THURSDAY
OCT. 19, 2017 Vol. LII No. 6 FALL FASHION ‘17 Renegades’ style guide for this fall See photos on Page 4
FREMONT, CA OHLONEMONITOR.COM
Trustees discuss college status MARK EMMONS STAFF WRITER
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Ohlone science fair volunteer demonstrating the art and process of 3D printing to the audience using chocolate
and henna as the ink to print pictures of Albert Einstein at the Science Fair held at Ohlone’s Newark Campus.
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magic show that attracted and involved a huge number of audience members. Second floor’s major magnets were the 3-D printing and paper plane flying by world record airplane master, John Collins. A detailed map handed to the guests upon entry outlined the position of each
5,000 marvel at ‘Night of Science’
OPINIONS EDITOR
The science behind glow sticks, bubbles and paper airplanes welcomed an estimated audience of 5,000 on Oct.8 at the Newark Ohlone Science Extravaganza. The entire campus was set up as a stage for display-
ing various science experiments, performed mostly by Ohlone students themselves. The main lobby of the Newark center was filled with numerous tables, each of them having a new science concept to present. The outside parks had activities like rocket launching and
activity which made the science tour around campus easy and more involving. The Ohlone student and staff community put in their best effort to pull a successful college annual event as it’s starting to become a mustattend event within the Fremont-Newark community.
Ohlone College’s ongoing effort to develop its frontage property along Mission Boulevard took center stage during the college’s Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 11. Trustees also received reports from the Faculty Senate president, the president of the Associated Students of Ohlone College (ASOC) and Ohlone President Dr. Gari Browning. Browning delivered a short address concerning developments for the college. “Ohlone received $16,200 from the state chancellor’s office to support the Ohlone Pantry Program,” Browning said. She described College Night, held Sept. 26, and Ohlone’s Fall Career Fair, presented Sept. 28, as successes concerning attendance and support. Browning also briefly covered Measure G. “Significant progress continues on the Academic Core project,” she said. “The schematic designs for Continued on Page 6
Wildfires: Is Fremont prepared for the worst? JEREMY MARTIN STAFF WRITER
In the last several days, foggy, hazy and smoky air has covered the skies over Fremont and the Bay Area. With the wildfires burning in the North Bay and elsewhere throughout California, what is the chance of a similar-sized fire occurring in Fremont? What would it look like? Where would residents evacuate to? How do we prepare? Currently burning across the state are 22 major fires. At press time, the largest ones continue to burn in Napa and Sonoma counties. Like all around the Bay Area since the fires began Oct. 9, smoke and ash have permeated the air in Fremont. Is Fremont prepared? Doug McKelvey, the Fremont Fire Department’s acting deputy chief and head of
operations, said responding to a fire of such large size, like the fires burning in the North Bay, would be “incident dependent,” and would depend on a few factors. Evacuation locations would not need to be in the path of the fire. For instance, McKelvey said a “raging fire” in Fremont’s Niles Canyon would cause citizens to evacuate “north of the canyon and on the south side of the canyon.” When asked about the process of evacuation, McKelvey said, “It starts where it starts and it heads where it’s going to head” as the process in the event of a fire of that size would be somewhat unpredictable. “It’s at that moment that whomever is on scene has to make the decision about how we are going to deal with this,” said McKelvey, elaborating about the evacu-
ation process. Going further, in a general sense, the only set evacuation points would be high schools, community centers and other major facilities. “Through Niles Canyon, there is some danger there,” McKelvey said. “There is potential there.” At press time, the nearest fire to Fremont is currently burning in the San Jose foothills. Unrelated to other wildfires in the North Bay, this wasn’t a random wildfire. As a result of two arcing power lines, a three-alarm grass fire broke out, severely damaging two homes. When firefighters reached the location, the flames had already burned through large amounts of vegetation in between the two homes. While this fire is unrelated to other recent fires of its kind, a major wildfire in the Fremont area is still a possibility.
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Just as homes on the North Bay were close to the hills, our campus is also close to the dry Fremont hills.