Vol. XXXX No. 9 Fremont, California Thursday, March 17, 2005

MONITORMONITOROHLONE COLLEGE

Jim Klentshows offexperiment

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Ohlonewins March

Madness– Page 8

Administratorassaulted,

student arrested

Budget outlook grim for next school year

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Student rapedin bathroom,college reacts

All smiles at the flea market

These grinning aligator heads were part of the large collection of oddstuff on sale at last Saturday’s Super Flea Market in the Ohlone Col-lege parking lots. The monthly flea market draws interesting junk andinteresting people. See Pages 4-5.

Photo by Shari Wargo

By BRITNEY BINDELStaff writer

Effects of new cinches in thestate budget belt will inevitably befelt by Ohlone in fall semester, butnot necessarily by its students.

In fact, Joanne Schultz, directorof business services, said, “At thismoment, there is no talk of increas-ing the student fee from $26.” Ad-ditionally, Schultz assured facultythat, “Nobody is going to be laid

off; layoffs are not in the horizon.”Because neither of the obvious cat-egories will be affected by the newcuts, the question then arises, whatwill be affected?

Although the answer remainsrelatively ambiguous, Schultz pos-tulates that faculty positions pres-ently unfilled will remain vacant.The goal of Ohlone financiers is tofind areas money can be savedwhich will affect students the least.

Former Gov. Gray Davis was

recalled partly due to the accumu-lating debt that was not being paid.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, inhis political campaign, promised todecrease the debt and increase fundsfor education.

However, Schwarzenegger’splan to fix the budget consists ofgoing after special fire stations,police stations and education. ThePublic Employment RetirementSystem and the State Teachers’ Re-tirement System are both being

milked for funds to repay the bor-rowed debt money. This however,is not fixing the budget, as is beingevidenced by the new rounds ofbudget cuts.

The major cause of these cuts issimply the aftereffects of the burst-ing bubble over Silicon Valley,Schultz said. Three years ago, thebursting sent income taxes plum-meting and fees to state-funded pro-grams skyrocketing.

Increased income taxes depleted

disposable income which normallywas used to enroll in programs suchas community colleges. As a result,enrollment dropped and budgetgoals were unmet.

Community colleges all overCalifornia are experiencing differ-ent consequences of missing theirbudget goals. Some are even on thebrink of closure, while others areon the State Chancellor’s “watchlist.” This would mean the schools’

World Forum on China set April 6

Police sketch of rapist

Spring Breakis next week

There will be no school –and no Monitor – next week,March 21-25.

If you are planning to gosurfing in Baja, or skiing atWhistler Mountain, ormaybe on a pilgrimage tothe grave of Jim Morrison,please take photos. Thenbring the photos to us so wecan run them in the Monitor.These have to be “G-rated”photos, if you know what wemean, and we think you do.And try to stay safe out there.

By FRANK ADDIEGOStaff writer

Following the success of lastmonth’s World Forum, plans areunder way for yet another assem-bly, on Wednesday April 16 at 2p.m. Again, dignified intellectualswill discuss issues facing our worldtoday.

This time, the topic will be“China, the US and the ChangingGlobal Economy.” The importanceof this centers around the expan-sion of China as an economy andour relations with the country.President and Superintendent Doug

Treadway feels that this is a topicalconcern. “China uses 80 percent ofthe world’s steel,” he said.

Many Ohlone staff and studentsfelt that with only one speaker, theprevious World Forum, featuringDr. Steven Zunes, lacked balanceand variety. The talk was originallysupposed to feature two speakers.The other guest, Professor M. JamilHanifi of the University of Michi-gan, was unable to attend. About700 students filled more than halfof the bleacher seats in Epler Gymfor the Feb. 24.

The new World Forum will fea-ture different guests, representing

different perspectives.Dr. Kenneth Phong, Ph.D. serves

as the chairperson of Kenson Ven-tures, LLC, which funds and con-sults biotech companies.

He also founded (and formerlyserved as CEO of) CLONTECH Labo-ratories. Fong is an active participant invarious community services, such asthe Health Sciences Library of UCBerkeley, and the Chinese HistoricalSociety in America.

The other World Forum guestwill be Dr. Nancy Mangold, MBA& Ph.D., and is the director of ChinaAmerica Business & EducationCenter, as well as the CSUH MBA

Program in Beijing.Mangold also studied and ana-

lyzed medical costs for StanfordMedical Center, as a specialist instrategic cost management. She hasalso spoken at the Bay Area WorldTrade Center.

Both speakers will offer theirown viewpoints on the issue ofChina’s ever-changing role in theworld economy.

Their presentations will be fol-lowed by a question-and-answersession hosted by the Ohlone Fo-rensics Team in which attendeescan submit questions. It will beapproximately two hours long.

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By AMAN MEHRZAINews editor

On Monday the Fremont PoliceDepartment released a sketch of apossible suspect involved in therape of an Ohlone student in thewoman’s bathroom in the library.

The incident occurred on March1 but was not reported to police foranother six days, according to cam-pus police. The female victim toldpolice an unknown man followedher from her class to Building 1 atapproximately 9:30 a.m. She saidthe man followed her into the bath-room in the library where she wasraped.

The suspect is described as aHispanic-looking male, approxi-mately 5 feet 10 to 5 feet 11 inchestall, with dark hair, a moustacheand goatee. A noticeable feature ofthe suspect is a ball bearing studpiercing on his tongue.

Gus Arroyo, Lieutenant watchcommander at the Fremont Police

Department said, “Generally, thepolice don’t release this informa-tion to the public at all. We did so inthis case to get the public to helpidentify the suspect.”

Arroyo also commented that it isnot unusual for some rape victimsto refrain from reporting an inci-dent until well after the crime forvarious psychological reasons.

In a meeting with the OhloneContinued on Page 6

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“A year without spring.”

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The shock and horror of raising minimum wage

Ohlone and violence: Are we as safe as we think?By STEVEN CHAVEZSports editor

Recent events have proven theargument I tried to make about sixmonths ago; the security guards thatwork here that are qualified to carryfirearms should carry firearms.

The rape of a 15-year-old girl two

“Going to Malibu and being drunkthe whole time.”

By FRANKIE ADDIEGOStaff writer

During this one class, my pro-fessor-whom, lest you get the wrongimpression, I love more than lifeitself-informed my class that thosecrooks in Washington have not in-creased the federal minimum wagein years. Then he told us that they’retrying to make it harder for peopleto file for personal bankruptcy.

Unlike my classmates, I wassomehow neither shocked nor hor-rified. Still, I know I was supposedto be and that worries me.

Why was I not shocked or horri-fied? Well, for one thing, I don’tthink there should be a federal mini-mum wage in the first place.

Why do we need a federal one,when states can decide what their

minimum wage is or even whetheror not they need it. According to theDepartment of Labor, only two stateshave lower minimum wage rates andseven have no minimum wage.

What that means is that two wouldsee a drop in the minimum wage ifthe federal rate was removed, andseven would have none and couldeither keep it that way, or come upwith one and 13 (including Califor-nia) have a higher minimum wage.

The rest have the same mini-mum wage as the federal rate.

Plus, some argue that the mini-mum wage hurts job creation andincreases inflation.

Minimum wage earners makeup only 5.8% of the workforce,according to the Economic PolicyInstitute, and only 35% of thosewho do are parents. Yet, we’re all

supposed to be terrified that theyhaven’t increased wages in so long.

Again, he also brought upCongress’s recent action to make itharder to file for personal bank-ruptcy. In what way does it “makeit harder?”

It really only wants stuff likeasking debtors to do the dauntingtask of providing their creditorswith written notice of their bank-ruptcies.

Now, is it unreasonable to add afew provisions to this? Is it notprudent to save the privilege (no,it’s not a “basic right”) for the trulyneedy? After all, during the 2002gubernatorial election, GrayDavis’s campaign attacked BillSimon for “suing the taxpayers.”

What do you think that means?To make a long story short, the

sponsors of H.R. 685 simply wantedto prevent people from abusing thesystem. Yet, certain people feel thatthey’re doing something inexcus-able, and they don’t see anotherside to it.

This professor (along with oth-ers) is against privatization of per-sonal Social Security accounts.

The President’s plan is optionaland it wouldn’t even involve thoseover a certain age. It simply meansif you feel like investing your ac-count, which is your money, yourproperty and something you workedhard to earn, into the stock market,you can.

The liberals don’t like that,though. For one thing, George W.Bush came up with it, and so that’sreally all the left needs to knowbefore they oppose it.

More important, however, is thefear that people will destroy theirSocial Security accounts.

Yeah, well, what if they lose allthe money in their own bank ac-counts? But no, they don’t thinkpeople should be allowed to takesuch a risk. They also warn us ofthis big “windfall” for Wall Street.According to www.factcheck.org,this “windfall” is only 16 cents forevery $10,000 in workers’ money.

My point is that this supposednegligence on the part of the gov-ernment doesn’t worry me.

But it’s the lack of ambiguitythat’s getting to me.

People and businesses need morecontrol, not less, over the moneywe make, and we need to remem-ber that government handouts andso-forth are privileges, not rights.

weeks ago showcases the need forsuch actions.

No, I’m not going to sit here and tellyou that the rape wouldn’t have hap-pened or that there would have beenless of a chance for it to happen hadthere been armed security nearby. WhatI am going to say is that violent crime isnot as far away as some of you think. Itis in our backyard, waiting to come in.

The arrest of a man that tried to

assault a security guard and the Deanof Student Affairs on Tuesday isanother example.

These events are not isolated, norare they rare. The reality is that there areviolent people in this world and thereare violent people here in the Bay Area.

The world is not a peaceful place.You cannot control the criminal ele-ment without the use of force.

No, having guns on campus is not

going to get rid of all the violence of theworld. What it would do, however, ishelp to ensure the safety of the securityofficers, the faculty and, most impor-tant in my eyes, the students.

Call me crazy, but I don’t feel that itis in my own best interest in an emer-gency to rely on the Fremont PoliceDepartment that is already cutting cor-ners due to budget constraints.

Maybe it will take something tragic

to happen before the bleeding-heartscome to the realization that havingguns on campus wouldn’t make usunsafe, but finally make us safe.

If you disagree with what I’m say-ing, you will hopefully never be in theposition where you find yourself star-ing at a psycho with a weapon. Hope-fully there won’t be a security officerwatching helplessly as you get assaulted.Hopefully it won’t come to that.

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By JAMES HENDRAStaff writer

Bang! Last Friday’s Brown BagSeminar opened with a small chemi-cal reaction, very similar to a rocket,or a jet engine, without the machin-ery. More like an explosion, actu-ally.

Jim Klent, retired professor ofchemistry, demonstrated matter andenergy and the changes they un-dergo, in Room 3201 from 1 to 2p.m. More than 200 people attended.

Klent said that there are manytypes of chemical reactions. First,he sprayed hair spray in variousthings, such as cardboard tubes, tosee how it reacted.

He put a ball in the tube, ignitedthe hair spray and the resulting mini-explosion sent the ball flying acrossthe room, causing heads to duck inthe crowd, a crowd which filled allthe seats in the lectu-re hall andoverflowed around the walls.

He also mixed some chemicalstogether that then glowed brightblue. First he mixed copper and acompound called luminol in a con-tainer that included a twisted glasstube. With the lights turned out, the

Klent has fun with chemistry, firesolution glowed bright blue as itworked its way down the twistedtube and into a beaker. From theaudience there was much“ooOooooh”ing and“AaaaaAaaahhhhhh”ing.

After that experiment burned out,Klent moved to another one, inwhich he pulled out a block of dryice in a Styrofoam container. Heshowed that the block had a holedrilled in it, about an inch and a halfin diameter. Then he poured a LOTof magnesium powder into the hole,and lit it with a butane torch.

Quickly covering the hole withanother slab of dry ice, to protectthe viewer’s eyes, the ice started toglow bright white with the magne-sium light source for several min-utes. It burned so long, and itcreated enough smoke to set off thefire alarms in Building 3.

One campus police officer and acouple of workers from Buildingsand Grounds showed up to see whatthe alarms were about. By the timethey looked into Room 3201, Klenthad moved onto another experi-ment and the alarms had stopped.

Klent was demonstrating an oldlamp, used in coal mines many

years ago. The lamp consists of acontainer of anhydrous calciumcarbide, which, when mixed withwater, produces acetylene, a flam-mable gas, which burns with abright light. These lamps werealso used on bicycles.

That lamp burned through theentire rest of the presentation.After the lamp, he put some regu-lar water, and some calcium chlo-ride, into a bottle, put a silversolution inside, and started toshake it. At first it looked like theglass was turning purple. But thenit turned out that the glass wasbeing coated with silver on theinside. As it was doing that, itwas being passed around the lec-ture hall. By the time it got pastthe first row, it was almost a per-fect silver on the inside.

Klent took out a bag of marsh-mallows, placed them in a vacuumchamber and sucked all the airout of it. It was looking like theexperiment had failed, when hepulled the tube out of the cham-ber and the marshmallows shrunkto about a fourth their normalsize. About the size as a marble.

Then he took out a generator

that produced 10,000 volts ofelectrical current, but at such alow ampere that it was mostlyharmless. To demonstrate, he tookhold of the live metal prong withone hand, then a light bulb withthe other hand, grounded the bulbto a water faucet, and it lit uplike... well... a lightbulb.

Finally, he took a mixture ofsugar and cream, added some va-nilla, put it into a bowl and askedfor a volunteer. A strong-lookingguy from the audience came upand Klent handed him a canisterof liquid nitrogen. While Klentwas stirring, the volunteer startedto pour in some liquid nitrogen.This stuff is so cold that you canflash-freeze flowers with it.

After all the liquid nitrogenwas added to the sugar and cream,and after all the stirring was done,Klent took the bowl and showedit to the audience.

It was ICE CREAM. To showthat it was harmless, he ate somehimself then offered it to anyonewho was interested. Lines formedthat didn’t let out until long afterthe presentation was done, withnot much ice cream left.

From staff reports

The Ohlone College Forensics Teamreturned from the California Commu-nity College Forensics Association(CCCFA) State Championship Tour-nament this past weekend in San Di-ego with Gold and Silver Medals indebate, won by two of the top 10debate teams in the state.

This is the first time Ohlone hasmedaled on the state level in de-bate, earning multiple medals inother events as well.

“The Forensics Team did a greatjob,” said debate coach DaveCurtis. “The debaters proved theyhave the skill and knowledge tobeat 60 other teams.”

Garnering the Gold Medal inParliamentary Debate was the teamof Andrea Adams and JoyceChuang. “I feel like we’ve accom-

plished a major feat- I couldn’thave done it without my partner,”said Chuang. “This win proves wehave what it takes to go all the wayat nationals.”

Earning the Silver Medal in Par-liamentary Debate was the team ofErica Jubilado and Tony C. Yang.“It was extremely competitive,”said Yang. “Even though we lost inthe final round to the undefeatedtop seed from Southern California,it was a good learning experience.”

The two debate teams broughtback Ohlone College’s first-everstate championship medals in de-bate. As a result, all five of thetraveling members of the ForensicsTeam have qualified to advance tothe National Forensics Tournamentheld in Philadelphia, PA in April.

Cara Cuison, a team memberspecializing in prepared speeches,

missed breaking into her medalrounds on two out of three speechesby only one point. In addition towinning debate gold, Chuang re-ceived a Bronze Medal in herSpeech to Entertain. Yang wonBronze Medals in Extemporane-ous and Impromptu speaking.

“We have a great chance at na-tionals,” said Director of ForensicsTeresa Sutowski. “Because we havea great group of dedicated and hard-working students.”

The Forensics Team is continuesto hone their skills in preparation forthe upcoming national tournament.

The award-winning ForensicsTeam can be seen performing at theForensics Showcase on March 30,in the Nummi Theater at 7 p.m.Admission is $5 and all proceedsgo toward the team’s traveling ex-penses for the nationals in April.

After performing sold-out concerts throughout theMidwest, the MinneapolisGuitar Quartet will play theSmith Center Saturday,March 19 at 8 p.m.

The Minneapolis GuitarQuartet (MGQ) started in1986 and mixes variousgenres inspired by cham-ber music and string quar-tet traditions. MGQ’ssound ranges anywherefrom Renaissance and Ba-roque, Spanish, LatinAmerica and Romantic.

Tickets are available at$25 for adults, $15 forseniors, $10 for youth and$15 for Ohlone College stu-dents.

Forensics team wins medals Guitar groupto play here

CorrectionLast week’s Monitor

said that Ohlone’s tutoringand mentoring project forgrades K-6 offered creditfor transfer to UCs andCSUs.

Actually, it offers onlygeneral education unittransfer to the CSU sys-tem.

FEATURES4 MONITOR March 17, 2005

Ohlone’s flea market madness is contagiousBy BRITNEY BINDELStaff writer

Every second Saturday of themonth, Ohlone hosts its Super FleaMarket in parking lots “E” and “H.”

Vendors arrive bright and earlyon a typically crisp Saturday morn-ing between 5 and 6 a.m. to readytheir venues for opening at 8 a.m.

Come rain or come shine, theflea market goes on, although, if itdoes begin to pour, the market might

close a bit earlier than its usual 3p.m. A little bit of rain does notdeter the average 1,500 to 2,000customers who attend the flea mar-ket.

The flea market has become abeloved Ohlone tradition, begun byCommunity Events CoordinatorElaine Nagel nearly 20 years ago.Vendors come from all over theBay Area selling everything fromfood, jewelry, collectibles, toysand makeup to electronics and tools.

Admission to the flea market isfree, however a $3 parking chargeis collected.

According to student CharlieHebison, people who have things tosell typically respond to the adver-tisements on the Ohlone website orin the Fremont Argus.

After they call the flea marketoffice, the sellers are then catego-rized and directed according towhether they will be selling new orused wares, and also according to

how many times they will be at-tempting to sell their goods.

If the vendors are selling newwares and are selling more than twotimes that year, they need to obtaina seller’s permit number from theState Board of Equalization, whichcosts either $5 a month or $30 peryear.

If, however, they are selling usedwares, as long as they only attemptto sell them only two times in a oneyear period, they do not need a

seller’s permit.A festival atmosphere usually

prevails at the flea market, withshoppers and “browsers” prowlingthe rows of booths and displays.Typically, the wide range of mer-chandise mirrors the even widerrange of colorful characters whoare either selling things or shoppingfor treasures.

For more details on selling itemsat the Ohlone Flea Market, contactElaine Nagel at (510) 659-6285.

FEATURESMarch 17, 2005 MONITOR 5

Photos By Charlie Hebison,Daniel Kwan, Melody Marquez, and Shari Wargo

The Ohlone College Super Flea Market is where you can find dis-parate items from fake fruit to plastic doll faces to dishes and jew-elry. Some vintage items such as record albums or knit lampshades, or even household items like Clorox and Venus Razors canbe found at the flea market on the second Saturday of every month.

NEWS6 MONITOR March 17, 2004

Student Health Center, PersonalCounseling Services Representa-tive, Rosemary O’Neill explainedhow victims of rape commonlyrefrain from telling anybody abouttheir assault because of shame orfear of reprisal on many cases.

“The majority of rape cases gounreported,” said O’Neill, “the fewthat do report it take anywhere fromtwo hours to two weeks to report.”

Victims often feel it was theirfault or that they could have avoidedit. “Many people will say that thevictim deserved it somehow bysomething they may have done.What they don’t understand is thatnothing justifies a person being

Student reportedly raped in library bathroomContinued from Page 1 assaulted, no matter what.”

On Wednesday, Bay AreaWomen Against rape held a meet-ing in the Epler Gym to discuss therape with concerned student, fac-ulty and staff. About 65 peopleshowed up, with roughly a quarterof them being faculty and staff.

Ohlone Police Chief SteveFajardo explained what measurespolice were taking to manage thesituation. “The Fremont Police aredoing the complete investigation,”said Fajardo. “We have offered tocooperate with them with anythingthey need.”

The campus police will patrolmore on foot and will offer escortsto anyone who feels the need for it.

In addition to Fajardo, StudentHealth Center Counselor RosemaryO’Neill offered her services to any-one who wanted to talk about anypast incidents they had.

Twenty-five percent of allAmericans have been sexually as-saulted, according to MarciaBlackstock, executive director ofBay Area Women Against Rape.Blackstock, along with Sexual As-sault response Team CoordinatorDiane Beynon demonstrated a va-riety of deterrents to avoid beingsexually assaulted.

Blackstock told of four tech-niques to be used in critical situa-tions. “Be aware,” said Blackstock,“I am surprised of how many folks

don’t know who is around them atall times. Don’t look down, makeeye contact with anyone who isaround you.”

Blackwell spoke of the benefitsof keeping a circle of space aroundone self for personal space to avoiduncomfortable situations with apotential rapist.

Secondly, Blackstock encour-aged being verbal. “Don’t be afraidto yell at someone who is invadingyour personal space. It may soundunpleasant, but it could save youfrom being assaulted.”

The third step involved variousself-defense moves in case one isattacked. The last piece of advicefrom Blackstock was to do what

they were told by the aggressor.“Trust your ability to do what yourbody tells you to do what is right.Trust your instinct. If you feel thatfighting off this person may get youkilled, don’t fight back.”

Chef Fajardo finally proposedthat the Self Defense Institute comeon campus to teach basic martialarts to interested students, facultyand staff.

If anyone has any informationabout the rape incident on campus,call the Fremont Police Departmentat (510) 790-6932 or contact theOhlone Campus Police Services at(510) 659-6111.

For anonymous tips, call (510)979-7977.

board of trustees would have theirauthority replaced by State ap-pointed trustees.

One college not on the watch listis Ohlone. With a “Rainy DayReserve” of $450,000, Ohlone isprepared for the worst. Schultzexplained that, “We’ll be able toweather what’s coming at us, butit’ll be tough.”

On March 24, a statewide meet-ing will be held at the chancellor’soffice in Sacramento that will di-vulge how Ohlone is doing finan-cially, compared to other commu-nity colleges in the state. Expecta-tions are hopeful, yet enrollment isstill below expectations.

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Budget notlooking goodOne-act plays open

Ohlone student Steven Rodriguez was arrested Tuesday,charged with assault, obstructing police and disturbing thepeace, according to Chief of Police Steve Fajardo.

Police said Rodriguez was instigating a fight on campus after12:30 p.m. and was brought to Dean of Student Affairs RonTravenick’s office to sort out the details of the incident.

Fajardo said Rodriguez became increasingly more emotional,until he finally lunged at Travenick , although he failed to makecontact with him.

Two Campus Security officers were needed to subdueRodriguez. One of the officers, Ben Peralta, was injured, receiv-ing an abrasion to his left elbow. Fremont Police were thendispatched to formally arrest Rodriguez, doing so without fur-ther incident.

Fajardo stresses that this arrest is completely unrelated to therecent rape on campus.

Student arrestedon assault charge

By JESSICA LOSEEStaff writer

“One Acts,” a series of five one-act plays performed by the OhloneCollege Student Repertory Com-pany, opened Wednesday night.

“Timely (Philadelphia) Maneu-ver” featured a young couple on ablind date and two friends who go toa restaurant, the four are a tickingtime bomb just waiting to explode.

“Words, Words, Words,” thesecond play, features three wildcharacters bumbling their waythrough a science experiment.Franz, Milton, and Swift made thecrowd go absolutely bananas overtheir monkey business.

The third play, “Time Flies” fea-

turing two Mayflies, made a buzzamong the audience with this lookinto their little lowly lives.

One look at the fourth play's titlemakes one wonder what it has instore for the audience. “Whores ofAcademia” offers the audience afunny look into the intellectual sideof whoring.

The last play “The Problem,”opens the audience to a wife’s di-lemma of a rather abnormal lifewith her husband. This odd couplefumbles through a blaringly color-ful predicament; they show the truemeaning of marital bliss.

“One Acts” is a wonderful solu-tion to a boring weeknight, it will beshowing Thursday and Friday at 8p.m. in Ohlone’s Nummi Theatre.

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JOBS ANDINTERNSHIPS

19 Minneapolis Gui-tar Quartet -- Their musicstyle is borrowed fromchamber music and stringquartet traditions, and at 8p.m. in the Smith Center youcan here them play. Ticketsare available at the SmithCenter Box Office.

21 Spring Break -- Noclasses will be meeting fromMarch 21 until March 27 due tospring break (weekend classes donot meet).

30 Board Meeting --7 p.m. in Child Develop-ment Center. The OhloneCollege Board of Trusteesmeets twice a month (sec-ond and fourth Wednesdays)except June, July, August,November, and December.Meeting minutes are pub-lished after they have beenapproved (which is usuallyat the following meeting).

30 Forensics Show-case -- Wednesday night at 7p.m. in the Nummi Theatre.The Ohlone Forensics Teamis having a showcase to raiseawareness of speech and de-bate. Admission is $5, whichwill go to travel expenses forthe team to attend the na-tional championship tourna-ment. All students and fac-ulty are encouraged to come.

31 Book Discussion -- 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Li-brary, Room 1-307(Videoconference Room).Join us for a discussion ofIvan Turgenev's Fathers andSons. For more info go to:http://www.ohlone.edu/org/bookclub/

MARCH

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ONGOING

Ohlone College SuperFlea Market – Held the sec-ond Saturday of every monthin Parking Lots E and H,from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nextflea market will be Feb. 12.For more information con-tact Elaine Nagel at (510)659-6285.

Free and Anonymous HIVTesting – Tuesdays from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. at the StudentHealth Center, Building 16.No appointment necessary.Results ready in two weeks.No needles; Orasure Methodused. Call (510) 659-6258for more information.

Smith Center Box Office– Open Tuesday throughThursday from 1 to 7 p.m.and Friday and Saturdayfrom 1 to 5 p.m. Ticketsavailable for Smith CenterPresents!, Ohlone Theatreand Dance Department andOhlone Music Departmentperformances. Call (510)659-6031 or visitwww.smithcenterpresents.com

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APRIL1 Polar Bears of

Manitoba by JulietteHoffman -- 1-2 p.m. inRoom 3201. Refreshmentswill be served. ContactYvette Niccolls for moreinformation.

2 Comedy Sportz -- 8p.m. in the Smith Center.Competitive, improvisa-tional comedy, pitting twoteams of "athlete/comedi-ans" vying for laughs andpoints by playing a vast ar-ray of improvisationalgames. Only one team willwin! A referee mediates theshow (with help from theaudience) and calls fouls onthe teams to keep the showfast-paced and clean. Suit-

able for a family audience.Call 510-659-6031 for tick-ets. $25 Adults, $15 Seniors,$10 Youth 12 and under, and$15 for students and staff.

3 5K Fun Run -- 8:15a.m. check in, the race startsat 9 a.m. at the Palm Bosque.This is The Vikings/Ren-egades 5K Fun Run for anyone who would like to runfor fun. To register, you maydownload a flyer fromwww.ohlone.edu/org/ath-letics or stop by Room 9191to pick up a registrationform.

4 College Recruiting -- All day in the Transfer andCareer Center. CaliforniaState University, East Bay,will be available. Visit theCareer Center to make anappointment.

6 World Forum -- 12p.m. in the Epler Gymnasiumlocated in Bldg. 9. Dr. Ken-neth Fong, a Venture Capital-ist investing in and develop-ing Biotech companies, andDr. Nancy Mangold, a ChinaAmerica Business and Edu-cation Center Director at CSUEast Bay, will be speakingabout the relationship be-tween China, the U.S., andthe changing global economy.

Library Display Cases -Display case two featuresOhlone campus Book Club'sfirst Spring '05 selection isFathers and Sons, by IvanTurgenev.

Everyone is invited to par-ticipate in an informal dis-cussion (March date to beannounced soon), led by Dr.Paul Belasky, Ohlone Geol-ogy Dept. Book may be pur-chased in the library for thebargain price of $6.50.

For more informationabout the Book Club, pleasevisit or go to http://www.ohlone.edu/org/misc/bookclub/ or call LibrarianK.G. Greenstein at (510)659-6000 x5272.

Gay/Straight Alliance -meets every Thursday inroom SC-116 in the SmithCenter. Meet new friendsand join in our activites andrap sessions. Open to all stu-dents.

Friday, May 6 has beenset as the deadline for sub-missions to the fourth an-nual Ohlone College Film,Video, and Multimedia Fes-tival.

Entries are sought in cat-egories including ShortFilm, Animation, Advertise-ment and Music Videos.

Entries must be originalwork no longer than 15 min-utes. The festival is open toall independent filmmakers.Only DVD, DV and VHSformats will be accepted.

First submission is free.Each additional entry is $25(make checks payable toOhlone College Smith Cen-ter).

Send submissions to:OFVMF/Ohlone CollegeTV Center, 43600 MissionBlvd., Fremont, CA 94539.

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PPOO SSRRTTSSThursday, March 17, 2005

A new spring season signifies anew beginning for professional base-ball and its pharmaceutically en-hanced employees. Yes, I am wellaware that not all of baseball’s play-ers are juiced, but that isn’t any rea-son for us to lose our sense of humor.In fact, in the era of cartoon sizeheads, pecs and biceps, it wouldn’tbe a stretch to call some of theseguys comic book heroes.

So let’s get down to business,namely, Bay Area baseball.

A lot has changed since we lastsaw the A’s or the Giants on thefield.

We’ve seen some players come,some players go. We’ve watched theold team get older and the youngteam get younger. Through it all,we’ll see the one thing that has beenconstant the past five years stay con-stant; the A’s and the Giants are bothgoing to be competitive in their divi-sion.

In fact, let me be the first sports-writer to be called a lunatic thisseason: the A’s and the Giants areready for a rematch 16 years in themaking.

That’s right folks, you heard ithere first; Bay Bridge Series II iscoming this October to your localFox affiliate.

Why, you ask, do I think that ateam where the youngest star is 34and another team where the oldeststar is 26 will beat out the other 28teams?

Simple, the Giants are too expe-rienced and good enough not tobeat themselves and the A’s are“too stupid” to care about wherethey’re “supposed” to finish.

Now, of course, I’m not callingthe A’s stupid. Nobody that haswatched them bring up stud afterstud from their minor league sys-tem these past six years or so couldrationalize calling them stupid.

I’m just saying that teams thatare young enough to not truly graspthe magnitude of what they areaccomplishing can sometimes doawesome things.

Watching Zito, Mark Mulder,Tim Hudson, Jason Giambi, MiguelTejada, Bobby Crosby and EricChavez (with a name like that Ishould have listed him first), among

others, mature and grow as playershas been phenomenal.

Of course, Only Zito, Crosbyand Chavez are still with the club.Why, then, am I so high on thisclub?

Two words: Rich Harden.Harden is a guy that is only 23

years young and has already estab-lished himself as a pitcher. He isn’tflashy, but his stuff is. He is the nextRoger Clemens, based on the as-sumption that this fireballer stayshealthy, his stuff is that nasty.

With the additions of KikoCalero, Danny Haren, Juan Cruzand Dan Meyer through trades madethis off-season, the A’s pitchingstaff is going to be among the verybest in baseball.

Add to that the fact that theyhave at least six hitters in theireveryday lineup that could hit 15-20 homers, and you have a prettycomplete club.

The Giants have built their teamin a different way.

You have to look hard for play-ers that they drafted and brought upthrough their minor league system,opting rather to draft tons of youngpitching prospects and trade themto teams that hurt for pitching; goback and check out some deals theymade for guys like Jeff Kent and

Jason Schmidt if you don’t believethat (Keith Foulke was one of thoseguys).

They’ve built their team throughtrades and free agent signings. Someof those players on the team pickedup through free agency are: RayDurham, Edgardo Alfonzo, MikeMatheny, JT Snow, Omar Vizquel,Marquis Grissom and Moises Alou.Oh yeah, and that guy that wearsnumber 25 and roams left field, hewas a free agent too. That is theirentire starting lineup this season.

With the exception of Alfonzo,they all deserve to be starters. Quickside-note, how in the world can FilipeAlou justify playing Alfonzo aheadof Pedro Feliz? I mean, weren’t the22 homers and 77 RBI’s in a utilityrole enough to earn Feliz a startingposition on a team where the thirdbaseman, which just happens to beFeliz’ position, is a guy that can’t hitor play defense? Oh well, that’s atopic for another column.

Add a rotation that featuresSchmidt, who will finally win a CyYoung Award this season andyoung phenom Noah Lowry, alongwith strong performers BrettTomko, Jerome Williams and hope-fully-benefiting-from-a-catcher-that-will-make-him-throw-inside-so-hitters-don’t-just-sit-on-the-out-

side-corner Kurt Reuter and theGiants have a top tier pitching staffas well.

The bullpens on both teams are aquestion mark, but both teams be-lieve, and I do too, that they will bejust fine. The Giants addedArmando Benitez to ensure that allof the relievers had a true spot inthat bullpen, which always helpsguys out. The A’s have OctavioDotel who, according to himself,has a much improved breaking ballthat could be the question to theanswer that American League hit-ters had over him most of last sea-son.

I guess what I’m trying to say isthis: the A’s and Giants will beplaying warm-up games against oneanother this year when inter-leagueplay kicks off.

Brian Sabean and Billy Beane,the two General Managers for theGiants and A’s, respectively, havedone magnificent work this off-season.

Moises Alou’s ability to drive inrunners behind Bonds and Harden’sability to fill the role of staff ace arethe key factors.

If everything falls into placehealthwise, these two teams willplay in October, sans earthquakethis time I hope.

Bay Bridge Series II this season. No, seriously

Softball team wins tournament, now 6th in stateOhlone softballplayers hold upthe March Mad-ness Tourna-ment Champi-onship trophythat they wonby going 5-1over this past

Photo by Inez Black

Photo by Shari Wargo

By STEVENCHAVEZSports editor

Thefinalscore

Renegade baseball beats Gavilan College 6-3

Photo by Taylor Dunn

By BRENDEN BLAKEStaff writer

The Ohlone Renegades baseballteam powered its way to a 6-3 winover Gavilan College behind powerhitting and an impressive completegame thrown by pitcher Matt Bush.

Ohlone took an early 1-0 lead inthe bottom of the first inning whenAldo Difede blasted a home rundown the right field line. Ohlonewent on to score two more in thebottom of the second when JimmyDavenport hit an impressive soloblast that went over the 390 sign incenter field. The later run camewhen a runner from third scrambledhome after a passed ball rolled allthe way to the backstop.

Gavilan was able to fight back inthe top of the third inning whentheir right fielder hit a ball into

center field with a runner on thirdthat turned into an RBI single.

After Adam Reeves titanic shotto center field gave the Renegadesa 4-1 lead, Gavilan fought backagain in the top of the forth when ahigh throw to first base by an Ohlonedefender went out of play, allowing2 runners to score from second andthird.

Fortunately for the Renegades,those would be the last runsGavilan would score, as MattBush put in a truly excellent pitch-ing performance. Bush at pointswas down right unhittable, as hedazzled hitters with intimidatingfastballs and perfectly placed off-speed pitches that left Gavilanhitters guessing at pitches all day.Bush finished the complete gamewith 1 earned run and 8 strikeoutsin a performance that many would

call outstanding.“That was a typical Matt Bush

performance,” said Renegades out-fielder Brent Bowers. “Every singleday he goes out and competes. Heis our workhorse.”

The Renegades were able to tackon two more insurance runs, one inthe bottom of the 5th inning whenReeves continued his big day bycoming through with runners inscoring position, hitting a clutchRBI double into center field. Theother came in the bottom of the 7thwhen Difede got his second RBI ofthe day on a single that trickled intothe outfield.

In a game that showcased im-pressive power hitting and qualitystarting pitching, the Renegadeslooked like the team that last yearmade it all the way to the final fourin the state.

weekend (top).Lauren Pensa slidessafely into the baseduring one of thegames held on Sun-day (below).

PatrickMcLaughlintakes aswingduringOhlone’swin overGavilanCollegelastThurs-day.Ohlone’snextgame istodayagainstCañadaCollege.

By STEVEN CHAVEZSports editor

The Lady Renegades added an-other couple of notches to theircollective belts over the weekend,winning the March Madness Tour-nament by winning 5 out of the 6games that they played, includinga 8-0 “mercy rule” win overSiskiyous College.

Krisitine Beristianos, KeriMacinsky and Kelly Taylor werenamed to the all-tournamentteam for their strong perfor-mances.

Taylor is starting to show offher hitting ability after starting theseason slowly. This success hasled coach Donna Runyon to bumpher up in the batting order fromeighth to fourth.

Beristianos collected four of the

wins over the weekend, with An-gelica Franceschini getting theother win over Lassen College.

Franceschini carried her suc-cess over this week, throwing ano-hitter against City College ofSan Francisco on Tuesday.

Ohlone beat Yuba 14-1 andLassen 17-5 before they werebeaten by Merced 3-0, all of thosegames were played Saturday inpool play.

On Sunday, when they enteredbracket play, Ohlone was placedin the gold bracket, rather thanthe silver bracket, because theywere one of the top two teams intheir pool.

The Lady Renegades firstplayed Solano College, who theybeat 7-4. Next up was Taft Col-lege, who are ranked fifth in thestate, one spot ahead of Ohlone.

Ohlone took it right to Taft, beat-ing them 8-1 in the semifinals.

The wins on Sunday wrappedup a week that saw Ohlone loseits first league game, a 5-4 heart-breaker to San Mateo College.

San Mateo was also at thisweekend’s tournament. They,however, did not qualify for theGold Bracket and weren’t inOhlone’s pool, so there was norematch.

Ohlone will have to wait pa-tiently as they won’t play themagain until April 19 at home.

Ohlone will be playing in theSan Joaquin Delta College Tour-nament in Stockton this week-end.

Their next league game isagainst Monterey Peninsula Col-lege on Tuesday, March 22 at 3p.m.