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She has left behind loved ones and moved from home to pur-sue a dream others believed she could not accomplish as a young Puerto Rican woman.

Diamara Planell Cruz, 20, a human physiology major with a minor in psychology, has bro-ken records since she started at Los Al-tos High S c h o o l as a ju-nior.

J o i n -ing the t r a c k and field team in Los Al-tos, Cruz b r o k e the 2005 Los Altos girl’s pole vaulting re-cord of 7’6.”

Now at San Jose City College, she has broken the women’s pole vaulting record in Northern California State Championship jumping 12’7’’ and breaking the State record with 12’9’’ at Stan-ford.

“She pretty much defines the sport right now in junior college in the state of California,” pole vaulting coach Brandon Vance said.

During the summer of 2012, Cruz represented Puerto Rico in the Junior Central American and Caribbean Championship in El Salvador.

Once there, Cruz won the gold medal in the CACC Junior Divi-sion that qualified her to compete in the Junior World Champion-ship in Barcelona, Spain.

Standing on the podium in El Salvador, it was an amazing ex-perience to watch her flag and hear her national anthem play Cruz said.

Though her hard work is pay-ing off, negative correspondence from coaches in Puerto Rico continues to circulate on the fact that she is a young, female pole vaulter who could not possibly do what she does today.

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After a bumpy first season last semester, the San Jose City Col-lege’s dance team, The Roar, is back this season.

The Roar started in the fall se-mester of 2012 with high hopes of being able to create some school spirit and perform at events such as the halftime shows at SJCC sports games. The team began with about nine girls.

The team started to lose steam before it was able to do a perfor-

mance. Daisy Martinez, 20, business

major, said some of the factors that led to this were that “a lot of the girls started

missing practices and we bare-ly got a key to the dance studio halfway through the semester.”

Martinez was passed the torch as the new president of The Roar

Track star overcomes adversityCruz makes jump for women

From left, heidi garcia, daisy Martinez , and Jennifer Thom are dancing at the preliminary auditions in building Wing 200 on Feb. 5

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The Roar is back for more

Accreditation status comes clean

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After three years of effort and commitment, the San Jose City College accreditation status has finally come back clean. This assures the two most important things to students on campus, transferable credits and financial aid.

“This full reaffirmation decree will renew our hope and commit-ment to our community,” Presi-dent Barbara Kavalier said. “It signals there is a new day to say

who we are, what we can accom-plish and how great this institu-tion is.”

Kavalier got word from Jack Pond, vice president of Team Op-erations and Communication of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges that SJCC has been removed from probation and fully reaffirmed on Feb. 12.

“I think it is wonderful news for SJCC, Evergreen and the district in general,” said David Yancey, a History professor and president of the American Federation of

Teachers.The fall 2012 follow-up report

included exclusive statistics and specific evidence that summaries the effort of all faculty, staff, stu-dents and administration in ful-filling the last six requirements of the commission.

Most of the work was done by the Accreditation Overview Taskforce, which was co-chaired by Celia Cruz-Johnson a faculty member and Rebecca Gamez, Spanish instructor at SJCC. The whole work was collaboration be-tween faculty, students, staff and

administration, typically the Aca-demic Senate and the Vice Presi-dent of Student Affair since 2010.

“A lot of extraordinary, great work was done by a lot of extraor-dinary great folks,” Yancey said. “We were successful in getting out from under the hammer that (probation and) accreditation had turned into.”

The school has received a lot of positive feedback way ahead even before the official announcement to be made in spring 2013.

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Priscilla SantosGuidance InstructorAge:59

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Elizabeth EckfordInterim Director Stu-dent LifeAge: 45Make sure you plan every day. Budget ac-cordingly to the tasks at hand and budget daily. Plan and prepare.

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Through the school’s top priority is to educate, protect-ing students, faculty and staff is also very important.

San Jose City College needs a better security sys-tem.

The lockdown incident during the fall 2012 semes-ter at the Technology Center was a wake-up call about the inadequacies of security at SJCC. Despite receiving the message about the gunman at 4:30 p.m. the notice from the campus police had not been sent until 5 p.m. For students in the Technology Center, it took them almost two hours waiting in the dark until the police came and escorted them out.

one of those reasons for this slow response could be the shortage of campus po-lice officers, especially after 3 p.m. The San Jose Police Department was waiting for the campus police officers to search through other rooms, as the campus police are the ones who have keys and know the campus terrain.

This incident certainly would have been handled much faster and easier if there were more campus police of-ficers on campus.

even though there are around 19 police officers in the San Jose/evergreen Com-munity College District, only two to three campus police officers are seen on campus. Compared to evergreen Val-ley College, SJCC has less campus police officers and less police office hours.

eVC always has police on campus seven days a week and even on holidays, from Monday to Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Meanwhile, police office hours at SJCC are only from Monday to Fri-day, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“Provide police patrols and services whenever classes are in sessions as well as holidays and weekends,” is what is written on the district’s web-site about the Law enforce-ment Authority/Peace officer Responsibilities. However, it seems it has never been the case at SJCC.

Classes do not end at 3 p.m. at SJCC. Many students have very late classes until 9 p.m. or even 10 p.m.

Chris Chiodo, a Facilities Committee member, said in the committee’s meeting on Feb. 12 that she had once

gone with a student to call campus police, and it took 45 minutes for campus police to arrive.

The emergency emails and text messages service from the campus police is a great idea. However, not all stu-dents have a cell phone or computer at home. in addi-tion to that, many rape cases occurred because the victims did not pay attention to their surroundings as much as they did to their phones. This solution is not completely ef-fective.

The remaining solutions are payphones and those emergency phones, which were set up in various areas on campus. However, the payphones at SJCC were re-moved last semester without any notification. Vice Presi-dent of Administrative Greg Nelson wrote in an email that the cost for the payphones made it prohibitive to con-tinue the service, vandalism and disrepair so the school opted to remove phones for momentary and maintenance reasons.

Another sad thing about this removal is the fact that it’s free to call 9-1-1 from a payphone. This is extremely helpful, and not many people seem to know this. Unfor-tunately, the administration decided to remove the pay-phones without any notifi-cation or consulting with the Association Student Govern-ment or even asking them for funding to repair them.

As soon as the payphone at the library was removed, many students gave their complaints to the library staff, who definitely were not re-sponsible for the payphones.

Without payphones, re-porting emergencies can be extremely inconvenient and even dangerous in emergen-cies, such as power outages or earthquakes, when cellphones may not work.

However, there is another way to contact the campus police in the crisis situation: red emergency calls. Those are in gray boxes that are lo-cated in a few areas on cam-pus, and probably have the least attention from all stu-dents and faculty at school. There are no additional signs or instructions to tell how to use the phones or at least tell the passers-by what they are. The phones are nearly invis-

ible. Shortage of police officers,

payphone removals and prac-tically invisible emergency phones, this should a big question mark for the securi-ty system at SJCC. Aren’t we ready for such mishaps?

We surely can expect our administration to do a better job than this to prepare the school for the worst case sce-narios.

With the passage of Propo-sition 30, the district and our school particularly gets some of weight off their shoulders. The administration should spend some of this money we received from the state to improve the school’s security system.

They should hire more po-lice personnel at SJCC cam-pus, extend their office hours to 9 p.m., set up more lights and have a police team pa-trol around the parking areas, as those are the hot spots for rapes, robberies, and assaults.

opening another police office near the Technology Center and Science Complex or at least moving the police headquarters to mid-campus as a compromise solution is also a must-do solution. The Technology Center can be considered the most danger-ous part of campus, because it fronts the busiest street where most crimes normally occur. imagine if we had an police officer in Technology Cen-ter during the lockdown last semester; the situation could have been so different.

The school also should hold more safety and securi-ty workshops and education events, such as Active Shoot-er on Campus, to educate stu-dents, faculty and staff about how to protect themselves in crisis, and how to use emergency phone numbers and contacts. During those workshops, the police should explain more about the red emergency phones around campus and at the same time, set up more of those phones on campus.

For those students and fac-ulty or staffs who don’t use cell phones, payphones the solution. it is a free and in-stant phone in the emergen-cies.

Students and teachers should be enjoying an envi-ronment where they can learn and teach without any fear. Let’s keep SJCC safe.

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Lack of awareness of the Work Experi-ence Program class for San Jose City Col-lege and budget cuts are to blame for the low enrollment in the program. General Work Experience (GWE) is a program in which students can earn extra elective units for working or volunteering. In ad-dition, the instructors will arrange to meet you to discuss your career goals, career growth and review your career direction. No classroom time is required.

“I feel that I’m uninformed. There’s not enough advertisement, but I think this is a great opportunity for working people,” said Juan Medina, 21, undecided. Many students do not know of this great oppor-tunity, especially those that are working and are part-time students here.

“Your workplace is your classroom,” said Pat Space, Work Experience coordi-nator and instructor. Students must work five hours weekly of paid employment. Those that volunteer must work four hours weekly for each unit.

To get into the program, an applica-tion must be filled out then turned in at the GWE office in room 308A or via email to one of the instructors. Registration starts in April for the fall semester. For more information or to make an appointment, visit the Work Experience webpage on the San Jose City College website and see all the contact information of the instructors.

“Getting units for Work Experience can be effective if it’s well-monitored and controlled,” said Stephen Eckstone, com-munication studies professor, “It’s not very publicized.”

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Classes can be overwhelm-ing. For some students at San Jose City College, lectures are not helpful enough and questions cannot always be addressed. Pro-fessors have limited office hours and cannot reach their students.

Peer-Led Team Learning is a program that helps students with their classes and instills good study habits. PLTL is offering five new classes this semester. The need for extra help is appar-ent when looking at the many fliers for tutoring placed across the campus, said chemistry pro-fessor Madeline Adamczeski.

The students and lead-ers are in a friendly environment. Ruby Abd Latif, 21, occupational therapy major, said her students “listen to others, give different perspectives with lots of support, share notes, share knowl-edge and form study buddies.”

Abigail Villarreal, 20, nursing major, said her leader for Chem-istry 32A made studying easier. Not only was her leader helpful, but also others in the workshop were willing to help each other.

“We guide students as peers,

not as lecturers,” said David Za-rate, 25, nursing major. Students in the program’s workshops work in small groups. “We show them how to do it, and they do it them-selves,” said Phat Huynh, 21, computer science major.

The program is aimed for sci-

ence, technology, engineering and mathematics courses.

The PLTL sessions are known as workshops. Stu-dents who have passed the class from previous semesters supervise the workshops and are referred to as leaders. The leaders

know from a student perspective what topics are overlooked or are too detailed.

The leaders go through an in-tensive two-day training session between semesters. The training gives the leaders tools to facili-tate their workshops. This train-

ing also helps the leaders become more effective in communication, cooperation and understanding. By using these skills and knowl-edge, the leaders are able to help their students.

The program provides the in-centive to join by offering up to five-percent extra-credit.

For some students, by the end of the semester, the five percent is negligible. The influence helped students get a letter grade of A without the five percent boost.

PLTL was founded in the early ’90s by David K. Gosser, Jr., Di-rector of the Center for Peer-Led Team Learning at the City Col-lege of New York. The program expanded to SJCC in the summer of 1999 because of Adamczeski.

In 2010 PLTL was funded by the Metas program, which helped spread the program outside of Adamczeski’s chemistry classes and into other chemistry classes.

The additional, alternative aid of the PLTL program helps once-struggling students grasp concepts and work through the confusion.

“I needed tutoring in a sub-ject we rarely see in our daily lives,” said Julio Zaragoza, 36, nursing major, “PLTL helps connects the links between everything.”

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For years, there has been little to no way for students to discuss their faith here at San Jose City College, but a new club is looking to change that. The SJCC Inter-faith Dialogue Club has just started and is looking for new members of any faith to join.

“We have no campus ministry here; I think today an interfaith group can ful-fill that role that traditionally was just Christian or Muslim,” said Gerald Gru-zen, 71, philosophy faculty and club ad-viser, “Now we’re interacting much more across these lines to get a more globalized

world, so I think this could be an impor-tant service to the campus community.”

The club’s goal is to have students dis-cuss their faith with other students in a safe environment, free from persecution from their peers.

The only prerequisite for joining the club are an open mind and an acceptance of your fellow human beings.

“It’s not about religion it’s about us; it’s about the people,” said Omar A Fojas-Flores, 24, psychology major.

The first club meeting went off with-out a hitch, with the inaugural members quickly discussing their varied faiths in an open and kind matter.

“I’ve been in situations like this where it could be explosive, but it seems like it’s a good dy-namic so far,” said Melissa Cook, 32, psychology major.

Gruzen said he hopes other people will take part in the club and become interested in what the club is doing.

The club meets in room SC 104 from noon to 1 p.m. every other Wednesday, starting on Feb. 29.

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San Jose City College is one of 19 U.S. college campuses par-ticipating in a new program from Google known as Indoor Maps. During the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2012 adminis-tration collaborated with Google providing blueprints and building schematics to the project team at Google. Fortunately now the manual process we went through is quite automated for others. The end result is still in a beta phase with only partial campus availability. As of the publication of this is-sue interaction with several class-room and administration buildings were available but incomplete in-cluding the Student Center, Gen-eral Education, Business and Ap-plied Science Buildings. If you are interested in explor-ing this new functionality here are instructions courtesy support.goo-gle.com

Explore Indoor MapsIndoor Maps works just like reg-ular Maps. Search and see friends on Latitude the same way you would with any location in Goo-gle Maps for mobile.

View Indoor Maps1. Find an available Indoor Maps location.2. Zoom into the map until you start to see an indoor floor plan of the building.3. Use the level switcher to move from the ground floor to other available floors in the building.Depending on the data available, the map will show notable places in the building you’re currently viewing, including stores, re-strooms, food, and more. Touch any indoor location to learn more.

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BY LEAH SMITHTIMES STAFF

For international students the International Students Program at San Jose City College is a home away from home. The San Jose City Colleges International Students Program has been here for more than 25 years and was here before Student Exchange Visitor Information System. “It’s always good to have an organization like this because it’s important to know the area in which you are living and the people in your environment,” said an international student Ashutosh Dube, 25, an electrical engineering major. Dube said he likes everything the program has to offer. “My main interest is the once-a-week gatherings with other students in the program,” Dube said. “During these gatherings, the students get to know new people.” Weekly social hours provide an opportunity for internation-al students to get together, help each other with homework, cre-ate a family environment and come up with field trips. These field trips are to help them ex-plore lifestyles; they are also there

to help them feel more at home. International students are re-quired to enroll in a minimum of 12 units per semester and keep at least a 2.0 GPA. The maximum number of semesters a student may participate in the program is five semesters, but extensions may be given under certain circumstances. International Education Week is celebrated worldwide every year on Nov. 13-15. SJCC cel-ebrated the week for the first time in 2012 to inform students about different cultures and cui-sines from around the world. They also have American cul-ture events on campus to help them get to know American cul-ture and lifestyles. The program is also starting an International Stu-dents Club, and they are looking for students to join, who are inter-ested in learning about different cultures from around the world. “The people at San Jose City Col-lege’s International Students Pro-gram are very polite, welcoming, and always willing to help out,” said international student Abibat Oshiobugie, 18, a microbiology major. “It’s hard to blend in when you come from different back-ground, but they make it easier to meet new people and new friends.” The program is for students who

are here on an F-1 student visa, meaning they have the following: a valid passport, I-94 Departure/Arrival card, F-1 visa and I-20. All international students are required to have a health insurance plan. International Student Counsel-or and Coordinator Doriann Tran, 36, said, “My goal is to help the students involved in San Jose City College’s International Students Program transfer on to the univer-sities and for them to be success-ful in their careers. The students are the best part of this program, getting to know them, learn-ing their culture, and it’s fun.” The program is currently accept-ing applications for spring 2013 semester, fall semester 2013 and summer semester July 1, 2013. The deadline for spring semes-ter is Oct. 15 and the deadline for the fall semester is April 15, but the program will continue to admit students after the dead-line if there is available space. For more information: Student Center room 216J Tuesday 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m. and Thursday 10:30 p.m.-1 p.m.. Telephone: 408-288- 3751 Fax: 408-297-3924

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“This is a different place from two years ago. The amount of engagement and commitment I observed is incredible,” said John Morton, The chair of Accreditation Evaluation Team according to a summary of the team’s feedback which was sent out by Kavalier to all faculty and staff on Oct. 31, one day after the team visited the college. Associated Student Government President Mike Casass said, “I am totally delighted that this spring I will be graduated and receiving a certificate that is accredited from a fine institution.” For the last two years, Cassas had sat on various committees and was responsible for seeing that the student involvement met its alignment to satisfy the Accreditation Committee’s expectation. Back in 2010, after submitting the Self Study Report to the commission, the college was put on probation in spring 2011. The former Academic Senate President Chris Frazier was saying that “We’re failing. We’re failing seriously,” regarding the Student Learning Outcomes requirement, which “appeared to be a losing proposition.” The table has turned. “No way in the world would any of the team members who were here two years ago believe that we would be where we are today. Amazing work!” said Morton,

according to the summary of the team’s feedback. The summary said that Morton recognized that there is still some work to be done in Humanities and Social Science, but “feels confident that (SJCC) will complete all of this –‘remarkable accomplishment.’” The school is now no longer under any sanctions and this means there will be no questions or warnings about the school’s accreditation status. City College is fully accredited and supported from government funds. All the credits earned by students still can be counted and transferable to other colleges and universities. “Without accreditation, SJCC would no longer qualify for Federal Grants or Student Financial Aid through the Federal Department of Education,” said Celia Johnson-Cruz, the chair of the Accreditation Oversight Taskforce. “Without federal aid, we would lose 80 percent of our students. It is no longer the case. The commission has sent out all of its report back to all schools in February. The report is believed that it has been received by the school and should be published in public. “Having our accreditation reaffirmed can only have been possible when fueled by words like hope, aspirations, loyalty, passion and the belief that we … can overcome anything!” wrote San Jose/Evergreen Community College District Chancellor Rita Cepeda in a message from the

CAROL VASQUEZ; CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Right to left, International Student Counselor and Coordinator Doriann Tran celebrates Valentine’s Day on Feb. 13 with international students in SC216J.

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There are three more dance classes being offered at San Jose City College. The new classes are Tap Dance and Beginning and Intermediate Mexican Folk-loric Dance. Next fall there will be four levels of certain dance classes that will be offered, allowing for stu-dents to take the same type of dance class four times within their college career.

The dance program at SJCC has been made in a way that is suitable for all dance levels, from people who are beginners to people who have been dancing for many years. The Dance De-partment will hold a dance production in the SJCC Theatre on May 2, 3, and 4, at 8 p.m.

at the end of last season. She has taken three semesters of hip-hop dance at SJCC, and has performed twice in the SJCC Dance Concert, which is held once every semester.

“I try to put in at least one dance class a semester because that is the way that I relieve stress from hav-ing to sit in classes three to four hours a day,” she said, “ and that’s what I look forward to at the end of the day.”

Martinez said she is enthusiastic and hopeful about this upcoming season. She plans to run things differently than last season and is dedicated to getting this dance team off the ground.

The Roar’s vice president, Hei-di Garcia, 18, business major, and Treasurer Jennifer Thom, 20, busi-ness and communications major have come back with Martinez from last season. They have been proactive this semester by setting up advertising posters all over the campus in hopes of finding new recruits.

The Roar already has some performances booked. They have been invited to perform at the Cosmetology Hair Show and the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Azatlan Low-rider Show in April. They plan to do hip-hop and jazz style dances at their shows but are open to ideas from their team-mates.

At the preliminary auditions,

Princella Woods, 29, liberal arts major, said she wants to be a part of The Roar dance team because, “I’m trying to come out of my shell and stay focused.”

The preliminary auditions were held on Feb. 5, and they had a turn-out of nine people, seven girls and two guys. Official auditions were held on Feb. 14. The students who came to inquire about the dance team at the preliminary audition said they are excited about joining The Roar.

Business major Jazzmin Ramirez, 20, said she wants to join the team “to show school spirit and make new friends.”

Martinez says that the reason she is so motivated to get this dance team going and off the ground is

to create school spirit and to create a place where SJCC students who want to dance can perform.

“I’m trying really hard to get this dance team going so that even after I graduate this will still be here, and that it can be a legacy to leave,” she said, “so that other dancers will want to come to this school be-cause they know we have a really good dance team and that we have dance programs.”

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Seth Gordon makes yet anoth-er appalling comedy with his lat-est film “Identity Thief.”

It took 40 minutes for the plot to be explained so that you’ll care about what is happening to Jason Bateman’s character, Sandy. His character, who has had his identi-ty stolen by Melissa McCarthy’s character, Diana, isn’t developed. The sarcastic Sandy has to travel across the country, and capture Diana in order to clear his name.

He doesn’t have much of a character arc. Any change his

character does have has to be summed up for you at the end. At this point in the movie a curveball is thrown at you by saying Sandy’s character is not assertive. This does not make any sense since he roams across the United States to capture and bring back a criminal stranger.

It was nice to see a leading lady who doesn’t look like a run-way model, and McCarthy gives an enjoyable performance in her first blockbuster leading role. Half of the funniest parts come when she is on screen. While her character does have an arc, it’s obvious, you will know what is going to happen.

A few of the jokes are those staples of lazily written comedy movies, such as the legendary

semi truck that smashes into the character’s car without warning and drives off without stopping. This film had the same feel as Gordon’s other comedies, “Four Christmases” and “Horrible Bosses.”

Overall the acting wasn’t dreadful. It is the dialogue that needed work and the develop-ment of the plot. The music set the mood, and the wardrobe cap-tured the essence of the charac-ters. If you’re still itching to see this movie, wait for it to come out on Redbox; you’ll save some money.

“Identity Thief” gets 2 stars out of five.

Jokes with no substance

‘Identity Thief’ also steals your time

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Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 Sports 7 Sports Column

BY PATRICK LOERATIMES STAFF

At the end of 2012, the basket-ball season started well at San Jose City College as both the men’s and women’s teams looked like contenders to make the playoffs.

The thoughts of playoffs quick-ly become mirages once confer-ence games began in 2013.

To put it in perspective, Speed City won the Tipoff Tournament in November to start the season, lost four straight following the Thanksgiving theft incident and then bounced back to win eight straight games, including the SJCC Classic and Hancock tour-naments.

Speed City shot more than 40 percent in 10 out of 15 games in 2012 to go undefeated at home with 11 wins, four losses and playoffs looking imminent.

Since conference games have begun, Speed City finds itself in fourth place in the Coast Confer-ence-South with four wins and four losses.

Part of the reason is because they have shot over 40 percent from the field just once in the past eight conference games.

The Lady Jags, on the other hand, were having trouble finding their rhythm in 2012 as players got injured early in the season, and there were only four games where they shot higher than 40 percent.

This left the bench minimal

time to rest and caused them to end 2012 with six wins, 9 losses and playoffs looking unobtain-able.

Since conference games have begun, they find themselves in the same position as Speed City: four wins, four loses and in fourth place in the Coast Conference-South.

In contrast to Speed City, the Lady Jags shot more than 40 per-cent six out of eight conference games.

Now that conference play is well under way and the season is nearly over, playoff chances are looking dim but not out of sight.

Luckily, teams can also make the playoffs with a positive over-all Rating Percentage Index.

Basically, the RPI gives both teams another chance of making the playoffs based on the difficult schedule even if they have had an evenhanded record during confer-ence games

With this in mind, Speed City should make the playoffs without a problem assuming they don’t throw the rest of the season away with careless play. But the Lady Jags may have to win three out of four games to make the postsea-son jump.

In any event, both teams will have to improve drastically on defense and offense as conference games come to an end and the postseason either becomes a fore-gone conclusion or next season’s wishful thinking.

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drove me more to prove them wrong,” Cruz said.

“I was flabbergasted when I got some of these emails. She is as strong as any man I have ever met in my entire life,” Vance said as he describes last year’s State incident in which Cruz broke a pole going 150 mph during warm-ups and that left a contu-sion on her knee the size of a golf ball.

Despite the injury, Cruz went on to win the State title.

As a female pole vaulter, Cruz has not only broken records, but broken barriers and status quos that tried to thwart her efforts in being a pole vaulter in Puerto Rico.

“They start jumping later in life. They start in college be-cause it is not available in high school,” Cruz said as she retells her efforts to find a college pole vaulting coach in Puerto Rico.

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male pole vaulters are seen and treated is a passion of hers, she said she wishes to one day make it to the Olympics to represent her country.

“I know she definitely has the goal of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio to compete for Puerto Rico,” said friend and fellow pole vaulter Emily Soley, 19, bio-medical engineering major.

“I wanted to inspire some kind of change,” Cruz said. “I want to show the girls that it is possible.”

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Softball1/29 Reedley L, 6-02/1 Cosumnes River W, 10-42/2 at Siskiyous W, 14-02/2 West Valley at MPC L, 12-7 (4 innings)2/9 Modest W, 11-32/9 Taft W, 12-4

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Through this process you will experience an increase in your network of friends who will get to know you. You will build new friends and share real life experiences that may actually be of value to the stu-dent you are standing next to. They face the same plea-sures, pains and fears.

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have participated in this first article have shown themselves to be brave, willing to expose their hearts, and soul. These students want to become bold, and ethical leaders of the fu-ture. They want to be part of a world where no one is left out. These students have just demonstrated their trust in all of you…by speaking their truths.

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Toni RoybalMajor: NursingAge: 26I would gather all the food I can and hide for a while.

Robert ThomasPosition: Student Am-bassadorAge: 42I would go to KFC and eat all the coleslaw I could.

Isaac MersburghMajor: BusinessAge: 18I would gather a bunch of weapons and ammunition, go to a high rise and block off all the doors.

Alissa GonzalesMajor: CosmetologyAge: 19I would find the nearest object that can bash their heads in, and stay with my family.

Sala IfuetaMajor: Computer GraphicsAge: 19I would take all the ice cream from Coldstone, take some recess, then dress up as a zombie and eat them.

Mike OsborneMajor: PsychologyAge: 20I would go to Bass Pro Shops and take all the ammunition I can find. I would be strapped out like Rambo.

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Items are selected from the Santa Clara County Police logs at crimereports.com

COMPILEd By ASTRId CABALLEROTimes Staff

• A stolen vehicle was recovered on the 700 Block Menker Avenue on Feb. 13 at 9:08 a.m.

• A gang related battery occurred on the 700 Block South Bascom Avenue on Feb. 13 at 6:18 p.m.

• A domestic disturbance occurred on the 800 Block Enborg Court on Feb. 13 at 12:10 p.m.

• An assault and battery occurred at South Bas-com Avenue on Feb. 12 at 8:20 p.m.

• A theft occurred at South Bascom Avenue on Feb. 11 at 9:05 p.m.

• A stolen vehicle was recovered at Del Mar Avenue and Marlboro Court on Feb. 11 at 8:38 p.m.

• An assault and battery occurred at South Bas-com Avenue on Feb. 10 at 1:14 a.m.

• A vehicle was stolen on the 700 Block of Men-ker Avenue on Feb. 9 at 12:07 p.m.

• A domestic disturbance occurred on the 700 Block South Bascom Avenue on Feb. 8 at 10:04 p.m.

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Thursday, February 21• Vietnamese Student

Association will con-duct a Financial Aid Workshop primarily in Vietnamese. Arranged to help students under-stand the changes in Fi-nancial Aid and student loan policies. It is open to all current and future SJCC students. It will be held in the Science Building, room S204, at 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 24-Tuesday, February 26• Last day to submit

Pass/No Pass forms to Admissions and Re-cords in the Student Center.

Monday, February 25-Tuesday, February 26• The dedication to

Black Heritage Month will be held at the Stu-dent Center at 3:30 p.m. and there will be some performances.

Thursday, February 28• Mel Mason, an orig-

inal member of the Black Panther Party, will speak in the Per-forming Arts Theater at 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Friday, March 1• Degree/Certification

Petitions for Spring/Summer 2013 due to Admissions and Re-cords in the Student Center.

Monday, March 4• March in March will

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