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State Warrants New Accrediting Agency Audrey Garces

look forward to examining a pro- City College view a slow transition accrediting commission, spoke out posal for change early next year.” process as unfair, especially since the before the board’s vote and said the Chancellor Harris and the board academic quality of their school has task force report contained dated staff writer will recommend a potential model never been doubted by the accredit- information that did not consider The California Community or agency to replace the accrediting ing commission. improvements in standards and Colleges Board of Governors commission by spring 2016, but the “The damage they have created policies made by commissioners unanimously voted for a resolution Department of Education will have at the college going forward has just over the past few years. stating they have lost confidence to approve and recognize the new been terrible, so they need to be held “If you think you’re getting away in the Accrediting Commission for agency in order for the transition accountable,” American Federation from regulatory compliance, I think Community and Junior Colleges. to be made. of Teachers Local 2121 President you’re mistaken,” Kinsella said.

California Community Colleges “It would take a number of years Tim Killikelly said. “We need to History Chancellor Brice Harris is now to migrate all 133 colleges to a new get people in there who really know The Accrediting Commission tasked to establish a transitional accreditor,” Vice Chancellor of how to do the job rather than the for Community and Junior Colleges timeline and new accrediting model Communications of the California arbitrary, ridiculous folks who are threatened to revoke City College’s to replace the accreditor.

Community Colleges Chancellor’s there now.” accreditation in 2013, but a lawsuit “There is widespread agreement Office Paul Feist said.

The board’s vote launched filed against the agency pushed them among faculty, staff, trustees and Feist explained Colleges cur- extensive research by the staff of the to sanction the school under “show other leaders within our system rently under sanctions, such as City chancellor’s office to seek out a suit- cause” instead, giving City College that the current accreditation pro- College, would not be able to switch able accrediting model to outline two years to prove it meets financial cess needs significant improvement,” to a new accreditor until those sanc- during their next meeting in March, and administrative standards. board president Geoffrey Baum said tions are resolved. according to Feist. in a statement after the vote. “We Many faculty and students at Steve Kinsella, chair of the AAJC continued on page 2

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Using a three-prong approach, City College aims to enhance campus safety, increase awareness and be responsive to distressed student’s needs by utilizing better technology, consulting an interdisciplinary strategy board and providing more targeted information to support and restore acutely stressed students.

“So much of the distress people have is a fear of assault,” instructor and Project SURVIVE team member Amber Straus said.

“We’re 70 percent people of color at this institution and when you watch the news and when you see Michael Brown, you see Sandra Bland, and you see escalating violence perpetrated by police, that’s not going to make our student population feel safer.”

Implementing two new systems

Arrangements are being finalized on two new systems to enhance communications within the college community. One is an alert system to instantaneously warn everyone of acutely dangerous situations that occur.

The second activates a computer automated dispatch system (CADS) to expedite appropriate communications between departments dealing with distressed individuals. Both systems would be administered through the student development office.

It is still being discussed which instructor or staff person could file a distressed student report with CADS including campus police. Using CADS, a student’s identity and brief background might only be disclosed to campus police and a student’s complete records could be withheld to protect their privacy.

Student health services may get a more detailed student profile to provide the appropriate, holistic, supportive services.

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AACJC Continued from page 1 If City College does not meet the commission’s standards by fall of 2017, the agency will revoke their accreditation, leaving City College without public funding and consequently having to shut down.

The Board of Governors’ recent vote was provoked by a 270-page report released by a state task force who deemed the accrediting commission unfit to oversee California community colleges, and explained ideal attributes of a new accrediting agency.

This investigation was in response to a state audit of the ACCJC in 2013 stating the agency acts inconsistently. The report released in August called for an accreditor’s emphasis on improvement rather than compliance, and suggested they provide schools with a “reasonable opportunity” to make these advancements.

The accrediting commission sanctioned 53 percent of its 113 colleges in stark contrast to agencies in other regions who averaged a 12 percent sanction rate.

The commission held several listening sessions since the report was released to discuss the task force’s findings and take comments from commission-member institutions.

Following their first listening session on Oct. 9, the commission released an official response to the meeting.

“Commissioners expressed appreciation for the efforts extended by those providing comments noting the benefit of these exchanges for identifying areas in which ACCJC can be responsive to the field,” the commission’s statement said.

The accrediting commission said it will plan more listening sessions in 2016 to further discussions on this matter.

College Assessment Intervention and Response Team (CAIR) members meet at Conlan Hall on November 30, 2015. From left: Anne Mayer, faculty, James Rogers, Classified Senate, Minh-Hoa Ta, Dean of Chinatown North Beach Center, Jill Yee, Dean of School of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Multicultural Studies, Chief of Police Andre Barnes, and Becky Perelli, Dir. Of Student Health Services. (Photo by Franchon Welch/ The Guardsman)

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Intervention, and Response (CAIR) Team to identify safety issues from a New emphasis on safety broad swath of the campus commuA recent attempted kidnapping nity including campus police, health on Oct. 13, in which the Rosenberg and counseling services, administraLibrary was evacuated, and other tion, faculty and staff. college incidents nationwide, Becky Perelli, interim CAIR exposed a need for a more resilient team chair and director of student safety system within City College. health services, is a key member of This, an anecdotal report of mildly the team and unofficially serves as increasing incidents involving dis- a communication liaison the board tressed students and campus police, and the college community. have prompted administrative The scope of the CAIR team’s action to augment the Distressed agenda is broad. Topics of considerStudent Response Protocol. ation vary from fire and earthquake Interim Vice Chancellor Samuel safety to bomb threats and active Santos is head of student develop- shootings all have the underlying ment and is primarily in charge of goal of thoroughly permeating the campus safety. He engages other campus culture. key groups to improve communi- Campus police and health cation, identify trends and concerns, services enhance training and implement Campus police become prevention and intervention strate- involved with distressed students gies that promote health, wellness either directly over behavioral and and safety. criminal issues, or indirectly when Santos regularly consults a instructors turn to them for support 12-member College Assessment, in classroom situations.

State Takes Initiative for Affordable Text Books Margaret Weir mweir @ theguardsman . com

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Gov. Jerry Brown adopted the College Textbook Affordability act (AB 798) into California state Senate and Assembly to provide incentive for California State Universities and community colleges to improve students’ access to free and reduced-price textbooks.

The state legislature passed the bill on Sept. 11 and the governor signed it into law on Oct. 8.

AB 798 will promote use of Open Educational Resources (OER), openly licensed learning materials that are available online and in print at drastically reduced prices for students. The content will also include educational videos and online lessons.

The new law requires the academic senates of state schools to adopt local campus resolutions of commitment to increasing their students access to OERs and developing plans to purchase the materials for student use.

Expensive New Editions

Unlike textbooks with expensive

“For us, being aware of how to respond to certain individuals who have been considered disruptive, having a little bit of their history so we can approach them…in a certain manner; might be more effective and alleviate the situation,” public information officer Tiffany Green of the campus police said. Currently, the campus department does not keep a blog on disruptive students.

Oftentimes student health services, especially counseling, are also called to respond to student behavioral issues. Through training and experience, they provide a broader understanding into the of student stress and are able to initiate treatment plans to address distressed student needs when necessary.

City College, as an institution under Santos, is actively engaged in finding workable solutions to deal with campus safety throughout the system to address the multifaceted safety concern that environment presents.

Brady collaborated on the act. three years.

“The main goal was to save Grant money is strictly for student money on textbooks. The implementation of the act, includoverarching goal is preserving the ing staff and faculty development quality of books being used,” Brady and OER curation activities like said. archiving textbook material. new print editions nearly every year, Bonilla worked closely with the The bill also designates fundOERs are designed to update auto- Association of American Publishers ing to encourage schools to modify matically, so students will be freed (AAP) on the bill. “They were curriculum for compatibility with from deciding whether to purchase involved the entire time,” Brady OERs, a current hot button issue up-to-date books versus cheaper said. She added that the association at City College. used editions. “didn’t formally support, didn’t forWhen the bill passed in October, In 2013 the California census mally oppose.” faculty and staff members had no bureau reported that the cost of David Anderson, AAP executive predictions as to how the bill would textbooks has raised 864 percent director of higher education, said as affect the college’s current accreditafrom 1978. This rate of inflation is long as nothing in the bill imposes tion standings. higher than both medical care and on the rights of private textbook cornew houses on the market. porations, AAP has no problem with This bill was introduced by it. “Everyone recognizes $200 is just Assemblymember Susan Bonilla too much for a textbook,” he said.

(D-Concord) following the proSome high-priced textbooks gram’s successful implementation at offered at City College’s bookstores UC Davis and University of Illinois are no exception, like one nursing to make college more accessible to book priced at $220. students. The Community College “Nursing books are probably the League of California analysis of the most expensive,” Ocean campus Textbook Affordability act estimates bookstore associate Jermaine that 40 percent of the cost students Bautista said. face to attend community colleges Reward for Implementation comes from buying textbooks.

The act gives campuses an “Far too many of our students Adoption Incentive Fund (AIF) to and families are struggling to afford reward schools who show initia- Textbooks for the Spring 2016 college or taking on insurmountable tive toward adopting low-priced semester are available to debt due to the rising cost of higher learning materials. Following the students to rent or purchase education,” Bonilla said in a state- initial grant, schools that have at the City College Bookstore, ment on her website. demonstrated commitment to the located on Ocean Campus.

Bonilla and her legislative aid institution will receive incentive (Photo by Cassie Ordonio / The focused on science policy Sarah funding through grants for up to Guardsman)

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UC to Grow In-State Enrollment The University of California board of regents recently approved a state funding measure that will allow the school system to increase enrollment, adding 5,000 more California undergraduates next year.

The regents’ decision comes after mounting pressure from the state to enroll higher numbers of in-state students.

The state will designate 25 million dollars to bring instate enrollment to 180,000 students by the 2017–2018 school year. In return, UC will reduce costs by moving students through the school more quickly, increasing summer and online classes and increasing transfer student enrollment.

The measure will also keep tuition at the fall 2011 levels until 2017, when tuition will increase based on inflation rates.

In the new deal, UC will no longer offer financial aid to out-of-state students in order to redirect finances to enrollment growth.

Sex Ed Now Mandatory in California Schools A measure signed by Governor Jerry Brown will require all California school districts to teach sex education at least

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Campus Briefs once in middle school and once in high school. Individual parents may opt out their children, but schools cannot.

Originally drafted by assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, this law will ensure a comprehensive curriculum covering abstinence, contraceptives, sexuality and gender identity and will discuss all legal options for pregnancy outcomes.

The measure requires curriculum to recognize all sexual orientations and use language that includes samesex relationships.

The bill was passed and signed with no major confrontation or controversy, but some outspoken opponents of the bill criticized one provision, which would require the districts to educate students on HIV treatments that may lead to normal life expectancy. A representative of the Pacific Justice Institute said this could “shortchange a straightforward and truthful education.”

Long Awaited Raise and Benefits for Tech Bus Drivers

Drivers of tech worker buses recently approved a new three-year contract that grants them a significant pay raise, benefits and paid holidays.

The contract was approved by 89 out of 94 drivers at one Teamsters’ union meeting in San Leandro, after a three month negotiation between vendor Compass

Transportation and 180 drivers organized under the Teamsters.

The bus drivers were prepared to strike if the proposed contract failed to win voters’ approval.

As the tech industry has flooded San Francisco with new money, many tech bus drivers can no longer afford to live in the city, moving as far away as Stockton or even living out of their cars, The Chronicle reported on Nov. 22.

AFT Calls Off Strike Authorization Vote The American Federation of Teachers local 2121 cancelled plans to vote whether to strike on Dec. 7, after the district’s rescinded letters sent out in early November to retired faculty demanding returned payments.

The district issued a public communication to faculty stating that they will not pursue further collection efforts until “all bargaining efforts are fully exhausted.”

The AFT also withdrew an unfair labor complaint filed on Nov. 5, prompting the district to reaffirm that they have no policy regarding the recording or videotaping of picketing or other protected activity in a public statement by the Employee Relations Office.

The collective bargaining negotiations will continue through the spring semester.

Future Quake Calls for College Preparedness How Prepared is City College for “The Next Big One?” Cassie Ordonio cordonio @ theguardsman . com

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The recent swarm of earthquakes plaguing the East Bay are a reminder that seismologists are now predicting a 6.0 or stronger earthquake hitting the Bay Area within the next 30 years.

A City College engineering and grounds department official said some college buildings potentially could be compromised by a very strong earthquake because of the ground underlying the buildings.

Christopher Lewis, chair of earth sciences said older buildings may be affected more such as Science Hall built in 1935.

Ocean campus is the only campus that sits atop bedrock. The majority of other campuses are built

on sand dunes. Lewis said the part of Science Hall that faces Conlan Hall may be built on “fill” material added when the hill was originally graded flat.

“The (fill) material can move more freely, and the earthquake waves are amplified over loose material,” Lewis said. “There’s two things that could happen: it may shake this part of building more and could cause the failure of columns.

Another thing that could happen is that if the fill is actually loose out here, it may actually slide down the hill. Earthquakes can trigger landslides.”

Earthquake tremor causes soil to behave like a liquid, thus losing their ability to support structures, according to Department of the Interior and Geological Survey.

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areas of loose, sandy soil or poorly compacted artificial fill.

City College is situated five miles from the San Andreas fault which triggered the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and 20 miles away from the Hayward fault.

Shaky History

On Oct. 17, 1989, when a 6.9 earthquake struck the Bay Area, City College was forced to close for a week, reopening Oct. 23, 1989. The college suffered no major damage, but a 1989 edition of The Guardsman pointed out a need for an earthquake emergency preparedness plan.

Since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, City College has taken steps to ensure campus safety in the event of a big earthquake.

The latest college earthquake plan on record is a 2008 edition given to all departments is an emergency

and evacuation procedures guide in Area as a whole is better prepared case of a general disasters. Further, for earthquakes than we were 20-30 each campus classroom has an brief years ago.” emergency pamphlet together with City College Fault an evacuation map.

“The rocks in San Francisco were “One of the challenges is get located when the entire west coast people to read the information was a subduction zone, between 65 before hand, and that’s what we to 175 million years ago.” Lewis said. encourage folks to do,” police chief “While subduction continues north Andre Barnes said. He pointed out of Mendocino, it stopped here, and that an evacuation drill is done each about 30 million years ago, became semester--the last of which hap- the transform plate boundary we pened several weeks ago. call the San Andreas Fault Zone.”

In the Science Hall is a seismoIn the 1950s, researchers disgraph that records the earthquake covered an inactive convergent plate magnitudes. The most recent quake boundary, known as a “melange,” recorded was a 3.2 at 12:43 a.m. in beneath City College’s Ocean San Ramon with a depth of 8.6 kilo- campus. They dubbed the melange meters, following an aftershock with “the City College Fault.” The last a magnitude of 3.1 at 12:44 a.m. time it was active was only approxi“Reasonably, we’re prepared,” mately 65 million years.

Lewis said. “We do offer classes here to encourage people to get ready for earthquakes, and I think the Bay

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Shannon Cole Julissa Fernandez opens the competition with her rendition of “My Heart Will Go On” at the World Music Club’s Singing Contest on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (By Shannon Cole/The Guardsman)

Margaret Delossantos and Jessie Bisco perform as a duet at the World Music Club’s Singing Contest on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (By Shannon Cole/The Guardsman)

City College’s World Music Club has hosted a singing contest on campus every year for fifteen years. This year, the contest was open to the City College community as well as members of the public.

Club president Brian Le and advisor Benedict Lim were on hand to welcome contestants and prepare them for competition. More than twenty-five students and members of the community took to the stage in an attempt to qualify for just 10 spots in the final show.

Some singers performed a cappella, others played guitar and sang, and a few performed duets with another singer. All performances were judged on 3 criteria: presentation, technique and skill.

Ten finalists will take the stage at 6 p.m. on December 4 at the Diego Rivera Theatre. The event is complimentary to attend for both students and community members.

WMC1.jpg - Lelouch Lam sings and plays a Chinese song on guitar during the World Music Club’s Singing Contest on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (By Shannon Cole/ The Guardsman) Terrilyn Woodfin performs “Summertime” at the World Music Club’s Singing Contest on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (By Shannon Cole/The Guardsman)

Chair1.jpg - Advisor Professor Benedict Lim addresses the crowd gathered for the preliminary round of competition in the World Music Club’s annual Singing Contest on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (By Shannon Cole/The Guardsman)

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Student filmmakers debut at Roxie Theater Michaela Payne mpayne @ theguardsman . com

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addition to making the films.

“It’s a good learning experience for the students to figure out how to organize their own festival,” Swenson said, who was ill but attended the festival after dismissing herself from a hospital stay. “It was a team effort. It came out beautifully.”

Fledgling filmmakers from the cinema and broadcast media departments presented 31 short films and 12 public service announcements at the fifth annual Festival of the “It’s a good learning Moving Image at the Roxie Theater experience for on 16th and Valencia streets, followed by an after-party and raffle the students to in a nearby cafe. figure out how The one-night festival on Nov. 18 featured two showcases of student to organize their work including documentaries, narown festival. It ratives and ad spots that promoted the festival, all made by City College was a team effort. students in the cinema department It came out and the broadcast electronic media arts department. beautifully.”

Students from both depart— Swenson ments, and others like a fashion and a business student, helped coordinate the annual event with lead Each 30-second PSA promoted student adviser Liberty Ingraham the festival through creatively-editand Lise Swenson from the cinema ed footage using this year’s theme, department as faculty adviser. “Press Forward, Don’t Rewind.”

Instructor Mischa Antonich curated Some were made by Swenson’s PSA submissions from the broadcast digital film editing students, and department. students from any discipline are Many collaborated to create a welcome to submit these. theme, promote, solicit donations “Not simply an allusion to film, to raffle, raise money, sell merchan- the tagline is a nod to the contindise and staff the event and party, in ued and tenacious survival of City

The fifth annual Festival of the Moving Image was shown at the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia streets, on Nov. 18, 2015. (Photo by Michaela Payne/ The Guardsman)

College and all publicly supported education,” the festival’s fundraising campaign stated.

A crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter raised $1,410 to entirely fund the festival, exceeding their $800 goal. The college does not contribute funding for the off-campus festival.

“Because much of the funds formerly allocated for public education have been cut, The Festival of the

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Moving Image relies on our annual Kickstarter campaign to make sure the night is truly fantastic and memorable!” the campaign website stated.

Swenson said attendance was low this year and ticket sales to the festival were too low to cover the theater’s overhead costs, but declined to state an exact number.

“Even though we didn’t reach it this year — we have in past years — The Roxie very graciously let us fly,” Swenson said.

The independent theater is San Francisco’s oldest continuallyoperating theater, since 1909. “The Roxie is in line with our desires to foster independent and alternative work,” Swenson said.

Of the night’s 31 short films, City College student Barbara Munoz’s favorite was “Flashmob” by Kendra Gilpatrick, who followed an Oakland dance crew as they learned, rehearsed and performed the “Thriller” dance.

“I liked the ‘Flashmob’ because it’s about Michael Jackson — that sweetheart. Ladies dancing like him was so beautiful, so cool,” Munoz said, who is enrolled in the cinema department’s documentary filmmaking class. Another viewer, Luis Gutierrez, said he shed some tears of joy during that film.

City College student Tor Olson edited and was one of the camera operators on a short documentary film called “Fight or Flight.” Made

by Lisa Weinzimer for advanced field production class about efforts to introduce rent control in Burlingame, the filmmaker and crew spent about a six weeks creating the eight-and-a-half-minute film.

“Really fast turnaround, which is how it’s supposed to be done. This is excellent preparation for the real world,” Olson said.

Caleb Quinn created special effects for his short narrative film “No Help,” and he also wrote, directed, edited and made music for the film over three semesters. He made the first scene in a sound for motion pictures class taught by Dan Olmsted, who has taught filmmaking courses at City College for more than a decade.

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Quinn had a chance to complete the film while he was stuck indoors with an injury. “I was desperate to do anything,” he said.

“He did absolutely everything,” one of his co-stars, Danica Uskert, said — and that participating in the film helped lift her out of a series of hardships that occurred in her real life. “This film is special to me,” she said.

The first scene of Quinn’s film is available at vimeo.com/ thecalebquinn.

The audience appeared enraptured throughout most of the screenings.

At the Pork Store Café after-party following the screenings, festival organizers raffled off prizes donated by at least 17 local businesses that sponsored the festival, like gift certificates to restaurants, coffee shops, cleaners, a copy store, salons and a video rental store.

The annual Festival of the Moving Image each fall semester is followed by City Shorts student film festival in spring at the Ocean campus’ Diego Rivera Theater.

“Mischa (Antonich) is fantastic...but ultimately we (cinema) do most of the work,” Swenson said.

“We have a really amazing cinema department that gives students real world experience and connects students to schools like USC, NYU and San Francisco State. We’re not a piddly piece of poo.”

This May will be the cinema department’s sixteenth time hosting the annual City Shorts festival.

“For me it’s a continuation of the work I’ve been doing in the community since the ’80s,” Swenson said that she cofounded Artists Television Access on Valencia and 21st Streets. “We are trying to preserve alternative media here.”

Check for news about City College’s cinema and broadcast electronic media departments on facebook and twitter @ccsfcinema and @CCSF_BEMA.

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Paris Attacks Were Horrible But So is That Band Michaela Payne mpayne @ theguardsman . com

Copy Editor My thoughts are in Paris, one of my hometowns. Many people there died, suffered or lost someone to hate-fueled violence in the attacks last week.

This time of grief is also a time to examine other expressions of hatred in our world.

The Californian band Eagles of Death Metal played at the Bataclan on the night the venue was attacked, and escaped out the back while 89 people in their audience and crew died in the gun violence.

“While Jesse (Hughes) and the band thankfully survived, some of the people closest to them did not.

They include the band’s merchandise manager, Nick Alexander, as well as three colleagues from their record label, Thomas Ayad, Marie Mosser and Manu Perez,” Vice reported.

As people who experienced horrors that night, the band members absolutely deserve support and care.

As musicians, the band’s overall insensitivity is a stunt which has shaped their obsessively virile, troublemaking image since their debut in 1998.

“I make dick-shaking, titty-wobbling, good-time, let’s-get-down, what’s-up-girl music,” the band’s founder and frontman Hughes said in an October interview with online music reviewers Consequences of Sound.

Cruel and careless language and imagery saturate the band’s music and album art, glorifying exaggerated Westernisms and especially degrading women—a different kind of violence and an expression of hate that should not be ignored.

The band was touring their new, fourth album, titled “Zipper Down” and emblazoned with a photograph of a grossly idealized rock’n’roll fan.

In a skin-tight, unzipped pleather outfit, her head and legs are cropped out of the image but her breasts are shown in full—except for pasties of the two band members’ heads.

It’s the type of faceless, partiallynude image that was used for shock value (and got censored) decades ago on Supertramp’s album “Indelibly Stamped” in 1971 and Roger Waters’ “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” in 1984, among others.

For newer musicians to still be relying on these dehumanizing hypersexual images for record sales is incredibly boring.

“In 2015, an image of a sexy decapitated topless women feels tired, dull and dumb...the image does point, on a deeper level, to an unfair power dynamic which is alive and well in the music industry,” reviewer Deborah Coughlin wrote about the album for the UK’s The Guardian newspaper on August 11.

“Hughes and (Josh) Homme’s form of cock rock is clearly tonguein-cheek. But ironic sexism just isn’t cutting edge any more,” Coughlin wrote.

Coughlin quoted “an anonymous feminist in a 1970s issue of New York underground newspaper

Rat” who wrote an article titled (and invented the term) “Cock Rock: Men Always Seem to End Up on Top.” Though many more female, trans and non-gender-identifying musicians take the stages now than in those days, the ’70s writer is still right about one thing: “When you get to listening to male rock lyrics, the message to women is devastating.”

On a 2004 release titled “Peace, Love, Death Metal,” Eagles of Death Metal included a song called “Whorehoppin’.”

“Smell those sweet young things./Looky here, this one’s got black hair./She’s like a death metal queen./Struttin’ sluts all through that whorehoppin’ scene./Makes me say.../(chorus) Shit, goddamn!

I’m a man? I’m a man,” and “We’ve got the desert, got the sand, and our guns!/We love the whorehoppin, that ain’t no lie./You could tell by the devilish look in our eyes!/ Goddamn! I’m a man,” in lyrics from metrolyrics.com.

Frontman Hughes’ mom is not a fan of that song. “Whenever she comes to the show, she leaves before we play it. Then she comes back,” he said in the October interview with Consequences of Sound.

Just for comparison—if the lyrics were about people who are different from the band members on the basis of skin color, I am sure the media would have vilified them long ago. By now, the public may have made connections between their lyrical content and the attackers’ choice of events. In my search through their music and interviews I have found no race-based statements.

But I have also not found any criticisms of the band’s content published since the attacks, and very few that mention sexism before then.

In past reviews, some writers lauded the band as being just a fun party band.

“Zipper Down is a sleazy spitball made of frantic party beats, Casanova attitude and garage-rock riffs,” NPR reviewer Jason Heller wrote on Oct. 5. He downplayed the lyrics as “deceptively asinine shenanigans.”

I’m not blaming the musicians for the violence that was carried out by others at their show. That disregard for the lives of others was the attackers’ fault, along with ideas that influenced them.

Since that night, our media is doing good work in spreading the news from Paris, with the effect of rallying support from all over the world.

But our media is also effective at boosting popularity and music sales through clicks. In the wake of this tragedy, I predict that the increased media exposure will gain this band significant sales.

We can support the members, crew and audience of Eagles of Death Metal in their healing from tragedy, but we have a responsibility to not confuse this with supporting their messages. We can and should demand an end to the band’s profits gained by creating mindless content that dehumanizes women.

Dear Campus Community,

Thank you for your interest, time and support this semester. Your readership means we can continue to do what we love, which is to keep the college community updated with pertinent and relavent information. For those of you who were impacted by the Paris attacks last week, our hearts are with you.We hope you have an amazing holiday break and enjoy some much needed rest. -The Guardsman

Spring 2016 Journalism Classes The courses below currently appear in the online schedule.

To register for courses go to www.ccsf.edu/Schedule/Fall/Journalism Classes start January 19, 2016.

Jour 19: Contemporary News Media - 3.0 units

35826 001 Lec. T R 09:40 - 10:55 a.m.

Multi-Use Building 180 Graham Introduction to modern mass communication, with an emphasis on development of news media, analysis of the credibility of the media and its impact on daily life. CSU/UC/CAN

Jour 21: News Writing and Reporting - 3.0 units

35827 001 Lec. M W F 10:10 - 11:00 a.m.

Bungalow 715 Gonzales Techniques of newspaper reporting, developing and writing and a news story, training in information gathering and interviewing sources. CSU/CAN

Jour 22: Feature Writing - 3.0 units

35828 551 Lec. R 06:30 - 09:20 p.m.

Mission Campus/Rm. 217 Rochmis Fundamentals in feature writing for magazines and newspapers with special emphasis on profile and interpretive news features. Practical experience in interview and in-depth research techniques. Training in how to write a freelance story for publication. CSU

Jour 23: Electronic Copy Editing - 3.0 units

35829 551 Lec. T 06:30 - 09:20 p.m.

Mission Campus/Rm. 218 Rochmis This course is for writers, working editors, and those considering a career in editing or copyediting. Students learn to edit newspapers, magazines and web site articles for accuracy, style and organization. The writer-editor relationship, and ways to keep it healthy, is emphasized throughout the course. CSU

Jour 25: Editorial Management - 3.0 units

35830 001 L/L M W F 12:10 - 01:00 p.m.

Bungalow 615 Gonzales An advanced journalism course that trains prospective print editors on all aspects of operating a publication, such as developing a publishing schedule, creating story assignments, coordinating a writing staff, designing a page, writing headlines and cutlines, sizing photographs, understanding the business side of print journalism, and working with other editors and printers. CSU

Jour 26: Fundamentals of Public Relations - 3.0 units

36340 001 Lec. T R 12:40 - 1:55 p.m.

Creative Arts 307 Graham Prepares students to create an effective public relations campaign which includes writing media releases, “pitch” letters, public service announcements, managing media outlets, coordinating mailings and designing leaflets and posters, as well as setting up news conferences. Special attention given to in-house public relations duties for corporate and non-profit entities.

Jour 29: Magazine Editing & Production - 3.0 units

31449 551 Lec. M 06:30 - 08:20 p.m.

Mission Campus/Rm. 217 Lifland Students will study the editorial, business, graphic, and production skills required for publishing a campus magazine. Course is appropriate for students interested in creative writing, graphic and fine arts, photography, business, and journalism. CSU

Jour 31: Internship Experience - 2.0 units

35832 001 Exp. Hours Arranged Bungalow 615 Gonzales Supervised on-campus or off-campus employment in a branch of journalism or a closely allied field to which the student shows him/her self to be best adapted. CSU

Jour 35: Internet Journalism - 3.0 units

37151 001 Lec. TR 11:10 - 12:25 p.m.

Multi-Use Building 180 Graham Internet Journalism focuses on three topic areas: examination of the role of the online journalist, web publishing, and using the Internet for investigative purposes. CSU

Jour 36: Advanced Reporting - 3.0 units

37152 001 Lec. MWF 11:10 - 12:00 p.m.

Bungalow 703 Gonzales The course introduces advanced concepts of news gathering, interviewing and writing with an emphasis on investigative reporting. Extensive research, interviewing, meeting coverage and writing involved. Students will improve and expand their news-gathering and writing skills. CSU

Jour 37: Intro to Photojournalism - 3.0 units

34104 551 Lec. W 6:30 - 9:20 p.m.

Mission Campus/Rm. 217 Lifland Emphasizes concepts of photojournalism such as news and feature photography. Assignments will involve photographing people and visual story telling for publication.

Questions? Call Juan Gonzales at 415-239-3446

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Now that the tryptophan has classrooms. Yet people are shocked worn off and the fist fights over veg- that enrollment is low. etable steamers have come and gone, The school will likely survive but the realization that all our problems the problem of not having someone we’d temporarily forgotten about are that can lead us into the future is not still here. going to go away.

As the semester comes to an end, A lot of us are lucky that we’re the school’s future is still unknown. here for a limited time, but for At what point do people stop caring? instructors this is their life. This is The horse has been dead for quite what they do. Sure, they can take some time. Everyone is sick and their bags and lessons plans to tired of hearing about the accredit- some other school but why should ing commission. What difference they have to? Why can’t the largest does it make? Our leaders are still community college in California wanting to cut classes, still not want- compensate their instructors and ing to pay our instructors and now staff fairly? they’re talking about selling buildIt’s a tiring subject and the ings too. majority of us are over it. No one The countless people who con- can be blamed for for not being tinue to fight for the school deserve able to process anymore of this tired all the credit. I for one would have story. But while we may be inconthrown in the towel long ago. It venienced with less class options seems pointless to cut classes and fuller classes, instructors may because of low enrollment. eventually be inconvenienced with Maybe enrollment is low having to find a new job where they because people are fed up with the can be compensated fairly. school’s leadership, tired of the con*** tinuous wrong decisions made by Just as our president announced every interim, new or temporary fill- that gun control would be a main in that is brought in like a golden priority in his last year in office, God to save the school. another shooting has occurred.

There seems to be never-end- This time at an another reproducing funds to pay for these saviors tive healthcare office and resulted in and their job perks, but there is the death of a police officer. never money for the instructors It’s peculiar that after shooting or to throw some fresh paint in at civilians and police officers, they

still managed to capture the shooter and bring him in nice and neat.

One can argue that everyone should be armed or that no one should be armed and this can happen until we’re all blue, or the color of your choosing, in the face.

There is no logical answer.

Nothing any other country has done will stop people in the United States from losing their lives.

We can blame mental illness, poverty, religion, politics or any other reason you can come up, but no one can come up with a solution.

We need to see the reality of the country and world we live in.

We’ve long surpassed the point of no return. There are too many issues to deal with. People have too many problems of their own to concern themselves with issues that don’t personally affect them.

There are so many things to be worried about in the world, but as long as people are concerned about paying the rent, feeding themselves and figuring out how they’re going to keep the lights on no one is going to care about all the issues that are occurring around us. *** This is the last issue and column of the semester. The future is uncertain. Nothing is promised to any of us. There are issues and concerns that are well beyond any of our controls, but we have to attempt to find time to stay informed. Check your sources. Question things that don’t seem right. Don’t believe things just because they’re on the Internet, or in a newspaper or on television. But most importantly, until you check your sources and inform yourself about all sides of an issue, take everything with a grain of salt.

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Rams Prevail as NorCal Champions Penalties slow, but don’t stop the rams roll to state

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“We played really well but our pcochran @ theguardsman . com penalties are outrageous and so constaff writer trollable. We have to address that problem,” City College head coach For the second year in a row the Jimmy Collins said.

City College Rams are the Northern Later in the first quarter, the California football champions. Rams got their own field goal.

Playing at home against Chabot Kicker Cristian Antezana nailed a College and their explosive offense 22-yard field goal after the Rams that scored 76 points against San offense stalled out after a long Mateo the previous week, the Rams 59-yard drive. outplayed their opponent in a 40-30

To start the second quarwin.

Receiving the opening kickoff, the Rams struck right away on offense. Quarterback Anthony Gordon led the team 67 yards in less than two minutes and found wide “We played really receiver Antoine Porter open on a well but our seven-yard pass for the touchdown.

Chabot began the next penalties are drive with good field position due outrageous and so to a personal foul on the Rams that Anthony Porter, #17 sophomore wide receiver being chased by Chabot defenders, Northern Caliwas called after the touchdown, the uncontrollable.” fornia Championship game at George M. Rush Stadium 11-28, photo by Peter Wong / The Guardsfirst of many such fouls for the Rams — Jimmy Collins man. that afternoon.

The Rams had to kick the ball off 15 yards further than usual, and the Buntenbah, a versatile weapon on the front right on the end zone and Down by 23 points, Chabot Chabot returner took it all the way offense that lines up at both run- showed ballerina-like skills keeping attempted to rally back with two to Rams’ 37-yard line. Fortunately ning back and wide receiver, deftly his feet in bounds. fourth quarter touchdowns to for the Rams, the defense stepped ter, Gordon led another impressive kept his feet in bounds to get the A Chabot touchdown drive right narrow the score to 40-30, but it up in the red zone and stopped drive that concluded in a passing touchdown. before the end of the second quarter was too little too late.

Chabot at the 11-yard line on third touchdown. Going 79 yards in four The Rams increased their lead left the score 26-10 at halftime.

Winning the NorCal champidown. Chabot was forced to settle minutes, Gordon finished the drive with a safety and a touchdown on

The second half was much onship is a huge achievement for for a 27-yard goal instead leaving with a beautiful 34-yard touchdown the resulting drive, Gordon finished more tumultuous for the Rams. head coach Jimmy Collins in his the score at 7-3. to running back Thomas Buntenbah. the 9-play, 64-yard drive with a While they never relinquished first season. Tasked with taking over Penalties were the Rams main The offensive line allowed Gordon 15-yard touchdown pass to wide a team that won nine Northern problem all afternoon, and probably plenty of time to find Buntenbah receiver Easop Winston. Winston California titles under George prevented the team from scoring open in the left part of the endzone. ran an out route, catching the pass in Rush, along with seven state and national junior college titles, taking his team to the championship is a “We are now great way to show that this is Collins’ just one game team, and that there was no drop off when coach Rush retired after last away from our season. ultimate goal, Despite the victory, Collins knows there are some things winning the state his team needs to work on before championship.” the state championship game in two weeks.

— Easop Winston “Winning the championship is always good,” Collins said. “Now we just have to get healthy, and prepare for the game.” the lead, the team was plagued by The Rams will face Saddleback personal fouls, mistakes and the College in the state championship occasional turnover. game who just won the southern Everything was running california football championship smoothly at first. The offense got with a 43-17 win over Long Beach the first score of the second half City College. after Gordon found Porter open “We worked so hard for this,” for a 12-yard touchdown.

Winston said. “All throughout the

Down 33-10, Chabot ral- spring and during training camp. lied on the next drive marching 75 We are now just one game away yards in a little over three minutes. from our ultimate goal, winning The drive was finished with a two- the state championship. “ yard rushing touchdown by running Gordon wants to make sure this back Ondre Rudolph. Hitting the team get its name up on the legacy extra point, Chabot narrowed the board, so it can remembered along score to 33-17. with the other great City college The Rams would increase their teams. lead with a four-yard rushing touch“Its an honor to win the NorCal down by running back Namane championship,” Gordon said. “It is Modise midway through the third something we strived for all year. We quarter. Modise had a productive want to put the 2015 team twice up afternoon rushing for 61 yards and a on the legacy board, and we are on touchdown while filling in for start- our way to a third.” ing running back Elijah Dale, who The Rams will host the state was out with a knee injury. championship game on Dec. 12 at “With Elijah Dale out we 1 p.m. decided to do running back by committee and Namane (Modise), and Thomas (Buntenbah) did a great job,” Collins said.

Patrick Cochran