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Women’s resource center hosts open house

The two city departments creat-ing mixed income housing in the Balboa Reservoir will begin selecting a developer by early January.

The 17-acre lot has been chosen as the first location for Mayor Ed Lee’s “Public Land For Public Housing Program,” an attempt to

A three-part initiative to facili-tate awareness of sexual assault and improve aid to sexual assault vic-tims on San Francisco college and university campuses was announced on Sept. 22 by District Attorney George Gascón, Supervisor Jane Kim, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, University of San Francisco President Paul Fitzgerald and other educational leaders.

The press conference began when Fitzgerald introduced Gascón, who cited that statisticly 1 in 5 col-lege students is a victim of sexual assault but less than 5 percent ever report it, adding these numbers are

“completely unacceptable.”

Kim then took to the stage and delivered an anecdote about feeling hopeless in college when her best friend became another number in those statistics.

“Who do we call? Who in her campus would support her in this time? Was there a community orga-nization that would give her the steps that she needed to pursue the perpetrator that had done this to her if she wanted to?” Kim questioned.

“I didn’t encourage her to report it. Even at 18 I knew the system wasn’t designed to protect us.”

MemorandumUC San Francisco announced

the first of seven Memorandums of Understanding to establish clear protocol among higher education institutions including the District Attorney’s office, the San Francisco Trauma Recovery Center and the

San Francisco Police Department, with more schools to follow includ-ing City College.

Each participating college is using the same template to create a version to comply with their school’s individual needs, while also meeting the legal obligations of Assembly Bill 1433 which requires institutions to create policies ensuring that sexual assault and other hate crimes are reported to local law enforcement as promptly as possible.

Kim mentioned City College is under different jurisdiction than local private institutions, but the col-lege’s Chief of Police André Barnes is working alongside University of San Francisco to customize the memo-randum for City College before signing.

create 4,000 new housing units on city- owned property by 2020, of which 50 percent overall are intend-ed to be below market rate.

San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission currently owns the land and is expected to provide utilities. The Office of Economic and Workforce Development will coordinate and negotiate with devel-opers, and the Planning Department will be in charge of implementing the 2009 Balboa Park Area Plan with

the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency and Public Works.

The mayor hopes to eventu-ally replace all public housing with mixed-income developments oper-ated by companies, nonprofits or landlords who receive tax breaks or subsidies in return for renting units at discounted prices.

Since 2007, the city constructed only 44 percent of the low-income units and 18 percent of the mod-erate-income housing they hoped

to see. Through proposed housing program and Proposition K, passed in 2014 to create 30,000 lower-income units by 2020, the city plans to better serve the housing needs of lower-income communities.

At most, up to 50 percent of the city’s future municipal housing will be discounted, while the rate of pricey, market-rate private develop-ment continues to grow.

Thus developers have not been

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Football: don’t call it a come back.. oh wait. It was!

Women’s volleyball loses to Feather River College

For Sale: Balboa Reservoir

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After much concern, City College’s Civic Center campus has partially reopened to an approving community with classes in English as a Second Language and adult basic education with intentions of full operations by spring 2016.

The site at 1170 Market offers a number of compelling advantages. Foremost is its easy commuter access, being located right next to BART and MUNI’s Civic Center station. Two additional distinct advantages over the old location at 750 Eddy are plans to equip the location with smart classroom technology and this

modern facility is air-conditioned.“I think it is great. It’s brand new

and friendly. It is small but I think it is functional to study (and) go here,” student Enrique Quijano said. “We are near the BART station. It is very convenient.”

Only Two of Five Floors OpenA total of five floors are sub-

leased until 2021 from the Art Institute of California. Two floors are currently operational and three more will be remodeled beginning this month. Plans ultimately will include 10 smart classrooms, two computer labs, a library, a bookstore, a student lounge and other offices for student services.

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“The collaboration this will gen-erate in response to sexual assaults will ensure a decrease in sexual assaults, and hopefully the 1 in 5 number will be eliminated. Every person that goes to school deserves to be safe on campus,” Suhr said.

Suhr’s investigators at the Special Victims Unit reviewed the template to ensure it would work effectively in San Francisco, result-ing in modifications to better suit the needs of survivors.

San Francisco is the first county in the nation to have all colleges sign-ing onto a memorandum regarding sexual assault, in hopes of setting a new standard for the rest of the country by providing immediate services for survivors.

“One of the things that we have to think about is how do we change the social norms?” City College’s Project SURVIVE Coordinator Amber Straus said. “This is vital because we are starting to change social policies and we are making it so that police are accountable too, because for a long time they were protecting the perpetrators by shift-ing the questioning onto victims.” Project SURVIVE is City College peer education program focusing on ending sexual violence.

Additional SupportSupervisor Kim also announced

the formation of the Safer School

Sexual Assault Task Force, which will oversee new state and federal laws pertaining to sexual assault and provide schools with blueprints out-lining the best practices to locally implement these laws and improve safety for college communities.

The last of the three-part announcement is a public educa-tion campaign titled #1in5 – the statistic of sexual assault victims in college – which will pair commu-nity groups with campus programs to eliminate the “cover-up” culture around these crimes, and to encour-age students and faculty to speak out using social media.

University of San Francisco is also setting an example by launching Callisto, a website where sexually assaulted students can enter a record of the incident, with options to save it for later, to send the report to their school and/or to send the report to local law enforcement.

The only time a report auto-matically gets sent to the school is when two separate reports accusing the same assailant are filed, in an attempt to prevent any more stu-dents from falling victim to this person.

“Often times survivors will not come forward because victim-blam-ing is so common, but they’ll later say, ‘If I knew he or she was a repeat-ed offender, I would have reported to prevent them from harming

Members of the City College community have made frequent appearances at public comment sessions in hopes of affecting the content of the request for proposals. Some asked that the site remain as student parking, given to the school entirely or turned into a public park.

Planning department repre-sentative Jeremy Shaw published a memo in July rejecting all three of those ideas. Yet students and faculty successfully pushed the city to con-duct traffic surveys and for officials to agree to coordinate closely with the school’s Education Master Plan for future facilities and academics. Crowding, gentrification, school housing and future expansion of City College facilities remain fre-quent subjects of discussion.

The Community Advisory Committee’s September meeting agenda included “partnering with CCSF to allocate units to students, faculty and staff.”

Any decision they may have reached is unknown until the min-utes of the meeting are published.

Student or faculty housing was not initially present in materials pre-sented to the public, but has become an agenda item after many spoke in favor of it, including District 11 Supervisor John Avalos.

“The lack of student and teach-er accommodations as one of the options represents a glaring omis-sion. I would support it,” Avalos said at a community outreach event in May.

Davila’s PositionTrustee Davila is adamantly

against any structural differences between the discounted units and the market value ones.

“I do not want any difference between the units. I do not want a poor door and if that means cutting off some revenue so be it,” Davila said.

Davila, acting as intermediary

chosen yet for the Balboa Reservoir site but the city’s plan is to allow construction of roughly 500 hous-ing units after a chosen developer buys or leases the land from the city’s utilities commission.

The Planning Department and Office of Economic and Workforce Development have spent 2015 col-lecting public input on the project, and to determine the specifics of the Request For Proposals that will outline requirements for developers to submit project proposals.

CCSF RepresentationA nine-member Community

Advisory Committee appointed by Lee and District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee to advise the Planning Department and Office of Economic and Workforce Development has been helping city officials in charge of the project.

City College Trustee and San Francisco State University Latina/Latino Studies Professor Brigitte Davila has been given the respon-sibility of representing the interests of City College throughout this process, and acting as an interme-diary to the group for City College’s Master Planning efforts.

The committee has met twice, on Aug. 26 and Sept. 14, to discuss the legal and economic background of the project and its affordable housing/neighborhood character.

Committee and officials from the Planning and Workforce depart-ments will make decisions about Parks and Open Spaces in October, transportation in November, and finally about City College and public benefit opportunities in December. This group will release a request for proposals in early 2016. This will be subject to change until construction begins next year or in 2018.

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between the college and the city, stated goals to advocate for student and faculty housing, promote the preservation of local Latin culture, create a parking garage if possible and encourage the construction of a Performing Arts Center.

“(We’re) going to make this financially viable while maximiz-ing the number of affordable units,” Davila said. “There are all sorts of grants, credits and tax breaks. If we approach this carefully we can maximize return while creating affordable housing.”

In addition to student and fac-ulty housing, Davila also requested that cooperative housing be added as a future agenda item.

Defining the ProjectThe committee meeting’s

schedule this month describes the economic goal of the reservoir proj-ect: to create variously discounted units comprising between 33 to 50 percent of roughly 500 total, with a remainder at market rate to cover costs, provide return to utili-ties commission’s ratepayers, and

“ensure project feasibility.” After sale or lease proceeds go

first to the utility commission’s ratepayers, the planned units will likely be funded by a mixture of developer fees, the City General Fund, city taxes and federal or state funds including the Mental Health Services Act, the McKinney Act or Section 8 subsidies, plus the Mayor’s $300-500 million Housing Bond if it passes in November.

Voters will also decide on Lee’s Affordable Housing Bonus Program, written as an incentive for develop-ers to create affordable units. It would allow them to build more units and two additional stories of construction if 30 percent or more of the units are affordable, with a minimum of 18 percent reserved for middle income tenants, and 12 percent for low/moderate income

renters. The Balboa Reservoir project

categorizes its affordable units in three different categories. First is very low income at up to 55 per-cent of the Ocean/Balboa Park area median income of $68,000 annually.

Second is low income, as up to 80 percent of the median income (or under $56,000 for a family of four).

The third is moderate, up to 120 percent of the area average, up to $85,000 for an individual (or up to $122,000 for a family of four.)

The 2009 Balboa Park Station Area Plan also includes new plans published March 2015 to overhaul MUNI, bicycle and foot traffic struc-tures for the reservoir and Ocean corridor. A utility commission study of the area last year concluded that existing utilities could be expanded easily.

Affordable units will not have fixed prices or rent control, but are calculated to initially cost no more than 33 percent of a monthly salary less than the unit’s maximum income limit (based on the region’s cost of living and average income).

These below-market-rate rent prices are subject to inflation and can go up, with typical annual rent increases of 3 percent on average.

The mayor’s five-year economic plan asserts that any ensuing profit loss for private non-profits or devel-opers who collect the rent will be softened by funds or incentives from the city.

Trustee Davila welcomes com-munity input at Community Advisory Committee meetings or sent to [email protected], and will be announcing the dates, times and locations of the upcoming three meetings at a Board of Trustees meeting soon. Emails can also be sent to the committee at [email protected].

someone else,’” said University of San Francisco Title IX Coordinator Anna Bartkowski. Title IX is the fed-eral law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of a person’s sex in any federally-funded program or activity,

in effect since 1972.City College is in the process

of buying a software program to manage student conduct, which would more efficiently track student disciplinary issues and include cer-tain aspects related to Title IX.

Within the next month, City College is set to release a safety

app that will provide an outlet for reporting crimes in order to make students and faculty on campus feel safer.

“I would like to echo how important it is to have a culture of

responsibility, a culture of report-ing, a culture of trust, so the victims of sexual violence have reason to believe they’re going to be supported by their university community as well as by the city and county in which they are a citizen,” Fitzgerald said.

From left to right: UCSF police chief Mike Denson, USF interim vice pro-vost of student life Julie Orio, USF Title IX coordinator Anne Bartkowski, District Attorney George Gascón, Supervisor Jane Kim, USF President Paul Fitzgerald, and SF Police Chief Greg Suhr after the press conference. (Photo by Anna Vignet / Contributor)

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news“The student body originates

from 50 different countries,” Dean of Civic Center campus and John Adams center Carl Jew responded in an email. “Primary languages spoken include Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Arabic. A vast majority

… are enrolled in English as a Second Language”

The campus mission is ambi-tious; to serve not only the Tenderloin neighborhood but also the civil service community who work nearby composed of city, state and federal workers. As a center for public service, ultimately it aims to provide high quality, affordable instruction to nearly 1,700 expected students.

Contained in this lofty goal was the hard reality of a very rocky tran-sition beginning last January with the closing of 750 Eddy due to a report about by seismically unsafe conditions by Thornton Tomasetti engineering firm. That’s when numerous headaches for faculty, students and administrators alike magnified and unfortunately pres-ently continue.

“The Friday before the Monday of (the Spring 2015) semester we were told we weren’t able to go to our campus,” Instructor Kevin Cross said. “(The administration) told us we were going to move to 33 Gough

… and they told us we were going to start our classes at the fourth week of our semester. 33 Gough was a disaster.”

Significant city and communi-ty support made the Civic Center campus dream a reality as a viable neighborhood resource. District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim introduced a resolution that passed unanimous-ly by the Board of Supervisors on March 18 calling on City College

administrators to reopen the Civic Center campus.

The Coalition of Public Education (3CPE), made up of La Voz Latina/Central City SRO Collaborative, the Community Housing Partnership, the Vietnamese Youth Community Center, Young Workers United and Glide Memorial Church, together with the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 (AFT 2121) constituted the campaign. This campaign highlighted the need and called on the city and college to provide affordable quality edu-cation that would be accessible to neighborhood residents.

“Together, the groups collected thousands of resident sig-natures in support of the campus and held several neighborhood actions and forums,” Alisa Messer, an English teacher at City College and political director of AFT 2121, who attended many of the coali-tion’s weekly meetings, said. “Once the group knew that a new location had been secured, though, 3CPE wasn’t about to step aside. They’ve been holding enrollment outreach events in the Tenderloin and recent-ly collected over 300 neighborhood surveys in seven languages about CCSF.”

There is much more work to be done to complete the new facility. Three floors need to be remodeled by this January from business offices into educational classrooms.

Originally, the Art Institute was to vacate all floors before the fall semester. Then word came down in July that the campus would have to be opened on a make due basis with only two floors.

Administrators, faculty and students will have to wait for the sig-nificant breathing room that three additional floors will soon provide.

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Wed/ Oct 7CCSF College Fair

Representatives from over 45 universities and colleges will be giving information about transfer and pre-requisites for their school at Smith Hall from 9 – 1 p.m.

Fri/ Oct 9Blue Window

The City College’s theatre students are performing Craig Lucas’s Blue Window as their first play of the semester at the Diego Rivera Theatre on the Ocean Campus. The show will be held at 8 p.m. on October 9 and 10, and at 2 p.m. on October 11. Tick-ets are $15 general admission and $10 for students with ID and seniors. Make reservations at m.bpt.me/event/2299626

tues/ Oct 13Mayor’s Latino Heritage Month Awards

Mayor Edwin Lee will be hosting an awards ceremony in honor of Latino/a Heritage Month from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at North Light Court and Rotunda City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Good-lett Place. Refreshments will be provided after the ceremony.

tues/ Oct 13Latino/a History Presentation

Claudia Puig, journalist and movie reviewer, will be speaking in room 107 of the Valencia Building on Mission Campus from 7 – 8:30 p.m. She will talk about her experiences as well as avail-able diversity programs. Contact Mauro Garcia at 415-920-6041 for more information.

Weds/ Oct 14Wells Fargo Money Workshop

This free workshop shows CCSF students how to plan for their financial future as well as increase their overall net worth. The class is from 1 – 2 on the Downtown Campus.

thurs/ Oct 15Free Poetry Reading

Brenda Hillman, an award winning poet, will be reading some of her work in room 107 of the Valencia Building on Mission Campus from 6:30 – 7:45 p.m.

thurs/ Oct 15Fall Recruitment Fair

From 12 – 2 p.m., employers will be on Ocean Campus in the Multi Use Building room 140 to recruit for different positions. Bring your resume and dress well. This event is only available to CCSF students, for more information contact 415-239-3117. If you need assistance due to a disability contact 1-415-452-5481.

sat/ Oct 1775th Anniversary of Unity Mural

Join Will Maynez for his two act celebration of the 75 anniver-sary of Diego Rivera’s Pan-American Unity Mural, as well as Latino/a History Month. The first act will be An Interview with Frida Kahlo, a play directed by Maynez, and the second act will be a screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico. Tickets are free, get them at www.eventbrite.com/e/frida-celebrates-diego-tickets-775705155

tues/ Oct 18Health Fair

The health center on the Ocean Campus will be hosting a health fair for CCSF students and faculty. There will be free flu shots for credit students with ID as well as other free health services.

CALENDAROctober 7 – October 20

Meeting On September 29th, City

College Interim Chancellor Susan Lamb held a town hall meeting held in the John Adams Center on the Civic Center campus, addressing concerns about accreditation and student success.

This year, Chancellor Lamb is advocating for equal access to suc-cess for all students. This is part of a four year plan to provide every credit and noncredit student with seven core services , including an educational plan and financial aid.

City College’s accreditation came under scrutiny by the accred-iting commission in 2013, and they were given until 2018 to give the commission reason to restore the college’s accreditation.

When confronted with rumors of possible property loss of the Airport Campus, Lamb said that within the next 2 years when the lease is up the airport may want their land back. The Airport Campus is home to the Aeronautical Department as well as the Fire Academy. This decision is poorly timed as there have been discussions of reinstituting the the Police Academy among the Board of Trustees.

The newly relocated Civic Center campus on Market Street has run into unexpected complica-tions with the building’s previous residents. While City College was supposed to have all five floors of the building, the Art Institute will remain in the top three floors until October 1, when they will be offi-cially given to the City College.

While only approximately 23,000 students attend CCSF, the schedule is designed with 32,000

students in mind, Lamb said. This means there is a disproportionate amount of classes and a lack of teachers and students to fill them. Lamb said the current budget is not sustainable for the future, so there is a proposal to shrink size by five percent each year until there is an appropriate course load.

This meeting was part of a series Lamb is doing with the Vice Chancellor as well as the Board of Trustees. The next meeting will take place Wednesday, October 21 on the Downtown Campus, room 821.

Crown TruckFor 24 years, students at City

College’s Ocean campus saw the Crown Catering food truck open for business in front of the Visual Arts building. Sadly, the end of spring semester marked the end of an era for the company’s presence, a near-permanent fixture on campus.

Crown Catering offered a large array of artisan Italian sandwiches, produce, coffee, pastries, soft drinks and candy bars. It was an unofficial yet much-loved concession stand for the cinema department’s screen-ing room next door.

Over the decades, students and teachers alike knew and anticipated seeing the truck’s managers George and Brenda. Funny, kind and gener-ous with condiments, their banter and jokes often echoed down the halls.

City College first contracted Crown Catering Company in 1991 and, as time passed, the truck became as much of a school land-mark as the El Rey sculpture in that courtyard. After Crown’s departure, The Lunchbox, Chasing Lions Cafe and City Cafe remain as options for quick snacks on Ocean campus.

The South San Francisco-based company is retiring its fleet of food trucks but is still open for catering orders. Mike Franco, who for many years personally operated the truck on Ocean campus, chose to end his contract with the school, in part, because of the accreditation crisis.

“There was a lot of change in the last three or four years. Enrollment was down and it just wasn’t feasi-ble anymore,” Franco said. “Good memories, good business and I met a hell of a lot of nice people; pleas-ant memories but it was time to move on.”

Uber Technologies Inc. is expanding

their headquarter to the old Sears building, a historical landmark in Downtown Oakland.

The six-year-old transportation network company struck a deal pur-chasing the 85-year-old building. The 330,000-square-foot, seven story building was bought for $25 million.

With approximately 2000 Uber employees in the bay area, not including the drivers, the company is projecting up to 2500 positions to fill the once known Uptown Station.

Oakland has been eye candy for a “hot tech spot.” The Sears building is located near bart for convenience, providing a cheaper real-estate and more space for the employees.

Uber’s current headquarters in San Francisco will also expand 430,000-square-foot across the half-million-square-foot building. This will open in its new Mission Bay headquarters in 2017 along with opening their new headquar-ters in Oakland.

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Calling on students to docu-ment their culture, Tahitian poet, author and scholar Flora Aurima-Devatine also called on City College Pacific Islanders to make those find-ings public through writing.

Aurima-Devatine stressed that point at the 7th Annual Talanoa Series hosted in the Multi-Use Building on Sept. 29 that attracted some 80 people.

Every fall and spring semes-

ter, the interdisciplinary studies

department organizes the event to invite guest speakers across the Pacific Islands to meet students from the critical Pacific Islands studies certificate program.

Since the series began in spring

2014 three Talanoa events have been held each semester, according to interdisciplinary studies profes-sor and coordinator of the critical Pacific Islands studies certificate program David Palaita.

Palaita said Aurima-Devatine is the first native speaker from Tahiti, a French territory, to visit City College.

Born into a family of Polynesian

voyagers, Aurima-Devatine is also a member of the

Tahitian academy since 1972 and she is the first female poet to publish a collection of poetry in Tahiti in 1980.

As the state representative responsible for women’s issues from 1974 to 1984, Aurima-Devatine set up the Council of Women within the French Polynesian government.

In 2013, France bestowed upon her the national mirror of honor for her work on Polynesian culture, lit-erature and women’s issues.

“This was a rare opportunity for our college, city and state to have

such a well known, primary scholar from Tahiti,” Palaita said.

At the event Palaita honored the first genera-tion migrants of the Bay Area and the California’s indigenous people. He also thanked and welcomed the Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences Jill Yee to the stand.

Yee spoke about how honored she was to be speaking at the event.

“It’s really beautiful to see what this program is about,” Yee said. “That it is a place for Pacific Islander students to feel like they have a home, and that what I think is really essential to student success.”

Other speakers included students environmental studies major Andrew Opetaia, dance major Spulu, public health major Edel Vaovasa and Asian American studies and mathematics major Dominique Aiava.

Each student talked about how their academic journey started at City College, and how education is not only important to Pacific Islanders, but to every other race as well.

After their encouragement to City College students to transfer

to a four-year college, Aiava offered the gift of dance to Aurima-Devatine.

As Polynesian music began to play, the crowd stared toward the back of the room where a San Francisco State University student performed.

Following the perfor-mance Nani Wilson, an organizer for

Pacific Islander Leaders of Tomorrow, spoke.

“It was either that or I have to go to work, that’s what my mama said,” Wilson, who graduated from City College in 1982, said.

When it was her time to speak, Palaita’s voice cracked with pride as he welcomed Aurima-Devatine to the microphone to a standing ovation.

“I’m very proud to have the honor to be here to speak about our culture. I’m hoping and wishing that Tahiti can have students to have the benefits of your work,” Aurima-Devatine said in a soft French accent.

She closed the event by reading two poems in Tahitian.

“This was a great event that rep-resents diversity and culture that is done at this college,” Gilles Delcourt, deputy of Cultural Attache and dip-lomat from France, said.w

Members of the 81 Bees display their images at RayKo Photo center and gallery September 24, 2015.

Professor David Palaita(left) and Tahitian guest speaker Flora Aurima-Devatine(right) shared a photo together after she offered Palaita her book of poetry as a gift Sept 29.

The meaning of family can be elusive, something impossible to collectively define, but 12 City College photography students set out to capture family in their new photo exhibit at Rayko Photo Center.

81 Bees, a City College based photography group, held a gallery reception at the photographer’s community center at 428 Third St. in the SOMA district on Sept. 23, where photographers, friends and visitors came to examine what the 81 Bees documented in their individual search of family.

Photos lined the right wall of Rayko’s side gallery, revealing stark contrasts between what each pho-tographer found to depict what family is – or how they came to identify with their own.

81 Bees photographer Grahame Perry interpreted family through choice. When Perry moved from England to San Francisco as a child, he left behind an extended close-knit family, but chose to adopt close friends as a form of identity and closeness as he grew up in the city.

Perry’s photo of the famous drag activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence encompassed a similar choice of family. “The sisters have been around since the ’70s. The idea is that you have this group and you create this secondary family. It’s very non traditional but at the same time

it has lasted for 40 years,” Perry said. Family photos conjure nos-

talgia and reminiscence, but Avril McHugh said the memories them-selves often seem unclear or distorted as she expressed in her dreamlike transformation of old family photos. McHugh scanned and printed old family photos onto wet watercolor paper, resulting in a smeared gray resemblance of her family members.

“These memories can be vague but are deeply felt,” McHugh explained.

81 Bees StartThe photography group was

formed in 2008, when photogra-phy students in City College’s 81B advanced black and white darkroom class chose to get together after the semester had ended.

“On the final day of class, a few students decided to continue meet-ing together, and started exhibiting work as a group,” Former 81B instructor Bob Nishihira said.

Since becoming photography department chair three years ago, Nishihira said his involvement with the 81 Bees has dwindled, but has noticed the group has grown more particular about which photos go in the show.

“There is a huge variety of styles and interests, so each theme is very open to interpretation. But now there’s a committee to evaluate the work before it goes in,” Nishihira said.

81 Bees member Clare Coppel organized the show along with Rayko Photo Center Director Ann Jastrab.

FamilyFamily is deeply engrained in

San Francisco’s neighborhoods and districts for those who have roots in the City.

“This is my family’s association,” 81 Bees photographer Gordon Szeto said, explaining his photographs of people who formed a community with others who shared their sur-name, like his great uncle and other immigrant ancestors. “Everyone in this group is a Szeto.”

Szeto’s photos portrayed the people and private spaces of the

Szeto family organization where newly-arrived immigrant men gath-ered for support while their wives and children awaited permission to enter the United States.

“They had to bond over non-traditional family organizations, so they formed them to have a kinship and battle against the struggles of being a foreigner in a foreign land,” Szeto said.

One of Szeto’s photos portrayed his great uncle holding up a large framed document containing the family association’s laws, which laid

a foundation for the family associa-tion that integrated generations of Chinese Americans within San Francisco. Szeto believes this type of support is becoming less pertinent for recent immigrants because the Internet has made it easy to connect with family back home.

Szeto’s photographs point out this paradox of what family means, as a never-ending landscape of choice and assimilation which is constantly renewing within each cultural pocket of San Francisco.

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81 Bees: Documenting Family in Photo Gallery

Tahitian Poet Celebrates Heritage with CCSF

“I’m very proud to have the honor to be here to speak about our culture.”

— Flora Aurima-Devatine

“It’s really beautiful to see what this program is about. That this is a place for Pacific Islander students to feel like they have a home, and that is what I think is really essential to student success .”

— Jill Yee


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Faculty advisor Lijia Lumsden looks on as the Women’s Resource Center opens their doors for its annual Open House event on Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Student Shelly Davis joins in the celebratory dance to open the festivities at the Women’s Resource Center on Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Interdisciplinary Studies Department Chair Lauren Muller offers words of encouragement as she accepts a commendation from the Women’s Resource Center staff in thanks for her service to the organization.

Staff and students gathered at Smith Hall 103 to hear presentations, spoken word and information about the Women’s Resource Center on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.

Student and WRC staff member Mitisha York shares her original poetry with the crowd at the WRC Open House.

Women’s Resource Center Offers Valuable Services

• Photographs by Shannon Cole •

Shannon [email protected]

@oshanada

staff writer

On Sept. 30, the staff of the Women’s Resource Center hosted their annual open house event to promote the services they offer to students of City College.

The event kicked off with the center’s staff presenting commen-dations to the faculty who help make the center a warm and wel-coming place for students.

Refreshments and lunch from Spicy Pepper were served by stu-dent volunteers as visitors listened to spoken word performances, joined together in dance and learned of the valuable resources provided by the center.

The Women’s Resource Center offers students access to health care, safer sex supplies, as well as a library of feminist and political writings. They are located at Smith Hall 103 and open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.


opinion

Have Your Say: What should happen to the Balboa Reservoir?

Nathalie GuillenUndecided

“I think the way it is now is perfectly fine given the amount of students that City College has, it is necessary for people that come from all part of the city or outside of the city to be able to drive here and for them to be accessible for everybody, and for disable people. And if we restrict that space even more, it is going to hinder our possibility for more students.”

Makhmud IslamovBusiness administration and

management

“Whatever decision is going to be made, definitely is an inter-est that City College students should be taking into consid-eration. I am sure that City and

the City College governing body will look at all the points of this

issue and will come up with an opti-mal solution.”

Sarena Williams-RuizUndecided

“I think that it is convenient for the students that come here because it is really hard to find parking around here.”

Yannee BuornRadiology

“I think it should be left as a parking lot because parking is expensive all over SF, it would very helpful to leave it as a

parking lot.”

John GravesCommunication

“As a student I think that for people that are coming in using the space for sports or art will encourage high school

student to come to this college, for example a rock climbing

wall.”

Reporting by Rita BerriosPhotos by Bridget Skiba

By Patrick [email protected]

@patrick tamayo3OPINION EDITOR

We live in scary times. Every time we leave the safety of our homes we run the risk of running into danger.

You hear about random acts of violence on a daily basis.

Shooting, stabbings, robberies and assaults have become all too common, and we’ve accepted these crimes. Not that we have much of a choice.

We can be proactive and be vigi-lant of our surroundings but no one is immune to crime. There is no crys-tal ball that can show us what may lay around any one corner.

While the never-ending argu-ment in regards to the right to bear arms continues, the shootings that the mainstream media chooses to report on are showcased for the world to sigh and shake their heads at.

***The last place anyone thinks

they’ll become a victim is at school, yet school shootings are as normal as morning coffee.

Oregon is the location of the latest school shooting as of press time.

It is not likely the incident will change the gun culture we live in. We’re mistaken if we think that there will be any change because of this event.

It’s a revolving cycle.There is rage from all directions.

There are press conferences and finger pointing. Next come debates about the right to bear arms. Think about the children. We must have stricter gun laws. Gun sales will go up due to fear of not being able to purchase guns. The story turns into an irrelevant brief and we move on

to the next distraction.We can argue until we’re blue in

the faces, but there are no concrete solutions to this dilemma.

We live in a glorified gun cul-ture that protects its citizens with, well, guns.

If they were ever to come for our guns, more than likely guns will be used for that plan to succeed; funny how that will work.

If the massacre of elementary students was taken with a grain of salt, the death of college-aged stu-dents will likely not change anyone’s attitude on the subject.

The anti-gunners will still want to confiscate all the guns and the gun lovers will demand not to be tread on.

Maybe our elected officials have some sort of plan, but I doubt that we can depend on them, considering the tomfoolery they’re capable of.

***Take for instance Rep. Bob

Brady (D-Pa.), a man elected by his constituents, who decided to take a glass of water that Pope Francis left behind after addressing the House chamber.

Let that sink in for just a second.A congressman, who is trust-

ed upon to make major decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of people took the Pope’s glass of water because he believes the water is blessed.

The citizens of this man’s dis-trict can sleep comfortably at night knowing that their elected official not only drank water from the glass, shared it with staffers and his wife and then proceeded to let another congressman and his wife dip their fingers in the water, but saved the leftovers to be able to bless his grand-children with it.

The man is delusional, yet he is tasked with representing the best

interest of people. Yet we wonder why things are the way they are.

***As the Super Bowl gets closer

it will be interesting to see how Mayor Ed Lee and the San Francisco Police Department will make San Francisco into a utopian society, free of homeless people.

After all, they can’t let the swarms of corporate executives who will be in the city be exposed to filth and swine that they feverishly want to get rid of.

It’s OK for the city to be filled with homeless and undesirables at any other time, but let the biggest football game of the year come to town, and by come to town I mean come to a town an hour away, and suddenly the city needs to be cleaned up.

Don’t let the mayor or his public relations staff sugarcoat the fact that they are bowing down to corporate requests that will transform the city into a feel good, All-American city with no homeless.

If you listen to the mayor all the homeless will have new residences with all the necessities they need, because surely that’s a viable option that only needed a Super Bowl to make things perfect.

***Every time we venture out of

our homes, there is a chance we will encounter violence.

However, we can’t live scared and Rep. Brady is not likely going to share his holy water to protect us, so what are we left to do.

Absolutely nothing.We can scream, shout and get

mad, but let’s be honest, sadly the majority of us have already moved on.

If all else fails, at least the city will be blight-free ... as long as the NFL is in town.

A Grain of Salt

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Fresh Water or a Supervicial Coastline

California is facing one of the most severe droughts on record.

This year alone, the lack of in potable water falling from the sky will cost our populous state almost $3 billion, and 10,000 agricultural workers will lose their jobs.

Bodies of freshwater are turning into gravel pits, like Lake Oroville and

Folsom Lake, and the Central Valley is beginning to look like the set of

“Mad Max.” Gov. Brown has declared a state

of emergency, and calls upon each of us to cut our water usage by 20 percent.

As nice as the idea sounds, let’s be real — the average Californian is not likely to cut their water usage.

Using less water is inconvenient and not a social problem that might garner grassroots support like a civil rights issue. Most people don’t care that much unless they are directly affected.

Brown’s pleas for conservation will fall on deaf ears. What we need is a solution that works. The best happens to be one that will destroy one of California’s most sacred and iconic assets – the beautiful beaches.

Sorry surfers, but we need to start building big, noisy, ugly desali-nization plants along our pristine coastline.

I know it might be cramping your style, but there’s this giant wet place called the Pacific Ocean right next door.

Countries including Australia, Israel and the Republic of Singapore currently have effective desalination plants and provide much of their fresh water from the ocean.

Opponents say the high energy needs of reverse osmosis (the pro-cess of desalination) would drive the price water up 300 percent. I say, why not use the high kinetic energy of the ocean itself in the form of underwater windmills, along with solar panels, to fuel the process for free?

Some naysayers maintain that by the time plants are completed, the drought will be over. I say maybe, maybe not. This could be one of those thousand-year droughts for all we know.

At the very least, we can have plants up and running in case there is another water shortage.

By far, most desalination oppo-nents aim to protect the cosmetic beauty of our beaches.

We have to decide quickly what’s more important – fresh water or a superficial coastline. And that, my friends, is the bone-dry truth.

Andy Bayscontr ibutor

Left:Steep sides reveal the plunging water levels at Cherry Lake Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada mountains. February 20, 2015. (Photo by Michaela Payne / The Guardsman)

On Oct. 18, 2010, Jimmy McMillan sat upright, stared stern-ly at the audience of the New York governor debate, and announced, “I represent the The Rent Is Too Damn High Party. People are working eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, and some a third job. Women can’t afford to take care of their children, feed their children, breakfast, lunch and dinner. … They can’t eat breakfast, lunch or dinner. Listen! Someone’s child’s ... stomach just growled, did you hear it?”

Mr. McMillan’s speech soon garnered mas-sive recognition for his theat-rics, but failed to garner much recognition for its content.

At the time McMillan gave his speech, I was in high school under my parents’ roof on a subur-ban street in a Central Valley town that proudly touted itself for being home of Daisy the Cow with the World’s Longest Horns.

Now, five years living in San Francisco under many roofs on dif-ferent city streets, I can solemnly verify that indeed, the rent is too damn high. And it’s only getting higher.

Anyone can agree that their rent is too high and everyone wishes they could pay less. But in San Francisco, there has become a widening gap between simply wishing for less rent, and now constantly fearing eviction.

For many San Franciscans, that fear is becoming a reality.

The price of living has increased so rapidly and relentlessly that many who have long, established lives here, can no longer afford to live here. Even worse, they’re being told to leave.

The growing rent rate also brings a growing eviction rate to San

Francisco. According to the San Francisco Chronicle the number of eviction notices has risen “32 percent compared with the pre-vious three years’ average” and

“owner move-in evictions are up 131 percent.”

Families are being kicked out of their homes without notice, cultures are being vanquished from their neighborhoods and the average public city workers can no longer support themselves with the city’s average pay.

San Francisco has failed on a familial, cultural and labor fronts in making the city a place to call home for its very own citizens.

Now in most districts across San Francisco, people have taken it upon themselves to raise awareness of our rent control problem.

San Francisco is a constantly growing, constantly chang-ing city, but is also known for its vast diversity amongst

districts and neighborhoods. What many San Franciscans

now argue about this sudden rent and eviction rise is that the city is destroying what makes it so unique in the first place.

San Francisco, a tiny city seven miles long and seven wide, is becoming too grand and too rich for its own people. We can claim it’s gentrification, the ever-growing tech industry, the tenant buy-outs, our massively succeeding sports teams, our growing appearance in Hollywood, or just a tangled mess of all of these factors. But the real problem is a lack of congress and city official support for change.

While five years ago, Jimmy McMillan sat in front of the people and made them laugh, what he said was also true. The rent is too damn high.

Now it’s time for San Francisco city officials to agree and enact change, or we’ll find someone else who will.

Austin D. Estradacontributer

San Franicsco:The Rent Is Too Damn High

“San Francisco is becoming to grand and too rich for it’s own people.”

— Austin D. Estrada


sports

City College Sophomore Elijah Dale, Running Back (32), breaks through Modesto College’s defense to score a touch-down at the Modesto Stadium College on Saturday, Oct. 3. (Photo by Khaled Sayed / The Guardsman)

sports calendar

FOOTBALL:Oct. 17, 1 p.m.

vs. Foothill @ CCSF

MEN’S SOCCER:Oct. 9, 4 p.m.

vs. Gavilan @ CCSF

Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m. vs. Ohlone @ Ohlone

Oct. 16, 4 p.m. vs. Foothill @ Foothill

WOMEN’S SOCCER:

Oct. 9, 1:30 p.m. vs. Foothill @ CCSF

Oct. 13, 4 p.m. vs. Ohlone @ CCSF

Oct. 16, 7 p.m. vs. Cabrillo @ Cabrillo

Oct. 20, 2 p.m. vs. Skyline @ Skyline

CROSS COUNTRY:Oct. 9, 3:30 p.m.

@ Toro Park, Salinas VOLLEYBALL:

Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m. vs. De Anza @ CCSF

Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m. vs. Skyline @ Skyline

Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m. vs. West Valley @

CCSF WATER POLO

Oct. 7, 3:30 p.m. vs. Cabrillo @ Cabrillo

Oct. 9, 3:30 p.m. vs. Ohlone @ CCSF

Oct. 14, 3:30 p.m. vs. Laney @ CCSF

Sophomore opposite Sifa Faaiu (7) volleys against the Feath-er River Golden Eagles at Ocean Campus on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (Photo by Bridgid Skiba / The Guardsman)

As the women of City College’s volleyball team were on the court warming up for their afternoon game against Feather River College Oct. 2, players from the opposing squad gathered in a stairwell to test both the acoustics of the Wellness Center and the power of positive thinking.

“I am a state champion,” the visiting team shouted over the pounding of their 17 pairs of feet pounding against the metal stairs, the thunderous noise spilling out into the corridors of the Wellness Center at City College.

It’s worth noting that the cur-rent state champions are Imperial Valley College.

With just eight players dressed for the game, the Rams lacked the numbers to make as much noise as their opponents off the court, but showed they could be just as loud on the court.

After the Golden Eagles scored first, Rams captain Sifa Faaiu led the response by earning her team’s first points of the game. But their efforts were not enough. The Rams lost the first set 22-25 due to the offensive strength of Feather River’s outside hitter Lexxey Southern.

The Rams used their physical-ity and offensive skill to come back from a slight disadvantage to tie

and then dominate the majority of the second set, ultimately winning 25-21.

Bolstering the offense for the Rams was freshman outside hitter Kijana Best, who delivered kill after kill thanks to setups from sopho-more co-captain Sierra Nelson.

But their success was short-lived. Mental fatigue set in by the

third and fourth sets, where small mistakes like double touches and

miscommunications added up. A blistering 10-25 loss in the

third set sent the disheartened play-ers reluctantly into the fourth, where the Golden Eagles sent unanswered serves whizzing past their heads.

At one point during the fourth set the Rams lead by three points, only to eventually lose the set 22-25.

“We beat ourselves. I don’t think we were in the game,” Faaiu said.

“We definitely could have done better and should have done better. We are a very conditioned team, so it wasn’t fatigue.”

Assistant coach Velvet Steel echoed her captain’s sentiments.

Steel said the team’s loss didn’t have anything to do with physicality, but was instead “a mental or knowledge thing.”

“This is the first year in a long time that we match up really well with teams in the top ten in the state,” Steel said.

She went on to explain that the team is strong physically and just needs to bring their mental game up to the level of their physical game.

But the players and coach

remain hopeful that the Rams will improve.

“It’s a learning process, and it’s still early in the game,” Steel said.

The loss brings the Rams’ record to 10-4.

The Rams have an opportunity to enhance their performance on Oct. 13 when they take on division rivals Skyline College in San Bruno at 6:30 p.m.

By Shannon [email protected]

@oshanada

staff writer

Patrick Cochranpcochran@theguardsman

@serpatofportola

staff writer

Golden Eagles Soar Over Rams

Rams Rebound 41-27 Against Modesto

After a last minute loss versus American River College on Sept. 26, the Rams regained their poise and beat Modesto Junior College 41-27 under the lights to improve their

record to 4-1.The Rams’ offense was on-point

and probably had the best game of their season so far.

Quarterback Anthony Gordon shredded the Modesto defense, throwing for 501 yards, complet-ing 26 of 50 pass attempts for three touchdowns with two interceptions.

With Gordon in the zone, his

wide receivers put up massive numbers.

Easop Winston had four recep-tions for 109 yards, including a 56-yard touchdown early in the second quarter.

Receiver Antoine Porter put up the most impressive numbers of anyone, with a mind-boggling 249 receiving yards on 14 catches and

one 54-yard touchdown.The running game was

equally effective for the Rams with running back Elijah Dale leading the way with a three-touchdown per-formance, and running for 96 yards on 26 attempts.

“We played great today,” head coach Jimmy Collins said after the game. “Offense put up points. Anthony Gordon was excellent. Every week he gets better and better, and the wide receivers were amazing after the catch with the ball.”

The game ended in dra-matic fashion.

In the second half both teams were chippy, and the refs called multiple penalties for late hits and unsports-manship like behavior.

To avoid any postgame confrontation, coach Collins made sure his team got off

the field immediately. “People are always gunning

for you when you’re good, but our guys did a good job avoiding any confrontations with the opponent,” Collins said.

The Rams have a bye this week, where they will get some much deserved rest.

After the Rams’ bye week they play Foothill College at home on Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.

“Freshman outside hitter Kijana Best delivered kill after kill thanks to setups by sophomore co-captain Sierra Newlson.”

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The Guardsman Vol. 160, Issue 4. City College of San Francisco's student-run newspaper since 1935.

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