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ISet college freePresident Obama wants everyone to have an education. See Page 5.

Satisfactory ‘Shrew’Shakespeare’s classic redesigned with a feminist touch. See Page 3.

Making a splashDVC’s champion swim team dives into the new season. See Page 8.

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On your marks, get set, write! Diablo Valley College is getting ready for the second annual DVC Creative Writing Contest, where student writers will get their chance to show off their work.

The con-test will be available for DVC students who will have a choice of three catego-ries to submit their work.

Writers can submit fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Their work will be judged by a panel of six judges, each of whom will judge the in-dividual papers blindly (without knowing the writer).

Writers are not limited to one category, and are encouraged to write more than one piece, but students are not allowed to sub-mit more than one paper for fic-tion and nonfiction categories.

For poetry, students are allowed to submit up to three poems, but no more than three pages total.

Fiction stories can be no more

than 2000 words and nonfiction can be no more that 1500 words.

Cash prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place.

Honorable mentions may be also be granted to contestants.

Writers who are lucky enough to end up with these awards will be invited to a student reading on

April 29, on campus.

The specific location and time has not yet been de-cided.

Entries will be accepted from Feb. 9, through March 27, 2015 and must be sub-mitted online through the DVC website.

If you search English on DVC’s website and go to the department page, there is a section for special event that the link to submit to the con-test is under.

For additional information about the contest, students should contact English professor Jessica Barksdale at jbarksdale@dvc.edu.

Anna Zusman's art exhibit "Do You Think You Can Tell if it's Heaven or Hell" had a good first day turnout at the Diablo Valley College library.

Zusman stayed busy during the opening ceremony, answering questions and receiv-ing commendations from spectators.

DVC librarian Ruth Sison says she'd never seen so many students stop and stare.

"It's engaging and they gravitated to it," she says. "It isn't your traditional day to day art. It's modernized and they can relate to it."

Upon asking Anna's father, Anatoly Zus-man when she first began drawing he said she's been doing it since she was born. "She was not pushed into it. This was her passion, not ours."

"I don't remember a time I didn't do [drawing]," Zusman says. "The first time I was really conscious of doing it, I was prob-ably five years old. I never really stopped. It was a natural part of my life."

Whether it be drawing plants in rows or observing and drawing people she loved the organization of things.

In addition to her gallery at DVC, Zus-man has her art being showcased in several

places such as New Jersey and New York.Admirers on Saturday brought different

lives to her pieces and had many guesses as to what they could possibly mean.

Jose Delos Reyes, a colleague and friend of Zusman, says, "She seems to have a so-cial consciousness in her work, combined with intricate rendering."

However, there is no right or wrong ex-planation according to the artist.

"People have different interpretations of my work," she says.

"I think that once I'm done with my work it's not mine in a way anymore, so whatever people think, whatever it gives them is fine by me."

People were especially drawn to Zus-man's book of drawings called "Mermaid Heritage."

The book consisted of mermaids trying to conform to the daily lives of humans.

Zusman was really touched by the recep-tion of "Mermaid Heritage."

An acquaintance of hers, Twiga, an owner of an African art gallery says, "All of us are mermaids." Meaning that everyone can feel like an outsider.

It was impossible for Zusman to choose a favorite of her pieces.

"I would say that my favorites are always ones I'm currently working on, and those

are the most exciting to me," she says.She is currently working on pieces called

the "Seven Deadly Sins," two of which, "Sloth" and "Pride" are finished.

"Do you think you can tell if its Heaven or Hell” is open to the public and will be

on display in the DVC library from Jan. 24 to March 7. For more information visit the DVC website

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Artist Anna Zusman stands in front of a painting from her exhibit, “Do you think You Can Tell if it’s Heaven or Hell?”

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Creative writing contest kicks off

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“Writers are not limited to one category, and

are encouraged to write more than one piece, but students are not

allowed to submit more than one paper for

fiction and nonfiction categories.”

Images of heaven and hell catch the attention of students

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Three odd couples, one big twist and a lot of laughs made open-ing night of “The Taming of the Shrew” a success.

Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Kathleen Norm-ington, the play uses the court-ship of two wealthy daughters to explore the power struggle and politics of 16th century marriage.

Kate, played by Farah Dinga, is a wealthy daughter in need of a husband. While her sister Bi-anca (Lauren Prochazka) is lovely and popular with suitors; Kate is frightening and prone to physically attacking people.

At least through the first half this really is the sisters' play, focus-ing on their often violent relation-ship and the different attention each receives from suitors.

The play is spoken in Shake-spearean English which (at least for this reviewer) took some time to get used to.

It was cool hearing the cast nail a language so tricky to read, and even trickier to pronounce.

"I think it was a much stronger opening that we may have been anticipating, and I hope the rest of the run goes just as well," said Han-Joo Kim, who plays a very old old-man in suitor Gremio.

While every character got a few good laughs (and Petruchio's wed-ding costume received the loudest) it was probably the servant Gru-mio, played by Sylvette Teman, who had the most.

Teman, who has a strange gift for making eating look funny, had the audience rocking nearly every time she moved.

The 16th century costumes, which featured poofy hats, poofy pants and poofy sleeves were cool too. Petruchio and Grumio also had those outer crotch-straps that always seem to pop up in these sort of things.

But the most interesting part of the play was watching the relation-ship between Kate and her new husband Petruchio (Jeremy Do-rado) develop. Though Kate is a shrew her husband is no pushover either.

Opposing her at nearly every

turn with lies, brainwashing and starvation its not clear if Petruchio really is a master woman tamer, or if his corkiness just charms Kate into love.

Perhaps the play’s most famous scene, and easily it’s most contro-versial, is the infamous “wife obe-dience test” put on by the three newly married husbands.

“It’s a really Feminist play, but it always ends with the real my-soginistic ending. The play is about finding someone you can be hon-est with and negotiate with and love truly.” Dorado says. “It’s kind of hard to get that across in some editions because it’s like ‘how do you play that final monologue?’”

Normington chose to switch the genders in the contest, so that the female actors were the one’s calling their spouses. It was an interesting twist, one that made a definitive stance on what that final scene meant for the characters.

“The Taming of the Shrew” will be playing through Feb. 15.

Thou shalt tame this ‘Shrew’DANIEL MARACCINI

Features editor

Contact DANIEL MARACCINI atDMaraccini@DVCInquirer.com

From left to right, Farah Dinga, Marcela Castro, Jeremy Dorado and Han-Joo Kim rehearse “Taming of the Shrew.”

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Artists get down and ‘Funky’

Diablo Valley College is host-ing a ceramic show titled “Not too Funky” that is a fun take on modern Funk art and how it’s transforming through the eyes of different artists.

The exhibit is running from Jan. 28 to Feb. 25 and has a variety of different artists and styles.

Artists included Shenny Cruces, Antonio Cuellar, Edith Garcia, Travis McFlynn, Erin McGuiness, Crystal Morey, Juan Santiago, Shannon Sullivan and Whitney Smith.

A hand full of the artists came out to speak about their work at the opening event on Thursday, Jan. 29.

Edith Garcia talked about her work titled "Constant Same For-ever."

"Constant Same Forever, is sup-posed to represent a life cycle: it's the beginning of life, through the end of life, and everything we ex-perience throughout," Garcia said.

The event was curated by Chris-ta Assad, who is a ceramic artist herself. Her studio is located in Berkeley.

She gave her opening speech to a large crowd of students, parents, other artists, but mostly students, who all stood intently listening to her words.

“I’m thrilled to see the show be-

cause I not only didn’t know what the work was going to look like, but I didn’t hand pick the artists.” She said.

“I’m really proud of the way things turned out, because the work really reflects a contempo-rary look at art.”

Assad’s curator statement gave a great definition of what was to be expected from the show.

“With tongue-in-cheek, ‘Not Too Funky’ is a small but powerful selection of works from our next generation of local Mud Muckers: artists whose voices echo their Northern California-grown Funk Artist predecessors’, but with a different tone.”

It coninued, “Together, these works represent a diversity of styles and processes. Students, practitioners, and art enthusiasts alike may benefit from this small but representative survey.”

The opening event was held to inspire the art students of DVC, and many students came out to support.

Studio art major Gianna Ben-nett, 22, said, “I love working with clay myself, and it’s just great to come out and support up and coming artists.”

Make sure to check out the Gal-lery and support your local artists before it closes on Feb. 25.

MARCEL SCOTTStaff member

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Students and faculty walk the Art department gallery looking at ceramic art that was created by some DVC students and other artist from the Bay Area on Jan. 29.

Bay Area ceramic artists show work

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What do you think of Obama’s free

community college plan?

BuzzTh

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Interviewed by: Fidel Ontiveros

Photographed by:A’jenae Cooley

“Well to be honest I go to UCSC, but by having more

students going to a community college in a democratic

community would impact me very well.”

AJIA ADAIR, 20Psychology

“It should be good forstudents, if it works, teachers

might want to work.”

SMAYAN DARUKA, 17Computer science

“Might be cool to get free school for a bit.”

ISAE DOLAN, 19Forestry

“If it was in affect right now it would affect me, but as of right now I am transferring.”

KATE TAYYEB, 20English

“I guess I’d be eligible.Certainly something that would be a good idea.”

MARCK MENKE, 44Art digital media

Editorial

Letter to the editor

President Barack Obama's an-nouncement of his tuition-free community college plan could provide great opportunity for stu-dents, schools and the country.

The main question is where will that funding come from?

The federal government would cover 3/4 of the cost, according to the White House fact sheet. And each state would be expected to cover the remaining quarter.

Taxpayers are shaking their heads at this point because they expect this proposal to increase their taxes.

This may be true, but if students remain uneducated, how will this country ever move forward? This is a good investment.

Others may say that having an even playing field reduces the val-ue of a degree.

But free college does not nec-essarily mean easy college. Such legislation will merely open up op-portunities for hard working stu-dents who struggle financially.

Under President Obama's plan college may be more challenging because students would need to be on a two-year track to complete a

degree.From the fact sheet: "Students

who attend at least half-time, maintain a 2.5 GPA while in col-lege, and make steady progress toward completing their program will have their tuition elimi-nated."

Those stu-dents who would have milled around campus switch-ing majors three or four times would be expected to get serious about their education and move to-wards a voca-tion.

This is a great thing for our country.

Another hope would be that communication between high schools, community colleges and four year colleges would be im-proved and would help students transition from one to the next.

No student wants to have to re-

take a class they have already taken in high school.

This proposal could also help students who have to work one or more jobs in order to pay for school.

Removing the burden of tu-ition costs could help these stu-dents focus on their education, and invest more time in their fu-ture.

"A full-time community col-lege student could save an av-erage of $3,800 in tuition per year," according

to the White House fact sheet.Anyone who values education

should stand behind this proposal.Just because you put yourself

through college while working two jobs and eating Top Ramen for dinner does not mean all stu-dents should have to face the same adversity.

The concept is about to make

it's maiden voyage in Tennessee, where the "Tennessee Promise" will cover any remaining tuition costs after scholarships such as the Pell grant.

Chicago is set to launch it's STAR scholarship program in fall of 2015.

According to the City Colleg-es of Chicago website, Chicago public high school students who graduate with a 3.0 GPA or higher can receive this scholarship that covers full tuition, fees and books for three years or until the student completes an associates degree.

If this proposal doesn't pass through Congress, we should hope that the idea evolves on the state level, following the ideas of Tennessee and Chicago.

It still remains the responsibility of the individual student to work hard and complete college.

If students decide to drop out, they won't get funding, and that was their choice, but our coun-try needs the students who work hard; it is a responsibility to give them opportunities they never had before.

“Students who at-tend at least half-time, maintain a 2.5 GPA while in college, and make steady progress toward completing their program will have their tuition

eliminated.”

I am a Diablo Valley College student. Be-sides that, I'm Chinese.

I was lucky enough to read about your ar-ticle "Yik Yak displays student ignorance" in the school.

Thanks for taking the right side on this issue. I really appreciate it.

However, I feel extremely uncomfortable and angry about the fact that such article could be posted on school newspaper.

I don't mean to be offensive or any-thing, I just want you to know that there are lots of Asian students out there feeling so dis-appointed and bad about such fact.

You might not be able to feel how hard is it for an international student to adapt to the life here while they have only studied English for a few years.

But no matter how hard that is, we study hard to prove that we are as good as other English-speaking students.

We can accept the hardship that came with studying abroad, but if that also means we need to adapt to the racism in DVC, it would be unacceptable.

Picture this scene: if one day you happen to go to China for studying or for whatever reason, and you saw on the newspaper about

people saying "I want to just hit all the Ameri-can people in the crosswalk.”

How would you think and react?My feeling tells me you are a good person. You start this article, so I hope you will also

end this in an elegant way. Pardon me for any offense.

~ Shulin ChenDVC Student

Racist comments have negative impact on DVC

Invest in America’s futureWESLEY IHEZUE / The Inquirer

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Art Exhibit, Feb. 5 - March 7, li-brary hoursLibraryAna Zusman’s “Do you think you can tell if it’s Heaven or Hell?” will be on display.

Job Search Lab, Feb. 5 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.HFS 292Designed for students looking to learn more about job search strategies and techniques, as well as how to navigate DVC’s online job board.

“The Taming of the Shrew” , Feb. 6-15, times varyPACShakespeare’s comedy put on by the DVC drama department. Fri-days and Saturday at 8 p.m. Sun-days 2/8 and 2/15 at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 29 2015DVC Library An unattended laptop was sto-len. Total loss reported $1,200.

Thursday, Jan. 29 2015DVC Business and Foreign Lan-guage Bike RackA locked bike was reported miss-ing. It was later found at a differ-ent location.

Wednesday, Jan. 28 2015DVC Overflow Lot Parking Lot 7bA students vehicle was stolen.

Wednesday, Jan. 28 2015DVC Parking Lot 5A student reported his vehicle was broken into. There were no witnesses.

Wednesday, Jan. 28 2015DVC Library Complex TablesA student reported his phone was stolen. Total loss reported $640. There were no witnesses.

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The “Protests ignite campus dis-cussions on race and the justice system” article said that Michael Brown and Eric Garner were both shot; Garner died from being placed in a choke hold. A correction has been made to the online version.

Three separate programs: Puente, MESA and Umoja, each designed to change the lives of its members, combined their efforts to open a new shared space located in the vacant building that was formerly used for the counseling depart-ment.

Each of these three programs provides aca-demic and communal support for its members from groups of varying demographics.

According to the Umoja community website, “Umoja is a learning community dedicated to enhancing the cultural and educational experi-ences of African American and other students.”

Puente program’s mission is to increase the number of Mexican American/Latino students transferring to four-year colleges and universi-ties while providing a supportive and simulating environment for its program’s students to build confidence in their skills.

MESA, which stands for Mathematics, En-

gineering, Science Achievement, is a state-wide program for full-time students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) that provides academic enrichment to educationally or economically disadvantaged community college students.

The building serves as a common multi-purpose facility designed to host and serve the multitudes of students who have found success and inspiration through participation in these programs.

The space contains couches, computers, pri-vate study rooms with desks and a large room designed for group work. This contains an en-tire wall covered in dry-erase paint designed to serve as a large canvas to work on math prob-lems, diagrams and art.

The opening of this space (located across from the Learning Center) was made possible through the diligence of the various coordina-tors from each of the three programs combined with the support of the DVC administration.

MESA coordinator Maitreyee Chandra was

one of the active proponents for the opening of the new shared space and noted the progres-sive nature of this project.

“In shaping the academic journey of our stu-dents, we would like them to integrate the phi-losophies from all three programs,” Chandra said. “It is a great representation of our country as a whole, and is a reflection of our diverse national identity.”

“Umoja changed me from a juvenile delin-quent to a straight A student,” Umoja mem-ber Amare Bailey said. Fellow Umoja member Tiffany Custer added, “Umoja is like a second family to me.”

Javier Sandoval is a MESA coordinator and a member of Puente. “When I first came to DVC, I had never read a book from front to back,” Sandoval said. “Puente and MESA have helped me develop leadership skills and be-come a master student.”

Programs join efforts to open shared space

Contact SRIRAM RAMAKRISHNAN at SRamakrishnan @DVCInquirer.com

Lab changes upset manyChanges to Diablo Valley College computer

laboratories stirred up both support and oppo-sition.

The Computer Center's previously large lay-out will be converted into three separate spaces to be utilized by individual classes and an open lab. Two more lecture rooms will also be added to the first floor of the library. During con-struction, a significant portion of the library quad will be fenced off, prohibiting merchant and student club activities.

Interim Vice President of finance and ad-ministration John Nahlen, who oversees all campus construction, said renovations are not scheduled to begin until early March and com-pletion is anticipated for Fall 2015.

"The reason that the lab was closed at the start of the semester was to avoid a mid-semes-ter disruption to students," Nahlen said. "Col-lege administration felt that it would be easier on students to start and end the semester at the locations chosen for drop-in computer labs."

The Computer Center has been temporarily relocated to Business and Foreign Language room 213. Reprographics production coordi-nator Teresa Towers said, "All services for the student are the same, just in a different build-ing."

However, many students and faculty oppose the changes made. When the Digital Media Lab closed and permanently relocated last semester, many were outraged.

Broadcast communication major Laurel Clemons started an online petition in June 2014 against the closure and a "Protect the DVC Digital Media Lab" Facebook page. The online petition had a total of 157 signatures and the physical petition had over 450 signatures.

"The 'new' lab is such a joke in many ways,"

Clemons said. Services went from 59 hours per week to an average of 16, the number of computers available decreased significantly and a lack of Mac computers with specialty course programs directly affected art, digital media, broadcast production and film students.

Media Services Specialist Mark Bradley said via email that the remodeling development pro-cess planned in 2013 excluded most people and people in the programs directly using the lab were not consulted.

"Peter Garcia and John Nahlen seized and destroyed petition materials as 'propaganda' and threatened employees with 'investigation' into their participation," he said. "Desks and work areas were searched and college email ac-cessed for information."

The new Computer Center's open lab will

also decrease in size from 118 computers to 50."Few employees (faculty and staff) will be

frank about the situation out of concern for their self-interest," Bradley said. "In my time here there have been the understandable ups and downs of an institution and its community but it was not until last year that I felt ashamed to work here and embarrassed for its other em-ployees."

Computer Center coordinator Jocelyn Ian-nucci, not involved in the petition, supports changes made to campus labs.

"It was a good choice," she said. "I think we should be trying to move ahead. It can some-times be hard to see what ahead even is."

TAYLOR PAGANOnline editor

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Students passing the closed Computer Center on the first floor of the library.

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Recent vacancies in executive positions among the Associated Students of Diablo Valley College have led to a call for special inter-im elections before the ASDVC general public elections in April.

As the ASDVC lost graduat-ing senior members, positions for president, parliamentarian and di-rector of activities opened up.

Plans for an interim election to fill the positions are scheduled with nominations being held Feb. 3, followed by elections on Feb. 10.

Allegations from former ASDVC presi-dent and In-quirer staff member Keith Montes indi-cated that Par-liamentarian Sherilyn Tjan-dra and Activity Coordinator Felicia Novia both resigned over disagreements with the ASDVC about electing a pres-ident before the general elections.

Diversity Affairs Officer Lily Hajin was not aware of the mo-tive behind the resignations.

"I had assumed that they had resigned for personal reasons," she said.

"While I can't say much about their resignations, I can say that I would love to see a strong execu-tive board during the next semes-ter."

Some students were less sure about the leave of absence of the executive members. Music major Taylor Hayes, 21, is skeptical of the events.

"I've seen the ASDVC in ac-tion," Hayes said. "I'm not sur-prised that something like this has transpired, especially since the ASDVC sometimes seems like a popularity contest. Maybe for them this is for the best."

Montes also resigned from the role of president late last semes-ter for personal reasons, but he spoke about plans for running for president again,.

“It’s my hope that the ASD-VC will be able to recruit up to 40 members this year, as well as stamping out popularity contests

that have been preva-lent within the ASDVC,” Montes said.

“Addition-ally, we are looking to submit two more propos-als to the Stu-dent Senate for California Community

College that we are hoping to re-veal later within the semester.”

Among these changes, one of Montes' biggest goals is to have a budget this semester for the $1 million in total funds allocated to the ASDVC.

“After doing some digging we had recently learned that our to-tal budget was about $1 million." he said. "Hopefully this semester we can construct a budget for the ASDVC to distribute funds bet-ter."

General elections are scheduled for April 9- 10.

RYAN CHANSenior staff member

Contact RYAN CHAN atRChan@DVCInquirer.com

ASDVC elections in near future

“I’m not surprised that something like this has transpired, espe-

cially since the ASDVC sometimes seems like a

popularity contest.”

~TAYLOR HAYESStudent

RYAN CHAN / The Inquirer

ASDVC members practice voting during a meeting on Feb. 3.

The big winners in Friday’s basketball game were the women, who earned their 13th straight win, and the American Cancer Society.

For the first time, Diablo Valley Col-lege hosted the Coaches v. Cancer - Suits and Sneakers benefit game Jan. 30, which raised $1,039 for the American Cancer Society.

The bleachers were full of supporting fellow student-ath-letes from swimming, water polo, lacrosse, tennis, and track and field.

In this event, supporters were encouraged to donate and stay for the women and men’s games against the Cosumnes River Hawks.

The women improved their overall record when they obliterated their opponents 87-46, giving them an 8-0 record in their con-ference.

In this one-sided game the women start-ed strong and ended strong. Guard Sabrea Coleman was the highest-scoring Viking with 15 points.

In a close game, the men were defeated for their fourth loss in the Big 8 confer-

ence. They competed

with the Hawks for the lead the entire game until they lost control in the last quarter.

The final score was 61-56, making their overall record 12-11.

The emotional night began with a cer-emony honoring Lauren McCullough, a DVC swimmer who passed away last Feb-ruary from Ewing’s Sarcoma.

Her parents, Deanne and John Mc-Cullough, were there to show their appre-ciation.

“She is in your hearts,” said Deanne Mc-Cullough, when she addressed the crowd.

When asked about Lauren McCullough,

women’s head coach Ramaundo Vaughn said, “She lived a full life and always lived it to the fullest.”

As for the team’s reaction to the night, Vaughn said, “This was a tremendous event; it is great to see the support.” Find out more

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The Diablo Valley College men's swim team beat Mt. San Antonio College 199-80 on Friday at their first meet of the year, avenging last year's loss against the Mounties.

The Vikings had won all dual meets for 12 years before 2014.

The crushing victory definitely sets the tone for the season.

Head coach Rick Millington

seemed very determined this first meet and knew they were going to win even before the half time in-termission.

"The men are definitely going to be a strong contender in state this year," he said.

Millington is expecting to have a team of about 12 to 16 men, and about half as many women competing in state this year; which makes for a fairly large team.

The women did not compete on Friday and instead they used the

time to do time trials for future competitions.

"The girls are swimming great today, but we're going to see how they do when the pressure is on them," said Millington.

Women's team captains Laura Woods and Kelsey Leonard were very high spirited and excited for the season.

Woods is a freestyle sprinter and has been swimming competitively since she was 11 years old.

Swimmer Aditya Jalihal took

first place in the men's 200 yard and 100 yard freestyle races.

Jalihal is very excited for the up-coming season, and plans to go to state again this year.

Evan August won first place by almost 20 seconds over a Mt. San Antonio swimmer in the men's 1,000-yard freestyle race with a time of 10:02.11.

August competed in the mile last year in state, a 1,760 yard race for a total of 66 laps in an Olym-pic size pool.

After a sprint to the end, he pushed forward and took first place by one second with a time of 16:16.76; an extremely close win for such a long race.

August says he is faster than last year, already beating some of his past times.

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8Swimmers dive into victory

Ryan Calkins and Evan August, left, prepare to swim the 1000 freestyle. Aditya Jalihal, above, won first place in 200 yard and 100 yard races.

DVC swim team looks forward to new season

AUSTIN CURRINGTONStaff member

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Women win at Coaches vs. Cancer gameFidel Ontiveros

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The DVC women beat the Cosumnes Hawks 87-46 on Friday Jan. 30, 2015.FIDEL ONTIVEROS / The Inquirer

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“This was a tremendous event; it is great

to see the support”

~RAMAUNDO VAUGHNWomen’s basketball head coach

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