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Volume 70, Number 3 | October 27, 2015

Cancellations cause student frustrations San DiegoCity Collegestudents voicequestionsand concernsover issueof classcancellations

By JUSTINESCHULZ City Times One of the tasks a college student faces befor e the beginning of each semester is the str ategic planning of their class schedule. Each student must log onto Reg-e to fulfill the task of choosing and r egister ing for the classes they need.

Due to budget cuts and low enr ollment, 41 classes wer e cancelled this semester at San Diego City College. Students who wer e caught in this tur n of events wer e advised to

cr ash and/or add other classes.

I vany Villalobos, a TV and film pr oduction major, expr essed via email how the cancellation of classes affected him. ?I was pr etty annoyed at the fact that they cancelled the class on the second day,? Villalobos said via email. ?The class meets once a week Wednesdays, so I thought it was r ude the school would shut it down so quickly.?

He said he enr olled in Radio Television and Film

Safety classes now in session

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Officer Richard Farrell is restrained by members of San Diego City College?s staff and afellowpoliceofficer during the

Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate (ALICE) Training class in MS-140 on Oct. 22. City College is the first college in the San Diego Community College District to offer ALICETraining classes, which accommodate up to 40 people, according to an email to faculty and staff. City is also planning to have additional ALICETraining class dates inNovember andJanuary. Coverage online: www.sdcitytimes.com. MIKEMADRIAGACity Times

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Author Reyna Grande discusses her life at 10th annual City College Book Fair

By DESTINYORTIZ City Times

Author Reyna Grande (right) signs copies of her book ?The Distance Between Us: AMemoir? during the 10th annual San Diego City College International Book Fair on Oct. 13 in the Saville Theatreoncampus. Official Facebook photo

The San Diego City College I nter national Book Fair had a big tur nout in the Saville Theatr e on Oct. 13, wher e author Reyna Gr ande on hand to talkabout her book ?The Distance Between Us: A Memoir.?

Gr ande discussed the impor tance of college and

wanted to make the conver sation r elevant for City College students. She was the fir st per son in her family to ear n a college degr ee and to this day is still the only one to gr aduate college.

For those who wer e cur ious about her citizenship status in the U.S., she was pr oud to announce she r eceived her citizenship after she attained her gr een car d due to Ronald

Reagan?s I mmigr ation Refor m and Contr ol Act enacted in 1986. Her whole family r eceived citizenship due to that pr ogr am. After r eceiving citizenship, she was able to go to school and focus on her car eer as a wr iter, like her inspir ation and ?liter ar y her o?

Sandr a Cisner os.

See GRANDE, page 10

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Calendar News Voice Life Arts Sports

CityCollegecomestogether to remember DianaGonzalezfive yearsafter death. News, page3

Whencelebritiesenter thepolitical arena, shouldvotersbeabletotake themseriously? Voice, page6

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CITYNOTES

CALENDARNOVEMBER Sunday, 1 ?Zombi e Pr om? t he musi cal 2:00 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e. tickets for $10. Cash only.

Monday, 2 B oot s t o Sui t s: A four -par t car eer wor kshop ser i esintr oducing r esume basics pr esented by Rosemar ie Robinson. Fr om 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m at BT-310 Academi c Success Wor kshop Fr om 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at A-214. Seating is limited; call 619.388.3998 for r eser vations or stop by A-110.

Tuesday, 3 B r ian H u: Ar tistic Dir ector- 16th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival Pr omo fr om 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 pm. at V-101 M en's Soccer at Mir acosta 3 p.m.

Wednesday, 4 M en?s B asket bal l vs Citr us at 6 p.m.

Women?s Vol l eybal l at Gr ossmont 6 p.m.

CSU Appl i cat i on L abs fr om 9 a.m to 10 a.m.

Thursday, 5- Saturday, 14 16t h Annual San D iego Asian Fi l m Fest i val

Monday, 9 ?The Changi ng Face of Vet er an H omel essness? par t one of a two-par t lectur e ser ies on sustainable living for veter ans pr esented by Chr istina Galeano fr om 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at MS-162.

Beebe, distinguished militar y gust speaker, San Diego High School's color guar d, and an honor wall. Event will be held fr om 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Gor ton Quad.

Jazz L ive: The D on M enza Quar t et fr om 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e.

M en?s Soccer at I VC 3 p.m.

Women's Soccer vs I VC at 3 p.m.

Women?s Volleyball vs MSJC at 5 p.m.

Wednesday, 11 Vet er an?s D ay- campus is closed.

Tuesday, 10 ?VOI CE S E xhi bit ion H onor i ng Vet er ans? por tr aits fr om photogr apher David King fr om 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the LUXE Galler y CTC-V bldg.

B l ood D onat i on fr om 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gor ton Quad ?The H ead of Joaquin M ur r i et a? by John Valdez, Peabody Awar d-winning filmmaker fr om 11:15 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. at V-101.

Ci t y Col l ege Vet er an?s D ay Pr ogr am ? includes Pr esident

Friday, 13 3r d Annual St udent L eader ship Summit - Focusing on diver sity, social justice and mor e fr om 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at MS-140.

M en?s Soccer vs Cuyamaca at 3 p.m.

Women?s Soccer at Mesa at 5 p.m.

M en?s B asket ball vs TBA* SDCC Tour nament at 5 p.m.

Women?s Volleyball at

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Palomar at 5 p.m.

Women?s B asket ball vs TBA* SBCC Cr ossover at 5 p.m. ?Zombie Pr om? t he musical 8 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e.

Tickets for $10. Cash only.

Monday, 16 D ocument ar y Film- Bob Sly ?Fir st People: Kumeyaay? fr om 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at MS-162.

B oot s t o Suit s: A four -par t car eer wor kshop ser ies fr om 10 a.m. to 11:30 am at BT-310.

Cosmet ology and E st het ician Or ient at ion fr om 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at V-101 r espectively. .Wednesday, 18 ?Oper at ion Tiny H ome for Vet er ans? par t two of a two-par t lectur e ser ies on sustainable living for veter ans fr om 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at MS-162.

Friday, 20 M en?s B asket ball vs TBA Hancock Tour ney. Time is to be deter mined. *

Friday, 21 M en?s B asket ball vs TBA Hancock Tour ney. Time is to be deter mined.* Women?s B asket ball vs Santa Monica at 5 p.m.

Monday, 23 -Friday, 27 Thanksgi vi ng br eak

Saturday, 28 Women?s B asket ball vs Chaffey at 2 p.m.

M en?s B asket ball vs TBA Citr us Tour ney. Time is to be deter mined. *

Monday, 30 Applicat ion Cr am Jam ? have your application/s r eviewed by an exper ienced counselor and r epr esentatives fr om UCSD and SDSU. * Refer t o t he San D iego Cit y College At hlet ics online calendar for updat es r egar ding t he var ious spor t s t eams at sdcit y.edu/Campuslife/At hlet ics.

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Concurrent enrollment bill signed into law

By LAURENJ. MAPP City Times

The family of Diana Gonzalez gathers with San Diego City College students, faculty and staff for a candlelight vigil, put together by the Visionary FeministsClub, inGortonQuadonOct. 15 tohonor theGonzalez?smemory onthefifthanniversary of her death.

A memory honored by candlelight Fiveyearsafter thedeath of City Collegestudent Diana Gonzalez, students, staff and faculty gather topay tributetoher memory and raiseawareness

By DESTINYORTIZ City Times I t has been five year s since Diana Gonzalez?s death and the Visionar y Feminists club at San Diego City College hosted a candlelight vigil in her honor.

The vigil was held on Oct. 15 to uphold her memor y as well as br ing awar eness of domestic violence.

Accor ding to a City Times ar ticle fr om 2014, thr ee weeks pr ior to Gonzalez?s untimely death, a police r epor t was filed accusing her estr anged husband, Armando Gabr iel Per ez, of kidnapping her fr om Balboa Par k and holding her hostage for two days. Allegedly, Per ez assaulted, r aped and impr isoned Gonzalez befor e r eleasing her on Sept. 23, 2010.

Per ez had been waiting hidden by tr ees for Gonzalez to leave her night class when he dr agged Gonzalez

into a men?s r estr oom on campus and not only r epeatedly stabbed her, but scar r ed her by slicing a vulgar wor d into her back on Oct. 12, 2010.

Per ez acted as his own attor ney and pleaded guilty on Nov. 24, 2014. He then r eceived life without the possibility of par ole plus one year on Jan. 16 after San Diego Super ior Cour t Judge Char les Roger s denied motions to withdr aw his guilty plea to not guilty by r eason of insanity, accor ding to Feb. 3 City Times ar ticle.

Member s of the Visionar y Feminists Club spoke about the impor tance of understanding that domestic violence happens. I t occur s so often, ever y nine seconds a woman is assaulted in the U.S., accor ding to statistics pr ovided by the Visionar y Feminists Club. One in four women ar e subjected to abuse and the ages r ange fr om 18 to 34. One in five

Tr ustee Ber nie Rhiner son announced that Gov. Jer r y Br own signed Assembly Bill 288 for Concur r ent Enr ollment during the San Diego Community College Distr ict Boar d of Tr ustees meeting at San Diego Mesa College on Oct. 8. ?Today, Gover nor Br own signed AB 288, which is a long over due r evision to the concur r ent enr ollment law,? Rhinerson said dur ing the meeting. ?I t?s r eally exciting to announce that her e at Mesa, which r eally is r eally a flagship for concur r ent enr ollment with your wor k with the high schools in getting college students her e ear ly and saving money on tuition and it?s just such a wonder ful pr ogr am I know that you have her e.?

AB 288 allows community colleges to cr eate dual enr ollment pr ogr ams wher e high school students may take college cour ses while still attending high school.

The new law sets up pr otocols to help public colleges in Califor nia to cr eate concur r ent enr ollment pr ogr ams and allows high school students to enr oll in up to 15 units wor th of college classes.

The or iginal Assembly bill?s text states that expanding concur r ent enr ollment

See LAW, page 11

Counselors voice concerns over equality

By REBECAREYESand CELIAJIMENEZ City Times

Attendees leave candles on Diana Gonzalez?s altar in the City College cafeteriaafter thecandlelight vigil inGortonQuadonOct. 15.

Photos by CELIAJIMENEZ City Times women ar e assaulted while attending college. I t was impor tant for people to under stand how much this issue affects people on campus.

I n attendance was Gonzalez?s family, her mother, father, sister, cousin and daughter, Janette Gonzalez.

See MEMORY, page 11

At a tr ustees meeting that took place Sept. 24, counselor s Ray Wong and Steve Schommer voiced their call for equal tr eatment as the teaching faculty fr om the San Diego Community College Distr ict. ?We?r e r equir ed master ?s degr ees,?

Wong said. ?The same set of r equir ements as the teaching faculty.? He also added that in the past, the counseling staff used to wor k 35 hour s a week, then it went down to 33, but that it is necessar y to r educe it to 30 hour s. ?I t?s not a money issue,? Wong explained. ?I t?s a good economic time and the budget is good. We want mor e r esour ces.? A half- time counseling staff would cover the time counselor s spend completing other tasks.

Additionally, Wong discussed how City College is the only school in the distr ict to have counseling staff wor king mor e

See COUNSELORS, page 11

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CITYVOICE Fix the academic event calender, students will come Accur acy is a vital component in our society for us to be able to succeed. As should be the case with academic calendar s. I t is cr ucial to pr ovide infor mation that is clear, concise and accur ate.

Students, as much as possible, should not encounter the nuisance of missing campus events due to inaccur ate times, incomplete infor mation or mer ely because it was never posted at www.sdcity.edu. All campus events should be cover ed on the calendar to the best of the pr ogr am?s abilities, so students can be awar e of the happenings on campus that match their inter ests and ar e given the chance to attend these events.

To avoid confusion, pr evious time slots should be omitted fr om the calendar and updated City TimesEditorial Board times and locations should be posted in r eplacement of what was or iginally posted.

Mor e infor mation should be pr ovided for events, as well. An example of this is a post about ?The Head of Joaquin Mur r ieta? on the Wor ld Cultur es pr ogr am?s calendar. The post does not have enough infor mation for a student who does not know anything about John Valdez. Mentioning that he is an awar d-winning filmmaker does not r eally deter mine if the event is a showing of his film or of him speaking about it either. The event should be specified and should include a br ief summar y of what it is about.

Consistency should be obser ved in an academic calendar so events ar e equally adver tised. I t is under standable that events differ but enough infor mation should be pr ovided for students, staff and faculty to be able to r ecognize what kind of event is posted.

City Times would like to addr ess this issue because the editor s and staff of the student newspaper use the academic calendar as much as other students.

Not only that, but one of the main r esour ces the editor s and staff have is the online calendar ; we ar e able to find mor e events to wr ite about because we check the calendar.

I f the infor mation pr ovided to us is inaccur ate, it is likely to conflict with schedules. Giving us the r ight infor mation allows us and the r est of the student body to at least have an idea of what to expect of the event.

I t should be in the pr ogr am?s best inter est to give its students the most up-to-date infor mation and clear clar ifications for events.

I f the r eason behind these pr oblems ar e numer ous schools? softwar e pr ogr am, updating and fixing it should be one of the pr ior ities.

EDITORIAL

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NATEBEELERMCT Campus

Lost in the sea of college life Star ting school a semester later than my classmates fr om high school wasn?t my ideal way to begin college. But being only one of the second gener ation in my family who did go to college put a lot of pr essur e on gr aduating fr om college in a timely manner.

I didn?t know who I could tur n to when I finally figur ed out that the best option for me was to go to San Diego City College. I vaguely r emember br owsing the college website and typing ?how to enr oll? into the sear ch engine and when I clicked that button that is wher e it all star ted.

I went to the or ientation and ar r ived 10 minutes late because I couldn?t find the classr oom it was being held in.

I had to take the math and English assessment tests to cr eate an education plan. I scor ed low on the math assessment due to for getting

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basic math after doing two year s of calculus in high school but I r eceived a decent scor e on the English assessment and could have star ted at the college level of English.

STUDYHOURS Destiny Ortiz However, instead of immediately star ting at the college level, I enr olled in two pr er equisite classes r equir ed for the college level English.

When I went to see the counselor, the fir st question I was asked was what I was going to major in. At the time, I was a kid fr esh out of high school and the last thing I knew was what I wanted to pur sue as a car eer.

The counselor suggested to star t with the pr er equisites I could have avoided taking and

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some gener al education r equir ements. The per sonal gr owth class I enr olled in had a r equir ement at the end of the semester as par t of the final to decide what to major in; it took the whole semester for me to r ealize how unr ealistic that was to accomplish.

When I did seek help fr om outside sour ces, it was fr om the few family member s that went to four-year colleges. They had no clue on how the community college system wor ked so I made sever al appointments at the counseling center but unfor tunately r eceived differ ent infor mation on what I needed to do on ever y visit.

After completing the pr er equisites, it was time to decide on what to do next for the education plan that would guide me to gr aduation. On one of the visits to the counseling

See COLLEGE, page 11

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VOICE

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Halloween costumes made to objectify men and women

VS WARE MCT Campus

Politics turns into celebrity attraction At the Video Music Awar ds this past month, Kanye West made the bold statement of announcing that he would be r unning for the 2020 pr esidential election.

We can question how ser ious West is about his plans r unning for pr esident as he admitted to smoking a little something to ?knock the edge off.? But apparently, many people seem to be in suppor t of West. I s it just me, or does politics seem to be cr ossing the line between politicians and celebr ities?

Donald Tr ump, a so- called Amer ican businessman, most infamous for his show ?The Appr entice,? is also cur r ently r unning for pr esidency in 2016. He?s a pr etentious, r acist and sexist celebr ity who claims to be the most intelligent candidate r unning.

I t r eally questions if anyone can just r un for pr esident and

PERSPECTIVE DeniseWhite per haps even have a chance to win, even if they don?t have exper ience with politics.

I t appear s to all come down to money and suppor t of the fans.

Who would make the better pr esident? I n the epic battle of money, power and ego, we have Kanye West vs. Donald Tr ump.

This would be a gr eat contest, seeing as both these men have the same per sonality type.

West and Tr ump both have the biggest egos and sense of self-wor th.

Tr ump once stated, ?I will be the gr eatest jobs pr esident that God ever cr eated.?

Then we have West, on the other hand, r apping out lyr ics that state, ?I am a god, hur r y up with my damn massage, hur r y

?I celebr ate Halloween.

Even though my family is Mexican, we ar e the weir d Mexicans that don?t celebr ate the Day of the Dead or stuff like that. So for Halloween I just dr ess up and go tr ick or tr eating. ?

Camr ie Blatnica, 21, Acting/Per for ming Ar ts and English

?Honestly, I celebr ate Halloween. My boyfr iend passed away and it was his favor ite holiday, so I just do scar y movie nights and pumpkin car ving, stuff like that. I r eally don?t go out anymor e.?

Anita Hinojosa, 27, Alcohol and Dr ug Studies

up with my damn mĂŠnage, get the Por sche out the damn gar age, I am a god.?

So, clear ly they believe that they ar e above ever ybody and ar e equivalent to a god.

West and Tr ump ar e both clear ly a little cr azy, dishing out wild conspir acy theor ies, even without the pr oper evidence.

Tr ump has claimed that he doesn?t believe Obama is an Amer ican and even sent out an investigative team to sear ch for his bir th cer tificate. Clear ly, they found his bir th cer tificate, but of cour se Tr ump still claims he?s not Amer ican.

On the other hand, West believes the gover nment administer ed AI DS, accor ding to his song ?Hear d ?Em Say.?

Both men don?t like being told what they can do or say. Of cour se not. They ar e gods and

See CELEBRITY, page 9

Halloween has been a longtime tr adition of childr en r eceiving candy, car ving pumpkins and dr essing up as their favor ite char acter s. Wher e along those lines did it become about who can make their costume the sexiest?

The last day of October is r eser ved for adults and childr en alike. However, the costumes that some adults like to dr ess up as should never be shown in fr ont of childr en and should be r eser ved for at home. Since when did a nur se become sexy?

A nur se?s job is to car e for patients not to str ut ar ound in all their glor y.

Halloween Expr ess, Halloween Spir it and Par ty City all par take in this evolution of costumes. I n the exemption of childr en?s costumes, it seems that as ever y gener ation gets older, costumes get smaller.

The histor y of Halloween dates back to 2,000 year s ago and it began with the Celtic festival of Samhain, accor ding to www.histor y.com. Sur pr isingly, Halloween for women was about finding their futur e husbands and the goal was to be mar r ied by the next Halloween. Besides war ding off ghosts and asking for food and money, it was also inter estingly gr ounds for finding a husband. This was befor e it tur ned into a community holiday wher e instead of food and money, childr en wer e given tr eats or candy to avoid tr icking their neighbor s by r aiding their house with toilet paper.

I n Scotland, it was custom to take a hazelnut and name a potential husband for each hazel-

VOX POPULI Voice of the People Questionaskedby Heder Casas| Photosby CeliaJimenez

?Doyou celebrateHalloween or Dia de losMuertos?Why??

PERSPECTIVE Destiny Ortiz nut and thr ow it into the fir e on Halloween. The hazelnut that didn?t pop or bur st was the hazelnut that r epr esented who the gir l would end up with. I f women in the U.S. believe in this, they can gr ab a bag of walnuts fr om the closest Wal- Mar t instead of tr ying to find love in the club on Halloween.

Companies seem to be r unning out of fabr ic for costumes because Fr eddy Kr ueger ?s hands can?t even gr ab a hold of it. Nothing will ever make Yoda or Spongebob sexy. The attempt to make a Minion sexy is beyond distur bing.

I t?s a shame lovable char acter s that childr en ador e have tur ned into what companies use as a cor ner stone to design the next costume for adults to take over and make r isquĂŠ.

As easy as it is to blame women for actually wear ing these tr aumatizing costumes, what needs to be consider ed is the company behind the cr eation of the costume. What message ar e the Halloween costume companies tr ying to por tr ay?

Women specifically choose to wear pr ovocative costumes and fr eeze all night in what little fabr ic that comes in the plastic packaging, that adver tises plenty of accessor ies. I t does not, however, adver tise the clothing included in the package accur ately ? or lack ther eof.

See COSTUMES, page 9

?I celebr ate both.

Halloween because it?s a tr aditional event, we have a par ty fir st, I dr ess up and then I go tr ick or tr eat. For Day of the Dead we just go to the cemeter y to visit my aunt?s tomb.?

Kimber ly Zuniga, 17, Elementar y Education

?I celebr ate Day of the Dead. I t?s a Mexican tr adition and I like to celebr ate my countr y?s tr aditions. We star t fr om Nov. 1, we do an altar with pictur es of the loved ones who passed away. We put their favor ite music, food and dr inks.?

Jor ge A. L eos, 18

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CityTimesOnlineExclusive

Zombies with soul

TheJibedancers, dressedheadtotoeinzombieattire, greetedguestsof theHauntedTrail withadanceroutine astheyenteredtheattractiononOct. 19 inBalboaPark.

LedbyJennifer Hill andAbbyNeves, thegroupof 16 zombiesbumrushedthecrowdof peoplewaitingoutsideTrail.

Theundeaddancersperformeda15-minutedanceroutine toMichael Jackson?s?Thriller?andRihanna?s?Disturbia.?

Thedancers, whoconsistedof mostly10-20-year-oldgirls andwomen, fusedhiphop, cheerleadingandjazzstyles for theperformancebut maintainedtheir zombiefieddemuresbypurposelystaggering anddisplayingmonotone expressionsthroughout theroutine. See the full story online at www.sdcitytimes.com/ ?p=4004600.

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Caught in a sweet web Chocolatepeanut butter spider cookieskick off your Halloween night ByKATHERINESALINDAYAO-WHITE City Times

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Halloween calls for spooky sweets.

Chocolate peanut butter spider cookies ar e a festive cute desser t that can be a cr owd pleaser or even just a chance to chow down on a sweet snack.

The cr eamy peanut butter cookie base is topped off with chocolate dr izzle and finished with a chocolate tr uffle so this desser t will be sur e to satisfy your sweet tooth.

This is an easy thr ee- ingr edient cookie r ecipe with thr ee fun toppings for decor ating and ser ves six people.

1. Pr eheat oven to 350 degr ees.

L ine baking sheets with par chment paper.

2. Combine the peanut butter, white sugar and egg and mix until smooth.

3. Scoop a spoonful of dough and r oll in between your hands to make a ball and place onto the baking sheet. Bake at 350 degr ees for 6 to 8 minutes.

4. While the cookies ar e in the oven unwr ap all the chocolate tr uffles. Once the cookies ar e done, cool until they ar e slightly war m and place a tr uffle in the middle of each cookie. Make sur e the cookies ar e not too war m other wise the tr uffle will melt.

5. Melt the chocolate chips in the micr owave in for one minute until melted; you may want to stir at 30

seconds. Scoop the melted chocolate into a zip bag.

Close the bag and snip off the cor ner of the bag in or der to pipe legs on each cookie, star ting fr om the tr uffle body down.

6. Then use the r emaining melted chocolate to glue two eyes onto each tr uffle spider. Cool until the chocolate is fir m and ser ve.

For the list of ingredients, visit www.sdcitytimes.com/ ?p=4004604

KATHERINESALINDAYAO-WHITE City Times

Frightful local hangouts to shake up your Halloween CityTimesOnlineExclusive StartingfromSan DiegoCity College, takea tour of someof themost popular, and not sopopular, local destinationstospend thisHalloween.

Rangingfroman all-agesparty with theOrca whalesat Sea World?s Halloween Spooktacular toa 21-and-up, nonstophorror-themed block party Monster Bash in thesocial hubthat istheGaslampQuarter and East Villagein downtown San Diego.

For the full story, including the list of locations, full map, prices and proximity to City College, visit sdcitytimes.com

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CITYARTS

Bodies exhibit to showcase beauty in imperfections

By RICARDOSOLTERO City Times

JimReily Sr., oneof thesubjects of ?Voices,?is a92-year-old World War II veteran whowas aB-24 bombardier. N. DAVIDKINGVoices Honoring Veterans exhibition

Honoring veterans through artwork

By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times The San Diego City College Gr aphic Design and Photogr aphy depar tments, in conjunction with on- and off- campus veter ans, will pr esent a visual exhibition called ?Voices? star ting Nov. 10. at the L uxe Galler y. ?Voices? seeks to honor veter ans, their str uggle and the sacr ifices they exper ienced dur ing war.

The exhibition will pr esent the wor k of Car ol Johnson, a WWI I illustr ator and por tr aits fr om N. David King, a for mer Ar my soldier, who has photogr aphed local and City College veter ans fr om differ ent gener ations and militar y br anches such as the Navy and the Mar ines.

One of King?s subjects for the exhibition is Jim Reily Sr., a 92- yearold WWI I veter an who was a B- 24

bombar dier.

Reily star ted one of his missions in I taly but it abr uptly ended when his plane was knocked down by enemy for ces in Ger many. He survived the incident but became a pr isoner of war spending the r emainder of the war in a POW camp.

City College pr ofessor Candace L opez, one of the or ganizer s of the showcase, has been in contact with veter ans thr ough teaching at City over the year s.

L opez also added that their objective was to build a website to help veter ans? tr ansition fr om active ser vice to college, giving them the necessar y r esour ces to be successful in while pur suing an education.

The exhibition will be open to the public until Dec. 1, Monday to Fr iday fr om 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Contact L uxe Galler y for mor e infor mation at (619)388-3281.

Photogr apher Michael L ee Chao has stumbled acr oss a medium thr ough which women can take their insecur ities and pr oject them in a positive way. With a single photogr aph, women can help er ase all pr eviously conceived notions of per fection and r ealize that ever yone has flaws and yet ther e?s beauty to be found in those imper fections.

Chao?s ?The Body I mage Pr oject? captur es photogr aphs of women?s body par ts with a Polar oid camer a. Each image highlighting what each subject consider s an imper fection pair ed with a handwr itten note fr om each subject descr ibing the r eason for said choice. ?These women have similar feelings ? they don?t like this, don?t like that,? Chao said. ?This is the beauty of the whole thing. Taking something they believe is ugly and make something beautiful out it.?

The pr oject is meant to encour age women to find beauty in body par ts they pr eviously consider ed ugly or just felt insecur e about.

Mor e than just abstr act images, these ser ies of photogr aphs ar e meant to inspir e. ?Women have body issues because of unr ealistic beauty ideals that ar e for ced upon us our entir e lives,? said an anonymous par ticipant of the ?Body I mage Pr oject.? ?We cover, cut and star ve our selves and feel we

Photography student Michael Chao explains the intimacy between raw images and the body description each model gave about their own body at City College?sLuxeGallery onOct. 9. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times must constantly apologize for our shor tcomings. I wanted to be involved in Mike's pr oject to confr ont my flaws head-on.?

For Chao, a New Yor k native, this pr oject comes as a sor t of evolution fr om his jour ney as a photogr apher.

Dwelling in fashion, wedding and event photogr aphy, ?The Body I mage Pr oject? came about after he noticed that many of the models he wor ked with shar ed displeasur e with their bodies. ?Ther e was this theme, common thr ead thr oughout,? Chao said.

Having an ar gument about ear sizes with a fr iend one after noon and having a Polar oid camer a available,

Chao snapped his fir st photogr aph of what would become ?The Body I mage Pr oject.? The camer a would pr ove to be the per fect tool for him to captur e the intimacy and honesty r equir ed for the pr oject. ?I t is r eally impor tant to have them unedited, it has to come fr om somewher e genuine,? Chao said. ?This is you, your body unedited. The way things r eally ar e.?

His use of Polar oid camer as on this pr oject can be tr aced back to his love for analog equipment. Mor e than just a choice based on tr end, he descr ibes his love for said equipment as going

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Michael Chao?s samples of his upcomingproject for the?Women in Light?art showshowcases thebody parts that hismodelsfeel insecureabout themselvesat City College?sLuxeGallery onOct. 9. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

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City?s undead will rise from the stage

Poetic panel present words fromthe soul

By HEDERCASAS City Times

The1950satomicage-themed movie turned stagemusical ?ZombieProm? makesitsCity Collegedebut Oct. 30

By KATHERINESALINDAYAO-WHITE after going to a nuclear waste dump, Jonny is per sistent to City Times San Diego City College?s theater depar tment will perfor m ?Zombie Pr om? at the Saville Theatr e star ting Oct. 30. ?I t is filled with laughter, gr eat music, fabulous per formances, and the per fect way to spend Halloween,? June Richar ds, dir ector and theater depar tment pr ofessor said via email.

Accor ding to the pr oduction descr iption, ?Zombie Pr om? takes place in the 1950s at Enr ico Fer mi High.

This musical is based on a gir l name Toffee who falls for the class bad boy Jonny. Soon after tur ning into a zombie

Bodies Continuedfrompage8 back to the r oots. Enjoying the fact that one can?t r ely on technology to fix it later. ?The beauty of the Polar oid, the r eason I like it, is because you can?t edit the photogr aph,? Chao said. ?One of a kind. Each pictur e is it?s own unique image. Can?t be r epr oduced.?

Cur r ently, the pr oject has mor e than 25 photogr aphs with some photo shoots still pending befor e ?The Body I mage Pr oject? is r eady to be displayed, but Chao would love to photogr aph mor e subjects. ?I want to get as many women as possible,? Chao said. ?I t takes a lot of br aver y.

I t?s har d to convince women to do it but the final r esult is something that will be beautiful.?

Chaos pr evious pr oject, ?L uminous Alchemy,? a lightpainting-on-Polar oids pr oject, won Best I n Show in last semester 's annual student exhibition and is on display until November in the galler y. ?His wor k and wor k ethic ar e equally impr essive. His

take Toffee to pr om. ?The audience can expect a fun light-hear ted show that pokes fun at society, but does it in a ver y char ming way,? student actor Nelson Monr oig said.

The leads for ?Zombie Pr om? will be Natalia Maggio playing the r ole of Delilah Str ict, Monr oig as Eddie Flagr ante, Aar on L ugo as Jonny and Yasmin Ruiz as Toffee.

Per for mances will r un ever y Fr iday and Satur day at 8 p.m. and ever y Sunday at 2 p.m. for thr ee weeks. Tickets will be $10 .

For mor e infor mation, contact June Richar ds via email at jur ichar @sdccd.edu.

?His work and work ethic are equally impressive.?

Professor David Eichinger on Michael LeeChao?swork

After its off- Broadway run, ?Zombie Prom? was made into a movie in 2006 starring RuPaul as Mrs. Strict, Candice Nicole as Toffee and Darren RobertsonasJonny (picturedabove). ZombiePromTheMovie.com

?Uh, uh, you can?t tell me nothing.? And appar ently no one does.

As for the decision beContinuedfrompage5 tween Tr ump and West, I ?ll take my vote with Kanye West. I mean, at least the you can?t tell a god what to do man isn?t r acist. or say.

Either way, let?s hope that ?The big pr oblem this celebr ities such as Donald countr y has it being politiTr ump, Kanye West or whocally cor r ect,? Tr ump claims. ever else, never actually win He then goes on to explain any elections, pr esidential or how he doesn?t have time for other wise. total political cor r ectness.

As if other countr ies don?t Of cour se you don?t, alr eady hate and make fun of Tr ump. the United States alr eady, Meanwhile, West contin- this will definitely show how ues to r ap in his music how ignor ant our countr y r eally is.

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por tfolios, including this new ser ies, ar e not simply beautiful to the eye but sensitive, evocative, thought pr ovoking, and technically excellent,?

San Diego City College photogr aphy pr ofessor Dave Eichinger said. ?The Body I mage Pr oject? will be par t of the thir d annual ?Women I n L ight? show in the L uxe Galler y on the fifth floor of the V building Continuedfrompage5 opening on Feb. 2, 2016.

The show was pr eviously only wor k by the women in Companies ar e to blame just the photogr aphy depar tment, as much as the per son who faculty and lab technicians. I t decides to wear it.

Then again, maybe has been expanded to include additional photogr apher s who have wor k r elated to the theme.

For mor e infor mation on how to be par t of ?The Body I mage Pr oject? and other pr ojects, contact Michael Chao thr ough his website: www.michaelchaophoto.com.

Costumes

women enjoy being able to wear their per sonal favor ite char acter s for a night. I t?s ever yone?s pr er ogative on how they celebr ate Halloween; so let ever yone?s secr et desir es of being a sexy childhood char acter be r evealed for that one night.

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English pr ofessor Vir ginia Escalante pr esented the ?Chicano/a Poetics I V Panel? on Oct. 5 to continue the tr adition of San Diego City College?s I nter national Book Fair and to celebr ate its 10th year.

With a master ?s degr ee of fine ar t fr om San Fr ancisco State Univer sity, Jose Hector Cadena was the fir st panelist to speak. Cadena is a wr iter and ar tist whose poetr y is based on his daily life as a student living on the bor der of Tijuana and San Diego. ?My thoughts sometimes take me to the tr olley fr om San Ysidr o to Encanto looking at the mur als with diver sity behind the big bags of old women who carr ied them fr om Downtown to Tijuana,?

Cadena said in his poem ?My Pensamiento.?

Wr iter and liter atur e teacher fr om the depar tment of Chicana and Chicano studies at San Diego State Univer sity, Dr. L eilani Gr ajeda- Higley, is cur r ently wor king on a new book called ?The Power Dynamic: The For ce That Dr ives Our Behavior,? based on power and dominance in r elationships.

When wr iting poetr y, Gr ajeda- Higley likes to incor por ate her per sonal exper iences on her ser ies of shor t essays, however this last year was not an easy year for her. I ndeed, it was one of the most tr agic in her life; one of her fr iends died in an accident and her mother and br other passed away.

She star ted with a soft delicate tone but her voice slowly began to cr ack as she was r eading her poems about the death of her loved ones. ?My mother L ucia Gr ajeda is r eaching the end of her long full life, she is depr essed of having so little ener gy and no contr ol over what other s ar e doing for her,? Gr ajeda- Higley said in her poem ?Winding Down.?

City College English pr ofessor Manuel Paul L opez is the author of ?Death of a Mexican and other Poems? and ?The Year ning Feed.? L opez pr esented some of his new pieces, which incor por ated his Mexican cultur e. ?A small dr one was flying over the audience to show the event, painted with the color s of the Mexican flag; r ed, white and gr een,? L opez r ead.

Angel Salvador is the author of ?Shades of Br own: Thoughts of A Young Mexican Amer ican Chicano? and ?The Road to Quetzalcoatl.? He is also an English pr ofessor at City College, he shar ed one of his pieces of his manuscr ipt named ?Uneducated.? ?I been a good student, pr eschool began by teaching me my native tongue is wr ong ... I t was un-Amer ican,? Sandoval said. ?As Chicano students, we need to be able to see our selves and r eflect our lives, lost identities and cultur es ever y time we wr ite and r ead. We need to wr ite about our selves in or der to teach about our selves.?

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back because of financial budget r easons,? Villalobos said via email.

For tunately, RTVF 121 was r einstated a week later and Villalobos managed to r e- enr oll in the class.

He said he hopes that futur e students do not have to deal with the str essful pr ocess of having to r e- enr oll for r einstated classes.

Out of 41 classes that wer e cancelled this semester, 35 wer e r einstated.

Students whose classes wer e cancelled wer e told to look for r eplacement classes or classes that wer e equivalent to the cancelled class.

Such is the case with Zachar y Andr ews, a theater major. He r egister ed for Dr ama 107, the Study of Filmed Plays. The class was dr opped fr om the schedule due to low enr ollment. ?We wer e tr ying to add the class and pay for it, then it just wasn?t available,? Andr ews said. ?I

went to class the following day and the teacher never showed up, we wer e never notified in emails.?

Andr ews said about 10 people wer e in the class and the pr ofessor showed up 45 minutes later and infor med them that the class was cancelled. The class was not r einstated and students had to cr ash classes that had a similar cur r iculum.

Andr ews said he believes that classes should be adver tised better in order for students to have ample amount of time to r egister for classes they ar e inter ested in and pr event classes fr om being cancelled due to low enr ollment.

Villalobos and Andr ews? exper iences shed light on

her own stor y about immigr ation and the challenges her and her family had to Continuedfrompage1 over come.

I n her memoir, she states her stor y is not any ?I was a beneficiar y of differ ent fr om other chilthe amnesty,? Gr ande said. dr en who immigr ated her e ?My dr eam of becoming a illegally and she says ther e wr iter came tr ue.? is a constant str uggle with Gr ande talked about immigr ation laws. The way how she and the r est of Gr ande descr ibed it, peoher family benefited fr om ple come to the U.S. to find the bill that was passed better oppor tunities. and how r elieved her family felt after becoming U.S. citizens, no longer having to wor r y about being for ced back to the place she gr ew up in I guala, Mexico.

Gr ande talked about what was going on in her Reyna Grande, hometown, which was author of ?The popular for its r ailr oad DistanceBetween station. I t became pr ivaUs: A Memoir? tized and no longer pr ovided ser vice to I guala.

Gr ande also talked about I guala's nickname, ?The As a child, she had to Bir thplace of Killer s.? deal with pover ty so seI guala is also known as ver e that ther e was no inthe place wher e 43 college door plumbing, houses students fr om the Ayotzi- wer e made of mater ial that napa Rur al Teacher 's Col- was r eadily available and lege in Mexico went miss- ther e wer e dir t floor s, ing after attempting to use meaning houses wer e just buses for a student about uninhabitable. pr otest, Gr ande explained.

Childr en r an ar ound ?I t is now consider ed a with heads full of lice and place wher e 43 college stomachs filled with students just as your selves r oundwor ms. She gr ew up can disappear,? Gr ande with har dly ever having said. enough to eat and had to She wr ote her book deal with the abuse of her about the place she gr ew gr andmother on top of up, as well as the place she ever ything else she and moved to when she came her siblings went thr ough. to the United States. I t is As Gr ande explained, this

stor y is the stor y of many who have to live in a countr y str uck with pover ty. ?You have a r esponsibility to fight against the injustices you see,?

Continuedfrompage1 (RTVF) 121 due to the cr edibility of the class and the success stor ies he has per sonally seen and hear d fr om the students who have taken it at City College. ?The last day to add/dr op a class was to be that Fr iday. I felt that it was unfair to me that the class was cancelled so quickly,? Villalobos continued.

Villalobos explained how he and a few of his anger ed classmates asked to speak with Vice Pr esident Renee Kilmer at her office about the pr edicament. The secr etar y infor med them about the minimum student r equir ement needed in or der for classes to continue. They managed to speak with Kilmer on the phone. ?She made it seem that we wouldn?t get the class

Grande

?It?s not about regretting the past but taking pride in it.?

a student?s per spective in r egar ds to the cancellation of classes this semester.

The situation var ies differ ently for students who wer e affected by this incident due to differ ent education plans.

Gr ande said.

Gr ande also talked about the r elationship she had with her par ents. The r elationship with her mother was estr anged because of what happened when she was younger and the times her mother left she and her siblings with their gr andmother to car e for them. Her father was abusive and ver y str ict about school. ?Wr iting about the past was my way of moving on,?

Gr ande said. ?I t?s not about r egr etting the past but taking pr ide in it,? Gr ande explained. ?I thought it was interesting getting her point of view and how differ ent it was fr om when I r ead it. I can?t imagine how difficult it was to wr ite the book,?

City College student Azucena Per ez said.

Per ez was left with an impor tant message fr om Gr ande. ?The past is what makes you str onger,?

Per ez said.

Gr ande is cur r ently wor king on a histor ical fiction novel told fr om a male point of view.

For mor e infor mation on Reyna Gr ande, visit www.r eynagr ande.com

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r aw,? Beebe continued. ?This is so impor tant for us to do.?

Continuedfrompage3 Beebe also str essed how impor tant it is to be Gonzalez?s sister spoke awar e of domestic abuse a few wor ds in r emem- so another tr agedy can be br ance, saying, ?She was a pr evented. ?When we know about good sister. She was studying to be a nur se. I these kinds of things we still r emember her long need to help. I t is our r ehair, her pr etty nails ... sponsibility. We can use playing with my niece and this tr agedy as an inspir ation to move for war d,? daughter.?

Gonzalez?s family Beebe said.

Estr ella L opez, member wer en?t the only ones who felt the weight of losing of the Visionar y Feminist her. City College Pr esident club, discussed the possiAnthony Beebe also had a bility of cr eating a mur al few wor ds to say about not only for Gonzalez but for all the women who Gonzalez. ?She was a good gir l. have been victims of patr iShe didn?t smoke, didn?t ar chal violence. The idea dr ink. Typical 19- year- old of the mur al fir st came student tr ying to do good about in 2013. ?The intent behind the with her life,? Beebe mur al is to br ing awar esaid. ?With the shooting that ness to violence against took place in Rosebur g, women,? L opez said.

Gonzalez?s daughter Or egon, last week ... my emotions ar e absolutely also par ticipated in the

painting of the mur al.

L opez explained how the pr oblem with domestic violence is how it is believed to be an issue that those who ar e going thr ough have to go thr ough it alone. L opez also expr essed that ther e ar e also options for those who have been per petr ator s of abuse.

The mur al will be used to r ecognize violence and help those at City College to under stand it goes beyond the campus. ?Ar t is tr ansfor mative,?

L opez said. ?To have this tr agedy happen on our campus and to only have a Title 9 website means we need to do mor e. With this mur al, it shows this is happening beyond City College,? L opez said.

Cur r ently, the Visionar y Feminists Club is wor king on a r equest for the mur al thr ough the ar t community.

Steve Schommer also talked about this issue saying, ?We want equity in the distr ict.?

For Schommer, it is a str aightfor war d issue that needs a r esponse as to why the boar d is not accepting their r equest.

I n addition to what Wong said, Schommer further explained how a counselor ?s time is consumed by a lot of tasks to do with not enough time. ?Teacher s spend half the time to teach and the other half to pr epar e,? he said.

Accor ding to him, counselor s need that same time to or ganize their classes and student information because it is during their per sonal time when they r esear ch to stay updated on anything r elevant to students at the college. He continued, ?Ther e?s not much time to pr epar e, we need to pr epar e and gr ade, as well.? ?We ar e all willing to

pay,? Schommer stated about how the pay to r eplace hour s would come out of the pocket of the teaching and counseling faculties. He also mentioned how hir ing mor e counselor s would be beneficial.

Schommer also said that they will continue discussing their r equest to r educe wor k hour s at the meetings and how counselor s will take tur ns to speak up about this issue with the distr ict boar d of tr ustees.

Both Wong and Schommer have been counselor s at City College for 16 year s, and they expr essed their gr atitude for the suppor t fr om their teaching peer s.

They also noted how imper ative it is to pr essur e the boar d for an explanation as to why the distr ict is not tr eating them with the same fairness as the teacher faculty.

closer to what I wanted to become but instead dr ove me fur ther away fr om what I planned to do when I fir st got to college: gr aduate knowing what I wanted to do.

I t was towar ds the end of my fir st year of college when I found a flier that was tr ampled and r ipped on the gr ound that pr ovided me the help I desper ately needed.

The pr ogr am was for students who wer e exper iencing their fir st year of college and pr ovided ser-

vices for tutor ing, per sonalized counselor s, and peer mentor ing. Had I known this pr ogr am existed, I felt I would have been better pr epar ed for what to expect fr om college.

For students who exper ience the over whelming feeling of being lost and not knowing wher e to go, ther e should be better ways of communication other than picking up a discar ded flier off the gr ound to guide students in the r ight dir ection.

Counselors Continuedfrompage3 hour s than the teaching staff since other colleges have their faculties wor k 30 hour s a week or less. ?We want the same tr eatment as other counselor s at the r egion,? he said. Accor ding to Wong, the union has gone to the distr ict, but the issue is not going anywher e because ther e has been no r esponse to r educe weekly wor king hour s.

Counselor s have a lot of tasks to do, Wong explained. They teach personal gr owth classes, conduct walk- in counseling, cr eate study plans for their classes, help students with their educational plans, pr ovide information about tr ansfer r equir ements and guide students to find what car eer s they want to pur sue.

College Continuedfrompage4 center, it was made known how impor tant it was to decide what major was r ight for me and after taking tests that wer e based on what kind of car eer s would fit my per sonality, I decided to major in human biology to become an obstetr ician.

I blindly took classes I believed would get me

Law

Distr ict and the college distr ict will wor k together to design the Pathway Pr ogr ams, which will inContinuedfrompage3 clude classes on high school campuses cr eated pr ogr ams helps to r educe exclusively for high high school dr opout r ates; school students, Car r oll incr ease and expedite col- said. lege degr ee completion ?(AB 288) will allow the r ates; and impr oves ?the distr ict to wor k with the level of pr epar ation of stu- San Diego Unified School dents to successfully com- Distr ict to design specific plete for- cr edit, college- pathways for high school level cour ses.? students to ensur e they ?With this law, other ar e pr epar ed for college, community college dis- to pr epar e for car eer tr icts ar ound the state will technical pr ogr ams and be be able to set up concur- tr ansfer- r eady,? Car r oll r ent enr ollment pr ogr ams said. in a much easier fashion An item of new busithan what our campuses ness discussed dur ing the had to do,? Rhiner son meeting was the estabsaid. lishment of a ?San Diego The college distr ict Community College DisBoar d of Tr ustees was in tr ict Pr omise? that will suppor t of the law befor e it addr ess the Califor nia and was signed into legisla- national pr omises to intion, and college distr ict cr ease access to college Chancellor Constance and waive enr ollment fees Car r oll wr ote a letter to for qualifying, r esponsible Br own in suppor t of the students. This initiative assembly bill. will addr ess what Car r oll Accor ding to Car r oll, r efer r ed to as ?making ther e ar e about 2,000 stu- community colleges fr ee dents that ar e cur r ently access institutions? and attending classes in the will be voted on by the college distr ict via dual Boar d of Tr ustees befor e enr ollment, but the dis- the end of the fall 2015 tr ict is not yet sur e how semester. many mor e students will ?We ar e ver y eager to be enr olled under AB 288. pr oceed with wor king on San Diego Unified School this, which would be a pol-

11 icy change for our boar d,?

Car r oll said dur ing the boar d meeting.

Mesa College Pr esident Pamela T. L uster, students and faculty pr esented an annual status r epor t during the meeting about their new Summer CRUI SE (Cr eating Rich Unique I ntellectual Student Exper iences) pr ogr am, the SEEDS (STEM ? Science Technology Engineer ing Math ? Engagement for the Enr ichment of Diver se Students) Scholar pr ogr am, pr ofessional development and other pr ogr ams at the college. ?As you might r ecall last year, we talked a lot about the ?new beginnings? of the wor k we wer e doing with Title V (Gr ant), SSSP (Student Success and Suppor t Pr ogr am Plan) and student equity and we wer e r eally getting underway ? what I will say is ?oh, the places we have gone,??

L uster said dur ing the Mesa College pr esentation. ?Cur r ently under way ar e sear ches for 24 tenur ed faculty that we?r e hir ing r ight now for spr ing semester.?

Tr ustee Mar y Gr aham was absent dur ing the Oct. 8 meeting due to a wor k conflict.

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Knights take out the Rams City Collegesoccer teamdefeats Victor Valley 5-0 in third consecutivegameof theseason Soon after the Rams star ted feeling fr ustr ated City Times and fr eshman defender OrThe Knights men?s soccer lando Ruiz hit the gr ound team won their thir d game with his fist soon after the in a r ow at home on Oct. 23 Knights scor ed, evidently in when they played against disbelief of what had just the Victor Valley Rams in a happened.

The Rams became game that had a slow star t, but ended with a lot of dr ive. tougher after this and The match star ted with a star ted mar king Contr er as shy attempt fr om both closely and making mor e teams, who wer e head to fouls to obstr uct the Knights? head in the beginning and advancement.

The game then tur ned despite having a few shots on the goal, it seemed like it into a ser ies of attacks and would be a dr y game. L uck- counter attacks. Player s inily for the Knights, the en- vested a lot of ener gy in er gy of the game changed a blocking and moving the ball on the field unsuccessfully. few minutes later.

Fr eshman defender The Knights made a counter attack and br oke Tadey Anteneh br oke this into the Rams?defense while path and spr inted towar ds tr ying to stop Knights? on the Rams? lodge, leaving far falls, Rams defense got too behind its defense and scorclose to fr eshman for war d ing the four th goal for his Rafael L opez and he dived team.

Towar ds the end of the onto the gr ound in the box ar ea, leading to the r efer ee game, the Knights had two mar king a penalty kick for impor tant shots on goal. On the fir st one, Contr er as easthe Knights.

Fr eshman for war d Fr an- ily got into the penalty ar ea, cisco Contr er as r etr ieved leaving him in a per sonal the penalty and scor ed the battle with the goalie.

The Knights scor ed the fir st goal for the Knights.

This goal affected the Rams? thir d goal dur ing the second mental str ength but solidi- half of the game.

On the second one, fr eshfied the Knights? man midfielder Avelino enthusiasm.

Rams Head Coach Mor ales sent a shot, and Michael Br adbur y believed fr eshman goalie Anthony the penalty kick shouldn?t be Squir e quickly r eacted semar ked, saying ?it kind of cur ing the ball into his killed our spir it a little bit.? hands.

The Knights played ver y Despite this comment, he believed the Knights did a consistently on both halves gr eat job and took advantage of the game and secur ed of the oppor tunities they sever al shoots on goal.

Knights Head Coach Milton cr eated.

The fir st half the game Hidalgo affir med ?(I t was) ended with a 2- 0 scor ed in our best game.?

Accor ding to him the favor of the Knights.

The second half the game team did a gr eat job defenbecame mor e aggr essive ? sively and offensively but the Knights sur pr ised the they still need to get better Rams a couple of minutes in the passing game.

Knights defeated Victor after it star ted and scor ed Valley 5-0 and they look fortheir thir d goal.

Fr eshman goalie Anthony war d to keeping the same Squir e neglected his net and pace.

The next home game for fr eshman for war d Fr ancisco Contr er as was able to get the Knights will be on Fr ipast the penalty ar ea with no day, Nov. 6 ver sus Palomar mar k at all and scor ed for College at 3 p.m. at the City College soccer field. the Knights.

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San Diego City College men?s soccer midfielder Tadey Anteneh trails Victor Valley Rams freshmen forward Marvin Soriano to stop his advancement totheKnights?goal duringtheir Oct. 23 gameontheCityCollegesoccer field. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

KNIGHTLYBULLETINBOARD Knights ready, set for PCACchampionship The San Diego City College men?s and women?s cr oss countr y teams ar e gear ing up for the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence Championships on Oct. 30 at Southwester n College.

The women?s 5K is scheduled to star t at 2:30 p.m. and men?s 4-mile at 3:15 p.m., r espectively.

Only between four to six teams fr om each r ace and 50 per cent of all the athletes in attendance will qualify for the next r ound, the Souther n Califor nia meet- up, which is scheduled for Nov. 6 at Tecolote Shor es.

Freshman Lorena Palafox (left) and Sophomore Carolina

Moreno (right) finish the Ursula Rains Balboa Boogie 5K at ? Celia Jimenez Morley FieldonOct. 3. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times