The Guardsman, Vol. 157, Issue 2. City College of San Francisco

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Cover story

Class cancellations spark heated debate

By Samantha Dennis @sfbreakingnews sdennis@theguardsman.com

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Faculty members and supporters gathered at Conlan Hall on the Ocean campus Jan. 28 with hopes to discuss issues regarding the recent cancellation of classes with school Chancellor Arthur Tyler.

Members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 rolled out a signed petition that stretched nearly 80 feet long from the chancellor’s office to the lobby downstairs.

AFT 2121 President Alisa Messer said the petition had been signed by over 2,500 faculty and students opposing the cancellation of more than 100 classes this semester.

It has caused many students to scramble around campus to find new classes to fill the void.

Faculty members are also feeling the hardship brought upon them due to the cancellation of classes.

Instructor Mike Estrada is on the AFT 2121 executive board and the precinct representative in the Social Sciences department. He said some classes in the depart-

City College Student Trustee Shanell Williams gestures while speaking at a rally on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at Conlan Hall.

Protesters opposed class cancellations before the add/drop deadline. Photo by Santiago Mejia/The Guardsman

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Chancellor promotes new education plan

By Elisabetta Silvestro

@sfbreakingnews esilvestro@theguardsman.com

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The first public forum to discuss the City College Education Master Plan met Jan. 30 at Mission center where four panelists, including Chancellor Arthur Tyler, detailed the planning process to an audience of approximately 35 people.

“We are still here. We are still accredited and we are going to be for a very long time,” Tyler said.

“This is also why we are working on this Education Master Plan.”

The master plan will be a long-range project formulated by City College in collaboration with the Voorhees Group to guide the

school over the next three to five years.

The Voorhees Group LLC is a group of consultants in higher education.

It provides strategies to improve practice and policy of institutions and organizations.

School’s future

Tyler said the master plan is important to guide what City College will do.

Thanks to the planning phase, the school will be able to reach out to the community, find out their needs and serve them appropriately.

“We can’t just keep doing the same thing,” Tyler said. “We have to stay current and have feedback from our community in order to do so.”

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Protest: Proposed pay hikes anger faculty

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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2013 file photo, the front of the City College Wellness Center at Ocean campus. Photo by Santiago Mejia/The Guardsman

Photo story: Tourism’s impact on Hawaii

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Opinion: Tough guy persona damaging

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Sports: Doubles team hits the tennis court

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World Briefs China

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The communist Chinese government has expelled another journalist and denied giving him the proper paperwork to work in the country.

China has failed to process the visa paperwork of journalists from several major news organizations recently.

A CNN correspondent reported that Chinese security “assaulted” him while he was covering a trial last month.

Officials in China blamed the unprocessed visa requests on “paperwork mistakes,” but said they are allowed to pick and choose who can and can’t be in the country.

In the past, China has blocked the websites of various mainstream news organizations who had reported events that officials felt had a negative spin about the country. (CNN)

India Mother, son set ablaze

A young mother and her 1-year-old child were allegedly burned alive in the Dumka district of India after having had kerosene poured over them.

Police have arrested the husband and parents-in-law for the crime.

The deceased woman had been married for three years.

A police spokesman said that the woman’s parents have blamed the arrested trio for committing the crime because of a dowry.

Grooms and their families receiving valuable items from the families of brides remains a common custom.

Dowry has been outlawed in India. In 2012, national crime data showed 8,233 murders as dowry-related deaths. (CNN)

Saudi Arabia New law enacted

A new counterterrorism law has come into effect in Saudi Arabia that will allow the country to arrest and prosecute people for “any act that ‘undermines’ the state or society.”

The new law also allows authorities to monitor Internet usage, eavesdrop on phone calls and raid the homes of people suspected of anti-government dealings without needing the approval of a judge.

Human rights activists feel the new law has been enacted in an effort to keep the current monarchy in power and in complete control.

Security forces now have the ability to arrest for a broad range of crimes that “destabilizes the society’s security or the state’s stability or exposes its national unity to harm.” (ABC News)

London Regulation urged

The World Health Organization said that world governments could help control obesity and the symptoms that accompany the deadly condition by regulating fast food.

The organization published

a study advising that a harder stand against unhealthy foods could avert individuals from the often deadly side effects of obesity such as coronary disease and complications from diabetes.

They believe preventing obesity would be much more cost-effective instead of attempting to treat the condition after it has formed.

Economic incentives for producers of healthy food, disincentives for producers of unhealthy items and more regulation of fast food advertising were suggested by the organization. (Al Jazeera)

Marshall Islands Castaway turns up

A man who claims he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean after his boat lost power on a shark fishing trip from Mexico to El Salvador.

The boat washed ashore on the Ebon Atoll, which is part of the Marshall Islands.

Jose Salvador Alvarenga says had been on the fishing trip with a teenage companion.

After four weeks at sea on their powerless 24-foot boat, the teenager slowly died.

Alvarenga says he was forced to drink his own urine and turtle blood and eat raw fish and seagulls he managed to catch in order to survive.

Alvarenga claims has him drifting more than 8,000 miles before hitting land and being rescued by locals. (CNN)

Syria Weapons used

Syrian military dropped barrel bombs on the city of Aleppo that killed at least 83 people, said a monitoring group.

The barrel bombs were described as “oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel.”

A United Nations Security Council resolution was proposed late last year denouncing the use of the makeshift bombs that are credited with killing over 700 people in the last six weeks.

Officials in Syria insist that their targets are rebels who have taken over large areas of the country’s largest city.

Air bombings, including the use of “barrel bombs” were conducted in the suburbs of the capital city of Damascus over the weekend.

No advances were made during peace talks in Switzerland intended to end the country’s three-year civil war. (Reuters)

Master Plan: from page 1 The planning started Nov. 22, 2013, and will end May 1, 2014.

It will outline City College’s most important priorities and goals and provide a guide to integrated planning, future actions and decisions about the allocation of resources.

Commentary

Rick Voorhees and Cathy Hasson from the Voorhees Group and Pamela Mery, dean of institutional effectiveness, were the other panel members.

They were later joined by Tom Gonzales from the Voorhees Group and City College teacher and Education Master Plan designee Loren Bell.

John Carrese, director of the San Francisco Bay Centers of Excellence, facilitated the discussion.

During the first half of the hour-long forum, the panel

answered questions posed by Carrese.

The second half of the program consisted of questions from the audience to the panel.

The public, mostly faculty and staff, was rather critical and discouraged.

From skepticism toward a plan based on data and assumptions to the fear of elimination of courses, the atmosphere in the room was of distrust.

A woman came into the room before the beginning of the forum and shouted at the four panelists, “You can’t do this to my students.”

Class reduction

Three teachers expressed concerns about the reduced number of classes, in particular the noncredit, ESL, GED, art and music classes.

Tyler said that as long as there’s demand and a need for certain

classes, they won’t be eliminated.

“Can we do all of the things we used to do? Probably not. Can we do many of the things we used to do? Absolutely,” Tyler said.

The chancellor said they have no agenda to eliminate any department.

He said that 709 classes this semester had low enrollment. Of those, just 124 were canceled and 120 had a late start.

Data collection

Mery said since 2008, City College has been collecting data and outcomes.

The current planning process is allowing the planners to connect this data to the budget in order to look at a long-range view.

“We had 18 strategy sessions this week,” Voorhees said. “A good plan has to be a thin and adjustable document focused on two to three main goals.”

Hasson also referred to the ongoing online Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results (SOAR) survey.

The survey is located at City College’s Emergency Master Plan web page and is open to the public.

About 300 people have responded so far.

“We are collecting as much information and data as we can,” Hasson said.

The survey will provide information to develop the master plan and City College’s future direction.

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Students and faculty protest pay hike

By Charles Innis

@sfbreakingnews cinnis@theguardsman.com

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A proposed 19.3 percent salary raise for top administrators sparked an impromptu protest Jan. 24 in front of Conlan Hall where 40 students, faculty and members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 union gathered to express their dissent.

The proposed salary increase was posted Jan. 24 on the Board of Trustee’s City College webpage as a “Special January Agenda” item, requesting a modification to the salary range for the associate vice chancellor, chief information technology officer and vice chancellor.

It included a 12-step plan that would increase their salaries to over $200,000. “[We want to] redirect that money to where it’s needed,” AFT 2121 Executive Director Chris Hanzo said. “That is to restore faculty pay and to stop the class closures and fund education.”

Students and faculty members assembled with large banners and signs to show their frustration.

Some of the signs read, “No to admin pay hike, yes to restoring classes,” and “Serve the people not your wallets.”

AFT 2121 organizer Ona

Students, faculty and their supporters protest against the proposed City College administration salary increase on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, in front of Conlan Hall. The proposed increase was deemed a mistake by the school chancellor and special trustee. Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman

Keller said the resolution was withdrawn shortly before the protest took place.

Several faculty members texted, emailed and called Special Trustee Robert Agrella.

Agrella and Chancellor Arthur Tyler said in an email to the City College community that a pay increase for administrators was not what was intended.

“We will certainly take respon-

sibility for any errors we may have made for failing to catch this incorrect matter before it reached a public agenda,” the email read.

Although the proposal has been withdrawn, protesters

Enrollment: page 1 ment were cut including a Political Science 1 course, which rarely happens because it is a general requirement class.

Classes cancelled

City College student Matt Lambert was notified that his photography class was among the classes cancelled and was left frustrated and wondering what to do.

Fortunately, the same class was offered as an evening class so Lambert was able to switch into that section.

I easily switched to the p.m. section as my schedule right now has that flexibility. No one else in my class seemed to be in the position to be able to take the evening section,” Lambert said.

Closed discussion

The discussion with the chancellor was thought to be an open discussion but faculty and supporters were notified that the chancellor would only be talking to three people.

Lambert was told by Dean of the Office of Student Affairs and Wellness Samuel Santos, that he could not partake in the discussion because he was a student and students have a different procedure to go through to speak to the chancellor.

Messer was one of the three people who were allowed to sit down face-to-face with Tyler and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Susan Lamb to discuss

remain wary.

“We had our voices out here now and we won, but temporarily,” Keller said.

the issues that the college is facing with enrollment.

“They admitted that mistakes are [sometimes] made and some classes may have been cancelled prematurely,” Messer said.

Promoting doubt

Messer also said that the chancellor and vice chancellor stated they would take a look at the decisions they’ve been making and try to make sure they hadn’t made any mistakes.

“It’s a poor choice to be canceling these classes and ejecting students at a time when we have a crisis of confidence and are asking students to return to and remain at City College,” Messer said.

“We want students to know that the education they get here is excellent and that they should trust us to help them meet their educational goals.”

Messer also brought up the payment policy issue that may be contributing to low enrollment rates.

The new policy implemented this semester requires students to pay for classes up front or sign up for a payment plan that includes an initial deposit followed by monthly payments.

Messer said she feels it is important that everyone should work together to put pressure on the administration to better serve the college and community.

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culture

Movie Review: “Labor Day”

Have Your Say: Reitman’s drama creates an What do you think about administration getting a possible raise while faculty wages have been continuously cut?

impractical fairy tale romance

Luis Calvero, 39 Italian “It doesn’t make sense and I think the priorities should be given to students and not to administration, I don’t think it’s fair that they are asking for an increase in salary while they are cutting salaries of the teachers.”

Kate Winslet as Adele and Josh Brolin as Frank in “Labor Day.” Photo courtesy of Dale Robinette/MCT

By Gina Scialabba

Stephanie Ha, 18 Business

@journalist_gina gscialabba@theguardsman.com

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“I don’t like it because they teach us they should be getting paid more. There are so many students here that need to get education and teachers are doing all they can to help us get out of here.”

Efren C. Sanchez, 37 Child Development “Well I’m glad that it hasn’t been implemented. My understanding is that the teachers have been getting decreases on their wages and they haven’t been compensated for inflation throughout the years. So, an increase of 19.3 percent just sounds ridiculous since the teachers have taken decreases.”

Steven Robertson, 25 Asian Studies “I feel that that is unfair. If you are faculty and employees under you are willing to accept a pay cut you should be willing to accept a pay cut also. You should not be expecting a pay raise.”

Ashley Trousdell, 21 Event Planning “I think it’s ridiculous and I feel like if you’re going to say something you should actually mean it. And I love this city and I love this school…I feel like the faculty—all the teachers I’ve had here have been great… so I just think it’s unfair.”

Photos by Khaled Sayed. Reporting by Charles Innis.

If you’re into suspending all belief in reality and watching escapist, romantic fantasy love stories like “The Notebook” or “Titanic,” director Jason Reitman’s newest film “Labor Day” will be right up your alley.

The tale of doomed paramours. It’s nothing new.

The arts are thematically littered with it—books, poems, movies and music. From Greek tragedies to Shakespearean starcrossed lovers to soap operas and even Lady Gaga, the goddess of love, audiences have always swooned for a bad romance.

Why? Because the tragic romance genre sells. Don’t get me wrong. Romantic stories are not all inherently bad.

Old Will Shakespeare cornered the market on pulling at our heartstrings with “Romeo and Juliet.” Emily Brontë gave us Heathcliff and Catherine in “Wuthering Heights.”

But this movie is far from a Renaissance or Victorian classic.

Kate Winslet plays Adele, a divorced, severely depressed single mother who rarely leaves the house anymore.

Adele is practically singlehandedly raising her 13-year-old son Henry (Gattlin Griffith).

Her ex-husband has a life of his own with a picture-perfect wife and two kids.

Life is dismal for the two. So dismal that Henry feels the need

to take Adele on dates (when she musters up the courage to walk out her front door) to cheer her up and then they sit in a hammock while Adele tells Henry about making love to a woman.

There’s some psychosexual Oedipal complex themes running through the film, but Reitman doesn’t explore it further.

Never fear. Things in this New Hampshire town are about to get real.

A tall, dark and handsome stranger is coming to rescue Adele and Henry.

Meet Frank (Josh Brolin).

He’s an escaped convict with a penchant for murder, false imprisonment, baking pies and rescuing damsels in distress.

Sure, he threatens and kidnaps both Adele and Henry and forces them back to their house, where he bounds and gags them, but really, he’s just what the doctor ordered.

At least, that’s what Reitman and his fairy tale story attempts to shove down the audience’s throat.

In the scenes between Frank and Adele, I kept hearing that ‘80s Bonnie Tyler song “I Need a Hero” in my head.

What’s more painfully corny about this movie is how quickly Frank and Adele cozy up and play house. The relationship between captor and hostage quickly transforms.

Over the span of four days Frank takes on the role of the father and husband. Adele is saved from herself.

Henry has a father who teaches him about “men things” like playing baseball and changing a tire.

Ironically, Frank is doing all of this out in the open air, despite the fact that his photograph is plastered everywhere and the police are on an all-out manhunt, including road closures and going door-to-door.

However, this Danielle Steeltype of contrived story is disappointing coming from a fine director such as Reitman. He’s made several smart, realistic satires that exemplify his uncanny understanding of human nature with “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Thank You for Smoking.”

What Reitman does in “Labor Day” is reduce Winslet to a sobbing, weepy mess who can’t even consider happiness without a “real man” to make her whole.

This portrayal swiftly devalues the role of strong, single mothers and sends an all-too-clear message that a house is not a home until the man is there.

Should you go? Well, that depends. If it’s Valentine’s Day and you’ve watched “The Notebook” or read “Twilight” so many times you can recite them from memory, then go right ahead.

If you want to see a movie where Kate Winslet truly shines, watch “Revolutionary Road,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” or “Mildred Pierce.”

If you go...

Running Time: 111 Minutes

MPAA Rating: R

Genre: Drama, Romance

Directed by: Jason Reitman

Release Date: Jan. 31, 2014

Based on the Novel

by Joyce Maynard

Stars: Kate Winslet Josh Brolin Gattlin Griffith

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Hawaii

Tourism may have a negative impact on Big Island

Photo and Story by Elisa Parrino

The view from the Diamond Head trail on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman

Year after year the Hawaiian Islands are exposed to intense tourism that may be causing an impact on the environment. While surfing, kayaking, snorkeling and hiking are still popular activities on the island, water pollution, unsafe fishing and mass tourism continue to be a rising issue. According to the Miami Herald, in 2013 the islands had over 204,000 visitors on any given day.

Tourists visit Diamond Head State Monument at sunrise on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman A sign protesting construction on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman

A worker preps food at a local fruit shop on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in the North Shore area of Oahu, Hawaii. Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman Tourists swimming at the Manoa Falls, despite the area being restricted, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman

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opinion Staff editorial

Distrust among faculty and administration deepens

Special Trustee Robert Agrella withdrew a proposal to raise City College administrators’ salaries by nearly 20 percent on Jan. 24, when faculty, staff and students protested the potential raises.

Faculty salaries have been on a downward slope and were cut by 4 percent more this semester, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

When the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges did their evaluation of City College in July 2012, they cited issues with the the school’s governance, financial planning, leadership and effective

board organization.

These are all issues directly relating to the administration, and reasons why City College was put on “show cause” and possible revocation of the school’s accreditation.

When you keep in mind that administrative issues have contributed to this battle with the commission over accreditation, the proposal is completely meritless.

Not to mention insulting to City College’s faculty and staff.

The commission’s evaluation report said, “City College of San Francisco is commended

for several exemplary models of demonstrated educational quality based on their program reviews.”

Administration pay raises can not possibly be justified when faculty wages are being cut, despite a positive evaluation, during this critical time to maintain City College’s status as an accredited institution.

“The intent was to ensure we were complying with an audit requirement,” City College Chancellor Arthur Tyler said in an email posted on an electronic faculty forum.

“We had not published an approved schedule that matched

what people were being paid.

There wasn’t any intent to increase administrative pay.”

The proposal has been taken off the table, and in a public email, the chancellor and special trustee explained that the agenda item was a mistake.

“Last week, there was quite a bit of misinformation regarding administrative salary increases,” the email said.

“Simply stated, it was never the intent that any administrator was to receive a salary increase … when we saw that this had been published on the agenda, we pulled it.”

So how did this proposal come to be posted as a special January item?

Agrella told the San Francisco Chronicle that the item had been placed on the agenda erroneously by an employee and was “not appropriate.” Who is this employee?

It seems with every answer the chancellor and special trustee gives about the proposed salary increase, new questions arise.

And it is only making students, faculty and staff at City College even more weary of the administration.

Obama pleads to the American people

By Samantha Dennis @sfbreakingnews sdennis@theguardsman.com

The Guardsman

President Barack Obama gave the annual State of the Union address Jan. 28 and if you tuned in, you were sure to see that not only was the president speaking to Congress, but he was reaching out to the American people.

Opportunity for the middle class was a key topic Obama made clear in the address.

An increase in minimum wage is something that I myself would benefit from along with

every other college student who is juggling work and going to school.

Working five nights a week and also being a full-time student is no easy task.

The task is that much more stressful when it’s a struggle to make ends meet financially.

As if school isn’t stressful enough, not being able to put money away in your savings account can make it feel like you’re just working to get by, living paycheck to paycheck.

I’m sure the majority of college students are in the same boat as I am, but that doesn’t make it okay.

If we work hard, shouldn’t we at least be able to have a little extra spending change to go treat ourselves to something nice?

I’m not asking for a new Michael Kors watch or a Gucci handbag.

All I’m asking for is to be able to pay all my bills and have a few extra dollars that I can put away in my savings account in case times get rough or something comes up.

Fortunately, many college students have their parents to turn to for help if necessary, but for students like me, I make just as much as my mother and she supports a household of three.

I ask myself if I’m being selfish, because I couldn’t tell you the last time my mom was financially able to treat herself to something nice, let alone save money.

My mother works full time and barely gets by. I don’t think that’s fair.

“No one who works full time should have to raise a family in poverty,” Obama said in the address.

This resonated with me because, as with my family and so many families across the nation, this is a reality.

Congress can make a change for the better by increasing the

minimum wage, but business owners can also step up and do the same for their employees.

Raising wages could potentially heighten productivity and minimize turnover for business owners, while also stimulating the economy.

It is my sincere hope that Congress puts American families first for a change, instead of the corporations that seem to be driving policy decisions these days.

We’re not asking for a hand out. We’re merely asking for our fair share.

GE.

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Tough guy culture could be damaging men

By Alex Reyes

@sfbreakingnews areyes@theguardsman.com

The Guardsman

Did you see the stories on Jan. 25 about the three people who were shot to death inside a shopping mall in Columbia, Md.?

One of the three was the shooter, who took his own life after killing a man and a woman in a skate shop.

I try to pay as little attention as possible to our national shooting spree.

But I’m enough of a news junkie to turn on MSNBC on Saturday mornings.

Once such news reaches the brain, it sticks.

We all know that we are all potential victims of such violence because we live in a land whose people have amassed vast amounts of weaponry.

And we all know something else, too. Such shooters are almost

always men.

The shopping mall killings reminded me of a video I’d watched just a few days before in my Men’s Health class at Ocean campus.

Course instructor John Tighe kicked off the semester with a showing of “Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity.”

It is a 1999 documentary about male violence produced by the Media Education Foundation.

“Tough Guise” features narrator Jackson Katz, a longtime educator and anti-male violence activist.

Katz is the co-founder of Northeastern University’s Mentors in Violence Protection program.

Katz and the program have worked with many sports teams and the United States Marine Corps.

His website links to a very long list of selected publications.

He is a very articulate critic of the tough guy ethos at the heart of American masculinity.

“Tough Guise” begins with a series of movie, news and television clips.

“Boys and young men learn early on that being a so-called ‘real man’ means you have to take on the tough guise,” film narrator Katz said, “to show the world only certain parts of yourself that the dominant culture has defined as manly.”

A series of young men provide attributes of a “real man”: Physical, strong, independent, intimidating, powerful, rugged, scares people.

Tough, tough, tough.

And if you’re not a “real man”?

Boys and men know what you’re sure to be called, too, Katz said: A wuss, a wimp, soft, a little momma’s boy and worse.

“Where do boys learn this?”

Katz asked.

“Obviously they learn it

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in many different places. They learn it from their families, their community, but one of the most important places they learn it is the powerful and pervasive media system which provides a steady stream of images that define manhood as connected with dominance, power and control.”

Men committed 90 percent of the homicides that occurred in our country during the years 1998-2008, according to a 2010 U.S. Department of Justice report.

Male-on-male shootings are most common, with men three times as likely to be murder victims.

Homicide is not the only violent crime committed by troubled men, of course.

Katz cites a study that showed men initiate 95 percent of road rage incidents.

Male sexual assaults have reached epidemic levels within the United States military.

Portrayals of violence against

girls and women on network television increased 120 percent during a five-year period ending in 2009.

“In different ways, all of us have to struggle for real cultural and structural changes in the society if we want our sons and their sons to have a chance of being ‘better men’,” Katz said at the end of “Tough Guise.”

Although “Tough Guise” and Jackson’s Katz’s commentary on American masculinity and the need to change our perspective on what it means to be a “real man” is 15 years old, his analysis and appeal are still relevant.

Our society remains beset by male-driven violence.

Our brothers, sons, fathers and perhaps even grandfathers are still in need of much non-tough love.

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Brice Harris, Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, opposes the City’s current litigation against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.

His office’s mission is to “empower the community colleges through leadership, advocacy and support,” which he interprets to mean letting City College of San Francisco, the largest school under his jurisdiction, be shut down.

Why? Harris is a past

commissioner of the accrediting commission.

Trial discovery revealed that Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges President Barbara Beno wrote an email to thank him for an unspecified “coordinated effort” on July 3, 2013, one day before her order to close City College was released.

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Tennis

sports calendar BASEBALL

Feb. 8, 12 p.m. @Los Medanos College Feb. 11, 1 p.m. vs. Cañada College @Fairmont Field

Feb. 13, 1 p.m. vs. Napa Valley College @Fairmont Field

BASKETBALL MEN: Feb 12, 7 p.m. @ Foothill College

Feb. 14, 7 p.m. vs. Las Positas College Feb. 19, 7 p.m. @ Chabot College

Feb. 21, 7 p.m. vs. Ohlone College

WOMEN:

Feb 12, 5:30 p.m. @ San Mateo Feb 14, 5 p.m. vs. Las Positas College Feb. 19, 5 p.m. @ Chabot College

Feb. 21, 5 p.m. vs. Ohlone College

SOFTBALL

Feb. 8, 12:30 p.m. @ Butte College Doubleheader

Feb. 11, 1 p.m. @ Marin College

Rams sophomore Elsie Woo reaches out for a backhand shot against Santa Rosa Junior College in a tennis match on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, at Ocean campus. Photo by Khaled Sayed/The Guardsman

Duo ready to step up in doubles play Rams Tennis team shows promise for upcoming season

By Patrick Cochran

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The City College women’s tennis team squared off against Santa Rosa Junior College on Jan. 30 in a friendly preseason matchup.

To let the courts dry off from the previous night’s rain fall, the match started an hour late at 2 p.m.

TRACK AND FIELD

The main event was the No. 1 seed doubles match, in which City College’s two best singles players,

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Top seeds

Elsie Woo and Savannah Hayes, played against Santa Rosa’s Kelli Kingsborough and Angel Tran.

City College lost the match 9-6. The match was close throughout, but Santa Rosa was able to pull ahead toward the end for the win.

“We hung in the match,” Woo said. “It was kind of an off day for us.”

Player strengthes

Woo is more of a finesse player, while Hayes’ strong point is her serve.

“I have a powerful serve, but I need work on making it more accurate to get it over the net every time,” Hayes said.

A junior at San Francisco State University, Hayes is able to play at City College because San Francisco State doesn’t have a women’s tennis team.

“We also could of done a better job covering the middle,” Hayes said.

Woo has played tennis since seventh grade.

“At doubles, me and my partner are really good,” Woo said. “ We always try to keep a point going.”

Praise

City College is coached by the energetic Kelly Hickey, who played tennis at the University of San Francisco. “[Woo and Kings] play well together,” Hickey said. “I am really excited to have them as our No. 1 doubles [team] ... this year.”

Check out the next match Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. at American River College