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Student art fills gallery Transfer pathways

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By Katelyn Payne

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Skyline student Jasmine Newbeck admires fellow students’ artwork at the Monster Juried Student Art Show. The piece Newbeck is observing is titled “Medosa” and was created by Patricio Montano. Newbeck has her own piece in the show, “Wire Book,” which won the Juror’s Merit Award.

Last month, the California Community College system partnered with nine historically black colleges and universities to give transfer students guaranteed admission as long as they adhere to certain academic criteria.

According to a press release, the agreement signed by both the California Community College Board of Governors and the leaders of the HBCUs allows students to transfer as juniors during the fall of this year.

The academic criteria include graduating with an associate’s degree and a minimum G.P.A. of 2.5, completing either the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum or the California State University General Education Breadth pattern that are used for transferring to a UC or CSU, or having a minimum of 30 transferable semester units.

Students who are applying

under particular majors may need to fulfill other requirements and prerequisites.

The nine schools are Bennett College, Dillard University, Fisk University, Lincoln University of Missouri, Philander Smith College, Stillman College, Talladega College, Tuskegee University and Wiley College.

“These are not the most highprofile African American black colleges,” Associate Professor of English Nathan Jones said. “These are nine older schools.”

All nine schools are either on the East coast or in the South, with three located in Alabama.

Eight of these institutions are private colleges. The benefits of transferring to these schools include admission as a junior, priority housing and potential transfer scholarships.

According to insidehighered. com, there are 17 HBCUs that Continued on page 2

California’s dry spell continues

Carpooling comes to campus

By Haley Holmes

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TSV Staff Writer

California has entered its fourth year of drought, and after another dry winter, things are going from bad to worse.

According to the California Department of Water Resources, this may be the worst drought on record for the state of California.

Not only was it the driest January on record so far, but the April snow was measured at 5 percent of the average. For reference, the lowest measurement on record prior to this April was 25 percent of the average.

Though the California Public Utilities Commission continues to notify customers of restrictions and regulations, the State Water Resources Control Board reports that residents reduced water consumption by only 2.8 percent in February this year, the lowest conservation rate on record since they began recording in July of 2014. In reaction to these reports, California Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order, “mandating a 25 percent reduction in water use for all urban water users.” The State Water Board

has plans in May to consider adopting a similar plan statewide, mandating a 25 percent reduction.

To combat the drought, Gov. Brown declared a state of emergency on January 17 last year.

Beyond the scope of governmental mandates, there are numerous things average residents can do to help conserve water.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, reducing gardening and car washing, fixing household leaks and regularly short showers instead of baths can all help conserve water.

Second year Skyline student Alyssa Estrada has taken that advice and stopped watering her lawn, one of the most common forms of casual water conservation. Student Dezirae Easley confessed to refusing water at restaurants, knowing she wouldn’t finish the glass.

The Skyline student body isn’t the only population conserving water on campus. According to Skyline’s 2013 Sustainability Plan, three fields on campus been replaced by artificial lawns, a district-wide practice that will save roughly 5.8 million gallons of water and $370,000 per year

in water costs. In addition, other landscaping practices have been altered to utilize drought-resistant, low-maintenance plants instead of traditional grass, and the district has installed a new irrigation system that adjusts sprinklers based on real-time weather conditions. All of these changes are a part of Skyline’s large-scale plan to create a more environmentally friendly campus.

The drop in residential water conservation may be a sign of things to come and a sign of changing attitudes.

If conservation doesn’t improve, more regulations will be put in place. The latest update, according to the California Department of Water Resources, is “an emergency, temporary rock barrier across a Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta channel” that would help prevent saltwater from seeping into state freshwater supplies.

Such large-scale efforts are becoming more common, but with another dry summer approaching, the state is seeking more solutions.

By Gregory Ragaza Skyline College will be hosting Carpool Week from April 28 to 30 and May 5 to 7.

In order to participate, all students need to do is to buddy up and drive to school. Students or staff members who carpool will get priority parking in Lot M. “It’s mainly for Gregory Ragaza/The Skyline View students,” said Angelique Angelique Fuentes tables at Skyline’s Earth Fuentes, coordinator of the Day event on April 22, 2015. program said. “It’s to build a better carpooling, you can work out community amongst the students.” a schedule that fits you and the Fuentes coordinated the event other person.” to help reduce carbon footprint If you don’t have someone to at Skyline College, but it is also carpool with, there’s an app for moving the school to be a more that!

The carpooling app is called self-sustaining campus.

Carma Carpooling.

Once you Not only will Carpool Week help have downloaded the app, you Skyline to be a greener school, it can join the “Skyline College can possibly alleviate congestion Carpool” group and start finding on the buses and in the parking people in your area to carpool to lots. school with.

Skyline student Nicole Ruggiero “I want to help the school remembered the days where be a sustainable campus, open she struggled with taking long, more parking, and gain a better crowded bus rides to school where community,” Fuentes said. she had to work around the bus For any further questions about schedules. the event, contact Angelique “You have to work with the bus Fuentes at skylinecarpool@yahoo. schedules,” Ruggiero said. “With com.

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Daly City aims to adopt Preventing sexual women’s bill of rights assault begins with men

By Michelle Kelly

By Sarah Marasigan TSV Staff Writer

A San Mateo County city could be on the forefront for adopting an international bill of rights for women.

Daly City is now joining the list of four other cities (Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as Portland, Oregon) that are adopting an international bill of rights for women. The bill is intended to promote equal access to wages, healthcare and employment.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama have all attempted to get the U.S. Senate to ratify and adopt it, but without success. The United States remains the only industrialized nation to fail to adopt this measure.

The other U.S. cities who have adopted their own version have reported that the measure has helped improve equal pay and domestic violence incidents.

City governments, knowing that the U.S. Congress is not always able to pay close attention to every issue, are taking the initiative to get their own versions passed at the local level, hoping to increase the chances of the measure finally being approved at the national level. Daly City is the latest city that is attempting to pass their own version of the CEDAW. David Canepa, city council member of Daly City, is leading the effort for his city. Canepa had been at a board meeting talking about a wide range of issues effecting women when someone mentioned that the city of San Francisco had passed their own measure.

He looked further into the details and then attended a workshop in San Francisco that dealt with the ins and outs of the measure. His

interest in the issue continued and it became one that he wanted his own city to get on board with.

“This is not just a women’s issue,” Canepa said. “It’s a basic human rights issue.”

Canepa brought the issue forward at the Daly City board meetings and hopes to have his city be the next to adopt this measure. He feels that if it can succeed at the local levels, it may spread across the nation, and as he puts it, “start the conversation on a very important topic.”

Although more and more women are entering leadership roles, issues like equal pay and discrimination have yet to be fully eliminated. According to the White House, women who work full-time still make approximately 77 percent of what their male colleagues do.

For instance, according to a study conducted by Women’s Institute of Research, women in construction are paid 17 percent less than their male co-workers.

Despite the wage gap, women make up nearly half the workforce.

However, gender inequality has been a hot topic recently.

“Once something is brought to the awareness of people, they can start to question if it is something appropriate to their value systems,” Skyline Career Counselor Lavinia Zanassi said. ”So even if people disagree, it can become an issue that is debatable. If it is on the table, like it is being put forward now in Daly City, it can grow from there.”

Zanassi added that Daly City’s progressive city council and its central location in the Bay Area could make it an example for the rest of the area.

“Maybe bringing it to one of our local communities will trigger a demand for equality within San Mateo County itself,” Zanassi said.

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already had transfer relationships with individual community colleges, but now the systemwide agreement makes it easier to recruit California Community College students to come to these universities.

“I hope students will take advantage of this opportunity,” Career Counselor Jacqueline Escobar said.

This agreement gives California Community College students the opportunity to obtain a degree at an out-of-state school, along with helping HBCUs that are struggling with a decline in student enrollment. “[This program] provides another opportunity for students to have a unique and invaluable educational experience,” Transfer Coordinator Suzanne Poma said in an email. “It is a new program so it will take time for students to learn about the program and integrate it into their student education plans.

Over time, we expect it to grow

as more students learn about it, transfer and return to share their experiences.”

Historically black colleges and universities were established during the Civil War era and have been around for over 100 years to educate African Americans. The first two HBCUs, Cheyney University and Wilberforce University, were established in Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1837 and 1856. They were originally established as independent religious institutions or philanthropic Christian missionaries, with Wilberforce being the oldest private HBCU. When people think of HBCUs, most people only know of the five famous ones: Hampton University in Virginia, Spelman College and Morehouse College in Georgia, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Tuskegee University in Alabama, according to Jones.

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Sexual assault is not just a women’s issue; it’s everyone’s issue, according to a motivational speaker who addressed a group of students at Skyline College on April 16, 2015.

Robert Hackenson went through a presentation on ways to prevent sexual assault called “Not Anymore,” urging men to take accountability for the problem.

The crowd he spoke to however was mostly women, about half of whom were cosmetology students whose courses are in the same building that the speech was held in.

“Our culture pretty much enables it, and when I say our culture I mean guy culture,” Hackenson said to students. “When we’re sitting around with all of our friends and you hear somebody bragging about what they did or maybe they’re making those jokes and we laugh. We don’t necessarily agree with it but we’ll laugh.“ He spoke about feeling like he was in the minority when it comes to respecting women, associating it with being raised by his mother, grandmother and sister. It was later in his life when he realized other men didn’t agree with the way women were being talked about either.

“Instead of remaining silent, you need to be able to stand up and have that conversation,” Hackenson said during his presentation.

“Maybe not even in that moment, but we need to be able to change that because if we don’t it will just continue.”

Despite the seriousness of the topic, Hackenson used optical illusions and card tricks to make his points. To demonstrate how differently information can be interpreted based on perception, he had the room of students raise their arms and move their hands clockwise while slowly lowering them to eye level and witnessing that their hands were actually moving counter clockwise.

“Things change based on how you look at them,” he said.

During his presentation Hackenson referenced to Title IX when

talking about consent and the change from “No means no” to “Yes means yes.” He said that in order to have consensual sex both parties need to enthusiastically and verbally say yes, adding that alcohol inhibits one’s ability to give their consent, in turn making any inebriated sex rape.

Skyline College recently joined the district-wide campus safety survey asking students about their experiences with sexual assault on and off campus. This follows the recent SB 186, which would allow California community colleges the ability to discipline students for off-campus crimes, including sexual assault. The results of the survey are still being processed and will become public at the end of the academic year.

Skyline students who attended the event felt the call to action will carry with them causing them to think more critically about the way women are treated.

“It’s definitely something more men need to attend to because it is a big problem,” architect major Dylan Vasquez said. “I always had respect for women but I’ve been in a couple situations in which I could have done something but I haven’t, so it’s definitely something that will teach me to make a change.”

Jasmine Farrales, who attended the event along with Vasquez for extra credit in their health class, said she appreciated hearing about sexual assault from a new angle.

“I wish more men came, because it was a male speaker and usually speakers on sexual assault are women talking to women to make them feel empowered,” Farrales said. “But then when you have a male perspective, you just have a better idea of the issue because you have both sides.”

Hackenson also believed that dual viewpoints are important.

“I think a lot of guys don’t feel as though this is their problem and that’s how I start off,” Hackenson said. “If we’re looking at it we need to be able to see it from both perspectives, and I think guys need people to take a step up to the plate and help make that change in order to change that culture.”

Campus mourns loss of mentor

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By Jeanita Lyman

TSV News Editor/Chief Copy Editor

The Skyline community is mourning the loss of Richard Soyombo, Dean of Global Learning Programs and Services.

Soyombo passed away suddenly on the morning of April 20, according to an announcement from Skyline College President Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud.

Associated Students of Skyline College President Nicole Harris worked closely with Soyombo in the Global Mentorship Program and considers him a mentor and source of inspiration.

“He’s such a light, just a beacon of hope,” Harris said.

She added that Soyombo’s own life was an inspiration to others.

“He came from Africa to here, and just worked really hard and gave his all to his community,” Harris said. “He was all about

Richard Soyombo

joining together to work for one good. That’s how I remember him. It was funny because every time I needed encouragement, we somehow managed to cross paths.

He was that person who lifted you up when you were down.”

Harris hopes that his kindness and inspiration will carry on after his death.

“The warmth that Skyline offers, he’s a big part of that,” Harris said.

The ASSC is planning an event to honor Soyombo’s life and details will be forthcoming, according to Harris.

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The danger of pharmaceutical drugs in academia The abuse of psychostimulants has seen an increase in college students seeking to get an edge, particularly with the approach of finals. The culprit at the crux of the problem is Adderall. There is a common misconception that this drug will increase academic results due to its potential to focus concentration.

A study conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations in 2009 surmised that approximately “6.4 percent of full-time college students age 18 to 22 used Adderall.”

Moreover, 89.5 percent of these students reportedly partook in binge drinking and were three times more prone to have used marijuana and other recreational substances.

Adderall is a class II drug.

According to the DEA this is defined as “substances, or chemicals defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse, less abuse potential than Schedule I drugs, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence.”

Despite its classification, this deceptively harmless pill used to treat attention deficit disorders, such as ADD and ADHD, and narcolepsy, has gone so far as to stop being referred to as a drug.

The level of acceptance of this synthesized amphetamine is due to its widespread availability, and the erroneous view that overrides the warnings in favor of reaping its benefits.

Feeling pressure to do well in school is overwhelming for a lot of individuals who are driven to look for extreme measures that involve

“Feeling pressure to do well in school is overwhelming for a lot of individuals who are driven to look for extreme measures that involve something other than good old fashioned caffeine to keep the somnolence away and remain single-minded in their scholarly duties.”

something other than good, old fashioned caffeine to keep the somnolence away and remain single-minded in their scholarly duties. Blame is placed on exceedingly high academic expectations in the endeavor to increase mental alertness.

Failing to understand that the ingestion of this medication has the same effect on non-diagnosed individuals is common. Although Adderall can improve the perfor-

mance of these people when given learning tasks involving memory, it may not be as effective to people who do not need help correcting attention performance deficits.

The negative collateral damages of psychostimulants are severely underestimated, and that involves addictions that potentially develop into cardiovascular problems and psychosis, and can carry repercussions on short term memory.

Adderall is commonly known to aid in studying temporarily while running the risk of dependency that in the future can significantly affect your thought process, and impact mood swings and overall functionality.

Additionally, the FDA concluded that Adderall can affect seizures and may lower the convulsive threshold. Furthermore, it may cause “manic symptoms in patients with no prior history, or exacerbation of symptoms in patients with pre-existing psychosis and aggressive behavior.”

While many students may decide that their academic careers are more important than their health and well-being, it is important to keep in mind that taking such pharmaceutical prescription drugs without the diagnosis that requires their consumption can, and will, lead to long lasting future consequences.

Jealousy can ruin relationships

by Michelle Brignoli TSV Staff Writer

Some people say jealousy is an ugly trait. Others say it’s healthy.

So when exactly does jealousy become too much?

If you’re in a relationship with someone and you’re wary of an old flame of theirs hanging around, that’s pretty normal. But once you start hindering your significant other’s ability to live his or her own life, that’s when we start to have a problem.

There are no statistics that can portray such an emotion. Rather, each circumstance where this trait is involved should be dealt with in a specific manner.

What I think jealousy really means is that jealous people are actually just unhappy and insecure.

The reason they’re so mad about their significant others spending time with targets of this jealousy is because they themselves feel they are lacking in comparison.

It could be a physical trait or emotional quality but either way, you feel they have what you do not. You don’t want your significant other spending time with a person you view as better than you. Of course not. That’s completely understandable.

So what are you going to do about it? Here’s an idea: Stop your significant other from having a completely platonic relationship with someone that you may or may not be friends with as well. That’s

the only reasonable solution, right?

Wrong. How would you feel if your significant other, the person you’re apparently supposed to trust the most and be the most comfortable with, told you to stop hanging out with one of your friends? That wouldn’t make you feel too good, would it? Instead you might be a bit annoyed. You might think “oh wow, my significant other won’t let me hang out with the people I want to hang out with.”

After such thoughts come around, only a few different outcomes are likely to occur: Your significant other will seek to please you and drop their friend, awkwardly but certainly. Or you could be the one who gets dropped, as your (possibly former) significant other goes and amicably hangs out with the friend they guiltlessly get to keep. Either way, someone’s getting dumped and therefore getting hurt, which is an obvious negative.

There’s definitely a solution to this problem. If you don’t know the way to fix it, today’s the day to learn it. If your significant other is hanging out with a friend, let’s take a step back and not do anything rash unless the red flags are extremely obvious. Take the time to talk it out and go from there.

Jealousy is only increased when there is a lack of communication.

Chances are the situation isn’t as bad as you think it is.

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Privacy disappears in a fleeting landscape Everyone does stupid things when they’re young, and most of those stupid things you hope go either unnoticed or are forgotten quickly. But with new apps developed to live in the moment and disappear, how much is written in stone?

I recently downloaded the app Periscope. Made by the creator of Twitter, it allows users to stream to live viewers through their phones.

I saw plenty of students filming themselves drunk after a party, but most troubling was the stream of two young men who claimed to have broken into a restaurant. Live streaming a crime is new territory.

If I had wanted to, it would have been fairly simple to keep the video and screenshots of the event and share it with the world later.

I wouldn’t do that, since I have better things to do, but someone out there might have.

Everything you do on the internet exists forever, despite the claims these app creators make.

A quick Google search into how to record a Periscope live stream is all you need to have a step-bystep process into how to keep any evidence on your phone forever.

This ability to broadcast yourself to the world isn’t new, but the accessibility is. Before

this, you needed a laptop with a webcam and everyone needed to be notified somehow to connect to Ustream or the like. Now it’s a push notification that connects a stream immediately to all of your followers. That’s the other draw to the app: The followers are built in. If you’re popular on Twitter, you already have a base to start streaming to.

The app has it’s flaws: It’s unable to search for nearby streams and the profiles are limited. This follows suit with the ephemeral motive behind the app: Streams can be saved but they will disappear after 24 hours.

In the internet age very little is left as far as privacy goes and this app delves even deeper into people’s personal lives. The line between existing online and in real life is starting to blur, causing student’s decisions now to ultimately affect them in the future.

Privacy at this point is almost an antiquated idea. You already lose that right when you step out your front door. This app brings eyes into hands and homes. This global platform is what the internet was created for. Connectivity, for the most part, is a benefit to apps like these but it’s at the cost of personal ownership.

When your friend is an extrovert: Do opposites really attract, or do they repel?

by Rene Bass

TSV Staff Writer

My friend since Barbie dolls and Love’s Baby Soft is an extrovert. She has always been the type to have a lot of people around her and has the natural ability to “say the right things.” She likes meeting new people, knows everyone, and gets invited to parties.

“Extrovert” has always liked to be the center of attention, whereas I prefer to parlay in the cuts. There are times when we clash. During those times, it is like a war in a jar.

Our church had an event last summer called Vacation Bible School. We both signed up as teachers. Why did “extrovert” announce to the bible school committee that it was a great idea that she and I teach our classes together? I was content to teach solo. Already armed with a lesson plan, I whispered to her that I had already prepared, so maybe next time (how about never). You see, she had already showed me that, by her clamoring to be the center of attention, she really makes a fool of herself. People tend to stare at me like “what’s wrong with your

girl?” or “now what are you going to do?”.

Well just my crappy luck, the committee chair agreed. I sat there brooding in my emotions, wishing I could figure out a politically correct way to say that the idea stunk.

The first day of class, “extrovert” is searching online for lessons. I calmly showed her that I had lesson plans and activities.

I shared a song I wrote for the children to present in the evening.

To make me even more uncomfortable, the children were to present what they learned that evening in front of the entire congregation. The focus should be on the children as much as possible, not on the teachers. Just thinking about it made me want to break out in hives, for real.

I taught the children a song about loving Jesus, sung to a familiar tune. “Extrovert” was impressed with the lyrics and how quickly the children memorized the words. The children were a teensy bit nervous about singing in front of the whole church. To help ease the kids into the performance, “extrovert” would announce them

and I had a line or two to add.

Performance time. “Extrovert” announced the children, putting extra emphasis on it. The church erupted in laughter, which was the gasoline for her to grab the spotlight. “Extrovert” was on a roll, being her attention grabbing self to the point where she spoke my lines. I looked on, mortified, even though I was the only one who knew. After she had exhausted herself, “extrovert” then announced I had something to say. I stared blankly. She already said what I prepared to say! The crickets sounded for a hot minute before I could think of a recovery, then guided the children into song.

I was annoyed that, once again, “extrovert” had grabbed the spotlight, spoke my lines, and made me feel real stupid staring out at the congregation. We had been friends for so long that I was used to this behavior but still very uncomfortable with it. I keep asking myself whether opposites really do attract, or do they repel like nothing else.

The jury in my head is still out.

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Scientists have long been fond of a theory known as The Butterfly Effect: One event, no matter how small, can have lasting repercussions on a large scale.

Think of the outcome, then, of much larger changes in the present time. Disastrous changes.

There can be few more tragic developments in today’s world than the continuing deaths of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of would-be migrants to Europe from the beleaguered nations of Northern Africa. Just off the coast of the small Italian island of Lampedusa, the warm spring waters of the Mediterranean are teeming with the bodies of African refugees, who pledged their lives to unsafe paddle boats and then died in any of a number of sudden accidents.

The most recent incident, which occurred over the weekend of April 19, may have claimed as many as 900 lives.

Why are they fleeing their homes in Northern Africa? There is no simple answer, but there is one important factor that often goes unnoticed.

A significant number of the sunken refugees have come from the nation of Libya. The U.S. backed ouster of the dictatorial Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 effectively dismantled the country. Libyans, who inhabit a superbly oil-rich region, have now experienced several years of shifting leadership, nearly random

There are some people who fail to realize that sex is supposed to be an intimate experience between two people rather than a “quickie.”

But then again, there is an exception to the rule: those who are in relationships, because even couples can engage in shallow sex.

Some single people do not understand the difference between love- making and shallow sex.

Making love to someone can be the most intimate and electrifying experience ever.

Shallow sex is meaningless sex. There are absolutely no feelings involved and it’s stupid that some people don’t care about the emotional aspect of it.

Love making should be a precious moment that you take seriously with someone you love. It’s supposed to a pleasurable and passionate experience you and your partner can share together, as opposed to just having sex for the physical pleasure.

And that’s where some peo-

ple go wrong.

Shallow sex with a random person, or even someone you know, seems so hurtful (given that you’re not in a relationship). You most likely don’t love that person. You might care about them, but that does not mean you love them. There’s a big difference. Therefore, you’re just messing with that person’s emotions.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying shallow sex is a bad thing and that it is pointless to everyone. I want to make a clear point that some couples, or partners, who are considerate of each other’s feelings and emotions might like to enjoy shallow sex with each other once in a while.

It all depends on the time, place and your status.

If two people have the time to please each other, you should consider going slowly to satisfy each other’s physical and emotional needs. However, if you’re

trying to get something quick in, then more fast and aggressive sex is okay when two people agree.

Making love definitely is a different feeling because you obviously love your partner (or let’s hope that you do).

The intimacy should bring you two together more than it ever has before. For people who want to argue that rough sex is similar to shallow sex, it’s your choice to feel that way or challenge it. And who knows, maybe after you have sex you and your partner can get intimate and cuddle. Honestly, I can see rough sex as making love in its own way.

Overall, making love and shallow sex can be seen either differently or the same in the eyes of various people, but it all depends on the way it’s perceived.

The Amazon Angle is written by two female staff members, on an alternating basis, who wish to remain anonymous in their writing.

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An American Butterfly Effect

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drone strikes by U.S. Special Forces, and internal fighting on a grand scale.

U.S. intervention in Libya is a key factor, perhaps the most important factor, in the crisis that has driven thousands of refugees into the torpid, bloody waters aboard unsafe vessels.

Yet see how often this connection is made in the mainstream media? Almost never.

Pope Francis visited Lampedusa in 2013 to decry the staggering loss of life. He defied the view that these migrants’ lives are somebody else’s problem, not ours.

“We have become used to other people’s suffering,” he said. “It doesn’t concern us, it doesn’t interest us, it’s none of our business.”

Pope Francis was speaking mainly to Europeans, who express their hostility to African refugee immigrants more and more loudly with each passing year. However, there have been no meaningful offers of asylum from the U.S government. As the aggressor responsible, directly or indirectly, for overthrowing governments in the region in question, even a token of reparations would stand to reason.

And yet, the proposals currently being heard are to survey the waters with drones, to arrest the boat captains and to target human traffickers in Libya with bombing campaigns.

The American butterfly, its wings beating somewhere over Libya, is nowhere to be found in the news.

Lights, camera, action: When to star in your own sexy home movies

by Nick Major

TSV Staff Writer

You know what really shakes thing up in the bedroom? Porn. But I don’t mean popping in a DVD or plugging your laptop into your widescreen TV. I’m talking about amateur porn, starring you.

We’re an egotistical, media-obsessed culture.

We love to feel like the center of attention and a camera flash brings that side out of us (just look at the invasion of selfies coating the internet nowadays).

Being in front of a camera makes us want to show off, inspiring the creation of a persona that we thinks deserves the attention. It builds a kind of empowerment that, when applied to the bedroom correctly and maturely, makes sparks fly.

“Hold up a minute,” you say, “there are a heck of a lot of reasons NOT to record myself naked!”

Yes, and it’s important to address all of those reasons before you ever think of

dimming the lights and rolling a camera.

One, you might think you’re too ugly, or don’t look “camera ready.” Let’s dismiss that one right now. If the likes of Ron Jeremy or Ginger Lynn are good enough for center stage, you’re good enough. By a landslide.

After coming to terms with how gorgeous you are (gentlemen…), you want to find a co-star. Hopefully you can find one in your current boyfriend/girlfriend. This should be someone you’re pretty committed to, as it’ll better your chances of them taking a chance on you.

This points to the biggest problem for when you want to break out the camera: Leaked nude pictures and revenge videos are definitely a thing. One slip can ruin someone. It’s a natural reaction not to want to put yourself at risk in that way.

There’s an answer to this: Be the kind of person that can be trusted with sensitive material like that. Showing your partner that bringing a camera into the room isn’t necessarily

about having something on-record for the future, but just to spice things up in the now.

Give your partner control.

Allow only them to touch the camera, letting them know they can delete the evidence at any time. If your partner controls what gets filmed, they might be a lot more willing trying it out and maybe even try it again.

As a last resort, just set up an empty camera. Again, introducing the camera is about creating a persona, the sexual star of your own show. This doesn’t necessitate actually recording, just the idea that you’re being recorded. Then both you and your partner can really play it up with no worries since you’re not really being filmed. Eventually, your partner may become comfortable enough to do the real deal.

Making your own amateur porn can add a lot to the bedroom, but only when done right. If the idea intrigues you, or you’d just like to have a reminder for those long nights away from your “bae,” don’t be afraid to toss the idea out there.

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By Daniel Tipple Special to tsv

A half-scale replica of The Wall That Heals was brought to the Golden Gate National Cemetery on April 16, where a crowd gathered to pay their respects and show their appreciation to those who served in Vietnam, as we near the 50th anniversary of the war in Vietnam.

The event was co-sponsored by many associations, some of which come straight from Skyline College, such as the Associated Students of Skyline College and the Skyline College Veterans Clubs.

“The month of May, 1968 was the deadliest month in Vietnam history,” Steve Patterson said.

“2,415 men and women died in Vietnam that month”.

Patterson, a former platoon leader in the 101st Airborne division, spoke to the crowd briefly about his time in Vietnam and how he met his wife, Linda Patterson.

Linda Patterson’s brother was in Steve’s platoon. Her brother Joe was killed in action in Vietnam.

Steve met Linda when he came back from Vietnam and they have been together ever since.

Linda spoke about the love and admiration she had, not just for

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her brother, but for all the troops over there fighting.

She got her local community to sponsor troops and sent them countless numbers of care packages.

A crowd of roughly one hundred people showed up that sunny Thursday morning. The crowd was made up primarily of veterans, and friends and family of veterans of the Vietnam War. The crowd was in good spirits, many veterans smiling and greeting others, and were happy to be honoring each other as well as those lost during the war.

“I lost my dad in Vietnam,” attendee Shiree Hanley said, “so I felt it was important for me to come.”

Aside from the replica of the original Wall That Heals, there was a trailer which had a brief summary of the history of the war in Vietnam, as well as quotes, artifacts, and anecdotes.

One quote in the trailer that stood out was from one of the men whose idea it was to create the memorial in the first place, Jan Scruggs.

“To remind an ungrateful nation what it has done to its sons,” the quote reads.

Scruggs was an infantryman who was wounded in Vietnam and did not feel he had the support of

April 28, 2015

-Poetry celebration and reading featuring Skyline College speech students and the Gay Stright Alliance.

Located at the Skyline College quad.

11:00 am- 1:00 pm

April 30, 2015

Last day to withdraw from semester length classes!

May 4, 2015 Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Home on the Islands -A myriad of events centered around various Asian cultures will be taking place at Skyline College.

Located at the Skyline College quad.

12:00pm- 2:00 pm

Photos courtesy of Richard Jackson

the American people. He made it his mission to create a memorial; he did so successfully, raising $8.4 million along with others to create The Wall That Heals.

There was an invocation from Chaplain Fred Tittle, who spoke briefly about religion and the war.

The California National guard provided a firing detail, shooting a few rounds into the air, before CDR. Richard Erhardt, USNR (ret.) played taps, and the ceremony concluded.

Food Grade

Photos courtesy of Richard Jackson The replica of the Vietnam Memorial was delivered by truck.

On today’s menu: French toast and bacon

Skyline College Spring Musical “Grease”

-Skyline’s Dance, Drama, and Music departments present “Grease.” Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

The musical will be performed in Skyline’s theater located in Building one.

Times located below.

Fri. April 24, 7:30 pm- 9:30 pm Sat. April 25, 7:30 pm- 9:30 pm Sun. April 26, 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

The opening ceremony at the Wall that Heals event gathered veterans and family.

As we near the end of the semester, the more dedicated students among us will be spending more and more time on campus, perhaps even to the point that we feel like we are living here. It is only fitting then, that Food Grade visits the breakfast menu. Breakfast at the Skyline Café includes the typical eggs any-style and sides, pre-made breakfast burritos, customizable egg (not) McMuffins, and French toast.

It seems unfair to critique eggs on a plate, or a pre-made burrito, or even the now universal egg (copyright infringement) McMuffin. This evening’s fast was broken with squishy, fried bread.

There are many variations on French toast. Historically, what we in the States call French toast is not even a French dish. Like French fries, we’ve simply added the Franco qualifier to make salty, tough, guilty pleasures sound fancy.

From savage Visigoths salvaging stale bread, to crack-head cartoon pastry chefs pitching razor-sharp frosted cereal, many parts of the world have developed their own variation on this double-cooked delight. None of the

more famous varietals, ironically, are French.

If you expected this history of reanimated Franken-bread to lead to Skyline Café’s unique take on the dish, you were mistaken. The Skyline Café is sticking with basic American roadside diner French toast, and that’s OK. It’s pretty straight-forward stuff.

Thickly sliced white bread soaked in egg batter and griddle-fried. The bacon has been resting all morning under the heat lamp incubator, but bacon is bacon. As long as it’s made out of pig, it’s hard to make too much of a mess out of it.

The toast itself was surprisingly fine. Thankfully they avoided the original recipe of rock-hard bread soaked in milk until it eats like a soup or futuristic

nutrient gruel. I’m also grateful they steered clear of the newly popular Hong Kong style, which is dunked in the fry-o-lator until it eats more like a carnival Twinkie, or a crusty sponge – good in its own way, but a disappointment if you’re expecting Franco-American toast.

With such a brunchy food on the plate, the glass called for a brunch cocktail, and there are only two. Mimosas are for cougars.

The bloody mary is the morning cocktail for people bold enough to eat at the Skyline Café first thing in the morning. The bloody mary has been called the most complex cocktail recipe there is, however.

It’s a difficult drink to carry and assemble on the go. Lucky for

café patrons, everything you need is right there in the salad bar (save for the vodka, of course). Salt, pepper, Tabasco, ketchup, balsamic vinegar (substituting for Worcester sauce), a tiny splash of juice from the mandarin orange bowl, and a few stray veggies for garnish and you are a few shots of Stoli away from a poor man’s bloody mary.

Let’s call it the Bloody Trojan.

Brunch and drinks: B. Good enough to get the job done.

French toast ($3.79) bacon ($1.25)

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Record Store Day celebrates analog music

By Haley Holmes TSV Staff writer

The eighth annual Record Store Day, an event dedicated to analog music consumption and independent retailers, has come and gone yet again this year, leaving a mountain of exclusive releases for hipsters and audiophiles to sift through and enjoy.

Birthed in 2007, Record Store Day (RSD) was developed as a way for brick and mortar music stores to garner more customers and more support through exclusive music and merchandise typically only available at participating stores on the day of the event. One example from this year is Brand New's "Deja Entendu" EP on double vinyl. Hosted at participating record stores around the world on the third Saturday of April every year, RSD has become more than just a shopping experience.

“I believe that the power of the record store to inspire is still alive and well, and that their importance to our next generation of musicians is crucial,” this year’s RSD Ambassador Dave Grohl wrote on the RSD website.

But not all stores are created equal. Only stores that choose to participate in RSD will be able to receive the exclusive releases, and only independent record stores may participate. Luckily, the Bay Area is full of independent record stores participating in the event, so it should be easy enough to find one with everything you want.

Brick and mortar aside, most people empty their wallets not for the store, but for the music. Aside

from the aforementioned Brand New, a plethora of other musical ensembles release tons of exclusive content. Metallica released a tape of demo tracks (literally, it's a cassette!) featuring the band's original line up, with Dave Mustaine and Ron McGovney, Stone Sour released a cover album on vinyl, called "Meanwhile in Burbank", and U2 had a double vinyl RSD exclusive deluxe edition of their album "Songs of Innocence."

Some artists had far more to offer though. Three different Jeff Beck singles were released, all on 7" colored vinyl.

All these things and more were available, though as always, on a first come, first served basis.

Hardly any stores had the aforementioned Brand New album, and those that did were lucky to receive one copy, not enough to satisfy all of their customers. In this case though, missing out may be worth it. This particular album will be reissued in a few weeks.

The same can be said for many of these releases. The Metallica release was available on their website a week before RSD. So don't worry about all of the choice records you missed out on this time around and don't go searching eBay. You'll only be taken advantage of there. Wait a while and all the RSD releases will slowly make their way back to the stores and back to acceptable prices.

If you really want to go out and try your hand at getting some cool vinyl, it may be too late this year, but it will happen again. Next year will bring another RSD, a hundred more stores to visit and a thousand new records to sift through. All you have to do now is wait.

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One-man show destigmatizes depression

Brian Copeland brings his show to Skyline to shed some light on depression in hopes that students will seek help when in need.

By Laurel B. Lujan TSV Staff writer

Disclaimer: During this performance there will be mention of suicide, self-harm and a discussion of depression.

“What I want to accomplish by coming to Skyline is to get some of these young people who are struggling to reach out to somebody for help,” Brian Copeland said, when asked his main educational goal that he wishes to achieve here at Skyline College.

“The Waiting Period: Laughter in the Darkness” is a one man show in which Copeland speaks on his personal experience with depression through a personal angle of his close encounter when planning to take his own life by purchasing a new gun. The performance is intended to destigmatize depression and to help students in the audience to identify their depression and the way he identified getting help with his disease.

Skyline career counselor Lavinia Zanassi, and psych services counselor Beverly Muse are in charge of this event in order to help make a change about the understanding of depression and other mental illnesses. They also felt this would aid students to know that they are not alone in mental illness.

“The statistics from the CDC, Center for Disease Control, state that 1-4 people are going to struggle with same sort of treatable mental illness," Muse said. "A lot of it is depression and anxiety. The American Health College Asso-

ciation shows that 86 percent of college students have felt overwhelmed, 81 percent said they felt exhausted, 30 percent said they felt too depressed to function and nationwide 6.6 percent college students seriously considered suicide.”

The show is held at different theaters in the Bay Area and at other colleges and high schools.

“What makes this different, in terms of the audience itself, is because the issue is one that strikes college kids," Copeland said.

"Especially with young

‘The Waiting Period: Laughter in the Darkness’ will take place Monday, May 11 at 11:15 am to 1:30 pm in the Skyline College theater, in building one.

Brief intermission: bite sized reviews of the latest media happenings

‘Mortal Kombat X’ offers classic game play with new treats

By Miguel Garcia TSV Editor at Large

It was good, but not exciting. True Story.

By Haley Holmes TSV Staff writer

This installment of the Mortal Kombat series has really brought a mix of a fresh yet familiar flavor.

There is a lot that MKX has to offer, including both new experiences and classic ones.

This is the most fluid installment of MK yet. Running at 1080p and 60 frames per second, fighting has never felt so quick.

The controls are super responsive and the characters onscreen respond to every action performed, every button pressed. Every fighter feels balanced because of the new variations you can choose between each character. You’re really forced to learn one character but in a fun way. Every character

It's hard to make a true-crime drama interesting and easy to digest, but for the first feature length film from fledgling director Rupert Goold, "True Story" seems to have come out relatively well.

Starring Jonah Hill as a disgraced journalist and James Franco as a could-be murderer, "True Story" follows the relationship that develops between them as Hill attempts to understand the how and the why of James Franco. It is based on the (you guessed it) true story of former New York Times

is unique and allows you to find who you are most comfortable with.

The game looks beautiful; there is so much attention to detail on the characters. Their motions feel really natural and the game looks as realistic as ever in terms of anatomy and blood physics.

Because of this, the fatalities are as gruesome as ever. They tried their best to get the anatomy right when x-ray moves and fatalities are performed. Fighting looks super fluid. It’s really fun to follow the fighters onscreen; it gets hectic but there isn’t screen-tearing whatsoever or even a drop in frame rate.

journalist Michael Finkel (played

by Hill) and convicted killer Christian Longo (Franco).

Overall, there is almost nothing inherently wrong with this film.

The pacing is spot on, assuring that the plot never rushes or drags, the acting was adequate (albeit not exemplary), and the story itself was clear and interesting. All in all, the movie was good. Unfortunately, "good" doesn't always mean interesting.

men between the ages 18-20 who have real issues and many of them don’t understand that they are dealing with depression.”

“And if they do understand it, there’s also the stigma that they do not want to talk about it or acknowledge it to the counselors or teachers, their peers, their parents, or anybody else,”Copeland added.

This gives the audience a chance to be proactive by getting help and treatment through his message of hope and overcoming mental health issue

Upcoming movies April 24 , 2015 “Little Boy”

To read the rest of the review on “Mortal Kombat X” and to check out the trailer scan the QRcode above. www.theskylineview.com

May 1 , 2015 “Avengers: Age of Ultron”

To read the rest of the review on “True Story” and to check out the trailer scan the QRcode above. www.theskylineview.com

Sports

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by Will Nacouzi

TSV Digital Editor

The Trojans badminton team keeping the players on the court. have had a strong season so far, The Coast Conference Finals will despite enduring some losses. be taking place at Fresno on May The Trojans wrapped up the last 1 and 2, and the State Championof their conference matches on ships on May 7, 8 and 9.

April 21 and are now heading “For Conference Finals, it’s all into the Conference Finals, about playing with good stratewhich will determine who qualigy, being fast with our footwork fies for the State Championships and staying on the attack on the in Irvine. According to Badmincourt,” Fosberg said over email. ton Head According to Coach Jan Fosberg, the Fosberg, “For Conference Finals, coaches have the top 8 stressing it’s all about playing with been singles the importance finishers good strategy, being fast of conserving and top 6 energy for the with our footwork and doubles later finals staying on the attack.” teams matches by endqualify ing points quickto play in ly and defeating -Jan Fosberg the state their opponents championquickly as possiship. ble. The team is The team focusing on the has been lucky enough to avoid upcoming Conference Finals, the injuries so far in the season, current task at hand. despite the team been somewhat inexperience and only having two returning players this season. Fosberg credits the team athletic trainer with doing a great job of treating injuries and

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To the left, the Skyline badminton team strikes a pose pre-game.

Baseball

On the road taming the panthers Different environment means different challenges. The Trojans share the behind the scenes of away games.

by Jeanita Lyman

TSV News Editor

Following an April 21 victory against the Hartnell Panthers in Salinas, the Trojans baseball team is happy to be back home at Skyline.

According to Trojans Head Coach Dino Nomicos, away games present unique challenges that differ from playing at home.

“For yesterday, we were at Salinas, so it’s two hours drive, two hours before game time three hours for the game, two and a half hours to drive home, so it makes for a very long day for the kids, myself, my coaches,” Nomicos said. “And we do that a lot. Four, five, six times a year. “ In addition, he noted that the team is spoiled by the facilities at home and that the rough turf on other campuses can pose a challenge.

“We love playing at home,” Nomicos said. “I’d rather play all my games at home to be honest with you. Our surface is so good and when we go to other facilities the surface is horrible.”

According to Nomicos, the key at away games is to maintain routine and keep the players focused amid strenuous travel.

“We don’t do anything different,” Nomicos said. “The biggest

thing is that we try to keep the kids’ attention span. They’re not used to such a long day coming from high school. So it is a job.”

The team travels as far south as San Diego (where they fly) and as far north as Sacramento.

Assistant Baseball Coach Anthony Brunicardi agreed that playing at home is better, but sees some advantages to away games on his part.

“We try to keep the routine the same,” Brunicardi said. “There is a positive for me out on the road: We don’t have to worry about getting anything ready for the game. We just have to show up and everything’s kind of taken care of. But everyone likes playing at home better.”

Trojans’ pitcher Alex Jenkins was still recovering from the trip and acknowledged that travel can be rough on the players.

“There’s not as much batting practice,” Jenkins said. “Traveling there and back can take a toll, both mentally and physically.”

Despite the challenges the players face when travelling, Nomicos said that it ultimately benefits the team.

“Everything we try to do is kind of teach them what it’s going to be like at the next level, the good and the bad,” Nomicos said.

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

April 24 vs. Monterey Peninsula College, 2:30 p.m.

May 1 & 2 Coast Conference Finals @ Fresno City College, 5 p.m.

May 1 vs. Cabrillo College, 12 p.m.

May 2 vs. Mission College, 2:30 p.m.

May 7, 8 & 9 State Team Championship @ Irvine.

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Baseball

Championship approaches Tennis team could

benefit community Highlighting the importance of team sports is vital.

by Sarah Marasigan TSV Staff Writer

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Pitcher Matt Seubert (above) keeping focused. Stay tuned to our website to find out whether the Trojans baseball team make it to State Championships from May 23-25, at Fresno City College.

Trojan pre-game rituals Skyline’s baseball team divulge the habits that bring them luck.

by Erin Perry

TSV Assistant News editor

There is a common belief that superstition accompanies sports.

Baseball is one of the many sports that have a reputation of rituals and superstitions. This may include specific things players do before a game, or something to be avoided at all costs.

According to an article published in 2010 on Bleacher Report, common rituals range from the tapping or pulling of helmets and uniforms to eating a particular meal on game day. Superstitions may revolve around not washing certain uniform pieces or not speaking about things like a “no-hitter” while the game is in session.

Here at Skyline, some of the baseball players have their own versions of rituals and superstitions that they do in preparation for games.

Trojans’ catcher Keaton Ichman says he believes in superstitions

and that he wants good karma.

“I like to be the first one here, so I can visualize the game,” Ichman said.

According to pitcher Michael Valdes, the team stretches together and as a reliever, he has to get focused quickly.

Superstitions and rituals have been a part of baseball history.

Some famous curses have even derived from the existence of baseball superstitions. According to the Bleacher Report article, one of the most infamous historical superstitions is “The Curse of the Bambino.” This curse was the center of blame for the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year long lack of a World Series win. According to the legend, the curse was the result of star player Babe Ruth’s sale to the New York Yankees. Throughout the years, the curse defined the Red Sox, until 2004 when the streak was broken.

Valdes spoke about how the team feels toward winning streaks.

“When we have a winning streak going, we keep wearing that jersey till we lose,” Valdes said.

Clothing items seem to hold significance to athletes’ superstitions.

Outfielder Mike Franco has his own take on ritualized clothing.

“I’ve worn the same arm sleeve for the past three years…I feel lost without it,” Franco said.

Pre-game and gameday rituals have defined players in Major League history. Mike Hargrove, nicknamed “The Human Rain Delay” was notorious for his extensive list of batter’s box habits.

According to Business Insider, Hargrove’s quirks included adjusting his helmet, gloves, and sleeves.

He would also tap his pockets, wipe his hands and rub his nose.

Whether they work or not, rituals and superstitions are a staple to the world of baseball. Like they say: don’t fix what isn’t broken.

Recreational sports offered by the athletic department such as tennis do not have a team and are constantly overlooked at Skyline. Tennis is a very popular sport, played not only at the high school and college level but now even elementary and junior high schools, which have tennis teams.

Many of the schools in our corner of the Bay Area have active tennis programs, such as those at surrounding high schools like Terra Nova, Oceana, Cappuchino and South San Francisco. There are also programs at local colleges and universities, such as those at Stanford, USF, and City College of San Francisco. At CCSF, the tennis coach was recently named coach of the year in the Coast Conference.

Since all of these schools and universities are in close proximity to one another and pull from the same demographic pools, that cannot be the reason Skyline does not have a team. There are students at Skyline who probably played for a high school team and would have brought that talent and interest to a program at Skyline. Maybe the problem is one of exposure, and it could be beneficial for the athletic department to put out a

questionnaire to all students asking what sports programs they would like to see become part of the Skyline experience. As popular as tennis is not just at the local level, but nationally and internationally, I would bet tennis would get a lot of student interest. Let’s start with a survey and see where we go from there.

With the popularity of the Williams sisters (Venus and Serena) and how much they have inspired women of all ages and color to play tennis not only as a hobby sport, but as a profession, they way has already been paved for women who want to play tennis. With inspiration for so many at the junior age level, shouldn’t every college, including Skyline, offer a tennis team?

Especially for incoming high school students who planned on playing on a tennis scholarship? Or for any other college student who attends Skyline, since it is more affordable, but cannot play on a tennis team, because Skyline only offers a tennis course.

It is time to make college students more aware of how important it is. Even though it is sometimes considered a “hobby sport”, it’s prominent to people who wish to play it professionally one day.

Trojans bi-weekly results Baseball Home

Badminton Results

De Anza College, April 16

Cabrillo College, March 16

Away

L, 4-3

Result

L, 17-4

Gavilan College, April 19

Home

L, 8-0

Fresno City College, April 24

Hartnell College, April 22

Away

W, 5-3

Result

L, 20-1

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The Skyline baseball team celebrates the success of their game after lengthy overtime innings between the Trojans and Gavilan College Rams.

Staff writer Terence Scott contributed to this article.