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Volume 176, Number 8 May 21, 2012

Future San Jose State University dancer Brittney Wagner, 21, does a dramatic duo modern dance with George Folau, 21, at the Spring Into Dance Show event at the CSM theatre on Friday May 11.

Photo by Tamara Gomez of The San Matean

The proposed state budget, re-leased Monday May 14, has not yet been finalized.

The budget creates further un-certainty around the budget for University of California, California State University, and the California Community College systems next year.

Representatives from the CCC, CSU, and UC system gathered early May to lobby for state funding.

These leaders from three of Cali-fornia’s higher education systems lobbied against further state budget

cuts due to the impact it will have on the already struggling colleges.

California Community College

The California Community College system has faced both cuts and a decrease in student enrollment in recent years.

Over $500 million has been cut this year from CCCs, said Dan Troy, Vice Chancellor of College Finance and Facilities Planning of the CCC system.The CCC system is planning to avoid cutting non-transferable career courses and certification programs.

“We are doing what we can to

change the budget in a positive way,” said Troy.

I n the the 2009 t o 2010 aca -dem- ic year,

CCCs had a 2.9 million enroll-

ment peak, said Paige Marlatt Dorr, director of com-munications for the CCC system. However, in the 2010-2011 school year, the system suffered a 2.6 enrollment decrease.

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Dancers make art with body, sound

The lowdown on trashSpecial section

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The 2011 to 2012 enrollment is expected to decrease as well in an-ticipation of more state budget cuts.

university of California

The University of California system has not decided on a spe-cific percentage by which tuition will increase.

Regents will be voting in July, which is when they will be deciding on a figure for the increase.

“There is no definitive number, no definitive plan, right now,” said Shelly Meron, media specialist for the University of California system.

The UC budget is also dependent on the results of November tax initiatives.

“The University of California

is aggressively pursuing private funding, and increasing efficiency wherever possible to cut costs,” said Meron.

California state university

The California State University system is still working on inte-grating strategies to cope with the potential statewide cuts.

“(The cuts) will all be dependent on the campuses,” said Liz Chapin, spokesperson for the CSU system.

Representatives from the 23 cam-puses will meet July 17 to discuss ways to manage the pending cuts.

“It makes me want to go to a private school...because I’m kind of disgusted with the system,” said student Salim Hanhan.

A statewide proposal to restrict students from taking a course more than once after achieving a passing grade was proposed on May 7 by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.

“Essentially, if a student gets a passing grade, they cannot take the course again,” said Paige Marlatt Dorr, Director of Communications

for the California Community Col-leges’ Chancellor’s Office.

The change is a result of com-munity colleges offering repetition of courses within the athletics, arts and music departments.

“(Eliminating course repeti-tion) is designed so a student isn’t taking a public funded course for recreation,” Marlatt Dorr said. “The thought is that it will free up class seats.”

Instead of placing funds into

classes with students taking them for the third or fourth time, Marlatt Dorr stated the community colleges can use it as an opportunity to see areas that need better funding to properly accommodate students’ academic needs.

For example, funds can be used in aligning an English department to offer more courses for transfer students.

“We’re finding community col-leges are more popular than ever,”

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Marlatt Dorr said. “We have un-employed students, veterans and students seeking a 2-year degree.”

Current policy allows students to take a class four times if a student fails or just wants to take it again. James Carranza, CSM academic senate president, said the new pro-posal would include withdraws as a repeating class, creating a problem for those in need of credits.

“In the past, withdraws didn’t count for repetition,” he said. “It’s

an example of the state being more strict. They are just looking at transfer students.”

Focusing attention on transfer students, Carranza said, limits the ability for a student to grow at a community college.

“It would be reducing the budget by limiting student opportunity,” he said. “It’s another way the state is trying to cut corners without under-standing the academic progress.”

See Repetiton on page 15

The district is cushioned from drastic effects proposed by Gov-ernor Jerry Brown’s budget due to the district’s basic aid status.

In January, Brown discussed a $9.2 billion cut to the budget, yet the budget proposal released on Monday, May 14 cut nearly doubled to $16.5 billion.

“The Governor’s revision is bad news for the state,” said Dan Troy, Vice Chancellor for Fiscal Policy for CCC’s. “There’ll be severe risk going into the new year.”

Brown is supporting the “Mil-lionaires Tax” set for voting on the November ballot. If the tax initiative is not passed, the state’s community colleges sees about $305 million in cuts, but the col-leges can gain $313 million if it is.

Since the district is funded by property taxes in the San Mateo County, the cuts that come from Brown’s new budget have little effect on the district budget and planning. This places the district in basic aid status.

Community colleges need prepa-ration for a major cut, while general fund reductions do not impact basic

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aid districts, said Troy. All districts, regardless of basic aid, are strug-gling to align their budgets and survive cuts happening each year.

The SMCCCD will still have an eight million dollar operating defi-cit, said Executive Vice Chancellor Kathy Blackwood.

During a May 16 board of trustee meeting to oppose Brown’s cuts to preschool program a resolution was passed with unanimous support from all the board members. “Ev-eryone agreed with it,” said Bailey Girard, student trustee.

The document urges Brown to reverse his decision to drastically reduce funding to California child development. It cites the fact that all programs but one would be shifted to county welfare agencies.

“The governor’s proposal places well over 1,000 early care and edu-cation professionals’ jobs at risk in San Mateo County,” according to the district’s resolution.

The board of trustees also voted to back California Assembly Bill 2591 that would require the state to backfill money that they under-estimated for community college budgets.

Every year the state estimates

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Dire districtcuts dodged

State budget center issue for colleges

New rules suggested for repeating courses

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Campus Blotter CSM

Tuesday May 1 — A theft at the Small Book store was reported. An office on campus responded to the call, and the person caught paid for what they had stolen and was referred to the Vice President of Student Services for further discipline.

Wednesday May 2 — A small child was reported to have fallen and broken a window in the theater. Public Safety Officers responded to the theater and assisted with minor medical attention and secured the area around the broken glass so no one else would get hurt.

Thursday May 3 — A single car accident on Perimeter Road adjacent to Lot 5 was reported. Officers responded to the scene and no injuries were reported.

May 8 — Public Safety Officers responded to a 911 call from a campus phone in Building 5. There was a person in medical distress. San Mateo Fire and ambulance also responded and transported victim off campus.

SKYLINE COLLEGE

Friday April 20 at 2:15 — A male nonstudent decided that he would ride his motorcycle through the campus to get to the other side. As he made a turn he lost control and sideswiped a car, and continued forward where he then jumped a landscape area near the parking lot. He and his motorcycle came to a stop in Lot M.

Wednesday May 2 at 9:50 a.m. — Three benches from the Vista Point Rest stop were found to be vandalized by a maintenance employee. The employee flagged down a security officer from campus and found that three out of the four boards on the benches had been torn from the bench frame. Since none of the pieces of the bench were found, the officer as-sumed that they were thrown down into the canyon.

Wednesday May 2 at 11:30 a.m. — A faculty member working in Build-ing 19 left his office to run an errand. Returning at 12:10 p.m., having left his office door unlocked, he found his laptop was gone.

CAÑADA COLLEGE

Saturday April 28 at noon — Facilities workers found an abandoned 1991 Dodge Stealth in a heavily forested area of campus. The officers ran the VIN number on the car and found out that the car had been stolen from Redwood City in 2006.

As the car has been missing for at least six years, they saw no need for a rushed removal of the car. years. They will need a big tow truck with a lot of long cables. The car is located on the west part of the campus behind the portables.

Thursday May 10 at 12:30 a.m. — A bonfire was going on while an officer was doing a routine drive through the campus. He saw the flames coming from the baseball field, soccer field and golf area.

The people who started the fire would have had to scale the hill to get in or out since everything was locked up. When they heard the sirens com-ing from the fire trucks they ran and left behind sleeping bags, folding chairs, and et cetera at the bonfire. In the process of their bonfire there were several sprinklers that were damaged..

— Ariana Anderberg and Monica AiroThe San Matean

New student senate elected

ASCSM announced the student election results on May 14. Some candidates were re-elected and some new faces will be coming into office for next year.

Paige Kupperberg won the election for student president once again. This is her second year as student president.

“I would love to thank the student body for re-electing me,” said Kupperberg “I have worked extremely hard this year, and am ecstatic to be able to spend another year working for the students of CSM.”

Hayley Sharpe is the new elected student vice president. She held a senate position of Vice Chair last school year and is excited for the step up. She hopes

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tution, there is one senator for every 600 students, cutting the positions to 18.” said Sharpe.

“We have eliminated the associ-ate position, and have condensed our committees into 2 committees, advocacy and programs & services,” said Kupperberg. “Instead of having associates, at large students will have the opportunity to be appointed to a committee and get directly involved in events, planning, and advocating, and will have a better time focusing on what they are interested within senate.”

Along with the other changes, new rules regarding the impeachment process has been adapted.

The new impeachment process is more streamlined explained Sharpe. The new constitution also takes away the student president’s veto powers. This makes senate decisions final unless appealed.

to continue to lead senate meetings and encourage all students to give suggestions.

“I want to make sure everyone has a chance to be heard” said Sharpe “We look at everything in a non biased manner.”

The senate operates based on stu-dent needs, and in order to function, they need students to speak up.

“Make sure you’re vocal because the senate only works well with input. You don’t have to be a senator to be involved.”

Students also voted to replace the current version of the constitution with the revised constitution. The new constitution revision consists of changes to ASCSM’s committees. The biggest change is the elimina-tion of the associate position and the number of senators.

“It used to be one senator for every 500 students, but with the new consti-

Budget Planning Committee MeetingMonday, May 21, 1 to 3 p.m.Bldg. 10, Room 401

Fall 2012 WebSMART registration — New, former and continuing studentsMay 9 to August 19All day eventCSM

Final ExaminationsSaturday May 19 to Friday May 25All day eventCSM

New and Returning Student Orientation andAdvising WorkshopTuesday, May 22, 9 to 11:30 a.m.Bldg. 10, Room 191

50 + Senior Boot Camp50 + Fitness ProgramTuesday, May 22, 9:30 to 10:20 a.m.CSM Football Field

Study Abroad in Barcelona — Information MeetingWednesday, May 23, 6 p.m.District Office, Board Room

Spring 2012 CommencementFriday, May 25, 4:30 to 7 p.m.Gymnasium, Building 8

— Compiled by Kasia PierogCorrespondent for The San Matean

Campus BriefsIf there is an event that readers would like listed in Campus Briefs, please submit it to The San Matean at Bldg. 10, Room 180, or sanmatean@smccd.edu, or call 574-6330. Submissions should be typed neatly.

by Kenneth La

state WatCh A digest of local and nationwide news that affects community colleges • Governor Jerry Brown released his proposed budget plan Monday, May 14. Community colleges would not have much of a change unless a sales tax initiative for the November ballot does not pass. • The University of California’s Board of regents discussed the possibility of increasing tuition for UCs, to prepare for budget problems if Brown’s tax initiative falls through, by 6 percent before a July meeting. During the meeting, protesters disrupted the regents objecting the possible tuition raises.

— Erasmo MartinezThe San Matean

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A lack of campus community participation has led to the failure of a fundraising program to aid CSM budget deficits.

Only about $2,300 has been raised in two years.

Escrip is a program that was ad-opted by CSM in the Spring 2010 that is designed to raise funds for schools.

The program has people register their membership cards to outlets such as Food Max and when cus-tomers make a purchase with their cards; three percent of the total purchase goes to the organization of the customer’s choosing.

“It costs you nothing,” said Bev-erly Madden. “It’s things that you already do.”

Madden along with the CSM marketing and public relations de-partment made videos, a webpage and promotional cards to advertise the program.

“It’s incredibly sad,” said Mad-den. ‘It’s raised just over $2,000, it’s nothing.”

The fundraising idea came to fruition when student Justin Hoffman brought the already established online program to the attention of CSM administration at an all campus meeting.

Most of the money raised has mostly come from CSM staff and faculty who have signed up for Escrip.

“It’s a function of quantity,” said Hoffman. The more people that use the program the more money is raised for CSM.

Hoffman, along with groups

of likeminded people on cam-pus, studied the idea of incor-porating the on-line program to CSM fundrais-ing in 2009 as response to the extreme budget cuts California was facing.

CSM president Michael Claire, in a reference letter for Hoffman, cited the potential of the program to raise nearly $100,000 a year for the school.

“If student leadership was able to streamline it and get the numbers, they could get money on a year to year basis.”

Madden presented the fundrais-ing opportunity to ASCSM in hopes

of wrangling more student support, but the endeavour was unsuccess-ful as quarterly earnings stayed the same.

“There was definitely more re-sources we could have tapped into and utilized to give exposure to Escrip,” said current student senator Jeff Stanley, 22.

Since the program’s start in the spring of 2010, CSM has raised about $2,300. The program is limited in that it only provides benefit to CSM if its supporters purchase products at three major outlets, Savemart, Food Max and Lucky. The closest outlet from that selection to San Mateo residents is Lucky in Millbrae.

“If there is one in the area it is only one and I don’t usually shop there. If there were more companies participating that were widespread

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Fundraising fails to meet potentialand prevalent I wouldn’t mind shop-ping there,” said Stanley.

In the fall of 2010, Support CSM website incorporated Amazon.com to its fundraising mechanism. If an online customer registered their Amazon accounts through the Support CSM website a small percentage of the purchase would go to CSM, at no cost to the school or the customer.

“It hasn’t done what we’d hoped it would do,” said Madden. “We had hoped it could raise something like $30,000 to help with courses to offer students.”

The money raised from the Escrip program has not been used so far. In the fall semester, at the request of Madden, a portion of the money will be used to award CSM scholarships to incoming high school students to aid with tuition.

New reading program implementedCSM’s Math, Science and

Reading departments are col-laborating to implement a Reading Apprenticeship Program which is aimed to be integrated this fall.

“WestEd and the Community College Success Network (3CSN) are teaming up to offer a profes-sional development project called Reading Apprenticeship Pro-gram,” said Charlene Frontiera, Math and Science Dean.

The same formula has been

applied to uni-versity level c l a s s r o o m learning for years. Students are assigned reading, the instructor clari-fies, challenges what has been learned and then tests the

students to measure understand-ing and application. Yet many students are not able to complete the reading assignments at a level

of comprehension sufficient enough for advanced classroom instruction.

In order to solve this challenge and provide a stronger educational foundation, Theresa Martin, biology instructor has not only found a solu-tion but aims at having it implemented in CSM’s classrooms this fall.

This cross-disciplinary reading apprenticeship program aimed at focusing on study skills and reading content acquisition is Martin’s solu-tion to this issue, she said.

The goal is to provide the students with the necessary study skills to broaden comprehension. Less class-

room instruction will be spent on textbook review and interpretation, allowing greater time on idea ap-plication and interactive activities to reinforce what is learned.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a conference focusing on Ramping Up Student Success.

One of the conference presenta-tions was on the Community Col-lege Success Network and spoke of the Reading Apprenticeship Program.

This summer CSM is planning to send instructors to a training pro-

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gram so that the new methodology can be experienced in the classroom as soon as this fall.

After earning her bachelor’s degree, Martin earned a series of master’s degrees through the UC system and has been teaching at CSM for 17 years..

“The program asks the content experts, the faculty, to examine what strategies they use to read ef-fectively, and to model and explain those strategies to the students,” said Frontiera. “The initial training is being funded by the Professional Development Fund.”

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Students’ short films were show-cased at the 2nd annual What The Film festival on Wed. sponsored by ASCSM.

A total of six films were shown to 70 spectators at the main theater. Three giant checks were awarded to winners in lieu of trophies.

“It was a concept that carried over from last semester,” said Regina Ramos, head of programs and services for ASCSM. “We were working with a new group, so I was a bit worried about how it would turn out, but it went well.”

The three categories for the fes-tival were adaptation, commercial and sequel. The judges picked two of the best films in each category to be showcased.

In the Adaptation category, the

two films shown were “Operation: Grandma” and “The Raven”. “Op-eration: Grandma,” take-off of Little Red Riding Hood, won the People’s Choice award of $150.

“I was happy to win an award that reflects the people’s thoughts because it is for them who we made this for,” said Manuel Orbegozo, who submitted and acted in the

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Film festival winners announcedfilm. “It was a wonderful experience being the main actor”

“The Raven,” an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same name, won the $450 prize for the best in category, however, as voted by the judges.

“I’m so grateful to the film community at CSM for this great honor,” said John Villar, director of “The Raven.” “I definitely plan on coming back and checking out future festivals here.”

In the Commercial category, “Hear Something,” a parody of the popular smartphone application “Draw Something” won the first place prize.

The runner up in the commercial category was “41 Yards” a Nike commercial featuring CSM football player Tevita Lataimua.

“I had a lot of helping hands,” said Andrew Butte director of “41

yards. “We shot the beach scene at Ocean Beach at five in the morning. It was the only time (Lataimua) was available.”

In the Sequel category, the win-ning film was “Saw 12,” a follow up to the popular horror series that features a sadistic madman named “Jigsaw” who tortures his victims. In the film, submitted by Erasmo Martinez, Campus Life Editor at The San Matean, Jigsaw kidnaps a young man and forces him to listen to obnoxious pop music.

The film was designed to a be a commentary on the negative ef-fect repetition has on society, said Martinez.

“Filming it was pretty fun but it was also difficult because I was chained up to a wall up to five hours straight,” said Martinez. “I am glad that we won although I did not expect it”

John Villar wins the adaptation category for the What The Film FestivalPhoto by Jeffrey Gonzalez of The San Matean

Here are just a few recent accomplishments by CSM Journalism students —• George Ramos Memorial Scholarship, $1,000, CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California, 2012• Internship, San Francisco Examiner, summer 2012• First Place News Photo, coverage of San Bruno Pipeline Fire memorial, Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) State Conference, 2012• Excellence in Journalism — Student Special Project, coverage of San Bruno Pipeline Fire, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, 2011. Only one college honored each year.

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What is the worst job you have ever had?

Chris Tran, 20Bio. Chemistry, San Francisco

“Starbucks in the city. The customers were noncooperative and just mean people.”

Doug Bermudez, 25Mech. Engin., S. San Francisco

“Selling cell phones to the brats that would come in with their parents.”

Philip Richardi, 25Kinesiology, Foster City

“Janitor at pet grooming store. I was 12, cleaning dog poop and stuff for two dollars an hour.”

Mike Darro, 20Electronic Music, Millbrae

“I was a telemarketer. I was the guy you all hated.”

Syeda Kazmi, 19Admin. of Justice, San Mateo

“Retail. Cashier at K-mart. Bad customers.”

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CSM big jazz bands inundated the eardrums of nearly 240 people with waves of sophisticated jazzy riff raff at this semester’s band recital.

Friends, family and peers of the band members gathered at the CSM theatre to listen to the weave of technical and entertaining forms that music professor Mike Galisatus is known to deliver.

The first band to perform was the Tuesday Night Big Band, an ensemble composed of young and old band members that presented a lively repertoire of traditional jazz songs.

“Samba Kinda Mambo,” the band’s second song, was a salty sweet tune whose buoyant high notes carried the mind lightly away while its baritone kept the feet grounded and bouncing.

As the song’s title implies, the composition by Michael Philip Mossman was a back and forth ditty of samba to mambo rhythms, all the while maintaining a Latin

flavor with the presence of bongos to assist the drums.

The band followed up with songs that packed grandeur and pop. Some numbers, such as “As It Is” by Pat Metheny, had delicious bass riffs complementing the quick and

engaging drumbeats that created a canvas for the saxophone and trumpet section to paint a picture of epic sounds with almost heroic bellows coming from the brass.

The band following the Tuesday Night Big Band was the Galisatus’

Monday Night Big Band, which performed a more cultivated rep-ertoire of jazz numbers. The soft underscore of rhythm created by drummer Chris Littlefield, 22, car-ried the band through five songs of controlled, jazzy composition.

With more experienced musi-cians making up the member-ship of the band, the songs they performed let them show off their skills. In the song “Filthy McNasty” by Horace Silver, a player from every section of the band was allowed the opportunity to strut their abilities with a solo.

“I messed up the drum solo, but I guess no one noticed, so that’s dope,” said Littlefield.

Littlefield has been drumming in for the Monday night jazz band for two semesters. Before that, Littlefield was a drummer in three bands and various hip hop solo projects of his own.

The band performed another composition by Pat Metheny called “Afternoon,” a selection Galisatus described as a “gor-geous tune.” The song was an uplifting and mellow number that

gave the audience delectable piano riffs. The band’s piano player is 14 year old Matt Wong.

“I wish I could play piano like that when I was 14,” said Galisa-tus. “I wish I could play piano like that now.”

The show was wrapped up by the much more experienced Monday Evening Jazz Ensemble. Most all of the members of the band are over 35 years old.

One band member is fellow CSM music instructor Tim Devine, who has an extensive background in the art of jazz music.

Devine plays the saxophone and the flute for the Monday Evening Jazz Ensemble.The band performed a slower pace of sound than the pre-vious groups, but a more intricate sound as well.

The song “Almost Like Being In Love” by Lerner and Loewe had the band creating an atmosphere of sound.

The song’s sweet bass and xy-lophone melodies lulled you to a dream state that was shattered by the awakening thunder of the brass section.

In the Mix By Manuel Orbegozo and Jeffery Gonzalez

Jazz singer Duane Lawrence sings with the Monday Evening Band. Photo by Jeffrey Gonzalez of The San Matean

Big star sings with CSM big band

Students need more than just degrees Ryan Patron

The San Matean

Staggering amounts of college graduates in the US are either un-deremployed or unemployed, the worst it has ever been in more than a decade, and CSM graduates or transferees are not excluded. It has always been said that to get a good job, one needs a college degree, but that’s not the case for these humbled graduates. Sights graduates work-ing minimum wage jobs in retail and food services, despite achieving their Associate’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in their respective fields of study have become more common.

“Well, of course we’re going to have to take economic times into consideration, but I think mostly it has to do with definitely there being not enough jobs in our field” said Jason Israel Dutton, 19 a philosophy and mathematics major, currently working as a mathematics tutor,

“We should be spending more money in not just education but also

in different fields of research, and from there I think we’ll be able to find more jobs for students.”

There is currently a higher demand for Nursing, Technology and Science majors, but History, Art, and Humanities majors are finding their job prospects much more bleak.Eileen O’Brien, Ca-reer Center Director at CSM says, “With our information age more and more companies cannot find the hired skill people they need to work in their companies. We’re just not producing enough people from the science math and technology areas…that’s the direction things are moving.”

“Majors like English and social studies, what are you going to do with that?” said Molly Downes, 18, an undeclared major working as a Starbucks barista.

The statistics have led many to question how practical a College Degree is nowadays.

“I do, [still think college degrees are important]”, said Leo Gomez,

23, an administration of justice major.

There is another problem facing local jobless grads. As of May 12, the unemployed will be cut off from the nation’s anti-poverty benefits. This has been triggered by the recent fall in employment rates here in California, which is the lowest it’s been in three years.

“I think that there are a lot of people with the mindset that you don’t really need that people shouldn’t get help because they’re lazy. I find that very unfair, because I know actual people who work all the days of their lives and still need that little help, because they’re ei-ther taking care of family members or they’re taking care of children. It’s not their fault that they’re in this situation,” added Dutton

“There are no proposed changes to CSM’s CalWORKS program yet,” according to Krystal Rome-ro, the Interim Director of Student Support Services CalWORKS, adding that she could not say

anything else unless changes are actually made here on campus. CalWORKS is the California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids program, managed by the California Department of Social Services.

It might not all be bad news, though, according to Eileen O’Brien, “I’ve been reading some things from National Association of Colleges and Employers which says that the recruits from this year are finding work more plentifully than they did last year, so it looks like that is improving gradually.”She also gave reasons from her own experience working with students on why this is happening.

“I think a lot of times my senses in talking with recent graduates, a lot of them don’t know what they want to do, they haven’t really checked into that when they’re in school. They just want to get through school and get their degree. I think if a lot of them had work experi-ence from an internship or other

kind of situation that they would find that they would have more work opportunities”According to NACE, 70 percent of employers surveyed by NACE said they hire interns that work for them upon their graduation. O’Brien said that to avoid being a part of this statistic, students need to start looking for work while they are in school. They need to make connections to their industry of choice and get out more.

“A lot of people I see come in, they’ve worked in restaurants after they got out of college. Now it’s two years later and they say, ‘well I can’t find a job’. Well, did you ever talk to an employer when you were in school? ‘No’. So they have no contact with the employment world at all while they’re in school and then they get out and they expect to find a job when they’ve had no contact…It’s kind of like putting yourself into a bubble, and then getting out of the bubble expecting to know how to interact with people that have worked in the bubble.”

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Down in the Dumps: The Lowdown on Trash

Photo by Greg Marshall of The San Matean

The San Matean took a look at a topic usually overlooked or even deliberately ignored — garbage.

After talking with several sources and ex-amining graphs, forms and statistics, The San Matean has discovered it was worth digging up.

It started with an idea to examine the physical en-vironment of the district and the lives of the people behind the scenes that work to keep the campuses healthy.

The San Matean found that there is a cleanliness rat-ing system recently created and that the district was ranked at level four “Moderate Dinginess,” second from the bottom. The survey also shows the calcula-tions explaining why the district got that ranking. The San Matean prepared an in-depth report and video coverage on this story — see the QR Code on page 11 for a link.

The San Matean also discovered: • Students and faculty agree that everyone needs

to work harder to keep the campuses clean

CSM’s garbage collection site near Building 34 is where dumpsters like these collect up to 30-cubic yards of trash every two weeks, equal to about 5,207 gallons.

• Details about how garbage and recycling are processed at CSM

• That the materials most often found are: cigarette butts, food wrappers, coffee cups and soda bottles and cans, fliers and pamphlets

• Hard numbers for tons of garbage processed by the district, county, state and nation

• California Assembly Bill 75 requires college insti-tutions to reduce their landfill waste and submit an annual report showing how they achieved this

• The three campus’ contract amounts with the companies that pick up their trash — it’s thousands of dollars per month

• CSM pays about $38,080 per month for the ground-skeepers and $69,048 per month for the custodians

• Details for a timeline about the history of trash in the U.S.

And The San Matean identified a CSM employee whose life is built around our garbage and dirt.

— Kayla FigardThe San Matean

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Photo by Greg Marshall of The San Matean

Graphic by Ryan Patron of The San Matean

Map courtesy of Google

Above, a map shows the route of Allied Waste trucks that pick up trash from CSM and bring it to Ox Moun-tain Landfill in Half Moon Bay. To the left, Tibor Andrejka, a groundskeeper at CSM, picks up trash outside of Building 10.

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A career based on a love of cleanlinessBryant Evans raised two kids, paid off his 2006

Dodge Charger and can afford to take a nice vacation once a year—and he does all of this with our garbage.

Evans is CSM’s Custodial Supervisor and has been keeping the campus free from garbage and dirt for 17 years.

Evans has been doing this since he was a kid, and frankly he’s addicted, he said.

“I’ve got that love of cleanliness,” said Evans, 48. “Of taking that little Hot Wheels car out of the box, all nice and clean and it should stay that way—new, like it just came out of the box.”

Evans’ father had his own custodial company and he dragged his kids along to help after school, one of them being a 16-year-old Evans. That is where he learned his machine skills — waxing, carpet extract-ing, buffing and much more.

“When you start off young doing something, you don’t know anything else,” he said. “It’s in your blood.”

A San Francisco native, he grew up in the Haight and went to Balboa High School. After graduating, he worked several custodial jobs including the Presidio Officers’ Club, the old Galaxy Theater and the UCSF Medical Center before ending up at CSM.

He started as a custodian and eventually got pro-moted to lead custodian and then custodial supervisor.

“(Evans) is always positive, takes a personal interest in his team, and works hard to insure they have open lines of communication with him and each other,” said Karen Powell, CSM Facilities Operations Manager.

As custodial supervisor, Evans works Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. to midnight with most of his staff.

“In my job I have to deal with people all the time,” said Evans. “I have to train and communicate with different personalities and I see their mood before I present myself.”

He creates schedules, assigns tasks, trains his staff and plays his part in the dirty work — cleaning up classrooms, restrooms and hallways and emptying trash and recycling.

It can be hard work, not having the staff you need to clean the entire campus, but Evans said his custo-dians get the job done.

CSM has 18 custodians paid on average of $3,836 a month each, costing a total of $69,048 per month.

“His energy is through the roof,” said CSM lead custodian Alex Gordon, who has known

Evans for 30 years. “The vibe he puts off wraps right around us.”

Evans simply likes to clean. “He’d rather his work show him off, then to show off himself,” said Gordon.

Evans’ is motivated to come to work every day to pay his bills, he said.

“But what I live for, why I love to come here is the graduation commencement every year,” said Evans. “The relief of fresh air — I can say ‘We made it again you guys.’”

Evans is also motivated by his faith.“I live by the phrase, ‘love thy neighbor,’” he said.

“Anyone I run into, I pray for — I don’t have to know

them.”Evans has a Christian background and was ordained

as a deacon seven years ago with the Word Assembly Baptist Church in Oakland.

“The pastor saw a people person in me, helping people and saving souls,” said Evans. “He thought the energy that I have could help him help people.”

He just went through a training boot camp. He ob-tained his certificate on April 29 as a full-time deacon.

“Now it’s official,” said Evans. He recently did his first reading and opening with

prayer and hopes to do more, he said.Evans has been married to his wife Palkina Evans

for 27 years.“It’s nice that I don’t have to worry about cleaning

because he’s always right behind me cleaning up,” said Palkina.

Evans and Palkina have been dating since they were both 13 years old.

“We believe in the same things,” he said. “Once you pass trust, love and financial, there’s nothing else to

fight about — the rest is easy. You can be successful in marriage.”

They have two children. Their son, Bryant Evans Jr., 24, works two jobs in security. Their daughter, Kina Evans, 18, is about to graduate from high school. She just received the Principal’s Honor Roll and plans to go to CSM.

“He’s got this glow to him — he’s so kind no matter what someone says to him,” said Palkina. “He’s always positive and so easy and comfortable to talk to.”

Evans’ family inspires him because they are work-ing hard, he said.

“Communication is important — at dinner we talk and see what’s on the kids’ minds,” said Evans. “They aren’t afraid to speak to us about anything.”

Evans’ hobbies include watching football, dancing, skating and bowling.

“If I bowl 175, I’m having a bad day,” he said.When he retires, Evans plans on traveling.“I’m praying to god that I can retire and buy a big

RV and cruise the world,” said Evans.

Food: Seafood gumbo

Sports team: 49ers

Car: Dodge Charger

Color: All colors

Hero: Martin Luther King Jr.

Zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Facts and Favorites

Photo courtesy of Bryant Evans

Custodial Supervisor Bryant Evans’ favorite time of year is commencement.

Photo courtesy of Bryant Evans

Bryant Evans with his wife, Palkina.

Custodial Supervisor Bryant Evans looks back on 17 years of cleaning up

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District campuses are moderately dingy, survey finds

“Moderate Dinginess”It may not sound like much.Here’s what it means: The district’s three campuses

— CSM, Skyline and Cañada are not as clean as they should be, according to a group specializing in analysis of educational facilities.

That’s how our district is listed in a survey in which educational facilities are ranked on five levels of cleanliness ranging from “Orderly Spotlessness” to “Unkempt Neglect”. The voluntary survey, given by APPA, an association of higher education facilities officers, collects data annually from educational facilities in the US and Canada.

The district is at level four, which is second to last in the list of what APPA calls custodial service staff-ing levels. This level was self reported by the district.

APPA describes “Moderate Dinginess” as — “Floors are swept or vacuumed clean, but are dull, dingy and stained. There is a noticeable buildup of dirt...in corners and along walls. All vertical and horizontal surfaces have conspicuous dust, dirt, smudges, finger-prints and marks...Trash containers... have old trash.”

This rating is based on an actual calculation.“The determination of level four was based on the

amount of square footage we have to maintain and the number of staff we have to maintain it,” said Jose Nuñez, District Vice Chancellor of Facilities Planning, Maintenance and Operations. “In round numbers, as I do not have details at hand, our 39 custodians are responsible for something like 45,000 square feet per staff member and the best business practice for instructional facilities is considered to be less than 20,000 square feet per staff member.”

This may be why the district is at a level four. To require each custodian to clean 45,000 square feet is the equivalent of asking them to clean an acre of land per day which can hold five to seven houses on it.

“Our goal is to clean all areas as often as possible,” said Bryant Evans, Custodial Supervisor at CSM. “We can’t sweep and mop everywhere every day but we try hard to keep up.”

The economic crisis and budget cuts affect facilities too and sometimes it’s the first to get cut.

“While I think we all agree that ‘moderate dinginess’ is less than optimal but it really boils down to a mat-

ter of choice,” said Ron Galatolo, District Chancellor. “Do we hire and retain custodians to clean rooms or faculty to teach classes? While both functions are essential to the success of our colleges, under these extreme economic times, we have chosen to employ as many faculty as possible to address our unmet student demand in the classroom, while at the same time provide enough custodians and facilities staff to address the most immediate needs and maintain the facilities at its current level.”

Students and faculty did cite some areas at CSM that they would call dingy, but for the most part they found the campus clean.

“I honestly think it’s a really clean school and people work hard to keep it clean,” said Brionna Wallace, 20.

Students cited the older buildings as being the most dirty.

“The halls of Building 16 are filled with bottles and cans,” said Mario Gomez, 19. “We should take care of our campus.”

CSM President Michael Claire, who has been work-ing at CSM for 24 years, remembers the campus falling into the “Moderately Dinginess” category at one point, he said. “However, I have seen a major change since we have completed our new construction. I believe that our entire community is taking better care of CSM because of the upgrades that have been made.”

Justin Eichner, Lead Groundskeeper at CSM was laid off from the grounds crew for the Sequoia Union High School District because of cuts.

“We could always use more people, but compared to a lot of organizations we are doing well,” said Eichner.

Sequoia had fewer people than CSM and had even fewer after the layoffs.

“They have only about five people to service about eight separate campuses / facilities, where we have about 18 for our three campuses,” he said. “So, I feel pretty lucky to have my team.”

CSM has eight groundskeepers paid an average of $4,760 per month each, costing a total of $38,080 per month.

The district was one of the only California Com-munity Colleges to increase square footage and add facilities staff to clean it. Most of the district’s sister

colleges are losing staff while adding square footage.“We continually strive to improve our service with

the staff levels we have through insuring our equip-ment is functional and replacing as needed, creat-ing and fostering an atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork and keeping in close contact with occupants and the administration to insure we are appropriately focusing our efforts on their areas of priority,” said Nuñez.

The district has made many improvements to their system to help raise our level. Karen

Powell, Facilities Operations Manager at CSM instituted a custodial inspection process in which a custodian does a checklist of one area every night.

“It’s the Hawthorne effect — just the act of paying attention made an improvement,” said Powell.

Facilities has also recently replaced a lot of outdated equipment through bond money from the construc-tion projects.

“I don’t see us hiring more staff unless the economy and state funding improve dramatically,” said Powell. “So our mission is to teach.”

There is always room for improvement.“The campus community should know that we

need to help our custodial staff as much as possible by treating our facilities with respect,” said Claire. “Every dollar that we must spend on maintenance is a dollar less that we can spend in the classroom — so let’s take care of this place not only for ourselves but for those that will follow us.”

Powell cited recycling awareness as something that could help significantly. Also, if students and faculty could reduce their litter, that would help to, she said.

“People need to understand that we are doing a lot with a few resources,” said Powell. “They should understand what we are able to do as a part of regu-lar services and what we have to charge extra for.”

It’s a function of changing people’s behavior, she said.The APPA survey allows each of its participat-ing college districts to compare themselves to each other. There is no average for the custodial service staffing level.

Graphic by Ryan Patron of The San Matean

“We don’t calculate the custodial service level av-erage because it’s hard to come up with an accurate and reliable number,” said Christina Hills, Director of Credentialing and Benchmarking for APPA.

The cost per square foot is measurable however, as well as the square footage custodians in different districts are responsible for. This may give the dis-trict a benchmark when comparing their numbers to California Community College average.

“The numbers translate into the experience you have on the campus,” said Powell.

For example, for every square foot the district cleans, they pay $1.47, which includes wages, salaries, benefits and supplies, compared to the CCC average of $2.21, according to the survey. The district spends significantly less than the average.

The custodians in the district are responsible for about 36,093 square feet per day compared to the CCC average of 37,891 square feet per day, the survey reads.

“(SMCCCD) is right in alignment with the averages that I see here,” said Hills. “However the numbers may be skewed because only five CCCs submitted data this year.”

Since this is the district’s first year of participat-ing in the APPA survey, Powell hopes more CCCs will participate next time so they can have a better benchmark, she said.

The survey also requires a self report of grounds maintenance staffing levels and general maintenance service staffing levels. The district got Level Four on both, Turf Moderately Low-Level Maintenance meaning the lawns are mowed irregularly and weed control is limited and Reactive Management meaning “maintenance call response times are variable and sporadic without apparent cause.”

“This is indeed an unfortunate situation and, hope-fully, a relatively short term problem,” said Galatolo. “As the state recovers financially and we, in turn, have more discretionary funding I can assure you that this will be one of the many unresolved priorities that will be addressed during that recovery period.”

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District campuses are moderately dingy, survey finds“We don’t calculate the custodial service level av-

erage because it’s hard to come up with an accurate and reliable number,” said Christina Hills, Director of Credentialing and Benchmarking for APPA.

The cost per square foot is measurable however, as well as the square footage custodians in different districts are responsible for. This may give the dis-trict a benchmark when comparing their numbers to California Community College average.

“The numbers translate into the experience you have on the campus,” said Powell.

For example, for every square foot the district cleans, they pay $1.47, which includes wages, salaries, benefits and supplies, compared to the CCC average of $2.21, according to the survey. The district spends significantly less than the average.

The custodians in the district are responsible for about 36,093 square feet per day compared to the CCC average of 37,891 square feet per day, the survey reads.

“(SMCCCD) is right in alignment with the averages that I see here,” said Hills. “However the numbers may be skewed because only five CCCs submitted data this year.”

Since this is the district’s first year of participat-ing in the APPA survey, Powell hopes more CCCs will participate next time so they can have a better benchmark, she said.

The survey also requires a self report of grounds maintenance staffing levels and general maintenance service staffing levels. The district got Level Four on both, Turf Moderately Low-Level Maintenance meaning the lawns are mowed irregularly and weed control is limited and Reactive Management meaning “maintenance call response times are variable and sporadic without apparent cause.”

“This is indeed an unfortunate situation and, hope-fully, a relatively short term problem,” said Galatolo. “As the state recovers financially and we, in turn, have more discretionary funding I can assure you that this will be one of the many unresolved priorities that will be addressed during that recovery period.”

Graphic by Ryan Patron, facts compiled by Manuel Orbegozo of The San Matean. Source: Association of Science andTechnology Centers

Photo by Greg Marshall of The San Matean

Photos above by Monica Airo of The San Matean

Photos from top show “Moderate Dingi-ness” at Cañada, CSM and Skyline col-lege campuses, respectively. Photo at left, shows a Recology truck at CSM collecting recycling. Recycling is usually picked up once a month.

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Students and faculty react to dinginessStudents and faculty agree that cleanliness and

lack of recycling seems to be an issue on campus.Many students feel that everyone should work

together and provide a better campus environment for all students to enjoy.

“We need to clean up ourselves and develop bet-ter cleaning habits,” said student Clarissa Roldon, 20, Business.

Students have come to a consensus the cleanliness of the campus relies on their contributions, such as picking up after themselves and recycling.

“It is not acceptable to have our campus ranks so low on cleanliness,” said student Carlos Lopez, 19..

“We as we have the ability to work together as one and take care of our school,” he said.

The CSM Facilities department would benefit from the effort of students in keeping the campus clean.

“If students and faculty could just put everything back the way they found it, that would help my staff,” said Bryant Evans, Custodial Supervisor at CSM.

“The less time they spend putting away chairs and tables or cleaning graffiti, the more time they can spend keeping the campus clean,” he said.

Recycling has become problematic despite the amount of designated recycling bins in nearly all buildings on campus.

“One problem we do have is contamination of re-cycling. People put food and trash in their recycling bins many times,” said Evans.

“If the recycling is contaminated, we have to dump it in the trash,” he said.

“If people were more careful about which can they use it would let us recycle more.”

The effort of students, faculty and custodians unified would make a difference and result in a moderately cleaner campus.

“When you walk outside and look at this beautiful campus, what would possess a person to try and mess that up?” said Alex Gordon, CSM Lead Custodian.

AB 75Waste Diversion for State

Agencies and Large State Facilities:

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) as-sists agencies and large fa-cilities in the implementation of waste prevention, reuse, and recycling programs to reduce waste and increase diversion.

State agencies and large state facilities are required to:

• Divert at least 25 percent of their solid waste from landfills or transformation facilities by Jan. 1, 2002, and to divert at least 50 percent on and after Jan. 1, 2004, through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities.

• Submit an annual report, for the prior calendar year, including disposal amounts and explanation of diversion activities. Reports are due by May 1 of each year.

Graphic by Ryan Patron of The San Matean

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Clockwise from top: A graphic shows the contracts the three campuses have with garbage and recycling companies; a description of California Assembly Bill 75; a photo shows a Recology truck driving from a campus pickup site with recyclables; the Garbage in tons graphic shows how the district’s total garbage in 2011 compares with the county, state and nation gar-bage totals for 2010, the only recent years for which statistics are available.

Photo by Greg Marshall of The San Matean Information provided by CalRecycle

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QR code to video report

Scan this QR Code or go to http://youtu.be/eNv_7U_8CiU for a video report on this story.

Found: The strangest things

“When we still had welding on campus, we found half of a body sticking out of a trash can by their building — it was a Halloween trick,” said Bryant Evans, Custodial Supervisor at CSM. “It was art to me, so I took it and hung it up in the engineering room so it looks like he’s falling off of a ladder.”

“I was unfortunate to see a piece of scat laying next to the toilet, it was awful,” said student Taylor Johnson, 20.

“Behind Building 36 I saw a couple of used condoms,” said student Marcia Garcia, 20.

“We find all sorts of items discarded from students and staff in the trash, from chop-stick dinner placing, to computer bags, radios and occasionally money,” said Justin Eichner, Lead Groundskeeper at CSM.

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• Written and reported for print and video by Kayla Figard

• Video shot and edited by Alex Pulisci• Photos by Greg Marshall and Monica Airo

• Graphics by Ryan Patron• Additional reporting by Carlos Mesquita,

Varsha Ranjit and Manuel Orbegozo

A look into some of weird things students and faculty discover in campus trash

Photo by Greg Marshall of The San Matean

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Photo by Greg Marshall of The San Matean

Down in the Dumps: The Lowdown on Trash

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Former Bulldog signs NFL contractFormer CSM football player

Eddie Elder walked across the stage May 3, at the Arizona State University commencement cer-emony and received his degree in communication and sociology. Less than two weeks later he had his first job offer: a free agent contract with the Arizona Cardinals.

“Eddie was so talented,” said CSM defensive coordinator Tim Tulloch on Elder’s time at CSM, “He’s one of the best players we’ve had.”

Elder’s impressive career high-lights at CSM include over 20 starts at safety, the school record for interceptions (13), NorCal de-fensive player of the year in 2009, and a NorCal championship in the same year. Ranked as three-star recruit by rivals.com and four-star recruit by scout.com, Elder signed with Arizona State and transferred in January 2010.

“He has great character and just got his college degree,” said Tulloch. “You can’t ask for anything more.”

When Elder began his career as a Bulldog, he was not unfamiliar with CSM football. His coaches at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento were alumni of the program and Elder had played a few games at College Heights Stadium with his high school team.

“I sent (the CSM coaching staff) a highlight tape and signed once I found out I wasn’t going to a D-1 school (out of high school),” said Elder. “They were very helpful with school and made sure I was on top of all of my assignments.”

Elder played 25 games at ASU, starting 20 and recording 130 total tackles, three interceptions and one sack. Despite tallying solid stats as a Sun Devil, Elder was not selected in the NFL Draft in April, mainly because of his size. At 5-feet-10 190 lbs, he is smaller than most NFL safeties.

“He’s going to have to put on more

weight, but he’ll be able to do it,” said Tulloch.

Elder was invited to Cardinals rookie camp soon after gradua-tion and was awarded a contract shortly thereafter. Under current Caridnals defensive coordinatior Ray Horton. Elder will be reunited with the 3-4 defense, a scheme he was a part of in high school and at CSM.

“ASU was the first 4-3 I’ve played in since Pop Warner,” said Elder, “It was a relief to finally go back (to 3-4).”

While many Division-1 players leave school early for the riches of the NFL, obtaining a degree has always been a priority for Elder, he said.

“Football is not going to last forever, even if you have a long career in the NFL,” said Elder, “You can never go wrong with an education and I’ll always have it to fall back on if things don’t work out with football.”

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Photo courtesy of College of San Mateo Football

Eddie Elder as a CSM Bulldog. Elder holds the school record for inter-ceptions and was NorCal defensive player of the year in 2009.

CSM alumnus trains world championCSM boasts a fairly impressive

list of alumni who have gone on to great heights in the world of sport, mainly in baseball and football..

A few that come to mind are Bill Walsh of the 49ers, John Madden of the Raiders and of Monday Night Football fame, Scott Feldman of the Texas Rangers, Daniel Nava of the Red Sox, and Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots.

A new name to add to that list would be former CSM student Ed-die Croft.

Croft is not a baseball or a football player, however. He didn’t even play sports at CSM. His success has come in the boxing ring.

Croft, a trainer at B Street Boxing in San Mateo, was the cornerman for Melissa McMorrow, the world’s most recent women’s flyweight world champion, as she took the title from Susi Kentikian in Frankfurt,

Germany Wednesday.“I’m happy about it,” said Croft,

“Since I started training (McMor-row) in May of 2008 I knew she’d be a world champion.”

McMorrow faced adverse cir-cumstances, fighting the unde-feated incumbent Kentikian on her home turf in Frankfurt with two of three judges being German. McMorrow nevertheless won in convincing fashion, beating her Armenian-born opponent in a

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majority decision.“Whenever I went back to the

corner, (Eddie) would stress that (Kentikian) would get more leeway from the judges”, said McMorrow “I definitely was worried that I wasn’t going to get the decision I deserved.”

“She had to be a little more domi-nant and she fought a terrific fight,” said Croft, “It wasn’t unanimous like I thought it should’ve been, though.”

McMorrow (7-3-3) previously lost a previous world title bout against Arely Mucino in Mexico, in what was a controversial split decision. The title had been in jeop-ardy for Kentikian because she was inactive for a long period of time.

“In foriegn countries a lot of calls don’t go your way,” said Croft.

Croft was a student at CSM from 1989 to1990, where he contributed a special column to the San Matean about his experiences at the USA

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Baseball loses super regionalsShaun CarmodyThe San Matean

The CSM baseball team found themselves in a tricky situation Saturday, after losing to Cosumnes River 6-1 in their second game of the Super Regionals (hosted at CSM). They had to win out in their next three games in order to qualify for the State Tournament in Ba-kersfield and to avoid elimination. The Bulldogs had reason to believe after victories over Diablo Valley Saturday evening and Cosumnes River Sunday afternoon.

Pitchers Dylan Price and Clay Bauer both turned in strong perfor-mances in the Bulldogs 5-2 victory over the Vikings and 7-6 extra innings victory over the Hawks, respectively. Needing a second vic-tory over Cosumnes River Sunday evening, however, it was pitching that doomed the Bulldogs as 13 hit batters and walks paved the way for a Hawks 13-3 victory.

“(CSM gave up) way too many free bases,” said CSM head coach Doug Williams, “You’re simply not going to win with 13 hit batters and walks.

In the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader, starter Clay Bauer went 8 ⅔ innings for CSM, striking out six, giving up five hits and six

runs, none of which were earned. The most astonishing stat for Bauer was his 152 pitches. As he was being pulled with two outs in the ninth, however, he lobbied Williams to let him stay in the game.

“I told (Williams) that I could get another guy, but he told me he cared more about my arm and my health,” said Bauer, who will be pitching for Oregon State next season, “I don’t think I’ve ever thrown that many pitches.”

Relieving Bauer was Parker Swindell, who, after inheriting run-ners on second and third with a 6-4 lead, promptly gave up the game tying single to Jake Schu. Swindell retired the seven of the next eight batters, however, not surrendering a single hit in extras.

Leading offensive production in game 1 for the Bulldogs were outfielder Mark Hurley and second baseman Paul Hernandez. Both went 3-for-5 and collected two RBI, including the winning run which Hernandez drove in on a suicide squeeze in the 11th inning.

“(Hurley) struggled a lot this year, moving all around the line up,” said Williams, “(His performance in the series) is just a testament to him and his competitiveness.”

In game 2, CSM, playing as the away team, began the game by

driving in three runs in the top of the first. Cosumnes River, however, answered with a run in the bottom of the first and five in the bottom of the second. The Bulldogs never climbed back, despite out-hitting the Hawks, surrendering nine walks and four hit batsmen.

CSM starter Luke McCreesh only recorded three outs, giving up two hits, a walk, and three runs. Reliev-ing McCreesh was Andrew Herrera who was stuck with the loss giving up five hits and four earned runs in four innings pitched.

“I would’ve started Swindell if he hadn’t relieved in the first game,” said Williams, “McCreesh had been starting towards the end of the season and he’s a real competitor so I put him in.”

“(Losing) was a big shock,” said Bauer, “(On offense) the balls weren’t falling.”

Hurley lead Bulldog offensive production yet again. going three-for -four, totaling six hits in nine at bats for the day.

Cosumes River starter Nick Smart went six innings giving up seven hits, three earned runs and striking out four.

Hawks center fielder Colby Brenner lead Cosumnes River bat-ters going two-for-four with four RBI. Second basean Jake Schu also

Mark Hurley at bat against Diablo Valley College on May 12. CSM would go on to win the game 5-2, but were elimated the next day.

Bulldogs stave off elimination until final day only to lose to Cosumnes River 13-3

Photo by David Sharpe of The San Matean

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CSM Track and Field throws coach Mike Lewis always surveys throwing practicing from the same spot- a chair situated to the right of the shot-put circle at the field just above College Heights Stadium. In his 33rd year of coaching CSM throwing, Lewis still has not lost his touch.

Lewis has coached a wealthy cache of throwing talent this year for CSM. One Bulldog thrower, Evan McDaniel, ranks nationally in the men’s junior college shotput and in the top ten statewide in the men’s discus.

McDaniel’s path to CSM was a bit different than most Bulldog student athletes. The 25-year old from Reno, Nevada thought his competing days were over after graduating from Spanish Springs High School.

“(Throwing) was something I always really enjoyed,” said Mc-Daniel, “I just had different priori-

ties out of high school.”After graduation, McDaniel at the

time weighing 160-pounds moved on to University of Nevada-Reno where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2009. Soon after, he grew restless and moved to the Bay Area with a friend. He soon discovered a co-worker was a fellow thrower and the two began practicing at CSM, where he met Track and Field head coach Joe Mangan.

“I came up here and did some throws,” said McDaniel, who has added roughly 90 pounds of muscle since high school to develop a more prototypical thrower’s physique, “I got to talking with Joe and found out I was still eligible.”

He then made the decision to join the CSM track team and qualified for the California state finals at Cerritos College in Los Angeles County in shotput and discus.

“It’s an honor to be competing at such a high level,” McDaniel said, “(Coach Lewis) is the only reason I’m throwing far.”

McDaniel is far from the only CSM thrower finding success this year. The sibling duo of Nikki and Josh Uikilifi have been turning the throwing rankings at meets into a family affair. Both have qualified for state competition in the women’s and men’s hammer throws and shot puts, respectively. In addition, Nikki has qualified in the women’s discus and javelin with throws of 152-11 and 113-8, respectively. CSM thrower Zeke Edwards also qualified for the state finals in the javelin with a throw of 176-5.

“We have talent every year,” said Lewis, “Some years are bet-ter than others and this is one of those years.”

Sprinter Roman Skovronski qualified for the men’s 400 meter hurdles with a time of 53.31, the second best time in school history in that event.

“I don’t really find any lack of desire from these athletes,” said Lewis, “Despite most of the events being solo, we’re still a team within.”

went two-for-four adding two RBI.With the win, Cosumnes River

advanced to the state tournament

in Bakersfield, where they will join Sierra College, Rio Hondo, and Orange Coast.

CSM thrower Evan McDaniel practicing the discus at CSM. McDaniel is nationally ranked in the shotput and recently qualified for state.

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Track to compete in the state finals

Most 90th birthdays are low key events, but Bulldog athletics could not have been busier.

CSM hosted the super regional tournaments for both NorCal softball and baseball, in addition to hosting the NorCal finals for Track and Field the weekend of May 11 to 13.

While baseball and softball were all weekend affairs, track finals took place on May 11 only, making

Friday quite possibly the busiest day in CSM sports history.

“It definitely was hectic,” said CSM Dean of Athletics Andreas Wolf. “but that’s what we sign up for, it’s the joy of the job.”

While it was predetermined a year beforehand that CSM would host the NorCal Track and Field Finals, first place finishes by the baseball and softball teams meant that they would host NorCal regionals and super regionals.

“We always keep our eyes on the prize,” said Wolf. “It makes

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CSM hosts two super regionals and NorCal finalsno difference to our coaches where they play, they always want to win.”

“Sports are unpredictable,” said CSM Sports Information Director Fred Baer, “It’s not unheard of, if you finish high enough in baseball and softball you’re going to host regionals.”

The CSM softball team was elimi-nated after consecutive defeats on Saturday, while the CSM Baseball team was the last team eliminated af-ter the second game of a doubleheader against Cosumnes River Sunday. Sierra College softball (Rocklin)

won a state tournament berth with a 9-0 victory over Ohlone (Fremont) Sunday.

Participants in the softball tour-nament were Sierra, Ohlone, and College of The Seqoias (Visalia).

Visiting teams in the baseball tournamnet were Cosumnes River (Sacramento), Diablo Valley Col-lege (Pleasant Hill), and Ohlone College.

The Track and Field team saw five athletes qualify for state finals events in the first-ever NorCal finals hosted at CSM.

“We wouldn’t have hosted the track finals if it weren’t for the new facilities,” said Baer, “Everything came together in what was a very busy Friday.”

CSM will host the Track and Field state finals for the first time in 2013.

“It’s a nice statement to make to demonstrate the strength of (ath-letics) at CSM,” said Wolf, “I’m extremely proud to be associated with the coaches here.”

“I’d much rather be outside than sitting inside pushing around paper,” he joked.

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Certain majors require inclusion in a course for more than one se-mester in order to transfer.

The academic senate has a resolution for this because of the small percentage of students that possibly will be greatly affected;

specifically the athletics, arts and music departments at CSM.

Exceptions for these departments are being made if the proposal is applied, said Marlatt Dorr.

If a student is on the football team for his community college career, repeating a course designed to keep

how much funding a school dis-trict will get from property taxes and allots a budget accordingly. If property taxes fall short of the state’s predictions, the state will pay the difference, said Blackwood.

This requirement already exists for K through12 schools but not for community college systems.

The board of trustees voted to support the bill even though the district is on basic aid and unreli-ant on state money. The board is

ready to back anything that will help community college systems and its future generations, said Blackwood. Money from dissolved redevelopment agencies is also being used to offset the $300,000 cut to the childcare development

center at CSM. California legisla-ture decided on Feb. 28 to dissolve redevelopment agencies.

Now that redevelopment agen-cies do not exist, that money is going back to fund many budgets in the state, among them school

program budgets. “It is a new source of revenue,”

said Blackwood.Income from these dissolved

redevelopment agencies can bring in two to three million dollars a year for the district, added Blackwood.

the player in shape would not count towards a repeated course.

Other classes similar to golf les-sons at a golf course are subject to course repetition reduction.

A student pays $36 for a one unit golf class, but can pay $100 to not put a dent in taxpayer pockets.

These classes can be changed to community service classes, op-posed to paying for the classes through general funds

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for a golf class at the golf course,” Marlatt Dorr said. “At a time when funds are tight , it’s not the best use

of taxpayer’s dollars.”Throughout the whole state,

Marlatt Dorr said 51 percent of students in California community colleges repeated a course.

About 876,000 took a course for the second time, 117,000 a third, 117,000 a fourth and 85,000 a fifth.

New policy for waitlist beginsCSM has implemented new

waitlist timeline regulations from 72 hours to 24 hours for students to add a waitlisted class to quickly fill classroom seats since the beginning of spring 2012 semester.

“The goal is to make sure that all students have an opportunity to enroll in classes and fill classes

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to their capacity,” said Jennifer Hughes, Vice President of Student Services.

The District-wide Fee Payment Committee is responsible for imple-menting the new waitlist regula-tion. The change resulted from the committee’s review of the 2012 fee payment process, conducted early spring 2012.

“We heard from many students ... that they got into more classes from

the waitlists, especially during the two weeks prior to the start of the spring semester when the waitlist time changed from 72 to 24 hours,” said Hughes.

“Moving the waitlists along in a more timely manner seems to be resulting in more students getting into classes,” she said.

The committee conducted a faculty survey early in the spring to obtain feedback on the new pay-

ment process. A number of instruc-tors stated more students were able to get into their waitlisted classes.

Effective summer and fall regis-tration the 24-hour waitlist policy will be used throughout the entire registration period rather than just the two weeks prior to the start of the semester. If a student does not enroll within the 24-hour deadline they will be dropped from the list and the next student will be offered

a spot on the teacher’s roster.Although the district-wide ee

Payment Committee has made this regulation in order to help students get into impacted classes, many CSM students do not agree with the new waitlist timeline.

“Getting a schedule that fits into my job schedule is already stress-ful enough without these short deadlines for waitlist classes,” said student Jeff Tanguay, 20.

Students organize human rights dayCSM hosted their First Bi-

Annual Human Rights Day at the College Center May 15.

English Professor Tim Maxwell, Alpha Gamma Sigma Human Rights Committee and students of

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Tim Maxwell’s English 100 class were producers of the event. They used creative methods to commu-nicate the need for action on viola-tions of the universal declaration of human Rights.

“It is like a small exercise as it provides CSM students with the insight on a small manifestation and

how they can make a larger one,” says Gerald Nash, Coordinator Ad-ministrator of Human Rights Day.

Students from Maxwell’s English 100 class volunteered and provided workshops with information re-garding human trafficking, child marriage, corporate abuses of labor and invasions of privacy.

“This event will bring awareness to our campus regarding human rights and violations that is being taking place locally,” said Spencer Ho, leader of Human Rights in Tibet.

“The good thing that comes out of this event is that it opens people mind to the world outside to the real

world,” said Derek Plemons, leader of Peace and Conflict Studies. “If gives a good impact to someone then our mission is complete.”

“It’s a great way to expose to CSM students the reality as it’s a great stepping stone for more students to become aware,” said Justin Kyong.

opinion & publiC forum The SAN MATEAN • Page 16May 21, 2012

Back Talkby Manuel Orbegozo and Jeffery Gonzalez

Diana Pugliaresi, 19English, S. San Francisco

“You’re born the way you were born. It confuses people when you tell them what they feel is wrong.”

Francisco Cayabyab, 19Kinesiology, S. San Francisco

“You’re born with how you feel. You can change an opinion, but you can’t change an orientation.”

Clarissa Calimbas, 20Liberal Arts, S. San Francisco

“I don’t think it can. Can it? No it can’t. Unless they drugged up that person. Or through hypnosis...”

Daria Kekuewa, 18Kinesiology, South City

“No. It can make people believe in something that is not true. I think you’re born with it.”

Audrey Nassar, 19Music, Half Moon Bay

“Hell no.”

Can therapy change sexual orientation?

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As a kid, no one likes to be nagged by their parents to clean their room. It is the bane of every American adolescent’s existence.

That being said, it should not have to be such a struggle to keep CSM clean. Being a school of former adolescents with nagging parents, every student should be competent enough to not leave a mess behind.

For starters, a mess just is not aesthetically pleasing. No one wants to look at a table full of messy plates with food scraps on them. Secondly, it is distracting for those trying to study in between classes. Keeping this campus clean makes the campus environment more enjoyable. CSM is already the butt of the jokes from wealthy elitists who thumb their noses at community colleges. Why play into the stereotype that CSM students are lazy and unmotivated?

A great deal of taxpayer money was spent renovating the campus to give it a more modern look. Construction was finished only a year ago, why ruin that by messing it up? Why waste public money like that? This makes it the duty of every student to do their part when they leave a mess behind. Finished with those pop tarts? Throw away the wrapper and don’t leave any crumbs behind. See a piece of trash on the ground? Pick it up and throw it away. Trash won’t hurt you, but no one wants to see it lying around.

The custodial works around the clock to do this, so make their job easier by doing your part. Do not let your messiness reflect poorly on you, them or the school. Make CSM a clean place to study.

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Keeping yourself on trackNearly two decades have passed since I

graduated from UC San Diego, fees were about $600 a quarter and yes the budget

situation was the same. The university de-clared it needed to continue to raise fees and students protested. My time at the university were some of the best years of my life.

We studied hard, and as athletes loved the thrill of competition. Knowing we had our entire lives ahead of us, at graduation we threw our hats in the air as a signal to the world that our dreams were about to transform into fabulous realities.

I recently read in a news-paper that the economy we are experiencing today is the worst since 1993, the year I gradu-ated.

At the time of graduation, I was one person look-ing for one job. I did not have a sense of the larger picture, but could not understand why jobs were so scarce. Looking back, I admit the only reason I suc-ceeded was that I was too stupid to know that I could not. Determined to realize my dreams, I packed my bags and moved out of the states for a chance at

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setting a course for myself that would prove to be a powerful and lucrative path. I named my price, chose my contracts, and stepped into a business world un-

like anything I could have imagined. It was a bold move. By letting go of

the proverbial net and jumping into a space that I could de-

fine who I was, proved to show me the freedom that I desired.

As graduation nears, students once again prepare to move into the next phase of life. The one piece of advice that I might offer is

to define what you want and find a men-

tor to mirror to insure success. In this economy it is

easy to find oneself pushed off course, yet just as a plane

flying across the sky or a sailboat across the ocean, one must constantly re-

confirm the course, correct direction, and have faith in the outcome. The great news is that you are not alone; many have treaded the path before you. By se-lecting a mentor and mirroring their success, you can be sure that your dreams can be realized too.

— Barbara MartinThe San Matean

The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, report-ing on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website.

As there is a newly implemented honors program at CSM, the pub-lications adviser, Ed Remitz sought and succeeded to integrate the DGME 260: Newswriting, DGME 261: Advanced Newswriting and DGME 265: Online and Print Newspaper Production into the program.

The new program, which will be implemented this fall, requires stu-dents to have earned at least a 3.2 GPA for continuing students, and a 3.5 GPA for students out of high school. Honors project students are also required to become active at the CSM campus, by completing com-munity service and joining at least one club concurrently with their time in the honors program.

Since students of the journalism program are often involved in com-munity events, such as high school journalism outreach and as journal-ists, serve the public by providing fair and balanced news coverage of the college and district.

The San Matean hopes that the alignment with the new program will boost its enrollment numbers, which have been a major concern. Students seeking honors credit will be able to take advantage of the expanded program while exploring journalism and boosting their tran-scripts.

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