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Volume 175, Number 4 Oct. 17, 2011

CSM’s Electrical department has been awarded a $450,000 grant in order to revamp the technology department’s curriculum to in-clude the new Electrical Pathways program.

Within the past 10 years the technology industry has drastically shifted its hiring requirements for employees. Many jobs in the US have disappeared due to companies going overseas.

Now, most jobs in the industry have a main focus on utilities and require students to be “hands-on” experts.

Professor Steve Gonzales of the electrical department has seen the problems involved in the change.

“Industries have gone oversea or dried up,” said Gonzales. “A shift to

“Most top positions are baby boom-ers close to retirement.”

About 30,000 employees work for the company with 3,000 close to leaving due to retirement. Many other companies face this problem emphasizing how much the pro-gram, Electrical Pathways, needs to be used.

The grant has been used to build a new classroom and lab. With this, classroom 100 was built for electronics and lab 24 was rebuilt.

“We’re still in the phase of grow-ing enrollment,” said Gonzales. “Our main focus is getting daytime classes.”

In the past, the departments student enrollment was at an all time high. During the “boom” of manufacturing there was one whole department with it’s own dean. Now there are only 11 programs with night time classes dominating the

Student Senate votes to amendremoval process

ASCSM senators voted to pass a change to the language of existing bylaws in the constitution concern-ing impeachment and removal processes at the Oct. 10 meeting.

The changes made regard the ability of the senate to impeach or remove members of the student government.

“Even though the bylaws say you can (remove someone), there was no process in place,” said ASCSM adviser Aaron Schafer at the meeting.

“We’re replacing four sentences with an actual process,” he said.

Attention to the lack of a process was brought to the senate in the spring semester when complica-tions with an attempted impeach-ment of President Vivian Abellana arose. “It was clear that there was no process,” said Schafer.

To avoid future impediments of senate function that could result from similar situations, a consti-tutional revision committee was formed months ago, according to ASCSM Vice President Daniella Mediero.

The committee is rewriting the entire constitution and bylaws, according to Schafer.

The committee met several times over the summer and has already started work on revising ASCSM’s constitution. “We just started writ-ing it, so we only have a few pages,” said Medeiro. “The big change so far was the addition of the impeach-ment process.”

The committee plans to change the way the senate works, according to Medeiro. “We want to reorganize the structure of committees to make

From left to right: Alex Kettler, Jessica Miani, Katie McLalan, Desenia Gomez, Rebecca Taff, Tara Brown, Kristie Gile and Cherice Breckenridge featured with trophies from the event.

utilities requires a technician with more variety.”

When working in the industry, Gonzales was one of the few able to be flexible in his field.

“Now, we have a demand for electrical-mechanical rather than just electronic,” Gonzales elabo-rated.

A grant to get a curriculum for these new growing jobs was pro-posed by Kathleen Ross, Dean of Technology.

She said she saw the potential in asking utilities to provide the school in grants while the colleges weren’t able to provide.

Getting past this task, she got the department the half million it needed through PG and E. As a leader in utilities, it was important to acquire the grant from them.

“People who work for utilities stay for a long time,” said Ross.

CSM’s cosmetology students competed in a statewide, annual student competition with 55 other schools in Santa Cruz Oct. 9.

“I think all of these events inspire the students to be more creative and to work as a team,” said associate professor Andria Nalls.

On the first team, Katie McLalan, placed first in the makeup category. Joining McLalan, her teammates also produced wins with Jessica Miani styling hair, Desenia Gomez

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designing nails and Alex Kettler placed first for modeling. The team took second place overall.

“Our costumes were over the top,” said McLalan.

In the second group, participants Rebecca Taff, Tara Brown, Cherice Breckenridge and Kristie Gile.

“The competition was long and painful,” said Gile.

Taff took first place for hair styling and Gile won first place for modeling.

The team took third place in “total overall look.”

“The makeup itself took an hour

Photo courtesy of Becky Boosalis

and a half to remove”, said Taff.“I thought the competition was

fun and a challenge,” said McLalan. “It was stressful getting ready, but it paid off with us winning.”

The cosmetology department provides the training and experi-ence at a collegial level and prepares students to take the California State Board of Barbering and Cosmetic exam for licensing as a cosme-tologist.

“It leads to a great career, and there are different opportunities and career choices,” said associate professor Becky Boosalis.

schedule.“The curriculum use to operate

6 days a week,” said Ross. “Less full-time students are enrolled. Most are part-time graduates who need to get re-certified.”

The focus of restructuring the curriculum is to create more classes with 50 percent lab and 50 percent lecture to increase interest and versatility.

“The redesigning of classes will be less digital and more analog teaching,” said Gonzales. “The goal it’s to change that much but to make it broad enough for understanding specifics to get a utilities range.”

In order to reach targeted enroll-ment numbers, outreach programs will be implemented to inform high school students and others who may be interested in the classes.

Cosmetology wins statewide awards

Erasmo MartinezThe San Matean

CSM’s Paige Ramstack (right) defends a pass from DeAnza’s Amanda McLeod in a water polo match Oct. 12. The Bulldogs defeated the Dons 18-1 in an afternoon matchup at CSM’s Building 8 pool. They are vying for a spot in the NorCal regionals. Story on page 7.

Lady ‘Dogs strong on defensePhoto by Shaun Carmody of The San Matean

Jeffery GonzalezThe San Matean

Veterancontinues battle in the ringSee page 5

Broadcastingstudentsawarded grantsSee page 5

Many studentsunaware ofhealth feesSee page 3

See “Policy” on page 6 See “Pathways” on page 2

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Notre Dame de Namur University Campus VisitMonday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Building 10, Dining Area

Golden Gate University Campus VisitTuesday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.Building 10, Dining Area

Meet the AmbassadorsTuesday, Oct. 18, 1:30 to 3 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 468

University of California, Davis Campus VisitWednesday, Oct. 19, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 340C

UC Applications Focus GroupWednesday, Oct. 19, 1 to 2:30 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 191

UC Application and Personal Statement WorkshopWednesday, Oct. 19, 1:10 to 2:30 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 191

Counseling WorkshopWednesday, Oct. 19, 4:30 to 7 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 191

Counseling WorkshopTuesday, Oct. 25, 9 to 11:30 a.m.Bldg. 10, Room 191

Study Abroad — Florence, Italy 2012Information meetingTuesday, Oct. 25, 6 to 7:30 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 310

Academy of Art University Campus VisitWednesday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Building 10, Dining Area

DSPS Open HouseWednesday, Oct. 26, 2 to 4 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 120

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SPORTS

CSM Water Polo vs. Foothill CollegeWednesday, Oct. 19, 3:30 p.m.Building 5, Swimming Pool

CSM Water Polo vs. West Valley CollegeFriday, Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m.Building 5, Swimming Pool

CSM Football vs. Foothill CollegeSaturday, Oct. 22, 1 p.m.Foothill College

CSM Water Polo vs. Ohlone CollegeFriday, Oct. 28, 3:30 p.m.Ohlone College

CSM Water Polo vs. Santa RosaSaturday, Oct. 29, 12 p.m.Santa Rosa Junior College

CSM Football vs. San Francisco City CollegeSaturday, Oct. 29, 1 p.m.Football Field

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page-by-page and created a road map document,” said Madden. “We used this opportunity to analyze what we have in here.”

“I think it’s a great idea,” said

Campus Blotter John Wells has not reported any incidents to The San Matean within the last two weeks.

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CSM changed the layout of class schedule from its former magazine style to a newspaper format.

Director of college business development, Beverly Madden presented the new class schedule layout at the Monday, Oct. 10 Student Senate meeting.

Madden and visual coordinator, David McLain, started working on this new layout about two years ago.

“This is a way to put $50 thousand back into the pocket of CSM every year,” said Madden.

Madden presented this idea and five others to save money for CSM to the vice president and president of CSM, and out of all of them the newspaper catalog was the one they chose.

“I audited the previous catalog

Spring schedule changes

Senator Melanie Medeiro. “What we saw was a draft, but even that looked good.”

The schedule is to be delivered to departments this week.

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CorreCtion An article in the Oct. 3 issue of The San Matean, titled “SLOs: ‘Kind of like the road to hell’” was missing the quote referenced in the headline. The San Matean regrets the error.

Cañada College was awarded $1.1 million on Sept. 30, as part of a nationwide grant to aid Latino students in 34 community colleges.

A total of $37 million worth of grants were awarded from the U.S. Department of Education.

Approximately 40 percent of students at Cañada College are of Latino decent, said Amelito G. Enriquez, project director of the California Alliance for the Long-term Strengthening of Transfer En-

$1.1 million grant for Cañada

gineering Programs (CALSTEP).“The project aims to maximize

the likelihood of success among underrepresented and educationally disadvantaged students interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields,” said Enriquez.

CALSTEP, the title of Cañada College’s new grant, is funded through the U.S. Department of Education.

“It utilizes a multi-focused ap-proach to increasing the interest, participation, retention, and success of students from traditionally un-derrepresented groups in STEM,” said Enriquez.

The funding from the grant is not given directly to students, but will primarily be used for facilities and improving the resources available to students.

“For the U.S. Department of Education HSI STEM grant pro-gram, the funds are to be used in strengthening the institution and its academic programs,” said Enriquez, who is also a professor of mathematics and engineering at Cañada College.

“It addresses the main barriers to the retention and success of under-prepared students through a combi-nation of intensive preparation for college-level work, multiple entry points and accelerated pathways for students into STEM education, and previously proven academic support strategies,” said Enriquez.

The project aims to also strength-en community college programs, such as engineering, to stabilize transfers to four-year engineering programs.

“I’m impressed that they’re giving Latino students this money going towards their education,” said Alice Lopez, Vice President of To-dos Unidos, a Latino club at CSM.

Lopez added that with the recent pass of the Dream Act, these initia-tives will “open doors” for Latino students.

Illustration by Ciara Cooksey of The San Matean

CSM’s class schedule will change from magazine to newspaper format in 2012.

Illustration by Ciara Cooksey of The San MateanColleges with at least 25 percent Hispanic population awarded grant.

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Continued from Page 1Pathways

teaching,” said Gonzales. “The goal it’s to change that much but to make it broad enough for under-standing specifics to get a utilities range.”

In order to reach targeted enroll-ment numbers, outreach programs will be implemented to inform those interested in the classes.

PG and E’s Interim Director and Workforce Sustainability, Mario Rendon, has been greatly involved in organization of programs to get

CSM a member of the Power Pathway Engineering and Smart Grid Training Network to boost enrollment.

“At PG and E we are com-mitted to building a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve,” he said. “We value training programs that can attract a diverse a pool of students/candidates.”

These programs contributed to curriculum changes as well.

“Time has been used to review and revise courses,” Rendon ex-

plained. “Students will be confident that the training they receive will be relevant and marketable.”

The program now has 240 stu-dents enrolled, with 34 graduates. Many have moved to working for high industry companies; six gradu-ates have landed jobs at companies such as Tesla.

At the time of writing, the Elec-trical Pathways Program does not offer an A.S. degree. Next fall the program is planning to have a 19 unit certificate giving the Electrical Pathways Program higher accessi-

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A poster outside of Building 18 promoting the GSA club meetings was torn down and vandalized by an unknown perpetrator. It was kicked in and had several tears, said GSA club adviser Fauzi Hamadeh.

“Some people didn’t like to see the word ‘gay’ so big. They don’t like the word,” said Hamadeh. “I think it’s sad we still have people so uncomfortable with people being who they are.”

GSA club banner vandalized: ‘Won’t stop us’The poster was wrecked in be-

tween passing periods of classes. Members reported seeing the sign in good condition just before noon, then seeing it defaced at around 12:15 p.m., according to Hamadeh.

“It wasn’t windy that day,” said Hamadeh. “It was the only poster ruined.”

Other campus clubs have re-ported that their fliers, too, have been taken down. Those incidents Hamadeh credits to people who didn’t know the billboard posting policies and were just trying to

clean.“GSA is the only club that has

been specifically targeted,” said Hamadeh.

Chief Public Safety Officer John Wells recalls a similar incident that happened last year. On billboards full of fliers, the GSA club fliers were the only ones that began to disappear over some weeks.

To catch the perpetrator, Wells planted a GSA flier right beneath a security camera and when the advertisement disappeared, he went to the tapes and caught the vandal.

CSM charges a mandatory $17 health fee per semester, but many students still do not know what this fee offers them.

A random sampling of 100 stu-dents were asked if they were aware of what they were gaining from this health fee.

This sample of students ranged from new to returning CSM stu-dents, ages from 17 to 38.

57 percent of students were un-aware of the fee and what services come with it.

Students are able to drop in or make an appointment at their conve-nience to take advantage of “basic” services that range from first aid to psychological counseling.

Although not listed online, students are able to get unlimited psychological counseling which is covered by the fee.

The counseling services are lo-cated in the Health Building.

The Health Service Center is in the process of moving from Room 226 to 117 in Building 1. The move

Cañada grant revamps engineering

will allocate the entire Health Services Center to the first floor of Building 1.

To inform students of their new location, the Health Center will hold an open house on Oct. 25 and 26.

The Health Service Center also offers additional services that are available for a nominal fee.

The poll informed many students that they have health care privileges which are included with student fees.

“Students often don’t pay at-tention to fees they pay.” said Sharon Bartels, Health Services Coordinator.

“I know a student who’s been here

for four years and just discovered we were here,” said Bartels.

“I had no idea that I paid for that, there is nothing posted on WebSMART about the fee when you pay for your semester,” said student Brandon Savage, 19.

Some students are conscious of the fee they pay, yet they still remain uninformed about what they are able to obtain.

“I know I pay for the health fee, but I have no idea where the Health Center is located or what the Health Center provides,” said student Dana Matthews, 21. “There is nothing posted anywhere around campus about it. It’s frustrating.”

Some students expressed apathy when approached about the Health Center by The San Matean.

“I don’t know that fee,” said student Tori Galanakis, 19. “I could get a cute top or pay my gym bill.”

The Health Center is currently offering $10 flu shots, and there will be a blood drive in Nov.

To contact the center for services the number is (650) 574-6396. They are now located on the first floor of Building 1, Monday through Thursdays from 9 a.m to 6 p.m.

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Health services ignored by some

The offender was dealt with by Vice-President Jennifer Hughes and the consequences for the actions remain confidential, said Wells.

This recent incident and the flier bandit from last year are the first acts seen against the GSA in ten years, said Wells.

“It’s too bad people do that,” he said. “(Taking down a flier) is not going to change anything.”

Student Alex Simon said he was saddened that things like this still occur.Posters, he said, can bring a certain amount of hate.

“It was an act of discontent. It was someone saying, ‘I’m not happy. I’m taking matters into my own hands,’” said Simon. “I hope it’s just one person.”

Although events similar to the poster incident have occured be-fore, there continues to be public outcry.

“I’m proud of how the GSA and the student body handled it. They were not afraid to address it,” said Hamadeh. “There is an LGBT community, and taking down a flier won’t stop us.”

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Cañada College was awarded a $6 million grant on Sept. 23 to strengthen ties between community college engineering programs and four year institutions.

The announcement for the grant was made in March and contenders were given an April deadline.

The general purpose of the grant is to strengthen the transfer pipeline, a connection between community colleges and four year institutions.

To strengthen the engineering pipeline, Cañada engineering professor Amelito Enriquez will employ a series of outreach efforts to high schools, community col-leges and middle schools.

Grant funds will also go to pro-vide academic support to current

Graphic by Yasmine Mahmoud of The San Most CSM students unaware of fees.

community colleges. Programs such as Math Jam will help stu-dents prepare for placement tests and classes.

Cañada will also begin to pro-vide supplemental instruction for courses such as physics. Success-ful students will help teachers and students in and out of the classroom. This will be a program similar to teacher-assistant.He hopes to develop accelerated math courses in the near future, said Enriquez.

This is an effort to address a com-mon problem students interested in science, technology, engineer-ing and math careers face. Many students coming into those fields are turned off by the all of the math requirements and back out.

“They see it as too long of a career path,” said Enriquez.

Since many subjects within math

courses overlap with each other, it only makes sense to integrate the classes and help these STEM students, said Enriquez.

One of Enriquez’s stated goals of what will be accomplished with the grant is to increase minority enrollment in the engineering field.

“We found that placement test scores that are low are most common among minorities,” said Enriquez.

“Math and science are not stressed to them during high school at home or at school,” he said.

Minority students usually come from low performance schools and are not prepared when they go into college, according to Enriquez.

With programs such as Math Jam, which is a two week educational supplement which emphasizes the importance of study and retention,

students can score higher in place-ment tests.

Another problem engineering majors face that Enriquez observed was the lack of consistency of UC requirements between four-year institutions.

“Four year institutions, they think about enhancing their curriculum, but they’re not thinking about com-munity colleges,” said Enriquez.

UCs require students who want to get into their programs to take specific specialized classes.

UC Berkeley may require stu-dents to take Sensors and Data Transmission but no other col-leges do.

Fiona Doyle, professor of mineral engineering at UC Berkeley, was not available for comment.

Therefore a community college would have to provide an entire

course to satisfy the needs of four students.

“They require classes community colleges can’t afford to offer,” he said. “I’m not going to design a class just to satisfy Berkeley.”

Enriquez is the only engineer-ing professor at Cañada and many students go to him when they run into these problems.

“I see the difficult choices stu-dents have to make, like which classes are the most practical to take,” he said.

The grant will be used to try and develop a curriculum that will satisfy as many UCs and CSUs as possible.

“I want students who don’t have a strong background in math and science to still see a doable path to engineering, to see an achievable career path,” said Enriquez.

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CSM professor Timothy Max-well was admitted into fellowship that is part of Stanford’s Human Rights Education Initiative.

The initiative teaches human rights at the community college level is geared to spread a cur-riculum being developed by the fellowship.

Certain programs came together to offer community college profes-sors the opportunity to speak at a June conference titled “Human Rights in a Global Context,” said Maxwell. The fellows are granted access to Stanford’s resources.

Professors of different disciplines came together to set up a website to develop curriculum for community colleges statewide. For now the fo-cus remains on establishing a foun-dation in the state, said Maxwell.

Maxwell received an email invite to attend a Stanford conference last June and the follow up invitation was sent to Maxwell, as well as others, to join the fellowship. He applied and was informed he was one of eight who were admitted into the fellowship.

Maxwell was asked to do a pre-sentation of what he was doing in

his classes at the conference.Maxwell calls his project the

Manifestation Project. It’s a project meant to make students go from reflecting on themselves to think-ing about how they could make a difference. “How could you make the world a just place?” he asks his students. Emphasis is put on the power of collaboration and research to reach a consensus.

The students move through steps to formulate a coherent argument and then manifesting the idea to a public audience. It is meant to create awareness, according to Maxwell. He continues to do the Manifestation Project in his English 100 classes.

Maxwell is also an advisor to Al-pha Gamma Sigma, one of CSM’s honor societies. He is encourag-ing the Human Rights Committee within the club to move in a similar direction.

Because of Maxwell, AGS changed its Political Action com-mittee to the Human Rights Com-mittee, said AGS communications director Grace Noland. “The name Political Action committee was too harsh. It used to deter people,” she said.

Noland said that the club is trying to make the Human Rights Com-

mittee an edu-cational group. With the help of Maxwell and the implementation of his philosophy the group is stress-ing refinement of research and pro-

cess before they move towards any actions. “People think you have to act immediately, but it’s not as effective as if you planned it out,” said Noland.

New to Maxwell’s Manifestation Project is the use of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a United Nations document which is being promoted by Stanford.

“The Manifestation Project is very much student based. It’s their approach to something they learn about by themselves,” he said.

Instead of imposing facts and trying to force people to feel some-thing, Maxwell said, let the students discover the facts and let them de-velop the ability to feel outrage on behalf of others, and even on their own behalf. Stanford was interested in his approach.

The fellowship had a meeting in August so the fellows could meet. Maxwell is one of two curricular fellows in charge of establishing a

Tim Maxwell

curriculum of human rights focused lesson plans.

He and the fellowship are work-ing to develop the Manifestation Project and adapt it to classes across the curriculum.

They are working on defining and refining an eight step process, from the first step of self-reflection to the last step of activism.

The fellowship has expressed interest in creating a contest or showcase for student projects.

This is a statewide human rights project. The website being estab-lished by the fellowship will be used to have different instructors submit a variety of approaches and lesson plans to complete the eight step plan.

The curriculum will not be imposed or enforced, it will be a resource that professors across the state could use, according to Maxwell.

“It departs from human rights teaching material in that it doesn’t highlight a human rights violation, it presents a process to move teach-ers and students towards empathy, sympathy, and understanding and action in support of human rights,” said Maxwell.

His nonpartisan activism is as a teacher, he said. Maxwell encour-

ages others more than anything, though he does not condone the transmission of agenda from teacher to student. “If you just give students an idea and send them off, you just make them soldiers of your agenda and that’s not what my aim is,” he said.

Maxwell voiced his concern on society’s mild apathy. “There is surprisingly little outrage in our community,” he said. Everyone is insulated from unpleasantness and facts by their world of text messag-ing and computers, said Maxwell.

While Maxwell acknowledges these technologies as potential tools to motivate people, he agrees with author Malcolm Gladwell when he said that real change only happens with real organization that results in real activism, not just a click of a mouse.

“That’s what the eight steps are for. To establish reason and strategy. “We move too quickly from frustra-tion to action. It’s ineffective and dangerous,” said Maxwell.

“Clubs are a great way for stu-dents to congregate and start being active,” he said.

Maxwell also encourages faculty to approach him on methods of adapting and incorporating human rights into lesson plans.

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Broadcast students honored

Two CSM students were awarded with the 2011 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences scholarship.

The scholarship recognizes Ma-rio Ayala, 40, and Alex King, 22, for outstanding work in broadcasting at KCSM.

Ayala, a full-time photographer and student was awarded $3,000.

“It came in the right time and it gave me the strength to continue studying,” said Ayala, who immi-grated from Mexico 10 years ago.

Since then Ayala has been pur-suing his dream of becoming a producer. Married and a father of a 10-year-old daughter, he plans to transfer to SFSU in 2013.

He won two other scholarships: the Anne Marquat Scholarship and

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the Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Trowbridge Scholarship.

“Last semester I received an award of the third place in video news in California State,” said Ayala, who was video editor for The San Matean in fall 2010.

He shot and edit-ed award winning f o o t a g e of the San Bruno Pipeline Fire on Sept. 9, 2010.

The NATAS scholarship was the first one that King received. King was awarded $2,000.

“I won a Gold Remi for my first documentary: ‘Born To Be Our Children—Romanian Adoption

Stories’ about how adoptions are needed in Romania,” said King.

King faced many difficulties in his life as a child in Romania, but American parents adopted him in

1994. “I was six

years old and just 28-and-a - h a l f p o u n d s , ” said King.

Though he had a learn-ing disability

and faced bul-lying in school, nothing stopped him from turning his life around and becoming a student with willpower to one day pursue producing.

King has his own business, where he edits and produces videos. He has done TV shows, commercials and profiles.

Alex King Mario Ayala

His website, www.akingproduc-tion.com, showcases his work.

King is also planning to transfer to SFSU.

“I want to do a lot more hands-on, do something new and be well known as a director of photogra-phy,” said King. “I want to work for the History Channel or Discovery Channel and I am not stopping until I get there.”

Ayala and King emphasized the support that Michelle Brown, a professor in the digital media department, gave them.

“I told them about the scholar-ships and wrote both of their letters of recommendation,” said Brown.

“They are certainly deserving, so we are very excited,” said Brown who teaches broadcasting.

NATAS has recognized and helped new talents in television practices since 2002.

National StudentDay full of hope

Students finally got their day on Thursday, Oct. 6, sponsored by the National Association of College Stores.

National Student Day was organized and sponsored by the NACS. They plan to make it an annual event.

“It’s not an actual ‘event’ event,” said CSM bookstore manager James Peacock. “It’s a celebration.”

The event reached students vicariously through the estimated 562 college bookstores that are members of NACS.

“It’s a celebration of not just stu-dents in general, but those that go above and beyond,” said Peacock.

The National Student Day was established to highlight and cel-ebrate those students that give back to the community or their families and want to share their story, said Peacock.

“We didn’t put a lot of thought in to planning it,” said Peacock. ”Next time we want to get more clubs involved.”

To promote the contest, the CSM bookstore gave out free popcorn and wristbands in the College Center to get students to “turn their heads” and become aware of the event.

“We have no expectations,” said Peacock. “Just hopes.”

NACS announced the event to the public Sept. 7.

Students then had to write their stories and submit them to the the National Student Day website by the Oct. 6 deadline, said Charles Schmidt, NACS director of public relations.

After the students’ stories were submitted, other students who reg-istered could vote for their favorite stories.

The 10 stories with the most votes by Oct. 14 will win a variety of prizes, said Schmidt.The top three spots will win scholarships.

First place will win a $3,000 scholarship, the second place will win a $2,000 scholarship and the third place story will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship.

The other seven runner-ups will be given iPads, said Peacock.Students entered the contest and selected the winning submissions.

“We provide the forum, the stu-dents do the rest,” said Peacock.

The winners will be announced Oct. 20 on the National Student Day website, the NSD Facebook page and via a press release, said Schmidt.

“For years, college students have been volunteering across their campus community and beyond,” said Schmidt.

“From cleaning up a local park to serving as a big brother or big sister, they have taken time out of their busy schedules to perform selfless acts without seeking recognition,” he said.

“We created National Student Day to not only thank students for their work but also showcase their work on a national level,” said Schmidt.

Jeffery GonzalezThe San Matean

Science mural livens up Building 16

The glass mosaic mural with designs of jelly fishes, cell patterns and sea anemones was originally planned for installation in Building

Larisse Borelli The San Matean

36 but a series of events have caused it to be to hung in Building 16.

The glass mosaic was made by second semester students two and a half years ago in Art 246 Mosaic Mural II as a public group mural, said art professor Jude Pittman.

Photo by of David SharpeThe San Matean

The mural is located on the wall above the Building 16 main stairway. It was originally intended to go up in Building 36.

There were five revisions and the final revised policy was 12 pages long.

Because the new buildings, such as Building 5, 10 and 36 were built differently and have steel frames, the mural could not be hung up in any of those buildings.

“Although the mosaic was meant for the Science building, I think the location is great because more people are seeing it,” said student Katerina Panebianco, 20.

Meanwhile,because buildings such as 14, 16, and 18 were built with solid cement, the students chose to place the mural in the more secure Building 16, a high-traffic area so that more people could see it.

“We’re not complaining,” said Pittman. “We’re happy that it’s in Building 16. A lot of people see it.”

The mosaic mural is in the process of getting a plaque and dedication.

The group consisted of four advanced students, Gail Mintzz, Gail Strack, Lawan Jackson and Deborah Webster. The mural was scheduled to be the first of three murals to be placed in the Science Building.

The students approached the architecture office with their plans and spoke. The students talked to Charlene Frontiera, Dean of Math and Sciences as well as other professors to come up with the science-inspired design.

“It was a labor of love,” said Pittman of the project.

The mural was set to be placed in Building 36, but at the time CSM public art policy was outdated, and had to be rewritten.

The Campus Public Art Com-mittee rewrote the policy and the revisions were passed by the Col-lege Council which includes the President and Vice President.

Mario Ayala and Alex King awarded scholarships for excellence in media

Veteran enters the ring As “The Veteran”, student vet-

eran Mike Lafors enters the ring, a daunting task to some, but to Lafors, nothing compared to his previous arena of combat: the Iraqi desert.

Lafors, a lifelong fan of profes-sional wrestling, always aspired to one day enter the ring as a pro, he said. He trained in multiple sports as a youth, including several mar-tial arts, to improve his skills in wrestling.

“Every sport I’ve ever started was in preparation for pro wrestling,” said Lafors, 32.

Despite his dedication to the sport, his start in the ring came abruptly. At an event in Columbus, Georgia, then 26-year-old Lafors was spotted practicing round-offs, a common gymnastics move, while waiting for tickets. Event security approached him and took down his information.

“I was led down a dark hallway, where I saw a 6-foot-6 platinum blond 50-year-old, bleeding heavily from his forehead,” said Lafors. “He asked me if I wanted to wrestle, I said, ‘All my life.’”

Since that fateful day, the 5-foot-

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Photo courtesy of Mike Lafors

Mike Lafors saluting in his wrestling garb. Lafors served in Iraq.

10-inch, 250-pound Lafors has wrestled the likes of indie wrestling greats Koko B. Ware and Super Diablo, ventures that are not easy on the body.

“Throw yourself to the ground 20 to 30 times,” said Lafors. “Imagine a 300-pound man in tights hitting you as hard as he can.”

Outside of his wrestling activi-ties, Lafors, a founding member in Veteran-Student Alliance and vet-eran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, is very active in veteran’s affairs at CSM. Some of his efforts on behalf of student veterans include speak-ing in front of the district board of trustees and a panelist at the Fi-nancial Aid Regional Conference.

“He’s a very active speaker,” said Mario Mihelcic, certifying official of veteran’s benefits at CSM’s of-fice of admissions. “He’s a terrific person and a terrific advocate for veterans.”

Among his other commendations of Lafors, Mihelcic also praised him on his “lack of insecurity in front of large crowds,” which undoubtedly proves beneficial in the ring.

Lafors has been frequenting the charity circuit, wrestling in events designed to raise funds for veterans’ services such as the American Le-

gion. As far as his future in wrestling goes, Lafors remains realistic but hopeful.

“(WWE) won’t take me, I’m too old and too short,” said Lafors. “My choices are in (wrestling leagues in) Japan or TNA (Total Non-stop Action Wrestling).”

As for professional wrestling’s reputation as a fake sport reliant on melodramatic histrionics, Lafors makes no excuses.

“People know it’s fake,” said Lafors, “But so are movies and, like movies, people watch wrestling to be entertained.”

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things run more smoothly,” she said.

The committee is also consider-ing the establishment of a point system to maintain senator and associate senator participation and activity. “Right now those are just ideas though,” said Medeiro.

“The main reason for the need of constitutional revision for me was

the conflict with our ex-president,” said Medeiro.

It was made clear to the senate that there was a lot of unclarity in the constitution. “Last semester this lack of clarification left a lot of pos-sibility for lawsuits,” said Medeiro.

The new constitution will be presented to the student body in March’s student government elec-tion, said Schafer.

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Following this weekend’s vic-tory versus De Anza College in the

CSM tournament, the 8-5 Bulldogs were awarded another victory due Sacramento City’s forfeit.

“We really made it difficult on De Anza’s offense,” said Head Coach

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Diamond ‘Dogs move on to universityCSM sent 14 players to play

baseball next season to universi-ties this fall following their time as Bulldogs.

“It’s nice to see hard work pay off,” said manager Doug Williams. “Not only did they perform well on the field, but in the classroom.”

CSM coming off a championship season in 2010, winning Northern California Regionals, and going 25-10 last season, the Bulldogs developed players that are now heading to universities all over the country.

“I wouldn’t be where I’m at if it were not for CSM,” said outfielder Justin Maffei. “ I learned so much about the game and more impor-

tantly more about myself as a player while I was there.”

Justin Maffei of Serra High is headed to University of San Fran-cisco. Maffei led the team with hits, runs scored, homeruns, and third on the team with a batting average of .324.

“While I was at CSM I was sur-rounded by some of the best junior college coaches in California,” said

Maffei. “Doug Williams is a great coach and a great guy to play for. Mike Sansoe, who just recently left was one of the best coaches I’ve ever had, if it werent for him I wouldn’t be where I’m at as a player today.”

Maffei is attending the University of San Francisco after accepting a baseball scholarship and will join the Dons of USF with fel-low teammate Greg Boyson.

“Now a t USF, I have s u r r o u n d -e d m y s e l f with anoth-er group of great coaches, which has made the transition much easier,”said Maffei.

“I’m just going to bring my strong points as a player to the field everyday to help USF defend the WCC title and hopefully get back to a regional this year with a lot of hard work, determination, and focus,” said Maffei.

Devin Bradley, a right handed pitcher for the Bulldogs, who posted a 5-2 record throughout the season. Recording an E.R.A. of 1.57 and 63 innings pitched, Bradley will pitch for Coastal Carolina University. A former pitcher at Carlmont High School, Bradley went 5-2 with a 1.57 ERA in 10 starts for CSM.

On the list of other transfers, closing pitcher, Josh Frendall, will join the pitching staff of University of Washington. Going 3-0 and hav-ing an E.R.A. of .25, the Huskies will enjoy his arm. In 36 innings, Frendall recorded 33 strikeouts.

Fredendall was selected to the All-Coast Conference team, and

was selected to the All-Northern California team, and a few All-American teams.

Attending the University of Ha-waii, utility player Joe Goldenberg, will attempt to walk on. Goldenberg had a .515 slugging percentage, and a batting average of .323.

Joining Goldenberg to the is-land but play-ing ball for the University of Hawaii-Hilo is catcher, Ty-ler Nitahara.

C a t c h e r , Shawn Wal-ters is attend-ing Sonoma

State. Walters, holding an on base

percentage of .400 will join fellow teammate, pitcher, Zach Sanford, as they attend Sonoma State and pitch in the spring.

“They were truly great student athletes,” Williams added. “We’ve already got two more guys commit-ting on our active roster.”

Making the transition to the uni-versities, pitcher, Doug Caldwell will pitch for the University of Saint May in Leavensworth, Kentucky.

Recording an E.R.A. of 3.86, pitcher, Nick Franquez will play ball at Pennsylvania University as fellow pitcher Ian Paratore will play at UC Berkeley.

Outfielder Nate Bobrowski will play baseball for St. Edwards Uni-versity of Austin, Texas.

Shortstop Riley Goulding will play for University of Texas-Pan America.

Finally, utility player, Griffin Kirsch will walk-on the baseball staff of University of Nevada, Reno.

Randy Wright. “We had a number of steals and we were off and run-ning. We had great looks and were in control from the start.”

The Bulldogs won with a final

score of 12-1 with Giannia Davino leading the scoring attack, contrib-uting four goals.

CSM went into Wednesday’s game against De Anza College with complete confidence that the Bulldogs would outperform their opponents.

Wright’s 8-0 prediction on Tues-day’s press conference came true when the Bulldogs won 18-1.Bull-dogs finished the first quarter with a 9-0 lead.CSM’s top scorer Gianna Davino played up to Wright’s ex-pectations.

“We followed through on the goal we set but we know we’re going to have to play a lot harder this weekend”, said Davino, referring to this weekend’s upcoming games. “We want to go finish (Saturday’s tournament) four for four.”

Wright emphasized how impor-tant it is for CSM to beat Fresno and Sierra to secure a spot in the playoffs.

“This weekend could be tre-mendous if we finish strong and execute,” stated Wright. “ Slacking off a little in practice isn’t going to work.”

Following their early season loss to Santa Rosa the Bulldogs look to rebound in this weekend’s tourna-ment. With a one goal separated game, CSM may be viewing the playoffs as a long shot if defeated in the upcoming game.

“These games are a must win,” added Wright.

“I have to be more concentrated,” said goalie Daria Kukuewa, follow-ing the blowout to De Anza. “I have two different moods and settings--I have to rely on the defense.”

Following their game versus Santa Rosa, the Bulldogs will be taking on third place, Fresno City College and Sierra College.

“If we can’t get these wins, mak-ing the playoffs will come down to the final games,” said Wright.

CSM’s Andrea Carranza (right) defends DeAnza’s Amanda McLeod as the Lady Bulldogs cruise to an 18-1 victory over the Lady Dons. The Wednesday matinee was the last game before the Sierra Water Polo Tournament, where it will be determined if CSM will reach the playoffs.

Photo by Shaun Carmody of The San Matean

Swimming to victories, bound for playoffs as season winds down

Giselle SuarezThe San Matean

Josh Fredendall Justin Maffei

News/opiNioN The SAN MATEAN • Page 7Oct. 17, 2011

Continued from Page 8Letter to the Editor

I question whether either of these statements are factually accurate. I am unaware of the State of California providing any COLA increases to our district that would be paid in the 2011-2012 academic year, or for prior years that would be paid in the 2011-2012 academic year.

Thus no adjustments have been made that I am aware of. I also question the accuracy of your blanket statement that adminis-trators’ salaries have increased at higher rates than that of the fac-ulty.

Which group’s salaries in-creased at a higher rate is a subject of disagreement between the dis-trict administration and the AFT.

You then proceed to provide a quote attributed to me “David Mandelkern, expressed the prob-lems with the increases and the difficulties in approving the re-jected contract. ‘This new one was a tough call,’ he said.” This so-called quote is completely in-accurate and misleading for the following reasons:

I never expressed having any problem with COLA increases. My only regret is that we have not received any COLA increases from the State of California, thus we have not been able to pass any COLA increases along to our hardworking faculty and staff.

Again, the Board of Trustees has no contract to approve, since the tentative agreement was not ratified by the AFT membership.

Thus there is no way I could have an opinion on the relative difficulty of something that does not exist.

My statement: “This new one was a tough call” was made in reference to my vote on Aug. 24, 2011 on the salary schedule ad-justment for a limited number of exempt classified and academic supervisory personnel.

It was not made with regard to administrative salary increases or the tentative agreement that had been reached with the AFT.

Your juxtaposition of an out-of-context excerpt from a conversa-tion that I had with a third party almost a month prior to the rati-fication vote, after two statements about completely different topics, is completely inappropriate and misleading to your readers.

This sort of “cut-and-paste” journalism is not in keeping with the level of quality I have come to expect of The San Matean.

I am then quoted again in your article: “’The salary increases are inappropriate. A revised approach is needed,’ said Mandelkern.”

I do not recall ever having said this in the Sept. 7 meeting at which the reporter from The San Matean was present, nor at any other time.

This quote doesn’t even make any sense. If by “the salary in-creases” you were referring to the salary adjustment for the exempt classified and academic supervi-sory personnel, clearly I felt they were appropriate since I voted in favor of them.

If the quote was referring the tentative agreement with the AFT, that agreement contained no sal-ary increases, so my saying that wouldn’t make any sense. I have no idea what the statement “A revised approach is needed.” is

referring to, thus I find it unlikely that I would have said that.

From the time I was first elect-ed as a Trustee of the San Mateo County Community College Dis-trict in 2003, through the meet-ing on Sept. 7 that your reporter sat in on, and to this very day, I have consistently stated that all employees of this district (wheth-er faculty, staff, or administra-tion; whether part of a bargaining unit or unrepresented) should be treated fairly and equitably in any review or adjustment of salary, compensation, and benefits.

I have always felt that any ad-justments should be made consis-tently and even-handedly across all of our various employee units. My actions as a Trustee have al-ways been in keeping with this philosophy, and I will continue to do so in the future.

Again, I am very disappointed that your reporter did not ask me any questions prior to writing the article in which I was “quoted” twice.

Nor did your reporter attempt to obtain or verify accurate quotes from me.

Inventing some comments and attributing them to me, and taking others out of context (then includ-ing them in an article about events which took place after the meet-ing where I made my remarks) is poor journalism at best.

If you have any questions re-garding my concerns as stated above, or would like further clari-fication, please feel free to contact me via reply email.

—Dave MandelkernTrustee, San Mateo County

Community College District

The Editor responds: Thank you for sharing your

concerns. It is our understanding that your grievances in the Oct. 3 article, “AFT and district continue contract clash” are:

1. “Difficulties in approving the rejected contract”

2. Quotes not specified from meeting

3. Misinformation regarding Cost of Living Adjustments

4. The “tough call” statement5. Salary increase statements

Regarding the conflict over the confusion of the contract, the last AFT contract expired June 30, 2009.

The San Matean mistakenly re-ported that the contract conferenc-es resulted in a newly-composed contract.

The conferences have not yet resulted in a completed contract to be approved or disapproved, and are still a subject of ongoing discussion.

The contract issues are com-plex, and The San Matean regrets the reporting errors that were made.

The San Matean apologizes for not specifying that your quotes were from a Sept. 7 AFT meeting and were not explained as such.

In the statements regarding Cost of Living Adjustments in the ten-tative contract, that information was provided to The San Matean by Dan Kaplan, Executive Secre-tary of the American Federation

of Teachers, chapter 1493.The quote put in after said

statement was meant as a general statement about the contract, as opposed to commentary on the subject of COLAs.

Because your quotes came di-rectly afterwards, it may have been perceived as such, but was unrelated.

Also in relation, “The tough call” quote refers to the approval of the AFT contract said on the Sept. 7 meeting.

It does not have any correlation to COLAs.

In quoting you, The San Mate-an had no specific agenda to fabri-cate the idea that you felt a certain way regarding the AFT contracts especially regarding the fact that no changes had been finalized or approved at the time of press.

Reporters from The San Mate-an acted in error when neglecting to follow up with you in regards to the AFT contract, but did not manufacture quotes.

The quotes were sourced from the Sept. 7 AFT meeting and while explained as such, were still said.

We were aware of your vote ap-proving the salary increases, but the quote was not meant to imply that you were not in favor of the increases.

Thank you again for your input, and if there are any more ques-tions or comments, we are happy to oblige.

—Kayla FigardEditor

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I have just read the article “AFT and district continue contract clash” in the Oc.t 3 issue of The San Matean. I find multiple points in the ar-ticle to be erroneous and misleading to your readers.

First, you state: “The new contract is pending approval from the board of trustees, with much outcry from the union.” It is not.

The tentative agreement reached between the AFT and the district was not ratified by the membership of the AFT; thus there is no new contract to be approved by the Board of Trustees. Your reporter was clearly aware of this fact because later on in the article the agreement was referred to as “the rejected contract.”

Secondly, I am quoted twice in this article, but was never interviewed by a reporter from The San Matean for this article.

The last contact I have had with any reporter from The San Matean was when a reporter from your newspaper sat in on (but did not ask any questions at) my candidate endorsement interview with the Executive

Committee of the AFT on Sept. 7. This is almost one month prior to the publication of your article, and well before the vote on ratification was taken by the AFT membership.

Regarding State COLA payments, you state: “These deferred pay-ments may be paid in the form of salary increases to the faculty of the 2011-2012 academic year. While these adjustments have been made, administrators’ salaries have increased at higher rates than that of the faculty.”

letter to the editor

Borders remainOur educational system is regarded as one of the highest prestige.

There’s no question why people come here: higher standard of living. Yet, we find it necessary to make it difficult for an out-of-country per-son to educate themselves in developing these ideas further.

Borders divide our society to protect us from what is seen as threaten-ing. Many only pay attention to what is in front of them, limiting their reality. The reality for immigrants is far from pleasant. They are some-how forced to move to find a better life to escape the harsh reality their parents found separate from their intended dreams.

They cannot become a citizen because they’ll get deported for not being one in the first place. Somehow we can identify them as illegals, but we can’t accept them as citizens.

Now the hope for further help has been given. Citizenship isn’t grant-ed but the approval of help is one step toward the right path. These students are given the education opportunities that they were once de-nied. The time it took to approve this has allowed debates to unfold and progress the morality of educating them. Tax payers’ money will head toward these students who don’t pay taxes. The morality of the decision is still questionable when easier solutions have been presented, like just granting citizenship to stop all these complicated laws.

Such complications are unreasonably unjust. The issue at hand is the long process of not allowing educated illegals with “good moral char-acter” their right to stay here.

For now, everyone is still dreaming while many are beginning to wake up.

See “Letter to the Editor” on page 7 for continuation and response

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“Steve Jobs was a legendary innovator. Apple will not be the same without him.”

Alex Melendrez, 18Politcal Science, San Bruno

“He spent time building the company. Apple is everywhere.”

Sharreil Singh, 18Film, San Mateo

“He led them the right path. He just called the shots like Bill Gates”

Cesar Gutierrez, 25Sociology, San Mateo

“They’re too big to not succed. There has to be another inovator.”

Michael Ossene, 29Biology, France

“Apple isn’t just one person. He’s dead, but there’s a big future.”

What is Apple’s futurewithout Steve Jobs?

Geo Cuellar, 19Nursing, Millbrae

“Apple has a bright future because he didn’t come up with everything.”

There has been debate regarding the district’s recent decision to demolish the garden located be-tween Building 36 and Building 20 to convert into a parking lot.

The district’s motive behind this decision is to provide more parking for future enrollment at CSM. This has been a heated debate between the district and stu-dents.

Many students do not want the garden to be destroyed, especial-ly now that enrollment has decreased. Adding parking seems unnec-essary when the econo-my doesn’t show many signs of improvement. So the question is, what can be done to save the garden but also help with parking? Parking garages.

Building parking garages are more beneficial be-cause it allows more cars to be parked in a smaller location than parking lots. Parking lots require ex-pansion while parking garages ascend. This is what major cities such as New York City and Chicago do when space required to expand an area is limited.

CSM can add enough parking while still main-taining the garden. Since parking garages do not require much space, the campus will not need to expand to accommodate parking anytime soon.

Parking garages save campus resources

CSM can also promote its green image by deciding not to destroy a garden that is a habitat for many birds and plants. The school can also do with the space it has and use that to its maximum. CSM can replace one of its parking lots with a parking garage structure which will ease parking.

Parking garages are more expensive to con-struct than parking lots but it’s an investment worth making. Parking garages last between 20 and 30 years with-out having to repave because they’re usually made from concrete, which lasts longer than

asphalt.Parking lots are exposed to the natural elements of

weather, oil from cars, and cracks which affect them. They also need to be repaved and repainted every couple of years, taking money from the school’s bud-get.

Construction does not need to begin soon, seeing as budget cuts are severely affecting the district and school, but in the future when the board of trustees decides to address the issue, building parking garages should be the number one option.

—Loren VasquezThe San Matean

Ilustration by Ciara Cooksey and Loren Vasquez of The San Matean