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Assault rifle control By Amy Silva
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On Jan. 16, 2013 President Obama introduced a bill designed to increase control over gun ownership in the United States which would require background checks, new school safety rules, and amendments to gun traffickFrom left to right: Sujoy Sakar installing a sound mixer into the television console and Don Martinez films ing penalties and bans on assault rifles. with a JVC three tube color television broadcast camera in 1979. photos courtesy of chabot college tv The Assault Weapons Ban is only one aspect of Obama’s proposed amend-
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ment sponsored by Democratic Senator of California Dianne Feinstein. It would ban 157 types of pistols, rifles and other firearms. The Ban excludes all firearms used by the military, police force, and for hunting and sporting. Firearms which can fire multiple rounds without reloading, similar to the ones used in the Sandy Hook School shooting in Connecticut and in Aurora,
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STATE OF THE ART Campaign for fitness By Amy Silva
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Students, staff, faculty and locals were invited to join Chabot College’s Health and Wellness Center’s second annual Campaign for Fitness every morning during the week of March 18, 2013. Leilani Guerrero kicked off the Campaign for Fitness From left to right: Larry Leach, television instructor at Chabot College adjusts a JVC ProHD camera, the with simple group stretches, current control room with an audio mixer, dual displays and television production switcher.
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By Tammy Lee
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Whether television production is your course of study or you are looking to keep your skills polished, practice and hone your skills to prepare them for the real world in television production, Chabot College TV is the place to be. The television station which primarily airs on Comcast 27, has been the hidden gem of the Mass Communications depart-
ment at Chabot College. It is filled with a deep-rooted history and ties to the community it serves. Kirk Williams, Chabot College alumni and host of “A Second Tape, “a movie review show which airs on Chabot College TV states, “It’s a great environment. The facilities are good and the cameras have gotten so much better so if you don’t take advantage of it, you’re just wasting it. It’s here. It’s for the community. First of
focusing on legs and shoulders before the moderate sized group hit the track. “We’re hoping to get students moving, any kind of movement. We know students are busy with classes and work, so we’re trying to offer a free solution to students who are maybe too busy to take a class at the gym,” said Guerrero, who FITNESS, page 5
all, it’s for the Chabot College students.’ The Chabot College television studio, which broadcasts on Chabot College TV, has been around since the college opened in 1964 and is inside of the first building erected on the Chabot campus. During the early years, Chabot College TV was the first west coast college sta- Chabot College staff members walk the track during lunch for the section to have five campus ond annual Campaign for Fitness at Chabot College in Hayward, Castations, which allowed the lif. on March 21, 2013. TV, page 4
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Colorado, are targeted in the Ban. “These weapons of war...have one purpose: to inflict maximum damage as quickly as possible. They are designed for the battlefield, and they have no place on our streets, in our schools, or threatening our law enforcement officers,” said Obama in an official statement from the
White House. “I also believe most gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from inflicting harm on a massive scale,” said Obama. While Obama supports the ban, the Feinstein sponsored bill has been met with resistance in the Senate. On March 19, 2013, it was announced that the
www.thechabotspectator.com sault Weapons Ban would be dropped from the more encompassing Gun Control Bill, and will be proposed as a separate amendment. Without inclusion in the larger Senate bill, it is not likely to pass due to lack of support. “I don’t think it will make us feel safer, I don’t think it will make us feel less safe, if it does pass,” said the Director of Campus Safety and Security
Thursday, March 28, 2013 Keith Stiver, “We seldom see this here.” Firearms are not legally allowed on campus, and the Safety and Security department has not had an issue with firearms or weapons on campus. Comprehensive information on the Assault Weapons Ban can be found on Dianne Feinstein’s website at http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/assault-weapons.
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A 2005 nationwide Gallup poll of 1,012 adults stated they own firearms for the following reasons:
Protection Against Crime ...................... 67% Target Shooting ...... 66% Hunting ................... 58% infographic by allen s . lin
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named Kelly Arth. She was named Chabot’s College’s The Chabot swim team Female Athlete of the Year will be hosting the 8th An- last year and she’s got an nual Chabot Invitational excellent shot at making on Saturday, April 6, 2013. the state meet. Twelve commuShe’s definitely nity college teams one to watch.” from across NorthAccording to Kuern California will bicki, “In order participate in what to qualify for the is known as a “last state championchance” meet ship meet, you which Greg Kuhave to be in the bicki, head swimtop 16 places in ming coach at Kelly Arth, sophmore your event. Right Chabot, describes at Chabot College and now in terms of as “it’s approxi- ranked eigth in all of the whole state of mately two weeks California for the 50 California, she’s meter fly. out from our conranked I think 8th ference champion- tammy lee/staff photos in the 50 Fly.” ship meet and a lot of swimThe meet starts at 10am mers who attend this meet at the Chabot Swimming to try to qualify for the state Pool. Not only will there be championships. “ fast swimming but the divIn terms of Chabot, Ku- ing team will be competing bicki says “one of most ex- as well. citing kids is a sophomore By Tammy Lee
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Cherry Blossom Preview Day By Tammy Lee
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The annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival is one of California’s most prominent celebrations of Japanese culture and tradition. The Cherry Blossom Preview Day was held on
Saturday, March 16, 2013 in the Union Bank Community Room in Japantown in San Francisco to introduce the 2013 Festival Queen candidates and their sponsors. Also worth noting is the fact that for the past 40 year, the Fujisaki Kimono Com-
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number of classical style kimonos in the past, this year, they’ve chosen a more modern style, with black on red, and butterflies and roses.” Two delegates from the company, Ms. Hisae Kou-
saka and Ms. Eiko Nagagse, will be presenting the kimono at the 46th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival, which will begin in San Francisco on April 14, 2013.
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Voices: What are you planning to do this spring break?
Mosses Kodur (Chemical Engineering): “I’m going to Mexico to build a house and teaching the bible.
Justin Rodrigo (Undecided): “I plan to work everyday and party.”
David Wilkom (Video Tech): “I plan on watching and attending Warrior games this spring break.”
Armando Martinez (Accounting) & Eunice Mendoza (Speech Pathology & Audiology): “Were going to Santa Cruz and visiting old roommates.”
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Terence Johnson (Broadcasting): “This spring break I plan to stay home and chill out.”
Chabot’s new strategic plan for 2013 By Galia Abushi
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The Planning Review and Budget Committee have come up with a new Strategic Plan to better serve Chabot students through 2013 and 2014. The PBRC has one goal to achieve from the Strategic Plan. That is, “Increase the number of students that achieve their educational goal within a reasonable time by clarifying pathways and providing more information and support.” Jan Novak, business instructor here at Chabot, explained, “The plan is all about students. Helping you to figure out what you want to do with your life, finding your passion, trying to provide the classes you most need when you need them, learning more about students and their goals, providing more information and support. It has helped us to refine our class schedules as we try to offer more of the classes that almost all stu-
dents need and that are often difficult to get.” The Strategic Plan involves strategies and tactics such as, “Learn more about our students: their goals (and the intensity of commitment to those goals) and their time frames for completions, provide information/training to everyone in the Chabot community to help our students achieve their goals, help the undecided to define a goal, and get students on to their ‘critical path’ quickly.” To support these four goals, the PBRC suggest modifying Class-Web registration so that it is up to date on student goals, pointing out the main keys to student success and to create public web tools to help students make career decisions. Novak also explained that it is required for Chabot to have a strong planning process. “More importantly, though, is that we always want to be thinking about how we can improve to
better serve our students. The college exists for students, and we need to keep working to make it great. It also helps us to focus our money and our time on those things that we think will best serve students.” Tactics of the Strategic Plan also include, “Help students to monitor their progress along their pathway, integrate and streamline, (where possible) those pathways, build pathway learning communities to support students and to secure funding to support this goal.” Solutions to support these tactics include implementing DegreeWorks to automatically award certificates and/or degrees and seek ways to make “bottleneck” courses more available to students and provide more seats in those courses. The PBRC also hopes to develop a funding plan to support this strategic goal.
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Left to right: Cindy Grayson, hypnotherapist and medical intuitive and Joseph Ernest Martin, award winning psychic and international author, film their opening scene for Paranormal Insights Season 2 on a green screen, a second monitor on the studio floor shows the inserted background and what is currently being filmed on camera for the floor director at the Chabot College Tv studio on March 15, 2013.
TV from page 1 various biology and math instructors on campus to receive five different cable TV feeds of programming from the station. This led to Chabot being the only college in the country selected to participate in a specialist tour sponsored by the Japan Productivity Center in the 1974. As a result of DIVCA (Digital Infrastructure Video Communications Act) regionalizing public access stations, Chabot College TV has grown to become the East Bay Regional Center for public access television due to the established infrastructure, making the television station more accessible and avail-
MCOM 60 students Ryan Jang, technical director, shows Gabriel Aseron, director, the run down sheet while Dan Diamond, audio technician, monitors the audo levels in the control room. tammy lee/Staff Photo
able to the community. Sujoy Sakar, Chief Engineer/ Station Manager and basically the face of Chabot College TV because he is the person most identified by most people with the TV station, has been with KCTH since those early days when he himself was a Chabot student. Sakar has seen the TV station transition from what it was to what it is now and he is the driving force behind many of those changes especially when it comes to keeping up with the latest technology and making sure Chabot students have
access to it as well as expand our reach to other communities outside the Hayward area. According to Sakar, “We are now on Comcast 27, Comcast 28 (which is the public access) and Comcast 29 (the public access station in Fremont). We go all the way out to Alameda and I’m working on getting out to Livermore, Dublin and Pleasanton.” Chabot College TV also can be found on AT&T U-Verse 99 and they stream online at http://www. ustream.tv/channel/kcth-27-chabottv-live. Equipment at the television is constantly being upgraded to keep up with the times and Sakar tries to stay current with whatever is state of the art. The television station just replaced three of their cameras this past semester. Liz Grant, a former mass communications student, comedienne, and professional specialist at Chabot College TV joined the TV station to learn more about television techniques and to produce her own comedy DVDs. It is interesting to note that while the students at Chabot now have the luxury of learning the ins and outs of television production, with state of the art equipment, this wasn’t always the case. Chad Mark Glen, mass communications professor states, “The facilities, the equipment, especially in these tight budgetary times, we’ve been very creative in equipping the TV so it is really state of the art despite the bad budgetary situation.” Despite challenges, the focus has always been the students and teaching them how to use the same equipment that is being used in commercial stations. As Glen, whose background is in television notes, “When they’re in an interview, and the interviewer says what kind of equipment did you use? You’ll be able to say the type of equipment you’ve used and the type of equipment the Chabot television station has is impressive.” Tony Husary, mass communications major concurs with that sentiment as he says “If you want to get
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Sujoy Sakar, chief engineer and station manager for Chabot College TV in his office editing behind the scenes footage from the movie “The Call” at Chabot College in Hayward, Calif. on March 25, 2013. tammy lee/Staff Photo
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your hands on a camera, or get your hands on the switchboard, then you have to do it. It definitely prepares you. “ Having been a faculty member at Chabot for many years, Glen has seen the changes the station has undergone as he reflects back to what it was to what it is today and what it can be, “When it first started, literally it was the TV station played videos in classrooms so you go to the classroom and turn to the channel to that station and the only people that used the TV studio really was a teacher who would stand there and lecture. They went from prehistoric to state of the art and it will be interesting to see where it goes from here.” Some of the student produced programming that have aired on
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Chabot College TV include actual live shows, live sports commentary, newscasts, 30-minute talk shows every week, sports shows, and variety shows. More recent projects produced by Chabot College TV include a recruitment video for the Hayward Police Department and behind the scenes footage for movies such as Men in Black III and The Call. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/tv
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Chabot College Entrepreneurship Elevator Pitch Competition up to watch the competition. There was a panel of 11 judges that included the presence of President Sperling, Rick a Harvard MBA and former Managing Director of the Alameda County Small Business Development Center, and a venture capitalist. The competition was also sponsored by the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s, The Alameda County Small Business Development Center, The state Chancellors Office and Mi Pueblo. The pitches were full of diverse innovative ideas. Pitches were everything from a hair catcher that you would put in your shower (this idea won first place), to hubs in the mall where people who don’t have a credit card can pay cash to buy things online and have them shipped to them. Another idea was a service that guarantees a hand written customized card to your significant other, family or friends that will get delivered to them even if you forgot an important date. Last year’s winners got great prizes. The first place winner won $1000 cash and a new iPod Touch donated by St. Mary’s College. Second place won $500 and a $250 book scholarship from Pearson and the third place winner won $250 and a $150 book scholarship. Thanks to the success of last year’s competi-
tion a new one unit four week class called Making the Pitch (ENTR 9901) has been formed. This class is completely funded by the Alameda County Small Business Development Center and focuses on everything you need for a great elevator pitch. The funders have given the class three 3 business consultants. They are a Harvard MBA, a Stanford MBA and one of them has a Bachelor’s from Yale and has been on The Oprah Winfrey Show. These consultants and Chabot Professor Miguel Colon split the students up into four teams and are helping them prepare their elevator pitches of which the best 10 will go on to compete in this year’s competition. This year’s competition will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The location is to be announced. Colon said, “It is important to note they do this at Stanford, they do this at Berkeley, they do this at a lot of private four year schools. So a lot of the big schools do this. We’re kind of unique at Chabot in that we do this. The people that attended last year were blown away and I think they’re going to be even more blown away this year.”
about strategies and practiced their speeches throughout the ride down to the competition. The hard work paid off and the students By Luz Elena Hernandez came back triumphant. Out of the 31 schools that lhernandez@thechabotspectator.com competed, Chabot finished in sixth place in the Chabot students bring back five medals after limited entry category, meaning smaller schools, competing in the California Community Col- with five medals, two bronze and three silver. lege Forensics Association State Championship Jenna Hewitt won a silver medal in Speech Competition. to Entertain and a bronze in the Lincoln DougA sense of purpose and focus reigned on the las Debate. Jeffrey Chu won two bronze medals: ride over to Woodland Hills, Calif. where six one in Pro’s and Interpretation of Literature and Chabot students would participate in this year’s the other in Speech to Entertain. Sarah Knight C.C.C.F.A State Championship Competition. Ja- who won a bronze medal last year, showed imson Ames, Communications Instructor and Di- provement and won a silver medal this year in rector of Forensics recalled the team being very informative speaking. professional and hard working as they talked The participant’s topics included subjects like organic and sustainable agriculture, secession from the United States, the use of spider silk, the genocide COMPLETE in Cambodia and the Boy Scouts of YOUR DEGREE America’s discriminatory process of AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO IN not allowing homosexual boys into PLEASANTON the Boy Scouts. When asked what one of the highlights of the competition Angela Gregory, head coach of Interpretation of Literature said, “I think it’s the look on their faces of when they
realized what medal they were getting might be the best moment. Our students are very humble so they’re not expecting too much so when their name is called they’re grateful and totally stoked which is awesome.” Everyone who won a medal in the state championship will move on to the national competition. Ames said, “I’m really excited for nationals. I’m really proud of them. They worked really hard especially in the last couple of weeks and they really pulled some things together. They really pulled it together and I am pleasantly surprised by how well we did. I think we actually did better than I had anticipated.” The Forensics team will now be focusing on preparing themselves for nationals. They will be revaluating all their speeches to see in what way they can improve by continuing to do research, practice delivery and fixing any holes that the speeches might have. The team has also invited other community colleges to come scrimmage them on April 5 in order to help them prepare for the upcoming competition. Nationals will be held in Woodland Hills, Calif. from April 16-21, 2013.
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The Chabot College Entrepreneurship Program will be hosting its Elevator Pitch Competition on May 15, 2013 where cash prizes will be awarded to the winning contestants. Pitching is an essential skill that entrepreneurs must have in order to help get investments and support for their business. The Elevator Pitch Competition that started last year was created for this purpose, to help students successfully articulate their business plan. Elevator pitches are two minute overviews of what the persons business is and the market it would apply to. These pitches have three main components. The first being expressing the idea of your product or service. Then, talking about the financials of the business to make sure your audience see’s that your company is financially viable. Lastly, asking the investors to invest in your company. If the person is intrigued and believes in your pitch then you have successfully gotten an investor. The competition was held last year at Chabot College in building 800 where 11 Chabot students competed and almost 100 people showed
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is a Certified Medical Assistant at the Health and Wellness Center. The event was held on the campus track at 11:30 a.m. each morning Monday through Thursday. Participants were invited to do one or two miles on the track in running and walking intervals. Day to day participation varied, with about seven people participating each day. Guerrero estimates the previous Campaign for Fitness attracted about 30 students. “At the end we felt like we didn’t do anything, because it was so easy!” admitted Brenda Villarreal, who is a student at Chabot as well as a part-time employee at the Health and Wellness Center. “We’re always promoting nutrition and
health eating, any kind of activity,” Guerrero added. “Any movement is better than none.” Each day a raffle was held, and the winner received a healthy reward, such as a movie, a snack or sunscreen. A table was set up and had a nutrition chart and several types of pamphlets including ones on meal ideas for people who don’t have time to cook. “I do it every year,” said Sara Kjono, a faithful participant of the Campaign for Fitness walk. The Health and Wellness Center is located in Building 100, Room 120. Each month the Center hosts a different event. Chabot students have Sexual Assault Awareness month to look forward to this April 2013.
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The 6th Annual Disposable Film Festival kicked off its world tour when it opened at the historic Castro Theatre on March 21, 2013 in San Francisco with attendees from as far away as France and the Netherlands. There was a reception before the film screening where people mingled and enjoyed a variety of food including pizza, eggplant, roasted red peppers, IPA beer and what graffEats chef and founder, Brad Warsham describes as “a restaurant project we’re [Carlton Evans and I] working on together The 6th Annual Disposable Film Festival Opening Night was held at the called American Bao Bar. Tonight we’re doing a little red curry soup historic Castro Theater in San Francisco on March 21, 2013. dumpling. So it’s coconut, it’s like tammy lee/staff photo tong ka but in a xiao lung bao style. We also have a brown butter pop-
Katie Gillam, managing director and Carlton Evans, founder and festival director of the Disposable Film Festival in San Francisco.
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Brad Warsham, founder and chef of graffEats Steamed red curry soup dumplings. checks on his steamed soup dumplings. tammy lee/staff photo
Caleb Hoffert and Christine Reis both from Oakland dressed up to bring back old Hollywoord glamour to the festival.
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corn where we take all the elements of barbeque sauce, pulverize them, dehydrate them and then sprinkle them and season them on the popcorn with brown butter.” As Festival Director and Founder Carlton Evans noted to a packed theatre right before the screenings began, “the revolution is essentially over” referring to the fact that disposable filmmaking has gone mainstream due to the film Searching for Sugarman which won an Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards, was partially shot and finished with a $2 app on an iPhone. Evans notes “we have filmmakers who are just getting their start, making work that looks incredibly polished and more seasoned filmmakers who are turning to disposable techniques to help them film their stories” and that this year’s
films reflects that shift in public perception. Of the thousands of films submitted to this year’s festival, only 15 were screened. All the films shown were shot without fancy equipment, just point and shoot cameras, cell phones, etc. and the result is an epic piece of art. Katie Gillam, Managing Director of the Disposable Film Festival states, that essentially everyone has a story to tell and “the festival is all about helping people who have those stories, tell those stories and celebrating that and really celebrating all the stories that we have so there’s no barrier between stories and films being made.” For Gillam, the Festival was a serendipitous moment as she was teaching “this type of disposable filmmaking back in Ireland to unwed mothers and to formerly incarcerated individuals” and when she moved to California, she met Evans and “realized this was exactly the type of film I was teaching and realized it was so important to have and this is what I need to work in.” Festival goer and burgeoning filmmaker, Tina Richey of San Francisco says, “I’ve been wanting to do things like that with a team, and [by attending the festival] I should go get ideas and inspiration and go see what it’s like. Every year this film festival gets better and better. I invite people all the time and tell them you’d be surprised with what you can do with DSLRs and disposable, well, cell phones. I mean some of the coolest creative things have come out of this.” What sets the Disposable Film Festival apart from other film festivals is that at the root of it all, it is built upon experimentation and one’s imagination, thusly opening the door for a new generation of filmmakers from around the world who otherwise would not have the funds or the means to produce a film the traditional way. These days, everyone has a cellphone, a point and shoot camera or some sort of hand-
held camera so consequently, people with stories to tell are not limited by their lack of resources or lack of funding to see their vision, and are able to have their story told in a movie form thanks to disposable filmmaking. Evans concurs with that sentiment and notes, “what all this technology does is just give more people the tools to make films and if you have more people given the tools to make films and you don’t have a lot of producers behind them and a lot of sort of high stakes, it really gives people a chance to experiment.” Festival attendee Christine Reis from Oakland who also attended last year’s Disposable Film Festival and brought back old Hollywood glamour to the event summed it up best, “So now that I have a better understanding of how it works and how it all comes together, to see how it changes every year and how technology changes too. I mean the more you can do on all these devices and how much are the films going to change. “ According to disposablefilm.com, “the Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 by Carlton Evans and Eric Slatkin to celebrate the democratization of cinema made possible by low cost video technology: everyday equipment like mobile phones, pocket cameras, DSLRs and other inexpensive devices.” According to Evans, the inspiration that got him to possibly think about disposable filmmaking as a viable means of expression was a one-time use $20 digital video camera he had found that you return it to the drug store to process. The result is 20 minutes of footage on a DVD. This led him to reason, “well, it’s going to change the way people make movies, its going to change people’s expectations of movies and let’s start a film festival that will focus on this kind of practice.”
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A packed house for the Disposable Fim Festival 2013 at the historic Castro Theater. allen s. lin/staff photo
Edson Oda from Brazil is the grand prize winner for MALARIA at the Disposable Film Festival 2013. allen s. lin/staff photo
While the crux of the festival is the films, there are also weekend workshops, lectures and expos to inspire creativity in would-be burgeoning filmmakers. The 2013 festival secured high profile numerous sponsors including vimeo, uStream, zipcar and speck to name a few.
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“Tinanmen Square” oil painting on canvas by Hung Liu at the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibit “Summoning Ghosts”. An attendee visiting opening night on March 15, 2013 reads the description plaque: “In the spring of 1989, large student demonstrations took place in Beijing’s Tinanmen Square. on June 4, 1989, the communist leaders order troops to remove the protesters. In the violence that followed, hundreds were killed and injured. These events deeply affected Liu, who watched them unfold on American television. Soon after she completed several explicitly political works of art.”
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“Summoning Ghosts” debuts in Oakland By Jonathan Tuley
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Some of Liu’s sketchbooks, journals, and photo albums from 1966 through 1981 on display. allen s. lin/Staff Photo
On Friday, March 15, 2013, the Oakland Museum of California premiered it’s newest art exhibit “Summoning Ghosts” by Hung Liu. The exhibit deals with art that is both an emotional and politically driven subject matter. With the use of art, Liu expresses her feelings towards the Chinese Communist government and her take on war, women and political leaders. Entering the exhibit, video is shown of Hung Liu in her area of work. She is painting the pictures that are on display at the exhibit and talks about the meaning behind them. “Summing Ghosts” artist Hung Liu, professor of painting at Mills College in Oakland. Tammy lee/Staff Photo
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One of the first pictures after fully entering the exhibit is about Mao Ze Dong meetallen s. lin/Staff Photo ing with different political leaders. In the painting, Mao Ze Dong’s face isn’t actually in the painting at all. Liu did this to create a political statement. Throughout the exhibit, there are paintings of Chinese laborers in different settings but each show the laborers hard at work. A different painting was about solders dancing ballet. Within the exhibit, there was a section dedicated to the different portrayals of women. There are some depictions of Madonna’s, daughters, mothers, prostitute’s, laborers, and solders. Hung Liu’s painting style is evident “Strange Fruit: Comfort Women” 2001, depicts a group of Korean throughout each of her paintings. Often “comfort” women who were captured and forced to sxually serve Jap- times, Liu uses circles, either in the same anese soldiers in World War II. color of the background or in a variety of allen s. lin/Staff Photo colors so it can stand out and the use of
“Hua Gang (Flower Ridge)”, the painting is based on a photograph of Chinese slave laborers in Japan taken at the end of World War II.
dripping paint. “Her whole process is just kind of fascinating,” declares Robb Putnam, a former student of Liu’s from Mills College. “She is really just a remarkable painter, the paintings themselves are technically masterful, but they’re emotionally very powerful. The historical content is a big part of it, they are very heartfelt pieces and very personal.” At the exhibit Sarah Herdt, a Chabot student who attended for a school assignment was also fond of Liu’s art. “I love the technique, how everything drips and is kind of murky.” Many of Liu’s pictures are clear cut with a clash of her personal style. There will be an opportunity on Saturday April 20, 2013 to meet the artist where she will give a lecture and do a book signing at the store in the Oakland Museum of California. The exhibit “Summoning Ghosts” will stay open until June 30, 2013. In her own words from the exhibit “I feel like I’ve lived many lives”
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Hayward, California Movie Review:
The Croods By Davis Dichoso
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We’ve came along way since the days of The Flintstones, our new modern prehistoric family is now The Croods. From DreamWorks Animation studio brings us The Croods, a typical family with a celebrity cast voicing over such as Nicolas Cage as Grug the father, Emma Stone as Eep and Ryan Reynolds as the corky lovable Guy. Literally, from the beginning the Croods struggle to survive as the last known human forms on earth. Eep played by Emma Stone, is a curious and moody teenage girl who strives to be so much more than to hide and live as a caveman for
her entire life. Curiously minded as Eep is, takes a chance stepping outside their protective cave and finds a mysterious creature lurking around amongst them soon to discover another human named Guy played by Ryan Reynolds. Guy helps them discover new life about her and her family. As they embark on their adventure, they soon discover a new vibrant colorful world with trees, plants and water surrounding them as well as filled with cute and vicious creatures they encounter on their journey. Throughout the movie their new friend Guy, Eeps secret crush leads the family through the new world. Although the over protective dad Grug rebels against
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Guy to help his family, soon realizes they have more in common then he thinks. The heartfelt journey brings you closer to the Croods as they triumph from heartbreak to new hope. The movie is rated PG and is approximately 98 minutes long, so it’s great for kids and adults. If you enjoy nothing too serious, the animation is near flawless and is certainly well worth your time and hard earned dollars. ‘The Croods’
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Rating: Rated PG - Animation, Comedy, Adventure Cast: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds Running time: 1hr 51 min Directors: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
Chabot public art open house By Omar Gonzalez ogonzalez@thechabotspectator.com
On Thursday March 21, 2013, the Chabot Art program held their annual Chabot Public Art Open House where everyone was welcome to check out beautiful works of art that was around the Chabot campus. Many of Chabot’s staff and students were in attendance, including people in the community who are in charge of the art departments. A few members of the Chabot Jazz Band were performing at the event as well. Chabot art instructor Diane Zuliani, who helped conduct the open house, gave a speech during the event explaining the process of how some parts on the Chabot campus got painted from art drawings that were created by students Zuliani told those who attended that “Chabot got the opportunity to bring the seven finalists to campus and interviewed them and talk to students and created proposals for the campus, also they submitted videos talking about the proposals for campus and the art that would be installed has to be appreciable by all.”
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Artist Natalie Black “Grandmother Tree“ on ceramic tiles, in Building 400 for the Chabot Art Open House tour. allmon matarrese/Staff Photo
Zuliani announced the winning artists whose art proposals will be used on campus. “There were three winning artists the first one was Nataly Blake for a work called Homecoming that is comprised of 10 installations and the second one was Susane Lee for two artworks one called Sore and Swallow,” Zuliani said. Those who attended the event had the chance to go on a tour walking through the Chabot campus and looking at the artwork. The
tour conductor explained to them what the meaning of a specific artwork was, when was it made and who was the artist. Many of the Chabot students and staff that attended the event recommended that people should go to the art open house in the future because it allows them to appreciate art a lot more. If you have questions about the art departments you can contact Mrs. Diane Zuliani at dzuliani@ chabotcollege.edu.
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A group picture was taken during the end of the event with Jarrett Jack (2), the Warriors Girls, Lucky’s Manager Tom Morris, Suzan W. Bateson, and the fans who attended the event.
Warriors food drive presented by Lucky By Edrene Abueg
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A young Warrior fan competing against Warrior Girl Patrisha during the Oreo cookie stacking contest at the Alameda Lucky’s food drive.
On Friday March 22, 2013, the Golden State Warriors and Lucky Supermarket hosted a fan fest tent event and food drive at the Marina Village Lucky Supermarket in Alameda. By going to the Alameda Lucky Supermarket and purchasing of a $5 bag of canned goods that will be donated to the Alameda County Community Food Bank, Warriors’ fans had the opportunity to go to the The Golden State Warrior Girls (from left to right) Jennifer, Patrisha, fan fest tent event and meet Deanna, and Casey pose for photo’s for fans at the Alameda Lucky
two Warriors players. Many Warriors fans attended, as a long line of people waited with their $5 bag of donated goods until they were allowed inside. Fans got to meet and greet forward Carl Landry, the first hour of the event and guard Jarrett Jack in the second hour. A few of the Warrior Girls were on hand as well. Those who attended were treated with free bratwurst, and live entertainment and music , with Warriors Franco Finn, the Warriors hype man and
99.7 FM. Throughout the event, fans got a chance to win Warrior merchandise through a raffle and win prizes through a roulette wheel. Fans also got to participate in an Oreo cookie stacking contest as well. As the event was winding down, Jarrett Jack and Tom Morris, store manager of the Alameda Lucky Supermarket presented a large check worth $2,000 to Suzan W. Bateson, the representative and Executive Director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank.
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Golden State Warriors’ player Carl Landry (7) laughing and having fun, entertaining fans and posing for pictures at the Alameda Lucky Supermarket food drive.
Golden State Warrior Girl Deanna and a young Warrior fan team up together to stack Oreos during the Oreo cookie stacking contest. davis dichoso/Staff Photos
Warriors’ player Jarrett Jack, and the store manager of the Alameda Luckys, Tom Morris, present the large check worth $2,000 to Suzan W. Bateson, the representative and Executive Director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank.
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Pilot bike sharing program By Maria Maniego
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Commuters who need to travel only short distances will soon have the option to borrow bikes from designated areas come August 2013. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District signed a contract with Alta Bicycle Share that will introduce a bike-sharing pilot program to the Bay Area. The pilot program will focus on five cities – San Francisco, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose. The program will allow commuters to borrow bikes from designated stations that will be near “transit hubs, high-density residential areas and key destination points such as employment centers and universities.” Commuters will need to avail the type of membership that they want, whether it is a three-day, monthly, or annual pass. This will allow members to borrow a bike for 30 minutes. The Air District has yet to determine the prices as the planning is in its early stages. The purpose of the program is to assess its effective-
ness and “potential to [reduce] vehicle traffic and improve local air quality,” as stated in the Air District’s press release. Bike-sharing is ideal for “short distance point-to-point trips.” The initial plan is to deploy 700 bicycles at 70 kiosks “for a period of 12 to 24 months of testing.” According to Programs Manager Karen Schkolnick, the Air District is now looking for potential sites as the plan progresses. The Air District plans to release updates regarding locations by May or June. The San Francisco Bike Coalition supports the idea of a bike-sharing program. “Cities like Boston, Denver and Washington DC already have successful programs that are providing affordable, easy, green transportation for tens of thousands of residents and visitors,” according to Communications Director Kristin Smith. “Bike share will alleviate some of the overcrowding on transit and give people another affordable way to get around the Bay Area,” Smith adds. The group is also suggesting expanding the program
further. Smith adds that the Air District plans to deploy 350 bikes in San Francisco and the rest in the Peninsula. “This is way too small to meet the demand for [bikes] and to accommodate the Bay Area’s population,” she stated. Current sponsors of the program include local agency partners and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission along with the Air District. As the group seeks to expand the program, they are still looking for potential sponsors to help with funding. The initial cost is approximately $7 million. The group is also suggesting expanding the program further. Smith adds that the Air District plans to deploy 350 bikes in San Francisco and the rest in the Peninsula. “This is way too small to meet the demand for [bikes] and to accommodate the Bay Area’s population,” she stated. http://www.sfmta.com/cms/ bshare/indxbishare.htm
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AC Transit fee proposal AC Transit buses on lines 97 (front) and 22 Clockwise (rear) picking up students from the bus stop at Chabot College located by the main enterance. ALEX HARMON/ Staff Photo
By Alex Harmon
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Instead of raising fares as already planned, the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District is considering a proposal to lower their basic fare from $2.10 to $2 this summer with one catch; no more bus-tobus transfers. “Transfers are the greatest invention ever,” said AC Transit rider Melissa Miller. According to AC Transit staff members, the transfers are abused and the source of conflicts between operators and riders. To go along with the proposed discounted paper a transfer, AC Transit is also proposing day passes and/or one-week passes on a Clipper card. In addition, there are plans to expand the amount of locations of Clipper card sales locations, focusing service on major “trunk” corridor. There are plans of adding an additional Transbay route along Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland due to capacity problems of BART trains during commute hours. AC Transit will develop and plan out the changes with chances for public input in the upcoming months. AC Transit serves western Alameda and Contra Costa counties with bus service along with several Transbay lines to San Francisco and San Mateo County.
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Chabot men’s baseball extends their win streak
Gladiators’ take over first place in their division By Chris Booker
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On Tuesday March 19, 2013, the Chabot Gladiators baseball team defeated Cabrillo College with a score of 8-2. It extended Chabot’s win streak to five in a row and it helped them overtake Mission Community College for first place in the Coast/Golden Gate Conference. The scoring began early for both teams in the ballgame with Cabrillo scoring first in the top of the first inning. Chabot answered back in the bottom half of the inning via a sacrifice fly by Andre Davis to tie the game at one.
After a 1-2-3 top of the second inning by Chabot starting pitcher Matt Narajara, Chabot’s offense would go on and score a total of four runs in the bottom half of the inning to make the score 5-1. The bottom half of the inning was highlighted by a two-run double by Tyler Davis, a RBI single by Brian Hamm, and an sacrifice fly by Andre Davis. In the seventh inning, with the score being 5-2 in favor of Chabot, the Gladiator’s offense would go on to score three more times. An RBI single by Joe Mello and a two run double by Pat Mason contributed to the lead. This would be enough for Chabot to win the game as the final score was 8-2. This Chabot Gladiators victory marked their fifth in
a row and it couldn’t have been done without their starting pitcher Matt Narajara. Narajara’s performance helped the Gladiators win the game as he pitched seven strong innings, giving up only two runs on seven hits. He also had six strikeouts and he picked-off runners at first base not once but twice. Speaking to him after the game regarding the team’s fifth win in a row he stated, “It feels really good. We’re starting to really come together. It feels nice to get that next win. We’re going to move on from here. We have to keep working hard, keep playing hard, and keep playing our game. We should keep on rolling.” Another player who stood out from the game was relief pitcher James
Gladiators’ head coach Steve Friend leads his team to victory over Cabrillo College, extending their winning streak to five straight wins in Hayward, Calif. on March 19, 2013.
Carter who came into the eighth inning to keep the defense intact. He did so by striking out two batters and giving up only one unearned run. His response to winning their fifth game in a
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row was, “It felt really good because in the beginning in the year we were struggling, but now we’re playing really well as a team. We’re hitting well, pitching well, and everything is going well.
Gladiators dominate over CCSF, winning 15-2 By Elise Reyes
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On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Gladiator baseball faced against fellow division team San Francisco City College and came out the outstanding victor with a final score of 15-2. With a prompt 2:30 p.m. start, clear skies and cool breezes, the game began as any other game would: both teams eying a win. The game started off with Chabot’s starting pitcher Logan Truex getting out of the first inning quickly. Once in the bottom of the first, offense got off to a fast start as well, with designated hitter Brian Hamm leading off with a single and rightfielder Andre Davis walking and moving into scoring position on a passed ball. The Gladiatores scored on a sac-fly by Joe Mello to take the lead. Spectators also seemed to be really into the game, even in the early innings. “They were yelling and cheering each other on,” Rachael Torres said. “It was nice to see team encouragement and how they all pulled together.” CCSF was quick to tack on a run to even out the score, 1-1, in the top of the second and then take the lead in the third inning. Although, SF did not have the lead for long, nor did they score for the rest of the game, once Chabot got their ups in the bottom of the second. Two singles were hit by
centerfielder Billy Johnson and rightfielder Andre Davis to start off the bottom of the third. With his fellow outfielders on base and in scoring position, leftfielder Pat Massoni brought them home with a two-run RBI single, giving Chabot their lead again. The hits didn’t just stop there. The Gladiators kept their offensive rally going throughout the rest of the innings, with multiple hits and runs in each. One run was scored in the bottom of the fourth, two runs were scored in the bottom of the fifth, and a whopping seven runs were scored in the bottom of the sixth, including a three-run homerun by Pat Massoni. “We had a really good team effort throughout the Chabot baseball player Travis Hull (28) takes the base and gets a hit against City College of San Fransisco game,” Massoni said. “It on March 21, 2013. andrew barber/Staff Photo paid off especially in the sixth. It was a good inning Martin Cervantez and An- BASEBALL DIVISION BASEBALL dre Davis. Conf. ALL Mission - Mar. 28 2:30pm W-L W-L A bottom of the ninth Gavilan - Apr. 2 2:30pm was unnecessary, consider- Chabot 8-2 14-9 San Mateo - Apr. 6 2:30pm ing the numbers the Gladi- Mission 7-3 17-6 De Anza - Apr. 16 2:30pm ators put up. Chabot won San Mateo 6-4 12-12 15-2 with a final box score West Valley 5-6 10-14 SOFTBALL of 15 runs on 20 hits and Hartnell - Apr. 2 3:00pm De Anza 3-6 9-12 only one error. Mission Apr. 11 3:00pm San Fransisco 3-8 6-18 “Compared to the beginDe Anza - Apr. 18 3:00pm ning of the season, we’ve SOFTBALL DIVISION Foothill - Apr. 23 3:00pm come a long way,” Massoni Conf. ALL also said. “We got off to a W-L W-L slow start, but now, we’ve SWIMMING San Mateo 8-2 29-3 got the ball rolling and ALL DAY Chabot Invitational Foothill 7-3 19-11 and we all had a good ap- we’re playing well.” Apr. 6 proach to our at-bats.” 5-4 16-11 As of now, Chabot has De Anza TRACK & FIELD The seventh inning was won eight games straight Ohlone 4-6 15-16 quiet for both teams, but and are in first place in their San Fransisco 2-8 Chabot Relays Track Meet- 12am & 8-15 Mar. 29 & 30 @ San Loren- 9am Chabot restarted their rally division, the Coast/Golden Mission 1-9 3-19 zo High School in the bottom of the eighth Gate division. Chabot Relays - Mar. 30 9am Chabot 1-9 3-26 with two RBI singles by
“Compared to the beginning of the season, we’ve come a long way,”