The final and most complex portion of the Hughes Stadium renovation and modernization, Phase D, will begin March 5 and include the installation of a new synthetic turf field, the reconstruction of the first three seating rows, and a new track and walkway area around the field.

According to Robert Martinelli, vice president of administrative services at City College, Phase D was scheduled to begin June 1, but because of the dry weather in recent months, the first three phases, the installation of new seating on all three sides of the stadium, were accomplished faster than originally planned.

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After nearly two years of construction and an estimated cost of $12.9 million, the City College auditorium remodel will be completed by the end of March. 

The official rededication and ribbon cutting event will be held March 29 at 10 a.m., said Director of College Advancement and Executive Director of the City College Foundation, Mary Leland, who is in charge of planning the dedication event.

The Humanities and Fine Arts division has done without the use of the auditorium while construction workers install new equipment and renovate the 75-year-old auditorium that was originally finished in 1937.

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In an effort to increase overall awareness and broaden the discussion of domestic violence, My Sister’s House, a local non-profit dedicated to preventing domestic violence and providing shelter and support to abuse survivors, commissioned a play that premiered Feb. 4 in the City College Student Center.

The play, “Esperanza Means Hope,” was sponsored by the City College RISE Program and performed a second time on Feb. 7 with the help of Michael Benjamin, a student personnel assistant with RISE, who did everything from ensuring that the cast’s on-site needs were met to donating the use of his lighting rig [read more...]

City College’s Work Experience and Internship Program enables students to gain work experience in their fields of study and establish a network of coworkers to mentor them before transitioning from the academic world to the labor force.

“There is still a hidden job market,” said Wendy Slobodnik coordinator of the Work Experience and Internship Program. “Now, more than ever, it’s really who you know.”

Second-year City College students with declared majors and in good academic standing with a 2.5 GPA or higher have the option of being placed into one of 400 to 500 internships in the Los Rios district [read more...]

With the spring semester starting and students returning to school with new laptops, cameras and tablet computers, campus police note that it doesn’t take much for a student to become a victim of theft on the City College campus. “It is common for there to be one to five reported thefts per day at City College,” said Los Rios Police Officer Tanya Racki.

One possible way to combat campus theft, according to the Los Rios Police Department, is Operation ID, a free property registration program for students, faculty and staff at City College that began last fall.

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The City College Davis Outreach Center, the first community college facility on a University of California campus, has opened its doors in West Village to approximately 2,400 Los Rios Community College students this semester, according to City College Davis Center Dean Don Palm.

“We’ve added some chairs to classrooms where they’ve been needed, so some classes are pressing the limits, but overall, we seemed to fit into the building pretty well,” Palm said.

“That is not to say that students got all the classes they’d planned for. Our waitlists were about as long as they were last year at this [read more...]

It’s the time of year when City College students are focused on both final exams and signing up for classes for the upcoming semester. Often, this task is met with disappointment when classes that students need are no longer being offered by the school.

Budget cuts, among other reasons, usually lead to courses being cut from the schedule but according to Mary Turner, director and manager of instructional services at City College, this year’s goal was to build the class schedule around the budget as opposed to letting the budget dictate the schedule.

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The phenomenon of homophobia and heterosexism in today’s society was examined Dec. 1 at the City College Cultural Awareness Center.

City College Psychology professor Gayle Pitman, who hosted the lecture, defined the hallmarks of homophobia, and discussed the adverse effects of heterosexism, or the assumption that an individual is heterosexual.

Pitman began the lecture by turning the tables and asking three heterosexual volunteers questions that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer LGBTQ students face on a regular basis, such as, “What do you think caused your heterosexuality?”  And,“Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you [read more...]

Jazz lovers are in for a treat.

City College music professors Bob Wrenn and Rob Knable, along with friends, will be putting on a jazz concert at noon Dec. 6 in the Cultural Awareness Center.

They will play songs by the legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Wrenn is a fiddle player, while Knable plays the clarinet.

Reinhardt (1910-1953) was a pioneering jazz guitarist who is remembered for having invented a new style of jazz guitar technique sometimes called hot jazz guitar. Hot jazz guitar is now a living musical tradition within the French gypsy culture and has [read more...]