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Volume 22. Issue 10
News:
February 27, 2012
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Custom paint job not wanted
Rock the vote takes over the campus and excites students
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Features:
Fashionistas take center stage in the quad
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A & E:
Eat My Heart Out shows students the dark side of love Page 8
Sports:
Chaffey athletes have a tough week after back-to-back losses Page 12
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GARY BYRD
“That’s a lot of shit!” said Jacob Armijo who was sitting in front of the Language Arts Building after it was tagged with graffiti over the President’s Day weekend. “This is silly, immature, cowardly, and I fail to understand the total point,” Armijo said.
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assing by the Language Arts building, one typically does not look at the red brick and white columns on the way to class. Unfortunately, after coming back from a four-day weekend, the Language Arts building gathered some unwanted attention Feb. 21 as someone decided to change the paint job and leave offensive graffiti along the north side of the building. The graffiti was reported by Dean of Language Arts, Michael Dinielli. “I found the tagging on Friday morning,” he said. “Even though the campus was closed I stopped by the office and that’s when I saw it.” The dean reported it to his supervisor and then notified Campus Police. Because the graffiti was reported Friday morning, the act of vandalism had to have taken place between the time classes ended on
Thursday night and 8 a.m. Friday, when Dinielli found the tagging. Every white column was tagged in black spray paint in a rough sketch of the male genitalia. The door of Room 109 had a crude message that was quickly painted over by maintenance staff. On the red brick was the word “shit” written three times in descending order. In addition, racist messages were sprayed at the end of the building. Antoinette Duke, history major, lamented the tagging. “I feel like we need to have security cameras after this,” she said. “It’s stupid and it’s ridiculous. Why someone would vandalize the school? I don’t know.” This is not the first time the Language Arts building has received an unwanted custom paint job, according to Dinielli. The first time this happened was during winter break, when the tagging was also found at the Social Science building, the
patio separating the Language Arts and Social Science buildings and the Berz Excellence building. “The only pattern I see is the person who does this knew when the college is closed, so there were no employees here in the morning to discover it,” Dinielli said. “So there is a certain degree of a safety net that no one was going to be here the next day.” In a letter to the editor, student Sergio Becerra said, “After seeing the graffiti with foul language on it, it seems as there is no threat to the school. However, there should be more security to prevent people from trespassing on campus.” The full text of Becerra’s letter appears on Page 2 of this edition. The Breeze made an attempt to get a comment from Campus Police but a spokesperson was unavailable. The graffiti was completely removed by the maintenance staff on Feb. 22.