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VOL. 99, NO. 3 OCTOBER 1,
2020
An Associated Collegiate Press two-time national Pacemaker award-winning newspaper, serving as the voice of the students since 1922.
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RCC softball team survives remotely Tigers find ways to keep team morale up through pandemic BIANCA MACIAS STAFF REPORTER
Typically, by this time of the year, most of the Riverside City College softball team has already met during the summer workouts that prepare it for fall and the spring season. This year, the team’s ritual for success has been exchanged with communication through
Zoom and their TeamSynced app as a result of COVID-19. “We have not been able to meet face-to-face in-person at this point to even have the opportunity to hold practices with social distancing in effect,” head coach Michelle Daddonna said about how social distancing has interfered with the team. “We are restricted to virtual workouts and practices.” Along with restrictions to the team’s workouts, Daddonna said
its recruiting process has been altered. Prospective RCC student athletes are submitting videos and emails to make initial contact due to the lack of in-person recruiting. The coaching staff then follows up. Daddonna said the staff has also reached out to travel ball and high school coaches with the team’s current position openings. The biggest struggle that the team has faced, according to Daddonna, is distance learning.
“Athletes are used to moving and not being at the computer for such long periods of time,” she said. The team gets to move during workouts, but she said it is not the same. “There are no high fives or verbal celebrations,” Daddonna said. “Being on the ball field, having the grass or dirt under
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Lucy Eaton, 21, performs at a concert in Berkeley, California in April 2019. Eaton transferred to UC Berkeley from Riverside City College.
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County seeks to bypass state reopening Supervisor’s proposal might cause state funding to be withheld CHEETARA PIRY ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors decided to postpone a vote that would bypass California’s guidelines and proceed to reopen the county’s economy by Nov. 3. They will revisit the proposal Oct. 6. “I would love to
open everything up tomorrow,”Supervisor Jeff Hewitt said. “But that’s not the way the world works when you have such a diverse society where so many people have fears and so many people have lost everything going through all of this stuff.” The plan, which was proposed by Hewitt, was put to a halt Sept. 22 despite over 100 public comments in support of reopening. “There is a false hope of
opening and being protected,” Supervisor Karen Spiegel said. “We cannot protect you.” The state moved Riverside County into the red tier of its Blueprint for a Safer Reopening on Sept. 22. This allowed retail stores to function at 50% capacity, museums at 25% capacity, and mall food courts at a reduced capacity. The phased guidelines proposed by Hewitt mirror California’s color-coded plan,
but would have had Phase 1 beginning Sept. 22. Hewitt’s Phase 1 proposed to reopen dine-in restaurants, wineries and breweries, places of worship, non-essential indoor offices, personal care shops and indoor shopping malls. Phase 2 would have begun Oct. 13 and would have reopened wedding receptions and group
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