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Dance students practice at the Carmen Castellano Fine Arts Center for upcoming fall show. is about the celebration of life and death, the pros and cons. TIMES STAFF Gaytan’s inspiration for dance “Dance Expressions,” a began in high school with a class student choreographed dance instructor. While at Yerba Buena concert, will be held High School, Gaytan took modern Nov. 20-22. dance, jazz, ballet, hip-hop “Dance is an and hula and was inspired expression, a sense of to pursue dance at San liberty and a magical Jose City College. place,” student The best part of dance choreographer Kevin class is the connections Gaytan said. you make with other Everyone in the dance dancers, and it keeps you GAYTAN performance has his or healthy, Gaytan said. her own performance and Gaytan said he plans to transfer each has a message. to San Jose State University, travel Gaytan’s solo performance has and dance professionally in New a message about how society does York and Los Angeles with other not accepte certain groups. The performance is also about feelings dance groups. “Not just anyone can be a of sadness and negativity. choreographer,” said dance Gaytan, working toward a instructor Carol Abohatab. To bachelor’s degree in fine arts and become a choreographer at San sociology, also choreographs another dance performance but does Jose City College, a student not perform in it. This performance must enroll in a prerequisite
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SJCC student Lliana Campos practices dance moves at Fine Arts Building Wednesday, Nov. 5.
Softball team best GPA in CA Lady Jags as good off the field as on BY ZACH TATAR TIMES STAFF
The National Fastpitch Coaches Association released the 2014 AllAcademic top-25 teams Saturday, Nov. 1 and San Jose City College women’s softball team is ranked No. 20 in the nation and first in California among community college with a 3.069 GPA. This is the third season in a row head coach Debbie HuntzeRooney’s team has been ranked among the best in the nation in all academics. “Coach Rooney is the reason why we had the record GPA” Sophomore outfielder Ja’nee Miskell said. “Whether or not we were good students she made us into good students.” Huntze-Rooney said her team works hard in the classroom.
“Academics is No.1.That is our first priority.” Huntze-Rooney said. Huntze-Rooney has each of her players set an academic goal of a 3.0 GPA which is far greater than SJCC’s required 2.0 for athletic eligibility. She helps players achieve that goal with mandatory study hours. Players with a 3.0 or below must spend at least six hours of studying a week, 3.0 and above only have to do four. Sophomore second baseman Kallie Klinger knew the team was strong academically,” but I never knew we would be that strong,” Klinger said. “The sophomores were really good at motivating us,” Klinger said. “We all knew we had to get our studying done first, then we can go out and eat and socialize.
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Rooney is “theCoach reason why we had the record GPA. ”
choreographer class in the spring. After this class the student is able to choreograph in the fall and is eligible to choreograph a performance. Student choreographers create and perform the fall dance performances, and faculty members choreograph the spring dance performances. Fast forward to the performance night, and Gaytan anticipates the feel of all eyes on him, the audience and feelings of excitement. “Dance is not only physically demanding of your body, but a dancer must be able to execute a movement, which requires a dancer to also utilize his or her mind,” Gaytan said. “Dance Expressions” will be held at the San Jose City College Theatre. Admission is $5 for students. General admission is $10. Tickets can be purchased at the door and cash is preferred.
BY ESTHELA RAMIREZ TIMES STAFF
A college professor in mathematics can have a strong influence in the lives of students. Vinh Kha NGUYEN Nguyen, who has taught math at San Jose City College for three years, is an active professor who helps students to become involved in learning math. His philosophy is to let his students lead the class and make them think and work with classmates. Nguyen presents a problem to his students, gives them time to work it out, then he solves the problems on the board and explains how he solved them. He always asks if the students have any questions because he wants to make sure everyone understands the subject.
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Jaguars begin season in tournament
Sophomore outfielder Ja’nee Miskell
We needed to keep our grades up in order to play or else coach would make us run.” Aside from being great in the classroom, the Jags also succeeded on the field. An overall record of 22-17 and 10-7 in Coast-South Conference play was enough for them to advance to the regional playoffs. The Lady Jaguars finished with a .336 batting average, .400 onbase percentage and .556 slugging percentage as a team and all while adding 45 home runs for fifth most in California. The Lady Jags’ season starts next semester, Thursday, Feb. 5 when they play a doubleheader at Lady Jag Field at SJCC.
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CARR KICKS OFF 40TH SEASON AS SJCC’S HEAD COACH Some of the best community college men’s basketball teams in the state gathered at San Jose City College for the Jaguars’ annual Tip-Off Tournament on Nov 6-8. In the photo, SJCC men’s basketball team celebrates first home victory against Cosumnes River College on Thursday, Nov. 6. Jags placed third out of eight teams. Please visit http://sjcctimes.com to read the full story.
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Nguyen’s students say he is a good teacher who cares about them. “He is a friendly professor who is easy to approach and talk to,” student Merciful Sarin said. Other students said he is strict in the way he grades their homework and tests. Nguyen knows math is not a subject for everyone, not everyone wants to be a professor. However, he always encourages students to become a teacher in math. Teaching is one of the most important careers and teaching math in a community college is rewarding, Nguyen said. He explains to his students the great things about being a professor in math. He said he feels proud to see young students learn all the rules in algebra and learn how to work in statistics. “It takes time to prepare and master all theorems and rules,” he said. Nguyen is not sure what exactly influenced him to become a teacher. As a young professor, he always has a great time finding solutions to math problems. He said as a high school student he knew he wanted to interact with young kids and help them. His interest in teaching continued to grow through high school. One day one of his professors inspired him to follow his dream to become a teacher. Nguyen has taught Calculus 071 and Statistics. He has been working for three years at SJCC. His first internship was as a volunteer at the tutorial center at SJCC. He helped students and earned experience teaching in math. He considers himself a “friendly and supportive faculty member.”
His passion for working with numbers enables him to enjoy teaching any subject regarding math with enthusiasm. Nguyen’s students recognize him as a responsible and intelligent professor with great experience and knowledge in math to share with students. Nguyen is an energetic, ambitious professor who works hard to achieve his dreams. He considers himself an “open-minded and optimistic professor who is willing to support students.” He said he is having a great time being a part of SJCC. He says SJCC is a great place to teach the young generation, “a nice place to be a volunteer and earn some experience.” He also likes that SJCC is near his home so he doesn’t have “to worry about heavy traffic every morning.” Nguyen graduated from UC Davis in 2012 and earned a master’s degree at San Jose State. Nguyen said his goal is to become a full-time professor. At this time, he is only a part-time professor at SJCC and at College of San Mateo. He said he likes the way SJCC is growing. “The new buildings equipped with technology make instruction more effective and approachable to many students,” he said. Nguyen’s hobbies include traveling and hiking. Last summer, he went to Europe with friends and had a wonderful time, he said. He recommends his students visit Europe, Washington and Alaska in summer. To Nguyen, SJCC is a marvelous place for young students to pursue higher education and transfer. SJCC provides numerous workshops and other opportunities that allow students to meet the representatives from four-year schools to which they might transfer.
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Easy way to make pumpkin pie Compiled by Erika Arevalo / Times Staff Pumpkin pie is a traditional dessert that cannot be missed on the dinner table for Thanksgiving celebration. The Native Americans brought pumpkins as gifts to the first European settlers in southern New England in 1621. This dessert was developed into pumpkin pie about 50 years after the first Thanksgiving in America.
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ed butter and then add the flour until it forms into dough. Using a deep-dish pie plate (recommended 9-½” across and 2” tall) press the dough into the bottom and extend all over the plate using your hands or a measuring cup. If the dough feels too sticky put some flour on your hands or the cup. Cover with a plastic wrap and let it chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. While preparing the filling preheat the oven at 350 degrees. Place the rack onto the lower third and a baking sheet to heat up. Tip: using the baking sheet will help the crust to crisp up and not become soggy.
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Filling preparation: Mix all the filling ingredients until all incorporated. Pour the filling into the crust and place the pie on the hot baking sheet to bake for 50-70 minutes. You will know the pie is ready when it turns brown on the top and the filling is just set but still jiggles in the center. Take the pie out with the baking sheet and let it cool completely. Serve with some whip cream if desire. Happy Thanksgiving!
Ingredients for the crust: 1 stick of butter = ½ cup 1 tbs vegetable oil ½ tsp salt 1 ⅓ cups of flour Ingredients for the pumpkin filling: 15 oz plain pumpkin puree 14 oz sweetened condense milk 2 eggs 1 tbs ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground nutmeg ½ tsp salt ⅛ tsp ground cloves Crust preparation: Microwave the stick of butter in a bowl for 30 seconds or as soon it melts and let it cool down. Mix the vegetable oil, salt and sugar with the melt-
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