The Skyline View | Spring 2020 | Issue #5

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The SKYLINE View The Voice of Skyline College, San Bruno, Calif.

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April 2020 February 13,16, 2020

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Adaptation of The Broadway Classic “Chicago� is now Postponed Skyline College is Under Violation of ‘50% Law’ Spotlight

By Chloe Trinidad STAFF WRITER

Gomez. “To not see each other, makes me really miss everyone,� said Megan Bueno, a cast member

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members again.� Due to the musical being post-

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Meetings are held every Wednesday from 2-4 p.m, you can contact Chapter co chairs for more details.

College students reflect back the reality of COVID-19 life from different corners of the world OPINION Students Launch Newscrambling Club for Performers, Creatives and Scribes The pandemic has left international students of all ages Page 4

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In the name of arteither.� andsaid self-expression, Skyline’s very own Open Mic Club was formed Hyun. get used to this feeling I felt.�

“The teenagers here do Whereas students were relieved With the school year still going to head back home, they also on, Tagram said, “I’m planning to lot of places LJ ĹšĆŒĹ?Ć?Ć&#x;Ä‚Ĺś Ä‚ĆŒĹŻĹ˝ ÄžĹ?ĆľÄžĆŒĆŒÄ‚ not“There care aren’t abouta the virus Category were concerned. Skyline College study online and online is better where people can share their opinStaff Writer andorgoas outside student Yunri Bao, who landed in than in-class because it is easier to either ions safely, brilliantly asas the On March 26, an email from the Guangzhou, China a few days ago submit assignments and we have opinions and ideas [actually] Student poets grace Skyline district informed students that classusual. They know thatare,â€? it said Professor Sapigao, Open Mic College by instituting the camsaid “I feel great to be back home. more time to rest.â€? in The The ofIrony es for the remainder the spring will affect or famClub’s adviser.them “I also think a lot of pus’ very own Open Mic Club My quarantine life is amazing While Mihyang witnessed simisemester were transitioned to online LGBTQ+ Community people — students in particular — this month, fostering students’ because I can do anything I want larities on how America reacted to ily, yet they do not take in light of the current pandemic. come to open mics because there creative zeal to perform, and except going outside. After the the novel coronavirus, she seemed Following the email, students from themight virus as aparts serious be other of their lives to express and heal themselves COVID-19 pandemic people to be concerned about Japan all three colleges: Skyline, Canada that do not allow them to be their through art. are more vigilant about wearing because of that. “The teenagers problem.â€? and San Mateo decided to head back whole, full, entire selves.â€? The Open Mic Club was spearmasks when they go out and they here do not care about the virus to their homes in different countries Professor Sapigao also believes headed by spoken word artists Page 2 care about personal hygiene more across the globe as soon as possible. students’ pieces do not need to be Donovan Chapman and Nicholas than before. Even though I am oronavirus: Life for an international student in perfect in order for them to express Soriano-Smith, who act as the concerned about my studies back the time of corona is hard. Mihyang themselves at an open mic. As perpresident and vice president, reCampus’s new in America because my time zone Hyun, a Skyline College student, formers, students should, as Professpectively. The two of them share has changed and now it’s easier to concern was all alone thousands of kilomesor Sapiago put it, “allow art and a belief that sharing your craft and miss deadlines. That’s why I have poetry to exist in all of its formsâ€?, artistry in open mic is cathartic. ters away from her family during a Donovan Chapman (left) a special planner to remind meand Nicholas Soriano-Smith (right) pose for a and not stress about whether they They expressed their opinion that global health crisis. photo in building on February 5, 2020. I should do every6 day and live up the idea of what a good poet open mics are the best avenues what to quity Training Kevin Arias/Skyline View check my email more frequently.â€? or artist is. be vulnerable and to be unafraid depicted as people of color. Series;life Whiteness in of what you’re feeling. “Quarantine in When“Each we asked her win- means to be soothing and therapeuMichael France Sagum, a social open Bao mic about is a little tic, both for the performer and audi- and behavioral sciences student, health, she said “Doctors come For Chapman, the idea of needdow,â€? Chapman said. “You get a Education Cherry blossoms (sakura) are Japan is different was pleased to hear the good news ing an open mic in Skyline Coleverylotday checkwho myhave temperaof to people the hobby ence. full bloom, but no people are “What’s even more important is of the club having been created, lege came into being after being of words, speaking, and art, and I ture and I’m provided with not from quarantine life in inseen at a park in Tokyo, Japan into several open mic events, think thatmeals lendsevery itself to being crit- that it’s relatable to other people,â€? and made sure to join it. one but four day on April 7, 2020. America. There are a “I used to do a lot of spoken observing that the majority of ical. And so, you’ll get a critical Nicholas said. “And no matter how in this quarantine center by the obscure somebody’s perspective word poetry when I was in middle the audiences were comprised of view of life, like those people.â€? government, I’m good.â€? decided whether to switch lot of people who care not yetmiddle-age adults. FororNicholas, mic is an may be, there’s somebody with school and high school,â€? he said. “I Sooner later manyopen countries to online classes for the whole we just wanted decided to opening to speak a piece of your whom it will resonate, somebody stopped writing because I had other for me and bring food semester“Basically, to have a partial or comor not. However, after ZLOO ÂżQG LW DQG LW ZLOO EH DQ LPSRUW- responsibilities. And now I’m just know if there’s anything like that identity. “All you have to do is plete lockdown in their countries. emailed us that they will for me every day. I do school [open ant piece of art to somebody.â€? really glad that there’s a space for mic] at Skyline,â€? Chapman “The open mic is a place where Tagram, who is right now close the campus, I bought tick- Sara learn how to transform “And you will touch people through me to start writing poetry and persaid. “Because, also, aa problem is all walls are down,â€? Nicholas said. not feel lonely because in Shizouka, Japan said “Tokyo could back your garbage into et and finally art, andlays I think theatmost beau- forming — going into come the city, liketowheth- “This is an opportunity for me, in A laptop on that’s a table a quarantine center again.â€? with meal in Guangis the most famous city in Japan. my country.â€? tifulChina. thing about self-expression,â€? he Sagum also expressed that he er it’s Oakland or SF — there ara couple of minutes, to be vulner- zhou, of them.â€? ƪ‘™‡”•Ǥdz Now that, Tokyo is on lockdown She was sheour age. It’s able in any way that I feel like, continued. anticipates a variety of events and en’trelieved as manyafter people and businesses are heavily im- that -Thich Nhat Hanh finally people landed who in Tokyo, Japan. in their Language arts professor and Filipi- reacted showcases take part in during his are probably to thetonovel coronavirus, and communicate any thought either and go outside as usual. pacted people arefeeling reallyIworried “Since College transitioned to “Quarantine life inup.â€? Japan is stay in the club. late 20s and I have, any have, like in na poet Janice Sapigao believes that sadly.â€? They know that it will affect them aboutthe that.â€? furtheroradded, online classes, it’s been a really hard differentAdditionally, from quarantine life believes 7KH 2SHQ 0LF &OXE KHOG LWV ÂżUVW Chapman formShe of poetry music. It’s a forming this organization is fundaor family, they do not “When I landed in Japan, I was time for me.â€? said Hyun. mental, yet particularly due take how the it con- meeting Feb. 5, discussing the club in America. There areprovide a lot ofopportuni- way I let my soul speak.â€? that open mics virus as a serious problem.â€? said kind of1LFKRODV scared because there had tributes to upholding and fortifying “Every day I just had a choice to and planning the next steps for its people to share people ties whoforcare for me and stories that DOVR ÂżQGV VHOI H[SUHVMihyang. students’ freedom of expression. been sion dozens of people infected in future. GLŕľľHU stay at my house by myself and do through poetic and artistic bring food forIURP me KRZ everyWKH\ day.DUH I doXVXDOO\ Life in Japan is still better than just a day and the situation here nothing except doing my assignnot feel lonely because of them. the life I spent in America; howis getting very dangerous. The ments. I wanted to go back to Japan Honestly, I do not do anything ever, the situation is the same. I thought of becoming infected by because I felt lonely and depressed; special. My study and work are see similarities in the situation of the novel Coronavirus kept bothdespite that, I could not decide to going well, and I don’t have Japan and America on how they ering me. A few days later I did buy a ticket because the school had any concerns about my classes By Umaima Ejaz Contemporary Urban NEWS EDITOR

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