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March 11

In this IssueCelebration Dinner .................... Page 2Game Review............................ Page 3Cash for College Winner ........... Page 3BVC All-Academic Honors ........ Page 6Women's BB BVC Honors......... Page 6'Pelle' ......................................... Page 7Men's BB BVC Honors .............. Page 7What Is Discrimination? ........... Back Page

NVC Protests Budget WoesPages 4 & 5

March is Women's History MonthBack Page

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Back PagePages 6 & 7

Napa Valley College Repertory Theater opens the spring musical Man of La Mancha on March 12. It runs through March 28.

The musical score includes some of the most remarkable and memorable music in theater history, including “I, Don Quixote,” “Dulcinea,” and “The Quest” (“The Impossible Dream”).

Jennifer King directs Man of La Mancha.Michael J. Bulatao, a full time student at Napa

Valley College stars as Don Quixote. Michael made his Broadway debut in Sondheim’s revival of Pacific Overtures starring BD Wong (Roundabout Theatre Company) after traveling with the North American Tour of Miss Saigon. In New York, Michael was proud to be apart of Children and Art Stephen Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Celebration directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. He also performed in John Tartaglia’s Ad-LIBerty, a cabaret show at Joe’s Pub and aboard Rosie O’Donnell’s R Family Cruises.

The cast also stars Tim Setzer as Sancho

Panza, who played Albin in NVC’s 2008 breakthrough production La Cage Aux Folles and was recently seen in the smash hit Plaid Tidings at the White Barn Theater. Linda Howard returns to the Napa Valley College Repertory Theater stage after a seven year

absence to play Aldonza.The cast also features William Shea as the

Governor/The Inn Keeper, Robbie Dornaus III as The Duke/Dr. Carrasco, Miguel Evangelista as The Padre, Nolan Kenmonth as The Barber, Erin Stoltz as Antonia, Don Laughridge as The Captain of

the Inquisition, Loretta Long as Maria, Kathryn Williams as The Housekeeper, and Jose Sanchez as Pedro, with Jeremy Amendola, Tim Bacon, Steve Cairns, Phil Ferrero, Kyle Stoner and Dana Zaccone as Muleteers, and Alyssa Ciapponi, Kevin Barney, Kyle Makaiwi, Jessica Romero, Raymond Santiago, Rochelle Valenciana and Joanna Winter as Prisoners.

Conducting the musical orchestra for the first time is Harry Cadelago. Cadelago has been conducting the North Bay Wind Ensemble since 2006 and this fall added the NVC Orchestra to his conducting duties. Cadelago has degrees from City College of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University, where he received his Music Education Bachelor Degree and credential.   Harry is semi-retired from the Napa Unified School District after 37 years; he directed the Napa High Marching Band, Jazz Band,

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Man of LaMancha

Spring Musical 'Man of La Mancha' opens March 12

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Board members of the Napa Valley College chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society returned victorious from the annual regional convention held in Sacramento. The awards received included the Distinguished Chapter Award, Scholarship Award, Service Award, Yearbook Award, Pinnacle (recruitment) Award, 5-star Chapter Award, Make a Difference Day Certificate, and Chapters United Certificate.

“The chapter board and general members all helped to achieve our many awards and we want to thank the Napa Valley College community for your support!” said advisor Prof. Cathy Gillis.

See http://nvcptk.blogspot.com/2010/03/great-job-beta-beta-sigma.html for more photos.

Napa Valley College Honor Society honoredPictured are:

Alumni Katelyn McCloud, Advisor

Cathy Gillis, Michele Mitchell,

Shondala Spencer, Chapter

President Rob Holst and August

Anderson. Advisor Walt Unti

and student Vangie Alvarez also attended.

Submitted photo

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Publisher: Level 5Playstation 3Release Date: February 2, 2010Players: 1 (up to 4 online)Rating: Teen

The Playstation 3 has been hurting for exclusive Role Playing Games. In

2010, the dawn of a maelstrom of high profile RPG’s, White Knight Chronicles has finally come to the States. Although it’s not an excellent game, it’s a nice appetizer before the main course.

The plot line is rife with clichés. Leonard, an average young man, lives in an average kingdom that gets attacked by an evil group called the Magi during a festival. Spurred on by the desire to save a princess, he is granted the powers of the White Knight, a mystical being who can save the world. The single player mode clocks in at about 30+ hours, so the plot moves to each locale rather quickly, and doesn’t linger in one place for too long.

If you create your own character, they simply serve as a silent bystander in the story mode since Leonard is the focus of the main campaign. The reasoning behind this is that you’ll be playing as your Avatar whenever you jump online to play on Geonet, the online portion of WKC. Although I found it to be counterproductive because you expect your own character to be up front and center, but they are relegated to expressing themselves with a couple facial expressions and gestures on the sidelines, or creeping behind the group out of the spotlight during a cut scene. The battle system is a complete letdown. Waiting to charge your attacks is a very slow process. You can assign up to seven actions (attacks, magic spells, combos, etc.) on three different palettes. Your actions take place in real-time, but it takes about six seconds before you can strike

again. In the heat of battle, the one thing you don’t want to be doing is waiting to trade blows like you’re playing cards.

Combos can be created by stringing together a number of individual attacks to execute them in succession. To use a combo, a certain amount of Action Chips are used. After building up enough Action Chips by performing basic attacks or taking damage, you can expend them on these combos or transforming to the White Knight itself. There are many types of combos you can create, with an upwards of thirty basic skills for each weapon type. Combos make the battles a lot more interesting, but having to build up more AC to make combat exciting again is ridiculous.

Whenever Leonard becomes too unbearable, it’s a good time to check out Geonet with your Avatar. While online, you have the option of constructing your own town, organizing and running quests with other players, posting on a message board, or you can even keep a diary of your adventures! With 50 quests available on disk, there’s a ton to get started with from day one. Quests have an hour long time limit to complete,

and are Point A to Point B circuits around a map with a boss fight at the end. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before. With the amount of backtracking in a given mission, 1 hour isn’t as generous as you might think. Mics and keyboards are supported, so communication between players is available. Geonet is sure to add a lot of playtime after the main quest is over.

White Knight Chronicles doesn’t bring anything extraordinary to the table. It’s a solid RPG for sure, and going online with your Avatar is the only reason why you would still be playing after the story mode is finished. Aside from Geonet’s thoughtful interface and the shortchanged battle system, it’s still an RPG from yesteryear. I’d like to think we’ve evolved from slow combat and lifeless quests. By haphazardly relying on the innovations of other games in the past, White Knight Chronicles ultimately fails to set itself apart from the pack. Rating: 3/5

It was an energet-ic, lively, and mov-ing night in the NVC cafeteria for the ninth annual African-American Celebration Dinner on Feb. 25. The attendees left feel-ing inspired and empowered, with stomachs full of

delicious food.The night started off with a warm wel-

come by Vice President of Instruction Sue Nelson, and a blessing of the food by student Ej Karami.

A variety of traditional soul food was served. Guests had the option of having fried or baked chicken, corn bread, col-lard greens, potato salad, and chocolate or vanilla cake, to name a few.

Counselor Sable Howard-Hughes per-formed Maya Angelou’s poem, “I Rise,” followed by The Negro National Anthem sung by Erica McCray.

The musical selection was performed by the Bay Area R&B/Gospel group, Purchased. MC Jon Christensen described them as having smooth sounds and “old school, contemporary harmonics.”

ESL/Language Lab Technician James Weston captivated and inspired the crowd during the night’s historical read-ing. He shed light upon the unfortunate reality that “we take freedom for grant-ed” at times. He reminded us that free-dom is something that we are all very fortunate to have, and if we forget how precious it is, we may lose it one day.

Motivational Speaker Marc Q. Jones dazzled the attendees with his “recipe for

success.” He described his method for attaining suc-cess in life with his spe-cial “Super Soul Brother Corn bread.” Each “ingredi-ent” that goes into the mak-ing of the corn bread symbolizes impor-tant ideas and concepts we can follow in order to be successful. Once all of these ingredients are combined and baked to

perfection, we are left with delicious corn bread or the perfect tactic to prosper in our personal and pro-fessional lives. He reminded us that

we all have the power and potential to succeed. “Potential is power that is underdeveloped,” says Jones. If we all cul-tivated this self esteem and confidence within ourselves, we will be able to thrive.

The program was sponsored by the Associated Students of Napa Valley Col-lege and the Umoja Program.

Bravo to Dr. Rebecca Scott for being nominated for the prestigious Hayward Award for Excellence in Education.

Bravo to Dean Greg Miraglia who also serves as national program coordinator for Stop the Hate (see www.stophate.org). A spring “training for trainers” will be held on campus March 29-31.

Thanks to Dr. Linda Napholz for the news that Napa Solano Psychological Association (NSPA) president Robin Timm, Ph.D. announced that the organization has donated $1000 to Napa Valley College Foundation in support of a scholarship for a student pursuing a career in mental health. “Our

organization recognizes the long-term commitment that many mental health students

make in the face of rising educational costs and funding cuts. We believe that supporting education is necessary in order to protect the future of the science and practice of psychology and to assure that we have trained

mental health professionals who can meet the mental and behavioral health needs of the community.”

For more than three decades NSPA has represented psychology in the community, including through Red Cross Disaster Relief volunteer services. NSPA provides continuing education opportunities to local mental health professionals with mandatory continuing

education credits available to social workers and family therapists, in addition to psychologists. A recent six hour workshop held at NVC contributed to funding for this scholarship gift. This is the second such scholarship donated by the organization to the Foundation.

Scholarships are awarded in May at the Scholarship Ceremony. For additional information about NSPA, see napapsychologists.org.

Bravo to NVC student and member of Napa Valley Girl Scout Troop 217 Lauren Vincent for her recent honor. She earned a “Gold Award” for a project called “Personal Safety,” which was aimed at middle school students in Napa. The award was noted in the Napa Valley Register on Feb. 8.

Dr. Rebecca Scott

by Brandon Perry

Student Corner

African-American Celebration Dinner

Guest speaker Marc Q. Jones talks to the dinner gathering.

Photo by Vanessa Walker

Prof. Sable Hughes reads a powerful poem.

Photo by Richard Bruns

Photo by Richard BrunsDiners at the African-American dinner celebration enjoy their food during a brief break between speakers and entertainment.

White Knight ChroniclesA half empty canteen of water in the PS3 RPG drought

Hit Pointsby Brandon Perry

by Vanessa Walker

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Napa Valley College Board of TrusteesDistrict 1 – Steven ReinboltDistrict 2 – Bruce KetronDistrict 3 – Brenda Knight ................... ClerkDistrict 4 – Charles Meng ................... PresidentDistrict 5 – Michael BaldiniDistrict 6 – JoAnn BusenbarkDistrict 7 – Thomas Andrews .............. Vice President Robert Holst ...................... Student Trustee

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By Vanessa Walker

We saw it on the news. We read it in the newspapers. We heard it on the radio. On March 4 students, teachers, and staff members on school campuses all across California took a stand against state budget cuts to education once again.

A committee formed by the ASNVC student government, along with Stu-dents for a Democratic Society, coordi-nated a rally on NVC’s campus on March 4. “The rally was an informa-tional demonstration,” says student and

committee member James Holliday. “…our main goal was to raise aware-ness of the budget cuts and fee hikes that education (has) faced.”

Professor Janet Stickmon spoke at the rally, and called attention to the unfortunate reality that cuts to univer-sity budgets and rising costs to attend these universities makes attaining a quality college education inaccessible to many students. “Education is a right, not a privilege,” says Professor Stickmon.

Student Trustee Rob Holst reiterated

how much the recent state budget cuts have directly impacted the students’ wallets. According to Holst, California community college tuition will contin-ue to be on the rise if fee hikes persist. “Are you guys ready to pay $40 a unit? It’s about to become a reality,” says Holst. He also introduced the Text-book Advisory Committee that formed recently. The committee works in con-junction with faculty members and representatives of the Bookstore and

Library to try to find ways bring down the cost of books and make them more affordable to students. They are also working on setting up a textbook rent-al program.

Statewide Student Representative Alex Pader vocalized that he was con-cerned about the important programs on campus that may be completely ter-minated. According to Pader, if the budget cuts persist, programs like

Umoja and Puente may be on the chopping block.

The childcare facilities on campus may be taking a hit as well. There is a possibility that they may be closed down during the summer months, according to two representatives of the Child Development Center. Working parents may have to put their educa-tion on hold because they may lose one of their only childcare resources for the summer. The children also suf-fer a loss, because they lose out on the

opportunity to be in a school environ-ment and miss out on a valuable opportunity to work on their social skills as well.

Though California’s educational sys-tem is still subject to budget cuts despite the student uprising the past several months, it’s important that we do not give up hope on the issue. As student Ej Karami said during the rally, “We are the majority, and we need our voices to be heard”. If we do not stand up for our education, no one will. PROTEST Continued on Next Page

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Protesting and facing the ugly truthCalifornia colleges are in deep financial trouble

Photos from left are various student and faculty speakers urging political action to get the Sacramento state legislature to place community colleges as a number one priority for funding. Administrators (from right to left): interim President Armond Phillips; Vice President of Student Services Oscar De Haro; Vice President of Instruction Sue Nelson; and Board of Trustees member Bruce Ketron describe the depth of Napa Valley College's financial situation – a $2.6 million projected shortfall which has and will impact the college.

Photos by Richard BrunsAbove, staff, parents and children representing the Child Development Center attended the rally and expressed concern over how budget cuts will impact the center.

Armond Phillips, interim NVC president, acknowledges student concerns and wishes them luck as they gather (right) to car pool to San Francisco to join a larger protest group.

Photo left, sophomore Lissette Banda shows children how to do arts & crafts with fancy pipe cleaners. Next, a young boy points at a friend. "Jiin" plays a protest tune. Martha Navarro with her son.

Students from across the state are planning a rally and day of action on March 22 in Sacramento

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Bay Valley Conference All-Academic honors

Six Storm athletes were named to the Bay Valley Conference All-Academic Team for Fall semester, 2009. Brian Ott, a Storm soccer team leader, earned a 3.11 grade point average. Volleyball players Jane Stier, Kelsey Ryan and Erin Feeney earned 3.37, 3.48 and 3.63 GPAs respectively. Jon Pyner and Gage Harty of the men's

basketball team earned a 3.60 and 3.80. (See photos below.)

Dean of Physical Education and Athletics Kevin Luckey noted that eligibility for BVC academic honors requires a 3.0 or above grade point average and the student-athlete must have completed his or her second year of intercollegiate competition.

"We are proud of these young athletes," he said. "They exemplify the perfect combination of academic and athletic discipline and hard work."

Price earns All-BVC Honors

This year’s women’s bas-ketball team faced significant challenges. Six players fin-ished out the season. With one bench-player available for substitutions, an injury could would be crucial for successful competition and at times only five players were available. (See photos above.)

A post player, sometimes forward, Jordan Price was named to the All-Conference BVC team, according to head

coach Chris Kvidahl, “because of her effort and energy for the game. She was actually the only freshman in the conference who was even voted on.” Averaging 20.1 points per game, Price nailed 462 points for the season and was an expert at drawing opponents’ fouls. Her free-throws contributed signifi-cantly to her total point stat.

Had their final BVC rank-ing been higher, it is likely that fellow post player Kelsey Zeller would also have been at least nominated

All-Conference, Coach Kvidahl said that “she was very dynamic with her jumping and shooting ability; she was able to score with her jump shot against all of our opponents. Her rebounding was very steady and consistent and impor-tant for our team.”

Adding support for Price and Zeller were Ricki Patterson, Wiloni Robertson, Tamika Gamble and Ashlee Fielder. Kvi-dahl spoke of Ricki Patterson’s improve-ment. She “...improved tremendously throughout the season. Her passing, ball-handling and shooting all showed immense improvement.”

Shooting guard Wiloni Robertson “showed she could score and pass the ball consistently,” Kvidahl said. “Her abil-ity to get the ball inside really was important for our team.”

Shooting guard Tamika Gamble “add-ed points to the board by “unselfish play and her ability to shoot from the out-side. She was a solid defender against all opponents,” Kvidahl said.

Guard, sometimes post-player, Ashlee Fielder “...proved she is a well-rounded player, playing many positions as need and performing well at each,” Kvidahl said. “Her physical strength was evident in games and something for her to con-tinue ti improve upon.”

Men's BVC honorees namedThe men's basketball season ended up

with the Storm missing the playoffs by

only one spot, according to head coach Steve Ball.

The Storm put to the floor one of the best teams in the last decade. When they were on, they couldn't seem to be beat. Of course, the difference between Division I and Division II in four-year college athletics is

essentially consistency. The same is true in two-year college athletics. The missed three-pointer here, the missed rebound there ... they add up.

The Storm were a solid, exciting, 100% effort team this year and the really good news is only Ken Matich, DeAndre Clark, Luigi Valencia, Gage Harty and Tyler Dixon were sophomores. The rest were freshmen with the opportunity to come back next year as team leaders.

Tyler Dixon and Luigi Valencia were named to All-Bay Valley Conference Team honors and DeAndre Clark was accorded BVC Honorable Mention.

Wiechers' best teamThe Napa Valley College Storm golf

teams both face a prodigiously competitive environment, playing in the Big Eight Conference of Northern California. They compete with these much larger colleges because the Bay Valley Conference, the league in which the rest of NVC athletics participates in, does not put enough golf teams onto the course to allow a competitive season.

Typically, the women's Storm, which plays in the fall season, and the men's Storm, which plays in the spring season, struggle to finish in fifth, sixth or seventh place, trying to avoid the absolute cellar. This is not because the players aren't good, but rather that the bigger colleges are able to draw the best players.

This year, however, things seem to be moving in a different direction. The Storm posted a fourth place finish with a 394 team score, tying with two other schools, in the seasons' third tournament.

In the fourth tournament, the Storm came in with an impressive second place in it's best finish of head coach Jim Wiechers' tenure at NVC.

Coach Wiechers told the Napa Valley Register in a March 3 interview, "I'm very proud of the guys. They all hung in there. They didn't play spectacularly , but they didn't play poorly."

Kevin Johnson and Todd Nalley have been consistent team leaders during the tournament played to date.

Story & photos by Richard Bruns

Erin Feeney Jon PynerGage Harty Kelsey RyanBrian Ott Jane Stier

Congratulations

BVC

All-Academic

Luigi Valencia

DeAndre Clark

Tyler Dixon

Jordan Price Wiloni RobertsonRicki Patterson Kelsey ZellerTamika GambleAshlee Fielder

Kevin Johnson

Todd Nalley

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'Pelle'By Vanessa Walker(Editor’s note: There is no current show in the Art Building lobby due to building renovations.)

If you stopped by the Art Building on campus last month, you may have noticed an art exhibition fea-turing the work of Silvana Bertolini. She is studying classical realism at Florence Academy in Italy, and is also an NVC alumna!

Her exhibition was titled “Pelle,” meaning skin in Italian. Being that much of her art consists of figure drawings, skin is a major theme. “I don’t notice [the lack of clothing] anymore when I see [the models],” says Silvana. “The human body is one incredible complex machine, and if you are able to draw that, I think you can paint or draw any-thing,” she says.

In addition to her breathtaking figure and caste drawings, her exhibition included an array of

landscapes, including the somber piece titled “Sonoma Morning.” It has a dream-like quality and mir-rors feelings of sadness and deep thought. “I definitely wasn’t in the happiest mood when I drew it,” she says.

Transferring to a college half way across the world may seem like a daunting task, but for her, it was a “no brainer.” Colleges in the area do not offer degrees in classical realism, which is her passion. “I have an even stronger bond to this

form of art because it comes from Italy,” says Silvana, who is a first generation Italian. “It’s a form of art I can relate to. It’s in the history of Italians.”

One of the main reasons why she chose to come back and display her art work is because she wanted to introduce the Napa area to the art form, and to inspire the students here at NVC. “I really want to encourage young artists to pursue art. They can even go off and encourage other artists too,” she says.

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Orchestra, Concert and Symphonic Bands.  He remains the band director at Silverado Middle School.  Before conducting, he played with the Napa Valley Symphony and was in the NVC Wind Ensemble.  He is a long standing member of the California Music Educators Association.

Dr. Eve-Anne Wilkes is musical director; Pam Rogers, choreographer; Kim Tolman, set designer; Jan Molen, costume designer, and Scott Phillips,

lighting designer.Man of La Mancha runs March

12, 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. and March 13, 14, 21 and 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20, general; $15 seniors/students/military. The “First Weekend Four Pack (admission for group of four)” is $50. For more information or to reserve tickets, contact the Napa Valley College Box Office at (707) 259-8077. Unsold tickets will be available at the door.

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What is discrimination? Most people know what discrimination means, but how many people actually know how it feels to be discriminated against? The answer to that question can be hard to ascertain, but it seems that, in today’s society, it has become increasingly

difficult to find actual cases of discrimination in the news; when’s the last time a story of discrimination made the news? It has to have been a year since the last time that I heard about a case of overt discrimination occurring in the Bay Area. This is most likely because of the fact that, like me, most of the students at Napa Valley College spend most of their time in the Bay Area, a place that is, as some would say, liberal central; that’s not to say there isn’t the occasional outburst of hate from one group towards another, but in California, and the Bay Area in particular, these cases are the exception rather than the rule. It is for this fact that the events I am about to describe came as such a shock to me.

My brother, his partner and I were spending the weekend in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, when we decided to check out a popular bar at the New York, New York Casino. The name of the bar was Coyote Ugly (named

for the 2000 film starring Piper Perabo). At Coyote Ugly, the theme was, as in the movie, to have women wearing tight clothing dance on top of the bar while the music played and patrons watched. Now, some may think it counter intuitive for a gay couple to frequent a bar such as this, but we were on vacation and my brother and his partner wanted to let me experience what Vegas had to offer men like me, so we went anyway. This turned out to be the worst decision we made the entire trip. Not even five minutes after we had gotten our drinks my brother was standing next to his partner, with his arm around his shoulder, listening to the music and watching the entertainment, when he was tapped on the shoulder rather forcefully by a large man in a black sport coat who told him to follow him outside. Once outside the noise of the bar, the large man began to explain to my brother that he had been kicked out of the bar. When my brother asked why, the man said that they had videotape of my brother vomiting on the bar! Naturally, my brother tried to protest, asking to see the alleged video footage, and when it was clear that their false accusations wouldn’t get my brother out of their bar, a second large man came from inside and roughly removed my brother, his partner and me; the man even went as far as pushing my brother out with a force that sent him staggering into passersby.

We were so distraught by the experience that we decided to seek help from the local security desk. There we found few people willing to work with us to resolve this matter. The most

they would do was call the manager of the bar down to the casino floor to talk to my brother and explain his establishment’s actions (at this point my brother feared for his safety and that of his partner too much to risk going back to confront the manager at the bar). The only thing that the manager said once he was called down by security was a reiteration of his previous accusations, along with the line “it doesn’t matter anyway; they’re done for the night.” The security guards then explained that there was nothing they could do, due to the fact that the Coyote Ugly bar owned the property on which the establishment was located, and could therefore do what they wanted in terms of who they did and didn’t admit. To top it off, we weren’t even refunded the outrageous cover charge that we paid to get in!

So, to briefly conclude, I say, the feeling of discrimination is this: helplessness. More than any feelings of indignation or anger, the feeling you get when one group of people goes out of its way to act so overtly against the interests of another, for no other reason but the differences of the other, is one of complete and utter helplessness. Even when dealing with those who are supposed to carry authority and provide some semblance of security, the feeling you get after you’ve been discriminated against is not any less frightening, nor for me could it have been any more eye opening. Outside of this socially progressive habitat that is the Bay Area, the rest of the country still has a lot of growing up to do.

by Matt Rios

Student Corner

What is discrimination?

March is National Women’s History MonthMarch is National Women’s History Month. “Writing Women Back Into History” is the theme. There is a display in the Library and several events are being planned including a kick-off celebration in the Quad on March 15 with the development of a Memory Board “commemorating women that have inspired our students or staff.” The Vagina Monologues are planned for March

17, a Women’s History Film Festival on March 18, a Women’s History Month Resource Fair on March 23, and a final presentation on March 25. Events are still being planned.

As details on the events become available they will be posted on the campus web calendar. It is sponsored by ASNVC, Umoja, the Community Relations Office and Library staff.

It is the 30th anniversary of the National Women’s History Project in Santa Rosa. See nwhp@nwhp.org for resources and more information.

March on SacramentoMarch 22 is the date set for a march and rally in Sacramento to protest state budget cuts. At deadline, no information was received about ASNVC plans. Watch

for future announcements about local plans for the day.

Census help on campusThe Census Questionnaire Assistance group will be using a table in the Quad or the Cafeteria on Mondays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from noon to 3 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon from 3/19/10 – 4/19/10 if individuals have questions about filling out Census forms.

A future studentCongratulations

to Victoria Worch, coordinator of Student Life, and her husband Matthias on the birth of Samuel Drake Worch at 1:25 a.m. Feb. 19 at Santa Rosa Kaiser Hospital. He was 8 pounds, 2 ounces and 20.5 inches.