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Longtime theater professor becomes newarts co-chair

Students contribute to pantry

KatieRodda joinsAlicia Rincon tolead Visual and PerformingArts

Health classesraise morethan 650 pounds of food for City College food support program

By LAURENJ. MAPP City Times San Diego City College?s Visual and Perfor ming Ar ts depar tment has a new depar tment cochair, Katie Rodda, who star ted in the position as of June of this year.

Depar tment co- chair pr edecessor, and cur r ent City College pr ofessor of theater ar ts June Richar ds (who star ted wor king in the college?s theater depar tment in 1998 and ser ved as the depar tment co-chair star ting in 2004) is optimistic about how the depar tment will develop under Rodda?s dir ection.

By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times Sometimes we want to contr ibute to the well being of our community but don?t know wher e or how to star t. Pr ofessor Kathy McGinnis has found a way to help do that at City College.

McGinnis motivated her students to contr ibute to the campus food pantr y on Oct. 28 and 29. Students wer e excited to contr ibute to the food pantr y and wer e able to r aise mor e than 650 pounds of goods among the five classes McGinnis teaches.

The students br ought pr oducts such as canned food, bottled water, soups, cookies and other things to their classr oom in BT306, wher e McGinnis teaches all her classes. I nside the r oom, she has a scale that she used to weigh all the goods her students br ought to class.

The class that contr ibuted the most was I ntr oduction to Kinesiology, they br ought about a thir d of the total of r aised food despite being a smaller class with about 20 students. ?I think the cause Ms. McGinnis is doing is definitely a good opportunity to expand as human beings and lear n how to give other s,? student Alexis Rangel said. He also added this was a gr eat oppor tunity

?I think that she is the per fect per son, not only to be co- chair of visual and per for ming ar ts, but also to wor k in concer t with Duane (Gar della) and Rob (Nor ber g) and all of our extr aor dinar y, outstanding adjunct faculty,? Richar ds said. ?I think that Katie is extr aor dinar ily intelligent, ver y gifted and will br ing an absolutely outstanding vision and wor k ethic.?

City College dance depar tment adjunct faculty Kr isten Ar cidiacono is looking for war d to the changes that she believes Rodda will be making in the theater depar tment

See ARTS, page 8

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Atomic-aged love story Enrico Fermi High School?s resident rebel, Jonny, played by Aaron Lugo, performs the song ?It?s Alive? from scene three of the San Diego City College fall semester musical ?Zombie Prom?duringthefinal dressrehearsal intheSavilleTheatreonOct. 29. See story on page 6.

See PANTRY, page 9

City Collegeprofessor KatieRodda. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

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CALENDARDECEMBER

Informationcompiledby JustineSchulz Toget your event inthepaper, email calendar@sdcitytimes.com or call (619) 388-3880

Tuesday Nov. 10

Monday, Nov. 16

Tuesday, Dec. 1- 10

Saturday, Dec. 5

Friday, Dec. 18

Wor ld Cultur es: John J. Valdez, awar d-winning filmmaker ?The H ead of Joaqui n M ur r i et a?

11:15 a.m.-12:35 p.m. in V-101

Wor ld Cultur es: Bob Sly, City College adjunct pr ofessor ?Fi r st Peopl e: K umeyaay?

12:50 -2:10 p.m. in MS-162

?VOI CE S? E xhibit ion H onor ing Vet er ans at LUXE Galler y, 1080 16th St. fr om 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

?Cit y M oves? st udent and facult y dance per for mance in the Saville Theatr e at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets for $10.

Cash only.

M en?s B asket ball vs. TBD Saddleback Tour nament. Time is to be deter mined.*

Wednesday, Nov. 11

Friday, Nov. 20

Vet er ans D ay: campus is closed.

St udent Success D ay for New St udent s: educational planning session for all new students for the spr ing 2016 semester at the Har r y West Gymnasium fr om 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 13 M en?s B asket bal l vs. TBD Tipoff Tour ney 5 p.m.

New St udent E d Plan wor kshop fr om 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at M-101. Call 619-388-3540 to r egister.

Monday, Dec. 7 Cosmet ology and E st het i cian Or ient at ion at V-101 fr om 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

M en?s B asket ball vs. TBD Hancock Tour ney. Time is to be deter mined.*

Saturday, Nov. 14 11t h Anual 2K Run/Wal k Fundr ai ser : will be held at Mission Bay Tecolete Shor es at 7 a.m. $10 r egistr ation is dur ing the day of the r ace only. Contact Fitness Center Dir ector Paul Gr eer at (619)388.3704 or pgr eer @sdccd.edu for mor e infor mation.

Women?s B asket bal l vs.

Moor par k SBCC Cr ossover at 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 8 Monday, Nov. 23 -27

Friday, Dec. 4

Jazz L ive 8 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e.

Thanksgi vi ng br eak

Car eer I nt er pr et at ion fr om 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. ?Cit y M oves? st udent and facult y dance per for mance in the Saville Theatr e at 8 p.m.

Tickets for $10. Cash only.

M en?s B asket ball vs. TBD Gr ossmont Tour nament. Time is to be deter mined.*

Tuesday, Dec. 15

Tuesday, Dec. 1 Wor l d AI D S D ay: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Gor ton Quad.

Women?s B asket ball vs. TBD SF Tour ney. Time is to be deter mined.*

End of the Semester Holiday Discount San D iego Cit y College Aest het ician Ser vice M enu: open on Tuesday to Fr iday fr om 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., discount applies to City College students and employees. Cash only.

Jazz L ive 8 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e.

Wednesday, Dec. 16 B lood D onat ion fr om 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gor ton Quad.

* 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.

Regarded RTVFinstructor dies San Diego City College film pr ofessor Kathy McCur dy died on Nov.3. ?Kathy was a wealth of infor mation,? RTVF Depar tment Chair L aur a Castaneda said via email. ?She loved her students, and she loved passing on her knowledge about the film industr y.?

McCur dy star ted her car eer as a pr oduction assistant at the San Diego Zoo, fr om ther e wor ked as a pr oduction manager and pr oduction coor dinator Kaiser Per manente, wher e she would stay for 10 year s.

McCur dy was a pr ominent member of the San Diego Film Commission,

which she joined in 1994.

While in the commission McCur dy made the move fr om an assistant dir ector for TV films to being a dir ector of featur e length films.

Being a dir ector opened the door for McCur dy to be actively involved with films being shot on location in San Diego include box office hits such as ?Tr ansfor mer s: Revenge of the Fallen? and ?Anchor man: The L egend of Ron Burgundy,? accor ding to her Amazon.com page pr ofile.

McCur dy was also a published author. She r eleased ?Shoot on L ocation: The L ogistics of Filming on L ocation Whatever Your

Budget or Exper ience? in Feb. 2011 which ser ves as ?the complete step-by-step guide to filming on location ? any location.?

Accor ding to Castaneda, McCur dy star ted wor king at City College in 2012 and helped develop the curr iculum for RTVF 111, Pr oduction on L ocation.

Castaneda also said that McCur dy lost her husband last December and decided to take a semester off. ?She became ill shor tly after, but didn?t r eveal how sick she r eally was,? Castaneda said via email. ?I r eally believe she was fighting har d to get back in business.? ? Angelica Wallingford

CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS The following is a cor r ection of er r or fr om the Oct. 27 issue of City Times.

I n the page 3 stor y ?A memor y honor ed by candlelight,? Janette Gonzalez is Diana Gonzalez?s sister.

The following is a clar ification of fact fr om the Sept. 29 issue of City Times.

In the page 1 stor y ?Class section cancellations stir fr ustration,? only one

class was reinstated, others were re-offered as eight-week courses, and completely different courses were established to help wait-listed students, according to Vice President of Instr uction Renee Kilmer.

It is the policy of City Times to clarify content or cor rect er rors. Send them to the paper at info@sdcitytimes.com or call (619) 388-3880.

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ASGHalloween Festival packs Gorton Quad A day of crafty costumes, celebrating thedead and joininga newclub

By DESTINYORTIZ City Times The cafeter ia was taken over by car efully cr afted altar s and by club stands outside as the Halloween Festival, Dia de los Muertos and Club Rush all took place in Gor ton Quad on Oct. 29.

Women, childr en and students in costumes all gather ed either in the cafeter ia to take a walk along the altar s or outside to take a look at the new clubs that wer e being pr omoted at Club Rush.

The Halloween Festival, hosted by the Associated Students Gover nment, had a visit fr om Good Vibes, a pr omotional gr oup that par tner ed with AT&T to help give out water and ice on the hot October day, as well as adver tise the ?AT&T Good Vibes TV Fest.? Attendees of the festival wer e given the chance to take a pictur e with a backdr op featur ing the cast of ?Pitch Per fect 2? and fr iends took tur ns holding a paper saw in their hands in the spir it of

the ?Ash vs. Evil Dead? television ser ies. Radio station 94.9 FM blasted alter native tunes. Ther e was spor adic scr eaming hear d thr oughout the day for a chance to win either a fr ee wallet or sunglasses.

Scr eams wer e r ated on an application and attendees wer e given their pr izes.

Clubs that wer e in attendance included the San Diego City College HipHop Ar ts Society, a club r ecently cr eated for ar tists looking to expr ess themselves in a united envir onment. Students inter ested in challenging themselves and r eceiving scholar ship and honor s tr ansfer oppor tunities should look into what the Honor s Pr ogr am has to offer. The Classified Senate was pr esent to let students know they ar e ther e to listen to their concer ns, opinions and questions on what occur s on campus.

The Cr eative Wr iting Club, another club r ecently established, wanted potential member s to

City lends a helping hand More than 260 students, staff, faculty and administration members participated in San Diego City College?s Week of Service activities Oct. 26-30. Participants in the Week of Service chose one of the three locations at St. Vincent de Paul Village, Balboa Park and San Diego Bay. At St. Vincent de Paul Village, volunteers helped to give meals out to less fortunate people. During the bay clean up on Oct. 30, volunteers took garbage, dead animals and plastics out of the bay along the shoreline hoping it will diminish the risk of animals? suffocationandhelpprovideabetter look of SanDiegoBay. Photos by CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

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NewCesar Chavez campus celebrates grand opening

By RUTGERROSENBORG Correspondent More than 150 members affiliated with the San Diego Community College District celebrated the grand opening of San Diego Continuing Education?s César E. Chávez Campus on Oct. 28 in Barrio L ogan.

The distr ict is pr oud to open its new campus, Constance M. Car r oll, chancellor of the distr ict, said in a news r elease.

The campus, located on Paul Chavez, president of the Cesar Chavez foundation, spoke at the opening of Continuing 1901 Main St., consolidates Education?sCesar E. ChavezCampus. San Diego Community College District

pr ogr ams fr om the or iginal César E. Chávez Campus near Chicano Par k and the Centr e City Campus in Downtown. The new facility is designated as the Campus of Excellence for Healthcar e Car eer s, specializing in vocational tr aining, business, computer technology and continuing education. ?The ar chitectur e is symbolic and far mor e impr essive than anyone could have initially imagined 10 year s ago when the planning began,?

Car los O. Tur ner Cor tez,

pr esident of San Diego Continuing Education, said in the announcement.

Constr uction of the campus began after voter s appr oved $58 million in bond measur es to pay for the 67,924-squar e-foot dual building design. The thr ee- stor y campus featur es a 149- car par king str uctur e and a 320car lot two blocks east of campus with mur als r elating to labor activist César E. Chávez?s life.

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CITYVOICE Learning about consent should not be a question As discussions revolving around sexual assault shift toward including topics such as drinking and consent, so should the ways colleges go about teaching and handling them. But not ever yone?s up for this.

After receiving a Facebook invite from members of his student union to an ?I Heart Consent? seminar the campus was organizing, U.K. student George L awlor told the BBC he felt angr y and embar rassed that someone would assume he needed coaching on ?how not to abuse somebody.?

L awlor wrote about his opposition in a piece that was published on The Tab, a news site for students based in the U.K. The War wicks student wrote, ?I don?t have to be taught to not be a rapist. That much comes naturally to me, as I am sure it does to the over whelming majority of people you and I know. Brand me a bigot, a misogynist, a rape apologist, I don?t care. I stand by that.?

With violence against women so prevalent, though, shouldn?t the question of consent classes be less about whether it wounds someone?s ego and more about addressing the issue of violence against City TimesEditorial Board women and the prevention of it from happening in the first place? To use his ter minology, saying ?I don?t look like a rapist? is to reduce rape to a boogeyman myth, but the fact of the matter is, ever y day, women are raped by people who look like L awlor ? people who look like your average friends, neighbors and parents.

According to statistics compiled on the National Domestic Violence Hotline website, 1 in 4 college aged women report having sur vived rape or an attempted rape at some point in their life in America. The Rape Abuse & Incest National Network reports that 4 out of 5 assaults are committed by someone the victim knows and 47 percent of rapists are a friend or acquaintance of the victim.

So much time is spent lecturing young women about dress codes and convincing them to car r y whistles and pepper spray, but it has done little to change those numbers. It?s time to address another problem now.

Culture has taught men to look at women as objects, things to be pursued and conquered, as if they are entitled to them. The fact of the matter is that the one in four statistic is ver y real and culture has come to rely on doing more to help a victim after an assault while paying little to no disregard for what to do to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Men must be a part of the steps that will help defuse this culture that allows and makes this type of behavior OK and per missible.

Consent is absolutely mandator y, and while these classes are not, if even one person could attend and lear n how to ask questions and provoke conversations, then it?s a step in the right direction toward pulling the veil off of confusion that seems to have mystified many. These classes aren?t a cure, but they are undoubtedly a good place to start.

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When going viral goes wrong For mer actor tur ned music ar tist Dr ake r ecently came out with a music video that has people talking non-stop.

Sever al memes have been cr eated that sur pr isingly fit well with the lucid movements of what could be consider ed his dancing.

I t wasn?t long befor e Dr ake?s new ?Hotline Bling? music video went vir al that it star ted to appear on all types of social media. I f it went vir al for a positive or negative r eason isn?t the question. The question is, why did it become so popular ?

I s it ever yone?s obsession to keep up with the most r ecent tr ends at all times?

Dr ake's dance moves in the music video ar en?t what someone would consider on a ser ious level. Memes have been able to descr ibe what his dancing actually looked like.

The video seemed to have left people in confusion as to what he is actually doing. Whether

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those who have seen it actually enjoyed it or wer e r epulsed by it, it appear ed on ever yone?s timeline and r eceived ample amount of cover age.

Dr ake?s new music video is

PERSPECTIVE Destiny Ortiz only one of sever al examples of events and situations that have gone vir al. When is it appr opr iate to stop giving so much attention to something that hasn?t made a big impact in the lives of those who view it? Besides dance moves that people love to imitate, wor ds and phr ases have been cr eated thr ough videos that have sur faced on ever y type of social media. Day to day r outines have changed because of this social media fr enzy.

Has this had a negative effect? Per haps.

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An example of new phr ases that can be hear d thr ough ever yday conver sations is the use of ?on fleek.? This came fr om Vine, an application wher e videos that ar e less than seven seconds long ar e posted for the wor ld to view. A video was shown of a woman expr essing how her eyebr ows wer e ?on fleek.? I t wasn?t long befor e this saying was imitated.

The tr ue meaning of this phr ase still r emains undefined as ther e ar e sever al meanings to what this means and what it r efer s to.

This phr ase usually means that a per son?s appear ance is pleasur able to the eye. I t can also be used if someone has done something that will get them noticed in a good way as in making up a new dance move, scor ing points in a game etc. The fact if the wor d ?fleek? is a wor d is still up for debate.

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?Holy Grail?number of students must die The administr ation took dr aconian measur es star ting this fall to keep high-enr ollment classes while discar ding the ones that don?t fulfill the minimum cr iter ia. I t asks for a r idiculous cap of 35 students per class. A number nobody has been able to explain under which pedagogical var iables have been done and why it has to be equally applied acr oss all depar tments when each of them have differ ent needs.

This autocr atic number is also applied to classes such as photogr aphy, dance and music, to mention a few, that lack space or have equipment limitations jeopar dizing students' safety and lear ning. Per haps, some br oken extr emities and some Fs and Ds ar e better than not fulfilling the Holy Gr ail number.

This number was discussed dur ing the Academic Senate meeting and br ought out the r isk of quality of education. Histor y Pr ofessor Peter Har o was concer ned that if in or der to keep those number s (35 students), instr uctor s would have to lower their class standar ds by taking books or exams out of the syllabus.

Nick Slinglend, a math pr ofessor, favor ed smaller classes because students have a significant gr ade impr ovement dur ing their summer classes that have fewer students per classr oom than in a r egular semester.

I n smaller classes, teacher s have time to get to know students and pr ovide them, up to some extent, a mor e per sonalized

PERSPECTIVE Celia Jimenez and diver sified teaching to accommodate students' needs. I t also gives mor e time for gr ading and pr oviding extensive feedback on exams and paper s. I t?s not the same to grade 80 10-page research papers than 140, right?

High caps endanger distinctively specialized programs because upper division classes do not follow the same tr end than lower division and tr ansfer classes do. Advanced classes ar e mainly for students who want to get their cer tificates and associate's diplomas.

One specialized section affected was solar energy from the Air Conditioning,

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

Should wehaveconsent classes at City College? ?Yes, I think it?s impor tant especially for gir ls. I ?m not saying that gir ls ar e the only ones who get r aped but at least we will have some infor mation on how to handle that type of situation and what to do about it.?

Kimber ly Chair ez, 19, Nur sing

?I think it will be beneficial for many of the students to lear n how to have a healthy r elationship and lear n about boundar ies.?

Ryan Jellison, 21, Business

?No, I think they should implement that in high school because by the time you get to college you should know how to say no. When you?r e dating in high school you?r e a teenager and that?s when you have a har d time. I have a 13-year-old gir l so I think it will be mor e helpful in high school.?

Bar bar a Gr een, Sustainable Ur ban Agr icultur e

?No, ther e ar e people that need help in math or other classes. Why would you take money fr om the school budget just to do that class when Health can take car e of that issue.?

Jose L uis Reynoso, 17, Ar chitectur e

Refrigeration and Environmental Control Technology Department.

Two classes were cancelled for low enrollment despite the importance of this field in San Diego County.

Solar ener gy is the fastest gr owing r enewable ener gy in the countr y. The city of San Diego, which is leading in this tr end, has a solar ener gy implementation plan that star ted on 2008 to have a mor e sustainable system in the futur e.

Nor th County cities such as Oceanside, Vista and Car lsbad ar e investing on solar ener gy.

However, San Diego City College has shot down two classes r elated with this field.

The Visual and Per for ming Ar ts Depar tment was sever ely beaten with 21 classes cancelled.

Katie Rodda, co-chair of the

visual and per for ming ar ts depar tment, r ead a speech at an Academic Senate meeting on Sept. 14, descr ibing the lack of suppor t they had fr om the administr ation despite the contr ibutions fr om her depar tment to the City College centennial celebr ation and the annual Mar tin L uther King Jr. Par ade.

I n 2013, in suppor t of photogr apher s, Fr ench newspaper L ibĂŠr ation was published without photogr aphs showing their power and impor tance. Can you imagine how bor ing your life would be without music, dance, painting, photos, videos and liter atur e? Ar t may not be economically quantifiable, yet it is a

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Student faces police brutality A video of Deputy Ben Fields thr owing a black female student at Spr ing Valley High School in Columbia, South Car olina has r ecently gone vir al.

Ther e have been r etweets and posts being shar ed all over social media over how the officer ?s actions wer e unjustified.

With incidents like this, it?s incr edible to think that Fields was still wor king in the fir st place if he alr eady had a r ecor d. But, ther e ar e those who disagr ee: people who believe that this man had the god-given r ight to fling this young gir l acr oss the r oom all because she didn?t listen.

Comments on Facebook included, ?Oh she clear ly deser ved this because she was defying author ity.? I t makes me so angr y because these people always seem to be white, older people.

I t is under stood that Fields is a r esour ce officer to help and pr otect students at that school. He was called for a r eason to r emove a student who appar ently was on her phone dur ing class. Wer e his actions justified? Hell no. And the scar y par t about this is that people agr ee with his actions.

Sher iff L eon L ott r ecently spoke at a pr ess confer ence explaining that Fields has been ter minated and he?s r equested the FBI and Depar tment of Justice's Civil Rights Division to investigate the incident.

L ott also added, ?I do not feel that the pr oper pr ocedur es wer e used at this point.?

PERSPECTIVE DeniseWhite Thankfully, this man was fir ed, being that he?s had other incidents wher e he?s used excessive for ce on students.

I n 2013, Ashton Reese, a for mer Spr ing Valley high school student, filed suit against Fields, accusing Fields of civil r ights violations. Fields "unfair ly and r ecklessly tar gets Afr ican-Amer ican students with allegations of gang member ship and cr iminal gang activity," the lawsuit r eads, accor ding to The New Yor k Times.

Why in the r ight mind, would it be OK to fling a per son acr oss a r oom? Not only a per son, but an under age child. Would've his actions been differ ent if she was a male or if she was white? Yes. Ther e?s a r eason these videos go vir al and a r eason ther e ar e so many of them involving people of color. A pr ime example is Dylan Roof who went to a black chur ch and killed nine people, yet he gets escor ted out with a bullet pr oof vest on and gets tr eated to some fast food.

I t is hor r ible to think that it?s always white people who need convincing that black people ar e unfair ly discr iminated. Why do people think it is okay to be assaulted by a police officer while in school because she didn?t want to leave the classr oom? Now she has to deal with the effects of police br utality

for the r est of her life, as if she alr eady hasn?t had to deal with enough?

Note that this young gir l is actually in foster car e and doesn?t have her r eal par ents ar ound. She has alr eady dealt with a lot of emotional tr auma and this just adds mor e to it.

Ther e was r ecently a video of the boy who actually r ecor ded the incident and he said that a lot of the students in the class felt ?scar ed for their life.? I s this the message that we want to send to these students?

Ther e's a post on Facebook that r ead how ther e?s an inher ent cr iminality associated with black people, even if they?r e dealing with emotional and mental tr auma. This is exactly what happened with this young, black student.

Black gir ls ar e constantly constr ued in the media that they have bad attitudes and ar e always complaining.

They?r e made out to be r ude and uncivilized. She may have misbehaved in class, but only because she was dealing with pain. Yet she gets thr own out of a desk and flung acr oss the r oom for ?defying author ity? and people say she deser ves it.

The idea that people who agr ee with the officer ?s actions is dishear tening.

They once again pr ove that our countr y still has r acism, although no one r eally wants to admit it.

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?Zombie Prom? comes alive Themorbid but highly entertaining romance-musical makesitsdebut at San DiegoCity College?sSavilleTheatre As the lights went down and the audience settled in, the band quickly went into an upbeat ensemble to get the cast and the audience pr epar ed for the show that was about to star t.

REVIEW Destiny Ortiz ?Zombie Pr om? was a huge success on its opening night on Oct. 30 just in time for Halloween. June E. Richar ds, Ashley Kobza and Alicia Rincon dir ected this comedic and inter esting musical.

The pr ologue consisted of the main char acter s with the r est of the ensemble in a cr aftily made tableau with gir ls on stage left and boys on stage r ight. Miss Str ict (played by Natalia Maggio) stayed tr ue to her namesake and let ever yone know who was the pr incipal of Enr ico Fer mi High.

The set design was tastefully done and simple. Ther e was a nice backgr ound to convey the image of a high school.

A building was painted with 3D r ealism, as if someone could walk into it. Michael Far ley, music dir ector for the theater depar tment, kept up with Rincon?s fast chor eogr aphy.

As the plot developed, so did the r elationship between Toffee and Jonny. Toffee (played

by Yasmin Ruiz) and Jonny (played by Aar on L ugo) had a high school r omance like no other. Besides the typical good gir l falling in love with the boy par ents war n their daughter s about, this couple had to deal with issues beyond the gr ave.

Their pr incipal, Miss Str ict, was set on keeping these two apar t as well as Toffee?s par ents.

When Toffee?s par ents found out the type of boy she was r endezvousing with, they immediately or der ed her to end their windswept love. Toffee, in anger and feeling an obligation to her par ents, br oke all ties with Jonny which led to his pr ematur e demise. A demise so unplanned he became a par t of the walking dead.

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Yasmin Ruiz and Aaron Lugo play good girl Toffee and rebel bad boy Jonny in the San Diego City College drama department?s production of the 1950s atomic-age musical ?Zombie Prom? (top and bottom right). Natalia Maggio and Nelson Moroig play Enrico Fermi High?sprincipal Ms. Strict andhard-hittingreporter Eddie, respectively (bottomleft). Photos by CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

A bike that rode around the world Author and entrepreneur JamieBianchini bringstalesof his adventuresaround theworld, findingloveand meeting1,000 peoplein 81countries? all whileridinga tandembicycle

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JamieBianchini and apassenger sharearideon his tandembicyclein Tibet duringhis adventurethat covered81countries. Abicyclebuiltfortwobillion.com

Who would imagine that a bicycle would be able to br eak the bar r ier s between cultur es and br ing a lot of happiness for anyone who joins the back seat for a r ide?

That is exactly what Jamie Bianchini did all ar ound the wor ld.

On Oct.29, San Diego City College?s Wor ld Cultur e Pr ogr am pr esented Bianchini and

his new book, ?A Bicycle Built for Two Billion: One Man?s Ar ound the Wor ld Adventur e in Sear ch of L ove, Compassion and Connection,? wher e he shar es his adventur es ar ound the wor ld and ever ything behind the book.

As a for m of appr eciation for all the people who took the time to assist to the conference, Bianchini did a r affle wher e thr ee students won a signed copy of his book, a coupon for 50 per cent off a

Rocky Mountain Bicycle Company r ide and a set of a bicycle tour ing water pr oof bag.

Bianchini?s adventur e ar ound the wor ld involved inviting str anger s to join the back seat of his bike for a r ide.

The jour ney lasted eight year s and cover ed 81 countr ies with 1,000 passenger s. ?When I was a kid I used to spin the globe and stop my finger and wonder ed what was

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Innovative instructor to retire San DiegoCity Collegedanceinstructor Ruby Wilson wrapsupher final semester

By FRANCHESCAWALKER City Times I magine you?r e living in the 1980s and you see Michael Jackson moon walking and doing other innovative dance moves in a music video on MTV. Fascinated by Jackson?s dances, you hit up some local dance studios with a desir e to lear n similar moves and styles that wer e pr esented in that video. I nstead, you ar e tur ned away because you discover ?str eet dance? isn?t taken ser iously, is consider ed to be danger ous and is a ?for bidden? style.

Fast for war d 30 year s later to discover that ?str eet dance? has evolved to hip hop and is popular ized in countless music videos, contest shows wher e hip- hop dance cr ews battle against each other and do- ityour self videos that go vir al on social media platfor ms of dancer s showing off their skills.

Ruby Wilson, a dance instr uctor who has been at San Diego City College for the past 26 year s, not only witnessed the changes in hip hop dance but also fought for the dance for m to be taken ser iously and to be taught in studios.

Wilson compar es hip hop to the ear ly days of jazz dance when it was for bidden and only per for med in low-key clubs, befor e it was later popular ized and studied after it became mainstr eam. The same happened with hip hop. ?L ater on, (jazz) became an

San Diego City College English and gender studies professor and founder of City Works Press, Kelly Mayhew.

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Publishing San Diego?s literary community LongtimeSanDiegoCity Collegedanceinstructor Ruby WilsonsittinginGortonQuadonNov. 6. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times ar t and accepted,? Wilson said. ?I looked at hip hop as the same, and I looked and said it should be accepted because basically with jazz, it is an expr ession of ar t. I see it the same way; dance is a way without wor ds that communicate thr ough body and movement.?

Wilson was bor n and r aised in Ar izona. At a young age, she r ecalls always dancing at family functions and being the center of attention. ?Cultur ally in my family, it was always the weekend wher e the family would get together ...

ther e would be dancing,? Wilson explained. ?I t tur ned into a big thing for me because I dance all the time. So natur ally it got to the point wher e the family would star t to take note that I would dance and they?d like seeing it.?

Thr oughout her childhood, Wilson danced for fun and to enter tain her family. After gr aduating high school, she moved to San Diego to study fine ar ts and minor ed in dance. Not only did she dance, she was also an oil painter and didn?t think to make a car eer as a dancer. ?Thr ough high school and be-

ginning of college was fine ar ts because I was a painter, but I minor ed in dance,? Wilson said. ?I think because of the natur e of dance I thought of it as a hobby and never looked at it like (a car eer ).?

However, Wilson pur sued dance and decided to become an instr uctor. Diving into the dance scene of San Diego, she discover ed her favor ite dances that she per for med with family and at outings to clubs and events wer en't taught in studios.

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Professor puts theory into action City College?sEnriqueDavalostravelssupportingsocial movement

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City College Professor Enrique Davalos lectures to his Chicano History class about Chicanoart onOct. 29.

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A mass kidnapping occur r ed on Sept. 26, 2014, when 43 students fr om the Ayotzinapa Rur al Teacher s College in Mexico went missing after attempting to ?bor r ow? a bus to r ide to a pr otest.

One year later, ther e ar e many unanswer ed questions as to their wher eabouts, what many (including the I nterAmer ican Commission on Human Rights) believe to be misinfor mation or lies fr om the Mexican gover nment, and pr otester s ar ound the wor ld asking

for justice. San Diego City College pr ofessor and depar tment chair Enr ique Davalos tr aveled last month to par ticipate in demonstr ations for the one-year anniver sar y of the disappearance as par t of his longtime tr adition of fighting for social justice. ?I t?s mor e than just kidnapping, because it?s the gover nment that?s doing that, so it?s a double cr ime, it?s not only the single cr ime of human r ights, it?s the highest level of violation of human r ights because it?s the gover nment that?s doing this thing,? Davalos said in an interview befor e tr aveling for the

Sept. 26 demonstr ation.

Wher e some pr ofessor s might only discuss the histor y and theor ies behind social activism, Davalos? pedagogy seems to holistically unite theor y with action. He tr ies to r aise awar eness to Chicano issues thr ough field tr ips and also suppor ts students getting involved with pr otests and civil demonstr ations to help cr eate positive change. ?He does a lot of activism in the community,? Pr ofessor Elva Salinas said. ?He encour ages and invites his students to join

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Kelly Mayhew?s10 yearsof community buildingat City WorksPress

By RUTGERROSENBORG Correspondent ?I am not alone,? Kelly Mayhew says. She stops typing on her keyboar d, allowing the light per cussion of keystr okes to dissipate into the gentle backgr ound music hover ing ar ound the r oom. ?I ?m par t of the San Diego Wr iter s Collective.?

After for ming the San Diego Wr iter s Collective in 2003, Mayhew co- founded City Wor ks Pr ess at San Diego City College in 2005. She is car eful to point out that she wasn?t alone in this effor t, and that she cofounded the nonpr ofit publishing company with her par tner, Jim Miller, who is also a City College pr ofessor.

City Wor ks Pr ess, accor ding to the publisher mission statement, focuses on San Diego?s liter ar y scene, as opposed to bigger cities such as New Yor k or L os Angeles. Mayhew?s mission is to build a local liter ar y community that is less concer ned with mass- mar ket and mor e concer ned with the locale.

Accor ding to Mayhew, ther e ar e a lot of San Diego wr iter s doing gr eat wor k, but their wor k is lar gely unsung. As

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8 smaller classes can be helpful in the visual and per for ming ar ts. She said Continuedfrompage1 that safety can be an issue in some cour ses, while in other s it is impor tant to dur ing her time as depar thave one-on-one time with ment co-chair. pr ofessor s ? something ?I ?m r eally excited that she feels is mor e diffiabout having her br eathe a cult in lar ger class new br eath of fr esh air into settings. the depar tment,? Ar cidia?Ther e ar e cer tain r eacono said. ?I would like to sons that they need to have see the musicals continue smaller caps for these ? I think June did a gr eat classes,?

Rodda said. job. I think Katie will also ?Sometimes it?s equipment be adding some new en? for example, in one of er gy, and I r eally have a lot our music classes ther e?s a of faith in her ? I ?ve classr oom that has only 11 wor ked with her for a wor k stations, and so r ewhile, and I think she has quir ing us to enr oll 35 stua lot of enthusiasm and dents seems kind of r idicushe?s r eally intelligent, she lous. I n some classes, like knows what she?s doing.? our movement for actor s Thus far in her time class and dance classes, as depar tment co- chair, it?s safety, and our stage Rodda has been wor king cr aft classes as well behar d against budget and cause they?r e using power class cuts that ar e affecttools and things like that, ing the visual and perso having too many bodies for ming ar ts classes. in the space can be poten?Our administr ation is tially danger ous.? looking to make a lot of Wilfr ed Paloma, a stucuts to pr ogr ams, and pardent who has been a musiticular ly I feel like visual cal theater major at City and per for ming ar ts ar e College since spr ing 2014, pr ogr ams that they have will be tr ansfer r ing to San been looking at,? Rodda Diego State Univer sity in said. ?I ?ve been spending a fall 2016. His hope for the lot of time tr ying to str atetheater depar tment is that gize and figur e out ways to mor e contempor ar y pieces keep our pr ogr ams r obust will be per for med at the and keep ser ving the stu- college under Rodda?s dents the best in these dir ection. ?I think that her e ? the sor t of auster e times.?

Rodda believes that location of this school besome of the classes being ing downtown and it being cut in the dr ama depar t- so diver se and being a litment ar e being done un- tle mor e accessible to a lot fair ly based on size, as of the people in the com-

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ASG Continuedfrompage3 come join in poetr y and open mic nights. The Chess Club had a long table assembled for anyone to join in. The City College Model United Nations Club plans to make a tr ip to come together with the main office in New Yor k to discuss wor ld peace. The PEERS pr ogr am was ther e to suppor t students in mental health issues such as str ess and pr eventing suicide.

The Tr ansfer /Car eer Center was ther e to answer questions students had about taking the next step in their college car eer s.

A new or ganization appear ed adjacent to the ASG and it was the Afr ican Amer ican Pr ogr essive.

Jonathan Tucker I I I , who descr ibes himself as a tr ue

pr ogr essive member, descr ibes AAP as a way to unite those who believe in coming together and under standing the tr ue meaning of loving one another.

Technology squeezed its way thr ough the stands of Good Vibes by intr oducing a por table pr ojector : the ZTE Spr o 2 which will eventually be necessar y to have in ever y classr oom that wor ks with wifi and Bluetooth.

Acr oss fr om Gor ton Quad, those who wanted to exper ience Dia De L os Muer tos got the chance to by getting their face painted, lear ning the histor y and admir ing the detailed and color ful altar s.

Eduvijes Davis, secr etar y of the Anthr opology Club, explained the aspects of Dia De L os Muer tos and what the altar s consisted of. I t is a celebr ation of the deceased and offer ings ar e pr ovided to help them on their jour ney. Food and wa-

munity ? I think that poses an oppor tunity to do things that I feel ar e mor e new, mor e pr ogr essive,?

Paloma said.

Holding a bachelor ?s of fine ar ts in theater education fr om Univer sity of Ar izona, a master ?s of ar t in dr amatic ar ts fr om Univer sity of Califor nia Santa Bar bar a and a doctor ate in dr amatic ar ts fr om UCSB, Rodda?s educational backgr ound is per meated with theater histor y and knowledge.

?... The thing with theater is it can be so extraordinary.?

KatieRodda, co-chair of theVisual and PerformingArts Department Studying the wor k of female dir ector s Anne Bogar t and Tina L andau for her disser tation, Rodda looked at their wr iting styles of wor king in a gr oup of people to br ainstor m ideas and communally wr ite plays. ?I looked at the link between playwr iting and dir ecting and how it is to sor t of cr eate a piece as an ensemble and have it go thr ough var ious r ehear sals and changes and wor kshops befor e it actually becomes pr oduced,?

ter wer e included in the offer ings. Salt was pr ovided to war d off the evil that pr evented them fr om continuing their jour ney. ?Enticing them to come spend time with their loved ones. I t?s not r eally a mour ning but a celebr ation of their lives,? Davis said.

The Halloween Festival ended with a balloon war that consisted of par ticipants str apping balloons to their ankles while avoiding their own balloon fr om being stomped on. A costume contest was held and was conquer ed by Dar win Br owne, who won fir st place as ?The New Kid on the Block.?

San Diego City College student Melissa Chur ape said she enjoyed getting involved in the festivities. ?I love how many events go on her e. I t was nothing like wher e I went befor e,?

Chur ape said.

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Rodda said. ?I looked at (Bogar t and L andau) and stalked them for a number of year s and did inter views with them and wor kshopped with them.?

Aside fr om acting and theater, Rodda is also passionate about dancing and tr ies to take classes whenever she is able ? her favor ite style of which is tap.

Ar cidiacono said that she has had Rodda as a student in her tap classes befor e, and as a student she is ?gr eat. She picks r ight up and has a lot of nice r hythm.? ?I love dancing ? I think I was kind of a fr ustr ated dancer, it was kind of what I wanted to be instead of a musician ? so whenever I have the oppor tunity to go to dance concer ts or to take dance lessons, I do,? Rodda said.

Rodda said she is looking for war d to pr oducing plays in the campus?black box theater star ting dur ing the spr ing 2016 semester.

The theater had been used as a tempor ar y dance studio dur ing the last thr ee semester s dur ing C building constr uction, and she says she hopes to use the 100- seat space for smaller per for mances.

A yet to be officially titled ?festival of new plays? will be per for med in the black box theatr e dur ing the fir st two weeks of Mar ch. Rodda said the plays that will be perfor med dur ing the festival

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will come fr om a pool of plays wr itten by City College students dur ing a playwr iting class last spr ing semester. ?We?ll be doing sor t of mor e small, intimate pieces in that space ? things that lend themselves to a smaller cast ? maybe mor e adult themes, things that ar e per haps a bit mor e political,? Rodda said. ?We?ll still be doing shows in the Saville Theatr e, which is our big space, and histor ically we have done musicals, but we?r e doing our fir st str aight play in the spr ing semester, which is going to be dir ected by Ashley Kobza. That play is called ?Almost Maine.??

Rodda said she would r eally like to pr esent mor e plays wr itten by Chicano and Chicana playwr ights since City College has a str ong L atino population.

Potential pr ojects that she would like to pr oduce include JosĂŠ River a?s magical r ealism play ?Mar isol? and Gr eg Kotis? musical ?Ur inetown.? ?I saw it in New Yor k in 2002, and it?s r eally funny, ver y dar k and it?s sor t of like what?s going to happen in a dystopian futur e dur ing a dr ought, which is appr opr iate for California,? Rodda said of ?Ur inetown.?

Paloma echoes the call for mor e Chicano and Chicana based plays to be pr oduced at City College. ?My fir st show her e was

actually ?I n the Heights? and I ?m doing ?I n the Heights? again at Southwester n and I think pieces like that ? especially that speak to themes like immigr ation and things of that natur e ? stor ies like that need to be told so I would hope that that is done,? Paloma said. ?I think people ar e mor e r eactant to a platfor m that speaks to them.?

Rodda feels that being raised by classical musicians ? her father is a church organist, her mother is a pianist and her sister is a cellist ? she feels that she was naturally drawn to the field of perfor ming arts. After being in choir and orchestra in high school, she gravitated toward theater in college.

Suppor t fr om her parents helped her to achieve her educational and car eer goals, and with an almost 2- year- old son at home, she has not had much time to dir ect as of late, but has advice lined up in case he decides to become an actor someday. ?Oh no, don?t do that, go to med school like I told you to,? Rodda jokingly said, adding ?I ?d say the thing with theater is it can be so extr aor dinar y, the fr iendships that you make ar e so deep and the exper iences that you have can be so long lasting ? I would tell Teddy ?Follow your dr eam, and if that?s what you want to do I ?m going to back you up.??

in or der to inspir e upwar d mobility via education, civic engagement and a r espect for ethnic diversity well into the next millennium,? Joe Mar tinez of Mar tinez + Cutr i, the architectur al fir m r esponsible for the design and constr uction of the campus, said in the r elease.

Accor ding to the r elease, this fall the campus will ser vice mor e than 7000 students and up as many as 10,000 students for the spr ing semester.

For mor e infor mation on the newly opened campus, including a list of classes, visit the Continuing Education website at www.sdce.edu.

to descr ibe a book they ar e r eading for class and all that student can come up with is the novel was Continuedfrompage4 ?on fleek.?

However, ther e ar e things that have taken the This is what the Amer i- nation by stor m in a posican cultur e has come to. tive way but ar e not being Cr eating wor ds that can?t r ecognized as they should be consider ed wor ds or be. have a r eal definition to Accor ding to expr ess what someone is fox5sandiego.com, a man, feeling.

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a war ning for the headlight and sent on his way.

He descr ibed the police officer s as being r espectful.

Ther e have been many accounts of police br utality over the past year, and Hildr eth?s stor y has br ought another per spective.

I s it enough to overpower the ?Hotline Bling? video or pr event those fr om saying ?on fleek??

I t?s up to the r est of society to decide what can r eally be consider ed wor thy of becoming vir al.

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Visual and Per for ming Ar ts Depar tment Co-Chair Alicia Rincon affir med that in her 30 year s at City College she has never faced a similar situation befor e while Renee Kilmer, inter im vice pr esident of instr uction, r efuted that declar ing it was an ongoing issue that nobody r eally paid attention to until it was unsustainable for the college to keep those classes open.

I wanted to make a class cancellation comparison between fall 2015 and pr evious year s, so I emailed the vice pr esident of instr uction fr om City College, but I found some obstacles.

Kilmer answer ed my email saying it will take some time to gather this infor mation as if we wer e living in a pr e- digital er a.

Finally, she pr ovided us with the data for fall 2015 and it came down to the r idiculous quantity of 41 low enr ollment classes being cancelled.

For ty-one? Would teacher s have been so outr aged for just 41 classes? I don?t think so. I went back to our online schedule and found mor e than 130 cancelled classes, but since it didn't say why those wer e cancelled, I moved up on the

Instructor Continuedfrompage7 Or iginally known as str eet dance, the for m was fr owned upon and not accepted, even though many dance moves wer e seen in music videos on TV. This led Wilson to cr eate her own dance team the Ebony Elite Dancer s.

The team was known for its outlandish Vegas- like costumes and unique dance moves. Fr om the success of shows perfor med in var ious cities at conventions and events gave Wilson an oppor tunity to teach dance and become the cheer coach at City College. ?One of the football coaches at the time at City saw one of the shows,?

Wilson said. ?He contacted me and they had decided

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chain of command and emailed Stephanie Bulger, the vice chancellor of instr uctional ser vices and planning, the same question. She dir ected me to their public r elations dir ector : Jack Ber esfor d.

Ber esfor d?s answer was dr y and simple. City College didn?t have any r ecor ds of cancelled classes for low enr ollment fr om this semester nor for pr evious year s. Really? No data? Why? And how did Kilmer come up with the magical number of 41 if that data doesn?t even exist? I s it because it?s a natur al number and we nonmathematicians wouldn?t find out?

Between even and odd number s, the only r eality is that ther e is something fishy in this situation and the big loser s ar e students and teacher s who ar e suffer ing the consequences of the cancelled classes.

Without the r equir ed classes, students ar e for ced to extend their time in college, change their major s or move fur ther distances, affecting their fr ugal budgets and their expectations of getting a better job.

Adjunct teacher s ar e facing unemployment or loss of health insur ance while the r est of the faculty ar e teaching classes they ar e not fully pr epar ed for or dealing with the pr essur e of having 35 students.

The administr ation took the Knights out and

slashed low enr ollment classes. This is going against class diver sity, and a better quality for Continuedfrompage1 education.

This system is emphasizing that some classes for students to shar e with ar e mor e valuable than other s in need.

McGinnis said that ?stuother s. I t is also contr adicting the mission state- dents can't lear n if they're ment of this institution, hungr y? and that's why she ?San Diego City College become closely involved has at its highest pr ior ity student lear ning and achievement.? But who car es? Sometimes you have to sacr ifice your pr inciples. L et?s face it.

Continuedfrompage6 They need extr a bucks, although the distr ict is dealing with abundance.

Jonny, so distr aught the notsoPublic education is be- about coming a for-pr ofit factor y ever lasting love with Tofbusiness. Taking students fee coming to an end, was in and out as soon as pos- doused in chemical waste sible, so they can leave fr om a nuclear plant. His their seats to new, r aw body was dumped uncer emater ials to star t all over moniously into the ocean again with their assembly and fr om his water y gr ave, he hear d the voice of the line. one r esponsible for his Pushing students into a ending. That is wher e all cookie cutter for major s the pr oblems for Toffee and vocational plans that and Jonny tr uly began. have quantifiable pr ofit Nelson Monr oig plays without taking in consid- Eddie, who he r efer s to er ation that excess supply asa a ?sleazy but char ming cheapens salar ies and in- news r epor ter,? who jumps cr eases unemployment. at the chance for headline br eaking news of a zombie This view sounds ter r iwanting to go back and bly congr uent with the idea of standar dized colleges and unpr epar ed tr ansfer students to fouryear univer sities. This concept is and will be a bur den for the under pr iviContinuedfrompage6 leged. I t scr eams: Sor r y!

You have a limited pass for higher education. Enjoy it over ther e, so that cur ioswhile it lasts! ity I had when I was a kid

they wanted a cheer team for City College.?

I t was then Wilson began to teach cheer and aer obic dance at City. She incor por ated hip hop into her chor eogr aphy and taught countless students moves they desir ed to lear n but wer e unable to in the past. Although hip hop wasn't a selective class when Wilson fir st ar r ived at City, it was later intr oduced after many year s.

Befor e Coach Alan River a became an instr uctor for the Health and Exer cise Science depar tment teaching health studies, kickboxing and dance, he was one of Wilson's students. He also details she guided him to his car eer in fitness. ?She basically caught me at the beginning of my academic car eer and was one of the mentor s that guided me to wher e I ?m at today pr ofessionally and academically,? River a said.

car r ied on until I got older,? Bianchini said.

Bianchini had to go thr ough difficult times in his life in or der to pur sue his dr eam of tr aveling ar ound the wor ld on his bicycle, but he said ?passion is what has always dr iven me going for war d, even in the har dest times of mi life.?

After gr aduating fr om the Univer sity of Souther n Califor nia and ear ning a Best Business Plan Awar d fr om entr epr eneur pr ogr am in 1995, Bianchini was feeling incomplete.

His passion for tr aveling and cycling was still on his mind so he tr ied to make money as fast as possible. ?I just wanted to r ide my bike ar ound the wor ld and tr avel. I didn't car e for nothing else,? Bianchini said.

Bianchini?s idea of make fast money was to use cr edit car ds, loans and anything he could in or der to pur sue his dr eam at any cost, unfor tunately that

?I was ther e. Ever y semester I was at City I made sur e I had at least one of her dance classes in ther e. And fr om ther e I became now, not only a dance instr uctor, but a pr ofessional dancer as well. And I could not say I would be that if it wasn?t for that star ting point in her class.?

Fall 2015 semester will be Wilson's last semester teaching as she wr aps up and gets r eady for r etir ement.

Dean Randy Bar nes of H ealth and E xer cise Science r aved about her impact at City and how she will be missed: ?? She?s r eally been a positive impact, ver y vibr ant and always upbeat. Ther e?s the other dance pr ogr am on campus and hopefully they?ll pick up wher e Ruby left off. I t won?t be quite the same, a little bit quieter without her ar ound.?

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with City College?s food pantr y. She added that the food pantr y has become a great food resource for many students who don't eat before coming to class because they either forgot or cannot afford it.

McGinnis pr eviously wor ked as City College's athletics dir ector and this is a concept she has car-

r ied on fr om her time in that r ole. Pr eviously, she explained, it was a way to help students in need and show the athletes pr esence on campus.

Now, as a teacher, she decided to bring this project back to life and instated it in all of her classes. ?I 'm going to keep on going,? she said.

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gr aduate high school.

Jonny met sever al obstacles as he tr ied to win back Toffee and hoped to be given the chance to attend school with his still living classmates.

Miss Str ict was the number one obstacle in hopes of Jonny being able to go back to school, but with the help of Eddie and the r est of Enr ico Fer mi High, Miss Str ict was won over.

Even though it was a mor bid situation ther e wer e moments of comedic r elief involved while dealing with the cor pse. Pr om, one of the most impor tant events for the high school, was thr eatened to be cancelled if the zombie decided to attend.

Many elements contributed to this production

being a success. The sultr y and cool sound of the guitar and the rest of the musical ensemble brought life to the music underscored in the production. The chemistr y between the main characters went beyond the unmistakably green paint on Lugo?s face to keep in character as a zombie.

Eddie and Miss Str ict had a few musical number s that kept the audience?s attention and added spice to their alr eady sizzling chemistr y. The ensemble kept the scenes tight and clean leaving no space of the stage open to awkwar d spacing. I t was a well put together pr oduction over all. ?Zombie Prom? will have showings ever y Friday, Saturday and Sunday until Nov. 15. Tickets are $10.

Bike

ended up in bankr uptcy at the age of 28. But that was not it, he also ended up losing money, fr iendships, health and love.

Bianchini?s passion for tr aveling was so big that nothing could stop him and even his best fr iend Ger ar d joined his adventur e. They star ted to look

agr eed to sponsor them because they shar ed the passion of biking. Almost thr ee year s later and content with saving money and getting ever ything together, the jour ney began.

Japan was the fir st countr y they tr aveled thr ough. Ther e was no stopping their adventur e; even though neither knew the Japanese language nor anything about the countr y, that was not going to be a r eason to stop their adventur e. So Bianchini and his fr iend star ted to use ?thumbs up, smiling and pointing to the back of the seat.?

That?s how they jour ney began; fr om Japan to Afr ica, South Afr ica to Mor occo, I taly to Por tugal and Br azil to the U.S. Dur ing the cour se of their tr avels, Bianchini not only met new people and made valuable fr iendships, he also met the love of his life and made a family.

Bianchini is now doing a family book tour ar ound 30 states in the U.S. with a final r ide with his family pr omoting the book.

?I just wanted to ride my bike around the world and travel. I didn?t care for nothing else.?

JamieBianchini, author of ?A Bicycle Build for TwoBillion: OneMan?sAround theWorld Adventure in Search of Love, Compassion and Connection? for sponsor s, even when ever yone thought they wer e cr azy and wer e shutting door s in their faces, they never stopped.

I t wasn?t until they found someone at the biggest bike convention show in L as Vegas, who

To lear n mor e about Bianchini?s jour ney ar ound the wor ld visit abicycle builtfor twobillion.com .

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Community Continuedfrompage7 managing editor of City Wor ks, she cur ates each book to showcase exper imental for m, pr ogr essive politics and new voices.

Mayhew publishes fiction, poetr y, nonfiction and academic wr iting fr om both veter an author s and also unpublished wr iter s.

Mayhew herself is no stranger to authorship. City Works has published a couple of Mayhew?s own books, but even with writing she prefers a communal experience. She co- authored two books with Miller and co-edited a collection of fiction, poetr y and essays on parenting with Alys Masek.

While Mayhew likes writing, she prefers the communal process of editing and actually putting other people?s books ?out in the world.? She enjoys finding ISBNs, communicating with printing companies, and going over final drafts

Court Continuedfrompage12 55- 45. Slowly, the Knights wer e pulling away and the Owls took a timeout with only seven minutes left.

The Owls switched up their defense and began tr apping the ball in an attempt to get the Knights to tur n the ball over, but by then it was too late. Jor dan

? the aspects of publishing that lie beyond the text itself. As Miller puts it, Kelly is really good at ?r unning the nuts and bolts stuff that we need to do to actually have a press.?

Mayhew teaches English, humanities and gender studies at City College, and she is an activist in the pr ogr essive community in San Diego. ?I ?m an English teacher ; that?s mostly what I do,? she says. Mayhew dons a pur ple bandana and a matching pur ple shir t. The watch on her left wr ist is equally color ful, and she smiles wide as she speaks.

She holds two degr ees in English and a doctor ate in Amer ican Cultur e Studies, but r ather than focus on her self, she deflects and focuses instead on City College as a cr ossr oads of differ ent ethnicities and students in challenging socioeconomic positions.

Honor ing the local community of people who document their exper iences and challenge the status quo is the dr iving for ce in

Mayhew?s wor k with City Wor ks Pr ess. ?I see books as par t of a cultur e, not as things that stand outside of a cultur e,? she says. For Mayhew, ever ything is par t of a community and nothing stands alone ? including her self.

City Wor ks held its 10th anniver sar y celebr ation on Oct. 16 at the packed Glashaus Galler y in Bar r io L ogan wher e they sold hundr eds of copies of their newest r elease, ?Sunshine/Noir I I .? The whole point of the event was ?not about Kelly or me but about the community surr ounding the pr ess,? Miller said, echoing Mayhew?s emphasis on community. ?City Wor ks Pr ess is a collective communitybased effor t r epr esenting the San Diego that doesn?t always get r epr esented ? the communities that City College r epr esents. And Kelly is a r emar kably smar t, competent, and car ing teacher and pr ofessional who r eally helps br ing our effor t together,?

Miller said.

McNellys on the Owls committed a flagr ant foul on Spencer Mattox, who was able to sink both fr ee thr ows, br inging the scor e to 76- 63. The game ended with the Knights beating the Owls 80-65. ?This gr oup is br and new,? Char lens noted. ?I knew they had to do it.?

I n r egar ds to having an almost br and new team compar ed to last year, the Knights? goal is keeping that team chemistr y going

and wor king together. ?We?r e coming together as a unit, to do that tonight means a lot,? Knights sophomor e Taylor Nelson said.

Fr eshman center L eonar d Allen r eally stepped up to the plate, leading the Knights with a double- double having 20 points and 10 r ebounds for the night.

Sophomor e guar d Mattox also added 16 points and was 8- 12 fr om the fr ee thr ow line.

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spect, a naĂŻve attempt as it put him in the middle of the political debate of the er a.

Continuedfrompage7 Though the Catholic pr iests had m ade the him and many times stu- Aztec cultur e sound like a dents who have not r eally m ilitar ized, nonsexual been able to under stand entity in their m istr ansthe connection between lated texts, D avalos theor y and pr actice ? found thr ough his r ewhat is it that we do after sear ch that Aztec sexualyou do all this lear ning, ity was a lot differ ent in what ar e we going to do r eality. with it? He r eally br idges ?I was r eally impr essed, that gap for them and actually at how complex helps them to br idge that the issue of sexuality gap, to find something could be in ter ms of the that they ar e passionate constr uction of the perabout and then for them sonality and the constr ucto be able to then to go tion of the cultur e,? Davaout seek something or get los said. ?Sexuality was involved in something consider ed like a major that they find r eally value, one of the major enexciting.? r iching exper iences in life, Having attended the and the people have a lot Univer sidad Nacional of differ ent ways to exAutĂłnoma de MĂŠxico (Na- pr ess their er oticism both tional Autonomous Uni- in r eligious and sacr ed ver sity of Mexico) for both fields, but also in their his under gr aduate and daily life.? gr aduate studies, he r eDavalos star ted wor kceived his bachelor ?s de- ing at City College in the gr ee in sociology and Humanities depar tment in master ?s degr ee in the 2000, but began wor king in histor y of Mexico. the Chicano Studies deHe then went on to par tment when a position teach at UNAM for 10 opened in 2006. year s befor e moving to Salinas, a pr ofessor in teach near the Mexican the English and Chicano and U.S. bor der.

Studies depar tments who ?Whatever I am, in has wor ked at City College ter ms of intellectually and since 1984, has wor ked education, I am a child of with Davalos since he this univer sity,? Davalos joined the college. said. ?Also, I was a pr ofesShe said that she has sor for 10 year s in the ?gr own as a pr ofessor and same univer sity befor e as a human being? by moving to the bor der and lear ning fr om him to be now her e at City thr oughout their time College.? wor king together, and that Davalos wr ote his the- a lot of that lear ning is due sis on Aztec sexuality, to his compassionate nachoosing the subject be- tur e as a teacher. cause he was ?disap?What he tr ies to do ? pointed in political activi- and does do ? is he huties? at the time and manizes the classr oom, he wanted to study some- speaks in a r eally compasthing that was ?ver y per- sionate tone, and he alsonal, not political.? lows the students to voice H e believes that focus- their opinions ? he gives ing his thesis on Aztec them that space,? Salinas sexuality in or der to avoid said. politics was, in r etr oChicano Studies major

Theory

Elizabeth Robles, who is cur r ently taking Chicano 150: Histor y of Mexico and Chicano 141B: U.S. Histor y fr om a Chicano Perspective with Davalos, was so inspir ed after taking her fir st class with him that she changed her major. ?L ast semester I changed my major fr om Administr ation of Justice to Chicano Studies,? Robles said. ?My fr iend r ecommended me Pr ofessor Davalos last semester, so I decided to take his class and it r eally feel like that class is r eally power ful and I actually r eally lear ned a lot about my cultur e,? Robles continued. ?So, I decided I wanted to change my major and actually I ?m looking for war d to (being) a pr ofessor one day and to actually teach in a college.?

As par t of his holistic teaching method to help students to become involved with social movements and to see the side of the issues that ar en?t in mainstr eam news sour ces.

Davalos ar r anges field tr ips to indigenous lands and maquilador as. ?We or ganize field tr ips so students can lear n about the human cost and social cost of the industr ial development without planning and without any kind of pr otection for the envir onment and for wor ker s in Tijuana,?

Davalos said.

I n the futur e, Davalos said, he hopes to continue to see the Chicana and Chicano studies pr ogr am develop and gr ow to include classes with a str onger emphasis on gender issues, ar t and bor der issues.

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MarcoAnzures, thenewcoachfor thewomen?scrosscounrty team, warmsupwithsecond-recesskidsbeforetheDirt Doggies2KWatermelonRunonOct. 3 at Morley Field. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

?Patience, positivity and perseverance?

NativeSan Diegan and former UCLA athleteMarcoAnzureslacesuphisrunningshoesasthenewest coach for San DiegoCity College?sathleticdepartment for thewomen?scrosscountry teamthissemester

By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times Mar co Anzur es is a San Diegan who?s had a successful car eer as an athlete and young coach and he now is the new Knights women?s cr oss countr y coach.

Anzur es has held the position since the summer and says his coaching philosophy is based on thr ee Ps: patience, positivity and per sever ance. ?Running takes a long time to get good at at,? he says and his main goal r ight now is to cr eate a team atmospher e and build his athletes? r esistance and confidence.

Anzur es got involved in cr oss countr y in high school to get faster and r eady to play soccer. He for got about his soccer ambition and continued on with cr oss countr y when he found out he had potential for it. ?I was pr etty good at it,?

Anzur es affir med.

His coach told him if he continued r unning Anzur es would be able to go to college and r un and ?that was the big dr aw.?

He was accepted to the Univer sity of Califor nia, L os Angeles, wher e he got a par tial scholar ship and r eceived bachelor ?s degr ee in histor y while r unning tr ack and field and cr oss countr y for the UCL A Br uins.

When he was a fr eshman his team qualified to the nationals cr oss countr y meet for the fir st time in 25 year s and they went to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Championship. He qualified on teams one mor e time and qualified individually dur ing his senior year.

On tr ack and field he made it to the top 10 placing sixth in the NCAA Pr eliminar y Round for the 10,000 meter s (6.2 miles).

Anzur es is also on the top

five for 10,000 meter s tr ack and field at his for mer univer sity, ?I was fifth and still fifth all times (at UCL A). I r un 29 minutes flat.?

He is mar r ied to Natasha L aBeaud, a mar athon athlete who is seeking to qualify for next year 's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeir o. They met at McMillan Elite and got marr ied in 2013 at his high school.

When he came back to San Diego, Anzur es suffer ed a back injur y and had to stop r unning pr ofessionally. ?I wanted to stay into r unning? he said and decided to do something he hadn't done befor e, coaching.

He star ted as assistant coach at Univer sity City High School and enjoyed it and kept doing it. ?Mar co is ver y committed to his athletes. He knows how to br ing gr oups together,? men?s cr oss countr y coach Peter Gr egor y said.

Anzur es was the head coach of cr oss countr y at Cer r itos Community College.

With them, the men?s team placed four th and women's fifth at the state championship and one men's team placed fir st in the 500 meter s. They ar e the best r esults combined in the college?s histor y since the pr ogr am star ted.

He also coaches his wife, who has competed in the Pan Amer ican Games and the Wor ld Cr oss Countr y Championships and has a mar athon time of 2 hour s and 35 minutes. ?Coach Mar co has good stand points on a lot of techniques and ways to get str onger and faster that I ?ve never been taught befor e or motivated to do,? sophomor e athlete Kelsey Engler said.

Anzur es built up the confidence and shape of his athletes dur ing his fir st season with the Knights. All of them r an their per sonal best time

dur ing the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence, though despite that they did not qualify for the Souther n Califor nia.

But this doesn?t wor r y him at all, Anzur es believes his athletes per for med better than ever befor e and knows he has to keep wor king har d. Dur ing their season, the women's cr oss countr y r unner s wer e able to r educe their time an aver age of 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

City College doesn?t have a tr ack and field team, a spr ing spor t, nor a facility on campus they can tr ain at and the Knights? cr oss countr y athletes ar e at a disadvantage against other colleges that have both.

To close this gap Anzur es is planning on cr eating a r unning club next spr ing, thr ough exer cise science classes, so his r unner s can tr ain all year ar ound and be mor e pr epar ed for their next season.

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By DENISEWHITE City Times The Har r y West Gymnasium was filled with cheer s on Nov. 4 as the men?s basketball team had their season opening game playing the No. 17 state r anked Citr us College Owls.

The 80-65 win over the Owls is hopefully the step in the r ight dir ection for the Knights?upcoming season with so many fr eshman on the team. ?They?r e a r eally good pr ogr am,? Knights Head Coach Mitch Char lens said, ?Opening up our season against them was a challenge ? I wasn?t sur e how r eady we?d be tonight.?

The game star ted off slow for the Knights as the Owls lead the beginning of the game. I t wasn?t until sophomor e Taylor Nelson took a quick shot at the 10:22 mar k that the Knights took their fir st lead 15- 13 over the Owls. The cr owd er upted with cheer s as the Knights kept their momentum, going on a 10-1 r un in two minutes.

The Knights wer e up 39-29 with thr ee minutes left in the fir st half but the Owls kept their composur e. Knights sophomor e Taylor Nelson attempted a har d layup but Owls sophomor e Mar k Williams stepped up and took a char ge. The Owls get the ball back and make a quick layup, with the Knights leading only by two, 41-39.

With seconds left in the fir st half, the Knights? Fr eshman Jahmer e Mitchell, boxes out on a missed shot, getting fouled and sinking both fr eethr ows, ending the fir st half 43-39.

The Knights kept their momentum going and scored the first six points of the second half, starting with freshman L eonard Allen making a quick pass to Alex Winbour n for a layup. On the next play down, Taylor Nelson took a hard drive to the basket, missing a layup but finishing the put back. Off an inbound pass, L eonard Allen made an allyoop dunk that really got the fans cheering on their feet.

The Knights wer e playing gr eat defense, putting the pr essur e on the Owls, making it difficult for them to scor e. The Owls wer e able to come within 10 points at the 13:17 mar k, making the scor e

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Ishmael Fernandezruns thePacific Coast Athletic ConferenceonOct. 30 at Southwestern College.

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AKnight shines in SoCal I shmael Fer nandez is the only cr oss countr y Knight athlete fr om men and women teams will r epr esent San Diego City College in the Souther n Califor nia Championship on Nov. 6.

The Knights teams r an the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence on Oct. 30 at Southwester n College.

Fer nandez fulfilled his coaches expectations and r an a per sonal best of 23 minutes and 12 seconds with a mile pace of 5 minutes and 48 seconds placing 22nd on the men's 4- mile r un and qualified to next r ound. ? Celia Jimenez

Untasteful tie for the Knights The San Diego City College Knights men?s basketball team started their season off with a bang beating the Citrus Owls, 80-65, on Nov. 4. The team performed like a cohesive unit on the court despite having eight freshmen players. The Knights recovered the ball quickly and stopped the Owls throughout the entire game andwerepointsaheadof theOwlsduringbothhalvesof thegame. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

The Knights and and the Southwester n Jaguar s tied again dur ing their 2015 fall season on Oct. 27 at DaVor e Stadium.

Knights dominated the fir st half and scor ed two goals while the Jaguar s dominated the second half which ended the game with the tied scor e 2-2. ? Celia Jimenez