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PAISANO RIO HONDO COLLEGE NEWSPAPER est. 1964 Serving the Rio Hondo Community
Tuesday, April 25 2017
Volume 54 Issue 9
Protest at Whittier College
Writes of Spring
Inside Me
DANIELLE ANZURES Reporter lisa.garcia5612@my.riohondo.edu
Rio Hondo’s annual two day event, Writes of Spring, which celebrates writers and writings at the Wray Theater took place April 19 and 20. The free event featured Lissa Price, Gustavo Arellano, and Phranc on the 19, and Siel Ju, Bill Shaikin, and Jeff Garvin on the 20. Price, an author known primarily for her two novels, “Starters and Enders,” spoke at 8:05 a.m. Later Arellano, an editor for the newspaper the OC Weekly and author, spoke at 9:40 a.m. Phranc, a musician and artist, finished the group off and spoke at 11:15. Ju, a writer known for poetry chapbooks: “Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit” (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) and “Might Club” (Horse Less Press, 2014), spoke first. Shaikin, who worked at The Times since 1997 and has covered baseball in Southern California since 1889, spoke next. Garvin, an actor and now author of his debut
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Baseball Win 6-5
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NOAH GARCIA / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Whittier law school students march around the intersection, protesting against the lack of information and planning of their futurues. NOAH GARCIA PETE ESCOBAR Co-EIC / A & E Editor noah.garcia3720@my.riohondo.edu pete.escobar2024@my.riohondo.edu
Dozens of Whittier Law School students protested Friday, April 21, over the Whittier College Board of Trustees’ decision to terminate the college’s law program at the end of the 2017 school year. Centered around the Administration building, disgruntled protesters marched on the corners of Painter and Philadelphia, shouting chants like “Give us answers,”
“Where is the money,” and “I’m more than just a test score.” Antonia Reyes, a second year student of the program and one of 400 current law students, voiced his concerns, the uncertainty of his fellow student’s education, and the lack of information on future plans from the board. “We just want answers, and they weren’t able to do that… we are all really emotionally distraught… we don’t know about the certainty of our career.” Kristina Edrington, President of the Student Bar Association, elaborated
on her frustration with the Board’s decision to shut the law school down, “they came to us with no information and no plan for what they’re gonna do to students who remain and who are not graduating this year. It’s been really frustrating and disheartening to see everything that’s been going on.” “We do have our finals around the corner and this is our last week of classes when they decided to tell us this information… Everything has just kind of been frustrating because the timing of this is short notice. The lack of
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Author Jeff Garvin: Art Hurts DIEGO CRESPO Reporter
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It takes a moment for our interview to start as fans filter in and out, wanting to stop by for a quick chat with Garvin. He mentions having a cold but you wouldn’t be able to tell given the extensive appreciation he shares with everyone coming to his table. On stage at Rio Hondo’s Wray Theater, Garvin strolls along engaging audiences with his analogies and personal experiences as a writer. Jeff Garvin is the type of artist whose excitement for his work is boisterous. There’s an infectious river of passion Jeff Garvin during the Q & A portion of his panel, pertaining to writing and dealing with self doubt.
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