The Guardsman Vol.154 Issue 3

By Marilyn Fernando THE GUARDSMAN / @ESORNYLIRAM / [email protected]

By Sara Bloomberg THE GUARDSMAN / @BLOOMREPORTS / [email protected]

Radio station broadcasts open discussion about the looming fate of City College

Public radio station KALW, in collaboration with KCSF, hosted a forum Sept. 10 on public education budget cuts and City College’s looming accreditation status.

The panelists openly discussed their views and sparked interest, as well as some controversy, from an audience comprised mostly of students.

The two-hour program, titled Your Call, convened at 10 a.m. in Diego Rivera Theater on Ocean campus. Audience members were invited to participate and share their thoughts, as well.

City College student Becca Hoekstra, who works for Your Call as an intern, organized the event which was split into two, one hour-long segments with separate panels. The first hour was sparsely attended, but the second hour was attended by a larger, more interactive crowd.

Rose Aguilar, the host of the show, began the first half of the forum with a discussion on how budget cuts, combined with the lasting effects of the recession,

By Dalton Amador THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / [email protected]

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FORUM: PAGE 2

Iconic gay bar reopens after redevelopment tussle

The eerie and shuttered Eagle Tavern, once a hotbed of activ-ity for some of San Francisco’s more alternative bar patrons, has established itself as an irre-placeable gay landmark and will soon reopen following months of

protests and complaints. Gay owners Alex Montiel and

Mike Leon renewed their liquor license in late August, and expect to officially reopen the bar under a new name, The SF Eagle, some-time around Halloween.

“I know the new owners and have seen them at community organization meetings. I’ve been

in touch with them during the whole upheaval. They’re great and open to having different events,” said Glendon Hyde, a City College student and member of the Entertainment Commis-sion.

Hyde is well known for his drag persona, Anna Conda, and is also president of the Harvey

Milk Democratic Club, which was a major player in the protests organized against the proposed purchase of the building by restaurateur Steve Englebrecht, who also owns Skylark Bar, and wanted to replace the bar with an upscale eatery.

Board says yes to special trusteeEmotions run wild as students and Occupy take over, proclaiming themselves “the special trustee”

Above Left: Protesters and police officers clash after an emotional demonstration that disrupts the Board of Trustees at the Chinatown North-beach campus annex in San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2012. No one was arrested and no citations were issued. Above Right: Kitty Lui’s speech is cut off during the Board of Trustees meeting by a police officer for speaking over the two minute time limit dur-ing public comment. Photos by Clarivel Fong/The Guardsman

The City College community was shocked in July when the Accrediting Commission

of Community and Junior Colleges threatened the school with potential closure but how to move forward is proving just as controversial.

At a special meeting on Sept. 11, the Board voted 6-1 to invite a so-called special trustee to help get them through the accreditation process but a group of around three dozen students and Occupy supporters vehemently disagreed with the decision.

They demanded the board reject any special trustee and, after the board voted, called for their resignations.

“If they really want to respond

to saving our school

(they should) say, wait a second

everything going on here is

illegitimate,” - Eric Blanc, student

PROTEST: PAGE 10

INSIDE:NEWS: Filipino Club has

open housePg. 2

November election candi-datesPg. 3

Q&A’s with Board of Trust-ees

Pg. 4OPINIONS: Politics and

the drama that ensuesPg. 5

PHOTOSTORY: Barry McGee’s street art

Pg. 6-7 CULTURE: Theater review

Pg. 8 Historic gay bar preserved

Pg. 9Men’s soccer team

undefeatedPg. 11

Rams win over FalconsPg. 12

Accreditation Timeline*2006 • Previous evaluation. ACCJC says everything looks okMarch 2012 • ACCJC visits City College and conducts an evaluation of the schoolJuly 6, 2012 • Commission releases its report and puts the school on its most severe sanction. School is threatened with potential closureOct. 15, 2012 • Deadline for City College to submit a preliminary plan to the ACCJCMarch 15, 2012 • Deadline for City College to prove that it deserves to remain accredited

*Educational institutions get evaluated by an accrediting commission every six years in order to received federal funding. Many schools also only accept transfer credits from other accreditted instituions

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Whole Foods, no jobsThe lack of job opportuni-

ties for City College students at the new Whole Foods near Ocean campus is upsetting to some people, including former student Sam Jacoby, who talked about the issue at the Associat-ed Students meeting on Sept. 5.

“Students are in need of work,” Jacoby said, demand-ing that a hiring fair take place at City College when a new Whole Foods store opens in San Francisco.

No posting zoneAnna Burns, vice president

of administration, talked about how students have illegally

posted some fliers in class-rooms.

“It has our names, our faces so please be careful,” Burns said. She also mentioned that a teacher had torn down some fliers in a classroom, arguing that they had been posted ille-gally.

Smoke blowsThere is a proposal in the

works to create designated smoking areas on City College campuses.

“We’re willing to clean up, too,” Senator Joao Possa-gnoli said regarding the waste produced by cigarettes.

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have cultivated a dismal job market and an ill-prepared work-force to tackle it.

“Ongoing budget cuts have led to higher tuition, the elimina-tion of courses and services, and a freeze in enrollment,” Aguilar said.

From the audience, Robin Ryan, an aspiring library techni-cian at City College, explained how budget cuts have personally affected her.

“The Bay Area is flooded with out-of-work librarians,” Ryan said. “Because of budget cuts, they had to cut the summer work study program,” and added that it is virtually impossible to find a job in her field without a series of internships.

Despite the weak job market, the panelists acknowledged that there is reason to be optimistic.

“The markets have improved quite a bit over the past few years, locally at least,” Alex Hochman, assistant director of career servic-es at the University of San Fran-cisco, said,

They also discussed the value of education outside of employ-ment goals.

“I didn’t go to school to get a job,” Megan Corey, director of the paramedic program at City College, said, explaining that she, like her students, got into her field primarily to help people.

The first segment ended with an evocative story from former City College student, Ana Fisher, who emigrated from El Salvador when she was 28.

She took English as Second Language classes at City College and then transferred to San Fran-cisco State University where she earned a master’s degree in child-hood development.

Fisher now teaches child development at City College.

“(City College) benefits the low income minority groups,” she said. “We should be ashamed of these budget cuts.”

The forum’s second panel discussed the accreditation threat that City College faces.

The Accrediting Commis-sion for Community and Junior Colleges demands that City College submit a plan by October 15 or risk losing its accreditation at the end of spring semester. The report was a surprise to students and faculty alike.

“There’s been no precedent for the commission to go straight from ‘you’re doing okay’ to ‘you are on ‘show cause.’ Probation is what usually comes before that,” Karen Saginor, academic senate president, said. Saginor added that she believes City College is well equipped to pass its accredi-tation evaluation.

“City College is not going away for sure,” Saginor said, earning her the audience’s first round of applause.

Saginor’s certainty was coun-tered by San Francisco Chronicle education beat reporter Nanette Asimov.

“We don’t know (whether the college will close),” Asimov said and cited the example of Compton Community College, which lost its accreditation in 2006 and was absorbed into another district.

Student Trustee William Walker received the loudest and most sustained applause through-out the show, often rendering the latter part of his comments inau-dible.

“I really wish the media would stop talking about the closure of City College of San Francisco,” Walker said. “We’re not going to close.”

Dora Palacios, a student and activist at City College, ended the segment on the media’s portrayal of the accreditation issue with a raised voice.

“You don’t know anything about what’s going on at City College,” Palacios said, directing her comments towards Asimov as the crowd burst into applause. “The students know what’s going on.”

“You say City College might close,” Palacios said. “I say no.”

By Oscar Palma CONTRIBUTING WRITER / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / [email protected]

Clap! Stomp! Clap! were the sounds heard coming from the Student Union at Ocean campus as the members of P.E.A.C.E. warmed up with a traditional Fili-pino ritual called “Isang Bagsak.”

The ritual involves clapping and stomping at the same pace.

The student club held an open house on Sept. 7 in the upper lounge of the Student Union.

Armando Borjal, who has been a member of the club since 2003, said that the club and open house are meant to educate people so they know what Filipino culture is all about.

“The reason why we’re having an open house is to have some members join P.E.A.C.E.,” Borjal said.

P.E.A.C.E., which stands for Pilipinos for Education, Art, Culture, and Empowerment, is a club primarily consisting of Fili-pino-Americans who attend City College.

It’s focused on Filipino culture and community, as well as volunteering for events hosted by club members.

The club was founded in 1998 when three Filipino students held discussions for an Asian Ameri-can Studies course. The discus-sions later extended into serious talks about the Filipino commu-nity.

“We have connections with the FCC, which is the Filipino Community Center in the Excel-sior, and we usually plan events with them or they have events that they let us know about,” President Kirsten Santiago said.

Some past events include “Shirt the kids,” a collaboration with an apparel designer to donate shirts to kids in the Philippines, as

well as food related events.The club plans on holding a

basketball tournament as one of it’s events and is also planning fundraisers for the near future.

The open house includ-ed newcomers and returning members of P.E.A.C.E. who talked about how their semesters were going so far.

“What we usually do is intro-duce ourselves and say how our week went, have an ice breaker, and then we start checking back at events that P.E.A.C.E. was involved in the previous week, or even upcoming events,” Borjal said.

The members of P.E.A.C.E. displayed a lot of chemistry with each other while participating in introductory activities.

“My favorite part of this club is the community, everyone’s friendly, and very welcoming, everyone always treats each other like they’ve known each other a while, even when they’re new,” Santiago said.

Their open-mindedness has to do with the way Filipinos are raised.

“Our culture is very attached and family oriented. Once you become part of it, you don’t have to go through some initiation or something like that, in order to be part of it,” Alain Yu, events assis-tant, said. “We’re not a frat, we’re a family. We don’t do hazing. We may joke around but only as if we’re brothers and sisters.”

“You don’t have to be Filipino to be part of this club,” Yu said. He has been a member of P.E.A.C.E. for two semesters.

P.E.A.C.E. holds their general meetings from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Student Union in Conference Room 208 on Ocean campus.

The Pilipinos for Education Art Culture and Empowerment Club held an open house Sept. 9 at the Student Union on Ocean campus. Photo by Shane Menez/The Guardsman

By Ivan Huang THE GUARDSMAN / @IVANREPORTS / [email protected]

Filipino club offers insight to their culture

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Nearly three dozen community members filled a small confer-ence room at the

Ingleside Police Station on Sept. 8 to hear a variety of candidates speak at a forum hosted by the District 11 Council and District 11 Democratic Club.

The candidates in atten-dance that day are running in the November election for city super-visor of District 11, BART Board in districts 7 and 9, the Board of Education and the Community College Board.

Alexander Mullaney, publish-er of the neighborhood newspaper The Ingleside Light, moderated the event.

“We’re gonna participate in every San Franciscan’s favor-ite pass time—democracy,” Mullaney said to the good-humored crowd.

Mullaney explained the rules of the forum and asked both the audience and the candidates to be respectful.

“No profanity. I know this is District 11,” Mullaney said as he playfully eyed the crowd, and everyone in the room chuckled.

District 11 SupervisorIncumbent District 11 Super-

visor John Avalos kicked the forum off. He is running unop-posed.

“I’m confused how to run a campaign unopposed,” Avalos said, but continued that his priori-ties include helping businesses grow and encouraging more affordable housing.

He also responded to ques-tions regarding safety issues on Mansell Street, vacancies on the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force and the salaries of his legislative aides.

“I believe they need to pull

that money (for Mansell Street) from the Department of Public Works budget” and not from other departments such as Parks and Recreation, Avalos said.

Bart BoardTom Radulovich, district 9

incumbent and current vice-pres-ident of the BART Board, talked about his current projects.

“I’m trying to extend the Fast Pass out to Daly City,” he said.

Fast Passes allow unlimited Muni and BART rides only within San Francisco city limits.

He also acknowledged that the escalators at Balboa Park Station should have been fixed by now and addressed concerns that there isn’t enough police presence in the stations.

“The police tell us they’re there,” he said. Having police on trains and in stations is “the most effective way to police.”

Maria Alegria, a challenger for district 7, said that one of her goals is to unify the regions in her district, which partially covers several stations spread throughout San Francisco and the East Bay, including Balboa Park.

Board of EducationAll 11 Board of Education

candidates were present and are vying for one of three open spots on the seven member board.

They answered questions that ranged from after school programs and the role of parents to nutrition.

In general, the candidates agreed about the importance of such programs and priorities but the most controversial issue was Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps programs.

Commonly known as JROTC, it’s a high school program run by the U.S. Army.

Incumbent Jill Wynns and challenger Kim Garcia-Meza both said they support allowing the program in San Francisco

schools despite their personal beliefs about the military.

Challengers Shamann Walton and Gladys Soto said they completely oppose the program, while incumbent Sandra Fewer said she supports allowing the program on school campuses but not as an actual class for credit.

Challenger Paul Robertson suggested creating one central JROTC academy in the city for all the students, and their parents, who want it.

College BoardThree of the ten candidates

running for the Community College Board were present, until about halfway through when a fourth candidate, incumbent Chris Jackson, joined in.

They addressed City College’s accreditation crisis and also answered questions regard-ing the role of vocational classes at community colleges, the search for a new chancellor and the rela-tionship of the school with the community.

There was a general consensus that the governor’s tax proposal, known as Prop. 30, as well as a local $79 parcel tax measure known as Prop. A, will be impor-tant for the school’s finances but that more revenue still needs to be found.

We can’t count on it, chal-lenger Amy Bacharach said, but hopefully it will help.

There’s wishful thinking and there’s reality, Rodrigo Santos said, and elaborated that there are no sacred cows.

Santos was appointed to the board by Mayor Ed Lee in August to fill the remaining term of the late Milton Marks III. He has raised more than $113,000 for his campaign, more than any of the other nine candidates.

Clockwise from top right: Amy Bacharach, Chris Jackson, Jill Wynns, Tom Radulovich, Kim Garcia-Meza, Matt Haney, Beverly Ho-A-Yun Popek, Rachel Norton, Sam Rodriguez, Gladys Soto, Shamann Walton, Paul Robertson, Sandra Lee Fewer, John Avalos and Rodrigo Santos. Photos by Shane Menez/The Guardsman

November election candidates:Running for City Supervisor of District 11, BART Board in district 7 and 9, Board of Education and the Community College Board, candidates confidently campaign for themselves

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Why do you want to be a trustee right now, in the middle of the accreditation crisis?

I have a great historical memo-ry with City College, weathered many, many storms, been through lots of stuff. I’ve been a trustee for 12 years. Prior to that I worked at City College as a teacher and adviser for the district.

I am conversant with the college, so in some ways I’ve been there and done that already so I just want to see the college get stabilized. But I don’t plan to run again after this.

What does your experience bring to the table?

My experience with City College brings a lot because I’ve been a teacher, an administrator, a trustee. I’ve also served on the Board of Governors (since May 2011). I’ve had experience more advanced than what the college is going through right now.

Day 1: You’re a trustee, what’s at the top of your to do list?

To get City College fully accredited.

Is is daunting to represent a school of about 90,000 students?

As a trustee I don’t look at it as representing 90,000 students, though we are certain that’s the case but we do our work but don’t get the day-to-day.

Except for those rare occa-sions when somebody speaks up, we just don’t see that many.

We’re not going to close this college, it’s way too big.

It would be taxing to the entire city, including the entire work-force of San Francisco.

City College trains a lot of the work force of San Francisco, most of those occupations can only be sought at a private institution.

City College provides that training.

I recently read that San Fran-

cisco is the fittest city in the US, and during your 30 years at City College you served as Dean of Health. What do you do to stay in shape?

For a number of years I’ve walked three miles a day every morning at 5 a.m.

What happens if Prop A and Prop 30 don’t pass?

We will continue to raise money as best we can. We have great people constructing fund-raisers, and a foundation that’s raising money for us. I’m also hopeful that the economy will turn around.

This is not the state’s fault. I don’t have a problem saying that we may have overplanned, of course we put away money but it was not enough.

I’m a homeowner in San Fran-cisco. I’ll have to pay an extra $79, but to me it’s worth it.

One in seven San Franciscans have a connection to City College,

meaning out of the 700,000 people in this city, 100,000 have had contacts with City College. City College is very valuable to this city. There is something for everybody.

Do you read The Guardsman?When I can get my hands on

it. Sometimes they’ll all be gone when I get there. But I think it’s an incredible newspaper, you guys do a great job!

Why are you running for re-elec-tion, particularly in the middle of an accreditation crisis?

I ran in 2008 for the same reasons I am running now, which is I do believe fundamentally in the power of education to trans-form lives. When I took on this job in 2008 I knew there were challenges, but I wanted to expand the power of education to more families. I didn’t know how deep the challenges were and it was obvious to me it would take 6 more years.

The accreditation committee’s decision is telling us that we have to push ahead with reforming the college and if people believe I am controversial because I am trying to change too much, guess what? The commission is telling us we have to change even more.

What you are saying about needing more time in office to fix the problems facing CCSF sounds reminiscent of President Obama’s speech at the DNC when he said four years are not

enough. I made a commitment to

address the challenge faced by the college. There is no way we are going to finish it by the time my term ends. If we had, I would not have run.

The next two years will be pivotal because we are going to make the major decisions that will really get the college back on its feet and working in a healthier, more responsible, and account-able way. That’s why I am running for reelection. There is no other reason. So we can serve students better.

What is your connection to City College?

It transformed my wife’s life. She went to City College and then went on to Stanford Univer-sity. My father took classes here. People like my mother benefited from the vocational training City College offers.

Have you taken classes here? I have not. Do you find it challenging to

represent a diverse student body of about 90,000 students?

No, I don’t, but I want to be clear about who I represent. It is not just those immigrant students. It is also the rest of the student body who benefit from how we operate the college.

The college is essential to our economy and our fabric. Whether you go there or know someone who goes there.

We have an open, competitive system. It is a remarkable compet-itive advantage that we have at City College.

I represent not just the students, but serve the taxpayers, the businesses and the families.

I know you are an attorney. What does your experience further bring to the table for the Board?

A couple things. As long as I never forget where I come from. That experience is invaluable being a first generation college graduate myself. I come from a household where the language spoken was not just English, but Vietnamese.

I have a public policy back-ground. I understand economics and public finance issues. That helps me understand the fiscal challenges we face. That has been reinforced with my actual expe-rience with the budgets and the audits and the other fiscally relat-ed matters as the chair of budgets and chair of audits.

Putting my lawyer hat on, I understand collective bargaining, understanding contracts, employ-ment issues that come up, under-standing the litigation process, the law. I use that knowledge to work effectively as a trustee.

Day One, you are re-elected. What is at the top of your to do list?

Execute the plan to remain

accredited. That’s it. There is no room for error. We have to keep the college open for our students and the city. We have to do what-ever it takes. Even if that means we are inviting another trustee to come in and help us make that decision.

What happens come if Prop 30 and Prop A don’t pass? Do you have a contingency plan?

Yes, but we can develop a better plan. Fundamentally, 90% of our budget goes to salaries and benefits. Where else are we going to cut? I am not going to lie to you. That is exactly what we have to do.

Many faculty members would probably disagree and become angry to hear that statement. How would you respond to them?

I have another word that you probably heard during the Democratic National Conven-tion. “Arithmetic.” I cannot make money. We are not the Federal government. I cannot issue debt.

We have “a simple arithmetic problem.” 92% of our budget is going to salaries and benefits, ok? We have cut the other 8% pretty much to the bone.

From someone who knows about this budget, there is money there that we have to cut. That we can cut. That we will cut that will not be as painful as it sounds.

Where would you cut? I can’t tell you that because a

lot of this is collective bargaining. What I will tell you is that with 90% of the budget, there are only certain options we have. I will leave that part to the negotiators.

What is your astrological sign? I am a Virgo-dragon, proudly.

I like to boast that I have an astro-

logical sign on the Asian side that is the only mythological creature in the sign. I am not a pig, or horse or rabbit. I am an actual mytho-logical creature.

What is on your Ipod? A lot of songs. I listen to elec-

tronica, Adele, Motown, Marvin Gaye, ‘80s rock. Rachel Yamaga-ta.

You created the Pham Fund in 2010 in honor of your mother who passed away of cancer. The fund has helped women who are dealing with domestic violence. Tell us more about it.

It was created to respect the honor of my mother who found a vocation to work her way to some level of freedom and security for herself and her family.

Last year was the first year. We raised about $3,300 in its pilot year. It pays for educational materials for survivors of domes-tic violence to get this type of training.

We started with five people. Many are taking City College classes. ESL classes. Some are taking vocational classes at City College.

It provides survivors with resources to basically pursue a degree or a certificate of some kind.

They can get books and pay for tuition. Mainly it has been for textbooks and materials so far. Software if someone is taking a tech class.

Last Question: Do you read the Guardsman? Do you read Etc. Magazine?

Yes. I do read the Guardsman and Etc. Magazine.

Q&A’s with the Board of Trustee Candidates

Natalie Berg

Steve Ngo

There are four seats open on the board in this November’s election. Between now and then, the Guardsman will publish a series of Q&A’s with all ten candidatdates.

By Dannie Hawkins THE GUARDSMAN / @DANNIEDOLL / [email protected]

By Gina Sciabbala THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / [email protected]

Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

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OPINIONS

If the local coffee shop offered the opportunity to work for them FOR FREE, would you take them up on the offer?

I seriously hope not. So why are internships an exception?

Becoming an intern is yet another mandatory step on the educational ladder that leads to a “good job.”

According to the The Nation-al Association of Colleges and Employers, more than half of 2011 graduates had internships.

They’re not exactly an option when almost every single job opportunity—from barista to registered nurse—requires 2 to 3 years of experience for an entry level position.

(Which begs the question: if I had work experience, why would I even be looking for an entry level job? What sort of wacked out expectations has this poor economy led to?!)

Internships require a fair amount of time and work—be it actual dream-job experience or, God forbid, delivering coffee. And yet, compensation for intern-ships is increasingly rare. Nearly 47 percent of 1.5 million interns went unpaid last year. College students are taking unpaid work for months at a time during a period of incredibly high tuition and explosive student debt.

Somehow this is considered normal. The morality or legality of free labor being acceptable just because it has the title “intern” slapped on it has become utterly pervasive in our cultural thought.

And have I got an information bomb for you: most unpaid intern-ships are illegal (unless you’re working for a non-profit.)

The Fair Labor Standards Act sets guidelines for unpaid internships, such as: the intern-ship provides training “similar to that given in an educational envi-ronment,” the intern “does not displace regular employees” and the “employer derives no imme-diate advantage from the intern’s work”. Meaning, if the intern is doing work they NEED to be paid.

Employers are manipulating student’s desperation in order to procure free labor for these entry-level jobs. And receiving college credit doesn’t free an employer from having to provide compen-sation—especially when these intern positions are most likely benefiting the company.

Interestingly, these rules have not been altered or changed since 1947. And certainly haven’t been reinforced at all as of late. It’s time to demand some new legislation regarding the greed of common-day business practices and the exploitation of students. Seri-

ously, with an average of $25,000 of debt on our shoulders—a paid internship is the least we deserve.

Unpaid internships are clos-ing the door for many passion-ate, intelligent students who don’t have a large enough bank account to forgo making money over the summer or during the school year.

Because these students like to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like eating and paying rent, they are missing out on valuable addi-tions to their resume and potential job connections. This may mean they’ll never be able to achieve that high-paying, perfect job—but that kid with the yacht and dad with connections certainly can. So much for social mobility.

I’ve spoken to other students who are terrified at the idea of asking to be paid.

We believe that if we rock the boat, we will be immediately replaced by someone who has no problem working for free - and then we’ll be left with absolutely nothing, not even an extra line on our resume to make ourselves more hirable. Or worse, we’ll slam shut the door to our dream industry by earning ourselves a bad reputation of being too demanding.

And yet, unpaid internships don’t actually lead to much job advancement, either. Studies show paid interns spend more time on career-related duties, while unpaid interns get to make copies.

Job offers are given to 61 percent of paid interns and only 38 percent of those who are unpaid.

Paid interns start off with higher salaries to begin with. So instead of taking several unpaid internships, up until your thirties, building that resume—it might be better to take a stand immedi-ately, earn some money and show that you believe in your own self-worth.

That’s what this is all about—believing YOU, and your time, are WORTH SOMETHING.

So don’t take that internship without being offered minimum wage. Bring proof of the illegality of the whole situation, and don’t let some big-wig take advantage of you.

Speaking from personal expe-rience: when I asked to be paid during my internship at public radio station KALW, they didn’t let me go. They even reimbursed me for all the time I had worked unpaid. And now I pretty much work there.

If we stand together, and inform each other, we can make it impossible for businesses to find students willing to work for free.

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The only thing we can be sure of right now is that everything is uncertain.

Romney keeps shooting himself in the foot, which leads me to believe and hope that Obama will get elected to another term in November—despite the failings of the Democrats, the thought of a Republican in the White House scares me.

But the election isn’t over yet and a victory for Obama, even in a Blue state such as ours, shouldn’t be taken for granted. Remember 1992? Clinton was a long shot and he won. Not to mention Gore v. Bush in 2000. Yes, that was Florida but what’s stopping election fraud from happening in any other state?

Hanging chads and malfunctioning electronic voting machines have impeded electoral integrity since at least 2000.

Now new voter ID laws have been springing up across the nation. How many people could become disenfranchised because they are no longer “in the system”?

A Wisconsin judge overturned on Sept. 14 Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union legislation, just as it looked like the Chicago Teacher’s Union strike was nearing an end.

But as this publication went to press, the Chicago teachers have declared the strike back on.

The struggle to preserve public education isn’t over.

Preserve isn’t even the right word. Resusci-tate is more accurate because it’s on the brink of asphyxiating—in California at the very least.

City College is proof.The Accrediting Commission for Commu-

nity and Junior Colleges slammed the school in July for administrative and fiscal mismanagement without so much as a warning. Six years ago, the commission gave the school two thumbs up.

In an op/ed published by the SF Chronicle on Sept. 14, former Deputy Under Secretary of Education Robert Shireman blamed what he considers to be City College’s impending doom on the system of shared governance used at community colleges statewide.

He blithely predicts the school’s closure next semester—a call that is wildly off target.

Even if the commission revokes the school’s accreditation this spring, classes will continue through the semester uninterrupted, all credits earned will remain accredited and an appeal of the decision will most definitely take place.

During the appeals process, the school would

remain open and accredited. Now, the real prob-lem here is that the fear of potential closure would very likely scare students away from enrolling. It happened to Compton in 2006.

Less students enrolled means less financial reimbursements from the state, which compli-cates an already precarious fiscal situation.

And that’s really the bottom line. City College wouldn’t be fighting for its life

right now if the state fully funded public educa-tion.

Yes, administrators drained the school’s finan-cial reserves nearly to the point of bankruptcy but they chose to do that to save classes and jobs—for students, instructors and workers!

What’s the point of having a “reserve” if you can’t use it?

Private schools like Stanford have endow-ments that regenerate themselves. Public schools don’t. The only way they stay funded is through the state and federal governments.

In a controversial vote on Sept. 11, City College’s Board of Trustees approved inviting a special trustee to the college to help guide them through the accreditation process.

Special trustees are called into community colleges only during periods of fiscal insolvency.

The quality of instruction at City College isn’t in question. While there are certainly other prob-lems that need to be addressed, at the end of the day it’s all about the Benjamins.

I’m certain that City College won’t close—not this spring, nor anytime soon.

But what remains uncertain is whether Prop 30 and Prop A will pass in November—the school needs the revenue from both to prevent even more cuts.

There will be scars from this battle that will last for years, possibly decades, but City College will heal and eventually public education will be viewed, once again, as an essential part of a thriv-ing economy, as well as a human right.

As a side note, Occupy celebrates its one year anniversary this week.

The tangible effects of the movement might be difficult to see right now—it may very well take years to achieve the equity and social justice that underlies the movement’s seemingly frag-mented demands—but sustainable change begins at a grassroots level.

As our national consciousness evolves around issues of poverty and wealth, maybe the future will become more certain.


CorrectionsFind a mistake? Let us know! Email: [email protected]

Editor’s Note: The only thing we can be sure of is everything’s uncertain.


“Sellout” reads oversized, bleeding spray paint in front of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where City College alumnus Barry McGee is exhibited.

The exhibit is both an homage and a dissemination of the Mission District where McGee grew up and where his graffiti was inspired by gentrification and street culture since the 1970s.

Hobo art in black paint represents the Mission District’s street culture, painted enormously along the bright red walls.

Among other tools, McGee uses spray paint, acrylic paint, and even liquid markers to create his work.

At 46, McGee’s mid-career solo exhib-it feels like a retrospective, with the artist claiming a new voice in a rapidly-gentrify-ing culture that he intends to critique.

McGee’s characters look anguished, depressed and frustrated with the lower class urban life of which they are a part.

Some of his most sought-after work was created at 16th and Mission streets. Most were either purchased by collectors or painted over by the city.

Attention from the Venice Biennale in 2001 significantly increased the worth of and demand for his work. Former fans called him a sellout.

His critics reference private collectors shelling out between $25,000 to $500,000 for his installations, including those which have been put on display at London’s Tate Modern’s 2008 mural commission or the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Ange-les’ major survey of the street art movement in 2011, where his art was a centerpiece.

“Street credibility”“Whenever I do stuff indoors, I always

feel like I have to do 110 percent more stuff outdoors to keep my street credibility,” McGee said in a PBS Art:21 documentary.

McGee’s “stuff indoors” easily chan-nels the message of his modest beginnings.

In a collection titled “Self and Others,” bare chested men scramble on their hands

and knees, their open liquor bottles beside them, a look of both helplessness and somber desperation in their eyes.

The exhibit’s installations are raw and unrefined, easily interpreting the street culture that inspired McGee’s work.

McGee is also renowned for his immer-sive, interactive installations.

One installation is a bail bond shop

made of wood, complete with dirty, wire-covered windows.

Peering through an opening reveals an intricate and unabashed slice of Mission District urban life. There is a desk strewn with papers, documents and dusty books. Frames featuring McGee’s bright, multi colored textile work dress the dinghy colored walls. There is even a beat up couch with a twitching loafer-clad foot peeking out of a blanket, giving the impression that someone sleeps inside.

His famous hand painted signs featur-ing his monikers Twist, Ray, and Lydia

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through a plate of glass can be the most beautiful,

compelling work of art.”

- Barry McGee

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and knees, their open liquor bottles beside them, a look of both helplessness and somber desperation in their eyes.

The exhibit’s installations are raw and unrefined, easily interpreting the street culture that inspired McGee’s work.

McGee is also renowned for his immer-sive, interactive installations.

One installation is a bail bond shop

made of wood, complete with dirty, wire-covered windows.

Peering through an opening reveals an intricate and unabashed slice of Mission District urban life. There is a desk strewn with papers, documents and dusty books. Frames featuring McGee’s bright, multi colored textile work dress the dinghy colored walls. There is even a beat up couch with a twitching loafer-clad foot peeking out of a blanket, giving the impression that someone sleeps inside.

His famous hand painted signs featur-ing his monikers Twist, Ray, and Lydia

Fong can be seen on the floor of the exhibit as well as atop some of the installations.

Street art is “like the highest art there is,” McGee said in the PBS documen-tary, dismissing conventional art forms. His street art has also included life sized, humanlike robots dressed in hoodies and dirty sneakers standing on ladders, paint-ing graffiti on the walls.

McGee is frequently quoted describing his Mission inspired artwork as “urban ills, overstimulations, frustrations, addictions and trying to maintain a level head under the constant bombardment of advertising.”

One installation perfectly befits this description.

A large mountain of television sets of various sizes are stacked upon one another as each screen plays a different scene. One screen displays gang violence, complete with gang signs and brutal beatings. Anoth-er screen shows a graffiti artist hard at work on an alley wall, another a bright, flashing montage of different characters created by McGee. He sheds a genuine light on the life of the Mission District even when it is a harsh one.

Lasting San Francisco rootsDespite his successes McGee’s heart

has remained rooted in the city he calls home. The artist currently lives in San Francisco’s Mission District with his wife, artist Clare Rojas, their daughter Asha, and their dogs Pinto and Maddy.

In his current exhibit, a glass display is filled with MUNI bus transfers, pictures of a bus and common Mission District remnants such as event flyers and bus stop signs. There are even cut-off dreadlocks.

“Compelling art to me is a name carved into a tree. Sometimes a rock soaring through a plate of glass can be the most beautiful, compelling work of art I have ever seen,” McGee said in a book titled “Barry McGee: The Buddy System.”

His art stems from real life. Not only has Barry McGee stayed true to his roots, he reminds us of ours.

“Sometimes a rock soaring

through a plate of glass can be the most beautiful,

compelling work of art.”

- Barry McGee

Barry McGee: street art becomes high artBy Dannie Hawkins THE GUARDSMAN / @DANNIEDOLL / [email protected]

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In City College theater instructor Susan Jackson’s newest production, a murdered waitress confronts her killer, a woman befriends a toy otter, and a marriage ceremony is attended by a basket of dolls, a Reverend in a rainbow robe and a bouquet of peaches.

“4Mercy” is the latest install-ment of Southern Railroad Theatre Company’s “good ol’ Southern soap operas.” “4Mercy” is made up of five distinct short plays focusing on characters who are “beholden” to one another. The series debuted with previews on Sept. 13th and 14th. The formal run started on the 15th and will consist of nine performances.

“The word ‘beholden’ means to be obligated, to be indebted,” Jackson said. “It goes beyond thanks. And it doesn’t always mean a good thing.”

The word is appropriate. The plays largely focus on the struggles of a variety of Southern women, and the ways in which

they affect the lives of the people around them. These characters are “related by blood or marriage” throughout each play, forming one coherent saga. The produc-tion is charming, warm, and exudes Southern spirit with witty writing and wacky characters. Every aspect of the room, from the few costumes hand-sewn by Brown to the small, boxed stage, risers, and low lighting promotes an inviting and audience-oriented atmosphere.

The first of the five “4Mercy” plays focuses on the emancipa-tion of a slave girl by her former master and wife, to whom she is beholden.

Posey, played by former professional dancer Margo Sims, is the troubled main character and former slave in “Heathen Part Two,” which starts with Sher-man’s March to the Sea and ends in the Depression era.

Adrienne Krug, New Englander and well-rounded Bay Area actor, plays the character of Lacy, an abandoned girl who grew up having to rely on herself and few others, and who eventu-

ally falls into a self-deception involving a childhood crush and a toy backpack.

“Susan, is in our estimation, a great writer,” said Diana Brown, co-founder of the company and an actor in many of the company’s plays.

“A lot of people have miscon-ceptions of the South,” Jackson said, explaining that some think “Southerners are illiterate and moronic, right-wing religious zealots and racist. I want to show that this world of obsession with food metaphors and toys treated as real creatures can be compared to the West Coast’s obsession with food and social concern for the disadvantaged. Different approaches to dealing with life, but one is not necessarily better than the other.”

“It was the South that got Obama elected,” Jackson said. She plays Marion Peallin in “For I Am Not Breaking,” centered around a chance meeting at an airport bar and full of contem-porary commentary, involving everything from sex changes to William Carlos Williams.

“2Beholden,” the third in Jackson’s saga of four plays “4Mercy,” reflects all of these values and more. Stories of infi-delity, independence, murder and growth are woven into a narrative of struggle. BBW3, the shorthand name of a character played by actor Robert Cooper, struggles with trying to attract the love of his life. Jenny, played by Brown, literally attempts to confront the skeletons in her closet. Charac-ters embody the concept of being

“beholden” in numerous ways, using everything from poetry to politics.

One of the interesting parts of the production is the timing of the content in the play. Jackson didn’t expect her references to 9/11 and Clint Eastwood to coincide so neatly with current events.

“It was simply fortuitous,” she said, referring to the timing of the recent, national political conventions.

The whole production aims to honor the company’s goal of reflecting the true spirit of the South “one hush puppy at a time.”

2BEHOLDEN will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm during September at Royce Gallery, located on the corner of Mariposa and Harrison Streets.

THEATER REVIEW

Unusual Southern perspective delivers political, social zeal

Chinatown campus opening celebra-tion hosted by Dean Minh Ta, will include speeches by dignitaries and college officials. Lion Dance perfor-mance and special guest Mayor Ed Lee. Sept. 21, 5:15 p.m., Chinatown campus.

Food service for faculty and guests Students and faculty in the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Program present Broadway Hits Part 1 of the Piano versions with Madeline Mueller. Sept. 21, 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. in the CAHS Department.

Open mic night: Forum Magazine is hosting an open mic with short stories, music, food and poetry. Sept. 25, 6:40 p.m., Ocean campus.

The Women’s Resource Center will hold an open house advocating what it provides for students which includes spoken word, food, refreshments, music and special Honorees. Sept. 26, 12 p.m.-2 p.m.

Art exhibit: Diego Rivera in San Fran-cisco: The Past is Present & Shared Stories at the CCSF Gallery honors the trans-cultural significance of the radi-cal couple. Sept. 19-Nov. 16. Recep-tion Sept. 22, Madrone Art Bar, 500 Divisadero St., 5 p.m.-8 p.m.

Latinnovating: Meet and greet with guest speaker Garcielo Tiscareno-Sato, the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Gracefully Global Group. Presenting the “Green Economy” and successful businesses. Oct. 1, 10 a.m.- noon, Downtown campus, Room 821 and Oct. 4, 12:30 p.m.-2

p.m. at Ocean campus, Room 304.

Traded Moons Geri Montano is noticed for her multiracial contemporary art which emphasizes her Native Ameri-can Heritage. She talks about her art profession and how to create an art piece. Oct. 10, 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m., John Adams campus Auditorium.

Global tuberculosis: Dr. Riley will discuss and ask how science can help control deadly pathogens. Oct. 12, 12 p.m.-1 p.m., Ocean campus, Science Building, Room 300.

Science lecture: Human genetics and clinical trials about Alzheimer’s disease will be discussed by Professor Charles Glabe of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at UC Irvine, who will look into the causal factors of Alzheimer’s and whether it can be reversed through therapeutic strate-gies. Oct. 19, noon-1 p.m., Ocean campus Science Building, Room 300.

Photo professionals: Deanne Delbridge discusses portfolio tech-niques and strategies when breaking into the professional world. Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Ocean campus, Conlan Hall Room 101.

First Annual DiverCity Festival invites students to come together and cele-brate each other to enjoy the diversity of City College in respect to interna-tional cultures. Hosted by the office of Student Affairs. Oct. 20 and Nov. 1 at the Ocean campus Amphitheater Plaza.

By Mia Manzano THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / [email protected]

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By Jandean Deocampo THE GUARDSMAN / @BANANAISAFRUIT / [email protected]

Left, Margo Sims plays “Posey” in “2Beholden,” directed by Susan Jackson. Right, a wedding scene from “2Beholden” featuring (left to right) Robert Cooper, Adrienne Krug, Diana Brown, Margo Sims, Anne Kuchins, Eric Nelson, and Susan Jackson. Photos by Leslie Calderon/The Guardsman

Origins of building trace back to 1906 1981-1982 Opens as SF Eagle

Early April2011

Eagle announces closure

April 20, 2011 First meeting with the Historic Preservation Commission

April 30, 2011 Eagle Tavern closes

June 1, 2011 Doug Hilzinger, 14-year Eaglemember, urges investigation intohistoric significance

June 15, 2011 Historic Preservation Commissionholds another meeting

July 1, 2011 The Eagle in Exile, the collection of the displaced employees of theEagle Tavern recreate beerfundraisers at El Rio

Aug. 17, 2011 John Nikitopoulos, building owner,signs over liquor license to another bar

Feb. 14, 2012 Board of Supervisors meeting, Jane Kim attended

July 31, 2012 Board of Supervisors liquorand permit meeting isinterrupted by Eagle Tavern supporters

July 22, 2012 Protesters crowd around Foreign Cinema in the Mission continuing to show support for the Eagle, one owner of Foreign Cinema was involved in new plans for the Eagleand accused of gentrifying it

Aug. 28, 2012 New owners Alex Montiel and Mike Leon sign the lease, own twoliquor licenses and are hoping tobe open by Halloween

Eagle Tavern 40 years of history

1906

Following a meeting in early April 2011, around 30 Eagle patrons protested outside the Skylark Bar on 16th Street.

When it was announced the Eagle would close later that month, a group of the Eagle’s patrons—including Castro deni-zens, district leaders and Hyde—began attending a series of meet-ings with The Historical Preserva-tion Committee.

At a Feb. 14 Board of Super-visors meeting, Jane Kim, whose district includes SoMA, the Tenderloin and Treasure Island, commented on the debacle.

“Small businesses are a core part of what makes San Francis-co the city we all have come to love,” Kim said, “They define our city and our neighborhoods. In the recent past we have lost business-es like the Eagle Tavern... How can the City protect our existing small businesses from rising rent cost while maintaining neighbor-hood character and protecting jobs?” Kim said.

Hyde and around a half dozen members of the Historic Preser-vation Commission attended a Board of Supervisors meeting in February to defend the Eagle.

During public comment, Hyde proudly explained its historical significance and emphasized its status during the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Hyde used to perform at the Eagle as Anna Conda, his drag

persona, which is best described as a bold, blonde, rock and roll Bride of Frankenstein creation adorned with vividly patterned costumes.

“We started a Change.org petition, wrote a letter to Supervi-sor Jane Kim, organized protests and came in full force to keep the Eagle on everyone’s mind,” Hyde said.

The reason for the Eagle’s impending closure was originally believed to be low attendance.

Others speculated foul pay and back rent. Hyde believes the building’s previous owners, John Gardner and Joseph Banks, could have prevented the declining attendance.

“They were resistant to change,” Hyde said. “There’s always been a loyal following on Sundays and Thursdays, but I’ve never seen a lot of new people or new events.”

Gardner and Banks own another bar on Folsom Street, Hole in the Wall Saloon. Hyde speculates their interests were invested primarily in Hole in the Wall and left very little funding for the Eagle.

Landlord John Nikitopou-los served Gardner and Banks an unlawful detainer complaint and accused them of owing him $18,000 in back rent. Nikitopou-los did not respond to The Guards-man for comment.

Since the early 1980s, the

Eagle has been a popular meeting place for members of San Fran-cisco’s leather community. The bar created a welcome space and an edgy alternative for those look-ing for a stiff drink and friendly conversation.

“I’ve noticed the leather community has a tighter knit sense of community,” City College Anthropology Instructor Matthew Kennedy said. “In general, bars and gay culture have been essen-tial to one another.”

The Eagle’s exterior was once a contrast of maroon with a black roof, with one gay pride flag and one leather pride flag. An old school biker bar vibe comple-mented the leather clad patrons.

Old motorcycle parts hung from the walls and ceiling. Post-ers of past events decorated the walls.

In its 30-year history, the Eagle raised an estimated $3 million for various HIV-related non-profit organizations. The GLBT Historical Society, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Homobiles and St. James Infirmary are among the benefi-ciaries of their Sunday beer busts.

El Rio, another popular Mission District bar, has extended a helping hand to their temporari-ly displaced neighbors and will be hosting monthly beer busts until the Eagle gets grounded.

PHOTO OF THE EAGLE TAVERN BY LESLIE CALDERON/THE GUARDSMAN; INFOGRAPHIC BY HANNAH ARMENTA/THE GUARDSMAN

By Valerie Demicheva THE GUARDSMAN / @SFBREAKINGNEWS / [email protected]

Chasing Lions Café seems to have teleported right out of the Mission District, with Four Barrel Coffee and re-purposed vintage finishings. The high walls are adorned with owner Keba Konte’s re-purposed ironing boards and headboards featuring fine stencil drawings of skaters that hang like trophies.

Students prepare food in the open, red kitchen and a barista awaits your order at a chrome Marzocco espresso machine.

An unexpected star of the menu is the soup of the day,

created in weekly batches by Cynthia Toliver, former owner of Welcome Mat Restaurant. That week’s potato and purple broc-coli soup was made from fresh produce from the Alemany Farm-er’s Market. Soup made from yams, purple and green broccoli, sage ghee and too many spices to name are served in cozy bowls for $4.75 or espresso cups for $2.75.

The café offers other afford-

able simple to-go options around $5, comparable to those at City Café on Ocean campus. Vine-fresh basil leaves, mozzarella and roma tomatoes make an impres-sive but light caprese sandwich that is as fragrant as an Italian cucina, something unseen else-where on campus.

The menu also offers a refresh-ing shredded beet salad with goat cheese and crispy almonds, but

the cherry tomatoes seemed out of place. It’s a healthy option that doesn’t require dressing.

Fresh $3 pastries are expen-sive, but more inviting than simi-lar goods up the hill at City Café that go for around $2.

And Four Barrel, a Mission District staple, supplies espresso beans that accompany ador-able heart designs on lattés and mochas—$4 for a drinkable

artwork. These are certainly drinks for those who love the strong and bitter aftertaste, but you’ll need gum or a toothbrush after this meal.

Your classmates might not want to talk to you after stop-ping at Chasing Lions, but your satisfied tummy full of healthy goodies, and your lightly scathed wallet, will thank you.

MUNCH ON THIS

Eatery delivers trendy and fresh food

Above Left: Chasing Lions Cafe offers mini red velvet and carrot cake cupcakes (left), “Dirt Bomb”: snickerdoodle bread covered with cinnamon and white sugar (center), and glazed cinnamon buns (right). Above Right: Chasing Lions offers a Caprese sandwich (half size sample shown), con-sisting of tomato, pesto, mozzarella and fresh cracked pepper on a ciabatta roll. Full sized seasonal soups are available daily (sample size shown). Photos by Leslie Calderon/The Guardsman


LGBT CULTURE

Historic gay bar preserved after more than a year shutteredLGBT SPACE: FROM PAGE 1

The vacant Eagle Tavern located at the corner of 12th and Harrison Streets is under a new lease. The new tenants hope to open it by Halloween. Photo by Leslie Calderon/The Guards-man

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If the board had voted no that night, the state chancellor’s office would have imposed a special trustee who would be given far greater powers to override the board’s decisions—a fate expe-rienced by Compton Community College before their accreditation was revoked in 2006.

Trustee Chris Jackson was the sole dissenting vote on the board that night.

Although he isn’t opposed to a special trustee on principle, he expressed uncertainties about the process, including the cost to the school, the time frame of the contract and the role that the trustee would play.

“I have some serious concerns,” Jackson said as the audience cheered. “I would like to know what the procedure is to remove the special trustee.”

Another wayProtesters insisted that there is

a third option and denounced the presence of any special trustee as fundamentally undemocratic.

“The responsibility of the Board of Trustees if they really want to respond to saving our school is to say, wait a second everything going on here is ille-gitimate,” City College student

Eric Blanc told The Guardsman before the meeting began.

“We need to slow down and reassess how (...) we’re actually going to be able to save our school and what we need to do to fix the problems, including the funding problems, which are coming from the state,” Blanc said.

After nearly half an hour of emotionally charged public comments, demonstrators initiat-ed an Occupy-style “mic-check.”

Police officers began shoving the demonstrators, many of whom were students, out of the room, while the majority of the board and the chancellor simultaneously fled out of the room for a recess.

The people’s courtProtesters took over the

remaining vacant chairs and slammed down the president’s gavel and voted to commence a “People’s Board of Trustees.”

Jackson and his fellow trustees Anita Grier and William Walker stayed in their seats and watched and listened as the protesters voted to appoint themselves as the special trustee.

They also called for solidar-ity with the teachers’ strike in Chicago.

“This is a very difficult deci-sion I have to make. While I can’t do what I really want to do,

I certainly felt that I could stay and listen to what students were saying,” Grier told The Guards-man as the rest of the board and the chancellor filtered back into the room and reclaimed their seats.

Even after the board reclaimed their seats to resume the meeting, protesters formed a semi-circle around them.

They chanted “shame on you” after the board cast their votes and called for all of them, except those who they said had sided with students and workers that evening, to immediately resign.

But not everyone agreed with their tactics that night.

Hard timesThe audience eventually

asked them to sit down, a request which they respected, and the board continued to discuss and eventually passed a new budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

SEIU Representative Angela Thomas spoke for nearly five minutes, ignoring the two-minute public comment rules, and yelled at the students as she accused them of being selfish and short-sighted.

“Where were you when my people were taking cuts?” she asked them. “Put your attitudes in check. I don’t have time to fight

folks that ain’t my enemy.”“I got to get to March 15,”

she continued, referring to the commission’s final deadline for the board to prove that the school deserves to remain accredited. “None of us here are happy. None of us.”

The SEIU represents non-instructional workers, including technology staff, custodians and administrative assistants.

In a moment of light-hearted banter, Board President John Rizzo offered Thompson an I.O.U. for staff raises.

SolidarityAlisa Messer, president of the

AFT local 2121 which represents faculty at the school, also spoke beyond her allotted two minutes and asked the protesters to think twice about their demands and tactics.

“We support CTU,” Messer said, “but their situation is not simply our situation. It does however speak to what’s happen-ing to public education and educa-tors all over this country and we need to continue to work on that together” as instructors, workers, students, board members and San Francisco residents.


PROTEST: FROM PAGE 1

A bicycle at the Chinatown North-beach Campus on Washington street displays a sign reading, “Occupy Everywhere!” Photo by Clarivel Fong/The Guardsman

Occupy member Ali Oligny, spoke out at the Board of Trust-ees meeting which created an uproar causing officials to re-move her from the board room for creating a disturbance during the meeting. Photo by Clarivel Fong/The Guardsman

City College student Alex Schmaus, speaks to the Board of Trustees regarding the potential issues by bringing in a consultant to ‘help with the accreditation pro-cess’. Photo by Clarivel Fong/The Guardsman

“Put your attitudes

in check. I don’t have

time to fight folks that ain’t my enemy.”

-Angela Thomas, SEIU representative

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Opinions clash as public comment heats up

SPORTS The Guardsman & TheGuardsman.com | Sept. 19- Oct. 2, 2012 | 11

Sophomore Forward Arnulfo Garcia, on right, is greeted by fellow teammates after scoring the second goal for City College during an away game versus the Santa Rosa Junior College on Friday Sept. 14. Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

City College Sophomore midfielder Adan Martinez (21), retains possession of the ball after Santa Rosa Junior College midfielder Diego Vasquez (21) falls after attempting to steal the ball from Martinez in Santa Rosa on Sept. 14. City Col-lege Men’s Soccer won their game against Santa Rosa Junior College with a final score of 2-0. Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

UndefeatedCurrently No.1 in the State, Rams beat Bear Cubs 2-0, add another win to record.

FOOTBALL SEASON

Sat., Oct. 13 @ DeAnza College at 1 p.m.

SOCCER SEASON

MEN’S SOCCER

Tues., Sept. 25 vs. Chabot College at 2 p.m.

Tues., Sept 25 @ Cabril-lo College at 4 p.m.

Fri., Sept. 21 @ Canada College at 4 p.m.

Fri., Sept. 21 vs. Ever-green Valley at 3 p.m.

Fri., Sept. 28 vs. Ohlone College at 4 p.m.

Fri., Sept. 28 vs. West Valley College at 1:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

City College men’s soccer has main-tained a winning streak every time they face Santa Rosa Junior College for the past four years and on Sept. 14 that didn’t change.

The Rams shut out the Bear Cubs 2-0. Currently No. 1 in the state, the Rams

added another win to their record, remain-ing undefeated (5-0-0) and heading strong to face their first conference game against Evergreen College at home Sept. 21.

Despite the wins, they don’t take anything for granted.

“Every win is important. It’s hard to come to Santa Rosa and get a win,” head coach Adam Lucarelli said and explained that the Bear Cubs are “a tough team, they’re physical. I think they outplayed us a little bit in the first 30 minutes of the game, they were more physical than us, then we started dictating the tempo and that’s what changed when we started playing our game, I think it went better for us.”

As any home team, the Bear Cubs start-ed the game playing offensively, conduct-ing the game’s pace but they were not successful enough to find the right spots to penetrate the Rams’ defense and score.

For the Rams, it took 35 minutes to wake up and find the net.

After a quick transition, the Rams pulled a counter-attack when sophomore midfielder Alfredo Castaneda sent an accu-rate pass to sophomore Juan Palacio who kicked at the Bear Cubs goalkeeper’s far post, giving him no chance to block and putting the Rams ahead 1-0 before half-time.

Happy he was able to help the Rams score their first goal of the match, Palacio said it’s important to keep the momentum rolling for them.

“Right now we’re doing good, where the main thing is that we gotta keep it up with the defensive and the attacking going,” Palacio said. “We gotta give our all every single game, play like we never played before.”

When the referee whistled the start of the second half, the Bear Cubs came back to the game with the same attitude, pres-suring the Rams but still not having solid opportunities.

Their best one happened in the 52nd minute after a corner kick.

Santa Rosa’s sophomore midfielder Octavio Estupian had a chance to tie the game but he headed the ball to the side of the Rams’ goalie just near the right post.

The Rams’ response was quick. One minute later, sophomore defender Chris Franco had great game vision, sending sophomore forward Arnulfo Garcia a clinic pass. Garcia was fast enough to outrun past the defenders, just chipping over the Bear Cubs’ goalie putting the Rams up 2-0.

“I just saw him (Garcia) making the run. I saw the place right behind him and I just sent it,” Franco said.

Garcia’s second goal of the game, and his third of the season, was all the Rams needed to slow down the game’s pace enough to safely manage the game and they were able to pass the ball around to run the clock till the final whistle.

The Bear Cubs didn’t give up and fought till the last minute but the Rams backline with defenders Andre Alverez, Lucas Machado, Edwin Garcia and Chris Franco was too solid for any harm left in the game.

Proving their skills, so far the Rams defense have only allowed one goal this season.

“Our backline all year has been really really good, probably one of the best back-lines in Northern California,” Lucarelli said. “But I think collectively in the second half all of our players defended well even midfielders and that’s something we’ve been really proud of ourselves on, that’s why we’ve only given up one goal in five games.”

Now the Rams prepare to face Ever-green Valley College on their first confer-ence game of the season on Sept. 21. Kick-off starts at 3pm.

By Lucas Almeida THE GUARDSMAN / @LPA_SFREPORTER / [email protected]

Sat., Sept. 22 @ Fresno City Col-lege at 6 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 29 @ American River College at 1 p.m.

Santa Rosa Junior College Freshman forward Carlos Pecanha (22), and City Col-lege Sophomore defender Edwin Garcia (4), chase the ball for possession at the Santa Rosa Junior College soccer field on Friday, Sept. 14. Photo by James Fanucchi/The Guardsman

Men’s Soccer

SPORTSAnother victory!Rams massacre Falcons 71-6, and give coach Rush 300th win in 35 years


The City College Rams decimated the West Hill City College Falcons 71-6 on Sept. 15.

It was head coach George Rush’s 300th win as the head of the football program.

“I’m just happy for our team, happy for how they’ve played, and that means I’ve been at this college for a while,” Rush said.

After the Falcons won the toss, the Rams started out strong, forcing them to a three and out, scoring right away after getting the ball.

Then the scores just kept piling up for the Rams, who reached the end zone three times in the first quarter.

After recording only 36 yards rushing in the Rams’ home opener against the Diablo Valley College Vikings, it became clear that the Rams had to step up their ground game in front of their home crowd.

“It’s always good to get the run going, because the defense has to prepare for that, and it opens up for the pass,” Andrew Spivey, Rams starting quar-terback, said.

Spivey tallied 137 yards and two touchdowns. Rams starting sophomore running back Krist-

offer Oglubode, who had a strong performance against Laney College on Sept. 7, punched in another strong performance, rushing for two touch-downs in the first quarter alone.

“The offensive linemen did a great job of open-ing holes for me, so I just ran through ‘em,” Oglu-bode said.

And run through ‘em they did, as the Rams for the entire game rushed for 299 yards and five touch-downs.

With the score marking 41-0 at halftime, the second string, third string and even the fourth string players were getting looks.

“At that point we just want to get everyone in the game and playing,” Spivey said. “Everyone on the team works so hard and it’s good to have games like this where everyone can get to play.”

Not even giving the Falcons a chance to breathe, the Rams scored 30 more points in the second half with most of their starters sitting on the bench.

“There’s a lot of guys that work hard besides the starters and my mindset is everyone gets to play, everyone gets up and showcase themselves,” Rush said.

With Rush’s 300th win on the books, he is the winningest coach in U.S. community college history, with a record of 300-86-4. Rush has won seven national titles and 20 conference titles according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

“I took over the program in 1977, so I’ve been here for a while, but I’ve just been really blessed that I’ve had such a terrific staff over the years,” Rush said. “The biggest thing is, you want each group of kids to come along to establish their own identity and be successful, because they can accomplish things that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.”

After a scare in the Rams’ home opener on Sept. 1, the Rams showed that they are still the favorites to win the National title this year, dismantling opponents on an average of 34 points each game so far this season.

The Rams will take a road trip to face Fres-no City College on Sept. 22. Kick off starts at 6 p.m.

The City College Rams gear up for another winning football season.

Check it out at: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=W75J0fOIjlc

By Ivan Huang THE GUARDSMAN / @IVANREPORTS / [email protected]

Above Right: The City College Rams celebrate a touchdown against the West Hill College Falcons at Rams Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012.

Below: Rams Running Back, Freshman Daivon Bal-lard (41), safely grips the football after being tack-led by three West Hill College Falcons at Rams stadium on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 . Photo By Leslie Calderon/The Guardsman.

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