Vol. 163, Issue 6 | April 12, - April 26 , 2017 | City College of San Francisco | Since 1935 | FREE
PGC vote no smoking gun
Potentially 2000 students affected
By Elena Stuart estuart@theguardsman.com
By Nancy Chan and Otto Pippenger
Illustration by Serena Mercado
Although City College’s Participatory Governance Council (PGC) voted 7-6 on March 20 in favor of supporting arming campus police with firearms, a concrete decision has not been reached. The original agenda was neither announced nor informative, and simply named “Public Safety,” which caused it to escape notice. Concerned groups such as the Associated Students Executive Council (ASEC) and the Save CCSF Coalition did not weigh in during the original vote. Disapproval was voiced by the American Federation of Teachers 2121 on April 5. They stated “the fact that our police have been able to keep our community safe without guns for the last many decades is a fact that should be celebrated and honored, and should serve as a model for other schools.” The arming of City College Campus Police has been an issue Chief Andre Barnes has been in favor of for some time, especially after last year's armed kidnapping attempt at Rosenberg Library. PGC continued on page 3
The fight for Fort Mason
City College administration has not been transparent about the possible closure of the Fort Mason campus next term, but faculty and students are fighting to keep their unique learning environment and diverse campus community open. Some 2000 individuals are enrolled at the campus according to the City College website which invites students to “register today” and “experience all that Fort Mason has to offer.” “If this campus closes the majority of students here wouldn't be taking classes at City College anymore,” said Fort Mason art instructor Claire Brees. “I haven’t heard a convincing reason to leave [the campus].” The demand to keep the campus facility was addressed during a town hall meeting with City College Interim Chancellor Susan Lamb on March 13. Ceramics instructor Olivero Quezada said the meeting was packed and students were spilling out into the hallway. Figure drawing instructor Diane Olivier believes “students came out full force” that day and frustrated by “the seeming lack of commitment on the part of the administration” to be forthcoming with the Fort Mason community. Quezada said the original information provided by the City College administration suggested the Fort Mason Foundation was going to raise the rent by 300 percent. “No one has admitted where that figure came from,” Quezada said. “We have since learned that a Fort Mason representatives asked for a 25 percent rent increase and were expecting City College to renegotiate.” Quezada thinks the administration is looking at the closure as a cost saving measure. “What the administration was telling us is not what was actually happening and that, as a faculty member, is disturbing to me,” Olivier said. “It seems to me as an instructor that the push has been to shut down rather than to build up classes.” Quezada infers the administration did not consider the impact loosing the campus would have on faculty and students. “A lot of people would lose their jobs,” Quezada said, “The college administration is just so far removed from what actually happens [at Fort Mason]. They don't appreciate the passion and the emotion behind the students working here.” Angela Vandeneeden, one of Quezada’s students agrees. “Fort Mason is really inspiring for a lot of the art students that go here especially with the iconic San Francisco imagery all around.” Fort Mason continued on page 3
Culinary competition heats up Iron Chef competition comes to City College
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Shedding light on disabilities
An insight on City College professor Dr. Terry Day
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Track & field sprints ahead Rams team breaks records and wins meets
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Anything Goes Play
Begins April 14, 2017 Diego Rivera Theatre, Ocean Campus
Directed and choreographed by Deborah Shaw and musical direction by Michael Shahani, “Anything Goes” is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and written in 1934. The plot is about a stowaway named Billy Crocker who is in love with an engaged heiress named Hope Harcount. It is a love story with “madcap antics, mistaken identities and romance abound aboard the ocean liner, the USS American, bound from New York to London,” according to “City Notes.” Tickets will be available online at www.brownpapertickets.com for $15 general admission and $10 students and seniors.
Mentors help guide youths The presence of a mentor in an adolescent's life could be the seemingly small detail that determines an individual’s outcome. Mentors provide guidance by directing their pupil towards emotional, academic and work stability through previously vacant support. According to statistics gathered by MENTOR, a national organization dedicated to ever-expanding efforts to link volunteers to their communities by providing “quality youth mentoring relationships,” and stating “in the United States one in three young people do not have access to a mentor of any kind.” The statistic draws from a mentorship textbook definition, which strictly indicates a trusted adviser. Without any form of guidance during the crucial years in which experiences shape one’s growth and development, the process could easily turn towards an unsound path. Existing youth serving organizations acknowledge the importance of the Youth Mentoring Grant, “the only federal grant dedicated to providing investment in quality youth mentoring,” by sending letters of support to the United States House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Among those in support of continued funding from the Youth Mentoring Grant, law enforcement officials have stated their approval of mentorship programs because of the rebuilt trust and interaction the programs propagate between mentored youth and law enforcement organizations. A substantial population of over 60 U.S. Representatives have already signed a letter supporting the Youth Mentoring Grant. In the following weeks U.S. Senators will be signing their support as well. -By Hanna Chen
The Working Adult Degree Program Recruiting NOW for Fall 2017 Downtown Center Campus
The Working Adult Degree Program (WADP) is cohort-based and helps students who are undecided on their major who can come together to collaborate and learn from one another. Students can complete lower division general education requirements for both the local CCSF Associate's Degree and the California State University system. According to their website, “Following the set curriculum, WADP students taking 10-12 units a semester, plus two courses in the summer, alo earn three degrees in under three years. A Fast-Track option allows students to complete the entire program in 21 months.” To learn more, visit their website for more information and dates: www.CCSF.edu/WADP.
Save CCSF Coalition General Assembly Tuesday, April 25 @ 5:30- 7:30 p.m. Multi-Use Building Room 260, Ocean Campus
The Save CCSF Coalition is hosting a general assembly and welcomes the campus community to participate in discussion. The coalition is comprised of students, staff, faculty and members of the San Francisco community who said they stand for education, justice and equity. On there website their mission statement reads, “Our mission is to reclaim City College of San Francisco as a large urban college that offers affordable and quality education and addresses the needs of the diverse community in San Francisco.”
California Community College Real Estate Scholarship Awards
The California Community College Real Estate Scholarships have been awarded to City College students by the California Community College Foundation. Student’s received between $400 and $800 based on unit enrollment and had maintain at least two classes in real estate and a 2.0 GPA. The foundation said the award of this scholarship is indicative of the professional commitment that the student has to a future profession life in real estate. The Business Department and Real Estate Program extended their congratulations to the nine following students: Svetlana Shapoval, Kuoung Lim, Daniel Stephenson, Sangwook Park, Nin Pac Ho, Michael Fetsko, Moises Sanchez, Stephanie Luis and William Hunter. -By Bethaney Lee
Trump vs. The Media
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Jonathan Freedman
April 26 7–9 p.m. CCSF Ocean Campus Multi-Use Building, Room 140 A panel discussion with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedman, San Francisco Chronicle criminal justice reporter Vivian Ho, and David Greene of the First Senior Staff Attorney and Amendment Coalition. Civil Liberties Director
David Greene. Vivian Ho
David Greene
“Freedom of the Press in the Age of Trump”
Hosted by: City College’s Department of Journalism
Moderated by reporter-columnist Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez The San Francisco Examiner
For more information call: 415-239-3446 Staff Editor-in-Chief Bethaney Lee News Editor Lynda Brommage
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Sports Editor Robert Jalon
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Online Editor Gardenia Zuniga
Opinion Editor Elena Stuart
Photo Editor Gabriela Reni
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Fort Mason continued from page 1 Ceramics student Eleanor Webber does not take classes at other campuses and believes the closure doesn't have to happen. “It's unfortunate that the administration somehow did not understand how much this campus is valued,” Webber said. Students and faculty agree Fort Mason is a one of kind campus worth preserving. “This is an amazing space,” continuing education student Tachina Rudman-Young said. “Taking classes here has changed my life.” Sarah Sutro has been taking classes at Fort Mason for decades and was devastated.
“I think it's a magnificent resource for the whole community,” Sutro said. Olivier believes Fort Mason is heaven on earth for artists. “The light, how it affects our paintings and our drawings, the kind of space we have to create situations for our subject matter is unlike any other place,” Olivier said. “It's very different from Ocean campus.” Instructors and students have not given up on the campus and remain hopeful. “We are on the schedule to teach here in the fall,” Olivier said, “I still haven’t received anything formal from the administration about the situation.”
Photo by Elena Stuart/The Guardsman Surrounded by some of San Francisco’s most iconic landmarks Fort Mason inspires City College students with its amazing scenery.
Journalism students win big at state competition
City College’s journalism students captured 23 awards, including the coveted Pacesetter Award, Online General Excellence, and Magazine General Excellence at the annual Journalism Association of Community College (JACC) state convention held March 30 to April 1. The three-day event held at Sacramento’s Double Tree Hilton Hotel hosted 372 students from 30 community colleges, some of which competed in On-The-Spot competitions, while others attend skill development workshops. Additionally, conventioneers elected Guardsman Online Editor Gardenia Zuniga-Haro as their new JACC state student president. Every Spring semester, JACC hosts an election to ensure student representation on its Board of Directors. A state student president and two regional student presidents are chosen. Michaela
Payne from City College stepped down as NorCal president after a year of service. “I was shocked,” Zuniga-Haro said. “I thought since it was April Fools they were probably joking, but when they confirmed it twice that I had won, that’s when it sunk in and I knew people believed in me.” Zuniga-Haro is aiming to unite all community colleges by recruiting past community colleges who have been absent from JACC. “Being on The Guardsman is all about being part of a team, a family,” Editor-in-Chief Bethany Lee said. “I can say from my experience in both that it was of no surprise to me that we did as well as we did at JACC. It was a well-deserved pat on the back for a team that pours their hearts into their work.”
Photo by Jeanneth Vallejos/ The Guardsman
MAIL-IN Feature Story Adina Pernell First Place Opinion Story Margaret Weir Second Place Illustration Auryana Rodriguez First Place Informational Graphic James Fanucchi & Nancy Chan Honorable Mention News Photo James Fanucchi Second Place Photo Story/Essay Gabriella Angotti-Jones Second Place Magazine News Feature Teddy Luther Fourth Place Magazine Profile
Tony Taylor Honorable Mention Magazine Photo Santiago Mejia First Place Magazine Photo Story Gabriella Reni First Place Steve Newman Second Place Magazine Cover Design Prentice Sanders Honorable Mention Magazine Design Layout Giulia Notari Third Place ON-THE-SPOT Editorial Cartoon Elizabeth Quip Johnson Fourth Place Elena Stuart Honorable Mention
Sports Photo James Fanucchi First Place Sports Writing Robert Jalon Honorable Mention Feature Writing Elizabeth Quip Johnson First Place Social Media Karen A Sanchez Honorable Mention Creative Portrait Fran Smith Honorable Mention Editor Recognition Cassandra Ordonio The Guardsman/Fall 2016 Bethaney Lee The Guardsman/Spring 2017 Tony Taylor Etc. Magazine/Fall 2016 Sean Karlin Etc. Magazine/Spring 2017 Photo by Karen A Sanchez/ The Guardsman
Left: Journalism students celebrate their JACC victory on April. 1, 2017
Right: Gardenia ZunigaHaro, gets elected as the new JACC State President on April. 1, 2017.
PGC continued from page 1 As of the March 2 PGC meeting, Steven Healy with the campus safety research firm recommended the arming of campus police based on his firm’s study of the school but “strongly recommended the department work on development of policies, hire more staff, implement comprehensive Plan for Unbiased Policing, and implement body-worn cameras before transitioning to having firearms.” City College is atypical but not unique in having an unarmed police force. Staff Illustrators Quip Johnson Photographers Isela Vazquez Alma Ayala
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Faculty Adviser Juan Gonzales
Currently City College and Pasadena City College are the only two community colleges out of the 113 in California with sworn officers, otherwise known as peace officers- the official state titles given to police who possess non-lethal weapons. There have been 558 gun incidents in American schools during the 2016-2017 school year already and while City College has avoided serious gun violence for the most part, members of the school governance and community alike remain divided on whether or not armed
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police will decrease the danger firearms pose to our campus. The San Francisco Community College Police Department (SFCCPD) and City College’s campus police has each officer outfitted with one baton and one canister of pepper spray around their belts. However, Police Chief Barnes remains in agreement with the PGC’s dominant vote. “Based on our job responsibilities, I’m in favor of offering understanding on the use of force and accountability, of having a #CCSFjournalism Facebook /theguardsman YouTube theguardsmanonline
campus review commission so people have input in our training,” Chief Barnes said. “And things like tasers, body cameras and firearms. These things are standard in our industry; it’s not like we’re asking for anything new.” Barnes aims for a balance between the safety of civilian and police life. Throughout the years, different lethal weapons have been seized by the SFCCPD. In 2011, a shotgun rifle with 21 separate shells and two hunting knives were taken from a single
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car trunk. In 2015, a student was caught with seven knives and two handguns. “Officers are unsafe going into certain calls unarmed, so we have to look at it holistically,” Barnes said. “We haven’t had any people killed by pure luck—it’s only been luck, not plans. At the end of the day, you should outfit your police department with the tools they need to do their job.” Another PGC meeting will be held on May 18 to allow for more discussion from the public.
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Profile Dr. Day
A day late, a dollar short and it didn't matter By Elena Stuart
estuart@theguardsman.com
City College professor Terry Day grew up in the projects, has a learning disability and was a first generation college student. “I tell students in my class… I have dyslexia… that I came from a single mother in the projects,” Day said. “It's harder for AfricanAmericans but many of us have come out of (bad) situations and achieved so much.” Day holds a PhD in Social and Clinical Psychology. Most of his 40-year-career has been devoted to working with at risk youth. He enjoys teaching young people and according to Behavioral Sciences Department Chair Jennifer Carlin-Dawgert the feeling is mutual: “Students love him.” Day teaches psychological theories by relating them to students’ lives. “Dr. Day is forcing me to think,” said City College student Pillon Lee . “He reminds me of a really cool coach. A psychology coach.” Students new to behavioral sciences appreciate Day’s approach. “He makes me look more into myself, my choices, my personality and how it affects others,” said student Rafael Hernandez . Another City College student, Steve Rivera, said he expected “a lot of roadblocks” but found Day’s instruction easy to comprehend. Day connects class topics with personal experiences. Memories of racial profiling during segregation brought tears to his eyes. When he was 5 years old Day,
his mother, brother and sister took a bus to Florida to visit family. “I’m from Detroit but I have extended family in Florida because I was born there,” Day said. On the way they stopped in Tennessee and passengers left the bus to get food at a cafe with Day and his brother following the crowd. “And we're not noticing race or anything,” Day said. His brother entered the cafe but before Day could follow his mother grabbed him and insisted to bring his brother back outside. “As I walk in... you see all these faces staring at us.” After getting his confused brother to leave the cafe they returned to the bus and a new passenger came on insisting Day was in his seat. “This is the early 60s… blacks can sit anywhere on state buses,” Day said. “All of the frustration and anger my mama had, she just took it out on this white man. He's turning red and saying you don't know what you are. And she's saying I don't care what I am, this is my son's seat.” The bus driver told the man to back off but the incident frightened Day and his siblings. Day used this story to explain the impact of early childhood trauma, “Once a child's sense of safety is taken away you can never give it back and that was a thing truly lost for me and my siblings that day." Day also discloses the difficulties he faced as a student with a learning disability. “I know that there are many students... dealing with so much shame and denigration. And when
I tell them that I have a learning disability I can see that a burden gets relieved,” Day said. “There are many bright people that you might think are lazy and not motivated but really struggling with learning disabilities.” Day did not blame individual teachers. “The structures of our institutions make it hard. Many students fall through the cracks.” He was one of those students. "I never got above a C average in high school,” Day said. “It would take me hours to read a chapter.” College was about real, strenuous mental work for Day. “I never thought I was smart. I was just determined and hot headed and focused.” In graduate school Day kept putting off writing his dissertation until a colleague suggested Day might be dyslexic. “I felt like I got slapped in the face,” Day said, but went to get tested anyways. “It turned out, yes, I was dyslexic.” He understood his learning process differed from the norm and he was able to write his dissertation with some help. Despite the limitations of dyslexia Day feels he gained from it. “I am both frustrated by and appreciative of it.” Adding that he thinks society should be more accommodating. “We don't fight for (disabled) students in an adequate, consistent, workable way,” Day said. “We're not talking about giving people gifts, we're just talking about supporting people in having a chance at a fair, decent life.”
Photo by Gabriella Reni
City College Psychology Professor Dr. Terry Day works closely with his students who are often inspired by his life experiences Photo by Gabriella Reni
Dr. Day obtained his Bachelors Degree in Psychology and African American Studies at Howard University then continued on to obtain his Masters and Doctorate Degree in Social and Clinical Psychology from The Wright Institute Photos by Laurie Maemura
Simone Mancini held his first artist reception featuring "Rome Noir Series" at Gallery Obscura on Ocean Campus, April 6, 2017.
By Laurie Maemura lmaemura@theguardsman.com
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man smoking a cigarette while looking down cleaning vegetables at the farmer’s market. And sometimes he needed to rest, Mancini added. He pointed to another photograph of an older man who was in mid-walking action through a narrow cobblestone street. “I just waited for someone to walk by and I got the the shot,” he said. Although the particular European locality of his photographs may not be easily recognizable, Mancini's noir theme is indefinitely mysterious to the observer. The towering buildings with exposed pipes, narrow cobblestone streets with scarce lights, single subjects with focused expressions, multiple subjects
and shadows passing through on a stroll all combine to deliver a melancholy consciousness about his photographs. The uncertainty of each photograph’s location gives Mancini’s audience a good reason to question exactly how long he explored the city during his night walks. “I like black and white because of the tough contrast,” Mancini said. With no placards or caption to describe the photos in his gallery, Mancini said he prefers it that way. “Leave it to the picture. You see it, you can imagine. I prefer to give the observer the idea and let them wonder.” “Rome Noir Series” is held from Mar. 23 to Apr. 22, 2017 at the Gallery Obscura in City
College Ocean campus and available for all students to come and enjoy.
Photographer Simone Mancini
Yefim Cherkis Scholarship recipient and City College student photographer Simone Mancini held his first artist reception on Apr. 6, 2017 at the Gallery Obscura within City College. Jazz songs of Kurt Rosenwinkel played while observers walked from image to image, sipped wine and nonalcoholic beverages and snacked via the provided charcuterie board. Hung on the stark white walls of Gallery Obscura is a collection of ten street photographs from Mancini's October 2016 trip to Rome, Italy. A showcase entitled “Rome Noir Series.”
According to a labeled gallery wall Mancini’s objective was to “give importance to moments that usually go unseen from the viewer that they deserve but with a touch of noir, like an old black and white movie.” Mancini described his visit to Rome like it was yesterday. He recalled roaming within a half mile of the central and historical areas such as Campo Del Fiori and Piazza Navona, accompanied by his Fuji X-Pro 1 camera and 35mm and 50mm lenses. Mancini took to the streets both in day and night. “Italians are accommodating if you play the tourist. Other times you have to wait for the moment,” Mancini said as he stood in front of one of his photographs. The subject was focused on an older
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Iron Chef Modeled after Food Network’s Iron Chef, CCSF’s Iron Chef Competition heats up as students prepare various gourmet dishes in the Statler Wing on Ocean Campus.
By Julia Fuller jfuller@theguardsman.com
There is an unspoken passion amongst students as they rush to prepare personalized plates using various culinary techniques at The Chef’s Table at Pierre Coste Dining Room.
Grab your apron and fire up the grill, the CCSF Iron Chef Competition on March 24, 2017 left chefs inspired to become the next Julia Childs. The Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies Department presented the cooking event to benefit the students through scholarships, funding and job opportunities. Students raced to carefully carve out cucumber pieces for a spring flavored appetizer and delicately braised pieces of lamb for entrées. The goal was to create a three course meal comprised of different unique flavors and delicacies to impress the panel of judges and win the Iron Chef title along with a Samurai sword that serves as a trophy for the victor. Culinary competitor dices cilantro in preparation for his dish to be presented to the judges panel.
A savory dish has its last garnishes placed before being taken to the judge’s table.
Challenging culinary techniques are used to provide artistic interest to a dessert delicately hand plated.
Despite the competitive rush among fellow students, the chefs proudly presented their dishes to the judges with a smile.
A panel of culinary experts sit down to compile and discuss results before declaring a winner for the 2017 CCSF Iron Chef Competition brought to City College students in part by NEWH The Hospitality Industry Network.
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Vol. 163, Issue 6 | April. 12 –April. 26, 2017
Zodiac Forecast
By Adina Pernell
Illustrated by Elena Stuart
The City College Cryptic
The Riddler
1. What asks but never answers? 2. The manufacturer doesn't need it, the buyer doesn't want it and the user doesn't know that he's using it. What is it? 3. A seven letter word containing thousands of letters? 4. I know a word. Six letters it contains. Take one away, And twelve is what remains.
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Have Your Say:
By Quip Johnson
He/Him
“What do you know about gender-neutral pronouns and would you use them if you met someone who uses them?”
She/Her
Stefano Freccero business “I know lately it’s been a very hot topic. English isn’t my first language and in Italian I don’t know what the equal to gender-neutral would be. But I really think that if it makes the people who use them comfortable, then they deserve for us to make a little effort for them to feel that way.”
He/Him Wren Yee political science “I know they are used to refer to someone who is non-binary or identifies as agender, instead of he or she, which tend to be associated with the genders of male and female respectively. I also know in German people use the pronoun ‘sie’ which means just ‘you’ instead of being gendered. And yeah, it’s up to that person as to what they want to be called and whatever they say- that’s how you refer to them.”
Terra Robertson business “They’re what you should default to if you don’t know what pronouns someone uses. You should just default to them automatically. I always try my best to use the correct pronouns. Also, if I don’t know which ones they use, I tend to just use their first name to refer to them instead of a specifically gendered term. Everyone feels best when they’re addressed with their appropriate pronouns, so it’s no different for someone who is gender-neutral versus a male or female. It’s not that difficult. It’s really too simple to not do it.”
He/Him Dallas Kingsbury finance “I work in the Mission with a lot of people who are in all different parts of the LGBT community.
I think it’s a personal choice if you want to use them if you want to use them for yourself. I had a roommate who told me, ‘Gender’s not what’s down there; it’s what’s in your head.’ As a straight, white male I really try to respect that so people don’t think I’m the stereotype of an intolerant person. I just tend to use ‘you guys’ a lot, because it feels pretty gender-neutral. You’d have to be pretty close-minded to not respect pronouns.”
She/Her Paola Brigneti No major “I’ve actually never heard of different pronouns before. It’s kind of like with babies I guess. You don’t assume what its gender is; you ask the parent. So I mean, this is the first I’ve ever heard of it, but I think it seems pretty easy to just ask and be open to learning.”
Do you know what's in your weed? By Robert Jalon rjalon@theguardsman.com
Now that the cash cow has been set free, medicinal marijuana patients can get “weed” anything, making San Francisco one of the cities with the easiest access and lowest prices for these goods. The popular dispensary finding app called WeedMaps lists 13 dispensaries and 10 to 12 delivery services depending on the days of operation. It’s safe to assume many more are due to bud up over the next year due to the passage of Proposition 64 which effectively legalized medical marijuana in California. High potency baked good of all varieties including pistachio lavender macaroons, pumpkin madeleines and mint white chocolate blondie bars are all examples of how far the menu has expanded from the the days of the simple special brownie. The savory side isn’t far behind either, having miso shiitake weed broth, cannabis infused sunflower oil and pizza on offer. Don’t forget the marijuana itself. The weed is much stronger due to the demand for more intense highs. To meet this demand growers have started to increase the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is the chemical responsible for the intoxicating effect of the plant, while decreasing the amount of cannabidiol (CBD).
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These two chemicals are the principal agents in marijuana, however THC slowly taking dominance in the equation isn’t necessarily a good thing. In the study “High-potency cannabis and the risk of psychosis” conducted by The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP) who said THC was “the main psychoactive ingredient” in marijuana. The same study concluded THC
“produces transient psychotic symptoms and impaired memory in a dose-dependent manner.” CBD on the other hand “does not induce hallucinations or delusions, and it seems to antagonise the cognitive impairment and psychotogenic effects caused by D9-THC.” In other words, CBD balances out the negative effects that THC might produce as a side effect in
Illustration by Elena Stuart
users. Another study by the BJP called “Effects of cannabidiol on schizophrenia like symptoms in people who use cannabis” said CBD “has been found to be anxiolytic and to have antipsychotic properties and may be neuroprotective in humans.” These studies concluded that habitual marijuana users who smoke weed heavily predominant in
THC and low in CBD for a prolonged amount of time might be getting high at the expense of their mental health as the risk of psychosis increases “among people who are frequent cannabis users, and among those using sinsemilla (skunk).” Menus of San Francisco dispensaries such as the Green Door, the Apothecarium and Urban Pharm have various high potency strains which contain around 22 percent THC and other dispensaries have strains on offer that are approaching 30 percent THC levels. The majority of these marijuana strains have a lower percentage of CBD compared to strains with THC levels. These menus also show various CBD heavy strains on offer with virtually no THC, proving that San Francisco is lucky to have access to all types of strains for all types of marijuana palettes. The article “High-potency cannabis and the risk of psychosis” warned “public education about the risks of heavy use of high-potency cannabis is vital.” By arming themselves with education about the effects and content of their weed patients should be better able to medicate responsibly and safely.l Ultimately it's up to the patient to choose which strain is best for them depending on their doctor’s recommendation.
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Rams hit their stride By Robert Jalon
rjalon@theguardsman.com
Track and field season is well underway and the City College Track and Field team has been winning meets, heats, relays and reaching records. Ana’staja Fulbright won both the 200 and 400-meter events and the Rams won the men's 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relays at the Johnny Mathis Invitational held at San Francisco State on February 24 and 25. Rodney Morgan tied the state record in the high jump at 6 feet and 9.75 inches. The freshman also placed first in the long jump with a distance of 21 feet and 6.75 inches.
Freshman Anthony Ismail also won his heat with a time of 50.76. Elijah Allen set the tone for the Rams at the Hornet Invitational held at Sacramento State March 17 and 18. The Sophomore won heat number 4 with a time of 22.37. Freshman Ray Warren won heat number 5 with a 51.54 mark. City College is back in action at the NorCal Multi event on April 11. The event at Santa Rosa Junior College will see the Rams start preparations for the conference championships on the twentieth of the month at Ohlone while also looking ahead to the state meet coming up May 19. Photos by Craig Mandall
Freshman Rodney Morgan attempts a high jump at the SF State Johnny Mathis invitational on February 24, 2017. Morgan would later tie the state record for the High Jump at this invitational.
City College won both the men's 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relays at the Johnny Mathis Invitational held at San Francisco State on February 24 and 25.
Freshman sprinter Anthony Ismail sprints to the finish during his race at the Johnny Mathis Invitational held at San Francisco State on February 24 and 25. Ismail would win his heat with a time of 50.76.
Sports Calendar
Baseball
April 13, 2017 Mission v. San Francisco 1 p.m. @ City College April 15, 2017 Chabot v. San Francisco 1 p.m. @ Chabot April 18, 2017 Chabot v. San Francisco 1 p.m. @ City College April 20, 2017 West Valley v. San Francisco 1 p.m. @ City College April 22, 2017 West Valley v. San Francisco 1 p.m. @ West Valley
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April 25, 2017 San Mateo v. San Francisco 2:30 p.m. @ San Mateo
Badminton
April 11, 2017 De Anza v. San Francisco 3 p.m. @ City College April 13, 2017 Skyline v. San Francisco 3 p.m. @ Skyline April 20, 2017 Mission v. San Francisco 3 p.m. @ Mission April 25, 2017 DeAnzav. San Francisco 3 p.m. @ DeAnza
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