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More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are shot each year
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December 9, 2015 November I S S U E 718, 2015
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Vol. CXXVI
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Now Is the Time for Gun Control and an End to the Madness EDITORIAL BY RAMPAGE EDITORIAL BOARD editorial@therampageonline.com
H
ow many deaths will it take before our political leaders do the right thing about gun
control? How many more innocents need to die? When will our elected officials move to protect the citizens of our
Burglaries on the Rise at FCC
great country? We can’t wait a minute longer. Enough is enough. Now is the time for action -- to urge our representatives to stand up to the National Rifle Association’s coercion, to put the interests of Americans first, and to enact a sensible gun control law. With still three weeks to go in 2015, almost 48,610 shooting incidents have
been recorded in the U.S., resulting in 12,304 deaths and 24,847 people injured, according to daily reports on GunViolenceArchive.com. What this means, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, is that every day, 55 people kill themselves with a firearm, and 46 people are shot or killed in an accident with a gun. In 2012, the U.S. had nearly 30 times
more gun murders than the United Kingdom, 15 times more than Germany and six times more than Canada Of all the murders in the U.S. in 2012, 60 percent were by firearm compared with 31 percent in Canada, 18.2 percent in Australia, and just 10 percent in the UK.
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Hundreds Receive Holiday Meals, Gifts
BY GEORGE GARNICA
Reporter ggarnica@therampageonline.com
The recent uptick in burglaries in some parts of Fresno is reflected at Fresno City College. According to the Fresno Police department website, Detective Haywood Irving reported a 31 percent rise in vehicle burglaries throughout the Northwest Fresno this year. Likewise at FCC, there have been 34 burglaries of vehicles from June 1, 2015 to Nov. 17, 2015, according to Richard Gaines, interim chief of the State Center Community College District. Gaines says that some of the burglaries could be avoided with a little knowledge on what to do and what not to do while on campus.
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(From left to right) Sean Henderson serves food at the Winter Dinner. Students line up outside the cafeteria to receive a meal. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2015. Photos/Larry Valenzuela and Patrick Forrest BY VIANEY COBIAN
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Fresno City College’s first Winter Dinner event fed approximately 500 students at the college cafeteria on Dec. 3, 2015. The dinner was a free event with the purpose of helping students by providing food to those in need. Cris Monahan, marketing director, said that the event was made possible because of the help of many volunteers on the FCC campus, including office workers, instructors, as well as the president who was greeting students as they walked in. “This is a much needed service for our students. We hear that there is a lot of food insecurity in our student population,” Monahan said. “We are here to help students and
help them succeed. We don’t want anyone to feel a need for food.” On the menu at the Winter Dinner were turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, dessert buffet as well as free drinks. Sociology Instructor, Dr. Linda Vang volunteered at the event and said that this was a kick-off for Ram Pantry which will provide needy students with a bag of groceries every Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Part-time English instructor at FCC, Jennifer Dorian, volunteered and also helped coordinate the event. She said this kind of event started with people who wanted to help other people. “It is such an honor to serve students in
this way,” Dorian said. “It really makes us feel good to see the response of the students; we are really blown away.” Student Aaron Vang, psychology major, who assisted during the dinner said that events like this are very beneficial to students. The Ram Pantry is a project that begins in the spring of 2016 and is intended to help students in need by providing them with food. For more information about the Ram Pantry, please contact Ms.Maile Martin at (559) 443-8688. “No questions asked,” Prof. Vang said. “Come with your I.D. and you get a bag of food.”
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