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City College continues battle

The accreditation commision starts its reevaluation of CCSF prior to upcoming lawsuit with the City Attorney

by Michelle Kelly

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Virgina Hamilton, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administrator, examines comments and concerns from the audience during the Oct. 10 town hall meeting in the campus theater. The meeting was a platform for educational and workforce administrators to engage with each other as part of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity act.

Textbook sales plummet as rentals take off

by Danielle Bautista TSV Staff Writer

According to its 2013-2014 annual report, the bookstore’s textbook sales have been going down while rentals have been rising high.

There has been competition from bigger textbook retailers, with some students seeking other resources to purchase textbooks for their classes.

“It’s so expensive in the bookstore, when I can just buy them on Amazon or rent them on Chegg,” student Kimberly Aleman said.

Sales going down may not only have to do with the fact that rentals are cheaper.

“When textbook sales go down, I also think that students choose not to buy the book and try and get through the class without it,” Vice Chancellor Auxiliary Services and Enterprise Operations, Tom Bauer said.

The fact that some students

are choosing not to rent or even buy a textbook could also be responsible for a drop in sales.

Some try to share a textbook with a classmate who already has it, or just don’t even use one at all and rely on their notes, which can negatively impact their grade and success in the class.

Although some students may use Amazon and other renting sites to buy their books, many students do prefer to go to the bookstore, since it offers a rental program. Some find it more convenient to use the bookstore’s rental program over other sites because it’s located on campus gives them faster access to books, rather than waiting for the book to be shipped.

The campus bookstore’s rental program has been doing favorably compared to actual textbook sales.

“Are we losing sales to places like Amazon? Absolutely,” Bauer said. “Everybody is. Are we losing a signifiContinued on page 2

City College of San Francisco prepares to take next steps in its accreditation struggle.

CCSF will submit their self-evaluation report to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools on Oct. 15.

The commission has a site visit planned for the week of Nov. 16.

CCSF is working to rectify its issues separately from an approaching lawsuit between San Francisco’s City Attorney and ACCJC, which begins on Oct. 27.

The lawsuit is going to target ACCJC for unlawful business actions under the Business and Professions Code.

In a recent ruling by Superior Court Judge Karnow, ACCJC will be accountable to this code because it was decided that the commission was a business

for the purpose of the trial.

“There were a number of ways we saw the accreditation process deficient,” Gabriel Zitrin, city attorney deputy communications director, said.

In the original complaint from August 2013, the Department of Education found ACCJC in violation with some of the code of federal regulations. One of the issues brought up being that the president of ACCJC appointed her husband to be apart of the evaluation team, which they concluded as having the “appearance to the public of creating a conflict of interest.”

In the same report the City Attorney cites a political ideology difference having a play in the status of the college. CCSF had been an active opponent of policies and legislation that the ACCJC was in favor of.

“ACCJC believes its decisions with respect with City College of

District explores four-year options

by Jeanita Lyman TSV News Editor

Skyline is hoping to be one of the 15 community colleges throughout the state selected to offer an experimental four-year degree.

Senate bill 850, which was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 29., has garnered a great deal of media attention and many of the state’s community colleges are seeking to participate in the pilot four-year program.

However, geography and capacity of the schools to meet the program’s requirements are factors that will be taken into account.

Initially, each of the district’s three schools had been exploring the possibility of offering bachelor’s degrees, although the pilot program doesn’t allow more than one school per district to participate.

“We’ve been at the forefront since the beginning,” District Spokesperson Barbara Christensen said.

According to Christensen, the district has been exploring

the possibility of four-year programs in respiratory therapy from Skyline, radiologic technology at Cañada, and nursing at College of San Mateo. However, according to Raymond Hernandez, Dean of Science, Technology and Math at Skyline, nursing is off the table due to the fact that the state’s university system already offers bachelor’s degrees in nursing, which disqualifies it from the community college pilot program. He noted that dental hygiene could be a possibility from College of San Mateo.

Hernandez started his career in respiratory therapy in 1986 with an associate degree, before any certification was required, and has seen the field evolve to require more formal education since then.

Currently, Loma Linda University has the only four-year respiratory therapy program in the state. According to Hernandez, the western U.S is behind when it comes to advanced training in the field, with most four-year programs existing on the east coast.

Hernandez said that the lower-division respiratory therapy

programs at Skyline and other colleges sufficiently prepare students to work directly with patients and to be skilled practitioners in the field, but the increased training and critical thinking skills provided by a four-year degree would open up other opportunities in management, research, and education.

He also noted that it typically takes more than two years to complete respiratory therapy and other vocational programs.

“Most programs require more units than an associates,” Hernandez said.

He added that, in order to offer a bachelor’s degree, there were requirements that must be met by the school and faculty.

The school must be properly accredited and faculty in the four-year program must hold at least a master’s degree.

“Our faculty mostly meet the minimum (already),” Hernandez said.

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prospect of offering a four-year degree in respiratory therapy, he acknowledged that there are a total of five respiratory therapy programs at community colleges in the Bay Area, which could impact whether or not Skyline is chosen for that particular degree. However, there are other programs that Hernandez said could potentially be considered for expansion, such as automotive technology or paralegal studies, although he

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was unsure if those departments had any plans to participate.

Skyline and other schools are currently waiting to hear more about the pilot program and whether they will be able to participate.

“We’ll find out more as time goes on,” Christensen said. She recently added that there have so far been no updates to the district’s plans that she’s aware of.

CCSF legal battle continues Continued from page 1 San Francisco have been valid and warranted and it will ultimately prevail in court,” ACCJC consultant Eliza Chan said in an email.

Once the self-evaluation and the ACCJC team visit are completed the verdict on CCSF’s accreditation status will be decided in January 2015.

“This is a genuine opportunity

for the college to get its house in order, building on what it has reported to be recent progress toward compliance with standards,” According to a press release by provided by Chan, ACCJC President Barbara Beno stated. “We welcome their application, and the Commission is absolutely committed to giving CCSF and the possible restoration status a fair review.”

Corrections from last issue:

In issue three’s “Free car care maintenance service through Oct. 9,” there were several errors that The Skyline View has been asked to corect.

Maintenance is not free; students and staff/student pay for oil and filter.

Donations are accepted, but they go to the Auto Tech Club account to be used for a variety of daily operating expenses.

The comparison between

the dealer prices and the auto tech are true, but they are not in competition with dealers or independent shops.

The program features various services throughout the school year, depending on what each class is doing at that point of the semester. The work can be scheduled through Filipp Gleyzer at 650-738-4126. While labor is free, the department does ask to be paid for materials.

Justin Chadwick Yuen/ The Skyline View Sonia Gomez works the register at the Skyline bookstore, which has been seing an increase in textbook rentals and a decrease in textbook sales.

Continued from page 1 cant amount? No, because our rental program is saving us.”

Many students have been using the bookstore’s rental program for their textbooks, mostly to save money.

“As we rent more books we sell fewer books,” Bauer said.

“It’s a great benefit for the students because of pricing and a lot of the students are low income so that benefits them to afford the books which leads to being

able to attend school,”Marta Cuellar, who has been working at the Skyline Bookstore for almost 20 years, said.

One reason that students drop out frequently is being unable to afford textbooks, according to Cuellar.

“So being with the rental program they really can enjoy coming to school knowing they can afford the textbooks,” Cuellar said.

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Are students a priority?

When it comes to campus events, Skyline students are certainly blessed. The problem is we just don’t know it.

There are four-year institutions that couldn’t – or wouldn’t – pull the likes of Dr. Cornel West for a graduation speech, let alone a regular old Wednesday in September.

Opportunities of this caliber are hard to come by outside of Skyline, but on campus, students have access to these types of events a couple of times a semester. It may be hard to believe that the student body could actually complain about this, but the reality is that while students technically have access to these events, they are just as hard to find on campus as off.

One might expect that, in anticipation of an A-list speaker like Dr. West, flyers would be plastered all over campus, and the school website would feature the announcement front and center on the homepage. The fact is, a direct search for “Cornel West” on skylinecollege.edu returned only news of last year’s cancellation.

No flyers were posted, and an email announcing the September 11 lecture was sent to students on September 9, far too late for such a high-demand guest. The video screens that run the campus calendar are hardly a factor here, since the ESPN style news ticker might be visible from down the hall on those screens, but the campus calendar is relegated to a fine-print

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sized section that’s barely readable in passing. The average student hurrying to and from class would be hard-pressed to say if the event was listed on the screen.

The Skyline Success Summit found other ways to discourage students. While the Skyline website did list the event on the calendar, tickets cost $75. That’s not exactly in the price range of a fledgling college student.

The China Dance School performance was billed as the premier event in Skyline’s Asian Heritage Week, but the event was clearly the premier event for the dance school, rather than our own. With the few Skyline students in attendance boxed out by a theater full of the dancers’ family and friends, one has to wonder why this was a Skyline event, and not just an event that occurred at Skyline.

Though student turnout at these events ranges from underrepresented to totally absent, faculty are certainly there in droves, front and center, taking bows, receiving bouquets and congratulatory applause for a job well done.

If the goal of these events is to expose as many students as possible to enriching or inspiring cultural and educational experiences than the job has not been done well at all.

This is not a case of “if you build it they will come.” Faculty cannot just place Cornel West in the theater on a Wednesday night,

whisper the news, and start patting themselves on the back. Nor can they bring a group of San Mateo County’s top movers and shakers to the library and expect students to shell out $75 when they have plenty of more pressing expenses to take care of.

These are events that potentially have a greatly beneficial impact on the lives of students, and a comparatively meager impact on the lives of faculty, who are already well-established in their lives, careers, and educations.

When the publicity of these events shows a clear de-prioritization of the student body in both practice and result, yet faculty stand in the spotlight soaking up the kudos, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that the faculty’s top priority is the faculty.

If the faculty of this school wants the students to recognize a job well done, the faculty need to recognize that, until every seat in the theater is filled by a wide-eyed student broadening his or her horizons through these events, the job has not been done.

The calendar of Skyline events is impressive, and for that we will be thankful, as soon as faculty cease to under-promote, overcharge, or mislabel those events in ways that, intentional or not, de-prioritize the student body, and benefit the faculty.

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College cry babies

With Michelle Kelly, Editor-In-Chief

Doesn’t the sound of parents meddling with their children’s grades sound awfully high school to you?

In each issue we try to chalIf we stopped our staff from having lenge how people think. Especially the freedom to write or draw what in our opinions section, we try they want, we would be running to think outside the box and see a very bland opinions section. things in a different way. As a The great thing about readers disstudent run publication we try to agreeing with the writer or artist is express the diversity of our campus that the new information can expand including through our opinions. the reader’s horizons. The reader Sometimes is now aware the ideas of a totally new we have thought process aren’t crowd they weren’t “If you strongly pleasers, but to before. If oppose a stand one of privy we reserve you find yourthe right to our writers or artists self disagreeing run them. one of our chooses to make, write with For opinions there instance, might be room us a letter.” some people for you to re- Michelle Kelly search the topic. disagreed with last If you issue’s editostrongly oppose rial cartoon a stand one of and others our writers or mistakenly thought the carartists chooses to make, write us toon illustrated the editorial. a letter. Our paper is your space It’s important to note they are to express yourself. If you write separate entities of each other. to us we have the right to edit for Although misleadingly placed length, libel, clarity and taste. next to each other, the cartoon had The Skyline View is as much nothing to do with the editorial. your voice as is it ours. We encourThe space given to artists for age responses to our work because the editorial cartoon is theirs to use it helps our campus community for the way they feel about a topic grow as we educate each other. of their choosing. It’s similar to how we run our opinions articles.

Dr. Cornel West asked the Skyline College audience to “Keep in mind the four pillars of integrity, honesty, decency and virtue.”

Your editorial cartoon of Skyline College President Dr. Regina Stanback-Stroud lacks all of the four pillars. Dr. Stanback-Stroud has been an ardent outspoken supporter of social justice, student rights and civic engagement. As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a 1000 words.” Your cartoon depicts a narcissistic deluded individual totally absorb in her own fantasy.

It is obvious the Skyline View staff has not taken the time to review her record as an agent of social change in our community. She has been a tireless warrior against all “isms,” sociocultural phobias, and socioeconomic inequities. The call to consciousness series she initiated has brought internationally renowned voices to the Skyline College campus to challenge and raise the consciousness of both students and faculty regarding social justice issues of race, inequality, power and privilege.

Based on your cartoon these voices are not available to the students,

I find it disingenuous for you to depict the students as not being included when in fact every event I attend on campus, students are “missing in action.” I think the real issue is student apathy and beg to ask the questions, “Why aren’t the students in attendance?” and “Why isn’t the Skyline View promoting the events to encourage more student attendance?” You have defamed the most courageous warrior for social justice and student equity this institution of higher education has ever had---I have experienced six presidents at Skyline College. No one disputes your right to express your opinion, however, you also have the responsibility to represent our community with integrity, honesty, decency and virtue---which in my opinion you have not.

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students, just one wet behind the ears mamma’s boy doesn’t agree

by Steve Perotti with the B- he got on his paper.

TSV Opinions Editor Now said professor is dealing with a banshee warrior queen mom who At some point in time we is calling him day in and day out have all known someone who threatening him with bodily harm had controlling parents: A mother and lawsuits if her brilliant little who insisted that her daughter be boy’s grade isn’t raised to an A- so the homecoming queen and the she can feel better about the little valedictorian; a father who knew scholar she raised. his son could be the starting Parents do not belong in the quarterback and a national college process. If you get a bad merit scholar. chances are you earned it.

“Parents do not belong grade, Whenever one of these Don’t whine to your folks about “dream-team” kids got a bad in the college process. how judged you are or how grade, you knew their folks mean the professor is, because If you get a bad grade, were going to be calling up if they try and fix it themselves someone to give them an you’re not only a failure in the chances are you earned earful. Threatening some kind classroom, but a failure at life. of lawsuit with some biased, it.”

Plus here is a fun thought for racist, sexist justification. all of you hard working mama’s - Steve Perotti Blah, blah, blah. Makes your boys and daddy’s girls. What head spin to think about it, happens when your professors, doesn’t it? Would you be at all who you have put on the receivsurprised to find out that there ing end of your parents tirades, are college students, men and make a note in your student files women over 18 years of age, who that you have “mentally unstable” If the kid doesn’t do the work, have parents pulling this on profesthen they deserve the failing grade. parents? How do you think those sors? Sadly, it is true. transfer goals you’ve been dreamThat is par for the course. Don’t College is hard. It’s supposed ing about are going to go after that cry about it to your mommy and to be hard. Higher education is not happens? Nothing says Ivy League daddy until they call the professor an easy thing. It’s expensive, and and bust a blood vessel threatening like super controlling parents and the work load can be crushing in their cry baby children with pariah them with bodily harm. Grow up, its severity, but it’s rewarding in deal with your failure, and take the like delusions. Own up to your its difficulty. No one just wants to faults, and if you don’t do the work class again. walk in and out of college, kicking required to get a high grade then Imagine how the professor their heels and whistling Dixie as it’s your issue. Not your parents, feels when on the receiving end of they go from bird course to bird and not the professor. such a tirade. Out of hundreds of course. College is a crucible.

You go in a freshman, ready to be molded and shaped, and you come out a hard-nosed, steely-eyed graduate. That’s the point. Who told these controlling nightmare parents that part of the college process involves harassing hard working professors for failing their lazy, good for nothing “dreamteam” babies?

Get a room

by Danielle Bautista TSV Staff Writer

Please understand that there is a time and a place for everything, and no one at school wants to see you making out with your partner.

Just because PDA stands for public display of affection it doesn’t mean you need to show off your affection every single place you go, especially at school.

The occasional hand holding doesn’t bother me at all. However, when it comes to sitting on your boyfriend's lap when I’m sitting on the same exact bench as you, it’s a little more annoying. Especially when I have a long break in between my classes and all I want to do is sit down and study for my upcoming test. I honestly feel like if there is more room on the bench with me than there is no reason to be sitting on someone’s lap. I mean, we’re all in college here, so let’s act mature and have a little respect for one another.

It’s irritating because it is obviously distracting and instead of focusing on studying, I‘m forced to hear the couple kissing. The worst part is when you’re sitting down just trying to eat, since you missed breakfast in the morning, and then a couple joins you on the bench.

Then the usual giggling starts followed by them tickling each other. And, if you weren’t annoyed already, they will start taking pictures of themselves, which then turns into a full on photo shoot.

And, to top it all off, you hear every one of their pictures being

taken because they didn’t turn off the sound on their phone. Sometimes they are so into each other that they don’t even realize they're being obnoxious and a little rude to people who are siting two feet away from them, trying to study.

The least you could do is just be mindful that there are other people sitting next to you.

It’s also irritating when there’s not even another empty bench available in that hallway where you can sit. But, why should I have to move when I got there first? I think we all just need to be courteous of one another and respect our personal space.

Sometimes there are those days when you’re just so over it so, instead of spending your break sitting on a bench in the hallway, you go to chill in your car. But, when you get into your car you’re surprised with a couple having a full on make out session in the car parked right next to you. This has to be the most disturbing thing ever and, plus, it makes me feel super awkward when I’m just trying to eat and that’s going on right next to my car.

Displaying affection on that scale should remain behind closed doors. Plus the whole campus doesn't need to see your passion for each other, save that for the bedroom. The bottom line is seeing PDA at school makes me feel really uncomfortable and I shouldn’t be feeling like that at school because it's my education. I think there is a time and place for everything and for PDA, school isn’t one of them.

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iPads and kids

Stop using fancy gadgets to raise your children and discipline them like you’re supposed to.

by Shereena Singh TSV Staff Writer

Dirty sex: The sweatier the sex is, the better the sex is.

Where is it written that you need to take a shower after sex? If anything, the sweatier the sex is, the better it is.

Have you ever been with someone, man or woman, that had to shower after sex? Not for any medical reason, but just because they felt “dirty,” and didn't like the feeling of their partners sweat on them? Call me crazy, but I always thought that the sweatiest sex was the best kind of sex. Don't get me wrong here. There's a massive difference between getting naked during a heat wave and sweating from that, and sweating from some good old fashioned rigorous naked time.

You know, the kind of fun that makes you lie in bed afterwards in shock and awe of your partners sexual endurance. That my friends, is the best kind of sex. The kind of sex that leaves your legs

shaking for at least a half an hour afterwards. The sex is supposed to build up a sweat, and if you don't like the sweat, then you don't get the sex.

Now there's nothing wrong with wanting to rinse off such hard earned perspiration, but don't be in a hurry about it. How do you think your partner feels when you get up out of bed and jump in the shower? Do you think they see this as a positive or a negative?

At the very least sit back and bask in the moment with your partner before your phobia of germs gets to you. Besides, trying to run into the bathroom on shaky legs could result in some serious injuries. And you never know, you might end up getting a cramp or two since your muscles were getting such a strenuous work out only moments before.

So ladies and gentlemen a word

of advice. When it comes to post coital moments, there are the right kinds and the wrong kinds. Sitting back and basking in the carnal moment you and your partner just had? That's definitely high on the list. Going into the kitchen and making something to eat? Most assuredly high on the list. Getting ready for round two, where you make your partner sweat even more? Now that, is the ultimate goal of every man and woman when it comes to sex. And if not, then it should be. Running into the bathroom because you feel dirty with someone else's sweat on you?

Get over it. Good sex is supposed to cause sweat. It is, after all, a very high cardiovascular physical activity. And it is way more fun than running a mile or two to work off whatever you consumed on your cheat day.

Stop using fancy gadgets to raise your children and discipline them like you’re supposed to.

Nowadays we see less kids playing outside and more kids indoors on many types of electronic devices, but the more I think about it, is it really the kids who are to blame or is it the parents?

I’m going to take a gamble and say it's the parents. Parents are in full and total control when it comes to what their children are doing and how they are spending their free time. Many parents are finding it way easier to hand their kids devices such as iPads and smartphones as a means of distraction, so they can get done whatever they need to get done. There are even apps now that can apparently teach your kids manners, such as “A Quest For Good Manners,” which retails on iTunes for $1.99.

Is this what our world is really coming to? We are able to put a price of $1.99 on a child's manners? I find it extremely important for parents to realize that it is their job to teach their children manners the right way, and no app can ever teach your child that. Parents should actually be spending time with their kids instead of trying to find ways to distract them.

We’ve all been to a restaurant where we are sitting next to a table with an angry child and five seconds into this child's tantrum, the parents will more than likely

hand them either a smartphone or an iPad. I mean how about actually learning to control your child the old fashioned way instead of trying to have a temporary fix.

But let’s not forget about all the children below 10 years of age who already own an iPhone. Kids nowadays don’t know how to tell time on an analog clock, but can download an app faster than someone who is three times their age.

What gets to me even more than the kids who own these devices are parents who get upset then these kids lose or damage these items. Obviously these kids are going to lose or damage these things. They shouldn’t even have them in the first place, this is their time to be playing Monopoly and coloring in coloring books.

But then there are so many parents who are complaining about things like childhood obesity. Kids no longer care if it's a nice day outside and being active doesn't sound like fun to them anymore.

They are way too worried about what new game they can download on their iPad. Yes, I am completely aware that we live in a world where technology is growing at a very fast rate, but that does not mean that these devices should overcrowd other forms of activities. Remember this is not simply a matter of a child playing with a device, but more so a matter of their health and well-being, along with shaping the person they will be in the future.

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The fast and the studious Skyline students don’t have to drive far to find and enthusiastic car culture, and plenty of tricked out rides.

by Chester Mendoza

TSV Staff Writer

On the Skyline College campus, the car culture is alive and it shows every morning from the moment you arrive in the parking lot to the moment you leave.

The cars scattered across the parking lot are absolutely candy for the eyes to any car enthusiast.

The vehicles out on the lots are not consisting of $200,000 plus cars such as Lamborghini’s, Koenigsegg’s, and Ferrari’s.

The lot is a mixture of Japanese and European imports; and American, both modern and old school. Most of these cars are just simply jaw dropping. When you look at these vehicles, it doesn’t make you envious of the drivers, but makes you appreciate the vehicle itself.

“You will see any type of car at Skyline from tricked out economy cars to full blown sports cars with modifications” said Glen Dayanghirang.

At the moment Mr. Dayanghirang currently drives a 2006 Nissan Altima

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that is completely stock for its his commuter.

But plans to keep it as his commuter as he progresses his dream to save his money for a Nissan 350z. and plans to make it his weekend car.

These vehicles here range from brand new off the lot to the modified that have perfect wheels and stance, to the loud and powerful, etc. It leaves you thinking how do these students afford the personal touches to the cars and how do they find the time in between school to personalize their cars. In the end these cars are a reflection of the owners with the personal touches they added on their vehicle.

“All you see nowadays is flushed cars” said Jommel Lopez.

Lopez a proud owner of 2004 BMW M3 E46 that is bone stock and for its age is quite stunning considering it’s a 10-year-old car. All the mods that are in the vehicle have custom made wooden trim, resulting in a spectacular look you

wouldn’t find in any other M3. throwing Now to address the thumbs up on a regular drivers of the vehicles, basis. most of Also at times them are interacting with just like each other and “Getting to know getting to know any other people who live the vehicle and student on campus, and breathe cars, look for advice but they is what car culture on parts, to share an is all about.” performance interest in shops, etc. cars and Meeting new probably - Chester Mendoza people who part of the share the same certain interest provides car a great and communities on the pleasurable experience internet. This car culture for the students who are on this campus is not enthusiastic car owners. something you expect out Getting to know people of Fast and the Furious who live and breathe cars, where street racing is the is what car culture is all usual. It’s not like that about. at all; it’s about “It’s a good experience just glancing at meeting people and or each other’s seeing people with so cars many variety of cars that are tailored to their liking or style. The topic of cars can always be a

conversation starter to something enjoyable and knowledgeable” said Geo Wong.

Currently Wong owns a 2013 Subaru Impreza WRX that only has cosmetic modifications such as modified headlights and foglights.

Followed by a front bumper lip that gives this WRX an aggressive look.

It also has a nameless exhaust that amplifies the signature boxer engine sound note.

At the end of the day you don’t need the top of the line car from the dealer and spend over $50,000 to be part of the car culture. It all comes down to the passion you have for cars regardless of the manufacturer of the vehicle, to the power band of your ride, or even if your ride is not in best condition. It all boils down to making the best possible additions or tweaks to your car to make it standout and immerse yourself in the car culture; and remembering that cars are much more than a machine, it’s a reflection of you.

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Urban Ensemble now at Skyline Professor Kymberly Jackson brings depth to Skyline’s music offerings with a hip-hop-based ensemble class.

by Will Nacouzi

TSV Online Editor

Urban Music Ensemble is one of the newest music classes to be introduced on campus, with it making it first appearances in spring of 2013.

Professor Kymberly Jackson created the class after she realized that Skyline College had various other bands such as the Jazz Band, Concert Band, Concert Choir, Guitar Ensemble, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Each band allows students and members of the community who have the talent and interest in these areas to to join but, sadly, there wasn’t one for for hip-hop, R&B, and related genres.

“So I said well, you know, what we don’t have is an ensemble that is based on a culture and a genres that a lot of our students are interested in which is rap,

hip-hop,” Jackson said. “We got a jazz band, a choir, a jazz choir, we even got a symphony orchestra, we don’t have a band or an ensemble that deals with funk, R&B, that kind of thing.”

The root of the idea can be traced back to her class Music 276 Hip-Hop Culture and Politics (formerly known as Music 680SA From Jazz to Hip-Hop) and the Expression Through Black Music - Research and Performance Project where she required her students to do a research paper and then turn it into a performance of their choice, be it rap, R&B, dance, spoken word, or a combination of different elements.

“We did two in the theater a couple of years ago,” Jackson said. “We normally do little afternoon performances over in the cafeteria in

front of the fireplace at the end of the semester.”

The goal for the class is for students is to work as a team in a musical environment, study the history of black music and its influence in today’s music, practice and rehearse, and learn basic music theory. The most important thing for Professor Jackson in her decision to create the class was, “for students to be able to express themselves in a performance ensemble that mirrors the interests of today’s students as far as music and performing arts is concerned.”

Professor Jackson also owns a production company known as “Kjes Entertainment, LLC” based in Oakland and has performed live in various locations from the Apollo Theater in New York City to the San Francisco Jazz

Club and won the Black Music Association Jazz Artist of the Year Award in 2011.

The next performance that she has set for her students is on November 15, as part of the Skyline College Center for Innovative Professor Kymberly Jackson

Practices

Photo courtesy of Joel Clifton through HipHop Education For more information about and Research also known as the class or the performances CIPHER “Ensemble Mik Nawooj: contact Kymberly Jackson A Hip-Hop Orchestra” event at jacksonk@amccd.edu and she already has a place booked for next semester’s Rock the School Bells.

Upcoming events on campus

Skyline speaks:

With a controversial editorial cartoon raising issues of event promotion on campus, The Skyline View asked you where you get your campus news, aside from The Skyline View newspaper and website, that is.

From hot rods and tattoos to childern’s books and molecular biology, late October is full of interesting events, including a chance for you to be a part of this spring’s theatrical performance, “Grease”.

Check out the calendar and get involved in your campus, Skyline.

“I check my email every day. Newsletter.

People from different departments come into class.”

October 17,22,24 Theater Auditions: “Grease” The theater department will be holding auditions for the spring play. This time around they will be performing “Grease”. Auditions will be held on Oct. 17 from 1:30-3 p.m. and Oct. 22 from 4:30-6 p.m. with callbacks on Oct. 24 in building 1 room 111.

- Leslie Bode Psychology major

“Word of mouth.

Glance at the newspaper. Watch the TV (in the cafeteria).”

- Iain Coston Comm. major

October 20

Science in Action Lecture The MESA program and SFSU Bridges to Baccalaureate program present a free lecture by Dr. Daphne Pringle on the topic of the cellular and molecular basis of cancer. The lecture takes place from 4:305:30 p.m. in building 7 room 106.

“I actually went to the spark point.

They email me all the information.”

October 24

Movie Screeening: “Tattoo Nation” “Tattoo Nation” is the story of three Chicano artists who, though being incarcerated, were able to change modern tattoo culture and pioneer the tattoo realism genre. The film will screen in the building 4 multi-cultural room at 12:30 p.m.

- Bernice Jimenez Allied health major

“I didn’t know there was a job fair today.

I get emails I think.”

- Shaojie Yu Sociology major Photos courtesy of Angelica Fregoso/Skyline View

October 29

Book reading with J.L. Powers In celebration of Disability Awareness Month, children’s author J.L. Powers will be reading her book “Colors of the Wind” about blind painter George Mendoza. Mendoza’s art will also be on display from 12:10-1:10p.m. in building 6 room 204.

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“Tres Vidas”: A look into Latina history Erin Perry

Special to the tsv

The power of Latina history was brought to life on stage last week in the Skyline Theater for National Latino Heritage Month.

“Tres Vidas,” a performance produced by the Core Ensemble, was shown at Skyline last Wednesday evening. The Core Ensemble created a unique type of theater called “Chamber music theater,” so along with actress Cristina Isabel Lucas, there were three musicians on stage during the performance.

Accompanied by piano, cello and percussion, Lucas performed the lives of three historical Latina women: Frida Kahlo, Rufina Amaya and Alfonsina Storni.

The first performance, Frida Kahlo set up the fiery soul of the entire production.

“The Mexico that I carry inside and outside of me,” Kahlo said about her style and her home.

Lucas sang and spoke as the infamous surrealist painter and presented the beauty and culture that influenced her art.

As Lucas exited to change for her second role, the musicians filled the theater with ambient sound and preparation. Dressed in a simple white dress and a black wig, Lucas reentered, this time as Rufina Amaya, the second

Photos screenshot from the video on Core Ensemble’s website.

Cristina Isabel Lucas portrays all three characters, Frida Kahlo, Rufina Amaya, and Alfonsina Storni.

Here Lucas is playing Frida Kahlo.

Here Lucas is protraying Rufina Amaya (to the right).

Here Lucas is portraying Alfonsina Storni.

voice of history that night.

Amaya was the last survivor remaining in her El Salvadorian town after a massacre occurred at the hands of guerrillas.

“The sounds of fury, the sounds of pride, the sounds of soldiers,” explained Lucas through Amaya’s terrified eyes.

The new emotion that settled around the theater was quiet, and astounded as Lucas appeared scared, hopeless and lost hiding behind chairs and under the piano.

Within an hour, two very different scenarios were presented but both portrayed the strength that

Latina history revolves around.

“I come to be heard,” Lucas, as Amaya, said to the audience before exiting.

The final role, Alfonsina Storni was contemporary and cryptic. Lucas entered the stage in a long purple dress and a short bob hairstyle, book in hand.

Storni’s poetry and life embodied early feminism and feminist ideals in Latina history.

“It is impossible to be a thinking woman and not be a feminist,” Lucas said as she stepped across the stage.

She read her poetry center stage,

and listened to the music being played by the ensemble. Eyes closed, swaying, she compared her poetry to music.

“My poems are like a tango,” she said.

The tone of the performance shifted as hints of suicide and death snuck into the language.

The final moments of the show were filled with Lucas inching towards an invisible sea, arms outstretched, accepting eternal sleep.

Lucas embodied three boisterous women of Latina history, with different lifestyles

and stories. All of them; however, held the characteristics of strength, wisdom and preservation.

The lasting effect of feminine influence in Latina culture and history was shown through the lips of one woman and the life of these three powerful women during the “Tres Vidas” performance.

This production was not only an examination of Latina strength, but the strength of women as a total.

“I’m much more than a woman, I’m a human being,” said Lucas near the end of the performance.

Welcome to the freak show

TV

“American Horror Story” season four premiere introduces new characters Steve Perotti

TSV Entertainment Editor

“American Horror Story” returns for its fourth season on FX with more than its fair share of frightening moments and this time there’s even a clown. With the beginning of its fourth season, FX’s “American Horror Story” returns with more than its fair share of frightening moments, and there’s even a clown.

By now we’ve all come to expect interesting things from “American Horror Story,” ranging from season two’s incident with Santa Claus to the brutal portrayal of sexual violence in season three’s opening episode. This new season, subtitled as “Freak show,” does not disappoint as we get acquainted with some new faces along with the one’s we’ve seen in past seasons.

Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson return as new characters, in a whole new setting and time frame. The characters we get a glimpse of are what you would expect from a freak show carnival. There’s a bearded lady, a lobster boy, and a young woman measuring two-feet tall.

Set in 1950’s Florida we see “Elsa Mars,” played by Lange, searching for a new act for her show, which is dwindling due to the spread of television. This is where Paulson, playing siamese twin sisters “Bette/Dot Tattler,”

Sarah Paluson plays both Bette and Dot Tattler.

comes in as the hope for the traveling shows poor ticket sales.

All in all the returning actors and actresses continue to deliver the caliber of performances we have come to expect from them. If the premier is any indication of what this season will be showing us, it will most certainly be shocking and surprising, which is saying something considering what the show has aired in the past.

The most surprising, and terrifying, aspect of the first episode comes in the form of a clown.

A very large clown, with a very, very large grin who spends the majority of the episode either ter-

rorizing, kidnapping or murdering various people spread around the shows setting of Jupiter, Fl. The clown, played by veteran character actor John Carroll Lynch, is referred to as “Twisty the clown,” and is the most frightening and, pardon the pun, twisted aspect of the show so far. But, if history has proven anything, the show is going to be getting much more graphic as the season continues.

The episode was not without a few moments of excessive violence and lewd behavior, but by now this seems to be par for the course when it comes to this series. In all honesty, we

Screenshot taken from YouTube

should be worried if there are episodes that bore us and put us to sleep. A word of warning to the faint of heart: be careful when it comes to the end of the episode. It gets a bit bloody.

All in all, a very good start to the new season. Granted there were a few moments where the pace of the show slowed down a bit, but the pace picks up almost as quickly as it dropped off.

Will the show continue to shock us as we delve into the fourth seasons twisted storyline, or will it be overshadowed by previous

seasons macabre characters?

We’ll find out every week with the show airing on Wednesdays.

Scan this QR code to watch the season trailer

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Upcoming Games

Men’s Soccer

Wrestling

Oct. 17 vs. Chabot, 2 p.m.

Oct. 28 vs. Hartnell, 3 p.m.

Oct. 31 vs. Cabrillo College, 2 p.m.

Oct. 18 @ North Dual Meet 9 a.m.

Oct. 22 @ Chabot, (Dual) 7 p.m.

Sports Basketball season is around the corner

Women’s Soccer Oct. 17 @ Hartnell, 4 p.m.

Oct. 22 @ DeAnza, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 24 vs. Las Positas, 1 p.m.

Oct. 28 vs. Chabot, 1 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball Oct. 17 vs. Foothill, 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 22 vs. Ohlone, 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 24 vs. West Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 29 @ Canada, 6:30 p.m.

Women’s volleyball embraces Pinktober Trojans volleyball teams up with Dig Pink Foundation for breast cancer awareness

by Dave Newlands

TSV Features Editor

October is all about pink..

Lamar Anderson, shows promise during practice.

Photograph by Justin Chadwick Yuen/ The Skyline View

Skyline’s basketball team gears up to face this season, starting Nov. 6 through Dec. 19. The gym is filled with athletes who show commited preperation for the upcoming season. Lamar (above) loosens up and practices as the opening day approaches.

Behind the net: Volleyball women’s team serves the season, spiking their opponents

Showing promise the team has it’s sights set on making it to playoffs

by Jeanita Lyman TSV News Editor

When volleyball Coach Rayannah Salahuddin returned to Skyline last season, she says it was all about survival. After taking more time off than expected for maternity leave, the team was left unranked in 2012 and fought to make it through the 2013 season. Now, according to Salahuddin, they are back on track and fighting to make it to playoffs.

“This season, the infrastructure is there and the talent is in place,” Salahuddin said.

The team currently holds a record of 10 wins and six losses this season, and whether they move on to playoffs depends partially on their performance in upcoming games against Foothill College on Friday and Gavilan later in the season.“I want to see us just fight,” Salahuddin said. “If we take one of the first sets, we’ll beat them.”

While concerned about star player Makayla Evans’ injury, Salahuddin says she holds out hope for freshmen Zina Kelati and Rachel Lopez to improve and fill her place.

Salahuddin is also optimistic about the team in future seasons, due to a change in recruiting practices. Skyline is reaching

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The colors of October are fast changing from the traditional orange and black to day-glow pink.

Sports clubs and teams all over the country are donning bright pink accessories to show support for breast cancer research all through the month of October, and Skyline College is no exception.

The Skyline women’s volleyball team will be holding a Dig Pink event on October 22 to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“Within volleyball, we have a foundation called Dig Pink and that’s huge in club and youth volleyball,” coach Rayannah Salahuddin said. “It’s not that big in intercollegiate, but it’s starting to grow.”

The volleyball team have been longtime supporters of the cause through Dig Pink, which sponsors volleyball events to raise money for breast cancer research. Last October the Trojans volleyball team raised almost $1,000 for the charity through their event.

“I’ve always been involved in

Dig Pink foundation because, for god’s sake, not enough is done in terms of women’s health in general,” Salahuddin said.

While the “Pinktober” events, spearheaded by the National Football League have drawn some ire lately, due to concerns that pink jerseys and accessories have become more about a fashion statement than a humanitarian one, the cause is – if done well – still a good opportunity to bring people together in a fun way to support a worthy cause.

Skyline women’s volleyball leaves the high-priced, hot pink Nikes for the guys, and takes the true sentiment of “Pinktober” to heart.

“I think women’s volleyball is a good environment because it’s a female powered sport,” Salahuddin said. “It’s mostly dominated by women and it’s a positive feedback loop of empowered women empowering other women. That’s the reason I like Dig Pink and that’s the reason I coach volleyball.”

Bi-weekly results

Men’s Soccer Gavilan College 3-0, loss Foothill College 1-0, loss loss Women’s Soccer Ohlone College 5-0, loss Monterey Peninsula 4-0, win College

Wreslting Team total score Cruz Jamie Anwar Halteh Jimmy Felix Angelo Goumenidis

File photo / The Skyline View

Volleyball team convening. out to skilled players in high schools and lesser-ranked community colleges throughout the state in an effort to balance out current players, who are often at a disadvantage due to size.

“We’re usually physically outmatched,” Salahuddin said. “We need to be smart-

er and run faster plays than teams with taller players.”

Skyline will be playing Foothill college at home on Friday, make sure to attend and support our team, additionally there will be free pizza will be available to the first 50 attendees.

Ulysses Molina Chad Thodos

117.5 pt 125 weight class 3rd place 133 weight class 2nd place 149 weight class 3rd place 157 weight class 3rd place 157 weight class 4th place 184 weight class 4th place

Francisco Varges 197 weight class 2nd place Arthur Georgiyev File photo / The Skyline View

185 weight class 6th place