last home game of the season, the women?s basketball team r ejoiced in a 48-41 victor y against Gr ossmont College on Feb. 18 L ast month the Knights lost to Gr ossmont 60- 52 and wer e determined to not take another defeat by the Gr iffins on ?Sophomor e Night.? The Knights played mor e aggr essive and wer e focused to win this time ar ound and succeeded. ?I t was a r edemption game,? said sophomor e guar d Daniesha Davis. Dur ing the fir st half, both teams had tr ouble with making baskets. Both teams r ecor ded a total of 30 tur nover s in the fir st half alone however, the Knights wer e the

leader s and showed no signs of letting Gr ossmont to r ally back in the game. The fir st half ended with Knights in the lead 21-17. The beginning of the second half tur ned to be successful for the Knights. The team was r e- ener gized and picked up the pace. The gir ls set up instant plays that allowed them to put down multiple points in a shor t amount of time. Although the gir ls wer e ener getic, they still had multiple tur nover s. The Knights wer e able to keep a 10 point lead over the Gr iffins for a while. However that changed as the tur nover s caught up with the Knights and Gr ossmont was able to pour in the points and tie the game at 39 with thr ee minutes left.

The Knights wor ked quickly to change the scor e and sophomor e point guar d Dar r ian Castillo hit a clean thr eepointer making the game 42- 39 and the Knights again wer e in the lead. Castillo and sophomor e for war d Nyaduop L am helped the Knights to a victor y in that last minutes of the game together making layups and fr ee thr ows. The Knights won 48-41, as the sophomor e player s wer e tr iumphant in their last home game in the Har r y West Gymnasium. L am and Castillo wer e the top scor er s for the Knights. L am r ecor ded 13 points, and 10 r ebounds making it her 14th doubledouble of the season. Castillo scor ed 11 points and had 6 assists in the last home game.

Thr oughout the season, L am had an impr essive r ecor d. She has r ecor ded a total of 294 r ebounds and is r anked 19th over all in the state, and has aver aged 12.3 r ebounds a game. L am is also r anked 11th in the state with a total of 55 blocks. Castillo is r anked 17th in the state for assists by dishing out 120 assists dur ing the season. Head Coach Andr ea Aguilar explained that she was pr oud of the team, especially the sophomor e player s, and their accomplishments this season. ?My sophomor es played har d, they did what they needed to do, followed the game plan and ended up victor ious because of it,? Aguilar said.

See SEASON, page 9

With a .233 team batting aver age, it wasn?t the way the Knights softball team had in mind to begin their season as they sit in sixth place in the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence with an overall r ecor d of 5- 8 and a confer ence r ecor d of 1-3. ?Our biggest ar ea that needs impr ovement is our batting ? we ar e just not getting on base and you can?t scor e if you don?t get on base,? said sophomor e shor tstop Katie Dowdy. The Knights opened their season by losing their home opener on Jan. 28 to Santiago Canyon College 5- 0 but wer e able to pull back-toback wins against Ventur a College (6-3) on Feb. 6 and L ong Beach City College (2-0) on Feb. 7. But after their two victor ies, the team fell into a five game losing str eak, which dug the team into a hole in the confer ence and ar e now looking for ways to r evive their season befor e it?s too late. Head Coach L eeAnn Taylor explained that the team is tr aining har d in pr actice and ar e executing the coach?s game plan but ar e having tr ouble mentally car r ying what they know into the games. ?Physically they can

do it and I know they can do it but they have to know that they can do it,? Taylor said. Taylor went on fur ther to expr ess that in or der for any softball team to win, they need two out of the thr ee main components of the game: pitching, defense and hitting. ?Right now, I think one of the r easons we?r e losing is because we?r e only having one out of the thr ee and a gr eat team ? a championship team gets all thr ee out of thr ee. So we?r e shooting for two out of the thr ee r ight now and we?ll be winning ball games,? Taylor added. Dur ing their seven game losing str eak, it was as if Dowdy saw into the futur e and knew in order for the team to get out of their ear ly season slump was to win their next home game against Mt. San Jacinto College on Feb. 21. ?Nobody wants to lose multiple games in a r ow but I feel like we ar e finding our way and the (upcoming) game against MSJC will be impor tant and hopefully our changer for us to keep winning,? Dowdy said. The Knights won 5- 4 in a 10 inning thr iller, wher e fr eshman Kimber ly Rodr iquez hit a walk- off double for the victor y that br ought home Dowdy for the scor e.

FreshmanIvana Gonzalez sendsthe ball flyingduringa home game against Long Beach City College on Feb. 7 where the Knights won 2-0. DAVIDPRADELCi ty Ti mes

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CITYSPORTS

Wrong end of the broom Men?s volleyball swept in home opener By DAVIDPRADEL Ci ty Ti mes The fr ustr ating gr unts echoed thr ough the Har r y West Gym along with the sheer face of disappointment could be seen fr om the San Diego City College?s men?s volleyball team, as the Knights wer e defeated 3- 0 (25- 11, 25- 12, 25- 23) by El Camino College in the home opener on Feb. 13. ?I t?s fr ustr ating because I know we can play a lot better ? we just need mor e fir e and we didn?t have that tonight,? said fr eshman L ucas Timm. After losing their fir st two sets against the War r ior s, the Knights wer e able to bounce back and star ted the thir d set with some ur gency as they wer e poised to make a comeback in the match. Dur ing the thir d set, the Knights went on a 11- 4 r un and wer e able to hold the lead against the War r ior s up until the ver y end as El Camino came back and tied it at 23 and then went on to get the final two points for the victor y. ?I think in the beginning we star ted off too jitter y and too hesitant; we didn?t capitalize on a lot of good sets that we had and also our passing didn?t star t off ver y well but near the end of the game ? in the thir d set we star ted committing and we

played ver y well and we passed better and it showed because we only lost by two points,? said fr eshman Kyle Taylor . Taylor finished the game by leading the team with 13 points, r ecor ded 10 kills, six digs and had two solo blocks. With the loss to El Camino, it pushed the Knights into a four game losing str eak to begin the season. Taylor went on to expr ess that the team needs to find a way to begin their games

See VOLLEYBALL, page 9

The Knights strike back By DAVIDPRADEL Ci ty Ti mes After losing their home opener against Saddleback College 13- 5 on Jan. 30, the San Diego City College baseball team was able to str ike back by swinging to the fences and thr owing fastballs as they have won their past five out of seven games. The Knights wer e able to pull together a str ing of thr ee consecutive home wins by defeating

West L .A. (4- 3) on Feb. 3, Cer r o Ceso College (6- 1) on Feb. 6 and I r vine Valley College (3-2) on Feb. 7. Two of their thr ee games, the team r eceived clutch per formances fr om sophomor e Ray Jones and fr eshman Chr istian Br oussar d. I n the game against West L .A., Jones hit the game- winning RBI single that sealed the win and in the game against I r vine Valley College, Br oussar d cr anked a

walk-off solo home r un in a 10th inning thr iller. Following their victor ies, the Knights lost to El-Camino Compton Center on Feb. 14, 6-3. I n the season so far, the team has a .268 batting aver age and a total of 35 r uns.

See BASEBALL, page 9

SophomoresChrisBurton(left), ChristianJones(middle) andStaceyLambert (right) helpleadthemen?sbasketball teamtoa108-80 victoryintheir last homegame of theregular seasonagainst Imperial ValleyCollegeonFeb. 18 intheHarryWest Gymnaisum. PhotosbyDAVIDPRADELCi ty Ti mes

Cool as the other side of the pillow For thesecond consecutiveyear, themen?s basketball teamadvances to theplayoffs By DAVIDPRADEL Ci ty Ti mes I n the last home game of the r egular season, the San Diego City College men?s basketball team put on a show for the home cr owd and lit up the scor eboar d with a 108- 80 victor y against I mper ial Valley College on Feb. 18 and extended their winning str eak to eight games. ?I t?s a good sign when we come out and do what we ar e supposed to do ? handle business,? said sophomor e guar d

Chr is Bur ton. Bur ton finished the game with a game- high of 29 points by going 11 for 14 fr om the field and r ecor ded seven r ebounds and had two blocks in the win. This was Bur ton?s 22nd game of scor ing in double figur es out of 28 games this season and leads the Pacific Coast- South Athletic Conference with a total of 426 points. ?This was a big game, we scor ed over hundr ed and as we come down to the end of confer ence play and into the playoffs we ar e looking to tur n it up

? it was definitely a big win for us,? added sophomor e for war d Caleb Singleton. Singleton scor ed 22 points in the game and went 6 for 9 fr om thr ee- point ter r itor y and gr abbed seven r ebounds. Singleton?s sixth thr ee pointer in the victor y was his 88th in the season and his 200th of his twoyear car eer at City College. Singleton is r anked second over all in the state in made thr eepointer s with 88 out of 208. As he was excited that he nailed an impr essive milestone, he r emained focused on

the bigger pictur e as a team as they look to make a big push in the playoffs and expr essed what they have to do in or der to win. ?We need to impr ove on our defense ? we need to do all the little things r ight and our offense will come. We all can scor e; we have a lot of offensive thr eats on our team so we ar e not wor r ied about that ? if we can just clamp down on defense we will definitely be able to take it far into the playoffs,?

See KNIGHTS, page 10