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Class section cancellations stir frustration Stories by PHOENIXWEBB City Times San Diego City College faculty and students wer e dismayed as the fall semester star ted with the cancellation of 41 classes. The ensuing backlash per sists.

Administr ation issued the blanket statement that classes wer e cancelled due to low student enr ollments.

Some faculty has counter ed that low enr ollments wer e not cut and dr y since a lot of students in their pr ogr ams histor ically got add codes dur ing the fir st two weeks of classes.

Dur ing the fir st Academic Senate meeting of the semester Sept. 14, the topic of class cancellations was discussed at length and gar ner ed many comments fr om instr uctor s who wer e pr esent.

Thomas Davies, instr uctor

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Classes seeing static in RTVF department Amid this semester ?s cancellation of classes, Communications Chair L aur a Casta単eda descr ibed what happened in her depar tment as mor e than just cuts. ?We understand the district?s logic that they would cancel a class that only had two or three students enrolled in it, it?s just not feasible, you know, to have a class like that,? Casta単eda said in an interview. ?So we?re in total agreement with them on some of those types of situations come up sometimes.?

San DiegoCity College student Zaphire Alonsolays in her hospital bed at UCSDMedical Center on Sept. 9 after transferringfrom Hospital General dePlayadel CarmeninCancun, Mexico, after anAug. 16 motorcycleaccident. MIKEMADRIAGACity Times

?Bring Zaphirehome?

GoFundMecampaign helpsbringCity Collegestudent Zaphire Alonsoback toSan Diegoafter motorcycleaccident in Mexico

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By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times ??

We wer e going fast thr ough the Car r eter a Tulum, then the motor cycle star ted moving ar ound and that is when we flew (off),? explained Zaphir e Alonso, a San Diego City College student who was absent dur ing the fir st two weeks of school, with mor e than a legitimate excuse.

On Aug. 11, Alonso and her fr iend Cr istalmar Palencia, took a tr ip down to Cancun, Mexico,

to celebr ate passing all of their summer classes at City College with As. The two enjoyed one last escapade befor e the star t of the fall semester. Their social media accounts depicted vacation photos and updates of them hiking, kayaking, pr acticing yoga, dancing and r iding motor cycles.

On Aug. 16, Alonso r emember ed getting on the back of a str eet bike with her cousin?s fr iend, Vladimir and that he acceler ated to 120 mph. Vladimir bar ely missed two taxis par ked,

when he had lost contr ol. ? ? I flew (away) and I closed my eyes,? Alonso r ecalled.

Alonso?s cousin, I r ving Duar te, r an to the scene and kept yelling ?Por que ? Por que?? questioning what had just tr anspir ed between his 20 year old Mexican- Amer ican cousin, and fr iend, Vladimir.

Within appr oximately five minutes, Alonso could hear the ambulance coming, to tr anspor t them to Hospital Gener al de

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CITYNOTES CALENDAR Tuesday, Sept. 29 Fall Cl ub Rush 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in AH/BT Quad

Thursday, Oct. 1 Tr ansfer Awar eness M ont h K i ckoff 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in A-111

Thursday, Oct. 8 Wor l d Cul t ur es: Salvador Tor r es Chicano Movement Ar t Histor y 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Saville Theatr e

Thursday, Oct. 22

Questionby DeniseWhite | Photosby CeliaJimenez

?What doescultural appropriation mean toyou??

Blood donation 9 a.m. -3 p.m. in Gor ton Quad

Monday, Oct. 26Friday, Oct. 30 Week of Service Wednesday, Oct. 28

M . Soccer vs. Mir aCosta College 1 p.m.

W. Soccer vs. Mesa College 3 p.m.

W. & M . X-Count r y Santa Bar bar a I nvitational 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. r espectively W. Vol l eybal l 5 p.m. at Mt. San Jacinto College

W. Vol l eyball vs. Southwester n College 5 p.m.

M . Soccer vs. Palomar College 1 p.m.

W. Soccer vs. Mir aCosta College 3 p.m.

Voice of the People

Jazz L i ve: Char lie Chavez and Per la Negr a L atin Jazz 8 - 9:30 p.m. in Saville Theatr e

Friday, Oct. 9

Tuesday, Oct. 13

VOXPOPULI ?Cultur al appr opr iation is basically when another cultur e takes a differ ent cultur e and tr ies to integr ate it with their setting but instead of giving cr edit to the other cultur e, it would tr y to take it as their own.?

L iliana Yamauchi, Nur sing, 19

?I think ever ybody could dr ess or could be whatever they want to be, it's a fr ee countr y, it doesn't matter what type of r ace. Ther e?s no such thing as cultur al appr opr iation. Ever ybody adapts to ever ything and finds their own per sonal style.?

Friday, Oct. 30 Withdr awal deadline 5 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30- Saturday, Oct. 31

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?Zombie Pr om? t he musical - 8 p.m. in Saville Theatr e. Tickets: $10. cash only.

Compiledby JustineSchulz. Toget your event inthepaper, email calendar@sdcitytimes.comor call (619) 388-3880.

?I don't think anybody?s cultur e belongs to a specific gr oup. You don?t make it as your own and you always have to show suppor t for a differ ent cultur e. You don?t just wear ? a cultur e ? without r ecognizing it.?

Patr icia Rucker, Br oadcast Jour nalism/L aw of Music, 19

?I t means when one r ace bor r ows differ ent things fr om another r ace and they use it as their s and claim it as their s but don?t give them the cr edit. I think it?s okay if the cr edit is given because most of the time it?s not.

I t?s basically stolen.?

Alex Santacr uz, Chicano Studies, 23

Static Continuedfrompage3 Wher e the agr eement br eaks off is when administr ation holds pr ogr am classes to have the minimum 18 students enr olled without r egar d to the particular class, the classr oom space and equipment constr aints that may be a pr e-existing condition.

Casta単eda shar ed her depar tment?s challenges with class cancellations: Befor e Aug. 24, two classes in Communications wer e cancelled and two classes wer e cancelled after Aug. 24. For the classes that wer e cancelled pr ior to the star t of the semester, Casta単eda had been infor med

by Dean Tr udy Ger ald that

the possibility existed.

As for the classes cancelled after the fir st day of the semester, RTVF 121 (Per for mance for Television) met the fir st week of classes with 12 enr olled students. The class instr uctor, L isa Gr ossmanL ake, gave out thr ee add codes. Dur ing the weekend of Aug. 28, students r epor ted that Reg- E was down, and they could not enter their add codes, which would have totaled 15 students. The class r oster disappear ed fr om the instr uctor 's view Aug. 31.

Students wer e notified via email, the mor ning of Sept. 2, that they wer e dr opped, not that the class was cancelled.

As for the other class, it was a section of RTVF 107 (Audio Pr oduction). The

second section of RTVF 107 would r eplace RTVF 125 and be offer ed online.

That decision was made one week befor e the star t of classes, but an administr ative assistant who was the only assigned per son to cr eate and upload the online class was out the fir st week of classes, ther efor e students only had one week to get the class, but not enough students did, so RTVF 107 was cancelled, too.

One class was pulled out of the fir e: RTVF 121. A new section of the class was cr eated amidst the questionable cir cumstances in which the class was cancelled. The new section meets Wednesdays 9:15 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. and has two seats still available as of Sept. 24.

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The right ed plan to guide your future Ed plansmay lead toa successful academicexperienceat City College

By DESTINYORTIZ City Times The semester has just begun at San Diego City College and classes ar e well under way.

The counseling office and sever al pr ogr ams on campus ar e flooding with students tr ying to figur e out what classes to take and what ar e the next steps to tr ansfer, gr aduate or both.

An education plan is a ?r oad map? for students to decide the next step for student success. This is wher e students would find out if they ar e on the r ight tr ack.

Richar d Rios, a L iber al Ar ts major at City College, felt the str ess of figur ing out what to do next in his

life, ?I didn?t know if I was going to gr aduate.?

Rios expr essed his anxiety about not knowing if he was taking the r ight classes that would lead him to San Diego State to fulfill his dr eam of becoming a teacher.

Rios r eceived an abbr eviated education plan to go along with his plans to gr aduate in the next year.

EOPS Counselor Salem Ber hanu explained the differ ence between an abbr eviated plan and a compr ehensive one.

I n most cases, compr ehensive education plans ar e used because this plan will be used for the entir e time students will be at City, continuing on when they tr ansfer, gr aduate or whatever their plans may

ASan DiegoCity College student walks intothe counselingcenter, located in A-110, on Sept. 24. The counselingcenter offers tohelp students achievetheir educational needstohelpthempreparefor graduationandtransferringtoafour-year university. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times be. Abbr eviated plans ar e used for two semester s.

Ber hanu couldn?t str ess how impor tant it was for students to cr eate an education plan, ?Ther e?s no excuse for any student not to have one.?

Ber hanu explained ther e wer e sever al different places to cr eate an education plan such as the gener al counseling center, ?I t?s like going to see your fr iend in L .A. How do you think you?r e going to

get ther e? By dr iving ar ound for awhile and hope to find the place? No. You get your GPS and make sur e your fr iend gives you the r ight addr ess,?

Ber hanu commented.

Ber hanu said that is how students should view education plans. I t is for the students' benefit to make sur e they r each their goals in a timely manner.

No one should be taking classes they don?t need.

MESA Dir ector Rafael Alvar ez shar ed the same sentiments as Ber hanu.

He was adamant about students having an education plan. Alvar ez, with the help of his students, cr eated an in-depth education plan for students to customize to their own plans. ?Students need to know we?r e a lear ning cultur e.

They need to know what that means,? Alvar ez said.

Alvar ez wants students to know it?s the student?s

r esponsibility to know what they need to do to make their goals possible and it is the r esponsibility for student r esour ces to guide them.

I f students have any questions on how to obtain an education plan, can contact the counseling office to schedule a visit at (619) 388-3540.

For mor e infor mation on the education plan fr om the MESA pr ogr am can visit www.sdcity.edu.

Special event honors distinguished alumni

By ANGELICAWALLINGFORD City Times San Diego County community colleges united with the popular r adio show ?A Way with Wor ds? to host a special event to honor distinguished alumni and celebr ate the significance of liter acy and language, accor ding to a news r elease.

The event, ?I n a Wor d,? which took place Sept. 17 in Mission Valley, benefited scholar ship and alumni pr ogr ams at the par ticipating colleges and the independent educational nonpr ofit that pr oduces ?A Way with Wor ds.? ?L anguage is the key to under standing our complex Amer ican cultur e and liter acy is the key to navigating it,? San Diego Community Col-

lege Distr ict Chancellor Constance M. Car r oll said in the announcement.

I n lieu of a speech, ?I n a Wor d? honor ees instead took the stage and say one wor d that best sums up their college exper ience.

The title sponsor s of the event wer e Jim Sinegal, City College alumnus and the co- founder and for mer CEO of Costco, and his wife, Janet.

Other sponsor s of the event included San Diego City College Pr esident Anthony Beebe, for mer San Diego Mayor Jer r y Sander s, the Dr. Seuss Foundation and other s, accor ding to the announcement.

For mor e infor mation, including a complete list of honor ees, visit sdccd.edu/inawor d.

One more year San Diego Community College District Chancellor Constance M. Carroll received a one-year extension on her four-year contract with the district at the Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 24. During the meeting. Various speakers addressed the trustees with questions, commentsandconcernsabout issuessurroundingthedistrict. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

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CITYLIFE

S&M inspires diners? carnivorous dreams Sometimes people like to play it safe with sweet vanilla delights, and other times they pr efer to spice it up with some S&M. Get your mind out of the gutter though, for the S&M in question is Sausage and Meat ? a hip r estaur ant, Swine bar and char cuter ie with locations in Univer sity Heights at 4130 Par k Blvd. and in the East Village Quar tyar d at 1102 Mar ket St.

STUDENTEATS Lauren J. Mapp NewKSDSStation Manager Ken Poston takes notes and fills out paperwork as he sits in his art-adorned office in the Lbuildingon Sept. 14, completingjust oneof manydutieshehasasthestation?snewmanager. KATHERINESALINDAYAO-WHITECity Times

Newmanager on the dial Passionatejazz historian Ken Poston joinsKSDS teamat City College

By KATHERINESALINDAYAO-WHITE City Times San Diego's KSDS FM Jazz 88.3 FM r adio station at San Diego City College r ecently welcomed Ken Poston as the new gener al manager this fall.

Poston, who gr ew up in Kansas, pur sued his passion for music at the Univer sity of Kansas thr ough a music scholar ship. He played the tr umpet thr oughout school, but soon r ealized that he wasn?t as passionate about playing music as he was about its histor y.

I n college, Poston took a jazz histor y cour se that gave him a differ ent per spective on music. I t allowed him to explor e the jazz genr e in an aspect outside of playing an instr ument.

Poston developed a passion for the histor y of jazz and the r ecor dings. He wanted to shar e the passion with other s and r adio became what he wanted to pur sue.

After his fir st year in college he decided to switch his major fr om music to a r adio television film major. ?I took a jazz histor y cour se and that made me want to change my major to r adio TV br oadcasting.

That class helped cr ystallize ever ything for me,? Poston said. ?Radio was a way I could play r ecor dings to pr omote and suppor t the ar tists.?

Poston was always inter ested about the histor y. He had a jazz pr ofessor named Dick Wr ight that he looked up to in college. He wanted to follow Wr ight?s footsteps

by teaching jazz histor y. ?He was a huge inspir ation. I n addition to being the jazz histor y teacher he was also the major jazz r adio per sonality in that ar ea and had been for many year s,? Poston said. ?I r ealized that I wanted to do what he did and he helped me in many ways.?

Poston ended up teaching jazz histor y at local Kansas colleges and has taught ever since. ?I t was not a pr imar y job, I just did it because I enjoyed it,? he said.

When he finished college with his bachelor ?s in r adio television film, ther e was an opening at the Kansas City Jazz Commission. He had that job for a couple of year s,

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With a tr endy menu touting specialty game and meat in almost ever y dish, along with an exper tly cur ated cr aft cocktail list, one might initially get the impr ession of a much mor e snooty r estaur ant, but S&M is anything but pr etentious.

Owner Scott Slater and Executive Chef Mar k

Younggr en have cr eated a menu that has fir st class flavor ser ved in a fr iendly, r elaxed envir onment. Picnic tables sur r ound their East Village location in the shar ed Quar tyar d space, and equally as r elaxed ar e the cafeter ia- style tables and the many paintings of Nicholas Cage that fill the Univer sity Heights location.

Between their car nivor e- fr iendly menu, their sales of foie gr as, and what the People for the Ethical Tr eatment of Animals believe is a ?scandalous? logo (a r oasted pig lying with an apple in its mouth), S&M is no vir gin when it comes to contr over sy.

Most r estaur ateur s may not be pleased by having PETA picketing outside their establishment, but S&M almost celebr ates it

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Deviled egg photo goes here S&M?sdeviledeggsmaylookliketypical picnicfare, but thewasabi aioli and the spicy-sweet combination of honey Sriracha bacon make this appetizer standout fromthepack. LAURENJ. MAPPCity Times

?Squidtoons?makes a splash at City College

By HEDERCASAS City Times

?Anatomyof theGiant MantaRay.?

Official image, Squidtoons.com

L iving sur r ounded by the beach and aquatic par ks and not knowing anything about it?

Ther e?s no better way to lear n mor e about the ocean, how it wor ks and ever ything that lives on it that by someone who lives, br eathes and loves the ocean like anyone else.

Gr owing up influenced by comics thr ough his childhood, Tsz Fung Kwan, better

known as Gar field Kwan, star ted dr awing and making his own comics at the ear ly age of seven. His fascination for comics began when he star ted r eading ?Gar field? in the comic section of the newspaper. ?I loved watching ?Gar field? because even though ever ything was in English and I didn?t under stand anything about what they wer e talking about, I had an idea by just watching the dr awings,? Kwan

said.

The admir ation for the cat Gar field was so big that when he and his family moved fr om Hong Kong to the L os Angeles, he decided to change his name for Gar field. ?I felt like Gar field was my only fr iend though those year s,?

Kwan said Kwan then moved to San Diego and gr aduated fr om Univer sity of Califor nia, San Diego with a bachelor ?s degr ee fr om the mar ine biology

pr ogr am.

At 24 year s old, he is in his fir st year as a Ph.D. student in the Mar tin Tr esguer r es lab doing r esear ches on the mar ine animals and their nor mal behavior, and the r eal life consequences vs. scientific method of the ocean and fish. ?I might not save a life, but i can save a fish,? Kwan said.

But it wasn?t until now that his passion for the ocean and comics became a dr eam come

tr ue when he mixed them and cr eated ?Squidtoons,? wher e he also got the name fr om one of his fir st studies on squids.

Accor ding to Kwan, ?Squidtoons? is ?a website that is not just about science, it is about ever ything ar ound you.

I t illustr ates in a better fr iendly and appealing way all the mar ine animals names, species and their composition thr ough comics.?

See SQUIDTOONS, page 7

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NEWS | ARTS

Local band Shady Francos introduce ?Gabe?

Fr om time to time, certain bands come and gener ate so much hype and excitement that it?s har d for music fans to not get caught up in it. Such is the case for Shady Fr ancos, the San Diego- based tr io that just r eleased their second extended play titled ?That?s Gabe.?

Kicking open the first track ?Bones? with a vocal yelp, The Shady Francos swing through the song?s distorted groove. The vocals are immediate, but even repeated listens will probably have you scratching your head as to what lead singer Joshua Kmak is actually saying. Doesn?t matter: the energy in his deliv-

er y comes through with such immediacy that you don?t really have to know what the lyrics are.

That ener gy continues dur ing the ?Bitch Hiss? ? this second tr ack flir ts with the distor ted sur f styles that became a staple of the San Diego scene a few year s back. Yet, the band manages to sound

nothing like it at the same time. Cr afting some ver y catchy ver ses and almost chor uses, the tr ack has you humming along until it?s the you- wish- it- waslonger expir ation time.

The last two songs ?Can?t Opener ? and ?Dead Headache? ar e of gr eat quality as well and they follow the path of the two

opening tr acks.

With distorted guitars, catchy but undecipherable vocals and a crashing dr um beat, ?Can?t Opener ? even has what could be described as a Lux Interior-esque, introductor y vocal squawk.

This is befitting of the track since it could have fit perfectly on The Cramps? ?Psychedelic Jungle.?

As for the latter, ?Dead Headache? is another highlight in an alr eady gr eat batch of songs. I t has some gr eat backing vocals and swinging beat that make you want to dance. You'll find your self pr essing r epeat on this tr ack, just an amazing set closer for this shor t but sweet collection of songs.

I t?s gr eat to see that the band was able to captur e their live ener gy on this r elease.

Bands usually str uggle delivering such energy when putting songs onto tape. For some bands, it just doesn?t translate well.

Here, the band eases through with the confidence of a band on the rise. ?That?s Gabe? will definitely br ing excitement and r aise expectations to what the Shady Fr ancos will do next.

A full length album will give them enough r oom to str etch out and show off another side of their sound.

L et?s be r eal, it would be amazing to hear, but for now let?s enjoy this stash of killer tr acks fr om the Shady Fr ancos. Ther e?s plenty to be excited about her e, so do your self a favor and find a copy.

was shar ed in a letter CoChair of Dr amatic and Per for ming Ar ts Katie Continuedfrompage1 Rodda wr ote and r ead to the Academic Senate attendants. ?I am her e fr om Visual for Air Conditioning, Reand Per for ming Ar ts and a fr iger ation and Envir onmental Contr ol Technol- lot of my colleagues fr om ogy, said: ?Our Solar En- Visual and Per for ming er gy class was cancelled Ar ts ar e her e, as well. We and, you know, if ther e?s wr ote a letter and I 'm just anything that?s cr ucial to going to r ead the contents our economy r ight now, it?s of it,? Rodda said.

Rodda also included solar ener gy.?

Davies went on to say these points in the letter : that lack of access to stu- the cancellation of classes dent emails impacted his too close to the star t of the class enr ollments and an semester ; the administr aadjunct instr uctor got tive r equir ement to meet bumped as a dir ect r esult the full class capacity of Davies? class being number of 35 r egister ed students and a minimum cancelled.

Other instr uctor s at the of r egister ed students beAcademic Senate meeting ing 18 (35 r ounded up to 36 shar ed their exper iences and divided by 2 that of classes being cancelled equals 50 per cent full); a in their depar tments, as lack of time to r ecr uit students to fill classes; and an well.

At the cr ux of instr uc- inability to r each out to tor s? fr ustr ation is that pr evious students since cancellation of classes due student emails and r oster s to low enr ollments is im- disappear when semesterpacted by a minimum en- end gr ades ar e submitted r ollment number r equir e- and faculty cannot access ment of 18 students to wait- listed students until keep a class alive. This the fir st day of classes.

Adjunct faculty jobs on campus ar e compr omised if they don?t have classes to teach, while they may still lose wor k because fulltime faculty need classes to teach to fulfill their employment contr acts. Some classes wer e cancelled Monday of the second week of classes befor e 18 students could enter add codes that would have saved the class with 50 per cent capacity being met. With Dr amatic and Visual Ar ts classes being in a tempor ar y location, it negatively impacts student enr ollment number s of students.

Rodda expressed that she and the department believe administration does not support the Dramatic and Visual Arts program. She closed her letter stating: ?We ask that the Academic Senate support us in our quest to rebuild our programs. Help us fight against the mandated cap of 35,? Rodda said. ?Our contract and adjunct faculty are dedicated, caring professionals in their fields. We want to ser ve our students,

but we are finding it increasingly difficult to do so.

City College?s Mission Statement claims its highest priority is student lear ning and achievement.

We pride ourselves on meeting the diverse and cultural needs of the students. We are in fear of the Visual and Perfor ming Arts disappearing entirely from this campus, which r uns completely counter to City?s goals and mission.?

Enthusiastic applause fr om those pr esent followed.

I n inter views with administr ation, they clar ified their blanket statement.

City College Pr esident Anthony Beebe explained mor e in depth that class cancellations boil down to an economic issue, which is only a par t of enr ollment management that he calls a ?balancing act.? ?What we ar e tr ying to accomplish with enr ollment management is be able to accommodate students,? Beebe said.

He fur ther explained that funding, or lack ther eof, makes it challeng-

ing to move students fr om wait lists to being r egister ed for a class. Add to that the fact that some classes ar e not as interesting to students, so they don?t fill.

As descr ibed by Beebe, the state of Califor nia has a for mula that deter mines how it funds City College, for example. Appr oximately 15,500 students ar e enr olled this semester accor ding to Renee Kilmer, inter im vice pr esident of instr uction.

Beebe and Kilmer both explained the full- time equivalency for mula. The state pays City College appr oximately $4,500 per fulltime (15 units) student, per year. The state does not pay for par t-time students (anything under 15 units).

Par t- time students ar e condensed to make fulltime students, which is known as full- time equivalency.

The numbers would look like this as an example: 17,000 students from College X are enrolled for the semester. 13,000 students are full- time multiplied by

$4,500, per student, which would equal $58,500,000.

The remaining 4,000 students are part- time and must be condensed to make full- time status bearing students, so the full- time equivalency may be 2,500 ?full time students? multiplied by $4,500 per student, and that equals $11,250,000 added to $58,500,000, which equals $69,750,000 for the academic year. From that total is deducted teachers' salaries, overhead costs and supplies for classrooms, and other necessar y line items to teach classes.

Even $69,750,000 does not go far in today?s economy.

The funding model the state uses pays schools for students enr olled at fulltime status (at 15 units) is old, accor ding to Kilmer.

Kilmer also stated the the 41 cancelled classes on campus wer e only due to low enr ollment, although classes may be cancelled due to other cir cumstances. She also stated that 35 of the 41 classes wer e r einstated at the time of an inter view Sept 18.

ALBUM REVIEW RicardoSoltero Such hype came ear ly for the band with their ener getic live per for mances and ver y solid self- titled debut extended play. Alr eady playing such r enowned events like X Fest 2015 and Viva Pomona while shar ing the stage with the likes of The Cult and The Spits.

They have also been making a big splash in the local circuit, playing ever ywhere from the Tower Bar to the legendar y Casbah.

Bands can make a solid r eputation with live perfor mances, but could the Shady Fr ancos deliver on such pr omise?

Luckily for us they deliver the goods with their new four- song release.

Class

SanDiegoalternativethree-piecetheShadyFrancosplayfor acrowdduringa2014 concert. OTISOfficial Facebook photo

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CITYVOICE Class cancellations handled poorly Confusion and fr ustr ation became common themes at the star t of the school year for students enr olled in the 41 classes cancelled this fall semester at San Diego City College.

Students and depar tment faculty who wer e most dir ectly affected by the cancellations wer e notified last minute, thus any planning that had occur r ed in pr epar ing for those classes wer e thr own out the window. Some students r eceived emails fr om the campus administr ation that they wer e being ?dr opped,? while the lucky ones at least got emails fr om their pr ofessor s that their class was being cancelled.

The most unfor tunate in this situation wer e those who attended classes for the fir st week only to have their classes cancelled anyway due to low enr ollment.

While it is under standable that as a matter of policy, classes with low enr ollment r ates would be cut, it is unfair to students and teacher s on City TimesEditorial Board staff to cancel these classes with little to no war ning ? especially after the semester had alr eady begun. Students should have been pr oper ly war ned of the situation befor ehand about these schedule changes so that they could have chosen other classes or cour se sections.

Between impacted classes and cor e classes for one?s major being offer ed on a limited basis, it is alr eady difficult to complete a degr ee within the two- or four-year time fr ame that society expects college students to have r eceived an associate?s or bachelor ?s degr ee.

Conflicts in class times fur ther complicate the pr ocess of getting a degr ee as quickly as one likes, without even consider ing situations coming up in the r ealm of existence outside of school (wor k, family, etc.). By making these last-minute cancellations on or after the dr op date, the student who is unexpectedly dr opped fr om a class can no longer sign up for other cour ses and ther efor e may not have full time cr edit hour s.

Fur ther mor e, students shouldn?t be penalized if website issues with Reg-e have occur r ed dur ing the time per iod when a student needs to utilize their add code. We have developed an overdependence on computer s dur ing the Digital Age, yet we don?t always build in contingency plans in case that technology fails us. By allowing mor e flexibility for class sizes and in the way that add codes function, it could help to avoid class cancellations.

I n the futur e, the administr ation should announce that cer tain class sections ar e in jeopar dy ahead of time on Reg-e so that students can better plan their class schedules ? or at least avoid being blindsided by an abr upt change in their plan. Tr anspar ency should always be the default in public entities such as the community college system, so by incr easing the infor mation that is pr ovided to students we can help to impr ove the system as a whole.

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International student 101 I n June 2013, after a long pr ocess of tr ying to get my paper wor k together, the mailman finally ar r ived with my student visa. I was one step closer.

By Aug. 1, I basically had my life packed in a suitcase and a duffel bag. Flying 7,000 miles away fr om the Philippines by myself gave me a lot of time to pr ocess this big move. I wasn?t enter ing unknown ter r itor y, but the thought of living in a differ ent countr y was exciting yet ner ve-r acking.

Within nine days of being in the U.S. I had my fir st taste of community college by going to the or ientation wher e I , along with my fellow inter national students, wer e bombar ded with infor mation r egar ding how to maintain our status. I r ealized that this wasn?t going to be as easy as I thought it would be.

Within those fir st few hour s,

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gether, pr ovide an or iginal bank statement in the amount of $18,000 which cover s a year ?s tuition, fees and living expenses along with a new I -20.

Not only that, I need to have a modified health insur ance that meets the needs of F- 1 students i.e. evacuation and r epatr iation. I f I needed to leave the countr y for leisur e or other pur poses, I would have to infor m them and have a tr avel document signed a month pr ior. I f you still don't get it by now, basically being an F-1 student involves a lot of paper wor k, being extr a car eful, and paying attention to a lot of detail.

I am not allowed to apply for a Social Secur ity number unless it is appr oved for wor k. I can only wor k on campus for

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And for two year s, we did a Playa del Car men.

200- mile r elay r ace called ?? (They needed to op- ?(the) Ragnar ? fr om Hunterate) right away because ington Beach to Seapor t my leg was completely bro- Village,? Mar tinez said. ken including the ligaNo matter the 2,700ments, they couldn?t do plus- mile distance beanything, I was bleeding out tween the two City College too,? and when she over- students, one always heard the doctors planning picked up pace after the to amputate her right leg, pass of the baton, wher e she calmly said, ?Just do the other had fallen whatever you want. (Even behind. though) I was still in shock, ?? We did have some I was so over it.? (tr avel) insur ance for the ?I t?s been a year since I tr ip tr aveling into Mexico. met you ... we?ve been This cover ed my ambuthr ough a lot of happy mo- lance r ide fr om the hospiments, but now we have to tal (Gener al de Playa del go thr ough sad moments,? Car men) to the other hosPalencia posted on her pital in Cancun, and my Facebook account. mother ?s hotel r oom,? ?The accident was on Alonso said. She also said Fr iday, and then I woke up that her insur ance in the on Satur day in the after- U.S. could not cover her noon,? Alonso said. medical expenses abr oad.

The buzz of the accident ?As you might imagine, hit back home in San ever yone is in mour ning, Diego and Tijuana. but r ight now is the time to Alonso?s mom, Dor a Elena act and help Zaphir e. We Duar te, and Alonso?s ar e asking for donations to boyfr iend, Ber nar do fund her medical car e and Machado, immediately eventual tr ansfer home to flew down fr om Tijuana to San Diego, as soon as she be by her side. is well enough to tr avel.

L exi Mar tinez, Za- Zaphir e will need an addiphir e?s fr iend back home, tional sur ger y, physical was wor r ied about her ther apy and a pr osthetic, fr iend?s well-being, and the so we can get her back to expenses that would ac- the life she loves,? r eads cr ue. On Aug. 18, Mar tinez the GoFundMe campaign. set up a GoFundMe acThanks to Mar tinez?s count to ?Br ing Zaphir e ?visual pass,? her GoHome.?

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ceived a total U.S. dollar amount of $16,883 r aised by 211 people in 25 days.

On Sept. 7, the campaign, which had alr eady gone vir al, attr acted var ious media outlets that awaited Alonso?s ar r ival outside of the Univer sity of Califor nia, San Diego Hospital in Hillcr est. On the NBC 7 San Diego news, a video of an upbeat and gr ateful Alonso being pushed in a wheelchair was shown. ?? I want to pay them back (Monar ch High School),? said Alonso, ?none of the money is going back to me.?

Monar ch High School is wher e Alonso gr aduated with a 3.8- 3.9 GPA, which helped gar nish her a Pr ice Scholar ship to help pay for her education at City College. Alonso wants to tr ansfer to San Diego State Univer sity and obtain her degr ee to help her become a social wor ker.

This fall semester, Alonso was going to take English, math, sociology and another class to give her 14- 15 units, but she doesn?t know for sur e how long her r ecuper ation pr ocess will take to enable her r etur n to campus.

Dur ing a r ecent City Times inter view, she was optimistic as she awaited a sur ger y on her pelvis. ?I don?t see (anything) bad. I see something positive. The best thing is that I am alive,? Alonso said.

house made, baconinfused Buffalo Tr ace bour bon that adds a layer of smokiness to the cocktail?s flavor. The maple bacon gar nish r einfor ces the r estaur ant?s theme, and the bever age pair s well with many of their menu items, especially the bacon fat deviled eggs appetizer.

Don?t let the deviled eggs fool you: they may have a sinister name, but they?r e secr etly a piece of heaven.

I n dir ect juxtaposition to the bland eggs that can be found at many a potluck, wasabi aioli gives S&M?s ver sion an inter est-

ing kick and the honey Sr ir acha bacon adds another layer of sweet and spicy flavor.

After r ocking out the lunch and dinner cr owd since they opened, S&M is now open br unch on Satur days and Sundays.

S&M?s breakfast menu contains some sweeter breakfast alternatives like pancakes and strawber r y ricotta stuffed French toast.

For the student on a budget, S&M has some gr eat weekly deals. Customer s can get $2 off an alcoholic dr ink and a fr ee str ip of bacon Monday thr ough Fr iday, 3 to 6 p.m.

?Comics can be found in almost ever y cultur e, it?s not limited by spoken language, the message it?s under stood fr om youths and beyond and it?s pr etty har d to misinter pr et.? ?I t is just a way to suppor t scientist with illustr ations, pr ovide teaching aids to educator s, and educate the public, kids and

ever yone inter ested about science,? Kwan said.

Kwan and his team just have a website so far, but they ar e looking for war d to expand ?Squidtoons? into an app, a book, ar t wor k, clothes and ever ything they can.

For mor e infor mation, go online to www. squidtoons.com.

Zaphire

S&M Continuedfrompage4 by giving diner s fr ee bacon dur ing pr otests.

Exotic meats fill some of their links ? as featur ed in their alligator andouille, kangar oo-por k hotlink and bison- chipotle sausage ? but you can find mor e mainstr eam meat options in their pineapple Portuguese sausage, Mexican chor izo and Hungar ian kielbasa.

S&M?s Swine Bar old fashioned is built with a

Squidtoons Continuedfrompage4 Even though ther e ar e many ways to illustr ate something, and if you wer e wonder ing why ?Squidtoons? was thr ough comics, it?s because,

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600 athletes fromcommunity colleges across Southern California held a practice run at Tecolote Shores North at Mission Bay Park on Sept. 19 inpreparationfor theSouthernCaliforniaChampionshipmeet . CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

Cross country teams test the course

By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times Men and women cr oss countr y athletes fr om Souther n Califor nia community colleges met on Sept. 19 at Tecolote Shor es Nor th in San Diego to check out the cour se of the Souther n Califor nia Championship that will be held ther e on Nov. 7.

The pr eview was or ganized by Cuyamaca Cr oss Countr y head coaches for men and women: Tim Seaman and Thom Hunt.

The event gather ed mor e than 600 athletes and 30 community colleges at Mission Bay Par k.

This pr actice r un is ver y cr ucial for all the athletes and their teams

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20 hour s a week, and 40 hour s a week dur ing school br eaks. I can r equest a wor k per mit to be able to wor k off campus, but I would have to pay

Dial Continuedfrompage4 then moved to L os Angeles in 1987 to wor k at the jazz r adio station ther e, which is now known as KJazz. He was at KJazz for about 12 year s and he was the dir ector of concer t

because they will get familiar with the cour se and pr epar e for the r egional meet. On this r ace they will know which teams and athletes will qualify for the state r ace. ?I t (the SoCal Championship) is a ver y important r ace because only the top 14 teams will get to move on (to the state championship),? Seaman said.

The men?s Knights team is made up of mostly fr eshmen and has only six member s. The team is wor king har d to become mor e cohesive and consistent in their tr aining in or der to incr ease their chances to qualify. ?I t is a tough spor t. I t r equir es a lot of wor k,?

Paul Gr eer said.

The Knights par ticipated on 4-mile CC I nvite wer e Fr eshmen I shmael Fer nandez place 162 with a time of 25:01. On the other hand, the women?s team competed on the 5K r un open placing thir d place in teams with a total of 68 points and an aver age time of 27:05.

Sophomor e Kelsey Engler r anked 35 on this r ace with a time of 25:21 and fr eshmen Daisy Ar teaga on 36 with a time 25:24, accor ding to Dir ect Athletics meet r esults.

Cr oss countr y athletes nor mally tr ain ever y day, but Gr eer ?s team is lacking this consistency and they ar e wor king on closing this gap.

?This season, we ar e honestly star ting fr om the bottom, but despite that we have a solid team. We all suppor t each other. We just have to impr ove on ever y day being ther e and just wor king har der,? Esteban Cor pusCipr es added.

L ast year, only five cr oss countr y teams fr om San Diego County classified for the next r ound: men and women fr om Cuyamaca and Southwester n colleges and women fr om Mesa College.

For this year, Tim Seaman has higher local expectations. ?I want as many teams fr om San Diego to qualify onto the state meet as possible,? he said.

$380. Oh, the ir ony.

Mind you, I can only apply for a wor k per mit if I declar e economic har dship, stating that ther e ar e substantial fluctuations in cur r ency value exchange r ate or other unfor eseen cir cumstances and only then would my $380 fee be waived. I n my opinion, isn?t studying in a differ ent countr y, not being able to

r eceive financial aid, and having to pay 10 times mor e than the r est of the student body, har dship enough? I s it going to be har der once I tr ansfer to a univer sity?

I gr ew up in a diver se family; I have been intr oduced to differ ent cultur es and was taught to be openminded. I t took about thr ee months for me to ad-

just and get into a r outine.

I was going to be fine. I didn?t have a har d time adjusting to the cultur e and I didn?t have to deal with language bar r ier s.

For tunately, I also have people to help me thr ough this long, ongoing jour ney.

This is not an invitation to a pity par ty. I don?t want you to r ead this and feel sor r y for inter national stu-

dents. Ever yone has a differ ent exper ience and it var ies case by case.

This is a mer e glimpse into my life as an inter national student, a gener alization of what we have to, and ar e willing to go thr ough. Many times I find myself questioning my decisions. Many times I find it har d to convince myself that this will be all wor th

something in the long r un.

I t is a gr eat exper ience, and a challenging one. The choice I made to move away fr om the comfor t and luxur y I have back home definitely made me mor e self- sufficient and independent. But sometimes ? just sometimes ? I can't help but think, is the gr ass r eally gr eener on the other side?

pr oductions.

Dur ing Poston?s car eer, he found himself wor king with some of the ar tists that he idolized gr owing up with such as Ger r y Mulligan, Shor ty Roger s, Howar d Rumsey, Pete Rugolo, Bud Shank and Gerald Wilson.

I n 2000, Poston left to continue his car eer at the L os Angeles Jazz I nsti-

tute. He taught jazz histor y at Cal State L ong Beach and Univer sity of Califor nia, L os Angeles (UCL A), and still teaches one class at UCL A today.

When Poston left Kansas for L os Angeles to wor k at Califor nia State Univer sity, L ong Beach he became par t of the executive staff for the r adio station for a number of year s.

?Once I became par t of the L os Angeles jazz scene I star ted to do a lot of other things besides just live events,? Poston said. ?I became close to musicians. I star ted to think mor e and mor e I star ted missing the r adio. Ther e ar en?t many jazz stations.

When the oppor tunity came to come to City College it was the per fect sit-

uation to go back into r adio.?

Ther e ar e ver y few jazz stations left so when the position opened up this was exactly what Poston was looking for.

Befor e Poston got her e, KSDS didn't have a manager for a year. ?He walked into a difficult situation, but he also walked in with patience

cr ossing off the list of what needs to be done,? said L aur a Casta単eda, pr ofessor in the Radio and Television depar tment and depar tment chair. ?He?s going to do good and keep the station in good light.? ?I t?s a wonder ful station, ver y talented people on the air and ar e involved, it was the per fect situation,? Poston said.