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TEMPEST Teaching in prison is a learning experience for SCC professors Music professor Andrew Wesley is one of the first Solano Community College faculty to teach classes at the state prison in Vacaville. Next semester, more instructors will be joining him.

SCC is the first California community college to make an agreement with the state Department of Corrections to offer courses for inmates who are serving sentences. This requires that professors go to the prison and teach the courses face-to-face.

Wesley said he had a great experience teaching at the prison.

“I’ve never had an entire collective of stu-

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dents who wanted to learn--they taught me as much as I taught them,” Wesley said.

the prison to inmates who qualified, according to the CDCR newsletter.

“I didn’t go in with any biases, I didn’t know what to expect so I didn’t really think about the personal issues that some instructors have about safety.”

Jeffrey Young, a counselor and professor at SCC, will be teaching at the prison for the first time next semester.

“I was more afraid of giving a bad impression of Solano because I was the first faceto-face,” Wesley said.

The agreement between the college district and the California Department Of Corrections and Rehabilitation took place on Oct. 15, 2014 where it was agreed that college credit classes would be offered at

“As an African American male, prison has made me uncomfortable because people were telling me my whole life ‘you’re gonna go to jail’,” Young said. “And to go in as an instructor and seeing the prison complex and the young men in there, I just want to make sure that I am emotionally able to handle it,” Young said.

“I’ve never had an entire collective of students who wanted to learn--they taught me as much as I taught them,” -Music professor Andrew Wesley better instructor. If you can teach prisoners you can teach anyone, and I think I will grow as a person. That’s one reason why I volunteered.”

“I feel like I will learn a lot, and become a

International Club welcomes students, both both domestic and international Melissa Espinoza Staff Writer mespinoza@solanotempest.net

Solano County houses the nation’s most diverse city, so students at Solano Community College should be used to a higher rate of ethnic diversity, but SCC is also the college for 50 international students who come from all over the world.

SCC and the Solano International Education program (SIEP), which is run through the admissions office, help foreign students coming to study at SCC collect the proper documents to get their student visa. The first step for an international student is to contact the school through the SCC website.

Foreign students have to meet certain requirements before coming to the United States.

“Their government at their appointment for their visa wants to make sure that they’re not going to be a burden to the country their entering to study,” said Laurie Cheatham. Cheatham is the Admissions and Records Analyst who works directly with the international students.

“They have to have financial documents that show that they have the required amount of money that can support them while studying,” Other requirements that international students have to meet are being enrolled in twelve units, be 18 years of age and have

some knowledge of the English language.

“We require them to take an English assessment; they have to score at a certain rate so that we can ensure that when they come here they can be successful in an academic course,” Cheatham said.

Cheatham said that SCC is working on being approved for an intensive English language program for students who were not able to pass the language assessment.

They would come to the states only to learn English.

“Once they have the English scores high enough to then participate in our academic programs they can transfer from that English language school right into our academic program,” Cheatham said.

Tamba Kafa, an intern at the admissions and records office, was once an international student at UC Davis from Guinea, West Africa. He is at the moment getting his master’s degree in Higher Education and Leadership Policy Studies at Sacramento State University and is currently on his final year.

“Loneliness is one of those problems [international students] have, so there is a need for a more comprehensive social capital on campuses to help them feel welcome,” Kafa said.

For international students, there is a struggle to connect with other students. Foreign students’ main focus is their studies and often they miss out on the opportunity to socialize.

“The biggest struggle is loneliness,” Cheatham said.

In order to help with the social aspect of these students lives, the International club aims to create “the most diverse group,” Kafa said, by combining domestic and international students in a friendly setting.

The International Club meets twice a month, the second Wednesday of the month at 11:30 a.m. and the fourth Friday of the month at 12:30 p.m. and it was created to help students socialize.

“Their focus here is to study, not to socialize, so to get them to feel okay, that it is okay to come to this event and be with us for a couple of hours and you’re not hurting your studies,” Cheatham said.

“Table talk” is an activity that the International Club is working on and hopes to involve all SCC’s students. The main purpose is to have students talk about different topics while meeting at the cafeteria every first and third Wednesday on

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the month starting at 11:30 a.m.

Cheatham said that she has been known as the international students’ “American mom.” Cheatham is an international student adviser. She works with the admissions side to help students get ready to come to Solano.

“I make sure they’re following the regulations of the federal government so that they don’t get sent back home,” Cheatham said.

Cheatham says she would like to see more students involved in campus life, there are many things students could learn from one another.

“You just never know what connection you are going to make with the person sitting next to you.”

International Club

This semester’s meetings: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 11:30 a.m.

Friday, Oct. 23, 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 9, 11:30 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Voting is a civic sacrament.”

-Theodore Hesburgh

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opinion

Wake up people!

We’re seriously running out of water

Nelson Rodriguez staff writer nrodriguez@solanotempest.net

As we all know, California has been going through a drought since 2011. This year has hit an all-time low, resulting in even lower quantities of water in the state’s lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams.

Australia faced a similar situation like the state of California. According to the S.F. Chronicle, Australia dubbed their drought, “Big Dry” because of the extensive time period of dry weather.

Australia had to survive 13 strenuous years before being able to return to a stable con-

Australia was able to implement solutions that proved to help residents recycle water and reduce their consumption and water bills. dition compared to California, where the drought here has only been in effect for 4 years. The country was able to implement solutions that proved to help residents recycle water and reduce their consumption and water bills, according to the Chronicle.

The techniques include using a gray-water system that recycles gray water, and capturing rain water pouring down into the gutters of the homes then being collected into a storage tanks.

For California residents, the gray-water system can prove to be fruitful if we can see the positive outcome of the water conservation solution. The SF Chronicle reported that currently about 13 percent of homes in California use the gray-water system.

I understand for California residents, change is difficult, but it can be beneficial because we can finally be in a stable condition and ensure necessary changes to avoid reverting back into another state of drought.

An article from The New York Times dated from Aug. 14, 2015, reports a water district called the Inland Empire Utilities Agency located east of Los Angeles, has a water recycling program that cleans and resupplies 52 million gallons of water a day for a secondary use to recharge the area’s groundwater.

The agency also gathers and desalinates water from the Pacific Ocean, bringing in and converting 35 million gallons of salt water into clean tap water. Another interesting fact provided by the article states the city of San Francisco passed an ordinance, requiring new buildings of a certain size to have an on-site water recycling systems and reuse their own wastewater.

letter to the editor:

Lack of crosswalks on campus is an accident waiting to happen EditorWith the infusion of Measure G funds, Solano Community College has seen some major improvements. All of this has not gone unnoticed by long- time students, who look at the changes as a boost in the quality of education they are receiving.

There has been a great deal of work to renovate new buildings, put into place a better parking structure, and to help equip the campus with better technology and resources. But what Solano has gained in those areas, it lacks in road planning. Particularly, there is a total lack of crosswalks on school roads.

There are huge road hazards to

any pedestrians trying to cross busy intersections as they do so with no crosswalks.

lege education and a better life for themselves. Measure G supports all of that.

You’d think with all this money flying around, there would be some decent crosswalks around here. However, it seems the administration had a major oversight in choosing not to renovate the roadway intersections to include crosswalks.

With that said, it seems that with all the improvements, there was no oversight or planning when it comes to the roadways.

At the main intersections leading into campus, there are no crosswalks for students who have made the choice to walk.

As a campus that encourages alternative transportation, it would make sense that a safe way would be provided for the pedestrian student.

With renovations to the theater building on campus, acting students are required to walk from the main campus to 360 Campus Lane, which is about a two block walk and involves crossing the street from the main campus.

At times heavily trafficked by rushed students trying to nab that last spot, the main Solano

Many Solano students come from poorer socioeconomic classes and have faced obstacles as they take on the challenge of gaining a col-

At both the main intersections leading into campus, there are no crosswalks available for students who have made the choice to walk to school. intersection is by no means a safe crossing ground for pedestrians.

On the first right turn into the school, the roadway is walled with bushes, making visibility for drivers difficult to crossing pedestrians. Any poor acting student on the way to their class during passing period could easily be mauled by a rushed classmate.

Though Measure G has done much good around these parts, it has failed in regards to simple urban planning measures. It

campus calendar Oct. 14 Oct. 23 National Feral Cat day: campus cat Human Collective Club meeting,

Nov. 1 Last day to drop a full term class with

club bake sale, guest Dr. Kelly Palm of the SPCA 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 bldg.

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1p.m. room 804 Chance to obtain a typing certificate, room 502, noon-3p.m.

Oct. 25 Oct. 16 League of Legends guild meeting, Chance to obtain a typing certificate, room 503, 1p.m.-4p.m. room 502 noon -3p.m. Photo ID required.

Oct. 21 The Human Collective Club hosts mental illness presentations in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illness. 11 a.mnoon in room 707 and 1-2 p.m. in room 802.

Oct. 26 Soltrans Water Usage Display until Oct. 30

Nov. 5 Inter-club Council meeting 12:30p.m.-1:30p.m. room 1421

Nov. 6 Chance to obtain a typing certificate, room 502, noon.-3p.m.

UC Essay Prompt Workshop, 2p.m.5p.m. room 402.

Oct. 29 Nov. 7 UC Essay Prompt Workshop, 11a.m.- Umoja is holding a Black Lives Mat12p.m. room 402. No preregistration required

ter rally at the capitol building in Sacramento at 8 a.m.

room 502, noon.-3p.m.

liberal studies from Sonoma State.

Sessions at 4p.m.-6p.m., room 811

Oct. 22 Oct. 30 Nov. 10 UC essay prompt workshop 2p.m.Chance to obtain a typing certificate, Information session: earn a B.A in 5p.m., room 402. No preregistration required.

doesn’t seem the administration has thought about crossing the street to get to those labs.

This oversight could lead to some unfortunate traffic incidents in the future.

The lack of safe crosswalks at Solano is definitely an accident waiting to happen.

-Marissa McLean, SCC student

Plenty to celebrate for LGBTQ community Jace Barrera staff writer jbarrera@solanotempest.net

October 11 was an important day in the LGBTQ+ community as it marked the 27th anniversary of the National March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights. On this day, people celebrated coming out as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and queer.

This year, the LGBTQ+ community celebrated many significant events in the effort for gender equality, including the legalization of same-sex marriage June 26, the 46th anniversary of the Stonewall riots June 28, and the late Harvey Milk’s 85th birthday on May 22.

Coming out is hard enough for anyone choosing to do so, no matter what they’re coming out as, but you don’t have to be alone during it. Solano Community College has an LGBTQ+ club on campus which meets in room 1247 on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2. If you feel anxious, or you have questions about coming out, you can call these numbers: •GLTB National Hotline: 1 (888) 843-4564 •GLTB National Youth Talkline: 1 (800) 246-PRIDE (7743) •Online Support Center: glbthotline.org

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editorial: campus shootings

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officials. For example, the Solano Community College Safety Committee, after a few semesters of being completely defunct, is supposed to be reconstituted, according to interim Superintendent-President Stan Arterberry in an email sent Oct. 5.

The committee is meant to inform students, faculty, and staff on the proper and most helpful procedures in case of an attack on campus. Their published “Active Shooter Safety Handout,” found on Solano.edu, offers helpful tips like “if confronted while seated … immediately fall to the floor,” and if outdoors, find a tree and “lie down and wait for rescue.”

The country-wide outrage at the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary suggested the beginning of a wide-spread

Editorials are the opinion of the Tempest editorial board, which consists of Tempest staff and editors.

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n light of recent events, The Tempest staff would like to express our sorrow and despair over the recent shootings on college campuses: Sacramento City College and Umpqua Community College (Oregon), and more recently, the Northern Arizona University and Texas Southern University (the third shooting at TSU this year).

As students, we find the increasing number of school shootings to be despicable, and yet, it seems as though the safety of our young generations is low on the priority list for many government, state, and local

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tightening of loose gun-laws, but no major gun-law changes have been made, despite hundreds more school shootings since the tragedy. The events at Columbine probably inspired similar hope, and yet, the rate at which school shootings occur is rising still.

How common would mass attacks on school campuses be if gun-laws were stricter? This isn’t an invitation to show up tomorrow with a bunch of knives, but seriously, consider the likelihood of dozens of people being injured without an automatic weapon. It seems less likely, at least to us.

Our society has grown accepting of violence. We aren’t blaming video games or graphic television, it’s just a fact. Luckily, this number seems to be declining, although an alarming 26 percent of Ameri-

victims injured by automatic weaponry during shootings

cans aged 15-24 believe that “It is acceptable to use physical force to get what you really want,” according to statistics database Environics. Even worse, 45 percent of the same group believe that “Violence can sometimes be exciting.”

“Somehow this has become routine,” said President Barack Obama in his national address regarding the Umpqua Community College shooting earlier this month. “I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences … but based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that.”

campus conversation

What’s your favorite famous cat?

“Hello Kitty because I have stuffed plushies of it.”

“Grumpy cat because the way he looks is grumpy, and it’s cute.”

–Mary Bernabe nursing

“Hello Kitty, because she’s awesome and I loved her since I was 5 years old, and I like her pink bow.”

–Ga’ Brielle Patton biology

–Justin Locsin, undecided

Member: California College Media Association • Journalism Association of Community Colleges • California Newspaper Publishers Association • Associated Collegiate Press

Romero Garcia criminal justice

“Luna from Sailor Moon.”

-Kevin Bangit Computer science

–Monique Cerna nursing

“I don’t have a favorite cat, I’m a dog person.”

The Tempest is published by Solano College students. Opinions expressed in the paper are those of the individual writers and artists, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the college’s governing board, the administration, the faculty and staff, or the Associated Students of Solano College.

Readers may take up to five copies of The Tempest free. Additional copies may be purchased for 25 cents.

“Bastet, a cat idol in Egypt.”-

reporter/photos: Jace Barrera, Catalina Donnell

“Tama the cat, a cat commander from Japan.”

– Grace Dickerson nursing

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THE VOICE OF SOLANO COLLEGE

Dagmar Kuta editor-in-chief staff writers: Jace Barrera Melissa Espinoza Nelson Rodriguez

Cat Donnell Judith Perez Zuriel Sanders faculty adviser: Samanda Dorger

Hailey Dykes Armando Quiros

““Cat in the Hat,” I grew up with that.”

–AJ Carbondell, Nursing

contact us: It is The Tempest’s policy to correct any errors in the paper. Please contact us if you spot one.

To get in touch with us: phone: (707) 864-7000, ext. 4361 e-mail: tempest@solano.edu postal address: SCC, Room 1861 4000 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield, California 94534

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news

Meow!

Solano jumps into the fray, in honor of National Feral Cat Day Cat club seeks to control feral cat population Zuriel Sanders Staff Writer zsanders@solanotempest.net

The Cat Club at Solano Community College takes care of the campus’ feral cat population, by feeding them and using Trap-Neuter-Return.

“The idea for the cat club started in 2012,” said Wendy Phillips, the creator of the club. “We have two main focuses: share the importance of spaying/neutering cats and controlling the feral cat population.”

The club holds bake sales to raise funds while raising awareness of spaying and neutering. Phillips plans to sell calendars to help spread the message. The cats featured on the calendars are feral and were spayed or neutered.

“If you create a stable population you reduce the population of cats, and those cats that do wander on campus we have volunteers to help trap them, Phillips said.

“What we’re creating is a model that we hope will catch on to more and more campuses to do this humane stabilization,” Phillips said.

“These cats on campus can help eliminate the rodent population. Solano has started

to realize now that euthanizing is more expensive and that spaying and neutering is more efficient, cost effective and also reduces the population of cats,” Phillips said.

“So if you’re a cat hater than this even satisfies you.”

Anyone interested in joining or for more information contact the Cat Club President Stephanie Gittens at: Stephaniegittens@gmail.com

The cost of feral cats Zuriel Sanders Staff Writer zsanders@solanotempest.net

Of the 50 million feral cats in the United States, about two dozen reside at Solano Community College. It’s easy to ignore them, but feral cats are an expensive issue of animal welfare.

According to SolanoFerals.org, a volunteer organization which helps homeless cats in Solano county, in California, more than $50 million a year (coming largely from taxes) is spent by animal control agencies and shelters for cat-related expenses. The national figure is estimated in the hundreds of millions.

Feral cats also reproduce at a rate of 4.9 kittens per female feral cat a year.

This rapid birth rate also means that there won’t be enough resources to contain all these feral cats, according to Solano Ferals. The rapid population increase leads to mass euthanasia.

In California alone, 750,000 to one million animals are euthanized for this reason. And, more than 60 percent of the animals impounded in California shelters die there. Euthanasia is also ex-

pensive, costing about $100 per animal.

This means California alone spends 75 – 100 million dollars on euthanizing animals, the Solano Ferals website says.

One solution to control the feral cat population is a method known as Trap –Neuter-Return. In the Trap – NeuterReturn program, ferals are caught, neutered and returned to the wild.

This allows the feral cat to live but not reproduce, thus controlling the feral cat population and sparing the animals life.

It’s also about $50 cheaper on average than euthanasia and a more humane approach to feral cat overpopulation.

Critics argue that TNR isn’t effective.

Take Part, a digital news and lifestyle magazine and social action platform, says you’d need to “neuter 71 to 94 percent”, of feral cats in an area for TNR to be effective, and according to Take Part that has yet to be done by a program.

Letting these cats go could also be problematic if they have a disease, allowing them to potentially spread what they have to other cat populations or humans, according to Take Part.

Cat Classification

Source: www.havahart.com

Ever wondered how to accurately describe that cat you’ve seen around your house? Check out this guide for assistance.

Cat Facts

Scientific name: Felis Catus Average size: 8-12” tall: 12-24” long; 3-8lbs

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Born and raised in the wild.

Raised by humans from birth.

Have little to no human contact.

Live and reproduce near human populations; often times indirectly taken care of by humans.

Live in the custody of humans.

Socialized and generally friendly towards humans.

Feral cats tend to be lighter as they have more limited access to food than house cats.

Average lifespan: 15 years domesticated; 2 years in the wild Due to their extreme adaptability, cats inhabit most of the worlds, including all continents except for Antarctica.

STRAY Were once pet cats.

Live in the wild due to abandonment or getting lost.

Were once socialized, so may be approachable by humans.

Information from www.havahart.com

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Sometimes, it can be difficult to find information vital to your academic success. Often, those who are supposed to help us focus too much on the future and not enough on the now. “I had a math class where the information was not as clear in the texbook, so I had to

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turn to other resources,” said Jowan Boykins, biology major.

To help you better succeed at Solano, the Tempest staff have put together this list of ways to help you succeed. All of these are (mostly) free and easy and legal!

Did you know you can download Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote for free? All you have to do is go to this link: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education The manufacturers of Adobe products have released Photoshop CS2 as a free download. Go to this link to download: http://www.techspot. com/downloads/3689adobe-photoshop-cs2. html

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A relatively new addition to the Google empire, Google Docs now offers premade resumes, business letters, and school reports for free. This is a great way to easily make a beautiful resume or whatever else you may need to get ahead in life.

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As you probably know, if you’ve ever bought a loose-leaf textbook, it’s extremely irritating to try and keep all the pages together.

Well, if you can find room 115 on the main campus, you are in luck. The Print Shop at Solano offers binding for a mere dollar. It takes about 10 minutes to get your book bound and you can sell it back to the bookstore at the end of semester.

How cool is that?!

Academic Success Center Hours

Have no money and you’re rushing to print before class? Head to the Academic Success Center in room 101 and you can print up to five pages absolutely free. Make sure you leave enough time as this area on campus is very popular.

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While you’re printing at the ASC, ask for a free educational planner. These are semester long planners that also have guides and tons of helpful info.

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We have all experienced the last minute rush to find the textbook. Join the SCC Textbook Exchange group on Facebook to make it a little bit easier, and connect with your classmates at the same time.

Monday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Tuesday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Wednesday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Thursday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Friday Closed

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Having trouble studying? Do a good deed and get your homework done with UNICEF. Open unicef.tap.org on your phone, and let it sit still. The longer you let your phone sit without touching it, the more water is donated to those in need.

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If you can’t find anyone locally who has the textbook that you need, make an Amazon prime account with your student email for free. With this membership, you get free two-day shipping on all orders for a full year (plus Amazon Video, which is kind of like Netflix).

You probably already know that you can apply for scholarships online at the beginning of the fall semester (and if you didn’t, you do now). Additionally, you can also apply for them at the beginning of the spring semester.

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Dead Man’s Cell Phone Upcoming theatre production explores technology and missed connections

Zuriel Sanders zsanders@solanotempest.net

Catalina Donnell cdonnell@solanotempest.net

Staff Writers

The play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” written by Sarah Ruhl, is a romantic comedy about an incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café, a stranger at the next table who has had enough, and a dead man--with a lot of loose ends.

So begins “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

Due to remodeling of SCC’s theater building, the play will take

place in the back of the cafeteria, or what the actors like to call “Studio G,” named after George Maguire, the former director of SCC Theater. The actors don’t mind, though, because they feel comfortable there. “We’re lucky to have a legitimate place to perform,” said Kaitlin Waite, who plays lead character Jean. She says that they are ready to perform at Studio G. One perk of being in the cafeteria is having close access to food, the cast members said. The new theatre building, due to be opened sometime in 2016, will cost around $14 million. “It’ll be the new center of arts for Solano and the whole community will use it,” said Dyan McBride, director of “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”.

Opening day of “Dead Man’s

Cell Phone” is Oct. 21, running through Nov.1.

The director of Solano Community College’s upcoming production is Dyan McBride and the lead actors include Shiloh Germano, Kaitlin Waite, Annika Sund, Kaylie Butler, Katie Watkins, Mark Bennett, Edna Vicente, Zachary Bender, Benjamin Ree, Erin Jones, and Jeannie Barnes.

Preview day is Oct. 21, so tickets are $5 for everyone. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for seniors/military, and $15 for general. Tickets can also be purchased online through a link on the Solano College Theatre Facebook page, or in person at the box office before show time.

“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” Wed Oct. 21, 2015, 7:30pm Thu Oct. 22, 2015, 7:30pm Fri Oct. 23, 2015, 7:30pm Sat Oct. 24, 2015, 2pm and 7:30 p.m.

Sun Oct. 25, 2015, 2pm and 7:30 p.m.

Thu Oct. 29, 2015, 7:30pm Fri Oct. 30, 2015, 7:30pm Sat Oct. 31, 2015. 2pm Sun Nov. 1, 2015, 2pm

Employees of Murray Solar Services clean SCC’s solar panels at the main campus, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. the solar panels were installed during summer, 2013, at a total cost of around $12.3 million. The panels are saving an estimated $600,000 per year for SCC.

Human Collective Club looks toward future of club to help community Judith Perez Staff Writer jperez@solanotempest.net

The Human Collective Club starts out strong during this Fall 2015 year. Founded in Spring 2015, the club combines psychology and the human services department to come together with a common goal of helping other. A big goal of the club is to provide leadership opportunities for the students of Solano College. They enforce training so that students may apply human service skills and look at human nature from a bio cycle social perspective.

“You can see the different starting points between them,” said Saki Cabrera, psychology professor and supervisor of the Human Collective Club. “Students are starting to talk together.”

One of the projects they host is the Weave Project. It is aimed toward assisting domestic violence survivors by providing support with some primary necessities like toiletries and food.

The goal of the Human Collective Club, according to President Bryan Ashford, is to “Spread the word of mental illness. I find that a lot of people do not take it as seriously as we should.”

“We put out a call for help from Solano College,” says Cabrera. “They donated items and we are going through them.”

They will host mental illness presentations in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illness). They plan to showcase a cultural event as well and are currently looking for speakers from different cultures, not just limited to ethnicity and race. The Human Collective club will

The club plans to run four projects for this whole semester Cabrera praises the group for their high goals, claiming that “it’s huge for a club that just started.

also partake in the Suicide Awareness Walk and participate in cancer awareness by chopping off their hair.

The future of the club looks promising, according to Cabrera. “I am getting calls from other people and professors who want to combine with our club,” said Cabrera. “[We are getting] positive feedback and people are doing what they said they would do.”

“It’s just the beginning,” said Cabrera. “It shows the testament of humanity.”

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Tensions high in game against Yuba

Judith Perez/Tempest

Alexandria Bowers drives the ball as a Yuba member intercepts her.

Judith Perez Staff Writer jperez@solanotempest.net

Solano College lost to Yuba College 3-4 on Tuesday Oct. 6. Solano’s current standing is 5-2-1 in the Bay Valley Conference.

Yuba College took in the match’s first goal

under 10 minutes in the first half. Solano answered back with a goal from a lob off of a corner kick by Alexandria Bowers. It was a tie with a score of 1-1 with Solano nine attempts to score to Yuba’s three.

On the second half Solano were throwing their control of the game. The team was seen getting out of position and let Yuba

advance in their defenses. Yuba scored their second goal three minutes into the second half with another one following 15 minutes later. Annalisa Pena scored Solano’s last two goals in with one coming from a penalty kick.

“What made me happy was that we fought hard to the very last second of the game,”

said Captain Mia Horn. “Even when we were down some goals we managed to get some in.”

“The team made it difficult for themselves,” said Head Coach Jeff Cardinal.

“Our performance was not as good as previous but it was definitely winnable.”

Judith Perez/Tempest

Lauryn Williams prevents Yuba College from taking their goal.

Judith Perez/Tempest

Annalisa Pena attempts to manuever the ball forward from Yuba with Mia Horn on the side.

Sports Calendar Volleyball Wed. Oct. 14 vs. College of Marin, 6 p.m.

Soccer Fri. Oct. 16 vs. Merritt College, 4 p.m.

Fri. Oct. 16 vs. Contra Costa College, 6 p.m.

Wed. Oct. 21 @ Mendocino College, 6 p.m.

Fri. Oct. 23 vs. Napa Valley College, 6 p.m.

Wed. Oct. 28 @ Yuba College, 6 p.m.

Fri. Oct. 30 @ College of Alameda, 6 p.m.

Fri. Nov. 6 vs. Los Medanos College (sophomore night) 6 p.m.

Tue. Oct. 20 @ College of Marin, 4 p.m.

Fri. Oct. 23 vs. Mendocino College, 4 p.m.

Tue. Oct. 27 vs. Napa Valley College, 4 p.m.

Fri. Oct. 30 @ Folsom Lake College, 3 p.m.

Tue. Nov. 3 @ Los Medanos College, 3 p.m.

Fri. Nov. 6 @ Yuba College, 3 p.m.

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THE TEMPEST n OCT. 14 - NOV. 3, 2015

sports

SCC puts Los Medanos under pressure

Judith Perez/Tempest

Mia Horn, center, closes in on the goal surrounded by her opponents

Falcons score seven goals Judith Perez Staff Writer jperez@solanotempest.net

Solano College soccer delivered a strong 7-0 win against Los Medanos Friday Oct. 2. Solano is currently 5-2-1 in the Bay Valley Conference.

Forward Annalissa Pena scored the first goal. Juliet Ramirez scored the third goal from the left side after switching the field. The Falcons had a strong lead by halftime with a score of 4-0, with a total of 13 attempts to goal to Los Medanos’s three attempts.

Team captain Mia Horn scored Solano’s last goal of the game.

Coach Jeff Cardinal praised his team’s play especially towards the end of the first half and the second half.

“Not so much in the first 30 minutes of the game,” said Cardinal. “We need to improve the level at the start of the game.”

Mia Horn gets past the goalie and the remaining defenders to score a goal

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