The Guardsman, Vol. 154, Issue 4. City College of San Francisco

Vol. 154, Issue 4, Oct. 3- Oct. 16, 2012

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Election 2012:

Meet the board candidates — who are they?

Story by Jandean Deocampo, page 3

Clockwise from top left: Chris Jackson, Hanna Leung, Natalie Berg, Rafael Mandelman, William Walker, Steve Ngo, Amy Bacharach, Nate Cruz, Rodrigo Santos, George Vazhappaly.

Photos by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman. Photos of Nate Cruz and George Vazhappaly sourced online.

Chinatown Northbeach campus opens with a celebration after five years of construction

By Dalton Amador

THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / DAMADOR@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

City College officials and the San Francisco public alike celebrated the grand opening of the school’s newly constructed Chinatown campus, providing a cathartic end to a nearly twenty year long struggle to bring a

campus to the neighborhood.

The ceremony began with The Lion Dance of Good Luck, where performers dressed in a dragon costume danced to beating drums played by students.

Speakers included Mayor Ed Lee and City College board member Lawrence Wong, who was instrumental to the campus’

construction.

The $138 million building will serve an expected 7500 students in classes such as math, physics, culinary arts and architecture.

The campus opens in the shadow of the Accreditation Commission’s threat to rescind City College’s accreditation status, but the speakers were silent on the

Students of City College’s beginning and intermediate vocal classes (10A,10B) perform several songs during the opening ceremony of the Chinatown/Northbeach Campus on Friday, Sept. 21. The ceremony included a lion dance performance by the Community Youth Center San Francisco, a ribbon cutting ceremony led by Mayor Ed Lee, and guided tours of the campus. Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

NEWS: West-Nile Virus found near Ocean campus Pg. 2 NEWS: A concert to save our school Pg. 2 Q&A’s with candidates for the Board of Trustees Pg. 4

issue and spoke confidently of the school’s longevity.

“We will never let City College close, we will never abandon our collective responsibility to guarantee education,” Lee said during his speech. “City College will stay open for many generations to come.”

Lee also for the first time

officially endorsed Proposition A, which would introduce a parcel tax projected to raise $17 million annually for eight years to help curb City College’s routine budget shortfalls.

It was announced that the office of San Francisco’s repreCHINATOWN: PAGE 3

Attendees of City College’s Chinatown/Northbeach campus opening celebration tour the top floor during sunset on Friday, Sept 21. The ceremony included a lion dance performance by the Community Youth Center San Francisco, a ribbon cutting ceremony led by Mayor Ed Lee and guided tours of the campus. Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

INSIDE:

OPINION: Don’t believe everything you read Pg. 5 PHOTOSTORY: Tomatoes, airplanes and clay, oh my!

Pg. 6-7 CULTURE: Frida and Diego return to City College Pg. 9

CULTURE: Hopie Spitshard, rap sensation Pg. 9 SPORTS: Women’s volleyball rebounds Pg. 11 SPORTS: Soccer sees mixed results Pg. 12

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Music department sings for salvation

By Dannie Hawkins

THE GUARDSMAN / @DANNIEDOLL / DHAWKINS@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

In the midst of the accreditation crisis, you may have heard a rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s classic song “We will survive” passionately played from a worn piano in the Creative Arts Building while faculty member Helen Dilworth feverishly sang with an operatic coloratura soprano.

If the Accrediting Commission for Community Colleges was looking for a reason to keep City College open, the music department gave them one. The small room A-133 in the Creative Arts Building was packed at the “SOS: Save Our School” concert by students and faculty. Pianists, ukelele players and singers sang, strung and drummed to honor City College, to which they attributed many of their successes.

An adaptation of “This Land Is Your Land” compelled the room to rise and sing in unison.

“So money’s short now, and so is patience/Who in their right mind cuts education?/Go send a message to our legislators/This school belongs to you and me,”

they sang. “This City College, like many others/It taught our fathers, it taught our mothers/ We’ve got to fight back, it’s our community/This school belongs to you and me.”

Most of the musicians learned to play their instruments through City College’s music department.

Opener Dilworth’s dramatic stage presence set the scene for what was a compelling lowproduction concert. Madeline Mueller of the music department played many of the piano accompaniments, along with fellow faculty member Judy Lee. Impassioned singers expressed the talent City College helped cultivate, expressing many students’ and faculty’s uncertainty about their college’s future.

“Singing is what ferments forward thinking, I’m not gonna say a revolution,” Mueller said with a wink.

“Good Morning Heartache,” a dour jazz blues song originally sung by Billie Holliday, was performed by student Clara McDaniel. “Good morning heartache/Thought we said goodbye

News Briefs UC to pay damages in Davis pepper-spraying

The University of California will pay damages of $30,000 to each of the 21 UC Davis students and alumni who were peppersprayed by campus police during an otherwise peaceful protest 10 months ago, the university system announced on Sept. 26.

The agreement, which must still be approved in federal court, also calls for UC to pay a total of $250,000 to the plaintiffs’ attorneys and sets aside a maximum

of $100,000 to pay up to $20,000 to any other individuals who join the class-action lawsuit by proving they were either arrested or directly pepper-sprayed, a university statement said.

An officer sprayed seated students directly in their faces at close range during a Nov. 18, 2011 Occupy rally.

A video of the incident was posted online and triggered national outrage. (Stephen Ceasar/ Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Above: Clara McDaniel, a contralto vocalist student at City College, sings Good Morning Heartache as part of the Save Our Schools (SOS) free music concert held in Ocean Campus’ Creative Arts Building on Tuesday, Sept.

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Left: Lenny Carlson, music department faculty member plays a Mercer Ellington song titled, Things Ain’t What They Used to Be, at the SOS concert. Photo by Francesca Alati/The Guardsman

last night,” McDaniel sang deeply and soulfully, possibly referring to the looming uncertainty about the college’s fate.

Electronics instructor Brian Fergus lightened the mood with a ukulele. “Who would serve the 47 ½ percent?” he sang to the cheers of the audience.

Cellist Sascha Jacobsen softened the mood with his multilayered original piece with a quartet of violinists and percus-

New chancellor supported Student Success Task Force

A member of the now defunct Student Success Task Force was named Sept. 26 as the new chancellor of California’s 112 community colleges.

Brice Harris will take on his new role on Nov. 6 and replaces Jack Scott, who retired in September after three and a half years in the position.

The Task Force, which convened from January 2011 to December 2011, made sweeping changes to the community college system and is now known as the Student Success Act of 2012.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the act into law on Sept. 27.

It prioritizes transfer students and students seeking degrees.

It will also prevent lowincome students from receiving Board of Governors fee waivers if they don’t maintain their grades at a minimum level.

Originally, the task force recommended instituting unit caps to determine financial aid eligibility but the new law prevents this.

In other words, if a student took too many courses, they would no longer receive BOG waivers.

Dozens of community colleges, students and faculty across the state, including The Guardsman, opposed the task force and its findings.

You can read the law here: http://tinyurl.com/8w4wfnj (Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman)

West Nile virus reported near Ocean campus

A bird infected with West

sionists.

Voter registration forms were available and attendees were encouraged to vote in the upcoming election with attention to Proposition A and Proposition 30.

“Students ask me all the time what they can do to help save City College,” Mueller said. “If you want to save the school, stay here.

It’s as basic as that. It’s not the buildings that make City College, it’s the people.”

Nile Virus was found near Ocean campus early in September.

According to other news reports, only one human case has been reported in San Francisco since then.

The virus is passed to humans by mosquitoes. (Sara Bloomberg/ The Guardsman) Board approves draft plan for ACCJC The Board of Trustees approved Sept. 27 a draft plan that addresses the 14 problems laid out in the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior College’s evaluation released in July.

The plan includes a revised mission statement, a list of potential cuts—including closing the Castro and Park Presidio centers— and creating new administrator positions.

Staff and faculty unions have already agreed to further cuts, as well.

Department chairs could be eliminated, too, as recommended by a Sept. 14 report by the Fiscal Crisis Management and Assessment Team, an independent agency hired by the state chancellor’s office to evaluate City College’s finances.

In its report, the fiscal team acknowledges that faculty, staff and chair contracts are subject to collective bargaining agreements.

In July, the accrediting commission criticized the school for having too few experienced administrators. (Sara Bloomberg/ The Guardsman)

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sentative to Congress and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent a letter thanking the Board of Trustees for working to build the campus.

Wong detailed the struggle and opposition he personally faced in his quest to bring a campus to Chinatown. “We had no money, we had no land, but it was a dream,” he said. “I have never doubted that this campus would be built, even when no one else believed me.”

Wong has previously served as president of the board of trustees and is currently a board member. He is known for advocating programs that help immigrants and non-English speakers.

Wong is also a National Board Member of the Chinese Americans Citizens Alliance, one of the country’s oldest civil rights groups.

He explained that Chinatown’s citizens had been asking for a campus since he was elected in 1994 and that it had always been his primary goal.

At 14 stories, the campus’ only building provides a breathtaking view of Chinatown, Coit Tower, and the Transamerica Pyramid.

Facing Washington Street, the library’s window contains an aphorism to greet the aspiring students of the Chinatown campus: “Diligence is the path up the mountain of knowledge. Hard work is the boat across the endless sea of learning.”

The ceremony ended with a poignant rendition of classical/pop-rock songwriter Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up” performed by City College’s choir.

Board candidates strive to capture votes A late start

By Jandean Deocampo THE GUARDSMAN / @BANANAISAFRUIT / JDEOCAMPO@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

In Ocean campus’ Multi Use Building, candidates for the Board of Trustees gathered on Sept. 19 in front of an audience of camera crews, concerned students and voters for a Q&A Forum co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and Educational Access Television.

Attendees conversed excitedly among themselves, while television technicians rushed to test sound and video. Only the noise of cameras going off matched the rustle of papers being shuffled.

The questions, provided by the audience, were gathered by League members and sorted to the side of the moderator’s podium.

A long table with placards and microphones listed the names of the candidates who would be in attendance. A smaller table faced them, seating the team of timers who would keep track of answers.

Charismatic candidate Rafael Mandelman cruised around the room, chatting up most of the audience and carrying a large stack of campaign handouts that urged voters to “Save City College.”

Amy Bacharach, another candidate, made small talk in several small groups.

Others were more relaxed.

Hanna Leung paced slowly outside of the conference room and student trustee William Walker stood joking in a corner and eating french fries.

The forum finally began 30 minutes after the designated time to start. Natalie Berg, along with fellow incumbents Chris Jackson and Steve Ngo, sat in their places next to the other representatives.

Moderator and league member Allyson Washburn took the podium and introduced the questions for debate.

Some of the questions were

“How will you help improve the image of the college?”

-Allyson Washburn, moderator

standard for anyone who had been following Board decisions over the past six months. The forum naturally gravitated around the issue of leadership and decision-making in the wake of City College’s accreditation crisis.

“How well do we direct our resources to fulfill the mission statement?” Ngo said. “Recognize and close the achievement gap.” This is the second time Ngo is running for the board.

The issue of revenue and finances was brought into question, and the candidates offered mixed contingency plans in the

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event of Prop 30 and Prop A failing.

“In the event that they don’t pass, we have to go back to employee groups to ask them to sacrifice even more,” Jackson said. “We need to meet our base enrollment. It’s costing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. It’s a very simple step.”

Rodrigo Santos, a structural engineer who was appointed by Mayor Ed Lee in August to fill the remainder of the term for the late Milton Marks III, referred to the possibility of closing campuses or other instructional centers leased by the college.

“We will have to assess the use of facilities we currently have,” Santos said. “There’s the possibility of consolidation. Everything will have to be on the table.”

Representatives generally agreed to fiscal realities. Cuts have to be made and hard decisions are inevitable. Inconsistencies should be eliminated but bankruptcy is definitely not an option.

“The choice is not whether you’re going to lose a limb,” Ngo said, responding to a question about crisis strategies conflicting with the interests of City College labor unions, “but which limb?

And that’s just reality. We need to make long-term, permanent reductions. I’m confident that everyone knows what’s at stake.”

Issues of leadership in school administration were addressed, as well as the desire for student representation and their transparency in board decisions for the school. Power and control, and the fair use of both, dominated the debate.

In response to a question about the voluntary special trustee and whether or not it was a rushed decision, Walker said, “There’s a problem with the inertia of this institution, an inability to make decisions in a timely manner.”

The ineffectiveness of the shared governance model prompted the representatives at the forum to question its value. Some argued that it slowed the decision-making

process, while others supported the model and blamed its recent failures on corruption.

Stumpted

A question about priorities gave the board brief pause. They bounced back quickly enough with the unanimous response that above all, the students’ needs must be met.

“Many in the college community are concerned that the board is not responding to the negativity of the media with positivity,” said Washburn, in the final question of the night. “How will you help improve the image of the college?”

Walker: “We need to be creating events that really allow our communities to stand up.”

Bacharach: “Build a strong alumni network. We need to create a mechanism for them to give back.”

Berg: “If a lot of people wrote letters to the editor (of The Chronicle), that would be good. It would have impact.”

Jackson: “You maintain and improve the image by investing in the communities.”

Leung: “We need to show San Franciscans we can get out of this hole.”

Mandelman: “There’s not enough discussion about what’s right with City College.”

Ngo: “I know how great City College is. I think most San Franciscans have had that experience with City College. There’s been a fire for twenty years, and people are still talking about the drapes.

Focus on students again.”

Mandelman narrated a story about a drug addict named Eric whose life had been turned around by classes at the school. “That’s what City College is,” Mandelman told the audience. “That’s what City College has to save.”

The Forum closed with applause and statements from the candidates and trustees. Each member presented repeated echoes of “I believe” like a mantra in their hopes for City College’s future.

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Q&A’s with the Board of Trustee Candidates There are four seats open on the board in this November’s election. Between now and then, the Guardsman will publish a series of Q&A’s with all ten candidates.

Rafael Mandelman

By Carolina Rincon

THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / CRINCON@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

Why do you want to be a trustee right now in the middle of this accreditation crisis?

Well, I have done a lot of stuff for San Francisco. I was on the Building Inspection Commission, on the Board of Appeals and I am into public service. And I think it’s an extremely important institution in San Francisco, 80,000 to 90,000 people a year are going there. It’s a very sad and interesting time to be on that board. I think it would be a real challenge, but it is an important time to do it.

My work at my professional life is as a lawyer. I represent local governments, so I work with a lot of public agencies staff. And I think that some of the problems that City College has are just related to what has happened to public entities in California over the last five years.

They have all gotten starved for money. I hear revenue, it’s been down everywhere. Educational institutions are totally strapped.

And so, I have seen all that, and I don’t know if that necessarily translates into solving City College’s problem, but at least I have an understanding of it. And having been on boards and having been active in colleges for a while now, probably gives me some skills that would be useful on the Board of Trustees.

What do you think it is going to happen if Proposition 30 and Proposition A don’t pass?

I think it would be really horrible. If both of those go down, there would be a deeper hole. It is just worse. And none of the choices are very good. I don’t think there is a lot of hidden money at the college Do you think the job that the past Board of Trustees has done is good?

I think it is hard to say. I don’t know whether the trustees would say that they have done a very good job. They have been very divided.

I don’t really know who is to blame or whether anyone is to blame. I think there are a lot of people at the board, and at the college, who have strong opinions about what is wrong and why (the problem) is everyone else’s fault.

I think it would be nice to have someone on that board that would be listening a little bit more and hearing what the institution’s needs are and what the different constituencies are saying.

It’s Day One, you are a Trustee, what is on top of your to do list?

I think my to do list is going to be handed to me by whatever the board does in the next four months. They are going to make a decision about an interim chancellor that is going to be around for two years, program cuts that are going to, dramatically, alter

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the college in some way with whatever they do.

And so, even anticipating what am I going to be doing on that first day, it’s hard now, because we just don’t know who the special trustee is going to be, what that first move is going to be like, who the interim (chancellor) is going to be.

In general, for education, I want, over time, City College to recover some of what it has been forced to shut now. I believe in community colleges and I believe that kind of the narrowing of the mission is a little unfortunate.

I think that, over time, I would like to see it expanding back out, I would like the idea of an academic institution that anybody can take advantage of at any point of their life.

Some of your critics point out that you don’t have experience in the education sector because your job has been more oriented towards low income housing and other law practices. What do you have to say about this?

In a sense, it is a fair criticism. I don’t have a background in education, but I don’t know if you need to have a background in education to be an effective trustee on the college board.

I do have a background in workforce development. I was on the public policy advisory Committee for Jewish Vocational Services, that actually partners with the college.

I also have policy experience; I worked for a state legislator, I was a legislative aide in Sacramento.

What is your connection to City College?

When I was at SF State, we worked with a lot of the student leaders and student advocates at City College. These cuts impacted the CSUs and the community colleges. One of our big protests was at SF State, where ten thousand students marched, and there were also City College students marching with us. I’ve been advocating with City College students for over a decade now, in terms of investing in higher education.

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By Dalton Amador

THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / DAMADOR@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

Why do you want to be a trustee right now in the middle of the accreditation report?

I’m running for the Board of Trustees because we’re at a critical point and there will be a lot of tough decisions to make regarding City College’s finances. I want to make sure we take a balanced approach, one with compassion, especially for students.

I want to make sure our balancing decisions aren’t made on the back of students. I want to

make sure we keep the community in community college, and don’t become a junior college model.

What does your experience bring to the table?

I was student body president at SF State, I was a student activist. I protested the Schwarzenegger/Bush cuts to education. It was the beginning of the disinvestment in higher education.

I bring the experience of living in underserved communities and knowing that there are so many people from communities that really do need City College.

Is it daunting to represent a school of about 90,000 students?

We don’t have one set of students to serve, we have a lot of different constituencies. It’s actually not daunting. I wake up every day really loving the job. I love representing the interests of all of our students from all of the communities in San Francisco.

It’s Day One and you’ve been re-elected. What’s at the top of your to-do list?

Right now the first priority is to make sure we have a chancellor and a special trustee who understand the value of having a real community college. Our interim chancellor is leaving in a month,

Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

What is your connection to City College?

Well, I have taken classes at City College, long ago. I took Russian, when I was in high school. But I always thought it was an important institution and my connection is mostly that I care about San Francisco in a sense that it is a really important part of the city, that it’s struggling right now.

Do you read The Guardsman?

I have seen it. I don’t regularly read it, although, I will.

How is a typical day in your life?

There is no typical day. But usually it involves a lot of time in the office. Going to the gym early. And then I am usually doing

and we just now took a vote to invite a volunteer special trustee to our table, so even before I’m hopefully re-elected, my priority right now is to make sure we have an interim chancellor and special trustee who really support the model and vision of a true community college.

Other than that, my priorities are to continue our Bridge to Success Initiative, which is a partnership with SF Unified (School District), and to make sure students from our local high schools come to City College and can be successful, and to make sure that City College continues to integrate into all of San Francisco’s communities.

Speaking of the special trustee, you were the only trustee on the board to vote against electing a volunteer special trustee. Do you want talk about your reasons behind that?

There was a meeting before Tuesday where I asked that we be given more information regarding the special trustee. We got some information—it was an opinion from the state chancellor’s office—but it didn’t answer a lot of process questions. Questions like, if we have a general disagreement about something, who supersedes whom? That question just wasn’t answered.

There were also questions

something in the evening, either socially for one of the organizations that I am involved with. So it is a mix of social, civic and work.

You seem to have a pretty busy schedule in your life. Do you think you would have enough time to dedicate to the board, because right now, in this crisis, it would probably require a lot of commitment and time?

I have to say that there is nothing more time consuming than a campaign. During a campaign, I’m going every night to four or five events. If I can do this and do my full time job, I can do it. I’m not going to say it will be easier, but manageable.

about the process we would use to elect the special trustee and if it would be a community based process, an open process, or would the seven trustees go into a room and just pick one.

There were questions that I still needed answers to, and answers weren’t provided, and we’re taking a huge, monumental step in terms of selecting a special trustee who literally has more power than the board of trustees combined.

But even though I didn’t vote for the special trustee, I still want to move forward, I don’t want to delay anything. I want to make sure that this process happens, that it’s an open process, that there’s time for student input and community input.

What would happen if Prop 30 doesn’t end up passing?

We would lose about 15 million dollars. Even if the local parcel tax (Prop A) passes, and right now the polls say it’s looking pretty good, we would still lose that money if Prop 30 doesn’t pass. If both measures pass, then we can maintain the level of classes we have right now. If it doesn’t pass, there will be more tough decisions. Right now, we’ve done everything that we can to limit the impact of these cuts on students.

If Prop 30 doesn’t pass, we can’t promise that anymore.

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Editor’s Note: Don’t believe everything you read

By Sara Bloomberg

THE GUARDSMAN / @BLOOMREPORTS / SBLOOMBERG@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

As college students, we’re supposed to be learning critical thinking skills, whether in a math, music, English or art class.

But don’t leave it in the classroom!

Misinformation is everywhere, especially in the news— I should know, it’s my business.

That isn’t to say that today’s reporters are intentionally misleading us (well, except for Fox News). Even for seasoned professionals, it can be tough to sort through all the bullshit because, yes, it’s time consuming and time is money.

I’ll have to tell you all about it another time because right now I want to focus on what’s happening to City College.

We know that our school is amazing, despite its shortcomings and financial problems, but I’m concerned that too many people, from San Francisco residents to all California voters, aren’t aware of what’s really happening.

Bottom line is this: California has been disinvesting in public education since the late 1970s (thanks Reagan!), which has been slowly eroding our ability to fund the programs to make the Master Plan for Higher Education possible.

Passed in 1960, the Master Plan stipulates that all Californians have access to an education: the University of California for the top 12.5 percent of high school graduates, the California State University for the top third and Junior Colleges (and today’s community colleges) for everyone.

More recently, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Student Success Act into law on Sept.

27, which is based on recommendations by the Student Success Task Force, a controversial body that convened in 2011 to supposedly evaluate student success at community colleges in California.

Dozens of community colleges, as well as student newspapers, including The Guardsman, opposed the work of the task force because we felt that the language of the recommendations was a thinly veiled attempt to ration scarce funds (and simultaneously education) in the name of increasing degree completion rates.

If there’s no money, just say there’s no money!

And that’s where City College is hurting.

The quality of instruction isn’t in question, but it will decline if faculty, staff and department chairs are laid off—a very likely scenario, since administrators and the Board of Trustees are getting pressure from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges and the Financial Crisis Assistance and Management Team to do just that.

City College certainly has problems, but let’s remember our history and ensure a better future for the school, and other students who come after us.

How can we do that?

Talk to people about Prop 30 and Prop A, two tax measures on this November’s ballot that will raise revenue statewide and locally that will benefit City College.

Stay informed. Read the news.

Ask questions.

Think critically.

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Corrections In Vol. 154, Issue 3, the Accreditation Timeline incorrectly stated that the deadline for the school to prove that it deserves to remain accredited is March 15, 2012. The correct date is March 15, 2013 Find a mistake? Let us know! Email: editor@theguardsman.com

As you may have heard, there’s an election coming up in November.

(If you have actually managed not to hear anything, can I please borrow your rocketship? Because you are obviously not on planet Earth.)

Voting as a student can be really frustrating. We’re new to this complicated system of a representative democracy, and it’s easy to get disheartened and apathetic when combating a bureaucratic machine that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

But our student vote is absolutely critical. It is the only way we have of getting our voices and opinions involved in the governmental process.

We have no one representing us in any political body: the average representative is 57 years old—decades out of touch with what we, as college students, may want.

18 to 24-year-olds make up nearly 13 percent of the voting population.

Our sheer numbers give us the power to effect change. So let’s use it!

I have good news: in California, voting is super-duper easy.

First, register to vote online at registertovote.ca.gov.

The last day to register is October 22, and you need to re-register if you move, or change your name or your political party.

Even students paying out-ofstate tuition have a right to vote— residency can be established if you intend to stay in California for the time being.

And once you fill out that extremely brief registration form, you’re already halfway there!

California’s voting ID requirements are incredibly relaxed.

Any photo ID, including your student ID, is acceptable, as well as any utility bills, bank statements, or government mail— including the sample ballot that will get mailed to you just for

registering to vote!

Since voting day always takes place on a Tuesday—this year, November 6, mark your calendars—it may be difficult for some students in school to exercise their democratic rights (although, really, I would hope many teachers excuse absences or tardiness for this reason).

Early voting takes place the weekend before, and weekdays up to 45 days before. Locations and hours will be available in that sample ballot I mentioned earlier.

18 to 24year-olds make up nearly 13 percent of the voting population.

Mail-in voting is always an option. And if you work on Tuesdays and are otherwise unable to vote, you’re granted two hours off with pay.

But voting in person day-of is just so exciting! (No, really! It is!)

I highly recommend smartvoter.org, where you can insert your zip code to find the location of your polling place, as well as information on candidates and issues.

While our schools are continually getting slammed with budget

cuts, there are some propositions on the ballot this year geared to boost state funding.

Prop 30 will create higher tax brackets for those who make over $250,000 a year, and increase sales tax just a bit.

This proposition is expected to generate around $6 billion in new revenue annually for seven years, 11 percent of which is slotted for community colleges— some of that is bound to trickle down to us at CCSF, right?

Proposition A is a bill created specifically to benefit City College.

If approved, it will levy a parcel tax of $79 for each parcel of real estate for 8 years—funds that the State CAN NOT take away and which will have a major impact in offsetting budget cuts.

This requires a two-thirds majority in order to pass—so get your butts out there and vote!

Lack of funds at City College has brought our school to its knees, in a precarious position of possibly losing accreditation and being shut down.

For the sake of our education, and of education in the future of San Francisco, we need to rise up to demand that our school receives the monetary means necessary to continue the grand mission of providing an affordable education to everyone, from all walks of life—the ESL student, the returning adult, the veteran, the transfer student, et al.

Our future is being decided upon, with or without our participation.

But if we get out there and vote, our combined voices have the possibility of keeping our school afloat for years to come.

It’s just that easy.

Stay tuned: next week we’ll look at the presidential candidates’ views on the future of education!

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Clockwise from top: Aeronautics students Rodrigo Garay, on left, and Johnny Chan, on right, perform an engine compression test while Department Chair Tanya Lyles, center, oversees their progress. The test assures that seals on the pistons within the engine are intact, while failure to identify poor piston seals can possibly lead to engine failure in a propeller powered aircraft.

City College aeronautics students, James Morales, Dustin Chile, and Samuel Reilly Stark, safety wire bolts to the shaft of an aviation turbine engine.

Troy Halman, nicknamed Grits, drills 100 pilot holes through two sandwiched pieces of aluminum sheet metal for his first semester project in the Aircraft Metal Structures course at City College.

Halman will drive a rivet, a metal pin that secures two sheets of metal, into each pilot hole using a compressed-air rivet gun.

Downtown campus featured their first event of the school year when they invited the public to taste a variety of prepared tomatoes at their restaurant, The Educated Palate.

The catering and events course oversees the dining room, known in culinary terms as ‘the front of the house.’ Students rotate responsibilities including bartending, serving, and management.

“We try to work towards the same style as other restaurants,” Barbara Haimes said.

Haimes has taught the catering and events course for the past 8 years. She emphasized their use of fresh and local ingredients.

The bartender that night was Jennie Neiman, who moved to San Francisco from the central coast of California for this program.

“It’s good to know more,” Neiman said, referring to the responsibilities she assumes in her training.

Neiman is currently training at Quince, a Zagat rated restaurant that serves modern French and Italian cuisine.

While the front of the house was hustling to set up a perfect presentation for their first event, the kitchen, known as ‘the back of the house’ was busy downstairs, readying each dish.

Chef Rhea Dellimore, instructor of the advanced a la minute cooking class, was guiding students as they prepared each recipe.

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Hector Henriquez creates a clay figure during a bili gual visual arts class at Mission Campus.

Clockwise from left: Martha Cheng prepares candied basil leaves by sprinkling sugar on the bottom side of egg white brushed basil. The candied basil leaves were used as a garnish for a tomato and lemon curd tart served at the first catering event hosted by City College’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies at Downtown Campus’ on Thursday, Sept. 27.

A fresh tomato arrangement adorns each dining table at the Educated Palate Restaurant at Downtown Campus during the first themed dinner of the semester called, “Ripe off the vine: tomatoes from the market to your plate.” Each dinner is organized and prepared entirely by students of City College’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality programs.

Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies Chef Rhea Dellimore, on right, clears counter space as student Jack Felton, on left, stacks sheet pans of oven dried tomatoes.

Jenni Tjin Hwa, on left, watches as Com mation Technology (CNIT) major Jay F is wrong with her laptop during the Com class taught on Thursday evenings at work as a computer technician, and w once he finishes his degree at City Coll

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mato soup. e is an alumna and has taught for the past three years. obs, it’s our careers,” Dellin reference to the College’s crisis, “but these guys get om the program and I would em without this.” ated Palate is open Monday sday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 days from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 aurant is also open for dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The ats around 50 people and is ublic.

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instructors for the City Build program and has been a professor at City College since 2008. She said that 90 percent of the students in the program usually get a job.

“We don’t recruit students unless we know we can place them in jobs,” McPeters said.

The students in the program will be graduating on Oct. 15 at City Hall.

Ocean campus

Out of 90,000 students attending City College, few may know that there is a course entirely geared towards fixing computers—including yours.

“We are the school geek squad—basically,” Bill Hong said.

Hong is currently professor of the computer networking information technology lab and is also a student every semester. This semester he is learning how to read and write Chinese.

Hong passionately explained everything he loves about his job and what the class entails.

“They (the students) work in teams, so the pressure isn’t on any one individual,” Hong said.

The course was started 8-9 years ago and was originally created by Hong. It currently has 15-16 students and services around 90 computers in a semester.

“To be fair, I charge everyone the same—free,” Hong said with a very serious demeanor.

Ghais Alqadar is a student of Hong’s who plans on working for a phone provider such as Sprint or Verizon. Alqadar intends on graduating in 2013, but with the issues City College faces, that possibility is

uncertain.

“I don’t have financial aid, so if the school closed, I wouldn’t have any access to higher education,” Alqadar said.

Mission campus

Like many of City College’s campuses, classrooms are offered to other institutions that need a place to teach.

Mission campus provides space for the visual art class, which is a required class for obtaining a high school diploma.

Sandra Vaughn is the instructor for the class and translated my questions for the students as she kneaded and molded clay.

When asked how many students plan on transferring to City College, 15 out of 20 students raised their hands.

“It’s supposed to be cheap,” student Hector Henriquez said. Henriquez said he plans on transferring to City College.

Aiport center

City College’s Aeronautics program located at the San Francisco International Airport, offers programs certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Three majors and three certificates are offered in the aeronautics department.

The department grants graduates the 1900 hours of mandatory maintenance experience required prior to taking the FAA’s official Airframe and Powerplant Certification (A&P) test.

“On the whole Peninsula, this is it,” said Department Chair Tanya Lyles, regarding the accessibility of local public programs that offer training for the FAA’s A&P Certification.

From top to bottom: Student Keith Lucero, uses a jigsaw to cut out a wheel for an upcoming construction project for the CityBuild program at Evans Campus.

Jason Shirley measures and marks the wood cuts he will make to constructa new sawhorse.

Professor Bo Hong in plaid kneels down to examine his student’s roofing progress.

A close up of Henriquez’s clay figure.

mputer Networking and InforFactor on right, identifies what mputer Technical Support Lab Ocean Campus. Jay plans to wants to repair mobile devices lege.

Non functional computer motherboards were extracted from their cases to replace processors and cooling fans.

From left to right: Michcail Pusey, Jenni Tjin Hwa, Professor Bill Hong, Ghais Alqadar, and Jay Factor discuss the issues related to Tjin Hwa’s laptop during a CNIT 105 night class at Ocean Campus. Repairs are free to all who need computer assistance.

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Across City College spaces, from art bars to the Southeast campus, appreciation for two dynamic Latino artists has culminated in lectures and exhibits that explore the abiding timelessness of their work.

“Frida and Diego: The Past is Present,” reflects the lasting effects of the culturally and artistically revolutionary couple on San Francisco’s art history at Madrone Art Bar in the Panhandle district--an unlikely place for City College to stake a claim in San Francisco’s art world. The mixed media exhibit explores the dynamic couple’s time in San Francisco through artists they were involved with here.

Carved into the side of a peeling Victorian, Madrone Art Bar sits at the helm of the Panhandle.

The exhibit is hung on the right wall of the bar’s long, black room.

The exhibit communicates a contemporary narrative of metropolitan artistry, with subjects as diverse as women’s studies and Chicano and African American inspired work.

Curator Anthony Torres strategically framed the body of the exhibit, placing photos of Rivera on both sides of the display like parentheses around a sentence, in an effort to suggest the Mexican muralist’s influence on the artists within. Kahlo maintains a presence in the art as well. Rupert Garcia’s “Frida Kahlo” is a stylized portrait of the artist.

Political and social issues are apparent in Art Hazelwood’s frenetic “Hoover Institute.”

Hazelwood was recently involved in Occupy and protesting the Iraq War in his “activism art,” which recalls contemporary Chicano art.

His work is likened politically to Rivera’s Communist ties as their work shares an upheaval of capitalism.

Chicana “narrative artist” Carmen Lomas Garza’s picturesque images, often laden with complacent interactions between Latino families, recall Rivera’s murals. Garza’s “Sandia fria, pedacito de mi corazón” illustrates interactions between the working class and socialist revolutionaries. Garza’s gouache on cotton paper medium has the visual softness of fresco murals.

If the photos of Rivera are parenthetical, then the larger portraits on either side of the exhibit are exclamation points in a Spanish phrase.

On the left side of the wall, three separate canvases titled “Frida Be You and Me” by Jeffrey Beauchamp make up a portrait of a solitary girl sitting in a painted world, mixing two globs of paint in her hands. Two of the canvas-

es frame her action, giving us the two colors she used in separate palms, suggesting Kahlo’s creative process when painting. She once said, “I paint selfportraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

On the right side of the painting, the image of Mary is literally pasted on the crown of a large display of oil paint and bright color. A product of two decades of work, Diane Roby’s “Tonantzin Redux” recalls Mesoamerican art and Spanish culture. “Tonantzin” is an Aztec title given to female deities and a “redux” is a return or throwback to an older version of something. The image of the Virgin Mary in this painting speaks great volumes about not only the evolution of art in Latin America, but of religion as well.

The exhibit is an accessible snapshot of this contagious style heralded by contemporary Chicano artists from Kahlo and Rivera.

“Great turnout” at lecture

A few days after the exhibit opened at Madrone Art Bar, a lecture on Diego Rivera’s “Pan American Unity” was given at Southeast Campus. The event brought attention to the opportunities granted to those from disadvantaged backgrounds and made a case for the school’s sustenance.

“If you don’t have it (education) in your family, how do you bootstrap yourself up to understand it?” said Will Maynez. “City College will give students a shot, especially those who don’t have a legacy of education in their families.”

Former physics lab manager turned unofficial guardian of “Pan America Unity”, Rivera’s largest contiguous mural, Maynez presented important milestones in Rivera’s art and time spent in San Francisco with his wife, Frida Kahlo, before an audience of 20 in the Alex Pitcher Community Room.

Maynez’s own heritage was a matter for presentation.

Maynez intends to preserve the “Unity” mural, increase its prominence and fund the project’s self-sufficiency in the form of a proposed Center for Pan American Unity, where the colorful oversized fresco would be preserved. Now located inside the Diego Rivera Theater, the piece contrasts the industrial advances and political activity of the 1940s against Latin American traditions.

“It wasn’t been like this very long at all. The desegregation of Mexican-Americans in the school system only took effect in 1947,” Maynez said.

“This (equality in education) didn’t happen overnight, it’s guys like this who made it possible,” said Maynez, recognizing the actions of Latino civil rights leaders like Cesar Chavez and Alex

Pitcher.

Samuel Santos, 31, current Associate Dean of Student Activities, said “Will Maynez did a wonderful job with his presentation. I really appreciated learning about the mural in the Diego Rivera theater. I also enjoyed the great turnout of students.”

“My Latino heritage means an acknowledgment, celebration and recognition of the history, culture, food and art of my family—those living and those who’ve passed,” Santos said, crediting his heritage as a critical part of his education after attaining a BA in Mexican-American studies from the University of Texas.

The exhibit at Madrone Art Bar runs until Nov. 16. Complementing exhibit “Frida in San Francisco,” will be on display Oct. 1-31 at Ocean campus Gallery, Visual Arts Building, Room 119.

William Maynez, coordinator of The Diego Rivera Mural Project and former City College physics lab manager speaks about Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo during a slideshow presentation recognizing Latina/Latino Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15) at City College’s South East Campus on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Maynez compared/contrasted the works of Rivera and Kahlo, and identified social issues represented. Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

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WED. OCT. 10 Latinnovating: Meet and greet with guest speaker Garcielo Tiscareno-Sato, the founder and chief executive officer of Gracefully Global Group. Presenting the “green economy” and successful businesses. Wed. Oct. 10 12:30 p.m - 2 p.m./Thurs. Oct. 11 Ocean campus, Room 304.

THURS. OCT. 11

Rap/Hip-Hop artist Kae “Hopie” Ranoa discusses her music career at Reina’s Taqueria in San Francisco on Sept. 23. Hopie is set to release her next album “Sugar Water” and will be performing as part of the California Brainwash Sneak Peek Show on Oct. 3 at the Elbo Room in San Francisco.

Local artist “spits” law and rap

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Kae Ranoa’s upbringing as a poor Filipina-American is selfdescribed as “arrested, chewed up, and spitted out.” That personal history has led her to working in careers which allow her to bring voices to female rappers underrepresented in hip-hop as her stage persona Hopie Spitshard, and to low-income immigrants as a law firm assistant.

Growing up in Manila, Philippines, and raised in San Francisco, the independent rap artist can be seen in a Led Zeppelin t-shirt, airplane model earrings, violet lipstick and a pair of classic Nike Cortez shoes, or in a dress and heels, performing in front of a crowd.

Political and social issues that impacted Hopie resulted in an interest in law.

“I always wanted to do law,” said Spitshard. “It was something I was interested in when I was in elementary school and my parents would have round table discussions about globalization and (martial law). I kept getting more and more interested as I got older, because I realized how relevant it was to my life. My friends were murdered, I was on probation, my childhood was affected by these things, and rather than be a victim of it, I wanted to know what I was mad about, and know what I was fighting against,” she said.

Hopie graduated from City College of San Francisco with honors while concurrently attending San Francisco State University. She graduated magna cum laude from State in 2006 with a BA in political science. City College political science instructor Suzanne Homer recommended her to study political science at San Francisco State. Although accepted to grad school, she instead prepared for the LSAT

standardized test to apply to Hastings. Hopie graduated from Hastings in 2010, with a Juris Doctorate concentrating in public interest law.

Hopie’s rap career began in 2007 when music producer 6Fingers discovered her at a performance in a community center. In 2008, they released their first album “The Diamond Dame.”

“I had no expectations for that album at all,” Spitshard said, “no anticipation that people would listen, and, honestly, was perfectly happy with just knowing that I’d have a collection of my music in one disc to refer to and show my kids.” Spitshard and 6Fingers then produced “Dulce Vita” and “Raw Gems” in 2011.

Hopie has been in URB Magazine’s next 1000 in 2008, and was voted into Thizzler. com’s Bay Area’s Freshmen 10 for 2012. She has also performed at the Paid Dues Independent Hip-Hop Festival.

6Fingers’ turntable and MPC machine places himself outside the standard drum and snare beat.

In “Game Over”, 6Fingers incorporates melodies of classic 8-bit video games.

“6Finger’s beats are eclectic. He goes from using organic samples to galactic, futuristic sounds,” says Hopie.

Hopie’s work is about the difficulty of being a poor independent artist to spoken word about empowerment. In “Missing the Bus,” the chorus describes the difficulty of being a poor independent artist.

“So where the next meal coming in from yo?/Turning my verse into income dough/Maybe next time, maybe next rhyme/ Until then I’m missing the bus.”

In a one-minute spoken word track recorded at a BART station she sings, “So test the limit/ test the boundaries and seize the fear/

Cease to fear/ the sweet taste of victory is near.”

During live performances, Hopie’s fans rap along to her music while she powerfully dances while rapping. Her music videos, meanwhile, often work with anecdotes. “Space Case” tells a story about aliens using Hopie’s body as a proxy.

“Yummy” features a male rapper attempting to steal the spotlight of her performance. “Off Tonight” features a b-boy dance crew performing top-rocks, windmills, and headspins.

Hopie has recorded and performed songs with acclaimed artists Exile, Murs, Native Elements, and her mentor Del the Funky Homosapien. Her gender does not divide her from male artists in San Francisco’s hip-hop scene.

“I respect her grind. As a lyricist, she’s one of the brighter rappers,” says Patience, a San Francisco emcee who performed with her at City College last year.

Meanwhile, DregsOne, a bay area emcee, said, “The thing I like about Hopie’s music is that she incorporates a lot of different themes in her music, like womanhood, her culture, and then just straight hip-hop.”

Hopie’s upcoming release “Sugar Water” will be her next release, though she doesn’t speculate on a date. Another upcoming project is “Emerald City.” Instead of a conventional album, it will be an audiobook. She refrained from giving any further details, only to say that the project will be “crazy.”

“The Diamond Dame”, “Dulce Vita”, and “Raw Gems”, the names of her albums, are tattooed on Hopie Spitshard’s hands and arms. When asked about the future of her music career plan, she answered, “I’m an Aquarius.”

Traded Moons. Geri Montano is noticed for her multiracial contemporary art which emphasizes her Native American Heritage. She talks about her profession and how to create an art piece. Thurs. Oct. 11. 9 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. John Adams campus Auditorium.

Life in Batá: Diaspora and the Drum Carlos Aldama, founding member and former director of Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba, and Greg Landau, City College faculty member, will perform and discuss bata culture and the enslaved Yoruba people.

Thur. Oct. 11 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Mission campus, Room 162.

SAT. OCT. 13 First Annual Mission Latin Jazz Festival. A celebration of exceptional local, national and international Latin Jazz artists. Performers include the ‘70s Mission AllStars and Pacific Mambo Orchestra. Sat. Oct. 13 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Sun. Oct. 14 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Brava Theater, 2781 24th St. MON. OCT. 15 Global Tuberculosis Lee W. Riley, M.D., of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health will discuss how science helps to control unhealthy pathogens. Ocean campus, Science Building, Room 300. Mon. Oct. 15 noon - 1 p.m.

Photo professionals Deanne Delbridge discusses portfolio techniques and strategies when breaking into the professional world. Mon. Oct. 15 6:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Ocean campus, Conlan Hall, Room 101.

FRI. OCT. 19 Science lecture Human genetics and clinical trials of Alzheimer’s disease will be discussed

by Professor Charles Glabe of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at UC Irvine. Glabe’s research looks into the causal factors of

Alzheimer’s and whether it can be reversed through therapeutic strategies. Fr. Oct. 19 12p.m.

-1 p.m. Ocean campus, Science Building, Room 300.

Cuba: An Exhibition and Silent Auction of Art and Photography.

All proceeds from the exhibition will benefit a scholarship fund for the CCSF Study Abroad (Cuba) Program. Sponsored by Latino Educators Association (LEA) and Study Abroad Cuba Class of 2011-2012. Mission campus, Room 109. Oct. 19 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

General admission $10. $5 with student I.D. SAT. OCT. 20 First Annual DiverCity Festival. Students come together and celebrate each other to enjoy the diversity of City College in respect to international cultures.

Hosted by the office of Student Affairs. Sat. Oct. 20 and Thurs.

Nov. 1 at the Ocean campus Amphitheater Plaza.

FRI. OCT. 26 Science lecture Evolution of the jumping spider will be discussed

by Assistant Professor Damien O. Elias of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Elias’ research looks at the complex behavior and evolution of the jumping spider. Fri. Oct. 26 noon - 1 p.m. Ocean campus Science Building, Room 300.

Exhibition Botellas Curadas: Healing Herbs and Home Remedies. A multidisciplinary group of Colombian artists and scholars explores the plants of Colombia and Cuba. Sept. 18 – Mar. 22, 2013 Ocean campus Rosenberg Library, 4th Floor Atrium.

Shared Histories Diego and Frida in San Francisco The Diego Rivera Mural Project and Madrone Art Bar are collaborating to present this exhibition, which celebrates famed couples’ return to San Francisco and the Pan American Unity Mural. Oct 1-31. Mon. - Wed. 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday, 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Ocean campus Gallery, Visual Arts Building, Room 119, Art Department.

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Freshman team beats the odds Even without a strong leader, the Rams pull through after losing thirteen games

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Rams right side hitter Isabela Haeger (10), sets up the ball to middle blocker Danielle Menikheim (4), for a spike against San Jose City College during a volleyball game in the Wellness Center Gym on Friday, Sept. 28. Photo by Shane Menez/The Guardsman.

Despite an 0-13 start this season, the Rams finished their opening Coast Conference match with a big 3-1 set win against San Jose Junior College.

Coming into the game, the Rams freshman roster was winless.

“We’re a completely different team since the loss to Skyline,” Head Coach Saga Vae said.

“Talent can get you far, but hard work can win, too. Confidence is an issue we’ve had.”

The Rams got off to a fast offensive start, despite an injury to freshman impact player Kelly Sung, and played consistent defense to win the first set 25-18.

In the second set, their defense began to struggle as San Jose made constant rotations and adjusted to the Rams’ middle duo, Desiree Fiame and Danielle Menikheim.

Vae said he was satisfied with

the team the entire game.

The offense continued to add pressure, and the Panthers could not respond as the Rams won the set 25-20, and went to the locker room with a 2-0 set lead.

“We have been working on both aspects of our game, the mental and physical,” Assistant Coach Edna Molina said. “When you have ten freshman, there’s no leader to look up to. We have to serve better and communicate more.”

The Rams fired up offense went cold as the Panthers opened the third set with an 8-0 lead before coach Vae called a timeout.

The struggling continued as the Panthers got off to a 23-15 lead and silenced an energetic home crowd. San Jose won the set 25-15.

At the start of the fourth set, the Rams coaching staff put their middle blockers back in the lineup after nearly missing the entire third set.

Fiame continued where she left off with her solid performance during the first half and scored four of the Rams 10 points.

The Panthers had no answer for the Rams’ spiking, and the

Rams jumped to a 23-17 lead before San Jose took its final timeout.

With a comfortable lead, the game seemed over, but the Panthers weren’t done.

They came back from the time-out with aggressive hitting and scored four unanswered points, and their six point deficit was cut to two in a matter of minutes.

Vae gave his team a pep talk and the Rams rebounded with five saves and scored the final two points, sealing their first win of the season.

For Fiame, the win was a result of good teamwork and perseverance.

“It was do or die, and there was no other option for us but to win,” Fiame said. “We did a better job of executing, and did everything well this time.”

With a 1-0 conference record, Vae is confident that his freshman roster will continue to play well this season.

“This was a good experience, they needed to be put in that predicament,” Vae said. “It’is not a strong conference, and there’s still hope.”

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| Oct. 3- Oct. 16, 2012 | 12 The City College Rams gear up for another winning football season.

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Rams women’s soccer team players brace for a possible first loss during the final minutes of their game against the Ohlone College Renegades on Friday, Sept. 28. Despite the 2-1 loss, The Rams will have a second chance against Ohlone at an away game in Fremont scheduled for Friday, Nov. 2. Photo by James Fanucchi Rams sophomore midfielder Crystal Zeledon (9), reacts as the referee ends the soccer game finalizing the season’s first loss (2-1) against Ohlone College on Friday, Sept. 28. The Rams will have a second chance against Ohlone at an away game in frement scheduled for Friday, Nov. 2. Photo by James Fanucchi

Loss to Renegades comes as wake up call After three years, Ohlone College beats City College, breaking six game winning streak

By Ivan Huang THE GUARDSMAN / @IVANREPORTS / IHUANG@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

Danyelle Perez (14), intercepts the ball away from Ohlone College on Sept 28. Photo by James Fanucchi

On a windy Friday evening, the formerly undefeated City College Rams women’s soccer team received a wake up call, losing to the Ohlone College Renegades 2-1. The Rams had beaten the Renegades in the previous three years.

With the first upset of the season, the Rams fell to No. 6 in the state with an overall record of (6-1-1) and (2-1-0) in the coast conference season.

In a back and forth matchup against the Renegades, the first half was balanced with both teams battling it out in a stalemate.

That ended late in the first half, when Renegades midfielder Jessica Hernandez shot a knuckle ball that bulleted straight at Rams goalkeeper Lily Garza, putting the away team up 1-0.

The Rams found themselves in a hole heading into the second half.

“We didn’t panic. It was still very early on, and we knew we were going to get one back,” Rams’ head coach Gabe Saucedo said. “We were getting plenty of opportunities, so we knew we were going to put one away. It was just keep playing our game and keep doing what we do well.”

The early goal didn’t phase

Rams freshman forwards Danyelle Perez and Ashly Dickinson.

“We were playing in a frantic mode after they scored their first goal,” Dickinson said. “We were frantic and wanting to score.”

As the second half began, Danyelle Perez capitalized after a break away and netted in the equalizer for the Rams.

“We needed that goal, I stopped it (the ball), then I just took off then I got it with my left foot. It was amazing,” Perez said with excitement.

With the score at 1-1, the Rams were in pursuit to take the victory once again in front of the home crowd. Some fans sat on some of their own lawn chairs.

For those not fortunate enough to own one, first row meant sitting next to the fences on the turf.

Perez’s goal seemed to rejuvenate the Rams and they re-energizing them to better control the ball and getting a couple of shots on goal.

Though the Rams made a valiant effort, the Renegades showed no mercy when freshman midfielder Racquel Hamblen scored off a rebound in the middle of the second half, bringing the Renegades up 2-1.

Showing no signs of quitting, the Rams kept control of the ball and had some close opportunities but ultimately fell short.

“I think this loss is going to boost us to work harder because we don’t ever wanna feel like this again,” Garza said.

The Rams face archrival Skyline College in San Bruno Oct. 5. Kickoff starts at 4 p.m.

Rams’ solid performance in first half secures second win in conference

By Lucas Almeida THE GUARDSMAN / @IVANREPORTS / IHUANG@THEGUARDSMAN.COM

Coming off their first conference win of the season against Cabrillo College (1-0) on Sept.

25, the City College men’s soccer team returned home to face a tough game on Sept. 28 versus conference contender West Valley College.

Currently No. 1 in the state, the Rams played a solid game and beat the Vikings 2-1. The Rams remain undefeated both overall (7-0-1) and in NorCal Coast Conference (2-0-1) play.

The Rams were on the offensive in the first half, while maintaining a steady defense. The Rams were well-met by a solid Vikings defense.

For coach Adam Lucarelli and the Rams, the first half of the game against West Valley led to winning the their second conference game of the season.

“We had a game plan that we worked on for West Valley earlier in the week, and the first half worked perfectly,” Lucarelli said. “I thought we controlled the tempo of the game. We played well and scored two goals, we missed a PK (Penalty Kick) but I felt that we were controlling the game well.”

As the Referee signaled the start of the game, the Rams

Rams men’s soccer forward Julian Del Toro (12), directs a header toward the West Valley College net to score the first goal of the match for City College on Friday, Sept 28. Photo By Leslie Calderon/The Guardsman

imposed an offensive game pace trying to score early in the game but were not able due to a solid marking by West Valley’s defense.

In the 11th minute, Vikings freshman forward Danijel Dukic had the ball at the 18-yard box directly in front of Rams goalie, Martin De La Torre, who made a save that kept the game leveled at 0-0.

From the sidelines, Lucarelli pushed his players to keep challenging their opponent.

18 minutes in, after a cornerkick rebound, Rams sophomore forward Juan Miguel Perez sent a cross to the box as sophomore midfielder Juan Palacio anticipated the Vikings’ defenders to head the ball off the crossbar

In a similar situation six minutes later, Palacio was held in the box. The referee marked the penalty kick, giving the Rams the chance to score first.

Freshman forward Arnol Arceta was chosen for the penalty kick but West Valley’s goalie jumped to the left and made the save to keep the game tied.

Despite missing the penalty kick, the Rams didn’t give up and scored in the 30th minute.

Lucarelli had just substituted freshman forward Julian Del Toro into the game.

On his first touch, Del Toro scored the Rams first goal of the game when midfielder Ricardo Guerra saw Del Toro in the area.

Guerra sent the pass off of a

free kick and Del Toro was quick enough to head the ball over the Viking’s goalie to put the Rams up 1-0.

“I saw “Rica” (Ricardo Guerra), he called my name and sent a long ball,” Del Toro said. “I ran after it and saw the goalie had come out. I knew once I hit it, it was gonna go in because of how the goalie came out.”

Four minutes before the end of the first half, Rams sophomore forward Arnulfo Garcia, who had come off the bench, took an assist from Juan Palacio and scored the Rams’ second goal of the match.

Juan Palacio who gave Arnulfo the assist off of an early cross in the midfield was confident his teammate would score.

“I knew he was gonna get it,” Palacio said. “He hustled for the ball, he did what he did against Santa Rosa, same way.

He chipped (the ball) over the goalkeeper.”

Del Toro added that he was happy to score the first goal of the game helping his team acquire another win.

“I felt good because that helped us keep the momentum going after and just help finish the game,” Del Toro said.

Although the Vikings put the Rams on the defensive in the second half, the Vikings could only score once.

In the 79th minute of the game, Vikings’ defender Nick Butler took a through pass and struck the ball high into the Rams net.

The Rams resisted until the final whistle to celebrate a tough win against the Vikings.

Despite the Vikings’ goal, Rams goalie De La Torre is currently ranked as the state’s top ranked goalkeeper. De La Torre has given up just three goals in 700 minutes played.

The undefeated Rams will face Hartnell College at Hartnell on Oct. 5. Kickoff time is 4 p.m.