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City College student and veteran 91X DJ Makeda Dread has organized a multifaceted hurricane relief effort.

Working with Bella Pooch, an organization dedi-cated to assisting mothers and babies, Dread, exec-utive director of the World Beat Center, has turned her community center, located at 2100 Park Blvd., into one of San Diego’s drop-off points for Hurricane Katrina relief.

Dread also quickly organized a two-part hurri-cane victims’ relief benefi t concert called “Healing the Nation,” which will be streamed live on her inter-national Internet radio and television station Oneworl-dradiotv.com.

Dread has been attend-ing classes at City College for many years.

“I will always continue to attend classes at City College. That is were I learned telecommunications. City has excellent instructors and that is why I am on major radio today,” Dread said.

She is a veteran DJ at radio station 91X. Her show, Reggae Makossa, airs every Sunday night from 8-10 p.m. and has been popular for over 20 years. Makeda made special reference to late City College instructor Hope Shaw, saying Shaw was a big infl uence on her career. The city of San Diego and the California State Senate and Congress have awarded Dread for her work in art and music.

Dread has been using her connections in the community to organize her hurricane relief effort, calling on her big supporters such as 91X to assist in promoting the benefi t.

“These are my aunties and grandmas,” Dread said, referring to media images of the impoverished black communities affected by the hurricane.

She expressed deep concern for the black com-munities in Louisiana that received help late and criticized President Bush for the mismanagement of United States resources.

“Money spent on the Iraq war should be spent at home on education and preparing for disasters,” she said. Dread did not just blame Bush, however, adding that all people are connected to the problem,

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There have been some changes in the way tutoring will be handled on campus this year, reports Vice President Dr. Larry Brown. California now requires students to get a referral code for tutoring from their professor, a counselor or a Tutoring Center offi cial.

The change is a way to regulate and keep track of who is getting tutoring and for what. Students will not be able to get assistance without a referral code.

City College’s Tutoring Center was established in 1998 to provide students with a viable tool for learning at no cost. The tutors are chosen for their subject knowledge, patience, and the ability to effectively communicate with students.

The center encourages a culturally diverse environment.

The center also offers one-hour work-shops in note taking, test taking, and time management. The center is located in room L-214 and is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Fri-days from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call the center at (619) 388-3685.

There is a separate Math Center that

specializes in helping students with math. They are open days and evenings and work on a fi rst come fi rst serve basis. The Math Center is located in room T-208 and can be contacted at (619) 388-3583.

There is also a Reading Center in room C-226 for assistance with reading, writ-ing and English as a second language. The hours vary and are posted outside the center.

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Veteran 91X DJ Makeda Dread runs the World Beat Center in Balboa Park. Dread, who also has taken classes in City College’s radio-television department, has organized relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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and a lack of community strength and connection leads to a dependency on bureaucratic government systems that are not capable of responding quickly enough in times of crisis.

“This is a time to look deeply within and make changes within ourselves,” Dread said.

She related family disaster and crisis to that which happens on a larger scale. She explained how people in that section of Louisiana were poor and unedu-cated, lacking the ability to evac-uate.

“How can you call starving people breaking into grocery stores looters?” she asked.

Donations collected at the World Beat Center will be taken to an aid collection center in Los Angeles that has already gath-ered 120 pallets full of dona-tions ready to be delivered by 12 semi-trucks. From there, the donations will be shipped to a warehouse provided by United Way in Lafayette, La., an area that was damaged greatly by the hurricane but has received less media coverage than other areas.

The World Beat Center, founded in 1984, is a non-profit organization dedicated to heal-ing the world through music, art, dance and technology. The World Beat Center is involved in many relief projects including aid to Jamaican orphans, African refu-gees and a preschool in Burma. The WBC is a cultural commu-nity center that also hosts a wide range of classes, activities, and special events.

The WBC has collaborated with the anthropology depart-ment at City College building a Day of the Dead exhibit, which it plans to do again this semester. The WBC has many opportuni-ties for learning and volunteer service. The WBC also puts on reggae events in Spanish, work-ing to bridge African and Latino communities

Dread invites City College

students to visit the WBC and observe the organization’s com-munity work. The center was designed to be an educational tool for students and there are many opportunities to discover various topics to research more deeply. The interior of the WBC is a historical archive featuring pictures and artifacts of indige-nous African and Native Ameri-can tribes and famous black leaders and musicians.

The exterior is covered with colorful traditional and new cultural paintings that contain various meanings and messages. Many political leaders and musi-cians that are not known by the general public may be discovered at the World Beat Center.

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When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in devastating fashion Aug. 29, it caused the biggest natural disaster on U.S. soil since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which killed 889 people according to the Earth-quake Hazards Program.

The three states that were most affected by Category 4 Katrina were Mississippi, Louisi-ana and Alabama. An estimated 1.3 million people lost power. The biggest problem this storm created was in New Orleans, La., where breached levees and broken flood walls left the city submerged in up to 20 feet of water in some areas.

Although New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation the day before the storm hit. Many people decided to ride out the storm, or flat out did not have the means to evacu-ate. An estimated ten thousand people sought out refuge from the storm inside of the Louisiana Super Dome.

Katrina’s powerful winds tore most of the Super Dome’s roof off and reports now are that it will have to be torn down.

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, which was the elev-enth named storm of this year, thousands of people were stuck in a flooded, lawless city where people looted for food and water when there was no sign of out-side help.

Many of these people who were left behind were the poor, had no way to escape and were now homeless. They didn’t have

any assistance with first aid or any of the vital necessities of life.

It took nearly four days, Sep-tember first, for the Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to announce that 4,200 National Guard troops trained as military police were to be deployed in to New Orleans over the next few days to restore order. This delay of time has brought criticism from many including the Congressional Black Caucus who said the pace of the relief effort was slow because the majority left behind were poor.

As far as military help there will be naval ships on the Gulf Coast to be used as headquar-ters for helicopters and search and rescue teams along side the U.S. coast guard according to Lt. General Russell Honoré during

a Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency (FEMA) briefing.

The 13-levee system that New Orleans used along side flood walls were only built strong enough to withstand a Level 3 hurricane which explains the failure of the system when Katrina’s level four winds came ashore, storm levels are based upon the Saffir-Simpson scale. In a report prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York that was turned in to the government, listing the nations most vulnerable threats of disas-ter.

Second to a major terrorist attack was a major flood to New Orleans caused by a catastrophic storm. With this information now known it brings up many questions including why there

Hurricane Katrina’s fury far-reaching

Anthony Bondio of Slidell, La., in St. Tammany Parish, rests after retriev-ing some belongings from his damaged house on Sept. 9.

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By Ericka VillalobosContributor

The photography department has received a makeover for the fall semester. The renovations are part of a collaborative effort between photography instructors and school officials to offer more access to the latest technology in photography.

The changes began last semester when Dave Eichinger and David King were hired as the full-time instructors for the department.

“The facility was a bit neglected,” according to Eich-inger. “Simple renovations such as new flooring and paint are needed.”

As of now, there is one display case where student and faculty pieces can be viewed as visitors enter the department. “We plan on adding about 12 more display cases to introduce rotating exhib-its of 200 or more pictures,” Eich-inger noted, saying the exhibits will add life to the department as well as inspire the students.

These smaller changes will accompany bigger ones such as new classes and computers. The improvements, with estimated costs at about $40,000, will allow students to keep up with the rapid growth occurring in the digital photography revolution.

“These changes should have been made a few years ago. But the dean, the president and many others have been great in helping us to achieve these goals,” according to King.

Josette Herdell, a former student at City College, took an advanced photography class in fall 2003. “It was an amaz-ing experience,” she recalled. “I learned a lot about working in the darkroom from the instruc-tor, Annette Fournet, who is wonderfully talented.”

Herdell pointed out that City is one of the only places with well-equipped facilities that can fully meet students’ needs, and while “the facilities were never

Photography departmentchanging image

By Ericka VillalobosContributor

David King is a well-expe-rienced photographer eager to share his expertise with his stu-dents.

He has been taking pictures for more than 40 years, and his work has been published in books, newspapers, magazines and even appeared on television.

King started in photogra-phy by taking pictures for the military. He pursued photography because he liked the real-istic images he could cap-ture with the

camera and recreate in the dark room; he also liked the potential income. He attended art school in the early ’60s, and started selling his art for a living shortly thereafter.

He taught at City College briefly in 1979, but left when he received a grant to photograph Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, a venture he says he is “glad to have had a part in.”

He continued as a commercial photographer until he came back to the college five years ago as a part-time instructor.

“The department was a mess,” King recalls. “The rooms, the curriculum, it all needed work.”

So he and his colleague, Dave

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Firefighters Brian Wangler (left) and Bryan Powell search for the shut off valve of a ruptured fire hydrant on Dove Street at the corner of Washington Street on Sept. 8. According to San Diego Fire Station 8 Capt. Lisa Blake, a Vons supermarket delivery truck clipped the fire hydrant on Dove Street, causing water to erupt into the air for approximately two hours. She estimated that water was flow-ing out of the ruptured pipe at about 1,000 gallons a minute. Firefighters, police, and onlookers monitored the situation as San Diego Water workers searched for the shut off valve which had been covered by blacktop when the street was last surfaced.

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Radio/television professor’s project earns Emmy By Andrew ForbregdContributor

This summer was an exciting one for Laura Castañeda. On top of being a former news reporter, and a professor at San Diego City College, she is also the producer of “Stories de la Frontera,” a bi-lingual KPBS news magazine show concerned with issues involving the U.S./Mexico border.

“We just won an Emmy!” Castañeda says with delight. “I just found out a few days ago.

“We’ve been worried about getting can-celled because there wasn’t enough fund-ing … hopefully now, that won’t happen.”

Castañeda’s passionate interest and

involvement with border issues goes back a long way. Growing up in urban Chicago, Casta-ñeda was raised in a Catholic family with strong values.

“I definitely believe in karma, and in being honest and seeking the truth in order to be able to educate,” she says. “I

have always been interested in writing, especially about cultural issues that are important to me.”

Castañeda’s career began at the Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana where she was a freelance writer for the campus

newspaper as well as co-editor of a Latino cultural magazine. After graduating with a degree in English, Castañeda was hired as a production assistant for the ABC news affiliate WLS in Chicago.

“I was so lucky to be hired at WLS,” Castañeda says. “At the time it was the No. 3 market in the country.” Castañeda worked her way up to being a news writer as well as working on the assignment desk. After 3 years at WLS, she was then offered a position as a reporter for ABC in Tucson, Ariz.

“I learned early on in my career that if you want to be a successful reporter, you have to be willing to move a lot,” Castañeda explains. “I didn’t hesitate to jump at the opportunity. Luckily for me,

moving to Tucson was the best experience I have ever had.”

Castañeda made a name for herself in Tucson, where she says her career “really started to take off.”

After working in Tucson for about 4 years, Castañeda was faced with a tough decision. She had the option of taking a job in either Milwaukee or San Diego.

“I thought a lot about moving closer to home, but I decided to move to San Diego,” Castañeda explains. “It was a natural move for me. Although I liked the idea of being closer to home, I still wanted to report on issues concerning the border.”

So in January of 1995, Castañeda

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Do we need any more proof that the Bush administration is completely inept?

As America watches the utter chaos and despair unfolding these last several days in New Orleans and other parts of the South, most of us can’t help but wonder is this really happening in America? While the leaders of the richest most powerful nation in the world sit by and idly do nothing.

Do you know where your leaders were while this tragedy unfolded? I will tell you where they were.

Our fearless leader George W. was playing golf as he proceeded to finish out his seemingly never-ending vacation. Our missing-in-action Vice President Cheney was also on vacation in Wyo-ming and couldn’t be bothered to even say two words to these people. Secretary of State Condi Rice was in New York shopping at a high-end department store spending thousands of dollars on shoes. What a slap in the face to the people of the South who not only didn’t have any shoes but had no food, water or shelter. As an African-American woman, Condi should be absolutely ashamed that she did not step up to the plate for her people, and she is from Alabama.

We all know if this was some well-off white neighborhood this never would have happened.

As a white person, I am ashamed. It still comes down to the “haves” and the “have nots,” and if you are a have-not, you

are expendable to this adminis-tration.

Interestingly enough, the new statistics on poverty in this country were just released with another million-plus people added to the already 26 million Americans who currently live in poverty. This figure has steadily grown over the last five years. (How long has Bush been in office? Oh yeah, five years.)

The Bush administration is so removed from the reality of what struggling Americans are going through everyday to survive. Bush has never had to struggle and wonder where the money will come from. He is callous and arrogant.

Meanwhile, this administra-

tion has taken cronyism to a new level with Bush appointing his longtime friend, Michael Brown, to be the head of FEMA. Brown had absolutely no experience in disaster relief, which has been painfully obvious. He has proven to be completely incompetent.

Bush has been dismantling FEMA and depleting its funds for Homeland Security and Iraq. So is it any wonder it is so inef-fective? Not to mention the Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq along with our high-water vehicles. (Excuse me, but why do they need high-water vehicles in the middle of the desert?)

The bottom line is this flood could have been prevented. The locals and experts have known about this potential disaster and have been screaming for help. But their pleas were ignored.

Bush said this week, “No one could have known this would happen.” Sound familiar? That’s exactly what they said after 9/11 despite receiving multiple intel-ligence briefings indicating that very thing.

Obviously this administration doesn’t have the wherewithal to see anything beyond the noses on their smug faces. Either they are ridiculously incompetent or they don’t care. I don’t know which is worse.

It is long overdue that this pack of incompetent hacks be held accountable for their gross negligence. We all deserve better than this.

Cindy J. Wimer is City Times’ editor-in-chief

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In the midst of the almost incomprehensible tragedy that has emerged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina comes one story that has touched the hearts of many — that of a little boy who became so distraught, he cried until he vomited when his dog, Snowball, was taken away from him as he boarded an evacu-ation bus.

For people around the country, this story distilled down to its essence the heartbreak, helplessness and loss suffered by so many of Katrina’s victims. Many people have responded by donating to a reward fund for information about the boy and his dog, in an effort to reunite them. At the time of this writing, Snowball is believed to have been located, but there is no word yet on the little boy who so desperately misses — and needs — his canine companion.

This is just one of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of heart-wrenching stories of evacuees being forced to make awful choices between saving their own lives and those of their beloved animal companions. More than a week after the hur-ricane struck, thousands of people were still holed up in their homes in the worst-hit areas of New Orleans, refusing to evac-uate — and many said it was because authorities would not let them bring their animals. Others smuggled animals out in bags or inside their clothing. Some courageous souls have self-lessly stayed put so that they could care for stray and aban-doned animals. Others have only agreed to be evacuated after authorities relented and let them bring along their four-legged friends.

This tragedy, like no other, has brought home the desper-ate need for animals to be included in disaster planning. Fed-eral and nonprofit agencies need to acknowledge the fact that animals are considered by many people to be members of the family. They would no sooner intentionally leave their dog or cat than they would abandon a defenseless child or elderly parent. Agencies must cooperate with each other and formu-late a plan that provides shelter for evacuees’ animals, so that people fleeing disasters don’t have the added burden of worry-ing about the fate of their animal companions.

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A RETROSPECTIVE ...

‘Spinal Tap’exposes

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Mockumentary tracks band’s rise and fall

By Jonathan PivarCity Times

Before the days of MTV popular music found its way to film to penetrate pop culture and influence the youth.

The 1950s started the blend of music and movies with countless Elvis Presley flicks including “Loving You,” and the legendary “Jailhouse Rock.” Elvis wasn’t the only rocker of the ’50s to get expo-sure. Countless now-cult films include performances by Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, the highly-underrated Eddie Cochran, and scandalous char-acters like Jerry Lee Lewis (who married his 13-year-old cousin) and Jayne Mansfield (though an actor, her death was a bit a mystery). Indeed film was proficient in recording the chaos and mayhem that was rock-n-roll from the early days.

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The ’60s shift in music and its place in film were much like today; very different, but at the same time exactly the same in principle.

Elvis continued his endeav-ors, but they steadily deterio-rated. Chubby Checker’s twist spawned multiple movies with twist in the title, all of which unoriginally being a word or two different than the others. “Wild Guitar” starring Arch Hall Jr. was a notably horrible film, the “Plan 9 From Outer Space” of rock films; bad pro-duction, bad acting, bad direct-ing, bad. “Wild Guitar” was important due to its plot: the record companies’ exploitation of young artists (one can only wonder why it’s budget was so low). A tidal wave of surf music movies emerged, most notably with Frankie Avalon, and although they were mainly just a fad they did put a Cali-fornia influence across the Atlantic into the U.K.

Perhaps the most notable happenings in the world of rock-film were in the mid-to-late ’60s with the Beatles’ release of “Hard Days Night,” “Help!,” and “Yellow Submarine.” Not only did the Beatles redefine rock music and its limitations (or lack there of), but they also used their creativity to sync it with moving picture. State-side, “The Velvet Underground and Nico” fused art with music

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By Jonathan PivarCity Times

“We don’t know whose vomit it was…it’s not like you can dust for vomit,” is one of the many unfor-gettable one-liners from the rock-n-roll cult classic “This is Spinal Tap.” from now sissy-lala roman-tic comedy director Rob Reiner. Tap was the first to coin the word “rockumentary,” and has found its niche among most any rocker since its debut. This is no “When Harry Met Sally.”

Spinal Tap is a monument to all that is ridiculous in rock —the fans, the snobbery, and the shear trite-ness of lyrical invention and stage antics. With an all-access tour sto-ryline, Spinal Tap is shown at their worst (and funniest) with songs like “Sex Farm,” “Big Bottom,” “Lick My Love-Pump,” and their infa-mous “Stonehenge” where an unin-tentionally small Stonehenge prop “is in danger of being trampled by dwarves.”

Throughout the film, artists from Van Halen to Led Zepelin to almost any ’80s hair-band are mocked — and rightly so. Rock has been a huge influence on fashion and kids since its birth, and oftentimes it’s downright silly. Even more amus-ing are the kids who jump on the bandwagon; dressing, looking and

trying to act like their heroes only to end up looking like a bunch of wankers.

The band, Spinal Tap, is made up of Brits. Though they are a fictitious band with fake English accents, they do in fact play their own instru-ments. Any musician (or wanna-be guitar player) will recognize the

phrase “but this one goes to eleven,” as lead guitar player Nigel Tufnel refers to his custom Marshall amp that goes “one louder.” The same cast also appears in the musical mockery “A Mighty Wind,” “Best in Show,” and “Waiting for Guffman.”

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In the 1980 mockrockumentary

“The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle,” director Julien Temple takes us on a bizarre ride full of anarchy, chaos, and filth while documenting the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols through their lucrative manager, Malcolm McLaren. The film unravels McLar-en’s “Ten Commandments” on how to turn a band with no talent into a record-selling powerhouse adored by the media through their exploited image.

The film’s surreal aura, given

off by McLaren’s hilariously arro-gant narrative, sets the tone to understanding McLaren’s ulterior

motives in managing a band whose bass player can’t even play the bass and whose singer can’t even hold a single note.

By outraging moralists, feed-ing the media grime, and evoking a new type of music and attitude into the wayward youth of the world, McLaren had swindled massive amounts of money and fame from major record labels and fans who consumed the media hype.

Aside from McLaren’s bravado and zany antics, which involve him hanging out with a trans-

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arrived. Her first job in San Diego was working as a field reporter for KGTV Channel 10. Castañeda says she was hired because of her extensive experience with border issues.

She was at KGTV for three years when her boss was suddenly fired.

“My new boss and I didn’t get along very well, so I started looking for work elsewhere,” Castañeda continues. “I signed a one year contract in 2000 in order to start looking for another job.”

With the option of moving to Los Ange-

les or Houston, Castañeda decided to stay in San Diego.

“I took a job working part time with a friend who was the executive producer of “San Diego Insider,” a sports program on Channel 4,” Castañeda explains. “This is when I realized I might want to teach.”

While reporting and being out and about in the community, Castañeda says she often times would meet young people who loved writing, but weren’t sure how to get started in the field.

“Hope Shaw (a friend and former Chan-nel 10 employee) just happened to be chair of the communications department at City College, and hired me part time as an Intro to news writing instructor,” Castañeda says. “I absolutely loved it; and I thought that if I could help at least one person

reach their goals in the communications field, it would make me so happy.”

Today Castañeda still teaches Intro to Newswriting, as well as news package, Intro to Mass Communications, and news scene classes here at City College. She is very eager to meet and help new students with their goals and aspirations.

“I always have guest speakers come in to talk to the students about the different avenues available to them in the com-munications field,” Castañeda explains. “I have a huge contact list of people I’ve met over the years, and I try to teach my students the importance of networking.” “If you want to be successful in the com-munications field, you have to be willing to meet new people and share ideas…you never know when a great opportunity

might come along.”Castañeda is also involved with the

San Diego Latino Film Festival. She has worked as the media coordinator for 3 years, and she says she loves learning more and more about the film industry.

“I basically schedule interviews for the stars and the media,” she says. “The festival is held every year in March, and every year I learn more and have a lot of fun.” Castañeda explains how the festival is set up in three main categories: Short, Feature, and Documentary. The films are viewed and then judged by a panel of enthusiasts, film-makers, and film indus-try professionals.

“I highly recommend coming to the fes-tival next year; every year it gets better and better” Castañeda says.

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spectacular, they always got the job done.”

Eichinger and King agree that becom-ing a successful photographer requires great dedication. Although each man has more than 30 years experience, both

admit that they are still learning new ways to improve their work.

“It is practice, not technology, that helps capture a great picture,” King said.

City is one of the only colleges in San Diego that allows students to earn a cer-tificate or an associate’s degree with a specialization in photography.

As part of the upgrade, the photogra-phy department will host a trip to Europe next summer. Students can e-mail dave@eichfoto.com for more information.

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Eichinger, teamed up and asked them-selves three questions King believes should be asked and answered everyday:

■ What can I do today to fundamen-tally improve what I do?

■ What are the obstacles or why haven’t I done it already?

■ If I knew how to do it, what would it take?

The men gathered ideas and composed a plan that would benefit the students and rebuild their department.

“The president, the dean, and many others have been great in helping us to reach our goals,” King says.

“The students are the best part about teaching,” he adds. “They notice our efforts and are more responsive because of it; and there is an amazing change when students and teachers work together.”

For aspiring photographers, he says, “City is a great place to start. You can learn a great amount of skill in a short amount of time. We provide you with the

vocational training you need as a photog-rapher, the rest cannot be taught, it must be learned through trial and error.”

King recommends interning for a pro-fessional photographer and “shooting (pictures) everyday.”

He calls San Diego an “ideal place to learn … it is a port for photography… you can travel an hour in any direction and be in a new environment with plenty of different images surrounding you.”

However, he acknowledges that the work isn’t here, it’s in Los Angeles. He points out that with the Internet and dig-ital photography, you no longer have to live where you work.

If you really want to be a photogra-pher and it’s a passion, King emphasizes, “it better be or you’ll be eaten alive by the competition.” Learn here, use the experi-ence to your advantage, then go see a new side of the world.

If someone is interested in photog-raphy, or any artistic expression, King advises them to pursue it. He says he thinks the idea of art being a natural born talent is “nonsense.” As he says: “Creativ-ity is within all of us. It is our individual-ity, the way we think and interact; it just has to be awakened and exercised.”

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was not a plan a plan to fix the prob-lem in the years before the storm hit, and why wasn’t there a plan to evacu-ate the people who were unable to do it themselves and why was there not a plan for immediate assistance for the people left behind in the devastated areas.

The rescue missions in New Orleans are finding it easier to get to more people because they are in a more con-densed area, they are having the oppo-site problem in the rural coast line of Mississippi with people needing assis-tance in a more spread out area.

According to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Hurricane Katrina inflicted

more damage to the states beach towns than Hurricane Camille, which hit in 1969 and was the last level four hurri-cane to hit the area.

With the death toll rising in these states daily, as the missions change from search and rescue to the search for dead bodies. The survivors are now being separated into herds and loaded onto buses to unknown locations across the U.S.

In New Orleans it will take weeks before the water will be completely pumped out of the city and troops will have to go door to door searching for those who perished during the storm or due to flooding, before there is even a thought of returning.

If you would like to donate or find out about volunteering for the thousands of people affected by this tragedy you can call the Red Cross at 1-800-help-now or visit their website www.redcross.org.

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We are looking for a few friendly and responsible individuals to help us staff our local area McDonald’s Restaurants. So if you are that person and would like a job that offers very flexible hours, please call Maria @ 619-475-2879 extension 40 to set up your interview.

Compiled by Cindy J. Wimer

■ WATCH FOR FRAUD

Students interested in helping the victims of Katrina should be wary. There are about 2,300 organizations and Web sites claiming to be charities for hurricane relief. Unfor-tunately, many of these sites are scams and some are already under investigation by the Feds. These sites are using the hurricane to lure people into giving out their credit card number. Always check for the charities fed-eral tax id number and if they are a 501(c) 3 regulated organization.

You can also go to www.charitynavigator.com which is a Web site dedicated to monitoring charities. If you don’t have time to do your homework and just want to donate, you can’t go wrong with the Red Cross or the Salvation Army.

■ GROUPS TO CONTACT

Contact Red Cross at: www.redcross.org

Mail Donations to:The Salvation ArmyHurricane ReliefP.O. Box 630243Baltimore, MD 21263-0243

Or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY

■ WEB SITES TO AVOID

Some of the sites to avoid are, according to

Internet watchdogs:

www.katrinafamilies.com www.parishdonations.com www.katrinahelp.comwww.internetdonations.org

■ WHAT’S NEEDED

Students interested in sending supplies versus donating money can send them by Fed Ex or UPS to: Veterans for Peace Chapter 116 28500 Sherwood Rd.Willits, LA 95490

Some of the supplies needed are:Water, ice chests/ice, baby supplies (diapers, wipes, formula, etc.), anti-bacterial wipes, powdered milk and canned foods, generators and flashlights

■ COLLEGE DISTRICT EFFORTS

The San Diego Community College District office, the colleges, and Continuing Education have all started programs to provide relief, with an emphasis on contributions to the American Red Cross. Contact one of the fol-lowing individuals to provide or pledge your support.

Contact persons for Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort:District OfficeMary Lee, Room 240,(619) 388-6914

City CollegeGerald Ramsey, Room A-113(619) 388-3246

Mesa CollegeAdela Jacobson, Room I3-101(619) 388-2706

Miramar CollegeBob Garber, Room A-105(619) 388-7432

Continuing EdLynne Mayfield, ECC - B-3(619) 388-4833

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with genius director and legend-ary artist Andy Warhol putting in his two cents. The Velvet Underground’s effort defined film noire and made it possible for “Easy Rider” to end out the ‘60s. “Easy Rider” was a true mesh of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, driven by music.

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The ’70s were about drugs and rock. “Gimme Shelter,” a live Rolling Stones concert where a crowd was assaulted and one died at the hands of a Hell’s Angels security force is caught on film; a must see. Ironically, the same year had a “Wood-stock” documentary released; troubled times indeed. The Who’s “Tommy,” the first rock opera (if you’re into that sort of thing) came out in ’75. “Satur-day Night Fever” was released at the peek of the disco-era and was a propellant to excess. By ’79 The Ramones New York punk sensibilities appeared in “Rock and Roll High School” to remedy that.

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“The Blues Brothers” was released in 1980 with an all-star cast and great hidden musi-cal history. “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle,” by Malcom

McLaren showed how he used the record companies to make money with a crap product.

Swindle is a good contrast to “Wild Guitar” in the 50’s. Neil Diamond acts and performs in “The Jazz Singer,” a story about a rabbi going to L.A. to make a record. A surprisingly phenom-enal movie, you’ll want to dust off your parents old LP’s (what’s an LP?). Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was released in ’82 to every ston-er’s delight, still a decent flick sober. In ’84, Prince’s “Purple Rain” was put out, and must be seen if for nothing else the opposing band “Morris Day and the Time.” The sound track is legendary.

The greatest rock mocku-mentary “This is Spinal Tap” was released at the same time (see review). Though the name Ralph Machio repels most people (including the writer), a cult film called “The Crossroads” (not with Brittney Spears) had amaz-ing performances by Ry Cooder and Steve Vai (a guitar acrobat).

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From the late ’80s to the pres-ent, biographies like “Great Balls of Fire” and “Sid and Nancy” have been one avenue the genre has gone. The other, films based on fictitious bands like “Almost Famous,” “The Commitments,” and “Still Crazy.” It should be interesting to see what happens as more technology is available for rock-n-roll budgets to pro-duce.

Happy viewing, and rock on.

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“This is Spinal Tap” is an important rock film because it intelligently mocks all that sur-rounds our pop-culture. Reiner and company show just how absurd and downright moronic pop icons can be (and to a large extent really are) and how much a reflection this is on the con-

sumer, i.e. the general public—you. They manage to get this point across to the perceptive through their use of wit and sar-casm while leaving the viewer who doesn’t understand any of the jokes the biggest joke, a moron.

Though the film was released in 1984, there have been many people who have not understood that Spinal Tap is not really a band, though they have released albums like “Break Like the Wind,” and have even toured

from time to time as a live comedy show.

“This is Spinal Tap” is a must see, and can be found at any video store on a re-released DVD packed with hilarious bonus foot-age. Look for the “none blacker” cover. Tap has definitely stood the test of time and universally rocks. Whether you’re a musi-cian or a player, “This is Spinal Tap” will have you on the floor laughing and bring back memo-ries of that one concert you went to that time …

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vestite dwarf, the film’s only real appearances from the Sex Pis-tols themselves are clips from live performances such as their nefarious “Jubilee Day” and their last show in San Francisco, as well as Sid Vicious’ rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” and

Steve Jones and Paul Cook play-ing with Ronnie Biggs in Brazil.

The film’s interest in McLar-en’s ploy of marketing the idea of “punk rock” is what the film is solely based around and gives the viewers the feeling of being cheated, but at the same time an understanding of how much pre-sentation can have more weight than that of actual content.

I enjoyed this film because it made me realize why the Sex Pistols were so popular and now

so essential to the way bands are perceived in music today.

This became a catalyst for more artists today, making their music known on smaller and independent record labels as well as having the ability to have their own home studios. This opportunity gives the artist more artistic freedom with their music as well as having a hand in the distribution process, thus proving McLaren’s theory.

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The Twinkle Brothers and Della Grant performed at the World Beat Center recently for a hurricane relief benefit concert entitled Healing the Nation Part 1.

The Twinkle Brothers (TB), Raston and Normon Grant, the lead singers of one of the first popular roots reggae acts to come out of Jamaica. Formed in the late 60’s they started tour-ing the U.S. in the ’80s. The U.K. reggae band Misty and Roots backed TB and Della with guitar, bass, Rhodes-piano, and a drum kit. The show was raw, not the diluted version of reggae that’s getting radio airplay. The show was hard-hitting roots-reggae that resonates truth and revolu-tion like reggae’s legendary Bob Marley.

The show sold out, bringing out people of many different eth-nicities and religions to the color-fully painted World Beat Center located in Balboa Park. The con-cert deeply expressed frustra-tions felt with the problematic laws and systems of modern day society (Babylon, the reggae metaphor). The Twinkle Broth-ers called for humanity to end

the ignorance that leads to war, starvation, and death. With the crowd chanting hits like “Faith Can Move Mountains,” a feeling of spirituality was felt by much of the crowd.

“Reggae music is important at this time because it is a voice for the suffering people of the world. And it stands for the truth and rights of these people. Reggae also has a spiritual element that is needed to heal the planet. Most music is not dealing with reality. It is time for people to wake up and stop living in an MTV illu-sion”, said Makeda Dread, exec-utive director of the World Beat Center and primary organizer of the Healing the Nation benefit.

To find out about more World Beat Center cultural music events go to www.worldbeatcen-ter.org or call (619) 230-1190. For students looking for cultural events to attend for class proj-ects, or extra credit assignments, this is an excellent resource.

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ReviewDashiell Kurh

Frustrations over system drive benefit concert

By Edgard GuerreroCity Times

The City College women’s soccer team is building a foun-dation for the season, said coach Andi Milburn, while they wait for some key players to become eligible to play.

With only a handful of new players, Milburn hopes improvements will start to infiltrate.

The game on Aug. 31 resulted in a defeat of 1-4, however having scored their first goal in over a year was a major improvement. Point Loma High grad freshman

Sara McGregor scored the goal with an assist going to Noelia Intunez. Unfortunately, San Bernardino Valley Commu-nity College overcame the Knights by scoring three more goals. Milburn mentioned that her most recent defeat was due to rookie errors made by the goalie who in all fair-ness is new to the game.

“We are picking up momen-tum right now” said Milburn, adding that once all the play-ers become eligible they will have a decent team.

The team has played three preseason games which have all resulted in defeats, but

they hope to be ready for the regular season. The home game against Bakersfield resulted in a 0-6 defeat, leav-ing them with a 0-3 record.

■ MEN’S SOCCER UPDATEThe Knights men’s soccer team has gotten off to a good start going 2-0 in their defense of the Pacific Coast Conference title. They started out the season with a win at Victor Valley 3-2 with goals by Dimetri Hidalgo and Juan Perez. The Knights’ good play continued in their next contest shutting out Citrus College 4-0 here at City Col-lege.

— Shane Crumrine

City forward Nicole Zepeda corrals the ball during first half play against Bakersfield College on Sept. 2. City lost the match 0-6.

Mike Sullivan / City Times

Challenging preseason for women’s soccer

The World Beat Center is run by 91X DJ Makeda Dread.Genie Pearce / City Times