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Paris attacks hit home Parisian born San DiegoCity Collegeprofessor PhilippePatto shareshisreactionsand thoughtson theNov. 13 Parisattacks

By ANGELICAWALLINGFORD City Times On the night of Nov. 13, one of the deadliest attacks on Fr ench soil since Wor ld War I I occur r ed in multiple locations acr oss Par is and Saint- Denis claiming mor e than 132 lives.

Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, San Diego City College pr ofessor Philippe Patto was in a par k with his husband walking their dog when he hear d the news that his hometown was under attack.

?My husband had the phone and he got beeped for an alar m,? Patto said. ?He checked and he told me the news and r ight away.?

Patto hear d fr om a fr iend in Fr ance via email about the situation but had poor r eception so he and his husband went back home. ?We had the headline and I was devastated when I hear d,?

Patto said. ?I didn?t know what was happening.?

The attacks star ted at appr oximately 9:20 p.m. Fr ench

time and lasted until 9:53 p.m.

The thr ee suicide bomber s detonated an explosive belts near a gate and on the outside of the Stade de Fr ance stadium dur ing an inter national soccer game, accor ding to Reuter s. A four th suicide bomber detonated another bomb in L e Comptoir Voltair e r estaur ant, killing himself and injur ing one per son.

I n the midst of the sever al suicide bomber s detonating

Agroup of peoplemakeacombination peacesign and Eiffel Tower at theHouseof Francein Balboa Park on Nov. 16 during a candlelight vigil for the victims of the attacks in Paris and See PARIS, page 7 Saint- Denisthat occurredonNov. 13. RICHARDVALENTINCorrespondent

Students gather for workshops at Student Summit

By RICARDOSOLTERO City Times

Knights?season heads down field

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Freshman forward Francisco Contreras (10) battles against Southwestern Jaguars (left to right) sophomore midfielder Rigoberto Maciel, freshman forward Edgar Garciaand freshman defender Jesus Holguin to get control of theball at theSan Diego City Collegesoccer field on Oct. 2 during one of the most physical games the team faced this season. The Knights moved a step forward and qualified for the SoCal Regional playoffs despite losing the last game of the season, 4-2, at home against the Cuyamaca Coyotes on Nov. 13. The teamended up placingthirdoverall inthePacific Coast Conference. See story on Page 8.

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The San Diego City College Office of Student Affair s held it thir d annual Student L eader ship Summit on Nov. 13.

The event focused on student leader ship, diversity, inclusion and social justice with wor kshops pr esented by UCSD?s Cr oss- Cultur al Center ?s Nancy Magpusao and the Social Justice Peer Educator s.

The leader ship summit featur ed keynote speaker Daniel Stacy, founder and CEO of Cir cles 4 Change, a pr ogr am that offer s a multidisciplinar y and integr ative appr oach to de-

veloping and suppor ting per sonal r esilience in affected youth.

Pr esent dur ing the summit wer e City College Pr esident Anthony Beebe and Vice Pr esident of Student Ser vices Denise Whisenhunt, who both offer ed wor ds of encour agement to the students in attendance. ?The people that ar e next to you at your seat ar e going on to do gr eat things,? Beebe said. ?The legacy of this college is in your hands, your legacy is in your hands.?

Whisenhunt highlighted the impor tance of the summit, citing it as a gr eat

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Celebratetheimportant things thisseasonrather thanthe?war onChristmas.?Voice, page6

After four yearsaway, songstress Adelereleasesoneof thebest albumsof 2015. Arts, page4

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CITYNOTES CALENDAR Tuesday, Dec. 8

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

Jazz L i ve 8 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e.

Saturday, Dec. 19

Friday, Dec. 11 Women?s B asket bal l vs. Taft SDCC Tour nament at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 15 Jazz L i ve 8 p.m. in the Saville Theatr e.

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

Act i ng Showcase- contempor ar y scenes and monologues per for med by students in the I nter mediate Acting class fr om 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Saville Theatr e.

Women Peacemaker s USD , Joan Kr oc I nst it ut e 11:15 a.m.-12:35 p.m. in MS 162 W. Vol l eyball at Southwester n 5 p.m E nd of t he semest er

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VOXPOPULI Voice of the People Questionby Heder Casas | Photosby CeliaJimenez

?Should theUnited Statescloseitsborders toSyrian refugees??

Dec. 21- Jan. 23 Wi nt er br eak

Dec. 23- Jan. 03 Campus closed for t he H olidays * Refer t o t he San D i ego Ci t y Col l ege At hl et i cs onl i ne cal endar for updat es r egar di ng t he var i ous spor t s t eams at sdci t y.edu/Campusl i fe/At hl et i cs.

?I believe they should not close the bor der because they need our space to come. I under stand ther e?s a pr ocess for ever ything but they ar e victims and they need a space wher e they can feel pr otected.?

Alejandr a Contr er as, 23, Molecular Biology

Thursday, Dec. 17 M en?s B asket bal l vs. L ATTC Saddleback Tour nament at 1 p.m.

?Yes, I think we should close the bor der because it?s too much of a high pr obability r isk. Allowing 10,000 r efugees will ultimately put in danger our countr y. I believe in fr eedom and equality but it?s too much of a r isk for the Amer ican people.?

Friday, Dec. 18 M en?s B asket bal l vs. TBD Saddleback Tour nament. Time is to be deter mined.*

Spencer Bingham, 19, Music

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?No, in today?s society we can do backgr ound checks to Syr ian r efugees or any other people pr oper ly to see if they ar e not involved with I SI S, ter r or ism or anything like that. And I don?t think the Congr ess has nothing to say about this because r efugees come in as a feder al issue not a state issue.?

Dan Beaupr e, 54, Alcohol and Other Dr ugs Studies

?I don?t think we should close the bor der. When you flee fr om your countr y when ther e?s war, you want to escape. I think it?s the most human thing to accept r efugees. L inking them to ter r or ist I think is stupid because it's like saying that all Mexicans ar e in dr ug car tels. I t?s just ster eotypes and r acism.?

David Contr er as, 25, Micr obiology

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City Times wins national ACPPacemaker award

By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times City Times and L egend, the newspaper and magazine of San Diego City College, wer e both r ecently r ecognized on national and local levels for excellence in news r epor ting and design.

L ar gely consider ed in the industr y to be the Pulitzer Pr ize of college jour nalism, City Times was the winner among six other publications for the 2015 Newspaper Pacemaker Awar d, under the two- year college newspaper entr ies.

The awar d was handed out on Oct. 31 at the Associated Collegiate Pr ess/College Media Association National College Media Convention.

The website, www.studentpr ess.or g, wher e the submissions ar e enter ed and the awar ds ar e listed, states: ?Ther e is categor y for each type of publication

? online, newspaper, yearbook and magazine.?

Nov. 14, City Times won a Newspaper Gener al Excellence awar d in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges Souther n Califor nia contest.

Oct. 27, at the 42nd Annual Excellence in Journalism Awar ds, City Times and L egend r eceived 14 awar ds fr om the San Diego Pr ess Club.

Both publication?s staff wer e awar ded with second place mentions for Best College Newspaper and Magazine r espectively. The 12 other awar ds went to var ious staff for layout design and a var iety of wr itten and photogr aphic wor k.

Dur ing the summer, City Times r eceived five awar ds at the Society of Pr ofessional Jour nalists annual awar ds banquet and two Blue Ribbon awar ds at the San Diego County Fair Student Showcase.

The fight continues Morethan 400 protesters chanting?What dowewant?Fifteen. When thewewant it?Now,?marched fromSan DiegoCity CollegetoCivic Center Plaza on Nov. 10 to demand fair wages and increase the minimumwage to $15. The march included students, teachers, janitors, homeworkers, fast food workers and sympathizers. During the protest, various workers shared their struggles about trying to make a livingwhilemakingunder $9.75 andtheneedfor higher wagesinorder tomakeanadequateliving. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

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City dancers hit the stage in ?City Moves?

By LAURENJ. MAPP City Times San Diego City College?s Visual and Perfor ming Ar ts Depar tment pr esented the fall dance concer t ?City Moves?

Dec. 4 and 5 at the Saville Theatr e.

Visual and Per for ming Ar ts Depar tment cochair and dance concer t dir ector, Alicia Rincon, said the show was compr ised of seven studentchor eogr aphed pieces and four staffchor eogr aphed pieces in the dance genr es of hip hop, ballet, moder n, salsa and jazz. I n pr epar ation for the show, Rincon helped to clean up the chor eogr aphy and design costumes, along with costuming assistant and stage manager Rose Bar r io.

Dance major Pr iscilla Valencia chor eogr aphed a piece called ?The But-

San DiegoCity Collegestudents perform?Mandala,?thefirst performancefromthesecond act of the?City Moves?danceconcert, duringtheir final dress rehearsal at Saville Theatre on Dec. 4. The fall concert has a variety of performances that involve different styles of dance such as salsa, hiphop, modernandcontemporary. Coverage online: www.sdcitytimes.com/ ?p=4004797. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

ter fly Effect? to a compilation of music by Emancipator and Flux Pavilion.

The 23- year- old dancer said her piece was inspir ed by butter flies and she used them as symbols for the way that human life pr ogr esses in her dance. ?My inspir ation was embr acing life, changes, embr ace who you ar e,?

Valencia said. ?I see the butter fly as a metaphor ic way of seeing our selves and tr ansfor ming ourselves and our lives.?

Fer nando Ruiz, a 19year- old dance major at City College, per for med in sever al pieces in the show, including a piece that he chor eogr aphed to L ana Del Rey?s ?Young and Beautiful.? ?I t?s pr etty much about what we think is beautiful and what we want to achieve when ever yone?s is beautiful in their own way,? Ruiz said.

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Adele gives a very welcome ?hello? with newest album Four year s is a long To say that ?25? was time, especially within the one of the most anticiwor ld of music. Most pated albums to ever be ar tists ar e lucky for their r eleased is an under statename to even be r emem- ment. We had ar tists such ber ed after such a long pe- as Sam Smith being called r iod away fr om the mic. the ?male Adele,? but it Ther e?s was like only a listening handful of to a stor e ar tists br and that can knockoff Angelica Wallingford have the ver sion of wor ld on the r eal its knees begging for new thing. When the Br itish mater ial. L uckily for us, songstr ess finally r eleased Adele decided to head to the music video for her the r ecor ding studio, dust lead single ?Hello? on off the mic and dr op what YouTube it r acked up milis hands down the best al- lions upon millions of bum of 2015. views in a matter of 24

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Adeleontheset of themusic videofor her leadsingle?Hello?inQuebec inSeptember. SHAYNELAVERDIEREAdele official website hour s and ?25? became the fir st album to sell two million copies in just two weeks.

Adele is one of those ar tists whose songs can r each the depths of your emotions, invoke a whir lwind of feelings and move

you to tear s. The songs on ?25? ar e no exception. The entir e album is a flows seamlessly fr om one song to the next with each tr ack having Adele?s soulful and r aw signatur e sound.

Star ting the album off is the lead single ?Hello.?

The tr ack is classic Adele ? a soulful ballad about a past r elationship. The song star ts off fair ly slow with just Adele?s voice and a piano, then gr adually builds up to a beautiful gr and wall of layer ed vocals and instr umentals.

The song is all about r evisiting the ghosts of a past r elationship and taking r esponsibility for things that might have happened in said r elationship, which is something

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Surroundedby protestersandcampaignsupportersfromtheSanDiegoSocialist Campaign, SandraGalindo(center) speaksat arentersrightsrally onSept. 21inCity Heights. Official Facebook photo

Galindo fights for City Heights two weeks.

Despite her academic accomplishments, her str uggles ar e still too r eal.

Or iginally bor n in Ensenada, Baja Califor nia, Mexico, the 49- year- old San Diego City College alumna has been wor king two or thr ee jobs at a time to stay afloat for year s. ?I ?m for tunate to have documents,? Galindo said. ?I ?m a single mother who r eceives welfar e assistance and I haven?t been employed full- time in year s.?

She is far fr om your typical candidate r unning for office, but Galindo is r unning for the San Diego City Council next year for Distr ict 9, with the suppor t of the San Diego Socialist

Campaign (SDSC). ?The campaign consists of or ganizer s and activists who ar e fighting for immediate change and will continue to or ganize ar ound movements and social justice issues once we get Sandr a into office,? said Rafael Bautista, a founding member of the SDSC. ?As socialists, we know that we can only win if we fight back against the inter ests that ar e cor r upting our city gover nment.?

Bautista, also a for mer City College student fr om 2002 to 2006, stated that despite their or ganization not having political or corpor ate ties, their campaign is alr eady making a difference, eight months pr ior to the election. ?We don?t get money fr om any cor por ations; we get donations fr om people who want our voices out, and it is little compar ed to what the other candidates

ar e getting,? Galindo said. ?We will wor k with what we have and at least we ar e cover ed by the media.?

On Sept. 22, the San Diego Reader cover ed Galindo?s advocacy, when she lead a gr oup of pr otester s to the fr ont door of a slumlor d.

I n the ar ticle, Galindo was br inging to light the hor r id living conditions of a cockr oach-infested pr oper ty wher e the landlor d was not addr essing the cr isis. ?That is why I am r unning for city council, at the end, Democr ats and Republicans r epr esent corpor ations and people in high positions,? Galindo said. ?What I ?m r epr esenting is ?the per son that is str uggling to pay the r ent.??

On her website, Galindo says she is fighting for safe, accessible and affor dable housing for all;

$15 minimum wage; equal r ights for immigr ants families; police accountability and cr iminal justice r efor m; and a plan for a healthy, gr een San Diego. ?Ther e ar e mor e than 100,000 people who ar e waiting for affor dable housing and I ?ve been waiting for 10 year s,?

Galindo said. ?80 per cent of the people living her e (in City Heights) ar e ear ning less than $12 an hour and only 20 per cent live well. Many of them need two or thr ee jobs to make it. I ?m r epr esenting the people that feel alone, the ones that feel no hope.?

When asked about her inspir ation, Galindo r efer r ed to the people like her self who have been thr ough the system and those who do not have that choice. ?Ever ything that I do is for these par ents with no voice, no documents. They

to venting about exes in songs in pr evious albums but going down the Taylor Swift r oad isn?t her style, she?s classier than that.

Adele takes the high r oad while still sticking it to her ex singing that he should tr eat his new lover better and to ?let go of all of our ghosts, you know we ain?t kids no mor e.? Never has ther e been a mor e cr eative way to say ?scr ew you? to an ex. ?Million Years Ago? is a stripped down track with just Adele?s powerful low vocals and a guitar. The song is a raw and emotional

retrospective about facing the realities of life and realizing that life sometimes isn?t a ?party to be thrown.?

The thir d tr ack ?I Miss You? explor es Adele?s sexier side, something that most listener s pr obably ar en?t use to. The sensual way she sings combined with the soul and R&B influenced dr um and bass tr acks makes for a downr ight sexy song.

The final track ?Sweetest Devotion? the perfect closer and explores a side of Adele that hasn?t been explored on her previous albums ? motherhood.

?Sweetest Devotion? is such a happy and uplifting track where Adele sweetly professes her love and devotion to her three year old son. It?s a song that is guaranteed to bring you to tears. After all, it wouldn?t be an Adele album unless there were songs that reduce you to a bawling mess.

All in all, ?25? isn?t just some album full of br eakup ballads that Adele is famous for. I t?s much mor e than that. ?25? will go down in histor y as a moder n classic.

Adele isn?t the typical pop ar tist with subpar vo-

cal r ange that r elies of other songwr iter s. I n fact, she?s far fr om that ster eotype. Adele has the amazing ability to convey the widest r ange of emotions just with her voice. Her lyr ics and the way she phr ases things can invoke nostalgic feelings that listener s haven?t felt in a long time or r efused to feel at all for whatever r eason.

Ther e ar en?t many ar tists that can do that, and ther e?s not many that ever will.

So, you can go home now Sam Smith, the queen has r etur ned.

City Collegealumna Sandra Galindorunsfor City Council

By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times Sandr a Galindo is fir ed up, and taking her issues str aight to the top.

Galindo, the bilingual mother of thr ee daughter s, is a pr oduct of the academia at San Diego City College, r eceiving an associate of ar ts degr ee with honor s in Chicano studies and language ar ts and wr ote for the campus newspaper.

She then continued her studies to r eceive her bachelor of ar ts in human ser vices at Spr ingfield College and is cur r ently wr apping up her master ?s degr ee by dr iving up to the Spr ingfield campus in the city of Or ange ever y

Adele Continuedfrompage4 ever yone can r elate to. ?Hello? has also spawned var ious memes and spoofs acr oss social media websites due to a cer tain ?80s tune but sor r y L ionel Richie, this ?Hello? is the better song.

At fir st glance the title ?Send My L ove (to Your New L over )? r eads like a catty Taylor Swift- ish r esponse to a r andom ex.

Now, Adele isn?t a str anger

ar e unpr otected so those people ar e my inspir ation, including other ethnicities that live her e in fear,? she said.

Galindo wishes City Heights could be a sanctuar y for undocumented r esidents, but notices the change that is happening in the neighbor hood, particular ly the beautification via ar tistic installations to attr act big investor s. ?I nstead of br inging in affor dable housing, they ar e br inging in businesses,? Galindo said as she pointed to some of the spots by the 805 and 15 fr eeways on El Cajon Boulevar d. ?We need to stop stigmatizing undocumented people because the jobs that they ar e doing ar e the r eason why the United States is so beautiful. We ar e the ones making this a fir st wor ld countr y, but they ar e tr eating us like thir d wor ld people.?

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CITYVOICE Stop Muslimprejudice Immediately after news broke that the suspects behind the shootings that killed 14 and injured 21 others in San Ber nardino on Dec. 2 were a mar ried couple of Pakistani background with ties to Muslim faith, organizations that represent Muslims around the countr y reacted quickly. They released statements reinforcing that ter rorism has no religion and condemning the violence that was perpetuated. In San Diego, the Muslim L eadership Council of San Diego and the Islamic Center of San Diego were two of the organizations that shared their condolences.

But apparently these statements have not been enough. According to the New York Times, Muslims and leaders or mosques across the countr y are reporting that they are experiencing death threats, assaults and vandalism unlike anything they have experienced since following the ter rorist attacks of 9/11. Muslims have been tur ned into scapegoats and the media has done nothing but perpetuate these hateful ideas, ensuring a rabid and fear ful countr y. Just last month, a Muslim student at San Diego State University was attacked on campus by an unknown, white, male student who reportedly pushed the female student in a parking lot that was on campus and pulled off her hijab, or head scar f, all while making threats based on her ethnicity.

In an article titled ?Yes, I follow Islam, but I am not a ter rorist,?

City TimesEditorial Board writer Nada El Sawy says, ?If few people understand that Islam is a peaceful religion, even fewer know how beautiful it can be. The tr uth is fanaticism can spring from misguided excess in any religion, and Muslims who kill in the name of their beliefs are not tr ue Muslims. Aggression is not a tenet of our religion, but rather something that is condemned except in self-defense.? L est anyone forget that ter rorist and extremist militant groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and L evant (ISIL or ISIS) have actually killed more Muslims, even though what gar ners attention in the media is only when it happens to Wester ners.

The group?s killings of Muslims has nothing to do with Islam, but ever ything to do with power. It has nothing to do with Islam versus the West, because ISIS does not reflect the religion at all. To look at it from that direction certainly changes things when you realize there is more that unites all of us in a common thread than separates us.

When an event like Sandy Hook happens or the recent shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs occurs, both perpetuated by white, male suspects, or when murders or hate crimes are committed by suspects who call themselves Christians, we never react by calling them ter rorists even when their crimes are so obviously acts of ter rorism. Do you ever look at a derogator y sign held by the Westboro Baptist Church, an organization that pickets the funerals of dead soldiers and proclaims things like ?God Hates Fags,? as an accurate representation of Christians? No. And the same generalizations should not be made for these pockets of violence; they do not accurately represent Islam or Muslims.

To react with hate, paranoia and by treating each other as different is exactly what these ter rorist groups want and will mean they won.

The key now is not to react with ignorance or exploit our fear and hysteria as an excuse to objectify Muslims, but to use these violent events as ways to to lear n. After all, Martin Luther King Jr. once profoundly said, ?Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.?

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The Internet that stole Christmas Ear lier this month, Joshua Feuer stein called out Starbucks in a video that went vir al, claiming that the company was waging a war against Chr istmas. Feuer stein goes on to say that the company?s choice of using the plain twotone r ed cup this season was a Star bucks campaign against the holiday.

What comes to my mind is Tina Fey?s r ecent comment when she her self got caught in contr over sy. ?I don?t wor r y about what the I nter net says. Getting in tr ouble with the I nter net is not r eal. The I nter net is not a for ce you have to obey,? Fey said in an inter view for The Advocate.

We should be wear y of these anger tr ends on the I nter net.

Some may be har mless but it can get out of hand ver y quickly. I t star ted like a video r ant and it escalated to I nternet r age. Countless memes and ever ything in between. I t spar ked anger out of oblivious

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people. ?Star bucks r emoved Chr istmas fr om their cups because they hate Jesus,? Feuer stein said in his now infamous video. ?Do you r ealize that Starbucks wanted to take Chr ist and Chr istmas off of their

PERSPECTIVE RicardoSoltero br and new cups? That?s why they?r e just plain r ed,? Feuerstein continued.

Accor ding to Feuer stein, the fact that this plain-looking cup doesn?t have any snowmen, Chr istmas tr ees or snowflakes per say, means Star bucks is denouncing Chr istmas and Chr ist altogether.

L aughable, r ight?

Well if you have paid any attention to r ecent events, this isn?t the only situation wher e the ?appr opr iate? Chr istmas bells and whistles wer en?t up to

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people?s standar ds.

Then you have Bill O?Reilly?s now 10-year ?War On Chr istmas? which has found its fair shar e of suppor ter s.

Who would?ve believed that any of this would gain so much tr action and that conser vatives would get behind any of it?

The pr oblem her e is not people wanting their Chr istmas to look, smell and feel a cer tain way but the fact that they need any of it for their Chr istmas to feel like Chr istmas.

I t?s ver y silly for people to over r eact over Fr osty the Snowman or Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer ?s absence fr om pr omotional mater ials. To r ely on this consumer- based gimmickr y to r epr esent your Chr istmas is what is wr ong her e. What happened to the or iginal spir it of Chr istmas? I s it so water ed down that we r ely on a snowman or a snowflake

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gr ess swiftly passed a bill that suspended the admittance of both Syr ian and I r aqi r efugees into the U.S. and 31 gover nor s oppose accepting Syr ian r efugees into their states, accor ding to CNN. ?That is fear,? Patto said ?As long as we r eact out of fear we ar e not any different than the ter r or ists.? ?I think it?s wr ong for the gover nment to implement such dr astic measur es like that,? student Raul Flor es said about Congr ess? decision. ?You can?t place all the sins of the attacker s onto the r efugees, they can?t be condemned for what the attacker s did.?

I n contr ast to the U.S., Hollande said that Fr ance will accept mor e than 30,000 Syr ian r efugees within the next two year s.

Patto cites the outpouring of suppor t fr om all ar ound San Diego, such as the candlelight vigil at the House of Fr ance in Balboa Par k, as something that is much needed dur ing these situations for both the people of Fr ance and the Syr ian r efugees ?... We should never act out of fear, we should r eact out of love and tr y to under stand,? Patto commented. ?I say to my students ?ther e?s plenty of love in the wor ld,? it?s the thing we need r ight now, love not fear.?

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pus, as well as Got An Education Plan? which highlighted City College?s car eer planning ser vices and the r esour ces it pr ovides for students.

The Student L eader ship Summit was cr eated to pr ovide students with an oppor tunity to develop their skills leading and wor king in a diver se student or ganization while networ king with peer s acr oss campus.

For mor e infor mation on Student Affair s? events, visit Student Affair s Office in M-200.

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People may move on have felt the need to issue statements to tr y to validate but the thought r emains their reasons to the public for many. What happened for any of their choices. This to our wonder ful Chr istshines a light on another is- mas? Do we feel so thr eatsue, the fact that the Inter- ened that we have to suf-

focate other s with false symbolism and complain why the r est of our nonChr istian neighbor s ar e not being for ced to wish us a ?Mer r y Chr istmas??

Nobody is waging a war against Chr istmas. Enjoy this holiday season r emember what made your Chr istmas so gr eat in the fir st place. Facebook likes, r e- tweets and I nstagr am post be damned.

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KNIGHTLY BULLETIN BOARD Knights athletics semester review

The Knights faced the Cuyamaca Coyotes in their last game of the season, losing 4-2 at home, on Nov. 13. They ended the season placing third in the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference. Both teams played each other again in thefirst round of theSoCal Regional playoffs on Nov. 21at CuyamacaCollege, wheretheCoyotesdefeatedtheKnightsyet again, 2-1, movingintothesecondroundof theplayoffs. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times

Knights foul out of playoffs Men?ssoccer fallstoCuyamaca 2-1in first round of SoCal Regionals left midfielder Didier Hatungimana, r an with the Correspondent ball passed it to Fr ancisco The r ound 1 playoff game Contr er as which he passed of the Men?s SoCal Region- it back to Hatungimana als between the Cuyamaca away fr om the defense, and College Coyotes and San City had the lead.

Ever y ball caused a Diego City College Knights on Nov. 21 was a heavily br awl, whether outside of disputed game that saw the field or inside. At ever y Cuyamaca win in the last call fr om the r efer ee playminutes, 2- 1. The posses- er s fr om both teams ar gued sion of the ball, r efer ee?s with him to call on their calls and goals wer e fought side. The coaches wer e no exception as they themat ever y instant. ?Both sets of player s selves, especially Knights wer e r eally ner vous,? Coy- Head Coach Milton Hidalgo otes Head Coach Br ial would attempt to get the Hiatt- Aleu said. ?I t came r efer ee to call on his side.

As the fir st half was down to who was going to execute one extr a play and r eaching its end Cuyamaca that was the team that de- had the ball. They lobbed it over the defender s and the cided the game.?

The tone of the entir e ball was in the air. Two match was set since the heading passes fr om the fir st minute. The match Cuyamaca player s and the star ted with ever y team Knights? goalkeeper left his constantly str uggling to box and attempted to setake possession of the ball cur e it, but yet another and of the game. One team header fr om for war d, Diego would attack and the other Or nelas, over the goalteam would r apidly coun- keeper tied the game.

The game continued ter attack, and that?s how with intensity as it was a the fir st goal happened.

As Cuyamaca College ver y give and take match. was attempting to get the Such as when Cuyamaca?s ball in the city goal, Knights? midfielder L uis Bar ajas

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tackled City?s defending midfielder Cyr us Huxfor d and was punished with a yellow car d.

Such was the intensity that Pedro Carvantes, a mechanical engineering major student from San Diego State University, watched the game and shared, ?It was a scrappy game, but entertaining.?

The second half came about with mor e excitement and mor e aggr ession fr om both teams. The second half needed to be constantly stopped because of fouls fr om both side. Cuyamaca College r etur ned in this half adding mor e pr essur e with the r efer ee and ar guing at ever y call.

The aggr ession continued. Bar ajas and Huxfor d disputed another ball and once the ball landed on the floor, both player s tackled each other and thr ew some kicks at each other and not the ball, which saw them both kicked off the game.

Both coaches attempted to make up for the reduction of a man with more ferocity, as they both increased their fouls, and risky plays.

Cuyamaca was able to scor e towar d the end of the fir st half and wer e about to do the same deed at the last 10 minutes of the second half. I t was thr ough a thr ow in that Cuyamaca was able to r each the ball near the Knights? goal. The ball bounced on the box and I sahi Mor ales heads the ball to the left cor ner of the goalkeeper and scor ed.

Thr ow- ins wer e something that the Knights had attempted to fix. ?We wer e concer ned with the thr ow-ins, and unfor tunately the ball bounces the way it does, but hey, it?s what it is,? Hidalgo explained.

City College attempted to scor e in the last minutes and even pushed the entir e team for war d, but the disappointment of having been scor ed on kept them fr om scor ing one last goal. ?I know I felt like we could have won, we could have done a little bit mor e.

Over all it was a good game and I feel pr oud of my teammates,? r evealed Knights Captain Fr ancisco Contr er as.

Women?s soccer The Knights women?s soccer team str uggled in the beginning of the season with a small r oster of only 17 player s. As the season went on, sever al player s got injur ed, making the r emainder of the season ver y challenging. The team lost most of their games despite the player s? mindset and str ength gr owing over time.

Over all, the Knights won two games, lost 18, and tied one game all season.

They placed four th in the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer ence championship, down two places fr om the pr evious year. ? Celia Jimenez

Women?s volleyball The Knights women?s volleyball team had an up and down season. The team had inconsistencies in their way of playing. Sometimes they had gr eat communication and other times it seemed as if the player s wher e in each other ?s way and making costly mistakes.

They ended the season winning and losing 11 games, r espectively, as they did in their pr evious year. I n the PCAC confer ence, the team placed fifth as they did in 2014. ? Celia Jimenez