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$150,000 piano...

2 November 21, 2011NEWS

Many Petaluma faculty mem-bers and students are angry about the purchase of a concert grand piano by The Friends of Petaluma Campus (FOPC) committee, which announced the decision at the Peta-luma Faculty Forum on Nov. 1.

The FOPC committee, an auxil-iary committee of the SRJC Founda-tion, voted unanimously to purchase a 1917 Steinway grand piano for Ellis Auditorium. The piano, estimated costs of maintenance and program-ming, add up to a total of $150,000.

“We have students in need and reduced faculty,” said a faculty member at the Petaluma campus who asked to remain anonymous. “We have needs that may serve more students in terms of equip-ment and our direct service to stu-dents, and that would have been a better investment for the campus.”

A reception for the piano was held Nov. 17 in Ellis Auditorium. Approximately 30 people attended, including two faculty members and no students. The only people invited were those who directly contributed to the piano.

“There is a fund development strategy that has been developed by the foundation,” said Jane Saldaña-Talley, vice president of SRJC’s Peta-luma campus. “When you’re doing fundraising like this, you typically approach your major gift donors

first and try to provide an exclusive opportuni-ty to experience some-thing.”

SRJC transported the piano from Texas, and all travel was paid by the company that sold the piano. Red Bird is a private insti-tutional piano selec-tion center that helped FOPC get the best price possible.

In regards to why this particular concert grand piano was se-lected, Saldaña-Talley shared the process. “I contacted the music de-partment and they sug-gested that I contact Dr. Leslie Dukes, accompa-nist and music coach at SRJC,” Saldaña-Talley said. “She then agreed to come with me to the selection center in Texas.”

Christina Kauk, chair of the Friends of Petaluma Campus Trust and part-time faculty member at SRJC, said that this purchase has been in the works for a long time.

“It’s not a new concept; it’s some-thing we’ve had in mind all along,” Kauk said. “[The piano] was com-pletely privately funded, so it’s not taking any campus dollars,” she added.

However, many students and faculty think that this does not agree with the FOPC online state-ment of: “Contributions are dedi-cated to the betterment of Petaluma Campus programs and students.”

Jessica Rodrigues, an SRJC stu-dent at the Petaluma campus, thinks this is not the right time to be mak-ing this kind of purchase.

“It’s so expensive for classes and

you have to purchase your own books. I think it would be helpful if they could have provided us with books or something,” Rodrigues said. “I think it should have been used for educational purposes rath-er than a piano that only serves a few students.”

When asked about what other re-sources the Petaluma campus needs, Kauk replied: “A campus like this is never going to be completely done. It’s always going to need more and we are very aware of those things.”

Another faculty member, who also chose to remain anonymous, didn’t understand why the faculty was not informed of the decision until after the purchase.

“We just learned about this de-cision two weeks ago, and I had a feeling this was in the works for a long time,” the instructor said. “We also hired a dean of student services that the faculty voted unanimously against. This feels like one more ex-ample of the administration work-ing on its own and not with stu-dents and faculty, and that does not help the district move forward.”

Kate McClinock, executive di-rector of The SRJC Foundation, commented on the faculty members displeasure with the purchase of the piano during these tough economic times for SRJC.

“I don’t really know why [the fac-ulty] would be upset,” McClintock said. “This is a project that has been underway for many many years, so I would think that the piano would looked upon as a real asset, particu-larly for student programming.”

The Petaluma campus is of-fering two music classes for the spring semester: Jazz Appreciation and Introduction to World Music. All music practicum classes using instruments take place on SRJC’s Santa Rosa campus, indicating that students won’t be able to use the new piano.

The Petaluma campus will host an event called “A Touch of Vienna,” on Dec. 4 in Ellis Auditorium, dem-onstrating the piano and its versatil-ity. The piano can also be rented by companies and accompanists who wish to host their own events.

Still, faculty members and stu-dents point to other Petaluma cam-pus needs; classes are overcrowded and students have trouble paying for their classes, books and other necessities.

“If [FOPC] can buy a $150,000 piano they can definitely help out kids who can’t buy books,” said SRJC student Bayardo Ardila, cur-rently taking classes at the Petaluma campus.

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The Oak Leaf Newspaper has two new awards to add to its wall.

Presented by the Journalism As-sociation of Community Colleges the Oak Leaf was given the General Excellence honor at the Northern California Conference held on Nov. 12 at Sacramento State University.

The General Excellence honor for the print publication was based off a submission of Oak Leaf pa-pers from the Spring 2011 semester. The current online edition was also awarded the distinction.

The conference, which 12 staff

members attended, featured a day full of workshops and seminars pre-sented by professionals in a variety of areas.

“They showed specific ways to use journalism in the practical world,” Parris Mazer said.

An awards ceremony for contests and submission articles concluded the conference, where five Oak Leaf writers were given awards.

Co-Editor-in-Chief Michael Shufro won an honorable mention

for his mail-in feature article about the future of SRJC’s creative writing program in the face of budget cuts. Contributing writer Phyllis Heagley won fourth place for her profile on Michael McGinnis, an SRJC in-structor and the inventor of the “Su-perplexus” toy.

Staff writer Parris Mazer won fourth place in On-the-Spot News writing contest. Isabel Johnson, copy editor and opinion editor, won fourth place in On-the-Spot Copy-

editing. layout editor and state stu-dent president of JACC Benjamin “Brutus” Gruey won third place in On-the-Spot Opinion Writing.

Students from community col-lege newspapers from all over Northern California, ranging from Fresno to the Oregon border, took part in the conference. Participants discussed how to address issues that arise in the newsroom, such as late stories and administrations that want to control the student voice.

Dr. Frank Chong will be SRJC’s next superintendent/president, only the fifth person to hold the position in the school’s 93-year history.

After more than a year of appli-cations, interviews and committee meetings, the presidential search came to a close Nov. 18, when the SRJC Board of Trustees announced its decision to hire Chong, over the other finalist, Dr. Joel Kinnamon.

The Board selected Chong from a pool of 42 contenders vying to re-place current President, Dr. Robert F. Agrella, who’s held the position for 21 years. Chong expressed his excitement to join the college and become an active member in the community.

“I am grateful for the trust that the Board of Trustees has placed in me and honored to become part of the vibrant, growing Sonoma County community,” Chong said, after learning he received the posi-

tion. “I look forward to working with faculty, students, staff and the community to carry on the legacy of one of California’s oldest and fin-est community colleges, and to help maintain Santa Rosa Junior College as one of the leading community colleges in America.”

To assist the board, a Presi-dential Search Advisory Com-mittee, comprised of college-wide representatives, and Professional Personnel Leasing, Inc., a search-consulting firm, provided expertise and suggestions in recommending finalists for the job.

“The Board is confident that Dr. Chong is the best fit to lead Santa Rosa Junior College considering the current and future challenges facing our college,” said Rick Call, Board of Trustees President. “Higher edu-cation is changing, and we feel Dr. Chong possesses the skills needed to help guide us through the next phase of our long history of suc-cess.“

Set to begin work on office Jan. 11, 2012, Chong’s appointment as

superintendent/president will be formally announced by the Board on Dec. 13. The Board also stated,

plans are in the making for a wel-coming ceremony in the near fu-ture.

Chong is the current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Commu-nity Colleges at the United States Department of Education in Wash-ington, D.C. He formerly served as President of Laney College in Oak-land and Mission College in Santa Clara. He also held the position of Campus Dean and Dean of Student Affairs at San Francisco City Col-lege. In addition, he served as Spe-cial Assistant to the Speaker of the California Assembly, and as execu-tive director of a Bay Area commu-nity-based non-profit organization.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Berkeley in social welfare and Asian American Stud-ies, and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard Uni-versity. He also completed the Edu-cational Management program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Edu-cation, and earned his doctorate in educational administration, leader-ship and technology from Dowling College in Oakdale, New York.

The Santa Rosa Junior College Forensics team is in the midst of another successful season and on pace to qualify for the state and na-tional championships next March and April.

Along with overall success across events, SRJC holds nation-ally ranked first and fourth place in Community College Parliamentary

debate teams as ranked by the Na-tional Parliamentary Debate Asso-ciation.

The NDPA is the largest inter-collegiate debate organization in the country, featuring roughly 250 schools.

For those who think of CSI and David Caruso when the term comes up, forensics actually refers to com-petitive speech and debate. Compe-titions are similar to those in track and field, where participants show of their rehtoric in a mix of different events. Events are divided into two categories: debate and individual.

Debates can be either one on one, in what are called Lincoln-Douglas debates, or two-person teams, a parliamentary debate. In a Lincoln Douglas debate, partici-

pants are given the topic ahead of time, such as trade relations with China, and then debate a certain as-pect of that topic.

In parliamentary debate, teams are told their topic at the start of the competition and told whether to argue in an affirmative or negative stance. They are then given 20 min-utes to research and prepare their arguments.

Individual events include im-promptu, on-the-spot speaking, poetry and dramatic interpretations of literature, among others.

The SRJC team has a history of success. In the NDPA, there are two separate rankings; a community college ranking and a second rank-ing, which includes four-year insti-tutions. Since 2008, SRJC’s yearly

program has ranked sixth, second and fourth among community col-leges. Among all colleges, it has placed eighth, 11th, 18th and 22nd.

This year, the team holds a similar ranking to last year. Pro-gram director Mark Nelson thinks the team will be “very competitive by the end of the year at state and national championships.” However despite the team’s success, Nelson said they’re “not in it for team tro-phies...[we’re] in it for individuals to grow and learn.” On trophies, he, added, “It is nice when you get them though.”

The first place team of Brenda Nelson and Kevin Steeper, and the fourth place team of Mariah Noah and Jacob Christianson, make Santa Rosa Junior College the only com-

munity college in the country with two teams ranked in the top six.

Forensics tournaments differ from athletic tournaments in that they pit community colleges against four-year institutions like Cal Berkeley and UCLA. According to Nelson, SRJC tends to hold its own against them.

The season is long and arduous, starting in September and ending in April. Co-Director of Forensics Hal Sanford said that he gauges the season on the outcome of March’s Community College State Champi-onships and the Community Col-lege National Championships in April.

The next tournament is in Los Angeles during the first week of De-cember.

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4 November 21, 2011OPINIONS & EDITORIALS

Holiday movies are some of the cruel-est mockeries of reality ever created.

The happy family overcoming their usual petty squabbles to gather around a delicious meal and exchange heartfelt mush is a lie. Who the hell does that?

My family doesn’t put aside our issues during the holidays. We get worse. The added pressure to spend time together and be in the holiday spirit just makes everything that much more tense. If we’re not on the verge of an argument, somebody is almost in tears over memories of family members who aren’t with us, either because they died too young or they’re so pissed off they won’t talk to the rest of us anymore.

Most people seem to have some version of this family dynamic. The issue is, that if you met somebody obnoxious in a class or at work, you wouldn’t have to spend the most stressful days of the year in their company. If your family sucks, you still have to see them. Trying to take time to relax and actually en-joy the day off is seen as being lazy, or unwill-ing to share in the family togetherness.

Hell yes, I’m unwilling to share in that nonsense. I’m in classes all week and have plenty of crap to deal with, I don’t need to take a day so close to the end of the semester to engage in family squabbles and dramatics.

If I go to Thanksgiving dinner, I can’t men-tion my dead mom, because Grandpa will get depressed. I can’t talk about my relationship, because my Grandma is having fits over me getting a civil ceremony and waiting to have a white wedding until it won’t bankrupt me. If I talk about my brother, everyone will want to know why he’s eating with the other side of the family, and if he’s still dating that nice girl. My 17 year old cousin will pitch a couple fits about random teenager bullshit, and there will be yelling and sulking from that.

There will be interrogations. Why can’t people just be happy to see each other? Do we have to question each other about every tiny, unimportant thing so we can criticize it to everyone else later? Who the hell cares if Aunt whoever made a mistake 20 years ago? My family clings to their grudges. You screw up once, and they will never, ever let you for-get it.

There will be at least one drunk person being creepy for the entire night, and of course nobody will try to stop him (or her)from drinking any more. We’d rather discuss some other people’s problems than actually address the issues in front of our faces, even if ignoring it only makes it worse.

I’m going to spend Thanksgiving at home with my fiance, eating KFC ‘s incredible and easy Thanksgiving special with biscuits and fried turkey, which is awesome by the way. I’m not going to stress over family drama. I’m not going to worry about avoiding the subject of any dead people, only to have somebody bring it up later after he’s (or she’s) been drinking. I’m not going to pretend to be happy to see someone who has been a jerk to the whole family for years, but suddenly deigned to grace us with his presence again after obtaining a quick divorce and a drink-ing problem.

I will be at my house, hugging my pet rabbit, cuddling on the couch with my man. There will be no additional stress, and no tiptoeing around a bunch of people who half the time seem to belong in an asylum. I love the crazies, but I just want to relax and en-joy the time off. I’ll deal with that nonsense at Christmas, when I don’t have classes to worry about.

Handling the holidays, or not...

Isabel Johnson

Opinion Editor

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$150,000 later, and not a dime of improvementWhile the 1917 Steinway grand piano

--recently purchased by the Friends of Peta-luma Campus--is more than impressive as a gift, the instrument valued at $150,000 plays more to the wants of a few and less to the needs of the many students and faculty bat-tling the economic crunch.

For more than a year, everyone from top administrators like Dr. Agrella to freshman just entering the school’s community have had to make tough financial decisions based around the school’s budgetary constraints.

Faculty and staff have seen more hours and less pay, not to mention those who were let go in the process. While departments have chiseled away courses from programs, students have faced a reduction in the avail-ability of transferable and recreational class-es.

There is no more money for student fieldtrips or staff development. Instructors now have particular quotas for the number of copies they’re allotted to make for their classes. Printers and computers are old and outdated, and the funds are drying up for when the school will need to purchase new

ones.Should we be so lucky as a college com-

munity to have philanthropic friends, what either campus needs most is financial support for the immediate, urgent needs and practical items on the campus’s wish list: computers for science labs, chairs for classrooms with stu-dents sitting on the floor and basic appliances needed on campus.

In its mission statement, FOPC states: “[All] Contributions are dedicated to the bet-terment of Petaluma Campus programs and students.”

If the FOPC committee aims to improve the Petaluma campus’s programs and aca-demic departments, and to further develop the campus as a whole, than why would commit-tee members vote to use the funds they raised to purchase a showy musical instrument?

The piano is inaccessible to students in that its too delicate and luxurious for a begin-ning music student to put wear and tear on, while a brand new piano for students would be a small fraction of the cost of the Steinway. To boot, the campus itself only offers two music courses, neither of which are based in music

theory or practice.Since learning of the FOPC’s purchase, sev-

eral in the school’s community have reacted outraged and offended by the committee’s de-cision to spend so much money on a concert piano, and befuddled by the lack of effort put into communicating with faculty and students about the wants and needs on campus.

At a reception for the piano Nov. 17 at El-lis Auditorium, only a few faculty members and no students were invited. As an auxiliary committee of the Santa Rosa Junior Col-lege’s Foundation, several of the commit-tee’s members hold positions in the school’s administration, faculty and staff including SRJC Petaluma campus vice-president Jane Saldana-Talley.

While the piano was privately funded and had been a planned purchase in the works for a few years, the decision to invest so much in so little boils down to our so-called Friends being out of touch with our fiscally squeezed college. On the surface, a concert piano is a good thing, but for $150,000 during the worst budget cuts in decades, it’s time our Friends face the music.

Armando Torres-Garcia

Contributing Writer

Seeking balance between the land and the machines

There is a truth that can only be found in landscapes untouched by Wi-Fi signals. Beyond the murmur of computer engines and the clicking sounds of text messages be-ing shipped off into space, a silent whisper reveals life’s secret: nature reminds you how to live.

Last summer I heard the whisper when I backpacked through Yellowstone Forest. As the deep colors of the meadows decorated my vision, I learned that high-definition wasn’t only a feature found in television. The woodpecker’s echo taught me my voice is my social media; it bounced off the pine trees and rattled my eardrum. The night sky showed me how to put space between my words and leave room for observation. I si-lently watched the stars illuminate the sky

like the embers of a campfire caught in the breeze.

Interacting with nature is like a dream I soon forget. As soon as I return to the con-crete jungle of my town, it begins to lull me into a technologic slumber. Often, my mind is preoccupied with the buzzing earphones of my IPod to ever hear a bird sing and realize that it chirps for me. Text messages beg me to feel for their vibration while the sun rests calmly on my face. With so many distrac-tions, I forget what it is like to be alive.

Mother Nature always reminds me. When I zone out she’ll blow a breeze that sends chills up my spine. Other times the flight of a falling leaf will catch my attention. As a jour-nalism student who transferred from SRJC to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I have to spend a majority of my time in front of a computer. The glow of the screen drains my energy to the extent that I can’t gather my thoughts and put them on the page. To alleviate the stress

of school, I like to hike at least once a week. The views from Bishop Peak at sunset always seem to clear my mind and give me motiva-tion.

Living in the 21st century means that I have so many tools to help me understand the world. I consult my favorite search engine on a regular basis, but I have gained a different perspective thanks to nature. When I skydive from 13,500 feet, I see Earth for what it is: big, round and beautiful. I keep a mental picture of what it looks like from that altitude and re-view it when society tempts me to forget.

The trees bring me wisdom and the breeze brings me peace. Navigating through the for-est of society can make me ignorant to the gifts that nature gives. The computer world is very inviting, but it will never be my way of life. With nature as my guide, my emphasis shifts from existing to living. When I turn off devices and turn on my senses I can some-times hear the whisper.

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If the school received $150,000, how do you think SRJC should spend the money?

“Spend money to hire more teachers and remodel some buildings.”

“I think they should spend it by lowering the prices of classes and stuff ‘cause I heard they were

going up next semester.”

“Updating equipment, for classes like the Oak Leaf, and some of the business classes.”

“I think if the school got money they should definitely work on parking, because they’ve gotten

it so that they can have all the students go here but, it’s really difficult to find a parking spot,

or if that’s such a trouble it would be kind of a deterrent for people to go here.”

“Refurbish the classrooms. I had English for a long time in that building over there, I don’t know what its called but there were no windows or anything, and fluorescent lights. I kind of gives you a headache because it flickers even if you don’t realize it. And I think they should maybe not spend money on the sign over by the parking garage saying open.”

“I would like to see some of the classes that aren’t being offered anymore come back. I know a lot of the conversation classes are gone, and we’re losing

a lot of the obscure stuff.”

“I think they should spend it on allowing people who can’t go to the school right now. They should

give money to allow kids less fortunate to go to school.”

“They should invest in a student bus pass program, because a lot of students such as myself have to ride

public transportation to get here, and it actually can be quite expensive. In the past they had a bus pass program so the school actually subsidized bus passes for students.

SO you could get bus passes at a much lower rate. Just this year they actually stopped doing that.“

“It’s not much. Probably equipment would be the best thing, I don’t know where. There’s so many

equipment needs in this school. I just don’t know. There’s equipment needs in all areas….There’s also a need for supplies. We’ve not a sufficient

budget for supplies. So equipment and supplies.“

Quinn Conklin

Web Editor

Google launched its music service last week and it is the worst of the

bunch for turning users into shills. It is adequate, and still my choice for stream-ing music to my phone, but it is one thing to offer a free service to the “customer” and turn around selling his or her atten-tion to advertisers. I am OK with that. It is another thing to make users be your ad department.

Google music makes it easy to buy and share music with the people in your circles. The problem with those shares is that they are only samples with a link to buy, or you can share the entire song if you purchase it from the Google music store rather than upload it yourself.

But Google music is not the only of-fender in this department. Spotify and Facebook really want you to use the ser-vices together and again Spotify is a prod-uct I use and like for streaming music on my computer. To play the music people share from Spotify on their social network of choice you need to become a Spotify user yourself.

Sharing music with your friends should be about turning them on to something cool, amazing or fun, not making another user for the company to sell to advertisers or worse an advertisement for a specific place for your friends to go buy the music that you are listening to.

This is not a problem that is confined to the internet. No, this is part of something bigger the music industry has dumped on us for years. Radio stations are able to sell ads to support playing songs, which in turn are ads for the albums we buy. These in turn are ads for the shows the artists play and even these have been corrupted into opportunities for vendors to sell us food, drinks and T-shirts.

I can live with that. I can avoid com-mercial radio, I can find music organically, from friends or by researching the influ-ences of the artists I like. Now however, the music providers have found a way to commercialize even my friends’ recom-mendations.

To make matters worse they make it easy to share. One, maybe two clicks and you have done it. You have been not just the consumer of their advertising but also the delivery system. For me, this is going to far. I will not link my Spotify account with Facebook. I will not suggest songs via Google music. I will not tell my friends where to shop online.

This does not mean I will stop recom-mending music, but I will do it the way I always have: via YouTube.

YouTube lets my friends hear the song, read some thoughts on the video or the music. They can listen to the whole thing in their stream or on their wall, and if they don’t want to do that, they can still pop open a new tab and watch the video on YouTube.

Yes I may still be exposing my friends to an ad or two; that can’t be helped when we share links on the internet. What I am not doing is telling my friends where to buy their music. I am not offering my friends up like fatted calves as new cus-tomers and users for the music industry.

Advertising kills Google Music

For a time I’ve had mixed feelings about poetry readings, and public readings in gen-eral. Not that live readings are necessarily bad in any sense, but the delivery and stage-presence of many readers can be too slow and quiet for the modern American stage, or at least for viewers and listeners attuned to tele-vision, film and the slew of modern digital technologies. Attention spans are not, from what I’m told, what they once used to be.

I’ll admit if I’m not transfixed by a perfor-mance I’m watching, my mind and attention are more prone to drift. And here’s the thing: I’m the guy who sincerely, wildly and madly loves and believes in poetry and fiction, and the limelight of every hardworking artist. But it’s not a matter of the art or appreciation of words and wordsmiths; it’s a matter of the art of commanding a stage, the art of perfor-mance and the art of spoken word.

We’re all familiar with the teacher who speaks in a monotone voice or carries through an entire lecture reading from a textbook per-haps with the dazzling aid of a slideshow. It’s not enticing, stimulating or even fun. But of-ten the lectured subject is interesting, even

fascinating; it’s just not presented very well. Poets who are also musicians, comedians or slam performers know this, and combine their talents and efforts to keep audiences engaged. But not all poets are meant to be performers; some I believe are meant to be simply savored, cherished and worshipped inside books.

I used to perform spoken word and slam poetry and maybe because I was and am still one of the literati, I find myself at one reading or another these days often enough. Recently I went to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts and listened to poet Mary Oliver read a selec-tion of her poems for about an hour. There were a variety of things I found captivating about her performance (discovering poems I hadn’t read before by her, hearing the tone and rhythm of her work aloud, and seeing a bit of the person and humor behind the poet-ry), but she is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling living poets in the world. Many who go to see Oliver are not go-ing for an outstanding night of poetry perfor-mance, but – and this is in my opinion – to be in the presence of a legendary and world renowned poet.

More locally I went to the Downtown Pet-aluma Poetry Walk and the Sonoma County

Book Festival this year, and listened at each event to several poets and writers read from their work. There was without doubt a cer-tain joy which came over me at seeing so many people celebrating books, but too of-ten I found myself wandering off into trails of thought completely unrelated to what was being performed before my eyes. In order for many of today’s poets to capture the hearts and minds of today’s generation, they need to go beyond the written word and consider the theatre of modern culture.

Today’s audiences are not living in the Whitmanian rhythms or Dickensonian rhymes; they’re flooded in the rush-hour traffic of Eminem rap lyrics and the split-second flashes of Twitter Haiku. And if any-thing, between all of our cellphones, comput-ers and TVs, the attention span of the average American only appears to be shrinking. But poets untrained for the stage need not feel at a complete loss; people all around are looking for a good performance or show, even if their base expectation is to be constantly enticed and entertained, even if it means more work for the artist or less thought for the viewer; even if it means ultimately changing how we think about language and art.

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Stage-poets need more than words

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While “Immortals” isn’t a par-ticularly bad movie, it shies away from the potential greatness that occasionally peeks through its over-whelming tapestry of blandness. It shows the chops to be a classic; a “Lord of the Rings” set to Greek mythology.

The plot contains nothing resembling a creative idea. Theseus has been chosen by Zeus to be the champion of humanity, for reasons hardly explained. He must stop King Hyperion from finding the mythic Epirus bow, freeing the Titans and overthrowing the Gods.

The entire script is handled hastily. The bow, which was built up to be a major plot point, is stumbled upon by acci-dent, and then promptly disappears, only to be used briefly in the climax. The fact that Theseus is a demigod in Greek my-thology seems to be hint-ed at as the reason for his selection as humanity’s champion, but the thread

is never followed. That’s the least of the deviations from the source material; it goes as far as to rewrite the entire Greek creation story. The character development is almost nonexistent. After Theseus recovers

the bow, he is told by his sidekick not to expect to be treated any dif-ferently, when almost no scenes had been shown to set up how he was treated beforehand.

Theseus is supposed to be des-tined to be the great lead-er that humanity needs, but the only thing he does resembling leadership is giving an impassioned speech at the knockoff battle of Helm’s Deep. Hyperion’s motives for taking on such a daunting endeavor as conquering the Gods is something that could have been built up into a big reveal in the third act. Instead, the au-dience is told in his first lines of dialogue that he is angry at the Gods for let-ting his family die of dis-ease. On second thought, I’m glad that wasn’t made into a big reveal.

The main draw of the movie is the excellent combat scenes, which eschew the recent trends of substituting choreog-raphy for shaky shots and rapid editing. The fights

are shown in long, sweeping takes that display the action crisply and clearly, and makes good use of ramp slow motion -- having the action al-ternate from being sped up to be-ing slowed down -- but manages to keep the use subtle. The God fights are where the movie is at its best. The otherworldly powers of the dei-ties are expertly conveyed, bringing with them a fitting sense of awe. Unfortunately, all of the fight scenes are few and far between. There are only a small handful of mortal fight scenes, and they all end prema-turely. However two God fights go on for a decent length, despite their infrequency.

There aren’t bad performances in “Immortals,” but nothing stands out. The actors competently deliver their paper-thin dialogue without sounding like they’re reciting lines. Henry Cavill, as the noble Theseus, delivers the alternating rage and sorrow of the character, but none of it hits home. Whether this is the fault of the performance, or the lack of any real attachment to the char-acter is hard to say. Mickey Rourke is interesting as King Hyperion, but he doesn’t stand out from the slew

A story that captivates and causes a person to read into an event, culture or person is what resonates from SRJC’s Solkov Work of Literary Merit (WOLM). This semester’s selected novel, “Reser-vation Blues” by Sherman Alexie, blends soulful humor with down-to-earth situations involving a group of troubled people.

Over the years the WOLM has brought in books from all corners of the literary world, from last se-mester’s, “Into the Forest” by Jean Hegland, a dark tale about a post-apocalyptic world, to classics like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain.

Wayne Neel, an SRJC English instructor and a speaker on the Nov. 14 WOLM panel described the book and nomination process. “Any department instructor can nominate books. He or she then present the book’s value at one or more meetings, some exclusively held to discuss past experiences with the novel, play or essay collec-tion. Finally, an election is held to select books for the following year,” Neel said.

The WOLM started in the early ‘80s when a handful of English in-structors implemented the program as a way to incorporate several teachers’ views in every classroom. “One of several reasons was to en-courage students to continue the study of literature,” Neel said.

All English 1A classes, about 1,600 students, read the WOLM book. Other classes including Eng-lish 100 and 1B also often have the opportunity to read the book.

Each semester a lecture series accompanies the WOLM where students, faculty and the general

public learn from a wide range of scholars about the selected work. Aside from the English Depart-ment, faculty and staff from sev-eral disciplines, provide insight into current events related to the WOLM selection.

The “Reservation Blues” lecture series commenced with a lecture by Richard Speakes on blues artist Robert Johnson, a figure in “Res-ervation Blues.” At several points in the book, blues and rock n’ roll is referred to as the “devil’s music.” The plot is the story of a group of young Native Americans who are trying to use music as an escape from the reservation.

Psychology instructor Brenda Flyswithhawks explained what life is like living on a reservation in a lecture called, ‘Living on the Rez... Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” The book depicts life for Native Americans in today’s society as ex-tremely harsh. “Reservation Blues” sheds light on a group of people who have all kinds of trials and tribulations.

The Nov. 14 panel discussion included instructors Abby Bogo-molny, Ed Castellini, Lori Kuwaba-ra, Wayne Neel and Karen Walker,. They discussed how “Reservation Blues” uses plot, theme, symbols and characterization.

The panel discussed how fiction and literature influence the per-sonal lives of readers and discussed how Alexie’s humor in the book is exemplary of how to bring a lighter note to a dark story.

The history of the Spokane Na-tive Americans and the region of Washington was also included in the discussion, used to explain the vices this particular group has. The past is brought up through songs at the beginning of each chapter and in characters’ dreams.

“Reservation Blues” gives in-

sight into a group of people who are often misunderstood. English instructor Bogomolny, who has taught English for almost 30 years, said, “Many people have no idea of the bitter laws and policies our Indian brothers and sisters faced in the ‘land of the free’. Reading takes us into other people’s realities and helps us understand what it is like to be human in circumstances other than our own. This is always good.”

Neel added, “My Native Ameri-can students seem to appreciate the subject. We have done other books by Native American writers in the past. Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Cere-mony,” Greg Sarris’ “Grand Avenue” and Louise Erdich’s “Tracks”.”

The WOLM for next semester will be Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Tale of Two Cities.”

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Community pianists played the role of harmonic historians at an SRJC-sponsored recital focusing on classic French composers. Experi-enced musicians and music majors performed the recital as part of a community education class taught by Florence Aquilina.

The class performed impression-ist music by French composers from the turn of the 20th century. Their compositions sound different than “traditional” classical music in that they manage to create many unusual

sounds rarely heard from the piano. In the words of Donovan Sheets, a music major at SRJC, “French com-posers sound new to the ear.”

The most featured composer was Claude Debussy. He is credited as the man who brought impressionism to music. According to pianist Tatyana Goodhart, his music defined the tran-sition between the romantic period and the modernist period of music.

Nine pianists and two flutists played in the concert. Each pianist played one solo set, and there were several piano duets. The flute players provided beautiful melodic accompa-niment to the piano in several pieces.

The piano performance class,

which allowed recitals such as this was recently cut due to budget con-straints. It was turned into a non-transferable community education class. This creates a problem, for every music major needs a perfo-mance class.

Pianist Connie Holbrook was upset at the relegation of this class to community education status. “This was once the top musical class for students headed for a degree in music. When the class changed to a community education course, it forced students out of taking it because it doesn’t count towards a degree,” she said. Holbrook got her music degree from Berklee College of Music and she said, “Flo and this class is better then any I took there.”

Whether as a book, film or musical, “My Fair Lady” keeps au-diences captivated with its time-less story.

“It’s a play that has something to say to young people; it’s a play that can be enjoyed by anyone no mat-ter their background,” said Laura Downing-Lee, SRJC theater in-structor and the play’s director.

“My Fair Lady” is based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play “Pygmalion,” with the book and lyr-ics written by Alan Jay Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe.. The music is about a flower shop girl

named, Eliza Doolittle, who meets a phoneticist named Henry Higgins while selling him flowers. Higgins believes that he can change the way Doolittle speaks and turn her into a lady within six months time. The play shows the transformation of Doolittle, from flower girl to high-class woman.

“What I find interesting is that Doolittle is the one who comes to challenge Henry to teach her how to speak better,” Downing-Lee said. “She is also bright enough, she has the potential to learn, the desire to learn and the willingness to do so.”

Downing-Lee has taught and directed at SRJC since 1999. Be-fore coming to SRJC she worked

as a performance specialist for the Theatre Department at the Uni-versity of Central Missouri for five years and held positions with Se-attle Children’s Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse and Kansas City’s Cote-rie Theatre. “With Laura being the director, I am sure it is going to be great,” said Zenasia Reed, SRJC the-atre art student.

My Fair Lady, the Broadway sensation, has been playing for more than 50 years and has been performed nearly 3,000 times. Un-like most renditions, Downing-Lee decided to stick with the origi-nal script, instead of cutting some scenes as most directors do. “You will see the ballroom scene: a scene that is not very important but is fun

to watch,” Downing-Lee said.

Though the play takes place in 1901, it addresses contem-porary social issues. “The play has to do with class. Education and the way in which we speak and how that can box us in,” Down-ing-Lee said. “With everything going on in the world, theatre can be both inspira-tion and refuge.”

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of other villains in the tradition of epic fantasy films. Luke Evans brings the only impressive perfor-mance to Zeus. He shows some potent emotions roiling under the surface of the thinly written char-acter.

The art direction seems to be the one place where a heavy in-vestment has been made. The color palette, the sets and the cos-tumes all work hard to give the movie a strong, unified feel. The entire movie looks fantastic and holds interest when everything else happening on screen is bor-ing. The costumes especially stand

out, going for a simple design, while still having excellent subtle details. The Gods’ costumes have an unique art deco style that still builds off of archetypal images. While only three Gods are addressed by name, some-one with even a cursory knowledge of the pantheon will be able to rec-ognize most of them based on their outfits alone.

The interesting aspects of “Im-mortals” makes me wonder if some-thing integral was left out by pro-ducers, and if a director’s cut could make it the classic that it deserves to be, but the amount of blandness and underdevelopment feels too overwhelming to be fixed with a few changed scenes or edits.

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He was a lawyer and then a miniature-model maker. Those ca-reers for Hal Sanford were a good way to make a living, but they didn’t bring him the same happiness he experiences today.

If you spend a class session or talk to him for a few minutes it is evident Sanford has a passion for teaching speech. He has taught speech at Santa Rosa Junior Col-lege since 1994. If it’s up to him he will teach until the day he decides to retire. “If I could push a button and only do one thing, it would be teaching speech and forensics,” Sanford says.

Sanford teaches different types of speech classes, and coaches SRJC’s speech and debate team. He is a rep-resentative for the Academic Senate and a member of the Mass Commu-nication Task Force on campus. He uses his experience and knowledge to get the most out of his students and forensic team members.

Sanford grew up in Glenbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. At Glenbrook High, Sanford joined the debate team, and struggled at first to build a compelling argu-ment. “A debater from another school walked up to me and looked at my tiny recipe card evidence box, and said, ‘Ah, Sanford, you’re not smart enough to be a debater. Why don’t you find something else to do, loser,’” Sanford says. His struggles continued until he met a man who believed in him.

George Stege was the teacher who molded Sanford into a good debater. Sanford credits Stege with spending as much time as was needed to improve his debating skills. Stege had such an impact on Sanford’s debating skills that San-ford became Illinois state champion his senior year. One of the schools that Sanford and his partner defeat-ed along the way to the champion-ship was the school of the debater who called Sanford a loser.

Just as Stege went out of his way to make sure Sanford’s debating skills continued to improve. San-ford wants to go the extra mile for his students.

Current student Sophia Lufra-no notices Saford’s dedication. “I never felt comfortable speaking in

front of an audience, but after a debate, Hal offered to meet with me to discuss my anxiety about speaking in front of an audience. That gesture alone makes me more comfortable.”

Sanford received a Bachelor’s of Science from Northwestern University in speech, and a law degree from University of Southern California.

Sanford became a litigation lawyer at a prestigious law firm in Los Angeles and after a few years decided be-ing a lawyer wasn’t the right fit. His next career choice could not have been more different.

He decided to get into modeling. Not “runway model-ing,” Sanford jokes, but building miniature models. His new ca-reer choice turned into a book titled “The Il-lustrated Modelaholic.” Sanford says, “It basi-cally speaks to the ad-diction of collecting and building models.”

His new career path took him on a jour-ney building miniature models for films and music videos. Sanford clients included high profile celebrities like Michael Jackson and James Cameron.

The music vid-eos he worked on for Jackson were “Smooth Criminal” and “Leave Me Alone.” “In Smooth Criminal, I helped construct a huge death-ray laser gun positioned inside a mountain, manned by actor Joe Pesci,” Sanford says. His work for James Cameron was on the Oscar-winning film, “The Abyss.”

When his wife became pregnant with their daughter, they decided they didn’t want to raise a child in Los Angeles. He moved to Santa Rosa in 1991 and needed to find another job  because of the lack of filmmaking in Santa Rosa. He re-turned to law for a brief time before

taking a “self evaluation,” and con-cluded teaching would make him the happiest.

He first started teaching at So-noma State University in the Up-ward Bound program, classes fo-cused on teaching first generation college students from low-income families. His job at Sonoma State led him to his current position at SRJC, which he loves.

Sanford says the most gratifying parts of the job are watching stu-dents grow in their speaking abili-ties and interacting with other stu-dents. “I appreciate the importance of shared gover-

nance and I take seriously my work on the Academic Senate and com-mittees,” Sanford says. “However, interacting with students is what it’s all about.” He wants to give stu-dents the confidence to believe in themselves, and the skills to make that confidence not a mere empty affirmation.

He knows speaking front of a group makes many people un-comfortable. One former student refused to get up in front of the class and give a speech due to stage fright. What  bothered the student so much was that everybody would

be looking at her. San-ford wanted to make her go through with it. “I asked the students to put their heads down while she was giving her speech. ‘I told her, See, nobody is looking, proceed.’ She went on to give her speech.”

Sanford asks his class at the beginning of the semester to raise their hands if they are uncomfortable giv-ing speeches in public. He is one of the people who raises a hand. It is a method that helps put students at ease from the beginning. “He took off the pressure of get-ting up and he made me feel like I would be fine if I put forth my best ef-fort,” Justin Brown, an SRJC student said.

Sanford has heard countless speeches in his years at SRJC. “My classroom is a safe zone for students to ex-plore their lives.” He has listened to reveal-ing speeches about ad-diction, rape, prison life and physical abuse. “Especially in Speech 1A and Speech 60, I like students to choose their own subjects because that’s where their in-terests lie. I provide the techniques for them to effectively express their insights.”

There is one particu-lar speech that draws a tearful response from

Sanford. The speech topic by a student was about practicing safe sex. The student had props like  a condom and a banana and started talking about safe sex methods. She gets to the middle of her speech and tells the class that she contracted the AIDS virus. The student was taking the class for guidance in delivering effective speeches, so she could ed-ucate people about practicing safe-sex. It reinforces to Sanford that he made the correct career choice. “I really believe in what I do.”

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Mischa Lopiano/ Oak LeafHal Sanford records the time and gives critiques to the members of SRJC’s Forensics team. Sanford was once a state champion in Illinois and now continues to pass his knowledge onto SRJC students.

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When the new Bertolini Stu-dent Center opened, Students for Sustainable Communities (SSC) created the green squad to educate students and faculty about proper waste disposal. Last semester SSC conducted a trash audit to convince administrators to support the Tal-loires Declaration, which President Dr. Robert Agrella signed in April, 2011. The declaration is an inter-nationally accredited plan that pro-vides educational institutions with a framework for achieving a sustain-able future.

SSC is a club dedicated to spreading environmental aware-ness, creating sustainable education and giving students the tools they need to be activists on campus and in the community. “The more stu-dents we can get to help us with our advocacy work, the more effective we will be,” said Jessica Jones, the co-founder of SSC and current As-sociated Students President.

Currently, SSC is working to-ward getting Fair Trade Organic coffee into the cafeterias and kiosks on campus. Fair Trade is a non-profit organization that certifies products come from farmers and workers who are well compensated. SSC will partner with Thanksgiv-ing Coffee later this month to hold a tasting to see if the campus com-munity likes the brew and would be willing to make the switch.

SSC is also working with a local non-profit to promote carpooling for the SRJC community. This pro-gram would allow students to use their smart phones to quickly find a ride with someone else in their proximity that is heading the same direction. The program will bring a sense of fun for carpoolers and in-spire students to commute together more often. “This will make car-pooling popular and a fun thing to do,” Jones said.

Students are encouraged to get involved by attending SSC meet-ings, which run branches on both the Santa Rosa and Petaluma cam-puses. Meetings are held every Fri-day from noon to 1 p.m. and all students are welcome. “My mission is to bring a greater collaboration of students faculty and administrators to work together in order to make SRJC more sustainable,” Jones said.

In addition to SSC, SRJC offers a slew of sustainable agriculture class-es, many of which are held on Shone Farm. Twelve miles from campus, 365 acres of farmland serve as an outdoor learning laboratory for the Santa Rosa Junior College’s Agricul-ture and Natural Resources Depart-ment. Shone Farm, one of the largest agricultural sites in the California Community College system, has 120 acres of forest, 100 acres of pasture, 70 acres of vineyards, 12 acres of crop production and four acres of

apple and olive orchards. The farm offers programs in

viticulture, wine studies, equine studies, animal science, sustainable agriculture and environmental con-servation. These programs produce a variety of “Shone Grown” prod-ucts, marketed specifically to SRJC’s Culinary Café and sold through farm stands both on and off cam-pus, at local restaurants, markets and the Community Supported Ag-riculture (CSA) program.

“I greatly appreciate those who prioritize supporting local agricul-ture, even during challenging eco-nomic times,” said Robert Landry new Sustainable Agriculture Pro-gram Director at SRJC. After earn-ing his bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas State he attended UC Davis, where he was offered a de-partmental fellowship to study plant sciences. Now he teaches seasonal community supported agriculture classes (CSA), Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, Crop Planning and Production, Organic Gardening and Food Production and various Specialty Crop Production classes. With the growing awareness about sustainability the career opportuni-ties in the field are immense.

“Students at the JC are uniquely situated to actively take part in mak-ing a difference in sustainable ag-riculture through both school and community activities,” Landry said.

It is important the JC is an active member of the sustainability move-ment, Landry said. “In order to ensure that we continue to prosper as a society, we must learn to live within the constraints of our natu-ral system,” he said. “Sustainability strives to achieve just that.  In order to meet the current and future de-mands of a growing global popula-tion without sacrificing the health of our entire ecosystem, we must invest in living sustainably in every aspect of our lives.”

Outside of SRJC, local business-es have joined together to promote localized living. Sonoma County GoLocal Cooperative (GoLocal) is a network of locally owned busi-nesses, residences, non-profit orga-nizations and government agencies with a goal to get businesses “work-ing together to build a resilient thriving local economy,” said Terry Garret, a GoLocal Team member.

“When the money we spend here stays here, it helps boost our local economy by creating eco-nomic multipliers,” Garret said, adding that money goes back into local schools, public buildings and parks. “There is a heightened sense of awareness in the general popula-tion about the importance of buy-ing local and being sustainable, re-ally we’re just going back to the way we shopped in the ‘50s.”

Community Market, located near SRJC behind The Last Re-cord Store, is a GoLocal business member. It is a non-profit worker-run market that promotes healthy

food and sustainable agricultural practices. It is the “first and lon-gest lasting health food store in So-noma County,” said Melissa Mentin, Community Market employee. The goal of Community Market is to raise awareness about what people eat and to educate people on nutri-ents, she said.

Next door, Gaia’s Garden, the vegetarian buffet restaurant is also a GoLocal business member. They of-fer a 5 percent rebate on purchases and accepts GoLocal Bucks. Gaia’s Garden offers a free Chai Tea for the GoLocal Rewards Card’s first visit and a free meal for every $150 spent. Susan Church, owner of Ga-

ia’s Garden says as a business person she is always looking for new ways to market that are beneficial to the community.

“You can drive down to In N Out in your Prius, but if you are still eating in the past we don’t have a future,” said Ari Camorota of Gaia’s Garden.

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Walking through the magnifi-cent open-air rotunda and around the mystical lagoon, it is hard to believe the Palace of Fine Arts’ grandeur was almost never envi-sioned as it stands today. Origi-nally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Ex-position to house large collections of art and sculptures, only promi-nent Bay Area architects were in-vited to submit proposals. Even though he was not on the planning committee’s list, architect Bernard Maybeck successfully fought for the chance to design what is con-sidered one of the most beautiful buildings in San Francisco.

Despite this accomplishment, Maybeck never got the recog-nition his masterful talents de-served, even though his work is visible throughout the Bay Area, the state and the country.

According to SRJC art his-tory instructor Mark Wilson, who compiled a new book about the Berkeley-based architect, titled “Bernard Maybeck: architect of el-egance,” the reason for the lack of notoriety could be Maybeck’s per-sonal life was too boring compared to those of his famous colleagues such as Frank Lloyd Wright.

“Maybeck was happily mar-

ried to the same woman all his life,” Wilson said. “Does that mean he doesn’t deserve as much credit because his life wasn’t as colorful? It wasn’t scandalous [as Wright’s with his five marriages and many mistresses], so he wasn’t as fa-mous, but he should be.”

Wilson hopes his book brings to light and promotes Maybeck’s legacy outside of the Bay Area with never before published infor-mation. The book is the first comprehensive ac-count detailing Maybeck’s entire career and includes personal stories, letters and drawings provided by Maybeck’s family.

Wilson’s fascination with Maybeck began as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s. His Berkeley apart-ment overlooked the First Church of Christ, Scien-tist, designed by May-beck in 1910. A few years later as a part of group attempting to save Berke-ley’s architectural legacy, Wilson met the architect’s daughter-in-law Jacom-ena Maybeck, whom his book is dedicated to. They would continue a friend-ship for years that helped Wilson’s admiration for

Maybeck flourish. Wil-son would continue to weave Maybeck’s work into his life as a subject for his college thesis, a book topic and as a key figure in his curricu-lum.

Over his 15-year tenure at SRJC, Wilson has used Maybeck’s work to illustrate the importance of archi-tecture in his classes.

“It is one of the most important art forms,” Wilson said. “We can’t have a civilized society without architecture! It incorporates all other forms of art.”

Wilson finds most art history textbooks have little to no infor-mation on architecture. Possibly because they know very little about it or do not care to em-phasize it, he said. But Wilson devotes time in his classes to the art form, and uses his books as a tool.

In addition to the Maybeck book, Wil-

son has written three others, one of which, “Julia Morgan: Archi-tect of Beauty,” will be re-released in March 2012. The book focuses on Morgan’s work and life and includes her time as Maybeck’s student. Morgan would help May-beck on different projects as a sup-plemental assistant, but their most notable project together would be the design of the women’s gym-

nasium at UC Berkeley, which is still in use. Wilson notes that Maybeck recognized Morgan’s tal-ent and taking her under his wing was another example of Maybeck’s “forward thinking.” He not only employed Morgan, America’s first independent female architect, but he was what would be considered today a green architect.

“Maybeck deserves to get cred-it for being the first American ar-chitect to use sustainable design in his work,” Wilson said. “ He pio-neered that in the 1890s, and ev-eryone thinks it is so new.”

Maybeck had been using the “green” philosophy from early on in his career. He used all natural materials that were not disguised in design, calling them “open use of natural materials honestly stated.” His buildings were unique to each client, constructed in a modern, energy-efficient way with reference to earthquake and fire safety.

“What really made him ahead of his time, that makes him the first green architect was his inte-gration of his buildings into their environment,” Wilson said. “He integrated them by how he cited them into the site and with things around it like the views, natural light, breezes and sets of plants.”

Maybeck was one of the first American architects to design in-door-outdoor living spaces, walls of windows, decks and open floor plans. The private houses he de-signed could be used in modern design magazines and passed off as house built today, despite their construction in the early 1900s. The Palace of Fine Arts might be Maybeck’s most known, but one

building he designed on the Prin-cipia College campus is considered a National Historical Landmark, a feat not many colleges can boast about.

Wilson’s book features more 300 photos ranging from May-beck’s designs of houses, church-es and college campuses. The book also includes the architect’s personal sketches provided by Maybeck’s descendants. Wilson believes that Maybeck deserves more credit and used his extensive knowledge of the architect to au-thor a truly remarkable book.

In addition to the book, Wilson will give a lecture on the architect as a pioneer in design on Jan 30, 2012 in Newman Auditorium. Wilson also conducts architectur-al walking tours each semester to give interested parties a chance to see the brilliantly designed build-ings of Bay Area architects.

While Maybeck has been Wil-son’s prime focus for some time, he is moving forward with com-piling a new book about the legacy of the American World’s Fairs. He currently teaches art history class-es four days a week and said he is honored to teach at a college that tries to support all areas of artistic expression.

“Architecture teaches us, better than any other tool what life was like for people that came before us,” Wilson said.

The next time you walk around the grounds of the Palace of Fine Arts think of how different it could be if Bernard Maybeck was never given the chance to design it. It might not be as spectacular as it is today.

Humor in the classroom is also very important to Sanford some-times hops over tables instead of simply walking around them. If you ask a question, he might walk to where you are sitting and talk to you face to face. “I like how he brings humor into his classroom through

interactions and conversations be-yond just lecturing,” Brown says.

Of his use of humor, Sanford says, “My job is not to scare people, but to empower them.” What you see in the classroom from Sanford is what you get outside of SRJC, he says, “much to the embarrassment of my wife and daughter.”

It is skills and teaching phi-losophies like this that led him to

receive two prestigious awards for his contributions to forensics. In 2010, he was voted “Coach of the Year” by coaches from the North-ern California Forensics Associa-tion. The other award he received that year means the most to him. It is the Collie-Taylor coaching award, based on a student vote by all competitors at the Phi Rho Pi community college national cham-

pionships. In his down time, Sanford loves

playing the guitar. He used to play in a band called the “Ultimate Sta-ple,” a cover band that played a lot of Jimi Hendrix tunes. His biggest gig with the “Ultimate Staple” was playing the United Service Organi-zations in Chicago.

While Sanford’s life has followed many different paths, nothing

seems to bring more joy than being an educator. “When I look back on my 17 years of teaching, I’m grate-ful for how much my students have taught me. They have stimulated my mind, warmed my heart and touched my soul. There is no more rewarding contribution than help-ing people achieve their potential. That is what teaching is all about.”

Instructor’s book explores prolific architect

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Stock ImageMark Wilson demonstrates the importance of architecture to his classes with his book on Bernard Maybeck’s masterful buildings. Maybeck is a 19th century architect from the Bay Area.

Stock ImageBernard Maybeck’s legacy fills San Francisco with some of the most recognizable buildings in the Bay Area such as the Palace of Fine Arts .

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Soccer team takes the Big 8 titleAll season the SRJC women’s

soccer team has laid the foundation for a deep run into the playoffs in its quest for a state title. Hard work and dedication early in the season combined with experience from victories over competitive non-con-ference opponent’s City College of San Francisco and Skyline College gave the team a fifth straight Big 8 conference championship. It also gave them an overall record of 15-1-3 while helping prepare the team for a grueling schedule.

Conference play was fierce and the team was battle tested, achiev-ing an outstanding conference re-cord of 10-1-3 while facing rivals Diablo Valley, Modesto and Co-sumnes River.

Their work has paid off and now the Lady Bear Cubs have earned the number one seed and will have home field advantage throughout the 2011 CCCAA women’s soccer NorCal regional playoffs.

“Typically in the JC games, teams have to travel the day of. They have to get up a bit earlier and get on a bus. San Joaquin Delta College has to come here on our field with our fans, huge advantage to play at home,” head coach Luke Oberkirch said.

The Big 8 conference has recog-nized the superb play of sophomore forward Cara Curtin and awarded her an All-Conference selection and Outstanding Offensive Player of the Conference. Cara led the state with 28 goals as well as points, ac-

cumulating 67. Also named to the All-Conference team was sopho-more goalkeeper Tara Funk who is dominating in the cage and is one of the top three goalies in the state. She allowed only seven goals this season and had a remarkable 0.43

goals against average, nearly twice as good as any other keeper in the conference.

Sophomores Lauren Curtin, Lisa Shaw and Cami James as well freshman Alex Coffaney round out the rest of the Lady Bear Cub’s All-

Conference selections. Midfielder Lauren Curtin, played a solid season finishing tied for 14th in the state and fourth in conference with 12 goals scored.

The Lady Bear Cubs are peaking right now, riding a six game winning streak and having not lost since September. Round one of the playoffs was a showdown against number 16 seed Delta on Nov. 19.

SRJC will host round 2 against the winner of the Ev-ergreen Valley and American River match on Nov. 22. If the Lady Bear Cubs win that game they would host round 3 on Nov. 26, hopefully earning a win and advancing to the CCCAA state championship Dec. 2-4 in Sacramento at Co-

sumnes River College.Admissions to playoff games at

SRJC are $8 general and $5 for se-niors, children and students with I.D.

Strength, determination and perseverance can all be used to de-scribe Austin Shull. Shull has over-come adversity and blossomed into not only a highly regarded scholar, but also a decorated football star. His dreams were almost crushed in high school and yet again at SRJC, however, through hard work he has realized his dream and strives ev-eryday to accomplish it.

Shull was born at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa to parents Susie and Brian Shull, and has one older brother. Shull’s parents want-ed to channel his vast energy into

something positive and signed him up for pop-warner football at age 11. He began playing linebacker and fell in love with both the game and the position.

When he began playing at Montgomery High School, he start-ed on the junior varsity team, but quickly rose through the rankings. By the end of his freshman year, he was playing for the varsity squad. Throughout his high school career, he continued to be one of the top players on the team.

Shull exemplifies how a student athlete should approach academ-ics. Besides excelling on the field, he also shined in the classroom. He ended his high school career with a 3.67 GPA and received scholarship

offers from Sacramento State and San Jose State to play football, but a devastating knee injury put those plans on hold.

It was the second to last game before the playoffs during his se-nior year when the injury occurred. Montgomery was playing Ukiah in a league game and Shull was pur-suing the opposing running back when one of his own teammates ran into his leg while it was planted.

“It was like it was in slow motion and I couldn’t do anything about it,” Shull said. After the play, Shull laid motionless on the field. His ACL and MCL were torn, and it seemed his football career was over.

Instead of attempting to rehab his knee after high school, he de-cided to move to Butte County and attend the Butte Fire Academy. “The only other thing I could see myself doing except playing football would be a fire fighter. Ever since I was a child I looked up to my dad who

was a firefight-er,” Shull said.

After only

five months in the academy the football itch was too much to resist, so he began the long process of re-habbing his knee and getting back into football shape. “Even a couple months without football was almost too much to take,” Shull said.

During the rest of the 2010 winter, Shull endured countless hours of physical therapy and by the 2011 summer, he was able to become football fit once again. When the 2011 SRJC football sea-son began, Shull was the starting linebacker.

In the opening game of the sea-son, Shull was on the kickoff cover-age team. As he ran to cover the kick he planted his foot awkwardly and tore his ACL for the second time. Shull recalled having the thought “Oh god, not again.”

His dream looked like it was crushed again. Confused, hurt and angry Shull recalls being carted off the field thinking “Why me?” It was time for him to contemplate retire-ment from the sport he loved.

Shull had a decision to make:

he could completely abandon the sport he loved or go through the hellish process of rehabbing his knee again. With support from his parents, Shull decided to go through rehab.

“I saw what life was like without football and I couldn’t go through with it,” Shull said. As soon as doc-tors allowed Shull to begin rehab-bing his knee, he was at it. “It’s going to be a long journey, and this might be the last shot for me.”

The SRJC football season ended on Nov. 12. Shull was disappointed to see the season end without him on the field, but did not get discour-aged and continues to gear up for next season.

Since his injury occurred early in the season Shull did not give up a year of eligibility to play JC foot-ball. He plans to continue playing linebacker next year and come back faster and stronger than ever. When the SRJC football season starts next year, count on Shull leading the de-fense out onto the field.

Mischa Lopiano/ Oak LeafShelby Nieto power kicks the ball across the turf with the Lady Bear Cubs dominating the field, leaving their opponents in the dirt.

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With his crisp uniform, Tom Francois looks like any baseball coach ready to go into battle with an opponent. He wears his number 42 jersey in respect of the great Jackie Robinson, straightens his SRJC base-ball cap and shouts words of encour-agement to his players. What doesn’t meet the eye test is the fact that Fran-cois is an amputee after having sur-gery to his right leg in 2001.

His prosthetic right leg is de-signed with stickers from his grand-daughter including a big San Fran-cisco Giants sticker, an example that Francois has more spirit in a single prosthetic leg than most people have in their entire body.

A simple pain in the calf for Francois after a day of racquetball was much more complex than it appeared. After the usual icing and resting Francois saw a doctor who informed him his pedal pulse nerve in his foot could not be found. Clot-ting had occurred from his knee down, and the next seven months would result in 12 surgeries using cadaver veins, donor veins and syn-thetic veins. They all ended in failure.

A man full of adventure and opti-mism found himself in an unknown place. He popped vicodin like candy to ease the pain, he was in a wheelchair and found himself exhausted and de-pressed. That’s when he realized there was something more to his life.

“I prayed to Jesus to put me in the direction he wants. I didn’t ask him to save my leg, but I knew that there was more in life for me and I wanted him to show me the direction,” Francois said.

The time had come to perma-nently handle the pain of disappoint-ing surgeries and finally amputate Francois’ right leg. After a night of prayer, the spiritual man woke up on March 25, 2001 with a calmness and peace he had never before expe-rienced. An hour and a half later, he looked down and it was simply gone.

“I didn’t feel remorse, I didn’t feel regret, I felt relief. My goal was if I could walk with a cane for the rest of my life, I would be happy, because I was sick of that damn chair,” Fran-cois said.

Francois received his first pros-thetic leg on May 23, and right away Gene Paré, national and world cham-pion racquetball player, invited him to play racquetball again. Francois had his doubts, but they would not stop him from trying. After weeks of practice he was back on the court and the duo beat able-bodied teams and won a state championship. This gave Francois confidence in his leg and his life.

Francois’ doctor had warned him of a lifelong limp if he didn’t do exer-cises and physical therapy. Francois went to work. He strapped weights and telephone books on his stump and lifted them up, did side-to-side exercises and gradually he found himself becoming stronger.

What many would see as a di-saster, Francois viewed as a blessing in his life. He credits his prosthetic leg for opening many doors for him, changing his life forever. One may lose an arm or a leg, but Francois notices that an amputated soul is the worst thing to lose.

“Through hard work and perse-verance, anything can happen. You can move mountains if you put your mind to it,” Francois said.

One door that opened for Fran-cois would have been an historical and honorable event for any man or woman from the United States. While working security at the Xilinx company, Francois was nominated to hold the Olympic torch during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Francois was baffled, but honored that his co-workers felt that he ex-emplified the Olympic spirit and was one of 200,000 nominees looking to be one of 11,500 torch holders. He beat the odds and two months later he was notified he would be repre-senting the Olympic spirit. Francois

began training vigorously to walk the entire way without a wheelchair or any additional help.

“Light the Fire Within.” That is what the torch read and Francois holds those words true to his heart and could only compare carrying the torch to the birth of his children. Simply put, pure magic. The doors flew wide open for Francois after this magical moment.

He was asked to speak to schools and organizations, and was influ-enced to tackle the adventure of speaking in jails and prisons. He found himself contacting every or-ganization that could help his cause. Francois’ wife Carol figured he could be “a hole in their calendars to fill.” Francois knew Carol was right and ultimately knew he belonged in the schools and the prisons.

“Let me touch one, God,” Fran-cois prays to his Lord and savior while he sits in-side his truck before every visit to a prison or jail. Francois recalls an eye-opening experience his first Christmas here in Santa Rosa while hand-ing out food at St. Rose Church. A man named David recently released from jail found himself in the real world in need of aid and asked Francois to meet his family.

With tears rolling out of his eyes, Francois recollects how he was honored as David said, “This is the man that brought me to the Lord.” Fran-cois simply let David know that he and the Holy Spirit had done that, and he was just the Lord’s messenger.

After a life full of adventures and careers, Francois is now living his dream as a base-ball coach. He worked in the meat business for 38 years, was also a police of-ficer in the town of Campbell for 33 years and

even hosted a TV show titled “What’s Cookin’” for 20 years. However, he al-ways wanted to coach baseball.

Francois admits he was no super-star baseball player as a youth, but he always had a passion for baseball. When he arrived in Santa Rosa a few years ago, a door for coaching base-ball opened when he met a Mont-gomery High School football coach at the gym. He met the school’s ath-letic director and was immediately hired. Francois has now coached high school baseball, travel baseball and SRJC baseball.

He can be seen sitting in the Bai-ley Field dugout with a smile on his face and a pencil in his hand as he diligently records all the statistics for the Bear Cub’s baseball team. Fran-cois can work up to three hours on his stats, breaking them down in everyway possible and he takes this process quite serious.

“Tom’s statistical record keeping is an invaluable part of SRJC base-ball. His detailed statistical record keeping enables me, as the head coach, to post statistics that support my decisions about who is playing and who is not playing and why,” SRJC head baseball coach Damon Neidlinger said.

The players witness Francois’ smile and laughter on the field and cannot help to crack a smile too. “I see a man who is filled with joy, loves God and brings happiness to every-one around him,” SRJC shortstop Nick Rodda said.

The Bear Cubs are now a part of his family and Francois even calls the players his “30 other grandchildren.”

Francois has experienced many of life’s adventures and understands his adventure will never stop. “Live sim-ply, speak kindly, love generously and leave the rest to God,” Francois said.

With a decisive victory over conference foes the American River College Beavers, the SRJC volleyball team clinched the Big 8 Conference championship along with a playoff berth. The Lady Bear Cubs will en-ter the NorCal playoffs as the sec-ond seed behind Cabrillo and play

their first home match on Nov. 22.The Lady Bear Cubs finish the

season with an overall record of 26-2 with a conference record of 14-1. The team’s only conference loss came against Sacramento City College on Nov. 11 with the match going the full five games and SRJC barely losing. The squad also fin-ished undefeated at home.

The first game in the match against the Beavers was highly com-petitive coming down to the wire

before SRJC won 25-22. The sec-ond game was fought equally hard with both teams making incredibly tough digs, throwing themselves on the hardwood floor seeming to dis-regard whatever burns and bruises they might endure. Despite the Beavers making crucial saves, SRJC won the second game 25-23.

The third game began with a hard-fought rally with both teams hitting the deck to make athletic, improbable saves and it seemed the

third game would be another battle. After the Beaver’s libero made a gasp-inducing save in the middle of the court sophomore Taylor Nelson became awkwardly turned around, but was able to make a deft save along the sideline, ensuring the first point while shifting momentum to-ward SRJC. “I haven’t even thought about it yet... I’m just happy I got it up and over the net,” Nelson said.

After taking the lead 20-11, SRJC scored five straight points to finish

the third game 25-11, and take the match in three straight games.

“We feel really good, this game is a confidence booster,” sopho-more Sam Siebert said. “We feel we’re ready to go in and dominate the playoffs.”

The Lady Bear Cub’s number two seed ensures at least three home playoff matches. “In the playoffs home court advantage is a big deal,” head coach Kelly Wood said.

With divisional playoffs begin-ning Nov. 22, the SRJC volleyball team is shaping up to make another deep run at the title.

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