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Biased or blind?

Ethnicity could become a deciding factor in some university admissions

by Matt Floyd

TSV Staff Writer

An amendment that could impact Skyline student’s transfer possibilities is in debate in a special committee where students, faculty and experts can voice their opinions.

Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 would overturn a portion of Proposition 209’s 1996 ruling banning affirmative action. The amendment seeks to grant California’s public universities permission to consider race, gender, and ethnicity in college admissions process.

The amendment easily passed through state senate with 27 votes in favor and three votes against it; SCA5 then made its way to state assembly where it has been held for further inquiry at the request of the amendment’s author, State Sen. Ed Hernandez.

Sen. Hernandez cited that SCA5 didn’t receive the two-thirds vote necessary to pass the decision on to citizens in time for the November 2014 ballot.

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In a statement released by Hernandez, he announced that a joint senate and assembly commission will conduct hearings on the matter and will hold the amendment until the commission feels that a comprehensive deliberation from both proponents and opponents has taken place.

“Our expectation is that this commission engages students, faculty, administration, parents, and community leaders in an ongoing discussion about ways to ensure that our campuses can recruit, admit and retain student bodies that reflect all of California” Professor of sociology here a Skyline College, Michael Moynihan, believes the under representation of minority groups in California’s public universities has more to do with a growing inequality among social classes and how public education is funded than with a universities admissions policies.

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Computer lab closed indefinitely Club activity funds

Students visting the drop-in lab are being redirected to the library

by Chris DeJohn

TSV Staff Writer

On Monday, April 8, the dropin computer lab in the basement of building 2 was, “permanently closed.” A sign posted on the door of the lab says it will be relocated to the library in building 5 in the summer. In the meantime, students are encouraged to use the computers and printers that are already set up in the library as the temporary drop-in lab.

The computer labs are housed by the Center for Advanced Learning and Technology. According to the Skyline College website, “The CALT houses general computer classrooms utilized by a number of departments for instruction.” CALT houses the computer science lab and the PC repair and configuration lab among other college related, networked PC services.

The reason the basement drop-in lab in building 2 is closed is due to a need to make more space

in the current placement testing center, also housed in building 2.

According to the Dept. of Science, Mathematics and Technology here at Skyline, the current placement testing center on the main floor in building 2 has only about 16 different computers. With the current student population being more than 10,000 students, that doesn’t really add up. That number doesn’t even include the number of high-school students who need testing to enter Skyline.

In other words, there simply isn’t enough space at Skyline College right now to accommodate all of the prospective students who need to take their placement tests for math and English. Expansion of the facility is paramount and this is the first step; to close down the current lab and get everything out of there to make room.

“Over the past five-plus years this college has grown tremendously. We’ve put some new buildings online and we’ve looked at

what would meet student needs as we move forward,” Ray Hernandez, dean of science, mathematics and technology said. “And now with newer technology, in terms of needing a computer ... many students have technology that they come with. Technology like their own laptop or smart-phone.”

“A lot of students are complaining,” Student assistant, Brian Ho said. “Everyone wants to know why. We want our computer lab back.”

CALT is evolving along with the new technology and is diligently working to have the drop-in labs re-opened in Summer. However, the issue right now for CALT is to try and meet the students needs for placement and to connect more with Skyline’s high-school partners.

“In the best of all worlds, what would be great is; everything is ready at the same time and as soon Computer continued on page 2

nearly depleted

Poor planning in Skyline’s campus club council leaves little resources to share

by Dave Newlands

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The Associated Students of Skyline College reported a Club Council budget of only $2,004 at their April 16 meeting, causing some concern among students, clubs, and the ASSC officers themselves.

In a previous meeting on March 25, SOCC had made an announcement of having only $1,092 in funds.

“The thousand dollars we said we had last meeting was an estimation of money,” ASSC Vice President Pricsilla Sanchez said. “Now with the updated budget, it gave SOCC the two thousand we have now.”

The reason for the lack of SOCC funds is a rise in clubs and on-campus activities, and doesn’t

reflect the overall budget, according ASSC Adviser Amory Cariadus.

“What was originally planned in the budget was actually the norm of what it’s been for the past few years,” Cariadus said. “The changes have come as a result of one, there being more clubs active on campus, and there being more requests for funds. That’s why it seems like, in some people’s eyes there seems to be less money in the account, which there really isn’t.”

The official budget numbers and the nature of the funding requests being granted remain a mystery. As of April 9, The ASSC has not published minutes, agendas, budgets, or other supplementary information for any of their 2014 weekly meetings. This makes ASSC Commis Clubs continued on page 2

Astronomical marvels start with the blood moon and continue with this month’s upcoming meteor shower

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sioner of Finance Andrea Garcia the only person qualified to speak on the budget numbers.

“Without having Andrea here to actually look at the new numbers I can’t say for sure,” Cariadus said about the state of the updated budget.

Cariadus’ sentiment echoed that of her fellow adviser John Saenz, as well as many ASSC student officers, who also deferred to Garcia. Garcia could not be reached for comment.

The unsuspected stress on the SOCC budget is being handled by a reallocation of funds from other sections of the ASSC budget.

“ASSC has been able to take funds that they’ve designated for

other areas and relocated them for clubs and so there’s not really a concern,” Cariadus said.

But exactly where those funds will come from is unknown to Cariadus and to ASSC Vice-President Priscilla Sanchez.

“At the moment I do not know (where the funds will come from) but there is going to be rearrangements so that clubs can get the funds they need to have activities on campus,” Sanchez said. “It’s not that we don’t have the funds, it’s just that the money is going away faster. So that’s why we’re a little bit freaking out, but we have the money to fund all the clubs.”

The clubs themselves are getting by on what the SOCC can

provide, but they are feeling the competition from the growing field of campus organizations which is up to 45 this year, a noticeable increase from last year when clubs numbered in the high 30s.

“I feel like there’s a good amount of access (to funds) but it’s hard because there are so many clubs,” said Jaimelynn Alvarez, Vice-President of Operations for Phi Theta Kappa. “A lot of them are startups and they need extra help through SOCC funding but there are a lot of other clubs that are well-established, like model UN or Phi Theta Kappa, who are traveling to conventions … those kinds of things are really expensive no matter

how much you fundraise.”

SOCC offers up to $500 per semester to each club before the club has to file an “outside request” for additional funding, but knowing how many clubs will be asking for this allowance will be the key to keeping the budget balanced in the future.

“It’s just a matter of estimating how many clubs there are going to be next year,” Sanchez said.

In the meantime the ASSC is looking for the silver lining.

“The clubs are more engaged, more activities are happening on campus, we have more clubs,” Cariadus said. “So it’s actually a good thing that we need more money to give to clubs.”

Race and gender could be a factor in admissions

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“Everyone should have the opportunity to go to school regardless of race ethnicity or gender, but the issue is larger than that.”

Moynihan said, “The source of the issue is social class, the single best predictor of who goes to college and university is social class.”

To resolve the issue, “The public education system has to be restructured and refinanced in such a way that the questions raised in SCA5 are no longer relevant. It seems to be a matter of both funding and equality.”

According to the California Department of Education’s 2012-2013 statistics, among public school districts in San Mateo County certain cities like Woodside and Hillsborough spend nearly two times

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as something closes, the other thing opens, but unfortunately that’s just not how it works,” Hernandez said. “So what we’re looking at right now is upgrading the placement testing center.

Because of the amount of computers (or lack of computers) we have we really need to make that a priority. That’s why that is moving forward before the new drop-in lab is ready.”

According to Dean Hernandez, the drop-in lab will be on hiatus until the library’s infrastructure is ready for the lab to be set up there. Not only are there plans to re-open the drop in lab in the summer. CALT has a much grander idea of a learning facility for Skyline students to take advantage of in the future.

“The bigger vision is a Learning Commons,” Hernandez said.

“So the library is not just a reference center but it’s really a center where students can receive and share information and collaborate with faculty and staff. There’s even a big vision to put in a coffee shop in this Learning Commons.”

For now the temporary drop-in computer and print lab is located in the library, upstairs in building 5. The new drop-in lab is estimated to be set up in the library sometime this summer. In addition, Keep your eyes peeled for the learning commons, hopefully to come at some point in the near future.

the amount of money per student a year than school systems in Pacifica, San Bruno, or Millbrae.

That’s because school districts utilize property taxes to fund schools, and in the cities with less school funding the students receive less educational tools due to the fact that citizens living within those districts can‘t afford to pay higher property taxes.

“We have a segregated public school system but it’s not by law it’s by residential patterns.”

Moynihan continues saying that augmenting admissions policies won’t address the source of the problem. “Pitting different ethnic groups against each other is missing the point, the larger structure is how we finance our school

systems both prop 209 and SCA5 seem to be missing the point. It has to do with a great inequality in how we educate our children.”

American Civil Rights Institute vice president, Diane Schachterle is opposed to SCA5.

“Passing prop 209, we believe is the best thing that ever happened to California because race preferences are unconstitutional and unfair.” said Schachterle “Prop 209 is the law of the land, the UC system is better off without racial preferences there is no reason to go back to using race, that would be going backwards.”

Current senator with Skyline College’s Associated Students, Davante Cader believes that the amendment could be beneficial.

“It would give minorties an opportunity to be represented at the university level, but it’s hard to pick a side” says Cader Cader also believes that Increased diversity in universities would contribute “new and different ideas, opinions, and outlooks on things as well as different ways to solve problems.”

Skyline student Lilly Miranda would be against the use of race, gender and ethnicity in the college admissions process.

“It wouldn’t give everyone an equal opportunity,” Miranda said.

SCA5’s future is unknown, but its proposal has initiated a discussion regarding inequality in California’s public school system.

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Something old , Something new

By Ayechan Oo TSV Staff Writer

Learning about his preschool granddaughter’s struggles with math at school, the devoted grandpa, Kenny Decosta makes his promise that he’ll help her solve her math, and motivates his little girl to bring all of her problems to him.

Initially confident, Decosta had not expected to find himself having a difficult time understanding the way of today’s math representation. Though it took all night, the homework got done, but with one resolution in mind: it was time to go back to school.

Health issues presented obstacles for Decosta over the years; his heart wasn’t pumping as it should, which led him to have heart surgery several times. Being out of work, and recovering from his latest surgery in 2012, he found himself frustrated. Not being able to be a math tutor for his granddaughter in combination with the doctors’ orders of keeping both his mind and body active, prompted Decosta’s return to Skyline after 17 years.

“I wasn’t doing it for any real reason other than to help my granddaughter,” Decosta said. “And now I’m trying it to show my grandchildren that (if) grandpa can do it, you guys can do it.”

Becoming the breadwinner in his late teens pushed Decosta to take on responsi-

Kenny Decosta returns to his goal of higher education, this time for his degree

bilities that typically come with middle age. His married life was followed by working several jobs including that of an industry worker at shipyard, and with a day decking company which serviced navy ships for seven years.

When the navy started downsizing, he came to Skyline in 1996 to get a certificate in telecommunication. However, getting hired by a company outside of the college made him unable to finish his certification. Responsibilities on his shoulder, Decosta choose a labor job with Black Box Company, where he worked 15 years until he got laid off in 2011 due to the downsizing.

Now all situations favor him to continue with the goal of higher education he put on hold. As he enters this new chapter in his life, he chooses to come back to the same school he did when the goal was first set, this time for a degree.

The difference from then and now is that his seven grandchildren are watching him study.

“I try to explain to my children (and) my grandchildren, get your education now,” Decosta said. “Get it taken care of now because it’s easier.”

His hope is that perseverance, self-motivation, and an enthusiastic mindset will stand as a good example that his grandchildren might follow. Decosta has brought his grandchildren on occasion to show them how he is handling the academic challenges in a school where students are less than half of his age.

“He knows how to use resources, he’s motivated, mature and wants to learn,” said

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Manny Peix, Decostas math tutor from the Learning Center. “Basically, he’s self-motivated, resourceful and everyone in here should be like him.”

Ryan Samn, an English tutor who helps Decosta with structuring his papers, admires the way Decosta shares in his essays his personal knowledge and experiences which Samn thinks is “very unique and interesting.”

“He’s been through a lot of things that other people haven’t been through and to see him come back to school is, I think, it’s very inspiring.” Samn said.

Despite having some health issue in his life since he has worked physical labor jobs for 36 years, one thing for Decosta remains the same: his passion for motorcycles. Still riding, he is not one to sit still after getting retired.

“If you want to succeed in what you try to do, as long as you keep trying to do the best, you’ll never be dissatisfied with

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Out and about

Sail away into California history

Relive past eras with San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

By Charles G. Newton Guest Writer

Discover the lives of early native locals at either of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park sites. Located in the Russian Hill neighborhood and Fisherman’s Wharf, experience the life of the early Californian maritime at the Visitor Center on Beach Street or via historic ships from Hyde Street Pier.

As you enter the park’s Visitor Center, you are greeted by a California ranger who is very informative and helpful. The museum exposes you to eras from the Ohlone to the modern. Displays are real physical artifacts from the various time periods in the Bay Area.

Life-like murals cover several walls, depicting the different eras of the Ohlone boat builders and displaying their canoes made of woven tule reeds caught from marshes. The Ohlones also built larger boats that were used for hunting, fishing, and transporting goods along the shore and across the Bay. The reeds were a sufficient boat making material, each tule stem filled with hundreds of tiny air pockets, making it both lightweight and buoyant.

The museum has multiple illustrations detailing the life of other native Bay Area local populations.

On another mural, the Yelamu,

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Depart from Hyde St. Pier into history via one of the several famous ships that The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park preserves. another local native population, are displayed feasting on their daily catch of fish and roasting them over open fire. The art is so real that it enables one to travel back in time to when the Yelamu occupied the land.

In a glass enclosed area, numerous artifacts and skeletons of the Gold Rush Era are displayed its original place of deposition. Adjacent to it, there is a bench with a large

video screen that illustrates the entire history of the Bay Area and the tremendous role it played locally, nationally, and internationally in trade.

The San Carlos was the first ship to sail into the Bay Area in 1775 from Europe. Six years earlier, a Spanish land expedition had sited the Bay, and the San Carlos and its crew was first to chart its waters.

Captain Ayala noted that the Bay offered easy access into the interior and was vital to the Spanish control of

the West Coast. Some of the ships that followed the San Carlos’ arrival can be found across the street from the visitor center. As you exit the museum, you are met by the Farallon Island Lighthouse, and also a scrimshawed whale’s tooth.

Once across the street, you come to the second part of the museum where majestic tall ships are displayed, as well as several large machines that were used for important ship activities.

Among them stand a completely restored steamship engine and a gigantic steamship wheel that belonged to the Petaluma.

Also exhibited is a large machine that was used to pull the ships into the wharf. On the right side, they have several smaller buildings that allow visitors to come in and experience first hand the precise, intricate, and artistic process that it takes to build a ship.

Right next door is the restored tug boat, Hercules, as well as several others from as early as the 18th century that you are allowed to board and depart in. Among them are the square-rigged ship Balclutha, a San Francisco built scow shooner Alma, C.A. Thayer, Eppleton Hall, and finally the side-wheel ferry Eureka.

On the other side, you have a well maintained multistory building that houses a wide-range of Maritime artifacts, as well as replicas of the original ships that played a pivotal role trading in both California and abroad.

The museum offers rewards that are priceless; you can enter the Visitor Center for free and it’s only $5 for the fleet of vessels.

The Museum provides visitors and volunteers the opportunity to dwell upon the changes over the centuries that made San Francisco what it is today, and at just a few miles away from Skylines backyard.

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Reach for the moon and stars, Skyline

April ushers in a year of astronomical excitement fr om eclipses to meteor

by Jeanita Lyman

TSV Staff Writer

If you weren't encased in fog on Monday night, you might've been lucky enough to see the total lunar eclipse or “blood moon,” which was visible to most of the west coast from around 11 pm to 4 am. If you're like most bay area residents, perhaps you noticed some pink clouds. However, there will be more opportunities for coming up, and this Monday's lunar eclipse was the first in a lunar tetrad, meaning there will be three more opportunities to see a lunar eclipse before the end of 2015.

Additionally, April 16 marks the beginning of the Lyrids meteor shower, which will be visible for eight days, peaking on April 22, according to earthsky. org. Lyrids is active every year in late April and will produce 10-20 meteors per hour at its peak. According to history instructor Michael Phipps, Lyrids is named for the constellation Lyra, which it originates from. Both words are derived from “lyre,” which is an ancient Greek harp, and makes sense when you look at Lyra's shape. Gabe Prochter, who teaches observational astronomy, advised watching the meteor shower from somewhere dark and away from city lights, noting that if you can't see most observable stars, you won't be able to see most meteors.

Student Hannah Yamaura was unaware of the meteor shower, although she’d been alerted to Monday’s eclipse and missed it.

She was excited to have another chance in October, though.

“I heard about it but forgot,” Yamaura said. “ I saw a solar eclipse in 2012, though.”

“The mind reels with the significance of both meteors and eclipses in history, and throughout cultures,” Phipps said over email. “Eclipses were also thought to presage important events, for instance there are records of lunar eclipses before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, and the ancient writers Herodotus, Cicero, Pliny and Plutarch saw them as milestones in history, and there is even a reference in the Odyssey of Homer to one. The Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, and other cultures all had records, myths, and could even predict various eclipses at times.”

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He added that some historical references to meteor showers include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest written epic, which mentions a massive meteor shower that destroys civilization, and that Rabbi bar Nachmani, 2000 years later, blamed a meteor shower for Noah's flood. Comets, which meteor showers are derived from, have frequently been thought of as bad omens, and, according to Phipps, were predictors of the plague of 141 AD, the triumph of William the Conqueror in 1066 AD, and the destruction of Genghis Khan. He also noted that meteor showers have been referred to as “falling stars” by some cultures and thought to bring good luck.

According to Prochter, the wide visibility of total lunar eclipses is what has caused so many people's fascination with them.

“These events are visible by all. That, by itself, makes them interesting,” He wrote in an email interview. “Also, they transform an object which seems constant into something other, which can scare people. For a long time people didn't know what was going on during a (lunar) eclipse, the moon simply turned red. Scary.”

Prochter noted that the lunar tetrad and meteor showers have nothing to do with each other, since the meteor showers are annual and lunar tetrads appear roughly every 18 years.

Another meteor shower, Eta Aquarids, will be visible May 5 and is supposed to be somewhat more exciting than Lyrids, with possibly one visible meteor per minute, according to Sky and Telescope. The next opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse will be later this year on Oct. 8, when the weather will hopefully be more cooperative for viewing.

There will also be other opportunities to see interesting things in the sky this year.

“Mars is up right now, so is Jupiter, “Prochter wrote. “Those are pretty cool. There are, of course, the other lunar eclipses and meteor showers, but really just seeing the planets of our solar system is cool enough. You'll have to wait until summer to see Andromeda, a galaxy and the most distant object the human eye can see. Again you'll have to be somewhere dark.”

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Mar vel changes the game with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”

by Aaron Washington TSV Editor in Chief

Director Anthony and Joe Russo

Cast Chris Evans Scarlett Johansson Sebastian Stan Anthony Mackie Cobie Smulders Emily VanCamp Robert Redford Samuel L. Jackson

Studio Marvel Studios

Running Time 136 minutes

A+

Long story, short:

A smart, stylized spy thriller that raises the standard of superhero movies.

Rarely in big name movie franchises, you get certain movies that change the outlook of the entire series.

When Darth Vader revealed himself as Luke’s father in “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back,” that changed the outlook of the franchise.

While “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” doesn’t possess a moment like that, the film possesses a series of moments that will have resounding effects on all Marvel related films going forward.

Chris Evans puts on the suit for a third time in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” This time he brings Natasha Romanoff, also known as the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) with him for this crazy adventure. For this movie, Captain America faces his biggest threat yet in the Winter Soldier, a Terminator-like assassin who is well known in comic book lore. We are also introduced to new characters to the film franchise such as S.H.I.E.L.D. executive Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford) and Sam Wilson as The Falcon (Anthony Mackie).

Now that we got the plot mentions delivered in a way that pulls you in and new characters out of the way, let’s and makes you focus on her character. discuss what made this movie great.

As far as the Winter Soldier aspect First of all, Chris Evans’ truly owns of the film, he is everything comic the role of Captain America. In the first book fans needed him to be. When Captain America film, Evans was only he first appears on screen, you find tasked to play this upstanding Amer- yourself clamoring to find out more ican hero who about him and his seemingly trusted purpose throughCaptain America retained the out the film. While everyone around #1 spot for the second straight him at all times. his true identity weekend, earning $41.3 milThat’s not the case is possibly the at all in this film. worst kept secret lion for a total gross of $158.9 Evans needed to in the history of million, domestically. convey that Capall comic books, tain America was it was amazing to in truly grave danger and could trust see how they tied it into the bigger absolutely no one around him, and he storyline and he only makes the film succeeded in doing that. better.

Another bright spot in this move There are truly some dark moments is how Scarlett Johansson has embed- throughout that test these characters ded herself into the role of the Black like we haven’t seen before not only Widow. While she was underutilized in this franchise, but any super hero in 2012’s “The Avengers”, we get movie before. And to that, all credit even more of her which allows us to should go to the directors of the film, learn more about her. She holds her Anthony and Joe Russo. Considering own throughout the actions scenes, they were mainly known for directing which was expected, and her lines are various episodes of the television

Music

A Dark Room: An engrossing, eerie mystery

“Out Among the Stars” TSV Staff Writer

by Ray Garcia

TSV Entertainment Editor

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When an album is released posthumously, particularly that of a legendary musician, it becomes a bit of a challenge for fans. Is this one last attempt to make money off the artist or is it songs they would have wanted released? John Carter Cash, son of influential country musician Johnny Cash, discovered and released “Out Among the Stars” March 25, which includes complete songs and features his wife June Carter Cashand Waylon Jennings.

The album has the feel that his older work had as it was recorded in the 1980s.

Songs such as “Baby Ride Easy,” a duet with June Carter, draws fans back in time.

The subject being the couple imagining themselves in the White House, amongst other occupations, will certainly have fans reminiscing on the incredible careers of

the two. With smooth lyrics and classic Johnny Cash guitar playing, it brings out the best in them.

“Tennessee” does a good job of describing the pride Cash had for the place he spent a large part of his career and life.

While it may not become the states “Sweet Home Alabama” or “California Love,” it is a nice shout out for the state where his singing career began.

Common themes in the album include lost loves, current relationships and outlaws. The lyrics are nothing less than what you’d expect from someone who made his name by being rebellious. The gem of the album might be the track that shares the album’s name, a cover of Adam Mitchell’s country classic. Cash’s ability to cover a song and make it his own is on display as he tells the tale of criminals in Texas with his distinct voice.

The instrumentals are dated but that only gives listeners a nostalgic feel. Over-

shows “Community” and “Arrested Development,” they hit this film out of the park.

Some of the action scenes were some of the best to be put on screen and everything was put in its appropriate place. Since the story is so complex, it would have been easy for some intricacies of the story to get lost in the shuffle. But luckily the Russo brothers were able to tell a complex story with various levels in a simple way for the audience to understand.

Overall, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” serves itself as a great stand alone film that works as a classic political thriller. At certain points of the film, you forget that this is considered a “superhero” movie and you find yourself focused solely on this very layered and complex plot. This is an essential movie for fans of the Marvel franchise, both old and new.

While you won’t find any spoilers here, be prepare to have your mind blown. Also, as a side note, stay until after the credits, you won’t be disappointed.

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Album review: Johnny Cash

by Joshua Picazo

Photo courtesy of Marvel

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all, this album does Johnny Cash’s legacy justice and gives fans something new to add to their music collection. It may not make a greatest hits compilation but fans eager to hear more from Cash will certainly cherish these new songs. It also isn’t breaking the mold from previous Cash albums which in the end may be exactly what fans missing the country music legend want.

Still mourning over the disappearance of Flappy Bird? Well, this app is nothing similar to Flappy Bird!

In A Dark Room, you awaken to find a stranger with you in a dark room. From there on, you set out to investigate this strange, enigmatic environment that you and the stranger inhabit.

You can build huts to attract other inhabitants, traps to capture goods and craft items as well. It’s sort of a mini “Minecraft,” but much darker. It gradually gets darker, and more eerie.

It’s a text-based game; There aren’t graphics. But the minimalist presentation add to the mistique. At first play, you might

Platform: iOS Price: $0.99 not know what to do, but you’ll get used to the controls and objectives. It’s a rewarding, obssesive experience by the end.

The plot of the app is very obscure. It unthickens over the game, but it’s a very dark story filled with uncertainty. Again, it can be challenging at first, but one can eventually start to slave over uncovering the mystery of A Dark Room.

The app is currently the #1 paid app on the App Store. It’s an obsessive game that begs to be played and uncovered.

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Rap is universal Stop taking up space music, and the words are mine editorial

College is an opportunity, one that you may be taking away from someone else.

With the close of the semester fast approaching we begin to notice more and more that some students really don't seem to care about the courses that they are taking, and can't help but think of the students that were forced out of the course due to a lack of vacancy.

We've all been sitting in a class, either taking a test or jotting down lecture notes, and noticed some of our fellow students are less than enthused with the class work or the subject of study. The majority of the time they are either perusing their Instagram feeds or talking to a fellow class mate, but every so often they are slumped over their desks in a semi-conscious state drooling on their text books. We all deal with it in the same way.

We roll our eyes or laugh at their expense, wondering what they're even doing in the class, and we get back to work. Sometimes we get to see the professors themselves get involved, but it never helps. If anything it disrupts the class for those students who do care and simply gives the distracted students a few seconds of limelight before they go back to whatever had their attention prior to the disturbance.

Now there are situations where falling asleep in one's class is understandable. Maybe you are working over 40 hours a week at your job while trying to maintain the minimum amount of units that would qualify you as a full time student. Perhaps you are a single parent and your child was up late the night before and you were unable to get any sleep, but you don't have the option to stay home and sleep because the teacher grades with attendance in mind.

There are numerous reasons to justify dozing off in class, and

oddly enough the majority of professors understand that. They were all students at one point in time as well, so why wouldn't they sympathize with what some students go through on a day to day basis?

The issue being addressed isn't the hardworking students who doze off during lectures; it is the students who simply choose not to pay attention. The key word is choose.

Have you ever tried to keep your eyes open after working through the night on a term paper after working an eight hour shift? You can make the conscious decision to stay awake, to choose to do your course work, but your body will do what your body wants and you will doze off. It's bound to happen.

Choosing not to be digging through social media during class is a much simpler task, as well as choosing not to whisper like a co-conspirator to the student next to you. If you cannot make it through a 50 minute class, then why are you there in the first place? Is it because your parents are forcing you to go to school? Maybe it's because you think you want to be a college student, but you simply can't wrap your mind around what is required and expected of you?

This is college and we are all adults here, for the most part, and as adults we are expected to know what we can and cannot handle. College is hard, and it requires dedication and hard work to succeed. This isn't high school.

The days of teachers coddling you and holding your hand throughout the school year are long gone. You are here by choice, and you either make the most of the situation you are blessed to be in or move along and allow someone else to take advantage of the education you are choosing to ignore.

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That's the sad truth of it. For each student that sits idly by playing Flappy Bird, or some other mind numbing form of entertainment, in class there is a student who couldn't take the class. Why? Because the bored student is taking up valuable and limited space.

Class sizes are limited in college, and while Skyline doesn't suffer from this truth as badly as SFSU does at this point in time, there is still a cap on how many students a teacher is allowed to have in their class. Oftentimes some professors will bend the rules and add one or two more students to the roster, but most are turned away to find other classes to try and add before they are filled to capacity. So, you see, the students who are sitting in the back of the class room bored out of their minds aren't just wasting the time of the teacher, but they're also cheating other students out of an education in a class that they actually wanted to take.

This is a call to action Skyline.

We are in the real world now. We are adults, and one truth about adulthood is that you make your own decisions. If you don't want to be a college student then don't be one. If you'd rather be working full time or just lounging around your house in your pajamas then go for it, knock yourself out. No one here is going to stop you. If anything people will be relieved, because that is one more desk available for them in the classes you didn't appreciate taking when you were forced to enroll by your parents. Education is a brilliant gift, and just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean that the person who is getting your old seat in those classes is going to make the same mistake that you did.

tie seven days a week and brought home the big paychecks. As I was taking business classes and moved forward with that major, I realized that it wasn't what I wanted to do.

It's a feeling that I personally can't explain but, for whatever reason, this feeling hit me at the right time.

Once I joined the newspaper staff a few years back, it became clear that studying journalism was something I wanted to do. Simply because it seemed like the right thing to do. Two years later, I am editor in chief now. What a run.

I am not writing this to merely go on and on about myself and my journey to get here. My purpose for writing this is merely to advise you to follow your own journey and see where you wind up. There will be struggles along the way, your plans will change, and times will be hard.

But press on, because the light is always at the end of the tunnel.

by Rene Bass TSV Staff Writer

How to enjoy rap music when other people are ruining it;I could ignore them.

People of other races who make excuses for using the "N word."

They justify their use of the word by explaining how their black friends use it. They say how they say it around their black friends and it’s okay. They say how if the "N word" is in the music, and they are rapping along with Jay-Z like they are his minion on the mic, that it is okay to use the word as well. People who make excuses for using a potentially hurtful word are not worth my energy.

I like my rap music collection.

From newer artists such as Jay-Z, Drake, and Nicki Minaj to legends like Tupac, Dre and Snoop; Biggie, and the Junior Mafia. These artists use the "N word" in their music.

No big deal until the word is taken out of the African-American culture and the context in which African-Americans are using it.

I could educate them. Listening to rap music is one thing. Doing something risqué like using the same language that these rappers may use is just insensitive and ignorant.

The "N word" originates from a hateful place. It was used during American chattel slavery to keep an enslaved African mentally trapped.

The word was redesigned by African Americans after slavery. They

claimed it, redefined it, and keep it between them. It is not a hateful slur used in African-American circles.

Not every African American uses the word or finds the word benign. Some African Americans are appalled at the use of the "N word" and feel the pain that it was originated to inflict. Like lashes from the slave owner’s whip, the word can sting and burn and leave a lasting impression. We have claimed it, and it is our word.

I can be patient for the world to change. Other racial groups have slurs. I find it interesting how these slurs have not been used mainstream and these racial groups are told to “get over it, it’s just a word.”

Collectively, we as a people have some changes to make in the words we use that have the potential to hurt others. We have to respect that cultures have words that they use within their circles. When the words are taken out of the circles, it is wrong.

I have read and heard the arguments that using the "N word" is part of the hip-hop culture. I argue that, even if it is part of the hip-hop culture and you are not an African American, it does not give you license to use the "N word."

To use the word in a public place around me is like starting a battle. I have zero tolerance. My response to offenders is a verbal assault. I lock.

Load. Get my point across, and hope I hurt you the way you hurt me.

Senate bill 850 is a win

Plans are in motion to add a bachelors program to California community colleges as soon as 2015

by Joshua Picazo TSV Staff Writer

I am graduating.

While these three words have yet to sink in on me, it is becoming very clear that they need to sink in now. This past weekend, I received my notice that I am eligible to take part in this year's commencement ceremony here at Skyline. Well, I actually received a phone call from my mom who acted as if I had just received a Nobel Peace Prize.

Once I read the notice and registered for the ceremony, I felt it was a good time for me to reflect on what I have done and what I would do differently in the future. I then realized just how crazy this trip was here at Skyline and how amazingly difficult I made it on myself.

My first mistake occurred once I changed from a business major to a journalism major. For whatever reason, after high school I was focused on becoming some sort of businessman that wore a suit and

A disadvantage of our melting pot society

There's a possibility of Skyline becoming a four-year program as early as fall of 2015 Many, if not most, community college students enroll with the idea of transferring to a four year university and earning a bachelor’s degree or more. Unless you’re Van Wilder, you’d like to get in and out with a degree that will help you attain a good job.

This may soon become a somewhat easier goal for many more people with state Sen. Marty Block’s (D-39) proposed Senate Bill 850.

This bill would allow community colleges to begin offering programs that offer bachelor’s degrees without even having to transfer to a four year university. In fact, 21 states already do this so it wouldn’t even be an unprecedented move.

This is an idea that would be convenient, affordable and helpful

to both students and future employers. First of all, community college students wouldn’t have to transfer to universities, which saves them from the hassle of moving and having to find new jobs after relocating.

This isn’t so much a problem for community colleges’ which, true to their name, serve mostly students from the local community.

There is also a very large demand by employers in various fields including science, math and engineering. Opening up more opportunities for students to earn bachelor’s degrees would help fill these needs and fulfill educational requirements to get these jobs. This is a bill that not only helps student and potential employers but also helps ease the stress on the UC and CSU systems which have too many applicants and not enough seats.

We’ve all read about the nightmare of wait-lists across the state.

Senate Bill 850 helps students who, for various reasons, can't afford to attend four-year colleges or relo-

cate the traditional way. While there is criticism about this, the bill only asks for a pilot program so the state and its educators can further study what the effect would be. California needs to make changes to ensure it has an educated workforce.

This bill is possibly a very good step towards that. As a community college student this bill helps both financially and personally. Imagine staying at Skyline College, taking the required courses and graduating without the hassle that comes with transferring.

If the bill is passed community colleges would begin offering the program beginning in the fall semester of 2015. In a February interview with SFGate.com, Senator Block said “students would pay less than the $5,960 yearly tuition but more than the $46 a credit charged by community college”. A hearing on the bill is currently scheduled for April 23 and will surely have the attention of students and professors.

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What’s the cost of freedom?

Man: Bisexuality Though it is often popular and risqué to refer to oneself as bisexual, there are legitimate reasons for the preference that conservative men and women need to understand.

Oftentimes in our “modern” society we are faced with sexual situations that make us uncomfortable, and when we are uncomfortable we tend to make hasty assumptions and speculations.

Though we live in The Bay Area, considered by most to be the most understanding and accepting place in the country, more often than not we are as guilty of judgment as our conservative neighbors in the northern and southern sections of the state. Though homosexuality is often championed by outspoken citizens of San Francisco and the East Bay, on some occasions we tend to forget that there is a middle ground between heterosexuality and homosexuality that is often criticized and openly mocked by both sides.

There are men and women out there who choose not to limit themselves to members of the opposite sex, or members of the same sex for that matter. There are men who, though they exclusively date women, are attracted to other men for purely physical reasons. There are

women who are staunchly heterosexual, but who fantasize about the touch of another woman from time to time. There is nothing wrong with this, regardless of what some people may say or think.

Though often labeled as “greedy” or “confused” by both homosexual and heterosexual naysayers, bisexuality is simply another option that we as human beings have before us when it comes to our love making. There's a simple fact that we all need to accept: people are going to do what they want to do. You either deal with it, or risk looking like a fool.

From a purely physical point of view, men know men and women know women. If a woman is bored of dealing with men who don't know what they're doing “down there,” there's nothing wrong with her finding someone who understands the proverbial plumbing better than a man does.

The same goes for men of course. This is not a situation that is exclusive to one gender, and we would all do well to remember that tastes change many times in a life.

Better to live in the now than sit back and wonder years later.

Woman: Hickies We all get hickeys at one point in our life or a lot of points in our life.

What are hickeys anyways?

Well, some consider them love bites or a kiss mark. They are bruises to basically prove you were getting hot and steamy with someone. To some people they are awesome to give and receive, but for others it's in the moment and you don't even worry about covering it up later.

Honestly they're pretty gross to look at if your neck is covered in the purple and red marks. It just looks painful.

If you're light skin tone it's even worse because you bruise up the easiest and man, to get rid of those things is a pain. They tend to last up to 12 days but that's all depending on how severe or not severe the hickey is.

Hickeys are an informal way of marking your territory on the person that you're in a relationship with, or for you to basically know if a person has most likely had some sexual action in their life recently.

For women it's easy to cover it up with makeup or your hair, if it's at least on your neck. For guys it's not discreet from what I've experienced.

I remember being at the mall and this young man had hickeys from

left to right on his neck and I was just thinking to myself “it's freaking nasty looking.” Not even his collared shirt could save him.

I mean in the moment they feel great to receive and all, but the annoying part is to get rid of it you seriously have to spend every day with ice on it or using the cap of your Chapstick to scrape it off.

You basically treat it like any other bruise because you have to stimulate blood flow into the blood vessels.

Personally, I don’t want or need everyone knowing that I’m getting it in, or that it looks like I got close to getting it on, so in that case I would keep the hickeys to a minimum. Anyhow, avoid those stamps of tramps with the tips listed above and life is good.

It’s easier said than done to keep these things in mind when it comes to what’s going on in the bedroom, but it might help to keep things discreete if you do. It’s not fun being the person walking into a room with giant blotchy bruises around your neck. People will start to think that you got into a fight with a vaccum cleaner if you do.

Or that your boyfriend/girlfriend is possesive and trying to keep people away from you.

C’mon guys, is College plus work equals tired this really the way Students who have to work while taking classes are understandably an exhausted group of people

by Rob Pabalate, Jr. TSV Staff Writer

Students who are pulling double duty between work and school are exhausted College students already have it rough because of the fact that they attend college. Going to college means that you are devoting your time to learning, pursuing a meaningful education, and working to earn a degree.

It may seem fun to some students, and it may seem hard to others.

We all have our own lives and problems. Some students could be going to college full-time or part-time. But at the same time, those students could also be working a full-time or part-time job.

Students that have a job are obviously working to earn money. They could be working to pay their own bills, pay for their own tuition, or just working to earn money to buy things to reward themselves for being hard workers. Going to school and work involves a lot of time, effort, and dedication. Having more than one priority is very tiring and drains a lot of energy. But like what everyone says, “Hard work pays off.”

As college students, we have the ability to choose our own classes and what times we have to attend said classes. Everything is totally up to us. We could choose to go to school in the morning and have the rest of

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the day to do anything we please. Or we could choose to have night classes so that we could work our jobs in the morning. Either way, having a schedule that is packed with hours of school and work is very tiring.

Money is time, and it is our duty to get as many hours we can to maximize the money we earn.

So working a full-time job is great because we can be happy to see the numbers on our paychecks. But for someone that has to attend school at the same time it's hard. We have to devote ourselves to attending every class to make sure we do not miss anything important, and do our homework to pass our classes.

Having to go to school and work are probably the two most important priorities for a college student. They would have to go to class, learn, make sure they did not miss anything important, catch up on homework and pass their class. Then they would have to go straight to work to keep their job, not get fired for not attending work, and have good performance to actually keep their job.

Students who work are hardworking people, but it is very time consuming. At the end of the day, you could be so drained that you do not want to do anything but unwind.

But there are days where you have to do your job and finish homework so you won’t fail the class and fall behind. Students who work are tired!

There's trash strewn all across the floor. Red Solo cups and broken glass among the debris. Loud drunken stupor fills the air.

This may sound like a typical college frat party. But in this case... well, it may actually just be an extension of a frat party. Basically, this past week, UConn became the apex predator of the college basketball world. Both the men's and women's teams won their respective championship tournament and what followed was something that we are, well, too familiar with.

The meat of the celebration took place on Monday after the men's team became the first seventh seed to win March Madness. It's Monday, the week had just started and there's probably lots of studying to be done, they celebrated anyways. That's totally understandable. I would do the same.

The Giants have previously won the World Series in the middle of the week, and that didn't hinder me from celebrating. That's where both of these celebrations parallel.

Inevitably, these celebrations will then take to the streets. In both instances, chaos ensued. While there are fanatics who are in pure joy of their team reaching the pinnacle, there are many stragglers who only use it as an excuse to cause mayhem.

In UConn, some morons were starting fires and even climbing up light poles to shatter the lights. Now, how is this showing pride in your team winning? Is the fire meant to keep warm your fellow revelers? If that's so, how awfully nice. But isn't there a safer way to do that? Maybe give them a cotton fleece sweater, how 'bout that? But let's stop kidding around.

Morons like these should just stop ruining the otherwise joyful atmosphere of these type of celebrations. Same goes to the morons who lit a bus on fire here in The City. There is no place for makeshift bonfires on cars or breaking light posts and spilling glass on the ground; That only risks injury to true fans and potentially disallows future celebrations.

Now, when the 49ers, Giants or heck even the Warriors (and when the Sharks stop choking in the playoffs) win their respective championships, how are we going to behave?

I already know the answer: Crazy. We'll be happy, but can we at least be safe and respectful? Don't go around torching automobiles and smashing windows. C'mon guys, it's not that difficult. I mean, do you really want to share a tiny cell for a night with a guy who reeks of alcohol and will erupt vomit at any moment? Yuck.

Until we can do whatever we want, none of us are free.

by Jeanita Lyman TSV Staff Writer

There are numerous arguments and views regarding the subject of free will. However, arguments against it can be easily toppled. Have you ever had to choose between two or more things? Congratulations, you have free will. Big deal! If you want to do something, but don't have the means, how free are you really?

It would seem that free will is fundamental to human beings and the ability to exercise it in some way is necessary for our happiness.

However, when you realize that all it means is the ability to make decisions, it can become somewhat disappointing and angst-inducing.

What most people yearn for deep down is freedom of action, which is not inherent or fully possible on a large scale. However, many people still feel that it is a basic human right and are constantly in pursuit of it.

Fortunately, complete freedom of action is completely feasible if you follow a few simple steps, and why wouldn’t you?

Step 1: Have access to more money than you can spend in your lifetime. It doesn’t matter how you go about making this happen. Having rich parents, winning the lottery, dealing in lucrative fields such as the stock or black market, or possibly even marrying rich provided you do not sign a prenuptial agreement and that you are guaranteed money from your spouse in the event of death or divorce, are all acceptable methods provided you also follow step two.

Step 2: Avoid any and all obligations and personal relationships.

Such things inherently prevent freedom.

Step 3: Be a perfect specimen of fitness. The human body does have its limits, but its up to you to push those limits. If you want to be able to literally do whatever you want, you must have extreme physical prowess. If your parents were not rich, it’s possible that they can redeem themselves in this category if they gave you good genes. Either way, avoid having a personal relationship with them.

Step 4: Become a pilot, become a sailor, learn to operate a submarine, and acquire every top of the line vehicle you can get your hands on, which should be plenty if you have enough money. However, make sure that you do not become a professional operator of any of these vehicles, as that would require an obligation.

Formal schooling is an obligation itself, so it’s recommended that you learn to operate all these vehicles in your own time by trial and error.

If you’re unable to fulfill any of these steps, you can take some comfort in your measly free will.

But deep down, people as a whole have a stronger desire to be able to physically do whatever they want than they do to just make decisions.

Making decisions is harder and far less glamorous.

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Ohlone College Renegades go over Trojans, 8-5

by Alex Maffei

TSV Staff Writer

The wind was whipping the flags on the Skyline home turf, and the Ohlone bats were whipping the baseball in a victory over Skyline.

The fourth place Trojans took on the powerhouse 24-8 record Renegades in a battle that Skyline could have overtaken second place. Although injury riddled, they fought with valiant effort in defeat.

Skyline struck first in the first inning from leadoff hitter Phil Caulfield reaching base on an errant throw, outfielder Joey Carney drawing a walk,and infielder Lance Montano loading the bases on a single, setting up Carney to score on a fielder's choice at second base off the bat of outfielder Nick McHugh, who was credited with the RBI. The first inning ended 1-0.

Pitcher Cage Cascone made his first ever starting assignment on the mound in a solid effort where he lasted 5.2 innings.

"My shoulder was bugging me, I tweaked it in my sleep the other night so I went out there and didn't really try to overpower anyone, just wanted to pitch for contact." said Cascone. "But I felt pretty good o u t there today."

Head coach Dino Nomicos praised t h e right

handed sophomore in his first start.

"We're thin because of our injuries, so we wanted to start him and he did a great job," Nomicos said. "He kept us close but they (Ohlone) got a key hit in the fifth inning on the double and that was the difference in the game."

Cascone logged five strikeouts against the strong Ohlone hitters but gave up a walk to Jacob DiThomas in that fifth inning, which became a run on the double to deep right center field by Daniel Parsons.

Skyline led 3-1 after 4 1/2 innings.

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Parsons started the Ohlone score on that hit and said, "Well, it's just about being prepared. Like the coach, we have a good team and everyone's pretty solid all the way through. It's just about being prepared when your number is called, that's all. Just sitting on a good pitch to hit."

The the sixth inning was Cascone's downfall. He walked Josh Egan with two outs which would be the beginning of the Renegades' rally to take the lead.

Josh Roman singled up the middle, and Bret Adami ended Cascone's day with a two RBI double.Renegades tied the game 3-3.

Nomicos sent Bryan Hidalgo out to take the ball from Cascone, but he quickly gave up a deep double near the left field wall to his first batter Gunnar

David who cleared the bases.

Ohlone took the lead 4-3 by the end of their half inning.

Renegades struck again in the seventh, tacking on two more runs that started with Parsons reaching on a single, a sacrifice but advancing him to second, Brock Pradere moving Parsons to third on a single, and Jordan Meier RBI singled him home, making the score 5-3.

A throwing error on a pickoff attempt at third cost the Trojans another run. 6-3 Ohlone.

Looking to mount a comeback, Trojans added a run in the seventh, making it 6-4, but the Renegades tacked on insurance in the ninth where Egan crushed a two run homerun to right field.

With the score 8-4 in the bottom of the ninth, a Skyline comeback looked bleak, but two hits and an extra run made things interesting. It still wasn't enough. Trojans downed 8-5 on a game ending double play.

Cage Cascone, in his first start, pitching against Ohlone College’s Renegades on April 15, 2014

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Northwestern University athletes OK'd by NLRB to unionize Student athletes fight for the right for financial protection

by Jeanita Lyman TSV Staff Writer

Following years of debate over payment for college athletes, Northwestern University could be paving the way for unionization in college sports, following a recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board.

The NLRB ruled March 26 that the contract between NU's football players and the school met the same criteria as employer-employee contracts, which could theoretically enable the team to unionize as employees of the school.

The ruling was preceded by a six-day-long hearing with testimony from several current and former NU players, including Kain Colter, who has been the frontman for unionization efforts by NU's football team, as well as three school officials. The ruling means that the petition to unionize will now go to the U.S Supreme Court.

According to Alex Putterman, sports editor for The Daily Northwestern, Colter began taking action in spring last year by getting in touch with Ramogi Huma, founder and president of the National College Players Association.

Huma filed a petition on behalf of the team with the NLRB. In September, Colter wore a bracelet with the abbreviation “APU” (for Associated Players

Union), and explained that he and several teammates were looking into the possibility of unionizing. On Jan. 28, Colter, backed by Huma as well as representatives from the United Steelworkers Union, officially announced the NLRB petition.

Colter's efforts were partly fueled by his experience at NU, where he'd originally wanted to study medicine but was unable due to football obligations and graduated with a psychology degree instead.

The debate over payment for college athletes and the general ethics of college sports has be circulating for some time. In a 2011 story for the Atlantic, civil rights historian Taylor Branch outlined and brought light to some major issues in the NCAA and we continue to hear about assorted scandals in college sports.

However, the NU players are the first in the history of college sports to make moves towards unionizing and the story itself has opened up dialogue about the treatment of NCAA players.

Skyline Athletics Dean Joe Morello agrees that there are changes that need to happen in college sports, but doesn't think that unionization is the answer.

“I don't think the contract between scholarship athletes and the school is exploitative,” Morello said. “The only exploitation

Former Northwestern quarterback Kane Colter leads the charge toward unionization Courtesy of Creative Commons

that occurs is when students are picked only for athletic performance and aren't required to perform academically.”

“If you’re into a sport, you should play it out of passion,” business major Edgar Medina said.

“They can get paid when they’re professional,” accounting major Austin Bernard added.

However, Putterman said that students have been

sympathetic toward the players.

“I generally get the sense that people are pretty supportive of it,” he said in a recent phone interview, regarding the team's unionization efforts. “Northwestern is a fairly liberal campus and people are willing to stand up to eradicate any unfair situations.”

On April 15, eight days after more controversy was sparked when University of

Connecticut basketball player Shabazz Napier stated in an interview that his scholarshipissued meal card was not enough to keep himself fed throughout the semester, the NCAA's legislative council approved a proposal to allow student athletes unlimited meals and snacks.

“The more people get angry, the more the NCAA has to listen,” added Putterman.