THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 Vol. LII No. 3
COURTESY OF KAI SCHREIBER
Hiking trails in the area. See story on Page 5
FREMONT, CA OHLONEMONITOR.COM
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The sound of pile drivers sinking supports through sand and rock have been keeping even the most fatigued students awake in class. But Ohlone President Gari Browning says it won’t last forever.
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Opinion: Debate Roger James GUEST WRITER
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Traffic in front of Ohlone’s Fremont campus
Congestion Conundrum Dina DeLeon STAFF WRITER
It’s not often that anyone gets from one place to another without running into traffic in the local area. Students are often stuck in this traffic while commuting to both the Fremont and Newark campuses. During the past several years housing, businesses and new projects have been brought to this area causing more of a commuter increase. Fremont is no exception to the increasing Bay Area traffic. According to a released report by the traffic data and measurement company INRIX the San Francisco Bay Area has the third worst traffic in the country, the two top locations being LA and DC. The Fremont/Hayward location is ranked as number two in the top 10 con-
gested locations in the Bay Area. The traffic peak times are the worst in the morning according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. With Fremont expanding its downtown area, building new homes all
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all I have to do is leave extra early to be able to get to class on time.” Students who attend Ohlone College come from all over the Bay Area. Another student, Christina comes from Tracy. She commutes to Ohlone because many of the classes she needs for her major are offered here and not offered at the colleges closer to her home. She attends Ohlone on Tuesdays and Thursdays and usually has to leave at least two hours before her classes begin just to be able to make it on time. There are many alternatives to driving such as public transportation such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit. The local BART system just approved a $3.5 billion general obligation bond measure that will fund BART’s plan to increase train
There is no way around it” -- Alex/student
around it, traffic has already gotten worse. Several Ohlone students in the area such as Alex have found it quite challenging to get to class on time. His commute is from San Leandro and most of his classes are in the morning, as he says, “There is no way around it,
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Well, the first presidential debate of 2016 is now history and yet the voters still have no answer to one burning question moderator Lester Holt never thought to ask: Is Bill and Hillary’s marriage a love match or a sham for political reasons? Trivial you say? Maybe, but in a race where the two main contenders are not trusted by a majority of Americans, much of that lack of trust is centered around the less than honest and shady personal lives and transactions of the candidates. And so while Holt pushed Donald Trump on his tax returns, he never entered the moguls personal life, of which a legend is forming. Overall the debate was as spirited as Hillary Clinton’s bright red pant suit….could we expect anything else? From the start viewers were treated to something totally unexpected…Trump had actually memorized some facts and figures which he used to attack Clinton through both her husband’s and President Obama’s foreign and domestic record. Yet Donald made a telling verbal mistake when pressed by Hillary, who claimed the reason he won’t
release his tax returns is because for years he never has paid income tax. “That makes me smart,” he said. Holt and Hillary didn’t jump on this callous quip. The subjects of Benghazi and Trump University weren’t mentioned this time around. And to be honest, Holt’s questions were rather basic and un-challenging, except for hitting Trump with his turn around on Obama’s birthplace. Amazingly Donald defended his stance saying he did what Hillary couldn’t do, by having Obama produce his birth certificate. Even though much of the crowd at New York’s Hofstra University seemed to favor Clinton, it was Trump who carried the fight to her with accusation after accusation against her handling of foreign policy and her husband’s hand in the NAFTA agreement, which he claims has cost millions of US jobs. In this regard Trump had an advantage. He could attack her and Obama’s record, things that have happened, while Clinton had to depend on convincing voters what she would do in office. Yet, Hillary landed some good
A Foreigner’s Perspective
stand that this is because the U.S is a democratic country, and it is also one of the leading countries in the world. I can see that citizens have their own individual voices, and have rights to show their own intentions, and the government takes full consideration on those comments. In my country, citizens do have their own voices as Continued on Page 3
Yumyat Thwe STAFF WRITER
From my perspective as a non-citizen of the United States, the current election debates seems to be very overwhelming. I can under-
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