The Spectator - April 5, 2012

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truth | liberty | integrityApril 5, 2012

Hayward, California

Chabot professor strives for changeBy Bernard Miranda

CAMPUS EDITOR

SPORTSGladiators pitch to

4-0 victory SEE SPORTS: page 10

NEWSLilly Ledbetter shares her story

SEE NEWS: page 2

CSU colleges freeze enrollment spring 2013The California State University system, still debilitated by substantial budgetary cuts, has recently announced a system wide enrollment freeze for next spring.

Due to this proposal, the vast majority of CSU colleges will freeze applications for the spring of 2013, with exceptions for a few select campuses.

This is only the beginning. If Gover-nor Jerry Brown’s proposed tax initiative does not pass on the upcoming November ballot, 20,000 to 25,000 qualified students in the fall of 2013 will be barred entry to state universities.

A look at the numbers shows that to date, the Calif. state system has sustained through 750 million dollars in cuts. Our system will face an additional $200 mil-lion in cuts if voters do not pass the gov-ernor’s tax initiative.

These cuts come at time when some CSU presidents are recieving pay raises.

According to CBS news, “Trust-ees approved pay raises for two college presidents. They awarded a base salary of $303,660 for CSU East Bay President Le-roy Morishita and $324,500 for CSU Ful-lerton President Mildred Garcia, as well as $12,000 car allowances and $60,000 housing allowances for each.”

With students and faculty being told that budgetary cuts are a necessity in this economic climate these funds being allo-cated are more than questionable.

Chabot professor Begonia Cirera ex-plains: “Education money seems to be uti-lized to balance the budget, and that the funds coming from collecting due fees from oil companies in CA would gener-ate enough money to all four branches of public education that we would not have to discuss the cutting of classes, and jobs; or the freezing of enrollments for many years to come.”

Tuition is also on the rise, up 9.1 per-cent due to a vote by Cal trustees this fall. A typical student will pay 5,970 dollars to attend. This is more than triple the cost of what it cost only a decade ago.

William Tierney, director of the Uni-versity of Southern California’s Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, states that this would be a, “devastating move for the state, which should instead be in-creasing student enrollment by 100 thou-sand students a year to keep pace with the states economic outlook and employment projections.”

With our educational futures resting solely on Brown’s proposed tax initiative the situation seems bleak. Chabot students and faculty have risen to the cause and are continuing to fight to bring much needed revenue to California colleges.

On March 5, students gathered their collective voices and rallied together, marching to the capitol to make their out-rage heard to our state officials.

Concerned faculty and students have channeled this energy and taken practical steps to rectify this problem. Proposition 1522 a proposed measure that would tax oil companies funneling in billions of dol-lars to community, state and private uni-versities.

Volunteers are working now to get the necessary signatures for this proposition to make its way onto the ballot for the next presidential election.

Professor Kip Waldo warns, “Under-stand the problem … don’t think it will happen at Chabot alone. Chabot is a very good starting point. They need to go out into the communities.

“Everybody who went to high school in this area can get the students and teach-ers activated. We [need to] make it hot enough that they would have to begin to tax Apple, Intel and Chevron. Let’s get the wealth back into the hands of people who deserve it and need it.”

To contact the reporter, email him at [email protected].

By andrew Quirk

STAFF WRITER

Zermeño speaking on behalf of the DREAM Act at Chabot College.

Chabot College professor Fran-cisco Zermeño is looking to re-tain his position as city council-man for the city of Hayward in this year’s election.

Zermeño was born in Jalisco, Mexico but ever since he moved to Hayward, California in 1979, he has adopted Hayward as his home.

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a Master’s de-gree in Spanish he was hired by Chabot College and then began his love for the city of Hayward.

It was not until 1998 that he jumped into city government to try to make changes he thought were necessary to improve the city.

Said Zermeño, “Back in 1998, that is when I made the de-cision that I wanted to be more involved, so I applied for the planning commission knowing that I needed to become more visible in the community so that people would then recognize the name Zermeño.

“I was a business owner at that time, I used to have a video store, but I sold it a year ago. Now my wife and I have a trans-

lation business. So, I wanted to be part of the planning commis-sion, but I wasn’t chosen, and the following year they had an open-ing and I got the spot, so I was on the planning commission for 8 years. So then I thought I like this stuff I am going to run for office and then I did.”

Just having love for your city didn’t prove to be enough, as Zermeño was not able to win the first time he ran for elected office. He realized that being an elected official meant that he had to represent all of Hayward not just a certain population within.

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“The first time I ran, I kept empha-sizing my Mexican-ness, my Lati-no. I was going to be one of the first Latinos to be elected, the first Mex-ican born Latino person elected to city council. I learned my lesson,” said Zermeño.

“The second time I didn’t say anything about me being Latino if they wanted to know what I was they could ask.” said Zermeño, “The second time I ran I lost be-cause I had no consultant, so even though I was more set and I had good support from labor and the chamber but I didn’t have a consul-tant. So I lost.”

“The third time I ran, no Latino business no Spanish anything and I had a consultant, so we won,” said Zermeño.

While making sure to de-em-phasize his “Mexican-ness” after his first run for public office he is still proud of his heritage and cul-ture.

In 2004 he founded the Latino Business Round Table and while the purpose is to bring Latino busi-ness owners together it is open to all who want to attend.

“It is a inclusive association not an exclusive one and people ask ‘Do I have to know Spanish to go to these meetings?’

“No, we are in the United States, the language of busi-ness in the United States is English. If you want to speak Spanish by all means,” said Zermeño.

When he ran for public office, one of the biggest is-sues was making sure that Hayward was business friendly, making the neighborhoods safer, and making Hayward a greener city. When asked about the how to achieve these goals he listed some

of the laws that he had passed in his tenure as city councilman.

“When I deal with green I deal with wanting to make our city and our residence have a smaller carbon footprint, because of that two years ago we passed a climate action plan and because of the climate action plan we also passed a Styrofoam ban in Hayward.”

Said Zermeño, “We are work-ing on a single use plastic bag ban in Hayward. We are planting trees so at the moment, we have tree city USA, we have that status but I would like to have an urban forest status.”

To become a tree city, USA must meet the four standards laid out according to http://www.arbor-day.org.

The first standard is that the city must a tree board or department to deal with the city’s trees. The second, is that the tree board must establish a tree board or forestry department, which will provide guidelines for planting, maintain-ing, and getting rid of trees.

The third is a community forest program with an annual budget of two dollars a person. The final stan-dard is that the city must set up an annual Arbor day.

An urban forest is the next step up in the scale of having trees. An urban forest is an ecosystem com-posed of trees and other vegetation that provides cities with environ-mental, economic and social ben-

efits for the city.One of the key points that

Councilman Zermeño kept bring-ing home was that it is important for the people of Hayward to sup-

port their local small businesses and to make sure that people think to shop Hayward first to keep our local economy healthy and vibrant.

“I am a small business owner, when we had our video store we hired three or four people at a time, youngsters.

“Small business to me is more

important then large corporations, small business in the United States make up 95 percent of the economy.

“If you take $100 and spend it in Hayward then that money stays in Hayward. We are going to beat this recession with small shops, specialty shops, full ser-vice restaurants, and with an-tique shops,” said Zermeño.

For more information check out Councilman Zerme-ño’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/profile.

php?id=763128031 or visit his website http://www.zermeno.com/

For more information on Zer-meño, contact the writer at [email protected].

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On Thursday, March 29, Chabot College welcomed fair pay ac-tivist Lilly Ledbetter, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Reed L. Buffington Visual and Per-forming Arts Center.

She was here promoting her new book “Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay at Good-year and Beyond” which was released February 28.

When she opened her mouth, a sassy, country sophisticate came to the stage. As she re-minds us, “I still have a south-ern drawl, and that’s just who I am.” She spoke about her or-deal with Goodyear.

Ledbetter had been working at a factory in Gadsden, Ala. for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for 19 years. During her time there, she experienced sexual harassment, discrimina-tion and endured a hostile work environment.

Ledbetter recalled the shock of being passed an anonymous note detailing the difference be-tween her salary and the salaries of the men she worked with on the same job. “The first thing I thought,” she said “was of the overtime. Two or three times the pay per hour...”

After hiring a lawyer, she learned that her case was strong. She spoke of her female col-leagues who couldn’t afford to risk their jobs to testify. After winning in the lower courts, those courts determined how much money that Ledbetter could have earned and awarded her $3.8 million dollars.

Goodyear appealed and the courts agreed: Ledbetter should have noticed the pay discrimi-nation and only had 180 days to report it from the first time she was cut short.

Ledbetter described how cheated she felt by the system. She realized that the lower stan-dard of pay did not only affect

her paychecks, but her retire-ment plans as well. Distributions made by social security, 401k plans and stocks are all affected by a worker’s rate of pay and total earnings throughout their career. Not only was she be-ing cheated out of money each time she was being paid, but her benefits did not build up as high as her male counterparts’ did throughout their working time together – leaving her and her family less to work with in the end, especially when her hus-band fell ill.

Ledbetter received a gift presented by women’s studies professor Jane Wolford.

As Ledbetter pointed out, there are only 35 federal laws and acts named for people and she is only one of them, but Chabot was lucky to have such a hero for women’s rights in our midst.

Contact the writer, email [email protected].

Lilly Ledbetter honors Chabot with visitBy Jessica caBallero

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Ledbetter signing a copy of The Spectator newspaper in the Reed L. Buffington Visual and Performing Arts Center at Chabot College in Hayward, Calif. on March 29, 2012.

Zermeño from page 1

Zermeño pushes for urban forest status

“ ”It is important for the people of Hayward to

support their local small businesses and to make sure that people think to shop Hayward first to keep our local economy healthy and vibrant.

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Chabot professor and Hayward city councilman Francisco Zermeño.PHOTO COURTESY OF ZERMENO.COM

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Cesar Chavez Day at city hall Hayward City Hall hosts Hispanic teach-in honoring Cesar Chavez

For those who are unaware, March 31 is marked as Annual Cesar Chavez Day in Hayward, California.

Hayward’s City Hall hosted a special teach-in of Hispanic teachers and musicians who expressed how Cesar Chavez has influenced their own lives.

Mark Cedinas, an elected city councilmember of Hayward and host of the second annual event added, “Teach-ins started here in City Hall.”

Cedinas gave the welcome followed by a performance by Mariachi Juvenil De Hayward, in which the whole group consisted of young musicians. They played the very emotional song “De Colores” and “Las Mananitas,” which left the crowd wanting more.

As the event continued, Andrea Ferreira Cluver, a treasurer of the Alameda County Building Trades Council felt honored to be present in this special day and talked about how Cesar Chavez has laid the foundation in the help for labor workers.

She expressed that, “A lot of work still needs to be done.” Due to the fact that California has one of the biggest work forces in the world working in the fields and they are still being exploited.

Cluver also talked about her

experiences through the union which was created by Cesar Chavez and another big union leader, Dolores Huerta. They created the American Farmers Union which included the big boycott of grapes.

“I remember seeing the union flag which would hang from our rooms” Cluver said.

The event led to people sharing their experiences of finally meeting Cesar Chavez and Cindy Chavez, former Vice Mayor of San Jose Calif.

For Cindy Chavez, ever since she was little, she was told that she was related to Cesar Chavez due to having the same last name which led to her believing it was true until she found out otherwise.

Cindy Chavez shared her fondest memory of when she got the opportunity to meet Cesar Chavez when he went to her school to speak to students. She shared to everyone who attended, what Cesar Chavez told her which she will never forget, “Don’t forget where you come from.”

The special event was closed by a musical performance from Hector Perez and Jorge Martinez as they played the “Corrido of Cesar Chavez.”

To contact the author of the article for more information, you can email him at salmodovar@thechabotspectator.

By Sergio almodovar

STAFF WRITER

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• Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in San Luis, Ariz.• Chavez served in the U.S. Navy during World War II• In 1962, Chavez, Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla started a union

or a workers’ rights group, called the National Farm Workers Asso-ciation (NFWA)

• Chavez’s motto was “Si, se puede,” meaning “Yes, we can.”

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2012 Cesar Chavez Creative Arts Competition. Portrait of Chavez among the fields at daybreak.

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CAMPUSSpecta tor s ta f f a t t ends JACC Sta te Conference

At the 2012 Journalism Association of Commu-nity Colleges (JACC) Convention, from March 22 until March 25, in Burbank, Calif., several members of the Spectator staff participated in numerous competitions and workshops.

Seven staff members and professor Larry Leach, the Spectator adviser, arrived at the Marriot Burbank Airport Hotel on Thursday afternoon to check in and two students entered photography contests, with an-other competing in sports writing.

The convention consisted of vari-ous workshops, where people from highly-renowned newspapers came to give tips to aspiring journalists.

There were also contests to have the work of writers and photographers judged. The workshops started early in the mornings and one competition even went on until 3a.m.

One of the highlights at the JACC was the Friday night tweetup where all the participants could tweet about the JACC and compete in ‘the fastest tweeter’ contests using the hash tag #JACCTWEETUP. The JACC’s twit-ter site was broadcasted via projector to the wall of one of the conference rooms.

A workshop that provided significant infor-mation was the public relations session held by Stacy Long, PR instructor at Pierce College. This workshop informed the journalists about the re-lationship between journalists and PR-agents.

From the very start of the conference, com-petitions began with sports writing and photog-raphy, where participants covered a live wom-en’s lacrosse game between Occidental College and Allegheny College from Pennsylvania.

Other photographers competiting in feature photo and team features, were taken to the Los Angeles Equestrian Center to profile racehorses.

Competitions for writers featured many ac-tivities and performances including an improv

show for critical review, a powerpoint presenta-tion on women in the media for opinion writing and speakers for news writing and photography.

Another challege for the news staff was the copy editing competition, consisting of a test of Associated Press Style skills, grammar, spelling and current events.

Spectator staff highlights....Bernard Miranda, Campus Editor: “My high-

light was when Chabot won the award for online general excellence. It was nice that the spectator won something that I contributed to.”

Jon Comeaux, Managing Editor: “I liked meeting other Community College members who are striving to become great journalists, too.”

Allen Lin, Online Editor: “What I enjoyed most was the photo journalism workshop

which gave me more information on competitive competitions that will give me a better recognition in the photography world.”

Jessica Caballero, Editor-In-Chief: “Every workshop given by a staff member of the Los Angeles Times was fantastic, and of course it was great to meet other EIC’s that shared stories of how other newsrooms were being run.”

Jaimé Hernandez, Photo Editor: “ What really helped me improve as a photographer was the photography competitions. I benefited from it a lot because I came back with more knowl-edge than I came there.”

DaSean Smith, Multimedia Edi-tor: “What I enjoyed the most at the JACC was winning my very first

award in the category: Audio Sound Slides.”Sophia Schmagold, Staff Writer/Photogra-

pher: “My personal highlight was the workshop about public relations. It really opened my eyes about future job options.”

To contact the author, you can email her at [email protected].

By sOphia schMagOld & Jessica caBallerO

STAFF WRITER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Staff members who attended the JACC State Conference in Burbank, Calif. on March 22 to March 25, from left to right: Allen Lin, Sophia Schmagold, Jaimé Hernandez, Jessica Caballero, Bernard Miranda, Jon Comeaux and DaSean Smith.

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VOICESthechabotspectator.com Thursday, April 05, 2012 5

What are your spring break plans?Alexis Smith Major: Undeclared

Charlotte BongatMajor: Dental Hygiene

Deja FrazierMajor: Mass Communications

“Relax, recuperate, and try to make up for all the lost time spent studying and do-ing homework and all that to be able to hang out with my friends stuff like that.”

“Well seeing that we have at 5 a.m. to be at school on time it would be really nice to just sleep in and not have to come drive to school and just have a re-laxing spring break.”

“Well I am going to Can-cun and hit up a few clubs and party.”

Israel SaucedoMajor: Biochemisty

“We are actually going for the whole week - start-ing saturday all the way to next saturday - going three nights and two days to Las Vegas and the rest of the week we will be in Los Angeles.”

Kristen JamesMajor: Theater

“I am going to be really busy because “Electric-idad” opens that week-end and I am in that play so we have a show.”

Kelli Rutherford & Larissa Pomales (right)

Kelli: “We are in the process of moving so I am just going to be unpacking and settling into my new place studying reading catching up and resting above all.”Larissa: “I plan on working and getting my tattoo finished I have an owl piece on my thigh that I want to get finished and get a lot of sleep.”

OranOOs nerOw & Bernard Miranda

STAFF WRITER & CAMPUS EDITORVoices complied by: To contact the author email oranoos.nerow@thech-

abotspectator.com or [email protected]

“Wrath of the Titans” though more thrilling than its predecessor ultimately falls short despite new director Jonathan Liebesman, who also made 2011’s “Battle Los Angeles.” The action in “Wrath of the Titans” tries to make use of the 3D format, however, the monsters graphically look sketchy.

The film picks up a decade later with Perseus, played by Sam Worthington of “Avatar” and “Terminator: Salvation” trying to live a simple life of fishing, all the

while raising his son Helius (John Bell) after the loss of his wife.

One night upon being visited by his father Zeus, Liam Neeson of “Taken”, “The A-Team” and “Batman Begins” Perseus learns that the Gods are losing their powers due to people no longer praying to them and that Tartarus the ancient prison that holds the evil titans and all-powerful Kronos father to Hades is weakening as well. With Poseidon and Zeus losing strength, Poseidon was tragically murdered while Zeus was captured and taken to Hades. Perseus must now brave the underworld to save his father from Ares the god of war (Edgar Ramirez “Vantage Point”).

What sounds like an outstanding epic for these Greek mythology inspired movies, is far from it in

its execution. The narrative in this sequel lacks a lot of depth. As you know, once again it’s up to Perseus to save the day alongside the beautiful Andromeda (Rosamund Pike – Surrogates, Doom) and Agenor (Toby

Kebbell – Warhorse, RocknRolla), the son of Poseidon, who provides comic relief throughout the adventure. The performances of the cast overall is rather straightforward and stiff with the exceptions of Liam Neeson and Hades actor Ralph Fiennes (“Harry Potter”, “Schindler’s List”) who

attempt to reconcile throughout the movie. Sam Worthington comes off indifferent and frustrated that he must go along this route and doesn’t go into specifics as to what happened to his wife, probably due to the actress not wanting to return for the sequel.

Despite being critical of all the story elements, “Wrath of the Titans” provides more action than the first, with larger scale battles and an over the shoulder camera perspective that the little ones can enjoy. Despite being on a low budget, Johnathan Liesbesman does what he can and gives a bleak look at what Perseus and his army is truly up against.

All-in-all “Wrath of the Titans” picks up literally where it left off with low expectations of a trilogy. Although a step up in action for the franchise and a good attempt at the 3D sequences, I was still left wondering if this was really worth the watch. I would only mildly recommend watching this only if you have seen the first movie of the series or have children who enjoy watching action and mythology.

To contact the authors of the article for more information, you can email him at [email protected]

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Spring break, from April 9 to April 14, 2012, will be here soon and many students may be wondering what to do during the nine-day long vacation. This may be a time to work extra hours at your job or use the money earned from work to go somewhere fun.

If you are in the group of students who have enough money to go somewhere, there are lots of places around the Bay Area in California that are fun to visit.

Students who are looking for thrills in the form of roller coasters can visit Six Flags Dis-covery Kingdom in Vallejo , near San Fran-cisco and Sacramento. They offer a lot of good deal during spring break March 31, 2012 to April 15, 2012.

You will save 20 percent when you buy your ticket three days before, then it will be $34.99 each. Please visit their website at www.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom. So make your plan ahead.

Other good places to have fun are Great America in Santa Clara, they got some new en-tertainments for 2012. Such as Charlie Brown’s jungle journey, the magic hat, happiness is...Snoopy and Spin. Check out their website for more information www.cagreatamerica.com or Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. For more infor-mation go to their website at www.beachboard-walk.com. Both of these locations are fairly close to the Bay Area.

If you’re in the mood to get out of town, there are plenty of choices for places to stay in Northern California. If you don’t want to spend a fortune on a hotel, there are California Hostels to stay in that are much cheaper. You can check out www.norcalhostels.org for information on Hostels.

Local museums are great places to visit and some of them have reduced admission cost on certain days. The San Francisco Mu-seum of Modern Art has half-price admission from 6 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. on Thursdays (www.

sfmoma.org). The Asian Art Museum costs $10 to visit on Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (www.asianart.org).

The De Young Fine Art Museum of San Fran-cisco is also a good place for spend a wonderful day there (http://deyoung.famsf.org). Oakland of California provides a hint into California’s history, and it is good for a whole family.

They open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., from Wednesday to Sunday, but closed on Monday

and Tuesday. General admission is $12 (http://museumca.org).

If you don’t have money to spend this spring break, there are other options that are free. Some local museums are always free of cost for visitors.

The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford Universi-ty is a free art museum (http://museum.stanford.edu). The Cable Car Museum in San Francisco is free to visit (www.cablecarmuseum.org).

Local parks don’t cost a thing to explore and take in the scenery. Visit www.ebparks.com for more information on parks in the area.

And if you would like to go hiking some-where during our break, to breath fresh air and explore the natural view, then the Muir Wood National Monument is a good recommendation for the Bay Area residents.

Not far from San Francisco and only 11 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, Muir Woods National Monument is a great place to see red woods, wildlife, and flowers. The ticket is $7 for adults (http://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm).

If you are interested in experience other cul-ture, there will be the 45th Annual Northern Cal-ifornia Cherry Blossom festival on the weekends of April 14-15 and April 21-22, 2012.

Every year during Cherry Blossom period, thousands of artists form Japan and California will present their performance to the audience in San Francisco. It gives us a taste of the Japanese culture. It’s free to participate in. Check their website for more information http://nccbf.org.

Many students may be assigned schoolwork to complete over spring break. If this happens to you, it is probably a good idea to get your work taken care of before having fun. Go to the library, get your work done and enjoy your spring break.

To contact the authors of the article for more information, you can email them at [email protected] and [email protected].

No plans for the spring break yet?April Chen

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THE HUNGER GAMES“The Hunger Games” starring Jennifer Law-rence (X-Men:First Class) and Josh Hutcher-son (Journey to the Center of the Earth) is an overall exciting movie that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats with action-packed scenes and suspense throughout the movie.

Set in the future in a place called Panem, which was once known as North America, there are 12 districts surrounding Panem - where one boy and one girl are selected to par-ticipate in the annually held ‘Hunger Games’.

The games include 24 participants, called tributes. Each tribute must survive and fight for their lives. There can be only one winner of the games and the tributes must fight to the death.

The Hunger Games are a form punishment for the citizens of Panem as there used to be a

thirteenth district. However, 75 years earlier it was destroyed when its citizens fought against the Capitol. The games are also a reminder of the authority and the punishments for rebelling against the Capitol.

It’s interesting to see the style of the people of Panem in the movie. Unique

hairstyles, outfits, and makeup on each character are really colorful and cool.

The women in the mov-ie have bright pink makeup on, unique dresses, and wigs. The men also wear bright colored makeup and have unique beards and moustaches.

Katniss Everdeen, played by Lawrence, is a skilled hunter from District 12 who takes care of her sister, Primrose Everdeen and her mother. During the event where the tributes are se-lected, a name is pulled out of a glass bowl - and the tributed learn their fate.

The name that is first drawn for the girls is Primrose, Katniss’ younger sister, played by Willow Shields. Kat-niss chooses to volunteer for her, becoming the first ever to do so. The person selected for the boys is Peeta Mellark played by Hutcherson. Katniss and Peeta have seen each other before. but are not close.

Some reviews say it was disappointing that the movie didn’t capture the emotional depth that there was in the book.

A review on http://wvgazette.com/ said that the movie didn’t follow the book, lacked important detail and didn’t show the bond between Katniss and Gale, played by “The Last Song” star Liam Hemsworth. Director of the film, Gary Ross is popularly known for “Seabiscuit,” another book adaptation.

The script is based on the book written by Suzanne Collins, written for the screen by Billy Ray who also wrote screenplays for movies such as: “State of Play”, “Breach” and “Suspect Zero”. “The Hunger Games” is the first of the trilogy preceding, “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay”.

Cheryl Sannebeck, Administrative Assis-tant of Social Sciences here at Chabot, said she read the book and she thought it was exciting, emotional, and really well written.

“The book was better, but I really loved the movie. You always get more out of a book, the details are clearer, but the movie really fol-lowed the story. They weren’t openly graphic in showing violence,” she said.

Each part of the movie is filled with im-portance, action and suspense. There’s scenes where explanation and tips on how to survive are given and just as the characters in the movie are listening, it makes you just listen even more carefully.

There is also a feeling of anxiety in just wanting to know what is going to happen next, like when the Hunger Games begin and each tribute is scored during training.

The movie was appropriate for people of all ages, but rated PG-13.

To contact the author of the article for more information, you can email her at [email protected].

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How dare they! Interviews are already hard enough to get through. You have to sell your self-based on a first impres-sion and whatever you have to of-fer on your resume.

For some it’s enough to land them a job, whether it be their dream job or just some thing to make ends meet.

Yet, imagine if in the middle of this tolerated form of interro-gation, your potential employer

to be asks you for your Facebook account login info to take an even deeper dive into your personality and, even worse, your personal life and choices.

Think it’s outrageous? Well it certainly isn’t unheard of, especial-ly recently.

Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut calling on the Department of Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Op-portunity Commission to launch investigations.

The senators are sending letters to the heads of the agencies. They are also drafting a bill, according to http://www.congress.org/news, that will prevent this practice.

The method has alarmed priva-cy advocates, but the legality of it remains in the gray area.

This practice is a violation of your personal life and priva-cy. Many argue it encroaches the Stored Communications Act or the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

For these two acts prohibit in-tentional access to electronic in-formation without authorization and intentional access to a com-puter without authorization to ob-tain information.

Employers using this tactic gain information that is irrelevant to your work methods, such as re-ligion, sexual orientation, gender, race, and age. This ultimately cre-ates a bias and unfair opinion of the person in the hot seat.

Facebook does not approve of this at all. “We don’t think employ-ers should be asking prospective employees to provide their pass-words because we don’t think it’s the right thing to do.” Facebook representative said in a released statement.

“While we do not have any im-mediate plans to take legal action

against any specific employers, we look forward to engaging with policy makers and other stake-holders, to help better safeguard the privacy of our users,” Face-book representative said.

Not sharing passwords is a ba-sic principle of online conduct. Facebook also considers the prac-tice a security risk.

In California, Democratic Sen. Leland Yee introduced a bill that would prohibit employers from asking current employees or job applicants for their social media user names or passwords.

That state measure also would prevent employers from requiring access to employees’ and appli-cants’ social media content, to stop employers from requiring logins.

Overall, I believe this is a severe invasion of privacy and should not and will not be tolerated for long.

Employers do have every right to get to know about applicants, for they will be representatives of the company and a reflection on the employers decision to hire them, but whatever happened to a good old fashioned background check?

To contact the arthur of the article for more information, you can email her at [email protected].

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passwords?By sydney Paschall

SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

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How important is Easter?

On Sunday, April 8 - every one in three people across the world will flock to churches to celebrate the holiday known as Easter.

Even though such a high amount of people go to church for this holiday, many do not understand where a lot of the tradi-tion in Easter came from. A lot of people would ignore that a lot of the Easter traditions such as Easter eggs and the bunny do not come from their religion at all.

The truth is, those traditions come from old Pagan holidays. The bunny and the eggs are both signs that spring was here to that religion, and those traditions were merely adopted by the other faiths. This lack of knowledge of tradition provides for a fake build up of why these traditions matter, and makes them almost too important. Even with that, I don’t believe that these traditions are the only thing that draws so many people to this holiday.

In fact, I believe that Easter is so highly celebrated because it is a chance to see family again. Many families only meet up on major holidays, like Christmas and Thanksgiving, so they relish the moment when they have the chance to see each other.

As a student who has a lot of family who celebrates Easter, I can tell you first hand that my family appreciates the time to come together and catch up. I even get to see some of my cousins who I haven’t seen for years because of their jobs in the military. Instead of having to wait almost a year in between Christmas and the next Thanksgiving, why not meet up in be-tween?

I am in no way trying to water down the religious aspect of this holiday. If you believe in the religious aspects of Easter, I urge you to continue to believe in that - but at the same time, realize that this is a time to see family and take advantage of that. The ability to see your aunts, uncles, cousins and other family members who you don’t see often, should be used at any time you can.

To contact the author of the article for more information, you can email her at [email protected].

By jake hewitt

NEWS EDITOR

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Should I have to share my life with my employer?

The future of the Affordable Care Act is now in the hands of the Su-preme Court. This politically divisive decision could determine if thousands of Americans will be able to receive medical coverage.

The ACA, commonly known as Obamacare, would stop the practice of insurance companies barring coverage from people with pre-existing condi-tions or dropping a patient due to ill-ness.

Proponents of the legislation state it would reign in healthcare costs, making healthcare available and af-fordable to millions.

Though it will not been enacted in its entirety until 2014, some provi-sions are already being implemented: allowing seniors assistance in paying for prescription drugs, no longer al-lowing chronically sick patients to be denied coverage and allowing young adults to stay on their parents plans until the age of 26.

Chabot student, Abraham Rodri-guez, explains how this measure has affected him.

“I got sick pretty badly had a flu that developed into pneumonia. I didn’t have insurance. I just got laid off…and went to Highland Hospital…I stayed two days until I recovered.

“It was then that I decided this wasn’t working. I need to talk to my dad about getting on his insurance plan, because this might get worse. I might get sick again and I didn’t know if I could pay the bill. Eventually I got onto Kaiser Healthcare Plan.

“If I lose it… it’s going to be pretty bad. I wont get this help again.”

Obama’s healthcare legislation is in the conservative crosshairs and could be no more. In oral arguments last week, conservative Supreme Court justices have raised the possibil-ity that the ACA could be struck down because its mandate could be consid-ered unconstitutional.

The point of contention lays in the fines incurred if a U.S. citizen does not buy insurance. Intrade , a predic-tion marketplace says the chance that it will be shot down is 63 percent.

State Lawmakers in Sacramento are looking to create a health insur-ance requirement even if the health care act fails nationally.

“I would work with other state leaders to make sure California con-tinues to move ahead,” said Dave Jones, state insurance commissioner. “We require everyone to have auto insurance in California, and the world hasn’t stopped spinning on its axis. All this political tumult generated by the far right is really ignoring the reality in California and elsewhere.”

State Legislature and the uninsured see the dire need for such an act to be kept alive. Even if Obamas plan is shot down, we need to keep the politi-cal tide moving in the right direction by staying aware and educated.

We are seven million strong over 21 percent of our population is un-insured, according to the California Healthcare Foundation. Mobilize fam-ily, friends and neighbors.

Let our representatives in Sacra-mento know we won’t stand for cuts to essential services. When it is our life is on the line, we will not be denied coverage.

Make your voice heard by con-tacting your California state repre-sentatives, Senator Ellen Corbett 510-577-2310 and assemblywoman Mary Hayashi 510-583-8818.

Contact this writer at [email protected].

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Hate crimes, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

“Any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation.”

These incidents have brought national responses and reactions of various types, such as protests, peti-tions, and cries for peace.

The shooting death of Tray-von Martin, a 17-year-old teen from Florida who was killed on February 26, 2012, on his way home, carrying a can of iced tea and Skittles, is one example. Protests and cries of outrage erupted following the incident that went national.

I thought this incident was really sad and unfortunate. I believe that ab-solutely no one deserves to die over their characteristics such as skin color, race or religion. It also upset me that the person who shot Trayvon, George

Zimmerman, was not arrested imme-diately following the incident.

Dr. Clara D. McLean, English in-structor here at Chabot, said, “It blows my mind that even in 2012 someone can actually kill someone and not be arrested, and no real police investiga-tion pursued.

At that point, you start to find out what happened.” McLean added, “What’s shocking is that the police in that community seemed to have no interest in investigating this crime, which involved a death.”

Another hate crime that happened last week that I feel was really horri-ble, was 32-year-old Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi woman from San Diego, Ca-lif. that was beaten and along side her was a note that read “Go back to your country, you terrorist”. Alawadi died the next day from her injuries.

People have been calling Muslim people all types of names “ter-rorist” being the most common.

Alawadi was an in-nocent woman who was beaten for wearing a hijab, a religious heads-carf worn by Muslim women.

It’s terrible and sad that she left five children without their mother. Being Muslim myself, it’s sad and unfortunate that a fellow Muslim, who shares my beliefs, was beaten to death. No one deserves to die that way.

Professor Kip Waldo, anthropol-ogy instructor here at Chabot shared

his throughts, “When a woman who fled Iraq with her family to come to this country is murdered following a warning note being put on their home, telling them to ‘go home’. Where did that idea come from?

“Those who stand at the helm of this society have painted the people of the Middle East as our enemy. So, to someone infected with such a perspec-tive, what is the difference if they are killed in Iraq or here?”

Waldo also mentioned, “What can we do? Everything we can to stop this. It is the job of each and every one of us to stand against this bigotry, individu-ally and collectively. I don’t believe it will really end until we stand equally in this society, not in the false way we often hear.” Waldo continued.

“But with each person having a valued place in the soci-ety. Until then, if someone is on top, there has to be a reason for someone to be on the bottom. And in this society racism has been one tool to maintain the basic relations of inequal-ity.”

Both of these incidents have been possibly con-sidered to be hate crimes. These are both sad and horrible incidents that I wish never happened.

It’s really sad too that in the investigation of the

shooting of Trayvon Martin, and the beating of Shaima Alwadi, we will never hear their sides of the story.

To contact the author of the article for more information, you can email her at [email protected].

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Starting pitcher Matt Narahara threw 7 solid innings to lead the Chabot Gladiators to a 4-0 victory over Monterey Peninsula on Tuesday, March 27.

Starting an hour early due to concerns about rain, Chabot opened the game in a little bit of trouble giving up a lead off single to start the top of the first inning. Fortunately, the runner was immediately picked off. After giving up a walk to third basemen, Garrett Woodward Narahara assumed command striking out the next batter. With two outs and a runner on first, Narahara relinquished a double to Ryan Fukunaga, leaving runners at second and third. Narahara struck out the next batter to close our the inning.

In the bottom half of the first Chabot catcher, Matt Lonsdale was hit by a pitch. Left fielder Bill Johnson then singled to advance the runner to third. Chabot was able to capitalize with a sac fly by Marc Wik, designated hitter, giving Chabot their first score of the game. Johnson then picked off at the first while first basemen, Craig Massoni lined out to short to close the inning.

Both pitchers were able to calm down for the second inning as neither allowed any hits, performing 1-2-3 innings.

Narahara was able to continue his execution in the top of the third with another quick inning.Chabot however, was more difficult to deal with as Pascual Flores, shortstop, coaxed a walk to lead off the inning. The runner advanced to second on a sac bunt and was brought home with an RBI single by Lonsdale.

Chabot closed the inning with a 2-0 lead, after Lonsdale was caught attempting to steal second.

Narahara had a bit more difficulty in the fourth. He started the inning smoothly, drawing a ground out to second base but soon gave up a

single that was followed by an error, which allowed the batter to reach base safely. With runners on first and second and only one out, Lobos left fielder Kyle Graf grounded out to

the pitcher but was able to advance both runners. Narahara then loaded up the bases with a walk but got another ground out to end the inning.

Wik led off the bottom of the fourth for the Glads with a single. Massoni would advance Wik to

second with a quick fly-out to right field. With a single by Justin Fogle, second baseman, Wik would assume position at third. After a bunt by Scott Quinlan, right field,

the runner was able to score from third while Quinlan reached for a single, bringing the score to 3-0.

The fifth inning was another interesting one for the Chabot pitcher, as he started off the inning giving up a single to Max Price, short stop, who was immediately picked off. The next batter grounded out to the second baseman. Ensuing a walk to Woodward, he quickly stole second for MP. Tyler Soto, first baseman, singled and pushed the runner over to third. With runners at the corners and two outs Narahara was able to get out of the jam educing a fly out from Fukunaga.

Chabot was unable to add to their lead in the bottom of the fifth.

The sixth inning saw Narahara give up a single but escaped the inning unscathed. Lobos pitcher Will McCabe turned out a 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the sixth.

After a quick top of the seventh where Monterey Peninsula was not able to get the ball out of the infield, Chabot was able to put another run on the board with Lonsdale getting his second RBI of the day by singling in Joe Castro, centerfielder, for the fourth and final run of the game for Chabot.

“The whole line-up one through nine executed well. We did a lot of things, put a lot guys in movement, really executed well offensively”, said Lonsdale.

The Chabot bullpen was able to hold the lead and only allowed one hit after starting pitcher Narahara was removed after seventh inning. Matt Tomblin, relief pitcher, came in the eighth and Chris Kenny, relief pitcher, was able to close out the ninth for a Chabot victory.

For any questions or to contact the author e-mail him at [email protected].

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Gladiators blank MPCBy Bernard Miranda

CAMPUS EDITOR

(33) Matt Narahara pitches a shut out against MPC last Tuesday.

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Chabot hosts high school combineThe last meet was held on Friday the 30th at Chabot and involved seven schools:(College of San Mateo, City College of San Francisco, San Jose City College, Merritt College, Mills College and UC Santa Cruz):

Chabot Highlights:• Chabot Women’s 4 x

100 - Monet Verrett, Dee Britton, LaShon Va u g h a n d B r e Alexander combined to win in 51.81.

• Andrew Garcia won the pole vault in 14 feet 6 inches for a State Qualifying Mark and a ranking of 2nd in Nor Cals.

• The Women’s 4 x 400 team of Alexander, Britton, Mayfield and Verrett ran the most competitive race of day losing a close one to City College of San Francisco

• Dewayne Boston ran 50.63 in the men’s 400 to place 8th and grab a nor cal qualifying mark in the men’s 400. Daya Jackson ran 52.38 and Calvin Rodgers ran 54.02 respectively for massive personal bests in the event.

• In the Men’s 400 hurdles the San Ramon Valley High School duo of Jack Williams and Andrew Storer went 57.05 and 57.10 for 2 & 3rd in the event.

• Monet Verret led the women in the 100 hurdles with a personal best of 16.51 taking 3rd and qualifying for Nor Cals.

Next meet - The Chabot Relays Friday April 6 and Saturday April 7th. Friday’s meet starts at 11:20 am and Saturday starts at 9:30 am

On Saturday March 31, Chabot College hosted Prep Football America’s high school combine event with high school players from California and Nevada.

Brad Cotton, director of scouting for California, talked about how they find the student athletes for this combine.

“We have all league lists and all state lists we have kids all the way from

Nevada up to Oregon”, said Cotton, “We go online and find out who the better players are.”

Cotton mentioned that all the results of the players would be posted online for all the colleges to see.

Chabot College’s head football coach was con-tacted by Bob Warsaw who asked if they could use the facilities.

“Nothing is through Chabot College they are basi-cally renting our field.” Said Danny Calcagno, Chabot College head football coach. “They went through Jeff Dr-ouin, Chabot’s Athletic Direc-tor.”

Each player was invited to the combine by the scout-ing organization through each high school.

According to Moham-med Sari father of Garrett Sari, a participant in the combine, a letter was de-livered to Northgate High School and his son was called down to the office where he was told about the combine.

Antuan Webb, strength and conditioning coach, who played defensive back at San Diego State Univer-sity spoke about the differ-ent techniques they used to make the players better athletes and football play-ers.

“This Prep All America so I am looking at some of the finest high school play-ers in Northern California so it is real easy when it comes to this because all we are doing is teaching them small details small tech-niques how to position cor-rectly how to guard the re-ceiver correctly and things like that.”, said Webb

Bastian Jimenez, mid-dle linebacker, one of the participants in the combine said that the biggest thing he learned was patience.

“Do not go to the runner let the runner come to you.” said Jimenez.

For any questions or to contact the author e-mail him at [email protected]

By Bernard Miranda

CAMPUS EDITOR

One on One receiving drills.

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Track and Field Update

On April 3, 2012, Chabot College had its annual job fair, hosting over 40 vendors of numerous different fields like: childcare, parks and recreation, sales positions, law enforcement, business, among others…

Students flooded the Chabot gymnasium with hopes in finding a career that won’t just relate well to their personal finances, but to their professional careers that relate to their field of study.

“I’m hoping to find an entry-level posi-tion like internships,” described business administration major, Fran Hang. “Some-thing like administration or human resourc-es is what I’m looking at, Fremont Bank is hiring summer internships so that was the best possibility I’ve seen so far.

Many recreational opportunities were

available with positions being offered at Hayward Area Recreation and Park Dis-trict (HARD), Pumpkin Patch Learning Academy, Alameda County Fairgrounds and Union City Leisure Services – who offered spots in being camp leaders for children and other childcare services.

“At HARD, we’re hiring summer camp leaders and recreation leaders. Pretty much working with kids - ages eight to 16: plan-ning and supervising activities for kids. No experience is necessary but it is nice,” de-scribed Mike from HARD.

Various companies advertised sales positions like: Mary Kay makeup, Prim-erica, Fastenal Industrial and Construc-tion Supplies and the Yellow Pages. Primerica is acclaimed as one of the fast-est growing companies in America at this time, which are hiring “many” positions, according to Primerica spokespeople.

The Chabot job fair provided much help for students looking for employment and hopefully finding a job. If you missed out, don’t fret there will be more job fairs in future semesters here at Chabot Col-lege.

For any questions or concerns please contact the writer e-mail [email protected].

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On Thursday, April 12, the Chabot College theater department opens “Electricidad” at the Douglas Mor-rison Theatre in Hayward.

“Electricidad” is a contemporary telling of the “Electra” set in the rough Los Angeles barrio. Award-winning playwright Luis Alfaro adapted the classic Greek tragedy including themes of destiny, murder, loyalty, rule of law, and revenge. The show was produced by Rachel LePell and was directed by Chabot professor Linda Amayo-Hassan.

Featuring a live rock and roll band, hip-hop and salsa dancers, singers and a hand-painted urban mural, the show oozes Hispanic cul-ture. The stage design was created by Dov Hassan, with lighting design by student Sean Gallagher.

The cast features students of Chabot from Hayward, San Loren-

zo and Union City. Janelle Aguirre, who has been seen in many pro-ductions over the years, including 2011’s “The Grapes of Wrath” plays the starring role. Other acting talents will be provided by Chabot students.

“Electricidad” opens on April 12 and runs for two weeks on Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday nights (April 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21) all per-formances at 8 p.m. with a matinee performance on April 22 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for students and seniors, $15 general admission, $7 for Puente and Mecha students. While Chabot’s own Little The-ater construction continues, these productions will be in the Douglas Morrison Theatre at 22311 North Third Street in Hayward, near the Japanese gardens.

For more information, please call (510) 881-6777.

For any questions or concerns please contact the writer at [email protected]

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Lead actress Janelle Aquirre will play the title character in “Electricidad”

Chabot theater department strikes Hayward with “Electricidad”

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