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APRIL 28, 2016
RCC unveils student services
Building named in honor of former Riverside City College president Charles A. Kane JAMES H. WILLIAMS
house departments such as admissions & records and the disability resource center. Vi r g i n i a B l u m e n t h a l , president of the Riverside The new Charles A. Community College District Kane Student Services and Board of Trustees, and Marie Administration Building at Kane, the widow of Charles, Riverside City College ends cut the ribbon at the official the scavenger hunt for new ceremony before opening the students, who had to go to five doors to the public. different buildings to complete “I knew (Charles) and his the enrollment process. wife personally and I know “One of the coolest things he would be very proud of the (new students) will get to RCC students, faculty and staff experience is the students services accomplishments,” building,” said ASRCC Vice “As a leader of B l u m e n t h a l said. “He had an President this college, unparalleled passion Rakhee Uma. for education and “I have been Dr. Kane was guiding students, here for three committed to young and old, years and having all excellence...” throughout their the different -- Virginia Blumenthal, academic journey.” Blumenthal services here RCCD Board of Trustees as a student president believes that the scattered building named in around campus his honor fits the could be a really big hassle. standard he held as a figure on This new building will help you the RCC campus. tremendously.” “As a leader of this college, The new building is named Dr. Kane was committed to after Kane, a former RCC academic excellence and president and coach, and will ensuring that every student @JHWreporter
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A view of the new Charles A. Kane Student Services and Administration Building as it gets its finishing touches April 26. receives the services needed to succeed in college and we know those services can be great,” she added. “He understood the role that student services played in educational achievement and by creating a one-stop center that serves the needs of students is
something that he envisioned in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. Today that vision has become a reality.” Marie stated during the ceremony that the comments about Kane by Blumenthal and RCCD Chancellor Michael Burke really characterized Charles and
why he would have loved this building so much. “We are very grateful,” Marie said. “He would have loved the architecture of this building and he would of loved the courtyard because he would’ve wanted
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Free speech evolves on college campuses HECTOR M. ZERMENO @RCCviewpoints
COURTESY OF RIVERSIDE CITY COLLEGE
The Free Speech Zone areas are listed in pink on the Riverside City College campus map. A majority of the area runs along Terracina Drive and the front of the MLK Building.
Pretty in pink. No, not the ’80s movie with teen actress Molly Ringwald, but the areas in the college campus map illustrated in pink. The areas are free speech areas, which are public forums to be used for the purpose of exercising free expression by the students, employees and community members, as defined by Board Policy 5550. “It’s considered a real safe space, I can’t emphasize that enough, for everyone to say ‘this is an area where I can really share my thoughts,’” said Greg Ferrer, the interim dean of Student Services for Riverside
City College. Each campus in the Riverside Community College District has free speech areas designated by the administration. Norco College has the Science and Technology Plaza and Moreno Valley College has the John J. Cordures, Jr. Plaza as the campus free speech areas. RCC assigned the Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza in front of the MLK, Jr. High Tech Center, the Promenade located in front of the bookstore, the Aguilar Patio located by the Student Government building and the north side of Terracina Drive across from the Quad as its public forums. R C C ’s c a m p u s m a p previously illustrated the courtyard inside the Quad as a free speech area.
Ward Schinke, associate professor of political science, said he thinks the free speech areas are “designed to put down civil disobedience.” “Don’t limit yourself to them,” Schinke said. “Why should it be kept calm, to the side, when we name holidays after people that said civil disobedience is required in a democracy?” These free speech areas are the result of the 1964 Free Speech Movement led by Mario Savio and Jack Weinberg, along with other student leaders, at the University of California, Berkeley. The Free Speech Movement was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and fueled by the Vietnam War protests, according
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