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Shots fire. Musketeers charge down the staircase to-ward the rebel Huguenots who are attacking them. Two Mus-keteers fall, and an explosion kills five combatants. The main character, D’Artagnon, sees his comrades fall, then charges from the stairs only to be bru-tally slaughtered. The Muske-teers lie dead at the base of the stairs.
“Oh my…Oh, no…oh dear. This won’t do at all. Out, Out, Out!!!” cries Alexandre Dumas, the author of the story of “The Three Musketeers.” “Never
hurts to have the author on your side,” one Musketeer comments as the scene resets and the enemy numbers are reduced.
Dumas is an author strug-gling to finish his newspaper serial on time. He is being ha-rassed by his editor, so he be-gins to write “The Three Mus-keteers,” an adventure with action, daring and romance.
The American River College theater department’s produc-tion of “The Three Muske-teers” opens April 26 at 8 p.m. The cast is already enthusiastic
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Broken police call box raises concerns about student safety
By Jessica [email protected]
AN INCREASE IN CRIME BRINGS AWARENESS TO STUDENTS WHO NO LONGER FEEL SAFE AND SECURE ON CAMPUS
There has been a recent hike in campus crime across the United States, including at American River College. Last November, a woman was taken from campus at knife-point and was sexually assaulted. Students need to showcase caution on campus more than ever, especially when walking around by themselves.
If you find physically that you’re in an uncompromising situation, ARC has imple-mented security precautions. There are 14 blue light-up call boxes placed across the campus, an increase in police patrolling the grounds, and a shuttle for students who take night classes.
You can find the blue light-up call boxes, which will connect you directly to police dispatchers during an emergency situation, spread throughout the campus. Currently, one of ARC’s boxes is out of order on the fourth floor in the parking garage. So what should you do if you find yourself in danger near a call box that’s broken?
“Program the campus police emergency line into your cell phone (916-558-2221), call the emergency line and press 0, and then you get to talk to a live operator,” Speech professor Alissa Shubb said.
Even with these entities implemented throughout the campus, students are still struggling to feel safe and secure. Public an-nouncements around school about crime could help more people feel safe. Across America, it has been proven through numer-ous polls that women feel less safe on col-
SEE SAFETY, PAGE 2
Engarde! Join “The Three Muske-teers” on a grand adventureARC THEATRE PRODUCTION TOUCHES ON EVERY END OF THE EMOTIONAL SPECTRUM TO CLOSE OUT THE SEASONBy Jonathan H. [email protected]
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Matthew Johnston and Aaron Bayless practice dueling with fencing swords during a fight scene rehearsal for the ARC theatre produc-tion of “The Three Musketeers” which runs from April 26 to May 5.
SEE MUSKETEERS, PAGE 8
American River College has many people walk through its halls, all on dif-ferent paths, from different backgrounds, and with different experiences. One such former ARC student is freelance jour-nalist Eric Webb, who never thought his family’s tragic life experience would now become a movie starring one of Holly-wood’s hottest actors.
Eric Webb’s father, Pulitzer Prize-win-ning investigative journalist Gary Webb, wrote a three-part series for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 called “Dark Alli-ance.” The stories explored and exposed the connection between the CIA support-ing Nicaraguan Contra and the crack co-caine epidemic that hit African-American communities in the 1980s.
The reaction to Gary Webb’s story
devastated his career and reputation, ultimately destroying many of his re-lationships. Webb’s biography is being made into a feature film starring Jeremy Renner as the lead role.
The movie, called “Kill the Messenger,” draws from two books: “Kill the Mes-senger,” by Nick Schou, and Gary Webb’s own book, “Dark Alliance: the CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explo-
sion.”Eric Webb left his successful career as
a journalist at ARC in order to edit “The Killing Game,” a book that includes all of the “Dark Alliance” stories, along with many of Gary’s other investigative pieces. The book was published in 2011, seven years after Gary’s death, and lists both Gary and Eric’s name on the cover and spine.
“Even when my father was alive, there was a movie deal about [“Dark Alliance”] going on,” Eric Webb said. “When 9/11 happened, everybody backed out because of how it dealt with the government.”
The movie finally caught major at-tention when it was confirmed in early Feb. that Renner would play Gary Webb. Renner’s own production company, The Combine, is co-producing, along with former Universal Producer Scott Stuber’s company, Bluegrass Films.
“It took a long time, but the real jump was getting Jeremy Renner behind the film,” Eric Webb said about the process. His mother, Susan Stokes, is also happy with Renner’s support.
“I was just so excited that Jeremy Renner is playing Gary,” Stokes said. “I just thought he was such a good pick for the role. He’s known about this movie and said he wanted the role for over a year and stuck with it this whole time.”
Some major players are also tied to the film. Focus Features has worldwide rights to the film, which keeps it with parent company, Universal Pictures, who origi-nally approached Gary Webb about pro-duction almost 10 years ago.
Michael Cuesta, executive producer and director of the TV series “Homeland” is set to direct the film.
The screenplay was written and de-veloped by Peter Landesman, who was a good friend of the elder Webb and has interviewed Stokes in-depth to develop the story.
Finally having the opportunity to help with telling his fathers story, Eric Webb hopes to find closure and change public perceptions about Gary Webb. Conspira-cy theories abound online, with stories of
MOTION PICTURE CEN-TERS ON NATIONAL CONTROVERSY OF FOR-MER ARC STUDENT’S FATHER GARY WEBBBy Jeff Gonzales & Tracy Johnson [email protected]@gmail.com
SEE WEBB, PAGE 6
A LOOKINSIDE 2 11ARC Confessions 9 Current EditorialThe Gap-Toothed Madness
Students discuss relationship problems, issues on campus and clique dysfunctions
ARC student’s magazine allows writers and artists the opportunity to be published
Students need to step up and vote
Photo courtesy of Getty Images / Photo Illustration by Daniel Rom
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Such are the confessions to be found on the American River Con-fessions Facebook page:
“After almost two years of college I’m seriously considering calling it quits.”
“I cheat on my girlfriend regularly with girls I meet in class, and see no problem with this.”
The page is just the closest-to-home of a recent trend. College con-fession pages have been popping up all over the Internet and across the country in the last few years. These pages deal in the posting of anonymous confessions from alleged students. Their subject matter touches on a variety of subjects, including “slut-shaming,” nerd bash-ing, relationship dysfunction and clique rivalries.
“Most of the time the site is used for bashing someone. If they ac-tually used it for what it should be, I think it would be a little more enjoyable.” said Elizabeth Belmont, biology major. “Maybe when they refer to actual names, that should be anonymous, just blank out the names and it would be a lot better and wouldn’t anger as much peo-ple as it is now.”
Positive confessions appear, but are few and far between. “I’m hap-py as [expletive] right now cuzz. … When I was young I coulda never dreamed of somethin like this. Im just a few months away from get-ting my AA. Tho it may not be much, im just happy im doin something with my life. Im just happy to be here man, I really am. Thank U,” one such anonymous confession read.
The apparent overriding concern of the page is the large number of confessions alleging the submitters masturbate on campus. “If stu-dents are coming across crimes out there and it’s not being reported ... We have no knowledge that it’s even occurring,” said Sgt. Olsen.
With at least one confession mentions reporting another person pleasuring themselves in their car, that’s surprising. Campus police
knew nothing about the page until approached for comment.Confessions are submitted anonymously through a SurveyMonkey
page and then posted by a page moderator. While other schools seek to protect student privacy by not posting confessions, which call out individuals by name, American River Confessions publishes such con-fessions in all their daytime talk show glory. Posts call out students, especially athletes, by number or even name, alleging details of sexual conduct.
One confession claimed to have witnessed sexual acts performed by a player on a coach, while another accused a player of having a sexually transmitted disease. The subject of a confession can be de-termined simply by a complete description, or through behavior.
The page is not associated with the college in any way and very few of the confessions are even possible to substantiate. The name “Amer-ican River Confessions” is something of a misnomer, even, as many of the “confessions” are more akin to venting, insults, accusations, in-stigations or escalation of conflict, rather than personal admittances.
lege campuses than men. The United States Student As-
sociation reports that 13 percent of college women have admitted to being stalked during an aca-demic school year, and one in five have reported being sexually as-saulted.
“My first day, when I went to the cafeteria, I felt really uncomfort-able because there were so many stares,” freshman Marie Delman said. “I had a few people come up to me and say, ‘Aye girl what’s your name? Can I get your num-ber?’ It was really overwhelming for my first day.”
If you’re still having problems feeling safe on campus, here are a few tips for you to ensure
your safety: Always make sure you’re aware of your surround-ings, stop looking at the screen of your phone and messing with your iPod, know what is going on around you so you won’t be taken by surprise.
If you can implement the buddy system, walk with your friends to your car and drive everyone else to theirs. If you cannot walk to your car with someone, carry something to help defend your-self, such as pepper spray.
“Wherever you are, you have to remember to be cautious,” Del-man said.
Remember that anyone can be a victim of assault. Stay safe on campus, no matter who you are.
Page 2 NewsApril 3, 2013
Editor-in-ChiefJosh Baumbach
Managing EditorSergio Portela
News EditorJeff Gonzales
Sports EditorJessica Maynard
Arts & Culture EditorAlisha Kirby
Assistant Arts & CultureEditor
Carlos Guerrero
Scene EditorCintia Lopez
Opinions EditorMayra Sanchez
Photo EditorDaniel Romandia
Assistant Photo EditorEmily K. Rabasto
Web EditorKorbl Klimecki
Assistant Web EditorJonathan H. Ellyson
Social Media DirectorJared Thornburg
Copy ChiefRobert Aguilar-Rudametkin
Design EditorsSteven Condemarin
Sarah Scott
Distribution ManagerCarlos Guerrero
Staff WritersMark AhlingEd Gebing
Jorden HalesNatasha HoneywoodNikita McGee-Davis
Tracy Johnson NovakAlex PanasenkoCesar RamirezOlesya Sytnyk
Sam Urrea
Staff PhotographersMark Ahling
Stephanie Lee Michael PachecoAlex PanasenkoJenn Schopfer
Contributing EditorJaime Carrillo
AdviserKel Munger
Photo AdviserJill Wagner
POLICYThe Current is produced by the students of Newspaper Production, J402. All opinions are signed and not necessarily endorsed by the Current staff. All letters and articles appearing in the Editorial, Opinion or Forum sections are not necessarily representative of the Current staff or American River College policy. All articles are the property of the Current. Please go online at arcurrent.com to see the full text of criteria and guidelines for submissions. Letters must be typed and can be submitted by mail, e-mail or in person at the following addresses:
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PROUD MEMBERS OF THE CNPA & JACC
BOARD MEMBERS NEED SOME WORDS TO GROW BY ASBNOTEBOOK
Over the past few months the American River College Associated Student Body has seen tough times, but like spring, are push-ing up with new developments. Opportuni-ties, legislation and new faces are popping up around the ASB.
Senate Vice President Omba Kipuke sent out a communication via email regarding the board’s activities and behavior, an email that might be a call to action. “We are starting to become a bit lazy and with that unintention-al unprofessional conduct…we must get our (stuff) together,” Kipuke said. “Thank you all for just, well, being awesome. But with being awesome people, some of us are not doing such an awesome job fulfilling our obliga-tions.”
With student by-laws still unfinished and new business piling up, some may tend
to agree with Kipuke. The smallest topics, which if read through thoroughly should be a quick job for this intelligent group. However the slightest little items seem to bottleneck them with side chatter and non-essential de-liberating.
The student by-laws have been on the agenda now for five weeks and counting. Kip-uke’s email charged that some board mem-bers were not prepared and simply did not even understand what they were discussing. On the matter Kipuke said: “A lot of you didn’t even bother to read a bit of it and it’s not a good look.” Kipuke goes on to paint a great image of a giant bald eagle swarming into board members’ homes to snatch up and take copies of by-laws. There is something sad yet patriotic about that image.
ASB also lost time appointing Director of Public Relations, Shawna Milesi.
Announcement of her resignation by Presi-dent Robey was via email. “She was a tremen-
dous asset to our team, and I know this deci-sion was not easy for her,” Robey said about the resignation.
The ARC student board continued to work on bits of new business, and some board members are committed to positive resolu-tions and are dedicated to increase the public relations between the student body and the ASB Board.
“ASB as a whole has to get more creative with getting the word out, find that the com-munication sector that works, and simply ask our constituents what would make them vote,” said Robey.
The board continues its journey to bring new faces and positive changes to ASB, but while doing so, it struggles to pass simple resolutions that are written by its members.
The struggle for excellence is never the easiest path, and the critical public eye can sometimes bring weeds into the prettiest of spring gardens.
By Mark [email protected]
The American River College Confessions page, as of April 2, has 559 likes on Facebook, and 1,168 posts.
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Safety: campus safety causes concern
Confessions page throws spotlight on campus indiscretions
By Korbl [email protected]
STUDENTS TAKE TO THE INTERNET TO RANT, CONFESS, AND CALL EACH OTHER OUT
Photo Illustration by Jenn Schopfer
Emergency panels are around the parking garage to alert campus police to emergency situations. Several units in the garage are out of order.
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U.S. Military veterans’ transi-tioning back into civilian life can find things difficult upon their return. Fortunately for veterans, there are programs to help them. Along with American River Col-lege, campuses across the nation have re-entry centers and clubs to help make the transition into college from the military a little easier.
Re-entry centers help veter-ans who are trying to adjust to being back in the civilian world. These centers help with the challenges that college brings, as well as what it’s like to work in the civilian sector again.
People like Kolleen Ostgaard, the supervisor of the Veterans Center, and Daniel Ayers, the president of the ARC Association of Student Veterans, make this happen on our campus. Howev-er, for the Veterans Center, things have been changing, and it’s not
as easy as it seems to keep these things running.
There is a serious short-age of help over at the Veterans Center at the mo-ment. “Right now we have one student by the name of Shiloh Hillman, he’s a vet-eran, he worked there last semester, and he’s in there right now”.
According to Ostegaard, Hillman only works around 10 hours a week due to other commitments.
The Veterans Information Center was previously run by the counseling center, but has recenty been taken over by Os-tergaard.
Budget cuts are a big reason why things have been changing the way they are, and, unfortu-nately, there isn’t much Oster-gaard, or anyone else for that matter, can do about it.
The Veterans Information Center used to be the Re-entry Center as well, but it was closed at the beginning of the semester when they were trying to shut down the re-entry portion due to budget cuts.
“When we re-opened as the Veterans Information Center, we had to restructure it a bit, so we have limited hours right now, but we hope that over time we will be able to expand those hours
significantly,” said Ostergaard. Right now the center is only
open a few hours a week, but veterans that need help can go to the school’s website, or visit the Veterans Service Office, located next to the counseling office on campus. As far as the transition-ing and re-entry part, veterans are, unfortunately, going to have to go off campus for the help that is always available at the local Veterans Centers.
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INBRIEFASSOCIATED STUDENT BODY
ELECTIONSThe ASB will be holding elections
for the Student Senate and Club and Events Board posts on April 16 and 17. Voting will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on both days. The candidates will be having a forum on April 11 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
RESUME EVALUATIONS On April 9 and 10 from 9:00
a.m.- 6:00 p.m., you can bring a copy of your current résumé for a private evaluation in the Student Services Building at the ARC Career Center. If you want more information call the Career Center at 916-484-8492.
LAST DAY TO DROP FULL-SEMESTER CLASSES
Monday, April 29, 2013, is the last day to drop full-semester classes. There will be a “W” notation on any-one who drops a class.
FACULTY RECITAL: DR. DYNE EIFERTSEN
On Friday, April 12, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. there will be a free ARC faculty recital. Dr. Dyne Eifertsen will be playing the trombone/electronic loops with special guest Alex Jenkins on the drums. There will be poetry readings and projected artwork from ARC Fac-ulty and student writers. It will be held in the ARC Music Dept. room 547. For more information, contact Dr. Dyne Eifertsen at 916-484-8676.
REGISTRATION DATES FOR FALL 2013 SEMESTER
Depending on their priority status, students will be able to start enrolling in classes for the Fall 2013 semester between April 29 and May 17. You can log onto your eServices account to see your enrollment date or speak to a counselor to discuss your enroll-ment status.
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In Volume 64, Edition 9 of The Current, the following corrections are listed:
CORRECTIONS
Front page March in March photo byline should read Emily K. Rabasto.
On page two, the American River Cur-rent Mast Head Distribution Manager
is spelled incorrectly.
On page three, “New Trustee Elected in Special Election”, in the deck, our math is incorrect stating less than .01 percent of students voted and only 569 did. An extremely low number of students voted.
On page four, “Hitting comes naturally to Jimenez,” Jimenez is spelled incor-
rectly in the cutline.
On page five, sports updates ”Men’s Golf,” the last match is incorrect. It ac-tually takes place on Tuesday, April 30.
On page five, in Sports Updates, the photo taken by Stephanie Lee of Men’s
basketball, the player should read Chad Haysbert.
On page seven and nine, “Secondhand Serenade packs The Boardwalk” and
“Take This Class” Scene Editor Cintia Lopez’s email is incorrect. It should be
On page nine, “Spring Break: Live from Sacramento,” The Sacramento
Kings vs. The Los Angeles Lakers in on March 30.
On page 10, “Producer uses ARC recording program to further his musi-cal talent,” the cutline of the photo Pro
Tools is spelled incorrectly.
Veterans’ resources short handed due to budget cutsLIMITED STAFFING AND FUNDING RESTRICT THE AMERICAN RIVER VETERANS INFORMATION CENTERBy Jared [email protected]
Veteran Center, formerly the Re-entry Center and Veteran Center, closed on Tues-day, March 19, 2013.
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American River College’s new park-ing structure has influenced students in many ways. It has relieved various pres-sures from students that came with just attempting to find a parking spot.
The building, which opened on Feb. 19, has given students more freedom to park in its five story configuration.
By increasing its capacity a further 1,748 parking spaces, students have found solutions to more problems than just the former lack of open spots.
Freshman Zachary Simas now arrives on campus shortly before the start of his first class on a daily basis, something he could not do in the past.
“I no longer have to worry about coming to school early,” said Simas. “I would always come about an hour before my first class to find good parking but now I can come 15 minutes before and I’ll be right on time.”
Along with the completion of the complex, came the newly installed parking ticket ma-chines, which now give the buyer and option to use their debit or credit cards.
Parking enforcer Kathy Church believes giving students more options to choose from is important for the school. “With the new ticket machines and electric vehicle park-ing, we can satisfy almost everybody,” said Church.
She also praised the impact of the new structure. “It was something we desperately needed,” said Church. “The main parking lot is no longer totally full, and there isn’t traffic with cars anymore. This is a huge issue at Sac City College, but no longer here.”
The frustration of circling around the parking lot waiting for the availability of a space and fear of its constant repetition is something freshman Tate Yurica no longer must deal with.
“I always drove around 20 minutes to find parking and it was getting really annoying, “said Yurica.
“I hated competing for spaces, especially it
after I had been waiting for a particular spot to open up,” said Yurica. “Thankfully with the new structure, these annoyances seem to have gone.”
Student Travis Martinez believes the new complex now enforces security for those who used to park away from campus.
“It makes everyone stay safer. Not only for the cars but also for those who had to walk a long way to campus,” said Martinez.
With the recent state of the art improve-ments, ARC is showing why, according to re-cent Parking enforcement statistics, it is the Los Rios School most students choose to at-tend.
Overdue parking complex upgrade welcomed by studentsRE-MODELING EASES TRAFFIC, CREATES MORE SPACE, ADDS PAYMENT OPTIONSBy Sam [email protected]
The parking structure has a tally at the entrance, informing arriving students of the spaces available at each floor.
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Page 4 SportsApril 3, 2013
SOPHOMORE JACOB HUSTON LOOKS TO FOLLOW LAST FALL’S STATE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SEVERAL MORE
Running star looks to maximize his full potential
Pacing the stadium with calcu-lated animation, he eases into the midst of his routine. Though he wears only a brief set of shorts and track shoes, he presents something far more tantalizing than a bare back and torso. Sophomore run-ner Jacob Huston demonstrates the confidence of a champion.
Huston is no stranger to the po-dium. Since his days at Center High School, he has been an elite runner.
“I’ve got the school records,” Hus-ton said, in reference to his career prior to becoming a Beaver.
Huston won a state champion-ship with ARC’s Cross Country team and is looking to do the same this spring participating in track & field. In spite of the elation that comes with such achievements, Huston is increasingly desirous with each vic-tory. He is enticed by the thought of winning multiple state champion-ships.
“I love that idea,” Huston said. “I love that I’m going to have been here two and a half years and have a chance to be on three state champi-onship teams.”
Head coach Rick Anderson be-lieves Huston’s drive and discipline are essential to the team’s chemis-try.
“He’s a perfect locker room guy,” Anderson said. “He has a job that requires a lot of him, he pays all of his own bills. He’s definitely one of those guys that has a full load.”
That “full load” packs Huston’s
schedule. He wakes at 5 a.m. every weekday to make sure he passes his 15 units of coursework. His 30-hour workweek is almost supplemental. Experiencing growth as he has in the classroom and in his personal life continues to drive him in pre-cisely the way it has in his athletic endeavors.
“Motivated...by potential,” Huston said when asked to describe him-self. “This semester and next semes-ter can lead to a lot. If I keep running the way I’m running and keep my grades up I can go somewhere good on a scholarship.”
His demeanor and discipline have helped create a superior cul-ture among his teammates. His actions, specifically in practice set-tings have pushed his teammates to better results.
“Staying focused,” said teammate Luis Luna when asked what he’s taken from Huston. “It’s a friendly rivalry that we have, we sometimes go a little bit harder in practice [be-cause of it].”
“He makes sure that we stay on the pace that our coach [Rick An-derson] gives us,” said Will Reyes, another one of Huston’s running mates. “He keeps the workouts right on.”
Huston has recently sought to employ a similar method with his brother, who seeks to break his re-cords as a runner at Center High School.
“I’m more close to [him] than anything,” Huston said. “And I want him to take it [more] seriously, be how I am now.”
By Jorden [email protected]
Emily K. Rabasto / em
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gmail.com
Jacob Huston, a long-distance runner on the ARC Men’s Track Team before practice on Friday, March 15.
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WOMEN’S TENNIS
WOMEN’S SWIM&DIVE
SOFTBALL
BASEBALL
MEN’S TRACK&FIELD
MEN’S TENNISLed by sophomores Andrew Amor, Patrick Johnson, Charlie LaSalle and freshmen Kevin Valentine, Simba Baratti and Adam Duong, the Cali-fornia State ranked No. 3 men’s tennis team is currently 20-0 for the season. The men will host the Big 8 North Conference Tournament April 4, 5, and 6 at 8 a.m.
WOMEN’S TRACK&FIELD
MEN’S SWIM&DIVE
MEN’S GOLF
Alexis Browner of ARC ‘s Track Team during the Women’s 4 x 100 Relay on Saturday, March 2.
ARC Baseball’s No. 18 Sam Vergara pitches in a game against Modesto Junior College on Saturday, March 23.
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By Sergio [email protected]
It’s time to come out
Unnecessary Roughness
Gareth Thomas, a Welsh pro-fessional rugby player, and Justin Fashanu, a fútbol player, are the only two male athletes to come out as gay while playing their respec-tive sport.
Fashanu, who came out in 1990, committed suicide in 1998 after accusations of him sexually as-saulting a 17-year-old boy. Thom-as, on the other hand, came out in 2009 and received ridicule from fans. After the league found out, they fined the opposing team and never allowed the taunting fans to return to a game again. Thomas’ teammates accepted him for who he was and treated him like he was just one of the guys.
If Thomas can be accepted for being gay in arguably the manliest sport in the world (rugby), then why can’t an American-born ath-lete come out while still playing their sport?
We came close when American soccer player Robbie Rogers came out publicly in Feb. 2013, but re-tired weeks later at the age of 25. It seems that there is this belief in America against gays on sports teams, especially in the locker rooms. This is homophobia, which comes from one man checking out another man, so they turn into bul-lies.
Homophobia is shown with the ignorant comments that San Francisco 49er’s cornerback Chris Culliver made toward gay football players before the Super Bowl.
“I don’t do the gay guys. I don’t do that,” Culliver told Artie Lange on his radio show. “We don’t have any gay guys on the team. They gotta get up outta here if they do. Can’t be with that sweet stuff. Yeah, come out 10 years later after that.”
This is what is holding sports back when it comes to having an openly gay American male athlete during their careers. Players don’t come out because they are afraid of the repercussions that may face them from other players and fans.
Athletes and fans need to be more open and understanding to gay athletes. Just because they are gay does not diminish their talent level and won’t change who they are as a person.
Just think of all of the endorse-ments the first gay American ath-lete would receive if he were ac-cepted. He would be able to change the sports world for the better and become a pioneer in the sport, just like Jackie Robinson did for African American athletes.
Though I am campaigning for an openly American gay male athlete, I do not want to force any gay play-er to come out if they do not want to. I just want athletes and fans to be more understanding, because the homophobia they show today is holding us back as a society and that’s unnecessary roughness.
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Kyle Callan of the ARC swim team jumping from the blocks for a race on March 29.
At the Stanford Invitational, sopho-more Alexis Browner had a strong showing, finishing No. 15 in the 100-meter dash and No. 13 in the 200-meter dash. The women will be competing at home on April 5 at 11 a.m. and April 6 at 10 a.m. for the American River Invitational.
With swimmers like sophomores Jacob Lear, Stephen Imbach, Santiago Rodri-guez and Scott Stirling competing in the freestyle, this event is going to show how much experience the swimmers have. The men’s last home meet of the season is Saturday, April 6, when they host the Sierra/Alumni match starting at 11 a.m.
At the San Francisco State Distance Carnival, sophomore Derek Woodard finished No. 10 in the 3000-meter steeplechase and freshman Will Reyes finished No. 12 in the 10,000-meter run. The men look to showcase their strength at home on April 5 at 11 a.m. and April 6 at 10 a.m. for the American River Invitational.
The women won their first match of the season 6-3 on March 25 versus Shasta Tehama Trinity Junior College. The women have improved consis-tently throughout the year and are now 1-15 for the season. The women will host the Big 8 North Conference Tour-nament April 4 and 5 at 8 a.m.
Freshman Mackenzie Kaplan competes in the breaststroke and freestyle swim-ming events for the women. Sopho-more Nicole Grottkau has had a strong showing in the sprint races for the la-dies. The women’s last home meet of the season is Saturday, April 6, when they host the Sierra/Alumni match at 11 a.m.
After starting the season 14-3, the women have hit a bump during divi-sion play going 6-5. Sophomore pitch-er Karolanne Tipton, whose record is 6-2 for the women, currently leads the Big 8 with a 1.38 ERA. The team’s next home game is versus division rival Dia-blo Valley College on Tuesday, April 9, at 2 p.m.
The team improved to 3-9 in confer-ence and 8-16 overall after beating division rival Cosumnes River College twice during a three game series Soph-omore pitcher Jason Fletcher took the mound for the fourth time this season. On April 6, the Beavers will host divi-sion rival Sacramento City College at 1 p.m.
After a rough first half of the season, the team looks to rally behind fresh-men Charles Klein and Colton Passey in the hopes to make a push at the Nor-Cal Championships. The men’s next match is April 6 at the Big 8 Confer-ence #7 at Winsor Golf Club in Santa Rosa at 12 p.m.
California community college coaches face disadvantagesCOACHES FEEL THE PRESSURE TO WIN, GAIN RECOGNITION AND RECRUIT STAR ATHLETES
When it comes to coaching at a community college there are many obstacles coaches face. These challenges include a lack of fund-ing, not being able to offer scholar-ships to prospective athletes and lack of exposure.
Despite other states’ junior col-leges being allowed to offer schol-arships to their student athletes, California junior colleges cannot offer an athlete a scholarship be-cause the school is funded by the state.
Men’s Track & Field and Cross Country coach Rick Anderson knows how difficult it can be to get students to come American River Junior College rather than go to a four-year university right out of high school.
“I lost the high school state champion in the mile one year,”
Anderson said. “I lost him to Cal Poly for $4,000. I mean the school costs $35,000 with housing and all the fees associated with it, so he paid $3,100 to save $4,000, and he could have come here and I think that he would have run fast enough that he could have gone wherever he wanted and gotten a lot more money.”
Anderson’s recruiting method is taking prospective athletes into his office. The awards and trophies showcased throughout the room are enough for most athletes to make a decision.
He is successful in recruiting even with a lack of mainstream coverage. Since 2005, his teams has claimed four state champion-ships, they have only been fea-tured on the local news once.
“Most of the high school kids don’t hear much about my pro-grams,” Anderson said. “There is just no press.”
The softball team op-erates in a different way when it comes to recruit-ing. They rely on word of mouth to get players to come visit. Head coach Lisa Delgado uses cur-rent and former players to help inform recruits about why they love the program.
“When you can throw some names out that they recognize and they know how good they are it defi-nitely helps with recruit-ing,” Delgado said. “We absolutely use our student athletes to tell them this is what American River is all about.”
Delgado has set up a family based team where everyone is al-ways included.
“If someone is going to Star-bucks or Chipotle they send out a mass text inviting everyone,” Del-
gado said. “We don’t have different cliques. It’s all one big team.”
One of the biggest challenges for recruiting is getting players to come to ARC when there are so many schools in the area vying for athletes.
“Everything we do is to prepare them for the next game as well as the next level,” Delgado said. “I love our student athletes.”
By Ed [email protected]
Stephanie Lee / lee.steph.photo@gm
ail.com
Rick Anderson, Men’s Cross Country and Track & Field coach, has won four state champion-ships while at ARC.
“I think this movie will
vindicate [him] to all
the people who didn’t know
about this,” Eric Webb
said. “A lot of people
thought he was a con-
spiracy theorist because
of what he said about the
CIA. I believe this will
help the general public
understand his story a
little bit better.”The impact of the Gary
Webb’s “Dark Alliance:
the CIA, the Contras, and
Crack Cocaine Explosion,”
was not what he expected.
Upon its release, Webb was
heavily criticized and
eventually blacklisted in
the journalism community.
Major publications, like
The New York Times and
The Washington Post, at-
tacked Gary Webb’s cred-
ibility and the validity
of his story, thus pushing
him out of the mainstream
daily newspapers. Gary
Webb’s editors at the San
Jose Mercury News seemed
to turn their backs on him
as a result as well.
After leaving the news-
paper, a devastated Gary
Webb could not find a job
working on the investiga-
tive journalism he loved
to do for daily papers.
He found work with The
Sacramento News and Re-
view writing stories with-
out the resources that he
could find with a larger
paper. The overwhelming
turmoil he felt emotion-
ally and financially even-
tually led him to commit
suicide in 2004.“I always trusted him
and knew his reporting was
very thorough and honest,”
Stokes said. “Even after
our divorce, I thought
highly of him. This [mov-
ie] will do a lot to put
this at rest. It will talk
about him and what he went
through. I think that’s
going to be important to
the story and how this
could happen to people,
unfortunately.”All of the conspiracy
talk online and continued
opinion of Gary Webb and
his death is hard on the
Webb family, even years
later. With production on
the movie set to start
this summer, the Webb fam-
ily is ready for all of
the emotion this process
may stir up. “This was something
we’ve been wanting and
desiring for so long and
it’s been a very emotional
ride at the same time for
all of us,” Stokes said.
“We are now starting to
accept that this is sure
going to be a reality,
that there will be parts
of this that’ll be pain-
ful, but a lot of it’s go-
ing to be good.”The rights to “Kill the
Messenger” were recently a
top seller in the European
Film Market in Berlin this
past Feb. The film was sold
to film companies all over
Europe, as well as Latin
America, Russia, Malaysia
and South Africa, to name
a few.The Webb family hopes
the movie will help to
clear up questions sur-
rounding the work that
Gary Webb did and his
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and knew
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and how
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later. W
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the movi
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start
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CIA involvement in Gary Webb’s death.“I think this movie will
vindicate [him] to all the people who didn’t know about this,” Eric Webb said. “A lot of people thought he was a con-spiracy theorist because of what he said about the CIA. I believe this will help the general public understand his story a little bit better.”The impact of the Gary
Webb’s “Dark Alliance: the CIA, the Contras, and Crack Cocaine Explosion,” was not what he expected. Upon its release, Webb was heavily criticized and eventually blacklisted in the journalism community.Major publications, like
The New York Times and The Wash-
ington Post, attacked Gary Webb’s credibility and the validity of his story, thus pushing him out of the mainstream daily news-papers. Gary Webb’s edi-tors at the San Jose Mer-cury News seemed to turn their backs on him as a result as well.After leaving the news-
paper, a devastated Gary Webb could not find a job working on the investiga-tive journalism he loved to do for daily papers. He found work with The Sac-ramento News and Review writing stories, although without the resources that he could find with a larger paper. The overwhelming turmoil he felt emotion-ally and financially even-tually led him to commit suicide in 2004.
“I always trusted him and knew his report-ing was very thorough and honest,” Stokes said. “Even after our divorce, I thought highly of him. This [movie] will do a lot to put this at rest. It will talk about him and what he went through. I think that’s going to be important to the story and how this could happen to people, unfortunate-ly.”
All of the
conspiracy talk online and continued opinion of Gary Webb and his death is hard on the Webb family, even years later. With production on the movie set to start this summer, the Webb fam-ily is ready for all of the emotion this process may stir up. “This was something
we’ve been wanting and desiring for so long and it’s been a very emotional ride at the same time for all of us,” Stokes said. “We are now starting to accept that this is sure going to be a reality, that there will be parts of this that’ll be pain-ful, but a lot of it’s go-ing to be good.”The rights to “Kill the
Messenger” were recently a top seller in the European Film Market in Berlin this past February. The film was sold to film companies all over Europe, as well as Latin America, Russia, Malaysia and South Africa, to name a few.The Webb family hopes
the movie will help to clear up questions sur-rounding the work that Gary Webb did and his unfortunate death. It is also a surprising way that Gary can still provide for his family even now that he is gone.“This is really cool
that he is able to kind of still give this back to us,” said Eric.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE l
WEBB: Film may clear Webb's name after he was black-
listed by the CIA
- Gary WebbPhoto courtesy Ian Webb Photo courtesy Consortium News
-Eric Webb
When arriving at D’Millers Famous BBQ, the smoky aroma of ribs and chicken fills your nose. There’s an in-stant “mom and pop” feel when walking into the family owned restaurant. There are four tables inside and two outside (weather permitting), and the walls are filled with Sacramento Kings memorabilia, random photos signed by celebrities, and old articles about their establishment.
A single menu is placed next to a sign that reads, “Ring bell when ready to order.” Reading over the limited menu choices, it’s obvious this is not your traditional fast-food environment. Choices range from plate dishes, where you can choose your meat and side. Automatically, you get a side of beans. There is also an a la carte option where you can get only a sandwich or just a side.
One of the benefits of having such a small, yet satisfying, menu is never having to worry about whether your choice is going to be the right one, as everything is a must-eat. They have three choices of BBQ sauce: mild, hot, or a mix
of the two.We proceeded to order one of their tri-tip plate dishes
and a BBQ boneless pork sandwich with a medium side of potato salad. When the food arrives, it is brought on tra-ditional TV trays with the food strategically placed onto Dixie paper plates, and the sides in Styrofoam cups.
The tri-tip was swimming in the sauce, and the sand-wich was smothered as well. The tri-tip was tender enough to cut with the plastic silverware, and everything melted together when taking the first bite of the sandwich. The mix sauce was the best choice; it was a perfect mixture of sweet and spicy. It had just enough spice for you to notice, but not enough that you needed to grab a glass of water. The heaping side of potato salad was different from most places. It was a little less moist and they added eggs and big chunks of pickles. I even added a little bit of the hot sauce just for extra flavor.
Even though the wait for the food was a little longer than usual, it was well worth it. D’Millers Famous BBQ really
knows their BBQ.They are open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. -
6:30 p.m. and Saturday 12 - 6:30 p.m. They offer a lunch special daily from 11 a.m - 2 p.m. A standard plate runs about $10.99 and they accept cash or debit with a dol-lar fee. D’Millers Famous BBQ is located at 7305 Fair Oak Blvd, and is about 3.8 miles away from ARC.
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7305 FAIR OAKS BLVD.CARMICHAEL, CA 95608
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D’Millers Famous BBQ
EVERYTHING ON THE MENU IS WORTH TRYING AS LONG AS YOU PICK THE RIGHT SAUCE
The tri-tip plate swimming in the mix sauce with a side of beans and a roll, from D’Millers Famous BBQ on March 16.By Jenn Schopfer
Alternative Arts Collective play stars ARC theater student
Mr. Marmalade is an imaginary friend. Upon first appearance, Marmalade seems professional. He has a job, wears a suit, and carries a suitcase. He stems from four-year-old Lucy’s imagination and represents every-thing she has witnessed as a child; all of her fears, worries, goals, and perceptions of the world. Innocent as it may seem, The Alterna-tive Arts Collective’s interpretation of “Mr. Marmalade” was incredibly dark. The show portrayed drug use, sexual molestation, ver-bal abuse, and suicide.
“The first scene [Marmalade] is in, they play house, he opens [his] suit case, and they have tea,” said ARC theater major Brandon Lancaster, who played the title role of Mr. Marmalade.
The character is erratic and inconsistent. By the second scene, he is verbally, physi-cally and sexually abusive toward Lucy. He does cocaine in front of her and yells for no apparent reason. After being kicked out of Lucy’s house, Marmalade apologetically re-turns and charms his way to having a second chance at being Lucy’s imaginary friend. The final scene between the two parallels that of a truly miserable couple stuck in a horrible
situation. “Everything I was doing was for Lucy. I
stem from her imagination. These are all things that she’s seen, and my goal was con-stantly to get Lucy any way I can, whether that’s to be her friend or actually have her and have her under my control,” said Lan-caster.
Lancaster had a Jekyll and Hyde quality about his character, instantly transforming from a charming, likable man into a perverse, demented persona. It was a role he desper-ately wanted in order to gain a different perspective in acting. These changes were extreme, and impressive to watch as an audi-ence member.
This role was completely out of his comfort zone, which forced him to apply his knowl-edge and experience that was given to him at ARC. “I think both theatre experiences are very good, and if you can, you should defi-nitely do both,” said Lancaster. “ARC is edu-cational theater, so you learn a lot when you work with them.”
“The show became almost therapy for me at some points because I was able to dig deep down and use that as motivation,” said Lan-caster. “It’s a lot of thinking because those are points that all of us could reach if we allow ourselves to.”
By Robert [email protected]
AN IMAGINARY FRIEND COMES TO LIFE IN THE ALTERNATIVE ARTS COLLECTIVE’S PRODUCTION OF “MR. MARMALADE”
Victoria Timoteo (Lucy) and ARC’s Brandon Lancaster (Mr. Marmalade) having a tea party in The Arts Alternative Collective’s production of “Mr. Marmalade.”
D’Millers Famous BBQ lives up to its name
Jenn Schopfer / jenn.schopfer@gm
ail.com
BBQ boneless pork sandwich covered with the mix sauce from D’Millers Famous BBQ on March 16.
Jenn Schopfer / jenn.schopfer@gm
ail.com
Photo Courtesy of David Garrison
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about the show, which is heav-ily focused on fighting choreog-raphy. “There’s a lot of athleti-cism,” says Peter Messick, who plays Godeau. “[There is] very intricate fencing and knife work that you don’t always see at the community college level.”
This version of “The Three Musketeers” has two stories. There is the narrative in which Dumas, played by Brandon Lan-caster, is writing for all the action that happens with D’Artagnon and the Musketeers. This drama is what composes the second plot. “The two worlds collide, and the line is blurred between which is which,” explains Cheal-sea Ciechaowski, who portrays the Villianess. “Brandon plays Dumas, but also other charac-ters, like ‘the wanderer’ who guides the musketeers along.”
“It takes stamina to be in this show. Everybody is in almost every scene and there is tons of
fighting,” says Clay Kirkwood, who plays the main character, D’Artagnon. “I didn’t know how to fence before. I’ve gotten most of my training from this show, and it’s been a great experience.”
The set design of the show is just as complex as the plot. The stage managers have a lot to keep track of between props and set changes during the show’s 29 scenes.
“Each scene breaks down into two parts, and we have three re-volving platforms that will be ro-tating during the show,” explains James McMillon, the show’s stage manager. “We’re using all live weapons except for guns. Our muskets don’t fire, but we’re using real rapiers and sabers on stage. They don’t make retract-able daggers in the style of this time period, so we’re using real daggers and safety.”
The stage managers estimate needing a stage crew of about 10
people, where normally shows use crews around five.
“This script has so much gusto and panache,” says Kirkwood, taking a bite out of his plum dur-ing a rehearsal break. “When you watch it, you’re going to feel like
you’re in a swashbuckling ad-venture, you’re going to feel mo-ments of love, and moments of danger, and moments of despair. It’s like “the Princess Bride,” but live. And I’m the Dread Pirate Roberts.”
MOVIE
INOURHEADS
The Current’s Robert Aguilar shares the wide variety of
what is in his head
BOOK
GAME
MUSIC
TELEVISION“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by
Shel Silverstein: Sometimes in our adulthood we
need a reminder of how beauti-ful the world is and how easily
we overcomplicate things. I have the perfect antidote: Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” This
compilation of children’s poems will help you reconnect
with your childhood, leaving you refreshed and positive.
“Cards Against Humanity”: “Cards Against Humanity” is,
hands down, my favorite card game. It’s so simple,
even a plebeian can under-stand it. Each turn, one player
puts down a black card, and the rest of the players put down their
favorite white card. Imagine “Apples to Apples,” but for adults.
“The VS. Redux” by Mackl-emore & Ryan Lewis: This dynamic duo consists of rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis. Macklemore’s raps in “The VS. Redux” cover genuine love, the struggles in relapsing from drugs, celebrating life, and showing that being a stay-at-home dad is awesome.
“Amélie”: Want to feel cultured? Then “Amélie” is the perfect movie for you. In fact, “Amélie” is just a perfect movie.
This French foreign film is about an awkwardly quirky French woman, Amé-lie, who invests in creatively helping people without them knowing. Along the way, she discovers the beauties and pains that come from love.
“Archer”: Who says you need to be a child in order to enjoy cartoons? “Archer” is a satirical cartoon that mainly revolves around the narcis-sistic secret agent Sterling Archer, as well as everyone else in the spy agency. This cartoon is highly inappropri-ate for someone who lacks a sense of humor.
Arizona: where marijuana is legal, but Mexicans are not
By Carlos [email protected]
QueCarlos
It’s true, Arizona and Latinos haven’t had the best of relation-ships, as Arizona sees its southern neighbors in the same way Homer Simpson looks at Ned Flanders.
Officials in Arizona have spent an awful lot of time and effort in recent years trying to make immi-grants uncomfortable.
In 2010, Arizona introduced SB 1070, a law that shook up the na-tional media and had everyone talking.
The law made it a criminal of-fense for undocumented immi-grants to look for work, and re-quired all immigrants to get or carry their immigration papers.
It also allowed the police to ask any suspicious or “non-white” looking persons on the street to prove their legal citizenship if there was any “reasonable suspi-cion” at all that the person was an illegal immigrant.
It’s still one of the strictest and largest anti-illegal immigra-tion acts in U.S. history, and it has opened the door for widespread, non-discreet racial profiling. Now, the mustache on your face could land you in jail.
However, these anti-immigra-tion laws are costing Arizona. Ac-cording to the Huffington Post, $141 million has been lost in tour-ism revenue because of economic boycotts protesting the anti-immi-gration law.
Add that to the hundreds of thousands police agencies that are spending to train its officers to en-force these laws, and the estimated $934 million net costs that Arizona has to eat, in jailing, educating and proving health care to those here illegally, and the cost is out of hand.
Now schools are becoming an area of focus for Arizona officials.
There is recent news about another law prohibiting public schools in the Tucson district from offering courses, such as Mexican American studies, and banning certain textbooks. Such actions will only add to the animosity.
It seems that officials are at-tempting to whitewash all traces of Mexican history and pretend it never happened.
Officials have said that these courses present the material in a “biased, political and emotionally charged manner,” and that the cur-riculum has encouraged students to resent and hate the “white man.”
Other ethnic studies courses are still being taught.
It seems like they are grasping for straws with that stance on Mex-ican American classes. What about black kids learning about slavery or the civil rights movement?
Just try to teach that without any feelings of resentment for the white man.
These classes help students un-derstand U.S. history. They could inspire someone to take pride in their ethnicity, and that should not be taken away from anyone.
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LECTURERS URGE STUDENTS TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR CRAFT OVER FOUR DATES
The Art Lecture Series has become a staple in the ARC event calendar since coordinator and Fine and Applied Arts adjunct professor Joy Bertinuson started the series four years ago. The James Kaneko Gallery is funding the Spring 2013 series from March 18 to May 7.
In previous semesters the series has been funded by programs in the arts on campus including Ceramics, Art New Media and Pho-tography, all of which helped determine the theme of the lectures. This semester is no different, as the “Behind The Scenes” series piggybacks on last semester’s focus on curat-ing exhibits.
“The museums and art galleries require an army of people to make this stuff happen,” says Bertinuson. “In focusing now on behind the scenes, I thought we would just give an-
other flavor for that.”Patrick Minor, a former preparator at the
Crocker Art Museum for 27 years, spoke on the first date of the series. He displayed slides of exhibits he had set up and humor-ously retold the stories behind each one. He answered questions, much like a laid back press conference, and closed out the lec-ture by showing a brief video he had written music for titled “Get Drunk,” a poem read in French with subtitles and elegant imagery.
After all of the stories were told and the audience had left, Minor hoped they would take just one thing with them. “Get drunk,” says Minor. “Just like the message of the poem: whatever you do, do with passion.”
ARC student and Criminal Justice major Julio Amaya attended Minor’s lecture as a class requirement for his elective art course. Though he says he won’t take any of the in-formation he learned and use it in his daily
life, Amaya was still entertained. “[Minor] was a good speaker,” says Amaya. “He was funny.”
Unlike Amaya, art majors see art as more than a hobby, but aren’t always entirely sure what they’ll pursue once they’ve got their degree.
“You’ve got an art degree, you don’t want to teach, you don’t want to go into com-mercial work but still want to do your own work,” says Bertinuson. “Maybe you can work behind the scenes.”
Art isn’t an isolated phenomenon for Ber-tinuson. “It’s a whole world of people that are involved in society that are doing this,” says Bertinuson. “I see this as an opportunity to introduce people to what’s going on in the art-world that’s not just the surface. It’s a livelihood for people too.”
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What is faith? What is evil and why does it exist? Is there an afterlife? Philosophy of Religion is a course that examines these and many other questions associated with religion. The class consists of readings from several philosophers, from ancient Socrates to modern-day Antony Flew, paired with thorough in-class discussions. Professor Dennis Holden presents each reading as a logical argument, simplifying the somewhat complex theories.
The course, not to be confused with re-ligious studies, is an “introduction to a philosophical examination of religion,” as described by the college catalog. Instead of learning about various religions and their
specific cultures, students discuss reli-gious concepts and the arguments for and against them.
Students particularly enjoy the thought-provoking topics and discussions. “It defi-nitely forces you to understand various people’s arguments that might be con-tradictory to your own,” said student Tim Lipuma.
Most class sessions begin with small group discussions regarding that day’s reading. The class then moves into a discussion-driven lecture, which further explains the reading. Holden leads the lecture-discussion hybrid, usually taking the position of the writer, while students present potential counter arguments. “I like the way that [Holden] is able to defend any side of the argument, and it forces you to keep thinking,” Lipuma said.
For students pondering greater ques-tions, Philosophy of Religion provides not answers, but a logical evaluation of reli-gious concepts.
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“Probably spring. It’s nice outside and I can sit outside and do work. I’m generally happier when it’s warmer outside.”
“Spring, because I have the least amount of things going on in my personal life with my husband and family. Spring is the most relaxed time of year, so I have more time to go to classes.”
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Which semester is your favorite to attend and why?
“I prefer spring, because when the semester is over, we get to go on summer break. Boom.”
“I prefer to attend the spring semester, because it’s the second semester usually at the beginning of the year and you get to know more people. And I’m a people person.”
“Summer, because the classes are more fast-paced, and it’s warm outside so I can dress nice.”
“Spring is the nicest on campus, because the weather is nice and we don’t have to worry about rain. Summer, there are just too many things going on.”
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“You can’t go into it with a one-track mind, you have to be flexible, willing to understand other arguments.”
“You can reason about religion rigor-ously, just the way you can reason about science and other things.”
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New magazine ‘The Gap-Toothed Madness’ now on stands
ARC STUDENT RICHARD BARNHART SEEKS TO FULFILL DREAM OF PUBLISHING MANY FORMS OF ART
It’s difficult to create something when you constantly put it aside. When you finally find someone to help you complete your goal it’s truly bliss.
Richard Barnhart, English major at American River College, was able to fulfill such a dream. Barnhart self-published his first ever magazine The Gap-Toothed Madness on
March 1. “It’s been probably about five or six years that I’ve really seriously been thinking
about doing it,” Barnhart said. “I honestly just procrastinated. It kind of seemed intimidating to me getting the whole thing started.”
Barnhart is currently Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Amer-ican River Review and was a senior editor at the Susan Val-
ley Review at Solano Community College. “I’ve always loved to write,” Barnhart said. “It’s some-
thing I’ve been involved with for years and it’s always been my passion to do my own.”
Barnhart was able to accomplish his goal when he met his partner, ARC student Brittany Wright, who was able to help him get his act together. She is cur-rently the Managing Publisher for The Gap-Toothed Madness and handles the website and social media part of the magazine.
“When I got together with Brittany she kind of lit the fire and once we got started it went much bet-ter than I thought it would,” Barnhart said.
“I read it in a book somewhere, but I couldn’t say exactly where I got it,” Barnhart said about the name. “I was thinking about a couple differ-ent names and that one line kind of stood out to me as being sort of interesting and unique.”
The Gap-Toothed Madness accepts submis-sions from aspiring artists and writers. They accept poetry, short fiction essays, all kinds of art photography and digital art. There is no set content restriction, they accept whatever the writer or artist feels is their best work and go from there.
Putting together the magazine is tedious process for Barnhart and Wright.
“It’s very time consuming networking and soliciting for the submissions,” Barnhart said.
“That’s really the biggest task is letting people know about the magazine and getting those submissions in.
Then after that we have to edit the magazine for content, which takes some time making sure we’re only putting the best we have
in there and the printing and the construction of the book is fairly simple it’s just time consuming.”
It is a quarterly magazine and the last day to submit for the next issue is May 1, but they accept submissions all the time. The next issue comes out June 1, and you can purchase copies of their first issue on their web-site gaptoothedmadness.com for $5 plus shipping and handling.
Barnhart and Wright have plans to get the paper in the hands of more people, but as of now it’s difficult because it is just the two of them.
“What we would like to do in the near future is start getting our books into local bookstores and record stores to get it out there,” Barnhart said.
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The hill to employment may seem steep and full of curves with no railing, but American River College is actually a cam-pus full of attainable occupations.
For many people, the reality of the world is full of waiting on an email or call back that never arrives. Students looking for jobs have to deal with the boundaries that class time, schoolwork, and commute time impose on their potential work schedules.
According to the Career Center, every department on campus does their own hiring, which gives students a bounty of
opportunity. There are services and pro-grams that offer employment. For exam-ple: the Los Rios Internships and Career Services (LINCS), Federal Work Study, and the LRC and DSPS offer various forms of employment as well.
Visiting each department with a pre-pared resume and a professional demean-or is recommended when searching for any type of employment. No matter what your major and school schedule may be, any ARC employer will know that you are a student and will be sure to schedule you around your work load.
Lynaia Moser is a full-time student who holds the position of Student Help in two
separate departments on campus. “Just go into different buildings and ask what they’re hiring and what they require. It’s easy,” says Moser.
Zachary Yonker commends the As-sessment Center for the past year of his employment, which started him off as an English tutor. “Any employer here is going to know that you’re a student on campus and they’re willing to accommodate,” says Yonker.
Ammar Altameemi has been employed on campus for the past three months through the assistance of CalWorks Stu-dent Services. “The most important bene-fit is the experience you will have,” says Al-
tameemi. “Dealing with the students at the front desk and dealing with the stress, all of these things, I consider them benefits.”
In the end, the process is just the same as it is anywhere else, but AR students should keep in mind the exclusive advantages they have for on-campus employment. As Yonker continues, “The main appeal was the pay,” so if you really want something, like the pay per se, you have to be willing to go out and get it on your own.
With a mix of determination and persis-tence, it is easy to find a suitable job, and in some cases that job turns out to be closer to you than you know.
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Now hiring at American River CollegeDESPITE DISMAL JOB MARKET OPORTUNITIES CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT CAMPUSBy Cesar [email protected]
Lynaia Moser, 19, an Accounting Major, holds a full time position assisting students in the Center for Leadership and Development on campus.
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Certainly, the intake of THC, the narcotic substance within can-nabis, has medical benefits. But so do the intake of nicotine and alcohol. Hell, I’m pretty sure that if you looked hard enough, you could find an argument for the medical benefits of Windex. After all, ammonia does kill bacteria.
Marijuana is a recreational, ad-dictive, brain chemistry-altering substance. It has some medical benefits, which are often wield-ed as a panacea in the fight to legalize. These benefits include reducing nausea and stimulat-ing hunger in AIDS patients, and lowered interocular pressure in
glaucoma patients. The medical profession recognizes possible benefits of medical marijuana for aiding PMS, unintentional weight loss, insomnia, lack of appetite and chronic spasms and pain. Research suggests that cannabis could also have applications in other disorders, such as fibromy-algia or multiple sclerosis.
But how many stoners do you know with these issues? I’ll wager you can count the number on one hand. Other medical issues, which benefit from cannabis, range from obscure, such as colorectal cancer, to the conveniently ac-quirable, such as alcohol abuse. What’s more, cannabis does not cure these disorders or diseases.
Giving an AIDS patient a joint
does not have them singing in the choir the next day. It makes them able to eat. Many of these effects could be found just as easily, and more cheaply, in commonly avail-able medicine. Cannabis may make your headache go away, but so does Tylenol.
I am not against the legaliza-tion of marijuana. Rather, I think it should be legalized and taxed. I also believe that the medical marijuana argument is a non se-quitur. Morphine treats chronic pain, but that doesn’t make it le-gal; it makes it a controlled medi-cal substance. People who fight for medical marijuana don’t want it to be a controlled medical sub-stance as it is today (even without California’s legalization of it for
medical necessities). Marijuana advocates want the substance to be regulated and purchasable, like cigarettes and alcohol, and le-gal for adults to partake. They try to reframe the argument as one about medicine, but it really is not. It is a recreational substance, like nicotine or alcohol, which happens to alter brain chemis-try in ways that can be beneficial aside from their high.
Fighting for the public to change their demonizing view of marijuana to one of a legitimate drug is too much. The fight needs to be for acceptance as a harm-less recreational substance, less offensive than alcohol, less harm-ful — but more impairing — than nicotine.
It does’t take much observation on campus to notice that American River College students have many opinions. It also seems they have no problem sharing them. So why do they refuse, by and large, to make their voices heard where it could make a difference?
The Associated Student Body Student Sen-ate currently has not disclosed the number of people running for office in the upcoming elec-tions (yes, there are upcoming elections). Last April, every candidate ran unopposed. And that’s not the only sign of student apathy.
The March in March had only 43 ARC stu-dents show up. The audiences of ASB Senate meetings are empty. Positions remain va-cant for long periods of time. Committees are searching for members. But karaoke always seems to have someone willing to sing at club
day (yes, that’s ASB CAEB that coordinates the event).
So why are we willing to sing in public but not participate in making the decisions?
Is it lack of interest? After all, the last special election had only 549 votes in the entire Los Rios Community College District, and the turn out for last year’s election was weak to say the least.
Is it lack of communication? Many students that The Current has talked to have not even realized we have a Student Senate. As we have pointed out before, there doesn’t seem to be much information to find if you are looking through most of the bulletin boards around campus.
We shudder to think it may be the lack of knowledge of what these folks do for the cam-pus. We hope our ASB Notebook has helped with that, but we can only tell you so much
when things, like by-laws, sit on the agenda for the entire semester.
Campus politics, to some, can seem like watching C-Span at moments. That is until you end up chanting on a bus on your way to protest at the capital, or until you lobby local legislators and see changes made due to your suggestions.
The students of ARC are the ones who pay for ASB. You’d think they would want to know where that money goes. They also don’t want to pay what they don’t have to. Well, guess what? That is part of what ASB tries to help with by advocating for students.
Experiences, like college, are only what you make of them. Instead of going on Facebook and complaining about your school, fix it. Make a difference. Change things. Participate.
Let me tell you what you believe. I haven’t lived your life, but I know your type. You are all the same anyway. You’re a bigot. You hate gays. You have a dozen wives. Your Christ isn’t the same as my Christ. Mitt Romney is your Savior. Steve Young was the only good thing to come out of Utah. I’m a Mormon, and I have heard them all.
Being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints hasn’t always been a cake walk at the bake sale that is my life. I was born into the church, meaning my parents were baptized members of the church when they had me. I have been attending the church since then, and was willingly bap-tized when I was eight. As I grew older, colleagues and schoolmates regularly bullied and ridiculed me for the beliefs that I held.
Nevertheless, I still believed and found the answers to my spir-itual questions in the LDS church. I chose to follow the principles and doctrine of my beloved gos-pel, which helped me to guide and shape my life.
When I got to high school, I
started to become interested in politics. I soon found that mem-bers of the Mormon Church tend to have very conservative views. I studied the major issues and still, even with my religious back-ground, found that I agreed most-ly with the Democratic Party. I was almost ashamed to talk to my parents about it, thinking I had disappointed them in some way. I realized that I was essentially pre-paring to come out to my parents; “Mom, Dad, I’m a Democrat.”
As it turns out, I’m not the only one. Surprisingly, there are many influential Mormons who turn to the left. U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada is a famous Mormon Lib. A few others include: the first ever female state senator Martha
Hughes Cannon, former presi-dent of the LDS church and JFK-appointed civil rights committee member James E. Faust, and fa-mous record holding Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings.
Members of the Mormon Church are taught to be free think-ers because we believe in the law of free agency. Free agency allows us to choose and think as we like because we are in charge of our own minds, as God intended us to be. These choices include political preference and opinion.
Not all members of the church are Molly Mormon or Peter Priest-hood. I choose to believe the prin-ciples of the LDS church and sup-port gay marriage. I’m a Mormon of a different generation.
Maybe nice guys shouldn’t always
finish last
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I recently went on a date with what most would con-sider a “nice guy.” He had been trying to take me out for a while, and after weeks of innocent flirting, I finally agreed to go out with him.
He was sweet; one of those guys that always tucked his shirt in. The type my mother would just love. The con-versation was good and I didn’t immediately feel like I needed to impress him, and I could eat my greasy pizza with no shame.
After the date, my room-mate wanted to know all the juicy details. I responded with a quick “it was nice.” Was that all I really had to say?
I had just left, what most would consider, a perfect first date, so why wasn’t I im-pressed? I felt the harsh real-ity hit: I have a bad habit of dating jerks.
It’s not that I purposely go looking for jerks, but rather, I fail to notice the signs. I get excited by all the mystery and create an ideal version of the person I’m dating and never really see them for who they really are. That is, until I find text messages from an ex-girlfriend or end up waiting for hours by the phone.
Even though I know I can’t stand another jerk in my con-tacts list, I realized dating a nice guy takes some getting used to.
And that’s the sad part. I have allowed myself to be used and mistreated for so long. When I finally meet someone “nice,” I find him too safe and boring.
I have repeatedly turned down nice guys on the simple fact that there was “no chem-istry,” and convinced myself that it would never work. That’s just stupid. If a guy is sweet, calls you back, and picks you up on time, that doesn’t mean he’s boring. It means he’s a gentleman.
I’m done with all the emo-tional ups and downs. Who cares if you’re a drummer, look like Ryan Gosling, and have the sexual prowess of a young Marlon Brando. I know all about your kind, and I refuse to be apart of it anymore. Even if dating a jerk makes for good conver-sations over coffee.
I’ve dated enough jerks to know this by now.
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ARC STUDENTS FAIL TO STEP UP ASB elections approach fast while student voter turnout remains low
MORMON: SAME LOOK, NEW TASTEBREAKING AWAY FROM THE TRADITIONAL MORMON MOLD By Emily K. [email protected]
Medical marijuana is not but smoke and mirrorsPOT SHOULD BE LEGAL, BUT NOT FOR THE REASONS ADVOCATES ARGUEBy Korbl [email protected]
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RUN OR
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Photos by Emily K. RabastoRunners celebrate finishing the race with an explosion of color thrown in unison.
Run or Dye is a celebration of color and fitness. Held on Saturday, March 16, this colorful 5K was hosted in Sacramento at McClellan Park just a few miles from ARC’s North Highlands campus. Young, old, small, or tall, Run or Dye was a blast for all.
When you participate in the Sacramento color run, you get pelted with safe, eco-friendly, powdered dye that is safe to wear and to eat. The money earned from registration for Sacramento’s Run or Dye goes to benefit many charities and organizations such as United Way and Girls on the Run.
This race and many like it aim to encourage the citizens of Sacramento to be active and have a colorful new experience.
The run encourages Sacramentans of all ages to participate and get colorful as they stay active.
Eric Schmidt, 22, and Susie Kelver, 22, of Sacramento prepare to run together during the Run or Dye 5K on Saturday, March 16.
A father carries his young son on his shoulders through a cloud of pink dye.High school student David Xiong, 17, was one of many volunteers who helped throw the multicolored powdered dye at brave runners as they pass by.
