City Times

Walkout

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

About 200 City College students walked out of class midday on March 4 to participate in the Education for All rally held in Gorton Quad which was in connection with the statewide California Day of Action, an effort to speak out against severe budget cuts to public education.

DSPS slashes services

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Having lost 45.5 percent of their annual budget, City's Disability Support Programs and Services (DSPS) has canceled all specialized classes, reduced test proctoring and high tech center hours and asked three counselors to seek early retirement, according to Program Activity Manager Debra Wright-Howard.

City police makes arrest in bike thefts

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

City College police arrested a man on Feb. 25 as he attempted to steal a student's bicycle from a bike rack in front of the T building, reported College Police Sgt. Louis M. Zizzo.

City gets federal honors

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

By ERNESTO LOPEZ
City Times

On Feb. 25, City College was named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, a federal recognition given to colleges and universities for their commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the annual honor roll award, recognized more than 700 colleges and universities around the country for their involvement in issues from poverty and homelessness to environmental justice.
Honorees are chosen based on factors including the scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.
Among other San Diego educational institutions and 32 overall in California, City is the only community college in the area to receive the recognition.
"With nearly 1,000 students providing 30,000 service hours in a year, I could not be more proud of City College and its commitment to the community," Dr. Terrence Burgess, president of City College, said.
Twenty nine faculty members across 16 disciplines worked with 60 community partners to provide the 30,000 service hours, according to Francisco Moreno, City's Service Learning Program coordinator.
"After completing service learning, many of my students, some of whom who dreaded the program, have said that they finally felt like they did something with their lives," Moreno said last fall. "With service learning, everyone benefits."
"If we don't make a difference, there's no purpose in our lives. Service learning makes that difference," he added.
The projects included biology, graphic design, art, dance, Chicano studies and math students working with Seeds at City, the Campus' Organic Garden, geography students working on earthquake disaster preparedness, health students working with an HIV Clinic and Price Scholarship students working with middle and elementary schools to provide after school programs.
"Congratulations to San Diego City College and its students," said Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. "Our nation's students are a critical part of the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle the most persistent challenges we face."
In a recent San Diego Community College District board of trustees meeting in which Moreno present the service learning program, Chancellor Constance Carroll said, "I wish President Obama was here to listen. This is the dream of national service coming through; I am not surprised it's happening here at City. It is the heart of democracy that we all help each other out."
College students make a significant contribution to the volunteer sector; in 2009, 3.16 million students performed more than 300 million hours of service, according to the Volunteering in America study released by the corporation.

Students join international women's protest

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

In honor of International Women's Day, about 30 City members of Amnesty International and Visionary Feminists Club gathered at the Mexican Consulate on 1549 India St., March 8, to protest the crimes against women that occurred in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico in 2006.

March to Sacramento begins

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

With sleep still in their eyes, marchers slowly started filtering on campus at 6:00 a.m. It didn't take very much time for them to get fired up and start the cheering and the chants.

Men's volleyball slams the Griffins

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

After a four-match losing streak, City's men's volleyball team scored a win by defeating cross town rivals the Grossmont Griffins in a match that went to a deciding game five on March 10 in Harry West Gymnasium.

Leading the Knights in the match were freshman middle blocker Steve Rindfleisch with 28 kills while two other freshmen recorded double-doubles, outside hitter Skylar del Sol with 26 kills and 10 digs and freshmen setter Pierce Stewart with a game-high 71 assists and 16 digs.

Fitness Center offers lectures for health and credits

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

San Diego City College is offering a Fitness Center lecture series to students and faculty for extra credit hours at Harry West Gym room 206 starting March 24.

A day to be Irish

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

This year in San Diego, St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated in style with plenty of things to do that will have you feeling like you have just inherited the luck of the Irish, even if you were born somethin' else.

Emerald Isle of beer

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

It's already St. Patrick's Eve, and all you've planned for is a night out with friends at some random Irish pub, drinking the same bargain domestic beer you have stuck to ever since that high school party when you were first introduced to "beer."

Saint Patrick, an Irish tale of piracy and prophecy

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

No matter where you, your parents or your parents' parents hail from, everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day.

Study the world by studying abroad with City College

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Has school put a grinding halt on your entire plan to travel around the world? Or have you been waiting to save enough money to eventually do so? Apparently you haven't heard about studying abroad and what it means to you.

St. Patty's stew

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Ingredients:

1 whole package raw corned beef that comes with a seasoning packet
1 ½ large yellow onions, raw
10 raw potatoes
5 whole raw carrots
I whole raw green cabbage
4 cups water
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 large tbsp creole seasoning
1 tsp basil

You will need at least a 4 quart crock pot to cook the stew in

Directions:
Put water, seasoning packet, basil, creole seasoning, garlic, and corned beef into crock pot....

Two views on 'Wonderland'

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

In "Alice in Wonderland", the main character is faced with a difficult decision - marry the person she is expected to, or risk staying single and unhappy all her life. Alice decides to do neither, but instead follows a white rabbit through his hole.

This story is certainly familiar to most movie-goers, but to an Alice virgin, it offers numerous surprises and only a few - as one can expect from a blockbuster like this - foreseeable plot turns.

Two views on 'Wonderland'

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Not many directing styles are as easily recognized within the first few seconds of a film as Tim Burton and his choice of music, lighting, his dark vibrant mood, and his leading man.
Disney's Alice In Wonderland directed by Burton, and starring Johnny Depp and real life partner Helena Bonham Carter, is not what most diehard Disney fans may expect, but I doubt they will be disappointed.

Jazz emsembles play at fest

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Jazz was in the 'ear' March 6 as City College and Jazz88 hosted 21 area bands for the 6th Annual Student Jazz Festival.

Up in the Air: Movie versus novel

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

In corner number one, weighing in at 303 pages and written by Walter Kirn, welcome: "Up in the Air", the novel; and in corner number two, weighing in at 109 minutes and directed by Jason Reitman, give it up for "Up in the Air", the movie.

Teen slayings force San Diegans to rethink safety

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Poway High senior Chelsea King, 17, went out for a run in Rancho Bernando Community Park and never came home. Escondido High School student Amber Dubois, 14, left one morning to walk to school and never showed up to classes. As the bodies of these two teenagers were recovered, the public also learned of registered sex offender John Albert Gardner, who was arrested for the alleged murder of King and is believed to be involved in the death of Dubois.

Keeping up with social norms

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Health and fitness has been a big part of my schedule these past couple of weeks and it thrills me to see all my hard work pay off. I went shopping a few weeks ago and noticed that I had gone down two pant sizes, which made me hop for joy and do my little happy dance.

Breaking away from political conditioning

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

My dad's biggest fear is that I will one day become a liberal. For him, having voted for Bush twice and being a devout fan of the O'Reilly Factor, my move to the coast five years ago (a breeding ground for extreme liberalism, he believes) has done nothing to calm his fears.

Get Out Of Jail Free Card

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

John Albert Gardner was arrested March 1 in relation to Poway teenager Chelsea King, who went missing on a run on Feb. 25.

Vox Populi

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Fashion-naughta

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Community Creatures

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT