The Guardsman takes on JACC Spring 2023

By Lolie Mahe mahelolie@gmail.com

The Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) held its annual state convention from Thursday, March 9 to Saturday, March 11 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco near the Embarcadero for yet another year of, “various parts of the state bring[ing] together students and faculty from member schools across the state for speakers, workshops, contests, meeting and more” as JACC shares on its website. The event is co-sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press and the California College Media Association.

Current and former staff of The Guardsman attended, enabling some to leave with awards in the on-the-spot or publication contests. JACC Awards were distributed on March 11 at the hotel and five were awarded to staff of the Guardsman.

For the mail-in contest, in which advisors would send in contents of a publication for competition prior to the date of convention, Sarah Clayson placed both first and third for the Editorial Cartoon, Tyler Lyn Sorrow placed third for the Illustration and Janna Velasquez placed fourth in a tie with Pierce College’s Nancy Corona in the Environmental Portrait. City College’s second-year Sarah Clayson began working for the Guardsman after taking an Illustration class. In the class, Clayson met Juan Gonzales— chair of the Journalism department— where he encouraged students to support the school paper with their gifts in illustration. Clayson has then been a service for the Guardsman, and attended the conference for the first time ever this year at the invitation of Gonzales.

JACC Awards, continued on page 2 with the registration system. I have been working with students before my student trustee role. I was working with students through various resource centers. So that's where I have originally heard of the registration problems," Villalobos said. "The system that we use now, we have identified that it's not working for students. It creates a lot of red tape."

Villalobos has raised these concerns to the registration committee and top administrators to address this issue. But ever since, "it hasn't really fixed the system. It seems like there's just bandage over bandage over

[the] bandage. This has been going on for quite a few years," he added.

Villalobos revealed an ongoing district-wide vetting of a new registration system to resolve the chronic registration issues. However, its implementation is not expected in the upcoming summer and fall 2023 semesters. With the new registration system, Malinalli hopes that this will alleviate the problems they have been hearing from the students.

Villalobos further stated, "investment for the registration system has to be bigger for it to work. Because if it's not, it's only putting a band-aid on the problem. And we're full of band-aids. We want solutions that make it easier for students to register."

Villalobos added that other ways to help students are forums open to the City College community to hear direct feedback from students.

For assistance with registration, students can visit the Registration Center in-person services at MUB 130 from 9 AM to 5 PM every Monday to Thursday. They also have a virtual help counter from 9 AM to 12 PM every Monday and Wednesday, 1 PM to 4 PM every Tuesday and Thursday, and Friday from 9 AM to 12 PM and 1 PM to 3 PM.