Volume 173, Number 6 November 15, 2010College of San Mateo • www.sanmatean.com

Stupid, dumb, and high feesJason Pun andJessica Ritter

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FBI questions Skyline professor, neighborsThe FBI questioned ten-year

Skyline Community College vet-eran professor of Economics, Ma-sao Suzuki Sept. 24, at 7 a.m.

Suzuki has been active as a self-proclaimed antiwar activist and is part of several organizations in San Jose, where he lives. He has also recently published an article in the November issue of The Ad-vocate, a publication by the Amer-ican Federation of Teachers Local 1493, of which he is Executive

Jessica RitterThe San Matean

Committee Co-Representivitve, describing the events.

“Basically a young man asked my name, and I said yes that was me, and he said he was from the FBI and asked if he could ask me a few questions, and I exercised my right to not answer his questions,” said Suzuki when explaining the events of the morning of Sept. 24. “He said he could come back later, and I said no, and he said he could come to my work and ask me a few questions, and I said no I didn’t want to talk to him, and he said that if I didn’t want to answer

his questions he’d ask my neigh-bors and co-workers instead, and I took that as a threat.”

“He did actually ask my neigh-bor, about meetings at my house,” added Suzuki.

On the same day that Suzuki was questioned by the FBI, seven anti-war activists’ homes were served subpoenas to appear at a Grand Jury Oct. 5 in Chicago, Illi-nois, according to Suzuki’s article in The Advocate.

The article also explains that Suzuki, when looking for simi-larities between himself and the

others involved, found that they were all self-proclaimed antiwar activists and that all had been, al-legedly, involved in protesting the 2008 Republican National Con-vention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

“Unfortunately this is an at-tempt to criminalize political thought,” said Suzuki. “The gov-ernment wants to redefine mate-rial support, which I would think of as guns and drugs, to what is said and written.”

The FBI declined to comment saying there was no warrant in-volved.

Photo courtesy of Gary Chancer

Crowds of about one million marched through San Francisco Nov. 3

Giants championship parade steals students from class

Hundreds of students took ad-vantage of the Nov. 3 parade to honor the World Series winning Giants to play a game of their own: hooky.

Dr. Muriel Brennan, an English professor and 23-year tenured in-structor at CSM, spoke of her feel-ings of lower attendance during the parade. “I wasn’t upset about the lower attendance, people have

waited all of their lives for this. Its nice to see the community come together in celebration,” said Brennan.

Lower attendance does worry some teachers because it is so late in the semester. “My peers and I are worried about falling behind so late in the semester. But we all agree that this is a once in a life-time opportunity for everyone,” said Professor Fredrick Gaines, an ethnic studies professor and 10-year tenured teacher at CSM.

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Although school attendance did take a huge hit as a result to the Giants’ championship parade, the parade represented a lot more than a day off school to students. “I had absolutely no problem skipping class to go to the parade because it’s something I may never get to be apart of again” said CSM student Thomas Davis, 20.

“I’m sure the teachers would have liked to be there too” added Davis.

Veterans honored at flag raising ceremonySee page 4-5

See “Tution” on page 2

State university systems ap-proved skyrocketing fees on Nov. 9 to address failed state legislation.

Students are facing a two-stage fee increase from CSUs. The tuition will rise by five percent beginning spring 2011, costing students an-other $105 per year. Following the initial increase, CSU’s will spike the tuition again by ten percent, costing students another $444.

These fee increases are aimed to counteract the lack of support from the state. A bill was supposed to be proposed in January to the state legislature containing a five percent increase in state support for CSUs. This assumed that the state-level colleges would match the five percent with a five percent tuition increase.

However, when the bill finally made it to a vote in October, it was lacking the financial backing for CSUs it had originally promised.

Now, after passing the tuition increase for fall semester 2010, they don’t have the five percent backing from the state in order to meet their operating quota. This spurred the necessity to generate the first stage of the tuition hike, explained Media Relations Specialist Erik Fallis.

The second stage, to be imple-mented fall 2011, will raise CSU

prices another ten percent. This second tuition increase is meant to address the dwindling of the $106 million contribution by the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund in 2009. The state contributed money is reaching it’s two year anniversary, and the CSUs need to address the constantly increasing number of applicants as well as maintain the operations on all 23 campuses.

“Even though you have one time money, you don’t have one time students,” said Fallis.

The CSU system aims to maintain their level of services and avoid closing courses, dismissing pro-

fessors, and calling furlough days. They also want to prevent closing their doors to transfers like they had to mid-year 2009-2010.

“There’s only so much cutting you can do before the services start to suffer,” said Fallis. These price increases are to address the uncertainties in the state budget.

“The state continues to slash support,” says San Mateo Country Community College Chancellor Ron Galatolo. Colleges have to do what they can to survive.

Galatolo went on to explain that CSUs and UCs keep the money that they acquire from tuition, allowing

them to set their own prices. Com-munity colleges, in contrast, have their tuition set by the state. That said, they then return the tuition back to the state.

The increase in tuition cost has led to mixed opinions from officials about how this will affect transfers. “There’s no direct evidence that this affects transfers or first time freshmen,” says Fallis; there’s no correlation between application numbers and fees. The CSU system intended to pass the agenda items early enough to give students and families time to prepare.

Only half of the students pay

tuition in full, while the other half doesn’t pay at all, thanks to the numerous means of attaining finan-cial aid. CSUs are still the lowest priced state colleges in the nation, says Fallis. “Even if you’re paying full tuition, if you’re a resident of California, you’re only paying one-third of what it costs to educate a student.”

Galatolo expressed his concern saying that a lot of students are struggling to make ends meet as it is, and that it’ll produce a greater demand for financial aid.

“This is really backing away from the master plan of the 60s— tuition free college,” said California State Student Association President, Chris Chavez. In 1989 the state was providing $11,000 for CSUs, but now it’s only $7,700.

“Unfortunately, CSUs are in a dire state. The state really dropped the ball,” says Chavez. The price hikes “hurts middle class students.”

UCs is also raising their prices by enacting an eight percent in-crease. This tuition change comes two months after the UC board of regents passed a pay increase for UC executives.

“That’s a slap in the face to students and a slap in the face to tax payers,” said Chief of Staff for Senator Leeland Yee’s Office Adam Keigwin. He pointed out

Photo courtesy of SMCCD.edu

Masao Suzuki

Butte gives ‘Dogs their third straight defeatSee page 7

Students roll the dice, shooting for an iPodSee page 6

News

San Mateo Farmers’ MarketEvery Wednesday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.CSM Lot 1B

Spring 2011 WebSMART registration by appointmentMonday, Nov. 15 to Monday, Jan. 17, all day

Pathway to Highly Selective Colleges and UniversitiesTuesday, Nov. 16, 11 a.m. to noonBldg. 17, Room 112, Office of Student Life

Notre Dame de Namur University Campus VisitWednesday, Nov. 17, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Upper Quad near Buildings 16, 17, and 18 CSM Library Free Web 2.0 WorkshopsWednesday, Nov. 17, 2:10 p.m. to 3 p.m.Library

14th Annual CSM Jazz FestivalFriday, Nov. 19, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.Building 3, Theatre

Create Natural Scented Festive CandlesSaturday, Nov. 20, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.CSM, for more info call 650-574-6149

CSU East Bay Campus VisitMonday, Nov. 22, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Building 16, Lobby

UC Application/Personal Statement WorkshopWednesday, Nov. 24, 9 to 10:30 a.m.Bldg. 17, Room 112, Office of Student Life

University of Davis Campus VisitWednesday, Nov. 24, 9 a.m to 2 p.m.

Declared Recess- Evening Courses OnlyWednesday, Nov. 24, All dayCSM Campus

Holiday- ThanksgivingThursday and Friday, Nov. 25 and 26CSM Campus

Holiday Angeles 18th Annual Toy DriveNow till Saturday, Dec. 18Student Life Center

Sports

CSM Women’s Basketball v.s. Los Mendanos CollegeWednesday, Nov. 17, 5:30 to 8 p.m.College of San Mateo

CSM Cross Country MeetSaturday, Nov. 20, 10 p.m.Fresno

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Pulitzer prize recipient speaks to class

Campus Blotter Tuesday, Oct. 19, between 12:15 and 4 p.m. — A student-athlete had an iPhone stolen from thewomen’s locker room, and there was no suspect information.

Monday, Oct. 25, unknown time — A person left a bicycle with a “friend” near the CSM Campus,then a student lost the bicycle somewhere on campus on Oct. 25. It was reportedon Nov. 3.

Monday, Nov. 8, 3 p.m. — There was a car accident on CSM Drive and Hillsdale Blvd. There was a com-plaint of pain only and there were no major injuries.

Information provided by John Wells, Chief Public Safety Officer, and Sergeant Dave Norris of The San Mateo Police Department.

— Sylvia VasquezThe San Matean

Bone marrow matches are diffi-cult to find due to infrequent donors, so Project Marrow is setting up a drive on campus to help change that during National Bone Marrow Awareness Month.

Project Marrow is setting up a drive on campus for National Bone Marrow Awareness Month to help combat the difficulty finding bone marrow matches caused by infre-quent donors.

Blood cancers, such as leukemia and aplastic anemia, are harder to treat due to infrequent donor match-es, among other factors. Former CSM graduate, Pardis Babzani, 29, Recruitment Executive for Project Marrow has scheduled a drive on Wed., Nov. 17 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30

p.m. between Buildings 16 and 18.“It’s a simple cheek swab to get

on the registry,” Babzani explains. For those who cannot attend, a kit can be sent to make it easy, still allowing students to get on the registry. “The kit involves an ap-plication and it’s 4 Q-tips for each quadrant of the mouth which can be mailed in.”

A major emphasis of the drive is awareness. There are so few people on the registry because of the gap in health care and so few people on the registry. There are hopes that students will be aware of the little things that can be done.

In addition to her hopes for educating students about treat-ments and ways to help, Babzani has a personal reason for getting involved. Her cousin, now 27, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia.

“Her brother was luckily a match,” she said. Some were not so lucky.

“So many people didn’t have matches. Many people were kind of lying there dying because no one was a match,” added Babzani.

San Mateo County Health De-partment did not have a specific number as to those afflicted with blood cancers, but in 2008, 10,000 people who needed bone marrow transplants, but only 4,300 were able to receive them. “The dispari-ties in health care, lack of referrals for treatment, and inability to find a matching donor. Minorities have a 30% less chance of finding a donor because the donor needs to be of the same ethnicity,” Babzani continued.

The state tumor registry is yet to comment on the number of those afflicted with blood cancers.

CSM becoming an occasional drinker

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Campus bone marrow drive

CSM, in its effort to raise funds by any means necessary, has acquired an alcohol license—al-lowing drinks to be sold at hosted campus events.

The Alcohol Beverage Control Act states that any public school (K-14) is prohibited of the con-sumption, possession and sale of alcoholic beverages on any public school grounds. However, there is an exception. Assemblyman Jerry Hill, who represents the 19th Dis-

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trict, proposed a bill known as AB 1748. Under this new bill, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, alcoholic beverages will be allowed to be sold and consumed only at special events or private receptions held on the CSM campus.

AB 1748 will take effect on Jan. 1, 2011.

“We’re not opening a bar,” said Barbara Christensen, Director of Community Relations. “We think it’s a viable revenue source.”

Students will not have access to alcoholic beverages under any circumstances. Only those who

participate in the special event or reception will have access. Of course, an alcohol license or permit will be required per event in order to serve alcohol, said Tom Bauer, Director of Auxiliary Services.

“I’m really excited about it, and it’s a great opportunity to generate more revenue for the facilities,” said Bauer

Rick McMahon, President of Pacific Dining, shares a similar opinion with Bauer, “We’re 100 percent behind it,” said McMahon. “It’s a great idea to raise a lot of money for the students.”

TuitionContinued from page 1

that if UCs plan on raising fees for students, then they shouldn’t be raising executive paychecks. “High salaries are keeping students from

attending.”A bill proposed last June to

prevent these pay increases dur-ing times of tuition increases was

turned down by the Governor Ar-nold Schwarzeneggar. “Huge lack of transparency,” said Keigwin in regards to the UC system.

Photo by Mario Ayala of The San MateanPaul Van Slambrouck

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For Paul Van Slambrouck, a pulitzer prize recipient, being a journalist is the most interesting job in the world. Van Slambrouck was a guest speaker in Ed Remitz’s Nov. 5 DGME 100 Media in So-ciety class .

Van Slambrouck, a past Bureau Chief of The San Francisco office for The Christian Science Monitor, recieved a pulitzer for coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake while working at The San Jose Mercury News.

It was the Battle of the Bay- World Series - the Giants were playing the A’s and the paper (The Mercury News) was planning a 12-page special on the series, said Van Slambrouck.

At 5p.m. - the earthquake hit, he said.

“It felt like a lifetime, like ev-erything was on fire ... this was the pivot moment,” Van Slambrouck said. The staff of The Mercury News ended up doing the 12-page special on the earthquake instead, he said. “The World Series Game turned into a pulitzer.”

Van Slambrouck shared a list of qualities that are needed to be a successful journalist with the class. He also shared several stories about his own experiences working in journalism .

Among these experiencesVan Slambrouck was an anthroplogy major in college and had never taken a journalism class.

“I was interested in photogra-phy and Anthropology didn’t pay much,” he said.

You can learn a lot from journal-ism, said Van Slambrouck.

“You are able to evaluate things according to facts -not just asser-tions,” he said.

“Journalism puts you in a unique position - you have certain special access to make a story clear and compelling - you will go a long way before finding a job that’s as interesting.”

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San Matean file photo

Reassurances of the stability of the college’s budget were offered Monday, Nov. 1, to a crowd of about 75 faculty and staff by Pres-ident Michael Claire and Budget Planning Committee Chair Rick Ambrose.

“We are in good shape and Mea-sure G has made it better for us,” said Claire at the beginning of the meeting. The rest of the meeting was a matter of covering details.

Over the last several years, from 2007/2008 through 2010/2011, there have been ongoing budget cuts, especially when compared with the budgets of Skyline or Cañada, leading up to a $287,569 budget reduction for CSM for the 2010/2011 fiscal year.

“CSM, for a long time, was re-ceiving ‘more than its fair share’ of funding,” said Claire, referring to statistics showing that funding was seven percent higher per Full Time Enrolled Student than it was at the sister colleges of the district in 2007, while funding is only one percent higher per FTES in 2010.

“This allocation model has re-

ally done what it was supposed to do,” added Claire, referring to the greater equality per student fund-ing levels.

Measure G, the $34 per par-cel property tax passed by voters in June, funds have contributed greatly to the stability of the col-lege’s budget as well. FUND 1 (the college’s general fund) was projected to run a $700,000 defi-cit for the 2010/2011 year, but with the now projected receipt of

$1.349 million for the college that deficit is now projected to be a $649,000 surplus.

“It’s nice to see that for the first time in a while,” said Ambrose, referring to the surplus.

All the budget numbers remain projections, however, as Ambrose said that the college won’t get the money until around December when property taxes, including the new parcel tax, are paid.

Also, despite district projec-tions of lower enrollment it turns out enrollment numbers are eas-ily high enough to assure current funding levels, said Claire.

With 94 percent of the college budget being accounted for by personnel spending, the planned move to shift bookkeeping re-sponsibilities, related to personnel benefits, from the district to each college was also discussed. While not actually contributing to actual spending changes, these account-ing shifts, it was warned, will make the numbers—both revenue and spending numbers, seem con-siderably larger than previously. The possibility that more control of benefit funding might increase the pressure to replace full-time

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College budget stable amidst chaosfaculty with more adjunct faculty, in order to free up more funds and hire more adjunct faculty still, was downplayed.

“I think it’s a balancing act,” said Claire. “We need full-time faculty, and I’m committed to that.”

There is also a state-mandated full-time faculty obligation num-ber, according to Claire, but there is some uncertainty whether or not it was suspended in the pro-cess of the state’s efforts to pass a budget.

“The question to ask,” said AFT Executive Secretary Dan Kaplan, after the meeting. “What if the state does put it on hold, will you put it on hold too?”

Claire emphasized the admin-istrations desire to maintain full-time faculty, even saying that the administration would like to hire 100 percent full-time faculty if it could.

“We are not going to be adding any administrators,” Claire added, as well.

There was also some question, addressed to Claire in an e-mail, as to whether or not the projected budget was in line with the lan-

guage of Measure G.“This in fact does line up with

the Measure G language,” said Claire to the audience, while at the same time explaining the need to fine tune the details of the alloca-tions, and the possible unevenness of spending between programs. “If we do this simple, across the board allocation, I think it would be a big mistake.”

The load rate of faculty was also addressed, which is a mea-sure of the number of class-units and student numbers being taught by professors. Claire acknowl-edged that the faculty load, whose target was set at 570, had climbed from a more usual 480 all the way up to as much as a 605. “I know that the load—you can’t sustain that forever,” said Claire. The goal, as set out by Claire, was to bring the faculty load back down so that students could be better served once again, in the wake of the confusion that ongoing budget cuts had created.

“We have to become a desti-nation institution,” said Claire. “People are going to have to want to drive by other institutions to come here.”

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Students win video, print awards at conference

About 250 student journalists from 18 community colleges, including CSM, participated in the 2010 NorCal Journalism Con-ference on Nov. 6 for an array of workshops as well as an award ceremony which included many of The San Matean’s journalists.

The Journalism Association of Community Colleges hosted the conference at San Jose State University.

Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, was the keynote speaker for the conference.

“There is an avalanche of pos-sibilities and information, but it is the responsibility of consumers to dig their way out,” said Gillmor.

Workshops taught by profes-sionals in the field journalism from around the nation were held in the campus’ classrooms, as well as various on-the-spot contests that would be handing out awards at the end of the day.

Timothy Hendrick, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at SJSU, taught the Business Side of Student Media: Increasing Profitability workshop. About 17 students attended the workshop to learn how student papers make money.

41 students attended the Mul-timedia Storytelling workshop, taught by Assistant Professor for New Media of SJSU, Kim Ko-menich.

“Multimedia is at least three pieces of media in presentation, written, photo and audio,” said Komenich as he explains what media really is.

“Still photo is about now. Audio interview is a time trip.”

Komenich told students that writing a story is like “peeling the onion,” because a story is sup-posed to be multi-layered. A story is supposed to continuously draw

in the reader right after they get all the facts with another semi-related fact, he said.

Another seemingly popular workshop was Media Law for the College Press: How NOT to Cross the Line and Get Sued taught by Diana Stover, Professor of Journal-ism at SJSU.

Stover explained to students the reasons why journalists get sued and how to avoid it. “What you can’t prove, don’t write about it.”

If a journalist quotes a lie in a story, it is still libel and the publisher can still get sued, warned Stover.

After the workshops, an award ceremony was held to award win-ners of the spring 2010 semester journalists whose articles were submitted for awards. Bring in and on-the-spot awards were also included in the ceremony.

Amongst the award winners were many of The San Matean’s very own journalists.

Cecile Basnage and Nick Zirbes won a Generally Excellent award for their video coverage of student budget protests in San Francisco and Sacramento last spring. Third place Web/Broadcast News was also awarded to Basnage and Zirbes as well, for their coverage of budget protests on campus during May of 2010.

Basnage’s full-page coverage of the Performance Dance Esemble last may won her a first place award for photo essays. Additionally, Bas-nage received a second Generally Excellent award for her coverage of diversity activities.

Current Executive Editor for The San Matean, Margaret Baum, won second place honors for her editorial on a longtime battle over student First Amendment rights and the journalism program. Baum also won Honorable Mentions for her student-designed advertisement: “Free pizza. Flat coke. The San Matean.”

For his coverage on a sports game last May, former sports editor Bruno

Manrique received third place for sports game coverage.

A profile of recent CSM gradu-ate Alexa Hemken, who started her own newspaper in Foster City, awarded former staff writer Christine Karavas fourth place for profile features.

Copy Editor for The San Matean, Alex Farr, was awarded with fourth place in Opinion writing for his on-the-spot piece on Gillmor, the conference’s keynote speaker.

Photo by Jessica Ritter of The San Matean

NorCal JACC conference crowd of journalism students.

President Michael Claire

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Flag raising ceremony honors Veteran’s DayA U.S. flag was raised in a Nov.

11 flag raising ceremony to honor veterans, active military, and all service members as well as their families. The flag which was flown during active duty (Operation Iraqi Freedom) was donated by Capt. Justin Erickson, son of business professor Cynthia Erickson.

The ceremony, organized by Mario Mihelcic, Certifying Of-ficial for Veterans Benefits, and Jeremy Mileo, Certifying Official for Veterans Benefits, was held at the college entrance in front of building 5.

The flag will be flown for two weeks, and then it will be framed and displayed at the college¹s Veterans Resource Center, which is scheduled to open in fall 2011, said Mihelcic. The new Veteran’s Resource Center will eventually be housed in Building 16 after the DSPS office moves into building 10.

President Mike Claire took the stage to thank veterans and their families for the sacrifices made.

Flags had not been flown at the front of the campus due to construc-tion, said Claire. This made the flag raising extra special, said Claire.

“In 2008-2009 there were 22,000 veterans enrolled in California community colleges. In 2009-2010 there were 26,600 veterans enrolled.”

All three speakers at the event had served in the military them-selves, beginning with Richard

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Steffen, District Director for Con-gresswoman Jackie Speier who served in the army for two years. “Much of what I did was after Kent State and the National Guard. The President asked for special units for civil protests,” Steffen said.

During his speech he said he received a “saliva bullet,” while on the streets of New York. “Protestors should be peaceful, but they blew up the draft station, they killed people,” he said.

Kathy Yeung, who joined the army in 2005, also spoke at the ceremony. She described the dif-ficulty in transitioning home.

“My friends and family at home didn’t understand how it was over there in Iraq, and my military friends, my ‘battle buddies,’ had an even harder time. Some had survivor’s guilt, some had PTSD, and some had drinking problems,” Yeung said.

In addition to the stresses of surviving duty, she noted aspects of school that made the transition difficult. “The hard part of being a student is instructors who may be anti-government or anti-military,” Yeung added.

She concluded her speech by wishing that people would not be anti-military and recognize the sacrifices that have been made.

The final speaker was Captain Justin Erickson, who served as a Psychological Operations Officer in Iraq, and who donated the flag for the ceremony. Erickson was also honored with a proclamation by Foster City on Aug.

2, 2010. “A flag is a symbol, something that unifies us all to-

gether. When we fly this flag here today, it is a symbol that everyone here is American,” Erickson said. The flag was flown over Camp Taji in Iraq on Mar. 5 to May 5, 2010.

Captain Erickson had two differ-ent tours, one being more IT related, the second more active.

With each deployment, the transition home was different. “In 2007 they rushed us out the door. Coming home from the recent tour, you can’t go anywhere without someone asking how you’re feel-ing. They really want to take care of potential PTSD,” Erickson said.

Cynthia Erickson, business professor attended the ceremony to watch the flag her son donated be raised.”Today was very over-whelming, I am very, very proud of him,” she said.

The ceremony was exceptionally well done, Cynthia Erickson said. “I am so appreciative that the school is doing this outreach, this is a first for CSM and I only hope that we can do more to help,” she said.

John “Gordon” Lunn, a veteran and accounting professor attended the ceremony. “It was very well done and very impressive,” said Lunn. “This is one of the few things done on Veteran’s Day that reflects the true meaning of Veteran’s Day,” he said.

President Mike Claire expressed his gratitude for the soldiers and their stories. “I was pleased to see how many people attended,” Claire said. The ceremony was important to him on a personal level because he has a family member who served in Vietnam, he said.

Graciousness seemed to be the

Ceremony attendees clap as the U.S. Flag is raised in front of Building 5. After the flag was raised the CSM Chorale Group sang “God Bless America.

Photo by Jessica Ritter of The San Matean

Children from the Mary Meta Lazarus Child Development Center watch the ceremony as they wave their plastic flags..

Photo by Jessica Ritter of The San Matean

A U.S flag that was flown during active duty (Operation Iraqi Freedom) was raised in a flag raising cermony on Nov. 11 to honor veterans, ac-tive military, and all service members as well as their families.

VeteraN’s Day

word of the day, as many expressed gratitude for the services these sol-diers provided.

“I’m thankful to Captain Justin Erickson for donating the flag that was flown in Iraq,” Mihelcic said. Part of the planning involved was having kids color flags to send to troops in Afghanistan.

The idea was to honor our vet-erans, active millitary, and their families and honor them in a context that the kept the fact that we are still involved in two wars in mind, said Mihelcic.

“When I found out that a flag had been donated, the natural outcome was to have a ceremony,” he said.

“About 300 veterans, reservists and dependents of veterans attend CSM. Of those, 179 are eligible for the GI Bill. This is a 70 percent increase since the post 9/11 GI Bill went into effect,” said Mihelcic. “CSM pays out one of the highest benefits in the nation under the Post 9/11 GI Bill.”

Other resources are made avail-able for veterans on campus includ-ing a “Welcome Home”scholarship to OIF/OEF veterans, along with an Emergency Book Loan program and a veterans club.

Psychological services is also undertaking a new program to help the families and friends of veterans.

Flag raising ceremony honors Veteran’s DayNovember 15, 2010

Photo by Jessica Ritter of The San Matean

Ceremony attendees clap as the U.S. Flag is raised in front of Building 5. After the flag was raised the CSM Chorale Group sang “God Bless America.

A corpsman’s duty in war is not engage in combat, but to stand be-hind and assist the sick and injured, as far as Jim Salomaa is concerned. Salomaa, 26, chose to carry a first aid kit and not fire his gun, while serving in Iraq in 2006 as a Navy corpsman. He later traded it for books and answers at CSM.

“A corpsman is the Navy’s and Marines’ medic that goes on mis-sions with them just in case things go wrong," said Salomaa.

Salomaa, who now resides in Foster City, is originally from Man-sfield, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the Navy in 2004.

“My brother was in the Army and he always told me stories about the military life and would tell me to join the Army,” said Salomaa. “But I knew the Navy had a better medical program. My interest was always to help people, so I knew what I wanted to do before I set a foot in the recruiting center.”

Salomaa’s first mission took place in the outskirts of Al Asad, Iraq. “The first thing I thought of when we landed in Iraq was, ‘Damn, it is 130 degrees’,” he said. “Adrenaline was pumping, I was spinning in circles, watching my back.”

Life after War

Salomaa’s experiences in Iraq shed a light on the path he wanted to follow in life. “Every time I would be in action, everything I was taught came out naturally,” he said.

“After I came back, I worked at a military hospital in a Twenty-Nine Palms military base for two years, where I worked as a multi-service ward. It made me realize that I wanted to be in control of things, and back then and there I wasn’t,” he said.

After experiencing life-threaten-ing situations and looking out for his fellow soldiers, Salomaa took his first steps in pursuing a career—

Manuel OrbegozoThe San Matean

enrolling at CSM in Fall '09, with the help of financial aid programs provided for veterans.

The new GI Bill, originally es-tablished in 1944 but renewed in July of 2008 as the “Post-9/11 GI Bill”, provides college education and financial aid for all veterans that enlisted after Sept. 10, 2001, as-sisting them with a chance to study a career after leaving the military.

There are an estimated 300 vet-erans on campus, out of which 190 actively use the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, said Mario Mihelcic, certifiying of-ficial for veterans’ benefits.

“A veteran must be enrolled for a minimum of 7 units to receive free benefits; tuition, $1,000 for books and a monthly allowance,” said Mihelcic. “CSM pays the high-est in the nation, along with other northern California colleges.”

“It is nice to receive that sort of aid from the military, but it’s not forever, nor do I want it to be,” said Salomaa. “I want to make it on my own.”

Salomaa chose Criminal Justice as a major intending to become a

police officer. “In Iraq I would go on missions

with the Convoy Security, which are equivalent to cops over there,” said Salomaa. “Plus, I always wanted to be one”.

Bone Marrow Donation

On a morning in May, 2010, Salomaa received a call from the Department of Defense Bone Marrow.

Back in 2006, while at boot camp, Salomaa signed up to donate bone marrow in the case it was needed by a fellow veteran.

“They were asking for other types of donation like money and such, but I was interested in the donating bone marrow after learning how hard and rare it was to find match-ing DNA,” said Salomaa.

Salomaa’s DNA had found a match: a 57-year-old war veteran fighting leukemia who will be the final judge whether or not to reveal his identity.

“I was given the option to not go forward with this if I didn’t want to anymore.” said Salomaa “But I

Photo by Jessica Ritter of The San Matean

Flags lined up in Building 5 for the Flag Raising Ceremony on Nov. 11.

Photo by Jessica Ritter of The San MateanJohn “Gordon” Lunn, veteran and professor of Accounting.

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- All vets even if they are not students will qualify for

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-Any vet enrolled at CSM will get the student rate (lowest rate)

-No veteran will be charged the registration fee.

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always knew he (the patient) never chose to be sick and if I could help him in any way I would”

Salomaa flew to Washington, D.C. in September for a few extra tests at the Georgetown University Hospital prior to the transplant.

In early November, he went back for the final procedure that took five days total.

The first four he spent receiving shots of a synthetic hormone called filgrastism to increase the number of his blood stem cells.

On the fifth day, he received one last shot and the procedure of col-lection that lasted five hours.

While hooked up to two IVs, one focused on withdrawing blood from his right arm and separating white blood cells through a machine, then finally returning the blood

back on another IV hooked up to his left hand.

“It didn’t really hurt and I was awake the whole time.” said Sa-lomaa. “The presence of my girl-friend and a mini movie marathon definitely helped.”

Salomaa’s actions took people by surprise, according to long-term girlfriend, Kelley Brooks, 23, and even inspired others to take a new initiative in donating bone marrow.

“A lot of people are surprised that he is doing this for a person he doesn’t even know,” says Brooks.

“A co-worker of mine now also wants to donate after hearing his story,” she said.

“I hope he wants to meet me as much as I want to meet him.” Salomaa said. “I want to tell him I’m inside of him.”

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Students gamble everything at CSMErasmo MartinezThe San Matean

Alex Allarde, 19Undecided, Redwood City

“I was at home. I just knew they were gonna win..”

Where were you when the Giants took the World Series?

In the Mix By Nick O’Shea and Sylvia Vasquez

Ryan Tom, 19 Biology, Foster City

“I was at home watching the game. I cried a bit.”

Marco Esquiuel, 19Marketing, San Bruno

“I was at work. I made it home in time for the very last pitch.”

Brittany Arthur, 19Cognitive Science, San Bruno

“I was at home with my family. My dad was so pumped at their win that he jumped into the pool.

Raul Gutierrez, 29Architecture, Belmont

“In Castro Valley. I’ve never really been a baseball fan, but this game sounded interesting.”

Students got a small preview of the Vegas Strip on Wednesday, Nov. 3, while competing for an iPod Touch during Casino Day.

Casino Day was held by the Associated Students of CSM in-side the student life center, with students participating in games of Blackjack, Poker, Roulette, and Craps. Despite ASCSM’s doubts about a huge turn-out, many students rushed through during passing periods to join in the fun, with some even staying rather than going to class.

Associate Senator Sashka Leahy, 21, enjoyed herself in a game of blackjack. “It’s fun and challeng-ing,” she said. “The iPod being a

grand prize is very motivating. “Each student needed their student

I.D. to participate. Free tickets were given to each student and were worth 150 dollars in chips. The grand prize was an iPod touch while movie passes, video games, and gift cards were among others. Drip coffee and Pacific Cafe pro-vided some prizes as well, while all other expenses were covered by the student body fee funds.

“I’d estimate over 100 people, at least, came,” said Student Senator Soran Mofati, 20, who was work-ing at the event. “It’s a good turn out. People have been enjoying it.”

Student body vice president Tino Sandiego, 19, organized the event with Jeff Gonzalez, 21.

The main goal was to have one last fun event before the pressure of

finals became a burden for students, he said. “We had gotten an idea from a leadership conference,” said Sandiego. “We wanted something that was a relief for students. The whole thing has been a success.”

In order to get the games, the student body hired Aces Up, a company that organizes casino par-ties. They provided three blackjack tables and one table each of poker, roulette, and craps. Joel Oubre, 26, was the manager of the event. “It’s a great opportunity to build a community,” he said. “Students can have fun and take a break.”

“I think it’s great that the student senate came up with the idea,” said Bill Callahan, a student services assistant. “I’m proud of the student senate. Students are having a lot of fun.”

Photo by Jason Pun of The San Matean

Sean Carhart, 19, throws the dice while Joshua Hublitz, 19, looks on.

Photo by Roger Boucher of The San Matean

Serenading the deadEthnic Studies Professor Rudy Ramirez, 58 years young, playing with, and on, his guitar for an altar on campus during the Día de los Muertos celebration Monday, Nov. 1.

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Butte gives ‘Dogs third loss in a rowJeffrey AldingerThe San Matean

Butte Roadrunner Nikolas Vasquez kicked a 27-yard field goal, with seven seconds remain-ing, to beat the Bulldogs 38-37 in a thriller game on Saturday, Nov. 5.

After a 6-0 start and being ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation, the No. 13 ranked Bulldogs (6-3, 1-3) have lost three straight games, including this latest loss to the No. 4 ranked Roadrunners at College Heights Stadium.

The first half was dominated by the Bulldogs. CSM took the open-ing kick and drove 90 yards on nine plays, topped off by a Tana Afeake (3 carries, 22 yards) 16-yard touch-down run. Wide receiver Rahsaan Vaughn caught touchdown passes of 90-yards and 53-yards and Danny Godfrey (5 carries, 22 yards) scored on a 1-yard plunge as the Bulldogs finished the half with a comfortable 27-7 lead.

Vaughn finished the game with 5 catches and a career-high 202 yards receiving.

Quarterback Julian Bernard (4-7, 62 yards) had a four yard touchdown run with seven minutes and 13 seconds remaining in the third quarter to give the ‘Dogs a 34-14 lead. Bernard replaced Miles Freeman (3-6, 122 yards and two touchdown passes) who was injured midway through the third period and did not return to the game.

Then everything began to unravel for the ’Dogs.

The Roadrunners (7-1, 3-1) scored on their next two posses-sions, the second on an 85-yard punt return by wide receiver Rashad

Photo by Petero Qauqau of The San MateanButte Roadrunners trip up Bulldog Rahsaan Vaughn, one tackler losing his helmet in the effort.

Ross, cutting the Bulldog lead to one possession, 34-28, with seconds remaining in the third quarter.

Bulldogs kicker Kenny Anderson nailed a 37-yard field with seven minutes remaining in the game, giving the ‘Dogs an eleven point

cushion, 37-28.Butte took the ensuing kickoff

56 yards in less then two minutes and got into the end-zone on a six yard touchdown run by running back Markus Preciado (8 carries, 43 yards). Vaughn recovered the

on-side kick but the Roadrunner defense did their job and the Bull-dogs had to punt after three plays.

With three minutes and 24 sec-onds remaining, the Roadrunners marched 70 yards down the field in 12 plays to set up the game-winning

field goal. 39 of those 70 yards were picked up on the ground, led by the running tandem of Dennis Tromaine (27 carries, 126 yards, 2 touchdowns) and Preciado.

The Bulldogs will go to the East Bay Nov. 12, to face Laney College.

A mix of nerves and inexperience resulted in the CSM Women’s Bas-ketball team’s 67-48 loss against Monterey Peninsula College in their 2010 home season opener on Friday, Nov. 5.

The Lady Bulldogs’ (0-1 overall, 0-0 Coast-North Conference) re-building squad lost four of their five starters, as they added 10 freshmen this off-season.

MPC (1-0 overall, 0-0 Coast-South Conference), equipped with an all-sophomore starting lineup, exploited every defensive mistake by the Bulldogs, making them pay for wide-open looks at the basket and their lack of transition defense.

CSM, one of the best in the con-ference last season with a signature

Season starts off with a lossBruno ManriqueThe San Matean

run-and-gun play-style, seemed to lack every bit of that aggressive-ness, mostly due to the departure of All-Conference shooting guard Erica Hayes and the front-court presence of Janisa Jones. Hayes’ and Jones’ athletic play created fastbreak opportunities off steals, blocks and long rebounds that were often converted into scores.

MPC’s veteran guard play over-powered a much smaller CSM team and abused them in the fastbreak, where the Lobos amassed nearly 20 points.

The Bulldogs started the first half with a turnover, a trend that carried on for the entirety of the game, having 33 total, as errant passes and lack of communication were constantly being punished by a running MPC team.

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CSM managed to keep the score close after two made free-throws from sophomore power forward Trish Malaspina, as they trailed 26-17 at the end of the first half.

The Lobos came back aggres-sively, holding on to offensive rebounds and getting fouled in the process.

MPC went on a 17-4 run, racking up the Bulldogs’ first half scoring efforts in just six minutes.

Sophomore guard Rochelle Welsh single-handedly torched the Bulldogs from outside, scoring five three-pointers in a 29-point night effort. “Me and Brittney [Giam-manco] are the only ones with the green light to shoot,” said Welsh, 19. “We’re a fast team and we’re told to run, so I think today we mostly outran them.”

The 5-foot-9 Welsh scored from every angle, whether it was after an offensive rebound, from the free-throw line, or bombing away from deep where she made most of the damage.

Welsh was left open beyond the arc, where defenders seemed to lose her at times, which proved costly.

“We had ourselves in a hole,” said Malaspina, 20. “We were just nervous during the game, we need to figure out how to get back [from deficits], communicate, and improve our defense.”

Malaspina led CSM with 19 points, eight rebounds, and a block.

The Bulldogs will host De Anza College on Friday, Nov. 12, at 5:30 p.m.

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Center Sarah Balling, in white, scraps with Natasha Ray, in black.

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editorial

I DREAM of residency

“You can go to school and you can get an education even if you aren’t documented,” said David Ibanez, a panel member of the Latino Empowerment Alliance. But with the recent detention and possible de-portation of the undocumented City College student Steve Li, we’re are left to ask; “Can you really?”

Even though protests and letter drives are being organized to rally against Li’s detention, mass support doesn’t outweigh law. Since the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which would grant deportable alien students an opportunity for conditional residen-cy, has yet to pass, undocumented students are still in the cross hairs of deportation snipers.

Even without the DREAM Act alien students are protected by AB 540, which offers them the ability to stay in school if they meet certain conditions. And though undocumented students are given avenues of support, such as scholarship opportunities with the Bay Area Garden-er’s Foundation and EOPS programs at schools, another problem pres-ents itself. As Henry Villareal, Diversity In Action Group chair, asked: So an undocumented student gets through higher education, they get their degrees, then what? They still can’t get jobs without papers.

But what is the purpose of education? According to author John Gat-to, and former New York teacher of the year, one of the main purposes of public education is to create better citizens. Through years and years of being subjugated by teachers to become acculturated, any person, documented or not, who goes through the educational system should be considered acclimated to our ideas of citizenship. If they understand and can work within the American society, should they not be afforded the benefit of being treated as one of our brethren?

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I don’t wanna grow up

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Joan of Arc was only 17 when she led the French army to many sig-nificant victories in the Hundred Years War. Centuries ago, kings were seated on the throne as young as 18. Even just one generation back, people were ready for life and out of the house right after high school.

These days in our culture, the title of “kid” can be applied to people as old as 24. Doing nothing but emulating the drunk and youthful icons on TV, “kids” today think being grown up means being able to get into clubs and staying out late at night.

Teen movies subtly coax the young into believing that staying child-ish is the only goal in life, that things like having a job are little more than extracurricular activities on the same level as after-school sports. The Ridgemont High alumni taught us being stoner losers was okay, as long as we stayed young. Toys R’ Us even gave us a song to express the notion that we shouldn’t grow up. [Start singing here].

To quote George Bernard Shaw; “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” But our generation may be taking this idea too far. While in some cultures, the age of 15 is considered a part of adulthood, in ours, an 18 year old who gets in trouble can be pardoned because...“they’re just a kid.”

The time is nigh to finally grow up. The only ones who benefit from our continued childishness are the corporations feeding on the latest trend—who’d buy $150 Nike shoes if there were no “kids” trying to look like Lebron James?

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It sounds plain and simple— “you get what you pay for,” but voters keep behaving as if that doesn’t apply to them.

On Nov. 2 voters approved Proposition 25, as well as Propositions 22 and 26; and on Nov. 10 CSU trustees approved a two-tiered 15 percent tuition hike. Much as the public-at-large seems content to just dismiss so many numbers as confusing, or unimportant, the fact is that, whether or not one can solve the equation of their relativity, the numbers are indeed related.

For those who are allergic to numbers, the simple answer is: when people vote against sharing the costs for things like education among the public-at-large, then those costs show up somewhere else— in fee hikes for example. Yes, it is that simple.

That may be fine for those who aren’t in school. And, when the time comes, that may be fine for those who don’t use other public services— tap water, county hospitals and emergency rooms, police services, fire services, mosquito abatement services, the list goes on and on.

Does it sound absurd? Does the argument: “I shouldn’t have to pay for the education of other people’s kids,” sound absurd?

How about the argument: “I shouldn’t have to pay for the killing of mosquitoes that bite other people?”Is sharing the cost of educating the children of one’s community more, or less, burdensome than sharing

the cost of killing every last pesky mosquito in the community? Or putting out every fire in the community?Proposition 25 lowers the threshold for passing a budget to a simple majority, while Proposition 26 raises

the threshold for government imposed fee changes to a two-thirds majority and Proposition 22 will put many local property tax dollars out of reach of state lawmakers trying to pass and balance budgets with two-thirds majority requirements to pass any laws to raise money. At a time when 10 of 40 state senators have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a pledge to oppose any and all tax increases, and 23 of 80 state assembly members have also signed, a list of whose names can be found at atr.org, that is about one quarter of state legislators opposed to tax increases no matter how bad the state’s revenue picture gets.

Voters this season may have increased the ability of the state legislators to pass a budget, but we have at the same time decreased the ability of those legislators to actually raise, or even juggle, the money to fund whatever budget they might want to pass.

Yes— we.When fee increases, in the face of state under-funding, evokes profanity we should all remember who to

curse. We the people.

—Alex FarrThe San Matean

You get what you pay for

What do you think of the election results?

Mele Langi, 18, Poli. Sci., Redwood City

“I think it’s ironic the democratic party won all the polls.”

Daniel Johnson, 21, Massage Therapy, San Mateo

“I didn’t really care. I’m not a registered voter.”

Santiago Espinoza, 18, Undecided, San Francisco

“I didn’t really know much about it, except Prop. 19 didn’t pass.

Amanda Labrado, 17, Undecided, San Bruno

“All the money Meg Whitman spent on advertising could’ve fixed our deficit.”

Garrett Serrato, 18, Engineering, Burlingame

“I didn’t really follow that much. This was going to be my first time voting..”

Sam Taylor, 20, Commercial, Chicago

“I was a little shocked and kind of disappointed that voting wasn’t such a big deal for people.”