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Wind Orchestra performs “Legends and Myths.” See photos on Page 4.
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Panel talks about Asian American experiences RISHABH SINGHAL Staff writer Students and faculty members gathered in Building 7 on Wednesday to welcome the college’s first panel on Asian American Experiences. The event was part of the Communications Department’s Colloquium series, and was organized by student Winnie Kan. The panelists were professors Li-Chi Wang and Funie Hsu, and Ohlone deans Mark Lieu and Wayne Takakuwa. The panel commemorated Asian Pacific History Month. The panelists shared their personal histories as Asian Continued on Page 2
Math Club 8th in nation BRIANNE O’SULLIVAN News editor
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The Mission Peak Brass Band presented “Vintage Brass” at Smith Center on Friday. Top: The Mission Peak Brass Band conducted by Tony Clements performs “Death or Glory” by Robert Browne Hall, with arrangements by Wesley Brown. Above-left: Keith Johns performs a solo on the flugelhorn. Above-right: Tony Clements and the Mission Peak Brass Band received a standing ovation from the audience.
Ohlone College’s Math Club has once again ranked nationally in the most recent Student Math League competition. The competition is a timed math exam given to students. Ohlone’s Math Club tied for eighth place with the College of DuPage, a two-year college in Illinois. The scoring was based on the team’s top five scores. The top five scorers were Yaner He, Kelly Martinez, Wu Sun, Joshua Ngotiaoco and Thinh Lu. The Associated Students of Ohlone College provided bookstore gift cards and Continued on Page 3
Two volleyball players selected for Scholar Athlete Team Sophomores first at Ohlone to receive award since 2008 CRISTIAN MEDINA Sports editor The volleyball season may have ended six months ago, but the Lady Renegades have another honor to add to their impressive 2015 season. While it’s no secret that Ohlone was successful on
the court, they also excelled in the classroom. Last week, team captains Camaryn Bricker and Jenni Brochu were selected to the 2015-2016 California Community College Women’s Volleyball Coaches Association Scholar Athlete Team. Despite missing the playoffs, Bricker and Brochu led the Renegades to their most successful season in recent years. Bricker, a setter, led the team in assists with 588. Brochu, an outside hit-
ter, paved the way for the team’s offense with 280 kills on the season. The two sophomores were two of 18 total volleyball student-athletes in the entire state of California selected for the honor. The criteria included completing a season taking 24 units of classes and a minimum GPA of 3.5. This is also the first time any Ohlone College Volleyball player has received this award since Head Coach Jeremy Penaflor took over in 2008.
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NEWS BITES Monitor wins statewide award for enterprise reporting Transfer celebration
A Transfer Achievement Celebration will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in Room NC 1100 on the Newark campus. Transferring students can gather to celebrate their achievements; enjoy some light refreshments; and meet and network with others transferring to the same school, as well as with college representatives and alumni. Students can register and then stop by anytime during the event to receive a customized certificate and transfer achievement pin. To receive the certificate, RSVP by Friday at www.ohlone.edu/org/ transfer/form-transferachievement.html. The Transfer Center is located on the third floor of Building 7 on the Fremont campus, and in Room 1312 on the Newark campus.
MOB event back on “Make Ohlone Beautiful” is back on for Monday after the event was canceled last month. Volunteers will meet from 8:30 to 9 a.m. in front of Building 19 to get work assignments. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided. Cleanup work will be from 9 a.m. to noon, although volunteers don’t need to commit to all three hours. Trash bags, “picker uppers” and disposable gloves will be provided. Volunteers should wear sturdy shoes and bring their own work gloves. To RSVP, go to www. surveymonkey.com/r/ PPRPW5V.
See Mercury in Transit The Astrophysics Club and Student Activities are hosting a “Mercury in Transit” event Monday to watch the sun as the planet Mercury passes in front of it. This transit of Mercury happens only every decade or so. The last one was in 2006. The event, from 10 a.m. to noon, will include solar-equipped telescopes, planetthemed activities and displays, and free food, music and a photo booth. – Compiled by Monitor staff
MONITOR STAFF The Monitor picked up a first-place award for enterprise reporting and another first for illustration in the statewide Campus Excellence in Journalism awards, part of the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspapers Contest. The prizes, awarded in the two-year college category, were announced Saturday during a banquet at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The Monitor staff won first place for enterprise news story or series for last year’s three-part series about mental health on campus, and photo editor Ivan Vargas won a firstplace award for illustration. In addition, news editor Brianne O’Sullivan received a second-place award for best columns, designer Shuai Liu finished second for illustration, and cartoonist Joy Moon was a blue-ribbon finalist for illustration. Six current and former Monitor staffers attended Saturday’s event, which included a panel of attorneys and journalists discussing legal access issues, and a keynote speech by Jack Ohman, a cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for Editorial Cartooning.
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Above: Jack Ohman, left, a cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for Editorial Cartooning, signs his caricature of Joshua Miller of Long Beach City College at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco on Saturday. Ohman drew several caricatures of audience members after he delivered the keynote speech at the Better Newspapers Contest awards banquet. Left: Mitchell Walther, former editor-in-chief of the Monitor, attends the awards banquet.
Panel discusses Asian American experinces Continued from Page 1 Americans and discussed issues of minority identity in American society. Topics included model minorities, representation of Asians in the media, and white appropriation of Asian culture. “It needs to be recognized that the culture and history of minority groups is extremely important to American society,” Wang said. The panel also explored the controversial case of Peter Liang, an Asian American police officer sentenced to probation and community service after he was convicted of manslaughter – later reduced to criminally negligent homicide – in the
2014 shooting of a black man. “As a fellow minority group, the Asian American community needs to support the Black Lives Matter movement, because it is a similar struggle,” Lieu said. The event featured guests heavily involved in the Asian American equality movement. UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Li-Chi Wang is a renowned activist who helped establish UC Berkeley’s Asian American Studies department. Professor Funie Hsu, who discussed cultural representation, teaches American Studies at San Jose State University. Discussion came to a close with a round of ap-
plause and a final statement by Kan: “I hope that what our panelists have shared today gives you courage to go out and make your voices heard, share your experiences, and speak out against injustices.”
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I HOPE THAT WHAT OUR PANELISTS HAVE SHARED TODAY GIVES YOU COURAGE TO GO OUT AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD - WINNIE KAN
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Math team ties for 8th in country Continued from Page 1 Certificates of Excellence to top scorers. According to the Math Club’s information page, the group is for “students who house a passion for mathematics.” For more information about the club, contact the club’s advisor Geoff Hirsch at ghirsch@ ohlone.edu. Students can prepare for future Student Math League Competitions by reviewing past exams. Go to http:// math.fullcoll.edu/amatyc. html and then click on previous exams.
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Ohlone Math Club members, from left, Kelly Martinez, Wu Sun and Yaner He were in Ohlone’s top five in the most recent round of the Student Math League competition, in which Ohlone tied for eighth in the nation. Also finishing in the top five were Joshua Ngotiaoco and Thinh Lu.
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FEATURES
Legendary performance
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The Ohlone Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Tony Clements, performed “Legends and Myths” at the Smith Center on the Fremont campus on Sunday. The program featured “Inferno” and “Ascension” from Robert W. Smith’s epic Divine Comedy Symphony, “Danse Bacchanale” by Camille Saint-Saëns, Leonard Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide,” and works by Julie Giroux, David Lovrien, Fisher Tull and Johann Strauss.
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My search for a new radio job I normally write columns about the latest news regarding radio broadcasting, but I have made some news of my own. I was let go from my PSA voiceover job at Entercom Classic Hip Hop station KRBQ (Q102) last week. The new Program Director Elroy Smith said it was because of “budget cuts.” I’ve been with the station for almost a year and a half and I’ve always been there for every recording session. If you don’t already know, I served as a member of the Doghouse Morning Show when they were at KYLD (Wild 94.9) from August 1996 to April 2005. I also helped out in their Promotions Department for several more years, until I was let go
from there in August 2008. I received help and assistance from a wellness program I was in called Choices for the first year that I worked for Q102. I continued to work there even after I graduated from that program and continued to work unassisted. Over the weekend, the new “boss” Elroy Smith began running promos asking listeners to “Tell the Boss” what they think about Q102. I would like to thank everyone on my Facebook page, including my old boss Trevor Simpson, for their kind words and words of encouragement as I now begin on my new radio job search.
language music station, KLOK had an all-request format called “Yes/No” radio, inviting listeners to call the station every time a certain song is put up for voting and to vote “Yes” if they would like the song to be added to their playlist or vote “No” if they would like to have it removed from the playlist. Do you think the “Yes/No” radio format would work in today’s radio environment, with all the social media websites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat)?
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Music superstars Mike Posner, Lukas Graham and Ellie Goulding will be special guests on this week’s episode of “Most Requested Live with Romeo.” The show airs from 4 to 9 p.m. every Saturday on more than 150 top 40 radio stations worldwide. Mo r e i n f o r m a t i o n about this show, including how to listen and interact with the MRL crew, can be found on their website at www. mostrequestedlive.com.
If there is one radio station from the past that I would like to see make a comeback, I would say 1170 KLOK in San Jose. I remember listening to this radio station in the 1970s and ’80s and they played really good music. They got me educated about happenings in the music industry at the time by back announcing the title and artist of the song and also the year that it was released. Toward the end of its run as an English
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$300 prizes on offer for best short story, memoir MONITOR STAFF The deadline is May 12 to submit entries to the 14th Award for Short Story (fiction and memoir nonfiction). Prizes of $300 for best short story and $300 for best memoir will be awarded in May, and the winning stories (or an excerpt) will be published on the website of the English Department and the Monitor. The contest was initiated by Professor Emeritus Karen Rosenbaum, who taught creative writing, literature and composition for more than 30 years at Ohlone. It is administered by Carmen Madden, associate professor of English. E n t ra n t s m u s t h a v e been enrolled in at least three units at Ohlone during the academic year. No previously published stories are eligible.
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Students interested in submitting should follow these guidelines: • E n t r i e s s h o u l d be no longer than 2,000 words. • Only two entries per writer will be accepted. • Each entry should have a cover page containing the title of the story, the writer’s name, telephone number, mailing address and an e-mail address. The pages that contain the text of the story should have only the title of the story and a page number. • Entries should be typed or word-processed, numbered, and be doublespaced. Submissions will be accepted no later than May 12. Entries can be emailed to cmadden@ohlone.edu or mailed to Carmen Madden, Associate Professor of English, 43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539.
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Who’s laughing now? The show is over. After the absolute chaos of the past few days, Trump is left standing as the presumptive Republican nominee. Remember when, just a few months ago, Donald Trump running for president was an easy, go-to conversation where everyone just kind of laughed about the ridiculousness of it all? The Huffington Post even ran stories about his campaign in the entertainment section. No one, except maybe Trump supporters, are laughing now. So what happened to Cruz and Kasich, the dynamic duo who swore to take Donald down? After a decisive defeat in
IndianaTuesday, Cruz made a speech where he announced he was suspending his campaign. “From the beginning I’ve said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Tonight, I’m sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed,” Cruz said in his speech. “The voters chose another path, and so with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign.” At the end of the speech, he went on to punch his wife in the face on national television. The Zodiac Killer strikes again. The next day Kasich announced he also was dropping out of the race. Kasich held 153 delegates. A Republican candidate needs 1,237 to secure the nomination. Cruz and Kasich dropping out of the race practically guarantees Trump the nomination. Who would have thought, when Trump announced his candidacy in June, he had a serious chance?
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Fat and fab This morning I saw something on my Facebook timeline that made me cringe and feel so much pain for our world. A picture of a plus-size woman in her prom dress. What should have been one of the greatest memories of her life was turned into the most horrible when her photo went viral. Instead of people wishing her the time of her life, this photo went viral because of our society’s habit of body shaming. No, wait … not habit … its incessant need to police other
people’s bodies! Yes, if you haven’t already noticed, I’m angry. I’m angry that this beautiful girl regrets posting this picture. I’m angry that she will always hold this memory of her prom. I’m angry that our society has made a “norm” for women’s bodies that is impossible (and unnecessary) to achieve. W h y s h o u l d we b e ashamed of our rolls, our cellulite, and our stretch marks? Give me one good reason. There are so many women who wear theirs proudly and I’m here to tell other women that you can, too! What is a fat body when you have a beautiful heart? There are so many people who will love you for you.
There is no shame in being a plus-size woman, and there is definitely no shame in loving yourself. If you are fat, wear that proud. #fatgirlsslay Say to yourself, I am fat and I am sexy. Say, I am fat and I am beautiful. Say, I am fat and I am worth just as much, if not more, than those models in the magazines. In our society, body positivity is difficult to achieve. To this day, I still work on it. But it is possible and it is so damn liberating! This morning I woke up, with more than one chin, stretch marks up my stomach, and dimpled thighs, but you know what? I feel fabulous. #bodypositive #fatgirlsslay #fatandfab
THERE IS NO SHAME IN BEING A PLUS-SIZE WOMAN, AND THERE IS DEFINITELY NO SHAME IN LOVING YOURSELF
What is the most important thing you’ve learned in college so far?
MORGAN ERMITANO Undecided
“Overcoming fear and being open to meet new people” LAROSE WILLIAMS Biochemistry
“Pay attention to deadlines. And don’t procrastinate” DELANA PEREZ Drawing
“Don’t stress too much. Always turn in your essays, kids. Those are important” ELIZABETH RUIZ Sociology
“That everyone goes at their own pace. You don’t have to rush to get out of school”
KATIE WILLADSEN Music
“I’ve started focusing more. And probably just to take things one day at a time. Don’t stress about what might come in the future because it’s probably going to be much different than you thought it was going to be”
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Man sentenced in crash that killed Ohlone student MONITOR STAFF The driver in a crash that killed an Ohlone student has been sentenced to a year in county jail and five years probation. Austin Daniel Strong, 20, pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter in a crash last year that killed 19-year-old Karan Lomesh of Newark. He was sentenced April 12. Lomesh was killed after he had been riding in the bed of a pickup truck on Palomares Road in Fremont on April 20, 2015, when Strong failed to make a curve while speeding, the East Bay Times reported. Lomesh was thrown from the truck, pinned underneath and declared dead at the scene. Lomesh’s sister, Riti Lomesh, also an Ohlone student, launched a petition and went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks to try to convince the judge
to impose a stricter sentence. Here is her remembrance of Karan: My brother was a constant learner. A leader in MAST, a science teaching program at his high school, he loved awing the children with science. He was passionate about becoming better informed, devoting hours learning science. He believed that with knowledge came freedom from ignorance. Karan was steadfast in his convictions, always peculiarly his own person. A stern vegetarian, a nondrinker, a non-smoker, he possessed unfathomable calm and discipline in the face of popular opinion. Yet he never judged the choices of others, convinced everyone had their own path. We didn’t bother questioning Karan’s future. Without hesitation we pictured a happy marriage with a child, a dog, a house
full of music and electronic gizmos. I was always welcome in his life. He was an older brother to me, a guardian, and he assuredly promised his support and love. The day he died, I had messaged him asking to meet. I intended to discuss our mother’s passing. It is one of my greatest regrets to have not had an in-depth conversation. There was more to Karan than I profess to know. In my folly, I expected to converse about the most serious of topics when we got older, thinking I had all the time in the world. After Karan’s death, I walked into his room. Green water bottle half full by his bedside, special rawdenim jeans folded neatly on the ground, bed unmade and the gifts people had given him throughout the years arranged carefully in the corner for display. It struck me he had never gotten enough gifts. The
room’s scent was distinctly his: clean, light vanilla. His stereo system was spread around the room like a sonic spider web. There was a white film screen attached to a wall; he had intended to turn his room into a theatre. Hooked on the ceiling, a metal holder for a projector he never had a chance to buy. I stared at a black leather canvas poster with a centered black bat. I had watched him make this, carefully cutting the leather and bat shape. It
was a stylish, bold homage to his favorite hero, Batman: a symbol of strength in struggle and determined dedication to justice. The scent would one day leave his room, the possessions would move and over time disappear. To have been his sister has left me with a feeling of awe and reverence for the potential of human. Karan is a hero and he has left me charged with will to be all I can be, a tribute to his beauty.
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Student Awards Ceremony May 12 MONITOR STAFF The 2015-2016 Student Awards Ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. May 12 in the Jackson Theatre on the Fremont campus. The ceremony is held every year to rec-
ognize the academic accomplishments of top-performing Ohlone students. It is coordinated by the Student Awards Committee, a subcommittee of the Ohlone College Faculty Senate. A reception with light
refreshments will begin at 5 p.m. in the lobby of the Smith Center, followed by the ceremony. For more information, go to www. o h l o n e. e d u / o r g / f a c ultysenate/studentawards.
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Softball headed for playoffs
CRISTIAN MEDINA Sports editor After a winning season, the Ohlone softball team is playoff bound. The Lady Renegades compiled an 8-4 record, good enough for a second-place finish in the Coast-North Conference. They also finished with a 19-16-1 overall record. Ohlone will head into the 2016 CCCAA Softball Northern Regional Playoffs as a 15 seed and take on No. 2-seeded Fresno City College. It’ll be rematch on an early preseason game that Ohlone lost 6-3. They’ll face a tough opponent in Fresno, which had an overall record of 35-4 and won its conference going undefeated, 18-0. The Renegades will need to use their pitching to neutralize the Fresno bats and keep runners off the bases if they want to move on to the next round. Fresno ranks second in the state in runs scored and first in the state in RBIs. The team will rely on the experience of its sophomore
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Ohlone softball short stop Haley Keahi tags out a Chabot runner on March 31. The Lady Renegades will face Fresno City College in the CCCAA Softball Northern Regional Playoffs on Saturday. Below-left: Kassondra Kochan. Below-right: No. 14 Dina Ramos comes in to run.
leaders in these playoffs. Ohlone will need the consistent offensive production of shortstop Haley Keahi, who put up monster numbers this season, hitting .456
with 11 home runs and 39 RBIs. Oceana Orndoff and Jasaiah Gholston will have to bring their pitching games against Fresno as well.
The first game of the bestof-three games series will be at 2 p.m. Saturday. The second game will be at noon Sunday, with a third game at 2 p.m. if necessary.
Baseball fails to reach playoffs despite close finish CRISTIAN MEDINA Sports editor The Ohlone baseball team caught a tough break at the end of the season. Despite a successful season, the Renegades barely missed playing in the postseason. Ohlone wrapped up its season Friday with a win against Hartnell, beating them 5-3 in extra innings. The 13-inning victory was secured by a pitching marathon by Grant Goff and a go-ahead two-run homer
by Thaddeus Phillips in the top of the 13th. Goff gave up just two runs over 10 innings. It wasn’t enough to edge out Cañada College for a playoff spot. The day before, the Renegades also beat a Cañada team they were chasing in the standings to finish in second place and go to the playoffs. Ohlone’s offensive explosion ensured a 19-7 win over Cañada and kept their playoff hopes alive. However, Cañada would
not lose another game and would not give up that second-place spot in the Coast-Pacific Conference. Even though Ohlone had a better overall record than Cañada, the Colts finished with a 13-5 conference record while the Renegades finished 12-6. That’s as close as it gets. The season ended with disappointment but the Renegades will have a lot to look forward to. They’ll christen their brand-new field with a team of returning players like standout
freshman Naeem Knox and Thaddeus Phillips. Knox hit .298 while driving in 20 runs on the year. Catcher Phillips will return behind the dish after hitting .286 and batting in 23. The team also will have Grant Goff back after a phenomenal year. In 14 games and 12 starts, Goff compiled an 8-3 record with 46 strikeouts and a 2.89 ERA. The Renegades will undoubtedly have the right pieces coming back to be contenders for the 2017 season.
The NBA referees really need to get their act together. I’ve never been one to blame the outcome of a game solely on the officiating of a game, but the missed calls at the end of the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. San Antonio Spurs game was ridiculous. There were five missed calls in the last 13.5 seconds of that chaotic game two finish. The Thunder came away with the win in San Antonio amid a few missed offensive and defensive foul calls. Spurs fans have been in an outcry after an obvious elbow shove by Waiters on Ginobili went uncalled. The offensive foul would’ve put San Antonio in position to tie and win the game, but it wasn’t called. But what about Ginobili standing over the line? That could’ve been called before the shove and secured the Thunder victory. After the inbound, the Spurs recovered the deflected ball and dribbled and passed around before shooting an air-balled three. The shot was contested by Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams, who ended up in the seats of the spectators. As he tried to returned to the court, he was grabbed by a fan. No call there. In the skirmish around the airball, Lamarcus Aldridge appeared to be held and grabbed, preventing him from getting the loose ball. No call there, either. The next day, the NBA officially came out and said that there were five missed calls in total at the end of the game. Doesn’t do much good now, though. Maybe they’re purposefully trying to keep these Western Conference playoffs interesting and competitive and not a showcase of two behemoths in Golden State and San Antonio. Who knows what would’ve happened if TAM DUONG JR. / MONITOR the referees had actually called anything. But come on, guys. You had one job.