Eastfield Et Cetera March 29, 2017

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Professor remembered for humor, passion

By JULIO VEGA Sports Editor @JulioVegaETC

Paint and auto body professor Ramiro Gutierrez, known for his tinkering skills and passion for students’ education, died March 20, four months after being diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer. He was 47.

Executive Dean of Career Technologies Johnnie Bellamy said he was one of the finest teachers she has worked with. She said Gutierrez was innovative and professional while working with his students.

“He was always trying new ways to make it better for them,” she said.

“He was dedicated to their completion so they could get jobs and be successful.”

Gutierrez graduated from Eastfield with an associate degree in auto

body technology in 2004. Later that year, he became an adjunct professor for Eastfield’s auto body technology program before Gutierrez becoming lead auto-painting instructor in 2010.

Funeral services were held March 27 with arrangements under the direction of Anderson-Clayton-Gonzalez Funeral Home in Mesquite.

Gutierrez was born Aug. 31, 1969, in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He married Diana Gutierrez in 1996.

He spent more than 15 years working in the auto body industry for Werner Enterprises before beginning his teaching career at Eastfield.

Carlos Ojeda, auto body technology program coordinator, worked

alongside Gutierrez for nearly 13 years. Ojeda said he was organized and straightforward but also humorous and caring.

“Everything he’s done and did was for his students, inside the classroom and outside the classroom,” Ojeda said. “He wanted to make sure that people succeeded. He was great to his students, and that’s what his passion was.”

He was involved in sports, notably soccer and tennis. He formed a soccer club with Ojeda several years ago. In November 2016, two weeks before his diagnosis, he competed in a state doubles tennis championship tournament.

Gutierrez also had an interest in music. For a while, he was a DJ performing at quinceaneras as well as a manager for his younger brother, Rudy, in his musical career.

He also performed with a band and

as a soloist for Sunday mass at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Downtown Dallas.

Liliana Rodriguez, senior manager for graphics communications, said he had a friendly personality and was always helpful to his students. She is a former student of Ojeda, but she learned extensively from Gutierrez.

After being hired by Eastfield, she worked with Gutierrez from time to time.

“He was a great colleague to talk to and very down-to-earth,” she said.

“He was always about the student and didn’t falter in that.”

Ojeda said Gutierrez turned around the program for his students with his skills and experience.

“He changed the program a whole 180 degrees in the first two years that he was here,” Ojeda said. “One of the things he suggested we do right off the bat was putting everyone in uni-

form, so as their industry partners come in to talk to us because they’re wanting to hire someone, everything is uniform, just like a shop.”

Bellamy also praised Gutierrez’s ways of structuring the class.

“They would run it more like a shop would be run, where some students were doing the metal work, and then that metal work would go over to the next set of people to do the painting,” she said.

Ojeda said the things he will miss most are their shared daily morning coffees and lunches as well as Gutierrez’s humor and laughter.

“He was a jokester,” Ojeda said.

“There was never a dull moment around him. He always had something silly to say.”

Survivors include his wife; siblings Rudy, Lidia, Elizabeth, Andres and Eloy Gutierrez; and numerous nieces, nephews and godchildren.

Female campus leaders unite for ‘nasty’ panel

By KATRINA BOND Life & Arts Editor @KatBondETC

Feminists strive for the common goal of equality, but women should embrace their own individuality as well as the differences of others, a panel of self-proclaimed “nasty women” said on March 23.

“I think we all have mixed ideas or different ideas of what feminism is,” history professor Kat Reguero said. “The word for feminism is humanism. … Emma Watson said it really well last week: ‘Feminism is not a stick to beat each other with.’ Don’t use it as a weapon.”

English professor Amanda Preston organized the #NastyWomen Panel for Women’s History Month.

The six panelists answered questions regarding the challenges they face as women, overcoming the obstacles of physical appearance in the workplace, women who inspire them and what they think it means to be a “nasty woman.”

The term became a rallying cry for women during the presidential election after Donald Trump muttered it as an insult toward Hillary Clinton during their final debate.

Dance professor Danielle Georgiou said being a “nasty woman”

means breaking barriers.

“I’ve broken every rule ever, and I’m going to continue to keep breaking those rules,” she said. “I think that’s what it means to be a nasty woman, is to never ever do what anybody actually tells you to do.”

Several of the panelists advised women to be confident and make their own choices.

“It means I won’t be quiet,” Reguero said. “It means that when I see injustice, I will speak up. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to put me in a box, and you’re going to hold the key. I’m free. You don’t hold keys to me.”

The “nasty women” talked about disrespect they have faced from men. In a video statement, President Jean Conway described how a male colleague called her a “little lady” during a meeting when she first became a dean.

“I was stunned to be addressed that way,” Conway said. “I resolved that the next time … I was going to return the comment with, “Well, little man, did you get what you wanted?’ ” Embrace the title of “nasty woman,” English professor Shazia Ali said, but remember that it is a label.

“Labels have limitations, and they can sometimes box you,” she said. “When I see that hashtag ‘nasty

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Dance program coordinator Danielle Georgiou and History professor Kat Reguero discuss their definition of feminism at the #NastyWomen Panel on March 23.

woman,’ for me, personally, it is just not conforming to what society and what men or what other women expect you to be. Use it as a label for its advantages but break free of the label when you need to.”

Associate Vice President Rachel Wolf moderated the panel, which also included education and human

development professor Myesha Applewhite and executive deans Courtney Carter Harbour and Judith Dumont. The crowd in the Pit cheered and clapped for many of the women’s statements.

“It’s great that this panel shows that we can kick ass,” student Lece Canales said.

In connection with the event, a box was set up to collect donations of feminine hygiene products, such as shampoo, deodorant and menstrual products, for local homeless shelters.

The collection box will remain in the library throughout the semester.

—Joel Sierra contributed to this ­ report.

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New cuts could affect TRIO

By DAVID SILVA Editor In Chief @DavidSilvaETC

President Donald Trump’s recently proposed budget for 2018 would have a direct impact on Eastfield’s TRIO program and is a cause for concern among art and science professors.

The budget proposal includes major cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and Education Department, eliminates four cultural agencies and increases spending for the Defense Department, Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of Homeland Security.

Revealed on March 16, the proposal details the changes suggested to Congress, initiating the first step of the budget process.

President Trump’s plan proposes “significant” reductions to the federal work-study program and would cut an estimated $193 million from TRIO, a federal outreach program designed to provide academic aid to disadvantaged students.

Although this is only a proposition, the budget gives Americans a glimpse of the administration’s priorities.

“Everything is in the process of change,” TRIO coordinator Bobbi White said, “You don’t really know what’s going to happen. The prediction is a 10 percent cut to all budgets.

That would be a big hit for us, and I don’t know how we’re going to manage that.”

TRIO is part of an umbrella program with Upward Bound, Talent Search and Student Services Support at Eastfield.

Upward Bound aims to provide high school students in low-income areas with an opportunity to attend college. Talent Search spotlights students who might benefit from strategies in order to pursue college.

Student Support Services assists college students with completing their degree.

A 10 percent cut to TRIO at Eastfield would be about $30,000, White said.

Critics of the TRIO program often question its effectiveness. In 2004, the office of management and budget’s Program Assessment and Rating Tool deemed some agencies in TRIO to be only moderately increasing college enrollment and graduation.

Recent evaluations by the Education Department show that Talent Search and Student Support Services

SOURCE: U.S. OFFICE OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT

showed a positive impact on applicants, while Upward Bound was concluded to have no detectable effect on the rate of college enrollment.

White said the budget proposal doesn’t state where the cuts will be made. Nationally, TRIO has seven programs that vary in perceived importance by voters and member of Congress.

“The McNair program is one that’s under scrutiny because it’s for graduate students,” White said. “A lot of people think, ‘Well you’re in graduate school. You’ve gotten one degree. Go work and earn that degree.’ So I don’t know what’ll happen.”

White is aware of the criticism for TRIO at the federal level, but she feels confident in its effectiveness on campus.

“What we’re doing is serving students who have an academic need and don’t have family support,” White said. “We have a very high success rate.”

According to White, TRIO had a 58 percent graduation rate at Eastfield in 2016 with a transfer rate of about 44 percent.

“We’re stewards of taxpayer money, so we try to be very mindful of what we do with that money,” she said. “People who have that direct experience know that this makes a difference. People who didn’t go through college with that same academic need don’t understand the impact.”

Cuts that would eliminate all federal funding for cultural agencies including the National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment of the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have turned heads on campus even though these cuts do not affect the college directly.

“It’ll have an impact on places like Dallas Shakespeare and Kitchen Dog

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[Theater] that do summer programs,” technical theater coordinator Lori Honeycutt said. “That’s eliminating a portion of their funding.”

Supporters of the cuts oppose federal funding for arts programs they believe should compete in the private sector.

The proposed cuts are projected to impact art programs across the country. Honeycutt thinks art programs will remain resourceful no matter the cuts.

“They will find a way to get art to kids,” she said. “As long as people seek out the arts, we will persevere.”

The budget proposal also seeks a $2.5 billion cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, targeting climate change programs and environmental cleanup efforts, including a 50 percent cut to international research.

These cuts are consistent with President Trump’s criticism of the Obama administration’s environmental regulations and his controversial claim that climate change is a hoax.

Biology professor Pebble Barbero feels there is no debating the existence of climate change.

“It flabbergasts me,” she said. “To say it’s not doing anything right now is fine, but it’s the future generation that will be impacted by what we’re doing right now. To say it’s not true, you’re misinformed.”

Barbero believes that the White House’s budget proposal is designed to diminish the efforts of Barack Obama’s presidency and will accelerate negative impact on the environment.

“Even though it may only be the next four years, I still think we’ll see the impact of a decreasing budget funds for that, for the arts, for education,” she said. “It’ll have detrimental repercussions.”

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Learn to Recognize the Warning Signs of Suicide • Sense of hopelessness about the future • Drastic changes in behavior or personality • Uncharacteristic impulsiveness, recklessness or risk-taking • Expressions of rage, uncontrolled anger, aggressive behavior • Preoccupation with death, dying or suicide through writing, speech or artwork • Giving away prized possessions • Loss of interest in personal appearance • Increased usage of alcohol or drugs • Withdrawal from friends, family and society • Extreme anxiety or agitation • Inability to sleep or sleeping all the time • A recent severe stressor, such as real or anticipated loss of a relationship, unplanned pregnancy, bullying or family conflict • A previous suicide attempt or exposure to another’s suicidal behavior • Verbal signs such as:

o “I’m so tired. I don’t feel like I can take this any longer.”

o “I don’t want to be a bother anymore.”

o “I want you to know something in case something happens to me.”

Source: Grant Halliburton Foundation

Mother who lost son warns of suicide signs

By KATRINA BOND Life & Arts Editor @KatBondETC

When Grant Halliburton was released from a 30-day hospitalization after being diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder, his family thought he was better.

A few weeks later, on Nov. 2, 2015, he jumped off a 10-story building, ending his life at 19.

His mother, Vanita Halliburton, almost immediately founded the Grant Halliburton Foundation in order to present information about suicide awareness at elementary, middle and high schools as well as college campuses throughout North Texas.

Halliburton believes it is important that people recognize suicidal behavior as easily as they recognize the signs of a cold.

According to the foundation, 80 percent of young people who commit suicide give some warning to a friend

or family member beforehand.

Halliburton wants to help family and educators find resources and know what to do to help those who exhibit warning signs.

The Eastfield Providing Hope, Awareness and Suicide Education Project, or PHASE Project, hosted Halliburton on March 21. Halliburton spoke about her son and taught the audience how to recognize the signs of suicidal ideation and help people who may be suicidal.

“If our family couldn’t figure this out and we were doing everything we knew to do to help our son, … if we couldn’t figure that out and save his life, there must be other families who can’t figure it out either,” Halliburton said. "And there must be something wrong with our mental health system. If I can do something that gives information that I didn’t have when I needed it to other families, to other adults in the lives of young people, then that’s what I need to do.”

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The Political Gap

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The Et Cetera examined the partisan culture on campus. We talked to people about their beliefs, the current ideological walls and the role that media plays.

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By JAMES HARTLEY Managing Editor @JamesHartleyETC

icholas Singleton walks into his Texas government class, taking his seat at the long table that early-arriving classmates put together. He sets his bag down on the table and, in his low, soft voice, asks how everyone is doing before pulling his textbook out of his backpack.

Singleton, an African-American Republican, is one of the few conservatives in his government class. As the discussion starts up, he finds he is one of the only conservative voices in the room.

Singleton hasn’t found many conservatives on campus and has yet to find another AfricanAmerican student who’s Republican.

He said that liberals have tried to use identity politics to change his views.

“I’ve heard ‘Republicans are racists because they favor the prosperous,’ ” Singleton said. “Another one I’ve heard is ‘You’re African-American so you should vote Democrat because they’re in favor of the poor.’ ” Singleton’s ideology is also unique at home.

“I didn’t adopt my parents’ political identity,” Singleton said. “I’m a Republican, but my mom’s a Democrat. We have opposing views, especially about gun control and the health of the economy.”

Singleton often feels out of place around other students.

His views are not typically well accepted, and sometimes he’s been asked to not express them.

“I tried hanging out with a girl and her friends, and she stopped me to say that I really need to be careful what I say,” Singleton said. “All her friends are Democrats, and they’re disgusted by Donald Trump.”

A 2015 national survey of college freshman conducted by the University of California Los Angeles found that 33.5 Nicholas Singleton percent self-identify as either “liberal” or “far left,” a 1.8 percent increase over 2014 freshmen.

The survey found that 21.6 percent of freshmen identified as “conservative” or “far right,” only 0.6 percent higher than 2014.

According to the Pew Research Center, Trump received only 8 percent of the African-American vote. Singleton said he doesn’t understand the unquestioning support of Democrats by AfricanAmericans.

“I’ve asked African-Americans before what the Democratic Party has ever done for the AfricanAmerican community,” Singleton said. “They usually hesitate and can’t provide me with any answer.”

Most conservatives interviewed for this story said they feel outnumbered at Eastfield, and some wouldn’t talk to The Et Cetera for fear of retribution from peers or professors. Those who were interviewed said they feel liberals don’t understand them, and some reject them altogether.

Psychology major Josh Nelson, vice president of Phi Theta Kappa, said he’s found liberals on campus with whom he can have respectful conversations, but most of the time, his opinion is rejected.

He said that while friends like Tristan Macklin, a mechanical engineering major and fellow vice president in PTK, accept him and tolerate his views, most people don’t.

“About 70 percent of the time I get that staunch, ‘How dare you believe that,’ reaction,” he said.

Kathy Bayne, a sign language interpreter at Eastfield who grew up in a liberal household, said that there is a larger conservative population on campus than there appears to be. They are just quieter about their political views than liberals.

Sam Farley, an undecided major who identifies as libertarian-conservative, feels he is an outsider among Eastfield students.

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By KATRINA BOND Life & Arts Editor @KatBondETC

att Hinckley is so far left that he doesn’t consider himself a Democrat but an anarcho-syndicalist, as well as a list of other political identities.

“I consider myself a social libertarian, an economic progressive and a foreign policy conditional pacifist and globalist,” Hinckley said.

Hinckley, a history professor at Eastfield for seven years and a Dallas County Community College District employee for 23 years, said this basically means that he believes in a robust democracy, social justice and the government playing a significant role in the economy.

Although his background in history lends itself toward his analysis and views of the United States and its political climate, Hinckley also attributes his views to his upbringing.

“I was raised Catholic,” he said. “The Catholic Church has a strong history of social justice on a lot of issues — concern for the poor, concern for the sick.”

Hinckley said that because he was born a white male in America, he has a certain level of privilege for things such as not getting pulled over as often or being less likely to be taken advantage of. If he committed a crime, he feels he would likely get a shorter sentence than someone of color. He believes it’s his job to use his circumstances to challenge privilege.

“I have a special responsibility to do things to make others aware of the existence of privilege and to act in ways that counteract it,” Hinckley said. “My mom always used to say, ‘To whom much is given, much is expected.’”

In the past, Hinckley has voted in the Democratic primaries.

“It’s the only viable political party in the United States at present that espouses at least some of my ideals,” he Matt Hinckley said.

However, Hinckley said that the Democratic Party has room for improvement.

“It’s not sufficiently progressive,” he said.

Hinckley believes the Democratic Party peaked during the time of President Franklin Roosevelt. He believes abandoning Roosevelt’s economic justice platform is where the Democrats went wrong.

“Franklin Roosevelt won four landslide victories,” Hinckley said. “There’s a reason for that, and that’s because he championed economic programs that helped to begin to form a viable, large working middle class.”

Brianna Macias, a business major and liberal Democrat, believes that the growing wage gap is an issue that progressives and conservatives both need to work on.

“The middle class is diminishing, and they’re not doing anything to impact that or improve it,” she said.

Mechanical engineering major Tristan Macklin is a liberal Democrat who believes that the Democratic Party lost recent elections because of corruption within the system.

“Gerrymandering has played a big part in the lack of representation for liberals in this country, specifically in this state,” he said. “The percentage of people that vote Democrat in Texas is much lower than the percentage of Democrats that hold office.”

Macklin said that despite the losses in recent elections, he believes the party will only grow stronger.

“The fact that we lost a lot of stuff is just getting a lot of people stirred up, and I think it’s going to be good for the party because it will get our voters out,” he said. “Everybody wants to go march and nobody wants to show up at the polls.”

Hinckley believes that Eastfield is a mostly liberal campus, but that it is open-minded See Liberal students, page 16 ➤

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Voice for third party voters isn’t represented

This last election cycle, I felt less represented and understood than ever before.

I felt more isolated, saw more hypocrisy from both Republicans and Democrats and lost virtually all faith in our current political system.

I’m a Libertarian. That means that I fundamentally believe in liberty as an inherent right for all people. I don’t believe that, as an adult, I should ever be coerced into doing something I don’t think is in my best interest. I believe all people have the same right.

The Republicans consistently break this rule by favoring police, imposing their moral restrictions on others and pushing ag-

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gressive foreign policies. The Democrats break this rule by forcing others to adhere to their vision for a utopia in true socialistic fashion, whether that be demanding adherence to their sexual agenda or taking a significant portion of my wages to pay for the cigarettes of a man who hasn’t worked in years.

These parties are not ideologies, but

political organizations with selfish agendas.

It appears that these two political machines are now unashamedly public with their self-centered motives. They are willing to do anything to make themselves look good.

I left the Republican Party a few years ago because I did not agree with its inconsistent agenda. I found the party to be full of people existing only on the liberal spectrum: mindless sheep doing what they’re told to do.

Through “liberal” and “conservative” media outlets, most Americans are taught how to think on social and political issues. This ensures easy manipulation and essentially creates a mob mentality — “all Republicans

think that way on this issue, and all Democrats think this way.”

This is one of the things the framers of the Constitution sought to avoid along with an all-powerful central government. America has failed both of these objectives, and this twoparty system is largely to blame for it.

If popular media outlets actually shared the news without bias or intentional distortion and only included their opinions later, we’d be much better off.

Biases are important because they challenge us to think differently, but they are only beneficial when different perspectives are heard.

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Conservatives feel outnumbered, marginalized

Continued from page 4 Farley grew up in a Jewish-American, conservative household. He said he isn’t more liberal than his parents, just more Libertarian.

Though his parents homeschooled him, they encouraged him to research and form his own opinions.

He said he feels Eastfield is a liberal campus and that most students and professors lean left.

“When I first got here, I was afraid to even open my mouth,” Farley said. “With culture and media, I think a lot of conservatives feel like they’re walking into the lion’s den.”

Economics professor Bob Felder, who has taught here since the campus opened in 1970, said he doesn’t discuss his political views at work to avoid conflict with his co-workers. He said he feels comfortable on campus as a professor but not as a conservative.

“As long as I keep quiet, I’m OK,” he said.

Farley believes that virtue signaling, where a person gets called a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamaphobe, or other names because of their beliefs, is poisonous to discourse.

Farley said he has been called a Nazi, which was ironic and offensive given his Jewish heritage.

“If someone were to call me a Nazi simply for holding a conservative position, even not knowing I was a Jew, that would completely shut it down,” he said. “How would we even begin to have a conversation? I think we need to be very careful and know that the words you use to describe what you are seeing, words like ‘white supremacy’ and ‘white nationalism’ and ‘nationalism.’ Yes, these beliefs still exist. Yes, people still hold these views, but they are not conservatives. Not by an inch, or a mile, are they conservatives.”

Nelson has experienced virtue signaling for his political beliefs and the color of his skin.

He’s been told many times that his views are irrelevant due to “white privilege.”

“Corner after corner, I get shut down because I’m a white man,” Nelson said. “Most of the time, they don’t even know my beliefs.”

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Felder believes many liberals today feel disdain for conservative views.

“I think Hillary Clinton’s comment encased it,” Felder said. “A bunch of deplorables. That’s how liberals see conservatives: They’re deplorable.”

Bayne laughed when asked if she believes liberals have any interest in understanding the point of view conservatives hold.

She believes group thinking doesn’t allow room for liberals to understand the conservative ideas of individualism and leads them to care more about select demographics than individuals.

The conservatives interviewed said the news stories published, the rhetoric and word choices used in stories and the way certain issues are reported create a bias, usually in favor of liberals.

Farley believes the media has a major influence on the political identity of Americans.

“I think the news media contribute at least to the image that it is mainstream to be liberal,” Farley said.

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Farley gets his news from the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic and National Public Radio.

“I don’t think I can recall any interview from any major news source that really hounded President Obama in eight years,” Farley said.

“Nobody really asked him the super tough questions that I can think of. I can’t recall a time when the media went after the president.

Compare that to now with Donald Trump. Every day we have some breakthrough about what he’s saying or what someone in his cabinet is saying.”

Farley tries to find more moderate news sources and opposing views “I’ve tried to get away from just news sources on the right,” Farley said. “I think as a conservative in my generation, I am constantly having to guard against party bias.”

Bayne doesn’t mind focusing on mainly conservative news sources.

She consumes most of her news online from sources like News Max and other conservative

media. She said most mainstream news media has an agenda of discrediting conservatives.

Farley said he tries to get a balanced dose of views, but he does watch conservative commentators like Steven Crowder on YouTube.

Farley believes many conservatives, especially young conservatives, are going to nontraditional conservative media like Crowder because of the more casual atmosphere and more libertarian way of thinking.

“Crowder is very sociable, especially as a young person and a conservative,” Farley said.

“I can go to his website and get his talking points and his ideas and it connects with me as a young person from this generation.”

Farley believes any hope for those with different political beliefs to understand each other and get along requires respect.

“I think that the way we combat political correctness is to hold ourselves, as conservatives, to a standards and to say, ‘If we expect them to stop calling us Nazis, we need to stop calling them snowflakes,’ ” Farley said.

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Calendar March/April Wed

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Month-long Literary & Fine Arts Festival begins with Arts in Action festival, see page 8 for full events listing

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In response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order expanding the authority of immigration officers, Eastfield hosted a forum on immigrant rights, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Texas legislature updates March 20.

The forum serves the college’s 46.5 percent Hispanic student population. Eastfield President Jean Conway, Dallas County Community College District chair Monica Lira Bravo and DCCCD Chancellor Joe May were in attendance.

“The district itself was founded on the principle of helping to cure social injustice,” May said.

“There was a group of citizens that wanted to provide an educational opportunity and create a set of institutions that would be defined not by who they exclude but who they include.”

A panel of immigration law experts Jiroko Lopez and Eric Puente, hosted by Victor Arriaga, addressed the concerns that surround the immigrant community.

Bravo explained the executive order was not all that effective without funding from Congress. She said it doesn’t strike down present forms of immi-

gration protection.

“DACA is not cancelled,” Bravo said. “If you have a child under DACA, you need to continue to renew that permit.”

Bravo said the biggest concern is the SB4 bill in the Texas Legislature. SB4 requires all police departments throughout the state to follow state and federal immigration laws.

“A decision hasn’t been made on it [by the House],” she said. “But that’s the law that really affects us because that’s the law that affects us every day.”

Victor Arriaga, deputy consul at the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas, said the rights of undocumented immigrants must be upheld even if they are in the country illegally.

“Regardless of our migratory status, we all have rights,” Arriaga said. “And it’s important to know that those rights should be respected by law.”

Arriaga recommended special hotlines for detainees seeking legal help.

Lopez reviewed what you can and should do in the case of being questioned by the police, as well as short exercises explaining what to do if a police official knocks at your door in search of individuals targeted by the executive order.

Puente stressed the importance of getting various affairs in order in case of deportation or

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Briefs League for Innovation winners announced Winners of the 2017 League for Innovation Student Literary Competition have been announced.

Justin Gilbert won first place in fiction (short story) with Kevin Tiburcio in second.

Essay (Short Creative Non-fiction) winners are Ryan Smithers in first place, Brandon Fields in second and Johnathan Hooper in third with James Lathan III and H. Michael Doan as honorable mentions.

Drama (One-Act Play) winners are Justin Gilbert in first place and Kevin Tiburcio in second.

First place winners receive a $100 prize and will advance to the district-level competition.

All winners will be published in Sigma Kappa Delta’s literary journal, “The Eclectic,” and will be recognized in the League for Innovation Award Ceremony and Student Readings during the Literary & Fine Arts Festival on Wednesday, April 12 from 10:10-11:05 a.m. in G-101.

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Student Leader of the Year is awarded to Zach DeCamp

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Zack DeCamp has been selected as the Student Leader of the Year.

The Amidon/Beauchamp Memorial Award is chosen by a selection committee and based on exceptional displays of leadership and community involvement.

The application for the Student Leader of the Year also requires for applicants to demonstrate their future vision and goals.

DeCamp is President of the Accounting Club, Treasurer of the Communication Club, Phi Theta Kappa Treasurer and a Student Government Association senator.

— Compiled from staff reports

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Host Victor Arriaga speaks at the March 20 immigration forum.

any other departure of the country. He explained how to leave your assets and your children’s guardianship in order.

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WEBSITE REVIEW

New website full of problems, must improve

By DAVID SILVA Editor In Chief @DavidSilvaETC

It’s hard to review a website that doesn’t exist. Days after the Dallas County Community College District “renovated” its websites, Eastfield’s links were all broken. You had a pretty little glass house of a homepage that didn’t have any usable links whatsoever.

It’s working now, for the most part, and aside from the fact that I’m evolutionarily predisposed to hate change, it’s just a frustrating mess.

The interface is simple and allows users to find portals to eConnect, eCampus and other DCCCD websites, which all have the same layout.

Beyond that, it gets a little more complicated. I’m not sure whether it’s the lack of a fully navigational top bar or the lack of a sidebar, but finding what you’re looking for often requires more clicks and scrolls than the

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previous website.

Functionality aside, the layout looks nice, and the consistency between the DCCCD websites helps create an increasingly interconnected network.

The Eastfield website fortunately has an employee directory that allows students to find contact information for any faculty or staff member, though it would be helpful to

Two-party system leaves voters with false dichotomy Continued from page 5 If you only hear one person’s side of a story, you cannot develop a good understanding of the situation. In the same way, if you only hear one person’s opinion as a source of information, you cannot develop your own opinion. You’re just regurgitating theirs.

For this reason, these “news” sources have substantially impacted the American public in a negative way. Encouraging people to think for themselves would kill major broadcasts such as NBC and Fox, so that encouragement will have to come from a different source.

Donald Trump is the answer to this problem. Let me explain before you stop reading.

Last November, we saw the culmination of the circus we called an election campaign for Trump.

He was a joke and everyone knew it, but his competition wasn’t any better. Clinton, or as she was branded, “Hillary,” (Trump sounds better than Donald, Hillary sounds better than Clinton. It’s all a show.) was a disaster of a candidate who gave the presidency to Trump. He wouldn’t have beaten practically anyone else.

For this reason, I think people from every end of the political

spectrum will be reassessing their loyalties to the behemoths, and we may see a rise of multiple parties in the polls.

This past year, almost 8 million Americans voted for a third option because they realized there aren’t only two choices. Saying there are only two options in this scenario is a fallacy known as a “false dichotomy,” and I heard plenty of it.

Apparently, I voted for Hillary Clinton since I didn’t vote for Trump — or so my parents told me. After all, not voting for a Republican clearly is a vote for a Democratic candidate: textbook false dichotomy. In actuality, I voted for a young, obscure, brilliant man named Austin Petersen, who ran on a platform of “I believe two lesbian women should be able to protect their marijuana farm with fully loaded assault weapons.”

This man would have been the most constitutional president we’ve had since Thomas Jefferson, and I think he’d be an excellent choice for the position. Hopefully we’ll have a chance to bring someone truly worthy of the title into office in four years because if we continue to allow the red elephant and blue donkey to steer our nation, the United States faces a grim future.

include an office number and a central list of department contact information. I know this requires consistent maintenance the district wouldn’t want to invest in.

Missing links are still a problem on the site, most noticeably with the nonexistent library home page, which takes multiple searches to find.

The new website, despite having a banner for upcoming campus events, is missing the convenient slider present in the older edition.

There’s a “News” section and “Events” calendar near the bottom of the page, but the “News” section isn’t updated quickly, and many of the events in the calendar include no additional information.

As a student, I don’t know what upcoming events interest or benefit me.

The old website included this outdated “News” and non-informative calendar, but the

slider on the home page would often make up for it.

Some links lead to homepages that are formatted to the older version of the site, such as that of the police department or most clubs.

This is far better than having a broken link, but these pages are still in dire need of an update.

The introduction of the new website and the subsequent broken links were pretty disastrous for the DCCCD. But now, while it’s up and running for the most part, it displays the possibility of improving from the previous version if updates are made.

It lacks accessible pieces for its users, but hopefully the district will revise this soon. At least give us a direct link to the library.

Rating-wise, the website gets one star for the fact that it can actually navigate through links, although it hasn’t done that fully, and a second star for the fact that if I try hard enough, I can get to the page I’m looking for.

Financial aid changes will hurt March is one of the busiest months for Free Application for Financial Student Aid filings. It would make sense that the government to make the process easier for students and parents, but recent changes have done just the opposite. And that’s just one piece of bad news surrounding financial aid right now. Whether you’re shopping for aid or facing loan repayment, watch out for these stumbling blocks. ­-Compiled by Julio Vega

said the cuts reduce complexity and safeguard the Pell Grant program for the next decade. They say these cuts will spark change for public school choice in the coming years. These changes have many worried how much aid they will receive.

Revoked student loan policy

Data Retrieval Tool disappears On March 3, the Data Retrieval Tool on the FAFSA application website was removed. The tool allowed applicants to automatically retrieve income data reported on tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service.

According to the IRS, it was taken down to due to suspicious activity.

The loss of this tool means more applicants are likely to commit errors and could mean a delay in awards for qualifying students. The tool is not required to complete the application, but it makes the process a lot easier.

FAFSA ‘reform’ While FAFSA has always been a time-consuming application to fill out, it provided lots of help for low-income students and families.

However, there has been a recent

push to simplify the form to a single loan and single grant application in an effort to ease the burden on families. This may sound appealing until one realizes it reduces the likelihood of aid for low-income families because it would require state institutions to reintroduce their own financial aid forms.

Proposed funding cuts The Trump administration recently announced a budget proposal that would eliminate the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, a $732 million program that provides aid to those with the most financial need first, and cut Pell Grant surpluses by $3.9 billion. The White House

The Trump administration has also revoked the Obama-implemented Federal Family Education Loan Program, which prevents students who loaned out financial aid from being charged by education agencies when defaulting. With this change, students are now susceptible to fines for being unable to pay back student loans on time, making the prospect of taking out student loans less attractive to them.

Increasing costs In Texas, average in-state tuition increased 66.7 percent between 2006 and 2015, according to collegetuitioncompare.com. In that same timeframe, living costs such as room and board increased by 42.5 percent for on-campus living and 46.3 percent for off-campus living.

The main reason for this increase was the passing of a 2003 law that allowed educational institutions to set their own tuition rates when it was previously set by Texas Legislature.

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“Entendre,” local artist Will Heron’s first solo gallery show since 2015, will open April 1 in the H Gallery as part of the Literary & Fine Arts Festival.

The gallery will exhibit layered works including two murals panted directly onto the gallery walls, one complete with individual art pieces that combine to make a unique, multilayer mural.

Heron and his business partners, Jorge Alcala and Sarah Duke, will also host a “pop-up shop” at the Arts in Action event on Saturday, April 1, selling prints, shirts and pins featuring his illustrations.

Life & Arts Editor Katrina Bond chatted with Heron about the show, his fondness for black and white and the temporary nature of his murals.

What type of art will be featured in “Entendre?”

My work is all visual wordplay, using imagery in multiple ways.

So I’ll use the circular shape but then reuse it in different circumstances, so lightbulbs, cactus, terrariums, all kind of fuse into one. So each piece in the show is like some type of entendre, double, triple meaning.

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What is the “pop-up shop?”

I have a studio out in West Dallas called The Platform, and it’s an old, 1940s house that we use as a creative space, so we have events there all the time, and we call them pop-ups because we’ll have different

artists come in. So when we have a pop-up, it’s more the commercial side of my art brand. This is the formal art gallery side of the art brand, but the pop-up is more like T-shirts and pins and prints, kind of that more commercial side. So then it’s something that people can buy that’s not a $600,000 painting.

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What is your goal as an artist?

I’m a high school art teacher in West Dallas, so my goal is like other [artists], be able to get visual experiences out in the public eye. I’m a big mural person, so we do murals all over town. I love gallery art, but I love being able to get art in public spaces that isn’t necessarily a formal

Lit, arts festival expands This April, the Literary & Fine Arts Festival has been extended from one week to a month of activities.

Dance program coordinator Danielle Georgiou said that this would make it easier to incorporate more events and invite more areas of the campus to get involved.

“In one week, it’s really hard to get to all of those events,” she said.

While various events will be happening almost every day, the festival will kick off at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 1 with Arts in Action, a multi-faceted event in the Lower Courtyard.

“We’re all coming together to create this outdoor arts festival with free family-friendly events,” Georgiou said. “There will be free food, … and all these outdoor activities like a ballet bar, mask-making, karaoke, ceramics lab. There’s a collaborative mural.”

While it is expected to rain on Saturday, event coordinators have already made plans to move the activities into the Pit if necessary.

“Rain or shine, this event is happening,” Georgiou said.

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gallery space. So [my goal is], getting my creative imagery, the double entendre, the wordplay, out in a space that anyone can enjoy it.

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Why did you decide to make most of your murals in black and white?

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When I was a kid, I always said I wanted to be a “professional colorer,” so now it’s kind of ironic that for the last four or five years, I’ve only used black and white in most of my murals. I really like to focus on what idea I’m trying to get across to people, ‘What is that double or triple entendre?’ So black and white allows me to minimize the artistic noise going on and really focus on the design of it. Also, I’m an illustrator by craft,

Saturday, April 1 Arts in Action festival, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Lower Courtyard Materials lab, Gallery 219, open through April 7 Photo contest starts Monday, April 3 Bytes and Bites: Student and Faculty Readings, 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Fireside Lounge Tuesday, April 4 Making Art Work: Dispelling the Myth of the Starving Artist panel discussion, 11:05 a.m.-12:10 p.m., G-101

so a lot of my work starts black and white anyway, and then we’ll shift it into color.

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Why did you decide to paint a mural directly on the walls of the gallery?

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The whole show is all the paintings are interacting with the mural space as well. The cutout is a piece of artwork someone could buy, but this whole show is really a one-time experience because everything is painted on the wall, interacting with the paintings, and then it’s just going to get painted over. It’ll go away and disappear.

So whatever photos happen in the next month-and-a-half is the only evidence of this existing.

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How do you feel about the temporary nature of your work?

I’m really into that. That’s part of why I do murals in gallery spaces because I think some people freak out, like, “Why is this not permanent? Why is this not on a wall outside somewhere?” And I like to play with that uncomfortable feeling people have while watching the mural, knowing that in a month it’s going to be painted white and turned into a new gallery show. That uneasiness of all this detail and all this work going away, and of course that’s a bigger metaphor for life, and everything is ultimately temporary.

The art sometimes lives on, but sometimes it just exists in memories and pictures.

LITERARY & FINE ARTS FESTIVAL CALENDAR Thursday, April 6 Jazz Under the Stars, 5:50 p.m., Lower Courtyard Friday, April 7 Documentary filming, L-111, also April 13 and 21 Monday, April 10 Dance and a Snack dance performance, 12:30 p.m., Lower Courtyard Wednesday, April 12 League for Innovation literary contest awards, readings, 10:10-11:05 a.m., G-101 Thursday, April 13 Artist lecture: sculptor Linda Lopez, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., F-217

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Monday, April 17 Digital Humanities: Coffee and Conversation with Spencer D.C. Keralis of UNT, 2-3 p.m., G-101 Tuesday, April 18 The Et Cetera Poetry Slam, 5:35 p.m., G-101 Wednesday, April 19 Artist lecture and video screening: Martha Colburn, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., F-217 Thursday, April 20 Harvester Cabaret, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., Peformance Hall Friday, April 21 Harvester Cabaret, 6 p.m., Performance Hall

Saturday, April 22 Harvester Cabaret, 8 p.m., Performance Hall Tuesday, April 25 Communications Career Day, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., G-101 Thursday, April 27 Visual Art Student Exhibit, reception 5-7 p.m., Gallery 219, open through May 12 Spring Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall Friday, April 28 Documentary screening, 10 a.m., Performance Hall Spring Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall

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ALBUM TO AVOID

Pitbull should really consider climate changing his profession

By JONATHAN AGUIRRE Staff Writer @TheEtCetera

Pitbull, aka Mr. 305, aka Mr. Worldwide, aka Armando Christian Perez, is a pop-rapper from Miami and I’m not really sure who he makes music for. I’ve never met an honestto-God Pitbull fan.

“Climate Change” was released on March 17, and no one cared. This is Mr. 305’s 10th studio album and his third album named after a popular topic. The other two being “Globalization” and “Global Warming.”

Future Pitbull albums will probably include “Greenhouse Gases” and “Rising Sea Levels.”

Like the impending threat of actual climate change, Pitbull is trying to slowly kill us with his music.

When aliens discover a desolate planet thousands of years from now, they’ll know it was Mr. Worldwide who killed us.

“Climate Change” sounds like it’s going for the rave and party vibe with bouncy beats meant to induce jumping.

The instrumentals aren’t horrid.

In fact, they sound like most of what plays on Top 40 radio stations. However, something was off.

All I could think was, “Why does this sound so repulsive?” I could not figure out what exactly was so bad.

Then it hit me.

It was Pitbull’s presence.

If you were to give the beats to any other popular artist, the songs would improve. But because Pitbull’s voice is on it, the album is ruined. Something about his delivery, the same delivery he’s been using for years, makes Pit-

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bull unbearable. Without Mr. Worldwide, the songs could have been played in a gym or as background music at a small outdoor party.

Pitbull has the reverse Midas touch. He turns everything to crap.

Many things contribute to Mr. 305’s horrible existence. His flow and delivery sound exactly the same on every single song. His lyrics are PG13: mostly inoffensive and uninteresting.

Every time a song starts, Pitbull introduces himself in case we forgot who we were listening to. Not to mention his never-ending ad libs.

No person should ever have to hear “Dale” the amount of times I have.

On top of that, the song structure sucks. They all follow the same formula of some irrelevant guest singing a soulless chorus, Pitbull rapping for a little bit, repeat a couple times.

Every song seems like an attempt to make the same track in a different way.

Every track sucks, some more than others. But the worst is “Bad Man.” With the annoying chorus, caused

by an off-putting melody and stupid lyrics sung by Robin Thicke, the most relevant feature on the album. “Bad Man” hurts to listen to.

Pitbull also really puts forward some thought-provoking lyrics like, “F*ck the Facebook, f*ck the Twitter, f*ck the Snapchat, f*ck the Instagram. Baby, I got a master plan. Gingerbread man, catch me if you can.”

Mr. 305 is a true modern-day philosopher.

The best song by far is “Options.”

The instrumentals offer variety and a more laid-back feeling than in the rest of “Climate Change.”

The chorus sounds like a fun, reggae-influenced Jon Bellion snippet.

Pitbull, or his producers, realized this and made the song mostly chorus.

In a four-minute song, Pitbull raps for a total of one minute and nine seconds. Meaning nearly three minutes of this song are chorus. But that’s not so much a bad thing. The less Pitbull, the better, making this the best song.

The only praise I can give this album is that it’s only 44 minutes long.

If the best thing about this album is the lack of Pitbull, then this album would be better off just not existing.

Overall, “Climate Change” is just insulting, not only to the actual artists making creative and interesting music but also to the consumer. Your time is not worth the mediocre master that is Mr. Worldwide.

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Linda Bois works in the evenings at the Eastfield childcare center.

She has devoted the majority of her life to caring for young children.

Bois saves child, serves as lifelong caretaker

By JAMES HARTLEY Managing Editor @JamesHartleyETC

Linda Bois, a worker at the childcare center in the K building, saved the life of a choking child at the Babies R Us near Town East in Mesquite.

The incident happened Feb. 23 when Bois and her daughter, Erica, were leaving the store and heard a commotion. Erica went to investigate and found a baby choking.

“She turns around and goes, ‘My mom knows CPR,’ ” Bois said. “She dialed 911, but she never got through to anybody.”

The child had swallowed a penny.

Bois immediately started compressions to help the child breathe.

“I told all the people, ‘Watch me,’ ” Bois said. “I said, ‘Y’all need to know this. Y’all all have babies.’ ” Soon the penny was out, and the baby was breathing again. Bois returned the child to its mother.

“I just did what I was trained to do,” Bois said.

Sharon Cook, assistant to the president at Eastfield, said she wasn’t at all surprised that Bois stepped in.

Cook, who has been friends with Bois since 1992 and sent her children to school with Bois’, said she is a quick, reactive person.

“She’s a great mother and has those woman and motherly instincts

— caring, kindhearted, wonderful-natured woman — all of those qualities that are important for early childhood or any caregiving responsibility,” Cook said.

Elaine Clark, Bois’ supervisor, said Bois’ nature makes her a good caregiver for the children enrolled in the Eastfield childcare center.

“She’s active and caring and just a good person,” Clark said.

Clark believes that Bois becoming a grandparent has made her an even better caretaker.

“She has such a passion for teaching and the kids in her class,” Clark wrote in an email. “She has a wonderful work ethic and is constantly finding ways to help the children become stronger and capable people in society.”

Cook believes that Bois is a good example of what a caregiver should look like.

“I think it’s important for anyone who’s in one of those childcare and caregiving roles, the dedication they have,” Cook said. “Linda is truly dedicated. She loves those children. They love her. Parents love her because they know that she has those qualities that when they leave their child, they want to know that that child is being taken care of by someone who is caring and loving. And those are some of her big qualities.”

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘T2’ goes beyond your average sequel

By JONATHAN AGUIRRE Staff Writer @TheEtCetera

Nearly 21 years ago, the cult classic “Trainspotting,” based on the book of the same name, was released to the world.

The movie tells the story of the misadventures and betrayal of a group of heroin-addicted friends.

It glorified drug use with creative and stunning visuals while simultaneously showing the real consequences.

Now, director Danny Boyle has returned with the original 1996 cast to deliver a much-anticipated sequel, “T2 Trainspotting.”

The movie centers around Renton (Ewan McGregor) returning to his hometown after his mother’s death and confronting those he has wronged after stealing $16,000 from his friends.

However, 21 years is a long time.

How do you recreate the magic from the first film?

Boyle’s answer is that you simply can’t.

“T2 Trainspotting” forgets the idea that it should meet the expectations built up over 20 years.

Boyle has incorporated fanservice, references and nostalgia in a way to make an almost satirical statement about modern filmmaking.

Boyle takes iconic shots from the original “Trainspotting” and mirrors them in this new film. However, these shots have been affected by time. Sometimes it’s a missing family member or the fact that the characters are just older.

From the beginning, “T2 Trainspotting” has an obvious visual difference. “Trainspotting” had a gritty aesthetic that represented the reality of heroin addiction. “T2 Trainspotting” has an intentionally clean, more polished feel.

This is also represented in the musical montages in both movies. In

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the first film, montages were visually interesting. But in the sequel there is a montage of Renton riding a train.

Arguably the only visually interesting montage in the movie is a scene where Renton and Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), Renton’s old best friend, try heroin one last time.

All these changes are because the characters have changed as people.

Boyle has changed as a director alongside his audience.

With every classic movie, there is a hardcore fanbase. But Boyle pushes the idea that there shouldn’t be.

Later in the movie, Simon says to

Renton, “You’re here for nostalgia, you’re a tourist in your own youth.”

Spud (Ewen Bremner), the goofy comic relief, writes about the stories of his youth, and Begbie (Robert Carlyle), the violent antagonist, relishes in the stories about him.

“T2 Trainspotting” is a statement that you shouldn’t live in the past.

On top of intelligent and thoughtful writing, “T2 Trainspotting” is full of humor and intense action, including some scenes that make you cringe, like a certain scene that involves vomit.

The creative cinematography and editing keep the movie at a fast pace.

The only criticisms I have are the slightly generic ending full of cliché action and distracting product placement for Adidas throughout the film.

Overall, Boyle has crafted a wellthought out film that challenges its contemporaries.

In a world of constant remakes, sequels and reboots, “T2 Trainspotting” rises above the average cash grab.

MOVIE REVIEW

Stewart brings her best to ‘Personal Shopper’

By KATRINA BOND Life & Arts Editor @KatBondETC

Complete with ghosts, fashion, mysterious texts, fantastic breasts and a horrific murder, “Personal Shopper” is a horror/psychological thriller that follows Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart), a (you guessed it) personal shopper working in Paris for fashion mogul Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten).

Maureen is also a medium searching for a sign from her recently deceased twin brother.

What ensues is a mysterious, often creepy narrative that bounces back and forth between supernatural suspense and Maureen’s day-to-day errands.

Stewart’s performance completely destroys the myth that she is a terrible actress with one expression.

Her fear made me even more scared than I already was.

The movie was well-paced with thorough exposition, which a few people in my theater didn’t seem to appreciate.

I liked the way the movie eased into itself, feeling slow and deliberate.

Although the film was very serious, there were a couple subtle comedic relief moments that helped relieve some tension, such as when Maureen receives a mysterious text from someone claiming to be watching her, only for them to follow up with “just kidding, I’m not really there.”

Stewart spent a fair amount of time topless for either doctor visits or clothing changes.

There was a masturbation scene which didn’t really add much to the plot but was probably placed there for ratings.

There was very little, if any, romance in the movie, which I found refreshing.

I walked out of the theater just as confused as I imagine Maureen must have been at the end of the film, due to a major, mind-blowing plot twist.

Weeks later, I’m still thinking through many different theories on what exactly happened.

The movie was fairly realistic for a horror movie, and I didn’t find any aspect of it unbelievable (assuming ghosts are real).

The supernatural aspects didn’t require many significant special effects, so when something did happen, it was just real enough to be terrifying.

I also liked the idea of a ghost texting instead of tapping on walls or using Ouija boards.

Although the entire movie kept me on edge, there were two scenes in particular that terrified me to the point that I was afraid to be alone in my own room when I got home, and

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Kristen Stewart stars as Maureen Cartwright in “Personal Shopper” with a performance that elevates the film.

I had to bring my cat in to “protect” me.

Overall, “Personal Shopper” is a great psychological thriller and hor-

ror film, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys an adrenaline rush and a gigantic plot twist.

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‘Nier: Automata’ excedes expectations, predecessors

By CAITLIN PIPER Copy Editor @TheEtCetera

To call “Nier: Automata” my dream game wouldn’t be an exaggeration. A rather indirect sequel set more 9,000 years after my beloved cult classic “Nier,” “Automata” is an unlikely union between notorious Japanese game director Taro Yoko and developer-of-all-thingsfast-and-flashy Platinum.

I’ve been a fan of Yoko’s work since the delightfully demented train wreck that was the original “Drakengard,” a Z-grade “Dynasty Warriors” clone that played like a slideshow and had a soundtrack reminiscent of someone flinging an orchestra into a tumble dryer, but it was nonetheless worth remembering.

Few JRPGs would saddle you with a party comprised of a mass-murdering dragon fetishist, a child-eating elf, a self-loathing pedophile and a 6-year-old war orphan.

But I digress. The “Nier” games actually have direct ties to “Drakengard” (albeit via a joke ending that involved our for-lack-of-a-betterterm heroes getting shot down by the Japanese Air Force), and while knowledge of the previous “Drakenier” games isn’t vital in understanding the plot of “Automata,” it can certainly help you understand Sith Lord Yoko’s brand of melancholic madness.

Trading fantasy for science fiction and magic for M16s, the world

of “Automata” is in a rather sorry state after an extraterrestrial invasion has left the post-apocalyptic setting of the original “Nier” in even direr straits. What’s left of the human species has fled to Earth’s moon, and it’s up to an army of ridiculously pretty androids to slap the machine invaders off the planet.

You’ll play as a number of colorful characters throughout “Automata,” each with their own unique fighting style, but you’ll be spending most of your time with 2B, a no-nonsense combat android often accompanied by her Gatling-toting robot buddy Pod 042 and reconnaissance android 9S, who doesn’t allow his genuinely kind and cheerful personality to put a damper on his enthusiasm for robot genocide.

“Automata” is ostensibly an action RPG with a sidequest-riddled overworld, but it frequently switches up gameplay styles in homage to the original “Nier,” which featured bullet hell elements, side-scrolling and even brief choose-your-own-adventure style text segments that feel a lot more cohesive here.

Combat at its core is a standard, if very polished, hacky-slashy affair.

You can switch between a number of swords, spears and bracers for close-range attacks while leaving long-range fighting to your AI-controlled partner and Pod. You can also modify your character to affect

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everything from your HUD to your combat ability, and if you’re the type to like ketchup with your steak, Easy mode lets you install chips that have you attack and dodge automatically.

Every game in the “Drakenier” series employs the “branching” system, a series of consecutively unlocked endings that often build on one another until you have a complete picture.

I’m personally a huge fan of a system that is constantly subverting your expectations.

“Automata” does things a little differently by having its endings set in chronological order. (Its main endings, anyway. There are 21 hidden joke “endings” that fast forward you through the closing credits and spit you back at your last save for doing everything from ripping out your OS chip to fleeing from the final boss to go fishing.) Branch A

concludes on a rather cheesy note with everyone smiling brainlessly off into the horizon, and I was quite disappointed by an what felt like otherwise “safe” ending until I got to Branch B, which casts the A path in a much more sinister light by having you play from a different perspective.

Then Branch C bowled me over with a plot twist as abrupt as it was ruthless. The game suddenly delved headfirst into psychological horror, jarring in a good way, and no character was safe from the carnage as loose plot threads finally started to tie into place.

While the writing is certainly among the best in the series, I wouldn’t quite call it perfect. The game admittedly started to lose me around the time we were introduced to a robot death cult, and I’m sure I’ve secured my place in hell for laughing at a bunch of robot children

committing mass suicide for no particular reason.

I also had a problem with the central villains: twin brothers of dubiously incestual relations Adam and Eve (I’m willing to let that one slide since the character who named them is canonically established as a pretentious gasbag).

In any other Platinum title, these two would be right at home waxing poetic while stapling shiny scraps of leather to their lithe anime bodies.

Here, they actively detract from the game. They’re enjoyable characters, but they feel very out of place.

Picture technopunk Skeletor making a surprise appearance 10 minutes into “No Country for Old Men.” Before now, I would only have recommended the “Drakenier” series with a big, fat “If you’re into that sort of thing” qualifier.

The gameplay was always its weak point, and if the “Drakengard” games are about the dregs of humanity banding together to fight for the greater good, the “Nier” series revels in forcing otherwise good people into truly reprehensible roles.

“Automata” is different because it’s the first in the series to have both genuinely fun gameplay and a budget to support its more innovative ideas.

I’m still not quite sure how we went from a merry trek through Grimdark Fantasy Edgeville to robots punching robots on the moon, but I’m glad it exists and will never stop throwing money at it.

MOVIE REVIEW

Director Terrence Malick delivers music-driven love story

BY ANTHONY RESENDEZ Staff Writer @TheEtCetera

“Song to Song” is a romantic drama set in Austin that follows a love triangle between the main characters and their musical careers.

Directed by native Texan Terrence Malick, the film stars Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender. Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett and Berenice Marlohe play supporting characters. A few other musical artists and bands make appearances, including a brief cameo from Val Kilmer.

The first couple is struggling musical artists BV and Faye, played by Gosling and Mara.

BV is an optimistic hunk with a fuzzy heart and outgoing personality. Faye feels lost and unhappy with her life. Cook (Fassbender) is a sleazy, controlling and greedy music producer

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partying through life.

“Song to Song” is supposed to be about three people trying to understand the difference between the love and lust they share with one another in the magical world of music.

It starts off with Faye, BV and Cook as the

best of friends until Cook takes advantage of the other two financially and mentally. The love triangle becomes a love hexagon due to the number of characters being thrown into the plot, but these new characters don’t really stick around long enough to leave as much of an emotional impact as the previous three stars.

The dialogue is well written. All through the film, the actors provide strong performances, narrate their characters’ inner thoughts and use strong body language. The film could have easily just been focused on only the three main characters.

The music had plenty of variety, ranging from house music to punk.

Throughout the film, different genres match each scene’s tone due to how mellow or chaotic

the characters are feeling.

Concert appearances from bands like the Machine, Iggy Pop and the Red Hot Chili Peppers lend themselves well to the soundtrack.

Each scene is beautifully shot with various environments throughout the film. Such wellshot scenes include rambunctiously packed concerts, on the streets riding in the characters’ car and the subtle sunsets at an oil field.

The film’s weaknesses lie in its editing and character development. The plot rushes from one scene to another in a matter of minutes, not giving enough time to properly introduce the majority of the cast, which is unnecessarily large. The three main characters work out their conflicts without a need for the side characters.

“Song to Song” had potential to be a smash hit with its glamorous sights and sounds. But it falls short with rushed editing and a bloated cast.

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Identical twins Tyler and Tanner Foy were 7 years old when their grandfather introduced them to baseball. Many afternoons were spent playing catch, and their love for America’s pastime only grew as they got older.

“My husband’s father played college baseball, and he loved it,” their mother, Karen Foy, said. “He started working with Tyler and Tanner out in his front yard, and they were just naturals.”

Everything about them screamed baseball: their upbringing, their passion and their physicality.

Eastfield coach Michael Martin saw this.

“You look at them and they’re 6-foot-3, probably about 200 pounds,” he said. “They’re pretty athletic, and both of them can run pretty well. What first drew us to those guys was that they were some pretty physical specimens coming out of high school.”

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playing for the Eastfield Harvesters, a team with three national titles, would be worth the journey.

As seniors at Venus High School just the year before, they made history by advancing to the regional semifinals, one game within the state round.

Everything seemed to be going well for the Foys. Then the injuries happened during the Harvesters’ 2015-2016 baseball season.

Early that fall, Tyler tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.

His pitching arm was no longer useful, and his season ended before it began. He underwent the Tommy John surgery soon after.

Tanner cemented his place as a starter at first base, but his season was also cut short after just six games when he suffered a fractured femur.

The brothers knew they would lose a year of eligibility if they didn’t step down, so both opted to medically redshirt themselves. Now, as college sophomores, they are getting a second chance to play college ball, again as freshmen athletes.

Martin said that both their injuries set them back emotionally, and now they want to make up for lost opportunities.

“It took a toll on both of them because they wanted to come out and play,” he said. “They wanted to perform. It took a little while for them to get over that.”

Despite their injuries, their love of the sport gave them hope for the future.

“Baseball has always been a huge part of our lives for the past 12 years and changed the way I look at life,” Tyler said. “If you work hard, you’ll have good outcomes, even if things don’t go that way at first.”

Karen said baseball defines them now, but they were actually pursuing a different sport when they were younger.

“We started them out in soccer,” she said. “We thought they would probably be bored with baseball.

They were really good in soccer. They played on an indoor select soccer team for just a little bit.”

After their grandfather introduced them to baseball, their ties to the sport never faded.

Tyler hit his first Little League triple when he was 7 and threw his first-ever no-hitter at 15.

Tanner’s father, David Foy, bragged about his son’s consistent hitting record.

“Tanner has come through with clutch hits his whole life when a game was on the line,” David said.

Tanner only began playing on first base as a high school sophomore, being an outfielder prior to the change.

“They needed a first baseman, so the coach started teaching me first base from there,” he said. “Ever since then, I’ve been playing first base.”

The Foys now room with starting pitcher Paul Bowman, whom they consider a brother.

The twins deliver pizza for Domino’s on the weekends while in season. Juggling school, baseball and work has often been hard for them, but they said they would always support each other.

Karen said their bond as brothers helps fuel their competitive side and feels they are better when on the field together.

“They have always [played] together,” she said. “They drive each other and help each other. If one is struggling at the plate, the other can tell what he’s doing wrong, so they fix each other when they’re having problems pitching or hitting. They coach each other.”

Both twins want to major in busi-

ness administration and entrepreneurship. Their goal is to one day own their own fast food chain.

Tanner said it’s great having someone who shares the same goals in life as him, but they do have their differences.

“He’s more of the one who gets into stuff,” Tanner said. “I’m kind of the one who sits back and watches.

We definitely have two different personalities.”

Their parents know exactly how different they are with their father referring to them as “night and day.”

“Tanner is quiet, shy and kind of laid back,” Karen said. “Tyler is ‘all about me’ and likes being the center of attention.”

Martin said he would like for both to be more vocal. He believes they can become leaders for the team this season and maybe the next.

“They’re guys who have been in this program now going on two years,” he said. “They know what the expectations are from us as a coaching staff. That’s invaluable to some of these freshmen. They have that experience that they could set that example for the rest of our program and demand some work ethic out of our other guys.”

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Above, Enashia Robinson shows off her dance moves for the Office of Student Engagement and Retention’s Workout Wednesdays on March 22. Below, students warm up by stretching before exercising. Zumba, yoga, dance and cardio will all be available on Workout Wednesdays until May 3.

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Above left and above right, Eastfield hosts a basketball signing showcase on March 26 where student athletes from various colleges and high schools play in front of college and university coaches, hoping to be recruited.

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Left, Jide Carew plays basketball with students for OSER’s Saturday Open Gym on March 25. Open Gym will continue every other Saturday until May 6.

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Campus lacks events

With a new executive dean presiding over Eastfield’s Office of Student Engagement and Retention, change is to be expected. The recent implementation of the Puente Project and the revamped advising system are only two examples of improvement brought on by the switch in management, but other changes leave more to be desired.

Since last spring, we’ve seen a steady decline in extracurricular student activity on campus. Fewer clubs and smaller events are expected consequences of a lack of widespread promotion. A notable exception is the increased activities under the intramural sports umbrella.

Many potentially helpful activities such as guest lectures have faced low student turnout compared to those seen a year ago. While some of this can be attributed to conflicts with

schedules, many students never hear about these events in the first place.

The events calendar on the college website lacks crucial event information such as time, room number and a basic description of said activity, if the activity is included in the calendar at all.

If Eastfield wants support for its extracurricular activities, an upto-date, accessible and informative calendar is vital. Improved communication between clubs and student organizations would also do wonders for campus life.

While not as crucial to student development as, say, advising or tutoring, free leisure and academic activities promote social interaction, retention and school pride, something that is much more difficult to achieve for a two-year institution like Eastfield than a traditional four-year institution.

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We are well aware that such activities cost the campus valuable time and money. We truly appreciate all Eastfield has offered to us to enrich our lives both academically and professionally.

But extracurricular activity is still an important facet of college life and

doesn’t always deserve a place on the backburner. Academics may come first, but student engagement is vital in promoting healthy interaction on campus. As Eastfield grows accustomed to a new OSER, we hope campus life sees an upturn in the coming months.

Awareness Month. I do understand that Eastfield honors Veterans Day and Women’s History Month, but why not honor Deaf Awareness Month as well? If we did have events for Deaf Awareness Month, I would not want a boring lecture. Instead, we could have visual events like ASL storytelling, treasure hunts and games. I would love to go to these events if the Office of Student Engagement and Retention and the DSO would host them.

Eastfield could also recruit new deaf students from high schools and let them know they have a place here. If we build up the deaf community, Eastfield could be one of the best schools for deaf students.

President Jean Conway knows me well as a deaf student, but I want her to see many deaf students in the Pit or hanging out on campus. I wish Conway and other administrators and faculty could learn basic ASL to communicate better with deaf students.

Another issue deaf students face is they commonly struggle with English because they can’t hear spoken English when they are young. We learn through reading and writing only. Because ASL is a visual language, it has a very different grammatical structure than Eng-

lish. For example, in ASL, we never use be verbs, articles (a, an, the) or conjunctions (and, or, but). Some parents don’t always understand how to teach their children English.

Some deaf students are better at English because they studied without deaf culture. Deaf students at Eastfield don’t always need a high level of English proficiency because they want to study in more visual career fields, such as digital media, mechanics and welding.

However, it is difficult for deaf students struggling with English to be properly placed in ESOL and developmental courses. I would like to see the Arts and Communications Division work with the Disability Services Office to fix the system for deaf students. Many cannot take core classes due to low Texas Success Initiative test scores.

The director and staff of the Eastfield DSO are the best in the entire district. The DSO can also create workshops for faculty and staff to teach them more about deaf students and deaf culture.

My goal is for the Eastfield deaf community to grow with education and a strong sense of deaf pride. Eastfield College could set an example for other DCCCD schools and future deaf students.

Deaf students face difficulty finding community, communication I am a 26-year-old deaf student. I have been at Eastfield since I graduated from North Lake College in 2014 with a computer graphics certificate, and now I’m studying digital media. I want to tell you a story about the deaf life and community at Eastfield College.

First of all, not all professors are aware of how deaf students learn best in their classrooms. My hope is that more hearing people learn American Sign Language, even if it’s just the basics. Deaf students can have a better college experience when there is more communication in the classroom. I am shocked when I meet faculty and they know some ASL. It makes me feel like I am not alone in the hearing world.

Hearing people worry about how to communicate with deaf students.

But even if you don’t know ASL, you have other options. I work with The Et Cetera student newspaper without an interpreter. We mostly write notes to each other. Some of my coworkers on the Et Cetera are even making an effort to learn basic ASL. This is one of the reasons that The Et Cetera is a great place for deaf students.

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at Eastfield. A couple years ago, deaf students had a table in the Pit where you could always find them, chatting and hanging out. Now, I look in the Pit, and it feels dead. Now, deaf students have graduated or dropped some classes, and the new deaf students hide from the hearing. I feel alone at Eastfield because other deaf students are not around campus. The only people I can really chat with are interpreters because they know ASL. I want Eastfield to work on building up the deaf community. One of the easiest ways to do this is for the Disability Services Office to host National Deaf Awareness Month events in September to increase awareness of deaf issues, culture and community. Deaf Awareness Month is a big celebration that encourages everyone to come together for education and fun.

Four years ago, I was president of the Deaf Club and the host of Deaf Awareness Month at North Lake College. Now, I am here and don’t see Eastfield doing anything for Deaf

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“Eastfield is a reasonably open and accommodating place, and there are a lot of liberal and left-leaning people there,” he said.

“But even the people who I know who are conservatives are accepting of that. Eastfield is a person-centered college, and Eastfield is very accepting of ideological difference.”

Albamar Seguinot, an education major, said Eastfield is a mostly liberal campus with plenty of opportunity for respectful discussion.

Seguinot moved to the U.S. from Puerto Rico in 2014 and feels she has a unique approach to politics due to the fact that in Puerto Rico, the main political discussion is the issue of independence. Although new to U.S. politics,

Seguinot considers herself an independent with mostly liberal views.

“I feel comfortable with my political mindset at Eastfield,” she said. “I have yet to encounter someone who has offended me or my beliefs.

They have been very respectful. Of course, I don’t agree with them and they don’t agree with me, but we have been respectful about it.”

Psychology major Ofelia Chapa said that when politics come up in discussions with her conservative friends, she listens to their points and responds honestly and respectfully according to her views.

Macias has a few acquaintances who are conservative, but she avoids talking politics with them in order to avoid conflict.

Macklin is friends with conservative

philosophy major Josh Nelson. The two are Phi Theta Kappa officers, and when they aren’t handing out free popcorn in the Pit together, they have meaningful political discussions without issue.

“It’s good to have varying perspectives in life so that you know what other people think,” Macklin said. “A lot of times, if you only talk to people with the same political background, you’re in a bubble.”

Hinckley bears no animosity toward conservatives.

“I do not believe all conservatives are homophobic and racist,” he said. “However… it seems to me that in our society, those who are racist and/or misogynistic, they tend to self-select towards the conservative end,

and they tend to vote conservatively. Not all conservatives are racist and sexist, but I would say most racists and sexists are conservative.”

Chapa believes liberals have a more humanitarian approach than conservatives.

“I think they’re closed-minded, not open for different interpretations,” she said. “I think they make it hard for the right kind of change.”

Hinckley believes we must become aware of systemic issues and the roles our everyday thoughts, words and actions can have in perpetuating suffering.

“We all need to ‘get woke’ about social justice and economic fairness issues,” he said.

“We need to ‘get woke’ about history. We need to ‘get woke’ about current events. We need to practice critical thinking.”

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