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DID YOU KNOW THE ASG IS SPENDING YOUR MONEY
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Volume 81 Issue 3
The submission for scholarships is near
Take back your own money today Rabih Chahine
“Signing up for the guidance 96 class is a great step in helping students with finding a career as well as helping students with applying for scholarships.” Chiem also encourages students to
keep their grades up and to join a club on campus because this will help students with applying for scholarships. Chiem encourages students to going online to the SJCC website and searching through the
many scholarships. This is the first step for any student to take in order to apple for free money. The money is waiting for students and only those students can gather that cash back.
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With more than 51 different applications on the San Jose City College website any student is eligible to sign up, however students are not applying. The Associated Students Government voiced their concerns during their regular Wednesday 2 P.M meetings. With all the information on the website it still has not reached student like Leticia Avalos, 24, who is majoring in accounting and business administration stated one of the main problems that interferers with students ability to sign up for scholarships is the lack of guidance Leticia announced her concerns while waiting for her consoler in the Student Center. “The information for scholarships and where to get help should be bold on the front page of the campus website,” Leticia stated. Leticia said she was disappointed knowing her college did not have a club or a program that would focus solely on scholarships. The amounts of available funds for student scholarships have increased but the amounts of applications received have sliced compared to last year. Lila Chiem who is one of SJCC adviser on campus has some advice for new students and recurring students.
Oponna O’Hara on left and Rabih Chahine Searching Scholarships
PHOTO BY JON CALAMATEOS/ TIMES STAFF
Opinion: Apple in courtroom standoff with FBI
Liberty still trumps safety for Apple BY DAVID XAVIEL TIMES STAFF
I begin with a question I once asked in a political science class after September 11, 2001: What good is liberty if you are dead, but what good is life if you have no liberty? Yet, at the end of the day, liberty should always trump safety. A good example of a country that was more concerned with national security than with the sovereignty of the individual is Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. And as we have learned from whistle-blower Ed Snowden, the government will find ways to invade your privacy regardless of whether it is legal. I would rather live in country where the government has to feel uneasy about invading the privacy of its citizens to protect them, rather than be coaxed into absolving the government of guilt for unconstitutional activity. I accept that national security requires dirty work, but I want the government to feel uneasy about doing it. That should be part of the burden of the social contract.
Maybe, there are times when big brother should be watching, but I don’t want big brother to feel validated for doing it. The courtroom standoff between Apple Inc. and the Federal Bureau of Investigations is most important conversation about technology and digital privacy. The standoff began after a judge
ordered the Cupertino-based company to write code to hack into the phone of Syed Farook, whom was behind the shootings in San Bernardino last December. The Silicon Valley based business believes that the U.S. government, anonymous hackers, or governments like China and Russia would potentially abuse
Apple iphones and possible invasion of privacy
a backdoor to unlock products. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) echoed the sentiment in saying, “If the FBI can force Apple to build a key, you can be sure authoritarian regimes like China, and Russia will turn around and force Apple to hand it over to them .... They will use that key to oppress their own people and steal U.S. trade secrets.” Apple CEO, Tim Cook, issued a statement that the company believes, “While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect,” and expects that the government, “form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology and civil liberties to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy and personal freedoms.” That is why the company store has contested a judge’s order to write codes for the FBI to unlock the phone of Farook.
See Apple, page 6
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JON CALAMATEOS AND ALEX MARTINET/ TIMES STAFF
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