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regarding missing docum

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Students intending to use the Transfer Center or the Career and

semester due to budget cuts.

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Katie  Campbell  jumps  to  block  a  scoring  attempt  by  Katie  O’  Connor  during  water  polo  practice,  while  

Molly  Gaoiran    (blue  cap)  defends  and  Megan  Duckworth  readies  herself  for  a  rebound.

Looking  forward  to  fall  sportsIt’s the time of hope and

promise. Every new player wants a chance and every returner wants to build on last season’s progress. It’s the time of year when everyone has a chance and every team has thoughts of titles bounc-ing around in their heads.

For a lot of DVC teams, this fantasy could become reality. The football, men’s water polo, and women’s cross country teams have a very good chance to make deep runs in the postseason. The soccer, women’s water polo, and men’s cross coun-try teams will be looking to build on last year’s steps in hopes of making it back to glory.

The DVC football team had a great 2010 campaign. An 8-2 record earned them

DVC’s stellar defense will have to make up for the loss

and others on offense. With the offense returning only four starters while the de-fense returns nine, the team will look to the defense for leadership.

Coach Mike Darr, in his

at DVC, is very optimistic about his chances this sea-son. “This is the most tal-ented, deepest defense we’ve ever had. It’s going well; this is a real good group to work with,” he said.

In three years as head coach, John Roemer has taken the men’s water polo team to new heights, includ-ing three conference cham-pionships. In his fourth he looks to continue this trend, and add a state champion-ship to it.

Two All-Americans, Alex -

hon, will be leading the way for the Vikings this year. Ro-emer seems excited but isn’t predicting championships just yet.

“Our success this season will be based on how quick-ly we can start playing as a team,” he said.

In his 15th season as head coach of the women’s water polo team, coach Rick Mil-lington is looking to build on last year’s 13-9 season. Captains Rachel Fenton and Erin Reynolds bring veteran leadership to a very deep squad.

With 23 players on the ros-ter, Millington has decisions to make in order to get down to the 15-player travel limit. “We’re looking to use last season’s success as motiva-tion for continued improve-ment this fall,” said assistant coach Zach Roberts.

Last year the Women’s Soccer team had a record of 6-12-3. Not what they were hoping for, but a new season brings new opportunities. Head coach Cailin Mullins said, “Our biggest problem last year was a lack of matu-rity. This year we need con-sistency, we need to believe in ourselves.”

The team has 11 returners -

ers Rachel Armstrong and

goals apiece last season. The biggest speed bump for this team will be a very tough schedule. Mullins thinks they will be able to handle it. “We have a deep squad. We have the ability to utilize a lot of players as needed,” she said.

The women’s cross coun-try team placed third in the conference last year and looks to continue to build towards a conference cham-pionship. Led by returner

24th in the conference meet a year ago, the Vikings are looking toward the future with at least six freshmen on the team.

The men’s team is looking --

ence a year ago. They will be led by, among others, return-

14th in the men’s four mile

championships.Coach Shelly Pierson

is optimistic and said, “At this point, things look very promising for the men.”

DVC athletics are on the upswing and the teams are looking favorable. This should be a very good fall season with many teams playing deep into the post-season.

Scott  AnnisSports  editor

Football

Sept. 9 vs. Shasta

Men’s Cross Country

Sept. 10 at Fresno Invite

Men’s Water Polo

Sept. 14 vs. Santa Rosa

Women’s Volleyball

Sept. 28 vs. Sierra College

Women’s Water Polo

Sept. 14 vs. Santa Rosa

Women’s Cross-Country

Sept. 10 at Fresno Invite

Soccer

Sept 9 vs. Ohlone College

Upcoming  games

“At this point, things look

very promis-ing...”

~Shelly  PiersonCross  Country  Coach

-son at DVC.

Although Ward is the new coach, his face is not a new one on our campus.

Ward has been a part of the Athletic department at DVC since 1986, when he was hired to be the baseball coach.

Since ’86, Ward has held many positions within athletics including Athletics Director, head baseball coach and Hall of Fame Chair and Director.

“Steve Ward bleeds green, he is very dedicated to DVC athletics and the campus as a whole,” said Chris-tine Worsley, DVC’s current Athletic Director.

This time around will be different

“I already coached for 30 years, I had my career. The best thing I can do is let my assistant coaches do more of the every-day functions with the team,” said Ward.

“Steve is a great mentor. He will be great mentoring the as-sistant coaches,” said Worsley. “More than just teaching the ins

and outs of the game, but [additionally] giving the assistant coaches more insight on campus life and academics.”

is still baseball but it is different now than it was a decade or two ago.

“The game is still the same, but we play less now,” said Ward.

“We used to have multiple baseball theory classes and techni-cal strategy classes. Now we have one. We used to have a full schedule of winter ball games, now we can only have 10.”

The assistant coaches are still on the team from last year

from the school’s past to help out this year.“I hired one new guy, Eric Snider, who is the winningest

inductee,” said Steve Ward.“I played together and against Ward, and we started our

coaching careers at the same time,” said Snider. “He is a very high energy guy who is driven, and goal oriented.”

Ward has a lot of work ahead of him, especially if he hopes to match last season’s success and rise above their remarkable 27-9 record.

last time the Oakland Raiders or San Francisco 49ers went to the playoffs. Since then they have a combined 83 wins and 173 losses. This has been eight years of abysmal football.

-ing the AFC west, while the 49ers have a brand new coach who hopefully can help make Alex Smith into something besides an enigma.

Smith has been horrible in his seven years at the helm

prove he has been worth the trouble. Don’t be surprised if rookie Colin Kaepernick is starting by week six, though.

-terback but going the other direction with his career. In his seven years he has never had two consecutive years in the same system until this year. Expect Campbell to put up ca-reer high numbers with speedy receivers on the outside.

Campbell, “The guy won some very important games. The guy played hurt. The guy got to

receiving corps. Michael Crabtree is a great weapon for the 49ers but he is the only one. The

prone and drops too many balls.The Raiders, on the other hand, have many decent receivers but no greats. They have an

enormous amount of speed, but still need time to develop. It’s very promising for the future but won’t look great this year.

On defense the Raiders took a huge hit when the lost free agent cornerback Nnamdi Aso-mugha, but have many good defensive backs in a secondary that ranked second in passing yards against.

The biggest question for them is up the middle. Rolando McClain is the obvious starting middle linebacker but the other linebacking spots are there for the taking. Speculation is that

The 49ers had built their team around defense and were expecting it to carry them to the playoffs last year. Instead they had the 24th worst passing defense and the 13th worst total de-fense. This was mainly due to poor pass rushing skills which has been aided by drafting Aldon Smith.

philosophy to the team since taking over for Tom Cable. “I want to get a little more physical, tougher, meaner,” Jackson said in a pre-draft press conference. “There’s going to be one way to do business, and that’s the Raider way. We’re not expecting to win two years from now [or] three years from now we are expecting to win now.

The 49ers hired former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh to take over for Mike Singletary. This will be a little tougher in a lockout shortened year since none of his players know his schemes. He is bringing new ideas to a city that needs them, while still holding on to the basics. “I want to see them [players] go out and play hard - play like they like football,” Harbaugh told Kevin Lynch of the San Francisco Chronicle. “If they make a mistake, just do it 100 percent, do it full speed and full throttle.”

I expect the 49ers to get off to a slow start because of the shortened offseason but an easy

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On  a  scale  from  one  

to  ten,  ten  

being  the  best,  how  

would  you  rate  the  

government’s  

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“The Government is pretty horrible due to the fact that

we are spending way too much money. They have their hands in it way too much and our best recoveries were back

then” Rate: 4

CASEY  MATSCKIE,  22Health  Science

“The war’s approach wasn’t thought through in the long term due to the government. They have no fall back plan, no tactical plan, and no plan

originally. They are very igno-rant.” Rate: 4

SPENCER  REED,  19Undeclared

“The consensus isn’t good. Obama and congress ap-proval ratings have gone

down and our unemployment problems are still pretty low.”

Rate: 3

JUSTIN  ALLEN,  19Chemisty

“Our government isn’t great and their actions are clouded by putting more of the focus

on corporations and not school funding or small busi-

nesses.” Rate: 4

EMILY  VERRINDER,  22Undeclared

“The government does not

at the top percentile who want more money. Basically

we get nothing.” Rate: 5

TOM  LEE,  21Psychology

College students across the coun-try carry the weight of the economic recession as if it were right there in their backpack next to their sociology book.

Students are looking for ways to fund their education while tuition rises and the num-ber of classes and programs are con-sistenly falling.

-nancial aid is both

literally out the door.

Students are left to accrue thou-sands of dollars in debt, to pay high interest rates and to ruin their credit before they ever have a chance to max out a credit card buying designer clothes at the mall.

While the majority of students

and school for themselves, athletes at the University of Miami found plen-

ty of time to go on Miami Athletic Booster Nevin Shapiro’s yacht twice a week.

In a clear violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, Shapiro took good care of the Miami players.

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seemed as obsolete as the NCAA rulebook as Miami players were treated to prostitutes, jewelry, cash, all-access to Shapiro’s waterfront mansion and, in one instance, an abortion for a woman a player impregnated.

Shapiro helped 73 players get through college by giving them many impermissible

Students across the country are wondering, “What is so special about being able to throw a ball?” or “Why don’t I get paid every time I get an A or write an article for the school newspaper?”

University of Miami is just the lat-est of colleges where the booster club was paying players to play.

Just a few months before Miami, long-time powerhouse Ohio State University was caught on similar charges and, beforehand, the Univer-sity of Southern California.

This is clearly not a case of a couple generous boosters with disregard to the rulebook; this is the culture and tradition of college football that is ingrained deep into the traditions of these powerhouses.

The NCAA has already stated that the Miami players who received ben-

and repay all they received, but every-one is assuming that the NCAA’s next

step is to sentence Miami to college football’s Death Penalty.

This would ban on competing in football at all for a decided amount of years, and ineligibility for postseason bowl games and live television once they are allowed to play again.

Along with all of their revenue, their scholarships will disappear.

This is like putting a children’s band-aid on a gunshot wound.

Giving Miami the Death Penalty will do nothing to college football as a whole. Other schools will continue to pay their players whether Miami has the Death Penalty or not.

Instead of ruining one program, the NCAA should punish everyone.

The repercussions of what Miami did should be felt from the University of Virginia all the way to the Univer-sity of California, Berkeley.

The NCAA should hire more people and create new positions to monitor programs. They need to take action before fans and students alike become disgusted and lose interest.

A campaign for change. To shrink the colossal gap between Democratic

and Republican politicians and populace, in order to

This was Obama’s dream - one that no presiden-tial hopeful had claimed to prioritize to such an ex-tent. So much for that.

As Obama’s re-election campaign approaches, the GOP continues to ask one question: “What has Obama actually accomplished since his inaugura-tion?”

It is a common misconception of the public that whatever the president wants, he will have, with a

stick.That’s not exactly how it works and with good

reason. Our government was designed to the ut-most level of protection for the people, through checks and balances.

Unfortunately, these checks and balances are what allowed Obama’s efforts to be undermined to an astounding extent.

6,940,000 times, actually. The number of hits received when the words “Republicans”, “under-mine”, and “Obama” are googled sequentially.

The more I read and research the myriad of at-tempts the president has made to improve our country (“don’t ask, don’t tell”, Osama Bin Laden’s assassination, national healthcare) the more incred-ulous I become.

Do Republicans truly despise and fear Obama so much that they would, to the detriment of our country, derail his every move?

Throughout the budget crisis, Republicans ab-solutely refused to budge, or to compromise with Obama. Millions of Americans waited as the presi-dent desperately struggled to barter with the GOP regarding the debt ceiling.

In July, The New Republic summarized the GOP’s behavior:

“At Friday’s press conference, [Obama] was scolding, even abrasive. He said he’d been ‘left at the altar’ by Republicans promising a deal, and he revealed that Boehner wouldn’t even return his phone calls.

“‘The difference,’ he said, between Boehner’s plan and his plan ‘was that we didn’t put all the burden on the people who were least able to protect themselves ... Working stiffs out there, ordi-nary folks who are struggling everyday. And they know they are getting a raw deal and they are mad at everybody about it.’”

No matter political pref-erence or knowledge, one should be perceptive enough to realize that the GOP is clowning sub-

Du Soleil. Infuse the circus-esque behavior with re-cent antics (when the Speaker of the House refuses to return the President of the United States’ phone

calls, you know it’s personal), and you are left with Jersey Shore at the White House. Complete with paramount repercussions.

iActNow also called out the GOP for impairing America just to undermine Obama:

“The Republicans are playing ‘Chicken’ with our economy ... They know that a bad economy

incumbents to get reelected, so they are endeavor-ing to produce such an outcome to achieve their political goals – at the expense of everyone else and

multiple future generations.” I am not disappointed in Barack Obama. I am

disappointed in the Republican politicians who have turned the White House into “high school U.S.A.”

I am disturbed because I know that the president and his cabinet would have made three times the progress had the GOP worked with them properly.

Finally, I am saddened because our country has

rich get richer, and the poor become poorer, un-deniably.

This isn’t “One nation, under God.” It’s one na-tion, undermined.

GOP’s  antics  stunt  progress

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“They need to take action be-fore fans and students alike

become disgusted and lose interest.”

CECILY  TROWBRIDGEManaging  editor

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BART protesters and other bystand-ers must have pulled the card marked ‘go directly to jail.’

On Monday, Aug. 22, fellow Inquir-er reporter Brian Donovan was arrested with 34 other people.

Donovan and I were covering the protest as student journal-ists while trying to see if a DVC student group was present.

-self as a journalist, Donovan ended up in restraints.

in dangerous or life-threatening situ-

accountability of being the public’s watchdog falls in your lap.

This responsib-lity is so important that freedom of the press is pro-tected under the First Amendment, as are freedom of speech and free-dom of assembly.

That didn’t stop the police from violating all three of these rights.

Police have abused their power while on duty from tasing a 72-year-old grandmother in Austin, Texas, to

suspicion of raping a woman at gun-point in August.

The San Francisco Police Depart-ment would say the arrests were for

I heard no orders to disperse, and

behind the main library. In fact, the only

dispersal order was given hours earlier and was aimed at getting protesters out of the street and onto the side-walk.

Many of the protesters hap-pened to be on the

sidewalk including Donovan, when the mass arrest occurred.

What I witnessed was a blatant de-nial of rights without cause, a hectic few minutes when police swarmed and cornered anybody they could, even a man in a wheelchair.

In addition to the arrests, there was an obvious attempt to censor news coverage.

particular, drove up and down the street in a police SUV to try to block my photo-graphs of the ar-rests.

-cer told me that I

couldn’t shoot photos in BART with-out a permit.

It’s a travesty of justice when peo-ple’s rights are disregarded

It is a grave danger to us all when people can’t get current news because of media censorship.

According to DVC’s Planning and Research of-

students at DVC plan to transfer, so does it make a lot of sense to make it even

transfer center?This spring, it was in

danger of being cut com-pletely, so I know I should be thankful it is open.

Even so, the new hours are an enormous incon-venience and having the counselors take over the transfer center’s responsi-bility is appalling.

The transfer center is now open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thurs-days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

It is no longer open on Fridays.

These hours are incred-ibly troublesome for stu-dents.

Primarily being that, three days out of the week, it’s only open four hours.

It’s also, restrictedly, open exactly when most students have class.

I’m not sure DVC’s en-

the time in the few minutes between classes to run to the transfer center.

Every department has suffered in one way or an-other from the budget cuts.

would do something that could wind up hurting its reputation.

Due to its high transfer rate, DVC draws in students from around the world. The transfer center plays a major part in that.

I know there is plenty of information on transferring available online, but there are many people who need to be walked through it on a step-by-step basis.

The transfer center has been a life-saver, espe-cially for me: a girl who is constantly worrying about transferring.

Personally, I rely heavily on the transfer center.

I go there for quick and easy questions instead of waiting weeks for an ap-pointment with a coun-selor.

They recommend what colleges and classes will help me and they inform me when college represen-tatives are on campus.

While I understand that budget cuts have made a multitude of changes to the school, I believe the trans-fer center should have been completely exempt from reductions.

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Killing  the  messengerInquirer journalist indiscriminately swept in mass arrest for covering “unlawful assembly”

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The Bay Area rivalry between the Oakland Raiders and the San Fran-cisco 49ers has been a fans’ war for a long time.

The recent brawl between specta-tors during and after the Raiders and 49ers game at Candlestick Park on Aug. 20 brings fandom to a new low.

While this was not the only fan

any incident in-volving violence is detrimental to our society.

A sporting event is supposed to be a place where people can go to have a good time with family and friends.

“You have little kids and family here. They just want to come and en-

joy the game. They don’t want to see

San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Ray McDonald said in an Associated Press article.

With brawls and shootings in the parking lot, it’s hard to sell that idea to families or any company in-terested in seats.

While the cross-bay preseason game does not show a grand scheme of a sea-son, it does give you a look at a ri-

valry that turned sour at the expense of the people attending.

“I really think a lot of the people who were here last weekend were not the true 49ers fans, they weren’t the

Jeff Miller said in an Associated Press article.

“They were people who chose that evening event as their own crime scene,

Since then the 49ers have upped their security, “…I think the plan that the [49ers] demonstrated and what they’re doing and the commitment they’ve shown to it is exemplary and I think it will carry forward throughout the entire season and create a safe en-vironment for the fans here at Candle-

ban on Raiders and 49ers preseason games.

Being a college student with a part time job, preseason games are cheap and accessible.

I think it sucks for the true fans, es-pecially for the student fans.

Moving forward from this event, most fans and spectators should be kept in check about the severity of a football game between rival teams or areas.

“This is a family outing, for resi-dents and visitors and people who want to see the game, not for people to look for people they don’t like, then

an Associated Press article.

STEPHEN  LANGSAMOnline  editor

Hilarious  stereotypes  may  become  reality

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“...it does give you a look at a rivalry

that turned sour at the expense of the people attending

the game.

Oh Jeff Winger, you’re such an ego-tistical and witty main character.

“That’s what I do. I make things -

money to do it before I came to this

You have such poignant thoughts about community college. I am stoked;

In a review from Contra Costa Col-lege’s student newspaper, The Ad-vocate, then-sports editor Dariush

was funny, especially for people who like to see the comedic side of com-munity college.

A New York Times reviewer said it’s “mercilessly snarky and also surpris-

Critics like it, students like it and, obviously, audiences like it since the show’s third season is premiering on Sept. 22.

Having said that, I’m pretty sure

we’re still openly mocking the types of

And, even though I’m a fan, I can’t

any effect on what people think about community college students.

We laugh at the ex-Adderall-addict control freak, the high-school-drop-out-turned-liberal-protester and an el-derly racist looking for attention.

However, people should remember that the stereotypes people see be-come reality sooner or later.

A 2006 American Psychology Asso-ciation article said “passing reminders

that someone belongs to one group or another, such as a group stereotyped as inferior in academics, can wreak havoc with

And if it hap-pens in classrooms, it can happen dur-ing NBC’s “Comedy

Obviously, there hasn’t been any aca-demic essay or New Yorker article on the subject, but those journalists and pro-fessors are probably too busy watching

Being a student and a journalist, I am skeptical yet hopeful that any col-lege administration is affected by the show’s stereotypes.

However, I’m going to try to stay

awake in class if my anthropology teacher discreetly dis-cards a glass of wine when a dean walks in the room wearing a “Gone With the

Furthermore, I nev-er thought I would be advocating “commu-

here I am trying not to laugh when an Asian-American, ex-Spanish teacher falls out of an air vent covered in oil on my TV screen.

For now, I’ll keep laughing but I’ll try to keep my beliefs clear

about the people in any school-shaped toilets.

“I’ll keep laughing but

I’ll try to keep my beliefs

clear about the people in any school-shaped

JULIUS  REAEditor-­‐in-­‐chief

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himself as a journalist,

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Green  class  beats  budget  cutsMelanie Anderson, Loaves

DANIELLE  BARCENA

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Danielle  Barcena

Chelsea Weiss, horticulture

The rapper’s bragfest, “Tha Carter IV,” lacks the flow of previous Carters

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“Lil’  Wayne  has  lost  ‘Best  Rapper  Alive’  title”

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