LGBT mixes it up
‘Jesus’ deemed intense
Stangs dominate Yuba
The LGBT mixer held March 27 created an opportunity for students, staff and faculty to socialize — page 3
The LMC Drama Department put on an emotional production of “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train” — page 4
The Los Medanos College baseball team picked up another win with a final score of 10-3 — page 5
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LMC preps for emergencies
April is Autism Awareness Month April 28
Last day to withdraw from full-term classes with a “W”
May 19
Last day of regular classes prior to finals
Earth Day festivities The Los Medanos College Sustainability Committee, Environmental Sustainability Club and the Office of Student Life are putting on an Earth Day event Wednesday, April 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the outdoor quad. For more information email studentlife@ losmedanos.edu
Comedy helps awareness DSPS and Equity are sponsoring a comedy show and discussion featuring a performance from Michael Beers in support of disability awareness. The event will be held Monday, April 24 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the LMC Recital Hall. After the show is Pizza and Beers, a meet and greet with the performer from 2 to 3 p.m.
Experience • Carlos Ruiz
EMS students Sarah Hansen and Lilly Henry-Walker assist victim Rechilda Gopez as a part of an active shooter simulation put on by Emergency Services, Fire Technology and the Nursing departments with assistance by Police Services Wednesday, April 12.
Students’ skills tested in active shooter simulation By KIMBERLY STELLY
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If you walked past the LMC Lake or outside of the cafeteria Wednesday, you might have heard screaming. You might have also seen multiple students with burns, bruises and broken bones being aided by EMS students. This scene was the result of an active shooter simulation put on by the Emergency Services, Fire Technology and police services. Before the simulation could get underway, preparation was needed. Those who were playing the patients headed to the Moulage room, CC3-336 for makeup. It was there the students were given their faux lacerations and briefed on how they should conduct themselves. “Sell the injuries you have,” instructed Officer Michael Hotton. He also encouraged the victims to intentionally
“throw a curveball” at the EMS students to test whether or not they can assess the extent of their injuries even when given vague information. While the victims were getting familiar with their roles, the EMS students were prepping for the event separately. They knew they were dealing with a mass casualty situation, but didn’t know what kind of attack they were handling. The backstory of the simulation is that it’s an active shooter situation, in which both perpetrators were found dead on arrival. The objective was to help as many patients as possible by diagnosing them and leading them to safety. The first part of the event started by the lake by the amphitheater. It was also raining as the EMS students rushed to help including a severe burn victim and a pregnant woman. About half an hour later, EMS students
Experience • Sarah Gonzales
Colleen Derne and Moreen Redita play suffering victims in the mass casuality simulation staged Wednesday. were herded to the upper level near the cafeteria assisting other patients. One included a blind woman looking for her Seeing Eye dog and a mother who lost her son. EMS Student Sarah Hansen said she loved being able to help the patients.
On working with firefighters and police aides, she said, “I think we worked well together especially because ... we felt like a family.” The event ended with a debriefing led by German Sierra. There, the
Speaker gives history of music Planning for the summer The Los Medanos College Summer 2017 Class Schedule is now available for students who plan to register. It can be viewed online at losmedanos.edu/.
Finals week upcoming May 22 marks the start of finals week for the spring semester. A reminder: classes that start at 4 p.m. and into the evening will hold finals at normal time. Confirm with your instructor for the specific times for your finals.
LMC alum screens film for locals
USF professor brings knowledge for black history is “There is a River” written by Dr. University of San Francisco Vincent Harding. Harding Professor Dr. James Taylor writes in his book a metaphor spoke at an Academic Scholar- comparing the people in the ship Lecture event hosted by black community to rivers the LMC Music department in Africa. “You cannot understand a Tuesday, March 28. Silvester Henderson, LMC music prominent tree without knowprofessor, directed the event. ing its roots and foundations,” Opening the event, Hen- said Taylor. “It changed my derson played piano on one life as a teenager. His message is so powerful of two songs and the way along with sevDr. Harding eral students. “The basis of writes his Taylor began black people book he uses his lecture, discussing an create themselves the idea of a river as a metarray of topics into a people... aphor for the from his influ- We have not black commuences in polinity.” tics, the civil been given this Taylor rights era, to information would go on how a predomintentionally.” to say cominantly black genre of music — Dr. James Taylor ments of impor tant hislike hip-hop betorical black came diverse. He also talked about the figures, but the book makes many things that got him into it as though they are not that important. black history. “When you get what’s beOne book that inspired Taylor as a high school senior hind the book, Barack Obama
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says “made black people into a race” while also showing a visual on the projector of how blacks would do said shout. During this part of his speech, he referenced the movie Song of the South (1946) that would portray black people to be villains when really there were racial undertones in the film itself. His main point was that the character Uncle Remus was unintelligent and therefore representative of how white people saw black people in that era. As the presentation ends
Antioch’s El Campanil Theatre was the venue Saturday evening April 8 for a special showing of “Forgotten Evil,” the latest film from Director Anthony C. Ferrante of “Sharknado” fame. Ferrante, an Antioch native and Los Medanos College alumnus presented the film —which was shot mostly in Antioch — along with cast members to a theater full of cheering and supportive fans, friends and Antioch locals. “Forgotten Evil” is a thriller filmed for the Lifetime network, which tells the story of Renee (Masiela Lusha) who suffers amnesia after a traumatic near death experience. After waking up in a hospital Renee befriends her attending nurse Mariah (Angie Teodora) while she attempts to regain her memories and simultaneously navigates a budding romance with a young man visiting his sick mother,
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Experience • Adria Watson
Dr. James Taylor speaks at the Academic Scholarship Lecture Tuesday, March 28. is not that deep. Mar tin Luther King, Jr. is not that important when you really put them in the full flow of the black experience.” Taylor then goes into talking about how black people existed before they were brought to the U.S. “The black American people are a pre-United States people and it is important to know. The basis of black people create themselves into a people,” he said. “We have not been given this information intentionally.” He explained the history of the ring shout which as he