Vol. 163, Issue 7 | April 26, - May. 10 , 2017 | City College of San Francisco | Since 1935 | FREE
Photos by Jordi Molina/The Guardsman The City College Southeast Campus located at 1800 Oakdale Ave. on the corner of Phelps Street on April. 14, 2017 remains beloved by the Bayview community.
Relocation proposal?
The inside of the City College’s Southeast Campus invites students with light that streams through above skylights on April. 14, 2017.
Future plans for Southeast Campus remains cloudy
By Jordi Molina
Special to The Guardsman
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has had their eye on the City College Southeast Campus for quite some time and have stressed that they will take into account the needs of the surrounding communities. However it now appears that SFPUC has not been open about what plans they have for the Southeast Campus. For years SFPUC has expressed a desire to relocate the Southeast Campus to Evans Campus while renovating and turning the Southeast Campus
into their administrative building. SFPUC has been open in the past regarding their aforementioned plans, though they have appeared to be stagnant for quite some time due to negative responses from the community and neighborhood. The Southeast Campus has served many within the Bayview community by providing very important programs and services which have resulted in increased enrollment at the campus and higher levels of education. It has been a great service to the community however by moving it to the Evans Campus it will temporarily remove programs and classes which
affect the everyday lives of the surrounding Bayview community. A year ago SFPUC said that they would take into account the communities thoughts and opinions regarding the Southeast Campus takeover. It has been some time and there has yet to be a recent publicly held meeting on whether they will still be taking over the Southeast Campus. Many people who work within the Southeast Campus and live in the neighborhood have not heard from SFPUC for awhile on their plans. The Southeast Campus Librarian, Karen Chan, who has worked there for eight years is one
of many people who has not heard any recent updates about SFPUC’s plans. “I think first of all they have to understand the needs of the neighborhood.SFPUC does not take community input,” Chan said. The Editor of the San Francisco Bayview newspaper, Mary Ratcliff, has been active within the Bayview community and has much criticism about SFPUC’s proposed takeover of the Southeast Campus. Ratcliff said, “they have always had their eyes on that building and this is an ongoing battle against City College.” Ratcliff also mentioned that they tend to not stick to what they
say they are going to do. During the funeral of Dr. Espanola Jackson, a long time Bayview activist and important figure of the community as a whole, SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly said that they will honor Dr. Jackson and that they will help the community, yet there has been no action or further mention of these promises. “It's a long lasting battle but it doesn’t appear we will win,” Ratcliff said. SFPUC has not put out any plans or responded to our attempts to reach them. The fate of the 1800 Oakdale Ave. building known as the Southeast campus remains uncertain.
City College joins Jazz appreciation month -page 6
Inside this issue City College Mechanics service their cars in classroom -page 9
Diversity makes a difference By Quip Johnson
qjohnson@theguardsman.com
City College states that diversity is an important part of the student body and campus programs but the concept itself is difficult to define. City University of New York defines campus diversity as being
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“along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs and other ideologies.” City College does not have a standard definition of diversity but individuals can form their own
opinions of what it really means. “I define diversity as differences,” Learning Disability Specialist Ellen Conaway said. “I've met with students ranging from 17 to late 60s in age. Diversity continued on page 3
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Calendar Events Do you have any City College events that you would like included in The Guardsman calendar? Send event information to info@theguardsman.com
The Monument Quilt
Saturday, May 6, 2017 @ 12:00- 4:00pm City College Football Field, Ocean Campus
The Monument Quilt is a “growing collection of over 2,000 stories from survivors of rape and abuse-written, painted, and stitched onto red fabric.” It's an interactive artwork whose goal is to foster a community of support for rape and abuse survivors. The event is hosted by City College Project SURVIVE a program focused on sexual abuse prevention and education. Volunteers are needed for three hour shifts on the event day. For more information, contact Leslie Simon at lsimon@ccsf.edu, or 415-239-3899.
Design Week
May 15-19, 2017 Batmale Hall 246, Ocean Campus
The Department of Architecture is hosting Design Week in the middle of May featuring exhibitions done by City College students. Batmale Hall Room 246 will be welcome to drop-ins the 15 and 16. The open house exhibition will be on Friday, May 19 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in both Batmale Hall Room 246 and the nearby courtyard. Attendees can expect to see a range of final projects including structures and interior space concepts.
Send Silence Packing April 27 @ 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Cloud Hall, Ocean Campus
News Briefs Metro Transfer Academy assists students Because community colleges are often a stepping stone to either a California state university or a California university, the structure is usually more lenient. With this flexibility, it is easy to misstep on the road to transferring. Metro Transfer Academies offers “extra tutoring and advising and other support” in completing GE’s and transfer requirements. Metro’s targeted beneficiary includes those who are first generation, low income and/or historically underrepresented, a demographic most likely to go off track. This includes AB540/ undocumented students. Students will acquire critical thinking, reading, writing, and mathematical skills to master their courses. Beyond core courses, Metro also offers support in departments like health, education and social services, science, design, media arts, and communication and diversity studies. City College hosts two Metro office locations: one on Ocean Campus, the other on the Mission Campus. The Ocean Campus Metro office is located in the Multi-Use Building (MUB) room 352. The Mission Campus Metro office is in Room 124. Metro accepts online and printed applications. To find more in-depth information and the application, visit www.ccsf.edu.com/metro, e-mail the organization at metro@ccsf. edu or call the Ocean campus at 415-239-3513 and the Mission campus at 415-452-5237. To apply online, visit http://www.tfaforms.com/360771. -By Hanna Chen
San Francisco joins Tax March The Tax March Organization marched alongside a nationwide protest for Donald Trump to release his tax returns. Last Saturday, Ann Pruett, and her chicken sporting organization marched on Market Street to demonstrate the demand of Donald Trump’s taxes. Approximately 10,000 people met at San Francisco City Hall and marched. San Francisco was one of 150 cities across the U.S. that took part in the movement. An inflatable chicken is the mascot of the Tax Marches, with a golden hair doo and an angry look blow up on the balloon resembling President Trump. Attempted comment about the President’s dishonesty about releasing his taxes as well as the overall current political system. “We are upset about the President’s actions and his refusal to release his taxes, he needs to show his business ties as well as conflicting matters because we don’t trust him,” said protester Diane Picciotti. Trump continues to deflect the repeated requests for his return and even goes so far to tweet that the protesters are paid, with no evidence. Trump is the first party nominee since 1976 not to release his tax forms prior to the election. -By Julia Fuller
The City College community is encouraged to congregate in the plaza between Cloud Hall and the Students input sought on potential improvements Science Building to witness an exhibit that will display Tides of change are rolling in with the announcement of plans to review, reform and improve the 1,100 backpacks representing the 1,100+ college California Community College (CCC) system. The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) students who commit suicide each year. The event is hosting a widely accessible virtual bulletin board open for input from anyone invested in the CCC system, travels, hosted nationally. including all students (credit or noncredit) and faculty members. For further information visit: http://sendsilencepacking.org
East Meets West Series 2017
April 26- May 11 Rosenberg Library & Learning Resource Center, Ocean Campus
The Rosenberg Library together with the Learning Resource Center and in partnership with the Concert & Lecture Series have combined forces to deliver the campus a series of lectures and performances to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. For more information contact Suzanne Lo at 415-267-6505.
The objectives of this project is to “articulate the importance of the CCC’s for a public audience, identify clear goals for the system, and provide broad recommendations about how to accomplish those goals,” wrote Eloy Ortiz Oakley. With a clear draft of the necessary steps towards goals, the produced document will serve as reference for the Chancellor’s Office and Board of Governors over the next few years. The “Virtual Town Hall” will be open until May 31. All organizations as well as individuals are encouraged to share their suggestions for strategic improvement on the online forum found at https://foundationccc. org/Strategic-Vision-2017. If you have a vision for the school’s direction, be sure to have your voice heard by contributing feedback on this forum. -By Hanna Chen
College's Foreign Languages department renamed "World Languages and Cultures"
Previously known as the “Foreign Languages” department, this school faction has converted its title to “World Languages and Cultures.” Over the past 20-30 years, various language teaching departments at other institutions have already made the title conversion from “Foreign” to either “Modern” or “World” Languages. Examples feature neighboring schools, such as California State University Monterey Bay’s “World Languages and Cultures” department and San Francisco State University’s “Modern Languages and Literatures” department. The catalyst for this change is due to the fact that the languages taught at City College are not foreign to the continental United States. Prior to British arrival, colonization from non-English speaking countries took place under Spanish and Russian rule in the 1700s. Large Chinese populations arrived during the Gold Rush and construction of the Transcontinental Railroad of the 1800s. In more contemporary timelines, many San Francisco residents continue to grow up with non-English languages as their first language. These include Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian, Pil (also known as Tagalog) and even American Sign Language. Carol H. Reitan, chair of the World Languages and Cultures department, has stated “The addition of ‘Cultures’ is to highlight the cultural aspect of languages and to include our culture and civilization courses that we offer (most in English - some in Spanish and Chinese).” Attaching cultures to the end of the department’s title, the purpose is to acknowledge the livelihood that often accompanies the variety of world languages. -By Hanna Chen
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Nurse practitioner Mary Redfern is showing City College Student Brenda Chu how to deal with pain she’s feeling in her arm.
After 24 years as a nurse practitioner at City College Mary Redfern gives City College Student Brenda Chu medical advise.
Photos by Elena Stuart/ The Guardsman The City College Health Center is located next to the Art Extension building on Ocean Campus.
Highly impacted CCSF Student Health Center seeks additional funds to increase its overall services By Elena Stuart
estuart@theguardsman.com
Limited funds increase the rift between available resources and inpouring patients to the City College Student Health Services center. “It’s a perfect storm, we're going to do the very best we can to maintain the services we have,” Student Health Services Program Director Becky Perelli said. Between the cost of goods, services, personnel and the decrease in enrollment the center’s financial reserves may be depleted by next year Perelli fears. “Unlike most other college resource programs we are funded solely by the student health fee,” Perelli said. “We do not get any state monies because we are not a mandated program.” Charged every semester upon Diversity continued from page 1 Students are from different parts of the world, the country, the state and the city. Students are of different colors and backgrounds.” City College’s Diversity Collaborative consists of African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Disabled Students Programs and Services, Interdisciplinary Studies, Labor and Community Services, Latin
Staff Illustrators Quip Johnson Photographers Isela Vazquez Alma Ayala
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registration the health fee has been $17 since 2009 and will increase to $20 next spring yet there are students unaware of the change. “There’s a health fee?” said student Rachel De Libertis. Ultimately Libertis found the fee fair and the increase reasonable. The center offers testing for sexually transmitted diseases, family planning and a variety of other services. “I know that you can go for information about [intercourse] and getting tested,” said De Libertis. Aside from a few exceptions such as immunizations, student visits are free of charge and the the brightly lit waiting area by the reception is well liked by students waiting for their appointments. Perelli wants the center to address all dimensions of health and provide related information to students by hosting monthly events
and emailing a newsletter to the student body. “I get the emails but I don't really read them,” student Erik Elfaro said. Elfaro hasn't required the center’s services but is still willing to pay the fee. “It’s a good thing if I need it,” he said. Returning student Keith Miller didn’t remember the center’s location but had “used it back in the day.” Despite some students not utilizing the center patient inflow is high. Students have experienced long wait times trying to reach the center via telephone and some voicemails weren’t responded to. According to Perelli there were “glitches and technical difficulties with the phone lines.” She assured the issue was being addressed. The mental health department
is especially impacted by the influx in patients. In urgent cases procedures are in place to allow student admission immediately; otherwise students are put on a three-week-long waitlist for an appointment with the mental health department. “We continue to check with people on the list on a regular basis to see if they need help,” Perelli said who thinks the onrush of mental health patients is due to increased awareness of mental disorders and decreased stigmatization. “I wish we had more services to offer,” said Mental Health Counsellor Bayla Travis. “Putting funds here will definitely benefit students.” Being able to access both medical and psychological services at the center is a significant benefit because overlaps between medical and psychological issues are common.
“We don't want to be applying psychiatric interventions when it’s a medical issue,” Travis said emphasizing the importance of having other departments at her disposal. “I saw a patient today who was here for therapy and told me she had [physical pain].” Travis was able to transfer the student to a nurse practitioner. “She was seen within an hour.” Student Health Services Department Chair Paula Cahill appreciates being able to provide City College’s diverse student population with medical assistance and health education. “If they have a sore throat or cough or whatever's going on we do [everything] we can to get them the care they need.” She believes in helping students succeed by maintaining their health. “What we do here is really important,” Cahill said.
America and Latino/a Studies, LGBT Studies, Philippine Studies, and Women’s Studies. The college website describes the Diversity Collaborative as “departments devoted to gender, sexuality, class, and disability studies benefited from the victories of the Ethnic Studies movement.” Ethnic studies have been an important part of City College’s curriculum since 1969 when San Francisco State and UC Berkeley held the Three World Strikes
which led to the creation of Ethnic Studies programs in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Co-Chair of City College’s Enrollment Management Committee Carole Meagher believes City College’s ethnic diversity is particularly strong due to its location in the city. “We know large cities are more ethnically diverse than small towns and rural areas,” Meagher said. “If you fill a hat with only white
marbles, you’re only going to pull white marbles. But if you fill it with multiple colors, you’ll pull a more diverse handful.” It’s fairly easy to visualize ethnic diversity via enrollment data the school acquires each year and Meagher released a copy of the breakdown by percentage. Department Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies Edgar Torres celebrated in an email the increased percentage of Latino students at City College,
with the campuses maintaining a percentage above 25 percent for the second consecutive semester. “Ethnic diversity is something unique that sets America apart from other countries,” music major Johann Santos said. “It cultivates acceptance and empathy for people who may be different from you or come from different walks of life.”
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Graphic gowns radiate Project Survive’s message by Alma Ayala
aayala@theguardsman.com
City College’s Project Survive discussed strategies for identifying unhealthy, toxic relationships in a classroom presentation offering resources and information to help students end interpersonal abuse and violence. Since April is rape awareness month, Project Survive has set up the ReDressing Injustice Installation located on the third floor of Cloud Hall from April 327, Monday through Thursday. The purpose for the dress exhibition is to raise awareness as well as to address gender, class and race exploitation initiation from drug wars and sex trafficking. The display included nine dresses were set up to honor the memory of the thousands of raped, murdered and vanished women in Mexico, Guatemala and Canada where women have always been in the bull’s eye. For purposes of ambiguity artists names did not appear with
last names. The first dress of the exhibition is called “Untitled” by Cynthia. It’s Cynthia’s 8 grade black graduation dress that has “Viva La Mujer” written on the front and other decorations. It served to symbolize an accomplishment Cynthia would
have never achieved without her parents’ sacrifice, which like many left their homeland behind to start a new life in the United States. The other purpose for her dress represents “peace,” Cynthia said. “Even though decorating a dress isn’t much, I believe it helps keep
the memory alive of all the fallen victims of injustice.” Out of the nine dresses up for display there is only one top that is a button down shirt with print all over and bloody roses attachedbecoming a strong message for the opposite gender.
Photo courtesy from the Project Survive Facebook . Members supporting Project Survive walk down the streets encouraging people to join.
It’s to honor the memory of men brutally murdered in drug wars in Mexico and the cities of the United States including San Francisco. The print represents newspaper headlines that represent the violence on the border. The blood stains and roses representing the lack of flowers not left on their unmarked graves. The last detail is dripping blood like the tears from from their departed souls. Finally one of the dresses that caught my the eye was a black, yet colorful dress with chains and a blood stained veil attached to it by Ashley. The dress honored the women who disappear with no explanation. The stained veil served as the fight women go through daily. The chains expressed women captivity following comfort with her freed energy. Ashley explained that the dress she chose was to remember her own pure spirit that came with memories of her grandma on Sundays, or when she took a similar dress to a school dance.
Mexican journalist Carmern Aristegui labels Trump a bully By Gardenia Zuniga-Haro gzuniga@theguardsman.com
More than 200 people from all ages and ethnic backgrounds gathered in the Sibley Auditorium at UC Berkeley to hear Mexican “explosive” journalist Carmen Arestegui speak on the Mexican Trump perspective on Friday, April 21 at sunset. “Vivimos en tiempos que nos estan haciendo bully, y esto solo han cido 100 dias de el ser presidente”, Aristegui said. (We live in times where we are being bullied, yet it’s only been 100 days of him being president.) The crowd was thrilled and gave her a round of applause as Aristegui walked in the auditorium. She spoke in spanish however there was a translator provided throughout the conversation. The auditorium room was over capacity and the event was streamed LIVE into the hallway sitting area too. Throughout her conversation she mentioned how absurd the “Muro” (wall) was and how it will create more tension between the U.S. and Mexico, something that affect us all including City College students. “We are never building
a wall,” Aristegui insisted while the crowd clapped and cheered in agreement. The fact that Trump has an agenda to affect Mexico with immigration, the wall and our ecommerce is terrible Aristegui said but that’s why on May 1 we must proclaim that we are a strong community, insisting that a show on that date would bring value to the Latino people. “Just like there was a Day Without Immigrants’ recently, well they better get ready because May 1 will be bigger and better,” she continued as she described how there will be a huge immigrant march across the nation. “Our voice will be heard with the symbolism of our actions that day and with this massive expression of our voice, we will prove to him that we have rights and a voice that needs to be heard.” She discussed in her speech that many people have described current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto as a bit “warm” and “small” with his role as President. The crowd laugh while she continued and asked the audience to shout out a word that described the Mexican President.
Photo by Gardenia Zuniga-Haro/ The Guardsman Mexican Journalist Carmen Aristegui spoke to hundreds of people on her perspective to stand against Trump's actions on April. 21, 2017.
“Pendejo!”, “cobarde!”, “gallina!”. (Idiot, coward, chicken), the crowned said. In 1948 a very significant document was signed that is repeating the history in a Trump era. “Trump has awaken this sentiment that Mexico has been hiding for a while,” Aristegui said as she continued to explain “it was the
Photo by Gardenia Zuniga-Haro/The Guardsman A diverse crowd of all ages and races attended Aristegui's event at UC Berkeley on April. 21, 2017.
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Mexican invasion in the United States.” She described how this was originally Mexico’s land and how they have the right to claim it back but the Mexican President has the final call to make this decision which will help us reclaim what belongs to Mexico. “It is important to look the initiatives that Trumps agenda has to see how we can strengthen our ties between the U.S. and Mexico and together try to create a better democracy,” Aristegui said while talking about the impact that Trumps 100 days in office has had. She spoke in regards the “fake news” epidemic has had on journalist across the nation in which she attributed to being largely created to distract us from the real agenda that Trump has while we focus on figuring out how many real facts are in the “fake news.” “It is true that Mexico has a problem with organized crime. And how Trump can see this as an opportunity to target our country but the United States has it too. They just hide it under it, under
that radar,” said Aristegui as she continued to speak on the Mexican perspective of Trump. She made an impact when she said that the behaviour that Trump has had in the past 100 days is alarming, pointing out that what Trump did overseas with Syria and comparing it the potential of the same tactics being used in Mexico. The audience gasped and some even shook their head in agreement that Aristegui was right. “Do you think it's a coincidence that those people wearing black and provoke violence have other goals then to express their political views? They are not just here to stop a Republican supporter when they come to town,” Aristegui said as she described the recent protest at UC Berkeley who made the conservative author Ann Coulters cancel her event. Now it has been rescheduled to May 2, the day after the massive immigrant event is scheduled to occur nationwide. “They are warning us that something big is coming and we need to be prepared,” Aristegui said.
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Trump vs the Media
Campus poll reveals First Amendment knowledge By Zachary Donnenfield Special to The Guardsman
City College students participated in a study conducted by “The Guardsman” calculating their collective knowledge and opinions of President Donald Trump and his relationship to the mass media revealing that the majority believe Trump is not justified in his attacks on the press. The study was conducted by the City College Journalism Department who polled a total of 90 students by asking six questions that served to gain a better understanding of the campus’s knowledge of the First Amendment and whether Trump is infringing upon their rights. The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Out of the 90 students polled,
26 percent knew what the First Amendment pertained to while 22 percent reported they did not know what the First Amendment was at all, leaving 51 percent who could only cite the Freedom of Speech as being part of the First Amendment. As a result many students felt like they didn’t have the authority to speak on some of the harder hitting questions reporters asked like, “What do you know about President Trump’s threat to curtail First Amendment rights?” Some students like graphic design major Tyler Albreksten, 30, described how exhausting it is keeping up with the news surrounding Trump. “I mean it’s really hard to keep up with media and Trump,” Albreksten said. “ I have to take breaks sometimes for personal and mental health reasons, but I know it’s happening.” President Trump’s comments and stances have been shrouded in controversy since he announced his plan to run for presidency in 2015. Since capturing the vote, Trump’s hostility towards the mass media has escalated to his coining
of the term “fake news” used to target and label many respected news outlets like “The New York Times.” When asked if Trump was justified in his attacks on the media illustration major, Simon Lee said “no.” He added: “He’s basically taking whatever he doesn’t agree with or finds insulting and he denying that it’s even real. It’s just lies, and made up.” 92 percent of students polled agreed with Lee in his assessment that Trump is not justified in his attacks on the media, with the remaining 8 percent declining to comment on the topic. Of all questions posed to students “do you believe freedom of the press is a critical ingredient of a democratic society," was the only one to be answered in solidarity amongst all 90 participants with a resounding “yes,” seeing it is a critical component of democracy. Collectively the campus students felt that without free press you have biased news and citizens should retain the right to hear both sides of a story.
Info-graphic by Karen A Sanchez
City College entices residents with Free City
By Bethaney Lee
Photos by Jordi Molina/ The Guardsman
blee@theguardsman.com
San Francisco residents flocked to City College’s citywide Open House hosted to inform potential students of Free City, a program creating tuition free college and help with the admissions process on April 21, 2017. From nine to noon all ten campus invited several incomers with welcome pamphlets and general City College information in hopes they would return to enroll.
Fall 2017 Classes Start August 21
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19: Contemporary News Media 9:10 – 10:00 a.m. Health Center 203 Gonzales 21: News Writing and Reporting 10:10 – 11:00 a.m Health Center 203 Gonzales 22: Feature Writing 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 Rochmis 23: Electronic Copy Editing 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 218 Rochmis 24: Newspaper Laboratory 12:10 – 1:00 p.m. BNGL 615 Gonzales 26: Fundamentals of Public Relations 11:10 – 12:25 p.m. MUB 160 Gonzales 29: Magazine Editing & Production 6:30 – 8:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 Lifland / Gonzales 31: Internship Experience Hours Arranged BNGL 615 Gonzales 36: Advanced Reporting 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. MUB 170 Gonzales 37: Intro to Photojournalism 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 Lifland 38: Intermediate Photojournalism 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 Lifland
Fall 2017 Classes Start Kamille Hitz, Fashion Department Chair, shows City College Student Diana Cruz allAugust the different fashion 21 classes and how they can benefit her on April 21, 2017.
JOUR 19: Contemporary News Med M W F 9:10 – 10:00 a.m. Health Center 203 JOUR 21: News Writing and Report 76162 M W F 10:10 – 11:00 a.m Health Center 203 JOUR 22: Feature Writing 72111 T 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 JOUR 23: Electronic Copy Editing 77048 R 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 218 JOUR 24: Newspaper Laboratory (From Left to76882 Right) AlexMGuiriba, City College and Kristin Charles W F the12:10 – 1:00Ram p.m. BNGL 615 show their support and pride of City College on April 21, 2017. JOUR 26: Fundamentals of Public R 74606 T R 11:10 – 12:25 p.m. MUB 160 JOUR 29: Magazine Editing & Prod 75930 M 6:30 – 8:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 JOUR 31: Internship Experience 72312 Hours Arranged BNGL 615 JOUR 36: Advanced Reporting 77641 W 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. MUB 170 JOUR 37: Intro to Photojournalism 76939 W 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 JOUR 38: Intermediate Photojourn 77642 R 6:30 – 9:20 p.m. Mission / Rm 217 76160
Josephine Loo, City College Learning Assistance Center Faculty, helps guide a student in Conlan during the open house on April 21, 2017.
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New Orlean’s jazz culture revitalizes City College By Laurie Maemura
lmaemura@theguardsman.com
In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, City College's Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management (CAHM) and the CCSF Jazz Musician's Club held a joint event in the Pierre Coste Room on Apr. 13, 2017. The culinary department was inspired to cook cuisine from New Orleans and asked the CCSF Jazz Musician's Club to play French Quarter jazz songs since the city is the birthplace of jazz. With 30 people in attendance a combination of students, department faculty, and family members were present to support. Nine tables were set with black linens, gold, green, and purple fake coins and a bowl of nuts on top. Black,
silver and gold balloons were clipped with French Quarter street signs on the walls. A photo booth area with New Orleans' costume gear was available to wear for photographs and an area with a ‘what is one thing on your bucket list?’ On the menu, New Orleans staples of grits, muffuletta, desserts and apricot cardamom drinks were made-toorder by the culinary students. As the audience dined on the delicious food jazz music played over the loud chatter. The jazz event was an assignment for the class Event Planning 208 which combined students from all the paths and covered the extensive production of catering. "I try to replicate the real world work when they leave City College. Every semester, former students
email me saying the terms and forms I've taught helped them for their current catering job," faculty instructor Barbara Hines said. But being a caterer is not as easy as many think. Distinct responsibilities must be delegated in order to drive an efficient workflow with multiple teammates and overlapping of duties should never occur, according to Haines. Dressed in formal wear, City College student Adrianne Bisco studies hotel management and represented as the host of the event periodically checking in with Hines and her classmates to verify the event will go as planned. “It's so fun. We set up a budget months ahead and follow our project timeline. Everything from the balloons to cooked foods to linens were either made, bought, and
Photo by John Ortilla/ The Guardsman Katsumi Asazawa, center, plays a guitar solo during the band’s performance of “Saint Louis Blues” by W.C. Blues in the Pierre Coste Room on April. 13, 2017.
ordered. It's not make believe, it's legit,” she said. As the audience dined on the food, they clapped when members of the jazz club made a grand entrance to begin the show with the famous romantic song, "When The Saints Go Marching In" by jazz musicians Katharine Purvis and James Milton. In their first set of five songs, each musician had his or her own talented solo as the audience danced in their seats. The band covered songs by Edith Piaf, Marguerite Monnot, Sidney Bircher, W.C. Handy, Peter Chatman, Duke Pearson, Ben Bernie and Eddie DeLange. Ranging backgrounds from a variety of brass and string instruments, the 12 members played in unison at times and gave spotlight solos to each member. Individuals who played drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, vocals, saxophone, clarinet, trombone and French horn were all present during the performance. The jazz members included Adina Pernell, Laetitia Pulpito, Ferdinand Hartanto, Dianne Douglas, Van Mares, Elijah Pontecorvo, John Lou, Megan Wegmann, Samara Bennett, Alex Balmaceda, Tsubasa Ohkawa, Frank Phipps and Kastumi Asazawa. The newly fresh club president Wegmann who played the keys said it was only this semester when Music 13A class was cut from the program and turned into a student club, naming it the CCSF Jazz Musician's Club. "It wasn't a choice, it was bound to happen," she said. Like the caterers with their responsibilities, Wegmann's is to facilitate, grow, and learn with the musicians. "We collab. Everyone has a say, a responsibility," Wegmann said. Looking ahead, she would like to bring in local jazz musicians and hold educational workshops for the members and anyone else interested in learning about jazz. When asked about how she feels when she hears or plays jazz music,
she said "excitement, tickled by the little jokes." Both first timers of City College club events that incorporated education and music, Kristie Barchas, girlfriend of bassist Elijah Pontecorvo and City College alumni '09 Adriane Pontecorvo, sat at one of the crowded tables. "The way they set up, food tickets, marching into a packed room was great, friendly, and enthusiastic. [The musicians] were having good energy and it's fun when they improv," Pontecorvo said as Barchas agreed. When asked if she recommended events on campus to other students, Adriane Pontecorvo said, "people are in a wide range of different phases in school and with life experiences. I understand it can be difficult to attend." City College Computer and Informational Technology professor Bill Hong and his wife Pam were in attendance to support the culinary department. "We have creative and innovative students." He believes the fundraiser is special to the major and department but wishes the department to continue to do more outreach and publicity since some "students don't know about it." When jazz club advisor David Hardiman Jr. plays or listens to jazz music he said, "I feel great. Very free. Expressive. Open." His favorite jazz influences are Louie Armstrong, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Freddie Hubbard. Hardiman Jr. has been playing the trumpet for 54 years and counting and was a long-time trumpet player in St. Gabriel’s Celestial Brass Band. He toured European countries such as Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, England for six months in 2003. His favorite jazz influences are Louie Armstrong, Fitzgerald and Freddie Hubbard. You can catch the City College Jazz Musician's Club at the Spring Jazz Concert on May 9, 2017 at the Diego Theater with special guest George Spencer.
Photo by John Ortilla/ The Guardsman Left to right, Frank Phipps, Van Mares, Ferdinand Hartanto, John Lou and the band performs “When the Saints Go Marching In” by Katharine Purvis and James Milton Black as the opening song in the Pierre Coste Room on April. 13, 2017.
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Swell start-up delights campus
Longtime friends and now business partners open new shop
By Otto Pippenger opippenger@theguardsman.com
For the past five weeks students at City College’s Ocean Campus have been greeted by the bright chrome of a 1965 Airstream Caravel trailer parked outside the Diego Rivera theater. Inside that trailer is Swell Ice Cream & Coffee, a new business run by longtime friends and now partners Ta Zatana and Benson Chiu. From 8 a.m to 5 p.m. on weekdays the food truck offers pastries, double rainbow ice cream, drip, espresso and pour-over coffee from local coffee vendor Ritual Coffee Roasters. Benson has taken an ice cream making course through Penn State and hopes to offer new flavors of his own in the near future. Chiu was eager to discuss the quality of their coffee, “we use only 80 point and up coffee beans - the specialty coffee scene is about roasting to the first crack. If they’re
Photo by Otto Pippenger/ The Guardsman Owners and business partners Ta Zatana (left) and Benson Chiu (right) featured with menu in front of Swell Cream & Coffee April 17, 2017.
low quality roasting longer helps to mask the flavor, we only roast to the first.” Ratana a former engineer and Chiu who had been working in digital media are long time friends who had dreamed of opening a coffee shop ever since 2010 visit to Thailand as part of a church group brought them into doing non-profit work for at risk Thai youth. Their organization Re:Acts Ministries provides housing and necessities for the children of Thailand’s hill
tribes who come into the cities for work or education but often find themselves without community support or housing. According to Zatana, their initial plan was to open a coffee shop in Thailand in order to offer work to those young people while purchasing coffee from their farmer parents and reinvest the profits in their ministry work. “That’s a big step,” Ta said “so we decided to practice here first.” The pair said that profits have
been rising every week since they filled in last minute as a vendor in early March 2017.“This is week five and we’re still building, which we’re very happy about,” Zatana said. Swell’s proprietors hope to assume a regular contract at the end of this semester but said the matter is still undecided. Kathy Hennig, Dean of Administrative Services purchasing department said that “they’re wonderful people with a very good product” but she
also added in an interview that the small product range may present a stumbling block to Swell’s continued presence here. “We’ve met a lot of very cool people,” said Benson “getting to know faculty and student’s names and their aspirations. City College has been good to us so far and we hope the community here likes us enough to have us back.”
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Book Review
City College’s history unfolds in
“The Campus History Series” By Diana Chuong dchuong@theguardsman.com
City College is more than just a community college as authors Julia Bergman, Valerie Sherer Mathes and Austin White revealed in the Arcadia local history book, “The Campus History Series.” City College was formerly a school for juvenile delinquents which later became a jail. However the school’s founder Archibald Jeter Cloud was successful in his vision in transforming it into a junior college. In 1946 City College was placed among the first 10 of the best educational institutions in America by “Look Magazine.” The school was also ranked first in the state as well as eleventh in the nation in 1950. The book takes the reader through a montage of black and white photographs as it tells City College’s rich history. Since it opened its doors in 1935 the campus and its faculty have given their heart and soul into the students as well as the college. The school has been fortunate to have dedicated members since the very beginning to help transform it into the wonderful institution it is today.
Q&A What Inspired Everyone To Write The Book? “It was CCSF’s 75th birthday. I thought we needed to do something and the college had no money so I suggested to Julia that we put together an arcadia of the history of the college because they pay for everything. All we had to do was put in our time."
How long did it take to compile everything?
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“Overall it took less than a year because I paced myself, but I do wish we had more photographs available. The archive wasn’t that detailed. We had people bring in photos. I didn’t want to concentrate on teachers of departments because I wanted the main focus to be something that would last indefinitely; something that wouldn’t go out of style.” “We wanted to have it as broad as possible to show the departments, the buildings, the time period, to show the student activities. We wanted to show something that didn’t have to be re-done and would stand the test of time.”
How were the photos collected?
“I went up to the archives in the library. I looked through magazines for photographs. Once we had the photos we knew how to tell a story because you can’t tell a story unless you have photographs. Once we’ve selected, we can decide which story we want to tell.” “We select the photographs first and see what we have the most of and then you organize a chapter around that. It’s the photos that limit you to the topics.” “We chose not to do it by departments, but rather time periods. We did all the buildings on campus because. Julia had a lot to do with gathering information on the Diego Rivera so we made it into an entire chapter. She’s the one who selected all the photographs for that section. Some of the photographs already had captions, but we had to make up the ones that didn’t.”
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What were some issues you faced writing along the way?
“The problem though was there were some wonderful photographs that we couldn’t use or were in pamphlets so we didn’t have copies of them. At one time, the college was part of the SFUSD so Julia went down to the public library and chose photographs -however, we did have to pay for those” “There were a lot of photographs we would not use because we didn’t have a copy of it and they couldn’t make a copy of it since it was a pamphlet. We just didn’t have a large enough collection.” After reading the book, it seems City College was always ahead of its time in terms of being the first in the coast/ country to start certain departments and studies. How does that come to be? “It probably has to do with the faculty we drew here. A lot of people, even with PhDs, come to City College because they wanted to live in the City. I’m going to assume the reason we’re ahead of everything is the because of the faculty and the passion they brought here.” “I think San Francisco draws people who want to live here and if you teach at a Community College and you’re teaching one class or two classes...subject matter and you have to repeat yourself, you’re going to want to have something different to do so you come up with these clever classes and new departments.”
Where do you plan on going from here? Are there possible new books in the future?
“Yes, I already have a co-authored book on the California Mission Indian Agents that’s going to be published in October by the University of Oklahoma press. I’m also working on a biography of Charles C. Painter who was the Washington D.C. lobbyist for the Indian Rights Association.”
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CCSF Mechanics
Put it into drive
By Bethaney Lee blee@theguardsman.com
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Photos by Karen A Sanchez/ The Guardsman
Tucked away through a series of corridors and far in the back of City College’s Evans Campus is a unique space that welcomes its students with the sound of clanging metal, the gritty scent of motor oil and a spacious expanse full of various dilapidated vehicles. The night class assembled together on April 17 at 6:30 p.m. operating like a family under the instruction of veteran mechanic Frank Gagliardi who has taught within the City College Automotive Department for 46 years. Gagliardi said the classes were first offered under John O’Connell Vocational School under the San Francisco Unified School District becoming a City College class in the 1980s. In Gagliardi’s garage there are no blackboards but students are welcome to drive their personal vehicles straight to the front of the class. Byron Mejia, 28, is the owner of a 2009 Honda Accord whose silver paint gleamed against the stark light cast from the industrial buildings large, overhead bulbs. Mejia is in his first semester as a City College student and brought
his car into class for a transmission fluid change. “It has over 140,000 miles since the last change. That’s no good. Needed to be changed at 100,” said student Juan Carlos Herrera as he stepped beneath the looming car to assist. Hoisted high on a lift sat Mejia’s Accord where instructor Gagliardi was demonstrating for the class how to remove a particular bolt in order to release a gush of black cherry colored fluid from the belly of the engine. Fog clouded the safety glasses of the on-looking mechanics that instead of taking notes and flipping through the pages of a book, wore gloves and held wrenches and shop-lights. With a few jolts, a thump and a twist the bolt was removed. “And there it is,” said Gagliardi as the transmission fluid continued a steady downward stream into a bucket held by Mejia. “That’s going to take a minute,” he added. In a haste the instructor left the Accord and walked from the lift until hovering over a grey 1997 Buick Lesabre “Custom,” added its owner Curtis McEldry, 37. McEldry brought his Lesabre because he noticed water leakage during the week courtesy of the heavy April showers in San
Byron Mejia, 28, works on his car at the City College Evans Campus during an automotive course that teaches students basic auto maintenance on April 12, 2017.
Francisco this year. “You have to take all this out and get some liquid rubber,” Gagliardi said to McEldry while analyzing the repair. “Some what,” McEldry asked inferring what to get at the store. “Liquid rubber, from the store. You know? It comes in a tube and you just squeeze it here,” said Gagliardi while running his finger down the length of the windshield where the glass met the chassis. “Yeah, yeah. In a tube, alright. I’ll get it for next class,” McEldry said. “All you do is let it set for a while
and you’ve done it,” Gagliardi finished. Removing himself the instructor went back to his work on Mejia’s Accord. Having remained busy, Mejia along with other students had completed putting the bolt back on and were ready for Gagliardi to check their work. After getting Gagliardi’s approval the class watched the car drop down slowly, the intrusive sound of the lift subsiding after the tires hit the pavement. Aiming to complete the job students worked together replacing the fluid, holding the light and funnel. “You put it all in yet brother man,” McEldry asked Mejia. “Yep,” Mejia said hopping behind the steering wheel. “Go ahead and start it,”
Gagliardi said and following his instructions the engine roared to life. “Put it into reverse. Now, put it into drive. Go forward. Go back,” he directed. “How does it feel?” “It feels good,” Mejia said. Class dismissed late that night but not after having helped the grease stained students obtain a grade while learning to service their own vehicles. “I believe that learning should be fun and that the best way to learn is through handson experience,” Gagliardi said. Mejia and McEldry left their classroom that evening in a fashion unbeknownst to most City College students, with their instructor seen waving goodbye in the rear view mirror.
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Students from the Automotive courses help each other learn and work together fixing basic car problems on April 12, 2017.
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Zodiac Forecast
Illustration by Elena Stuart
STAFF EDITORIAL
Up a creek and without transparency By Elena Stuart
estuart@theguardsman.com
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Between budget cuts, free tuition and the potential of an armed campus police- the City College community finds itself in a very confusing, or rather confused state. Many students appear to be unaware and others are shocked by the college administration’s lack of transparency on current college junctures. City College is lucky to have student activist groups fighting for student rights. Among these groups is the CCSF Solidarity Committee. The members of the committee are persistently working to reclaim and rebuild City College for the sake of its students. On March 22 the committee held a teach-in at the Multi-Use building (MUB). During the meeting students, faculty and local activists informed the audience of recent and ongoing occurrences at City College. Many spoke out passionately against equipping campus police with firearms at the meeting. Participatory student committee member of The Associated Students Executive Council, Teresa Villicana, said she saw a powerpoint presentation about arming campus police. “I told the chief [of campus police] when he presented the powerpoint, I'd really like for him to go to every campus and show this to everyone, to every student and have a meeting,” Villicana said. “He said yes but he never did it.” Villicana said students at the Mission campus are really upset by the idea of having armed police. “We've been without guns for so long, why do we need them now?” Indeed, why do we need them now? At the teach-in Ardel Thomas, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies department chair expressed her frustration with the college’s choice to spend money on arming police while limiting finances for diversity studies. Thomas referred to a differently abled transgender student on mission campus who was followed by a campus police officer out of class and into a school restroom. There the officer told the student she was in the wrong bathroom. “He pulled her out of that bathroom and shoved her into the men’s room,” Thomas said. “I can’t help but think what would have happened if the officer had had a gun.” Thomas was also concerned for her students of color. “I have a young man who is African American dealing with Tourette's syndrome,” Thomas said. “And if you don't know what's going on with him, what happens with the shoot first ask questions later attitude?” With so many students frightened by the idea of armed police it is unclear who the firearms are meant to protect. What violent crimes on campus would justify the presence of an armed force and why haven’t we heard of them? Talk of cutting classes and closing facilities with free college tuition just around the corner seems to be a counterproductive endeavor. We don’t have all the answers at The Guardsman but we will continue to keep the City College community informed because knowledge and the spread of information are the most powerful tool to promote equity and social transformation.
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No No Power Rangers By Robert Jalon rjalon@theguardsman.com
The era of nostalgia is upon us and America is hardcore reminiscing about the good old days. Nowhere is this more apparent than in cinema. Reboots and live action offerings are bringing back old favorites and introducing younger fans to movies they missed out on like “Red Dawn”, “Point Break”, “The Magnificent Seven” and “Power Rangers.” For anyone growing up in the 90's the show “Power Rangers” had it all. A diverse cast, martial arts, a cool group of friends, robot dinosaurs or zords and a great theme song. Power Rangers became one of the most famous and profitable children's franchises of the era on these virtues. The franchise ran for 24 television seasons, spawned 20 different themed series, produced two movies and had millions of kids in America shouting: "It's Morphin Time!" The rangers were so beloved they went on their own stadium concert tour; a combination stage show that featured choreographed dance fight scenes and cheesy songs characters would randomly break into. A buzz started building about a new film in 2015 after a fan film directed and co-written by Joseph Kahn starring James Van Der Beek went viral. It was unexpectedly edgy and showed “Power Ranger” fans how well made a new feature length movie could be. Franchise creator Haim Saban would reward millennials everywhere for their dedication by announcing that a new “Power
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Rangers” reboot would be released in 2017. I was at the Los Angeles stadium concert show back in the day and I recently saw the new “Power Rangers” movie. In both cases, they could have been done without. The film is directed by Dean Israelite never made up its mind whether it wanted to be dark and gritty, or campy and silly. It opens with a large departure from the original show. Zordon was shown as the first Red Power Ranger. He had just lost his entire team of rangers trying to defend the Zeo Crystal, a creator and destroyer of worlds, from the Green Power Ranger gone rogue Rita Repulsa played by Elizabeth Banks. Knowing he'd lose to the Green Ranger, Zordon blew up Rita, himself and the power crystals, the ranger’ power source in a
final sacrifice. Fast forward to present day. The tried and tested origin film formula showed the soon to be rangers in their hometown of Angel Grove. Three out of five rangers were introduced as outcasts that find themselves thrown together by fate and their various mishaps into detention similar to the movie “The Breakfast Club." Indeed, the “Power Rangers” producers stated the aforementioned film heavily influenced their movie. Indeed they liberally borrowed from “The Breakfast Club." A series of dubious plot points brought all the rangers together at the site of the film's opening explosion where they obtained the power crystals through an explosion of their own. The five new rangers found their way to Zordon and were informed they were the new
rangers. None of them wanted to be rangers and it was apparent that their mentor Zordon didn't want them to be either. Fans of the old rangers will almost certainly dislike a cranky, neurotic portrayal of Zordon by Bryan Cranston who was so bent on avenging his dead ranger team he failed to guide or train the new rangers properly. The movie wasted a perfectly good training montage opportunity. The Rangers openly mocked Zordon and the Red Ranger, played by newcomer Dacre Montgomery, showed none of the leadership qualities the character is known for. He defied Zordon's directives and sent the rangers out on a suicide mission that only succeeded in getting the Blue Ranger killed. In typical Hollywood fashion, the rangers got it together and made up with Zordon who then
brought the Blue Ranger back to life. The rangers overcame their fears and they used their zords for the first and only time in the movie to defeat Rita. Weak writing aside, the movie’s special effects were a visual treat. If the viewer goes in with the understanding they’ll be watching a fun but not particularly well made movie, it will be enjoyed. The reboot also deserves praise for being the first iteration to have an LGBTQ and an autistic character. Overall no one would have missed this movie if it hadn’t been made but having grossed $128 million worldwide and with better than expected reviews, Saban has already announced a seven movie story arc. Looks like we’ll have a chance not to miss the sequels as well.
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City College crushes Mission in Badminton
Michelle Wong hits a shuttlecock across the net during her match against Mission College at City College on April 6, 2017.
By Patrick Cochran pcochran@theguardsman.com
Easter Polar plays against Mission College during her singles match at City College on April 6, 2017.
Easter Polar congratulates her opponent from Mission College after a singles match. on April 6, 2017.
The City College women’s badminton team had a dominating win over Mission College on April 6. The Rams didn't lose a single game all afternoon, beating Mission by a combined score of 21-0. It was a perfect shutout. Head coach Monique Calvello was pleased with her team’ performance. “Today the team played very well,” Calvello said. “We didn’t let
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up any of our games and we won that 21-0, so I am very proud of the way we played.” The star for the Rams was without doubt sophomore Rainie Dang. A small but very active player with bright blue hair and a beautiful swing, Dang is a force to behold on the court. In both singles and doubles matches she overwhelmed her competition and made it look easy at times. Dang is usually in the Rams second slot, but with star player Bin Cheng out with injury Dang filled
in at the top slot with no problem whatsoever. “We have a very tough week coming up, we play the number two team in our conference De Anza and also have to go against Skyline. So today was all about preparing for next week,” Calvello said. With the win the Rams move to 2-2 overall and our second place in the Coast Conference. Photos by John Ortilla/ The Guardsman
Rainie Dang sets up her serve during singles match on April 6, 2017..
West Valley works Rams 13-6 By Otto Pippenger
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In one of the final baseball games of the season City College’s Rams lost to the West Valley Vikings 13-6 who smashed their way into an early lead that lasted the whole game. Read the full story at theguardsman.com
Sports Calendar
Baseball
April 27, 2017 San Mateo v. San Francisco 1 p.m. @ Mission
Badminton
May 5 & 6, 2017 San Francisco v. TBA 5 p.m. @ Fresno Conference Finals
Tennis
State Tournament April 27, 2017 TBA v. San Francisco
TBA @ Ojai, CA
Events
Coast Conference Championship April 26, 2017 @ Prelims at Hartnell- Finals at Monterey Apr 26-29 State Championships All-Day at East L.A. College (May 4-6) Norcal Trials May 5, 2017 at De Anza College
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