NEWS
OHLONE COLLEGE
MONITOR STAFF: Editor-in-Chief: Louis LaVenture News editor: Marissa Martin Features editor: Magdalena Jurys Sports editor: Louis LaVenture Opinions editor: Amelia Neary Photo editor: Tam Duong Jr. Online editor: Shannon Sorge Monitor Staff: Yahya Burhani Erika Heredia Sruthie Kondamoori Alizaib Lodhi Luis Morales-Medrano Hung Ngyuen Santiago Perea Mary Joy Tantingco Majtabah Walai Mitchell Walther Adviser: Rob Dennis Printer: FP Press
California Newspaper Publishers Association
Journalism Association of Community Colleges
General Excellence Fall 1994 Fall 2000 Fall 2004 Fall 2005 Fall 2013
CONTACT US: Offices: Room 5310 Call: 510.659.6075 E-mail: monitor@ohlone. edu Read: facebook.com/ Ohlone.Monitor www.ohlonemonitor.com
Opinions expressed in the Monitor are those of the respective authors and are not necessarily those of the staff, the college or the Associated Students of Ohlone College.
MONITOR OCTOBER 10, 2013
3
Roadwork could cause traffic delays MONITOR STAFF City of Fremont officials have rescheduled roadwork along Mission Boulevard for Saturday and Monday. The slurry and seal work
will take place along Mission from near the Interstate 680 off-ramp to just north of the Pine Street campus entrance. Mission will remain open but traffic will be slow. Buses
still will travel their normal routes. The work will cross in front of the north entrance at Anza Drive and Witherly Lane. However, drivers still will be able to use that en-
trance much of the time. Ohlone students and staff can avoid the anticipated traffic slowdowns on Mission by taking Washington Boulevard to Bryant or Ellsworth streets.
Ohlone pantry ASOC works donations help with less money students in need Continued from page 1 the Ohlone Pantry, also known as TOP, experienced some great success in its primitive stages in the spring semester in 2013. “Hopefully we will be able to continue and grow with this,” said Debbie Trigg, director of student services and extended opportunity programs and services. Renee Gonzales, student activities coordinator, wanted to do something with hunger and an intern inspired her to help create the program. Sergio Gil-Billoups was all too familiar with being hungry growing up in a rough and challenging environment where meals were never guaranteed. Combined with Gonzales’ enthusiasm the Student Activities Department was able to create the pilot program, which is still functioning this semester. Any Ohlone College student is eligible to receive food from the pantry while supplies last. Any student interested in obtaining food from TOP can visit the Student
Life window located on the second floor of Building 7. Anybody interested in donating food or volunteering can also visit the Student Life window during their operating hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Donations also can be taken to the Newark campus, where they are received in the Associated Students of Ohlone College Recreation Room, which is located on the first floor next to the café. All nonperishable items are encouraged to be donated. Some of these items include rice, pasta, peanut butter, cereal, instant noodle soups and crackers. The pantry also accepts monetary donations, which will be used to stock the pantry. Anybody interested in giving money can take their donations to the Ohlone College Foundation. For more information, go to the website at www. ohlone.edu/org/studentlife/theohlonepantry. html or contact Gonzales at rgonzales@ohlone.edu.
Continued from page 1 headed by the treasurer, meets with Trigg every year to discuss how much money goes into specific categories on the budget list. The list then is presented to the full ASOC governing body, which approves it. The Student Activity Fee is vital to the ASOC budget, since it provides the bulk of the income – $87,000 this year. Every student on campus, when paying for their tuition, has to pay an additional $27 registration fee on the side. Within that registration fee, about
$5 is set aside as the Student Activity Fee. The fee yielded $100,700 for ASOC for 2009-2010, but that has dropped over the years because of cuts to classes and fewer students returning to Ohlone, Trigg said. The remainder of ASOC’s income comes from the bookstore, Pepsi and Superior Vending. The Pepsi fee has been cut in half since 2009-2010 – from $20,000 to $10,000. “A solid $300,000 would be good,” Trigg said, when asked what an ideal income would be for ASOC.