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March 12, 2015

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be demolished SMCCCD will begin large-scale “capital improvement” by summer

By Max Maller TSV Staff writer

Will Nacouzi/ The Skyline View Aisha Fukushima teaches a workshop on “RAPtivism” at Skyline’s Rock the School Bells event on March 7, 2015.

Rock the School Bells put the “hip” in leadership and the “hop” in workshop. This weekend marked the eighth year for Rock the School Bells. There were sessions and performances that emphasized the educational and social impact of hip hop by focusing on the key elements of the genre like, b-boying, graffiti art, DJing, and emceeing.

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NASA invites educators to explore the universe through SOFIA mission

By Erin Perry TSV Assitant news editor

A professor from Foothill College has been chosen to be a part of a NASA mission.

David Marasco, a physics professor at Foothill, will be joining 27 other people on a trip through Earth’s atmosphere.

Marasco went through what he called a “rigorous screening and selection process,” to be chosen for the mission and to be a part of the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program.

The mission will be completed on the vessel SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy).

It is a Boeing 747 that has been modified to carry a telescope. The telescope looks at infrared light, and can see through clouds of

dust. However, the infrared light is absorbed in water vapor, so the crew will fly above the terrestrial water vapor layer to make their observations.

Public Affairs Officer for SOFIA, Nicholas A. Veronico provided more information about SOFIA and how the telescope functions.

According to a fact sheet provided

by Veronico, “the observatory gets above more than 99 percent of the atmospheric water vapor and other infrared-absorbing gases, thereby opening windows to the universe not available from the ground.”

“We will be trying to unlock some of the secrets of the universe,” Marasco said.

In another report provided by Veronico, the program is broken down as an opportunity for educators to get hands-on experience in

obtaining information to bring back to students.

According to an update from Veronico, the SOFIA Program Executive at NASA headquarters in Washington said that, “the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program gives science educators a unique opportunity to interact with all facets of a NASA science mission.”

Marasco is looking forward to the mission, for the excitement it fulfills in him and for the opportunity to bring his findings back to the classroom.

“This is NASA; this is outer space,” he said. “It’s all wonderful and exciting.”

Marasco spoke about growing up in a time where man had already landed on the moon and everyone NASA continued on page 2

Skyline will demolish Building 1, break ground on a new environmental studies center, and undertake various other capital improvement projects in the first wave of a $100 million campus reformation.

On Feb. 27, campus personnel heard presentations by SMCCCD facilities officials Karen Powell and Jose D. Nuñez on the future of Skyline's campus architecture.

Powell is executive director of facilities, maintenance and operations, and Nuñez serves the district’s three college campuses, Skyline, Cañada and College of San Mateo, as vice chancellor of facilities planning, maintenance and operations. Together, they addressed Skyline faculty and administrators on the pressing need for renovations, as well as the costs that the planned projects will require. Nuñez called upon members of the audience, which included President Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud, Vice President of Instruction Sarah Perkins, numerous professors, and members of the grounds crew, but no students, to “use your imagination”

Max Maller/ The Skyline View Jose D. Nuñez

as the proposed plans take shape.

"It’s time to take it from the conceptual arena – i.e. so many square feet, times estimated construction value, gives you a number – into reality," Nuñez said.

"I don't think we have anything that's going to go beyond 24 months," Powell said.

Although even the major projects remain in their planning stages, the district currently intends to destroy Building 1, a 46-year-old, cast-in-place concrete structure that has never required significant repairs.

"For this particular building, because of the way it's configured, Demolition continued on page 2

Facebook tackles suicide prevention

By Erin Perry TSV Assitant news editor

Facebook and multiple mental health organizations worked together on a recent update that aims to provide support for those dealing with suicidal thoughts.

The update allows users to report troubling content. There will also be support resources provided when someone logs on to Facebook after a report has been sent about something that they posted.

One of the organizations that worked with Facebook on this project is Save. org.

Dr. Dan Reidenberg, the executive director of Save.org spoke about the expectations of the update.

“Facebook is truly the leader in this area,” Reidenberg said.

Reidenberg has been working with Facebook for ten years and said that now that the recent expansion launched last week, they are working on meeting

with representatives from other countries to globalize the project. “[Faebook is] very good at understanding how to take content from science and experts,” Reidenberg said, about the process and design of the update.

He said that the update is very positive and socially engaged, and that he hopes it “really does make a difference in a big way.”

On Feb. 25, Facebook Safety posted on Facebook that there will be updated tools that aim to provide “more resources, advice and support to people who may be struggling with suicidal thoughts.”

These resources include options of reporting troubling content to Facebook that one may see a friend post, and also options to those who may need help that explain support options that are available to them.

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Hate crime inspires Demolition plans petition at UCSC Continued from page 1

By Michelle Brignoli TSV Staff Writer

The Queer Student Union of University of California, Santa Cruz decided to create a petition based on their reaction and feeling to an incident that occurred against someone in the community.

Students For Action proposed their petition on Feb. 25 not only to UCSC, but also UC Chancellor George R. Blumenthol and the administration. The petition explains that the QSU understands and appreciates that the administration is trying to help them and that they offer multiple useful resources aimed towards helping students in these types of situations. However it also demonstrates that the QSU feels there is not enough being done to completely eliminate the attacks that occur at Kresge College, the sixth established college at UCSC. According to UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway, the school wants to do all they can to prevent hate crimes and address QSU’s concerns.

“I have seen the petition and am currently assessing what else we can do,” Galloway said.

On Feb. 6, UCSC students Brandon Wayne Beaton and Jesse Eric Robles of Los Baños were arrested by police officers responding to a call about a fight at Kresge College. The police are investigating the fight as if it were a hate crime because the victims of the incident appeared to be attacked based upon their sexual orientation.

There was a public meeting, “Strength Through Solidarity,” held at Kresge College Town Hall on Feb. 18 to discuss what had occurred. The QSU’s External Vice Chair, Samuel Simpson, said the meeting, “was attended by the students affected, members of the lgbtq community and allies, and several staff members involved with the resource centers.”

“UC Santa Cruz and the students here have responded in an overwhelmingly positive way,” Simpson said, also mentioning that students raised money to help pay for the victims’ medical cost.

As of March 10, 2,078 people have signed the petition, which means the QSU only has 422 signatures left until their goal of 2,500 is reached. While there are only four demands, each one plays a role of significance to the UCSC community.

“The campus has 40 all-gender bathrooms, and campus police will offer free self-defense classes in the spring,” said Scott HernandezJason, director of news and media relations.

This meets the first two of the demands that are part of the petition. The latter two demands are the “creation, implementation and enforcement of mandatory, university-wide trainings/workshops to educate,” according to the petition and “for the immediate creation and hiring of multiple UC Santa Cruz queer-specialist professional staff members, at least one of them being a trans-specialist.”

When or if these two demands are going to be met is uncertain.

“As much as I hope assault would never happen here, we must be aware that hate crimes are a possibility anywhere,” said AJ Bates, Skyline’s Gay Straight Alliance adviser.

According to the statistics, there were five incidents of oncampus aggravated assault from the years 2011-2013. The security department at Skyline encourages everyone on campus to report any and all criminal, suspicious or hazardous acts that occur.

“Learning that something like that can happen so close to you in a space you assumed was safe is quite terrifying,” Simpson said.

This is the reality that communities face when confronted by hate crimes. However, Simpson concluded that the overall atmosphere at UCSC is safe and accepting for everyone.

“This incident, while horrible, is a bit of an outlier and UC Santa Cruz in general is a safe and supportive place for members of the queer and trans communities,” Simpson said.

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wanted to be an astronaut. Now he gets the chance to work with NASA on something he believes will bring changes to the classroom. “[This] ties into that childhood dream,” Marasco said.

“This is what you can do with your knowledge later on,” is the message he hopes to send to his students through this experience.

The mission is intended to start in the fall, and in the meantime, Marasco is preparing for the trip.

He has had online meetings and is taking a graduate class in astronomy.

He has also spoken with the rest of the crew over the internet, but hasn’t met many face-to-face yet.

The primary emotion and expectation for Marasco is excitement. He is excited to learn things and take them to his classroom. He also believes that as a professor, it is his job to make people

excited about science.

Skyline Assistant Professor of Physics, Adam Windham, spoke about how he inspires interest in the classroom.

“Whenever possible, I try to bring demonstrations into the classroom to physically illustrate the topics that we’re discussing in class,” Windham said. “For some topics, this is easy: launching a projectile, dropping a feather or spinning on a swiveling platform are all easy to do in front of a lecture.”

Windham also spoke about the thrill of the mission and its connection to the community.

“We are incredibly fortunate to live in an area with so much exciting research being done all around us,” he said. “The more we get involved with that research, and get our students involved, the better connected we all become to the organizations in our own communities.”

it's a disaster," Nuñez said.

Powell seconded this assessment, saying that she could not foresee updating the structure to current environmental standards. She predicted that the new Building 1 will increase square footage from 77,000 to between 100-120,000 square feet.

"We need to take advantage of all of the real estate that we have on campus to serve the instructional needs that we have," Powell said.

During the presentation, Powell suggested that some of the old technology, furniture and upholstery from Building 1 might be auctioned off on eBay once the objects have been removed.

Lead Groundskeeper, Zachary Traywick, wondered if the budget for the new building includes all the new infrastructure that"" will have to replace Building 1's dated contents. He added that the upcoming work will stretch his crew to their "utmost capabilities."

The Building 1 project is hardly the only massive undertaking on Skyline's horizon. The district also plans to add a new environmental studies building and a new energy management building. When these projects are underway, renovation and improvements will begin on Building 2, Building 5, and the Early Childhood Learning Center.

Nuñez announced that classes currently operating out of Building 1 will be moved to Pacific Heights, “and any other spaces that we can find,” while Building 1 is prepped for demolition. Eventually, Pacific Heights will also be destroyed.

Some professors who currently work out of Building 1 addressed their concerns about the impact the construction and relocation might have on their teaching.

“We have so many programs in so many specialized spaces,” music instructor Zach Bruno said.

He drew attention to the thin resources in Pacific Heights, siding with teachers and students

who find the space less than ideal.

“Pac Heights was never supposed to be part of the permanent schedule,” Nuñez said, referring to Pacific Heights by its nickname. “I’ve allowed Pac Heights to be used for scheduling purposes, but that building is mine for swing space. I’m not going to spend a lot of money there, because I’m going to destroy it, but I’m going to try to accommodate, as best as possible, the ceramics people, the painting people, and the sculpture people.”

The upcoming work is being underwritten by a San Mateo County bond measure, known as Measure H, that passed last November. Measure H awarded a total of $388 million in property tax revenue to the district's campuses for facilities, renovations and construction. Skyline’s portion of the revenue from Measure H is currently $100 million, but the construction projects envisioned

by Powell and Nuñez will cost considerably more. The district is budgeting the three campuses’ planned construction projects at $473 million, the majority of which will come directly from the Measure H bonds, with the rest being gathered from interest on the bonds and other money already in the district’s coffers.

Measure H, which passed with 66 percent of the vote, stipulates that the $388 million in bond revenue may be used solely for architectural purposes. It cannot go toward teacher pay, or any other budgetary needs on the district's horizon. Nuñez pointed out after finishing his presentation that the state of California has not funded an educational state bond measure since 2006.

"Governor Brown thinks (the state) should not be funding education," Nuñez said. "And I disagree."

Skyline will host a follow-up discussion on the Measure H projects on March 25.

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Donna Bestock, Skyline’s Dean of Social Science/Creative Arts, thinks that having this option makes an uncomfortable conversation easier to approach.

Bestock said that this helps normalize something “that’s very hard to say.”

She spoke about how this update provides an introduction on how to normalize the way peers communicate about the subjects of suicide, depression and suicide prevention.

“There will be some people who are already looking for ways to help a friend,” Bestock said.

Professor of Psychology, Paul Tony Jackson, spoke about the effectiveness of this information being available to people.

“Facebook is another avenue for putting people in front of information,” Jackson said.

Jackson’s primary response to the update is that resources will now be at the fingertips of everyone.

“In terms of Facebook’s ability to raise awareness, I think it could be a successful technological addition to what it does already,” Jackson said.

However, there are some hesitations towards the update.

Bestock said that it may need to be handled carefully, and that it will grow

in strength and usage.

“There will be some people who are already looking for ways to help a friend,” Bestock said.

Another concern is how much of an impact it will make, despite the potential it has.

“How effective it will be at actually bringing intervention…is another story,” Jackson said.

When asked whether they think students will use the resources provided to them, Bestock said that she would use it, and that it can be recognized as a way of reaching out in a way that’s as respectful of privacy as possible, which adds a safe appeal to it.

Some Skyline students have mixed feelings about the update.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Victoria Baltodano said. “But I feel like a lot of people won’t use it.”

Another student, Sarah Fregoso, said that she worries some people may react defensively to being approached through social media in this way.

Student, Maureen Iriabho Okugbe said that there may be hesitance to use the resources.

According to the post on the Facebook Safety page, the updates will be available to everyone who uses Facebook in the U.S. throughout the coming months.

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Don’t buy into the UC hype The University of California continuing to increase enrollment system has come a long way since and raise tuition for its students is opening in 1868. Since then, the unreasonable. The beauty of public UC system has grown and its higher education in California is its schools have become competitive accessibility. The major factor that with the well-established, prestidifferentiates the UC system from gious, Ivy League universities of its lofty Ivy League counterparts the East coast, with nine campuses is that it is accessible to students within the system placing in the based on their academic perfor2014 Academic Ranking of World mance, not based on their income.

Universities.

Students in California are lucky to have one of the best “However, the UC system is public university systems in still a public university system, the world, and the UC system and continuing to increase has played a huge part in bringing prestigious higher enrollment and raise tuition for education to the state, while its students is unreasonable.” also making education from distinguished schools a reality for students who are unable to afford schools like Stanford or Harvard.

Professors in the UC system are some of the best in their In recent years, the UC system fields, and it makes sense that the has strayed from its original path.

UC wants to be able to offer them The prospect of tuition hikes, dea salary that can compete with spite a 2011 tuition freeze, has met offers from Ivy League schools. some well-deserved outcry from The system also needs its fair share students, faculty and government of funding for the huge amounts officials, for good reason. To remof research it conducts. For that edy budget issues at the expense reason, it’s logical that UC tuition of students is clearly a misstep for is higher than California State any public university.

University (CSU) or California According to data from 2013Community College (CCC) tuition. 2014 on the UC website, the However, the UC system is still system as a whole has 238,700 stua public university system, and dents and 135,900 staff members,

not including academic staff and faculty. For every two students, there is one non-academic staff member. With just 52,400 academic faculty, it seems unlikely that most of the system’s money is going to pay for faculty salaries or campus improvements.

Assembly Bill 837 was recently introduced, which proposes a salary cap for UC executives at $500,000. According to the UC salary database, about 300 employees earned more than that in 2012. Some of that money is provided federally and through the state, but that still means that students are paying more money than they can usually afford and going into debt to help pay a massive salary that the vast majority of UC graduates will never come close to making.

It remains to be seen whether the UC system will remain accessible and affordable to all students.

Given recent events, however, students should not buy into the hype surrounding UC schools.

Considering the cost of higher education in general and the growing recognition of the nationwide issue of student debt, you might be better off proving your intelligence by saving money and attending a less prestigious and more affordable school that gives more consideration to its students.

Republican party could be facing ruin

by Sarah Marasigan TSV Staff Writer

Who is in charge of the Republican party? It seems more and more each day as if no one is, certainly not John Boehner, who cannot control the extreme, right wing Tea Party members of his house. These members of Congress seem hell-bent on destroying their own party and have no qualms about taking down whoever gets in the way. The amazing thing is that they are not so much standing by their principles, but picking whatever fight they can that they think will hurt the president.

These are people who were elected to help govern the country.

This group of right wingers are also driving a wedge in their own party. Their latest fiasco is the battle over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding.

This should be a simple matter.

DHS oversees all the various agencies that combat terrorism, a much-needed agency in light of all the terrorism that is occurring throughout the world.

The Republicans will not let this be a simple funding issue. In order to slam the president, they attached the issue of immigration to this funding bill. They are going all out in order to get back at the president for his executive action on immigration. The more rational portion of the Republican Party

says that they do disagree with the President over immigration, but that it is a separate issue that should not be used to withhold DHS funding. As Representative Peter King(R-NY) states, this is “the delusional wing of the party.”

The Republican Party seems to have one agenda: Do anything to make the president look bad. That plan will have dire consequences.

According to a news poll done by CBS on February 17th; 60 percent of Democrats, and 59 percent of Independents say that DHS should be funded and not attached to immigration.

A bigger consequence will be at the voting booth. The Republicans do not want to acknowledge that the demographics of the country are changing. The Latino vote is essential to anyone running for office, especially for the presidency. In 2008, Obama got 67 percent of the Latino vote, McCain 32 percent, and in 2012 Obama got 71 percent and Romney 27 percent, yet these numbers do not seem to have any influence on the Republican party.

The smart thing to do at this point would be to step back, to allow DHS its funding and address immigration separately. The Republicans should come up with a sound and reasonable immigration plan of their own. With the delusional in charge, however, this seems highly unlikely.

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Welcome to my world: I am what I am, so UC Irvine pushback is excessive leave me alone

by Rene Bass

TSV Staff Writer

Recently the student government at UC Irvine voted to remove all flags from the school’s lobby.

According to The Associated Press, someone took the American flag from the lobby and placed it on student president Reza Zomorrodian’s desk a few weeks ago with a note saying it shouldn’t be in the lobby.

The flag was replaced, but the Associated Students responded by using their right to a democratic process. In the end, however the vote will be vetoed by the executive cabinet at Irvine.

The backlash these students have endured from this decision is reprehensible. An Associated Students meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding the flags that was set for March 11 was cancelled due to a threat of violence. Additionally, the names and photos of the students who made the decision have been distributed online with the caption “make them famous.” Regardless of your feelings on the American flag, the safety of these students should not be compromised.

What people have done on so-

cial media in retaliation to this vote is inexcusable. Although people should hold their representatives accountable, sites like Twitter and Facebook make sharing hateful things too easy. These are students who did their best to represent their fellow students and they made a mistake. Vilifying them in such a public manner can stifle free speech.

Posting their photos and names with the sentiment to expel them or stop them from getting jobs is not the way to react to something you don’t agree with. To be constructive, visit their meetings or write the Associated Students with your grievances. By all means let them know what they did was wrong, but don’t try to ruin their lives.

If it becomes impossible to make a mistake as a student leader who is learning how to interpret and represent the voices of other students without having your future jeopardized, it could ultimately inhibit people from making their voices heard.

I’ve been an introvert all of my life. As a child, my mother would push me to go introduce myself to people, to say hello to someone who we saw while out in public.

My sixth grade teacher would constantly push me to speak up in class, to raise my hand and provide answers and contribute to conversations. I hated that. It felt unnatural. It felt phony. It felt forced. It was just not me.

Now that I’m grown, I don’t care one bit. No more being forced to meet people, no more being forced to contribute to classroom discussions, no more being forced to date someone’s friend, and no more being forced to be someone who I am not. I refuse to put myself in the position to be judged by others.

I just don’t care anymore. I’m an introvert and I’m proud.

It took years to embrace my introversion. After spending so much time being unhappy with people pushing me to jump outside of my comfort zone, I just decided that I’d had enough.

My sixth grade teacher, Ms. Brody, was a nice enough lady.

She was from the Midwest and seemed to genuinely like the students. But she seemed particularly interested in me. Somehow me being quiet, not speaking up in class was on her radar. Save an in-

“No more being forced to meet people, no more being forced to contribute to classroom discussions, no more being forced to date someone’s friend, and no more being forced to be someone who I am not.”

trovert. After class, she would ask me why I did not raise my hand, ask me why I did not contribute to the class discussions or provide answers to the math problems. I knew the answers. My grades were A’s and B’s; I just did not contribute, and for the life of her, she could not figure out why I chose to

sit there quietly, barely speaking in the classroom for entire day.

I spoke to friends during recess and lunch and participated in kickball and basketball. I did not speak in class. Ms. Brody spoke to me after class one day and made a verbal contract with me that I would speak up in class once per week. That was a fail. I would watch the clock anxiously, waiting for the end of the class period, and raise my hand on a Friday at 2:45 p.m. The bell rang at 2:50 p.m.

It did not work then and it does not work now. I am an introvert and will continue to have difficulty speaking in public, going out to meet new people, and being coaxed out of my shell. I like my shell. I am happy there and will make a great living for myself.

Unapologetic is for all the introverts out there who deal with constant scrutiny and are often labeled as rude or anti-social. This will be a bi-weekly column written for everyone, both intro and extrovert, for a look into the day to day life of an introvert.

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Stop trying to live your life through your phone

by Haley Holmes TSV Staff Writer

We’re all guilty of it: sitting in a room full of people, staring at the glowing piece of glass and wires in your hand. At some point, someone has to say enough is enough.

Yes, it is true that the very nature of the internet and cell phones is meant to bring us closer together, but it seems they are doing a better job of driving us apart. Look around at any group of friends and you’ll see that more than half of them are more concerned with their iPhones than with each other.

Since when are LCD screens more interesting than living, breathing human beings? Take your eyes off your phone and give some attention to the friend you can see.

In addition to that, Facebook and Twitter are too quickly becoming the measure of friends. You’re popular on Twitter because you have 2,000 followers? You have 750 friends on Facebook? How many of those people do you actually know? How many have you actually met? Friends should be judged based on quality, not quantity, and it seems a little ridiculous trying to keep 700 friends when you could have 30 good friends, or 20 great friends, or 10 amazing friends. And those friends are made through shared experience, not one shared “like.”

Beyond keeping friends in the

Foot fetishes: What to do if your partner has a thing for feet

Confidence is key

by Nick Major

TSV Staff Writer

So it’s a Friday night, your ex left you a month Most people assume the will not consider using feet as a hand job but using your ago, and you’re looking only things you need to have for a sexual act. That is the toes rather than your fingers. for some action. Problem in order to have good hetero- side where I am categoIt might sound a little is, you’ve never been very sexual sex are the obvious: rized. Though it makes you weird to you, but it can actualgood at the whole picking a penis and a vagina, mainly wonder: What if you had a ly become really playful. Try because these are the most partner who really wanted adding some lube to your feet up “chicks” thing. But important parts and where to suck your toe, or lick the and that is when the fun really you’re horny. So what do you do? the majority of the pleasure bottom or top of your foot? starts to happen between you The number one answer comes from.

Would you let them do it? and your partner. seems to be, “go out there Fortunately, there can be If you are still wonderIf you are willing to try and be confident!” Let me more to it than that. Many ing what you can do with this with your partner, don’t just walk on over to the people like to use things such your feet to pleasure your make it awkward. Like I’ve bar, order me a tall glass as toys, costumes and even partner, the possibilities are said in previous articles, sex of liquid courage, fill up feet. Yes, I said it, feet. wide and varied. Some of is something you and your the ol’ confidence-o-meter, Now you’re probably them are not for the faint partner only get to do togethwondering, how do your feet of heart, while others are er, so if you end up not liking and get to it!

Yeah. Doesn’t work play a part in all of this? Be- much more approachable it, then so what, at least you like that, does it? So what lieve it or not, people can be and acceptable for a wider tried it. does it really mean to be turned on by your feet. The audience. Some men prefer Always experiment with confident? way your feet look can actu- kissing, caressing or licking each other. Who knows what Confidence is knowing ally be the reason whether or their women’s feet during you might find out. what can happen next. So not someone chooses to have the act of sex. Others might The Amazon Angle is how do you do that? sex with you, because they enjoy having their partner written by two female staff First things first: Know might love feet and want step on them or stand on yourself. This is the easiest someone who has clean or them prior to sex. Ladies, if members, on an alternating basis, who wish to remain part. Know who, and what, attractive feet to play with. your man has a foot fetish anonymous in their writing. you like. Flirting comes Unfortunately, there is and you’re curious about next, and all flirting really always a good and bad for how to satisfy this desire, involves is finding comall things, so for those who you can stimulate his penis mon ground. But whatever like feet, there are those who with your feet. Think of it your ground is, keep it

palm of our hands, cameras are completely taking over the world.

You’ve seen it: You’re standing behind a hundred people at a concert, trying to see the stage, but your view is blocked by 27 iPhones and 30 giant Androids. Suddenly you aren’t watching a concert; you’re watching someone record a concert. You get all the hearing damage with none of the benefits of actually seeing these people, not to mention the fact that you’re just asking for someone who is actually having fun to come up and accidentally knock that $300 life-invader to the ground. The point is, people are trying too hard to “capture the moment” without realizing that time and feelings need space to breathe.

Now, this doesn’t mean phones are evil, cameras are the devil, or social media is a parasite on the lives of young adults. What I’m trying to say is, take a step back from your phone every once in a while. If you’re eating with a group of people, put your phone in your pocket. When you’re out and about, take a picture or two and then be done with it. Live in the moment, not in your memories.

If you don’t, you might wind up looking back and thinking “why don’t I remember that?” and the answer is “because you weren’t really there.”

light. Stay away from passions, like your 150 thousand Magic cards.

After you’ve done your soul searching, procure at least one reliable method of transportation that is not a parent or guardian. If you have a car, awesome, but have a back-up plan, like a friend you can call at 2 a.m. who won’t mind a plus one. You don’t want to have a girl give the go-ahead only to have no transportation Next step: location. You’ll want a social setting where people naturally want to go and interact. Sadly for the under 21 crowd, these places usually revolve around booze. Think outside the box. The Academy of Science’s Night Life, for example.

But just as important as the location is what’s around the location. Know at least two inexpensive places to eat within walking distance. When flirting stops carrying itself, getting out and changing your setting will only help your cause.

Next: Know what to look for. Women don’t necessarily go out on their own, so let’s

break that illusion right now.

Look for groups of three or less. See if one breaks away from the group. That could mean going up to the bar alone to order drinks or spending more time scanning the scene than engaging in conversation.

Don’t assume she’s available if she’s “looking around” as she might be waiting on someone.

No matter what, though, be comfortable. Remember, you miss all of the shots you don’t take. Ask her about herself. If she starts giving you sentence-long responses, you’re perfect.

Remember to bring protection. Even if you aren’t necessarily looking to score, have a condom with you when you head out. You don’t want to get denied right when you’re at the gates. Don’t rely on her to supply protection.

More than self-sufficiency, this is self-preservation. This is a guide to sex with a stranger, not sex with your future baby momma.

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The San Fransisco/Oakland based group “Medea Sirkas” performing during the concert at Rock the School Bells on March 7 Will Nacouzi/The Skyline View

By Will Nacouzi TSV Digital Editor

On March 7, the 8th annual Rock the School Bells event took over the Skyline campus. Students and members of the community came together to take part in various workshops held throughout the day, in addition to the concert that regularly wraps up the affairs at Rock the School Bells.

This year's event opened with performances by Zulu Grem and Young Fia, followed by a welcome address from Skyline Dean of Counseling Angelica Garcia and Mathew Ledesma, a member of the Rock the School Bells advisory board, before keynote speaker and hip hop artist Jasiri X took the stage.

After the opening ceremonies, Rock the School Bells kicked off with a bang that wouldn't stop rolling throughout the day.

Attendees learned various odds and ends from each workshop that they attended, teaching them about hip hop, break dancing, rap, street dance and graffiti.

Nate Nevado, a member of the Rock the School Bells advisory board, mentioned in a video interview that a highlight that really blew his mind was when he was approached by a woman who flew from Mexico to attend the event only to fly out the following day.

"She wanted to bring some of the knowledge, the resources, back to the university in Mexico to teach to her administrators, counselors and educators about what she learned today," Nevado said.

He shared this story because in his view, it illustrates that hip hop isn't just limited to certain countries and regions.

The conference had plenty of workshops that covered the basics of hip hop culture, but didn't stop there. The topics included touchy subjects, such as police brutality, profiling, stereotypes and identity.

One theme that ran through each of the workshops was the mission statement of Rock the School Bells to empower and

educate the youth about the importance of higher educations, career exploration, increase awareness of the value of personal development and healthy lifestyles, and to promote social change.

The promotion of social change was best demonstrated in the workshop, "A Better Tomorrow Panel: Addressing Police Brutality Through Hip Hop," which was facilitated by Davey D., a native New Yorker and Oakland resident.

The panelists were Jasiri X, Dregs One, Nina Parks, DJ Kuttin Kandi, Skyline Professor Dr. Tony Jackson, and Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson.

"A word of advice: you may be an outsider to the culture," Dregs One said, during a post-workshop Q&A session. "It's probably best to look at those things not with an judgmental view, but with one that seeks to understand why people act that way."

Entrepreneur, advocate for humanity and second-degree black belt Nina Park also answered questions for students, pointing out that the way to change social issues is for individuals to know themselves and how they interact with family, friends and their community.

"At the end of the day, that is the key to shifting everything," Park said.

After the workshops, a dance battle took place in the cafeteria in which all dance styles were accepted, while the DJ/beat-making stations were available in the theater lobby for students to take part in.

By 5:30 p.m. the concert was ready to start, and featured performances from Skyline students, high schoolers, and others, with a highlight being the beat boxing battle between high school english teacher Mike "Eachbox" Tinoco, Francisco "Frisco" Romero, and Jasiri X.

Cephus Johnson, better known in the community as Uncle Bobby, speaks to students as a panelist for the “A better tomorrow panel: addressing police brutality through hip-hop” workshop.

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Mighty Jay Mae at the Skyline cafeteria mixing beats during Rock the School Bells 8 on March 7

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Post traumatic slave syndrome

By Laurel B. Lujan TSV Staff writer

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome impacts the generations of African Americans from slavery, affecting the behaviors of African Americans throughout the United States, a renowned researcher and author told a packed crowd on March 5.

Dr. Joy DeGruy, author of two books, focuses on how slavery has a more longterm effect than most people think, resulting in a reluctance to talk about the past and a desire to pretend it didn't happen.

DeGruy uses the term cognitive dissonance to explain how America has chosen to ignore the history of enslavement and to keep people of today ignorant of their pasts, such as African Americans and people of color.

“Why is it we get so much push-back about slavery?” DeGruy asked.

DeGruy has directed her studies on the "survival instincts" of African Americans and how slavery had caused multi-generational trauma, which is not a new subject for other parts of the world as well.

Examples of new forms of slavery

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that have occurred legally include the disenfranchising African Americans through through share cropping and Jim Crow Laws. As mentioned frequently throughout her speech, it has become second nature for African Americans and people of color to accept those limitations because of fear and post traumatic slave syndrome.

Nathan Jones, professor of English, voiced that he is satisfied about how everything turned out. He encourages student to come to see Skyline’s guest speakers.

“Being part of the speaker series, we wanted to get some people who are kind of tie into the philosophy here, and the global education, the idea of social justice,” Jones said. “And I think in turns to being able to heal our global community, in regards to understanding the slave mind and how enslavement has traumatized people of African descent and people of color.”

“It was amazing,” said Maurjani Jones (no relation to Professor Nathan Jones), a Cañada student majoring in Political science, “It amazed me how many people

don’t know these things, including black people.”

Jones did talk about how the diversity of the group who came to the speech was the biggest thing, knowing that everybody was being educated.

As a last comment for Skyline, DeGruy believes young people today should should acknowledge history if they want to make a difference.

“I don’t care if you’re a farmer, make certain that equity and justice is happening. It’s the system planning in classes in your work, that‘s how change happens. I’m passing the baton.”

cheese sandwich that can stand on its own merits. To be fair to the good folks at the campus cafeteria, who took a hit for their most ambitious sandwich in the first installment of this column, this week it’s the quattro fromaggio sandwich on the chopping block.

The quattro fromaggio is just a grilled cheese sandwich dolled up by the obligatory number of cheeses needed to make something fancy, and a name that’s kind of embarrassing to say, especially when the cooks admit that they don’t know what the quattro fromaggio is. The moral of that

story is just to order the “grilled cheese.” The four cheeses are not chosen for their complimentary flavor palates, but simply because they are the four cheeses that are already on hand for the other items on the cafeteria menu. That said, this is a cheese sandwich, and most cheeses play well together. If you are in the market for a $10 artisan grilled cheese sandwich made by a guy with an unnecessary mustache, go to Kezar Pub, or the food cart on Embarcadero, but buyer beware: Those places will probably subject you to their musings on the “fine art of grilling cheese.” The

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Campus events Dr. Joy DeGruy, on Thursday, March 5, discusses post traumatic slave syndrome through overlooked details of history pertaining to slavery and how it affects African Americans and people of color today at Skyline college.

‘Kingsman’: The Secret Service’ makes for fun a addition to spy genre

By Jay Johnson Special to the TSV

‘Chappie’ Visually appealing but leaves much to be desired

By Haley Holmes

TSV Staff writer

Jackson, and save the world. Other than the general story that's been done time and time again in other actions movies, many other parts of the movie separate it from past comedic action movies.

“Kingsmen” has a job to fill as it transitions from indie print to screen. Among the giants Marvel has to offer, it’s one of suave, brutal violence, comic book based humor, and at the very least a workable plot.

If there are things the movie does right, it’s definitely those. The fights will get your heart pounding and the jokes and likable story will keep you in your seat.

Despite high hopes, the third feature-length film from director Neill Blomkamp, "Chappie" falls short of expectations.

Taking place in the near future, "Chappie" follows a South African police droid (voiced by Sharlto Copley) that has become sentient, thanks to a new software developed by his "maker," Deon Wilson, played by Dev Patel.

Throughout the film, we see scout 22, now named "Chappie," develop intelligence and humanity all while combating the human forces hell-bent on his destruction.

Now, while this film had numerous issues, it goes without saying that Neill Blomkamp's style is, as always, impeccable. Every element from framing to lighting perfectly evokes emotion and gives genuine

feeling to the film, even making the scenery come alive. There is no question that seeing "Chappie" is a worthwhile endeavor, visually.

Unfortunately, it takes more than sight to experience a film.

All of that said, “Chappie” is not inherently bad. For the casual movie-goer, the film is an entertaining and emotional ride that’s well-worth the ticket price. For those more intimately involved with the art of film, “Chappie” may be a swing and a miss. Fortunately for Blomkamp, two strikes isn’t an out, and his worst films are still miles ahead of many directors’ best, but only time will tell if he can pull himself back up on the pedestal we made for him after “District 9.”

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cooks at Skyline will just make your sandwich and skip the hipster propaganda.

The verdict on the quattro fromaggio is that it’s a good enough sandwich. A solid B+.

This sandwich breaks even on pretentiousness. They aren’t acting like melting cheese is an art form, but they still make you order the “quattro fromaggio” like Mario Batali’s grandmother is in the back stoking a wood-fired oven. But, as is the case with this column, each entrée requires a beverage, and nothing goes better with hot cheese than cold beer. This is no

Brief intermission: bite size reviews of the latest media happenings When you think of spies, what pops into your mind? Do you think of a suave world traveler like James Bond or a relentless hard-hitter like Jason Bourne? The Knights of the Kingsman Secret Service combine the best of both worlds, well-spoken, dressed to the nines, British gentlemen who’ll take you apart at the seams and shoot you down if need be.

Based on a comic book by Mark Millar, creator of such series as “Kick-Ass” and “Superior”, the film follows a pretty cliched story.

Young, gifted street thug Eggsy gets recruited by super secret agent Harry Hart to join the ultra secret British spy agency, The Kingsmen. He's got to prove himself and take on the bad guy, played pretty humorously by Samuel L

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ordinary hot cheese, though, this is the quattro fromaggio, so this beer has to be special. The quattro fromaggio is best paired with a frosty Miller High Life, the champagne of beers, and a brew that hails from America’s dairy land itself, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Final grade for dinner and drinks: A-

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Badminton forsees positive outcome this season Discipline and relentless dedication are key motivators for the approaching game on March 17

by Will Nacouzi

TSV Online Editor

As March begins and the community college basketball comes to a close, the Trojans badminton team begins their season, which, like many sports, includes training to prepare for the months and weeks leading up to the first game of the season, in addition to adjusting for weakness that were discovered during last season and finding solutions to them.

“It’s been going well,” said Jan Fosberg, Skyline badminton coach. “We’ve been emphasizing conditioning and strengthening this year to avoid injuries, and just to make us as strong as we can be on court.”

This season, the badminton team sees the return of two veteran players from last season, MJ Pham and Emily Ly, while welcoming plenty of new freshmen to the team.

“We have a pretty young team,” Fosberg said. “We have two returners. Our first returner is MJ Pham, who was our number one player last year, and last year she qualified for the state championship in both singles

and doubles, so you know we’re obviously working towards getting her back to that same spot.

Our second returner is Emily Ly.” She added that while the rest of the team is made up of freshmen, some of whom are inexperienced, the team is working hard to keep that from being an issue.

This season’s team is made up of nine players, including the two veteran players. For the freshmen, the March 7 tournament involving De Anza, Mission, Fresno, and Pasadena colleges was their first taste of badminton at the community college level and a chance to get some experience before they have first official match of the season on March 17.

Returning player, Emily Ly, is confident about the upcoming season.

“I’m looking forward to it,” She said. “Let’s see, we have two sophomores, me and MJ, and the rest are all new, but we have a good team this year and I believe we can do it.”

MJ Pham, the teams other returning player, is looking forward to the upcoming tournament as a chance to find

out what teams they will be playing against, and to get a feel for the upcoming season.

According to Emily Ly, the team began getting ready for the season in the first week of February. Since then, they’ve been practicing every evening in the gym Monday through Thursday from four to six without fail in order to get in shape and ready for the season.

Of course, players can always use the off-season to get ready for the next season. Freshman Karen Lai decided to begin her preparation last September by taking badminton classes at Skyline and going with a friend to Bintang Badminton Academy to practice.

According to Coach Jan Fosberg “our goals always involve getting people into the state championship” when she was asked about any overarching

goals for the team as a whole. A goal that was achieved last season in spring 2014, when the team made it to the state championship with MJ Pham ranking sixth place in the single and fourth place in the doubles, with fellow teammate Clarisse Domingo.

So until March 17, the Trojans badminton team will continue to practice from Monday to Thursday in order to

ensure that they are ready for the first official game of the spring 2015 season.

Veterean player MJ Phan Will Nacouzi/ The Skyline View

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49ers in free fall without Harbaugh

by Terence Scott

TSV Staff Writer

What goes around comes around.

If you believe in karma then you can understand the recent turmoil that the San Francisco 49ers now find themselves facing.

What goes around comes around.

If you believe in karma then you can understand the recent turmoil that the San Francisco 49ers now find themselves facing.

Just a couple years ago, the San Francisco 49ers, under coach Jim Harbaugh, were dominating the NFC. The iconic NFL franchise was enjoying its greatest run since the late 80’s and early 90’s, reaching three consecutive NFC championship games and coming up just sort of winning the 2013 Super Bowl. Then Jim Harbaugh was fired after last season due management disagreement.

Think what you want about Jim Harbaugh and his personality, but his record does not lie. If Jim Harbaugh was still coach of the San Francisco 49ers, this team wouldn’t be winning only half of it’s starting games and have several years of rebuilding directly in the face. Football is a sport that’s not like any other. If you want to win, it starts at the top with having a great coach. Although new coach Jim Tomsula has done a great job with the 49ers defense over the past eight seasons, he’s

no Harbaugh. Harbaugh demanded respect from his players with his winning ways and on-field presence. Now, without him, players are fleeing left and right.

We have heard plenty of rumors over the last few days, but we are finally starting to see some actual resolution, and not just speculation. The San Francisco 49ers are likely to lose quite a few players to free agency. Frank Gore, the team’s franchise running back for a decade, left to go join the Indianapolis Colts. Threetime Pro Bowl offensive line star Mike Iupati signed with division rival, the Arizona Cardinals. And several other key starters are expected to be leaving in free agency in the next few weeks.

Additionally, five-time first-team All-Pro Patrick Willis retired at 30, an age which made him one of the youngest players on the Niners’ aging defense. Even Colin Kaepernick was allegedly tossed around in trade talks and the way these rumors were denied almost guaranteed their truth.

On the bright side, the team has signed free agent DT Darnell Dockett, WR Jerome Simpson, and WR Torrey Smith. But it is very clear: The San Francisco 49ers are a team on a free fall, and it’s all because Jim Harbaugh and management couldn’t get along.

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March 17 vs. Mission College, 3 p.m.

March 19 vs. De Anza College 3 p.m.

April 9 vs. Fresno City College, 3 p.m.

April 14 @ Mission College, 3 p.m.

April 16 @ De Anza College, 3 p.m.

April 21 @ Fresno City College, 3 p.m.

May 1 @ Fresno City College, 5 p.m.

March 12 @ Cabrillo College, 2:30 p.m.

March 14 vs. Cañada College 12 p.m.

March 17 @ West Valley College, 2:30 p.m.

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March 21 vs. Hartnell College, 12 p.m.

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Skyline holds off Gavilan College in 3-2 thriller

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Skyline baseball’s offense player Brett Berghammer (above) and in-field/pitcher Matt Seubert (left) making it back to first base. The Trojans were vindicated at the bottom of the 12th inning when they made a remarkable comeback on March 5 against Gavilan College.

by Katelyn Payne

TSV Staff Writer

The Skyline Trojans men’s baseball team won a home game against the Gavilan College Rams on March 5.

This is the team’s sixth home game, and their 10th win in the league overall.

It’s been a great season so far, according to Coach Dino Nomicos.

The game started off slow, with anticipation. The Trojans came close to a home run in the 4th inning and in the bottom of the 5th inning, but were not able to make one. Few runners made it to scoring position in these innings.

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From the scoreboard, it looked like it was close to being an almost perfect game, but it turned out to be nine innings of shutout baseball.

With both teams scoreless after nine innings, they went into extra innings. The score remained the same, with very few hits from both teams in the extra innings, and the Trojans were in danger of losing the game.

In the bottom of the twelfth inning, the Rams hit two runs, leaving Skyline with just a half inning to even out the score or hit more home runs than the Rams.

However, the Trojans had the bases loaded were able to turn the game around, hitting three home runs in the same inning and win

the game 2-3.

Nomicos said that the team performed well, and that it was the pitching that kept them there in the game.

“I thought it was a great game by both sides,” Nomicos said. “We faced one of the best pitchers in the state. It was a good college game that you rarely see, two pitchers like that going at it.”

Indeed, both teams’ pitchers were able to strike out most players, but not all. The game was a pitcher’s duel with both teams’ pitchers battling to strike out the opposing team.

Starting pitcher Aldo Severson said he missed some pitches but it did not hurt him in this game.

“My team did well,” Severson said. “We battled. It was a tight ball game and we went down in extras, and all we could do from that point was come back and we did it.”

They were able to score three home runs, scoring the game-winning hit with the help of freshman Brett Berghammer.

Overall, the game surprised the crowd, with everyone cheering and anticipating a home run from Skyline in the last inning.

“It was a really close game,” Skyline student Andrea Urrutia said. “It was very intense. It was good though, at the end.”

producing articles that wouldn’t exist otherwise,” said James Kotecki, manager of media and public relations at Automated Insights.

AI will be used to cover division I baseball first. Over the next 20 months, other sports, like Division I women’s basketball, Division II and III football and Division II and III men’s basketball will be added to the list.

Automated Insights works by retrieving data, analyzing the data, finding patterns and trends for insights, preparing a narrative and then publishing the findings.

According to a press release from The Associated Press, the coverage will be made possible through an arrangement between the NCAA and AI. The NCAA will provide game statistics while AI’s software

reports.

Barry Beldan, the deputy director of sports products for AP, was quoted in the press release as saying, “this new partnership will allow AP to cover more college sports of interest to our members and their audiences.”

Kotecki says that Wordsmith (the natural language generation platform) “is applicable in fields like finance, personal fitness, consumer content, business intelligence, and marketing analytics.”

Despite the convenience and innovative nature of the reporting style, there are some hesitations from the sports industry about relying on technology to do what people usually do.

“Watching a game live gives you a different perspective,” said Eddy Harris, Skyline’s assistant men’s basketball coach.

Harris talked about the human element that these articles may lack.

“Human element adds something to every story,” Harris said.

He added that reading sports articles is part of what he does every

Tournament sparks confidence

by Laurel B. Lujan

The March 7 badminton conference tournament was a rousing success, featuring teams from Skyline, De Anza, Mission, Fresno and Pasadena colleges.

It was the first game this season for the Skyline women’s badminton team. Jan Fosberg, head women’s badminton coach and professor of kinesiology, described the tournament as a nice transition into the season.

This year, the team has only two returning players and is currently training the new team members for their matches.

“We take an individual sport and we use those as points to win a team match,” assistant coach Jon Lee said. “We just hope the girls get better at the end of the year and do well in the state finals in May.” Each team member concentrates mainly on strategies, footwork and conditioning during and as pregame ritual.

Coach Fosberg emphasizes a healthy diet for the players, which involves lots of simple carbohydrates and staying hydrated during matches.

The conference was a scrimmage tournament, which meant no score was kept. In badminton, everybody plays and typically plays two single and two double matches.

“Our goal is to always qualify as many players as possible to the state championships, which occur in May,” Fosberg said.

This opportunity would be considered a great achievement. If any of the Skyline badminton players qualify, they will be among the top 24 players in the state.

AP announces it will implement ‘robots’ to report on college sports

by Erin Perry

TSV Assistant News Editor

The Associated Press will continue to team up with Automated Insights for reporting purposes.

Having worked together since 2013, the companies will use AI’s Wordsmith platform to report on various college sports.

“Our Wordsmith platform will be

Trojans bi-weekly results Men’s basketball

Home/Away

San Jose City College, Feb. 18 College of Marin, Feb. 28

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San Jose City College, Feb. 18 Sierra College, Feb. 27

Home Away

Results 56-39, Win 77-61, Loss

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Monterey Peninsula College, March 3 Results

Gavilan College , March 5 Results

Results 75-68, Win 75-65, Loss

2-1, Win 3-2, Win

Ohlone College, March 7 Results

3-2, Loss

Chabot College, March 10 Results 9-5, Win

day, and that the idea of sports being reported by technology seems a little odd.

In a report provided by Kotecki, it is stated that AI produces content that humans can’t produce on their own. For example, Wordsmith produces personalized articles for fantasy football teams that focus on information that individuals will benefit from reading.

Nathan Mollat, sports editor at The San Mateo Daily Journal, spoke about what this means for traditional journalism.

“I can’t imagine that it will ever completely replace journalism,” Mollat said.

Mollat spoke about the possible advantages that this technology could offer. It would be convenient and time saving for sports editors if stories about game results and bare-bones articles could be passed on to technology.

However, he believes that readers want a personal touch for things like interviews and higher level games.