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By Natalie Perino-Terashimaand Josie SalazarCity Times

On April 26 and 27, City College students voted for their Associated Student Govern-ment (ASG) offi cers who will represent them in the fall 2006 semester.

Nearly 500 students voted in the recent election, which was held in the Gorton Quad near D-106.

Incumbent ASG President Francisco Fabian ran unop-posed and was voted in for a second term, receiving 414 votes. “It was actually pretty good considering the turnout at other community colleges,” Fabian said.

Travis J. Pollock, previous Chair of the Legislative Analyst Committee, also ran unopposed,

By Natalie Perino-TerashimaCity Times

San Diego played host to the fi rst statewide Student Senate General Assembly meeting May 6-7, where 59 out of 70 Cali-fornia community colleges (67 present, three absentee/online) ratifi ed a new constitution, creating the Student Senate for California Community Col-leges.

The two-day event was the fi rst of its kind for California community colleges.

Student trustees and rep-resentatives from 70 Califor-nia community colleges met to clarify the intent of the SSCCC as well as give authority to its governing documents and pro-cedures.

California Community Col-lege Chancellor Mark Drum-mond opened the event by expressing his support of the SSCCC.

“I would not miss this meet-ing because I am so grateful to all the student representa-tives,” he said.

Drummond has requested $324,000 from the state of Cali-

Focus and form

Nearly 500 vote in ASG elections

State student reps gatherin San Diego

City College students demonstrate martial arts with Jim Colbert, instructor of health and exercise science, on April 26 during the Student Project and Research Symposium. See City Focus, page 14.

Alan Decker / Contributor

Justin Bagnall from El Camino College, left, and Francisco Fabian, City College’s ASG president, participate in the Student Senate General Assembly in May. San Diego played host for the event, the fi rst of its kind for community college student representatives.

Natalie Perino-Terashima / City Times

See REPS, Page 19

By Nicole RiberaCity Times

As students and faculty try to cope with the tragic death of fellow student Gladys Noriega, San Diego police continue to investigate the shooting that took her life and seriously wounded two others.

In the early morning of April 30, Noriega, 18, and two of her friends, Roy Ochoa, 19, and Flor Garcia, 18, were driving on Interstate 5 when shots were fi red at their vehicle, a black 2000 Dodge Ram pickup.

At least three bullets are believed to have entered the truck, one going straight through Ochoa’s neck and then fatally wounding Noriega, and another striking Garcia in the neck.

The three had been driv-ing southbound on I-5 and had just turned on to the Coronado Bridge junction when the attack took place. As soon as Ochoa,

the driver, realized what had happened, he backed off the bridge and drove south on I-5 to the fi rst off-ramp, where he pulled into a Shell gas station for help.

P o l i c e a r r i v e d at the gas station to fi nd Ochoa, Noriega and Garcia all suffering from gunshot wounds. The three victims were immedi-ately transported to local hos-pitals. Noriega died from her injuries shortly after arriving at Scripps Mercy Hospital.

Ochoa, Noriega and Garcia are longtime friends, residents of Mountain View and recent graduates of Gompers Second-ary School. Ochoa is also a stu-dent at City.

“Gladys always had a smile

on her face and a positive attitude in class. She will be missed by many,” classmate Chris Martin said.

Ochoa’s truck had a large white insignia on the rear window that read, “NOTORI-OUS SD Car Club.” Police speculate this might have prompted a negative response from someone.

Homicide detectives were following one lead. Two graffi ti “tagging” crews in San Diego also go by the name Notorious and were being investigated for any involvement in the shoot-ing.

“We looked into that and have not been able to uncover anything to lead us anywhere else,” said Lieutenant Jeff Sferra with the San Diego Police Department.

Anyone with information about the shooting is encour-aged to contact the Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-TIPS.

Gladys Noriega

See ELECTIONS, Page 19

Student’s death still unsolved

eseseseses Sports, page 20

12-0 season nets state title for badminton team

Undefeated

By Natalie Perino-TerashimaCity Times

City College will add 55,000 square feet, nearly one block of land to its campus to build a new parking struc-ture as well as state of the art voca-tional studies facilities.

The future site of these projects is located on the south east corner of C Street and Broadway, between 16th and 17th Streets.

While detailed plans for this project are still underway, students and fac-ulty can expect the site to house a new multi-level parking structure with more than 800 parking spaces as well as new vocational “neighborhoods” for the cosmetology, photography and nursing programs.

The vocational “neighborhoods” will group like programs and classes near each other for a more cohesive learn-ing environment.

A campus police sub-station will also be placed on the parameter of this area to increase ease of access and support for campus needs.

This project which is part of the City College Facilities Master Plan will be funded by Proposition S, a voter approved measure that allocates $685 million to community colleges district wide.

“Proposition S is a once in a life-time opportunity,” said district Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management Damon Shamu, adding, “I think the world of community colleges; I really believe in what we’re doing.”

The block of land cost slightly more than $20 million to date; cost esti-mates of the project total can not be assessed at this time.

Architectural firm Carrier John-son has began the conceptual design process, and will be meeting with City

College faculty and committee mem-bers to assess the needs and of the project as well as make recommenda-tions. Once this massing study is com-plete and accepted by the committee and staff, working drawings will be sent to the Division of State Architects (DSA) for approval.

After all areas of the plan are approved by the DSA, City College

will open bidding to local contractors to determine who will make the proj-ect a reality.

While it is too soon to estimate a final completion date, the district aims to finish the project by the end of 2008.

For more information on the proj-ect, visit www.sdccd.edu and click on “Prop S Projects.”

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By Nicole CunninghamCity Times

Internships, interview skills, resume writing and other general employment preparation workshops were offered during Career Week April 18-25.

Held in the Transfer/Career Center the Career Week offered skills training in a variety of areas to help job seekers score their big break and also Career Path Workshops in the fields of educa-tion, computer technology, nursing and engineering technology.

A burgeoning event with 30 represen-tatives from companies and corporations throughout the county of San Diego, the Career Fair had “both career and job opportunities” and according to Harvey that was the intent.

City College has a diverse curricu-lum that supports students taking voca-tional courses as well as those in pursuit of a career which was mirrored at the fair. The 30 employers who represented all areas of San Diego attended the fair offered opportunities “in line with we offer here at City College” said Larry Maxey who assisted in putting together the Career Fair.

The Career Fairs in the past have been in conjunction with the Metro Center, this year they were on their own resulting in a week long career week culminating in a career fair.

Director of the Transfer/Career Center Marilyn Harvey said they were anticipating a turnout of 300. In the hopes of ensuring that she appealed to teachers to offer extra credit to students who attend any of the workshops or the Career Fair which was held on the final day of Career Week in the Schwartz Square.

With or without the nudge from teachers, students came out in droves to peruse the tables and see what the vari-ous organizations had to offer. Mossy Toyota General Sales Manager, Brian Kennedy said “you can make big money right off the bat” with Mossy Toyota and no experience is necessary. What is nec-essary is a “good attitude and a positive outlook,” he said.

Owen Mossy of Mossy Ford was also on hand looking for eager applicants. Both dealerships offer on-the-job train-ing, personal mentors, paid training, full benefits, 401K….”you name it!” said Owen Mossy and they’ve got it.

Primerica Financial Services repre-sentative Patricia Pattah said her com-pany was looking to train candidates in mortgages, insurance and investments.

The offices are centrally located in Mission Valley and employment with their company does not depend on prior experience. “They don’t need a financial background because we provide train-ing,” she said. Success From Home magazine dedicated their July issue to Primerica. “we’re proud of our suc-cess,” said Regional Manager, Teresa Baruelo.

Kids at heart needing employment are invited to apply at corporate-spon-sored childcare company Bright Hori-

College claims needed land

The former site of Bonanza Corvettes on C and 16th streets will soon be transformed into a parking structure and new classrooms for City College.

Natalie Perino-Terashima / City Times

Fair offers look at career options

By David J. OlenderContributor

City College has plans to build a new facility for its photography depart-ment, beginning in 2007 and expected to be completed by 2008.

“Definitely expand the facility. There are usually more people than there is equipment. I am looking forward to the new facility and new classes being offered,” said Debbie Wills, a City College graphic design student.

Since Proposition S passed roughly three years ago, City College has been given the opportunity to build a Voca-tional Technology Center, one of 10 anticipated facilities.

The building will be more than 10,000 square feet, will house a gal-lery where students can display their work and will also include new dark rooms, digital photography labs, cam-eras, lighting equipment and studios.

“Making improvements opens more opportunity for students as far as classes, better equipment and broad-

ens technology,” said Anna Viselli, City College student and the photog-raphy department’s lab technician.

Currently, City College’s photo department is a 4,000-square-foot facility that is outdated and too small to accommodate the plans of Dave Eichinger, the new assistant profes-sor, co-coordinator and designer of the photography department at City Col-lege.

Eichinger, a graduate of Cal State Long Beach, has been snapping photos since he was a teenager and teaching photography primarily in Los Angeles County and Dallas for 20 years.

“I am really excited about it,” Eich-inger said. “It is very rare in anyone’s career that they get to design a facil-ity from the ground up. We have high hopes for it to help us grow further. We have already added several new courses, and the new facility will defi-nitely help.”

After being at City College for one year, Eichinger has already imple-mented two new courses, one nature and landscape course and one photo

portfolio course. Eichinger plans to create a new

history of photography course, a new photo lab course and a new digital photography course. He also plans on rewriting the entire photography cur-riculum for the associate’s degree and certificate programs.

In addition, Eichinger has planned a 19-day European excursion, giving students the chance to travel the world while developing their portfolios and earning school credits.

Recently, 150 applications have been submitted on behalf of City Col-lege for the San Diego County Fair’s photography exhibit held June 10-July 4, a substantial increase from last year’s two entries.

“The students here are awesome,” Eichinger said. “It has been a great place to get a great job ... good support from the dean, chair and administra-tion.”

For more information regarding the department and the new facility, contact Eichinger at (619) 388-3368 or David King at (619) 388-3649.

Face-lift set for photo department

Parking structure,‘neighborhoods’ planned for site on C Street

See CAREER, Page 16

City Times 3May 23, 2006

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Pedestrian safety goal of new project

City business studentsbusy winning awards

As a part of City College’s Facilities Master Plan, and in cooperation with the Institute for Public Strategies (IPS), this summer will mark the beginning of a two-year project to increase pedestrian and bicycle safety on campus as well as parts of the surrounding East Village area.

The need for the project has been brought on by an increase in residents, businesses and traffi c in the areas near City College.

Due to these factors, the California Offi ce of Traffi c and Safety will fund the two-year project in an effort to increase safety awareness and skills for pedestri-ans and cyclists at City College as well

as increase awareness for those in the East Village neighborhood.

IPS, a San Diego-based company, is inviting City College students to partici-pate in a number of ways including focus groups, art design, community outreach, media production, data gathering and social marketing.

Introductory work starting this summer will be the foundation for full implementation during the coming fall semester.

For more information, contact the vice president of administrative services, Carol Dexheimer, at (619) 388-3428 or e-mail at cdexheim@sdccd.edu.

— Natalie Perino-Terashima

By Jenelle JungCity Times

Last month, on April 5, City College’s Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team attended the 2006 SIFE Regional Championship in Long Beach, winning the championship for the twelfth consec-utive year and $4,500 in prize monies.

In addition, they won all six special competition awards in fi nancial liter-acy, market economics, success skills, entrepreneurship, business ethics and program sustainability. The regional competitions are judged on how well a team has taught others about the free enterprise system.

Alexis Price and Rosalinda Gonzalez are both SIFE students at City and pre-senters on the team.

“We get to meet a lot of people who have their own business and are suc-cessful,” Gonzalez said.

“If you’re a business major here, you have to go through SIFE at one point,” she added.

SIFE is a world-wide, non-profi t orga-nization that teaches students skills through the learning and teaching of free enterprise principles. Its network includes more than 1,600 colleges and universities in more than 40 different countries.

City SIFE’s involvement in education ranges from teaching over 200 students in the Virtual Enterprise program in about three dozen schools, to teaching in two-year schools in Tijuana and Mexi-cali.

The SIFE program, which can be seen in action in Schwartz Square where the students run the “a la carte” snack stop,

has created a sense of community at City.

“You have a sense of belonging when you come to school,” Price said. “It really gives you a strong sense of teamwork. You have to rely on each other.”

In another recent competition on April 21, the 2006 Business Plan Com-petition between San Diego community colleges, winners included David Posey, fi rst place, Aleta Pharris, fi rst runner-up and Dat Le, second runner-up. First place won $1,000 and each runner-up won $750.

The City SIFE team is currently prac-ticing for the SIFE USA National Com-petitions in Kansas City, Mo. taking place May 21-23, where they will com-pete against other two-year colleges.

The team’s aim is to practice and pro-mote free enterprise here on campus and in the community. One example of their involvement in the community is their “Never Again” campaign, a project to raise money for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort and social awareness. They are currently selling t-shirts in the Busi-ness Resource Center for $20, while all proceeds go to established relief efforts and or individual families.

“There’s a human side to free enter-prise, where compassion and sacrifi ce are just as or more important than a profi t margin,” Alexis said in their win-ning presentation.

If they win national, they would be able to compete in the SIFE World Cup. Last year’s World Cup champion was the University of Zimbabwe Team.

To view SIFE’s awards, visit the Business Resource Center in room T-311. Their Web site is www.sdsife.com.

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Information: Call Gail Rodriguez,(619) 388-3498 or 3982

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We’re probably going to sound like huge nerds here, but we are insatiable news junkies. We’re sorry but it’s true. PBS, CNN, BBC, FOX; not a day goes by without an infor-mation fix.

So it gives us so much pain to watch our beloved news slide into complacency and irresponsibility. Brokaw, Jen-nings, Koppel, Meyers, the trusted patriarchs are on the way out, to be replaced by a new breed of younger, flashier news-persons and pundits. The shift to a 24-hour news cycle has cheapened the honor and respectability of most newsrooms. Like-wise, the proud traditions of honesty, integrity, and reasoned debate have given way to a brand of speculation and senseless argument that contributes nothing to a greater understanding of ideas and issues.

Though the gravity of these charges cannot be denied, what is often forgotten is that the media, if not exactly “the mouthpiece of America,” is certainly a mirror that reflects the changing tides of our thought. As such, we as a popula-tion are showing an incredibly distressing movement toward apathy, irrationality and simplicity.

What passes for reasoned debate, both within the media and our society, is anything but. The issue is so basic and fundamental: America has lost the ability to argue. Many of you are, no doubt, confused at this point; in fact most of you are probably so sick of what you consider “argument” that you cannot believe that we could make such a state-ment. Before you roll up this column and swat us on the nose, please hear us out.

Perhaps it was unfair of us to claim that America has lost the ability to argue without qualifying or defining the word argument in our terms. But before we do so, we would like to clarify what we feel is meant by most Americans when they refer to argument. Argument in the currently accepted defi-nition is childish in nature; it is unhelpful and unconstruc-tive. Most of all, it is futile.

Argument in America today consists of two or more talk-ing heads that unfurl their ideological banners and wave them in an almost shamanistic manner, repeating the same piece of hollow, unchanging rhetoric as if it were some sort of mantra to ward off the encroaching evil of liberals, conserva-

6 City Times May 23, 2006CityVoice

I believe City College is the best community college in San Diego County. Home of many great teachers. They teach at City because they like the environment more than other schools. City college is so diverse with many different ethnic groups, races and ages attending the school. There is also a very mixed viewpoints and political ideas on campus, making discussion so much more intelligent and interest-ing.

There are many current or former military personal on campus and then there are many anti-war and anti-recruitment students as well. What a great way to engage in discussion and learn about the other person. With this type of diversity we get to listen to each others side’s of story and see if we can come to mutual under-standing about things like war, peace, and the meaning of life.

Students have told me that at Mesa college students are talking about what was on TV

the night before or what party people went to. Some call Mesa “high school with cigarettes.” And others say there is more political discussion and open debate at City College. This is so important at this time when many young people remain silent as much injustice and cor-ruption destroy the line between corporations and government.

There is definitely elevated consciousness at City College. I am amazed by all the change agent professors workinghere on campus to make a better society. Professors like Tamara Johnson, Stephen Bouscaren, Elva Salinas, the whole peace studies program group of teach-ers, and the list goes on.

I congratulate these teachers and many more for their dedi-cation to education and there commitment to true education

which is outside the box of con-ventional notions of standard-ized testing and curriculum’s without creativity and deliber-ate question of tradition and societies values.

As for the students, I say keep up the good work. Keep studying. Keep researching, but dig up all the information that is not on TV, that govern-ment’s do not want you know, that corporations are scared you will find out. Keep digging an searching for that truth that is so close to your heart. I know that students and faculty are overworked in this industrial-ized system of education and work but take the time to look beyond the limited world view that we have conditioned to believe as reality.

Thank you all for reading the City Times, journalism is about “the enlightenment of society,” so keep reading and enjoy the summer. Peace.

Dashiell Kuhr is City Times’ editor-in-chief

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ViewpointHenry Leineweber

and Eric Brooks

ViewpointDashiell Kuhr

Coppola / KRT Campus

For the past nine years I have taught math here, largely in the evenings, amounting to half-time on a part-time basis. I have an A.B. from Stanford and UCSD, and an M.A. from SDSU, in math. My father also taught here in the evenings part-time during the ’60s and ’70s in creative writing and journalism, advising the Knight Owl — as the newspaper of the San Diego Evening College was then called. (He also advised the chess club, maybe I should do that too.)

Slowly over these years I have begun to see City College as more than just a place where students come to take classes from teachers; it’s a commu-nity consisting of many differ-ent administrative and staff services employing hundreds of people with every imagin-able kind of skill, as well as a meeting place, a village if you will, for a very wide variety of students from all over the world. Often recent immigrants

to America take a class here as one of the very first interactions they have with American soci-ety.

Recently I was astonished to learn that there are 4 reserved parking spaces for what is called “military science” when there are none, for example, for engineering, music, math, Eng-lish, air conditioning, or any of the dozens of other departments or subject areas. The late Dr. Jo-Ann Rossitto, for example, who did much more here than just run the nursing program, did not have a reserved parking place. Military people are not the only ones who are busy and work at more than one place; give them staff permits and let them find parking as the rest of us do.

Not everyone is aware that

City College is required by the federal government to have mil-itary courses and to allow those who run them equal recruiting access to students by the fed-eral government to be eligible for certain funding. Fine, let’s do what the laws require - but not one inch more. We may be forced to have uniformed mili-tary on campus, but we don’t need to treat them like royalty.

Some would say this bias is justified because there’s a “war” on, but this war is extremely controversial, in that (1) it was never declared by Congress, (2) it was started under false pretenses which have since been vitiated, and (3) it vio-lates international law, making America look like a rogue state

City College is a school for change

Reasoned debate?Not in this era

Reserved parking for military is unjust

See DEBATE, Page 7

Guest CommentaryJ.W. Rieker

See PARKING, Page 7

City Times 7May 23, 2006 VOICE

Dear Editor:

I am a recent High School Graduate student from Class of 2005. I remember being very excited to come to college. The very fist day I arrived here I did not know what to do or what to expect. I was very glad that I was able to go to the orienta-tion that it is given to all new students here at City College. But I still get confused about all of the classes that I need to take in order for me to get

out of City College and trans-fer out to SDSU. I have always gotten the best help from all of my instructors and classmates here at City College. But my question to all of you is, Have you helped some one by guid-ing them the right direction into taking the right classes? If so how many times have you

done this? I have seen, noticed, heard and spoke to students who have no clue what so ever about what classes to take. Now think about it have you been in these position before. What would you wished people have done to help you? We all under-stand that there are offices to go to and get some help here

at City but if you know the answer to their questions why wouldn’t you help him/her. Just remember that one of those students might even be sitting right next to you in one of your classes. Help out each other and remember that you can really make a difference in their life or just through out their day.

Rebecca Aguirre,Price ScholarshipProgram Student

Coppola / KRT Campus

Student calls on classmates to help each other out

DebateContinued from Page 6

tives, homosexuals, immi-grants, or any other “threaten-ing” group.

The end result is two par-ties that repeat themselves, much like trained parrots. They make no attempt to incorporate the position of their opponents, nor defend their own against its intrusion.

While this is an immensely gratifying endeavor for those banner-wavers, it is not con-structive in helping to solve the root issue. It forbids the synthe-sis of any new understanding of the issue or any consensual deci-sion. At the end of the day, the banners hang limp, the talking heads have yelled themselves hoarse and nothing productive has been accomplished.

In opposition to this “con-temporary” argument stands classical, or Socratic, argument. Such argument is incredibly constructive for a number of reasons. First, it acknowledges the potential validity of differ-ent viewpoints. Second, there is no hesitancy or fear when exposing any ideas to others’ scrutiny. Third, in exposing these ideas to such scrutiny, they are strengthened as the arguer must constantly read-just or reevaluate their posi-tion. Finally, ideas must never be set in stone and must always have the ability to change.

So we suggest a return to this more classical form of argument, as it is a valuable tool to help humanity make sense of the immense amount of data available on any given issue. Argument should be an open process, not a closed one. Argument should be a fluid exchange, not a one-way yell-ing match. Argument should be constructive, not combative.

Henry Leineweber and Eric Brooks write for the Oregon State University Daily Barom-eter, distributed by U-WIRE

in the eyes of the world. Also, the size of our military budget is inordinate and their carbon footprint is huge, in the face of proven global warming which, among other things, contrib-utes to greater proliferation of hurricanes such as last fall’s Katrina.

In addition, it has been shown that there is a dispro-portionate number of Latinos, African-Americans, and certain other minority groups within military ranks, especially serv-ing as front-line troops. By showing these military people such favoritism, we are saying we don’t mind if recruiters prey on our Latinos and our African-Americans, enticing them with monetary offers and then, ulti-mately, using them for cannon fodder. In this dark time when the shadow of fascism begins to creep over the land, do we, the City College community, wish to send this kind of message?

J.W. Rieker is a professor at San Diego City College

ParkingContinued from Page 6

Letter to the Editor

This is the end ... beautiful friend ... And then there would be huge napalm explo-sions all over West Windsor Fields!”

“Well, Steven, that sounds really cool, but why would you start a movie by pro-claiming ‘this is the end?’ Unless you were shooting a Seinfeld episode, I mean. It’s like wiping on your way to the bathroom -- it doesn’t make sense.”

Spielberg combed his beard and fumed. “Well, don’t ask the Oscar-winning director. You’re the winner of the prestigious Daily Princetonian Opinion Writing Award. So you tell me: what should be the opening scene of ‘The War on Fun: Double Shirley Probation?’ “

Hoping to cobble together enough money to pay my broker’s fee in Manhattan, I had begun liquidating assets faster than O.J. Simpson. Miramax approached me about purchasing the movie rights to my columns and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, thinking they had the next “Sex and the City” on their hands.

After seeing a sneak preview of “The DaVinci Code” (thanks to my friendship with Professor Robbie George, leader of the secret James Madison Cult which guards the truth about Christ and the location of the National Treasure), I began to worry about the potential pitfalls of transferring my captivating story to a new medium. I suddenly wished that I had been nicer to those bank-hating film students who had lived across the hall from me at NYU.

My friends, however, assured me that I’d never had an original idea in my life, and now was not the time to start. My movie, they suggested, should simply be a hybrid (what else would Jesus drive, except maybe the false prophets out of the temple?) of my favorite scenes from other movies. A capi-tal idea!

“Perhaps you’re right, Steven. I think the ends will justify the means. So let’s talk

about the ends. This movie should have multiple endings, like ‘Wayne’s World.’ “ He proceeded to mimic Dana Carvey with precision.

“A ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ ending, one hun-dred percent!” exclaimed Spielberg. “Presi-dent Tilghman and Dean Malkiel could fly off a cliff in a 1961 Ferrari GT California (less than a hundred were made)! And you would be watching as Sheriff Buford T. Justice!”

I pondered the idea. “Too bittersweet. My character would feel more regret than relief at the loss of worthy adversaries. How about we work them in like this: a ‘Star Wars’ ending! All the students are stand-ing in formation in the University chapel, and a grand anthem is being played by a small band in ugly plaid. Nancy Malkiel marches down the aisle to receive the 2006 Best Malkiel Runner-Up Award. Chew-bacca, played by some hairy grad student, growls triumphantly.”

Spielberg continued the scene. “As everybody files out past a portrait of you, one Trustee turns to another and remarks, ‘Well, he did it. He ran drank them off their feet!’ Then we cut to a panoramic shot of you and your insurgent buddies run-ning on the beach with cans of Coors. Or maybe you’re marching along singing Old Nassau to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club theme.”

I had another idea. “A ‘Terminator’ ending! Fred Hargadon is sent back in time to admit me into Princeton, and the movie ends with a death match between him and Dean Rapelye, who he defeats with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart

Technique. Once we’re victorious, I have to lower him into Lake Carnegie to repair the space-time continuum, which I learned about in Future Physics. As he slips below the surface, he yells out ‘YES!’ like William Wallace and gives me a thumbs-up.”

“You know,” Spielberg offered, “you can’t cover a story like this righteously without an Animal House ending. Freeze-frame on each character and talk about their future. ‘Ira Leeds moved to Memphis to tutor under-privileged retards or something.’ ‘Brandon Parry succumbed to conservatism.’ ‘Leslie-Bernard Joseph failed to deliver repara-tions as president of the NAACP.’ ‘Cleland Welton got busted for something.’ ‘Powell Fraser orchestrated the merger of Smith & Wesson and UNICEF then wrote the New York Times bestselling sequel to “Bonfire of the Vanities.” ‘ And so forth.”

I was so excited about the next ending that I wiggled my hand in the air like the dorky kid in precept. “Butch Cassidy! We’re surrounded by the entire Public Safety bri-gade, but we don’t know it, and we’re trying to sneak go-cups out to the Street. And on the way out the door, I turn to Shaun Callaghan and say, ‘You didn’t see Dean Flores out there, did you?’ He shakes his head, and so we run out the door, and the camera freeze-frames before we’re taken down. A voice says, ‘It was Arrested Devel-opment.’ “

“You know what we really need?” Spiel-berg concluded. “A ‘Gone With the Wind’ ending. You gaze out over Prospect Avenue and sigh, ‘Quad! After all, tomorrow is another night out!’”

“Well, Steven, the dude abides. Let’s roll.”

Powell Fraser writes for Princeton Uni-versity’s Daily Princetonian, distributed by U-WIRE

‘Da Vinci Code’ sparks writer’s own brilliant ideaViewpoint

Powell Fraser

By Adriana EscobarContributor

This August, San Diego City College will participate for the first time in a competition against recognized Ivy League schools such as MIT, Univer-sity of Florida, Cornell and Duke.

The competition, sponsored by the Office of Naval Resource, consists of building an autono-mous underwater vehicle (AUV) that performs three tasks in 15 minutes without interfer-ence from the operator. First, the AUV must pass through a validation gauge, then locate a target, hit it and knock it over. One of the tasks is to find a pipe. It is a simulated pipe. The autonomous vehicle must find the pipe and break it. Then it must pick up and drop off two targets. Finally, it must home in with an acoustic beacon and surface.

City is the first community college to enter the competition. The man responsible for City’s involvement in the competition is 42-year-old student Chris Carter. Originally from Merid-ian, Miss., Carter has been in San Diego for 16 years. He is currently working on earning a bachelor’s degree in engineer-ing. He then hopes to complete a master’s at MIT.

Carter’s involvement with the project began when a pro-fessor mentioned the competi-tion during one of his classes. Originally, 15 students were involved, but Carter and a col-league were the only ones who continued to pursue the project. Carter, the project leader, has been working on the AUV proj-

ect for 22 months and now has a team of 10 students.

Involved in the project are Daniel Bazo, Mike Decandia, Paul Wisecaver, Dayan Parira, Shawn Krisaman and Conrad Selinas, a UCSD student.

The participants meet every Saturday morning for 4 hours to work on the project.

“The people who work in this project are older, more mature than their 18- or 19-year-old counterparts. Paul Wisecaver has a 4.0 GPA. He reads math-ematics like one would read English,” Carter said about his teammates.

25-year-old Paul Wisecaver plans to transfer in the fall to UCSD to study computer engi-neering. Wisecaver is one of

8 City Times May 23, 2006NEWS

City, Ivy League students to face off this summer

City College students go over plans for their autonomous underwater vehicle in preparation for a national competition this summer.

Photos by Adriana Escobar / Contributor

Competition focuses on building, using underwater vehicle

See SUMMER, Page 19

May 23, 2006 City Times 9CityLife

‘Right attitude’ leads former inmate to top honor

Former inmate Bernard Casey, second from right, stands with fellow student honorees April 22 during the American Association of Commu-nity Colleges Annual Convention in Long Beach. Casey was named “Top Community College Student in California.”

John Nunes / Contributor

‘Anyone who is seeking a higher education must volunteer. Without components of community contribution, the education you receive will be unbalanced.’

— Bernard Casey

By William HumstonContributor

rison can only rehabilitate you if you have the right attitude,” said San Diego City College student Ber-

nard “Bernie” Casey on the topic of his tremendous success and achievements during his six semesters at SDCC.

Before coming to City College just three years ago, Casey had served nearly seven years in San Diego’s Dono-van State Correctional Facility.

Just weeks ago, Casey was named “Top Community College Student in California” at the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) annual convention in Long Beach.

This past April 6, at the State Capitol in Sacramento, Casey was honored on the Senate floor as an All-California Academic First Team member.

Casey was also named to USA Today’s All-USA Academic Second Team, placing him in the top 40 stu-dents in the entire nation.

A high school drop-out, Casey earned

his GED in prison in 1999. Despite years of alcohol and substance abuse, Casey was thrilled to discover a knack for reading and a passion for the study of substance abuse and behavioral sci-ence.

“When I came to SDCC, I scored well enough on the placement tests that I was able to get into a few honors courses,” said Casey, “Instead of just get-ting through community college, I real-ized I had a chance to achieve something and to stand out.”

Casey served as a senator on the Associated Student Government, and after his third semester at City College, Casey was urged by Dean Mario Chacon of Student Affairs to run for a position with Phi Theta Kappa.

“For me, joining Phi Theta Kappa was like a lone fish joining a powerful school of fish,” said Casey, “When things got tough, those who I surrounded myself with reminded me to keep going and to dig deeper.”

An advocate of public service and vol-unteer work, Casey feels strongly about giving back to the community.

“Anyone who is seeking a higher education must volunteer. Without components of community contribution the education you receive will be unbal-anced.”

Casey currently volunteers his spare time at San Diego’s Lighthouse Psycho-logical Service Center, assisting recover-ing substance abusers and addicts.

“When I was preparing to go back to school and start a career, I asked myself, “What does a recovered addict do to make a difference in the community?” And then it hit me, I need to help other addicts, I knew social work was right for me.”

Casey will graduate from San Diego City College this semester with two Associate Degrees, one in Behavioral Science and the other in Liberal Arts. He has been accepted to San Diego State University for the fall to begin work on a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work. Casey, who is wrapping up his last semester at SDCC with U.S History, Psychology, Astronomy and Speech, will speak at the City College graduation ceremony on June 2.

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By Mara Rose WilliamsKRT Campus

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tom O’Dea dressed for the hunt.

His tie, perfectly knotted, lay neatly over the buttons on his pressed white shirt. His buffed black shoes complemented his charcoal-gray suit.

The 22-year-old Overland Park, Kan., resident had gone to the University of Kansas Career Center in April seeking something college career coun-seling specialists say is plenti-ful this year — employment.

“I hear there are a lot of available jobs out there,” said O’Dea, a marketing major. In fact, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which has monitored employ-ment availability for college graduates for half a century, reports that the class of 2006 will graduate into the best job market in six years.

With a flood of baby boom-ers retiring, an economy on the rebound from the post-Sept. 11 slump and a technology upturn after the 2000 dotcom bust, employers nationwide project they will hire nearly 15 percent more college graduates this year than a year ago. And many of this year’s hires will be paid more, too.

Major employers of new col-lege graduates, such as Enter-prise Rent-A-Car and Lockheed Martin, project they will fill, respectively, 7,000 and 4,400 entry-level positions with new graduates this year.

In the Kansas City area, Cerner Corp. spokeswoman Kelli Christman said “more than 50 percent of the com-pany’s new hires are entry-level associates who are newly graduated.” Cerner recruiters, she said, reported stiff competi-tion this year among employers trying to attract the best gradu-ates.

“We already have started seeing companies offering sign-on bonuses and higher com-pensation packages,” said Pam Webster, corporate recruiting manager for Enterprise.

University career centers in Missouri and Kansas saw evi-dence this spring of employers aggressively seeking to fill a profusion of positions.

“We have seen a bit of an increase in recruiters or employ-ers coming on campus for career fairs,” said Amanda Nell, direc-tor of employee relations at the University of Missouri-Colum-bia Career Center. “But mostly what we noticed was that this year a greater number of job opening postings came through our career center.”

KU career center workers also saw heightened employer interest. Last year there were 100 employers at the spring career fair, and this year in February there were about a third more, said David Gaston,

Graduation creates work for recruiters

See WORK, Page 18

10 City Times May 23, 200660Jay SeesFortknightly

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Times Past and PresentAs City Times wraps up its 60th year, former staff members recall their experiences

By Josie SalazarCity Times

Sitting at NBC’s news desk with bright lights behind and a smile, reporter and anchor Artie Ojeda delivers the week-end news. In between takes though, he is full of jest as he jokes with fellow colleague and news anchor Rory Devine.

According to Ojeda, TV broadcast news is much differ-ent from what he experienced at City College as a newspaper reporter. “In TV, you’re short and concise; you tell your sto-ries from 20 seconds to one minute and half, where as in print, you’re talking by the column inch.”

However, Ojeda remembers his time as a reporter for City Times as invaluable. “Not only did it help me refi ne my skills as a budding journalist, a writer, a story teller, it also served as a great life experience. Getting

that chance to socialize at a totally different level.”

Ojeda started out at City Col-lege in the Telecommunications Department, with the hopes of becoming a sportscaster. He attending an English class that just happened to be taught by Journalism Advisor, Glen Rob-erts.

“I count Glen as one of the most infl uential people in my life,” Ojeda said.

Glen offered him the chance to join the newspaper staff, in addition to being apart of the Telecommunications Depart-ment.

“I always thought a good story would be just the facts, but Glen helped me to become a story teller,” he said, “Cer-tainly, you want to be factual, but what I learned was that in sports, the fi nal score is not always the most important

NBC 7/39 reporter and anchor Artie Ojeda, left, and co-anchor Rory Devine relax before going on the air at the station’s studios, located a few blocks away from City College.

Josie Salazar / City Times

Local NBC reporter calls Times a ‘great life experience’Artie Ojeda

See OJEDA, Page 17

By Nicole RiberaCity Times

As City Times cele-brates its 60th anniversary, Ven Griva is recognized for his contribution to the paper more than 25 years ago. Griva was a reporter, photographer and sports editor for City Times in 1980-81.

“I knew I wanted to write when I was 17 years old. My favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain, had got their starts working as journalists. It was at City College that I fi rst got a taste for journalism,” Griva said.

City Times has changed quite a bit since Griva was on staff. He recalls the time before

the era of computers. “I remember writing stories on manual typewriters using cheap newsprint….and pasting up the newspaper ourselves on Sundays at a print shop in La Mesa.”

Griva also remembers former City Times colleague Artie Ojeda. “Artie Ojeda was very serious and professional even then. His hair is still perfect.”

While at City Times, Griva won a Jour-nalism Association of Community Colleges fi rst-place award for sports feature writing. “Even though I had been an all-league football player and two-time San Diego City wrestling champion, that was the biggest trophy I’d ever received. I’d never felt that good about myself before,” Griva said.

City Times was only the start for Griva and

Ven GrivaJournalist discovered his passion at City

Ven Griva

See GRIVA, Page 17

By Donna SidemanContributor

“Hey, little girl, get off my football

field!” yelled Harry West, City College’s athletic director at that time. 16-year-old Lynne Mayfield then introduced herself. It was 1967.

After showing him her camera and telling him she was the sports photog-rapher for the San Diego City College newspaper, he changed his mind. He then made her promise not to get her-self hurt while shooting photographs alongside the football field. It was not long before Mayfield was given the name of endearment “Flash.”

Lynne Mayfield came to City Col-lege from Hoover High School in 1967, where she had been involved in jour-nalism and photography. Shortly after joining the City College paper, then called Fortknightly, she became the first female photographer.

The small paper was published every two weeks and the college campus consisted of only two build-ings. The school football team, the “Knights,” played some pretty good football.

The “A” building and the Thatcher building were the only two buildings in existence. The Thatcher building was all vocational and the “A” build-ing was academic, faculty offices and administration. The current bookstore was the cafeteria.

This was a time of the Vietnam War, Bobby Kennedy and Civil Rights. War recruiters were on campus. A lot of the

staff at the school paper consisted of Vietnam veterans going to City Col-lege on the G.I. Bill.

Eventually Mayfield became the

managing editor of the Fortknightly but dreamed of becoming editor-in-chief. Her boss at the time told her he didn’t believe this short, “little” girl could handle managing the Vietnam veterans, so in his view, editor-in-chief was not in the picture, she recalled.

At some point there was a tussle over an editorial cartoon in which the editor of the Fortknightly had allowed to be published, Mayfield said. The tussle was over reactions to a cartoon involving racial tones between Chica-nos and African Americans. This was the “pre-cam” days where the reporter would have to be interviewed at the news station or area office. Mayfield obliged and went to Channel 10 to be interviewed, dressed in her green — very green — suit.

Mayfield recalled Friday nights were the big football game nights and

she would go to the games to shoot a lot of the football photos, as her job entailed. Monday morning, the ath-letes would show up at the square wanting photos from the Friday night games. She expected this as usual.

Discouraged with no chance at that time of being editor-in-chief, she decided a different game plan. “I wanted to become an information offi-cer for a community college and stay in San Diego,” she said.

She went to work for George Linch who was the public information officer at the time. Seeing chances to move on within the school, she got elected as the first female Associated Students president and became very involved in student government — locally and statewide about that time.

May 23, 2006 City Times 11

Tenacityearned editor respect

Lynne Mayfield

Former City College newspaper editor Lynne Mayfield now serves as the information officer for the district’s Continuing Education center.

Lynn Dao / Contributor

Lynne Mayfield as shown in a Fortknightly staff photo published June 7, 1968.

File Photo / City Times

See MAYFIELD, Page 18

The American Scholastic Press Asso-ciation has recognized City Times for its outstanding content, awarding the paper with a first place prize during an annual critique of student newspapers and yearbooks countrywide for 2005-06 newspaper editions in April.

About 125 schools participated in the critique.

The critique is a point system based on writing, photography, page design, and advertising placement. The asso-ciation then awards schools with first, second or third place certificates.

Roman Koenig, the adviser of City Times, is proud of the work the staff has done.

“I’m impressed with how quickly the paper has grown,” Koenig stated. “As a part-time instructor it’s difficult to bal-ance the development of this journalism program with my other schools.

“The staff is made up of fast learn-ers and I’m delighted every semester,” he said.

— Shanika Whaley

City Times wins awardJohn Markley

By Abinashi KhalsaCity Times

John Markley was an adviser of City Times when it was known as the Fortknightly. He transferred from James Madison High School

to City College in 1970. He had begun teaching in 1962 as the journalism adviser for James Madison High, and under his tutelage, stu-dents beat out 50 other high schools in a Union-Tribune journalism contest.

Markley was the adviser for the Fortknightly from 1970 to 1976. He was brought in to replace the previous adviser who had

allowed an insensitive cartoon to be published in the paper.

The cartoon pictured a small Chicano man

Adviser, still on campus today, joined at turbulent time

See MARKLEY, Page 18

John Markley

John Markley, center, stands with student staff members Carlos Batara, left, and Bill Heller, published Dec. 20, 1973.

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“A Million Little Pieces,” by James Frey, is an autobiographical account of an alcoholic and addict who spends six weeks in a rehabilitation facility.

The book begins as Frey wakes up on a plane with four missing teeth, a broken nose and a hole in his cheek. He has no idea of where he is going or how he man-aged to wind up in this condition.

The author offers personal insight into a drug-addicted mind and how it functions as it comes down from crack

cocaine and alcohol. He gives the reader another perspective on recovery aside from the philosophy of Alcoholics Anon-ymous by telling how he conquered his own addictions after his six-week stay in rehab. He even claims to have under-

gone a root canal without Novocain. There is only one small problem with

this book. The author has admittedly embellished details in it.

Frey said in his book that he was jailed for 87 days, when in reality, it was only a few hours. He claims to have been wanted in three states for several crimes, which was also fabricated.

Frey also admits to having embel-lished details about the characters in the book, all of whom were a part of his life during his time of recovery.

“I don’t think it’s a novel,” Frey said on the Oprah Winfrey show. “I still think it’s a memoir. I don’t feel like I conned you. I still think the book is about drug addiction and alcoholism and no one is

disputing that I was a drug addict and an alcoholic, and it’s about the battle to overcome that.”

“I think part of what happened with a number of the things in the book, is when you go through an experience like the one I went through you develop dif-ferent coping mechanisms. I think one of the coping mechanisms I developed was this image of myself that was greater than what I was.”

Winfrey made the paperback version a best seller when she picked it for her book club in September 2005, and it has sold more than 3.5 million copies.

“It’s embarrassing and disappointing

By Nicole RiberaCity Times

City Works Press hosted its annual public reading at City College on April 29. For two hours, a packed classroom watched and listened to the poetry and short stories of City students and local writers.

City College’s literary journal, City Works, is a yearly publication featur-ing what its’ editors regard as the best poetry, fi ction and artwork submitted. While most of the work in the journal is that of City students, the journal also includes works of local, national and even international writers, poets and artists.

The public reading allowed for a number of students and local writers whose work was published in the jour-nal to share their poems or short stories.

Various student awards were presented including those for the best prose, best poetry and best art.

Local author Scott Tinley was rec-ognized as the Featured Writer, and established writer Christopher Buckley was honored for winning the National Award. Tinley is well-published, and Buckley, author of 14 books, is respected nationally.

City Works Press was very happy with the reading’s turnout. “It was a packed house, and the students enjoyed it very much and we sold $500 worth of books, most ever at a City Works read-ing,” said Jim Miller, one of City Works managing editors.

As for the journal itself, “City Works 2006 is, on the whole, one of our best products to date,” Miller said.

Also at the reading was City’s second annual Student Chapbook Award winner Rob Novak. Novak read from “The Mys-terious Sound of Buddy Bolden,” his fi rst collection of fi ction and poetry.

Released every spring since 1994, the journal is a publication of San Diego

City Works Press, a non-profi t press funded by local writers and art support-ers. City Works Press also publishes a yearly chapbook.

While the journal includes the work of members of the City College community, the local community and the nation, the chapbook is devoted entirely and solely to the work of one City student.

City Works is produced by the stu-dents and faculty of City’s Introduction to Creating Writing course who choose and edit which pieces will be included in the journal.

According to City Works Press, its “intention is to create a journal that refl ects the identity and character of San Diego City College, provide a venue for emerging local artists, broaden [their] reach nationally and encourage interac-tion between the college and the com-munity at large.”

The purpose of the annual reading is to “celebrate the work of the student writers and editors who put the journal together and to reach out to the commu-nity at large and bring in quality local national writers to share their work with City College students,” Miller said.

For more information, visit www.cityworkspress.org.

Annual reading kicks off this year’s City WorksPoetry, fi ction, artworkin college’s literary journal

‘A Million Little Pieces’ is a good read — as fi ctionBookReview

Nicole Woodruff

See PIECES, Page 19

May 23, 2006 City Times 13CityArts

Faintly familiar with the popularity of white tees here on the West Coast, I can hardly stifle a yawn when I hear the track “White Tees” by Atlanta’s Dem Franchize Boyz (DFB) popularizing the $3 — $8 if you got it like that — item. “Hell naw, they don’t excite me,” to quote the rapper themselves. However, I will give them two snaps and a twist for managing to carve a niche for themselves in the genre of “snap” music in an arena clotted with commer-cialism and copy cats.

The four high school bud-dies, Gerald “Buddie” Tiller, Bernard “Jizzal Man” Lever-ette, Maurice “Parlae” Gleaton, and Jamall “Pimpin” Willing-

ham, began rapping together in 1991 and had it going on on campus. Striking a chord with the crowd once ‘White Tees’ hit the local scene, the band of bud-dies decided to try their hand at the big time and invested in a demo. That investment paid off and led them to the magi-cal ears of the great Jermaine Dupri. Once big brother JD got ahold of them, well, let’s just say that’s all she wrote.

The CD is a combination of slow and fast grooves. More of

the latter, and will definitely keep your head, shoulders, knees and toes bouncing. Sev-eral tracks stand out on the CD because of their simple break from the monotony of the drum patterns throughout the CD.

The debut release has not only made Dem Franchize Boyz a household name, but also spawned them ringtone rev-enues and heavy video rotation. Emphasizing more and more the power of a funky beat, the need to get to the dance floor and a topic that people can relate to — be it big or small, good or bad, new or old.

Nicole Cunningham is City Times’ arts/features editor

Shanika WhaleyCity Times

Two students from City Col-lege have won awards at the College Emmys and the Com-munity College Film and Video Festival. The Newscene student winners are Carmel Musgrove and Erica Henry.

“I produced an episode of Newscene,” Musgrove said. “I entered the College Emmys and College Film Festival. I won first place.”

Besides winning the Commu-nity College Festival, Musgrove was nominated for another award, the California Commu-nity College Satellite Network. She again received first place in the news category.

Musgrove’s duties included producing the show, stacking them and creating a rundown. She said she did not know what was headed her way when she entered this class, it just hap-pened to fall into her lap.

“It was a little time consum-ing and more difficult than expected,” she explained.

The other award winner, Erica Henry, won an Emmy for her show made for a respected professor, “The Hope Shaw Special.” The program was produced by Henry in loving memory of Professor Hope Shaw, the veteran instructor of the Radio/TV Department who died in April 2005.

Newscene is a 30-minute newscast put on by City College students. The show is aired on ITV, an educational channel in San Diego that reaches 1 mil-lion homes. The show is writ-ten, shot, edited and hosted by the students in radio/television. To be involved in the class, you have to enroll in RTVC 100 or 118.

“I am very proud of Carmel and Erica,” said Castaneda, assistant professor of radio/television and TV journalist. “It’s wonderful to see the efforts of these students recognized … there is no question in my mind these young ladies will have their name on the credits of a professional organization some-day real soon.”

Newscene in the limelight

From left to right, Erica Henry, Ann Musgrove (student Carmel Mus-grove’s mother), City student Raul Rivera and Carmel Musgrove.

Laura Castaneda / Courtesy Photo

San Diego City College student Keith Lamberth stands next to his “Hiss-Tree“ sculpture, part of the “Urban Trees 3 Art Exhibition” that can be seen along the mile-long length of the Embarcadero. The exhibit lasts for 12-18 months and is organized by the Port of San Diego. Lamberth came to City in fall ‘04, decided to take an art class, and joined a Sculpture II class instructed by Toby Flores in fall ‘05. Flores assigned the students to submit entries, and Lamberth’s was one of those chosen by a jury of the Public Arts Committee. The concept for “Hiss-Tree” is the metamorphosis of a snake into and out of a tree. The new “Urban Trees” were added in late April, dedicated May 20, and are now on display.

Abinashi Khalsa / City Times

City student plants an ‘Urban Tree’

Dem Franchize Boyz rap it up

Dem Franchize Boyz / Courtesy Photo

MusicReviewNicole Cunningham

CityFocus14 City Times May 23, 2006

The second Student Project and Research Sym-posium was held on April 26 in the Gorton Quad. Students came together as a collection of academic contributors and free thinkers, to celebrate their excellence in an array of achievements and ideas. Dozens of poster presentations were displayed, including those in the discipline of chemistry, child development, sociology and health science. Artis-tic displays and demonstrations were also found among the amenities.

Crafts, sculptures, clay and glazed creations, life drawings and paintings colored the aesthetic side

of the event. Demonstrations were given by City College’s Science Club, Jim Colbert’s classes —

including individual conditioning, Tae Bo and kickboxing, and also by CityWorks, through

pieces of spoken word. Students blossomed with the opportunity to speak and answer

questions, and the day was an experience of learning for all that joined. It was an example of a true learning environment through the exchange of student’s work and ideas, and a aspiring picture of academia that can be expected in the years to come.

— Jenelle Jung

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A bill that would prohibit Califor-nia university, college and community college administrators from censoring student newspapers passed the state Assembly in a 76-0 vote on May 11.

AB 2581 first made it through the Assembly’s Higher Education Commit-tee in a 4-1 on May 2.

“College journalists deserve the same protections as any other journal-ist. Having true freedom of the press is essential on college campuses,” news services quoted the bill’s author, Assem-blyman Leland Yee, (D-San Francisco), as saying.

Yee also told the committee, “Allow-ing a school administration to censor is contrary to the democratic process and the ability of a student newspaper to serve as the watchdog and bring sun-shine to the actions of school adminis-

trators.”AB 2581 is a bill designed to protect

the First Amendment rights of college journalists. It will also prohibit any col-lege or university offi-cial from disciplining a student engaging in press activities.

According to an Associated Press report, Yee had introduced the bill in response to a Fed-eral Court ruling last year in Illinois. In July, Chicago’s Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Midwest University administrators could review articles written by student journalists prior to publication. The Court also decided that Governors State University, near Chicago, could regulate its student paper because it was pub-lished under the auspices of the college.

However, according to the Associated Press report, the decision was limited only to Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.

Interestingly, though, existing Cali-fornia state law provides similar pro-tections for high school journalists.

However, according to news services, at the time the law was enacted, college and universities in California were not included because it was thought that at that time the First Amendment already protected them.

The California Newspaper Publishers Association and free-speech advocates fear that the same thing might happen — that California college and university administrators may try implementing the Illinois ruling on their campuses.

Laura Castaneda, San Diego City Col-lege assistant professor of radio and TV, said she is pleased that the bill passed.

“As a journalist myself and a teacher of journalism, I can’t agree more that censorship on a college campus is detri-mental to the training of future journal-ists,” she said.

“While student journalists do not receive the same treatment as profes-sionals, they still need to be trained to do research and find sources in the same manner as real professionals,” she con-tinued.

“The last thing they need is to be barred from seeking the truth.” Cas-taneda added.

Castaneda also reports of an incident that happened on campus earlier this

semester, that looked as though it was censorship, but turned out to be a mis-understanding.

The incident happened in the college’s cafeteria as a student in the RTVC 145 class attempted to do a news story on healthy foods in the cafeteria with per-mission from one of the managers. The student later informed Castaneda that the manager had given him the OK to interview that same manager but only if the student reporter would provide a list of questions ahead of time.

Now it is not clear if the intent was about censoring, but the incident has been resolved and now viewed as a mis-understanding, Castaneda said.

Roman Koenig, City’s journalism pro-fessor and student newspaper adviser, also agrees that the bill was needed, especially for community colleges.

“This should’ve been done a long time ago,” he said. “I think it’ll go a long way in securing student press freedom on community college campuses.”

According to new services, Jim Ewert, counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association, said that there has been no formal opposition to the bill so far. The bill will now be sent to the California Senate for consideration.

Assembly votes to bar censorship of college newspapersLegislation would prohibit administrators fromcontrolling content

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San Diego City College’s Phi Theta Kappa organization held a meeting April 25 in regards to past and future endeavors.

Phi Theta Kappa is an international honors society for two-year colleges. The program is designed to recognize students for their academic excellence.

Though City College’s Beta Iota Kappa chapter has inducted 50 new

members during the spring semester, there are many officer positions vacant. The chapter discussed the need for elec-tions and more participation among new members.

“Phi Theta Kappa has gone through many different changes this last year, and we are once again feeling that we have a strong grasp on the goals that we have set,” Jenny Clark said, president of Beta Iota Kappa.

Phi Theta Kappa takes pride in par-ticipating in volunteer and fundraising

activities. In the past, Beta Iota Kappa prepared and distributed lunches to a homeless community in San Diego.

Currently, the chapter is participat-ing in a Hurricane Katrina relief. They are collecting money for text and tech-nical books for victims of Hurricane Katrina. All proceeds will also go to Hurricane Katrina victims.

The chapter plans on participating in the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization’s Walk to Empower, a breast cancer fundraiser and event to raise awareness. The chapter is hoping to gain sponsorships for the event from See’s Candies and Wal-Mart in an effort to raise more money.

“This will be a great opportunity to volunteer while raising money for a great cause,” Jeanette Hawn said, the chapter’s vice president service officer.

The chapter also plans to encourage as many people as possible to participate in three environmentally-friendly volun-teer events taking place April – June.

The 88th International Phi Theta Kappa Convention was held in April in Seattle, Wash. The event featured educational and leadership workshops

as well as guest speakers Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State and Cokie Roberts, a journalist and author.

Anna Foster, director of membership and fundraising, said, “It was one of the best events I have attended. Very motivating, very inspiring. It makes me want to do more for our chapter.”

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City College’s Cosmetology senior stu-dents were on hand giving free hair cuts to interested students. One happy cus-tomer, Environmental Club President Jessica said “it really feels good” after receiving a hair cut by senior, Pleasant. “It was a pleasant experience,” she said. The cosmetology program is currently open to summer enrollees and offers financial aid assistance as well as refer-rals to salons seeking City college cosme-tology graduates. According to Pleasant, City College’s cosmetology program is well-revered in San Diego. “Salons seek out City College students,” he said.

Mary Kay director Suzanne M. Lesko and was on hand to extend the pos-sibility to those who want to run their own show. Mary Kay offers you your own business including the chance to buy wholesale and sell retail and even bigger discounts as you work your way up towards that exclusive big Cadillac. Michael, who’s been a consultant for only three months and is working 40 hours a week and making an average of $73.00 an hour says what’s required is “what you put in is what you get out….you gotta have a hunger and a desire to be successful.” For a small contract fee, trainees receive extensive training and continual support. Lesko is currently looking for ten consultants to work with.

“She’s a great boss,” Michael said.Angie of FedEx Ground is looking

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tions Corp., Sea World, Kaiser Perma-nente, Helix Water District, Sterling Security Services Inc., KSWB-TV, The Center for Social Support and Educa-tion, Sharp Healthcare, Hawthorne Machinery Co., Solar Turbines, Palomar Medical Center, St. Thomas Creations, Paradise Point Resort and Spa, Liv Home, US Navy, Expedia Home Loans, Inc., Barnard Hodes Group for Dish Network, Remedy Intelligent Staffing and American Satellite.

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Employers pitched career opportunities to City College students the week of April 18. The college’s cosmetology department offered hair-cuts during the event. Other campus departments and organizations were also on hand.

Photos by Mauro Aragon / City Times

Phi Theta Kappa meets to review fund-raising effortsGraduation Food and Book Drive

As part of Project Graduation, Phi Theta Kappa is asking the graduating class of 2006 to bring either a canned good or a children’s book to graduation. There will be a drop-off station located next to the entrance, where PTK will collect the items before the ceremony. All of the donated items will be given to local shelters and children’s centers.

Project Graduation serves as a way to help affect change through the collection of books and food items, according to PTK. Chapters collected more than 178,000 food items and more than 90,000 books in 2005.

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thing; it is the human stories and the personalities that are involved in the games.

“Is there anything like that feeling of going to print with your newspaper and then seeing it in those stands the next day, and then seeing that headline that you were up all night trying to think of? Then there it is, for all to see?” Ojeda asked.

As an editor-in-chief of City Times in 1981, Ojeda remem-bers it as overwhelming. “It was quite an experience, because two years ago you were in high school, and now you had the responsibility of guiding a staff of budding journalists.”

During his time as editor-in-chief, Ojeda remembers attending an Annual JACC Conference that acknowledges student papers and individu-als for their achievements in journalism. During the confer-ence, students from all over California attend workshops to sharpen their journalism skills and participate in writing com-petitions.

“We did very, very well, and

I was proud of our staff because we showed so well in the com-petitions. And I was able to get the Editor of the Year award, and that was quite an honor.”

“I count that as one of my highlights — if not the high-light — of my journalism career at City College, but it was cer-tainly a cooperative effort.’

Ojeda also remembers former City Times colleague Ven Griva. “I remember Ven as

always being in a great mood. He was always smiling, just a fun person to be around.”

Ojeda graduated from City College with associate’s degrees in both journalism and in tele-communications. He then went on to San Diego State Univer-sity where he later graduated with an emphasis in broadcast news.

During his time at City, how-ever, Ojeda was able to earn an internship at KFMB Channel 8, where he worked all throughout attending SDSU. After gradu-ating from SDSU, he earned his first job as a television reporter in Abilene, Texas. From there he held positions at stations in Arizona, then back at KFMB and Los Angeles, until he landed a position on NBC 7/39 where he is today, and has been for the last 10 years.

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his writing career. While major-ing in English communications arts at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Griva worked as a writer and photographer for the weekly newspaper The North-side Recorder and later as an agate clerk and correspondent in the sports department at the San Antonio Express-News.

Since moving to Vista, Cali-fornia in 1989, Griva has worked as a sports reporter and news editor for various daily news-papers such as the Oceanside Blade-Citizen, the Vista Press, the Escondido Times Advocate,

the Temecula Daily Californian and the North County Times.

Throughout his career, Griva has done free-lance writ-ing, feature stories and sports, for various publications.

Griva currently works for Copley News Service, a full-service syndicate that provides daily news, editorial cartoons and comic strips to more than 1,500 clients, including major daily newspapers, commu-nity weeklies, newsletters and national and international Web sites.

Griva writes a syndicated health column, Lifewire, for Copley News Service. He is also an editor and runs the compa-ny’s internship program. “We have a paid internship open to juniors and seniors majoring in

journalism at Point Loma Naz-arene University or San Diego State University,” Griva said.

Griva currently resides in Escondido with his family. He has been married to the former Claudia Belen Enrique, the 10th of 11 children from a politically connected Chicano family, for

almost 25 years. They met at City College and have three children, Roman, 20; Mercedes, 19 and Alexander, 10.

In his spare time, Griva is a youth sports coach. “I have coached 18 baseball and soft-ball teams and have served on the Escondido National Little League board of directors,” Griva said. He is the director of youth rugby for the North County Rugby Club and coaches his youngest son’s team, the Flying Penguins.

Griva describes journalism as being a “weird life” with a lot of late hours, hard on families and a meager pay. However, “it does provide a chance to work with smart, exciting and talented people. It’s the people who make it cool.”

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‘It’s the people who make it cool.’

— Ven Griva,former City Times

staff member

‘Is there anything like that feeling of going to print with yournewspaper and then seeing it in those stands the next day?’

— Artie Ojeda, former City Times staff member

By Richard CloughUCLA Daily Bruin

LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) — The UC Board of Regents affirmed its sup-port for President Robert Dynes during the board’s meeting May 18 in San Francisco and pledged to move forward as the regents attempt to repair the university’s compensa-tion system that has been at the heart of an ongoing controversy.

The regents met with Dynes in closed session May 17, where Dynes laid out his understanding of how and why the compen-sation problems occurred. In Wednesday and Thurs-day’s meetings, Dynes repeatedly accepted blame for the controversy.

“I made mistakes. That’s a hard thing to own up to, but I did,” he said.

In recent weeks, Dynes has taken criticism for his role as leader of the UC system when many com-pensation violations took place.

In a meeting with report-ers after the regents issued their statement, Dynes said he has taken to heart the criticism he has received but he is also pleased with the vote of confidence from the regents.

UC regents back embattled leader

center director. As late as April 19, companies such as Coca-Cola and Liberty Mutual were interviewing students at KU.

Lillian Kang, 21, of Overland Park, Kan., found a lot of job opportunities at the KU career fairs. But she ended up landing a financial adviser position with High Pointe Financial Group.

“They found me,” Kang said. “They saw my resume posted on the KU career site and called me.”

At the University of Mis-souri-Kansas City Career Ser-vices Center, employers still were calling recently to reach potential employees even though traditionally the college campus recruiting season ends at the beginning of April, said

Annette Haynes, UMKC man-ager of career services.

MU career center officials expect more students to gradu-ate with jobs this year than in the last two years. In late spring 2005, some 84 percent of the 2,050 MU graduates who responded to an online survey left college with jobs. Most of those jobs — 75 percent — were in Missouri and paid sala-ries ranging from $24,000 to $47,200.

Nationally, most job offers are being made to students graduating with degrees and skills in financial services, accounting, engineering and computer services.

Besides its more optimistic hiring forecast for this year’s graduates, the National Asso-ciation of Colleges and Employ-ers found in its 2006 survey of employers that starting sala-ries will be better, too, particu-larly in certain fields.

18 City Times May 23, 2006CITY TIMES 60th ANNIVERSARY

Student trustees soon started serving on the Board of Governors on local campuses. San Diego was scheduled to host a statewide student con-vention so she ran for president of the statewide organization. When the election tied, a coin toss settled the outcome and she became vice president of the statewide organization.

In reminiscing, Mayfield recalled having some wonder-ful experiences and memories of San Diego City College. “It was the whole collegiate experi-ence,” she said.

On Fridays they would go shoot pool at a little bar called “The Cottage” which was on C Street. She was hanging out with mostly the student gov-ernment guys and she would go with them. The guys would have a couple of beers, drop her off, then go out. They would tell her to “be good” and of course, she would never get to go with them, she said.

One year, she ran for home-coming queen, but knew she had little chance to win. She had gotten dressed up in a red and white gown. She did not win after all, but immediately changed her clothes and put on “her other hat”. She started taking pictures of the home-coming queen and someone else wrote the story.

Today, Mayfield is the Infor-mation Officer at San Diego Continuing Education (ECC) which is a non-credit section of the San Diego City College District. There are six schools that comprise the Continuing Education program, and one

primary mission is to provide ESL (English as a Second Lan-guage) classes.

She loves working. “I love what I do,” Mayfield said. “I’ve met my goal, and there is noth-ing more that I’d like to do.”

She loves the opportunity to meet people. Mayfield left City College to attend San Jose State in 1970 which was the time that schools were integrating student dormitories. She was the first “white girl” to have a black roommate, and her black roommate was the first black girl to have a white roommate. They were both serious stu-dents, became good friends and lived together junior and senior years.

“None of this would have been possible if I hadn’t gone from high school journalism to City College. Had I gone directly to State, I’d have been lost. Being at City College allowed me to find the opportu-nity to meet my career needs. I wouldn’t trade any of my expe-riences,” Mayfield said.

Around 1975, Mayfield came back to City College as an employee, and West, along with two other history teachers, saw her again and greeted her with her old nickname “Flash.” The name had stuck.

Mayfield wound up going into a small business shoot-ing wedding photos and has recently co-authored a book called “You Who Are on the Road.” The main character begins and completes a 10,000 mile bicycle ride from New York to California, and back to New York. Her stories, experiences and characters she meets along the way are part of her journey and personal transformation.

Mayfield literally does and did write the facts by day and fiction by night. Her son, Quinn, keeps her life unusually inter-esting — not to mention being an inspiration and enthusiast in every aspect.

“He keeps me on my toes,” Mayfield said. He also writes, but at the moment is mostly interested in being a 16-year-old.

There is a plaque above Mayfield’s desk which she has had with her since high school days. It reads: “The strongest drive is not love or hate. It is one person’s need to change,” with the word “change” being crossed out many times. Over the word “change” has been written, “improve, rework, recoup, amend, revamp,” and then back again to “change.”

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Lynn Dao / ContributorContinuing Education Information Officer Lynne Mayfield works in her office recently.

‘None of this would have been possible if I hadn’t gone from high schoolto journalism at City College.’

— Lynne Mayfield, former staff member

following behind an African American who was pushing for his civil rights. The Chicano man was saying, “Me too! Me too!” which suggested that Chi-canos did not have their own civil rights issues and were adopting the issues of the African Ameri-can community as their own. The cartoon prompted the Chi-cano community at City College to gather every copy of the Fort-knightly on campus and burn them in demonstration.

Markley said he was hired because of the acclaim he had earned at James Madison High

and because he was more politi-cally aware than his predeces-sor. During his time as adviser for the Fortknightly, he helped to establish a journalism major at City College and was involved in creating several new journal-ism courses.

After 1978, he became a full-time English teacher. He con-tinues to teach to this day and is semi-retired. In an interview, he reminiscently describes how students were much more polit-ical in the ’70s.

“I was concerned that stu-dents are not very conscious of what’s going on around them,” said Markley. “Now that the immigration issues touch a lot of students, their activism is beginning to make it feel like the ’70s.”

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Abinashi Khalsa / City TimesFormer City Times adviser John Markley works with a student in an English class he teaches this semester.

There were a lot of smiles recently at Theis Park in Kansas City, where the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s graduation was held.

Jennifer Hack / KRT Campus

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City Times 19May 23, 2006 ARTS / NEWS

the team leaders responsible for programming and the theo-retical concepts of the project. He became involved with the project a year ago when Carter asked him to participate. He dedicates from four to 20 hours a week to the project.

“It’s given me a lot of practi-cal experience in the field that I am interested in,” Wisecaver said, whose long term goal is to work in automation.

Daniel Bazo, the project manager, studies electrical engineering and is interested in robotics and control systems. In the fall, he will transfer to UC Berkeley where he has already been accepted.

“Chris was in one of my phys-ics classes and he would get up and try to get people involved. I attended a meeting and saw how challenging it was,” Bazo said. He has been involved for a year and half.

The competition will take place Aug. 6 and 7 in San Diego at the Space and Naval War-fare Systems Center. There is a $2,000 award for the winner.

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for me,” Winfrey said. Winfrey is not alone. Nan

Talese of Doubleday, Frey’s publisher, learned of the fab-rications at the same time everyone else did — when The Smoking Gun, an investigative Web site, published the results of a six-week investigation on the book.

Frey now has an author’s note in his book that describes parts that have been “changed.”

“A Million Little Pieces” is actually an easy read, and somewhat of a page-turner. Per-haps this book would be alright to read as a fictional account, if he could just take out the ironic words he said repeatedly throughout his story: “remem-ber the truth, it’s all that mat-ters.”

For more information, go to www.thesmokinggun.com.

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fornia to support the operations of the SSCCC, as he is dedicated to helping the newly formed organization succeed. “Repre-sentation comes from each and every one of us,” he said while addressing the room full of stu-dent representatives, adding “I will honor your decisions.”

Other speakers included stu-dent representatives and trust-ees who presented topics such as an overview of the SSCCC Constitution, and explanation of the election and nomination processes, as well as Model E, which serves as the functioning model of the structure for the SSCCC.

Model E, like the SSCCC Constitution, was created by input from student representa-tives on behalf of 109 schools statewide. The process of cre-ating these documents began in November 2005.

Model E designates that each community college will have one local senator, a total of 109 senators. Local senators will elect 10 at-large senators who will represent the SSCCC at the California State Senate. In addition, semi-annual Gen-eral Assembly meetings will be held each fall and spring where local senators, at-large sena-tors and regional representa-

tives will report to one another. All positions may be held for a maximum of two one-year terms.

Neil Kovrig, a student from Palomar College, expressed his concern with Model E stating, “This model creates levels of bureaucracy and information will be difficult to access.”

Model E was passed by a vote of 90 out of 109 at a student representative meeting held prior to the General Assembly meeting.

For the purposes of the SSCCC, all community col-leges are arranged into regions according to their geographic proximity. There are currently 10 regions in the SSCCC. Each region has two regional repre-sentatives, and regional meet-ings will be held often.

City College AS President Francisco Fabian is one of the two regional representatives for region 10, the San Diego area.

Of the first General Assem-bly meeting, he said, “Overall I was pleased.”

Regional representatives will meet on a monthly basis to discuss the creation of bylaws and amendments to the con-stitution — two issues which caused much debate at the first meeting. The next meeting will be held the weekend of July 8 in Sacramento.

For more information on the SSCCC and its constitution visit: http://www.cccco.edu/divi-sions/ss/senate/senate.htm.

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receiving 360 votes for the vice-presidency. Pollock thanks all students who voted and clubs for their support, “Your vote does count,” he said.

Daniel Luque ran unopposed for treasurer and received 393 votes. Write-in candidate Chris Carter received votes for the presidency and vice-presidency, 16 and 103 votes accordingly.

All newly elected officers are optimistic about their goals for the upcoming semester. Their goals include building sup-port for the proposed Student Community Center, stronger student representation in local and state levels in addition to increased student involvement with on-campus activities.

The proposed Student Com-munity Center must receive 2,000 out of 3,000 votes in order to pass. This is a long shot considering six times as many students must vote to even give validity to this measure.

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Born Anthony Moses Davis in 1972 in the notorious Waterhouse district of Kings-ton, Jamaica, “Beenie” (the name means “little” in Jamai-can patwah) Man has been a member of the dancehall scene since childhood. He now finds himself among the top flight of ragga dee-jays.

Beenie Man has had a Top 10 hit in the UK with “Who Am I (Zim Zimma)” on the Greensleeves label in Febru-ary 1998 and later became a hit in the USA on the VP label. According to reports, its suc-cess led to Beenie Man sign-ing a major deal with Virgin Records.

“Who Am I,” the legend-ary track off of Many Moods, exposed a whole new genera-tion of fans to dancehall reggae first caught fire on UK airwaves and then entered NYC urban station Hot 97’s mix. It ran up Billboard’s Hot Rap Singles

chart, peaking at No. 6, while Moses became the only reggae album to enter Billboard’s R&B Albums chart for 98.

Reggae’s pop crossover hopes soon settled entirely on this musical chameleon’s slim shoulders. Those hopes have been more than fulfilled in the past few years.

Currently, the reggae rapper (“deejay” in Jamaican) has over 60 No. 1 hit singles, several hit albums, including the Virgin Records releases Art and Life (2000) and Tropical Storm (2002) — culminating in his crowning as reggae dancehall’s undisputed king.

“You got to know how to be in the business,” Beenie Man said. “You have to be always on your

foot, and one day the door will open, trust me. I was born to be smooth, not to be boasty, not to push my luck further than it can go, to maintain a strong spirit and be loving to the people … I’ve been everywhere in the world, learned a lot about the business and matured, and dancehall has been elevated in the past few years.”

A summer debut, Beenie Man is taking it Back to Basics for his third Virgin Records release. According to Beenie Man’s myspace page, listeners can expect “straight-no chaser, hardcore Jamaican dancehall, with booming, machine-drum dominated tracks produced by the island’s top digital artists — Dave Kelly, Tony Kelly, Don Corleon, a host of the island’s younger mixing board wizards, and Beenie Man himself.”

Nicole Cunningham is City Times’ arts/features editor

MusicReviewNicole Cunningham

Return of the king: Beenie Man

By Brett AmelkinThe Daily Princetonian

PRINCETON, N.J. (U-WIRE) — Only months before creative writing professor Toni Morrison is set to retire, the New York Times Book Review has named her 1987 novel “Beloved” the best book in American fiction in the last 25 years.

“It is a happy occurrence that at the very moment that Pro-fessor Morrison has decided to retire she should have received this honor, one that is so richly deserved,” Edmund White, director of creative writing and author of the recent memoir “My Lives,” said in an e-mail.

Though University officials declined to confirm Morrison’s decision, several individuals familiar with her plans said she is likely to retire, though the move has not been finalized.

Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has taught at Princeton since 1989.

“Not until the June 5 meet-ing of the Board of Trustees will they sign off on retire-m e n t s , ” University s p o k e s -woman Cass Cliatt ’96 said. “We will know then.”

T h e honor was bestowed on Morrison by 125 writers, critics, editors and other prominent lit-erary figures who were sent a letter by the Book Review’s editor, Sam Tenanhaus, asking them to identify the “single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years,” Times critic A.O. Scott said in an essay about the list.

The winner of the 1988 Pulit-zer Prize for Fiction, “Beloved” follows the story of a mother and her daughter after they escape from slavery.

Eddie Glaude GS ’97, asso-ciate professor of religion and acting director of the Program in African-American Studies, said his initial reaction to the Times’ list was one of “excite-ment and joy.”

“They obviously gathered a group of reasonable people [to judge],” Glaude said.

White, who was one of the judges for the award, also expressed admiration for the novel. “It seemed to me unsur-prising and totally justified that Toni Morrison should have received the award for ‘Beloved,’” White said. “It is, among other things, a great American his-torical epic about race, the most absorbing question our culture has yet proposed.”

Author Toni Morrison wins honor amid talk of retirement

Toni Morrison

20 City Times May 23, 2006CitySports

Sophomore infielder Matt Luna was selected to the all PCC first team. Luna hit .352 with 19 RBI and two triples. Although selected as an infielder Luna was also used as the Knights closer. Luna was brought in from second base late in close games to close them out compiling a record of 3-1 with 19 strikeouts in 21 innings of work.

Sophomore pitcher Eric Billings was selected to the all PCC first team. Billings finished conference play with a 5-2 record and a 2.89 ERA. Billings’ 67 strikeouts were best on the team and good enough for the third highest total in the conference. Billings was also used by head coach Chris Brown in City’s most important games.

Sophomore outfielder Mike Reynolds was selected as the Pacific Coast Conference men’s 2006 James Swinson Scholar/Athlete of the year award winner. Reynolds was also named to the all PCC first team. Reynolds hit .330 with 14 RBI and ten stolen bases during conference play for the Knights this season. His ten stolen bases were best on the team.

Sophomore designated hitter David Dennis was selected to the all PCC first team. The 6ft 5 inch clean up hitter hit .337 with four home runs and eight doubles. His four home runs and .551 slugging percentage was the best on the team and the slugging percentage was fifth in conference.

Infielder Dante Love was the only freshmen selected to the all PCC first team from the City roster. Love hit .375 with 20 RBI and two home runs during conference play. His .375 average was third best in the conference. Love also finished the season with an impressive .418 on base percentage.

Badminton wins state title

By Shane CrumrineCity Times

Going into the final game of the season against Southwestern on May 5, the Knights knew it was win and they’re in the playoffs or lose and the season is over.

After losing the hard-fought game 2-1 at Morley Field, the Knights later found out that they qualified for a one game playoff series with L.A. Harbor to see which team could continue on to the regular playoff format.

Usually two teams from each con-ference are selected to play in the playoffs. With City and Grossmont finishing with identical second place records, City Head Coach Chris Brown thought his team was done after the May 5 game due to Grossmont hold-ing the tie breaking game over the Knights.

“They’re in, we’re out. Even though we tied with them (Grossmont) they got the head-to-head on us 3-2,” Brown said.

The Knights played a hard-fought game but ran into tough pitcher Mike McLaughlin. McLaughlin, who finished conference play with 55 strikeouts and a 2.48 ERA, pitched brilliantly, allowing only one unearned run on three hits in nine innings while striking out four City batters.

The Knights only run came in the fourth inning after two errors by Southwestern’s infield loaded the bases for second baseman Matt Luna. Luna, who went 1 for 4 with an RBI on the game, hit a hard shot down the third baseline, which the defense was able to knock down but were unable to make a play, allowing Stan Hill to score from third base.

Not to be out-played, City’s ace Eric

Billings pitched very well. Billings, the only City pitcher selected to the all PCC team, pitched seven innings, striking out three batters while giving up two runs with only one of them earned.

That one earned run came in sev-enth inning when Southwestern’s third baseman took a Billing’s pitch over the left center field wall to give them the go ahead run. The Knights were unable to rally against McLaugh-lin and lost the game 2-1.

“I’ve faced McLaughlin for two years, and he’s just a very good com-petitor. He’s a good arm, and we knew that coming into this game,” Brown said. “We knew it was going to be a low scoring game, and we were gonna have to figure out a way to manufac-ture some runs. Unfortunately, some of the balls we hit right on the button were hit right at people.”

Despite losing this game, City was still selected to play in the Southern California Regional game. The game matched up the number 18 seed San Diego City College with the number 15 ranked L.A. Harbor.

L.A. Harbor jumped all over City, defeating them 10-2 and cutting short the Knights’ playoff run. There were no game stats available for this game on spincostats.com. Despite the loss, Brown was still happy with the prod-uct he put on the field.

“This was the funnest club I’ve worked with in 17 years. It was a fun group of guys who didn’t like to lose, and whenever you have a makeup like that, it makes for a fun year,” Brown said. “Being able to take it down to the last game of the year is kind of what you look forward to. Of course, we would’ve liked something better to happen.”

Knights make playoffs despite loss in final game

City athletes honoredFive City baseball players named to theAll Pacific Coast Conference first team

By Shanika WhaleyCity Times

The badminton team at City College started with a great season and ended with success. The Knights took home first place at the California State Team Championships in Pasadena, California on May 11.

The Knights were victorious over San Francisco City College, winning 17-4. Despite the fact that San Francisco’s team put up a tough match against the Knights, they were not equally as tough.

Besides winning the team champion-ships, the Knights have achieved huge success with this year’s team. Most play-ers have been noticed for playing single and double games.

Jenny Chau, a semi-finalist in sin-gles won 11-6 against her opponent. Lai Nguyen and Anh Le were finalists in doubles, winning 15-13 and 15-12,

respectively.The Knights are undefeated 12-0. Six

of the games were a 21-0 achievement against teams such as Orange Coast, San Diego Mesa Fullerton, Irvine Valley and Santa Ana. They won seven champi-onship crowns from the Orange Empire Conference, beating previous conference winners San Diego Mesa (2000-2001) and Irvine Valley (2002-2005).

Ana Lozano, a player on the team, has been playing for the Knights for two years. Along with fellow teammate Jes-senia Peralta, both tried their best to outlast the San Francisco team but fell short of good results. Regardless of her team’s outcome, Lozano expressed how very proud she is of her teammates.

“As a second-year player, I’m really honored to bring home the trophy,” Lozano said. “My teammates and I worked hard all season to maintain an undefeated record. Winning state was the most amazing moment of my life.”

City College’s badminton team poses for a team photo after winning the State Team Cham-pionships on May 11.

Badminton Team / Courtesy Photo