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Special Report School tragedy raises questions hawna Lisk Staff Writer At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. two students killed 23 people and injured at least 20 more in what is the deadliest school slaying in U.S. history.

Er.ic Harris and Dylan Klebold first tossed a bomb and opened fire in the school parking lot then proceeded to the school cafeteria and the library while brandishing semi-automatic weaponry.

Dead bodies were found piled on top of each other.

Bombs were found throughout the school; ·some detonated, some did not The final bomb went off 12 hours after they flcst b.~gan,Jhe.ir ~x­ ercise in terror.· This kind of carnage took planning. These kid's did not act in the passion of ·the moment but with cold blooded calculation.

Harris and · Klebold, two fresh faced -youths turned killer were found dood ftom " self-inflicted gunshots by the police four hours after their spree of terror began.

The stotjes from students who were' trapp&fsoti&I like surrealist nightmares.

There are reports of the boys laughing while they killed and saying 'peek-a-boo' before shooting one student in the neck.

This is not an isolated incident Since 1997, the U.S. has had six other deadly, high profile, mass murders happen in schools around the country.

It does not make sense to me. fkeep asking myself why?

Why the sen eless deaths?

What happened in these suburban, middle class children's life's that twisted them to the point were they could indiscriminately kin? They took others lives with the same ease that they would kill monsters in a video game.

Why the sharp increase in violence among youth?

I could not come up with. a reason, so I went to my own community, my own school, bere ar San Jose City CoUege, and asked people their opin-

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Jeimy Chijate/The Times Teresa Perez and Behrany Sevos vote for ASC officers while Phyllis Patterson and Greg Ross supervise.

ASC elections over; no results in Luisa Prieto Assistant Editor The elections for the Associated Student Council were held April 20-21.

The places to vote varied, from inside the cafeteria to the campus quad.

Although there were only two

names on the ballot, the turn out was high.

"It 's the biggest amount of votes," said ASC President Julie Rieken . "It's been great."

Rieken ran unopposed for the position of ASC president. Vicepresident Lauren Wood ran for student trustee.

According to Wood , several

City College instructors were helpful in encouraging students to vote.

These instructors inc lud ed Pri sci lla Santos, Peter D'Eiiscu and David Yancy. "(We) had a good tum out this year," said Greg Ross, one of the people who sat behind the voti ng table.

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Faculty debate on 16-week schedule Joseph Urzua Staff Writer Imagine a San Jose City College where summer break doesn ' t end until after Labor Day. One where fall session lets out the second week of December, not practically on Christmas Eve. This image may soon be a reality. On going discussions are being held on the possibility of converting the current 17 and a half week semester calendar to a 16-week calendar.

Although nothing is etched in stone, administrators in the district office are hoping to approve a 16-week calendar plan and implement it by the spring 2000.

"The district thinks that the 16-week calendar would be beneficial to students," said Dr. Louis Albert, Vice Chancellor of Educational Services. "With a longer winter and summer session, we could expand the length of classes so students enrolled in intersession courses can benefit or have more time to enjoy their break."

However, with this new schedule, there are many pros and cons to be worked out before it is considered feasible.

"Most faculty .. .favor the 16-week semester, starting in the fall after Labor Day," said Wilbur Mellema, City College mathematics instructor.

One of the biggest concerns among faculty mem-

bers is the possibility of restructuring the current schedule of classes to accommodate the extended class hours needed to compensate for the hours lost by the shortened calendar. Another concern is the possibility of fewer classes being offered to students due to extended class length.

Another issue which needs to be decided on is whether a four-day week or five-day week would be more beneficial to the students and fac ulty.

"A large majority (of the faculty) favored the five-day week, but even it would require longer class periods," said Mellema.

"They expressed concern that with a four-day week there wouldn't be classroom space."

Some alternative plans are being considered as well. One suggests that the current day schedule remain in place but the spring semester be lengthened and the fall shortened by eliminating finals week.

'This would allow the fall semester to start after Sept. l with the current class time schedule remaining intact.

Another proposes that day classes remain unchanged but the evening classes start in mid Sep-

There are many pros and cons to be worked out before it's feasible

See schedule, page 8.

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Elections Ted Jones, the election results will be released after 4 p.m. today.

Jones added that the turn out was a healthy sign for the future.

Jones said, "It's a good feeling."

Check out the Times on-line for election results. The Times on-line address is http://www.sjcc.edu/ Times.

Trustee holds book signing Ken Yeager, a San Jose/Evergreen Comminuty College district board member was in the San Jose City College bookstore for a book signing onAprillS .

Yeager signed copies for several people , including Chancellor Geraldine Evans and City College president Chui Tsang.

"I think this is an important book," said Tsang, adding that "Trailblazers" presented an area that was not often talked about. "This is a book that is worth keeping on your shelf," he said.

Yeager had gone to a book signing at the Evergreen Valley community College bookstore on April 13.

Although turn out for the two signings was low, both the City College and Evergreen bookstores have sold many of the copies that they had ordered.

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no festivities for 16 week, four day week schedule oes it seem like the weekend is never long enough? Ever wi h it cou ld be longer?

We ll under a tentati ve proposal of a four-day week th e admini strati on is pushing, th at wish may be granted. " All ri ght !!" you say? Screams of "party time!" echo throug hout the campus.

Don' t be too sure of th at. The proposal for a 16-week, four-day semester is not the gift it seems to be .

On fir t glance of the proposal, many students will fail to consider the impact it will have on regularly schedul ed classes.

True, it wou ld mean students wou ld have an extra day off and instructors wou ld only have to pl an for four days in tead fi ve, but it al so mean s everything will have to be ped up.

If there are only four days in which to teach a course as opposed to five, in a 16-week semester we're mi s ing 16 days.

No w the time will be made up by stretching the c lass hour to 85 minutes and a lot of ground still needs to be covered in terms of academi cs .

The college is still expected to teach certain crite ri a. With fewer day to stretch the lessons over, thi s would make the classes more intense.

Instead of may be one le son per day, the instructo r mi ght have to teach two or three.

Cl as e would have to go at a faster pace, leav in g behind a tudent already struggling w ith the current c ia s chedule.

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Of course, lengthening course times would also affect how many cl asses are offered during the semester. Because of the lengthening of class times, students won' t be able to fit as many c lasses into their schedul es.

This may prove to be a problem for fulltime and working students, whose schedul es revol ve around the careful pl anning of the ir c lass schedule.

However, what di sturbs us even more is how quiet everyone is being about thi s proposal. It was mentioned during the fall '97 and then it was fo rgotten.

Or so it seemed . It was still be ing di scussed by the administration, but, sadly tudents seem to know little to nothing about the proposal .

This is di turbing because thi s proposal is going to have a profound impact on students and thei r abi lity (or inabil ity due to possible schedule conflicts) to acqu ire an education, and barely anyone knows about it!

This propo a! could change the way we can or cannot schedule our classes and yet there is little or no student input.

There was a survey conducted regardi ng students fee lings towards a four-day weekTHREE semesters ago.

It is important for the co llege to find out tudent input before they start making dec isions that are going to affect the ir ability to acquire an education.

After all , we' re the ones footing the bill.

Mil ose vic wan ts ultimate control and power over the people that li ve in hi s country.

Un less you live under a rock I think by hi actions , he's on so me deserted island , yo u proven he wants to control the1r know that there 's a war go ing on mind s as well. Maybe even the in Kosovo. wo rld . Ho w lo ng wi ll this I'm not go ing to bore you with continue? details of purpose, if there trul y I am lucky to li ve in such a "fret is one, or with the economic or world" where, fo r the most part, I political effects on the people in have laws and rights protecti ng 111( Kosovo, in nearby coun tri es, or in against the ki nd of mass murder and vio le nce that the Albani ans are the United States.

When I watch the news every going through . night, I think about one thin g.

There are so many people ou: there co ndemn ing the pre ident fa What about the peopl e?

Wh at about the hu ndreds of ge ttin g invo lved, but I openl) th o usand s of e thni c Alban ian support what choices he's made.

Now, I understand , no war is refugee s try in g to e ro s without death. That doesn't meao Yugoslavian borders to be safe?

And what about the thou sands we cann ot fee l fo r tho e people.

We cannot try and step into theis of people dyin g everyday due to But we ca n have a lac k o f foo d a nd med ica l s ho es. co mp ass io n, and s upport the supplies. attempt to correct the situation tha!

Th ey are be in g bombed , po ss ib ly eve n by o ur ow n has e calated to thi tragedy we cal: Ameri can forces , and mas acred war.

I full y un ders tand that in out

by Slobodan Mil osev ic's ground ow n co untry, with the violence thrf forces.

Wh ile I see pic tu res in th e occurs on our own soil , it's hard to new s paper and e ver y T.V. fee l for someone else.

May be that's the perfect time to newscas t devotes a lot of ti me to coverin g the cri sis, there are sti ll sit back and rea li ze how bad 011 things I don' t understand. lives aren' t. We aren' t fleeing oil Didn ' t we learn during World houses, leav in g everything we\c War II about the suffering and pain ever known to run from inevitabk th a t th e inn oce nt peop le go death . through when we ' re at war with I do not condone war, but I do such a tyrannical leader? condone life and freedom .

Didn't we all sit in some dark If we are not supporti ve ofothft movie theater and cry during most countries when they are in need of Schindler's Li st? We all said how can we expect anyone to e\'CI to ourselves, and to eac h other, support us if we were ever to net'lf thin gs like "that was horrib le," ll. and " those poor, poor people".

Th is is a lesson that I thjnk The war in Kosovo, to me, be used in everyday life.

Understand and feel for othets. seems li ke the second coming of Hitl er. The Ho loca ust re li ved . or you wi II be alone when you net'll How can we sit back and watch? someone to feel fo r you.

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hether it ' s incredible pain , the loss of loved ones, or Quale in office, we each ha ve a scen ario th a t we c a n ' t imag in e I iving through.

H o w mu ch worse is the situat i o n when we have no choice.

On March 26, a Michigan judge sentenced Dr. Jack Kevorkian to 10 to 25 years in priso n for second degree murder. Many people see the sentence as a strike against doctor assisted suicide.

Before Kevorkia n thrust the topic of doctor assisted suicide into our laps, the subject had been as discussed as often as back alley abortions were. People diagnosed with termi nal diseases had to look forward to several weeks, months or even years of increasing pain, rising hospital bi.lls and the loss of time and abilities.

In 1990, the topic of assisted suicide was forced into our eyes. w

The people who went to Kevorkian knew that he would fight to end their pain.

fter nine years and 130 assisted deaths Jack Kevorki an, a. k.a.

'Dr. Death ' was sentenced to I 0 to 25 years of a prison term lethall y injecting Thom as Youk, a 52 sufferer of Lou Gehri gs di sease.

It was about time.

Youk had asked for Ke vorki an's ass istance in his suicide because he wanted to, "bring himself to a peaceful transition." One of the side effects of Lou Geri ghs disease is reduced lung capacity and before hi s death Youk was choking on his own saliva.

Kevorkian taped Youks death and sent the tape to the CBS show "60 minuets", which was viewed by more than 15 million people.

Since he began his career in 1990 as 'Dr. Death ' Kavorkian has had his medical license suspended in Michigan and California, and has gone to court numerous times for assisting in suicides.

Keverkian does not stop at assisted suicide however, he also " ... chopped up (a) body" according to L.J. Drago vic, an Oakland county medical examiner who did the autopsy of Joseph Tushkowski , a 'patient' of Koverkians because he wanted to donate his kidneys.

I suppose he told himself that it was the right thing to do, to follow the patients request.

Too bad he did not bother to treat Tushkowski 's corpse with any kind of respect. Kevorkian and an assistant raised Tushkowski 's sweater, not even bothering to take it off and according to the coroners report cut two horizontal incisions and took the kidneys out. He then used " back yard twine" to tie off the arteries that were severed.

One of the debates with assi sted suicide is that a person deserves the right to die with dignity. I don't think that Kevorkian cares much about the dignity of his patients, not when he rip's open there bodies and televises their deaths.

Kevorkian did do much for the movement, he really began the public debate on the ethics and feasibility fo r Dr. ass isted suicide, but his actio ns are getting weirder and weirder.

It seems that he no longer cares about the indi vidual, j ust about the cause and the hock value.

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Kevorkian was flamboyant, body wants to commit suicide. outgoing and macabrely proud of Living becomes a habit that is hard his work. The people who went to to break, but when a terminal disKevorkian knew that he wo uld ease twists the rules, the lines befight to end their pain. tween right and wrong blur.

And he did fight.

We have to accept the fact that After three acquittals and one no matter what side is discussed, hung jury, Kevorkian was found just about everyone who argues guilty of murdering 52 year-old about it is not terminally ill. We Thomas Youk. Like many of the can imagine, but unless we ' ve people who had gone to Ke vorki an, watched someone die, we ca n' t Youk had been suffering. imagine the desperation or pain .

Despite wh at the rulin g may Is it wro ng to help someon e ho pe to acco mpli s h , havi ng comm it su ic ide when they' re alKevorkia n behi nd bars will no t ready dieing? It 's an easy question stop termi nall y ill patients from to say "yes" to w he n yo u ' re killing themselves. healthy.

At best they can get thei r hands on the Hem lock Society's how-to commit suicide book, "Final Ex.it."

At worst their attempts fai l and they wind up in the pl ace they dreaded goi ng: the hospital.

Hospitals have spent most of this centu.ry earning a reputaion for bei ng expensive, dehumanizi ng places where terminally ill patients have the choices of either being con cious and in pain or of being drugged into a stupor.

While hospices and other care givers have speot the last several years trying to improve the' quality of life" for the terminally ill it is a late start.

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Beat AMC price hike with an ASB card Tom Spaulding Staff Writer

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It will now cost adults $8.50 to watch "The Mod Squad" on the big screen at local AMC theater while San Jose City College tudents can squeeze in at a mere $5.50.

Two south bay AMC theaters raised their general admission prices from $7.75 to $8.50 on Apri19. Both theaters are the newer "mega-plexes", the AMC Mercado 20 in Santa Clara and the AMC Saratoga 14.

AMC's main competitor is Century Theaters, whose pricing remains at $7.75. No student di scounts are available at the Century Theaters.

Savvy students can take advantage of AMC's student di scount plan, which is available with a va lid ASB card.

"The stude nt prices are $3 cheaper," said Saratoga 14 manager Mike Mcintyre.

The 5.50 student pricing is good for only the person pre enti ng the card.

Mcintyre was unable to comment on why the prices were raised and what affect, if any, it had on attendance.

AMC i still offering what they call "twilight matinees" which is a pecific screening of a movie between 4 and 6 p.m . The price of a "twilight matinee" is 4.50.

If you do not have a valid ASB card, they are available to students in room 500 in theW building.

TheW building is behind the li brary. Room 500 is also known as the Business Services room.

ASB card. are available Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The cost of a card is $5.

The card will also give you a 10 percent di scount on food purchases at the San Jose City College cafeteria.

For more information, call Tamara Goldie, ASC adv isor at 298-2181 extension 3149.

With the money aved on the ticket, you can buy a small Coke.

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Approximately 500 tudents and faculty representing over 50 college attended the conference.

Student · attend in g the journalism conference found many changes in the planning including conte t. and the final awards banquet being held off campus.

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'Trailblazers' bold and insightful Luisa Prieto Assistant Editor Like the pioneers who forged a new way across the country in the 1850's, "Trailbl azers: Profiles . of America's Gay and Lesbian Elected Official s" shows that people are still blazing new paths.

Written by Ken Yeager, a San Jose/Evergreen Community College district board member, "Trailblazers" profiles more than 13 public officials who, beyond being ' Democrats, Republicans, dreamers · -~ I ~~, and fighters , are gay.

Among the people described in ' ··- <...... ~the book are Bill Crews, an Iowa mayor; Victoria Sigler, a Florida Dade County j udge; and the story of how West Hollywood became a city.

The writing is cri sp, drawing the reader into the world of each person. Each profile is more than just a collection of words: it ' a person.

From Sigler's efforts to decrease drinking and driving because of a drunk hit-and-run driver who killed her yo unger brother to Councilwoman Tina Podlodowski 's efforts to increase technological

awareness in Seattle City, each chapter introduces~ reader to a diverse person and the event that lead 10 their current positions.

The history that surrounds the public officials isl once exciting and frightening .

While Prop. 64, the 1986 California ballot i ni ~ tive that called for people infected with AIDS to ~ quarantined, may have been rejected, it took the ef. forts of thousands of people to prevent something tha 13 years later not many peopk know existed.

Yeager was the first openlyg3) official in Silicone Valley. H e wa~ elected to the San Jose/Evergreeo Community College district iD 1992 and currently teaches polil!cal sc ience at San Jose State University.

"Trailbl azers" is an insightful and interesting boo Readers will enjoy the broad spectrum of public ofli.

1 cials as well as gain a new insight to the political wor~ that is usuall y seen from a muted distance.

1 "Trailbl azers: Profiles of America 's Gay and bian Elected Officials" is available at the City Collegr bookstore . The red hardback sells for $29.95.

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'Tartuffe' contic treat with a French twist Tom Spaulding Staff Writer The San Jose City College Theater Arts group unveiled its latest production la s t Friday in the Drama bui lding; Molier's French comedy "Tartuffe".

"Tartuffe," set in Paris in the year 1670, is abo ut Mon s ieur Orgon (Jake O 'Neill ) and his decision to arra nge a marriage between his daughter Mariane (Colleen McLeod) and a religious man , Tartuffe (Jess Ortega). , Only Tartuffe is no religious man . He is a con man who actually lu sts over Orgon 's wife, Elmire ( Kare n Bums).

To make matters wo rse, Mariane is mad ly in love with a man named Valere (Joey Morales).

Can Mariane ever be happy again? Will he be forced to marry Tartuffe? How can she reverse her father 's decision? Will she ever do anything but weep?

Enter Dorine (Lauren Booth ), a head strong maid who launche a plan to thwart Tanuffe's devilis h scheme and keep order in the Orgon house.

What follows is a erie of outrageous situation s and comedic outcomes.

Jess Ortega's Tartuffe i fun to watch. He shifts from humble religious man to ex fie nd on Viagra in a matter of seconds. He convinci ngly lies through hi s teeth to Orgon , who believes Tartuffe 's word like gospel. Ortega 's s ly

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smile directed only to the audience allows us to view hi s devio us nature.

Director Donna Mendoza and s tudent d irecto r D avid Knight stage and capture the many sight gags and physical comedy in the play with ease, resulting is some of the funniest scenes in the play.

Bei ng a comedy, some of the performances are over-the-top and loud . Jake O 'Neill attacks hi s role of Orgon I ike Christopher Lloyd on crack. Yet it works in the role of Orgon. As the maniacal head of household, he has a short temper and wild expressions that all add up to one weird character.

Our heroine, Dorine, is definitely a woman ahead of her times as she s tands up to Orgon and even Tartuffe.

The play was performed in the Drama building, not on the main stage, but in a s maller room which brought the audience closer to the action.

O verall the play held my interest a nd performances, lighting, makeup and direction we re solid .

It is fu nn y, though hardly riotous.

Two scenes stand out, the scene in which Dorine breaks the news about her arranged marriage to her lover Valere and a pivotal scene where Orgon finds o ut just what kind of man Tartuffe is, while hiding under a table.

The play runs April 23, 24, 30 and M ay I at 7:30 p.m. and April 25 at 2:00p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults and 4 to students.

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What goes around , comes around.

The San Jose City College Jaguars ' baseball team avenged previous Yg3} losses agai nst Monterey Penin sula College (MPC) wi th an Il - l triumph ew Tuesday at San Jose City College.

Brad Husted (6-2) and his curveball shut down the bats of MPC. Ct it Husted pitched a complete game, all owing only six hits while striking OlilJ. urn. out six .

The win put the Jags ( 14-16; 7- 11 ) back in playoff co ntention , leavlOO ing them one game behind Oh lone (8-1 0) and with in striking dista nce off~ I of second place C habot (9-6 ), who have dropped three games in a row. vOOjl ~est Valley is in co ntrol of the division with a conference record of 13The top two teams in the Coast Conference Southern division make

llegt the playoffs, and co nsideration is g iven to the third place team.

With only seven games le ft in the regu lar season, the team has to run the tables to sneak into the pl ayo ffs.

"We have a good chance of wi nning our las t even games," said Jeff Warney. who went 4 for 5 with two doubles and threes RBI in Tuesday's wi n.

The Jags hit the final stretch of the season with two ho t pitcher , Husted and Mike Nunez, who has ret urn ed from injury. Nunez is 3-0 with a 1.53 era, and ha 39 strike o uts in only 29. 1 innings pitched.

The Jags' bats have awake ned a well , with a team battin g average of .3 10.

Manager Do ug Robb said he spoke to hi s team Ia t week about making a push for the playoffs and his team has responded with a 3- 1 record since April 14.

A pivotal game for the Jags is thi s Saturday when Chabot visits San Jose City College for a noon game.

De Anza shutdown by softball teant's defense Allison Fine Staff Writer The San Jo e City o ftball tea m has had an up and down seaon so far, and their record ( 1916 overall, 7-3 in the Coast Con1ference) proves it.

Tues day 's game against DeAnza College proved to be o ne of the hi gher points , with a 9-0 wi n in Cupertino.

Sophomore pitcher Ke lly Bea l pi tched the shutout, a we ll as stri king out seven of the Dons.

Fres hm a n design a ted hitter Shei la Hess had three hits at 4 at bats and scored twice.

Sophomore ri g ht fielde r Marsella Macias went 2 for 3 at bats with a double and three runs

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batted in.

Tekla Sne ll also went 2 for4 and had one run.

Lynette Yasukawa had the pl ay of the day when she had a deep hit into the outfield with three women on base.

All fo ur scored , though it was not con idered a grand slam because the ball was tipped off of a DeAnza player 's glove.

The Lady Jags had two losses and one win in the Merced Tournam e nt during th e weekend of April 16- 18.

Coming up for the Jags' are home games against Cabri llo College of Santa Cruz today at 3 p.m.

Friday the Lady Jags travel to Chabot Co llege for a conference meeting at 3 p.m.

JeffWamey Sport: Baseball Went 4 for 5 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI In Thesday's 11-1 win over MPC.

Steven J. Choy/ The Times Jason Burkhart shows good form as he practices his drive at the Villiages golf course.

Steven J. Choy and Mari Matsumoto Monday 's co nfe renc e win against Canada College has given the Sa n Jo e City Collge go lf team some hope of post-season play.

The team shot a score of 387 to Canada's 404, an average of 77.4 per player, abo ut 5 over Menlo Country Club 's par 72 course.

On e of the highlights of Monday 's match was Chuck Bonnici 's performance wh ich earned him a score of 75. Clint McDonnell has had a 75 average

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With athletes like Steven Harris on the team it's no wo nder why the Jag's remain undefeated.

Despite losing three sprinters to injury las t week the team managed to beat West Val ley, Chabot, and Merit.

Harris set as ide hi s ro le as the team ' record setting pole vaultor in order to help the jags win some of the track events.

Harri ran the I 00 meter da h in I0.86 econds to take first place. then Harris ran a 2 1.86 to wi n the 200.

With the track ea on wi nding dow n to an end the Jags (ranked econd in or Cal) prepare for thi s week Conference Championhip . ·'At the beginning of the season I thought we would win conference ea i Iy.'· aid head coac h Stephen Haas. ··B ut with three of my printer out with injuries it ' gonna be a little tougher than I had hoped. " The team now ha to rely on its throwing events. ophomore throwers ick Garcia and Brando n Goldstien will have to pick up the extra lack.

The J ags, howeve r, are no

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in the last two matches.

"Right now we're trying to set our goals to make the Northern California Conference (tournament) as a team ," said head coach Don Stagnaro. "We' re close but we are not there yet."

Stagnaro spoke of his team's cha nces to make the Nor Cal championship tournament on May 3 as an entire team.

Several individual players already are playing well enough to make the Nor Cal tourney said Stagnaro.

One of those individ uals is sophomore Steve Smoot, which Stagnaro says is the team's num-

ber one player currently.

"He knows the game of gotf," said Stagnaro. "He has a good long game."

Teammates Chuck Bonnici , Clint McDonnell , Shan e Giorgiani and David Dieter also may make the Nor Cal tournament.

In order to make the tournament as an individual, players must be ranked in the top five players in the conference outside of the players that belong to the conference's top three teams.

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F. Y.I. "For Your Information"

• The San Jose City College Theater will be presenting "Tartuffe" at 7:30p.m. from April 23-24 and ar 2 p.m. on April 25. Please call (408) 298-2181 ext. 3602 for more information.

• A representative from UC Santa Cruz will be in the City College transfer center from 9 a.m . to 1 p.m. on April 27. (

• The 21st Century Awareness Day will be held from 1-3 p.m. in the City College Auxiliary Gym on April 28.

• A representative from UC Berkeley will be in the transfer center from l 0 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 28.

• City College music in tructor Kevin Frey will be performing "Didjerid u" at 5:30p.m. in the theater on April 29. Admission is free.

• A representative from the National Hispanic University will be in the tran fer center from 9 a.m . to I p.m. on May 3.

• A representative from CSU Monterey will be in the tran fer center from 9 a.m. to I p.m. on May 5.

• The Cinco De Mayo celebrations will begin May 3. For more information, please call 298-2181 ext. '3901.

• The Hall of Excellence will be held at the Backbeat at 6 p.m. on M ay I 6. Tickets are $12 for people with ASB cards and $15 without. Anyone interested in nominating someone for the Hall of Excellence awards can get more information by calling Lauren Wood at 3942 or Tamara Goldie at ext. 3149.

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Shootin g - - - - - - - -from -page I designer for the San Jose/ Evergreen College Di strict said, "Two word , Media Coverage.

Two days ago the phrase ' trench coat mafia ' was known only to a select group of students. Today everybody knows it."

"Thi group of people need attention and got it in the most desperate manner possi ble." He aid.

Julie Rieken , the ASB president sa id that she thought that the youth violence had increased because, " We don ' t take care of our children in our society. There is not enough support for youth, not enough money spent on programs they

need."

"They are a product of our society and we need to do more to prevent this kind of thing from happening." She said.

Vanessa Parker, a psychology major attributed the violence to the fact that we have become" ... a godless nation." She added that lack of religion leads to "hatred and violence."

Those of us who are sane will never understand what brings on that kind of madness and with the suicide of Harris and Klebold we may never know the why in that particular shooting.

Maybe that is what haunts me most of all.

16 week - - - - - - - - -from page I tember.

"The faculty is till divided on the issue of a four day or five day plan ," said Pat Butler, Academic Senate President. " I'd like to see a calendar where we eliminate the final exams week and/or tack on five days to the pring emester and decrease the non-instructional day to maybe five. We could easily s hoe horn a seme ter that hegins after Sept. I and lets out before Christmas," Butler said .

Another concern is the impact this new calendar may have on working students . Evening students would hardly notice the change, but morning and afternoo n students who plan their sc hooling around their work c hedule may not be able to e nroll in as many sections as they would like due to extended class

periods and overlapping course section.

A faculty member has suggested a poll to gauge students thoughts and reactions to the 16-week sched ule.

"The average from community colleges around the country how 15-16 week semester calendars to be the norm , " aid Albert. "Santa Monica College went over to a 16-week calendar last year and their results have been very positive both instructionally and enrollmentwise" "A longer summer would definitely be cool," said Marisa Darengowski a Project Advance student. ''I'm not opposed to it. I think I would be able to maintain decent grades with longer class hours, it may even be beneficial."

Shawna Lisk Staff Writer Earthday 1999 is being celebrated at the San Jose City Coll ege campu gallery today and Friday.

Artists, ranging from a sixthgrade e lementary school student to professional, submi tted work in a variety of mediums, including; photography, mixed media, drawings, paintings, and even fingerpainti ng.

Michele Heemskcrk , a Dental lab technician in the dental assisting program at Ci ty Coll ege, contributed four photos to the Earthday exhibition.

Heemskerk, who has been practicing photography off and on as a hobby fo r the last 20 years, generally take photographs fo r her own pleasure.

However, she allowed Peter D'Eiiscu, a biology instructo r and organizer of the Earthday celebrations, to talk her into exhibiting her work.

In deciding what to photograph she takes her time, and looks for just the right pot to photograph, she said .

"I look for things that aren't di sturbed yet," Heemskerk said .

"Something that has been left to grow on it' s own."

Janice Shum's finger painted picture of a fish titled "Koi", was painted last year and is a richly-textured piece of art painted when she was in the sixth-grade.

A Koi fish is a bottom feeder fish, but Shum decided to title the picture Koi because the word represents power, longevity and family in the Japanese language.

For the first time the gallery has put up a snapshot wall that everyone can hang their

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Untitled, by Daphne Yap, is one of the many pain tings in the gallery pictures on.

Ten people have contributed to the wall including Vicki and Rick Torres both of which biology majors and members of the Biology group here at City College.

Dick Davi s, a former faculty member staunch environmentalist and Sierra club member pioneered Earthday celebrations at City College approximately 25 years ago.

Three years ago, D'Eiiscu sw itched the focus of the celebrations to art work.

The biology group, including Vicki and Rick Torres, Diane Parkerson, Sara Gogstetter and

Lawrence Garcia, contributed their art work to the Earthday celebrations.

Over the last five years the biology group has adopted the Moss Landing State Beach and carted over 1,700 pounds of trash off the beach.

They also have helped to build trails, cleaned creeks and circulated petitions which were sent to Diane Feinstein to help salvage the Headwater old growth forest in Humboldt County.

For those who are interested in becoming a part of the biolog) group, D'Eiiscu can be reached at (408) 298-2 181 , ext. 3989.

secure a spot in the Nor Cal tourney.

The Jags' next match will be against Gavilan College at San Juan Oaks Golf Course today at I p.m.

Crawford reinstated as negotiator

tential , the team has suffered from inconsistent play that has earned them a conference record of 6-6.

"One person does well one - - -fr-om - p-ag-e=-7 week and the next week someone else does well ," said Stagnaro. stranger to being under staffed. " We have not played well as a Earlier this eason they had to team." face a stacked Santa Rosa team The inconsistent play cannot without pole vaultor Steven be placed in any specific area.

Harris .

Harris who was at the This year's team has been Community College National strengthened with depth as Championships where he vaulted opposed to last year's team. a personal record I 7' 6" alsQ runs "We have more potential in spri nt events to help give the depth wise," said Staganaro. team points.

"Our first four players were Fortunately, the Jags managed really good last year, this year to beat Santa Rosa without our fifth and sixth players can Harris. play."

Unfortunately it's not Harris The team has already i ntensiwho will be missi ng this week its fied their effort to make Nor Cal three other sprinters. as a unit by outplaying their Coach Haas hopes the team opponents in Monday 's victory will, " step it up, and score points against Canada. in other areas.

With only one more match After the Conference Champiand a conference tournament left onship the Jags will strive to on the schedule, the Jaguar's golf make it to the State Finals on team will need concentrate and May, 15. stay focused in order to win and

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Phil Crawford, an Admini · tration of Justice instructor at San Jo e City College, has been reinstated as the interin cheif negotiator for the Faculty Association by the new FA presi dent Kelley Wells .

Currenty the FA is involved collective bargaining with the San Jose/Evergreen Communi!}' College District.

Last day to drop a class with a Wis April30.