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Dancing with Django

Tina Armour — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:31:59 +0000

People in attendance jingled their keys and any spare change to accompany a music ensemble as they played “Troubland Bolero;” everyone clapped while they played “HCQ Strut,” and they sat in awe as they played “Anouman” and the auditorium was engulfed in soft melodies as music professor Bob Wrenn wandered through the aisles with his violin.

The sounds of guitars, violins and saxophones filled the City College auditorium Nov. 23 while students and spectators young and old bobbed and clapped along to the upbeat jazz music.

Wrenn directed the performance titled, “An Evening of Django Reinhardt”.

“All of the songs [read more...]

Pictures speak louder than words

Tina Armour — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:58:47 +0000

The Cultural Awareness Center was packed wall to wall as photos of oppressed Native Americans were beamed life-size on to the projector screen. Students sat back in awe of the heartbreaking struggles being depicted.

Students and faculty alike came to witness the “Indigenous People without Borders” photo presentation Nov. 4 by local activist and photographer Francisco Dominguez.

“I’ve never shown these pictures before,” Dominguez says. “This is history.”

The presentation was a service-learning project for a student in Tammy Cheshire’s Native American studies class. According to Cheshire, her student organized the entire event as a project to inform students of [read more...]

All about Emma

Tina Armour — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:48:22 +0000

Emma Snuggs is a 25-year-old Native American, single mother and City College student who puts all the stereotypes associated with each of those designations to rest.

Snuggs says she found out that she was pregnant during the summer after her junior year in high school. Though the pregnancy forced her to leave school, she tested out with a diploma.

“I never had what you would consider a normal high school experience,” Snuggs says. “But it’s sink or swim, and I guess I chose to swim.”

Snuggs juggles her 18-unit class load, her Indigenous Peoples Club membership, volunteering at the disability [read more...]

Campaign seeks to stop buffalo extermination

Tina Armour — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:48:20 +0000

City College students gathered in front of the Student Center Oct. 8 to support the Buffalo Field Campaign.

“This is to bring focus and attention to buffalo that once roamed the free land,” says Tony Longhair, student activist. “We can’t afford to kill buffalo.”

According to the Buffalo Campaign Web site, “Volunteers from around the world defend buffalo on their traditional winter habitat and advocate for their protection.” The site states that daily patrols stand ground with the buffalo, and document every move made against them.

The group has been holding demonstrations at City [read more...]

Just say no

Online Staff — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:10:02 +0000

Legalized marijuana isn’t the answer to budget woes

Tina Armour | Staff Writer armourtv@imail.losrios.edu

The legalization of marijuana for recreational use in California is not the answer to our problems.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has proposed that the California government “remove all penalties in California law on cultivation, transportation, sale, purchase, possession, or use of marijuana, natural THC, or paraphernalia for persons over the age of 21.”

Ammiano’s bill will allow a drug that alters a person’s state of consciousness to be readily available to all adults who want it.

Marijuana is a drug which alters the actions of [read more...]

Getting back into the groove

Online Staff — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:17:50 +0000

Students return from summer with attention span hangover

Tina Armour | Staff Writer armourtv@imail.losrios.edu

Fall semester has already started at City College and students must acclimate rapidly into daunting tasks such as waking up early and doing homework after a three-month summer vacation.

Summer vacation is undoubtedly the most highly anticipated part of the school year for most students, but the return to early morning wake-up alarms and homework is also the hardest for most students.

Recent high school graduate and new sociology major Elizabeth Dotts acknowledges both the positive and negative effects of summer break.

“Right after [read more...]

Donation of art panels graces Rodda Hall North

Online Staff — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:56:42 +0000

Thanks to a kind donation, City College now displays a set of six copper relief panels in the Rodda-Hall North building.