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Celebrate Dance 2012 Renew, reinvent, and recreate; Riverside City College plans to hold its Celebrate Dance 2012 performance directed by: Rita Chenoweth and Eunice Estrada on May 3, 2012 at 8 p.m. in the Landis Preforming Arts Theater. Tickets are on sale now, and are available at the Box Office or online at the Landis website. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students with a valid school I.D., faculty, and children 3 years of age or older. Children under the age of 3 and/or infants will not be admitted.
52nd Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture Riverside City College is hosting the 52 annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture on May 10, 2012, from 12:50-1:50 p.m. The lecture is scheduled to be held in the Digital Library auditorium. This year the lecture is scheduled to be given by Jose Duran, Associate Professor of Business Administration, and several other courses at the Moreno Valley Campus. His lecture is entitled “The Janus Approach to Technology’s Impact: An Educating Perspective.” All faculty, staff and students are welcome to this free presentation. For more information visit: www.rcc.edu
SAFE soccer tournament The SAFE Soccer Tournament is scheduled to be held at the Riverside Community College Norco campus on May 12, 2012. The tournament is six teams vs. six teams; the age limit is 16 and older. The cost is $10 per person, and registration starts at 7:30 a.m. on May 12. First place receives $150 in prize money, and second place winners receives $100 in prize money. There will be award trophies presented for both place winners. For more information: Call (951) 251-4495.
Courage to remember From May 16-30, 2012 the Diversity Committee and the Digital Library of Riverside City College are co-sponsoring an exhibit entitled “Courage to Remember.” This traveling exhibit presents The Museum of Tolerance displayed in a 30-panel display of photographic material covering the World War Two era and the Holocaust in Germany. This display is in the Digital Library of the RCC main campus during library hours. For more information visit: www.wiesenthel.com
President’s Honor Recital On Wednesday, May 23, the Riverside City College Music Company requests that you save the date for the 2012 President’s Honor Recital. The featured performances are by the 2012 President’s Honor Scholarship recipients. The performance starts at 7 p.m. in the Digital Library auditorium. This event is free of charge and open to the public.
31st Annual UCR Pow-Wow
The University of California Riverside campus plans to hold its 31 annual pow-wow on Friday, May 25, 2012 from 5 p.m.-10 p.m. It continues through the weekend starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday until 10 p.m. at the UCR Sports Complex located at 100 Blaine St. The event is an inter-tribal social gathering celebrating Native American culture and traditions through singing, drumming, and dancing. This event is open and free of charge to the public. For more information: Call (951) 827-1012
Spend the summer in Central Europe Travel to central Europe with Riverside Community College District’s summer tour. From June 28 through July 14 participants tour Prague, Czech Republic, Krakow, Poland, Budapest, Hungary, Vienna and other places. For fliers, reservation forms and information visit the study abroad office in Quadrangle 100 or email jan.schall@rcc.edu.
Walk in San Bernardino for family violence
California State University, San Bernardino plans to host the ninth annual Walk Away from Family Violence Walk-a-Thon on Saturday May 5, 2012. Registration Begins at 7:30 a.m. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that as many as 2 million women a year are physically abused by an intimate partner. Registration forms can be retrieved at the Option House website at www.optionhouse. org, along with a donation of $10, children under 16 are free. Proceeds from this event will go to Option House, Inc. to help victims of family violence.
Jarred JACKSON / online Editor
no access: Samantha Gregory, an RCC student, studies in the World Language Lab, as many other students wait awhile to use the lab’s computers.
Limited resources in a crammed corner
RCC students wait for available computers at the lab to work on their assignments Veronica Widman Staff writer Students try everything to raise their math grades and exam results, but they haven’t thought about learning a new language. According to the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, research has shown that studying a foreign language can improve a student’s analytical and interpretive capacities, which correlates to a rise in English and math grades, as well as entrance exam scores. Language study on someone’s record can also catch the eye of anyone reading the person’s job or college application. Students who attend Riverside City College are given the opportunity to learn a foreign language at a community college price and hundreds of students are taking advantage of that opportunity. But students who have chosen to study a foreign language at RCC have been experiencing grief in the Language Lab which they are required to attend as part of their language course. As is the case with most programs on campus, the California budget cuts can be blamed, in part, for the issues that students are having in the lab. According to Dorothy Gaylor, the department chair of World Languages, hundreds of students are being served in the lab with only 39 computers available, causing an overcrowding at times. “We have an overflow room, with about 13 additional computers,” she said. “But we have not been able to provide staffing in this
room, again due to budget cuts.” Derek Brown, an RCC student studying French, has had to wait on numerous occasions for an available computer. “I guess I can’t really complain since there were plenty of others who were waiting even longer than me,” he said. The lack of computers is not the only problem students are having in the lab. The hours of operation have also been reduced and the lab is no longer open on weekends. Julia Goldfarb, an RCC student, is just one of the many who are frustrated with this change. “I work all week so it was most convenient for me to come in on the weekends,” she said. “I know the school needs to save money but we need to pass our classes, too.” Students are wondering what can be done to fix the issues that they are having in the lab. “If the school could just buy a few more computers, I think it would help out a lot,” Brown said. According to Gaylor, the lab has been able to meet most of the student’s needs, despite the tremendous overcrowding during peak hours; still, students are frustrated with the lack of space, as well as other problems the budget cuts are causing. “I have to say that the only thing that can be done to improve the situation from what it is now is for Gov. Brown’s tax initiative to pass in November of this year,” Gaylor said. “If it does, then we may be able to sustain lab operations as they are now; otherwise, we are facing more cuts.”