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Film showcases history Football wraps up ALEXIS NAUCLER @alexisnaucler
Parades of floats decorated elaborately, streets filled with shiny cars, and a football field filled with carnival games. These are only a few of the many sights to see Nov. 7 for Riverside City College’s centennial celebration. One of the events commemorating RCC’s 100 year anniversary includes a Centennial Film. This film will be in the form of a timeline, going
over the history of the college. The film includes prominent people involved with the school, the construction of important buildings on campus and will end with important people here now and look into the future. “It’s gonna be like a timeline of the college,” said Instructional Media Technician Armando Castro. “It kind of tells you what’s was going on in each year I wouldn’t really call it a history more like a centennial timeline.” The film will start with the very beginning of RCC, going
over the first graduating class and the very first president. Mentioned in the film is the first graduating class, composed of 114 students and 14 faculty members. Throughout the video, notable people of the college are mentioned, including the first president of the college, Hugh Law. The title “president” was not used, instead, Law was known as the Chief Executive Officer. Photos of what the land looked like before Poly High School’s
buildings were demolished and buildings that are still here to this day are included in the film. The different sports, clubs and organizations on campus are also shown and briefly explained in the film. Toward the end, the film will feature some current members of the community and staff, future projects for RCC and current clubs and organizations. The Centennial Film is scheduled for Nov. 7 in the Digital Library Auditorium at 10 a.m.
Roaring skyline TYLER REESE
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Riverside City College will be holding its Centennial Celebration Nov. 7 from 9 a.m.9 p.m. and during the event approximately at 3:30 p.m. there will be an air show over Wheelock stadium. Instructional Media Center Manager Henry Bravo and Instructor of TV Prod Studio Spec Fred Tedesco, have both been in coordination with the Inland Empire Wing of the Commemorative Air Force and Colonel Eddie Bentley who is the air show coordinator according to Michelle Davila, executive administrative assistant. A C-53 Cargo carrier and a P-51 Mustang are two planes that have been confirmed to be in the air show. RCC students and staff had the option to buy raffle tickets and possibly win a chance to sit in one of the open seats that were available. One seat was open in the Mustang and Seven in the C-53 Cargo plane.
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A LOOK BACK: Riverside City College students sitting in the A.G. Paul Quadrangle in 1940.
Tigers track downtown area TYLER REESE
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To kick start the Nov. 7 activities of Riverside City College’s Centennial Celebration, there will be a parade held at 9 a.m. that will commence from the Riverside County Courthouse and conclude at RCC. A professional choreographer was hired for the parade, according to ASRCC President Nigel Item. Community members, local schools and RCC clubs, such as Ujima and possibly the Nursing Program, will be in the parade. Riverside Police Department will be coordinating traffic and safety, according to Michelle Davila, executive administrative assistant. In coordination with Riverside City Police, “A Cone Zone Traffic Control,” a barricade company, is tasked with setting up the parade route. The Wood Streets neighborhood, Riverside Community Hospital and all local businesses were notified of the event. Since traffic will be affected during the parade, parking at RCC will be open to all attendees, who are encouraged to park in the Parking Structure.
Expected Dignitaries •Assemblyman Jose Medina •Grand Marshal and Jimmy Espinoza •Councilman Mike Gardner •Suzanne Ashley Mayor Bailey •Councilman John Burnard •Patricia LockDawson •Scott Hooks •Tom Hunt •Sam Knight •Juan Lopez
•Erasmo Mendez •Chancellor Burke •Ruben Hernandez •Roberta Pace •Dell Roberts •Michael Roe •Betsy Schmechel •Lynne Sheffield •Kimberly Corbin •RCCD Board of Trustees •Members of Tiger backers and Riverside Hall of Fame •Ralph Villani •Michelle Markham
the night JAMES H. WILLIAMS @JHWreporter
For a second consecutive year, the Chaffey College (5-3, 2-2) will take the field against Riverside City College (6-2, 3-1) in National Central Conference play. The Panthers’ return a veteran group of players on offense that can pose as a threat for the Tigers defense including quarterback Levi Plante and wide receiver Marquis Wimberly. The pair has connected for a touchdown play in each of its first eight game and is a trend that may likely continue after this game. But the pairing of Wimberly and Plante are not the only thing the Panthers bring to the table. If you ask El Camino coach John Featherstone, he will be the first to tell you that the Panthers are a well coached team, who earned the win over his team “fair and square” on Oct. 31. The Panthers will also have the ability to run the ball out of the backfield on offense and will be something that will keep the Tigers defense honest on Saturday night. In the game against thenundefeated Long Beach City College, the Tigers allowed 256 passing yards while limiting the offense to 32 rushing yards. The Tigers will need to work out its running back situation after Tigers head coach Tom Craft stated that the running back committee is trying to overcome a series of injuries. The injuries showed as the backfield was limited to 42 yards. Fortunately for the Tigers, the passing game were nearly flawless against the Vikings. Ian Fieber, who has quickly settled in as the team’s new starting quarterback, completed 33 of his 41 passes for 342 yards and four touchdowns.
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Take back the tap Students advocate to rid campus of plastic bottles
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Water is a natural resource that essentially belongs to the people and therefore they should have access to safe, clean and affordable water, yet so many Americans and the environment are paying greatly for it. “This semester we are focusing on a campaign and it’s called “Take Back the Tap,” said Bev Eskew, president of the Student Sustainability Collective and campus coordinator for Food and Water Watch. “We are working with organizers to promote the use of tap water on campuses to decrease plastic waste and promote fair access to water.” Eskew is currently working on this campaign with Rose Calderon, co-campus coordinator for Food and Water Watch. The ultimate goal of the campaign is to ban all plastic bottle use on campuses. Many of the sustainability club members are involved in the campaign. “Take Back the Tap” is a national campaign started by Food and Water Watch, a non-profit organization whose mission is healthy food and clean water for all. They are working with students at colleges and universities across the United States to promote tap water over bottled water on their campuses. Over 70 colleges and universities have passed full or partial bans on bottled water. “During this drought every ounce of water counts,” Eskew said. “Just in the production of plastic, it consumes a lot. It’s very water intensive and very oil intensive. I think that’s also something that people aren’t aware of so it’s something that we feel people should know.” According to Food and Water Watch.org, the average price for a gallon of tap water is less than half a penny - about 0.004 in 2012. When consumers pay for tap water, they are not necessarily purchasing the water itself. Instead, they are paying primarily for the service to get the water, treat it and send it to the faucet. In comparison, the price for a 16.9 ounce bottle of water ranges from a dollar to $1.50. Using an average of $1.25, a gallon’s worth of 16.9 ounce bottled water would cost almost $9.50, which is nearly 2,400 times the price of tap water. The website also presents
the research that almost half of the bottled water sold today comes from municipal tap water supplies. When bottlers aren’t selling municipal water, they are pumping and selling common water resources that belong to the public. Despite California’s water crisis with the historic drought, the bottled water industry has subtly made the piping of millions of gallons of water from national forests and selling it in a plastic bottle the norm. In April, an article in “The Desert Sun” exposed the fact that Nestle Waters, the largest bottler of water in the world, is drawing millions of gallons of water a year from the San Bernardino National Forest on a permit that expired in 1988. “They are paying only $524 per year for that water,.” Eskew said. “It’s things like that the private water bottle companies I feel don’t have us in mind, they don’t have the people in mind. Water is a public resource that should be managed by the public not private companies - but that’s my personal point of view.” Advocating for environmental issues to preserve the Earth and its resources are especially important to Eskew as a parent. “I don’t want to see my son grow up in a world where people don’t care about the Earth. Where things are allowed to happen that are not in the interest of the people on the Earth, they’re in the interest of money,” Eskew said. “I want him to live in a clean environment and I want him to be able to drink clean water. I want him to be able to eat clean food and not have to worry that there’s something that’s going to cut his life short.” As part of their campaign the group is working with the Associated Students of Riverside City College to get a bylaw passed to prohibit the sale of bottled water on campus. ASRCC Senator Aaron Moran advocates for environmentalists, veterans and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics majors on campus. Student demand and action are what both Moran and Eskew said are the first steps to creating an impact. He believes that colleges should be the most progressive part of society but is disappointed by the current state of student participation on campus. “RCC is a dead campus and you can quote me on that, because that is my opinion. The amount of student involvement
is so minimal that the college education here … doesn’t enrich and bring us together like it should as a campus,” Moran said. Eskew said she would like to see more community engagement especially from students because she believes students have the ability to create lasting change. “It just takes getting involved and actually doing instead of talking about it,” Eskew said. “Right now we are going around to classes and talking with other student groups and clubs, asking them to sign a pledge to not purchase bottled water on campus but instead bring their own reusable bottle whatever kind that may be,” Eskew said. “A lot of people say ‘well there are reusable plastic bottles we can use’ and that’s definitely true and even that is better than the single use plastic bottles by far.” The campaign members know that this isn’t an easy task and Eskew said that getting people to change their habits is the most challenging part of this proposition. Funding is another barrier that clubs face. Every semester there is a finance committee that consists of ten people from the different branches of ASRCC that decide the budget for student programs, clubs and organizations. Moran is on that committee and is aware of how much money is available to the clubs and where it goes. Clubs who are looking for funds will put in their requisition and give a presentation to the committee. They explain how they will spend every cent and if it is approved it will go to the senate to vote on for funding. “I think more of the money needs to go to the budget for clubs. Right now with our allotment majority of the budget goes to athletics,” Moran said. “Our athletics is great, I’m not saying we should try and take anything from athletics but I do think that we need to balance the budget better.” Since student senate can pass bylaws they are a crucial part of the success of a campaign or for obtaining funding for club goals. “If you want faculty to back you, you have to show the faculty members that you’re serious. Clubs can’t just talk … they have to do something,” Moran said. “They have to be active and they have to be progressive and they have to think about what they need to do, but the most important thing- they have to do it. They have to do something.”
Riverside will be honoring those who have lost loved ones with the colorful cultural celebration of Dia de los Muertos Nov. 7. The celebration is scheduled for 3-10 p.m. on Market Street between 12 th Street and University Avenue. In collaboration with Ballet Folklorico de Riverside and the Riverside Metropolitan Museum of Art, Division 9 Gallery will be hosting the 12th Annual Riverside Day of the Dead festival. Dia de los Muertos is a traditional Mexican event that honors the cycle of life and death based on the ancient Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl. The festival will be celebrated with food, art, music, dance and personalized decorated altars honoring those who have passed throughout the year.
RCC Nursing program hosts event In conjunction with UC Riverside School of Medicine and the Keck Graduate Institute: School of Pharmacy, Riverside City College will be holding an inter-professional collaboration event Nov. 6 from 1-4 p.m. in the RCC cafeteria. The purpose of the event is to unite first-year medical and pharmacy students with first-year RN and VN students to develop a better understanding of each other’s role in healthcare. “The event is aimed at dispelling stereotypes, exploring each profession’s role in health care and learning/fostering interprofessional communication skills based on national healthcare initiatives,” Amy Vermillion, Instructor of Nursing at RCC said, according to RCC.edu. “This event will also assist in building highly effective healthcare teams. By doing so, we believe it will enhance the delivery of quality, safe, patientcentered care.”
Free flu shot clinics on campus Riverside City College will be administering free flu shots to students, faculty and staff on Nov. 5 in front of the Digital Library and Nov. 12 at the MLK stairs from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. The vaccine is also available during regular clinic hours at the Student Health and Psychological Services building below the bookstore Mon-Thus. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Friday 8a.m.-12p.m. The vaccine is provided by Riverside County Department of Public Health, Immunization Program and the California Department of Public Health.
STEM to share history at luncheon A luncheon highlighting the 100 year offering of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, at RCC, is scheduled to be hosted by Heather Smith in the Hall of Fame located in the Bradshaw Building on Nov. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Students of these disciplines will escort attendees to the RCC STEM Lab and display the extraction of DNA from a strawberry and coat pennies with nanoparticles. The cost is $15 per person. Those interested in attending may RSVP to Nancy Melendez at 951-222-8282.
Thanksgiving dinner collaboration A Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless and needy will be held on Nov. 24 from 11-1 p.m. at the RCC Culinary Academy. Academy students will prepare the meal and are accepting donations from management, faculty and staff. The event is a collaborative effort between the EDA, Woman’s Club and Burke Brothers. Stater Bros. stores are providing turkeys at the lowest advertised price. “We are asking our college management, faculty and staff to donate at least $3 per person to go towards this massive community effort,” Bobby Moghaddam said in an email addressed to the RCC community. Donations may be sent to Dawn Martin, chef at RCC Culinary Academy. Martin may also be reached at 951-328-3805.
Deadlines for support services
Deadlines to apply for the Student Support Services program for the spring semester are approaching. Applications must be submitted by Nov. 30. The online application can be found on Web Advisor. Students need to bring a copy of verified income documentation to the Counseling clerk. Services include tutoring, academic advising, college tours, transfer assistance career exploration and more. Interested students can get more information by visiting Room 206 in the Bradshaw Building or by calling 951-222-8703.
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Crime Briefs Oct. 19 Misdemeanor case of sexual battery y
At approximately 3:30 a.m., a male approached a female in the Parking Structure and grabbed her buttocks. The female reported the incident to Riverside City College Police later in the day at 7:30 p.m. The charge is a misdemeanor case of sexual battery. Officers believe the suspect and victim are both students who have had previous contact. The investigation is ongoing.
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Police officers in conjunction with the Department Of Motor Vehicles issued approximately 14 misdemeanor citations of unauthorized use of a disabled persons parking placards to RCC students. The placards were either not valid, issued to another driver or fictitious. Victor Duran | Viewpoints
Grand Opening: Members of the RCC community enjoy conversation at the grand opening of La Casa, The Latino Student Engagement Center Oct. 2 in Digital Library Room 112. Yvette Alvarez @RCCviewpoints
Riverside City College students now have a place they can call home. La Casa or the Latino Student Engagement Center was the newest center to be unveiled on Monday, Nov. 2 in the Digital Library 112. Gloria Ramos-Olivarez, a counselor for the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, welcomed students to La Casa with refreshments and churros. Ramos said she made sure to give personal tours to all students who arrived. “I've only been here four weeks, but we changed it up before because it used to be Puente,” said Ramos. “As far as I know this used to be managed by the Puente Program and their advisor,” Rebecca Faircloth, an EOPS/ CARE specialist, further explains. According to rcc. edu, the purpose of the Puente Project was to help RCC students transfer to four-year colleges and universities. La Casa has plenty of features which range from a computer lab, a latino resource lending library, math calculators and laptops. All of which are available to any RCC student who walk through the door. With their lending program, students are able to check out a laptop or a book without the hassle of going to the library. Even with all these features, La Casa is still expanding. “We have a lot of plans to develop a more resourceful place that students can engage in,” said Ramos. Currently, La Casa is looking to open up evening hours for students taking night classes. “Hopefully, . . .we can transition up the Latino Student Engagement Center to help students with retention, resilience and also with success as far as transferring,” Ramos said. The Latino Student Engagement Center is also trying to develop a male group. “That's
one of the biggest issues, male retention 20 percent of students drop out of community colleges and out of that 50 percent are male Latinos.” Before the end of the semester, the student resource center wants to develop a student organization and a mentoring group. The Mathematics Department has showed some interest in volunteering and helping students with their homework. Ramos said that she will also be looking into other activities such as guest speakers and a scholarship board. “We will formalize more with the math department and maybe other kind of disciplines” Ramos said, “...usually we have a lot of students in here, but more and more students are starting to find out we exist, so that's what we want to do, we want to get the word out that we exist here.” La Casa does plan on tutoring students on a variety of subjects, such as math and writing. They previously had a program where an instructor would come in and help students start and review their essays. According to Ramos, everything in the Latino Student Engagement Center has been paid for by the Riverside Community College District Student Equity Plan, which was created to increase the academic success of underperforming populations. “The president was actually here this morning and he was talking about more than just
books, more than just computers, he is really encouraging students to be engaged and to feel like this is part of theirs and this is their support to help them succeed,” Ramos said. Students are already enjoying the new resource center. “I think it’s important to have a Latino and Chicano center, it’s comfortable in here, there’s couches, a library and the resources here are really good,” said RCC student Natalie Madero. One student came across the event while she was in the Digital Library and was approached by Ramos, who explained to her that this center was like a mini library without the rules of being quiet. It’s so much better than the library, I think, because there is so much restriction over there, even if you rent a room it takes 20 minutes … and you can’t even be loud because then they’ll tell you to tone it down or lower the volume.” said RCC student, Gloria Mendoza.“Over here you can have a cup of coffee, enjoy food, and it’s so comfortable, I think that's the thing that attracts people.” La Casa will be open Monday through Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, with exceptions on Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “I definitely encourage students to come in here . . . you can hangout, but you can also do your homework and it’s so comfortable,” Mendoza said.
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A call was made to police dispatch at approximately 9 p.m. regarding a suspicious person in Parking Lot N. When campus police questioned the suspect they found that the suspect had an outstanding warrant. RCC Police served the warrants and the suspect was arrested onsite. y
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RCC Police responded to a call in the Bradshaw Building regarding a disruptive student in a classroom. When the student met with the Dean of Student Services for disciplinary action it was determined that the student had five outstanding warrants including theft and domestic violence. The student was contacted by RCC Police at approximately 12:50 p.m. and ultimately booked into San Bernardino County Central Detention Center.
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A male car theft suspect was arrested in front of the RCC campus at approximately 9 p.m. The driver was spotted on Magnolia Avenue and pulled onto campus via Terracina Drive. The driver and his passenger were detained by Riverside City Police. It was determined that the car had been stolen from Salinas, California. A police helicopter picked up the radio transmission about the stolen vehicle during a routine patrol and arrived on the scene to assist. RCCD Police responded to the call and assisted with traffic control for safety.
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Corrections and Clarifications In the Oct. 22 issue on pg. 3 in the news story “Pests carry virus to Riverside” the byline should have read Amelia Alvarado In the Sept. 24 issue on pg. 9 in the feature story “Sports Hall of Famers,” Bill Mulligan’s official position is Journalism assistant. Victor Duran | Viewpoints
Student Resources : La Casa, The Latino Student Engagement
Center Oct. 2 in Digital Library Room 112 offers RCC students various resources for such as computers, printers and books.
In the Sept. 24 issue the article titled, “Centennial Celebration” stated that Riverside City College’s 100th year mark would be reached September 16. This is actually the date that the college began offering classes.
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Riverside City College’s community garden managers talk about growth and the future BROOKE CARY @CaryBrooke
Cool, crisp air and dewdrizzled dirt welcomes garden workers at the start of their 7 a.m. shifts tending the community garden at Riverside City College. There’s something beautiful about working the ground to bring to life a nourishing commodity. Each week on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings, student volunteers come together to do just that. The volunteers participate in tending for the garden by fertilizing, weeding, planting and harvesting organic crops from the community garden at RCC. Basil, beets, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, celery, cilantro, garlic, kale and lettuce among many other nutritious vegetables grow in the garden during the fall and winter season. The vision for RCC’s garden started just over two years ago, when a few curious students in an environmental club, now called the Sustainability Collective, inquired about growing fruits and vegetables in a garden on campus. Preston Galusky, professor of environmental science at RCC, assigns credit for the garden idea to his former student Matt Rothenberger, who still keeps in touch with Galusky from time to time. After the club brainstormed the idea, Galusky took initiative and spoke to RCC faculty and facilities management about the possibilities of clearing a garden plot. At first, Galusky and his students were not given a flat-out ‘no,’ but staff weren’t exactly jumping to make it happen. There were roadblocks and a period of waiting, since the garden plot area was at that time a
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GROUNDWORK: Student garden mentor Alysa Carrillo weeds and waters one of the community
plots on a Tuesday morning volunteer shift. construction base for the school’s new building plans near the math and science building. There was also some concern about upkeep, according to Galusky. RCC Professor Virginia White was the first to back the idea, which helped provide substantiate the petition. In December 2012, students volunteers “broke ground,” and were allowed to prepare the soil for the school’s brand-new garden. Every week since, student volunteers have sowed and reaped the benefits of gardening. Individual plots were initially
formed in the garden and students could either volunteer extra hours or pay a small fee to own, manage and harvest from their own personal plots. This way, students could harvest the entire crop from that one area, rather than dividing the crop between laborers. This fall, however, caring for and harvesting from the garden has become more of a community effort. Instead of individual students bearing responsibility for an entire plot, there are now many community plots within the
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in the garden: A raised box of ready-to-harvest fall vegetables grow in one of the garden plots.
garden which are looked after by the 10-15 volunteers who come at least once weekly, according to Tonya Huff, RCC professor who became the new community garden manager in August 2015. “We found that a lot of students on campus don’t have gardening experience. They don’t really feel comfortable tackling a whole plot themselves and being responsible for a whole plot,” Huff said. Both Galusky and Huff agreed that the community garden plots are generally given more frequent care and yield a larger crop. There are a few individual plots in the garden, but most of the plots have become community growing areas. To give an idea of how much the 70 ft. by 117 ft. garden yields, Huff explained the harvested crop in the span of three days. O n S u n d a y, O c t . 2 5 , “volunteers harvested five big bags of lettuce, a couple big bags of other greens and a few bunches of radishes.” Just two days later, the volunteer group harvested again, this time collecting two more big bags of lettuce, a big bag of mustard greens and two big bunches of radishes. “And this is with things just starting to produce,” Huff added. As the garden continues to develop, the hope is to model R C C ’s c o m m u n i t y g a r d e n after UC Riverside, where the
community garden supplies the school’s cafeteria, making organic fruits and vegetables directly available for the students on campus. “I think that would be the ultimate goal of that garden. It would be to actually find a local market for it so that we take the food-based footprint and lower it by just growing it here, you know,” Galusky said. RCC students could benefit tremendously from access to locally grown and organic fruits and vegetables if they were sold in the cafeteria. Some students have even come to volunteer in the garden because of “doctor’s orders,” to eat more nutrient-rich vegetables like Kale, according to Galusky. Eating healthy is expensive already, but eating organic fruits and vegetables can be exceptionally pricy. Growing food locally could cut the price of food transportation, too. “There’s a lot of infrastructure and a lot of waste that goes into tran¬sporting things all over the planet just for our convenience,” Galusky said. “Riverside has got a fantastic climate for growing food, so the garden is, for me, part of the solution.” One of the biggest roadblocks to selling produce to the cafeteria now are the state health codes and requirements to abide by. It’s a big job to first, know everything that is required and another big job to follow through. An example is the composting type used in RCC’s garden to fertilize and prepare the soil. Rather than using the homegrown compost which is readily available, RCC would be required to import an approved compost to fertilize the plots that would be used to sell food to the cafeteria. The plots would also have to be re-set with rodent wires, among other preventative care requirements. Many things are in the works for the community garden, but the primary focus remains in allowing students to come together and learn, work and grow together. Alysa Carrillo, student mentor for the garden hopes that students at RCC become more aware of the garden, its purpose and the invitation to come and join in the collaboration of growing things. “Nobody needs to know anything. You can be like, ‘I’ve never touched dirt before,’ and still come and grow things here.” said Carrillo. “Dr. Huff and Preston are just really good about teaching you.” Carrillo is working on spreading the word about the garden to high school students and the Riverside community to get more people involved. “It’s just really fun,” she said.
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Gary Locke shakes the system Founder and director of Riverside City College Marching Tigers leaves a striking legacy BROOKE CARY @CaryBrooke
The men that can say that they crafted an enduring legacy for themselves from scratch, are few and far between. At Riverside City College, we have a person that has not only made a name for himself, but for the college and the entire city of Riverside as well. Gary Locke is leaving his position the director and founder of the RCC marching tigers at the conclusion of the 2015-2016 marching season, after 32 years of serving the college, the city, and the marching arts around the world. Locke graduated from the University of Redlands with two degrees in music education and percussion studies. He moved into a job at Banning High school, and taught there for seven years. Later, he moved to teaching at John North high school for five years. During his tenure at John North, RCC instated a new president, the former president of Long Beach City College, Dr. Charles Kane. Kane was a former musician, and noticed that there was not a performance component to RCC’s numerous sports teams. Wanting something for the games, he formed a committee that was in charge of filling the time in between the different stages of the game. One of the solutions was to install a marching band at the college. In order to explore the option, this committee contacted Locke in the spring of 1984. He remembers, “At a meeting, there was a blank sheet of paper, and they said, ‘start talking.’ So, I began listing everything that a
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Review: Gary Locke with Riverside City College marching tigers at the 2008 Bands of America
Grand Nationals. only 16 students in attendance. to display the spirit of forward marching band needs, uniforms, “That night, driving home to thinking that RCC is about. equipment, all that. Redlands, I wanted to be ill.” His When Locke came to RCC, After all the planning and program at John North had 170 he had nothing to work with. The interviews, I was hired in the fall students and performed in the first step was to establish a base of of 1984.” events of successful bands like students to be in the band. The college found their man the Rose Parade. to execute The magic happens when we “I wanted to their vision trust each other and care about just pull off the of a marching it. r o a d a n d s a y, band. “They You don’t need to have the same ‘What have I told me that last name to be in a family. done?’ I was in a t h e b a n d ’s college program, purpose was to --Gary Locke with no kids, be the visible no instruments, classroom of nothing to say, RCC. ‘Here’s why you should come.” They held two barbeques, The idea was if someone The students recruited where students could learn about clueless about the college or the aggressively. At the first football the band and get their bellies city, they could see us and go, game, there were 56 students. filled. ‘Hey that was pretty alright. I In the fall of 1989, they were Each one had about 80 wonder what the college is like.” invited to their first Rose Parade. The other objective for the students in attendance. Things College invitations are rare, and were looking up until the first band was to keep RCC as a leader RCC’s entry was a rigmarole of band camp, where there were among community colleges, and
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paperwork. At the time, they were in competition with Pasadena City College and had an uncontested 11-time victory streak. “They asked their director if it was alright to invite us and he said, ‘Sure, as long as Gary knows it’s not a competition” According to Locke, the first five years were the most difficult. In his 32 years of direction, the band has appeared in movies, television shows, commercials, and has performed in major events around the world. He explains the band’s success as the progression excellence. Whenever the band performed or rehearsed, he always looked for ways to improve. “The two, four letter secrets to success are hard work. In our students words, don’t suck.” Locke’s goals were always to find fresh ways to engage the audience with humor, unconventional themes, and electrifying performances. “The magic happens when we trust each other and care about it. You don’t need to have the same last name to be in a family.” After Locke leaves his post in June, he will be working with his production company in Britain, producing major shows, and go back to adjudicating shows, taking a break from directing. The District has shown interest in keeping the band going, and Locke hopes they can find a way to keep the tigers marching. As for the help along the way, he thanks the college and district and the ASRCC for all the support through the years. In his words, “ The best is yet to come.”
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Student animators and computer programmers joined together on Oct. 27 in the at Riverside City College to listen to Andrew Lee, emerging mobile game developer, speak on animation and programming for games. Lee was invited to speak by Will Kim, a RCC animation professor. Kim has traditionally invited one guest artist per semester to show different career applications for his students and the field of animation. “I thought it would be interesting for the students to learn how to apply art and design to a game - a little bit of a different perspective from just cinematic form,” Kim said. Kim and Lee attended the same school in college, the California Institute of the Art, and Lee earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in character animation in 2010.
Within the last year, Lee began working in mobile game development and has produced two mobile games and is currently prototyping another. Lee jumped right into the industry after college, working as a production manager for the Oscar-nominated short film, “Adam and Dog” with his former classmate Minkyu, the director of the film. “I got lucky,” Lee said, “I knew Minkyu. He was my classmate.” But after pursuing production management for two years, Lee felt there was still something missing. “I realized that I missed creating, you know ... I missed art.” He also worked under Glen Keane, a Disney animator and owner of Glen Keane Productions. Last year, Lee finally decided to leave the industry to pursue mobile game development on his own and began to learn prototyping and programming, “from scratch,” he said. “I wanted to share that you can
come from any walk of life and do this.” During the talk, Lee discussed Indie vs. Major game developers and encouraged students to “just do it” when it comes to gaming. “It is a bit technical. There are a lot of things that need to be very specific,” Lee said as he listed off the software programs required to make a market-quality game. “But you could know all these things by heart and still make a crappy game,” he said. So the question remained; how could students bring their animated work to life to produce a quality mobile game? Lee’s answer was to simplify. “It doesn’t matter if it’s digital or a board game; you want to start on paper to see if your version can work on a mechanical level,” Lee said. A microphone was passed around after the lecture and students had the opportunity to pick Lee’s brain. Among the various questions were, “How important is storytelling in game
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fruity things: Mobile app game developer, Andrew Lee,
explains his mobile game, “Fruity Things” during his presentation in the Digital Library at Riverside City College, Oct. 27.
development,” “Can you use concept art to help develop a game?” and “Have you ever used crowd-funding sites for supporting mobile games?” After the lecture was over, students approached Lee with notebooks of drawings and plans for technical and planning advice. “I want students to know
(that) it’s okay to have fear. It’s okay to leave this job and do this thing (where) you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Lee said. “There’s always a job, always money to be made. But you’ll never get a chance to do your own thing. That will rarely happen. That’s success in it’s own way.”
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SPORTS - Terry Bradshaw
Football defeats No. 1 Vikings “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge,”
The Tigers gave the Hornets their first loss of the season and stay undefeated at home JAMES H. WILLIAMS & LAURA M.TAPIA @RCCviewpoints
Riverside City College are ranked fifth in the state coaches poll and remain undefeated at home while providing Long Beach City College with its first loss of the season, 34-14, Oct. 31. The Vikings entered the game as the No. 1 state ranked football team, but a victory for the Tigers would come as no surprise as the team was ranked as the No. 1 team for six consecutive weeks this season. RCC head coach Tom Craft stated that the program really changed its formula leading up to the game in practice after its loss to Mt. San Antonio. “For us to get to this point we changed our format and approach in practice,” he said. “We got back to grinding. We had some injuries but it is the next man up. Sua Moi filled in for Lio (Lafaele) and we made some changes on the offensive line.” Quarterback Ian Fieber completed 33 of his 41 passes for 342 yards and four touchdowns, which included two touchdown passes to receiver KJ Young. “Ian played a great game tonight. He took care of the ball,” Craft said. “Kyrion Parker was struggling with his ailment. He finally came out tonight and did a great job along with (Young). Those two guys were fantastic.” Young finished the night with 146 yards on 12 receptions. “I am just selling myself out for the team. It was a big game in league play,” Young said. “We have been working hard all week for Long Beach. It is not about me. It is about the team.” While Young did miss two games of the season, he has proven to be a top target for RCC’s quarterbacks.
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DEFENSE: Linebacker AJ Hotchkins focuses on an offensive play by the Vikings, during the Tigers’ home game versus the No 1. ranked Long Beach City College, where they defeated the Vikings, 34-14, on Oct 31. Hotchikins had 12 tackles in the game. “When Fieber is hot like that it is trouble (for opposing defenses),” Young explained. “We can just leave it at that.” Seth Acda was limited to 45 rushing yards out of the backfield. The running game for the Tigers finished with a total loss of two yards but Craft stated that the players at the position are battling through injuries. He also stated that the situation surrounding the running game will be dealt with
week to week based on who they play and health. The defense limited a Vikings’ offense that averages 33 points a game this season to just 14 points. “I also cannot say enough about the defense hanging in there,” Craft said. “The turnovers were a big key and we converted the turnovers.” LBCC had four turnovers in the loss including three intercepted passes, all from
different Tigers’ defenders, and a forced fumble. Linebacker AJ Hotchkins led the Tigers with 12 total tackles. Riverside City College is scheduled to play at 6 p.m. Nov. 7 against Chaffey College. The game will conclude a night in which RCC celebrates its centennial.
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STATS OF THE GAME Passing 342 yards Returning 145 yards Rushing 42 yards
CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGE RANKINGS 1st Golden West 2nd San Francisco 3rd Long Beach 4th San Mateo 5th Riverside City 6th American River 7th Saddleback 8th Cerritos STACY SORIANO | VIEWPOINTS
TOGETHER: The Tigers get ready for their entrance versus the
No 1. ranked team, the Long Beach Vikings on Oct. 31. Riverside City College gave the Vikings their first loss of the season.
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HAND OFF: Quarterback Ian Fieber hands the ball off to running back Seth Acda who had the most rushing yards with 26 for the Tigers on Oct. 31, where they defeated Long Beach 34-14.
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Men’s water polo wins match The Riverside City College men’s water polo team defeated Fullerton, 20-9, Oct. 28 in order to seal second place in the Orange Empire Conference for the first time since 2012. Tigers’ Lazar Raca and Kyle Christian scored 11 of the 20 goals in the match. Head coach Jason Northcott noted that the team met the significant expectations that he had for them. “In our final regular season game of the year, it was important for us to remind ourselves how to dominate an opponent,” He said. “In post season games, a sense of urgency becomes a more important factor; I wanted to see that in our team today and I got exactly what I was looking for.” The Tigers will face Orange Coast College on Nov. 6 at RCC.
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PERFECT SCORE: (From Right) Joshua Silva and Anthony Arvizu, from Riverside City College,
run in the lead at the City of Riverside course Oct. 9 where RCC had the top five finishers scoring. ALEC CALVILLO @RCCviewpoints
The Riverside City College men and women’s cross-country team won the Orange Empire Conference Finals on Oct. 30 marking the women’s team second year in a row winning the OEC title for the for the Tigers. The Joshua Silva led the Tigers, finishing second overall with a time of 20 minutes, 47.63 seconds. He was only 13 seconds behind the first place winner Ulysses Orozco from Saddleback
College. Head coach Jim McCarron w a s p l e a s e d w i t h S i l v a ’s performance. “I really liked how (he) got second and is getting closer to the guy who got first,” He said. Silva stated a four mile run can be more challenging for the runners compared to longer races they had earlier this season. “You got to be more aware,” Silva said. “(For the longer races) you have more time to relax.” The lady Tigers’ Brianna Jacklin finished second overall with a time of 19:23.58 helping the women’s team snap Orange
Coast College’s 18-year OEC championship winning streak, according to RCC’s athletics. Damien Smith, the women’s cross country coach, spoke about Alexis Louis’ performance in the meet. Louis Finished seventh overall with a time of 20:10.63, a second away from Natalie Vaughn. “She did a good job, she was our second girl for most of the race, until the last half mile,” Smith said. The Tigers are scheduled to compete Nov. 6 at So Cal Championships in Mission Bay, San Diego.
Water polo defeats Fullerton
The Women’s team force a tie game to defeat Hornets DOROTHY MCCARTY & PRISTINE TOMPKIN @RCCviewpoints
The Riverside City College women’s water polo team defeated rival Fullerton College, 6-5, Oct. 28 at Riverside’s Aquatic Center. With the win the Tigers remain undefeated in Orange Empire Conference play for the first time in five seasons. RCC trailed 3-2 following the opening period of play; however, the Tigers forced a tie at 4-4 heading into the half and were able to outscore the Hornets 2-1 in the fourth quarter. Assistant coach Katie Teets elaborated on the high stakes that came with this particular match. “This was an important game for us as far as the seeding for our conference tournament goes,” She said. “Going into it we were determined and focused and really doing our best to stay rooted in our fundamentals and our game plan.”
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HIGH STAKES: Attacker for the Tigers, Mary Myers shoots the ball and ties the game 3-3 versus the Hornets on Oct 28 where she ended the game with two goals and five steals in a 6-5 win. Teets followed up by adding the great feeling her team walked away with after such a close win against such talented team. Third year head coach Doug Finfrock credited much of the club’s success to the fact they play cohesively. “This team is well balanced with good depth,” Finfrock
stated. “We are not necessarily great individuals, but we work together to make a very good team.” Freshman attacker Mary Myers stated she felt “anxious but confident” going into the match. Securing the number one playoff seed grants the Tigers a bye week as they prep for the post season beginning Nov. 5.
The Tigers volleyball team defeated Fullerton, 3-1, Oct. 30 ending its six match losing streak versus the Hornets and winning its fourth match in a row. The Tigers had five players with ten digs and four with seven kills. Head coach Monica Hayes-Trainer spoke highly of her team. “The coaching staff is very impressed with the tenacity of our team,” She said. “Their discipline in their body and court position is playing a big role in how well we are doing …along with being one of the toughest serving teams in the state.”
Basketball hosts first Tiger Tip-Off Luncheon LAURA TAPIA @LMTreporter
Interim athletic director Jim Wooldridge and the Riverside City College basketball team’s hosted the inaugural Tiger Tip-off Luncheon on Oct. 29 in the RCC hall of fame room. The luncheon was held in order to introduce this year’s members of the basketball programs and the college’s interim athletic director to RCC’s faculty and staff. Wooldridge stated that while discussing ways of connecting the programs to people on the campus like students, faculty and community members with women’s basketball coach Alicia Berber and men’s basketball coach Philip Mathews, they came up with the concept of the luncheon. While attendees were entered into a raffle for a chance to win prizes like RCC basketball shirts, what they took from the luncheon was much greater. Inspirational speeches by RCC sports hall of famers Sam D. Knight and Mike Barnes, ignited the crowd and players alike. Barnes, a counselor at RCC for 30 years also coached for 20 years at RCC. He was inducted
as a member of the 2012 sports hall of fame class at RCC and a member of the 2003 California Community College Women’s Basketball Coaches Association hall of fame. According to Berber he is second in the assist record and one of the best point guards to ever play at RCC. “This place made the difference in my life,” said Barnes, during his speech. Knight was recently inducted into the 2015 RCC hall of fame after a career that included two state championship seasons including a season in which the Tigers went 35-0 in the 1963-64 season. Knight was also named the “Most Inspirational Player” that same season. He stated that although RCC commonly stands for Riverside City College, he wants student athletes to see it as another acronym as well. “You should improve each day with a focus on this acronym R.C.C … R is relationships, you have to work on those relationships,” he continued. “C is communication, communicate with your coach, your players and your community and C is commitment, you can’t get anywhere without commitment.”
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November 5, 2015 “The
greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Fright night in the garden Treva Flores @RCCviewpoints
More laughs than screams filled the Riverside City College community garden during the viewing of Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn” (1984.) Oct. 30 was the first movie showing hosted by the RCC Community Garden, with more to come throughout the fall semester. Associate Professor Virginia White came up with the idea of this event in honor of Halloween, but the next movie will be more educational. As guests arrived with blankets in hand, Associate Professor Tonya Huff handed out free popcorn bags. The set up was comprised of rows of folding chairs angled toward the Math and Science Building. The movie itself was projected on the side of the building. Attendants came dressed in pajamas and sweatshirts, prepared for the chilly fall weather as a cool breeze flowed throughout the night, adding to the suspense of the film. “It was a little slow at first, but it was fun. It was about what I expected due to it being the night before Halloween,” said Huff. It was the perfect setting for the “horror” movie, but as the night progressed the movie seemed more silly than scary. “It was funnier than I remember, but the audience was having fun,” said Huff.
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Considering the fact that The Neighbourhood’s last album was a bit of a critical flop despite having one of the most played songs of 2013, no one really expected too much from the band’s sophomore follow up “Wiped Out!” Starting off with a pretentious 30-second track of nothingness titled “A Moment of Silence” lead me to believe the band accepted their one-hit-wonder status among the alternative genre. While I’m still on the fence of starting an album with silence the lead into “Prey” totally made up for the questionable choice. Avoiding the sophomore trap of changing their sound to the point of alienating their original fans in not wanting to rehash the sound of their debut album. The Neighbourhood shows us they can still do what they do
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Kathryn Lynn Davis: Sing to Me of Dreams Riverside Public Library Nov. 5 8:30 a.m. ArtsWalk with Kathryn Davis Elderman Riverside Public Library Nov. 5 7 p.m. Young Frankenstein Landis Performing Arts Center Nov. 6 7 p.m.
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Fright Night: Members of The Community Garden setting up for a screening of Stephen King’s
horror classic “Children of the Corn” in the community garden on Oct. 30. Outdated special effects and bad script writing led to laughter while the children slaughtered their own parents and formed a religious cult in the cornfield. The group of children met their match when Burt Stanton and Vicky Baxter get lost in their town. In the end the bad guys, or rather children, die and the good children survive as the couple saves them from the terrible religion they followed. Although nothing too frightening happened it was a great way to kick off the Halloween weekend. The next movie will be co-
hosted by the garden, Student Sustainability Collective and RCC STEM on Nov. 16 at 6:30 p.m. “Cowspiracy” will be shown, which is an environmental documentary about industrial animal production in the United States. The documentary is meant to take a humorous and entertaining approach toward this educational subject. The SSC has accomplished tasks such as implementing recycling bins in the cafeteria as well as the creation of the community garden. “They’re a group of students
concerned about creating a smaller footprint,” said Huff. Their next goal is to convince administration to remove bottled water from campus and install refillable water stations that students can use for free. The SSC reached out to STEM for the next movie as a way to reach out to other campus clubs. Both groups have science majors and according to Huff it is a logical partnership. The garden series will end the week before finals with a film to celebrate Christmas. The date, time and movie have yet to be announced.
The Neighbourhood’s all ‘Wiped Out!’ David Roman
- Oprah Winfrey
and keep it relatively fresh. I’ll admit I was a huge fan of their hit “Sweater Weather” but in listening to their debut album “I Love You” I couldn’t really connect to any other song. It’s not really an album I’d go back to just for fun. This is ironic because in listening to “Wiped Out!” I’ve found that while there isn’t any one song catchy enough for me to go running to all my friends. I really did like the album as a whole, a great deal more than I like “I Love You” as a collective unit. This album has far more
replay ability potential, the tracks are all ordered in a way that complement each other and the writing and lyricism is much more mature. What we have is an alternative album that ventures
in R&B in a careful calculated way that I actually really like. As long as they keep taking risks with their vocals without trying to recreate their past, The Neighbourhood is in for a long run in the alternative world.
“Tangerine” Culver Center of the Arts Nov. 5 7 p.m. Arcadia The Box, 3635 Market St Nov. 6 8 p.m.
“The Wanted 18” Culver Center of the Arts Nov. 7 7 p.m.
Riverside Day of the Dead Downtown Riverside Market Street Nov. 7 3 p.m.
Somnambulists Riverside Art Museum Nov. 8 12 - 4 p.m.
Riverside Acapella Explosion Castle Park Theater Nov. 8 4:30 p.m.
Riverside’s Got Talent Riverside Municipal Auditorium Nov. 8 6 p.m.
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“I think they should always respect our privacy, unless you gave them some reason to intrude on that (like:) being a suspected terrorist or mingling with terrorist.” - Yvonne Delacruz
“I feel like our privacy is what we have for ourselves and that whatever we see or do on the Internet is just for us and no one else should be observing or seeing what we do.” -Johnhehan Chavez
“I think our online privacy is our online privacy. They shouldn’t have any way (to) get to it, unless it deals with them.” -Aileen Pindeo
“Well I think everything should be personal it should be for you. Obviously they should look into terrorism and threats, like death threats.” -Betsy Camara
“I think that it’s their right to know what (the) people are doing. It would be hard to keep track of what people are doing, just for safety precautions.” - Susan Almendarez
“It should be respected to a certain degree, I don’t feel the government should have influence in (many) things but that’s another topic. But I feel there is a give and take that there has to be.” -Josh Funderburgh
“I feel the U.S. government should be able to search your Facebook profile, just because of the terrorism that (is) happening now. Yes I think they should monitor more on social media. Right now is a dangerous time due to terrorism.” - Kathrine Gonzalez
“I don’t know but I feel like they should stay out of our business and not be all up in our conversation(s).... I don’t think they should be on our stuff or in our business.” -Breyona Kerl
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CISA targets personal privacy
Cybersecurity bill nears law but are there too many consequences?
Laura Tapia
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The Cybersecurity Infor mation Sharing Act of 2015 (C.I.S.A.) passed 74-21 on Oct.27 would serve more as another government spy rather than a security system for United States citizens. If the government were to pass a bill to help with cyber security threats, it should be one that requires technological companies to eliminate any personal data, that does not prohibit the ability to deal with the threat, before being sent to the government. Freedom of expression could
be limited due to the bill’s amount of personal data it would collect, prompting individuals to be more cautious about the information they chose to share. Not only could this bill limit freedom of expression the bill may put individuals passwords and other information at risk. “Distribution of private data like passwords could expose our users to unauthorized access, since, u nfor t u nately, many people use the same password across multiple sites,” said the open letter by 60 technologists, computer and network security professionals, who wrote to express their concerns with the Act The intended purpose of this bill is to encourage technological companies and other private ent it ies to sha re “cyber th reat i ndicators” bet ween technological companies, private entities and the government to target and prevent cyber security threats; however, this bill could cause personal data to be at risk by potential hackers. Many companies and government officials have been
victims’ to hackers including C.I.A. chief John Brennan, who was allegedly hacked by a teenager. If top officials like Brennan and companies who invest a lot of money into protecting their security systems can be hacked and have private information taken, then how can we trust them with our information? Sharing private information creates new security risks and innocent individuals could easily be targeted, according to the open letter. “First, any I.o.C. that contains personal information exacerbates the danger of false-positives, that innocent behavior will erroneously be classified as a threat,” the letter read. “Private data contained in personal emails or other messages can be abused by criminals developing targeted phishing attacks in which they masquerade as known and trusted correspondents.” Information such as emails, financial information like credit card statements, and health care data like prescription drug
pu rchases could be shared between companies and the government. However, the public will never know who the information is being shared with and what material it contains, since the bill makes states that companies will receive immunity from liability and from Freedom of Information Act requests relating to the data they share, according to Info World. C.I.S.A. would be running alongside another government s u r vei l la nce prog r a m , t he National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata collection program, allowing it to be another option for the government to collect the public’s data. It was widely perceived that the N.S.A.’s telephone collection program would be stopped after a federal appeals court declared it to be illegal, on Oct. 29 the same federal appeals court said the original N.S.A. program could continue. Co- sponsors for the C.I.S.A. bill are senators Richard Burr and Californian senator Dianne Feinstein who voted in favor
of the bill. Also voting in favor was senator Barbara Boxer, also from California, despite several companies speaking out against the bill. “Despite protestations that C.I.S.A. was not a surveillance bi l l , c o - s p on s or s R ich a rd Bu r r and Dian ne Feinstein discouraged their colleagues from voting for amendments to mitigate what senators called u n rea sonable i nva sion s of privacy, including one notifying citizens that their data was being examined,” said The Guardian. O ut of a l l p r e side nt ia l candidates in senate, the only one who voted against the bill was Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, while Republican candidates Marc Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham did not vote. The bill has yet to pass the house, after which it will be sent to the president. We should not allow our representatives to pass this bill until it specifies that public information would be excluded before being sent to government agencies.
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Editorial
Mascots, the pride and joy of nearly every educational system in America, should have an empowering effect on their school instead of creating a demeaning atmosphere. A recurring theme of racism toward the indigenous people who lived in the United States of America’s heartland can be seen throughout many institutions. We believe that any school that has a demeaning mascot should have it changed immediately because of the needless racism hidden in plain sight of the distinct logo or representation on schoolwear or athletic facilities. As of Oct. 11, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 30 “(The California Racial Mascots Act), this bill will prohibit public schools from using the term Redskins as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname beginning January 1, 2017,” according to ChangetheMascot.org. Even though a mascot is supposed to be a symbol of pride and honor the way that the indigenous are represented as mascots is just down right terrible. Schools that have the indigenous as their mascot poorly represent the way they would prefer to be represented, according to ChangeTheMascot.org. Instead we have schools with mascots such as the
Mascot Changes
Stanford University - Indians to the Cardinals (1972) University of Massachusetts Redmen to Minutemen (1972) Dartmouth - Indians to Big Green (1974) Siena - Indians to Saints (1988) Eastern Michigan - Hurons to Eagles (1991) St. John’s (N.Y.) - Redmen to Red Storm (1994) Marquette - Warriors to Golden Eagles (1994) Miami (Ohio) - Redskins to Redhawks (1997) Seattle University - Chieftains to Redhawks (2000) Louisiana-Monroe - Indians to Warhawks (2006) Arkansas State - Indians to Red Wolves (2008)
Apaches, Indians, Redskins and Chiefs, which are portrayed as politically incorrect representations of Native Americans. California, the most populous state in the nation, is the first to pass legislation restricting the use of the epithet, or characteristics in its schools statewide. According to the American Indian Cultural Support organization there are over 184 schools in California that use indigenous mascots. Those mascots include Apache, Braves, Chiefs, Indians, Warriors and Redskins. Although California has made the first step with a state-wide legislation banning out indigenous mockeries, other colleges in different states have also done the same voluntarily. In order to steer toward a better future 11 notable institutions’ mascots have been changed throughout the U.S., as listed below. Now that progress has been shown by many colleges without any state legislation, why can’t major league teams in the NFL, MLB or NHL take any positive action on these pressing matters? The NFL has always had controversy with teams such as the Kansas City Chiefs and Washington D.C. Redskins while the MLB with the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves. The NHL also has the Chicago Blackhawks as well. Yes, these franchises have been going on for a long time. We get that, but shouldn’t you change the mascot you’ve had since its been found repeatedly offensive and racist? Moral codes should be kicking down the front door to this house of unnecessary racism and rid of them once and for all. With AB-30 California has done away with the demoralizing use of terms that are offensive to the indigenous and plan to put an end to its ignorant ways. According to ChangeTheMascots.org, they had this to say about the passing of the bill: “We applaud and extend our deepest gratitude to AB-30 author Assemblyman Luis Alejo, Governor Jerry Brown, and California’s lawmakers for standing on the right side of history by bringing an end to the use of the demeaning and damaging R-word slur in the state’s schools.” “They have set a shining example for other states across the country, and for the next generation, by demonstrating a commitment to the American ideals of inclusion and mutual respect. Their historic step to build a better future stands in stark contrast to the dogged inaction of Washington’s NFL team, which in the face of all the evidence that this term degrades and offends Native Americans, continues to defend and promote the slur for its own financial gain.”
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