San Jose City College Times, Vol. 82, Issue 6, Dec 6, 2016

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Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016

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Higher education stands up for DACA California colleges join in support of controversial program

BY MELISSA MARIA MARTINEZ TIMES STAFF

California’s higher education system is the largest in the world and on Tuesday, Nov. 29, the heads of all three systems came together in a letter to president-elect Donald Trump urging him to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on behalf of DACA students.

This includes Janet Napolitano, former Secretary of Homeland Security and current president for the University of California’s higher education system, the chancellor for California State Universities and the chancellor for California Community Colleges.

What is DACA? On June 15, 2012, former Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano issued an announced that individuals who came or were brought into the U.S. as children may request consideration for a deference (deferred deportation) if they met certain eligibility requirements.

Although it did not grant them lawful status it did allow them to obtain work permits and continue to pursue their education without the daily threat of deportation.

Since then, hundreds of thousands have come forward to register themselves in the program.

During the presidential campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump, promised to end the DACA program and deport all who were in the United States unlawfully.

After the election, these individuals are once again in danger of expulsion from the only country they have ever known, some have never spoken any other language other than English; many attend San Jose City College and are active participants to the betterment of the institution.

Unity and Action Rally held today, Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 12:30 p.m.

All are welcome and encouraged to join San Jose City College students for a peaceful march and rally.

The gathering will begin at 12:30 p.m. on the corner of Moorpark and Leigh Ave. March will proceed from Moorpark and Leigh to the Technology Center then back through campus to the Student Center where the rally will be held.

(PHOTO BY LEZRA CHENPORTILLO) Transgender Awareness panel Kelly J. Kelly social justice activist, Robyn Adams graphic designer and Aron Sanchez SJCC graduate responding to Q & A Nov 28 2015 on SJCC campus room T415

Transgender Awareness Panel and Discussion

Inaugural Safe Zone event

BY MICHELLE BLAIR GUEST WRITER

Hosted by Professor Michelle Blair, with the Office of Students AffairsThe Transgender Awareness Panel and Discussion was a success, with over 70 people in attendance. Three panelists, Kelly J. Kelly, Robyn Adams, and Aron Valdez (an SJCC graduate), spoke honestly and compellingly about their experience being non-gender-conforming. Q & A followed the speakers.

Finally, Transgender Day of Remembrance (which takes place annually, on Nov. 20) was honored as names were read aloud from a partial list of those who had been killed in 2016 by anti-transgender violence.

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Huge thanks go to Lezra Chenportillo of the Transfer Center; Maria Avalos of the Student Affairs Office; Judy Wessler of the President’s Office; and President Byron Breland and V.P. of Student Affairs Roland Montemayor, who make sure that equity and inclusivity abound on our campus. Look for more Safe Zone events next semester.

If you are interested in becoming part of Equality, SJCC’s LGBTQ-Straight Alliance, please contact Michelle Blair at: michelle.blair@sjcc. edu. The club is in the process of being formed, so your input is greatly encouraged.

Fermentation offered spring 2017 CHEM 61 Fermentation is a new course being offered as a general elective next semester for non-science majors and students who have never taken chemistry before. The class is CSU and UC articulated which means you can take this course as a general science requirement Student becomes award winning teacher The American Chemical Society honored Dr. Mark Zheng, former city college adjunct chemistry professor, at the ACS Teacher Scholar Award Dinner held at San Jose City College Thursday, Nov. 17 Child care center updates SJCC Associated Student Government is collaborating with student organizations on campus to bring back the Child Development Center.

Show your support and get updates as they happen by texting ChildDevCenter to 51555.

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Dr. Karen Hurst needs your help translating documents for refugees. If you can translate English into Farsi, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Korean, Somali, Tigrinya and/or Amharic contact Karen.

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2 Opinion

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016

Trump does not trump democracy

Time for the debate to begin, again

BY REGINALD LUCIOUS WEBB Times Staff Hillary Clinton said “love trumps hate,” but she did not realize the power that galvanizing hate can have. We must never underestimate it. The violence we have seen and will continue to see is testament to that.

Donald Trump is now president-elect of the United

States. As offensive as this may be to a lot of Americans, a peaceful transition of power must take place.

As this transition takes place let’s have the conversations and debates we need to heal this nation. Do not hesitate to be a part of it.

President Obama eloquently stated: We need to have, set and succeed in our goals. Resist cynicism and doubt as much as possible. Let us protect the most vulnerable in society, women and children, immigrant, citizen or undocumented. It is essential that we come together as a commu-

Letters to the Editor

Students voice concern after election

Regarding Benjamin Castro’s opinion article “Somebody, please, wake me up”: While I agree that it is terrifying to know that president-elect, Donald Trump is “immature, unfiltered, disrespectful and with no government experience,” this article could have been developed further by addressing more of the issues that students on our campus may face with this event’s occurrence.

One of these issues being that Trump threatens to mass deport DACA students and their families.

A concern that arises from this is how many of these students have already placed money in American schools and with these deportations they must return to a country they barely know along with a mass amount of debt from trying to receive an education.

It will also cost the United States up to $23,480 to deport one person, according to Jana Kasperkevic of Business Insider.

This decision encourages the violation of the rights of DACA students obtained, to work and study in the United States lawfully.

Trump has already spoken on how he wants to ban all Muslims and if he is already planning on deporting DACA students, this can lead to him disregarding the human rights of many more minorities in the country.

An article on the views of DACA students at our school postelection would be an interesting read; they have not had the opportunity to voice their opinions on the subject yet.

Rosalia Mena 

Undocumented students beware The plight of D.A.C.A. under the Donald

To SJCC newspaper: I am writing this letter as a plea to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration act from being obliterated by Donald Trump.

There are many reimbursements that DACA has for immigrants as well as for the federal government and United States citizens. Statistics have proven that DACA has increased wages, brought in more money in taxes, provided a safer driving environment and decreased public aid spending.

Although DACA has been in effect just three years it has had an impact on wages in the U.S. People receiving little over $11 (an hour) saw a 45 percent wage increase, $17 an hour on average.

Since DACA, immigrants have a chance to get a better education and go into a career that suits them which benefits both immigrants and US citizens. According to a survey of DACA Recipients taken June 2015, 62 percent of immigrants employed under DACA have been able to make more money and are paying taxes creating more tax revenue and improving the U.S. economy.

Also DACA immigrants can obtain a license which makes our streets safer and they are able to get insurance.

DACA has done great things for this country in the past three years like raising wages, providing a safe driving environment, raising tax revenue and lowering state aid costs. It would be an embarrassment for our country to deny 665,000 people this program when it provides great advantages for our country as well as DACA immigrants. Please consider this.

Katelynn Ashley 

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nity and not remain indifferent when an individual or group is treated unjustly.

The world is watching and we need the world to know that Trump was not the will of the American people—as many claim—he was the will of a highly motivated group who thrive off anger and hate; but anger is unsustainable.

Trump has sacrificed our peace to win his election but he has also exposed our country’s core struggle which is defining who we are and who we want to be.

Now is the time to continue this debate. 

BY HEATHER CLARK Guest Writer Imagine walking onto a college campus and being arrested: You’ve committed no crime, your grades are good and you have goals and ambitions that contribute to the well-being of the United States.

This is the scenario Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students may face when Donald Trump takes office as President of the United States of America.

DACA students register in order to legally remain and work in the U.S. despite their status, but such a registry would be convenient for anyone wishing to mass deport undocumented immigrants; something Trump promised to do in his 2016 campaign, something that appealed to about half of the voting population.

Students may regret adding their names to the list, as they could easily be targeted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) if DACA goes away under our next president.

Some students may wish to register for DACA before fees go up Dec. 23 of this year but students eligible for DACA should delay to register until Trump’s immigration policy is in effect and fully understood.

Judging from the tone of the 2016 election—promises of mass deportation, support for president-elect Trump from groups like the KKK—DACA students should be cautious.

Historically, when one group is targeted by a regime it does not end well. Adolf Hitler blamed Jewish people for the country’s problems which led to the death

of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust.

Trump supporter, Carl Higbie suggests creating a registry for Muslim people living in the U.S. and cites Japanese internment camps as precedent for national security measures. The DACA registry is already there. If Muslims are to be targeted, undocumented immigrants should not feel any safer.

UC Berkeley offers legal support to DACA students and their families, warning students that the Trump administration will have their personal information on file and urges them to be “fully aware of the risks.”

It makes sense to heed the warning from such an institution when “economic nationalist” Steven Bannon is chief strategist to Trump and videos of white supremacists celebrating his victory are circulating the internet. Images of the Nazi salute and audio of, “Hail Trump! Hail our [white] people! Hail our victory!” brings to mind dark days before the Civil Rights Movement when ‘strange fruit’ hung from trees.

We do not yet know the scope of future immigration policy, but the writing is on the wall for those who can read it.

Once a student is in the DACA registry, their entire family could become targets of mass deportation enforcement, similarly, students who reveal their undocumented status on social media, at a public event, or even privately could be subject to investigation and deportation if DACA goes away.

Lara Ibarra, a 2016 valedictorian, revealed her status on Twitter and strangers reported her to USCIS. Without the protection of DACA, Ibarra could have been subject to arrest and deportation.

Editor-in-Chief Melissa Maria Martinez

A&E Editor Maggie Zou

Videographer Hugo Legend

Photo Editor Benjamin Castro

Technology Editor Daryl Von Dunker

Faculty Adviser Farideh Dada

Reporter Reginald Lucious Webb

Opinion Uncertainty about the future of immigration legislation means students should delay DACA applications. Campaign promises to crack down on immigration, white supremacists that support Donald Trump, and historical patterns of what happens when one group of people is targeted by the government imply a dark time ahead for undocumented students who have made their lives here and have committed to working and contributing to the American economy and culture. 

(PHOTO COURTESY OF HEATHER CLARK)

Heather Clark is a preschool teacher with bilingual preschool program experience.

Clark holds her B.A. in Child and Adolescent Development from San Jose State University and is taking refresher courses at SJCC while she considers the masters program for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

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Equality is missing from society

America hides its problems instead of fixing them

BY ANGELICA TORRES GUEST WRITER

Gender inequality has always existed, it is hard to fix and taught to future generations. I want to live in a world where women are not treated as less than because of her gender.

Although we may have laws that promote equal opportunities, laws do not contribute to people’s belief that everyone is equal. America does not believe that everyone is equal.

Our president of 2016, who has a lot of influence over future generations, makes plenty of sexist remarks; for instance he compared women to buildings and added that he gets bored when they become successful.

“I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing,” said Trump. “Unfortunately, after they’re a star, the fun is over...like a creation process. It’s almost like creating a building. It’s pretty sad.”

This so-called role model is sending a message, that these discriminatory beliefs are okay and should be embraced, to society’s children.

Men continue to view women as insignificant. Yet, if women admit to how they feel about this it makes them look weak because we are proving to the men that what they do or say affects us and women are afraid to seem that vulnerable.

Michelle Obama said. “We are doing what women have always done, trying to get through it, trying to pretend that this doesn’t really bother us. Maybe because we think admitting how much it hurts, makes us as women look weak, women are grown accustomed to swallowing these emotions and keeping quiet.”

She said women react this way because they have seen that people often won’t take a woman’s word over a man.

How does raw power get to have an “un-critiqued” place in an unjust and unequal society? How does power work that when you point to its excess it makes you look weaker? Maybe it’s because when women speak up against power, their admitting to those with higher privilege that women go through these problems in the first place.

Society changes people’s mindset

into believing that if women were strong and confident enough they wouldn’t be having these issues.

Almost like when that different kid in school gets picked on by bullies, and those bullies make themselves believe that if that kid wasn’t so “weird” they wouldn’t be bothering him in the first place. The aggressor will make themselves not have a guilty conscience and continue to oppress others. Think of these gender stereotypes that men continue to proclaim, as a way of clearing their guilty conscience so they can oppress women freely.

I am going to participate in organizations and social actions that support gender equality and women’s empowerment. It’s more crucial now to begin to make these values a priority. It’s appalling to see that Americans actually agree and support the mindset of our newly elected president who ridicules and disrespects women. I find it very important to get more involved if I want to accomplish my ideal society; put an end to gender stereotyping in all aspects of society, family, school, workplace and the law. 

Foster care and abandonment

Reject intolerance, discrimination

The baggage that remains

Exercise empathy, respect, celebrate differences

BY SHAYLAH O’HARA

BY MIKE TAYLOR

GUEST WRITER

GUEST WRITER

I had always felt that my mother did not want me. While she had several opportunities to get me back by simply providing a few clean drug tests, she was unable to do so.

War, famine, poverty and corruption permeate our society like a virus. We spread violence to others, in turn create more conflict and strife.

We endlessly hunger for more until we take more than we need.

I tell myself that I ended up in the foster care system due to her addiction and that she did not intentionally choose drugs over me; while I do believe that, it still hurts.

I got stuck with staff as parent figures; staff not properly trained to deal with “troubled youth.” Troubled? Me? I was taken from my mom due to her use of drugs, her abuse and neglect, and the system called me troubled.

I would run away, right back to my mom—despite how mean and crazy she was; I just wanted my mom and every time we would pick up right where we left off—in complete chaos.

The cops would either find me or she would call them on me and they would take me back to the children’s shelter.

In these facilities, I was given no room to be a kid or to make mistakes. I wasn’t learning anything conducive to living a healthy life. I had so many obvious issues that needed to be addressed—such as abandonment, trauma, depression—but nobody cared enough or knew enough to consider that I was acting out because I had been abandoned by my mother.

Instead, I was given a look of disgust, treated like a de-

The faith we have is our only moral code, but it will slowly erode until we are left with a hollow sense of self-worth.

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28 year-old SJCC student, Shaylah O’ Hara

linquent, restrained and put on high doses of sedatives.

I was not placed in a foster home or with a foster family. I was placed in institutions that smelled and looked like mental hospitals. I could never settle in and get comfortable. It was not a home. Living out of big black plastic trash bags, I had nowhere to go, no structure, no future and no place to call home.

Drugs became my only friend.

I became my mother. I did all of the same patterns, the ones I said I would never have. I was living a miserable existence. I was not living. I was in a constant state of fear, which I expressed through anger, rage and destruction. I was a tornado.

I aged out of the foster “care” system at the age of 18 years old and was thrown into a world as if I was thrown into an ocean but never taught to swim.

I am 28 years old now and I’ve spent a majority of these past 10 years trying to learn

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how to keep my head above the water, gasping my way through life.

I hate the system, it funnels children from broken homes into institutions—most commonly jails.

I feel I am so behind in life.

There are skills that I feel I should know—such as balancing a checkbook, opening a bank account, filing taxes, loving freely, trusting others and believing in myself.

Who was supposed to teach me this? These places should be helping prepare children for their future.

I wish I could go back in time with the information I have now and advocate for myself; that vulnerable little girl who only wanted a place to call home. Shaylah O’Hara is a SJCC student who is studying to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

Blind optimism keeps us from confronting deeper problems and exploring lasting solutions.

The media distracts us from focusing on the bigger problems, instead shifting our focus on other topics until we lose sight of the big picture.

Justice I envision a future where justice truly is blind, where people are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Today the justice system serves only those who can afford a good attorney, the guilty are set free and the innocent accept blame without proper representation.

The fact that the minority and poor populations are being convicted and incarcerated at a very high rate is proof that justice is not blind. This country’s judicial system is too young to be perfect and it’s been proven to be unjust by a large margin.

Equality While we are not born under equal circumstances, we all are human and we must have equal rights to strive for equal opportu-

nities. My ideal future includes a nation that values equality; where we all share the same rights, resources, education and chance in the pursuit of happiness.

I envision a future where freedom is universal and not trumped by borders, religion, income, education or genetics, where morals and ethics are valued rather than wealth and celebrity.

Education I hope for a future where education is valued as a right, not a privilege; a right and necessity rather than an entitlement provided to only those born to the right families. Education provides people with the ability to be self-sustaining, creates self-worth and bolsters the economy.

Financial security serves to strengthen families and communities, while reducing crime and incarceration.

Solutions My future world would incentive employment and education, rather than punish and isolate disadvantaged communities.

We need to promote an open discussion as to where our country is headed, to prevent the nation from slipping into a regressive stance on polices that bind our thoughts.

To allow fear and anger to blind us in the face of adversity, keeps us from making rational decisions. We must encourage and appreciate our differences, learn from the experience of our neighbor and reject intolerance and discrimination. 

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4 Campus Life

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016

Vu’s easy start-up analogy

ness. Education is very important because it gives you a deep knowledge of the field and that is very helpful in the tech world.

BY DARYL VON DUNKER TIMES STAFF

Working at Google is like fixing an airplane and that is the only thing you are going to focus on. You are lucky, because it is like learning how things work.

Working in a Start-up is like learning to fix an airplane, while you are flying the airplane - like you change out an engine and figure out how to keep your airplane flying.

A Ph.D. program is like you are learning how to make the button on the seat in the airplane. You are making the absolute best button in the world and no one else knows how it works.

That gives you an idea of how an incubator works. So let’s say you are interested in a busi-

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Students ask Guest speaker visits International ed week

BY DARYL VON DUNKER TIMES STAFF

Lilia Huang, an accounting student asked, “In the Silicon Valley we tend to think of failures as lessons. What kinds of lessons do you think are important?”

Thuc Vu: That would take more than an hour; there were many failures in Kotango that made Ohmni Labs better. As international students sometimes we are less risk-taking, we take the safe approach. But in the Silicon Valley, making a mistake is the most beautiful thing you can do. It is a very interesting mindset that we don’t find in Asia.

Just try everything. It is ok to fail.

Carol Diaz, 23, an industrial design student asked, “As an international student with the language barrier it is very hard. How did you not give up?” and “Do you think that an IVY League school on your resume is very important?”

Thuc Vu: Regarding barriers: The key is to find joy in whatever you do. If you are passionate about Industrial Design, are you willing to do it for free? (Student nods) If you are willing to do it for free, then nothing can stop you. Try www.upwork.com they allow you to do industrial design as a freelancer. Just try it.

While you are doing something you love, you are having fun and you might make some mon-

ey. So, continue to look on the bright side and stay motivated.

Thuc Vu: Regarding IVY League schools: It is a very interesting question. There has been a huge movement in the Silicon Valley to move away from education. In big companies, like Google, they block out your education credentials, so you can’t be viewed by it. I actually believe in that. As long as you get a good education, as long as you have good, practical experience and apply your skill, then it doesn’t matter what school you came from. I think the trend right now is to focus on the experience and rather than the credentials.

International Student Program Director, Dorian Tran said, this talk “comes at a critical time when we need more interaction and sensitivity throughout the nation and the world.”

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Lacin Keles in her solo prefromance “Stuck.”

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Jocelyn Apaiz and Arnold Kim during a group perfromance “On My Radar.”

Pablo Baltazar during a Jazz Medley.

O u t o f D a r k n e s s Movement emerges

BY MELISSA MARIA MARTINEZ TIMES STAFF

Melissa Mendez during her solo perfromance “Fluidly Poetic.”

Alyssa Mora leaping towards Katherine Lujano and Tara Franklin during their group perfromance “Pulses.”

Reflecting on some of the most tragic incidents that have happened this year throughout the country such as the Orlando shooting, San Jose City College dancers used dance to share their emotion through movement in their annual student choreographed performances.

Some more elaborate than others, each piece was delightful to see but three individual pieces stood out the most.

Among them a piece called Introspection, choreographed and performed by 22-year-old dance/ sociology major, Tashiana Baisy. This honest and energetic performance was filled with every emotion we experience daily in life which made it particularly memorable.

Samantha Solaiza, Rebecca Case, Kelli McKinnon, Brittany Hughbanks, Alex Barbour in their group perfromance “Chasing Cheer in Chaos.”

The next piece called Fluidly Poetic, choreographed and performed by Melissa Mendez. This piece was the most technical; combined with gymnastics and dance, Mendez performed the entire piece as a dark shadow in front of a vibrant red background.

Finally, 26-year-old lyrical choreographer and dancer, Pablo Baltazar’s individual performance was the most awe-inspiring piece filled with raw emotion.

The bright primary colors made each performance that much more unique and interesting to watch. Even though I did not always understand the message behind their beautiful movements, the emotion behind their language was universal and easy to make up my own translation.

The entire show was a remarkable experience.

Fadia Zeid, Jocelyn Apaiz, Arnold Kim, Vanessa Espinoza during a group perfromance “On My Radar.”

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Amanda Nguyen Assistant Stage Manager with all perfromers from Dancing Out of Darkness Show Nov 16 at the SJCC Theater.

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6 A&E

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016

Harry Potter’s magic world has come back

‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ is a worth watching movie

BY MAGGIE ZOU Movie Review TIMES STAFF

Many Potter-heads (fans of Harry Potter) are looking forward to the new movie of Harry Potter series called Fantastic Beats and where to find them.

The movie is about the beats which exist in the magic world, and the adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards.

J.K.Rowling is the writer of the book, the film and the original series. She promotes the themes of love which is love for friends, animals and nature.

The movie and the series share the same conflict as well, the dark power, justice and authority. Funny thing is in American witches and wizards refer people born with no magic power as No-Maj instead Muggle.

The movie stated with the Hedwig’s song, which every Harry Potter lovers knows. When the

song came out, the whole cinema got excited with applause.

According to the movie, Newt Scamander is the writer of Harry Potter’s textbook. He keeps looks for magical creatures and protects them. All the creatures he finds live in his suitcase which was used an extension spell to take with him.

The lead female character, Tina Goldstein is a hard-nosed investigator of criminal black magic who’s recently been demoted to wand registration. Her minder reading sister Queenie rescues Goldstein and Newt in an extreme situation. A No-Maj named Jacob Kowalski accidently joins the squat by having the same look suitcase with Newt and take the wrong one, under this condition he lets some fantastic beats escape. Thus the team made of four people starts chasing after animals.

One interesting involves in the movie, J.K.Rowling expressed her opinion of against racism in her book and movies; in the stage show she picked a great black actress Noma Dumezweni to act Hermione Granger. Although part of audience said they prefer white female actress Emma Watson, she backed Noma Dumezweni

J.K.Rowling wrote in the book said witches and wizards are now better than normal people and she encouraged witches and wizards to marry muggles. In Fantastic beats movie, she let beautiful Queenie fall in love with Kowalski who is a No-Maj. The tone towards the end of the movie turns to be dark. A magic minsitror Percival Graves is looking for a dark magic power carrier while pretending to be a strict officer. The dark magic carrier is Credence Barebone, a boy who is adopted by Mary Lu. Mary Lou is a anti magic person. Percival Graves tries to find out who has the dark power through him, but turns out Credence Barebone is the carrier. After all the negative feeling, his dark power bursts and almost destroys New York, Newt and Tina wants to rescue him but failed. Percival Graves shows his true identity – Grindelwald, one of the most evil wizards in the world.

Credence Barebone is the most pathetic character in the movie, his death means evil can never beat justice. However, if his power can be used and managed well, he can be an important person for the entire magic world.

After almost ten years from

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the last Harry Potter book was released and five years from the last movie, Fantastic beats and Where to Find Them brings back the amazing memory of all Potter-heads. It is a really worth watching movie that can earn 9.5 out of 10.

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School should have a support group for undocumented students people are accepting the result.”

Movie Review: Moana is perfect holiday fun.

Disney, you are welcomed

BY DARYL VON DUNKER

as well as, Jemaine Clement – crab Tamatoa

TIMES STAFF

Imagine an eight year old telling you what to do … then imagine you are a demigod, throw in humor and song, and voila - you have classic Disney feature guaranteed to please families and friends alike.

Moana, an animated-adventure film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, released the day before Thanksgiving, is the five-year culmination of research into Polynesian culture.

The animation is certainly the best we’ve ever seen Disney present with individual hair movement, rich Polynesian color pallets and both fire and water 3D FXs. The only Disney Animated Studio movie to come close is Dinosaur and Pixar-creations.

According to Forbes Moana | Tops Black Friday and smashes right between Frozen and Tangled hall of fame with 82 million.

The A-list Polynesian cast adds deep vocal textures, rhythms and mythos enhancements few others could master: Auli’i Cravalho - Moana, Dwayne Johnson - Maui, Rachel House - Gramma Tala, Temuera Morrison - Chief Tui, Nicole Scherzinger – mother Sina,

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and Alan Tudyk – rooster Heihei. For most of the cast, it was the first time meeting and many tears were shed outside sound booth doors.

The story begins when the Ocean itself choses a tiny baby from an island village to interact with. As Moana grows, she constantly returns to the water’s edge to play and try and sneak in. While her father and mother discourage her, her Gramma Tala shares ocean stories and teases her about her curiosity.

At the tender age of eight, as Moana steps into her place as the next chief, plants begin to die and the fish disappear. Suddenly Moana is faced with life or death decisions.

On a lonely night, her grandmother seeks her out and shares the greatest story of all. Their people were never from the Island – they were voyagers from far away. Gifted with the special tasks of finding the demigod Maui and returning the heart of Te Fiti, Moana flounders between what she should do and what she must do.

Then tragedy strikes, her grandmother dies, yet her glowing animal spirit – a great manta ray – streaks out across the ocean and reveals how to pass through the island reef…

With sold out theaters across the Silicon Valley, this movie is well worth your time and a perfect way to distress during final exams. I give it 10 stars.

BY DARYL VON DUNKER TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Every day on campus, students sport elaborate tattoos, how do they feel about it?

The survey found the average student got his/her tattoo as a tribute to a loved one or for the beauty of the art itself Out of eight people surveyed, five were men and three were women: “It reminds me of who I am and

who I lost in the years and who I love. My body is a campus and I love to express with it.”

One person had a half-bodied Japanese tattoo art style known as “Irezumi,” which roughly transliterates “pricking the skin with blue or green ink.” Pop-culture calls it a “body suit.”

“I love the surprise of taking a two-dimensional art and placing it on a three-dimensional form.”

Runner up reasons to get a tattoo were: loving the tattoo culture, enjoying freedom of expression, overcoming a difficult experience, spreading a specific message – from poetry to religion

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– and enjoying the shared experience when a viewer actually gets the message. Some messages were as elaborate as Virginia Wolfe quotes to smaller Tibetan symbols.

Naturally, for every positive experience, there are negative side effects. Reasons to remove a tattoo were small, but significant warnings: bad tattoos, heartbreak and one even affected comfort-level in an otherwise happy career experience.

The worst parts of removing a tattoo were also significant and should be considered before getting one put on. Removal was a

Age:20 Major:Liberal Arts “Instead of deporting the immgrants, I think they acturally need more protection. students need to feel being protected. ”

Name:Gabriel Marttinez Age:18 Major:Kinesiology

Students and staff say getting tattoos may affect your world Tattooing for love and art

Name:Lauren Apostol

“painful, long process” that “involved burning the skin with a cold laser until it blistered” and “the higher your tolerance for pain is, the better the removal is.” Do it with a cold laser and “research where you have it done and follow the directions you’re given, for best results.”

The two people who removed their tattoos had to receive an average of five treatments. One set of treatments happened a long time ago and only cost $200. The newer removal cost $800 per treatment. In both cases, no insurance picked up the cost.

“Just more ignorance people, how they decide on how they feel on the eletion. To me I don’t really feel any different.”

Name:Jesse Kuba Age:20 Major:Studio Art “ Right after the eletion, people are kind of down, but they are getting over it. It’s four years, what can we do about it?”

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Developing the leader within

Prepare for life after college on campus

BY MELISSA MARIA MARTINEZ TIMES STAFF

There is a leader inside each of us and there is no better place to nurture our leadership skills than in college. It’s the only place we can safely challenge ourselves and test the leader within us.

College is fertile ground for personal development. When we as students engage in critical thinking, problem-solving and decision making we are applying what we have learned in our classrooms to the real world.

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While riding the bus home one day, a student told me she was getting ready to transfer to San Jose State University. When I mentioned that the college provides eco passes to their students, I can remember the relief on her face at the idea that soon she would not have to spend $70 a month to ride VTA. This is the first semester San Jose City College has offered eco passes but it would not have been possible without the many students who took on the effort years ago; students who have long graduated.

Making the next step obtainable

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At another California community college a professor kicked a homeless student out of class, citing the student’s hygiene as a distraction to the other students. It’s safe to assume that this is not the only student who has come across this problem and it does not seem fair that students who are trying to get an education to better their situation become unable to because of their situation.

The incident prompted students to draft a resolution that would enable students’ access to locker room showers. They advocated California state legislatures who voted in favor of the resolution, and Gov. Jerry Brown recently

“It’s safe to assume I’m not the only one who has experienced something like this...” signed it into law.

Making meaningful change In the beginning of the semester, I was enrolled in a PE class on Saturdays. On my first day in the middle of class, I started my monthly cycle and needed a feminine product but there was nothing in the dispensers and even if there was I had no change. I tried explaining this as briefly as possible to my male P.E teacher who I’m sure assumed I was just trying to get out of doing the workout. I had to choose; either workout for two more hours, let everyone in class and on the bus ride home experience my monthly cycle with me or get on the bus now and go home. I went home and dropped the class.

It’s safe to assume I’m not the only one who has experienced something like this because just three weeks ago, when community college students throughout the state gathered in Sacramento to vote on resolutions concerning California Community College’s, the last resolution they passed would recommend that feminine hygiene products be made available to all women on campus free of charge.

This is the power we have.

Here we get a chance to use our time on campus wisely and exercise the leader within, to grow and develop through participation on campus and make a difference in the lives of students who come after us. 

Campus News Summary Crossword Puzzle

BY MELISSA M. MARTINEZ

TIMES STAFF

Congratulations to last issue’s Winners!

Completed and submit this crossword puzzle and you could win a $20 gift certificate from Streetlight Records.

To submit: Email a picture of your completed puzzle to: citycollegetimes@ jaguars.sjcc.edu or Drop it in one of the news-tip boxes located in the Technology or Student Center Winner(s) will be announced in the next issue.

Name: Tam Nguyen Position Students support coordinator in San Jose City College

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It could be you in here!

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