Alex FarrThe San Matean

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Matt Leddy helped put off bulldozing of greenhouseSee page 5

Bolton’s bi-annual dance class performanceSee page 7

Bulldogs have a shot at taking the state titleSee page 9

See “Free speech” on page 10

Summer school classes still alive

Photo by Doreen Joiner of The San Matean

Photo by Cecile Basnage of the San Matean

Wild Land Fire students Gabriel Shamiya and Josh Pearl practicing “evolutions,” pulling hoses and hooking them to hydrants. See “Fire students hot for non-profit” on page three.

Teagan Carillo, 3, McKenzie Cullen, 4, Serenity Towers, 5, and Divine Burton, 8, dance at the Native Elements reggae concert on May 1 to support the Mary Meta Lazarus Child Care Center.

The dispute over whether the district’s colleges are public, or non-public, forums for free speech continues, and continues to confuse.

In a surprising twist, the interest-ed parties don’t even seem to agree on what the dispute is about, or even that there is any dispute at all.

“There is nothing in this policy that changes any past practice regarding free speech--,” said Bar-bara Christensen, district director of community and government relations, “we have always had designated areas for free speech activities that are selected by the Colleges.”

Dan Kaplan, the executive secretary and representative of the AFT, the faculty union, had a completely different interpretation

of the proposed policy. “7.21 (the proposed policy) is unconstitutional on its face, and this proposal would abridge free speech rights of both students and faculty, contrary to what the District initially said about it only relating to students,” said Kaplan.

“The proposed Time, Place and Manner policy (7.21) is a reflec-tion of what is currently contained within the Education Code (Sec-tions 76120 and 66301),” said Fauzi Hamadeh, of student activities. “As the language of 7.21 is already con-tained within the Education Code, the question of support is moot.”

So what is going on?If the policy is opposed because it

“would abridge free speech rights,” and the policy is supported because it “is intended to protect the Col-lege and the District from claims of restricting free speech,” what does that mean?

At odds over free speech

Alex Farr andAshley FarabeeThe San Matean

Summer classes at CSM have not been eliminated, despite reports to the contrary.

A story published on the Skyline View’s website Thursday, May 6, claimed that difficulties for Skyline students registering for summer classes was partly due to CSM cutting its summer classes.

“However, the overall number of registering students has greatly gone up due to some colleges, such as College of San Mateo (CSM) and City College of San Francisco (CCSF), eliminating their entire

summer program this year,” said the article “Summer school cuts make a significant impact,” by Luis Osorio.

The mistake arose from an inter-view the reporter had with a CSM guidance counselor.

“The guidance counselor ended up confusing him. She made it sound like there were no options, suggesting that he take classes at Skyline,” said Helen Tran, editor of the Skyline View. “I don’t know if she was confused or something got lost in translation.”

Tran said that the story had been pulled offline, as of Thursday, May 13, and that corrections would be made online and in print.

The error has confused many throughout the district, however, including board trustee Karen Schwarz. “I didn’t realize CSM had cancelled summer classes,” said Schwarz during the statements from board members closing the May 12 meeting of the board.

After a long few moments of silence, CSM President Michael Claire corrected Schwarz. “That was a mistake. We’ve been in touch with Skyline about making a correction,” Claire said. “Maybe that’s why Skyline’s phones have been ringing off the hook,” he added

A comparison of the language of policy 7.21 with Education Codes 76120 and 66301 (both easily googled) shows one glaring difference: “The College(s) of the District are non-public forums,

except for those areas that are gen-erally available for use by students or the community, which are limited public forums.”

This is the first sentence of the proposed policy, 7.21, but the

designation of colleges as “non-public forums,” or even “limited public forums,” is nowhere in the Education Codes.

“The current policy on Time,

Noted author advocates new healthy eatingJulie Myhre

The San Matean

Photo by Julie Myhre of The San Matean

Michael Pollan

Bestselling author and journalist Michael Pollan informed students on the importance of being aware of their diets, and the lies in diet trends.

Pollan began his presentation with four large bags of groceries, which he explained he’d bought just before coming to campus.

He pulled out different types of processed foods and explained that, even though it says low calorie or low fat, that doesn’t mean it is good for you.

“They take out the fat, and they amp up the sugar or salt,” said Pollan.

He described the food options as the “omnivore’s dilemma,” or the decision that omnivores make to determine what they eat.

Consumers are victimized by marketing and confused by all the labels on food, according to Pollan.

“The more we are confused about food, the more they can sell us solu-tions to the omnivore’s dilemma,”

said Pollan.Pollan explained that the main

problem of Americans is that they learned to follow nutritionism, the thinking that the value of food is in its nutrients.

He explained nutritionism by ex-plaining its main ideas; understand-ing food as the nutrients it contains, using expert advice to determine the

Reggae Day

CSM President Michael Claire presided over a wide-ranging bud-get meeting, May 6, in the Health and Wellness Center, before an audience of more than 50 faculty, staff and students.

See “Summer class” on page 4

Reviewing the college ABCs Jeffrey Gonzalez and

John ServatiusThe San Matean

“I felt the need to update the cam-pus about the ABCs (Accreditation, Budget, and Construction),” he said. “It’s time for us as an institu-tion to get out of crisis management mode.”

Claire then went on to outline challenges faced and the solutions.

He became CSM President in January 2007, and in February of

that year faced a budget deficit of $1 million for the 2008-09 fiscal year, a reduction of 3 percent. “We solved the problem,” he said. “The workload has increased. We’ve asked people to do jobs they weren’t hired for.”

“We defunded 29 positions,”

See “ABCs” on page 10

See “Healthy eating” on page 10

Hose tRaining gets Heavy

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Campus Blotter Wednesday, April 28, 11:53 a.m. — A van was reported driving recklessly on the circle drive on campus. The police couldn’t find it.

Monday, May 3, 2:04 p.m. — A student parked her car in Lot 2A at 9:30am, but when she returned, at around noon, she couldn’t find it. She couldn’t find her keys either, and reported it missing. At around 11:24pm the car was found in Redwood City. It was intact, but both license plates were missing. The police have no suspects.

Sunday, May 9, 11:32 a.m. — The mother of a 12-year-old playing a basketball game on campus called San Mateo police because she felt that several parents from the opposing team had threatened her. The parents fled before the police could find them.

Tuesday, May 11, 7:32 a.m. — A student called San Mateo police to report her wallet lost, or stolen, on May 4, while in the campus computer lab in Bldg. 14, Room 105.

Wednesday, May 12, 2:11 p.m. — Someone reported seeing one of two men in Lot 2 holding what looked like a machete. Campus security found the men, and called San Mateo police. The men were students prac-ticing martial arts, and the machete was a rubber blade prop. The machete prop was destroyed by San Mateo police.

Tuesday, May 18, 8:01 a.m. — A suspicious person was reported in Lot 11C. San Mateo police found a student whose car had broken down.

Information provided by Lt. Mike Brunicardi of the San Mateo Police Department.

If there is an event that readers would like listed in Campus Briefs, please submit it to The San Matean at Bldg. 19, Room 123 or sanmatean@smccd.edu. Submissions should be typed neatly. For more information, call 574-6330.

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CSM Dental X-Rays for Students and FacultyMonday, May 24, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. , CSM Building 22For information, call 574-6212, or e-mail herold@smccd.edu.

Final ExaminationsMonday, May 24 to Friday, May 28, all dayCall 574-6165, or e-mail csmadmission@smccd.edu.

Registration for New, Former, and Continuing Students for Summer and Fall 2010, Monday, May 24 to Sunday, June 20, all day Call 574-6165, or e-mail csmadmission@smccd.edu.

Commencement CeremonyFriday, May 28, 6:30 p.m.Building 08, CSM GymCall 574-6119, or e-mail tordesillasd@smccd.edu. Nursing Program Pinning CeremonySaturday, May 29, 10 a.m.San Mateo Performing Arts Center, 600 North Delaware StreetFor information, call 574-6682, or e-mail mcateer@smccd.edu.

Fire Academy Graduation CeremonySaturday, May 29, 5 to 7 p.m., CSM TheatreFor information, call 574-6191, or e-mail souranoff@smccd.edu.

CSM Dental X-Rays for Students and FacultyMonday, May 31, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. , CSM Building 22For information, call 574-6212, or e-mail herold@smccd.edu.

Middle College GraduationTuesday, June 1, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. , CSM TheatreFor information, call 574-6191, or e-mail souranoff@smccd.edu.

CSM Dental Assisting GraduationWednesday, June 2, 5 to 7 p.m., CSM TheatreFor information, call 574-6191, or e-mail souranoff@smccd.edu.

CorreCtionThe San Matean incorrectly reported that the Fitness Center cost $61 million to build in the April 19 story “New pool makes waves.” The story intended reference to the whole of the Health and Wellness Building, and the nearby infrastructure and landscaping, but the reference may have been too easily misinterpreted. The San Matean regrets any confusion this may have caused.

Nick ZirbesThe San Matean

Richard “Dick” Crest, a 20-plus year teacher at CSM, died on March 22 in Reno, NV at the age of 80.

Crest was a renowned Bay Area big band conductor and TV celebrity from shows such as the Pepsi Dance Party and Rock N’ Rally. His memory endures in his achievements and with his wife, Robin Crest, who said “when they wheeled him out, he had a smile on his face.”

Mr. Crest began his journey at age 10 at the 1939-1940 San Francisco World’s Fair Orchestra as a violin soloist. From there he went on to form the Dick Crest Orchestra, a band that endured for 48 years.

Mr. Crest, a CSM student him-self, lent his talents to the school’s music department, teaching for

over 20 years. During his stay he competed as a conductor of the Jazz band against other community colleges, and four-year universities as well.

He led CSM to victory at musical events like the Pacific Coast Col-legiate Jazz Competition, beating out universities such as UCLA and USC. CSM also received top honors at the National American College Jazz Festival. “Dick’s passing is a blow to music and music educa-tion… as one of the people at the forefront of jazz education in public schools,” said Mike Galisatus, 55, the director of bands at CSM.

His students later went on to join such prestigious orchestras as the San Francisco Symphony, and the group the Grateful Dead.

“As an educator he always paid special interest. Always custom-izing the class, always trying to

reach everyone he could,” said Robin Crest.

Mr. Crest is survived by his son Scott Crest , daughter Lorita Yoder, and wife Robin.

— Jessica RitterThe San Matean

Photo courtesy of Robin Crest

Richard “Dick” Crest

And the band plays onCampus Briefsby Julie Myhre

The second defendant in the Skyline College shooting incident of Sept. 2, 2009, pled nolo conten-dere – no contest -- in Redwood City Superior Court May 10, to carrying a loaded firearm in a public place and being a member of a criminal street gang.

Germaine Benjamin, 18, of San Francisco, free on $50,000 bail, ap-peared before Judge Susan Etezadi in Dept.18, said a Superior Court Criminal Division spokesperson.

“Benjamin decided to settle his case,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. “He does admit that it was done for gang purposes.”

“This is a first strike,” Wagstaffe added. “The next strike, the sen-tence is doubled. Judge Etezadi has agreed that this sentence will be nine

Skyline defendant pleads no contestJohn Servatius

The San Matean

to 12 months (in the county jail). We’ll be arguing for 12 months,” he said.

The Skyline incident in a campus parking lot last September was a conflict between rival street gangs

San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office photo

Germaine Benjamin, 18

in which one of the defendants, Skyline student Eric Brewer, was shot in the buttocks, transferred to San Francisco General Hospital and released the same evening. He was subsequently arrested and jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Brewer pled nolo contendere on Jan. 26. He was sentenced to: no possession of firearms, weapons or ammunition; mandatory search and seizure; abatement – destruc-tion – of firearm; 266 days credit for time served; three years supervised probation; no contact with gang members, probationers or parolees; no possession of graffiti materials; stay away from school grounds un-less enrolled; and stay away from Germaine Benjamin and DeMarcus McGhee (another defendant).

Benjamin’s sentencing is July 15 at 9 a.m., Superior Court, Dept.18, 400 County Government Center, Redwood City.Student filmmakers from all over the bay area gathered to honor the

winners and nominees of the annual CSM Spotlight Film festival. Joining them were teachers, advisors, CSM students and parents of the students.

The event was created, produced and directed by Katherine Russell, KCSM Production Coordinator. The film festival was sponsored by KCSM-TV. According to Russell, nearly 400 people attended the cer-emony on May 2, in the CSM theater. “Both the festival itself and the awards ceremony were a huge success,” she said.

Entries were submitted by students from high schools throughout the bay. Over 50 films were entered this year, said Russell. No entry fees were needed, the contest was open to all who wanted to participate.The student work was judged by “a panel of industry professionals.”

Awards were given for 8 categories of film; Best Script, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Documentary, Best Drama, Best Animation, and Best of Show. Each category had 3-5 nomi-nees. According to David Laderman, CSM Film Professor and audience member, the award ceremony was presented in a manner similar to that of the Academy Awards, where clips are shown from each nominee and the winner is chosen.

One student’s film was nominated for three categories, best editing, best cinematography, and best in show. Bishop O’Dowd High School student, Henry Zaballos, won Best of Show with his film “How to Set a House on Fire.”

Prizes for the winners ranged from scholarships to CSM to film soft-ware, such as Adobe, Jungle Gorilla Software, and music and sound effect libraries from Killer Tracks and Hollywood Edge. The Best of Show winner left with a cash prize of $1,500.

“Though I didn’t agree with all the winners... They were impressive. They all had a strong film sense to them. Some were very powerful and well done,” said Laderman. “I do think it was odd that CSM had a film festival, but didn’t include the film department here on campus.” He said he felt the film department should have had more involvement with the festival.

“My hat’s off to them, it was well done. Very professional” said Laderman.

KCSM-TV produced a series called Youth Cinema which will broadcast all of the movies turned in “so that the filmmakers will see their work on the air,” said Russell. “The Spotlight festival is an annual event CSM can be proud of. It advertises our college name prominently to high school students Bay Area wide.”

— Jeffrey GonzalezThe San Matean

High schoolerswin film awards

NewsMay 24, 2010 The SAN MATEAN • Page 3

Doreen JoinerThe San Matean

Fire students hot for non-profitFire Science students are teaming

up with a non-profit, refurbishing houses around the county in addi-tion to volunteer hours required for program certification.

There are currently about 150 stu-dents in the Fire Science Program, and they aren’t allowed to miss one day of the program. There are no holidays and they get two days off the entire semester, in order to satisfy all the programs mandated hours.

“How we got involved was, it just looked like a great thing to give our students some experience learning about building construction,” said Captain Robert Fisher. “It’s an awe-some opportunity for the students to do something like this, which most of them have never done,” added Fisher.

The Fire Science Program offers a degree and there is also a Fire Fighter One Program, a state- man-dated program that a student has to pass in to receive a Fire Fighter One certification.

Certification involves being an emergency medical technician, having 360 hours in the Fire Acad-emy and also one year of volunteer service within an organization.

“The Fire Fighter One certificate is very important because that’s kind of a bench mark as a minimum standard for a number of fire depart-ments,” said Fisher. “Some big fire departments, they don’t care but a lot of fire departments do.”

During the spring semester, Cap-tain Fisher and his students worked with the non-profit organization Rebuilding Together. The organiza-

tion picks single-family residences in Pacifica that have requested help due to a variety of economic hard-ship reasons.

Local church groups and pro-grams determine which houses fit the necessary criteria. The event takes place on the same two Sat-urdays in cities across the county in April every year.

Most of the students that volun-teer on the Rebuilding Together project have already been through the fire academy.

“A number of students that have volunteered before come back and help again with this project as well,” said Fisher.

“The volunteers go in and tear

all the carpets out and replace with new carpet, repaint all the walls, fix a number of fixtures, repair some of the landscaping,” said Fisher. “… maybe do a little gutter work, do a little roof work if it’s needed and they may even paint the outside of the house too.”

“Some of these students have absolutely no experience while some of them have a lot, in fact one of the students from the past was a painting contractor and he really stepped up and got a lot done. He had painted the inside of a house in one day,” added Fisher.

This opportunity gives students a way to learn a little about build-ing construction, giving back to

the community and volunteerism, which is extremely important in the program.

“It’s just an opportunity for our students to kind of get out in the community and do something that they don’t really receive anything for, except for experience itself,” said Fisher.

This year, Captain Andy Sloane, Captain of the Pacifica Fire Depart-ment, is the Captain of the Rebuild Committee of Rebuilding Together and was in charge of the project at the Pacifica home.

Along with students, firefight-ers from Pacifica and others in the community volunteered on this home as well.

Student Ramon Echeveste volun-teered and was at the house on the second Saturday of the project. This was his first volunteer experience.

When everyone arrived at the home, they got a breakdown of what there was to do. Everyone broke into groups to perform the work needed. Echeveste worked on the inside of the home, pulling up old carpet from the bedroom, hallway and main living room. He also helped paint the inside of the bathroom and the gutters outside of the home.

“It felt good to be out there together with my classmates help-ing out a family in need,” said Echeveste.

Ryan Lee, CSM Fire student; Rachael Rodriguez, EMT instructor with Unitek College (taking Fire One through CSM); Tracey Brown, home owner’s daughter; Andre Pichon, Fire Cadet for San Mateo Fire Department.

Photo by Doreen Joiner of The San Matean

See “ESL” on page 10

Journalism graduate wins scholarshipJulie Myhre

The San Matean

CSM journalism graduate, Alex-is Terrazas, won the California Chicano News Media Association’s journalism scholarship for the sec-ond time in three years.

Terrazas, 22, won a $1,000 scholarship from the CCNMA for his upcoming fall semester at San Francisco State University. He first won the CCNMA scholarship in 2007 for $1000, which he applied to his time at CSM.

“All the awards I have ever gotten were because of the fundamentals I learned at CSM,” said Terrazas.

Terrazas transferred from CSM, after six semesters on The San Matean, and attended San Francisco State, where he majors in journal-ism and minors in history.

The CCNMA: Latino Journalist of California, associated with USC, is an organization that supports Latino journalists that they feel will be successful and help the Latino community.

“The fact that Alexis has been

awarded a second scholarship shows that he has grown as a journalist and we want to support him,” said Julio Moran, executive director of The CCNMA: Latino Journalist of California.

Terrazas served two years on San Francisco State’s Golden Gate [X]press, where he started as a staff writer then moved up to sports editor. “The stories I wrote at CSM really prepared me for SF State. Ed made us write everything from hard news to small stories,” said Terrazas.

Terrazas felt he was having a year of ‘strike outs’ because he was ap-plying for a lot of scholarships, and kept getting turned down. Now that he won the CCNMA scholarship, Terrazas said, “My year of strike outs is over.”

Earlier this year at the California College Media Association Awards, Terrazas was awarded first place in Best Sports Story category for his work on the Golden Gate [X]press, S.F. State’s weekly paper. His story covered a former SFSU wrestler who was slain by his girlfriend.

The judges wrote Terrazas had a “compelling opening with great details” and that they “really could feel the mother’s pain through the description. Good background as well. Gave me a reason to care about the man who was killed.”

The story about the slain wrestler was on of the most difficult stories to write because of the sensitive subject, he said.

“I am not a journalist to get awards, but it is nice to be recog-nized because I put my heart into my work,” said Terrazas.

The Latino Empowerment Al-liance organized a panel of ESL program graduates, on May 6, to share their experiences and insights with current students.

The panel of seven engaged a crowd of more than 50 students in Bldg. 3 Room 148 on the Cañada campus, from 6 to 8 p.m., introduc-ing themselves and then taking questions from the crowd.

"At first I just wanted to learn English, but with the encourage-ment of the professors I decided I wanted more," said panel member Dora Menendez. "I got my A.S. in accounting, and I was going to work on transferring, but I changed my mind. Now I am going to get something for interpretation or

Alex FarrThe San Matean

ESL grads share insights and tips

Photo by Alex Farr of The San Matean

“CSM-Henge?” A construction-zone sculpture was anonymously erected outside Building 19. It has since been demolished.

translation."Menendez is a single mother

with a 13 year-old daughter who acknowledged that the process of working on her education has been a difficult one. "But if you have goals, you have to work hard."

The value of the hard work re-quired to make one's way through the ESL program was echoed by all the panel members.

"In 2003 I came to the United States. I was 18 years old, I had stopped going to school at 13, which means I had no high school," said panel member David Ibañez. "I decided I wanted to learn English ... so I turned off Telemundo ... My dream for me was to one day understand CNN," continued Iba-ñez, who credited 50 percent of his English to Netflix. "Every movie has subtitles."

Ibañez now has an A.S. in eco-nomics, another A.S. in political science, and a B.A. in international relations.

Panel member Jeremy Morales said he plans to pursue a B.A. in chemical engineering. "You're not only going to get money, you're going to get opportunities that will make you grow," said Morales. He also suggested that the crowd pursue scholarship opportunities, despite the hard work of the process, saying that he had already acquired $10,000 in scholarships for the coming semester.

Not surprisingly, the first ques-tion from the audience was about scholarship resources. The panel suggested checking the admissions office, which lists scholarships,

FRee aRt?

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Photo by Christopher DePass of The San Matean

Henry Pon, 24, on a cardboard chair at architecture’s open studios.

Showing off cardboard chairs Christopher DePass

The San Matean While many programs at CSM

quietly fear being cut, Architecture took a different approach on May 10: showcasing student designs and models at an open house.

Open studios, held in Bldg. 19, Room 114, displayed models and designs that previous and current students have created, including a number of cardboard chairs that students had created which are be-ing auctioned. Proceeds will go to the Architecture program.

“By hosting this event we want the community to know that we are

here,” said Architecture professor George Sun. “There are not re-ally many schools that offer these classes in the Peninsula area.”

CSM is one of the few commu-nity colleges offering the classes this semester that can be applied to an architecture major or transfer. Of those classes only three of the nine were offered.

Classes have been picking up steadily since 2007, but many stu-dents and faculty members would like more options to be offered, as they are all transferable. “The budget is really okay for 2010-11, and we definitely hope that it will

stay alive,” said Sun.Issa Wehab and Max Jensen are

both enrolled in Architecture 220, Design Form and the Built Environ-ment, this semester. This is the first year that Jensen has been enrolled in architecture and he has found it to be a challenging and rewarding process.

“It’s really hard, but once you get things done it feels great,” Jensen said. “Hopefully we can get more students in and have bigger classes that will make them more diverse.”

Wehab has been at CSM for five years. He has also been commut-ing to Foothill and Chabot, taking

Alex FarrThe San Matean

Students, staff celebrate scholarship

Student scholarship recipients, along with family and friends, joined administrators and scholar-ship donors on Wednesday, May 5, packing the CSM Theatre to

capacity, to celebrate the Scholar-ship Awards Reception.

“This is one of the happiest days of the year here at the college,” said President Michael Claire in his opening remarks, setting a tone of celebration that persisted

throughout the event.Representatives of over 125

scholarship-donor groups were present, as were District Chancel-lor Ron Galatolo, Vice Chancel-lor Jim Keller, and trustee Karen Schwarz. One hundred ninety four CSM students and 40 high school students were presented with some 322 scholarship awards totaling just over $200,000.

“I do hope your scholarship recipients will have a chance to meet with you today,” said Jennifer Hughes, vice president of student services, as the representatives of various scholarship-donor-groups were introduced to the crowd.

When it came time to award the scholarship certificates and “Academic Excellence” buttons, the recipients were formed up by ushers to come on stage to be an-nounced by either Hughes or Claire. The certificates and buttons were handed out ceremoniously by Den-

nis Tordesillas, of student services, Steffi Santana, ASCSM president, Alex Quintana, ASCSM vice president and Karen Chadwick, of financial aid.

Students approached the stage from both sides, and awards were handed out left and right.

The only pause was to recognize the special Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Program Scholarship to the University of California, Santa Cruz, awarded to Anthony Palavi. The scholarship pays $10,000 each year for two years and also provides assistance in obtaining internships relevant to whatever course of study Palavi chooses to pursue.

“It’s a great opportunity to sup-port the college and the students,” said Cathleen Kennedy, a scholar-ship donor.

Kennedy was a professor of computer science at CSM from 1988 to 2005, who was named the

nation’s outstanding community college professor in 1998 by the Carnegie foundation.

“I was named outstanding profes-sor of the year, and I turned that into a scholarship. Since I taught at CSM and attended Carlmont High School I made the scholarship for Carlmont students who study computer science,” said Kennedy. “And it’s also fun to come back and see the energy and enthusiasm.”

“I’ll probably just buy books, and use it to help with my finances because I can’t work full time,” said Melissa Sharp, who was awarded a Margaret S. Gerlinger Nurses Scholarship, of her award.

“I will use it to continue work for my AA degree and I need it for my classes,” said Aiman Al Shamari, who was awarded the Robin V. Daly Memorial Scholarship.

Scholarship winners and dona-tors mingled around a catered buffet after the ceremony.

Photo by Alex Farr of The San Matean

Justin Hoffman, 20, and Jose Vela, 23, hand out schedules for the Scholarship Awards Reception.

Six students will be honored with the Alan R. Brown service award and recognized for their community leadership.

The award is named after Alan R. Brown, a long-time CSM instruc-tor who was involved in student leadership.

“The type of student that it goes towards is one that is nominated by faculty or staff or fellow students for their outstanding service to the college and the community,” said Aaron Schaefer, Coordinator of Student Activities.

Staff, faculty, or students nomi-nate the recipients in March or April, then the list is brought to a

Julie MyhreThe San Matean

committee, where nominees are selected to receive the award.

“We’re looking for somebody who shows leadership, who has been active on campus or in their community. It’s somebody who has stood up in their community, and has done something that deserves recognition,” Schaefer said.

The 2010 recipients of the Alan R. Brown include Jennifer Atherton Margaret Baum, Stephanie Chiou, Jose Gomez, Alexander Quintana, and Steffi Santana.

“I am honored to be receiving this award, it means a lot to me and my family,” said Margaret Baum, executive editor of The San Matean.

ASCSM President Steffi Santana will present the awards at the com-mencement ceremony on May 28.

Students honored

soon after.This was obviously a reference to

Skyline President Vicki Morrow’s comments at the opening of the meeting— that Skyline had been experienceing “constant traffic at admissions,” soon after adding “there has been no time that the main phone lines are not ringing.”

Henry Villareal, CSM’s dean of admissions and records, said that summer classes at CSM have not been cancelled.

“There has been a reduction of about 15 percent, as a result of a systematic review and budget cuts,”

said Villareal, who deferred to Su-san Estes, CSM’s vice president of instruction, for more precise details.

“We have a wide variety of courses available in the summer,” said Estes. “They’re listed online, or anyone can look at the printed schedule.”

“The irony of all this,” said Claire, “is that we are making cuts of about 15 percent to summer programs, and we’ve been very upfront about that through the budget process... but the irony is that Skyline is making cuts of about 30 percent to its summer program.”

Summer class continued from page 1

as many architecture classes as he can in order to transfer to California College of the Arts.

Jensen and Wehab were both auctioning off their model chairs.

“By having this event, we hope to get the department recognized and get some more money so we can expand the classes and even expand the equipment,” said Wehab.

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Photo by Marcin Marciniak of The San Matean

Kristian Roberts, 17, plays what he hopes will not be the final note in the brief history of the Coastside Campus. CSM will still be offering classes in Half Moon Bay,

but exactly where is still to be worked out.

CoastsiDe seRenaDe

A CSM student got a crash course in filming commercials, and now his video is featured on the website of AAA auto-insurance.

Nicholas Hui, 20, filmed the aftermath of his neighbor's crash into his cousin’s parked car at an intersection in Millbrae directly across the street from his house.

“I ran to get my camera and started shooting a bunch of random stuff,” Hui said. “When I looked over the footage, I thought it could

Student director’s ad catches eye of AAAJeff Stanley

The San Matean be a commercial because it’s live footage,”

A week after the accident, Jaimee Clements, the social media manager of AAA of Northern California, contacted him and asked to feature his video on their website.

“She said you’ll get premier roadside service, and it looks good on your resume,” Hui said.

"It's great when students get recognition for their creative work," said Michelle Brown, associate professor of broadcasting, one of Hui's instructors, when she heard of the reaction to the short film.

Cañada protestors warned for walkout

Alex FarrThe San Matean

Cañada college administration filing a disciplinary warning in the file of the Cañada Strikes Back campus club over actions during the March 4 walkout.

Aja Butler, of student services, has, in agreement with interim dean of student services at Cañada Margie Carrington, filed a disciplin-ary action against the Cañada club Cañada Strikes Back.

"We staged a walkout (on March 4) to protect not only students but the rights of teachers to educate," said Harold Westrich, of Cañada Strikes Back, at a May 6 disciplin-ary meeting.

"There was concern about the disruption, not about the message," said Carrington about the event.

The point of contention was the knocking and/or beating on class-room doors prior to the walkout by members of Cañada Strikes Back to announce the walkout on March 4.

Butler has judged that the dis-ruption created by knocking and beating on the classroom doors was a violation of the "time, place, man-ner" portion of the policy regarding student conduct and the expression of free speech on campus.

Butler decided that the violation of policy needed to be addressed by disciplinary action. Carrington agreed that disciplinary action for the actions of the club was called for.

"We discussed it, and Aja's state-ment on consistency in enforcement of the rules for all student groups

is what we agreed on," said Car-rington.

"I've seen this happen, and it is not ok," said Butler. "It was me, in my role, it needed to be addressed," said Butler, in answer to the suggestions by members of both Cañada Strikes Back and Skyline Against the Cuts, members of which group also at-tended the disciplinary meeting, in solidarity, that there was pres-sure being exerted by the Cañada administration on Butler to press forward with disciplinary action.

"If no one would've gone into the halls, if no one would've been bang-ing on the doors, then we wouldn't be here right now," said Butler.

Michelle Araica, of Skyline Against the Cuts, said that, ac-cording to her understanding after consulting with Skyline's student services, disciplinary action could only be taken if there is an official complaint by a faculty member, but that notion was brushed aside by Butler and Carrington, who claimed the right to discipline the group for having misbehaved as a club, a disciplinary right not, according to Butler and Carrington, dependent upon Faculty judgement.

"Normally an investigation is initiated when a report of a viola-tion of student conduct is reported," said Skyline's Vice President of Student Services Loretta Adrian, who didn't feel that such investiga-tions required a faculty complaint specifically. "The report can be initiated by faculty, employees, a student, even an administrator."

CSM's VP of Student Services,

Jennifer Hughes, was more cau-tious opining on the subject, but was also reluctant to judge that a faculty complaint was specifically required to initiate a disciplinary investigation.

"There really is no specific policy about sanctioning a club," said Hughes, when asked about the general district policy. "If I observed an act that violated the college's policies, I would follow up," she added though.

Hughes, however, stressed that— not knowing the details of the event at Cañada, she was only speaking hypothetically.

The president of Cañada Strikes Back, Tony Perez, meanwhile, responded by pointing out that there had been numerous events involving music that had disturbed the campus... which hadn't been disciplined.

"In my experience there was only one time, in Building 13, there was someone who complained about the music, and we turned it down, and he was ok with it," said Butler.

Noting that no disciplinary action was called for in that case, as op-posed to the case of Cañada Strikes Back, whose disciplinary action was initiated, explcitly, by Butler's judgement, Perez noted "From that logic, it is you who decides what is right and what is wrong."

"I've been here six or seven years, and this event is one of the best things that the students have ever done," said Dave Patterson, head librarian at Cañada, of the organization of the walkouts by

Cañada Strikes Back. "This is one of the peaks for me, this is why I became an educator."

"I'm not going to apologize for putting effectiveness above worry about following the rules," said Katy Rose, of Cañada Strikes Back to the representatives at the meeting.

"We didn't organize this to disrupt classes or learning, but no one can dispute that one learns by doing..." said Maki Matsumura, of Cañada Strikes Back, obviously implying that the act of the protest was an act of learning for all involved.

"It's not about what you did," admitted Butler. "I think you guys really did a good job about mobiliz-

ing students and getting them en-gaged, and bringing in other issues like immigrant rights." A statement that also recognized recent work by Cañada Strikes Back to organize a discussion by immigrant rights activist Jose Sandoval.

"What Cañada Strikes Back has done has really been phenomenal, understanding that you have a voice, and using it," said Car-rington.

Nevertheless, Butler and Car-rington, as representatives of student services, will be placing a disciplinary note in the file of the Cañada Strikes Back club for dis-ruptions caused during the March 4 walkout.

Nicholas Hui

Hui’s cous-in’s car was hit in the rear-left section after the gas pedal on his neigh-bor’s car got stuck when he tried to back ou t o f h i s driveway. The car belonging to Hui’s cousin ended up getting tossed onto the lawn next door.

“My family reacted like ‘Oh my God’, and started taking pictures

like tourists at Disneyland,” Hui said.

The video has over 2,000 views on Hui's channel, sNickrsProduction, on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQju02aPGlM).

“My cousin was laughing be-cause there was a shot of her where she was about to cry,” said Hui.

“The AAA lady [Jaimee Cle-ments] said several of her co-workers had great comments, like ‘Why can’t we make one like that?’ or ‘We should get him to do the next one.’ ”

Hui has worked on various pro-

jects and worked as a technical director and studio director when conducting interviews with notable people like Amy Julaton, a two-time light weight boxer.

“I edited the interview we did with Amy Julaton, and it aired on KCSM,” Hui said.

Hui plans to intern for KCSM, after he transfers to Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He is also going to apply for an internship at ABC 7 News.

“I want to do short films that will relate to people and show them the positive outcomes in life,”

CSM’s greenhouses have been given a year of reprieve as officials decide whether or not to mow them down to create space for parking.

The 6000 square-foot green-houses, which are part of the 60 year old horticulture program at CSM, are located in the middle of the ground and gardens which of-ficials would like to convert into a parking lot for building 10. Building 10 is currently under construction in the quad. The” Edison Project” proposed the destruction of the greenhouses, the gardens next to them, and building 20, to allow for the space.

Horticulture Professor Matt

Greenhouse bulldozing waiting on a new planChristopher DePass

The San Matean Leddy and Biology Professor Tania Belize have been attempting to stall or change the decision so they can identify a solution that does not in-volve destroying the greenhouses. A task force was created and offi-cials agreed to hold off any further decisions on the destruction of the greenhouses until spring 2011.

During this time Leddy is trying to find a means of relocating the greenhouses elsewhere on the cam-pus or finding some other means of keeping such an important resource for the Horticulture program.

“You couldn’t have horticulture without the greenhouses,” said Leddy.

Leddy and other horticulture professors have proposed that they could still keep the program

running with a 2000 square-foot greenhouse. While they would be losing the two thirds of the space the horticulture department agrees that the plants and tools necessary to keep the program running would be available.

The greenhouses play a vital role in multiple facets of CSM. They al-low horticulture students to gather the hands on experience they need, provide many of the plants found on the campus grounds, as well as providing rare plant materials used within the biology and other science divisions.

“Alot of the biology classes use plant material that they can’t pur-chase in California,” said Leddy.

Robert Revo, groundskeeper for the CSM campus, takes part time

horticulture classes. The knowledge he receives from the classes within the greenhouse provide additional assistance to him while he is culti-vating the grounds.

“They were used for everything

that is pretty much out here,” said Revo.

The greenhouse is currently still being used for the horticulture pro-gram and will continue to be used until a decision is made.

Photo by Christopher DePass of The San Matean

Horticulture Professor Matt Leddy in the greenhouse.

eNtertaiNmeNt / CulturePage 6 • The SAN MATEAN May 24, 2010

Name: Maggie SkaffTitle: Service CoordinatorAge: 67

S.M.: What is your official title and what do you do at CSM?M.S.: Service Coordinator for International Students. We have over 100 students from 40 different countries. I am responsible for bringing in foreign students, handling applications and admissions. I report to Homeland Security and the Department of Justice on the student’s status.

S.M.: How long have you worked at CSM?M.S.: Since August 1988, this is my 22nd year at CSM.

S.M.: Where did you go to school?M.S.: I attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis where I studied English literature. I went to Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, we were a sports powerhouse, the hockey coach Bob Johnson went on to coach the 1976 Olympic Men’s Hockey team and later won the Stanley Cup.

S.M.: Do you have any immediate family?M.S.: I have a sister Sharon who lives in Texas, I have four children Thomas 39, Laura 37 who works at CSM, Annie who is 34 and David who is 32. I have six grandchildren Abby 14, Zach 12, Kayla 11, Alyssa 9, Luca 7 and Gionni 5, who all live in Sacramento.

S.M.: What is a memorable moment in your life?M.S.: In 1963 I was working for WCCO, a television station in Minneapolis. I went to hear Mother Teresa speak in a church and I was asked to give her a ride back to the hotel. She was in America to raise funds for her cause. She had no possessions, all she had was some coins, I wanted to help her and all I had was a loaf of Wonder bread which I gave her, she was very appreciative.

S.M.: What do you like about working at CSM?M.S.: The students, I love watching them succeed, most foreign student transfer to a four year school, most stay in touch after leaving CSM. I love my job, I get to work with students from all over the world.

S.M.: Do you have any hobbies? M.S.: Yes, cooking, gardening, reading. Lebanese cuisine is one of my favorites. Every St. Patrick’s day I bake 38 Irish soda breads and give most away to friends.

S.M.: What are your favorite books?M.S.: “Six Thinking Hats” by Edward de Bono, and “Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield.

S.M.: Do you have any pets?M.S.: I have a Persian cat named Purty and a mix breed dog Kona.

S.M.: Do you travel? M.S.: Yes, I visit my children and grandchildren in Sacramento, I also go back to Minneapolis.

Campus Spotlight

—Marcin MarciniakThe San Matean

Maggie Skaff and family above, from left, Annie, Zack, Kayla, Luca, Maggie, and Alyssa. At right, Maggie Skaff discusses en-rollment options for incoming student Tao Yuhong,19.

Photo by Marcin Marciniak of The San Matean

Photo courtesy of Maggie Skaff

Krystal Nelson, 19Psychology, Belmont

“I don’t think so. It’s just a regular website to chat with people. It’s not a waste of time.”

Is Facebook taking over?

In the Mix By Cecile Basnage

Anthony Cairo, 20Business, Millbrae

“Yes. It kind of destroys face to face interactions and makes it easy to contact people from far away.”

Mike DeGroot, 31Construction Mgmt., South City

“Facebook is an addiction. It’s the new drug of choice.”

Vivian Yeung, 18Nursing, Millbrae

“Yes, everyone has a Facebook, that’s enough for it to be taking over.”

Kendall Dittman, 18Undecided, Burlingame

“Kids spend way too much time on it.”

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The Performance Dance Ensemble hosted its bi-annual Spring Dance Concert May 13.

Dancers dazzled the audience with a variety of styles, including tap, ballet, modern, and ballroom, with a total of twelve performances. The PDE also invited AXIS Dance Company from Oakland, made up of dancers with and without disabilities.

About 250 people attended the event. “I thought it was well put together,” said Ashley Farabee, who has been involved with dance at CSM for three years and was in a contemporary modern class this spring. “Year after year I see how important the dance show is to the CSM students, to the parents, to the teachers and to the community.”

The Cosmetology department prepared the performers’ hair and make-up. “It was incredibly inspiring,” said make-up artist Aiprll MacLellan, 33. To her, doing stage make up is “so much nicer than daytime make-up,” and allows one to “be creative, use bold colors, and match [make-up] with outfits.”

— Text and photos by Cecile Basnage

of The San Matean

Dancers dazzle

Above: Rodney Bell and Janey Das of Axis Dance Company per-form “Point to Some-thing.” Right: Sarah Bolton’s Ballet Class dances to “When You Were Young,” by Vita-min String Quartet.

Left: Dimitra Clarke, 20, admires her work on Rawan Jabari. Below: Elena Elshi-na, 23, is made up by Aiprll MacLellan, 33, as Paloma Richard, 18, looks on.

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Every car has its engine, every boat its motor... something to keep it moving – cheerleaders do the same for team sports.

They are that in-game support system that helps teams rally back from behind, and they fuel that last push to keep a lead at the close of a quarter.

Yet, surprisingly, CSM’s team has been under the radar while schools like Skyline, Cañada, and Foothill have teams widely known around campus.

In an anonymous survey of students between ages 17-24 conducted at Skyline and CSM campuses - 58 people out of 100 said they knew about Skyline's cheerleaders, while 17 out of 100 said they knew about CSM’s.

Becky Feliciano and Tiffany Silos inherited the captaincy of the cheerleading squad after Kimberly Helms left last year.

Since the squad is voluntary, there is no class prerequisite to join.

“We’re definitely trying to recruit guys and girls,” said Feliciano, 19. “Anyone is welcome, even if you don’t have experience, if you want to be part of the team, the first step is to come to the field and say you’re interested.”

The long hard climb to recognitionBruno ManriqueThe San Matean

Photo by Bruno Manrique of The San Matean

CSM’s cheerleading squad: Top, Monica Rodriguez with team-members, from left, Yaneris Mendiola, Becky Feliciano, Tiffany Silos, Jasmine Berk, and Mariela Russo.

Feliciano, a Burlingame High alumna, has some experience under her belt, having cheered two years at Taylor Middle School, one year at Burlingame High, and four years at All-Star cheer squad Rebels Elite.

Silos, a South San Francisco High alumna, has cheered for four years, recently joining Rebels Elite, and considers this her biggest chal-

lenge yet.“It’s a lot harder than I thought it

would be,” said Silos, 18. “(Being a captain) is not as easy as it sounds; it’s easier to do it than to teach it, it requires good preparation.”

The squad has about 10 team members, which fluctuates as mem-bers come and go for a variety of reasons, but finding people willing

to commit and practice twice a week can be tough to do.

“It’s really frustrating (to see members leave), we just try to move on and shake it off,” said Feliciano. “Ideally we’d have from 20 to 25 members in the team, but it’s gonna take some time to have a core like that and finally start competing.”

Feliciano and Silos have grown closer as captains and plan to lead their cheerleading hopes to fruition.

“We were both on (the squad) last year. She’s an amazing flyer and just knows so much,” said Feliciano about her experience on the squad with co-captain Silos.

“We want to prove that cheerlead-ing is a sport, we want that respect from people. We practice hard to get that recognition,” said Feliciano.

“We’d like to go to showcases and eventually start competing,” said Silos. “We have to compete in order to get good.”

So– is cheerleading a sport?“There was a push to make

cheerleading a sport, however, the NCAA and the CCAAA determined that cheerleading is not an athletic endeavor, and therefore cannot qualify as such,” said Athletic Director Andreas Wolf.

“Mr. Wolf has been really sup-portive of us, it’s nice to know that someone is pushing with you and you’re not just trying by yourself,”

said Feliciano.It is a slow process, however.

Starting a team from scratch is a challenge of itself, and the co-captains are aware of it.

“This summer, I am taking my other cheer squad to the USA cheer camp in Anaheim,” said cheer advi-sor Amber Steele.

“I would love to have our CSM cheerleaders go as well! Our road will be long; practicing cheer, being ambassadors for the college, both at games and at school events and fundraisers.”

Courtney Chin, a student at Sky-line, started the Trojanettes in the summer of 2009 with Steele’s help.

“We have a very strong sup-portive system, not only from the college but our community as well,” said Chin, 20. “They have helped us raise a good portion of money to send us to cheerleading camp in the summer and get us our uniforms, clothes, and accessories.”

CSM’s cheerleaders look for-ward to next semester.

“If we’re gonna do it, we have to be dedicated, take time to learn, and respect the time that others put in,” said Jasmine Berk, 19, a member of the squad.

CSM’s has been meeting on Mondays and Thursdays from 1-3 p.m. at the football field since the start of the year.

Among so many great athletes with different traits - what makes a standout great? “Lauren has two major attributes as a player: One, she has a great love for the game of fastpitch softball and two, she has the ability to play the game without fear. She is a very tough young lady,” said assistant coach Toby Garza.

Lauren, known as LC to most people, grew up in the San Jose/Santa Clara area, daughter to Cindy Convento and Robert Cole.

She was a multi-sport athlete in her teens, playing softball, vol-leyball, basketball, soccer, track, gymnastics, and swimming.

“In seventh grade I played goalie, rain was pouring, the perfect sce-nario for a Gatorade commercial, sweat in my face, the whole deal… I blocked three out of five penalty kicks, the last one with my forearm, and we won by one.”

“Lauren was always noticed by other players and parents as the girl who made that amazing play,” her mother recalls. “It is exciting to watch her in action, especially when the pressure is on.”

Lauren’s future with CSM began the day she met her soon-to-be coach, Nicole Borg, during one of her softball games at the Charlie Miguel Tournament at Mission Col-lege. “I saw her and another coach wearing blue…I was really excited, I didn’t know what to expect. It was the first time a scout had come to see me,” she remembers.

After the game, Borg approached Lauren and “she gave me her card, it was white and it said Nicole Borg, with a Bulldog on it to the right, it looked so official.”

“You have a lot of untapped potential,” said Borg.

“I told her to come and watch me

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the next time we played and there she was the next game, standing behind the backstop. I could see them while I played.”

Borg, recruiting out of her area, had one mission – to find a pitcher.

An infielder in high school; LC got the chance to work the hill for a few innings and show her skills.

After seeing Borg for a second time, Lauren ignored her friends and family after the game, walk-ing directly toward her new fan and asked “So what’d you think?”

Borg, impressed with Lauren’s enthusiasm and enjoyment of the game, decided to make the offer.

“She was just an okay pitcher, but I knew she could play softball, and most importantly - she wanted to play,” said Borg.

Borg, with her usual straight-forwardness, said to Lauren: “You could be really helpful; I want you to be my pitcher.”

The young coach, with four years under her belt at the time, recalls clearly “She lit up as if I’d just gave her the best news of her life, her eyes couldn’t get any bigger at that moment.”

Borg, also interested in third baseman Jennifer Americano, asked Lauren if she and her team-

mate would be interested in joining the Bulldogs after high school. “I don’t know what Jenn wants to do, but I know what I wanna do.”

It was the start of a unique two-year relationship between the two. A commitment deeper than just soft-ball, a commitment to be the best pitcher and coach they could be.

Lauren’s decision was as hard as it could get for a 17-year-old high school senior. Venturing to a city she’d never heard of, gambling her future on a promise from a stranger who owed her nothing.

LC fell below a 2.0 GPA in her senior year, causing her to be ineli-gible to play the rest of her softball season. Yet her commitment to Borg was sincere and it showed from the start.

“I listened and bought into every-thing she said so I could be at her level, she said if I put everything in for her, then she’d put everything in for me.”

Borg recalls a conversation with Lauren just after she started at CSM. “She came in so happy and said ‘you don’t have any kids, so I’m gonna be your kid now and you’re gonna hang this in your refrigerator’.”

LC had scored a 98 percent in her first math test, a testament to

her academic commitment. LC has been on the dean’s list every semester since she started college, now with a cumulative 3.8 GPA.

Lauren’s biggest challenge came when her dad, Robert, left the fam-ily the day before the start of her sophomore season.

“I was just numb… couldn’t feel anything, mentally I was just off.”

Robert had been Lauren’s softball and soccer coach from an early age, as well as her biggest fan.

With the help of her friends, teammates, and coaches; Lauren managed to plow through and play her best season as a Bulldog. Starting fewer games than her freshman season, she went on to a 20-5 win-loss record during the regular season, starting on 25 of her 31 games played.

She came close to pitching three perfect games this year, tossing eight impressive shutouts, includ-ing a career-high nine strikeouts against Contra Costa College on Feb. 25. She led the Coast-North Conference with a 1.78 ERA on 172.3 innings pitched.

Yet, her sophomore season was more than just numbers; “it was mentally hard to balance it all.”

At the start of this year’s play-

offs at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, her emotions got the better of her; she broke down right before her name was called for the official introduction.

Ken Zuvela, a long-known father figure, was in the stands, showing his support.

“I felt like this person who I looked up to, traveled all the way there to support me, yet my own dad couldn’t be there for me… I just broke down and cried.”

Assistant coach Dale Bassmann walked over to her and said: “That would make me mad, LC. Use that out there and channel it on the field.”

Lauren wiped her tears away and joined the lineup. “Something so powerful coming from Dale… it just helped so much.”

CSM was eliminated from the playoffs, though, after losing two straight games to Cosumnes River.

“After the game, I felt like every-thing else didn’t matter. I dropped everything for softball and now it was over.”

While Lauren’s softball career at CSM has come to a close, the memories she’s cultivated of her teammates and coaches is some-thing never to be forgotten.

“Lauren’s a very sweet, caring person,” said teammate Morgan Elkins. “She’s just an overall com-petitor. If she gives up a hit, she’d be upset with herself and her next pitch would be just so much better.”

“She’s a perfectionist, she doesn’t settle for anything,” said teammate Alyssa Jepsen.

Lauren, a two-time First Team All-Conference player, was re-cently inducted in the CSM Softball Wall of Fame, joining the likes of Jamie Vanover (2004) and Michelle Tating (2007).

The wall of famer will join the Florida Tech Panthers for her junior season of collegiate softball.

Lauren Cole: competitive edge

Photo by Bruno Manrique of The San MateanLauren Cole

Three homers and an 11-run early assault sufficed the CSM baseball team for a 12-10 win over Sacra-mento City College on Saturday, May 15.

The Bulldogs beat the Panthers twice during the regular season, one at home (5-3) and one away (6-0).

CSM, playing as the visitor on their own turf, opened the first in-ning with a bang.

Freshman center fielder Justin

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Double-digit inning secures Bulldog win

Photo by Bruno Manrique of The San Matean

Slugger Joey Wallace readies his swing before his two-run home run against Sacramento City College.

Maffei singled to left field, then stole second before scoring on an error by Big 8 Gold Glove Award winning shortstop Brian Stamps.

Maffei had a very efficient game offensively, going 2-3 at bat with three walks, three stolen bases, two runs scored, and an RBI.

O’Koyea Dickson went to work early, smashing a three-run home run to left field and collecting three RBIs in the process.

“I try to stay in the zone and feel out the pitches so I know what to expect,” said Dickson, 20. “I sat on

that inside fastball and gave it my best swing.”

Andrew Suvunnachuen hit the second home run of the inning, sending it to left field and driving home Pasiecznik and Burford.

Maffei stole second once again, as second baseman Trent Fuller was invisible to the Bulldogs for the whole game. Wood and Maffei combined for four stolen bases in the game, all on the second bag.

White doubled in Maffei before scoring on Wallace’s tape measure blast to right center field. The 6-foot-4 first baseman put his stamp on a 380-foot shot after hitting the pitch at the heart of the plate.

Wallace, who has struggled in previous games, regained his con-sistency as the slugging king of the Golden Gate Conference, scoring two runs with two RBIs.

After having 14 at bats, the Bull-dogs led 11-0 with eight hits and no runners left on base by the end of the inning.

Burford doubled down to right center field, he would score CSM’s lone run of the second after a Suvun-nachuen single to left field.

Sac City countered with three straight singles to start off the sec-ond. The Panthers posted four runs on four hits before starter Josh Saio was replaced by Josh Fredendall.

Fredendall, who inherited three runners on base, struck out leadoff hitter Mike Sanchez to end the

inning.Fuller scored Sac City’s only run

of the third after Thomas Dixon’s line drive single to left field.

The Panthers scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth, highlighted by Sam Hedrick’s vicious triple to left center field which brought Gibson and Fuller to score.

Hedrick’s triple was a game changer, not only bringing his team closer 12-7, but putting momentum on the Panthers side after a demoral-izing first inning.

CSM head coach Doug Williams brought in reliever Nick Franquez to try and stop the bleeding.

Dixon grounded out to first base but brought in Hedrick to make the score 12-8.

Sac City’s starter Chaz Deter-man continued to pitch despite the clinic CSM put on the first inning, he was relieved in the seventh by Sean Martin.

“Their pitcher settled down and kept his poise,” said Williams. “That’s what’s so great about baseball; you never know what’s gonna happen.”

The Bulldogs offense seemed to have run out of gas, producing no hits until the seventh inning.

Sac City slowly chipped away CSM’s lead, scoring two runs in the eighth inning and slicing the deficit to 12-10.

Franquez was relieved by closer Justin Burns, who’d brought the

Bulldogs back against San Jose City.

With one out at the bottom of the eight, Burns forced Fuller into a groundout 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

“He’s been carrying us through this season,” said Wallace of Burns. “We’ve made huge plays when he hits his spots like he’s been doing.”

That wouldn’t be the last double play for Burns as he forced Dixon into a 4-6-3, getting Hedrick out on the play.

“He’s a double play machine,” said both Williams and Dickson.

“He comes out real clutch for us when we need him the most,” said Dickson.

The Bulldogs, one out away from closing out a dangerous Sac City team, got their final out after Brooke Brooks grounded out to shortstop Ryan Allgrove, who delivered in the throw to first base.

“It means a lot when such talented guys in your team look up to you,” said Burns, 20.

Despite the 11-run first inning, the game came down to Burns’ stellar relief effort, earning the save and the victory for the Bulldogs.

“Justin Burns…we can’t say enough about him…nothing ever rattles him,” said Williams. “Our guys didn’t panic; this is a real steady group. We got great pitch-ing when we needed it and won the game because of it.”

If you ask head coach Doug Wil-liams, a Sunday can’t get any better than getting a Gatorade shower after his team’s 12-5 victory, May 16, over Sacramento City College.

The baseball team played its most consistent game of the playoffs and slugged its way to a spot in the State Championship in Fresno for the first time in seven years.

The Panthers got on the board in the second, after Brooke Brooks grounded out to second baseman Thomas Wood, who failed to field the ball on time, letting Lucas Kephart score and giving Brooks the base.

CSM retaliated with four runs in the bottom of the second, after Joey Wallace doubled to center field, inches short of the outfield fence.

Trevor Pasiecznik’s ground RBI single down the left foul line scored Wallace.

“Joey started it off, then O’Koyea grabbed a base, so I just tried to hit it hard, and just smoked it,” said Pasiecznik, 21. “We’ve been picking each other up throughout this series.”

With the bases loaded, shortstop Ryan Allgrove hit a line drive double to deep right center field to bring in two of his teammates.

“I’ve been hitless this whole series, so it felt good to get my first hit,” said Allgrove, 20. “I got the fastball and hit it to right center which was big for us.”

Wood hit a sacrifice fly to center field, setting up Burford for the last score of the inning, and extending their lead to 4-1.

Pasiecznik hit an RBI single to right middle field to score designat-ed hitter Nick White from second base in the third inning.

CSM extended its lead in the fourth when Andrew Suvunnach-uen hit a solo shot to left center.

“It felt great, the first at bat I had was disappointing, so I just stayed relaxed and tried to hit the ball well,” said Suvunnachuen, 20.

Wood followed with a sharp double close to the right foul line, scoring after White’s single to right field, 7-1.

Allgrove flashed some good leather on the fifth, to the amaze-ment of the crowd.

When nine-hole hitter Brooks hit a slow-rolling ball in Allgrove’s vicinity, he fielded the ball and delivered a backhand throw to first base a split second before the runner got to the bag.

At the next at bat, he fielded a bouncing ball near second base into a spinning throw, which seemed shot out of a cannon.

The 5-foot-7 shortstop packs a monster arm which helped his team make plays defensively. Allgrove finished with four assists.

Sac City pitcher Cole Brocker walked two batters, and gave up two hits in the first four at bats of the fifth inning.

With the score at 9-1, Brocker was replaced by freshman Zach Miller who gave up an RBI single and a walk through the inning.

O’Koyea Dickson hit a solo jack to left center field in the sixth to add to the Bulldogs lead 11-1.

“Left center is the sweet spot for me, definitely one of my power zones,” said Dickson, 20. “I tried to stay patient, I knew he’d eventually throw me a fastball.”

The Panthers responded with Jor-dan Vina’s double down the power alley, followed by Mike Marjama’s RBI single to make the score 11-2.

Suvunnachuen scored his second

solo home run of the game and the last run for the Bulldogs with a moon shot to center field, measuring an impressive 390 feet.

The sophomore catcher out of Burlingame High re-injured his leg in the top of the seventh, yet found strength to come back and add to his team’s lead.

Suvunnachuen hadn’t hit a home run all season prior to the game on Friday against San Jose City. Now he’s tied with Dickson with three homers each in these playoffs.

“I hit that fastball early on the first pitch,” said Suvunnachuen. “My leg didn’t affect me too much; I’ll be fine for next week.”

“Andrew is the consummate bulldog,” said Williams. “He’s done a great job for us all season and his hard work is showing up when it counts the most.”

Lefty starter Josh Trejo pitched a great 7 2/3 innings before being relieved by freshman Devin Brad-ley in the top of the eighth.

“I haven’t pitched really all that well this year,” said Trejo, 20. “For my team to stand behind me like

Bulldogs earn shot at state titleBruno ManriqueThe San Matean

Photo by Bruno Manrique of The San Matean

The Bulldogs erupt in celebration after a 12-5 win over Sacramento City College.

they did and win a game like this one, it just feels like all my hard work has paid off.”

Trejo left the field to a standing ovation, limiting the Panthers to five hits and two runs allowed in 114 pitches.

“I just pounded the strike zone and controlled the game with my pitches,” added Trejo.

Sac City attempted a late come-back, scoring three runs in the process, but their hopes would be crushed once Justin Burns made his way to the hill to close the game out.

Burns, described by his team-mates as a ‘double play machine’ pitched great down the stretch. The right-handed fireman worked his fastball often, aggressively chal-lenging Sac City’s line-up.

With two outs remaining, Burns faced Thomas Dixon, lining out to Allgrove who lasered a throw to second base to turn the double play and end the game 12-5.

“I pitched a fastball on the knees, it’s a tough pitch to hit and it’s been working for me,” said Burns, 20. “Getting this win feels awesome, it

still hasn’t sunk in, it probably won’t until I’m in that bus to Fresno. It’s one of those things I’ll remember forever.”

CSM showed great balance and timeliness in this game, something that wasn’t put together in any of their playoff games to date.

“Trejo is a big game guy,” said Williams. “Josh had to step up like he did. He dominated with the fast-ball, and his changeup was the best I’ve seen from him this season.”

CSM (5-1 playoffs, 32-8-1 over-all) has won five playoff games in a row and momentum could not be any bigger for the Bulldogs who will face Rio Hondo College (5-0 playoffs, 31-10 overall) at Fresno City College on Friday, May 21; first pitch at 6 p.m.

GAME NOTES – No. 3 seeded

Ohlone beat No. 5 seeded Chabot in back-to-back games (9-8, 3-1).

Zack Johnson led the Renegades to a first game win after a grand slam in the seventh. Ohlone will face El Camino College at noon at Fresno City College on Friday, May 21.

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Claire said. “Classified staff. Ad-ministrative staff.” He cited, as an example, the standard for tech. sup-port: one technician for every 250 computers. CSM has one technician for every 1,000 machines. “In ’88 there were eight instructional divi-sions, now there are five. We elimi-nated all low-enrollment classes to fix the $1 million deficit.”

Another crisis presented itself in October 2007: CSM was notified that the college had been placed on warning status.

The accreditation process, Claire said, is informed by CSM academic program review documents, “as a reference for senior management. The Master Plan, too (California’s 1960s educational blueprint for the state). We read all the comprehen-

ABCs continued from page 1sive review documents.”

“The focus of senior adminis-tration was to get us off warning accreditation...,” Claire said. “We solved accreditation warning three weeks later... We are in good shape with accreditation. We have an ac-creditation oversight committee.”

“We nailed the warning. We nailed the follow up report,” he said.

“Work is on target. We have the raw information, SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes),” said Susan Estes, vice president of instruction. “We just have to gather evidence. Program reviews have indicated programs are meeting SLOs.”

“Building 5 (Health and Wellness Center) will be in full operation in the summer,” Claire said, moving on to construction on campus.

The Fitness Center was built to attract people to the campus, Claire said, because CSM’s student popu-lation decreases some years. 1,300 dues-paying members of the San Mateo Athletic Club, run day-to-day by MediFit, finance the heating of the two swimming pools. “The more exposure we get the better.”

The south end of campus, which includes the Health and Wellness Center, all the surrounding land-scaping and infrastructure cost $61 million, Claire said.

“Construction should be com-pleted by next spring,” he said. “By fall, two-way traffic around campus. We’re not going to do all the potholes in the road. We’ll take out the worst of the potholes.”

New landscaping and a wider

stairway will replace the narrow stairs leading to Building 14, and Building 10 will be ready for oc-cupancy, Claire said. Buildings 21 through 29 will be razed.

“We’re always talking about budgets a year ahead. Ninety-five percent of the budget goes for the salaries of permanent employees. Our budget for next year is pretty well locked in,” Claire said.

For fiscal year 2010-11, 71 percent of the budget will go to faculty, 17 percent to classified staff, 7 percent to administration and 5 percent for supplies for a total budget of $22.3 million.

“The cut has been $6 million over the last two years, the equivalent of all adjunct faculty and summer school,” Claire said. “We elimi-

nated low enrolled classes. The worst thing we can do is put out a schedule, then yank it out from under students.”

The projected deficit for 2010-11 is $500,000, and the 2009–10 operating fund balance of $700,000 will be used to fund it, Claire said. “We don’t anticipate cutting classes further from the schedule.”

“I don’t think it’s healthy for institutions to stop hiring full-time faculty and classified staff because of seven full-time faculty retire-ments,” Claire said. “Mid-year hires next year. We will not be hiring administrators, I guarantee it.”

Claire could not answer the ques-tion of future layoffs of tenured faculty and full-time classified staff, deferring to the chancellor’s office.

ESL continued from page 3as well as googling the Bay Area Gardener's Foundation, which lists a variety of scholarships.

"To answer the question that is not being asked— no, you don't have to be documented," said Ibañez. "You can go to school and you can get an education even if you aren't documented."

Panel member Uriel Mendoza also warned the crowd not to let tutors do their work for them. "Sometimes they want to do it for you, but you don't learn anything."

The question of tutors also drew several questions. "How can I pick the best tutor?" asked Azael Sal-gado, 30, from the crowd. "I have a tutor and I ask if you're an ESL tutor. They criticize, but they don't help. They just mix you up."

"How do you pick a boyfriend?" responded Ibañez. "You try one, then another, and maybe the third one is the right one for you. It's the same with a tutor."

The audience also asked about hours tutors are available, saying someone who works full time can't find alternate hours for tutoring.

"We're trying to gather informa-tion about whether (a Saturday

workshop) would be popular, so we can decide if there's interest," said Jenny Castello, interim dean of humanities and social sciences at Cañada. Castello urged students to fill out surveys provided after workshops to gauge what students' needs are. "Let us know. We want to know, so we need the feedback," said Castello.

CSM provides ESL student tu-tors through the EOPS office, said Professor Frances Schulze. CSM also provides a reading and spoken ESL workshop on Saturdays.

Ibañez, meanwhile, summed up the value of the ESL program for the crowd with an economics-rooted story. Describing a busboy who makes $40 for a shift and a server who makes $150 for the same shift, He pointed out that the difference between the two is that one speaks English, and the other doesn't. The busboy, forced to work two jobs, is better off giving up one of the jobs and making the investment of a year to learn English. The lost income from the second job will be made back in one year, and every year after that the investment will show a profit.

food we eat, divide food into goods and evils, and determine that eating as a whole is health.

“Nutritionism arose to solve a public health problem about food,” said Pollan.

Nutritionism, according to Pol-lan, dates back to the 1977 United States Dietary Goals, which ex-

plained what Americans should eat to stay healthy. The goals explain that there are good and bad nutri-ents, like fats, and that Americans need to have more good nutrients, like omega 3s, to be healthier.

“Since we have been obsessing about fat, we actually eat more… as soon as you demonize one nutri-ent, you give a free pass to a good

nutrient,” said Pollan.Pollan described that since the

Dietary Goals were released, people began to binge eat low fat foods, which defeated the whole purpose of eating low fat.

He explained that the way to get off the “Western Diet” of unhealthy processed food is to listen to food culture and follow his food rules.

Healthy eating continued from page 1“Don’t eat anything your great

grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food,” said Pollan.

Pollan explained that people from different continents ate different things and did not have the chronic diseases we have today.

“He was knowledable about the food industry, and what he said about great grandmothers not

recognizing processed food made sense,” said Pano Kutulas, 22, Undecided.

Pollan ended saying that every-one can eat healthily as long as they can cook, and encouraged students to grow their own vegetables and fruits.

“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants,” said Pollan.

Place and Manner has not been updated in several years. Some of what is currently contained in the policy is actually too restrictive,” said Hamadeh of the need to update the policy. “Similar policies at other institutions have been struck down in court as infringing on free speech rights.”

Meanwhile the statewide student senate, at the general assembly, on May 2, passed a resolution to “admonish acts of suppressing First Amendment rights on any Califor-nia community college campus.”

The district subscribes to the Community College League of California, a nonprofit corpora-tion that provides support services

to community colleges across the state— such as drafting policy templates.

The disputed policy is based on a CCLC template, which car-ries a notation of being “legally required.” The template, which also references Education Code 76120 and 66301, has the provision of college(s) as “non-public forums” in the second sentence.

The template also includes a legal definition of “nonpublic forum”: “public property that has not by tra-dition or designation been opened as a public forum.”

“The language for the templates comes directly from law or court cases,” said Jane Wright, a consul-

Free speech continued from page 1tant for the CCLC.

Asked about the reasoning behind the designation of col-leges as “non-public forums” in the template, Wright again said that the language comes from law or court cases.

The law firm that works in consul-tation with the CCLC, Liebert Cas-siby Whitmore, has not responded to calls for comment.

The policy was brought before the District Shared Governance Council on Sep. 21, 2009, and again on Oct. 23, 2009, where it was tabled. The district is now in negotiations with the AFT over al-leged conflicts between the policy and faculty contracts. Faculty con-

tracts explicitly protect free speech. “We can’t have one policy for

faculty, and another for students, staff, and the public,” said Elizabeth Terzakis, associate professor of English at Cañada, about reports that the policy might not apply the same way to faculty as to students.

“It’s important for us to recognize that free speech is at the core value of this thing,” said Chancellor Ron Galatolo. “We’ve got a long history of being very open.”

“You probably will have a designation of public, non-public forums in any policy,” said Gala-tolo, explaining that his vision was to protect free speech, while at the same time balancing that with concerns for disruptions and safety.

“It’s important that it be an expansive area,” added Galatolo, who said he wanted to ensure that the designated “public forums” be sufficient for the public and acces-sible. “I don’t want them to be in a corner of the campus, behind a chain-link fence.”

Galatolo acknowledged not hav-ing had time to read the referenced Education Code, but still leaned toward support of designating the colleges as “non-public forums.”

“Between the two, I think that I’d put safety ahead of disruption,” said Galatolo of his concerns. He also emphasized that he’d rather that policy prohibit unforeseen pos-sibilities rather than permit them.

The concern is not shared by all.“I am greatly disheartened that

the first action that the district decides to do after the wonderful solidarity displayed by all three schools on March 4, is change the regulations to stop it from happening again,” said Michelle Araica of the ad hoc group Skyline Against the Cuts. “Under the First Amendment we are provided the right of assembly and the right to free speech.”

For now, the policy is still under discussion. “It’s really in its infancy, and there remains a lot to discuss,” said Galatolo of the policy.

editorialMay 24, 2010 The SAN MATEAN • Page 11

Recent events surrounding the restructuring of Media programs raise concerns that need to be ad-dressed regarding the future of The San Matean and the restructuring process itself. It has been a year since the publication first published an editorial about the PIV (Program Improvement and Viability) pro-cess and asked the administration to answer initial questions. During this time the publication has taken steps to find out what the future of the newspaper and its website will be and how these programs, includ-ing journalism, will be structured.

The San Matean believes that these events have created more uncertainty about the integrity of the process itself. It now seems quite possible that no one knows exactly what the future holds for this group of programs. Administration and staff have moved in the right direction, providing documents and information after delays. The initial date for the start of program reviews was May 2008. Now that two years have passed we believe that there is no reason that the PIV committee should not have a definite answer regarding the shape or fate of these programs.

Even after several rounds of records requests, asking questions of involved parties, and obtaining a pro bono lawyer which led to a sit-down meeting in February, questions still remain.

At the February meeting the publication was assured that no decisions were being made, or even talked about, concerning the journalism program. If the topic came up, the newspaper was as-sured that it would be involved. Weeks later The San Matean found out that meetings were being held on campus and sent a reporter to those meetings.

Marilyn Lawrence sent an e-mail April 19 to The San Matean, responding to several questions. PIV committee meetings are not open to the public, Lawrence wrote in one of the e-mails.

Pro bono legal counsel for The San Matean, Rachel Matteo-Boehm, sent a letter May 7 to County Counsel, who is represent-ing CSM in the matter of the Media PIV issue. “I am writing … to ask that you instruct the PIV Review Committee for the Media Group at the College of San Mateo to comply immediately with the requirements of Calif. Govt. Code Sect. 54950 et seq. (“the Brown Act”) and to admit the public and press to its commit-tee meetings,” read the letter. “In addition to the legal reasons why these committee meeting should be conducted in the open, there are significant public policy reasons in favor of openness. The opaqueness surrounding this review process - a

matter that we expressed frustration about in our February meeting - has, understandably, bred distrust and suspicion among the students who stand to be most impacted by the decisions of this committee.”

After this letter was sent to County Counsel the publication was allowed to sit in on a May 11 PIV Committee meeting where the Community Advisory Group (CAB) to the PIV was present to share their insights into how the group of programs could be improved. The insights shared at this meeting were used to create an updated PIV report, which Susan Estes, vice president of instruc-tion, will distribute to the Digital Media faculty, said Lawrence. The San Matean has requested the document through the California Public Records Act, and is awaiting a response from Estes.

A letter was sent from County Counsel to Matteo-Boehm, on May 14, notifying her that the back-ground surrounding the process would have to be discussed with the staff at CSM and that counsel would be in touch with The San Matean in the next few weeks regarding access to PIV Committee meetings.

The San Matean believes that those concerned with the fate of the publication should be allowed into these meetings under The Brown Act.

A March 10 e-mail sent out by The Academic Senate to The Com-mittee on Instruction with a memo attached raises more questions.

The e-mail was sent from Huy Tran, Vice President of The Aca-demic Senate. “It is the responsibil-ity of Academic Senate to monitor and verify that all PIV programs approved are in compliance. The first PIV in question, is pertaining to Digital Media,” read the e-mail. “Please find attached memo regard-ing our responsibilities and action requested by AS for tomorrows COI meeting. To make sure there is no conflict of interest regarding Diana Bennett, DGME faculty and AS president, I will be in charge of the review for the DGME PIV,” continued the e-mail from Tran.

The attached memo explained concerns that the senate had with the way in which the PIV recommen-dations were being implemented. “Academic Senate will formally re-view Digital Media‘s progress and adherence to the PIV recommenda-tion and address insufficiencies occurring at our 3/23/10 meeting,” read the memo. The attached memo was a word document and when it is opened and tracking turned on, it reveals several edits made to the document. The edits have a name attached to them - Diana Bennett. Bennett is the current Academic Senate president and a professor in

the multimedia department, which is one of the areas that will be re-structured under the new Digital Media Program. In the same e-mail in which Tran explains that Bennett recused herself because of conflict of interest, it seems that there are edits made to the attached memo that have her name on them.

When did Bennett recuse her-self? What does it mean to recuse oneself from something? Does it mean that the individual in question should have nothing to do with the process? The San Matean asked Bennett several questions regard-ing her involvement with the PIV process since she recused herself. Bennett had not yet responded as of the date of publication of the final edition of the semester.

“Diana Bennett was Academic Senate president when the initial Media Group PIV recommen-dations were presented to the Academic Senate in Fall 2008. She recused herself from presid-ing over this and all subsequent senate proceedings regarding the Media Group PIV,” Tran told The San Matean in an e-mail. “The vice president at the time, Eileen O’Brien, presided over the Media Group PIV proceedings. As a fac-ulty member of the Media Group under PIV, Prof. Bennett was in-terviewed by the PIV committee and provided information to the PIV committee just as any other faculty in the Media Group did so,” wrote Tran.

Is this the case, that the only involvement Bennett had in the process was as a Media Group faculty member? Did she in fact recuse herself in the Fall of 2008 when the recommendations were first presented to the senate?

“Overseeing PIV is one of the roles of the Academic Senate

president,” wrote Tran. “However, Diana Bennett is a faculty member of the Media Group. Having one individual overseeing a process and being a part of the process presents a conflict of interest. Even if the involved parties knew that they would not do anything inappropri-ate, the appearance of a conflict of interest is enough to prompt a change in role.”

If the edits were made by Ben-nett, does this present a conflict of interest on her part?

“Concerns were brought up in the February Committee on Instruction meeting that the curriculum submit-ted for the DGME (Digital Media) program did not reflect the degree of consolidation recommended in the PIV report. These concerns were forwarded to the Academic Senate and discipline faculty,” wrote Tran. “The edits you see in the memo are communications between the senate president and vice president. Because the concerns regarding the DGME program were brought to the senate president and not the vice president, this communication was necessary so that I would be fully informed before the president recused herself. I sent the memo to the president and she forwarded it through the senate e-mail.”

Tran seems to contradict himself with his statements. Did Bennett recuse herself in Fall 2008 or in March 2010 when the memo was sent out? If in fact she did recuse herself in 2008 and concerns were bought to her should she have told the concerned parties to give them to the Vice President so that no conflict of interest could possibly occur? If the VP was not fully informed of what was going on shouldn’t he have been caught up before the president recused herself, whenever that was? What about the

memo itself – were the recipients meant to believe that it came from Tran? According to Tran he sent the memo to Bennett who forwarded it through the senate e-mail. The e-mail says it is from Tran, not Ben-nett. This seems misleading, should the recipients have been told that the document was actually coming from Bennett if that was the case?

If it is the case that Bennett did send the memo and the recipients were lead to believe that it was from Tran, who was overseeing the PIV process so that there would be no conflict of interest on Bennett’s part – What does this say about the process itself?

The San Matean asks Bennett to answer the following questions:

1) When did she recuse herself and what involvement has she had in the process since she recused herself?

2) Did she make the edits to the memo and did she send the memo in Tran’s name?

3) If she did make them, why did she do so and does she think that this presents a conflict of interest on her part?

The San Matean thinks it is time for all remaining questions to be answered. How will students inter-ested in media programs feel about coming to a school when they are uncertain what those programs will look like. The problem is enrollment in these programs, how can this is-sue be addressed when the school can’t offer any certainty as to what the future of these programs will be?

A blog about the situation has been created and will be updated with information as the publica-tion learns of it. The blog can be viewed at http://firstamendmentc-sm.blogspot.com/.

Check sanmatean.com for up-dates over the summer.

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How do you prepare for finals?

opiNioN & publiC forum May 24, 2010Page 12 • The SAN MATEAN

editorial Back Talkby Cecile Basnage

Student voice

Anton Toy, 19Communication, San Francisco

“I re-read chapters. It’s not a big deal, it depends on how much the final is worth.”

Lizzie Tucker, 21Speech comm., Pacifica

“Lots of sleep and study hard.”

Desirée Bielecki, 20Kinestheology, Daly City

“I write down everything, it helps me to memorize a lot of things.”

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the San Matean is a First Amendment newspaper published bi-weekly during the academic year by the Journalism 120, 300, 690 and 850 students at College of San Mateo as a medium for campus communication and laboratory for classes. Opinions, letters and commentary reflect only the opinion of the writer, and not necessarily the opinion of the San Matean. Letters to the Editor and opinion articles are welcome, although they may be edited for style, space, content and libel. Mail or deliver letters to Building 19, Room 123, 1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94402.

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Daniella Medeiro, 19Graphic Arts, San Mateo

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Melanie Medeiro, 19Business, San Mateo

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Britney Olsen, 18Nutrition, Half Moon Bay

“I study and memorize... I use flashcards and highlighters.”

Some say that we learn from our past, but in this day and age maybe our past should learn from us.

By now I’m sure people have noticed the financial rumblings within the College of San Mateo. With threats of classes and programs being discontinued, one could wonder what is to become of the already declin-ing art of journalism.

It is no mystery that reading periodicals as a source of news is a dying practice. Why read something when television and the Internet can blast you with info, at speeds Picard described simply as warp-ten? That’s the question that plagues The San Matean right now.

For years there have been voices from above and below telling the San Matean it was too unorganized, too unregulated, too dangerous even, to be allowed to continue. In fact, most professors see it as a liability, dreading the call from a student that starts with “Hi, I’m a reporter from the San Matean…” However, like all good journalists, you need to look at both sides of the argument.

The San Matean made its debut as The Bark, on September 3, 1924. It’s big news headline read “The “Boss” sees great improvement in the junior college,”. The story captured Principal Glascock’s hopes that the incoming freshmen would extinguish typical high school rivalries.

The story was solid, it was relevant, and most importantly, it was about us. It was what students want to know about their school. And now, 172 volumes later, the San Matean does its best to provide; with headlines like “Student Senate steps up to unite campus” a story capturing the Stu-dent Senate’s efforts to rouse student protests of the recent budget cuts.

Again, we have a story that is relevant, and most importantly, about CSM students. Almost 86 years later, journalists at the San Matean are still capturing the pulse of the College of San Mateo effectively and carefully.

Now, however, opponents of the paper have drawn their line. With ar-guments such as lack of structure, poor vision of what a paper should be, and inability of the staff writers to write professionally and concisely, it’s easy to condemn The San Matean with the rest of the written news world.

Despite this, all the writers ask students to do is to listen. While we certainly do not deny that there are areas where we could improve and hone our skills, we only have a single question to put to our critics.

Who speaks for us? And what I mean by that is, who speaks for our students? Where is our say in how we as students, we as a community, get to cement our legacy?

First Amendment update—see page 11

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and John P. Wilcox, President and Publisher.

Dear Editor,I wanted to personally thank your staff, particularly Bruno Manrique and William Hennessey for their cov-

erage and thorough reviews of our games this season. I have been at the College of San Mateo for 6 years now and this is the first year where I felt like my student athletes got the recognition and press they deserved for all the hard work they put into representing the College of San Mateo. I truly appreciate all the time that Bruno and Bill spent asking questions after the game and actually being in tune with what was going on. I’m very proud of our Athletic programs here at CSM and I think these two young men did a great job not only covering softball but all of our sports. I recently read the piece that Bruno wrote about Doug Williams’ 500th win and I think it’s great that a coach that has dedicated 16 years of his life to the Bulldog baseball program was recognized for such a huge milestone. Thank you again for all of the hard work and dedication to the College of San Mateo Athletics.

—Nicole BorgHead Softball Coach/P.E. Instructor

borgn@smccd.edu

letters to the editor

Dear Editor,In response to Mr. Farr’s “Spin Cycle”, April 2nd, I completely agree with what he had to say regarding

smoking lots on campus. It is as if he took the words right from my mouth. In the past, I have been known to occasionally enjoy a premium cigar accompanied with a fine aged scotch whiskey. On one such occasion, while puffing on my cigar in a public place where smoking was permitted, a group of people walked past me. Then the theatrics began. They all started to cough in unison and glare at me with contempt as if I were robbing them of their last breath of life. They could have easily stepped away from me and walked their way. However, they chose to walk right up to me and behave in a very immature matter. Ironically, as they walked away, a large diesel bus drove by spewing noxious black exhaust. Yet, no one said a word. What I find most interesting is that, somehow, there is a perverse belief that the only source of carcinogenic exhaust is that from a single cigarette, pipe or cigar. To me this is a direct result of misplaced anxiety.

I believe that the true guilty culprits in spewing toxic fumes are the giant fossil fuel companies. With all the combustion engines out there on the road these days, one wonders how healthy can that be. If someone is so interested in going after an air polluter then he or she should go after the fossil fuel industry. Heaven forbid should someone attack the fossil fuel industry, they are the very fabric of our economy. As for our campus, I feel that both energy and time could be better spent focusing on retaining faculty, staff and support services for students rather than exhaust from a single pipe, cigar or cigarette.

Oh well, just my opinion.—Chuck La Mere

IT Support Tech II, SMCCCD

Thanks for the coverage

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em