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Riverside residents beamed with pride as city leaders discussed past challenges and the recent economic and cultural growth of the city at the 39th State of the City address, delivered by Mayor William “Rusty” Bailey. “Three years ago, I stood before you as a new mayor of a city recovering from a Great Recession,” Bailey said. “Today, I stand in front of you a little older and a little grayer, but confident in the solid economic and cultural state of our city.” Bailey delivered a speech on new initiatives in Riverside, including job creation, educational attainment, infrastructure investment, public service and safety. Approximately 1,100 people were present at the Riverside Convention Center Jan. 28 for the event. Construction and Project Development The Riverside County Transportation Commission has invested over $1 billion in 48 construction projects across Riverside over the last 15 years, the mayor said. “Those are long term actions we should celebrate.” Residents gave a thunderous applause for the completion of the two and a half year project,
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which opened an entirely new lane for traffic. The project was completed in October. Management and Leadership Riverside unanimously elected John Russo as the new city manager in February last year and Gary Guess as city attorney. The mayor praised Russo and Guess in anticipation of their contribution to the longterm success and development of Riverside, as well as the management team’s dedication to fiscal responsibility. Riverside extermination business owner
John Burnard also was welcomed to Riverside City Council, bringing a “small business perspective to the table,” Bailey said. The city also hired a community and economic development director, city planner, building official and six additional planners to facilitate development in Riverside. “I believe that everything rises and falls on leadership,” Bailey said. “Our city is rising because of the leadership team that this council hired. Their commitment to working with
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council members on strategic planning proves that this city is moving forward and not looking back.” Economic Growth In 2015, Riverside was named one of four winning U.S. cities in the U.S. Small Business Association “StartUP in a Day!” competition. Over 100 new small businesses open each month, Bailey said.nd the small business sector in Riverside is growing rapidly. The city received a
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Riverside Community College District is in the process of combining elements of WebAdvisor, Blackboard and student emails into one easy to use portal, which will be called “My Portal.” Students from Norco College, Riverside City College and Moreno Valley College participated in a survey on WebAdvisor to help choose a new name for the portal. The options included “RCCD Connect,” “My Portal,” or “My College Portal.” The process is being funded by U.S. Department of Education Title 5 Developing Institution grant awarded in 2012 and will be split up into phases to ensure the implementation of the new system goes smoothly. The initial phase will allow students, faculty and staff single sign on access to WebAdvisor
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and student email. After this initial phase is completed, access to Blackboard, student email and other tools that students, staff and faculty use will be added on to enhance communication and collaboration. “The portal is based on current, standard technologies that are more in line with what users expect from a web presence,” said RCCD Director
of Administrative Application Scott Tracy. “(The portal) allows for a great deal more flexibility to students, faculty and staff as it’s use expands.” Riverside City College students, such as Francisca Aparicio-Martinez, feel that the change can make checking their accounts easier. “I think it will be easier because for me it’s difficult sometimes to remember which
one I’ve been checking daily,” Aparicio-Martinez said. “If it’s one website then it would be easier to check all three things at once.” Other students prefer the simplicity of WebAdvisor and the way it is now. “It’s really easy to use, it’s really basic,” said RCC student Ana Rivera. “I think basic is a good thing when you have so many things.” Tutorials will be available to ensure students are properly introduced to the new portal and know how to use it. “We believe the portal is more intuitive and will be a relatively easy transition for people,” Tracy said. “Nevertheless, we do plan to make support and training videos and documentation available.” After two to three years of working on the portal, pilot groups will begin using the portal during spring 2016 to ensure it is ready to expand to larger groups of students.
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Important spring 2016 dates The last day for students to add a class during the spring 2016 semester is March 4. With the last day to drop the class with a full refund Feb 29. To drop a class without a “W” (withdrawl) put on your transcript, be sure to drop by March 6. The last day to drop a class with a “W” is May 13.
Sand Volleyball offered as new sport A new addition has been added to the Riverside City College women’s sports which helps the college comply with Title IX, sand volleyball is now apart of the sports offered at RCC, according to interim athletic director Jim Wooldridge. The head coach of sand volleyball, which is to be offered during the spring semester, will be Jamie Hoffman, the women’s volleyball assistant coach. The team is scheduled to visit Golden West on Feb. 26 at 10 a.m. for their first match of the season, according to the California Community College Athletic Association website.
Active shooter training An active shooter seminar is scheduled to be held on Feb. 18 at 12:50 p.m. in the Digital Library Auditorium. It is open to students, faculty, staff, members of the community, as well as staff members from other educational institutions. The seminar will feature strategies for deterring, detecting, delaying and possibly defeating an active shooter. Lessons learned from past terrorist attacks and active shooter incidents that occurred across the US will also be discussed. Those interested can register at http://svy.mk/1KaU3L3 An American Sign Language interpreter will be present at the event. For more information contact Sherry Colgan Stone, RCCD safety and emergency planning manager at 951-222-8566 or by email at Sherry.Stone@rccd.edu.
Hospital hosts fashion show Riverside Community Hospital will host its annual “Red Dress Fashion Show” on Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. at the Riverside Convention Center. From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., there will be a Heart Health Expo, complete with workshops and free screenings. Following at 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., there will be a lunch and presentation. Those interested in attending must RSVP by calling (951) 7883463 or registering online at www.RCHRedDressFashionShow. com. Ticket prices are $35 for general admission and $65 for VIP admission.
RCC celebrates centennial Riverside City College will celebrate 100 years with the grand opening of its Culinary and Coil School of the Arts buildings March 13. The Coil School of the Arts will showcase two short performances at 5:45 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., along with pieces from its art gallery and an RCC dance video. Culinary students will decorate a centennial-themed cake and have a fruit decoration and cutting demonstration.
Transfer deadline coming up The final day for all University of California transfer applicants to update their fall grades from last semester is Feb. 15. Students must log back onto the U.C. application website to update their common application due at the start of January, with their most recent grades and conformation of their spring course work. All applications are void without an update. Students must self-report grades until they receive a notification of acceptance or waitlist and then send in official transcripts from Riverside City
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As the spring semester begins Riverside Community College District interim Police Chief Colleen Walker is settling into her position and proposing changes that she believes will help the department go from “good to better.” One of the most recent changes to the organization of the RCCD police is its integration into the Department of Risk Management. Michael Simmons, director of Risk Management, now heads the administrative aspect of the police department and serves as its advocate to the chancellor and the Board of Trustees. “It was a recommendation that the risk management department made to chancellor (Michael Burke) and (he) understood the relationship the two departments shared, and it was a natural and almost organic function to combine the two,” Simmons said. “I think it’s a great idea for the (police) department, risk management and the district.” The Board of Trustees approved former RCCD Police Chief Jim Miyashiro’s retirement in November and he ended his employment in December. Walker enters the district after having served in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for 35 years. Despite her extensive experience in a municipal police setting, she said she is ready to learn the dynamic of policing a community college district. “I’ll be the first to admit that even though I have a lot of experience I don’t know everything and it’s important to me that I hear from the people around me whether it be the officers, students or faculty about things they think we should do differently,” Walker said.
She began as a dispatcher and realized that she wanted to “be a part of the solution,” so she decided to take her husband’s advice to follow her dream of becoming an officer and graduated from the police academy in 1980. “That was a time when women were very rare in the police force, something like one percent of the police force,” Walker said. “I’ve held almost every position you can hold all the way up to the under sheriff, the highest position that is not elected by the public. I supervised 4,200 people, with a budget of over half a million dollars and served the 7,000 square miles of Riverside County.” One of the issues Walker says she hopes to address during her time with RCCD is a lack of staff for the police department to cover the three campuses and off site locations. “We don’t have enough officers on the force,” Walker said. “I’m working on it, but it’s not going to change overnight.One of our officers is on bereavement, unfortunately, due to his wife being killed in the (Inland Regional Center) shootings in San Bernardino.” Riverside City College film student Luis Quiñonez agrees with this idea. “I see officers around campus and I feel safe,” Quiñonez said “But I do think that there could be more around.” Walker says it is her practice to always be in uniform when on duty to “set the tone” for a safe environment. “Anything I can to do be a force multiplier and increasing visibility of myself and other officers so that people will feel safer is important to me,” Walker said. ““Even putting officers on foot would help us to stay visible.” She encourages students, staff
and faculty to help, acting as the police department’s eyes and ears around campus. “Tell us if there is something that doesn’t quite look right,” Walker said. “You can’t always worry about being politically correct. You may not have to necessarily call 911, but call the dispatch and report what you see.” As well as visibility, Walker said she is working with RCC President Wolde-Ab Isaac to bring the locations of each division office of the department into one central area. As of last semester, parking services has been located in the parking structure while the rest of the police staff are located on the lower campus. “During my first 100 days ... I am trying to identify anything that I see as immediate needs that we have. Then identify what resources we need to put into play to get those things,” Walker said. “I’ve got a list of 29 different initiatives that I’m looking at from policies and procedures that are not as specific or not as up to date as I would like them to be, things that will protect the officer(s), protect the district and protect the public.” She said she is pleasantly surprised with how welcoming everyone in the district has been to her. Walker also mentioned how impressed she was by RCCD Board of Trustees President Virginia Blumenthal, for her achievements how she serves as an inspiration for female students. Blumenthal, who reached out to Walker to fill the interim police chief position, shared similar sentiments about Walker.
Initiative,” the Mayor said. The new Initiative will help jobseekers fill the 2 million jobs which are projected to open in the health care and technology industries by 2020. Riverside has partnered with Vocademy CEO Gene Sherman to provide workforce training and vocational skills to employees as the industrial “Maker’s Movement” spreads across America. Sustainability In response to Gov. Jerry B r o w n ’s i s s u e d d r o u g h t restrictions, Riverside will begin a recycled water project this year. The project is the first like it in Riverside in 10 years. Last year, Riverside City Council and Public Utilities Board also passed “Utility 2.0,” a ten-year, $1 billion plan to invest in infrastructure replacement, technological advancement and workforce development to support the utilities in Riverside. T h e n a t i o n a l S TA R Communities program once
again named Riverside a 3-STAR Community in 2015, according to a Riverside Official News Release in 2015. The city is one of two STAR-rated communities in California. Riverside’s Homeless Population “Riverside joined the national challenge to end homelessness amongst our veterans,” Bailey said. There were 86 known veterans living on the streets in Riverside at the beginning of 2015. In his address, the mayor announced that permanent homes were found for 89 homeless veterans by the end of the year. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, ACE Hardware and the Apartment Association assisted Riverside in its efforts to provide housing for the city’s homeless vets.
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$50,000 grant to further invest in small businesses. 2015 was a groundbreaking year in terms of private investment for improving existing buildings and housing in Riverside. Bailey said in his address that more than $17 million every month moves through the third floor of city hall for improvement of existing buildings and improved housing and $80 million of private investment has been dedicated already to developing new apartment housing-- the Imperial Hardware Lofts -- in 2016. Poverty “One in four children in our city lives in poverty,” Bailey said. “Yet, research tells us that the best way out of poverty is through economic opportunity--or plainly spoken--a quality job. Institutions of Riverside are collaborating on a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to create a “Tech-Hire
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W hen I tell people I’m beginning my fourth year at Riverside City College, they usually ask me how I haven’t gone insane. But for a few weeks around the start of every semester I get asked a different question, “how can I get off a waitlist?” Surprisingly it’s a question I’m pretty good at answering. I started at RCC in 2012 during a time of a lot of cutbacks, when the college was going through a serious overcrowding problem. I had a crappy registration date, which was about a week before classes actually started and any university-transferable class filled up well before then.
And this wasn’t just one semester. My registration date has been on the later end nearly every semester except for my fourth. At first my date was bad because of my lack of units and now going into my eighth semester, my registration dates have been sucking because I have too many units. In all honesty, the college’s position is far better off than it used to be way back during those dark days. However, there are still students who, for whatever reason, can’t seem to find an open class meeting their educational goal needs. So, if your registration date is as bad as mine usually is, know that I’m here to help. Let’s start off with the waitlist alternatives. There are plenty of classes available that generally don’t fill very quickly but are still transferable and fill general education requirements. The rule of thumb is classes with a class number below 50 are transferable, for example English 14 is a transferable class but English 60 is not. English 14 or American Literature I is not the popular requirement of 1A or 1B so it’s less known but still fulfills arts
and humanities requirements for RCC degrees along with California State University and University of California transfer requirements. Similarly less-known courses are offered ever y semester, like Communications 7 (Oral Interpretation of Literature) or Economics 9 (Poverty and Discrimination). They are off the beaten path but offer cool insights in different subject areas that fulfill transfer requirements. Furthermore taking these courses tell admission departments you have a unique perspective different from the typical applicants who only have intro classes on their transcripts. Another way to combat the dreaded waitlists is to snag a priority registration date. Sports and the college’s Honors Program offer the best registration dates. A nyone eligible to take English 1A can qualify to join the Honors Program, especially si nce t he well-respected Program Coordinator, Thatcher Carter is willing to waive GPA requirements for students who ask. Furthermore some really interesting Honors cou rses like Geography 1H or Politics
2H (Comparative Politics) are suffering from low enrollment this semester. However, if you’re not a spectacular student or you can’t toss a football there are also organizations on campus such as the Extended Opportunity Programs and Ser vices and the Student Support Services program both of which also offer priority registration to members. Now, if there is no other alternative and you have to get on that list, don’t worry, there’s always hope. First, you’re going to want to get on that waitlist ASAP! You can only waitlist one course of its kind so choose the one with the lowest waitlist count. But also remember that depending on the class, you could be No. 3 on the list and be denied or you could not even be on the waitlist and still be allowed to add. Which brings me to my next point, if you’re desperate enough then crash! Crashing a class is when you didn’t make it on the waitlist before it closed and still show up to the first meeting. Crashing a class takes a lot of bravery. Some professors will even go as far as to put crashing students
before waitlist or even enrolled students should they be late the first day of instruction so be sure to arrive early to every class you hope to add. Brown-nosing also never hurt anyone. If you arrive to a class early and the professor is waiting for things to start don’t be afraid to walk up to them and ask if they might be able to add you. Believe me when I say if the class you want to add is popular enough there will definitely be other st udents tr ying to add. These students are your competition. Get on that roster by any means necessary. D o n’t b e a f r a i d t o b e persistent either. Students have until the second Friday after instruction begins to add a class and professors will generally allow you to go to their class until then. Plus if you’re the last one trying to add still showing up to the class meetings then the professor may take pity and just give you an add code. Finally, if you do manage to get that add code just before the final add date, which this semester lands Feb. 26 then do no forget to add that class fast because after then you’re stuck out of luck.
“I feel good about it. WebAdvisor is kind of confusing. The kind of change I would like to see is making things easy to find. It’s kind of hard to find stuff like class schedules and all the things bundled up makes it harder, so I would like to see it made easier.” -Mariah Watson
“I feel like it’s a good start. We have older people trying to get back in (and) I feel like we should simplify WebAdvisor at the same time keeping it the core element of the program itself. If a class is closed it should appear last not first.” -Daniel Naldomano
“Well WebAdvisor right now, I don’t think there’s many problems. The only problem I have had with it are like of course registering classes on my start time; it crashes. Other than that I think it’s a pretty cool system.”
“Honestly WebAdvisor is fine just the way it is and I think that we don’t need to change it at all so yeah.” -Jesse Galvan
“If there is a new system I am definitely excited about that. I would like it (to be) a little more seamless. Right now there is a lot of menu options, I would like to see it a little more toned down. Not that I get lost but less clicking. That would be nice.” -Frankie Rodriguez:
“I think it’s a good idea. I would like progress reports in the middle of the semester. Like some people go through the semester thinking they have a good grade. So I think like mid term grades would be like a good thing.”
“It has to be more user friendly. It has to be expanded more because there (are) times when I go into the link and only certain times can I view the same page on a different website. Maybe a bigger server because sometimes there (are) so many students on at the same time that the system crashes, or (more) consistent maintenance on it.” -Humberto Alcarez
“Well I think it’s pretty cool because I have been here for about three years and it still looks the same. It’s a little bit too plain and sometimes it messes up a lot and maybe if they can make it where you can always get on and make it look more modern it would be pretty cool but thats about it.”
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Zika puts people on alert
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Underestimating the virus affecting thousands of infants Over 20 countries affected. 4 million predicted to be infected by the end of 2016. Nearly 4,000 infants born suffering from microcephaly in Brazil alone. A new mosquitospread virus has taken hold of the world’s attention with cases reported all over Central and South America and the World Health Organization declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the outspread of the virus known as Zika. Even President Obama has announced plans to ask Congress for over $1 Billion in aid to combat the virus. But are our local governments and community leaders doing enough to prepare for it? The culprit vector in question is the Aedes mosquito, known for spreading other diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and t h e now infamous Zika, which are all known to cause fevers, joint pain and dehydration among other symptoms. Named for the Zika Forrest in Uganda the virus got its start in monkeys before spreading t o humans and has sporadically popped up all over Africa and the Caribbean until just recently when cases skyrocketed. The problem with Zika is its effect on mothers-to-be, with infected fetuses suffering from a halt in brain development. In truth, infants presenting cases of microcephaly, or an unusually small head caused by slowed brain growth aren’t completely unheard of in the U.S. with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) reporting rates of between 2 in every 10,000 live births to 12 in 10,000, varying from state to state. With nearly 4 million babies born in the U.S. in 2013 that means we had an average 2,800 births of babies with an abnormally small head that year. The real fear however, is in the unprecedented spike of cases in South America with Brazil having only reported 150 cases of microcephaly in 2014 much less than the 3,700 cases found since 2015. The spikes of microcephaly in South American countries have been so daunting that the government of El Salvador has gone as far as to advise all of
its citizens against having children until 2018, and various countries including the U.S. to post travel advisories to South America. In the U.S. we’ve already seen i s o l a t e d cases of Zika, luckily n o n e involving
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pregnant women. One man in Texas drew headlines when he contracted Zika through sexual transmission, marking the only case of transmission occurring on U.S. soil. I n a much applauded decision Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in 5 counties after 12 cases were reported all across the Sunshine State. Since then 2 more were discovered. In nearby L.A. county there have been 2 people diagnosed with the virus. Like almost all of the cases reported in the U.S., contracted the virus after traveling abroad. It is Zika’s rapid spread which has prompted the W.H.O.’s issuing of a public health emergency and despite this move affirming the severity of the issue, many local governments have failed to even draw attention to the disease. Anywhere the Aedes mosquito is found should be preparing their citizens for possible outbreaks. Aedes refers to the mosquito’s genus of which many different species belong to including two of
the most common diseases spreaders Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Both of these can be characterized by their small size and black bodies with white stripes. Both A. aegypti and A. albopictus are notorious for being day-biters. They, like any mosquito can be found around any body of still water in warm climates and despite not being able to fly very far these insects have been found to transmit diseases in countries as close as Mexico. Members of the Aedes type have been found in various cities around Southern California including Riverside county and even though none of the state-side mosquito have transmitted the listed diseases we have yet to hear anything out of our local representatives about any possible threat they may poses or any precautions to take. Riverside City College’s position as an education center serving the local community puts a certain pressure on it to warn and educate female students about the possibility of the virus becoming present within the county. In South America cases of Zika affecting newborns are far more prevalent in poorer communities where women have less access to information and prevention resources. It wouldn’t be a stretch that should the virus reach us that it affect lower income areas worse which makes this more of a social issue as far as whether we as a community will offer help through information and awareness. We wouldn’t need a lot to start, pamphlets and brochures warning pregnant woman of precautions take like stocking up on bug spray and sleeping under bug netting. So far we’ve been lucky. People infected with the Zika virus have been detected and kept away from any possible bugs but it would not be hard to imagine someone who didn’t know they were sick to be susceptible to a bite. If we accept that the best offense is a good defense then we should be concerned now and not later when the virus has hit. Is Riverside doing enough to alert people about this very real threat? Does it really take a child being born different because of a virus for more people to start caring?
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The popular artist releases lengthy new music video “Freak” to fans in Los Angeles show DOMINIQUE REDFEARN
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For just five dollars a ticket, nearly 2,000 of Lana Del Rey’s dedicated fans had the opportunity to get into a once in a lifetime event at an event on Feb. 9 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Del Rey had tweeted on Jan 25. to announce that a music video for the song “Freak” from her most recent album “Honeymoon” would be “coming soon.” It was also mentioned that it was going to star her, musician Father John Misty and the women who appeared in one of her previous video “Music to Watch Boys To.” A week later it was announced that there would be an event to give fans the opportunity to
view “Freak” before anyone else at an exclusive premiere. This is the third event that Del Rey has held where she gives fans the opportunity to attend the premiere of one of her music videos. The venue did everything to ensure that only true fans were able to get into the premiere as they made it a paperless ticket event. Attendees had to present their credit card and ID to get in to prevent scalpers from reselling tickets. “This is to insure that as many real Lana Del Rey fans get tickets to the show and no one else,.” stated the Wiltern’s official Instagram. The tickets sold out in minutes. As soon as she stepped on stage she was welcomed by hoards of screaming fans. Many
in the front row handed her gifts and bouquets of roses once she came within arm’s reach to them. Del Rey began speaking about how much she had enjoyed when fans attended the premiere of two of her music videos previously and that it was why she was holding another event for the 10 minute long video for “Freak”. “I had so much fun when we did the “Ride” premiere and when we did “Tropico” but I was thinking, I know how long everybody stands outside and I just... I would feel weird if we didn’t sing a couple of songs” Del Rey announced to the crowd. Fans who only expected Del Rey to appear briefly to present the video and were amazed that they were being given the chance to see her perform a few of the songs that she said reminded her
of California acoustically. “ We ’ r e o n W i l s h i r e Boulevard already and this is a really important street for me” she said as she introduced her first song “Honeymoon.” She then performed “West Coast” and “Video Games” the latter was the song from her debut album “Born to Die” that put her on the map in 2012. After performing, the crowd was able to view “Freak” an hour before the rest of the world. The nearly 11 minute long video features the duo in a desert as Del Rey gives Misty acid to make him hallucinate. The video goes back and forth between his hallucinations of beautiful women surrounding him and him being alone with Del Rey. As the song ends, the other five and a half minutes show stunning
visuals of the women, including Del Rey’s sister Chuck Grant, from the video swimming and embracing with each other, and later Misty, underwater while Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” plays, this seemed to serve as a continuation of the video for “Music to Watch Boys To.” After the video ended, Del Rey surprised fans again and brought Misty on stage to discuss the video and how it was inspired by his acid trip at a Taylor Swift concert. She then thanked the crowd for waiting for hours to see her and that she would see them again soon. Del Rey has yet to announce any plans of touring for “Honeymoon” but fans hope that this event prompts an announcement soon.
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“Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning.”
Football players accomplishments come full circle
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The Riverside City College football coaches pose for a picture with some of the football players who signed their mid-year letters of intent, Dec. 16. LAURA M. TAPIA @LMTreporter
The Riverside City College football program welcomed one of its largest mid-year signing classes, on Dec.16, with 10 players walking into the hall of fame room in the Wheelock gym to announce where they had signed their national letters of intent. Head coach Tom Craft commended his players for a season of hard work and dedication to their academics and the game. “Ten guys, mid-year, there’s probably no other (college) doing that,” said Craft. “I’m proud of these guys. They’ve done a terrific job. They want to win, but they also want to transfer.” Among those committing to four-year programs was offensive lineman Dwayne Wallace, who committed to UC Berkeley overcoming obstacles such as coming from a foster home and being injured mid-season. Interim athletic director Jim Wooldridge acknowledged Wallace’s hard work. “He had to overcome a lot of odds to get to this point,” Wooldridge said. “The fact that
he’s not only transferring to a four year school, (but) he’s going to a UC, the flagship school in the UC system is quite remarkable.” Quarterback Kevin Olsen, brother of Carolina Panthers’ Greg Olsen, also dealt with his fair share of obstacles, after being dismissed from Miami Hurricanes football program following a DUI arrest, he bounced back through the RCC football program. Wooldridge said that although Olsen was only with the Tigers for a semester, the program helped give him a second chance. “This program and our head football coach provided the stability and opportunity to straighten some things out, Wooldridge said. “To be evaluated for that, good or bad. And as it turned out it was good and he got a four-year scholarship to (UNC) Charlotte.” Olsen, who had 98 completions for 13 touchdowns and 1,080 yards in nine games played for the Tigers said having family nearby was a key factor in choosing UNC Charlotte. “It was a home run there,” Olsen said. The Tigers’ defense was also well represented with linebacker AJ Hotchkins who finished
his sophomore season with 99 tackles. 47 of those tackles resulted in a loss of yardage for opposing offenses. Hotchkins, who played for the Tigers his freshman year, returned to the team as only defensive starter from the previous season, and was named as a unanimous selection for the All-Central Conference First Team Defense. Leaving 18 other offers when he committed to the University of Oregon, gives him the opportunity to reunite the linebacker with Jonah Moi who played with Hotchkins during his freshman year at RCC. The biggest takeaway Hotchkins wants other players following in similar footsteps to take is to be persistent. “Just get through it and try to stay on the right track and persevere,” Hotchkins said. RCC ended the season with an 8-3 overall record and a season-ending loss against the Saddleback College Gauchos in the Southern California regional semifinal. Although they finished in a three-way tie for a record of 5-1 in the National Central league. J a m e s H . Wi l l i a m s contributed to this article.
the head coach for the Tigers since 1990, has taken a leave of absence to tend to a family medical situation. According to RCC’s interim athletic director Jim Wooldridge, longtime assistant baseball coach Rudy Arguelles will assume the role as head coach. After suffering a loss on the road in the season opener to Cuesta College, the Riverside
City College baseball program has won its last five games, including the last three since Rogers’ absence. With two of the seven remaining games on the Tigers’ schedule in the month of February being on the road, the Tigers could enter Orange Empire Conference play with an impressive record if their winning ways at home continue.
Head coach to miss season JAMES H. WILLIAMS @JHWreporter
Just two days before the home opener against non-conference opponent, Grossmont, the Riverside City College baseball program was faced with some news that could greatly impact the 2016 season. Dennis Rogers, who has been
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JC Jackson (DB)- South Carolina Abraham Reinhardt (LB) Shiloh Pritchard (LB) Acquarey Eddington (LB) Dezmond Kaaihue (DL)
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Kyrion Parker (WR) KJ Young (WR) Jujuan Thomas (WR) Nate Ve’e (FB) PJ Walker (FB) Denzel Foster (RB)