Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016
The Voice of San Jose City College Since 1956
Volume 82 Issue 1
Connecting with the homeless Cosmetology students give back to residents BY ALEX MARTINET TIMES STAFF
The cosmetology department provided free services for a group of women who were either homeless or not doing well.
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The Women’s Gathering Place provided a shopping spree on site for clothing, jewelry, shoes and purses. Students were assigned a woman to work with for makeup, hair and manicures.
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This isn’t the first time cosmetology participated in community activities; the department works alongside other organizations, but this was the first time with this particular group. Susan Zagar, an instructor at San Jose City College for 10 years, noticed that students were nervous at first about working with homeless people, but most quickly got over that fear. Students were “working on who were maybe aren’t functioning well in society, so they were very abrasive about what we are going to run into. What if someone is really difficult?” Zagar said. During the day, Zagar said, there were some issues with the homeless, but not in a violent way. “Some weren’t real receptive of what was going on,” Zagar said. “They were doing it, but you could tell there was a little bit of anger or just who knows what was in the background. They all had stories, but it was great to see students come out of that just saying this was amazing we should do this again.” At the end of the day, students were laughing alongside each other having a good time with their clients. Ewere Aideyan, a cosmetology major who graduated in the spring, noticed that she got a smile out of the angry ones. “There was a male there that was trench
PHOTO COURTESY OF COSMETOLOGY INSTRUCTOR SUSAN ZAGAR Shannon Bulosan, right, cosmetology senior student at San Jose City College, connects with Anna Moore. over and when he sat down he immediately started crying because he said that never had a makeover before. After a few short moments he was so helpful and grateful for everyone’s work,” Aideyan said. When the event got going some students were overwhelmed and were anxious when clients walked through the door. Shannon Bulosan, a cosmetology senior student, had anxiety but it was met right away with her excitement to help out the community. “When I first met Anna Moore, I was just really happy to have her. She was really open and somehow I got personal to the point that she is now going to go to my church,” Bulosan said. “I was just really happy to have her as my client that I was volunteering for. My experience was something that I couldn’t forget and something that I want to continue
doing because I really want to work for the community. Helping the homeless made Aideyan more humbled, she said. It made her want to make an impact in the community and help others. “I don’t have much to give as far as financially, but I know I can give back something. So I just want to make an impact. When I leave here, I like people to remember me in a positive light,” Aideyan said Both Aideyan and Bulosan found that giving back to others was actually a great stress relief and validation for their hard work. If the opportunity came again both said they would eagerly jump at the chance to do it again. “A lot of the times you become a therapist and you don’t even know it,” Aideyan said. “Sometimes it’s just the touch of your hand and you don’t even know it. It’s just being there that is therapeutic for them.”
Changing the mindset in the tech industry for minorities
Learn about the MMA club on campus. See page 2
Tips and tricks for new students
Informing students on what to do and what not to do during your first year at San Jose City College. See page 3
Fashion Show
BY ALEX MARTINET TIMES STAFF
The Silicon Valley is trying to solve one of its oldest bugs, diversity. For the past 20 years, the tech industry has been trying to intergrate more minorities into the engineering field in order to prompt gender equality in the future. Toni Vanwinkle, Adobe senior director of service management, addressing the lack of minority people in the field of technolgy among panelists at a movie event, said, “We have an issue.” “Code: Debugging The Gender Gap” is a documentary film, directed by Robin Hauser Reynolds that highlights the absence of American female and minorities entering engineering field. The film was released in 2015, and was Tribeca Film Festival nominee when it premiered. In the film, Reynolds highlights the battle for gender equality, workplace, to computer science classes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2020, 1.4 million jobs will be created, however minorities are only expected to get three percent. The documentary points to the lack of computer science education taught in middle schools and high schools in the United States. In 2013, nine out of 10 high schools didn’t support computer science classes. Additionally in 33 of 50 states, computer sci-
PHOTO BY ALEX MARTINET / TIMES STAFF Gretchen Walker (left), Adrienne Harnell Jim Brisimitzis, Hannah Lewbel, Toni Vanwinkle and Carlos Inda (right). ence classes do not count toward high school math or science graduation requirements, according to the documentary. Because of this, many Silicon Valley companies have been male-minded and driven. Apple, Twitter, Google and Facebook, 80 percent dominated by men, make the pipeline for woman to rise in the field harder. Also, women’s issues in these companies are not brought to the table during the design process, the documentary reports. After the film was over, a panel consisting of Gretchen Walker, Jim Brisimitzis, Hannah Lewbel, Toni Vanwinkle and Carlos Inda discussed the themes behind the film. Brisimitzis, general manager of U.S. Startups
at Microsoft, was happy about the improvement he has seen, and wants to make a difference. “Fifty percent of my team are females (11 members),” Brisimitzis said . “What I love about what they bring to the table is they’re versatile. They challenge the norms and they’re interested about how we, Microsoft, interact with our community, which we frankly fallen behind on. It’s enjoyable watching that interaction take a new direction.” Byron Breland, president of San Jose City College, said he sees an opportunity to get ahead of the issue regarding gender equality that allows individuals to be trained to compete for jobs.
The “Small Groups” communication class put on a Project Runway show outside the Technology Center in which the groups displayed their creativity through costumes. See page 6
Campus map
Check out the updated map that highlights all the places to go on campus. See page 4
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