The Guardsman, Vol. 160, Issue 4. City College of San Francisco by The Guardsman

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For Sale: Balboa Reservoir Otto Pippenger

create 4,000 new housing units on the city’s Municipal Transportation city- owned property by 2020, of Agency and Public Works. which 50 percent overall are intendThe mayor hopes to eventustaff writer ed to be below market rate. ally replace all public housing with San Francisco’s Public Utilities mixed-income developments operThe two city departments creat- Commission currently owns the ated by companies, nonprofits or ing mixed income housing in the land and is expected to provide landlords who receive tax breaks or Balboa Reservoir will begin selecting utilities. The Office of Economic subsidies in return for renting units a developer by early January. and Workforce Development will at discounted prices. The 17-acre lot has been chosen coordinate and negotiate with develSince 2007, the city constructed as the first location for Mayor Ed opers, and the Planning Department only 44 percent of the low-income Lee’s “Public Land For Public will be in charge of implementing units and 18 percent of the modHousing Program,” an attempt to the 2009 Balboa Park Area Plan with erate-income housing they hoped opippenger @ theguardsman . com

Civic Center Campus is Reborn Patrick Fitzgerald pfitzgerald @ theguardsman . com

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After much concern, City College’s Civic Center campus has partially reopened to an approving community with classes in English as a Second Language and adult basic education with intentions of full operations by spring 2016. The site at 1170 Market offers a number of compelling advantages. Foremost is its easy commuter access, being located right next to BART and MUNI’s Civic Center station. Two additional distinct advantages over the old location at 750 Eddy are plans to equip the location with smart classroom technology and this

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to see. Through proposed housing program and Proposition K, passed in 2014 to create 30,000 lowerincome units by 2020, the city plans to better serve the housing needs of lower-income communities. At most, up to 50 percent of the city’s future municipal housing will be discounted, while the rate of pricey, market-rate private development continues to grow. Thus developers have not been

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City Focuses on Sexual Assault

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A three-part initiative to facilitate awareness of sexual assault and improve aid to sexual assault victims on San Francisco college and university campuses was announced on Sept. 22 by District Attorney George Gascón, Supervisor Jane Kim, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, University of San Francisco President Paul Fitzgerald and other educational leaders. The press conference began when Fitzgerald introduced Gascón, who cited that statisticly 1 in 5 college students is a victim of sexual assault but less than 5 percent ever report it, adding these numbers are “completely unacceptable.”

Kim then took to the stage and San Francisco Police Department, delivered an anecdote about feeling with more schools to follow includhopeless in college when her best ing City College. friend became another number in Each participating college is those statistics. using the same template to create a “Who do we call? Who in her version to comply with their school’s campus would support her in this individual needs, while also meeting time? Was there a community orga- the legal obligations of Assembly Bill nization that would give her the 1433 which requires institutions to steps that she needed to pursue the create policies ensuring that sexual perpetrator that had done this to her assault and other hate crimes are if she wanted to?” Kim questioned. reported to local law enforcement “I didn’t encourage her to report it. as promptly as possible. Even at 18 I knew the system wasn’t Kim mentioned City College designed to protect us.” is under different jurisdiction than Memorandum local private institutions, but the colUC San Francisco announced lege’s Chief of Police André Barnes is the first of seven Memorandums working alongside University of San of Understanding to establish clear Francisco to customize the memoprotocol among higher education randum for City College before institutions including the District signing. Attorney’s office, the San Francisco Trauma Recovery Center and the Forum continued on page 2

Women’s resource center hosts open house

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modern facility is air-conditioned. “I think it is great. It’s brand new and friendly. It is small but I think it is functional to study (and) go here,” student Enrique Quijano said. “We are near the BART station. It is very convenient.” Only Two of Five Floors Open A total of five floors are subleased until 2021 from the Art Institute of California. Two floors are currently operational and three more will be remodeled beginning this month. Plans ultimately will include 10 smart classrooms, two computer labs, a library, a bookstore, a student lounge and other offices for student services.

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chosen yet for the Balboa Reservoir site but the city’s plan is to allow construction of roughly 500 housing units after a chosen developer buys or leases the land from the city’s utilities commission. The Planning Department and Office of Economic and Workforce Development have spent 2015 collecting public input on the project, and to determine the specifics of the Request For Proposals that will outline requirements for developers to submit project proposals.

CCSF Representation

A nine-member Community Advisory Committee appointed by Lee and District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee to advise the Planning Department and Office of Economic and Workforce Development has been helping city officials in charge of the project. City College Trustee and San Francisco State University Latina/ Latino Studies Professor Brigitte Davila has been given the responsibility of representing the interests of City College throughout this process, and acting as an intermediary to the group for City College’s Master Planning efforts. The committee has met twice, on Aug. 26 and Sept. 14, to discuss the legal and economic background of the project and its affordable housing/neighborhood character. Committee and officials from the Planning and Workforce departments will make decisions about Parks and Open Spaces in October, transportation in November, and finally about City College and public benefit opportunities in December. This group will release a request for proposals in early 2016. This will be subject to change until construction begins next year or in 2018.

Forum from page 1 “The collaboration this will generate in response to sexual assaults will ensure a decrease in sexual assaults, and hopefully the 1 in 5 number will be eliminated. Every person that goes to school deserves to be safe on campus,” Suhr said. Suhr’s investigators at the Special Victims Unit reviewed the template to ensure it would work effectively in San Francisco, resulting in modifications to better suit the needs of survivors. San Francisco is the first county in the nation to have all colleges signing onto a memorandum regarding sexual assault, in hopes of setting a new standard for the rest of the country by providing immediate services for survivors. “One of the things that we have to think about is how do we change the social norms?” City College’s Project SURVIVE Coordinator Amber Straus said. “This is vital because we are starting to change social policies and we are making it so that police are accountable too, because for a long time they were protecting the perpetrators by shifting the questioning onto victims.” Project SURVIVE is City College peer education program focusing on ending sexual violence.

Additional Support

Supervisor Kim also announced the formation of the Safer School

Members of the City College community have made frequent appearances at public comment sessions in hopes of affecting the content of the request for proposals. Some asked that the site remain as student parking, given to the school entirely or turned into a public park. Planning department representative Jeremy Shaw published a memo in July rejecting all three of those ideas. Yet students and faculty successfully pushed the city to conduct traffic surveys and for officials to agree to coordinate closely with the school’s Education Master Plan for future facilities and academics. Crowding, gentrification, school housing and future expansion of City College facilities remain frequent subjects of discussion. The Community Advisory Committee’s September meeting agenda included “partnering with CCSF to allocate units to students, faculty and staff.” Any decision they may have reached is unknown until the minutes of the meeting are published. Student or faculty housing was not initially present in materials presented to the public, but has become an agenda item after many spoke in favor of it, including District 11 Supervisor John Avalos. “The lack of student and teacher accommodations as one of the options represents a glaring omission. I would support it,” Avalos said at a community outreach event in May.

Davila’s Position

Trustee Davila is adamantly against any structural differences between the discounted units and the market value ones. “I do not want any difference between the units. I do not want a poor door and if that means cutting off some revenue so be it,” Davila said. Davila, acting as intermediary Sexual Assault Task Force, which will oversee new state and federal laws pertaining to sexual assault and provide schools with blueprints outlining the best practices to locally implement these laws and improve safety for college communities. The last of the three-part announcement is a public education campaign titled #1in5 – the statistic of sexual assault victims in college – which will pair community groups with campus programs to eliminate the “cover-up” culture around these crimes, and to encourage students and faculty to speak out using social media. University of San Francisco is also setting an example by launching Callisto, a website where sexually assaulted students can enter a record of the incident, with options to save it for later, to send the report to their school and/or to send the report to local law enforcement. The only time a report automatically gets sent to the school is when two separate reports accusing the same assailant are filed, in an attempt to prevent any more students from falling victim to this person. “Often times survivors will not come forward because victim-blaming is so common, but they’ll later say, ‘If I knew he or she was a repeated offender, I would have reported to prevent them from harming

between the college and the city, stated goals to advocate for student and faculty housing, promote the preservation of local Latin culture, create a parking garage if possible and encourage the construction of a Performing Arts Center. “(We’re) going to make this financially viable while maximizing the number of affordable units,” Davila said. “There are all sorts of grants, credits and tax breaks. If we approach this carefully we can maximize return while creating affordable housing.” In addition to student and faculty housing, Davila also requested that cooperative housing be added as a future agenda item.

Defining the Project

The committee meeting’s schedule this month describes the economic goal of the reservoir project: to create variously discounted units comprising between 33 to 50 percent of roughly 500 total, with a remainder at market rate to cover costs, provide return to utilities commission’s ratepayers, and “ensure project feasibility.” After sale or lease proceeds go first to the utility commission’s ratepayers, the planned units will likely be funded by a mixture of developer fees, the City General Fund, city taxes and federal or state funds including the Mental Health Services Act, the McKinney Act or Section 8 subsidies, plus the Mayor’s $300-500 million Housing Bond if it passes in November. Voters will also decide on Lee’s Affordable Housing Bonus Program, written as an incentive for developers to create affordable units. It would allow them to build more units and two additional stories of construction if 30 percent or more of the units are affordable, with a minimum of 18 percent reserved for middle income tenants, and 12 percent for low/moderate income someone else,’” said University of San Francisco Title IX Coordinator Anna Bartkowski. Title IX is the federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a person’s sex in any federally-funded program or activity,

renters. The Balboa Reservoir project categorizes its affordable units in three different categories. First is very low income at up to 55 percent of the Ocean/Balboa Park area median income of $68,000 annually. Second is low income, as up to 80 percent of the median income (or under $56,000 for a family of four). The third is moderate, up to 120 percent of the area average, up to $85,000 for an individual (or up to $122,000 for a family of four.) The 2009 Balboa Park Station Area Plan also includes new plans published March 2015 to overhaul MUNI, bicycle and foot traffic structures for the reservoir and Ocean corridor. A utility commission study of the area last year concluded that existing utilities could be expanded easily. Affordable units will not have fixed prices or rent control, but are calculated to initially cost no more than 33 percent of a monthly salary less than the unit’s maximum income limit (based on the region’s cost of living and average income). These below-market-rate rent prices are subject to inflation and can go up, with typical annual rent increases of 3 percent on average. The mayor’s five-year economic plan asserts that any ensuing profit loss for private non-profits or developers who collect the rent will be softened by funds or incentives from the city. Trustee Davila welcomes community input at Community Advisory Committee meetings or sent to bdavila@ccsf.edu, and will be announcing the dates, times and locations of the upcoming three meetings at a Board of Trustees meeting soon. Emails can also be sent to the committee at brcac@ sf.gov.

app that will provide an outlet for reporting crimes in order to make students and faculty on campus feel safer. “I would like to echo how important it is to have a culture of

From left to right: UCSF police chief Mike Denson, USF interim vice provost of student life Julie Orio, USF Title IX coordinator Anne Bartkowski, District Attorney George Gascón, Supervisor Jane Kim, USF President Paul Fitzgerald, and SF Police Chief Greg Suhr after the press conference. (Photo by Anna Vignet / Contributor)

in effect since 1972. City College is in the process of buying a software program to manage student conduct, which would more efficiently track student disciplinary issues and include certain aspects related to Title IX. Within the next month, City College is set to release a safety

responsibility, a culture of reporting, a culture of trust, so the victims of sexual violence have reason to believe they’re going to be supported by their university community as well as by the city and county in which they are a citizen,” Fitzgerald said.

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Campus from page 1 “The student body originates from 50 different countries,” Dean of Civic Center campus and John Adams center Carl Jew responded in an email. “Primary languages spoken include Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Arabic. A vast majority … are enrolled in English as a Second Language” The campus mission is ambitious; to serve not only the Tenderloin neighborhood but also the civil service community who work nearby composed of city, state and federal workers. As a center for public service, ultimately it aims to provide high quality, affordable instruction to nearly 1,700 expected students. Contained in this lofty goal was the hard reality of a very rocky transition beginning last January with the closing of 750 Eddy due to a report about by seismically unsafe conditions by Thornton Tomasetti engineering firm. That’s when numerous headaches for faculty, students and administrators alike magnified and unfortunately presently continue. “The Friday before the Monday of (the Spring 2015) semester we were told we weren’t able to go to our campus,” Instructor Kevin Cross said. “(The administration) told us we were going to move to 33 Gough … and they told us we were going to start our classes at the fourth week of our semester. 33 Gough was a disaster.” Significant city and community support made the Civic Center campus dream a reality as a viable neighborhood resource. District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim introduced a resolution that passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors on March 18 calling on City College

administrators to reopen the Civic Center campus. The Coalition of Public Education (3CPE), made up of La Voz Latina/Central City SRO Collaborative, the Community Housing Partnership, the Vietnamese Youth Community Center, Young Workers United and Glide Memorial Church, together with the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 (AFT 2121) constituted the campaign. This campaign highlighted the need and called on the city and college to provide affordable quality education that would be accessible to neighborhood residents. “Together, the groups collected thousands of resident signatures in support of the campus and held several neighborhood actions and forums,” Alisa Messer, an English teacher at City College and political director of AFT 2121, who attended many of the coalition’s weekly meetings, said. “Once the group knew that a new location had been secured, though, 3CPE wasn’t about to step aside. They’ve been holding enrollment outreach events in the Tenderloin and recently collected over 300 neighborhood surveys in seven languages about CCSF.” There is much more work to be done to complete the new facility. Three floors need to be remodeled by this January from business offices into educational classrooms. Originally, the Art Institute was to vacate all floors before the fall semester. Then word came down in July that the campus would have to be opened on a make due basis with only two floors. Administrators, faculty and students will have to wait for the significant breathing room that three additional floors will soon provide.

Campus Briefs Meeting

On September 29th, City College Interim Chancellor Susan Lamb held a town hall meeting held in the John Adams Center on the Civic Center campus, addressing concerns about accreditation and student success. This year, Chancellor Lamb is advocating for equal access to success for all students. This is part of a four year plan to provide every credit and noncredit student with seven core services , including an educational plan and financial aid. City College’s accreditation came under scrutiny by the accrediting commission in 2013, and they were given until 2018 to give the commission reason to restore the college’s accreditation. When confronted with rumors of possible property loss of the Airport Campus, Lamb said that within the next 2 years when the lease is up the airport may want their land back. The Airport Campus is home to the Aeronautical Department as well as the Fire Academy. This decision is poorly timed as there have been discussions of reinstituting the the Police Academy among the Board of Trustees. The newly relocated Civic Center campus on Market Street has run into unexpected complications with the building’s previous residents. While City College was supposed to have all five floors of the building, the Art Institute will remain in the top three floors until October 1, when they will be officially given to the City College. While only approximately 23,000 students attend CCSF, the schedule is designed with 32,000

students in mind, Lamb said. This means there is a disproportionate amount of classes and a lack of teachers and students to fill them. Lamb said the current budget is not sustainable for the future, so there is a proposal to shrink size by five percent each year until there is an appropriate course load. This meeting was part of a series Lamb is doing with the Vice Chancellor as well as the Board of Trustees. The next meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21 on the Downtown Campus, room 821.

Crown Truck

For 24 years, students at City College’s Ocean campus saw the Crown Catering food truck open for business in front of the Visual Arts building. Sadly, the end of spring semester marked the end of an era for the company’s presence, a near-permanent fixture on campus. Crown Catering offered a large array of artisan Italian sandwiches, produce, coffee, pastries, soft drinks and candy bars. It was an unofficial yet much-loved concession stand for the cinema department’s screening room next door. Over the decades, students and teachers alike knew and anticipated seeing the truck’s managers George and Brenda. Funny, kind and generous with condiments, their banter and jokes often echoed down the halls. City College first contracted Crown Catering Company in 1991 and, as time passed, the truck became as much of a school landmark as the El Rey sculpture in that courtyard. After Crown’s departure, The Lunchbox, Chasing Lions Cafe and City Cafe remain as options for quick snacks on Ocean campus.

The South San Francisco-based company is retiring its fleet of food trucks but is still open for catering orders. Mike Franco, who for many years personally operated the truck on Ocean campus, chose to end his contract with the school, in part, because of the accreditation crisis. “There was a lot of change in the last three or four years. Enrollment was down and it just wasn’t feasible anymore,” Franco said. “Good memories, good business and I met a hell of a lot of nice people; pleasant memories but it was time to move on.”

Uber

Technologies Inc. is expanding their headquarter to the old Sears building, a historical landmark in Downtown Oakland. The six-year-old transportation network company struck a deal purchasing the 85-year-old building. The 330,000-square-foot, seven story building was bought for $25 million. With approximately 2000 Uber employees in the bay area, not including the drivers, the company is projecting up to 2500 positions to fill the once known Uptown Station. Oakland has been eye candy for a “hot tech spot.” The Sears building is located near bart for convenience, providing a cheaper real-estate and more space for the employees. Uber’s current headquarters in San Francisco will also expand 430,000-square-foot across the half-million-square-foot building. This will open in its new Mission Bay headquarters in 2017 along with opening their new headquarters in Oakland.

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Wed/ Oct 7 CCSF College Fair

Tues/ Oct 13 Latino/a History Presentation

Thurs/ Oct 15 Fall Recruitment Fair

Representatives from over 45 universities and colleges will be giving information about transfer and pre-requisites for their

Claudia Puig, journalist and movie reviewer, will be speaking in room 107 of the Valencia Building on Mission Campus from 7 – 8:30 p.m. She will talk about her experiences as well as available diversity programs. Contact Mauro Garcia at 415-920-6041 for more information.

From 12 – 2 p.m., employers will be on Ocean Campus in the Multi Use Building room 140 to recruit for different positions. Bring your resume and dress well. This event is only available to CCSF students, for more information contact 415-239-3117. If you need assistance due to a disability contact 1-415-452-5481.

Weds/ Oct 14 Wells Fargo Money Workshop

Sat/ Oct 17 75th Anniversary of Unity Mural

This free workshop shows CCSF students how to plan for their financial future as well as increase their overall net worth. The class is from 1 – 2 on the Downtown Campus.

Join Will Maynez for his two act celebration of the 75 anniversary of Diego Rivera’s Pan-American Unity Mural, as well as Latino/a History Month. The first act will be An Interview with Frida Kahlo, a play directed by Maynez, and the second act will be a screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico. Tickets are free, get them at www.eventbrite.com/e/frida-celebrates-

school at Smith Hall from 9 – 1 p.m.

Fri/ Oct 9 Blue Window The City College’s theatre students are performing Craig Lucas’s Blue Window as their first play of the semester at the Diego Rivera Theatre on the Ocean Campus. The show will be held at 8 p.m. on October 9 and 10, and at 2 p.m. on October 11. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students with ID and seniors. Make reservations at m.bpt.me/event/2299626

Tues/ Oct 13 Mayor’s Latino Heritage Month Awards Mayor Edwin Lee will be hosting an awards ceremony in honor of Latino/a Heritage Month from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at North Light Court and Rotunda City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. Refreshments will be provided after the ceremony.

Thurs/ Oct 15 Free Poetry Reading Brenda Hillman, an award winning poet, will be reading some of her work in room 107 of the Valencia Building on Mission Campus from 6:30 – 7:45 p.m.

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Tues/ Oct 18 Health Fair The health center on the Ocean Campus will be hosting a health fair for CCSF students and faculty. There will be free flu shots for credit students with ID as well as other free health services.

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Tahitian Poet Celebrates Heritage with CCSF Cassie Ordonio

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Calling on students to document their culture, Tahitian poet, author and scholar Flora AurimaDevatine also called on City College Pacific Islanders to make those findings public through writing. Aurima-Devatine stressed that point at the 7th Annual Talanoa Series hosted in the Multi-Use Building on Sept. 29 that attracted some 80 people. Every fall and spring semes-

“It’s really beautiful to see what this program is about. That this is a place for Pacific Islander students to feel like they have a home, and that is what I think is really essential to student success .” — Jill Yee ter, the interdisciplinary studies

department organizes the event to invite guest speakers across the Pacific Islands to meet students from the critical Pacific Islands studies certificate program. Since the series began in spring

voyagers, Aurima-Devatine is also a member of the Tahitian academy since 1972 and she is the first female poet to publish a collection of poetry in Tahiti in 1980.

Professor David Palaita(left) and Tahitian guest speaker Flora AurimaDevatine(right) shared a photo together after she offered Palaita her book of poetry as a gift Sept 29.

2014 three Talanoa events have been held each semester, according to interdisciplinary studies professor and coordinator of the critical Pacific Islands studies certificate program David Palaita. Palaita said Aurima-Devatine is the first native speaker from Tahiti, a French territory, to visit City College. Born into a family of Polynesian

As the state representative responsible for women’s issues from 1974 to 1984, Aurima-Devatine set up the Council of Women within the French Polynesian government. In 2013, France bestowed upon her the national mirror of honor for her work on Polynesian culture, literature and women’s issues. “This was a rare opportunity for our college, city and state to have

such a well known, primary scholar to a four-year college, Aiava offered from Tahiti,” Palaita said. the gift of dance to Aurima-Devatine. At the event Palaita honored As Polynesian music began to the first generaplay, the crowd stared tion migrants of toward the back of the Bay Area and “I’m very proud to the room where a the California’s have the honor to be San Francisco State indigenous University student people. He also here to speak about performed. thanked and our culture.” welcomed the Following the perfor— Flora Aurima-Devatine Dean of Social mance Nani Wilson, and Behavioral an organizer for Sciences Jill Yee to the stand. Pacific Islander Leaders of Tomorrow, Yee spoke about how spoke. honored she was to be speaking “It was either that or I have to go at the event. to work, that’s what my mama said,” “It’s really beautiful to see Wilson, who graduated from City what this program is about,” Yee College in 1982, said. said. “That it is a place for Pacific When it was her time to speak, Islander students to feel like they Palaita’s voice cracked with pride as have a home, and that what I he welcomed Aurima-Devatine to the think is really essential to student microphone to a standing ovation. success.” “I’m very proud to have the honor Other speakers included to be here to speak about our culture. students environmental studies I’m hoping and wishing that Tahiti major Andrew Opetaia, dance can have students to have the benefits major Spulu, public health major of your work,” Aurima-Devatine said Edel Vaovasa and Asian American in a soft French accent. studies and mathematics major She closed the event by reading Dominique Aiava. two poems in Tahitian. Each student talked about how “This was a great event that reptheir academic journey started at resents diversity and culture that is City College, and how education done at this college,” Gilles Delcourt, is not only important to Pacific deputy of Cultural Attache and dipIslanders, but to every other race lomat from France, said.w as well. After their encouragement to City College students to transfer

81 Bees: Documenting Family in Photo Gallery Marco Siler-Gonzales

Family it has lasted for 40 years,” Perry said. Szeto family organization where a foundation for the family associaFamily photos conjure nosFamily is deeply engrained in newly-arrived immigrant men gath- tion that integrated generations @ mijo _ marco talgia and reminiscence, but Avril San Francisco’s neighborhoods and ered for support while their wives of Chinese Americans within San news editor McHugh said the memories them- districts for those who have roots and children awaited permission to Francisco. Szeto believes this type of selves often seem unclear or distorted in the City. enter the United States. support is becoming less pertinent The meaning of family can be as she expressed in her dreamlike “This is my family’s association,” “They had to bond over non- for recent immigrants because the elusive, something impossible to transformation of old family photos. 81 Bees photographer Gordon Szeto traditional family organizations, so Internet has made it easy to connect collectively define, but 12 City McHugh scanned and printed old said, explaining his photographs of they formed them to have a kinship with family back home. College photography students family photos onto wet watercolor people who formed a community and battle against the struggles of Szeto’s photographs point out set out to capture family in their paper, resulting in a smeared gray with others who shared their sur- being a foreigner in a foreign land,” this paradox of what family means, new photo exhibit at Rayko Photo resemblance of her family members. name, like his great uncle and other Szeto said. as a never-ending landscape of choice Center. “These memories can be vague immigrant ancestors. “Everyone in One of Szeto’s photos portrayed and assimilation which is constantly 81 Bees, a City College based but are deeply felt,” McHugh this group is a Szeto.” his great uncle holding up a large renewing within each cultural pocket photography group, held a gallery explained. Szeto’s photos portrayed the framed document containing the of San Francisco. reception at the photographer’s 81 Bees Start people and private spaces of the family association’s laws, which laid community center at 428 Third St. The photography group was in the SOMA district on Sept. 23, formed in 2008, when photograwhere photographers, friends and phy students in City College’s 81B visitors came to examine what the 81 advanced black and white darkroom Bees documented in their individual class chose to get together after the search of family. semester had ended. Photos lined the right wall of “On the final day of class, a few Rayko’s side gallery, revealing stark students decided to continue meetcontrasts between what each pho- ing together, and started exhibiting tographer found to depict what work as a group,” Former 81B family is – or how they came to instructor Bob Nishihira said. identify with their own. Since becoming photography 81 Bees photographer Grahame department chair three years ago, Perry interpreted family through Nishihira said his involvement with choice. When Perry moved from the 81 Bees has dwindled, but has England to San Francisco as a child, noticed the group has grown more he left behind an extended close- particular about which photos go knit family, but chose to adopt close in the show. friends as a form of identity and “There is a huge variety of styles closeness as he grew up in the city. and interests, so each theme is very Perry’s photo of the famous drag open to interpretation. But now activist group Sisters of Perpetual there’s a committee to evaluate the Indulgence encompassed a similar work before it goes in,” Nishihira choice of family. “The sisters have said. been around since the ’70s. The idea 81 Bees member Clare Coppel is that you have this group and you organized the show along with Members of the 81 Bees display their images at RayKo Photo center and gallery September 24, 2015. create this secondary family. It’s very Rayko Photo Center Director Ann non traditional but at the same time Jastrab. mgonzales @ theguardsman . com

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Women’s Resource Center Offers Valuable Services

Faculty advisor Lijia Lumsden looks on as the Women’s Resource Center opens their doors for its annual Open House event on Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Shannon Cole Interdisciplinary Studies Department Chair Lauren Muller offers words of encouragement as she accepts a commendation from the Women’s Resource Center staff in thanks for her service to the organization.

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• Photographs by Shannon Cole •

Student Shelly Davis joins in the celebratory dance to open the festivities at the Women’s Resource Center on Wednesday, Sept. 30.

On Sept. 30, the staff of the Women’s Resource Center hosted their annual open house event to promote the services they offer to students of City College. The event kicked off with the center’s staff presenting commendations to the faculty who help make the center a warm and welcoming place for students.

Refreshments and lunch from Spicy Pepper were served by student volunteers as visitors listened to spoken word performances, joined together in dance and learned of the valuable resources provided by the center. The Women’s Resource Center offers students access to health care, safer sex supplies, as well as a library of feminist and political writings. They are located at Smith Hall 103 and open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Student and WRC staff member Mitisha York shares her original poetry with the crowd at the WRC Open House.

Staff and students gathered at Smith Hall 103 to hear presentations, spoken word and information about the Women’s Resource Center on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.

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What should happen to the Balboa Reservoir? Sarena Williams-Ruiz Undecided

“I think that it is convenient for the students that come here because it is really hard to find parking around here.”

Nathalie Guillen Undecided

“I think the way it is now is perfectly fine given the amount of students that City College has, it is necessary for people that come from all part of the city or outside of the city to be able to drive here and for them to be accessible for everybody, and for disable people. And if we restrict that space even more, it is going to hinder our possibility for more students.”

Makhmud Islamov

Business administration and management

“Whatever decision is going to be made, definitely is an interest that City College students should be taking into consideration. I am sure that City and the City College governing body will look at all the points of this issue and will come up with an optimal solution.”

A Grain of Salt By Patrick Tamayo

ptamayo@theguardsman.com @patrick tamayo3 OPINION EDITOR

We live in scary times. Every time we leave the safety of our homes we run the risk of running into danger. You hear about random acts of violence on a daily basis. Shooting, stabbings, robberies and assaults have become all too common, and we’ve accepted these crimes. Not that we have much of a choice. We can be proactive and be vigilant of our surroundings but no one is immune to crime. There is no crystal ball that can show us what may lay around any one corner. While the never-ending argument in regards to the right to bear arms continues, the shootings that the mainstream media chooses to report on are showcased for the world to sigh and shake their heads at. *** The last place anyone thinks they’ll become a victim is at school, yet school shootings are as normal as morning coffee. Oregon is the location of the latest school shooting as of press time. It is not likely the incident will change the gun culture we live in. We’re mistaken if we think that there will be any change because of this event. It’s a revolving cycle. There is rage from all directions. There are press conferences and finger pointing. Next come debates about the right to bear arms. Think about the children. We must have stricter gun laws. Gun sales will go up due to fear of not being able to purchase guns. The story turns into an irrelevant brief and we move on

to the next distraction. We can argue until we’re blue in the faces, but there are no concrete solutions to this dilemma. We live in a glorified gun culture that protects its citizens with, well, guns. If they were ever to come for our guns, more than likely guns will be used for that plan to succeed; funny how that will work. If the massacre of elementary students was taken with a grain of salt, the death of college-aged students will likely not change anyone’s attitude on the subject. The anti-gunners will still want to confiscate all the guns and the gun lovers will demand not to be tread on. Maybe our elected officials have some sort of plan, but I doubt that we can depend on them, considering the tomfoolery they’re capable of. *** Take for instance Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.), a man elected by his constituents, who decided to take a glass of water that Pope Francis left behind after addressing the House chamber. Let that sink in for just a second. A congressman, who is trusted upon to make major decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of people took the Pope’s glass of water because he believes the water is blessed. The citizens of this man’s district can sleep comfortably at night knowing that their elected official not only drank water from the glass, shared it with staffers and his wife and then proceeded to let another congressman and his wife dip their fingers in the water, but saved the leftovers to be able to bless his grandchildren with it. The man is delusional, yet he is tasked with representing the best

interest of people. Yet we wonder why things are the way they are. *** As the Super Bowl gets closer it will be interesting to see how Mayor Ed Lee and the San Francisco Police Department will make San Francisco into a utopian society, free of homeless people. After all, they can’t let the swarms of corporate executives who will be in the city be exposed to filth and swine that they feverishly want to get rid of. It’s OK for the city to be filled with homeless and undesirables at any other time, but let the biggest football game of the year come to town, and by come to town I mean come to a town an hour away, and suddenly the city needs to be cleaned up. Don’t let the mayor or his public relations staff sugarcoat the fact that they are bowing down to corporate requests that will transform the city into a feel good, All-American city with no homeless. If you listen to the mayor all the homeless will have new residences with all the necessities they need, because surely that’s a viable option that only needed a Super Bowl to make things perfect. *** Every time we venture out of our homes, there is a chance we will encounter violence. However, we can’t live scared and Rep. Brady is not likely going to share his holy water to protect us, so what are we left to do. Absolutely nothing. We can scream, shout and get mad, but let’s be honest, sadly the majority of us have already moved on. If all else fails, at least the city will be blight-free ... as long as the NFL is in town.

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Yannee Buorn Radiology

“I think it should be left as a parking lot because parking is expensive all over SF, it would very helpful to leave it as a parking lot.”

John Graves

Communication

“As a student I think that for people that are coming in using the space for sports or art will encourage high school student to come to this college, for example a rock climbing wall.” Reporting by Rita Berrios Photos by Bridget Skiba

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opinion

Franicsco: YOURSan DREAM AT MILLS COLLEGE. The Rent Is Too Damn High

REALIZE YOUR DREAM AT MILLS COLLEGE.

Austin D. Estrada

Francisco. According to the San Francisco Chronicle the number of eviction notices has risen “32 percent compared with the previous three years’ average” and On Oct. 18, 2010, Jimmy “owner move-in evictions are up McMillan sat upright, stared stern- 131 percent.” ly at the audience of the New York Families are being kicked out governor debate, and announced, “I of their homes without notice, represent the The Rent Is Too Damn cultures are being vanquished High Party. People are working eight from their neighborhoods and hours a day, 40 hours a week, and the average public city workers some a third job. Women can’t afford can no longer support themselves to take care of their children, feed with the city’s average pay. their children, breakfast, lunch and San Francisco has failed on a dinner. … They can’t eat breakfast, familial, cultural and labor fronts lunch or dinner. Listen! Someone’s in making the city a place to call child’s ... stomach just growled, did home for its very own citizens. you hear it?” Now in most districts across Mr. San Francisco, McMillan’s people have taken speech soon “San Francisco is it upon themselves garnered mas- becoming to grand to raise awareness sive recognition of our rent control for his theat- and too rich for it’s problem. rics, but failed own people.” San Francisco is Mills offers talented women who want an exceptional to garner much a constantly growing, — Austin D. Estrada and personal education the ability to: recognition for constantly chang• Transfer in spring or fall. its content. ing city, but is also • Get the classes you need to graduate on time. At the time known for its vast • Complete your GE requirements at Mills. Oakland, CA McMillan gave diversity amongst • Earn merit scholarships of up to $15,000. admission@mills.edu his speech, I was in high school districts and neighborhoods. www.mills.edu/transfer TRANSFER VISIT PROGRAM under my parents’ roof on a suburWhat many San Franciscans October 17 • 8:30 am–12:15 pm ban street in a Central Valley town now argue about this sudden rent RESERVE YOUR SPACE AT Discover how we help you achieve your goals—meet Mills that proudly touted itself for being and eviction rise is that the city WWW.MILLS.EDU/VISITPROGRAMS. students, explore our curriculum, and tour our campus. home of Daisy the Cow with the is destroying what makes it so World’s Longest Horns. unique in the first place. Now, five years living in San San Francisco, a tiny city Francisco under many roofs on dif- seven miles long and seven wide, ferent city streets, I can solemnly is becoming too grand and too rich verify that indeed, the rent is too for its own people. We can claim damn high. And it’s only getting higher. it’s gentrification, the ever-growing Anyone can agree that their rent tech industry, the tenant buy-outs, is too high and everyone wishes they our massively succeeding sports could pay less. But in San Francisco, teams, our growing appearance in Andy Bays there has become a widening gap Hollywood, or just a tangled mess Folsom Lake, and the Central Valley Countries including Australia, between simply wishing for less rent, of all of these factors. But the real is beginning to look like the set of Israel and the Republic of Singapore con t r ibu tor and now constantly fearing eviction. problem is a lack of congress and “Mad Max.” currently have effective desalination For many San Franciscans, that city official support for change. Gov. Brown has declared a state plants and provide much of their fear is becoming a reality. While five years ago, Jimmy California is facing one of the of emergency, and calls upon each fresh water from the ocean. The price of living has increased McMillan sat in front of the most severe droughts on record. of us to cut our water usage by 20 Opponents say the high energy so rapidly and relentlessly that many people and made them laugh, This year alone, the lack of in percent. needs of reverse osmosis (the prowho have long, established lives what he said was also true. The potable water falling from the sky As nice as the idea sounds, let’s cess of desalination) would drive the here, can no longer afford to live rent is too damn high. will cost our populous state almost be real — the average Californian price water up 300 percent. I say, here. Even worse, they’re being told Now it’s time for San Francisco $3 billion, and 10,000 agricultural is not likely to cut their water usage. why not use the high kinetic energy to leave. city officials to agree and enact workers will lose their jobs. Using less water is inconvenient of the ocean itself in the form of The growing rent rate also brings change, or we’ll find someone Bodies of freshwater are turning and not a social problem that might underwater windmills, along with a growing eviction rate to San else who will. into gravel pits, like Lake Oroville and garner grassroots support like a civil solar panels, to fuel the process for rights issue. Most people don’t care free? that much unless they are directly Some naysayers maintain that affected. by the time plants are completed, Brown’s pleas for conservation the drought will be over. I say maybe, will fall on deaf ears. What we need maybe not. This could be one of is a solution that works. The best those thousand-year droughts for happens to be one that will destroy all we know. one of California’s most sacred and At the very least, we can have iconic assets – the beautiful beaches. plants up and running in case there Sorry surfers, but we need to is another water shortage. start building big, noisy, ugly desaliBy far, most desalination opponization plants along our pristine nents aim to protect the cosmetic coastline. beauty of our beaches. I know it might be cramping We have to decide quickly what’s your style, but there’s this giant wet more important – fresh water or a place called the Pacific Ocean right superficial coastline. And that, my next door. friends, is the bone-dry truth. contributer

Fresh Water or a Supervicial Coastline

Left: Steep sides reveal the plunging water levels at Cherry Lake Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada mountains. February 20, 2015. (Photo by Michaela Payne / The Guardsman)

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sports sports calendar FOOTBALL:

Oct. 17, 1 p.m. vs. Foothill @ CCSF

MEN’S SOCCER: Oct. 9, 4 p.m. vs. Gavilan @ CCSF Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m. vs. Ohlone @ Ohlone Oct. 16, 4 p.m. vs. Foothill @ Foothill

WOMEN’S SOCCER: Oct. 9, 1:30 p.m. vs. Foothill @ CCSF Oct. 13, 4 p.m. vs. Ohlone @ CCSF Oct. 16, 7 p.m. vs. Cabrillo @ Cabrillo Oct. 20, 2 p.m. vs. Skyline @ Skyline

CROSS COUNTRY: Oct. 9, 3:30 p.m. @ Toro Park, Salinas

VOLLEYBALL: Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m. vs. De Anza @ CCSF Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m. vs. Skyline @ Skyline Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m. vs. West Valley @ CCSF

WATER POLO Oct. 7, 3:30 p.m. vs. Cabrillo @ Cabrillo Oct. 9, 3:30 p.m. vs. Ohlone @ CCSF Oct. 14, 3:30 p.m. vs. Laney @ CCSF

Rams Rebound 41-27 Against Modesto

one 54-yard touchdown. The running game was equally effective for the Rams with running back Elijah Dale leading the way with a three-touchdown performance, and running for 96 yards on 26 attempts. “We played great today,” head coach Jimmy Collins said after the game. “Offense put up points. Anthony Gordon was excellent. Every week he gets better and better, and the wide receivers were amazing after the catch with the ball.” The game ended in dramatic fashion. In the second half both teams were chippy, and the refs called multiple penalties for late hits and unsportsmanship like behavior. To avoid any postgame confrontation, coach Collins City College Sophomore Elijah Dale, Running Back (32), breaks through Modesto College’s defense to score a touch- made sure his team got off down at the Modesto Stadium College on Saturday, Oct. 3. (Photo by Khaled Sayed / The Guardsman) the field immediately. “People are always gunning Patrick Cochran record to 4-1. wide receivers put up massive for you when you’re good, but our pcochran @ theguardsman The Rams’ offense was on-point numbers. guys did a good job avoiding any @ serpatofportola and probably had the best game of Easop Winston had four recep- confrontations with the opponent,” their season so far. tions for 109 yards, including a Collins said. staff writer Quarterback Anthony Gordon 56-yard touchdown early in the The Rams have a bye this week, After a last minute loss versus shredded the Modesto defense, second quarter. where they will get some much American River College on Sept. 26, throwing for 501 yards, completReceiver Antoine Porter put deserved rest. the Rams regained their poise and ing 26 of 50 pass attempts for three up the most impressive numbers of After the Rams’ bye week they beat Modesto Junior College 41-27 touchdowns with two interceptions. anyone, with a mind-boggling 249 play Foothill College at home on under the lights to improve their With Gordon in the zone, his receiving yards on 14 catches and Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.

Golden Eagles Soar Over Rams By Shannon Cole scole @ theguardsman . com

@ oshanada staff writer

and then dominate the majority of the second set, ultimately winning 25-21. Bolstering the offense for the Rams was freshman outside hitter Kijana Best, who delivered kill after kill thanks to setups from sophomore co-captain Sierra Nelson. But their success was short-lived. Mental fatigue set in by the third and fourth sets, where small mistakes like double touches and

As the women of City College’s volleyball team were on the court warming up for their afternoon game against Feather River College Oct. 2, players from the opposing squad gathered in a stairwell to test both the acoustics of the Wellness “Freshman outside Center and the power of positive thinking. hitter Kijana Best “I am a state champion,” the delivered kill after visiting team shouted over the pounding of their 17 pairs of feet kill thanks to setups pounding against the metal stairs, by sophomore the thunderous noise spilling out into the corridors of the Wellness co-captain Sierra Center at City College. Newlson.” It’s worth noting that the cur— rent state champions are Imperial Valley College. Sophomore opposite Sifa Faaiu (7) volleys against the FeathWith just eight players dressed miscommunications added up. for the game, the Rams lacked the A blistering 10-25 loss in the er River Golden Eagles at Ocean Campus on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. numbers to make as much noise as third set sent the disheartened play- (Photo by Bridgid Skiba / The Guardsman) their opponents off the court, but ers reluctantly into the fourth, where showed they could be just as loud the Golden Eagles sent unanswered Steel said the team’s loss didn’t have remain hopeful that the Rams will on the court. serves whizzing past their heads. anything to do with physicality, but improve. After the Golden Eagles scored At one point during the fourth was instead “a mental or knowledge “It’s a learning process, and it’s first, Rams captain Sifa Faaiu led the set the Rams lead by three points, thing.” still early in the game,” Steel said. response by earning her team’s first only to eventually lose the set 22-25. “This is the first year in a long The loss brings the Rams’ record points of the game. But their efforts “We beat ourselves. I don’t think time that we match up really well to 10-4. were not enough. The Rams lost the we were in the game,” Faaiu said. with teams in the top ten in the The Rams have an opportunity first set 22-25 due to the offensive “We definitely could have done state,” Steel said. to enhance their performance on strength of Feather River’s outside better and should have done better. She went on to explain that the Oct. 13 when they take on division hitter Lexxey Southern. We are a very conditioned team, so team is strong physically and just rivals Skyline College in San Bruno The Rams used their physical- it wasn’t fatigue.” needs to bring their mental game up at 6:30 p.m. ity and offensive skill to come back Assistant coach Velvet Steel to the level of their physical game. from a slight disadvantage to tie echoed her captain’s sentiments. But the players and coach