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Vol. 170, Issue 8 | Dec. 8 – Dec. 22 | City College of San Francisco | Since 1935 | FREE | www.theguardsman.com
What Do Students Think of National Society of Leadership and Success? By Hannah Asuncion hasunci1@mail.ccsf.edu
The National Society of Leadership and Success, NSLS has nominated various students, especially international students, to join their honor society for the past couple of weeks. In order to be inducted, the nominee needs to pay $95 and then go through various steps leading up to their induction, but some students have been questioning the organization’s legitimacy. Chapter President of NSLS Jimmy Tran confirmed that they are an established chapter operating with a free club version for all students to join. They are a registered student organization on campus that holds social events and workshops for the future. “Our goal is to create a community that offers opportunities to build leadership skills through practice and peer support.” Their nomination process involves the Upper Society where they recognize students who meet the GPA threshold with a certain credit window, which then offers them a chance to enroll in
City College Journalism Wins Big! By An Pham apham34@mail.ccsf.edu
The Guardsman Photo Editor Emily Trinh works on her laptop in her Inner Sunset apartment in San Francisco, Nov. 29, 2020. Photo by Jennifer Hsu/The Guardsman.
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audiobooks valued at $129. For Apple, there is up to $200 off any eligible Mac and $20 on an iPad Pro with Apple education pricing. For Dell, you can save up to 40% on select PCs and up to 50% on select TVs and electronics. These benefits also offer an exclusive job bank, scholarship portal, and a personalized letter of recommendation.
City College student Burcu Ozdemir stands for a portrait outside her apartment building in downtown San Francisco. Nov. 29, 2020. Photo by Jennifer Hsu/The Guardsman.
There is also a speaker broadcast series where public figures address their experience with leadership and success, teach from their experience, share advice, and also answer questions. The 2020 speakers include Neil Patrick Harris, Tanya Acker, Jack Black, Bill Nye, and Matthew McConaughey. Emily Trinh, an international student, decided not to accept the nomination due to NSLS not being accredited. “The fee is too high (for me) in exchange for membership of something not that prestigious. There are forums and quora that goes more in-depth than I can.” Trinh also looked into the President of the NSLS and to her his credentials are not that impressive. His position as President is an internship with the organization behind NSLS. She is also under the impression that NSLS tries way too hard when it comes to showing what type of organization they are and they have also attempted multiple times National Society continues on page 2
City College’s journalism students attended the Journalism Association of Community College (JACC) Fall 2020 conference, which was held online using the Qiqo chat platform and Zoom from Nov. 6 to Nov. 8, 2020, and took home awards left and right. “Thanks to COVID-19, it’s been over six months since people have been allowed to gather in large groups,” JACC’s press release said. “That didn’t stop the 217 delegates who virtually came together this past weekend, for the first time, in a virtual environment, when the Journalism Association of Community Colleges held its 2020 Fall Conference on Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 8.” “The event was hosted using the Qiqochat platform, which provides a social wrapper around Zoom meetings so participants can move themselves in and out of Zoom spaces,” JACC’s press release said. Over a dozen journalism students at City College joined the three-day-long event. Some participated in contests, and several won awards. The Guardsman’s Co-EditorIn-Chief Jennifer Yin was one of the students who joined the event and won first place in the photo story contest. She was overall happy that she took part in the contest and won awards. “I felt like that shoot was good, but not good enough to win first place at JACC. The saturation of the photos were off and the quality was super pixelated.”, Yin said. “I suppose the judges saw something that I must have missed and like folks say, ‘you are your own worst critic.’” The event was a success thanks to its easy-to-use platform, QiqoChat. Students were having zero problems navigating from a room to another. Though, the competitions weren’t that easy. The Guardsman’s Illustrator Manon Cadenaule participated in her first JACC contest, and even though it was online, she was satisfied with her time spent at the event. “I have never been to JACC before, but I can only imagine the excitement of going there and being able to speak with all these great people! Therefore, I felt the energy these folks put into the event JACC continues on page 2