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The Voice of San Jose City College Since 1956
Volume 84 Issue 1
SJCC is celebrated as
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Dancer Carolina Walter performs a traditional Ehecatl Quetzalcoatl dance with a group during the San Jose City College La Raza Commencement, a graduation ceremony dedicated to Hispanic graduates and their families, Friday, May 19.
City College programs create opportunities and open doors to student success
BY MELISSA MARIA MARTINEZ AND JORDAN ELLIOTT
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ity College is a Hispanic-serving institute with a 43 percent Hispanic student population. “San Jose City College serves the largest corners of poverty in Santa Clara,” former Vice President of Academic Affairs Duncan Graham said. “Most of our students have to work but they are dedicated and our job here is to remove as many barriers as we possibly can.”
For almost 95 years, San Jose City College has educated those who reside in the communities that surround it; producing tomorrow’s future leaders, skilled workers, educators and innovators. Programs such as Cultivamos Excellencia or We Cultivate Excellence to ceremonial events such as the special La Raza Graduation ceremonies reflect the students SJCC serves. At the La Raza Graduation Commencement ceremony in May, SJCC President Byron Breland said that City College is
one of 25 community colleges specifically recognized for “success in serving Latino students.” “We are at a time in our history when education is so much more important than it has ever been,” Breland said. “Over 20 percent (of new students) are Latino, our highest college going ethnic group.” SJCC began hosting La Raza graduation ceremonies during the civil rights movement to allow Spanish-speaking families a chance to celebrate the educational achievements of their family in their native
language. As a Hispanic-serving institute, SJCC offers programs such as Cultivamos Excellencia, an undergraduate research program that provides students an opportunity to participate in university-level studies in collaboration with students at UC Santa Cruz. “We all know that a prosperous people are an educated people,” Breland said. “A focus on our studies is going to help our community learn about our culture, our background and our history.”
New programs and services are available
SJCC partnerships provide vocational networking and additional opportunities for students BY LESLIE AGUILAR TIMES STAFF
San Jose City College now offers a variety of new degrees, programs and certifications starting this semester. Sociology and political science degrees were approved during the 20162017 school year, and are now available to students, as well as a patient navigator certificate of achievement. SJCC has also partnered with Santa Clara County, The Iron Workers and other community agencies to help facilitate job placement for several of the degrees
and programs, such as the peer leader certification, which is involved with the county. Janet Altamirano, a graphic design major, said these programs can help ease the transition from student to worker. “They (the partnerships) really support students, all these resources help you know the ropes outside of school,”Altamirano said. For early childhood education, there will be certification programs for associate teacher, inclusion specialist, teacher and master teacher. “Working together with the community can ensure SJCC students more op-
tions for internships, mentor access and a degree or certificates,” wrote Classified Senate President and articulation specialist Julinda LeDee in an email. Bryan Gutierrez Arroyo, a media arts and printing major, said he supports these new initiatives. “Exposure to these resources are really helpful. You can’t really find them anywhere else.” These programs are designed for students to explore new options or to strengthen a particular skill set, said LeDee. Elizabeth Flores, a Metas Center counselor, said that these improvements are
beneficial to students who are unsure about their educational path. “There is more opportunity, this is definitely something that can open doors for students,” Flores said. These improvements were made to enhance the student learning experience and provide them with the best tools available to succeed beyond the classroom. “We have a diverse student population, and the programs reflect the needs and interests of the students,” LeDee wrote.“Student’s success is the first priority and creating more options to benefit the students at SJCC.”
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2 Opinion First Amendment must adapt to the age of media Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017
America needs to update constitutional freedoms to fit society
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he First Amendment was woven into the Constitution because it was believed that Democracy and freedom of speech were synonymous. There is no doubt that basic human rights of free speech, ideas and press are integral, but the amendment must adapt to the new landscape of media. America is at a crossroads when considering First Amendment rights, for the rapid societal changes create many gray areas for legal definitions. How people define what is acceptable or not is usually forced to grow with the intricacies of culture. Earlier this year Yelp was limited to the expression of free speech when a Bay Area user of the site Ava Bird criticized the work of local attorney Dawn Hassell. Bird’s Yelp review was deemed defam-
atory and injurious to Hassell’s professional standing by the California Supreme Court. In the case of Hassell v. Bird, Bird’s Yelp reviews were ordered by court to be removed by both Bird and Yelp, raising questions about the limitations of free speech online. Society tends to throw blankets of “good” or “bad” over topics, but that practice leaves little room for acknowledgment of the growth that has taken place within society. The changing landscape of society is displacing what was once already a groundbreaking revolution of public voice, and is now ready for another shift. The issue is that First Amendment rights have not completely caught up with
culture and society; therefore, legal guidelines are unclear in circumstances where the Founding Fathers didn’t necessarily foresee. For example, Thursday March 2 a California Supreme Court ruling made it mandatory for public employees to share texts and emails concerning business to the public. According to an article by Maura Dolan in the Los Angeles Times, “the court provided only general guidance on where the line would be drawn, posing a challenge for cities and counties forced to balance employees’ privacy against the public’s right to know.” There is no argument that protection of First Amendment rights is immensely important to maintain freedoms that many
The truth is, there is no longer a beginning or end to the First Amendment. America is living in the very middle of it, demanding its protection, but criticizing its application for personal gain.
citizens of first-world countries take for granted. The world exists in a much different way than when the Constitution was first created for, and the way people communicate with each other and express their views is wide open to new possibilities. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is an extremely important aspect of freedom of speech online, yet is relatively unknown to most citizens who probably use Internet on a regular basis. This law is what protects that troll in the YouTube comments from being held liable for his or her distastefully worded opinions, but also protects both individual and company when someone leaves a negative Yelp review … until, of course, it doesn’t. According to the World Economic Forum, America is the most tolerant country with free speech. The truth is, there is no longer a beginning or end to the First Amendment. America is living in the very middle of it, demanding its protection, but criticizing its application for personal gain.
Classroom etiquette Four tips for student success BY MELISSA MARIA MARTINEZ
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t’s the beginning of a brand-new semester and every student comes to college expecting to learn and advance either to a four-year institution or into a better career. Your instructors are all ready to prepare you for that next step but are you prepared to make the effort and absorb all that San Jose City College has to offer? As you begin the semester consider these essential tips:
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Always arrive to class early. Show your instructor that you are a serious student by getting to class before it begins, ready to learn; this means pen or pencil are out and ready to take notes. Yes, life is unpredictable and sometimes things can prevent you from arriving to class on time, but when you arrive to class after the scheduled time it is disrespectful to the instructor and distracting to your peers as you find a seat and rummage
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Make good notes in class. If you require instruction on note-taking visit the Reading and Writing Center located in the campus library. Good note-taking is the foundation for student success, so use all the resources SJCC has to offer.
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Always make friends with at least two of your classmates and get their contact information. This is one reason why good note-taking is essential; you can always refer to your notes if you or your peer miss something from the lecture.
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Never use your phone in class! This is just disrespectful. Playing with your phone shows you are not interested in what is going on in class, it’s better to go outside and use it.
Etiquette is important in the classroom: texting is disrespectful for both the instructor and the classmates.
Most of the tips mentioned are common sense, but it never hurts to be reminded. Now it’s up to you to stay focused and always remember if it was easy everyone would do it.
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Opinion 3
Textbook saving tips A helpful guide for frugal students BY MELISSA MARIA MARTINEZ
3. Go to the public library and see if they have your required textbook. Downtown MLK Library has been known to carry some required textbooks as well as San Jose City College campus library.
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Textbooks are expensive. For students who are waiting for their financial aid to kick in or are just looking to save some money on textbooks here are a few things to keep in mind. 1. First, ask the professor if it’s OK to purchase an earlier edition of the book. Usually the earlier additions are cheaper so if the professor is OK with it look for all recent earlier editions. 2. As soon as you know what textbooks you are going to need check Craigslist. Craigslist has all kinds of textbooks that previous students are selling to try and make their money back. The earlier you look the more choices you’ll have.
4. Ask the professor if the required textbook will be on reserve at the Cesar Chavez Library for students to check out. These books can only be checked out for two hours but photocopying the chapters required to read can save you close to 90 percent of the textbook cost. The book Racial and Ethnic Groups in America cost about $200 but photocopying 10 chapters each one about 10 pages total about $10. STOCK PHOTO BY ADOBE
5. If you cannot find your textbook at the library or Craigslist consider renting. Buying and renting options are available at Amazon. If you rent it from Amazon you can return it within a few days for a full refund. So go photocopy that book and return it.
Finally, consider choosing a major where textbooks are not so expensive. Psychology textbooks are expensive! If you are looking for the 12th edition of Our Sexuality here it is for free: http://tinyurl. com/lacy9mk
If you know any other ways to access cheap textbooks you probably should be in journalism so you can share your wisdom with the rest of your peers.
Identity and belonging: thoughts on being biracial N av i g a t i n g m u l t i p l e ethnicities and cultures
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BY LAUREN QUILTY TIMES STAFF
“No way!” “Don’t you guys eat dog?” “Are you sure you’re Filipino, you look so white!” “Don’t worry, you don’t look Asian.” These are some of the confounding responses I have gotten over the years when people find out I am half Filipino half Irish. I have always wrestled with my biracial, Filipino-American identity. Often questioning who am I really? Feeling caught between two completely different worlds and cultures: one far across the Pacific Ocean; the other deep in the dense and desolate American south. Our identities help define who we are and are as complicated as we are complex. What do you say when someone asks, “What are you?” in reference to your ethnicity? For me, I identify as biracial, a proud Filipino American, yet feel more a Filipino woman than I do Irish. But technically I am multiracial: Filipino, Chinese, Irish and Spanish. It’s complicated. It is not as simple as you look this way so you must be this way. How we choose to identify ourselves is often at odds with how the world defines us. With no control of your own, others project how they see you, who they want you to be. A role assigned to you in order to fit neatly with the way they view the world, regardless of whether that is who you are or not. This is something I have been trying to unpack for a long time and I am both grateful and dismayed I am not the only one who feels this way. According to Pew Research, 1 in 5 people that identify as multiracial have felt pressured to identify as one race. The most common response I receive when people find out I am half Filipino is usually “but you don’t look Filipino.” I brace myself and do my best not to wince each time someone says it or “Oh, but you look so white” after they find out I am mixed. It feels like a large part of who you are is not acknowledged in these people’s eyes, simply because you do not
match up with who they think you are. We live in such an incredibly diverse country it often surprises me how little our knee jerk perceptions seem to reflect it. According to Pew Research, 9 million people in the US identified as multiracial in 2013. That’s about 6.9% of the population. In fact, according to their survey, multiracial children are now the largest demographic group among U.S. citizens under the age of 18. My mother was a Filipino undocumented immigrant, staying in the U.S. illegally as a “TNT,” which stands for tago ng tago, always in hiding, a term for illegal aliens in Tagalog. She came from the Philippines at 25 as a law student in her junior year and decided to forfeit the life assigned to her back home and make a new life in the U.S. My father is a first generation Canadian Irish American who grew up in poverty in the Deep South, moving around state to state with his mother and two siblings. Working at a gas station making 98 cents an hour, at 16 he joined the army near the end of The Vietnam War, one of only a few escape options for many young people in his situation. I take pride in each of their unique American stories because I am a product of it. I’ve been lucky to have lived in both the Philippines and Georgia where both my parents are from. However, I never quite fit completely in either, looking and feeling like an outsider. A common feeling many multiracials share. When I lived in the Philippines I went to one of the most prestigious private schools that my mother’s family had all gone to. But I stuck out like a sore thumb because I was the only white looking girl in school and was relentlessly bullied so badly that my mother had to change schools for me. The bullying continued at my new school but it was manageable and I was able to make some amazing friends who delighted at the idea of having a mestiza (Tagalog for mixed race) friend. I lived in the south for a short time, too, when I was a teenager. I had a quaint room in a cozy trailer in the backwoods
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of a small county in Georgia. However, I did not look or feel like I belonged there either, a feeling punctuated by many racist sentiments directed at me and my asian heritage. The culture shock was almost worse than the one I had experienced when I moved to the Philippines. Despite trying my best to find my place in the worlds my parents had come from, I did find that certain parts of me that had never fit anywhere else, had fallen into place throughout all the places I had been and lived. It made me realize perhaps we are not meant to always fit wholly into a specific space, even if that’s where our roots are tethered to. That our identities and who we are can be split, ad infinitum; slivers of us falling neatly into the unexpected spaces between where we think we belong, where we want to belong, and where the parts of us actually belong. I try to honor the places my parents came from with pride and reverence. That’s partly why I identify as Filipino-American. Though I do not think I will ever be able to live completely in either of the worlds my parents came from, I carved out my own, here in California, the in between space I fit at the threshold between two completely opposite worlds.
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Cooking corner: Made from scratch Eggs Benedict Recipe BY ANNE CAILLAT TIMES STAFF
Eggs Benedict are famous all over the world, but they actually only became famous less than a century ago. The legend says that on a morning of 1942, after a night of drinking and partying, a Wall Street retired employee went to the luxurious Waldorf hotel in Manhattan asking for a consistent breakfast in order to help him with his hangover: his name was Lemuel Benedict. The chef Oscar decided to prepare an open sandwich with poached eggs on English muffins. However, Mr. Benedict wanted ham. Oscar preferred to add some bacon, more elegant than just ham. To finish the recipe and make it richer, he decided to add some Hollandaise sauce, made of butter, eggs and lemon juice. The recipe was a success and Oscar decided to call it by the name of his first client. Nowadays, eggs Benedict are served for breakfast in a majority of American diners, they are the stars of fancy brunches, and they are copied everywhere in the world. They are served with a lot of alternative ingredients such as salmon, avocado, tomatoes, or even caviar in Russia. Obviously, they still are served in the Waldorf hotel. This recipe is not on the light side, we recommend to serve it with some fruits and healthy food as well, or before a long family hike on a sunny Sunday. In the pictures, we serve them with ham, a lighter version compared to the one with bacon.
Tools
Grill for the muffin Small bowl 2 pots, one bigger than the other, or a double boiler
Spatula Whisk Paper towels
Ingredients (four servings) 4 English muffins 4 eggs 1 tsp of vinegar 2 or 3 sprigs of chives 4 slices of ham Butter
Hollandaise sauce
The Hollandaise sauce is made of butter, eggs and lemon.
3 egg yolks 1/2 cup butter 1/2 lemon Salt and pepper
Pour the eggs in a small bowl, it will help you not break the poached egg.
Steps
Prepare the sauce: Mix the egg yolks with a teaspoon of water. Place in the double boiler and whip until obtaining a soft cream. Dice the butter and add it while whipping. Add salt, pepper, lemon juice and stir. Take away from the stove, it’s ready. Prepare the eggs: Bring a pot of water to boil and add the vinegar. No salt. Use a small bowl to hold each egg when opened. Pour it in the boiling water being careful to not make it break. Wait 1 to 2 minutes, trying to keep the white close to the yolk with a spoon. Then, take the egg with a spatula and delicately drop it off on the absorbant paper. In the meanwhile, grill the muffins by half. When ready, butter the muffins, add a slice of ham on each half of muffin, and place the egg on top of the ham. Pour the Hollandaise sauce and decorate with sprigs of chives.
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This Egg Benedict can be served with fresh orange juice and seaonal fruits, for a more wholesome breakfast.
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The Eggs Benedict is ready to be served.
All contributions to publish a recipe are welcomed: if you’re interested to share a recipe, please send an email to the Times at citycollegetimes@jaguars.sjcc.edu and tell us why you chose it. The Times will be happy to print it. ACROSS: 2. To explore. 6. Water Polo, diving, swimming, wake boarding surfing, water skiing, and tubing are under what type of sports? 8. Like jet lag, but for seasons. 10. We wear it to protect our eyes from the sun. 12. Summer in the United States begins when? 14. It is a land formed along a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles, which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones. 16. The first collapsible, extended and retract piece was created in 21 AD for a horse carriage by Fu Qian in founded Wang Mang’s tomb in Korean Peninsula. 17. What started in the summer of 1896 as the World’s largest interna-
tional sport competition every four years? 19. To help keep cool inside from outside’s hottest climates 20. To take a break from work and school. DOWN: 1. Hiking, biking, soccer, volleyball, baseball, cricket, softball, tennis, and golf are consider what type of sports? 3. It is the most celebrated holiday in the United States on the fourth of July. 4. This is the most active weather in United States and Canada during the summer season. 5. It is both a cooking method and it is done slowly over low, indirect heat and the food is flavored by the smoking process, while grilling, a related process, is generally done quickly over moderate to high direct heat that hardly pro-
duces smoke. 7. Something you wear when you go swimming. 9. To wear during summer seasons to keep your feet cool and dry. 11. According to the Guinness World Records, the largest _______ in the world is San Alfonso del Mar Seawater pool in Algarrobo, Chile. 13. In the moment in which the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun, which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September. 15. The days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. 18. Roasting marshmallows for S’mores, hiking, biking, and swimming during the day for fun, to resting in a tent or under the stars for the night’s end.
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The City College Times recruits students BY ANNE CAILLAT TIMES STAFF
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he City College Times is a student-run campus media, in print and online, which means that students work as a professional staff, deciding everything themselves, from editorial choices to design of the pages, through investigations, copyediting or advertising. Whatever your interests, the Times needs you: sports reporters, sciences students, political editorialists, artists, etc. There is room for a large set of skills: reporters, photographers, videographers, web designers, marketers, sales persons, film critics, editors, illustrators, art critics and opinionated voices. The team is built on the skills and interests of each member, the more diverse they are, the more powerful the media is. The Times website and social PHOTO BY BENJAMIN CASTRO/TIMES STAFF media need someone to take care of them, which is a great opportunity Just another day in the newsroom for the Times staff. From left (Front) Anne Caillat, Lauren Quilty, Jorfor anyone wanting tech and social dan Elliott, Melissa M. Martinez and Reginald Webb. (Back) Benjamin Castro, Leslie Aguilar and the Times Adviser Farideh Dada pose during the spring 2017 semester. media experience on their resume. You might also be just a curious student, willing to know more about issues. don’t need to have any previous ex- per of high quality. the environment you will spend a Curiosity is the first quality of a perience to apply. Around every three weeks, a new semester or more, or have interest good investigator, you might be The Times needs a big and pow- issue is released with eight pages of in investigating social or political a great interviewer. New students erful staff in order to run a newspa- information relevant to the commu-
nity: sports, campus events, breaking news, profiles or investigative reports. When you are part of the City College Times, you are a journalist and you own a press pass, which means that you have rights and duties. During the class, the instructor provides advice on how to work at a professional publication, applying the media rules, respecting the journalist ethic, and defending the First Amendment of the Constitution. This is not a typical lecture class, but it is rather a very hands-on learning experience. Freedom of the press is not only for profit media: it applies to the San Jose City College and student journalists contribute to keep it alive. The City College Times is also an award-winning publication and the team is invited to take part in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges conferences every semester where future journalists meet. Enrolling in Journalism 032 and 035 means that you engage yourself in a powerful adventure: you have responsibilities, you have a lot of fun with your teammates and at the end you earn a great professional experience. All experience gained can be added to a resume regardless of major.
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