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May 3, 2012
Volume XXX - Issue 6
Crestmoor Elementary avoids shutdown 4-1 vote by school board stops closure by Diane Thao TSV Entertainment Editor
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(From left to right) Jennifer Mair and Chris Bui discuss ideas proposed by students.
Skyline gives grants for proposals and Vo-Phamhi received a $1200 grant for their idea. The second group to present was Amber Lincoln, president of the Environmental Club, and a few others. Their idea was to set up a hydration station in the cafeteria. They want to limit the use of water bottle distribution and pollution by making it easier for students who want to reuse their
by Megan Benveniste TSV Sports Editor
Skyline College, in conjunction with CivicEvolution, awarded a grand prize of $2500 in grant money to the winner of a campusimprovement proposal contest on May 1. The purpose of the forum was to encourage students’ voices to be heard and to get students more involved in making the school a better place. Four grants were available, with the grand prize winner receiving a $2500 grant, while the other three ideas received a $1200 grant. their idea was Kayla Louis and Terry Vo-Phamhi, who proposed establishing an open-mic platform
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Proponents of the hydration station meet to discuss their ideas.
in the cafeteria to provide students with entertainment. Along with students showcasing entertainment for fellow students, it would also
give students a chance to showcase their creativity and talents in different ways: with creative writing, music and dance. Louis
help with their presentation, they showed the movie “Tapped,” which showed the amount of oil and other resources that is being used to create bottled water and distribute it to our local shops, where we then purchase them. Lincoln and her fellow group members were the winners of the Grants continued on Page 2
The San Bruno Park School Board voted on April 25 to oppose the controversial proposed closure of local Crestmoor Elementary School and El Crystal Elementary School. The meeting about the closures took places at Crestmoor. After hearing the parents’ and faculty’s reasons and pleas to keep the school open, the board of trustees voted 4-1 to oppose the closing of any schools. Highly due to the parents promising to help raise money and pass a parcel tax November, the school board was swayed to opposing. When it was announced that Crestmoor was one of the two elementary schools faced with the possibility of being shut down, both parents and faculty rallied up immediately to defend the effects it would have on the community and students. Parent Karen Lopez said, “We are going to look to help through fund raising and potential grant money.” However, if the parents aren’t successful, another proposal of school closure would be considered once again by the district. The elementary school is located half a mile away from where the San Bruno PG&E pipeCrestmoor continued on Page 2
National Day to Stop Mass Incarceration at Skyline by Renee Abu-Zaghibra TSV Photo Editor
On April 18, an unnamed organization celebrated the National Day to Stop Mass Incarceration by featuring Oscar Grant’s uncle in the quad to share the issue of
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Oscar Grant’s Uncle, Cephus Johnson, speaks to a group of students.
Oscar Grant’s uncle, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, was there to share his experience with Oscar’s situation. Johnson hopes to change the criminal justice system with these rallies. He believes that the system takes away from men who are released after going to prison. He stated that afterwards they won’t be able to vote or obtain a job. “The hope is that people, espe-
cially people of color, recognize that we’re dealing with a system, a criminal justice system, that is completely racist,” Johnson said. “It’s institutionalized racism and it must be dismantled and rebuilt.” The issue of racial injustice in law enforcement was also commented upon by Skyline Psychology instructor Tony Jackson, who alluded to the shooting of Treyvon Martin as an example of the state of racial relations in American society. “This is a pro-youth rally,” Jackson said. “(Just because) you may be of a different color . . . and you wear a hoodie, it doesn’t make you a criminal. People don’t have the right to take lives based on their sick perception of
other people. The system we live in needs to not support murder.” A woman by the name of Denika Chatman was at the event as well. Her son, Kenneth Harding Jr., was killed by police in San Francisco earlier this year. Chatman goes out into the communities to build awareness about what is going on and so that, as she put it, “No one else ends up being Kenneth Harding Jr.” Denika Chatman created a foundation in her son’s honor called the Kenneth Harding Jr. foundation. “I go into the communities,” said Chatman. “My struggle, my where I do the majority of my outreach.” Students gathered to listen to the Incarceration continued on Page 2