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Collegian Los Angeles

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Volume 183 Number 4

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The Voice of Los Angeles City College Since 1929

POLITICS

NEWS BRIEFS

NIKE GROUND ZERO

LGBTQ Community Wasn’t Invited to Rainbow Track Ribbon Cutting

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Hispanic Festivial Returns Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with Los Angeles City College.

Upward Bound will be hosting a celebration whereas you can learn the culture and history behind the legendary Day of the Dead. The festivities will be held on Oct. 30 at 12 p.m. in the Student Union on the first floor.

BY ANGELA JOHNSON

Argentine Pride Comes with Sarno Artist Jimena Sarno will come to LACC as a part of the VAMA Visiting Artist Lecture.

The Buenos Aires, Argentina creator will discuss her various creations and works that have been displayed in the Museum of Latin American Art, Fellows of Contemporary Art and Grand Central Art Center among many others. The event will be on Oct. 30, 2019 in the Chem 3 Lecture Hall at 6 p.m., for more info contact: vamavisitingartist@gmail.com

America’s ‘Cold Civil War’ Forty-seven years after the resignation

Faculty Can Rock Too LACC faculty and the Music Department will host their Evening Concert Series.

Come see your professors put their talents to use. The event will be held on Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in the Herb & Lani Alpert Recital Hall (HAMC 210).

Interested in Transferring?

Spend a spooky Halloween morning treating yourself to an educational trick by attending the LACC Transfer Day College Fair.

The event begins at 10 a.m. in the LACC Main Quad. There will be representatives from various colleges including UC's and Cal State Universities. There will also be oneon-one advising from Cal State Poly Pomona on the second floor of the Student Union. For more info or for sample questions to ask the universities please contact, lacitycollege.edu/ resources-services/transfer-center/ transfer-center-events or call (323) (323)953-4000 ext. 2215

of President Richard Nixon, a reporter who broke the Watergate story sat down at L.A. City College to reflect on Watergate and warned America is waging a cold civil war.

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ournalism legend Carl Bernstein looked dapper in a dark suit, white shirt, pink tie and matching pocket square as he walked onto the stage at the Camino Theater to speak. Students, alumni, faculty and fans greeted him with a standing ovation.

He began with a look back at his early years in journalism as a 16-year-

old copy boy, running typed stories from one section of the now defunct

Washington Star to another. His trip down memory lane covered his experience with a 1960 candidate for president of the United States: John F. Kennedy.

“I was lucky enough to attend many of his press conferences over the next three years, not as a reporter, but really to dictate a running text back to the newsroom as Kennedy talked in full elegant sentences, with wit, spontaneity and care for words and learning,” Bernstein said. “Since then, it’s been my privilege and good luck to report on each succeeding president of the United States.”

Bernstein became familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. presidents from JFK to President Donald Trump. He also drew parallels and articulated contrasts between Nixon’s role in the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency and the issues faced by President Trump.

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Models of Pride

VAMA Lecture Series Iva Gueorguieva has had recent solo exhibitions at Acme Gallery, Los Angeles; Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York; Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; and Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont. The event will be on Nov. 5, at 6 p.m. in CHEM 3.

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Arts & Entertainment

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Campus Life

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The only two LGBTQ student clubs and a faculty member expressed disappointment and frustration after reportedly not being invited to the opening ceremony of the brand-new Nike BETRUE rainbow track.

The track is saturated in brilliant dayglow pink, purple, blue, red, yellow, orange, and green. Nike’s complete redux of the track was inspired by the colors of the Pride Flag created by the late Gilbert Baker. The rainbow is also at the heart of Nike’s BETRUE 2019 product line, which reflects the brand’s support of the LGBTQ community and athletes.

Distinguished guests of the inaugural affair and ribbon cutting at the track on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 included L.A. City College President Mary Gallagher, Los Angeles City College District Board Trustees, former President Renee Martinez, ASG members and L. A. City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell.

LGBTQ faculty and students did not attend the event. It was not because they did not want to. Safe Space Club Adviser Sarah Crachiolo-Garcia and Co-President of Queer and Transgender People of Color Collective (QTPOCC) Nube Del Mar both say they did not receive an actual invitation to the unveiling and dedication or the ribbon-cutting.

Safe Space Club and QTPOCC are the two chartered clubs that represent LGBTQ students at City College.

Crachiolo-Garcia who teaches communications studies said she thinks somebody dropped the ball.

She found out about the unveiling and dedication from a live video feed on Instagram and decided to

Take Over Campus Illustration by BEATRICE ALCALA

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odels of Pride hosted a self-celebration youth conference at Los Angeles City College on Oct. 19.

Students and parents were lining up to check-in for the annual youth conference early in the morning.

Models of Pride provided educational workshops and a resource fair to provide a safe space for students to be themselves.

Daniel Alexander Perez was the Director of the event and seemed excited as he greeted people when he walked toward the registration table to check-in.

“I think the most exciting thing for me is seeing individuals drive from all over the state of California and who take flights to come and experience this full day of programming,” said Perez.

Some 2,000 people registered for the event, with the majority of them being from Southern California. Others flew in from Las Vegas or New Orleans.

“This is the first time having it at a city college, so we are excited to have it at LACC to showcase all of the different educational opportunities for individuals,” said Perez. “As someone who was first introduced to the LGBT community by attending this conference myself, I now have the extreme pleasure and joy of being able to provide a safe space and community space for individuals today.”

Jose Marin and Sabrina Tribuzi’s were the emcees at the opening ceremony. This was Tribuzi’s second year volunteering and Marina’s fifth year volunteering and second year being on the committee.

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OPINION & EDITORIAL

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Freedom of Speech Declines on Campuses

College – a place where students can have public discourse, debate, share ideas, and have intellectual discussions has been on the decline. In recent years and the past few months, controversial speakers have been uninvited from campuses all over the country, students have protested, disrupt speakers and in some cases, students have turned to violence.

In 2014, Brandeis University decided to reverse course and not award an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a campaigner for women’s rights and critic of Islam.

According to the Washington Examiner, political personality and conservative writer, “Ben Shapiro was met with protests at Marquette University and at the University of Utah. When he was invited to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, administrators first told students they could not provide a venue for him, before ultimately spending $600,000 on security that resulted in the arrests of nine protesters.”

Christina Hoff Sommers, who

has a rare political position that opens her up to extreme criticism from the more radical brand of feminism that rules today, was de-platformed in 2018 At Lewis and Clarke College, Oregon.

There, a small group of students that attended her speech started protesting in a disruptive and loud manner that effectively shut down the event. Protesters had previously requested that the event be canceled to suppress Sommer’s views.

They later argued that the content of Sommers’ speech contained fascist views.

“We’re All Fascists Now” wrote Bari Weiss, staff editor and writer for the Opinion section of the New York Times. In her article, she describes how the current politically correct climate has turned in on itself and how words are beginning to lose their meaning – a “moral flattening of the earth.”

“Orwell warned,” Bari writes, “that the English language ‘becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language

makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.’ He added, however, that ‘the process is reversible.’

Will true liberals do what it takes to reverse it? We can only hope so, because the battle against genuine authoritarian threats needs to be waged consistently, credibly and persuasively. For that to happen, words need to mean something.

Calling women like Christina Hoff Sommers and Mary Beard fascists and racists only helps the other side.”

The above is only a few examples of public figures who have been blocked from speaking and attending events. It seems as if students and colleges only support freedom of speech when that speech is favorable and agreed on.

Since when did it become a good thing to censor free speech, or even block it? Shouldn’t experience at college make students more tolerant of different views instead of intolerant? Is it possible to drop the latter and achieve the former?

At colleges all over the country, even here at Los Angeles City Col-

lege, there’s a select space on the campus map marked, “Free Speech Zone”. Pardon my French but, “que se passe-t-il?’

With free speech zones occupying a majority of college campuses in the U.S., it seems as if we’ve regressed. College campuses used to be a place where students could exercise their right to explore ideas, communicate, and express themselves.

According to a recent survey from the Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, “students have a tenuous relationship with the First Amendment.”

The poll of 3,000 U.S. college students found that they “generally endorse the ideals of free speech and campuses that encourage the discussion of a variety of ideas – but once that speech begins to infringe on their values, they’re likely to support policies that place limits on speech. Those include free-speech zones, speech codes and prohibitions on hate speech.

Only a slight majority (53 percent) think that handing out literature

on controversial issues is “always acceptable.”

The term “cancel culture” began trending on social media around 2015 when anyone – usually a celebrity – will be boycotted if they shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or have behaved in a way that is perceived to be offensive or problematic.

As the justice warriors’s ruling on social media is a complete other issue, one might ask, has Twitter and other social media outlets added fuel to this P.C. armageddon?

Raif Badawi, humanitarian and writer, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison in Saudi Arabia for blogging about secular ideas said this, “Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas.”

REPORTERS NOTEBOOK

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY: BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

BY MELISSA CRUMBY Elizabeth Maul, a German immigrant, was a vibrant and up-beat woman. She was a lover of flowers and gardens and wildlife of all sorts.

She wouldn’t hurt a fly and would do anything for the people around her.

She was my grandmother. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer at the young age of 48. After her diagnosis she had a mastectomy performed, which is the removal of the breast, followed by chemotherapy and radiation. She was in remission and showed no signs or symptoms of cancer until age 64. This time the cancer came back all over. Unfortunately, chemotherapy did not help and surgery was not an option. She later died at the age of 65 Jan. 18, 2001.

Her daughter, my mother, developed an abnormality as well at the young age of 20 years old.

The doctor found a lump in my mother’s breast, coincidentally at the same time my grandmother was in remission. The mammogram was inconclusive because of dense breast tissue resulting in a lumpectomy.

The lump turned out to be benign but because of her mother’s history she had to continue to have yearly mammograms after that. Coming from a young woman who has a family history of breast cancer, I too, must take the precautionary steps needed as I get older to make sure I’m healthy and happy.

One of the scariest health complications to the human race is the possibility of developing cancer.

When a woman gets older, usually around 50 years old, she’s told it’s necessary to get a mammogram

once a year to make sure there are no abnormalities in the form of breast cancer. It is the second most common cancer amongst women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This type of cancer happens when malignant tumors develop in the breasts. Cells break away from the original tumor spreading to the blood vessels or lymph vessels.

When cancer cells travel to other parts of the body, damaging other tissues and organs. This is called Metastatic.

The American Cancer society recommends women between the ages of 50 and 69 get a mammogram once every year. A mammogram can be two different types. A screening mammogram, which is an x-ray for women who have no sign of breast cancer and includes two x-rays of each breast using a machine which can sometimes cause discomfort.

There’s also such a thing as a diagnostic mammogram, an x-ray of the breast used to diagnose unusual breast changes such as lumps, pain, nipple thickening, discharge, or a change in size or shape of breast.

Followed by a biopsy if an abnormality is detected.

Age is not the determining factor as to who gets cancer. In some rare cases, adults under 40 can develop breast cancer as well. One out of every eight women develops breast cancer, says the American Cancer Society. This is why it’s so important to take the initiative of making sure you’re healthy. 80 percent of young adults find abnormalities themselves.

Looking into your family history

About 50 out of 100 women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation will get breast cancer by age 70.” for this disease is a very important part of prevention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about three percent of breast cancers (about 7,500 women per year) result from inherited mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that are passed on in families.

If your health care physician decides that your family history involving breast cancer puts you at high risk, they will offer something called genetic counseling or even genetic testing.

This is to make sure you don’t have these genes. About 50 out of 100 women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation will get breast cancer by age 70. It is also important to be aware that not everyone who inherits a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation will get breast or ovarian cancer, and not all inherited forms of breast cancer are due to mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Luckily, there are plenty of options and steps you can take to reduce the chance of developing cancer as well

as ways to detect it early on.

These steps include taking medications such as Tamoxifen and Raloxifene, which lower your chances.

Also, yearly screening including MRI’s as well as mammograms even at a younger age.

And of course, engaging in a healthy lifestyle such as eating right and exercising. Precautions are so important for women of all ages. It’s always better to be safe than sorry and I know that my grandmother would whole-heartedly agree.

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“How do you feel about the police presence here on campus?”

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“I think thats it’s a good choice the school is making because the police help keep people safe; the students, faculty and the staff.”

“I feel safe because I think the police can help us at anytime during emergencies. Also, we need their support at any time because we don’t know what can happen.”

“I feel that there’s not enough police on campus. It makes people worry and I think we need more of their presence on campus.”

“I guess it just depends on the officer but I’ve never had any interaction with them – this is my first semester here but I think it’s alright. I feel safer, they’re supposed to serve and protect. I feel safe nonetheless.”

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YAMAHA CONCERTS REVIEW

Hendelman improvises with American Songbook

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Photo by JAMES DUFFY Tamir Hendelman plays jazz music on a Yamaha Grand piano on Oct. 17, 2019 in the Herb & Lani Alpert Recital Hall.Hendelman left Israel for America with his mother when he was 12 years old.

hen jazz musician Thelonious Monk sat down at his piano, he did not stay seated.

YouTube videos show Monk convulsing to playful beats.

The ‘high priest of bebop’ smoked during sets. He stood up to dance while his fellow musician played solos.

Tamir Hendelman played Monk’s songs among other jazz composers on Oct. 17 in the Herb & Lani Alpert Recital Hall at L.A. City College. Hendelman mastered mimicry over 43 years of practice on the keys.

“Life like music, has its own rhythm,” Hendelman said.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in improvisational jazz, imitation challenges the listener to as much as it excites.

Hendelman showed devotion to his Jazz predecessors.

Several audience members gasped when he played familiar Monk tunes. But Monk’s piano keys whine on recordings, in a way Hendelman’s Yamaha Grand piano does not.

“It’s really awe-inspiring to see what practice can do, especially, the way he blended in tunes, moving from one to another one,” said Diego Serna, a City College guitar major.

In figure and measure, Hendelman resurrected the bodies of work of Benny Carter and George Gershwin. He improvised his own music with flashes of Johann Sebastien Bach and Claude Debussy throughout.

Hendelman left Israel for America with his mother when he was 12 years old. She was in the audience at his performance. He began learning the organ at 6 years old in Tel Aviv. He said he first wanted to play when he crossed an instrument salesman playing an organ behind a shop window.

“I basically heard the orchestra,” Hendelman said. “I heard strings, and brass and rhythm. That piqued my interest. So, I ran home to my parents and say I want to get one of these.”

He changed instruments because he said he admired the “nuance of tone and texture” of the piano and its historical role in jazz music. He has not stopped playing since.

“There are different seasons, periods where you want to hibernate and compose more,” Hendelman said. “And periods where you want to tour and perform as much as you can. There’s a rhythm to all these things.”

As promised, Hendelman’s performance relaxed the audience, when he did not punctuate his sound with a rapid, foottapping clips. His important contribution to American jazz is how he incorporates his classical training.

“With the French impressionist composers they would slip in alterations that came closer to jazz,” Hendelman said. “That piqued my interest.”

Hendelman’s only theatrics are at the piano. His expression comes through the fingertips. By his third piece at the Yamaha, Hendelman elicited pleasured grunts from the audience of about 50, many of whom are music students at Los Angeles City College.

Hendelman is polite and intriguing on stage. In between sets, he dutifully explains the improvised composition he performed.

The UCLA professor invited his audience to tell an impromptu story, which he then interpreted at the piano.

“A wizard,” an audience member shouted.

“What is he most afraid of?” Hendelman asked.

“Poison,” another audience member replied.

Hendelman turned to his Yamaha and played at a tempo and key to provoke and thrill. One of Monk’s charms was his inimitable sound.

The was the audience was never quite sure he would make it though. The keys rattled, the man shook with dramatic tension.

Hendelman’s compositions are serious work from a prepared musician.

While his audience may not see a musician join his troupe from Frenchman Street, as happens to New Orleans jazz groups, Hendelman excites them with skillful use of hands and feet.

New Way to ‘Catch Them All’: Pokemon Captures Gamers’ Hearts

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elcome to the Galor Region, where the countryside is full of life and the cities are contemporary.

The plains are vast and the mountains are covered in snow. In the Galor region, Pokémon battles are the main attraction and becoming the next Pokémon League Champion is the main objective.

On Nov. 15, 2019, Japanese game developer Game Freak will release Pokémon Shield and

Pokémon Sword for the Nintendo Switch game console. Pokémon Shield and Sword is the 17th installment in the Pokémon franchise and will introduce the 8th generation of Pokémon.

In the core Pokémon games, players are designated as Pokémon Trainers and have three main objectives: to complete the regional Pokédex; which is an electronic encyclopedia that collects all of the available Pokémon species found in the respective region, to complete the national Pokédex by transferring Pokémon from other Pokémon games, and to train a team of powerful Pokémon to battle

other trainers so they may eventually win the Pokémon League and become the regional Champion.

In Pokémon Shield and Sword, the idea of becoming a champion has been enhanced to give trainers a whole new strategic approach when it comes to Pokémon battles. For example, a new feature called “Dynamax”, will be introduced where Pokémon power up and grow much larger than normal. The Dynamaxed Pokémon’s moves will also change, causing them to be much stronger than intended. This gives the player a whole new way to experience Pokémon battles in the

Galor Region.

There are over 800 different species of Pokémon but unlike previous core Pokémon games, not all existing species of Pokémon will be available in Pokémon Shield and Sword.

According to Producer Junichi Masuda,“ the Switch’s hardware quality made it easier for Pokémon to be unique and expressive, and the designers had to balance importing as many as possible and updating them to these high standards while still keeping development deadlines.”

At the E3 Gaming Conference 2019, Nintendo announced that they will release

a cloud-based service for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices called, “Pokémon Home.” This service will allow you to transfer Pokémon between all current Pokémon titles including the popular mobile game, Pokémon Go and Pokémon Shield and Sword.

According to Masuda, “you’ll be able to trade Pokémon from within Home as long as you have a smartphone with you.”

Pokémon Home is set to be released early 2020 for Android, iOS and the Nintendo Switch game console. Pokémon Shield and Pokémon Sword will release worldwide for the Nintendo Switch game console Nov. 15, 2019.

CAMPUS LIFE

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Students Gather for Honors Transfer Fair

BY SARAH RAGSDALE Students interested in transferring gathered to speak with various colleges and universities Friday, October 11, 2019 in the Quad.

The event, hosted by the Ralph Bunche Scholars Program here at Los Angeles City College is hosted once a semester and provides students with the opportunity to learn more about different colleges of interest.

“We’re looking for students who want to be in an academically challenging environment who want to engage with our campus community & residential community.” Maricela Martinez, the Director of Transfer Admission at Occidental College says.

“We’re not looking for one particular type of student, we’re looking for students who are going to contribute to the classroom and in the Oxy community. Ideally, students will be in school full time and are taking a wide range of classes and we’re also a Common App school and we often ask students what they’re doing outside of the classroom and for us that includes any sort of community service, family responsibilities, part time jobs – we

want to know what students do in addition to classes, what they do outside of the classroom.”

Colleges that attended included Cal Poly Pomona, Amherst College, Brandeis College, CSU LA Honors College, Occidental College, San Diego State University, Pomona College, U Michigan College of Lit, Science, Arts, University of San Francisco, Smith College, Loyola Marymount University, Mills College, and others.

“I’m a part of the honors program and I wanted to learn more about other campuses, not just the UC’s that you can apply to,” said Nube Del Mar, an LACC student. “My main focus was looking for the Comparative Lit./ English majors on every campus but also what L.G.B.T. support looks like on every campus. I think if students are interested in learning more about other campuses, they should talk to admissions and have this event be an even bigger thing. It’s already a big event now but I’m sure there are even international campuses that are interested.”

The Honors Transfer Fair is open to all students who are interested in transfer.

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SCHOLARSHIPS FROM “MODELS OF PRIDE” PAGE 1

The story I tell people – the first year I was volunteering – I ran into a young student.

He was in the bathroom.

He was a male presenting Hispanic Latino.”

Marin and Tribuzi were welcoming people as students stepped inside the basketball court to pick up their pom poms or clappers.

They called out students to share their experiences if they had attended the event before. Joshua Arguellez was one of the students who came up to speak about his previous experience. Artuellaz is a freshman at Cal State University Northridge and this was the fourth year coming to this event.

“I keep coming to these events because it is fun and worth it,” said Artuellez. “Sorry for saying this word but you can expect a lot of queerness in this conference,” said Arguellaz as he cheered.

The crowd seemed to like it. The room was filled with energy laughter and cheers as they raised their pom poms in the air.

Artuellaz was not the only one who enjoyed this conference. Aoshi Stevens is a former leader at the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at her high school in San Pedro.

“I came for the free food and that,” Stevens said, laughing. “But I love to be educated on the community that I am a part of. This is such a great experience especially if it is your first time going to a pride related event.”

There were many educational workshops in the event between three sessions such as, “I AM ME: Tips on how to be authentically YOU, Queer Songwriting 101, How to be a better boo and many more.

Kayla Griffiths is a member of her GSA in her high school in Monrovia and came to last year’s event. She was looking forward to attending the workshops.

“I am excited by all the workshops especially the workshops on self-love last year because it taught me how to be more comfortable about myself,” said Griffiths.

Marin recognizes that the work-

shops are crucial for the student’s identity because many of these students feel uncomfortable about their sexuality.

“So Models of Pride has a special place in my heart. It is focused on the LGBT community and I identify as a gay homosexual. I wish I had this when I was young.

The fact that we can provide these resources, service and an educational component for youths to understand and be comfortable with themselves,” said Martin.

“The story I tell people – the first year I was volunteering – I ran into a young student. He was in the bathroom. He was a male presenting Hispanic Latino,” said Martin, “but he was wearing a dress and his friend was next to him. I could see in his eyes, not only the struggle of coming to terms of who he was. At home he couldn’t be his true self, but in the bathroom, at that moment, I saw him finally accepting who he was and that just moved melons for me.”

Models of Pride provide comfort for students who may question their sexuality. The conference provided a space where it was ok to cry for wearing a dress and provide allies who will stand by you to comfort you as you cry.

“The fact that we can provide a space where they can feel themselves and be themselves, because outside these walls it’s a tough world out there and we want to make sure everyone is loved.

Everyone is accepted and everyone is appreciative of who they are,” Marin said.

The emcees themselves can see the high energy of the students and they are confident that they will leave much happier.

“Everyone is going to leave comfortable with more friends and more educated on our community,” said Tribuzi.

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Get Ready to Sprint on New Nike Rainbow Track

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art over to the new rainbow track brought by Nike in partnership with the Gilbert Baker Foundation and LACC that debuted on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. The new track was inspired the LGBTQ community and Gilbert Baker, the LGBTQ’s Rainbow Flag designer.

The unveiling coincided with National Coming Out Day, a day to celebrate the stories, experiences, battles, journeys, and triumphs of coming out.

The track once like most with muted tones is now charged with lively colors displaying proudly the Rainbow Flag in support and welcome of all LGBTQIA community members. It is a demonstration of both Nike and LACC’s support of the LGBTQ community.

“The track, as you know, as the rainbow of the flag symbolizes, is a place of inclusivity, it’s a place that embraces everyone, the community, the LGBTQIA community,” said Angineh Storino, Nike’s communications director in L.A. “But as well as the surrounding areas, anyone that wants a safe inclusive place to enjoy sports we welcome them to come join us.”

In attendance along with Nike, LACC President Mary Gallagher and President of the LACCD Board of Trustees Andra Hoffman was Manager of Special Projects from the Gilbert Baker Foundation Charley Beal and two-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field Kerron Clement. It was here on National Coming Out Day and the inauguration of the Rainbow Track that Kerron Clement came out adding special significance to an already important day.

“To me, the track is a bold statement of LGBTQ visibility.

Instead of hosting a “one day event”, the track is a 24/7, 365 days of the year statement,” said Charley Beal.

“Like the flag that flies in Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco, the rainbow track boldly proclaims that “this is a safe space.” It pushes all hatred and prejudice to the sidelines. All who run on the track and participate in events there publicly declare their support for LGBTQ visibility and rights just by showing up!”

Currently there are no other rainbow tracks but Beal states the Gilbert Baker Foundation would be thrilled to partner with Nike again or anyone who is willing to make a powerful statement like this rainbow track a reality. Beal states

permanent visibility is important to “LGBTQ people who can be forced back into the closet by oppressive politicians and governments”.

“Projects like flagpoles, crosswalks and running tracks help prevent backsliding,” said Beal.

Nike has been one of the few corporations who have gone rainbow, sponsored and featured LGBTQ athletes in their social media and advertising.

Furthermore, they have been conducive to inclusion programs in sports in high schools and with this track go one step further, demonstrating their support to the LGBTQ community.

On Saturday, Oct. 12, there was a ribbon cutting for the new track with President Mary Gallagher, LACC Cub mascot, and L.A. Council member Mitch O’Farrell.

The ribbon cutting was a part of the Community and Job Research Fair hosted by LACC in celebration of their 90th anniversary.

Although the track’s intended purpose is for the LGBTQ community it was not well received among that community within the LACC campus. Both of the active LGBTQ clubs, QT POC and Safe Place felt hurt as they were not included at either event.

Nube Del Mar co-president of QT POC, Queer and Transgender People of Color, stated they felt really hurt because they are part of a club that the track was meant to represent but were not present for.

For them the rainbow track had a different meaning.

“The track is in honor of Gilbert Baker who created the Pride flag and like the Pride flag has become an iconic symbol at this point, almost a pop culture symbol. I mean it’s used for corporations, you know, definitely aiming for LGBTQ people in the United States and even around the world,” Del Mar said. “But it just kind of feels like a marketing scheme. So that’s how I took the track. Especially because we weren’t invited.”

A member of the QT POC club who did not wish to be named stated was not even aware of the Rainbow Flag track’s existence. He said it was the first he’d heard of it and that he felt that the track was an example of pinkwashing.

Pinkwashing is a term used to describe the various tactics aimed at the promotion of people, groups, corporations, and products by appealing to the LGBTQ community. It describes the use of the LGBTQ community likeness, their flag, values, or promotion of respect and support toward the community to advance a persons or corporations marketing or political agenda.

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We must work toward a conscious decision to include these groups in such historic and meaningful events.”

-Calhoun

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Nick Beck Event Draws Crowd for Bernstein all of his life.

“He took great pride in teaching and he took great pride in the profession and he was a very principled person,” Dojcsak said. “So it wasn’t that much of a surprise when one of his last wishes was to get some distinguished journalist to come and share his or her views with the students. I was shocked to learn that Carl Bernstein would be the guest speaker. I think when I got the email on my computer, I bought a ticket two minutes after it got into my email box. This was really a spectacular occasion.”

F Photo by STAFF Collegian Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Grazier and Online Editor-in-Chief James Duffy take a photo with Carl Bernstein on the red carpet in the Camino Theater on Oct. 27, 2019.

“So, now let’s take a look at what president Trump is being investigated for in the impeachment, undermining the electoral system,” he said. “In this instance, by engaging a foreign power, like Ukraine, to get its president to come up with dirt against the candidate Donald Trump most feared running against, Joe Biden, is a very parallel situation except in this instance what Nixon did not do is engage a foreign power.”

Bernstein delivered prepared remarks and then answered questions from the audience for nearly two hours. Bernstein was engaging and sometimes gruff. He took questions from attendees who lined up at two microphones near the foot of the stage. He would tell them to get to the question or make their point.

In general, he applauded the work of journalists and told the audience that reporters must continue to fulfill their role – the work that is consistent with a free press in a democracy: question and hold President Trump accountable. Nothing more, nothing less.

“I can remember the first time, almost two years ago, I started talking on the air about the president being a serial liar and I had to instinctively pull back myself to hear what I was saying because it was so foreign to me as a reporter,” Bernstein said.

“But it was reportorially accurate.

And that’s what’s so extraordinary when we say the president of the United States before he reached office, had a career as a con man. It’s reportorially accurate.”

Bernstein also talked to the audi-

go and crash the party.

“I doubt that any of the folks who are part of the LGBT community were specifically invited,” Crachiolo-Garcia said. “I know the two student clubs were not. I didn’t know about the ribbon-cutting on Saturday until I went to this event that nobody knew about. And even then, the students were not invited after I told them.”

Dr. Gallagher told the Collegian she believed district officials involved in planning the event had invited the LGBTQ Advisory Group, which is led by Board Trustee David Vela. Trustee Vela is the district’s first openly gay board member.

“I know that Professor Crachiolo is on the district-wide task force,” Dr. Gallagher said. “We had to let them know who our advisor was for LGBT. And Professor Crachiolo has been our adviser . . . for two years.”

Del Mar is a student worker in

ence about the responsibility of the press and the ideas and larger implications for the American model of democracy.

“The first notion is that the press exists for the public good,” Bernstein said. “Not just to make money for stockholders or owners or to further the ideological or partisan interests that they have, or their members of their staffs or reporters might have. The other notion that goes along with this concept of serving the public good, is it is our primary function as real journalists to give our readers and viewers the best obtainable version of the truth.”

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arcia Melkonian served as trustee for the estate of the late Nicholas Beck, a former L.A. City College Collegian editor who went on to become a sports journalist and an educator who worked at Pasadena City College and at Cal State Los Angeles.

Melkonian established the speaker series in Beck’s name through the Los Angeles City College Foundation. Beck donated $400,000 to seed the future education of journalism students. Melkonian brainstormed with the group that selected Bernstein as the inaugural speaker.

One of Nick Beck’s many friends stood outside the Camino Theater and waited for his turn to file into the event on Oct. 27, 2019. Joe Dojcsak served as the chair of media arts at L.A. City College for 25 years. He called Beck “awesome,” and says Beck practiced journalism

the Genderversity Center, as well as QTPOCC’s co-president. She said it was odd that her boss Andrea Eke asked her to distribute an email to their ListServe about the weekend festivities.

“It just seemed kind of weird to me that . . . the actual queer clubs here on campus did not receive an invitation, but the Genderversity Center kind of did,” Del Mar said.

“ASG also knew about this event a good while before. We thought they would invite the queer clubs on campus.”

Jemere Calhoun who is the ASG president issued a mea culpa for not doing more to reach out. After conducting some research of his own Calhoun learned that his staff did not contact Safe Space Club or QTPOCC members.

“This is a disconcerting development,” Calhoun said. “ASG strives for inclusion on all levels … On our end, we could have done a better

ormer Collegian staff reporter and photojournalist Clinton Cameron milled around outside the theater before Bernstein arrived.

He greeted other student reporters and professors.

“I found it expressly exciting considering we’re going through a similar political situation with the current administration,” Cameron said. “This is one of only at least two or three impeachments that we’ve had in the history of the United States, so I just want to see what Carl Bernstein has to say and how he compares the past to the present.”

L.A. City College professor Bernadette Tchen celebrated part of her birthday weekend by attending the event with her son. She says she appreciated Bernstein’s remarks on many levels. The requirement that journalists provide more context in their reporting resonated with Tchen.

“It’s not the journalists’ job to bring somebody down because that’s not their job, it’s reporting,” she said. “We must put the facts in context and exercise our own critical thinking.”

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ernstein says that the Nixon impeachment moved forward through the proceedings because there was a willingness by those in the Republican party to recognize national interests above ideology and party interest. He ended his remarks with a sober pronouncement.

“Today we’re in the midst of a cold civil war in this country,” he said. “There’s a cold civil war that predates Donald Trump, and probably goes back a couple of decades, but he has brought this cold civil war to the point of ignition and turned it into a cauldron.”Marcia Melkonian served as trustee for the estate of the late Nicholas Beck, a former L.A. City College Collegian editor who went on to become a sports journalist and an educator who worked at Pasadena City College and at Cal State Los Angeles.

Melkonian established the speaker series in Beck’s name through the Los Angeles City College Founda-

job of reaching out to these groups ourselves.”

For Crachiolo-Garcia, there is more to this lapse in communication than just an invitation that wasn’t extended. She contends that supportive resources for LGBTQ students are sorely needed. She pointed out there needs to be mandatory training for faculty and staff, mental and physical health resources and gender-neutral restrooms throughout campus.

“There needs to be so much, and we don’t have those things,” she said. “But we have a rainbow track.

It’s nice that we have a rainbow track. It looks cool. And maybe it means that symbolically the school supports these students,” Crachiolo-Garcia said.

Both Dr. Gallagher and ASG President Calhoun say the omission was not intentional.

Both admitted that more must be done to be inclusive and better

tion. Beck donated $400,000 to seed the future education of journalism students. Melkonian brainstormed with the group that selected Bernstein as the inaugural speaker.

One of Nick Beck’s many friends stood outside the Camino Theater and waited for his turn to file into the event on Oct. 27, 2019. Joe Dojcsak served as the chair of media arts at L.A. City College for 25 years. He called Beck “awesome,” and says Beck practiced journalism all of his life.

“He took great pride in teaching and he took great pride in the profession and he was a very principled person,” Dojcsak said. “So it wasn’t that much of a surprise when one of his last wishes was to get some distinguished journalist to come and share his or her views with the students. I was shocked to learn that Carl Bernstein would be the guest speaker. I think when I got the email on my computer, I bought a ticket two minutes after it got into my email box. This was really a spectacular occasion.”

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ormer Collegian staff reporter and photojournalist Clinton Cameron milled around outside the theater before Bernstein arrived.

He greeted other student reporters and professors.

“I found it expressly exciting considering we’re going through a similar political situation with the current administration,” Cameron said. “This is one of only at least two or three impeachments that we’ve had in the history of the United States, so I just want to see what Carl Bernstein has to say and how he compares the past to the present.”

L.A. City College professor Bernadette Tchen celebrated part of her birthday weekend by attending the event with her son. She says she appreciated Bernstein’s remarks on many levels. The requirement that journalists provide more context in their reporting resonated with Tchen.

“It’s not the journalists’ job to bring somebody down because that’s not their job, it’s reporting,” she said. “We must put the facts in context and exercise our own critical thinking.”

Bernstein says that the Nixon impeachment moved forward through the proceedings because there was a willingness by those in the Republican party to recognize national interests above ideology and party interest. He ended his remarks with a sober pronouncement.

“Today we’re in the midst of a cold civil war in this country,” he said. “There’s a cold civil war that predates Donald Trump, and probably goes back a couple of decades, but he has brought this cold civil war to the point of ignition and turned it into a cauldron.”

serve the LGBTQ community at City College.

“We must work toward a conscious decision to include these groups in such historic and meaningful events,” Calhoun said.

Dr. Gallagher apologized if the Safe Space Club and QTPOCC felt left out. In fact, she did not extend invitations to anyone.

“Invitations were going out from elsewhere,” Dr. Gallagher said. “But I’m not going to hide behind that, either. I am the college president. It is my responsibility if someone feels . . . ignored. I have to take that seriously.”

Dr. Gallagher said she wants to meet with Professor Crachiolo-Garcia to figure out how they can work together so students do not feel as if they do not matter.

“I have faith that moving forward it can be a productive conversation,” Crachiolo-Garcia said.

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College Discovers ‘Junior Campus’ Past Glories in Trophy Trove

BY RYAN BARMORE

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n the Sleepy Kinesiology South Building next to the Sheriff ’s Department, in one of the abandoned rooms now used for storage, lie boxes and boxes of dusty golden trophies.

Perhaps the concept of trophies has waned in impact on a youth culture raised on the “everyone gets a trophy” inclusivity standards of previous generations. Trophy inflation works surely as any other, to decrease perceived value.

Trophies, however, are highly important symbolic objects in our society. Trophies are the physical representation of society’s acknowledgement of an individual’s victory, valor, and skill. Their purpose is to encourage the best within men and reward those of the highest achievement. Not because they need it but because we need them. Serving long after those men and women are gone, if displayed to the community, as a reminder or an excuse to feel pride of the human capacity for greatness; and exhilaration at the implications.

When trophies of old are kept in the dark, is it any wonder that students remain unaware of history and athletic lineage of champions?

From LACC’s start in 1929, until about 10 years ago, there were always intercollegiate sports on campus. Now what used to be a thriving and robust sports program is little more than an intramural soccer team and a badminton meetup every Friday.

Students now may not realize the scope of LACC athletic lineage. In 1930 the college, then called the “Junior Campus,” maintained football, basketball, track, baseball, cheer called “yell leaders,” tennis, swimming, cross country, hockey, archery and dance teams.

Now, many students on campus have little or no knowledge of the athletic department whatever, aside from the highly publicized rainbow track. A biology student named Elisa commented, “I didn’t even know that there was a swimming pool! I’ve been here for a year and I’ve never seen it!”(it’s in

Kinesiology North) Looking at the state of the College’s Athletics programs now, it is easy for students to miss that history, or in fact miss the entire Kinesiology Department for that matter.

There are no collegiate sports programs and only soccer and basketball offered as intramural basketball, which having just ended. The now famous rainbow track has never seen even a high school track meet.

Another reason the program is easily overlooked is that there is no sports center, athletics “area” or hub on campus. Instead different Kinesiology buildings are sprinkled randomly and disjointedly across campus, making collaboration between classes and programs difficult.

A tennis player, for example, must walk all the way across campus to take a shower after practice, and then all the way back across campus to the parking structure.

Yet despite the limitations of our facilities and programs, there is hope for LACC’s athletes, and their hidden trophies.

There are no collegiate sports, not yet. Soccer players this year must settle for intramurals, but in 2020 collegiate soccer is scheduled to return to LACC, and volleyball is being considered as well.

We’re still a long way from bringing back the archery team, yet it is a step in a great direction.

Four years have passed since the construction of the Kinesiology North building and pool, yet upon entering, the high ceilings and modern design are downplayed by the massive sections of incomplete display cases whose construction lie gaping and unfinished.

Just last week construction finally started on the display cases again, only four years behind schedule.

No statement was made by the college as to their plans with these displays, but one can hope. Perhaps just as we see the men and women of LACC return to the arenas, we will see the return of those golden figures to the arenas in which they were won.

Photo by STAFF Boxes of LACC student trophies gather dust in the Kinesiology South Building. They may find a new home outside the Gym in Kinesiology North.

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