The Guardsman, Vol 168, Issue 7, City College of San Francisco

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Zero Waste Club Organizes Campus Trash Pickup

By Rachel Berning rbernin1@mail.ccsf.edu

City College’s Zero Waste Club has emphasized their dedication to the environment by organizing a campus cleanup to take place every Wednesday in order to keep the area around Ocean campus more tidy.

During the cleanup, several participants focused their attention to the area South of the Multi Use Building (MUB). Student club leader, Jacqui Winsor, motivated the group through implementation of a relay race competition, declaring the winner whomever was able to pick up the most trash.

According to National Geographic’s Resource Library, there are five or six “huge plastic islands called Gyres” in the middle of Oceans around the planet.

Gyres “are made of micro plastics. Plastic does not break down for thousands of years. They do break down into tiny particles and that’s how we know it is getting into our fish.”

Living so close to the Pacific Ocean, many Zero Waste Club members believe San Franciscans have a greater responsibility to prevent ocean pollution. “When cigarettes blow into the water it is extremely toxic,” said Winsor.

A study by researcher Bradford Harris in 2011 found that “4.5 trillion cigarettes are discarded each year worldwide, making them the most littered item on Earth.”

Zero Waste Club members fill up three jars of cigarette butts during the campus cleanup day on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Photo by Amal Ben Ghanem / The Guardsman

Jonathan Mehki, Zero Waste Club member, leaves a message on the ground, South of the Multi-Use Building (MUB), to raise awareness among City College students to protect the environment and stop littering on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Photo by Amal Ben Ghanem / The Guardsman

Zero Waste Club leader Jacqui Winsor picks up trash next to the Multi-Use Building (MUB) on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 during the campus cleanup. Photo by Amal Ben Ghanem / The Guardsman

By the end of the trash relay race, participants in the cleanup had gathered three jars of cigarette butts and four bags of trash to sort through for recyclables.

“The more people we can get to join us, the more our school can focus on sustainability and catch up with other schools around the area. There are a bunch of community colleges that are better at promoting reusable or compostable material” said Jonathan Mehki, a member of the Zero Waste Club.

The club was started by students in Spring 2019 and has gained more attention this year, likely due to the rise in media coverage of ocean plastics. According to their club statement on City College’s website, their mission is to “enlighten students and faculty as to why our trash pollution is such a monumental, global issue and encourage them to make easy changes to cut back on plastic in order to reduce unnecessary human waste.”

This semester, the group is working to create a proposal for the college to implement a green fee for students, which would be a two dollar optional fee that would go towards sustainability efforts on campus.

“We are doing little things as a group of a few students.

We want to change policies so we can get a bigger body so that the school can do better. Zero waste is the only active club on campus also trying to take on school policies as well” said club member Zoe Eichen.

Green Fee funds collected could potentially go towards solar panels on top of Batmale Hall, filtered water stations or basic clean up supplies.

The Zero waste club works closely with the Ocean Campus Recycling department to secure the supplies they need for their weekly cleanup. Winsor explained that the recycling department specializes in sorting recyclables in the cafeteria, but does not focus on cleaning up campus parking lots.

“It is not a janitor job” either, said Winsor. “It’s not even part of the job description to sort. There is a huge problem with our janitorial staff. There is not enough staff members and they are often contaminating,” said Winsor.

Winsor believes that if City College does not make it a priority to train janitors on sorting, the school may be getting fined due to recycling bin contamination by garbage.

Those interested in assisting in this week’s campus cleanup with the Zero Waste Club can meet next to the MUB on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.

2 | NEWS

Two examples of “Soul Wounds” submissions done by students from previous semesters. These submissions come from a binder inside The Woman’s Resource Center that holds many years worth of submissions. The Woman’s Resource Center asked not to post the name of the artists to ensure privacy. Nov. 15, 2019. Photo by Abraham Davis / The Guardsman

By Abraham Davis abrahamdfrankfurter@gmail.com

Professor Shella Muzelle Cervantes of the Women’s and Gender Studies department and a member of the Women's Resource Center have begun to display some of this art in the gallery space but are hopeful more submissions will be received before the end of the semester.

To encourage submissions Cerevantes and othersThe small “Soul Wounds” gallery outside the Woman’s Resource Center, so far featuring three submissions by students this semester. The Woman's Resource Center is hoping to be able to fill the whole space with submissions by the end of the semester. Nov. 15, 2019. Photo by Abraham Davis The small “Soul Wounds” gallery outside the Woman's Resource Center, so far featuring three submissions by students this

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Soul Wounds Art Project Gives Space to Students to Express Their Traumas semester. The Woman’s Resource Center is hoping to be able to fill the whole space with submissions by the end of the semester. Nov. 15, 2019. Photo by Abraham Davis involved in the project have been putting up submission fliers around campus and inside of resource centers.

Cervantes said that it was in fact students in the Politics of Sexual Violence class that brought up the idea of having Soul Wounds on public display.

“It lives in a binder and people don’t really know about it aside from the people in the classes,” Cervantes said. “In the future some of our staff are hoping we can have more art exhibitions in other spaces on campus.”

Soul Wounds, a field project that has been a part of City College’s Politics of Sexual Violence class for nearly 10 years, is finally going to be displayed to the public in a small gallery outside the Women’s Resource Center this year.

The premise of the project is to recieve student repsonses to this prompt: “I express myself in response to the trauma and soul wounds I have experienced in my life as a witness to, and/or survivor of domestic and/or sexual violence.”

Submissions in the past have included drawings, collages and poems, and students are encouraged to expand these guidelines, as long as they can fit their submission onto a 8.5” by 11” piece of paper.

Soul Wounds was initially created by student Cherie McNaulty, who used a field project requirement from her Politics of Sexual Violence class to establish a creative take on educating the public about violence.

The inspiration came from McNaulty’s own experience with abuse. The exhibit was originally only for art centered around domestic abuse but then spread further, and students were allowed to submit art depicting any kind of violence they had witnessed or experienced.

The project includes a Frida Khalo piece was entitled “Memory (The Heart).” “Frida Khalo was an important artist (to me) because of the trauma she experienced,” McNaulty said.

McNaulty went on to graduate from SF State with a degree in Humanities and Literature and now works at various jails in San Francisco as a teacher and a counselor for those looking to get their high school diploma. “I used a variation of (Soul Wounds) in my jail classes” McNaulty said.

In addition, McNaulty volunteers at San Quentin for the violence and crime prevention program “No More Tears” and serves as a post-prison counselor.

The project was supposed to be a one-off assignment but after the first round of submissions, students wanted to keep submitting for the rest of the year. Now, nine years later, The small “Soul Wounds” gallery outside the Woman's Resource Center, so far featuring three submissions by students students taking Politics of Sexual Violence are still using this semester. The Woman’s Resource Center is hoping to be able to fill the whole space with submissions by the end “Soul Wounds” as a way to fulfill their field work assignment. of the semester. Nov. 15, 2019. Photo by Abraham Davis / The Guardsman

By Matheus Maynard

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City College’s Cybersecurity Program Wins National Recognition Staff Editor-in-Chief Lisa Martin

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City College’s cybersecurity program was recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USDHS) as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education last month.

According to the NSA all “institutions in the United States are eligible to apply to become a CAE-CD school” however, “schools are designated [with this credential] after meeting stringent criteria.”

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In Spring 2019, the cybersecurity team, which is part of the Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT) department, participated in two regional competitions, and came out ahead of many four-year universities in both.

Coached by CNIT professors Elizabeth Biddlecome and Sam Bowne, students were awarded second place at the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and won the California Mayor’s Cyber Cup during the 2019 Spring semester.

Multiple courses in computer networking are offered by the CNIT department, as it

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is a popular program with high enrollment rates. The cybersecurity program offered at City College focuses on teaching students to understand, design and maintain cybersecurity systems and how to protect them against outside threats.

For the next semester, the department is offering a total of 59 sections of multiple courses within the department, many being offered fully online or hybrid, according to the online class schedule released earlier in November.

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Vol. 168, Issue 7 | November 20– December 4, 2019

Criticism of Duke/UNC Middle East Studies Program Sparks Concerns At City College

By Tyler Breisacher tbreisac@mail.ccsf.edu

A North Carolina Middle East studies program nearly lost $235,000 in Title VI grants, after a letter from the Department of Education (DOE) criticized the program for not being “balanced” in their depiction of Islam.The Consortium for Middle East Studies’, a program jointly operated by Duke University and the University of North Carolina, was specifically targeted for what the federal government believes was their depiction of Islam in a positive light, while not simultaniously emphaszing the positve aspects of Christinaity and Judiaism.

The letter from the DOE was criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for being part of a pattern of anti-Muslim bias. The grant is offered under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, which “does not permit the department to require educational institutions to espouse the government’s favored viewpoints or further this administration’s anti-Muslim and discriminatory agenda,” as the ACLU said in a press release.

The program did end up receiving this year’s funding, without promising to make any changes to their curriculum, according to a report in the Duke Chronicle.

However, the matter is not fully resolved. The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, “demanding the Department of Education turn over all records related to its decision to threaten Duke and UNC, and any similar threats the department may have made to other institutions.”

The ACLU did not respond to an email asking about the status of its FOIA request.

While City College does not receive Title VI grants, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley does. Officials from that program could not be reached for comment.

The DOE choosing to single out one particular program for increased scrutiny, drew the attention of two members of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and

Labor Committee. Andy Levin, D-Mich., and Susan Davis, D-Calif., wrote an open letter to the Education Department, expressing concern that “the Department’s Notice may chill academic freedom.”

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He pointed out that religious conflicts are often not truly driven by religious disagreements, but political ones. By studying religion, students can understand how religion could be used to work towards world peace, instead of increased international conflict.

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The letter went on to say that the DOE criticized several aspects of the Duke/UNC program — including the number of students who graduated from the program and went to government jobs, and the fact that the program did not directly collaborate with science, technology, engineering and math programs — despite the fact that those aspects are not specified as requirements in Title VI.

The Representatives requested a detailed response from the DOE by Nov. 15. The Department acknowledged that they had received the letter, but as of Nov. 7, had not responded to the questions it raised, according to the Duke Chronicle.

City College Interdisciplinary Studies professor Abdul Jabbar sees anti-Muslim sentiment in the media as a contributing factor in lowered attendance for courses that discuss Islam. City College’s accreditation crisis in 2012 also dissuaded many students from signing up for those courses, according to Jabbar.

The class Jabbar teaches this semester is called Islam: Identity & Culture. It covers a variety of aspects of Islamic religion, culture, and art. The first module of the class is about Islam in an interfaith context, which mirrors the way the Duke/UNC consortium operates.

Terry Magnuson, vice chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote a response to the Education Department’s letter, which was published by the Duke Chronicle. In it, he writes that “positive appreciation for Christianity, Judaism and other religions of the Middle East suffuses all of the Consortium’s K-12 outreach activities.”

Jabbar criticized another aspect of the DOE’s letter, saying he was “amused” by the department’s focus on US security, rather than the security of the entire world. He pointed out that religious conflicts are often not truly driven by religious disagreements, but political ones. By studying religion, students can understand how religion could be used to work towards world peace, instead of increased international conflict.

He was encouraged by the fact that the department ultimately did send the funding for the consortium’s 2019-2020 academic year, suggesting that the Education Department, and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, are at least somewhat more open and accepting of Islam than President Donald Trump.

David Mamaril Horowitz Wins Third Place for Reporter of the Year

By Jennifer Yin

The Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) awards former Guardsman reporter David Mamaril Horowitz as a reporter of the year 2019.

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Fighting through his hardships, Horowitz’s passion jyin4@mail.ccsf.edu for journalism has won him several awards, ranging Two weeks before former Guardsman reporter, from first place at the 2016 Enterprise News Series David Mamaril Horowitz, was expected to board an and California News Publishers Association for his airplane to Washington D.C. for the 2019 Associated first ever article on City College’s child development Collegiate Press (ACP) and Ernie Pyle Reporter of the center, to his current award as a third place finalist for Year competition, he decided to Google his byline name reporter of the year. to see what appeared.

Horowitz lives by the code of effective altruism, There, under his name, was the announcement which represents doing the most for society with the of him winning ACP reporter of the year for his fewest resources one has, by implementing Peter Singer’s articles regarding the 2018 Camp Fire, City College book, “The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective administrative transparency and how working adults Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically.” found a community in a thriving college program.

In Singer’s book, he exemplifies three main ways to Horowitz agreed to meet with the Guardsman for help people by: helping them directly, through charity, an interview at his local neighborhood McDonald’s or to convince other people to help other people. on Nov. 11. There, amongst the chattering of women This is how Horowitz chose his career in journalism and the frying of frozen potatoes, Horowitz described in the Summer of 2015. in great detail the struggles he endured being an only Horowitz closed the interview with thanking the child with a father diagnosed with Alzheimers and the Chair of the Journalism Department and advisor long days associated with being a student journalist. to The Guardsman, Juan Gonzales, for motivating He credited his mother for encouraging him to him to be a journalist and being a father figure to pursue his education, which meant sacrificing her career him. He mentioned how Gonzales always made the as a dementia nurse so he could attend City College effort to create a family dynamic at The Guardsman, and San Francisco State University. and has put an emphasis on the newspaper staff “My mom does the majority of the caregiving while viewing themselves as a team.

I’m working, going to school at San Francisco State, Horowitz thanked Journalism professors Alex and copy editing for the newspaper. It’s stressful and Mullaney and Jessica Liftland for shaping him as a emotionally draining” said Horowitz. “When I won the reporter and for teaching him how to capture stories award, it was also the time when my father’s Alzheimers through photos. started to take a dive. He was really starting to forget my

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4 | CULTURE

Vol. 168, Issue 7 | November 20– December 4, 2019

Portfolio Club Allows Students to Unveil their Artistic Skills

By Isaiah Willis

“There is a lot of talent at CCSF, and we were looking for a chance to willis.isaiah@hotmail.com admire and promote all the great art City College students came and artists that we see in and out of together to create a club that show- class,” added Hines. cases the untapped talent of students Jon Greene, a member of the club, in and outside the classroom. The mentioned that he was interested in Portfolio Club is a community for forming a Mangaka Club (Japanese artists at City College. It’s not only Comic book creators club) someday for students who major in visual arts, and thought this being in Portfolio but also for those who do it for fun.

Club would be a great experience to Kristina Hines, who co-founded learn what that would entail. “We all the club with Tiffany Zhu and Dimas gelled so well that the Portfolio Club Arellano, said she helped create the was so all-encompassing that I found club because “studying visual art at a home where my idea could fit right CCSF sometimes feels like being in a in,” Greene said. huge secret gallery, and we want to let “It was so much easier for me to the secret out.” They want to create make a portfolio website after we opportunities for their members to created our club website, and we've create and show their art. had really interesting talks about The club came together organi- creating resumes for visual media cally according to the group. They fields. Everyone brings different skills met each other in classes and with and strengths that help prepare us for the help of an advisor, artist and the working art world,” Hines said.

Art Professor Inna Razumova, they The club also has a gel pen drawwere able to become an official City ing demo and website building demo College club this year. The club helps coming up this month, and has a to create a space outside of class for running student showcase on their artists to share, get feedback, and website, ccsfportfolio.com celebrate their artwork.

City College of San Francisco's Portfolio Club during the Gel Pen demonstration and tutorial at the Collaboratory in the Rosenberg Library at Ocean Campus on Nov. 20, 2019. Photo by Diana Guzman / The Guardsman

SFMOMA and City College’s Partnership Bring Opportunities for Students

By Milo Kahney mkahney@ucdavis.com

The art world is often seen as insular and difficult to break in to. For this reason, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is partnering with City College to extend students’ opportunities to work at the museum. The SFMOMA along with the City College Strong Workforce Program hosted a career panel on Thursday, Nov. 7 to help students realize these opportunities.

The partnership sprang from the museum borrowing Diego Rivera’s “Pan American Unity” mural currently held at

the Diego Rivera Theatre, Ocean campus.

The mural will be a central part of a Diego Rivera exhibit at the SFMOMA planned for the Fall of 2020. The mural is Rivera’s largest, standing at 22 feet high and 74 feet wide. The museum will organize and fund the move and subsequent return, as well as improvements to the mural.

City College is looking to use the mural as a springboard to expand its relationship with the museum. Since the partnership began this year, six students have interned at the museum. They have been gaining experience in the curational, archival, and conservation departments.

Paula De Cristofaro, Shana Lopes and Sara Murphy, all employees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, speak about experiences and career opportunities with the museum at an Ocean Campus lecture on Nov 7, 2019. Photo by Andy Damián-Correa / The Guardsman

Art Professor Nicole Oest said that the to secondary education." When partnering goals of the partnership were “to create with college students, the team doesn't just opportunities for students to find connec- focus on private art universities, "but being tions through the arts and make this in places like city colleges, having relationconnection an integral part of their educa- ships with schools in different parts of the tional experience.” The partnership began Bay Area and trying to build coalitions there," this Spring and is funded in part by the she added.

Koret Foundation.

Art student and illustrator Kristina Hines The Koret Foundation is a private said, “This event was wonderful … I would foundation based in San Francisco which love to see more events like these. We forget supports humanitarian groups, the arts, and how doable an art visual career is.” the Jewish community in the Bay Area.

Student Laure Kemp is taking an Intro This partnership was forged in the fore- to Museum Studies class at City College ground of recent cuts to the budget and and is worried that the SFMOMA is not classes. “I hope that more CCSF funding properly serving her community. “We’re can be allocated to creating opportunities looking in terms of democratizing, in terms for students to pursue their studies of the of accessibility for people in marginalized arts,” Oest said. communities. Trying to actively engage in The panelists, Paula De Cristofaro, Sara communities and bring in the communities Murphy, and Shana Lopes, presented on to actually work in the museum,” Kemp said. their experience working at the SFMOMA This echoed many students’ concerns and on their career paths. De Cristofaro about the museum’s lack of accessibility, has been working as a conservator for the especially as prices continue to rise and museum since 1990. She commented on membership deals are being cut. An adult how difficult it is to become a conservator. ticket to the museum is currently $25 and Training programs are rare — there are only yearly memberships start at $120. Murphy three in the United States — and require responded, “There’s a lot of conversations prerequisites in Art History, Studio Art, and [within the museum] about different barriChemistry. ers of access, whether it is transportation, Most art conservators are white women whether it is pricing, whether it’s people’s but the museum is looking to make its conser- work schedule, and that not aligning with vation department more diverse, especially the museum’s open hours.” working with Native Americans. Lopes is a Another attendee was concerned about San Francisco native who credits a History the SFMOMA’s funding from private prisof Photography class at City College for ons and their overall transparency when it sparking her interest in a career as a curator comes to funds. Murphy responded, “it is for photography. Murphy comes from a non- something that our fundraising and donor art background and is the Assistant Director management team is taking very seriously.” of Social Media and Content Marketing at This was the first panel that City College the museum. hosted with the SFMOMA. Oest said, “It The panelists talked about the would be wonderful to see more educational SFMOMA’s educational opportunities. events for CCSF students and funding for Murphy said the museum's education team internships at SFMOMA.” does "a lot of programming with local elementary, middle, high school education

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Environmental Activist and Artist Sant Khalsa Highlight the Destruction of our Natural World

By Jennifer Yin jyin4@mail.ccsf.edu

Artist and activist Sant Khalsa presented a series of photographs depicting her career as a photographer, sculptor, and environmentalist for City College photography students.

The lecture was conducted by Photography Department chair Erika Gentry at the college’s Multi-Use Building (MUB), in room 338, on Nov. 4. Other photo lectures are available to the public and can be accessed through their website, vimeo.com/ccsfphoto.

Gentry said Khalsa’s lecture is one of the ways the college is providing art programs for its students. The professor also requested additional funding to establish a visiting artist program, which would invite artists from around the country — or even around the globe — to educate students on various art subjects. However, her application for the last two grants was denied.

Just like how visiting artists are almost nonexistent at City College, Khalsa experienced a similar type of void coming to age in New York City, during the 1950s. Khalsa described, with excitement, how her teenage years were a time of social and political strife in the United States.

Khalsa said there were not many women studying art during her educational years. “Women were really the minority in terms of artists. The photography program at Maryland Institute of Art, where I attended, had 60 photo majors at the time, and only six were women. It was not good, especially at the beginning of the women’s movement. We were really into women’s conscious raising, women’s liberation, we were very outspoken, and committed to making work that didn’t look like men’s work,” Khalsa said.

Khalsa’s photography has evolved to incorporate inspiration from male photographers. Her photo series “Western Waters” paid homage to other artists’ photo series, such as Walker Evan’s photo series of various storefronts and Edward Ruscha’s photo series of twenty-six gasoline stations.

“Western Waters” includes 60 framed gelatin silver prints which are installed in an oblong pattern representing the geography and mapping of each photo taken.

She described her seven-year-long pilgrimage to over 200 water storefronts, which involved numerous road trips that crossed four states. The experience of not knowing what she would find upon arriving at a location reminded Khalsa of her experiences wandering in India during the early 1980s, in search of its holy water sites.

The artist commented on how, “Western Waters,” established a framework to understanding how humans keep the natural world as a commodity. For example, Khalsa explained how the water storefronts are successful because the water industry is based on the consumer fear in believing their tap water is unsafe to consume. She was

Artist and eco-feminist Sant Khalsa's 178-paged book titled, “Sant Khalsa Prana : Life With Tree,” showcases five decades of her life’s work with trees. All proceeds from her book will be donated to nonprofit organizations so they could plant more trees. Photo courtesy of Amazon.

Artist and eco-feminist Sant Khalsa (right) presented a slideshow of her latest artwork, at City College's multi-use building (MUB) in room 338, on Nov. 4, 2019. Room 338 is often used to broadcast lectures, such as Khalsa's photo lecture, and can be accessed through the public website Vimeo.com / ccsfphoto. Nov. 4, 2019. Photo by Jennifer Yin / The Guardsman.

especially intrigued by the storefronts’ business names, which Khalsa also mentioned how one hundred percent of the referred to natural water sites, water quality, and spiritual proceeds from her book will be used in planting more trees. aspects related to water, like Heavenly Drinking Water.

“I am not making money from this book. Every book that Khalsa’s other work highlights deforestation, ozone pollu- is sold will plant another tree. So even if this project ended tion and its effects on the environment, the cycle of drought, up costing me money, the book is still going out. Scientists fires, floods, and earthquakes, which she described as the four have said if we plant one trillion trees on this planet it will seasons in Southern California. Areas she frequented during make all the difference in stopping climate collapse, which her work are San Bernardino, Santa Ana, West Kansas, is something that we need to do,” Khalsa said. and the Salton Sea where she is currently photographing The artist closed her lecture by giving the class an in color. Previously Khalsa only printed in black and white. opportunity to reduce their own carbon footprint by volunRecently she released a 178-page book titled, “Sant teering or to donating money to a nonprofit organization.

Khalsa: Prana — Life of Trees,” which highlights five In the last slide of her presentation read a list of nonprofits, decades of her life’s work with trees. The book represents located in San Francisco. The list read: to donate contact, the micro and macro aspects of the forest. What we see Eden Reforestation Projects (edenprojects.org), One Tree and what we cannot see. She is mindful of informing her Planted (onetreeplanted.org), and Tree Sisters (treesisters. readers of the symbiotic relationship humans have with the org). Additionally, if a student would want to volunteer natural world and how we are grounded in a life-sustaining to contact, Friends of the Urban Forest and Greening relationship, through the exchange of carbon dioxide and San Francisco (fuf.net). oxygen the trees emit.

6 | OPINION

HAVE YOUR SAY

BY ANDY DAMIÁN-CORREA

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Preston Owes Win to City College Students and Faculty Union

By Caoilinn Goss

“DO YOU SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT’S DECISION TO END THE DACA PROGRAM THAT IS NOW BEING REVIEWED BY THE SUPREME COURT?”

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— Weihong Kuang, Electrical Engineering

“I don’t support.

One of my friends is a citizen here and her parents are immigrants, it’s constantly causing her stress.”

— Angeline Tao, Nursing

“I don’t agree with what the president is doing by sending immigrants to court. We have to fight any way we can.”

cgoss2@mail.ccsf.edu

On one of the coldest and foggiest days San Francisco has to offer, a small group of students and members of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 2121, the City College Faculty Union, huddled outside Conlan Hall singing “Fight to save our City College,” to the tune of Solidarity Forever on Wednesday, November 13.

Among the crowd was District 5’s newly elected supervisor, Dean Preston, whose narrow win over the appointed incumbent Vallie Brown marks a very big victory for the City College community.

“I want to thank the students,” Preston told the Guardsman afterward. “A lot of city college students were really active in our campaign.

We also had campaign staff who were alums of City College.”

Preston was endorsed by AFT 2121, as well.

He now seems determined to return the favor.

“I was honored to be endorsed by them, but not just endorsed. A lot of people endorse you but they don’t show up and walk the streets with you and knock the doors.”

“It’s really heartening,” Preston’s Campaign Manager Jen Snyder said about the endorsement.

Preston’s attendance at the fairly humbly sized rally conveys a sincere willingness to hear our community’s concerns, and one we should all take him up on.

“There’s an ongoing struggle, obviously, to save and grow and expand City College. These kinds of rallies are really important to building solidarity and bringing in new voices and keeping folks energized for what’s been a long term struggle.”

Preston opposes class cuts and has concerns about the existing Balboa Reservoir Project plan.

“Public land, when it’s developed, should be developed for 100 percent affordable housing,” said Preston.

Preston also hopes to build 10,000 units of publicly owned and operated social housing.

“We know that the city is building more than enough market rate housing and less than a third affordable housing,” said Otto Pippenger, Preston’s Volunteer Coordinator and a City College alumn. “The very definition of affordable is drawn from median income which is only going up and up and up. It’s abhorrent.”

Pippenger became involved in the Preston campaign through the Democratic Socialists of America. When asked what sets Preston apart from other city officials, Pippenger touched on a fundamental difference in values.

“A liberal believes in interceding in the worst effects of the market,” Pippenger said. “We believe more broadly in establishing a person’s rights and security.”

Preston, who embraced the Democratic Socialist label on the campaign trail, wrote and sponsored Proposition F last year guaranteeing anyone facing eviction a right to a free attorney.

City College students are among San Francisco’s most housing insecure populations, and we now have a champion on the Board of Supervisors who seeks to move beyond mere harm reduction and plant seeds for a more equitable San Francisco.

Change isn’t made by a sole bureaucrat with the best of intentions, however, and Preston’s going to need the same grassroots momentum that got him elected to make his promises a reality.

As the protest wound down, Preston assured me he is “Looking forward to engaging more with students and faculty around how I can best help.

To me, part of coming out to a rally like this is not just plugging in with all the folks who are engaged in the struggle but also learning more.”

Students and the AFT 2121 got Preston elected, by his own admission, but in the fervor of victory we cannot forget that the election is only the first step. We have to keep fighting.

— Karina Rodriguez, Nursing

“I think if students have been here for a long time, they should be folded in.”

— Edzel Musni, Continuing Education

“I do not support the president’s actions at all.”

— Susie Sosoatu, Psychology

Newly elected District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston speaks at a rally hosted by City College’s Higher Education Action Team on Nov. 13 outside of Conlan Hall. Photo by Claudia Drdul / The Guardsman

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Vol. 168, Issue 7 | November 20– December 4, 2019

Dreamers Wait on Decision from US Supreme Court

By Andy Damián-Correa acorrea@theguardsman.com

It’s very clear; immigrants are the perfect target for deportation during this administration, including “Dreamers” supposedly protected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), who have a valid permit and unexpired work permit from the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration.

The Supreme Court was presented arguments that supported and dismissed the DACA immigration relief program. Since 2012, DACA has protected about 700,000 undocumented youths from deportation in the United States, according the public policy research Cato institute.

California Community Colleges estimate DACA serves between 50,000 and 70,000 undocumented students in the state, and the Migration Policy Institute estimates that half of those numbers are probably protected by the DACA program.

Former President Barack Obama announced the DACA program in June 2012, which has given temporary shelter to so-called Dreamers, and has served as a lever of social ascent. However, no immigrant is safe under the Trump administration.

But how has this become a Supreme Court matter?

In 2018, three federal courts in San Francisco, New York, and Washington D.C. demanded that the Trump Administration continue DACA, but only for the renewal of work permits for two years, not for new cases.

The current Administration appealed every case and the matter reached the Supreme Court, whose decisions are final.

Obama always said that DACA was a temporary solution and that it was up to Congress to pass a permanent legislative reform.

“DACA is a common sense program protecting law-abiding immigrants brought here as children who are working hard to improve their lives through education,” said Board of Governors President Tom Epstein in a statement via email.

But what is City College doing to protect Dreamers with the American Dream?

In the Fall of 2017, Dr. Mark Rocha, Chancellor

of City College, requested further investigation into how City College could better support its undocumented student population. Based on this request interim Vice Chancellor of Student Development Trudy Walton began to collaborate with City College’s CA Assembly Bill AB-540 Task Force — California law passed in 2001 which states that undocumented students who meet certain requirements can qualify to be exempt from nonresident tuition at California public colleges and universities — to develop a proposal that would substantially increase support for all undocumented students.

In the fall of 2019, City College created City DREAM, a resource center for undocumented students and all students affected by immigration issues. The advocacy for undocumented student resources and the creation of a safe space began with the founding of the student organization Voices of Immigrants Demonstrating Achievement (VIDA) in 2012.

Today, the combined efforts of students, faculty, staff, and administrators led to the creation of City DREAM, which continues to grow as a welcoming and dedicated student hub to ensure the success of undocumented students across campuses.

However, these resources are not enough, given the dramatic increase of undocumented students at City College over the past 13 years, according to Undocumented Student Success report produced by Leticia Silva, Adriana Rivera and AB540 Taskforce Members.

Jenny Lam, the Education Advisor from the Office of Mayor London N. Breed said “San Francisco has always been and will continue to be a Sanctuary City. Unfortunately, the Trump administration has a deliberate agenda to place fear in immigrant communities, which is impacting the daily lives of students on our college campuses.”

The Trump Administration said DACA was illegal and announced it’s dismantling in September 2017.

After an extensive legal battle for groups that challenged its cancellation, the case has reached the nine Supreme Court justices, who will issue an opinion by next summer.

The Dreamers must remember one thing: The united people will never be defeated.

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8 | SPORTS

Vol. 168, Issue 7 | November 20– December4, 2019

Rams Take Loss in Stride — Playoffs Are Still on!

By Abraham Davis abrahamdfrankfurter@gmail.com

Thomas Cooper, no. 11, (right) defends the goal from Cañada College’s no. 15 (left) after the Rams found themselves trailing 1-2 shortly before halftime. Cañada College, Redwood City, Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Abraham Davis / The Guardsman

ATHLETIC TRAINERS ARE THE UNSUNG HEROES OF CITY COLLEGE SPORTS

By Alec White awhite65@mail.ccsf.edu

City College is fortunate to have highly qualified Athletic Trainers, Sara Golec and Emerald Molina.

Golec got her Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from San Jose State, and her Masters of Science in Athletic Training from A.T. Still University, Arizona School of Health Sciences. Molina received her Bachelors of Science in Athletic Training from Baylor University.

These two trainers work very hard to make sure our athletes are always getting the treatment and care needed to perform at 100% day in and day out, taking a lot of time and a lot of energy daily.

Golec and Molina have a big job providing treatment for 250 student athletes playing on 15 sports teams.

They are responsible for all administrative including ordering MRI’s, completing all documentation and various other tasks.

Golec is the only full-time trainer in this small staff of two at City College.

Working Monday through Saturday, and some Sundays, Golec works 50 or more hours a week. When you think about how many of those hours she is working by herself, you can picture the number of

athletes she treats and cares for by herself.

Unfortunately, this often leads to having to turn some athletes away or asking them to come back at a different time when she is not as busy.

Even when Golec and Molina are working together, they still have to turn away athletes due to the long list of athletes already waiting for treatment. On top of the day-to-day treatment of athletes, they also attend all games played by any of the City College athletic teams.

When there are two athletic events at the same time they have to close the Training Room to attend the events, and are unable to provide treatment for the other athletes in need.

Golec and Molina are the unsung heroes that keep City College athletes in the game. After speaking with them, it was obvious that City College needs to support and treat all the athletes in need.

According to Golec and Molina, the best way to address this shortage is to hire more trainers to help balance the workload they have on a weekly basis.

With the rich history of City College’s athletic programs, it might be time for the Athletic Department to consider investing more into student-athletes’ well being and add the resources needed to support all of our athletes in need.

The Ram’s suffered a tough loss in their last conference game and their second defeat of the season against Cañada College, Tuesday, Nov. 12.

With a final score of 1-3, the Men’s Soccer team moves into the playoffs and ends the conference with a record of seven wins, two losses and nine ties.

The Rams came out looking ready and scored a goal minutes into the game, fueling energy and excitement out of players and coaches.

But excitement soon turned to frustration as Cañada scored the next two goals leaving the Rams’ Coaches looking for a leader amongst the players to help maintain the winning energy they started with.

Down 1-2, Coach Lucarelli reminded his players during halftime that the game was far from over and to just go “one play at a time.”

But shortly into the second half, Cañada College managed to get past the goalkeeper once again, bringing the score to a biting 1-3.

Fifteen minutes before the end of the game The Rams got hit with another tough call in the form of a red card for no. 23, Jared Macdonald, after Macdonald attempted a header but ended up with his arm out, striking a Cañada player midair.

All is not lost, as The Rams still qualified for the playoffs.

Even after the loss, assistant Coach Shani Simpson still saw the glass as half full. “It can be good to have a taste of a loss right before the playoffs. It’s a different league, it’s a different mindset. If you don’t win, it’s over. I think it could be a good thing.”

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