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?No one in my family went to college, so I ?m the fir st to go to college. That?s the other r eason that r eally pushes me, is that I wanna finish school and just help my family out.? Rosa Reynolds, 30, Biology
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?I ?ve been in school off and on but I decided to go back full-time a couple year s ago because I was in a r etail job that I didn?t enjoy and I just wanted to fur ther my education. Philosophy is something I r eally love and I think it?ll help my car eer choice because I want to be a life coach and I think that philosophy has a lot to do with how we live our lives.? Jennifer Bur ton, 28, Philosophy
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?I was in a car wr eck and so I can?t do what I was doing as an electr ician. Now I ?m disabled and so I figur ed I ?d come back to school. I haven?t decided what I ?m gonna lear n yet but I ?m taking the gener al ed classes now. I might get a degr ee. I ?m 62, I ?m only old when I look in the mir r or, you know? I might become a lawyer. I don?t know yet.? David Adams, 62, undecided
?I had a br ain sur ger y about eight year s ago and I for got all my languages. Befor e, I went to college and had a major in Mexico but I for got ever ything after my sur ger y. So that?s why I came back. My son is also her e and he?s autistic. I was going to come a year befor e but he needs help.?
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$27,100 for City College students A variety of scholarshipsaremadeavailabletoSan DiegoCity Collegestudentsthrough newapplication website By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times
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The Scholar ships Office at San Diego City College is cur r ently pr oviding students with $27,100 in funding for the spr ing semester. Applications wer e made available star ting on Nov. 9, and will continue thr ough Jan. 10. ?Additionally, the Scholar ships Office will be hosting wor kshops to pr ovide gener al scholar ship information and suppor t with the new online application site,? Oliver Mamangun, office of Student Affair s, admin technician for scholarships/student conduct, said in an email. ?Students ar e encour aged to join our subscr iption list to get the latest updates including wor kshop dates and scholar ship r esour ces. I nstr uctions on how to join can be found on our scholar ships page.? As of Thanksgiving, 49 scholar ships wer e listed. Some of the scholar ships r equir e a 4.0 Gr ade Point Aver age, like the ?Boar d of Tr ustees Scholar ship,? which is a $1500 awar d pr ovided by a local foundation and the San Diego Community College Distr ict Boar d of Tr ustees. This par ticular application states that ?Pr ior ity given to students with a back-
gr ound in Foster Car e.? Then ther e ar e other funding pr ogr ams that only have an eligibility of a 2.0 GPA or higher, like the ?Scholar ship for the Visually I mpair ed,? which was cr eated to help fund students with a medical ver ification of visual impair ment. The awar d is for $500 and the student must be enr olled in a minimum of six units for the fall and spr ing of the cur r ent academic year. The San Diego Gas & Electr ic L eader ship Awar d r equir es the student to be enr olled in 12 units for the fall and spr ing semester s r espectively, and must have completed a minimum of nine units exclusively at City College. The SDG&E pr ize is $400. Each scholar ship has a set of pr er equisites needed to be fulfilled and ther e is a wide gamut of fields that each pr ogr am is gear ed towar ds. I f an individual or a foundation is inter ested in star ting a new scholar ship plan for a City College student, inquir ies ar e welcomed at cityscholarships@sdccd.edu. I f a City College student is interested in applying for a scholar ship, most applications will be accepted until Jan. 10.
What?s in a name? Cbuildingbroadcast studiotobenamed for lateSan DiegoCity College professor HopeShawafter five-year battleover buildingnamingrights By PHOENIXWEBB City Times Per for ming Ar ts and Radio, Television and Film ar e two pr ogr ams scheduled to move into the newly r emodeled C building at San Diego City College on Jan. 5. L aur a Castañeda is the chairwoman of the Communications pr ogr am at San Diego City College. She has consistently pushed to have the C building named for late pr ofessor Hope Shaw. Castañeda spoke befor e the Boar d of Tr ustees r egar ding the issue in May. Not long ago, buildings, ballpar ks, stadiums and par ks wer e named for people. Then, somewher e along the line, cor por ations' names showed up on them.
Jack Mur phy Stadium became Qualcomm Stadium and when the baseball par k was built it was named for pet pr oducts r etailer Petco. Hope Shaw was an educator in r adio, television and film at City College for mor e than 30 year s until her death in Apr il 2005, accor ding to the Hope Shaw Communications Scholar ship Application. When Shaw died, an online petition to name the C building after Shaw was star ted, accor ding to Castañeda. Castañeda said that when faculty met to discuss plans for the r enovation of the C building sever al year s ago, they voted unanimously to name the building after Shaw.
Castañeda had discussed the faculty's desir e to the name the C building after Shaw with Ter r y Bur gess, then pr esident of City College. The discussion spar ked a fiveyear- long discussion between Castañeda, the RTVF faculty, two City College pr esidents and San Diego Community College Distr ict Chancellor Constance Carr oll. The discussion was about naming r ights cr iter ia. I n one final plea for Hope Shaw's name to be on the C building, Castañeda addr essed the San Diego Community College Distr ict Boar d of Tr ustees at their May 14 meeting. Castañeda spoke to the boar d member s pr esent
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Newclub hits the campus TheNational Association of HispanicJournalistsbecomes a student groupafter twoyears By HEDERCASAS City Times Next year is looking good so far ; a new semester, new facilities to inaugur ate and a new student club. Even though San Diego City College has 37 clubs like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), the Honor s Club, the Science Club and many mor e, none of them is dedicated to students inter ested in jour nalism and mass media. The National Association of Hispanic Jour nalism student chapter club was established a couple semester s ago at City College, but was never formalized until now. Chr is Acedo, assistant pr ofessor in the r adio/television/film depar tment and also club advisor of the NAHJ student chapter, expr essed, ?I think moving out fr om our building (the C building) for the r emodeling killed us, so now that the new building is done and ever ything is going to be new we ar e tr ying to br ing the club back.? The pur pose of this club is to facilitate another place wher e students, faculty and anyone interested in the media can get together and shar e pr ojects, ideas and concer ns. And at the same time pr omote the Radio, Television and Film (RTVF) pr ogr am and student wor k ar ound the campus. ?We ar e officially r ecognized on campus,I t gives the club legitimacy at the school but also at the NAHJ, because it allow us to have events on campus. Ther e's no cost for students to join the club at school but if they want to be par t of the national NAHJ or ganization ther e is a fee of $25 for students,? Acedo said. The NAHJ ?is dedicated to the r ecognition and pr ofessional advancement of Hispanics in the news industr y, it encour age and suppor t the study and pr actices of jour nalism and communications by Hispanics,? accor ding to their website. Depending on the student's inter est and passion for the car eer, it's up to the decision they will take;
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Incoming City Times and Legend magazineco-adviser AidaGarciain theCity Times newsroomon Dec. 2. Spring 2016 will bethethird timethat Garciahadadvisedthestudent newspaper andthefirst timeshewill co-advisethecampusmagazine. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times
Third time?s the charm Aida Garcia returnstoco-adviseCity Timesand Legend magazinein 2016 By DENISEWHITE and TESSAWOJDYLO City Times As the fall semester comes to a close, the City Times newspaper staff can look for war d to some changes for next semester. Aida Gar cia will be taking over as one of the new adviser s as Roman Koenig steps down fr om full- time to adjunct instr uctor. This won?t be her fir st time leading the school?s newspaper, and will in fact be her thir d tur n being an adviser in r ecent year s. ?I have a lot of exper ience in jour nalism, for
both pr int and online,? Gar cia said. She was a senior editor at the San Diego Union Tr ibune for 23 year s as well as a manager editor of a bilingual website called San Diego Red. ?She does a lot of wor k for local or ganizations on both sides of the bor der for communication and journalism so she br ings that diver sity to the table too,? Koenig said. Celia Jimenez, who is the cur r ent photo editor for City Times and was pr eviously a student under Gar cia in Spr ing 2014, also br ought up diver sity.
?I think Aida will br ing mor e diver sity to the paper,? Jimenez said. ?When I was on City Times with her, we made a Spanish section.? Koenig also noted how Gar cia makes an effor t to r each out to students. ?I ?ve also seen that she r eally car es about the students? success,? Koenig said. ?I ?ve seen her wor k with students one on one, especially those who ar e facing mor e difficulties.? I n ter ms of the dir ection of City Times for 2016, Gar cia goes on to explain how she wants it to continue to be a r elevant news
site for the City College community. ?I t?s student led and I will suppor t the dir ection the student?s want to take,? Gar cia said. ?As an adviser I ?m ther e to pr ovide the tools and the guidance to pr oduce the best jour nalism as it can.? Gar cia also notes that she would like to offer mor e video clips, inter esting blogs and photojournalism ser ies for the City Times website. ?I t?s an invitation to the students to define the media that they want to use to tell their stor ies,? Gar cia said.
New advisers for a new semester Veteran journalistsTara Pixley and Jerry McCormick becomethenew co-advisersin theDigital Journalismdepartment startingin spring2016 By RICARDOSOLTERO City Times Two adjunct instr uctor s ar e joining San Diego City College?s Digital Jour nalism pr ogr am dur ing the upcoming spr ing semester. One an exper ienced photojour nalist, Tar a Pixley, and the other a seasoned news wr iter, Jer r y McCor mick, ar e set to join the pr ogr am alongside cur r ent adjunct instr uctor Aida Gar cia as full- time
pr ofessor Roman Koenig scales back to adjunct instr uctional duties. ?I 'm so excited to wor k on L egend with the talented City College jour nalists, photogr apher s, designer s and ever y other skill that makes publications happen,? said Pixley, San Diego City College?s new photojour nalism instr uctor and L egend magazine adviser. A fr eelance photogr apher, Pixley?s wor k has
been published by many r espected publications such as The New Yor k Times. A Miami native, Pixley attended Flor ida A&M Univer sity and the University of Tampa studying jour nalism, philosophy and theater. She landed in Califor nia to wor k on a Ph.D. at UCSD. ?I 've wanted to be an educator since I became a jour nalist. I had excellent pr ofessor s and adviser s
who instilled ethics and news judgement in me, but who wer en't always wellver sed in cr itical theor y. I want to teach media pr oducer s to think not just about how to make exceptional jour nalism but also what it means to make images and wor ds that situate the wor ld in par ticular ways,? Pixley said via email. McCor mick is a news
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For thespring2014 musical, theSanDiegoCity Collegetheater department decidedonthe hiphopandLatininfluenced?IntheHeights,?set WashingtonHeights, NewYork. Photos by CELIAJIMENEZCity Times
Shining the spotlight on the spring semester Movingintoa newly renovated Cbuilding, a variety of performance opportunitiesand a newadjunct instructor await theater studentsin 2016 By LAURENJ. MAPP City Times New dr essing r ooms, a costume- making classr oom and set constr uction classr ooms in the r edesigned C building, as well as a new costume design instr uctor, will gr eet San Diego City College theater students dur ing the spr ing semester. Voice for the Actor and Movement for the Actor ? two classes pr eviously r equir ed for as a theater major ? have now been r eplaced by two gener al education classes due to low class enr ollment in the past. Those classes will be offer ed again in the futur e ? one dur ing the fall semester and one in the following spr ing semester ? accor ding to Visual and Per for ming depar tment co-chair Katie Rodda. New adjunct instr uctor Jeannie Galioto will begin teaching the Beginning Costuming class in the dr ama depar tment dur ing the spr ing semester. The costuming class was cancelled dur ing the Cast members of the musical ?Grease? sing and dance to multiple fall semester, but the new songs on opening night on April 10 (top photo). Thefall 2014 musical class will take place in a ?All Night Strut?combined different types of music from the 1930s sewing r oom in the r eand ?40s such as contemporary, jazz, blues and bebop with dances designed C building, which fromthat erasuchasthejiveandothers(bottomphoto). is opening for the spr ing
semester, Rodda said. ?Our costume lab was a place that was a sad state of being ? in the old space, we had a costume stor age r oom and a costume lab and the costume lab was so small that they spilled out into a classr oom, so we ended up not being able to use an actual classr oom because it ended it up being a dedicated sewing r oom,? Rodda said. ?This is all one r oom, beautiful sewing r oom, state- of- thear t. Ther e?s going to be a washer and dr yer in ther e that?s br and spanking new, a cr aft and a dye r oom, so ther e?s space to do smaller pieces and to safely dye costumes, so it?s going to be r eally nice.? Tom Fine, the pr oject manager for City College who has over seen the Pr opositions S and N bond constr uction pr ojects since 2007, said that City College has r eceived about $470 million for Pr ops. S/N pr ojects to date. Of that, $21 million has gone into r enovating the C building and $104 million went into the constr uction of the Ar ts and Humanity and Business Technology buildings, which was a combined pr oject. The Black Box Theatr e,
one dr ama specific classr oom and sever al other shar ed classr ooms in the AH building have been available since building opened in fall 2014, but the space has been used as a dance classr oom while the C building was being r enovated, Rodda said. This spr ing, the Black Box Theatr e will be the home of the ?Festival of New Wor ks? Mar ch 4- 12. The plays wer e wr itten by seven City College students thr ough a playwr iting class dur ing the spr ing 2015 semester and they will be dir ected by Matt Thompson, Far r ell For eman and Rodda. I nstead of a musical dur ing the spr ing 2016 semester, the fir st str aight play in many year s will be per for med on stage at the Saville Theatr e Apr il 15-24. Wr itten by playwr ight John Car iani, ?Almost, Maine? will be dir ected by Ashley Kobza. Visual and per for ming ar ts depar tment technical dir ector and lighting designer Rober t Nor ber g, who has wor ked at City College since 1979, is looking for war d to the new building opening up and believes that it will ser ve the students well.
?Fr om my per spective, the new space that?s r elated to how I inter face with the building is incr edible because we have r eally per fectly designed costume and makeup r ooms and it?s big enough now for students,? Nor ber g said. Despite being excited about the new space, Norber g said he feels that some of the constr uction wor k involved with r enovating the C building instead of designing and building a br and new building r esulted in less than ideal aesthetics. ?Because of the natur e of doing a r edo r ather than a ?made fr om scr atch,? it?s like a lot of the conduit and the things that I added some and didn?t use other conduits ther e ar e por tions of the building in the inter ior s that look kind of sloppy because of all the br inging things up to code and putting what they call ?conduit? all over the walls,? Nor ber g said. ?They didn?t take into consider ation some of the things that people wer e offer ing them concer ning how to make the building wor k.? Though Fine said that
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Renovating into the 21st century Construction on theA buildingset tobegin in July, completed by 2018 By JUSTINESCHULZ City Times One of San Diego City College?s upcoming changes in the next few year s includes the r enovation of the A building, which will give the campus a tr ansfor med look. The A building?s new design, which took 18 months to plan out, has a $25.7 million budget. The other new and r enovated buildings at City College opened double the number of classr ooms since the star t of the Pr opositions S and N bond pr ogr am, allowing the old classr ooms in the A building to be occupied by Student Ser vices after the r enovation. Accor ding to Michelle McCur dy, a nur se pr actitioner, the Student Health Ser vices will be r elocated in the E building dur ing the r enovations. McCur dy mentions that she assumes the health clinic will be closed for one or two days dur ing the r elocation pr ocess, but will not gr eatly affect the ser vices offer ed to students. McCur dy said the r enovated A building will have the clinic in the bookstor e's cur r ent spot. ?The space will be bigger, it'll be nicer and we'r e looking for war d to it,? McCur dy said. San Diego City College Pr oject Manager Tom Fine
said he consider s perfor ming the r enovation in a single phase a big challenge. Due to the cir cumstances, Student Ser vices will be r equir ed to move into tempor ar y spaces in var ious par ts of the campus dur ing the r enovation. However, the biggest attr action will be the r emoval of par t of the A building to open up Schwar tz Plaza, which will br ing some syner gy to the huge space between the A and T buildings, accor ding to Fine. ?That space is cur r ently a big, dar k canyon, and the newly r enovated ar ea will give students and faculty the ability to use that space for gather ing, hanging out or just access to and fr om the two buildings,? Fine said via email. Fine mentions that the r emoval of the southeast wing of the building will be one of the major changes in the pr oject. Tear ing down the wall allows the L building, or the Academic Success Center, to be connected to the r est of the functioning ser vices in the A building. ?This change alone will br ing the over all community of the campus back together both physically and r elationally,? Fine said. The r enovations for the A building will begin in
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Thefloor plans for upcoming renovations of theAbuilding (top). An early rendering of an aerial viewof theAbuilding post renovation (middle). Thesoutheast corner of thenorthwingof theAbuilding(bottom). Photos courtesy of Tom Fine and RJC Architects
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Renderingsof thesoutheast (left) andthesouth(right) of theAandTbuildings. Anaerial viewof anearly renderingof thecompletedTbuilding(below). Photos courtesy of Tom Fine and RJC Architects
Getting technical with the Tbuilding Engineeringand Technology building toundergorenovationsin summer 2016 By DESTINYORTIZ City Times Another older building bites the dust as the Engineer ing and Technology building, better known as the T building, r eceives a much needed upgr ade beginning July 1. The T building plan was added along with the r enovations of the A and D building br ought by Pr oposition N. Accor ding to www.smar tvoter.or g,
Pr op. N is par t of an $870 million Community College Bond Measur e. I t is designed to better pr epar e community college students in tr ansfer r ing to four-year univer sities. This includes updating alr eady established educational facilities as well as upgr ading science and high- tech tr aining labs, r epair ing aging r oofs and safety systems by issuing $870 million in bonds. The pr oposition had to be appr oved by 55
per cent of voter s. This gave author ization to the San Diego Community College Distr ict to issue and sell the money r eceived. The sale of the bonds will r aise money for the distr ict to complete pr ojects such as the ones at City College. The distr ict will then pr omise to pay the holder of the bonds an amount of inter est in exchange for the money r eceived fr om the holder of the bonds. Tom Fine, campus pr oject manager, explained that the r enovation pr ojects for the A, D and T building wer e going to be thr ee separ ate pr ojects. Because all thr ee buildings ar e lo-
cated in close pr oximity of each other, it made mor e sense to cr eate one team for all thr ee pr ojects instead of two separ ate teams. The bond pr ogr am of Pr op. N included the T building, and the building was examined by an independent str uctur al engineer who said the building was in per fect condition. Ser vices that will occupy spaces in the T building ar e Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), the mailr oom and the Shipping and Receiving depar tment. The Center for Applied Competitive Technology will also r eside in the T
building. The agr icultur e depar tment will also r eceive classr ooms that will be used as labs for gr owing vegetables, fr uit, etc. The access way that goes thr ough the T building is easier to deliver mater ial other than mail fr om the A building, wher e the mailr oom is now. The City College I T and Technical services will also be moved into the Engineer ing and Technology building, as well as the MESA pr ogr am. Child Development classes will r emain in the T building. A new add- on to the
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SanDiegoCity Collegestudent RahmaHassansitsintheStudent Commonsbuilding, locatedby theAHandBTbuildingsonthecorner of 16thandCStreets, on Nov. 16. Photos by MIKEMADRIAGACity Times
Not so common area TheStudent Commonsbuilding, attached totheArtsand Humanities building, ispurposeful work of art tooneSan DiegoCity Collegestudent By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times Rahma Hassan is a 20year- old City College student who not only ador es the color scheme of the Student Commons building on the cor ner of 16th and C Str eets, she finds peace fr om within. This was only Hassan?s second visit. ?I felt like it was r estr icted and thought it was (exclusively) for events,? Hassan mentioned. She initially sur veyed it ear ly in the spr ing semester to take an I nstagr am photogr aph and when she enter ed the double glass door s; she then quickly exited. ?One of the r easons
why it?s always empty is because of the heat and ther e ar e no tables and chair s as well," she said. I n November, despite the massive amounts of sunlight enter ing thr ough the enor mous glass facing the south side, the confines r emained cool as its demur e. ?The Student Commons building was designed to be like the hipster ver sion of the tr eehouse, wher e students can congr egate above and away the activity of the str eet in a mor e ser ene place,? said Ralph Roesling fr om Roesling Nakamur a Ter ada Ar chitects. ?I t has the quality of a por ch space with the outside air always flowing
thr ough it, as it is not airconditioned nor weather sealed.? Hassan noted that during her study session inside, she left the fr ont door s open for ventilation, and mor e students ar r ived. The str uctur e, also known as the "mailbox", is par t of the Ar ts and Humanities five- stor y building to its left and can be accessed fr om the second floor. The avant- gar de building is bold, especially during night class. Depending on the angle viewed, the lighting and patter n of the adjacent and connecting stair cases br ing attention to the subtly clean, box-
looking str uctur e. ?The design pr ocess included input fr om the user gr oups of the building in var ious design stages (Conceptual, Schematic, Design Development, Etc.),? emailed Tom Fine, City College Campus Pr oject Manager. ?I believe the design team captur ed the user gr oup?s desir e for a student commons as par t of this pr oject and then utilized some sense of ar tistic license to come up with the actual building and space design.? The inter ior is equally as subtle. The simplicity br ought about the wooden panels that line the walls and ceiling and appear seam-
Anexterior viewof theAHbuilding?sStudent CommonsonNov. 16. less with the long benches, which face one another on the opposing walls. The car pet that r esides in the middle of the concr ete has a geometr ic patter n that is cohesive to the engr aved lines within the cylindr ical pillar s sup-
por ting the building. The six light fixtur es atop ar e blanketed with a plastic that is complemented below with a long tr anslucent desk embedded with light emitting diodes (L EDs).
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S.O.S. soccer field By CELIAJIMENEZ City Times Player s, coaches and r efer ees have expr essed gr eat concer n over the state of the San Diego City College soccer field. ?Need to addr ess the blacktop ar ea (concr ete) along the Nor theast Touch L ine,? r eads an email sent to Milton Hidalgo and Andi Milbur n fr om Dean of Athletics Randy Bar nes. ?This should be
Knights freshman defender Pedro Roy defends against Coyotes player Josalinas Morales on Nov. 13 at the San DiegoCity Collegesoccer field. CELIAJIMENEZCity Times
br oken up and r emoved. This is an unsafe par t of the field.? This season, men?s soccer midfielder Sammy Navar r o tor e his ACL while pr acticing dr ills and women?s soccer for war d Amar achi Ahamefula spr ained her knee dur ing pr actice. ?I t?s (the soccer field) in the poor est conditions it has ever been,? Hidalgo said.
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?We just want to move forward with a beautiful new facility that we know Hope would have been very proud of.? because we r ead the policy that the distr ict had in place for naming r ights and we clear ly thought that Hope Shaw fit the cr iter ia for naming r ights. I t came as a complete sur-
pr ise when we found out other wise.? L isa Gr ossman- L ake, Nor a Per ez and Russell Redmond also spoke befor e the boar d. They shar ed their individual ex-
per iences with Shaw during her 38 year s at City College and each cr edited Shaw as their inspir ation for getting into their combined fields of news r epor ting, film and education. Hope Shaw?s sur viving sister Rosalie Byar d summed up Shaw?s legacy at City College in a letter sent to Castañeda: ?With both colleagues and students, Hope combined a br illiant gift for war mth and encour agement coupled with a steely demand for excellence, which she then helped all comer s to achieve.? Byar d was contacted for
chapter mentioned that "being on this pr ogr am will help you with inter nships Continuedfrompage4 too. ?This club will be able to pr epar e our selves and either just joining the club put together our pr ojects at school or joining the of- for a r eal job,? Judah ficial NAHJ or ganization. Hosanna, Pr esident of Being involved in the NAHJ student chapter, official NAHJ or ganization said, ?Also we will be able will give you ear ly access to pr omote student?s wor k on scholar ships, job op- for companies or anyone por tunities, access to who might be inter ested in events, infor mation and pr omoting school many mor e. pr ojects.? Stephanie Roach, outVince Fanghella, Tr ear each of NAHJ student sur e of NAHJ student
chapter also mentioned some of the benefits of the club "I t will pr epar e us and make pr ofessional connections. Also we will inter act with the other depar tments like audio, film and newspaper that way we can wor k together as a team and build connections," Fangella said. Victor J. Ber r ios, a member of the club also shar ed his expectations, ?I t?s to use this as a platfor m and star t to show our wor k to other people and
because this is also a Hispanic chapter I would like to incor por ate bilingual too. That way we can move not just local, but Tijuana or other places as well.? Also, the new C building will be a gr eat platfor m to star t collabor ations with other schools, pr ofessional people and other media depar tments. I f you would like to know mor e infor mation about this pr ogr am, visit nahj.or g or contact Acedo at cacedo@sdccd.edu.
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and the chancellor, r equesting once mor e that the C building be named for Shaw and r efer r ing to the distr ict's policy about naming r ights, then offer ed evidence of Shaw?s ser vice to City College as suppor ting cr iter ia that sounded like it met the policy?s r equir ements. I n a r ecent phone interview, Castañeda said: ?We never thought it would be an issue in the fir st place,
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comment, but declined and gave per mission via email to quote her pr evious letter to Castañeda. Also pr esent at that meeting was Jennifer Redmond (a fr iend of Shaw) and Dave Scott of TV station KUSI , who said, ?Hope Shaw is synonymous with City College." He went on to say that of his 30 year s in the television industr y, he felt he ?owed? 25 of those year s to Shaw. Chancellor Car r oll ap-
pr oved the br oadcast studio to bear Hope Shaw?s name, as it was at the chancellor ?s discr etion, without need of a boar d vote. ?We may not necessarily agr ee with the decision but we r espect the chancellor ?s decision, and we just want to move for war d with a beautiful new facility that we know Hope would have been ver y pr oud of,? Castañeda said dur ing a telephone inter view.
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Technical Continuedfrompage7 building will be an incubator business pr ogr am, accor ding to www.sdccd. edu/docs. ?The fir st floor can be leased to businesses that may not have financial capacity,? Fine said. The building will add 100,000 squar e feet to its or iginally planned 77,000 squar e feet that was able to make the incubator pr ogr am possible.
An objective hoped to be obtained by this building will be a L EED silver certification by the U.S. Gr een Building Council, accor ding to Fine. L EED, which stands for L eader ship in Ener gy and Envir onmental Design, wor ks on a point system. The mor e points a building ear ns, the higher the r ating r eceived. The budget for the building was $35.5 million, Fine said by email. The appr oach to the design of the building was the design-build appr oach, wher e a contr actor, ar chi-
tect, electr ical engineer and plumber ar e hir ed simultaneously instead of the design- bid- build appr oach. Fine explained the latter cr eates mor e of a hassle because the idea of the design for the building fir st has to go thr ough many ar chitects who then bid the highest to see which idea is best. The pr ocess of building and hir ing the differ ent people needed for specific jobs star ts and with the design-build appr oach; the long pr ocess is sped up by hir ing all necessar y
par ties at once. The last thing that had to be discussed with Fine was the idea of phasing. This ter m r efer s to the pr ocess of moving ever yone occupying the building and putting classes in tempor ar y spaces, accor ding to Fine. This cost of up to $2 million and electr ical, utilities and water has to be taken into account. This will star t what is hoped to be the two-year pr ocess of the new and impr oved T building along with mor e changes to come for the A and D buildings.
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Anearly renderingof theA, DandTbuildingsfacingsoutheast. Photo courtesy of Tom Fine and RJC Architects
Century Continuedfrompage6 July and ar e scheduled for completion in July 2018. The cafeter ia, which is located in the D building r ight next to the A building, however, will not be undergoing any r enovations. The voter s of San Diego who passed the Pr ops. S/N bonds did not include the cafeter ia. ?Because of this, we ar e only able to implement the scope of wor k that was included in the appr oved bond language,? Fine said. Preliminary renderingsof renovationsonthesouthwing(left) andthenortheast corner (right) of theAbuilding. Photos courtesy of Tom Fine and RJC Architects
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Spotlight Continuedfrompage5 sever al people have mentioned that the Saville Theatr e also needs to be r enovated, funding for that was not included in the Pr ops. S/N pr oposals. ?I t wasn?t included in the bonds ? the language that says ?this is what we?r e going to do with this money;?it?s not included in that,? Fine said. Nor ber g said that he thinks par t of the r eason why the Saville Theatr e was not included in the Pr ops. S/N bond measur es is that it may have been seen as ?fr ivolous? and that making it Amer icans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant may have been an expensive endeavor. ?I think the mor e per tinent r eason or the mor e ger mane r eason is that if you go in and have to r ebuild the whole theater, you?r e going to immediately have to be ADA compliant,? Nor ber g said. ?You would have to put in an elevator to the booth, you?d have to put an elevator into the or chestr a pit and also the stair s going down into the pr op stor age under neath the stage. Right ther e, the cost, I ?m guessing fr om a constr uction standpoint, would be ver y high.? Rodda added that though the lack of ADA compliance has not been an issue in the past, it may be in the futur e, saying ?a lot of the ar eas in the theater ar e not wheelchair ac-
cessible, they?r e not ADA compliant, so that?s a big pr oblem because as soon as we have a student who is unable to walk up and down stair s who enr olls for our classes, then we?r e faced with a lawsuit ? we?r e kind of on bor r owed time, I feel.? Despite not being formally included in the bonds, the attachment to the C building meant that the Saville Theatr e needed sever al updates, some tempor ar y and some permanent, while the inter nal demolition and constr uction took place. ?When we r enovated the C building, obviously we had to demolish the inter ior, which meant taking out the water, electr ical, fir e alar m, spr inkler systems, heating and air conditioning, but all of that was connected to Saville Theatr e,? Fine said. ?We had to keep Saville Theatr e oper ational while we r enovated the C building. So, we had to r un tempor ar y lines over, and in some cases, we just put in new lines in the theater.? Dave Fr emland, a musical theater major at City College, said that the depar tment is well or ganized and that the teacher s within it wor k well with the students. Something he said could be impr oved, however, is the availability of classes being offer ed, which has been affected by limited time slots and class cuts. ?I don?t think that ther e?s enough of the classes that ar e needed actually offer ed in (convenient) time slots,? Fr em-
SPECIAL EDITION | CONSTRUCTINGTHEFUTURE land said. ?I t?s difficult to make my schedule plan ar ound some of the classes because some of the classes ar e limited to when they?r e available.? Though he said that the new C building opening up is exciting, something that Fr emland believes would impr ove the dr ama depar tment for students would be the ability to take cer tain cour ses such as scene painting, stage makeup and dance classes over and over again to impr ove individual skill levels. ?A big pr oblem is that you can only take cer tain classes so many times that you might need to take over and over again ? for example painting, for example tap, differ ent dance classes you can only take them up to a cer tain point, but maybe it takes longer for your body to develop the movements or the skills,? Fr emland said. ?For example, the scene painting class ? you might have to take that class five times to get to the level that I would consider beginner level, but r eally you can lear n the skill but you can?t pr actice it enough.? Auditions for both ?Almost, Maine? and ?The Festival of New Wor ks? will take place in the Saville Theatr e on Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. Those who wish to audition should pr epar e a one- to two- minute, contempor ar y monologue. Mor e infor mation will be available on the City College Theatr e blog at citycollegetheatr e. blogspot.com.
Thecast of ?All Night Strut?performspiecesfromthe1930s. Photos by CELIAJIMENEZCity Times
Common Continuedfrompage8 The window divider s cast a str ong shadow on the eastside wall, which will align or cr oss with the two hor izontal peep- windows, depending on the location. The subtleties, such as the electr ic outlet cover s that line the bottom of the
Advisers Continuedfrompage4 business veter an, the founding pr esident of the San Diego Association of Black Jour nalists. Having worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Colorado Springs GazetteTelegraph, The State in Columbia and The San Diego Union-Tribune, McCor mick transitioned into the broadcasting business in 2009, winning an Emmy for News Special Coverage of the Boston bombing. Eager to shape the minds of aspir ing jour nalists and nudge them in the r ight dir ection, McCor mick will team up with Gar cia to
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benches, have a semigloss and textur ed finish, and the stainless steel plate that suppor ts the building manifesto sign up fr ont, ar e indicator s of the attention to detail perfor med by the RNT ar chitects. ?The inter ior space is not complete yet and will be gaining some comfor table and infor mal seating fur nishings as a next
step,? Roesling r eplied to Hassan?s concer ns. The ?half full? or ?half empty? notion need not apply to this ?not so common? ar ea in City College, as its uber- unique design, fr amed by the skyline of Downtown San Diego, br ings an extr aor dinar y, inviting aesthetic to curr ent and pr ospective students, whether fur nished or not.
co-advise the labs that pr oduce City College's student newspaper, City Times. ?We?re teaching the next generation of journalists,? McCor mick said. ?We?re picking up the baton and going on with it. My goal is to continue the basics; luckily I have a long experience in the business.? Pixley, on the other hand, will take over the still ver y young L egend magazine, hoping to help the cur r ent staff and newcomer s get to next level of their pr ofessional car eer s. ?You can expect to come out of the exper ience with a solid por tfolio and contacts. To use that por tfolio for the next step in your car eer,? Pixley said. Pixley also hopes that L egend magazine and its
staff can go on and win var ious student jour nalism awar ds. ?And finger s cr ossed, I hope to help the L egend staff win the student journalism awar ds it so r ichly deser ves,? Pixley said. Cur r ent jour nalism pr ofessor Koenig said he is ver y enthusiastic about both Pixley and McCor mick joining the depar tment with Gar cia. Koenig will be minimizing his r ole with the pr ogr am star ting in the spr ing to pur sue outside endeavor s. ?Tar a, along with Jer r y McCor mick and Aida, ar e br inging some fr esh perspective to the pr ogr am. I ?m ver y excited to see what they do with our newspaper,? Koenig said.
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