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Volume 80 Issue 4
Cosmetology students steal show SJCC team places in every category in the Santa Cruz Hair Show Student Competition BY NOE MAGANA TIMES STAFF
Five teams from San Jose City College traveled to the Santa Cruz Hair Show Student Competition on Oct. 4 and returned home with multiple first place awards. Seventeen other community college teams from all over the Bay Area entered the competition, seeking to dethrone SJCC from first place in the overall look category. Teams were judged on five categories; hair, nails, makeup, model and overall look. The SJCC cosmetology students shone once again in the team category placing first, for the second year in a row, and third in the overall look. The members of the first place team are Nereyda Castro, Maria Mendoza, Alyssa Krauter and Autumn Tyrrell. “(Placing) is important for us because we could see what we really are capable of,” Mendoza, 19, said. Mendoza said competing and placing were also important for the program because it reflected well on the school and the education cosmetology students obtain. There were several individual awards within the first place group. Tyrrell was awarded first place as a hair technician and Mendoza won second place as a makeup technician. The team that placed third in the overall category included Ruby Banaga, Sarah Millsap, Stephanie Ott and David Student Maria Mendoza Nulasco. The individual awards for the team included Nulasco receiving second place as a hair technician, Ott receiving second place as a nail technician and Millsap placing third as a model. Each team had four members; three technicians and a model, and the teams were given one hour, and 30 minutes
“(Placing) is important for us because we could see what we are really capable of.”
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(Left and lower center) Alyssa Krauter in costume, front and back. (Top right) First place team winners in the overall category, left to right, Nereyda Castro, Maria Mendoza, Alyssa Krauter and Autumn Tyrrell in the Santa Cruz Hair Show Student Competition on Oct. 4. (Lower right) From left, Teresa Garrett, Sarah Millsap, Anna Martin, Alyssa Krauter and Seryna Anderson.
to work on the model. “Competition is good in general because it allows them (students) to be very open with their creativity,” Del Rosario said. Other notable awards included Irma Cazares’, 21, second place finish as a nail technician. Cazares said she was a late addition to her team. She was invited to join the team less than a week before the competition. She wanted to work on hair but that spot was taken, so her teammates convinced her to do nails. Cazares said she was happy with the result. She felt it served as proof for her and her family that she does well
in school and that she takes advantage of everything her family has done for her. Del Rosario said the biggest challenge the students faced in the two-week preparation for the competition and during the competition was working all at the same time on the model. “The significance of our students participating is the fact that they get recognition, not just within San Jose City College but as far as Northern California,” del Rosario said. “Out of the five groups that entered, four groups took a place, and we won all across for every category that they had an award for.”
An understanding world at peace Professor in search of a united community
BY NOE MAGANA TIMES STAFF
Gerald Grudzen, 75, philosophy professor, has traveled around the world seeking education, community building and now religious acceptance within the different beliefs. Grudzen said he attended the Parliament of World Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 15 representing the delegation from Santa Clara County with the Silicon Valley Interreligious Council. Ten Grudzen thousand people attended the meeting that represents all religious groups including indigenous communities. Grudzen said the SIVIC, “attempts to look at different issues which have spiritual or religious dimensions to them.” Grudzen said he was drawn to Latin America in the beginning of his career trying to train leaders on how to
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communicate with other leaders with different ideologies. Also, he was involved doing community development work, building schools or educating communities how to respect other beliefs, for various countries, including Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela, raising money for projects and attending conferences. “(Grudzen is) very interesting, very easy to chat with. A pleasant and very intelligent fellow,” said Sean Abel, Dean of Social Sciences. Grudzen said his focus shifted toward the Middle East two months after he helped his daughter move into an apartment in New York. “I was at home when my sister called me … and she said ‘turn on the TV, the twin towers are coming down,’” Grudzen said. “I can remember turning on the TV and I said, ‘I wonder where is my daughter.’” Grudzen said it took 24 hours to contact his daughter who was working at a hospital treating injured people due to the Sept. 11 attack. Although the attack in New York shifted the whole nation’s attention towards the Middle East, Grudzen continued to work in other parts of the world to bring people together through understanding.
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Philosophy professor Gerald Grudzen lectures during his Logic and Critical Thinking class on Oct. 22. Grudzen said he and his wife travel to Kenya every summer where they have developed a course on interfaithintercultural dialogue and raised the funds to kick start the program five years ago. He and his wife train teachers and religious leaders on how to understand each other and get along better.
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