Students who have passed or walked over the grassy area near Rodda Hall North have most likely noticed weird fruits resembling brains on the ground.
These same students may have also noticed people picking them up or even crushing them until lime-green fluid oozes out.
Sitting around the trees, constant questions
Censorship has always been a threat to freedom, even in the United States, where freedom of speech is granted by the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, one of the country’s oldest documents.
Even in modern times, censorship can rear its head. Vandalism of a controversial art piece or poster can be a particular type of censorship.
City College Learning Resource Center employees say, even if it doesn’t seem like an omnipresent threat, it can still happen anywhere, anytime,
Students from the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement program at City College and Cosumnes River College teamed up to flatten colleges and universities across California in an Oct. 19 competition sponsored by some of the leading energy and utility industries in the state.
The competition’s sponsors were PG&E, Southern California Gas, and Southern California Edison. These leading energy and utility industries are suffering from a workforce shortage, and they approached college students majoring in the fields of math,
Domestic violence is real and it does not discriminate – its victims will continue to be in danger.
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background.”
Clearly, domestic violence exempts no one. Among its victims are City College students. There is no better time to learn the facts about domestic violence than now.
“I grew up with my father being very abusive,” said a 19-year-old female City College student, whose name is not being used to protect her privacy. “He didn’t fit the typical profile of an abuser. Looking at him, you would never guess what he did to us – that he was even capable of what he did. People didn’t always believe us. It wasn’t until I was 18 that we escaped.”
Although the exact number of such students is undefined, according to NCADV’S Domestic Violence Facts, females between the ages of 20-24 are highest at risk of domestic violence and of Californians that are 18-24…» Read More
A ladybug curls a gangster’s hair. A vampire jokes with a zombie pirate and a geisha.
Halloween is on at the Cosmetology Department. Students enrolled in City’s College’s cosmetology program put their hair, makeup and nail skills to the test Oct. 31, parading around campus in their Halloween costumes. Zombies, storybook characters and animals snaked through the quad on Halloween morning, promoting the cosmetology department.
“Halloween is my favorite holiday,” said a punked-out cat who usually goes by the name of Randy Cramer, 31. A cosmetology major, he says he loves playing with theatrical makeup.
“One day a year I go crazy with my individuality,” said Cramer.
Cramer’s intricate feline makeup won him first prize in the “Best Animal” costume contest held after the parade was finished. Other categories were “Scariest Costume,” “Best Traditional Costume,” “Funniest Costume” and “Best Fantasy Costume.” The most creative students were rewarded with buckets full of goodies.
“[The parade] gives the students a chance to express themselves,” said cosmetology professor Marcia Bonawitz. She and the other professors in the department encourage the students to go over the top and have fun with it.”
Cassandra Wilson, 26, also clearly had fun with the contest. Wilson was…» Read More
Every year 226,870 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States or worldwide, according to the American Cancer Foundation. There are also 2.9 million survivors in the U.S. but 39,510 deaths in 2012 so far. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the U.S.
October was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it served to bring awareness to breast cancer with events at City College such as a speech by the Rev. Tammie Denyse , 46, a breast cancer survivor, and the American Cancer foundation’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Sacramento.
Denyse spoke to students about what her life was like when she had breast cancer at the Cultural Awareness Center on Oct. 16.
Denyse says she didn’t’ know how to tell her family about her illness—in fact, she didn’t want too talk to anyone about it when she had cancer.
Denyse didn’t know how to deal with it she says after she was diagnosed at 39, and her life changed in a blink of an eye.
When Denyse started her chemotherapy she says she felt like she was losing her mind. Deep down she says she felt crazy but it was the…» Read More
Free tutoring, printing, computer use, and Internet access.
These are just some of the free services available to City College student-athletes enrolled in Sports 90 – Academic Study Skills for Student-Athletes.
More than just a place for freebies, Sports 90 is also a lecture/lab course designed for academically at-risk student-athletes. The course is structured as a way to empower students with the tools necessary to successfully juggle academics and sports.
Although student-athletes are not required to take Sports 90, study skills lab coordinator Professor Deborah Blair says enrolling is still a wise decision.
“We found that [student-athlete] GPAs are higher, the completion rate of classes is higher, the transfer and graduation rates are higher than normal students in every category,” said Blair.
City College nutrition major Paul Buchanan, a 20-year-old member of the wrestling team, says he has found the class useful.
“It’s pretty cool,” he said. “There is a free printer in there, which is really good.”
There are other benefits too, he added.
“There are some tutors in there and Ms. Blair is really helpful too,” he said. “[The class] is a pretty useful tool. A lot of the students [in Sports 90] have the same classes so…» Read More
No health insurance?
Students can walk to the Health Services department, located in Rodda North 125, where two full-time registered nurses are available to assist students, whether they are medically insured or not.
“I think [we’re] one of the key spots on campus right now,” says registered nurse Jeffery Christian. “Without health, it’s hard to be successful at whatever you are going to do, and we try to help students be successful by making sure their health is taken of.”
Registered nurse Wendy Gomez says that City College is the only college in the Los Rios district to have two full-time registered nurses on staff. However, the department does not employ a general practitioner, whose job it is to diagnose and prescribe medication to patients who visit the office with problems ranging from strep throat to anxiety.
“We would love to have a physician or a nurse practitioner on staff,” says Gomez. “This is a small clinic, so our basic function is to help the students decide if they need to see the doctor or not, and whether or not they can do self-care and not need to go the doctor. It’s more of a consulting-kind of thing.”
Gomez says…» Read More
Many people feel that the future of the world is based on the education of its youth.
The Emeriti Affiliates agree. The group consists of certificated, classified and administrative retirees of City College, who honor a faculty member each year for educating young people.
The Emeriti Affiliates Faculty Achievement Award awards someone who has “made significant contributions in the areas of community service, leadership, fine arts performance, professional activities, teaching innovation and/or special projects.”
The City College Graphic Communication Department is hosting a showcase of creatively inspired posters representing the upcoming presidential election.
The Design the Vote showcase started Oct. 24 and will end on Election Day, which is Nov. 6. The posters are displayed on the third floor of the Learning Resource Center.
Graphic Communication professor Don Button, who first designed the showcase as a class project, said it was a good idea for students to showcase their hard work beyond the classroom so the community can see it and reflect upon it.
Button said he expects his students to learn how to communicate and use their creativity to participate in the democratic process.
“Learning how to use design to promote
