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During a visit to City Colleges Ocean campus, local architect Bob Boles felt the wind blowing up Phelan Steps and over Science Hall, which led him to envision a more beautiful and sustainable future for City College.

Boles then wrote a fi ctional news story that explored the possibility of wind turbines being constructed atop Science Hall to provide the college with, what he claimed, would be more than enough energy to power the campus. His ideas raised new questions about sustainable energy practices City College.

The future is what youre gonna be living in. My generation and the previous generations have messed it up for you, but you may be the ones to have to fi gure out how to fi x things, Boles said. Its very real, its gonna happen, youre gonna live in it.

administration interestedTrustee John Rizzo said the idea for wind

power has been fl oating around for a while and he personally tried to get a wind turbine for the school through the citys wind task force.

Theres a number of people at City College that are enthusiastic about it. It could be a great teaching tool, Rizzo said. There hasnt been any funding for it recently, except for the Chinatown campus, which has some solar panels in its design.

According to the colleges sustainability plan, published in 2009, all current and future build-ing projects should be assessed for solar and wind potential to reduce the environmental impact asso-ciated with fossil fuels. Boles dream of a wind farm at City College is actually not that far-fetched.

Still, the idea of solar panels lining the roof of City Colleges buildings is more plausible. While wind energy can be more effective in places like the Central Valley or the Midwest, the Bay Area is more likely to see better results from solar power, Ben Macri, chairman of the automotive technology department at City College, said.

Solar power is more generally useful and the price of panels has gone down in the last year. I think wind power is more effective in certain loca-tions, Boles said. Whether one system or the other makes more sense is really a matter of engi-neering.

Teaching sustainabilityCity College currently offers a course on solar

power installation, CNST 101, at the Evans campus and Macri hopes the school will add an advanced installation course soon.

The engineering and biology departments at City College are also working together to imple-ment a multi-disciplinary certifi cate program that offers sustainable business and design practices

Raquel Santiago, a City College male-to-female transgender student, had her name-change process fi nalized last week by Admissions and Records after a fi ve-year battle that included four court orders.

Although Santiago legally changed her name in California in May 2007, her home state of Missouri has yet to recognize it, which prevents Santiago from obtaining a California ID. Without proper identifi cation, City College refused to acknowledge the name change even when Santiago presented four court orders decreeing her name change valid.

CCSF said it would confl ict with records, that there were legal issues, Santiago said. Some instructors had issues with the name change on their grade slips. Sometimes I was told that they just didnt want or have to.

At the request of Santiago, Liberal Arts Dean Bob Davis became involved in creating an adminis-trative response to Santiagos situation.

City College dropped the ball on Raquel. They made up the rules as they went along with no coher-ent agreement on policies, Davis said. I dont think it was transphobia, everybody was just trying to be a good bureaucrat.

The apparent lack of cohesion could be attrib-uted to City Colleges use of various computer and information technology systems, which operate separately. A change made within one system does not necessarily mean it will be applied throughout all systems.

The City College email database and the librarys computer system have caused Santiago

architect sees potential for wind power

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students join hands to fi ght for education

In the face of up to $900 million in budget cuts, students, faculty and alumni joined together April 17 at Hands Across California, to raise awareness of the community college systems dyer fi nancial situation.

The Foundation for Cali-fornia Community Colleges, who organized the event, also attempted to raise scholarship dollars for students. Support-ers who attended the rally called for more people to rise up and challenge the politicians responsible for the dismal state of public education.

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Ashley Torres, 4, joins her mom Yolanda Torres, a City College ESL student, at the Mission Campus in the Hands Across Cali-foria rally April 17. The rally was held to draw attention to the state community college budget crisis and raise money for the crippled education system.

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After placing fourth in the 2007 San Francisco mayoral race, City College music instructor Wilma Pang says she is sitting pretty to win this November with the help of a new voting process called ranked-choice voting.

This year its a very differ-ent ballgame, she said. Even the experts cannot predict who is going to be the mayor.

Also known as instant-runoff voting, ranked-choice voting allows voters to pick their top three choices. If no candidate earns the majority of votes, the last-place candidate is elimi-nated and all ballots where that candidate was chosen as second or third, are redistributed until someone earns the majority.

Ranked-choice voting has never been used in a San Fran-cisco mayoral election before.

Her position as an Asian-American woman mirrors Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, who unexpectedly beat Don Perata in 2010 under the new voting system.

Its all about building rela-tionships and grassroots network-ing, Quan said about her victory. I was able to win in Oakland because I knocked on doors and asked everyone to take another look at me.

As the founder and co-chair of A Better Chinatown Tomorrow, a non-profi t that funds music- and art-related events to promote and honor Chinatowns culture, Pang

is no stranger to community work and grassroots organizing.

Howard Wong, co-chairman of ABCT, thinks Pangs expe-rience as a teacher and ethnic community member makes her appealing to voters.

She doesnt have as much of a political stake as other candi-dates, which would allow her to speak more honestly, Wong said.

Pangs fi rst encounter with politics was in 2006 when China-town community members suggested she run for San Fran-cisco School Board. She received 32,235 6.9 percent of all votes. Encouraged by voter support, Pang ran in the 2007 mayoral election against Gavin Newsom.

Nobody dared to run against Newsom, she said. It was a surprise because I actually came in distant second to Newsom in many of the districts because of the Asian population.

She won 7,274 votes 5.07 percent placing fourth overall.

Since that election, her politi-cal platform remains largely unchanged.

Everyone is talking about the budget defi cit and the govern-ment shutdown and nobody is thinking about womens issues, she says. Women make up over 50 percent of the population and nobody is thinking about child-care or our voice in city govern-ment.

Another top concern of Pangs is job security. She argues that her position as a woman would enable her to create a more effec-

tive dialogue between San Fran-ciscans and City Hall to discuss jobs within the city.

[Women] do a better job at negotiating, we [plan ahead] better, we are in a better position to listen, she said.

Pang believes teachers and parents are fl eeing the city because they cant afford hous-ing, and high school graduates are hesitating to pay high tuition at the community college level.

She wants to address how rising tuition and housing costs are affecting public educa-tion. Were losing kids by the minute, she said.

In addition, Pang stresses the need for more affordable city-wide childcare options for mothers who work and/or attend school an issue Pang, a mother herself, knows from experience.

I went to school after I had three children, childcare really helped me. But its even harder nowadays, she said.

San Franciscos projected budget defi cit for the 2011 - 2012 fi scal year is expected to soar to $306 million. Projections for the following years are even higher. If elected mayor, Pang intends to take a closer look at expensive projects that would add to the defi cit.

The central subway to Chinatown costs $1.58 billion, she said. We have to look at whats priority and the central subway shouldnt be a priority. That money could go somewhere else.

Pang has intermittently taught in the City College music depart-ment 1976 and believes that her experience as a musician and educator enables her to approach issues from a different angle.

We have to fi nd creative

ways to generate money. And I will do that, she said.

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Mayoral candidate Wilma Pang gives her two minute speech at the Chinese for Af rmative Action meeting held in the Chinatown YMCA March 21.

Journalism department wins at state conferenceCurrent and former City

College journalism students won a combined 20 awards at the Jour-nalism Association of Communi-ty Colleges State Conference on April 9 in Sacramento, Calif.

The Guardsman, Etc. Maga-zine and The Guardsman Online all captured general excellence awards, and journalism depart-ment Chair Juan Gonzales received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism Education from the California Journalism Education Coalition.

I am deeply moved by the award, Gonzales said. I never expected such an honor.

The Guardsman captured awards in layout, informational graphics, photo illustrations, news features, audio slide shows, editorial cartoons, news photos, news stories and features.

I feel that the level of profes-sionalism displayed by The Guardsmans staff is unmatched, Editor-in-chief Alex Emslie said in a prepared statement. This sort of recognition is nice, but we dont do this work to win awards.

We do it because we believe it is important to inform our commu-nity.

Etc. Magazine won awards in profi les, features, opinion stories, photo essays, layout, covers, and illustrations.

Our students work extreme-

ly hard to produce a consistent-ly excellent publication, Etc. Magazine adviser Tom Graham said. The stories they produce are good enough to run in any magazine.

Because The Guardsman Online pays to be independently

hosted, the publication is able to maintain a certain level of inde-pendence and creativity, Online Editor Atticus Morris said.

Its nice to be recognized for working really hard, Morris said.

Multimedia Editor Joe

Fitzgerald and reporters Saidy Lauer and Brian Rinker produced a feature on journalism students pursuing their dreams at the conference that is currently displayed on the JACC homep-age as well as at TheGuardsman.com/Journalism-Dreams.

I feel really proud of the work that my crew put in to make that happen, Fitzgerald said. This wouldnt be possible without having a crew that covers stories professionally. My crew made the decision that they werent going to be journalism students. They were going to be journalists.

Guardsman Photography Editor Frank Ladra and reporter Matthew Gomez both received $100 scholarships at the confer-ence.

What I like about The Guardsman is the family envi-ronment, how we all sort of pull together, Ladra said. We hold ourselves to a very high stan-dard.


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City Colleges delegation of journalists attends the JACC State Conference awards banquet April 9.

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FOR THe PLaNeT: Read Brian Rinkers article about upcoming Earth Day events.

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Editors note: Part one of The Guardsmans juvenile justice feature ran in the April 6 issue. Read both parts online at TheGuardsman.com/Juvy.

While the Preston Correc-tional Youth Facility near Ion, Calif. will close permanently in June, Gov. Jerry Brown stopped short of completely dissolving the Department of Juvenile Justice in a revised budget, which allows counties the option to continue sending their juvenile offenders to state facilities.

Dan Macallair, executive director of the Center on Juve-nile and Criminal Justice, sees Browns backpedaling on the DJJ issue as a necessary compromise that wont substantially alter the direction of things.

I am pleased with the gover-nors proposal from the stand-point that it is a long-overdue initiative, he said.

But with the DJJ in danger of being sent permanently to lockup, voices of protest have come from all sides. Many juve-nile justice officials such as Karen Pank, executive director of the Chief Probation Officers of California in Sacramento as well as the state probation depart-ment, victims rights campaigns and police unions have spoken against the closure.

In late February, at the same time Gov. Brown moderated his initial proposal, CPOC posted an open letter to the governor that warned of the possible outcomes of eliminating DJJ. Instead it urged him to utilize the success-ful model currently in place, Penal Code 1230(b) the Community Corrections Partnership.

The letter ended with an ulti-matum that CPOC would only support a revised proposal in which the state maintains a role in the juvenile justice system allow-ing probation to utilize DJJ with-out fiscal penalty.

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the union presenting corrections officers, is also opposed to the DJJ shutdown. But Macallair said, These people arent going to lose their jobs. They will be absorbed into the department of corrections, and there are posi-tions available. There are 3,000 openings statewide for guards right now.

Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the DJJ, said that Farrell v. Tilton, a taxpayer lawsuit alleging that the DJJ fails to provide adequate care and services to juvenile offenders housed in DJJ facilities, along with two pieces of legisla-tion from 2007 Senate Bill 81 and Assembly Bill 191 gave counties the incentive to house their criminal offenders. He said what remains of DJJ is a neces-sary reservoir for juvenile crimi-nals the counties are not equipped to handle.

Progressive critics want to address the underlying social issues that lead youth into the justice system in the first place.

They say education (or lack thereof), as well as racial issues are often ignored or avoided.

In a 2006 report, the Public Policy Institute of California found that adult black men are seven times as likely as white men and 4.5 times as likely as Hispanic men to be incarcerated. Data from 2010, compiled by the institute, found that during the previous fiscal year the state spent more than $200,000 per juvenile in DJJ compared to $7,500 per K-12 student.

Joe Brooks, vice president of civic engagement at the Oakland branch of PolicyLink, a national social equity institute, opposes the elimination of DJJ. He doesnt believe many counties will have the financial resources to offer better rehabilitation than current-ly found in the state system.

One size does not fit all when it comes to counties, Brooks said. And if a county doesnt have the capacity or the will to care for kids, they could be blended into the adult prison system, and then well be one step forward and two steps back.

We are going to have to work hard to change behavior in the counties so they have good systems and wont need to send kids to adult criminal court, Macallair said.Rehabilitation over Incarceration

For those who consider DJJ an outdated and ineffective system, the brightest hope for change may be the Missouri Model. This nationally recognized correc-tions model seeks to rehabilitate juvenile convicts into functional members of society rather than treating them as incurable crimi-nals. It has a track record of prov-en effectiveness and consistently low recidivism rates and has been adopted by other states and municipalities, including Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Wash-ington, D.C. and California.

The way you design facili-ties dictates staff attitude and behavior of kids, Macallair said. The Missouri Model is in direct contrast to the institutional care that kids get now. Its based on designing facilities that are small-er, more homelike, rejecting the prison design, developing posi-

tive relations with staff.William Siffermann, chief

probation officer with the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department, said the impact of the statewide adult realignment upon San Francisco county juve-nile probation has been minimal since the county declared a mora-torium on DJJ commitments in 2004.

We only have five kids in state facilities, he said. There are other counties with lower populations who send many more kids into DJJ and theyre attempt-ing to deal effectively with the potential impact of realignment.

The Missouri Model is now being implemented at Log Cabin Ranch School, a county juvenile justice facility in a remote setting 50 miles from San Francisco. Siffermann sees the ranch as the first out-of-home dispositional placement alternative.

This hasnt always been the case. In the past it was consid-ered the last stop before juve-nile offenders entered the state system. Other counties such as Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San

Jose have also adopted or are considering the models thera-peutic and rehabilitative methods.

Sessa said the reforms to DJJ resulting from the Farrell lawsuit are largely based on the Missouri Model under the guidance of subject experts appointed by the Alameda court.

It is not a literal copy of the Missouri Model, he said, but what it has in common is intense, very specialized treatment, small living units rather than dormitory style housing and a high ratio of staff to youth.

Back to the FutureJoaquin DiazDeLeon turned

to spirituality and faith as a way to get through his nightmar-ish experience at Preston Youth Facility. Towards the end I secluded myself, purged myself from everything around me, he said. I started to go crazy, and I asked God to do the impossible.

He was released on parole in 2008 and moved to San Francisco a year later. After enrolling at City College, he became involved with Books Not Bars, an Oakland-based nonprofit that educates prisoners about their rights.

Carlos Esqueda was released from DJJ in 2007. The former gang member, 22, now lives in Fresno with his girlfriend and daughter.

This March was my four-year anniversary of being out, with no crimes, no arrests, he said.

Of facilities in California that have adopted the Missouri Model, Esqueda said, Ive heard its a comforting setting, with couches in the day room, counselors, that its not as violent. It sounds like people get the care they need, and they are not just thrown away and forgotten.

Sessa stressed the dramatic changes DJJ has gone through over the last five years, support-ed by court reports available to the public on the departments website. Last years report found DJJ in compliance with 85 percent of the reforms, while making significant progress with the remaining 15 percent. Sessa said DJJ inmates today start with an extensive assessment by an entire team of staff. A high school diploma or GED education is a basic condition for parole. The greatly improved rehabilitation services, he said, are the reason for the astronomical cost to the state about $230,000 annually per youth.

DiazDeLeon, however, fears that in all of improvements being made in juvenile care, the ghosts of Preston might slip through the cracks of history.

The real question in the minds of us all should be, Where is the justice in our justice system? said DiazDeLeon. DJJ has violated prison proto-col, extorted tax payers, and hid corruption from the public for over 40 years. Money is being used as a scapegoat. What about people? You be the judge.

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Joaquin DiazDeLeon stands in front of a building at the Juvenile Justice Center in San Francisco.

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to students and professionals and could possibly become a new sustainability major.

I have a feeling that this may go way beyond just a few courses and a certificate. This may be the way of the future, Fariborz Saniee, chair of the engineering department at City College, said.

Boles, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduate has been interested in sustainability and alternative energy for a long time.

Once he graduated, Boles worked at and lived in a community in Davis, Calif., that used only solar energy and focused on sustainable farming and

alternative transportation. It was the first of its kind in the country.

The photovoltaic system he has on the roof of his house has decreased his energy bill by about 75 percent and Boles believes that if the price of solar panels were to drop by half, nearly every home in the city would install them.

Maybe this is a dream, but I think its worth pursuing, he said. Every single person can make a difference in how they live their lives and how they help heal the planet.

The hope is that people will wake up and demand accountabil-ity from their legislators, said Jaime Borrazas, an ESL instructor who has been with City College for 31 years. They pay no atten-tion to the poor, and they just exacerbate the problems. Theyre trying to convince people theyre doing the right thing when actu-ally they are destroying society.

The drastic budget cuts wors-ened after elected state officials denied placement on the June ballot of a proposed tax extension that could have raised revenue for California community colleges.

According to a memo sent to department chairs by Chancellor Don Griffin, even with a June tax extension, City College would receive an $8.5 million reduction in state revenue for 2011-12 fiscal year.

Without the June tax exten-sion, the cut from the state will increase to the $15 to 16 million range and, in the worst case to as much as $24 million. Griffin said.

As a result of budget reduc-tions, City College and all depart-ments within it must shrink to cater to the inevitable financial short falls, so the partial freeze on hiring will continue.

Reluctantly, we must reduce the size of the college: classes, counselors, librarians, categori-cals, administrators, classified,

etc., beginning in Fall 2011, Griffin said.

Upward of 76 percent of certified and classified staff who left the district in 2010-11 due to retirement or illness, will not be replaced. Additionally, the 2011-12 school year will have a smaller course offering compared to 2010-11.

California has the largest population in the nation and we were 46th in education funding, Borrazas said. After these cuts, what are we going to be, 50th? Community Colleges are vital to the state. We are training people and taking the burden off the corporations.

The state has indicated that it will only fund roughly 33,500 full time enrolled students, 3,500 fewer students than the 2010-11 school year. Anything beyond that amount will not be paid for by the state.

Juan Cendejas, Mission campus Associated Student presi-dent, advocated for the student bodys concern.

We want the public and government to know that commu-nity college means something to us, Cendejas said. We want to keep it open.

In addition to budget cuts, members of the City College community have increased fears over the potentially massive hikes in student fees.

In Sacramento, it is consid-ered likely that if the cuts to the

California Community Colleges budget are particularly steep, the revenue per student will be increased by raising student fees beyond $36 per credit to as high as $66 per credit, said Academic Senate President Karen Saginor, citing a fee increase the Legisla-tive Analysts Office has proposed for years.

While City College is pursu-ing additional money through fundraising and hoping for a parcel tax to pass in the Novem-ber election, the consequences of these cuts are unavoidable.

Holding hands in protest at

various City College locations, 80 people came together at Mission campus and 45 people at Ocean campus. The event represented an estimated 3 million students in California that will experience the impact of state cuts to educa-tional programs.

Jill Scofield, the Director of Public Relations at the FCCC, estimated the turnout to be in the tens of thousands at dozens of sites across the state.

We are proud of the day, Scofield said. The event opened a door of awareness.

The Bernard Osher Founda-

tion, based out of San Francisco, donated $25 million to the FCCC in 2008, promising to match that amount if a total of $50 million is raised by June 30, 2011.

So far the FCCC has raised $40 million, not including the money raised from Hands Across California. If the additional $10 million is raised by June 30 the total of $100 million will go towards scholarships for students.

particular frustration. Although Admissions and Records have agreed to recognize her name change, her City College email and the library have not.

There are all these different steps students have to go through when one step alone should do it, Santiago said.

One step is all it took for SF State to change Santiagos name. Even though she enrolled under her birth-name, State changed Santiagos name to her name-of-choice after seeing the first court order.

Davis, in addition to repre-sentatives from Admissions and Records/Registration, the Finan-cial Aid Office, Curriculum, Instruction, Faculty Evaluation, Tenure Review, Information Technology Services and City College legal council, have held a series of meetings to draft new policies to deal with name chang-es.

The goal of the meetings is to sunshine new processes for transgender and international students who wish to use new names, said Davis.

The first meeting took place in November 2010 and Davis hopes to have the new policies

finalized by Spring 2012. Davis said the complexity of the issue is responsible for the slow pace.

There are certain techni-calities we have to take note of, Davis said. The name issue affects all kinds of government and legal systems and we have to be in compliance with all of them.

Hands rally aims to mitigate dire budget situation

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Students, educators and community college supporters line up for Hands Across California April 17 on Ocean Avenue.

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Bob Boles envisions three large wind turbines towering over Science Hall along Phelan Avenue on Ocean campus.

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Green energy could come to campus

Name changes cause technical difficulties for college systemsName: From the front page

Raquel Santiago has faced challenges with regards to per-manently changing her name in City College Admissions and Records. It detracts from my schoolwork because my ener-gy is focused elsewhere, she said.



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At a time of widespread crisis in the state education system, a group of San Fran-ciscans has created a school of humanities and sciences offering short-term classes that anyone can join at no cost.

The founders of the Free University of San Fran-cisco met in December 2010 when they agreed the ongoing education catastro-phe demanded a response because, as is, we are living amid intellectual wreckage.

The social order is in disintegration. The divide between the rich and poor is an abyss. Unemployment and unease are widespread, FUSF Dean Alan Kaufman said during the inaugural meeting. The liberal arts are disappearing, displaced by studies guaranteed to gener-ate the highest income.

The minimum require-ment for membership, according to Kaufmans proposal, is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

The founding instructors include Matt Gonzalez, who ran in the 2003 San Francis-co mayoral elections against Gavin Newsom; Kaufman, a published author, poet and anthologist; and Diamond Dave Whitaker, local icon and City College student senator.

The purpose of educa-tion is not to turn the student into a better consumer and profi t earner, Kaufman said, but to help him discover the wealth of human culture.

The founders embraced Kaufmans call to action and held the schools fi rst session in March. The fi ve-week-long courses began in April and include classes in music, cinema history, writing, law, sociology, drawing, science and literature.

Tim Phillips is a practic-ing lawyer who attended an early organizing meeting. He developed the course, What Your Boss Doesnt Want You to Know: Your Rights at Work, which he now co-teaches with fellow lawyer Darin Ranahan.

Phillips said he is in tune with the optimism and opportunity represented by the ideals of the Free Univer-sity, which is why hes taking the time to teach on Tuesday nights.

Since the practical class about employee rights is more like a workshop than a grade-based course, however, it isnt quite comparable to City

College classes, according to Phillips. Other instructors offer lecture-based classes at FUSF.

Classes are hosted in unconventional venues throughout the city - the Beat Museum in North Beach, the main library at Civic Center, Pirate Cat Radio in the Mission, and art galleries in SOMA and the Western Addi-tion.

The FUSF classroom mood was well character-ized by instructor Michael Murphy-Loeffl er, This is a perfection-free zone. There is no right or wrong here were here to learn. Encour-agement from instructors and students comes in many forms. Students offer each other paper and pen for writ-ing exercises, and latecomers are quietly offered seats in the circle without fuss.

Students like Laurie Hampton appreciate the opportunity to be back in the classroom. Ive been fi ght-ing to go back to school for 15 years, she said as she wiped tears from her face during Bobby Colemans writing class.

Tuition, textbooks and transportation have been barriers to education lately for Hampton. Barbara Joans, the instructor of Revolu-tions in the 1960s vs. 2011, who was in the writing class as a student, gave Hampton a ride home.

Jeff Chen, a stock analyst with two masters degrees, said the quality of the instruc-tion and classmates he found in his March class - John Smalleys Introduction to Classical Music - inspired him to attend a second FUSF class.

Chen is now taking Loef-fl ers dream analysis class. I work 10 to 11 hours a day and when I dream Im still having work dreams, he said. This is too many hours of work. Im hoping this class can help me dream about other things.

Advanced registration is not required and students do not need to provide any form of identifi cation or education history. Current courses are listed on the FUSF website freeuniversitysf.org.

To receive the course cata-log via email, visit FUSFs website and subscribe to the email list. Dates for the next session have not yet been determined and new class proposals are welcome.

Free University redefi nes college

By Catherine LeeThe Guardsman


deYOUNG aP: Read Catherine Lees article about a mobile device app developed by a City College instructor for the deYoung Museum.

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The high frequency pitch of a steel door being vacuum sealed, an ominous voice addressing the audience and screams erupt-ing from fires these are the commencing sounds for the play No Exit at American Conservatory Theatre on Geary Street in San Francisco.

Welcome to LHtel, a stage manifes-tation of Jean-Paul Sartres vision of hell other people.

The Virtual Stage and Electric Compa-ny Theatre has taken Satres play to the multimedia age and tested its relevance by asking, Has human nature changed?

Introducing the piece with playful banter, the valet, who serves as a media-tor between audience and actors, states the show will go on for eternity as long as the audience is there to watch it. He is alluding to much more than ticket sales.

The VSECT production of No Exit turns everything inside out. Traditionally, Sartres play about the afterlife locks three strangers in a room for all of eternity. The fourth character, the valet, makes only brief appearances.

In this Canadian interpretation of No Exit, the valets abode becomes the stage. A closed-circuit television screen back-ground depicts the leading characters, each in his own frame, seated, isolated and trapped within the adjacent room by a

quadruple-bolted steel door.They expect to be whipped, thumb-

screwed and tortured. Instead they are just left there, gradually realizing that to be stuck with each other is their ultimate punishment.

The stage, which the audience may view after the end of the play, is paint-

ed robins-egg blue and contains three mismatched chairs, a bust of Julius Cesar, a mustard-colored drape that covers a window sealed off with bricks and, hidden to the audience, four cameras.

A static camera captures the actions of each character. As they jumble, interact and torture one another, the camera depicts

what happens in each isolated box, thus adding another dimension to the trapped inside a box theme.

I did not set out to create a live film; rather this form emerged from the desire to fulfill the plays demands and truly lock up the three characters together, director Kim Collier wrote in the plays program.

The integration of film and theater lets the audience experience the sense of claus-trophobia and desperation on the actors faces, evident even from the balcony level. Countenance becomes just as important as body language.

Sartres characters are enduring because they are not mere archetypes; they are original creations. Their evil deeds are rooted in vanity and selfishness but also self-consciousness. Their insecurities are a mirror for the audience.

The valets role serves to alleviate some of the tense drama between the three tortured souls who pick and prod at each others sins, misdeeds and neuroses.

Most importantly, though, the valet is trapped in his own hell. For all eter-nity he must repeatedly lock these three people together as long as the audience sees themselves in the characters. Only when the audience no longer relates to the trapped characters will the valet be irrel-evant and thus free from his torment.

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The Valet, played by actor Jonathon Young , stares up at Cradeau, played by Andy Thompson, on the projection screen on the set of No Exit at American Conservatory Theatre on April 16.

By Isaiah Kramer The Guardsman


Unique perspective leaves No exit for viewers

The Mission Community Market celebrated their first outdoor farmers market of the year April 14, during which Supervisor David Campos spoke, live music played and a reproduction of a 200-year-old mural was revealed.

This kind of event is what makes the Mission special, Campos said. He was the first speaker to kick off the markets season opening on Bartlet Street between 21st and 22nd streets, just a block away from Mission campus.

The highlight was the mural, a reproduction of what was once the rear altar for the Mission Dolo-res Church before it was replaced by a newer one in 1796. It has remained hidden from view for over 200 years. The mural is thought to have been painted by the local Indians and overseen by catholic clergy.

It is a unique artifact and may represent first contact with the native people, said Ben Wood, organizer of the murals reproduction. There is question whether the mural is native or Christian or a combination of the two. Its not clear.

Back in 2004 when Wood first became aware of the hidden altar, he contacted archaeologist Eric Blind to help him. Together they began systematical-ly taking pictures of the altar by lowering a camera from the church rafters. The space in between the old altar and the new one is so cramped and dark that a person could neither see nor fit back there.

They ended up with a stitch work of pictures of the top section of the altar, which was then used as reference by three local artists to paint the mural exactly how it exists now worn, chipped, cracked and with rafters peeking through.

The mural took three weeks to paint and is located on the wall behind the Mission Mercado, right across the street from City Colleges Mission campus.

Its kind of amazing, Blind said. Its so nice to stand back and stare at it.

The mural is a permanent fixture, though Mission Community Market only happens on Thursdays between 4 p.m. and 8.pm. It comprises vendors sell-ing fresh produce, music and art.

By Brian Rinker The Guardsman


mission mercado celebrates cultural art on city streets

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Attendees stroll along the grand reopening of the Mission Com-munity Market in the Mission District on April 14.

The digitally restored and hand painted mural replica of the more than 200-year-old mural from the Mission Dolores Church was un-veiled at the Mission Community Market in the Mission District on April 14.

Co-artist Jet Martinez and his son Lazlo, 3, cut the ribbon to celebrate the unveiling of the mural rep-lica created by Bunnie Reiss and Martinez, at the Mission Community Market on April 14.

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The number 420 might seem to some like an ordinary juxta-position of three random digits, but when it is pronounced four-twenty it takes on an entirely different meaning.

Nobody can be entirely certain where it originated, but the term has drifted into main-stream language and is celebrated globally each year on April 20 by the burgeoning marijuana culture.

The most accepted and believable origin of the history of 420 dates back to 1971, when a group of five San Rafael, Calif. high school students went search-ing for an allegedly abandoned marijuana crop somewhere in the forest of Point Reyes, Calif.

In reference to the their favor-ite after-school hang-out spot at a wall, the group called themselves The Waldos.

Before setting out on their adventure, the Waldos agreed to meet at the statue of Louis Pasteur on the grounds of San Rafael High School at precisely 4:20 p.m. Their plan was coined 4:20 Louis but after several failed attempts to find the myste-rious crop, it was shortened to 4:20 and was continually used by the group thereafter to refer to marijuana use in general.

It is still questionable how five ordinary kids managed to spread the now iconic term, making it a well-known phrase identifiable to the international cannabis subcul-ture.

The music industry is one of the easiest places to find 420 references. As fortune would have it, the collapse of San Fran-ciscos hippie utopia in the late 60s set the stage.

As speed freaks, thugs and con artists took over the Haight, the Grateful Dead picked up and moved to the Marin County, Calif., hills just blocks from San Rafael High School.

It just so happens that one of the Waldos fathers took care of real estate for the Grateful Dead, and one of the Waldos brothers managed one of the Deads open-ing bands. Regularly hanging out backstage, the Waldos befriended (and often smoked pot with) Dead bassist Phil Lesh, who adopted

Roots of 420 are locally grown

the term into his own vocabulary, thus taking it on tours all over the United States.

Other musical references to 420 can be heard throughout the industry. The chorus of Bob Dylans Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 proudly boasts Every-body must get stoned, but those with better math skills would notice that 12 multiplied by 35 equals 420.

Where the grass is green from Paradise City by Guns and Roses is sung at four minutes and 20 seconds into the song. Crosby, Stills and Nash even have a song simply called 4+20.

Some suggest 420 used to be the police code for marijuana smoking in progress or that 4:20 was when police officers change shifts, making it easier to smoke pot unnoticed. Four-twenty is also the time that students, who are known to occasionally enjoy cannabis, are released from

detention.Others believed 4:20 was the

perfect time to take a dose of LSD for it to peak by the time The Grateful Dead went on stage. And though it is often thought that the Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann discovered LSD on April 20, 1943 at 4:20 p.m., it was actually the day before.

Whatever the case may be, April 20 has long been an unof-ficial day of celebration for marijuana fans, an occasion for campus smoke-outs, concerts and cannabis festivals.

In Golden Gate Park, thou-sands gather annually at Hippie Hill to celebrate their mutual appreciation of the herb that has been such a topic of interest in recent elections. Other gatherings will be happening too, but many are spontaneous and unadvertised for privacy and legal reasons.

By Frank Ladra The Guardsman

A medical marijuana cultivator carries a freshly harvested crop of OG Kush to the trimming table in his San Francisco garden on March 4.

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Above: Glass water bongs line a display case at Distractions, the Haights oldest smoke shop. Proprietor Jim Siegel says April 20 is the busiest day of the year in his shop.

Far Left: Claire Meyers smokes marijuana on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. A long time pot smoker, Meyers will cele-brate 4/20 with friends in Gold-en Gate Park.

Left: Claire Meyers and Wanda Strelcheck share a joint on Hip-pie Hill in Golden Gate Park. Hippie Hill is known for plumes of marijuana smoke.

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than 72 hours.British Foreign Secre-

tary William Hague noted that governments like the U.K. want to continue to engage China on human rights, not only for their own conscience but because the advancement of a civil society with predicable laws is good for Chinas long-term stability.

If art is a human necessity and the urge for personal expression is repressed in a society, then those repressive practices are inhuman. Sign the petition and urge China to move its own history forward by releasing political detainees.http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei

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As part of a crackdown on free expression, Chinese police detained the artist Ai Weiwei, and the arrest has fi nally galvanized global institutions to demand the release of political prisoners.

Disregarding the admiration Ais work has brought to the country, the Chinese government brought shame on itself when it locked up artists, writers, neti-zens and fi lmmakers, as if thats a solution to problems of govern-ment abuse and peoples craving for freedom of speech.

As the son of a famous poet and the poster boy for successful contemporary Chinese artists, it seemed like Ai enjoyed special status. But his international fame wasnt enough to save him from government persecution. Over the years, hes been watched by surveillance cameras, beaten by authorities and had his studios demolished.

Ai regularly critiqued corrupt government offi cials, police conduct and Internet censorship as part of his constant communi-cation with almost 80,000 Twitter followers.

The artists Sichuan Earth-quake Names Project was an attempt to name all of the children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earth-quake after authorities refused to provide details of those who died in shoddily constructed schools.

Offi cials could have started addressing the issues that keep it in an uneasy, stunted relationship with Chinese citizens. Instead they chose to jail the messenger.


Famed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained April 3 at Beijing Airport on his way to Hong Kong.

As an artist and designer, Ai received particular attention for his contribution to the Birds Nest stadium built for the Beijing Olympics.

His enormous art instal-lations, like the 20-foot high vortex-shaped sculptures of bikes or chairs or other prosaic objects have been in the top-tier museums worldwide. Sunfl ower Seeds, his installation in Londons Tate Modern museum has been called a masterpiece in the British press.

For years, western govern-ments have prodded China into an upgraded assessment of human rights.

Chinas actions mock the effort put into human rights discussions, but imprisoning someone as famous as Ai signals a new stage in Chinese authoritar-ian control.

I am deeply concerned at the deterioration in the human rights situation in China, said Baroness Catherine Ashton, trade commis-sioner for the European Union, in a statement that mentioned Ai by name.

From the EU to the U.K., numerous strongly-worded denunciations have been issued which single out Ais detention as unacceptable.

The statements from western governments have clearly noted their awareness of this massive crackdown on Chinese advocates of free expression. Human rights groups who monitor the country are playing a valuable role by tracking dissidents whove been detained, disappeared, or under soft detention.

From the 1960s Cultural Revolution to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre to the current dissident roundup, the Chinese government has continually used force to control the human urge for freedom of expression and intellectual pursuit.

But given the astonishing amount of globally communicat-ed data and cheap digital video, the authoritarian and oppressive practices of the Chinese govern-ment have been revealed to the world in new detail.

The directors of the Guggen-heim, the Tate Modern and the Art Institute of Chicago, to name a few, have already posted a peti-tion to the Chinese government to free Ai. The petition went from 18,000 to 80,000 signees in fewer

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message from may day resonates today

Every protection enjoyed by working people, from a minimum wage to child labor laws, was fought for by organized labor and was opposed tooth and nail by the companies that benefi ted from the exploitation of work-ers.

Had it not been for the pioneers of the labor movement in the U.S., we would still be serfs in a sham democracy with no power to organize in our own interest against the already organized interests of our employers.

And there are some people in this coun-try that would love to see that happen, who are actually working to see that it does. The people representing corporate interests are doing what they always do when the economy goes south maximizing their profi ts at the expense of the safety, dignity and humanity of workers while doing anything they can to undercut victories already won by unions.

Battle lines drawnWhen times are hard, we cant afford for

our unions to get soft.The Republican party which, under

the Bush administration, oversaw the largest expansion of government spending since the New Deal in the 1930s and the broadest, most aggressive assault on fi nancial regulation since the Great Depression is trying to turn back the clock. They would eliminate vital labor rights won with the blood and sweat of

U.S. workers who fought for the basic human protections that the free market did not provide them.

From their dogged opposition of the Employee Free Choice Act to the stripping of collective bargaining rights of public unions in Wisconsin, the GOP is waging a corporate-funded war of aggression against labor and, by proxy, working people.

Not labors fi rst fi ghtOn May 1, 1886, a coalition of United

States trade unionists, anarchists and social-ists of various stripes organized a national general strike to demand an eight-hour work-day at a time when owners enslaved workers for nearly twice that each day.

When the U.S. government fi rst surveyed the length of the average workweek in 1890, they found it was about 100 hours long, compared to the 40-hour week and two-day weekend won by organized labor.

In Chicago, 10,000 people participated in a peaceful strike, but tensions between the demonstrators and the police boiled over and offi cers shot and killed four people. The resulting rally on Haymarket Square also ended in bloodshed when a bomb exploded, setting off more police shootings.

As a result, four anarchists were convicted and executed in a show trial, although their convictions were overturned after their deaths. It was the outrage over these executions that lead to the Second International establish-ing May Day as an international holiday to

commemorate labor martyrs, particularly the Haymarket anarchists.

May Day is also known as International Workers Day or Labor Day throughout most of the world, and even though its roots are in Chicago, is largely seen as a foreign phenom-enon in the U.S. Part of the reason for this is that the U.S. government deliberately coun-tered what they saw as the Soviet infl uence of May Day by declaring May 1 Loyalty Day, originally Americanization Day.

The fact that our countrys Labor Day falls in September and not the international date of May 1 may be more of a symbol than a cause of our isolation from other labor and social movements, but the value of organizing ourselves and allying with workers the world over cannot be overstated.

The power of laborWake up working people: The easy-credit

circus has left town and is never coming back. Dont look for another fi nancial bubble to hitch your familys needs to, invest in the only thing thats ever paid offyour own labor.

Lots of people are feeling disillusioned with electoral politics. With both parties delivering so little on such lofty promises, it isnt hard to see why. But there is no disput-ing the direct effect you can have on your own welfare if you combine the power of your labor and that of your fellow worker with the will to be paid and treated justly.



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OUTsIde THe maRGINs: Read Atticus Morris article about the de-cline of Western civilization on The Guardsman blog.

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Modesto Junior College administrations drastic cuts to several popular programs, including the elimination of the entire mass communications department, are at best driven by hopeless ignorance and at worst designed to silence student voices at the school.

In late February, MJC President Gaither Loewen-stein proposed cutting the mass communications department, along with the faculty adviser to student government, as a solu-tion to the colleges projected $8 million defi cit for 2011-12 fi scal year.

Despite opposition from the entire college community and an offer from faculty to take pay cuts to save their programs, Loew-enstein and the school districts board of trustees shirked shared governance and transparency laws and unilaterally approved the cuts.

We feel that hes deliberately handicapped any type of protest at the college, MJC journalism instructor and newspaper advisor Laura Paull said.

It appears Loewenstein and the board will succeed next year in closing MJCs award-winning newspaper, The Pirates Log, which has been an institution at the school since 1926.

Lowenstein justifi ed elimi-nating the mass communications department by questioning the viability of journalism as a profes-sion.

His unapologetic stance that an industrys profi tability defi nes its value rather than the essential principles it upholds is frighten-ing. It sickens the The Guardsman that a man in charge of educat-ing future California profession-als would have such ignorance or disregard of the civic necessity fulfi lled by the press.

In the budget proposal the board rubber-stamped, Loew-enstein, wrote that journalisms

future lies in new media, which he described as the convergence of computer graphics, gaming, digital applications and the Inter-net as means of delivery with content derived from the tradi-tional disciplines of art, music and theatre.

According to Loewensteins convoluted media scholarship, the new role of the press, an institu-tion enshrined in the First Amend-ment to the U.S. Constitution, will

be to produce entertaining content for video games, or that training in art, music and theater is appli-cable to work in a newsroom.

It is true that journalism is a tough business to break into these days. The stakes have risen, competition has increased, pay has dropped and the reputations of large media corporations in the U.S. the sole source of news for many Americans are in sham-bles.

But a new generation of jour-nalists is poised to redefi ne the industry based on a new model that does not sacrifi ce the truth for slight increases in profi t margins. We are in the middle of a new media revolution, but not of the kind Loewenstein described in his budget cuts proposal.

Journalists at The Guardsman and The Pirates Log are already heavily invested in using all forms of new media to present our content, including multimedia and various forms of social network-ing. No skills learned in theater, music or art classes informed that transition, but rather report-ing, critical thinking, and research skills learned in journalism class-es.

Its diffi cult to believe Loew-enstein and the board actually think the future of journalism lies in video games. Instead they value the First Amendments guarantees of free expression and the press so little, and power and profi t so much, they are willing to say anything to silence opposition.

But it wont work. Any attempts to kill, demean or demor-alize the future journalists of this country will only make us stron-ger. That is the level of dedication we have toward printing the truth and checking corruption. That is the power of new media.

advice for the student tenant in sF

Finding affordable off-campus housing is one of the trials in a students quest to receive an education at City College.

Whether you are fresh out of high school and just beginning the beautiful journey of attending City College, or a weathered student beaten down by the realities of continuing your education, fi nding a decent apartment is an obstacle that can make living on the streets and panhandling seem appealing.

When I moved here four months ago, I hastily signed a six-month lease for a claus-trophobic in-law unit at $640 per month. The months that followed this decision were pure hell. From landlord harassment to crack head neighbors and request for repairs being ignored, my living situation was unsafe. I was ignorant to the rights I had as a tenant, when in reality, I owned my landlord.

The issuesFour times per week, I was awakened at

7 a.m. sharp by my landlord working in the garage that I paid for and was included in my lease. By law, landlords are required to give 24 hours notice to enter rented property, and it must either be agreed upon by the tenant or authorized by court. Strike one.

Despite my persistent verbal and written requests for repairs on a somewhat urgent matter, I was ignored when the lock to the front gate broke. For two weeks I had to crawl through a tiny window leading to my bedroom

as my only method of entry.This was an obvious violation of my

Warrant of Habitability. A safe entry way is on the list of things a landlord must provide which can be found on the San Francisco Tenants Union website. Strike two.

On three separate occasions within the three months I occupied the unit, inadequate draining for the jerry-rigged washer and dryer led to fl ooding of the garage and my apart-ment also listed as a violation of my Warrant for Habitability. Strike three.

I attempted to communicate these issues to my landlord without any intention of break-ing my lease.

When that didnt work, I used the word all landlords fear: lawyer, a word that should be used only with great discretion for its implications have the potential to start a war. The just tenant would undoubtedly win, but at both a mental and fi nancial cost.

I was lucky, and the landlord let me out of the lease, and so began the apartment search on Craigslist.

The nightmare beginsIn the Sunset for $650, I could live with

a group of four professionals, all of whom spoke only Chinese. Personally I found the language barrier too diffi cult to tackle.

For $700 in the Haight, I found an amaz-ing room with a great view. However, the potential roommate was a 28-year-old male that practiced a clothing optional policy. I wasnt keen on the idea of waking up to that every morning.

After several more hopeless room view-ings, I found that for a slight increase in price

I could have my own studio. And so the search continued: $800 for a 5x5 closet with an outhouse-style bathroom in Ingleside; $850 for a dorm-style apartment in Russian Hill, sharing a bathroom with a 90-year-old who hasnt worn pants since 85 and seemed to not care where and when he discarded his dirty diapers.

For three weeks I spent endless hours looking for my new home. No one should have to experience the things I saw iduring that time. A few apartments seemed great, but I was competing with 40 other renters, all with better credit scores and more reliable jobs.

I fi nally moved onto a boat in the South Bay Marina for $600 a month. The fi rst night,

sea sickness left me praying for death so I abandoned ship. For those who arent bothered by motion, you may look into this as an option as an alternative living situation. It is an

affordable way to have your own place for the low maintenance type.

I fi nally convinced a home owner in Bernal Heights to rent a lovely in-law studio to me for $775. The struggles and worries are now put to rest but I have left this process a changed woman, challenged but not defeated. I have just enough juice left in me to battle the traffi c ticket Nazis and mafi oso-style city regulations raping me out of every last hard-earned penny.

Editor,Every year it seems to

get worse being a wheel-chair user, I fi nd that more students are just outright rude and disrespectful. They push their way in front of disabled students trying to get on buses and even refuse to make room in elevators for them, yet, by law, they are supposed to either make room or get off the elevator. MUNI is the same students not disabled sit in front seats and pretend like they dont know whats going on just because they are too lazy to move. Bottom line - its federal law to make way for the elderly and disabled and not doing so can result in huge fi nes and/or jail time. Just stop being rude. What you give is what you will get in return and it all comes back around.

Raquel SantiagoCity College student

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The Right things the wrong way

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I was ignorant to the rights I had as a tenant, when in reality, I owned my landlord.

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4th annual LGBTQ Film Festival

Free event with free food and snacks during reception!

Tuesday, April 26th

Program Part 1Reception at NoonShow at 1 p.m.

Program Part 2Reception at 6 p.m.Show at 7 p.m.

For more information contact Tracy Gonzalez at the Queer Re-source Center, Bungalow 201 on Ocean [email protected]

CCsF Commencement Ceremony

DATE: Saturday MAY 28th, 2011

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Affairs. Upon registration you will receive a packet containing all informational materials.

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The Metro Academy is a clear, supported path to CSU transfer with an emphasis on health and social justice. Students in Metro take English courses linked to other Metro classes and have the benefit of being part of a cohort

and receiving academic counsel-ing.

Have more questions? Want an application? Please email: Am-ber [email protected]

Free dental X-Rays

The Dental Assisting Program at CCSF is again providing FREE dental x-rays. The x-rays are tak-en by appointment by students in the Advanced Dental Radiology Class in Cloud Hall, room 304 at Ocean campus. An appointment can be arranged for Tuesday a.m., Thursday a.m. or Friday a.m. or p.m. by calling (415) 239-3479. Anyone who can benefit from

this free service will need a writ-ten authorization signed by a den-tist and the films will be sent to

this dentist for diagnosis.

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Film: The Story of Stuff 9:10 -10:00 a.m. Rosenberg 305.Film: A Fierce Green Fire Mark Kitchell screens and discusses the history of the environmental movement.7 p.m. in Cloud 246.Protest at Obama FundraiserNob Hill Masonic Center1111 California St.4 6 p.m.Rosenberg Library Exhibition: Recol-ogys Artists in Residence Program. Through Nov. 4

Author discussion on Karken: The Disturbing Science of Squid The Booksmith 1644 Haight St 7:30 p.m.Talk on Post Capitalism and Right to Laziness Counter Pulse 1310 Mission St 7:30 9:30 p.m.

Art Show Openning San Francisco Art Institute presents TRANSIT/STASIS: Negotiating Move-ment in the City800 Chestnut St5:30 10:00 pm

Womens Bad-minton Game vs Mission College Ocean Campus 3 p.m.The group Radical Women Why Sacramento Ignores Life-Saving Alter-nativesNew Valencia Hall 625 Larkin Street Ste. 202 Spring Supper for a $7.50 donation www.radicalwomen.org7 p.m.A solo exhibition by John Patrick McKenzie: Creativity Explored 3245 16th St. 7 9 p.m.

Lunchtime discus-sion between Sister City Biennial exhibiting artists, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 401 Van Ness Ave 12:30 p.m.Paul MadonnaThe Cartoon Jazz Orchestra Swing Dance Ocean Campus Wellness Center Performance Space 7 10 p.m.Paul MadonnaBook Release & Art Ex-hibit Electric Works Gallery 130 8th St 7p.m.

Hunters Point Shipyard Artists Spring Open Studios, Hunters Point Shipyard Building 101, 11 a.m. 6 p.m.Glen Park Street Fair, 2800 Diamond Street, All dayHow Weird Street FairHoward and 2nd Street12 8p.m$10.

Third Annual Lao New Year Festival U.N. Plaza 10 a.m.Vagabond Urban Craft Fair Urban Bazaar 1371 9th Avenue 11 a.m. 5 p.m.Hunters Point Ship-yard Artists Spring Open Studios, Hunters Point Shipyard Building 101, 11 a.m. 6 p.m.

Book reading by Pierre Guyotat City Lights Book-store 261 Columbus Ave 7:00 p.m.Reading By Jackson HoltzBooks Inc.1760 4th StreetBerkeley, Calif.

Author Francine Prose reads at The Booksmith 1644 Haight St 7 p.m. Mel Brooks Classic: Blazing SaddlesCafe Royale800 Post St9 p.m.Museum AdmissionFree first Tuesday of the monthMuseums include:Legion of Honor, Cartoon Art Mu-seum, SF MOMA, de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,

Guys and Dolls Musical Ocean Campus Diego Rivera Theater 8 p.m. General Admission $15 w/Student ID $10Mens Baseball Game vs Mission College Fairmont Field Pacifica, Calif 1 p.m.Free Coffee or Tea at Starbucks in honor of Earth Day 5:00 a.m. 11:30 p.m.Vegan Earth Day Celebration UC Berkely 101 Sproul Hall 7 p.m.

Womens Badmin-ton vs Pasadena City College Ocean Campus 11 a.m.Guys and Dolls Musical Ocean Campus Diego Rivera Theater 8 p.m. General Admission $15 w/Student ID $10Sounds and Rhythms of Af-ghanistanHerbst Theater 401 Van Ness Ave 8 p.m. $25+

Guys and Dolls Musical Ocean Campus Diego Rivera Theater 2 p.m. General Admission $15 w/Student ID $10Union Street Easter Parade and Festival 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Fillmore and Union streetDolores Park Easter Celebration with Hunky Jesus Contest 12 p.m.

Patricia Wells presents Salad as a Meal Books Inc 22551 Chestnut St 7 p.m.A Walk in the Park: The Presidio Presi-dio Log Cabin 1299 Storey Ave 6 8:00 p.m. Science at the Theater: New Light on Dark Energy Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Roda Stage |2015 Addison St. Berkeley, Calif. 7:00 9:00 p.m.

4th Annual Queer Film FestivalDiego Riveria Theater 12 9p.m. Mens Baseball Game vs Chabot College Fairmont Field Pacifica, Calif 2 p.m.Womens Softball Game vs Mission College Fairmont Field Pacifica, Calif 1 p.m.Womens Bad-minton Game at DeAnza College Cupertino 3 p.m.

Films on environ-mental themes. Rosenberg 305 9:30 a.m. 3:45 p.m.Earth Day cel-ebration: CCSF Recycling, SF Dept. of the Environment, and others in Ram Plaza.Ride your bike to campus and get a free Chico Bag! 11:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m.Dr. Matt Ritter discusses trees in SF and his new book, A Californians Guide to the Trees Among Us. Multi-Use Bldg, Room 1406 p.m.

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and coach a team and now there is only one two-hour class per week. However, he feels fortu-nate to have that one class and to be a part of a college that supports diversity in all its affairs, includ-ing sports.

The fencing class is now a survey class, an introduction to a sport differing from main stream sports like basketball, baseball and football. It is a sport that chal-lenges the mind as well the body.

Like all combat sports, youre either going to confront your opponent or youre going to confront yourself and that is something all students should learn, Manzano said.

and fencing clubs taught fencing classes and had fencing teams, Manzano said. At the time City College had a fencing team that competed at every opportunity.

Now, things have changed.Although fencing still thrives

on the East Coast and other parts of the world where tradition roots run deep, here on the West Coast fencing isnt doing so great.

There isnt strong tradition here on the West Coast, Manz-ano said. Now only a handful of colleges and universities across the western states have fencing classes.

Budget cuts have dwindled college resources, and because fencing is considered a low prior-ity, it gets cut, Manzano said. He used to teach six fencing classes

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students learn the art of fencing at City College

Once a week at night in the Wellness Center students wearing white jackets, donning protec-tive headgear and holding swords can be found milling around the gymnasium waiting for fencing class to begin.

Fencing is a combative sport using blade weapons and is practiced competitively all over the world. At City College it is offered at 8 p.m. on Thursdays as a physical activities class.

Some students have a misconception that fencing is a pastime garden exercise, said Joesph Manzano, fencing instruc-tor. Because of the misconcep-tion students often come unpre-pared to class not expecting the demanding physical and mental nature of the sport.

You have to be fi ve athletes in one, Manzano said. [Students need] the stamina of a long distance runner, the explo-sive speed of a sprinter, the agil-ity of aerobics, the intellect of a chess player and the rhythm and

determination of pianist.At the beginning of the semes-

ter, around 35 students enrolled in the class. Those unprepared get a reality check and for a variety of reasons they drop, Manzano said. Currently, only 20 students continue to clash swords Thurs-day nights.

Amanda Fogerty is a fi rst semester fencing student and loves it. Before falling in love with fencing, Fogerty played volleyball and took dancing classes, but nothing compared to the workout she gets in Manza-nos class.

Its the hardest workout Ive ever had in my life, Fogerty said as she lifted her saber and made ready to bout with another student. But you dont want to stop even though youre dripping with sweat.

The physical demand of fenc-ing is high, but for a combative sport the injury rate is relatively low.

I decided to restart fenc-ing. Im 59 and my body doesnt recover from injury very well,

Robert Vincent said. He is in a fencing club that was meeting on campus and sometimes stops by the class to help out. He began fencing back in the 1970s but stopped practicing until a couple of years ago.

Previously I was taking judo, Vincent said. After getting smashed a couple of times by someone in their 20s, and going from one injury to another, I had enough.

Fencing has a rich history at City College dating back to the 1940s. Olympian fencer Helena Meyer was a Nazi refugee who fl ed Germany and came to the Bay Area, where she taught her art form at City College and other schools.

Manzano has been the fenc-ing teacher since 1984. He was a student at City College from 1975 to 1977. While earning an AA degree in physical education, he trained under fencing coach Maestro Fenenc Marki, a world renowned fencing coach from Hungary, where he taught until the Soviet occupation. He then fl ed to the Bay Area followed by his students.

During the time Manzano trained under Marki, fencing was a thriving sport in California. About 180 colleges, universities

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Fencing instructor Joe Manzano, right, shows students the proper way to score a head strike.


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West Valley in elder Trevor Marino collects a hit in their 18-0 victory over the City College Rams. The Rams record moves to 5-25. City College will wrap up its 2011 season with ve more conference games including two home games on April 22 and 26 at 1 p.m. against Mission College and Chabot College respectively.

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Walsworths grand slam is not enough

UPCOmING sPORTs sCHedULeBaseball:

april 21 @ deanza College2 p.m.

april 22 vs. mission College1 p.m.

april 26 vs. Chabot College1 p.m.

softball:


Badminton:

april 23 vs. Pasadena City11 a.m.

april 26 @ deanza College3 p.m.


Even though City College came back from a four-run defi -cit in the second inning, the Rams fell once again in league play, this time to DeAnza College.

A grand slam by sophomore shortstop Rae Walsworth over the center fi elders head brought City College new life, but DeAnza held on for the victory on April 18, 10-5.

The loss drops the Rams record to 2-23, but head coach Jack McGuire said his team has improved great-ly since the start of the season.

We know we can hit, he said. All year we have hit well, but we have so much inexperi-enced pitching. Its hard when you face seasoned pitching every week. We just have to keep competing.

City College freshman pitch-er Yennifer Mendoza recovered from a four-run second inning, giving up only one hit during the next two innings. She fi nished the game pitching all seven innings and striking out two.

In the fourth inning, DeAnza

made a change and brought in freshman Alyssa Bailey to pitch the remainder of the game. After her warm up tosses, she struck out four Rams in a row, including Walsworth on a high fastball.

After the Dons scored three times in the fi fth inning and twice more in the sixth, the Rams retali-ated with a home run by Mary Ngo. It was her second home run of the year.

She took awhile to load up and pitch so I had to do my best to stay in rhythm with her, Ngo said. I didnt realize how far it went

With a chance of a late

rally during the bottom of the seventh inning with a runner on fi rst, Megan McGuire struck out.

Jack McGuire said his team is starting to play solid defense.

When you put that together with good pitching and timely hitting, we will win some more games.

The Rams played April 19 against Mission College. Results were not available at press time.

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Its hard when you face seasoned pitching every week.

Jack McGuireRams So ball Head Coach

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