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Various types of plastic resins are used to package and serve food and beverages. Polyeth-ylene terephthalate, or PET, is used in 20-ounce water and soda bottles. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used in plastic wrap and deli food containers.
Bisphenol A, or BPA, is one of many chemicals contained
in plastic resins that are used to make reusable water bottles and children’s sippy cups.
But in 2011, California passed a law to ban BPA from bottles or cups designed for children under three years old. The com-pound is estrogenic: its chemical effects mimic those of estrogen, the hormone that regulates fe-male sexual development.
However, a pair of studies commissioned by the Center for
Environmental Health (CEH) revealed that resins in some BPA-free plastic sippy cups may contain greater amounts of es-trogenic chemicals than cups that contain BPA.
The studies tested 35 differ-ent sippy cups that were pur-chased between October 2011 and March of 2013. Nine of the cups yielded significant estro-genic activity, or estrogenicity.
According to CEH, sippy
cups that contained color-changing plastic had the highest levels of estrogenicity.
An important question re-mains: can these chemicals be leached, or dissolved, in suffi-cient quantities to cause adverse health effects in human beings?
High enough concentrations of estrogenic chemicals have negatively impacted the health
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New studies on plastic sippy cups raise questions about toxicity
by chris [email protected]
FIND US
INSIDE
UPCOMING
Delta hosts invitational track eventPage 10
Art professor gives insight to success storyPage 6
Battling back from a week off Page 7
Softball vs. Modesto Jr. College April 12@ noon
Baseball vs. Diablo Valley College April 13 @ 2:30 p.m.
Speaker addresses international education
EVERY 56 DAYS
by sonya [email protected]
by santana [email protected]
On Thursday, April 3, Delta College’s Cultural Awareness Program welcomed Dr. Nancy Pine as a guest speaker. Pine is a re-nowned educator and researcher in cross cul-tural studies and is the Director of Education at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.
The title of Pine’s lecture was “What Kids Learn and Don’t Learn in Chinese and U. S. Schools.”
Pine has been researching in China since 1988.
During her research she has learned many things about the school systems in China. While there are a few similarities to our sys-tem, there are more differences.
Much like the United States, China has: elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges.
The major difference here is in China you have to pass an exam and pay to get into high school. This is because China has such a large population.
A typical classroom will have up to 50 stu-dents. The desks are lined up in rows. Stu-dents stay in the same room all day and eat lunch in the classroom.
“Teachers are seen as parents,” said Pine. Teachers always stand at the front of the
class, unlike American teachers, who will move around the classroom. When a teacher calls on a student, the student must stand to speak and not sit until told to do so.
Students never ask questions. “If they don’t agree, then they just don’t say
anything. The teacher’s word is it,” said Pine. Here students ask questions all the time.Students are publicly praised and critiqued
in China. “This is very common. It can be quite [se-
vere] sometimes, but criticism is an accepted part of education,” said Pine.
In the U.S., praise is more frequent than criticism.
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ASBG runs successful blood drive in Danner
DONATING FOR LIVES: Top, student Andrea Masuret donates blood with a big smile for the blood drive. Left, donors fill out paperwork while others in the back get blood drawn.
The San Joaquin Delta Col-lege Student Nurses’ Association and the Associated Student Body Government sponsored a cam-pus blood drive on April 9.
The drive’s goal was to entice students and staff to relinquish small amounts of their blood in order to save lives.
Upper Danner Hall was draped in white with curtains to separate those giving from the rest of the hall.
Many students don’t sign up out of fear of needles or the sight of their own blood.
Choosing to donate helps oth-ers.
If this becomes overbearing bring headphones, shut your eyes and pump the little stress ball in your hand. In a couple
minutes it’s all over.A healthy person can donate
blood every 56 days, according to the American Red Cross.
If one needs incentive then let it be known that after you give blood you need to raise your blood sugar, so you are given all the juice and cookies you want.
Were not talking low-class stale cookies and market pantry apple juice. No. It’s Grandma’s soft cookies and Motts. Top shelf goodies.
Blood donors must be at least 17 years of age and weigh at least 110 pounds to donate, according to Delta Blood Bank.
To donate off campus, con-tact (888) 94-BLOOD or delt-abloodbank.org.
To advertise the event ASBG posted fliers around campus and on their Facebook page.
PHOTOS BY MONICA GOMEZ
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In "A Midsummer’s Night Dream," Shakespeare said that, “Love looks not with
the eyes, but with the mind…” Several hundred years later,
Shakespeare could have re-phrased that to say, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the app."
With the birth of online dat-ing, the Internet has redefined what it means to find love.
As a culture, we’re all about fast consumption and instant gratification.
We see it everywhere: fast food, Instant Play on Netflix and same-day shipping.
Now we’re seeing it with our own relationships.
When Shakespeare wrote of love, it was with long prose and epic tales of romance.
With our “need it now and fast” mentality, finding love has been altered.
And with the conception of dating apps, finding “love” is as simple as a screen touch.
Tinder, Grindr, Zoosk and OkCupid are the main apps
for “dating” — all varying in presentation.
Tinder, arguably the most popular of the batch, operates on a “swipe right, swipe left” functionality.
“Swipe left” means that you’re not interested in the person, and “swipe right” means you could be on your way to finding that lucky partner.
If both you and your partner both “swipe right,” you’re then prompted to initiate a conversa-tion.
The motion of swiping po-tential mates primarily based on the way they look has a game-like quality to it, producing an addictive quality for the user.
Despite the far cry these apps are from Shakespearian love, I don’t believe they will be the downfall of classic romanti-cism.
Deep down we all want to find that person to make us a little less lonely, and these apps provide users with some form of companionship, no matter how frivolous.
They could also potentially match you up with someone you end up caring for — end-
ing possibly with true love?"Today , people are experi-
menting in so many differ-ent ways. I definitely believe true love can be found in any medium," said Delta Student Alexandra Elder.
With this being said, we must learn to try to pay atten-tion to the slower things in this “fast and easy” life.
Love should be a thing that grows and evolves over time — there should be a little bit of struggle.
These apps take away the dirty work from the process of soul mate searching to fit into our impatient mindset.
I believe that searching for love shouldn’t be as fast as getting a burger through the drive-thru.
Love takes time and it’s worth waiting for.
It’s a bumpy road and I’m skeptical to believe that it can be bought in the app store.
Call it old-fashioned or be-hind the times but Shakespeare had a point when he said: “the course of true love never did run smooth.”
by michael johnson [email protected]
by seth [email protected]
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In today’s dwindling job market the competition amongst employees has been
raised. Workers are required to
gain additional knowledge to advance in their field or simply maintain their current position.
As a result, more and more people are going back to school.
People now have a selection of routes in which they can take when perusing higher educa-tion.
In this technologically-savvy world, online education is all the rage, and convenience is one of the main reasons why people choose online versus face-to-face education.
Many have mentioned that they have responsibilities such as jobs and family.
Due to their circumstances, they aren't able to make it to
campus for face-to face instruc-tion.
Students and professors can either gather online at a certain
time or on their own depending on class requirements.
Lectures and course mate-rial are always available online, therefore you can repeat any-thing that you may have missed the first time around.
Schools like Delta College also offer lessons that are con-ducted through what is known as a “hybrid” class.
Some lectures and class work are posted online along with traditional face-to-face instruc-tion. Instructors are able to start or continue in class discussions online or vice versa which can effectively integrate the two learning environments.
Another aspect of online education is the maturity level
On college campuses, the average age is 18-21.
Many campuses provide
numerous social events and activities, which can cause a young student, who has just recently become independent, to be easily sidetracked.
There is a sense of guidance that a face-to-face instructor can provide for the younger students.
Young students may lack organizational skills and need an instructor present to super-vise them.
A mature student wouldn’t need an instructor in front of them to make sure they are completing assignments.
The final factor is the cost.College tuition can get
pretty expensive at a traditional campus.
Online classes eliminate much of the expenses linked to college such as housing, com-muting and loan debt.
Both have pros and cons and it comes down to what is right for an individual’s situation.
Online learning just as good
Dating apps can't provide what normal romance can
Stay away from baby message boards for medical advice
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Heidi Sharp, 22, is a part-time Delta College student and part-time barista. She married her high school sweetheart, Wesley, in 2012. The same year, the couple purchased their first home in Stockton. Now, thanks to two little lines on a pregnancy test, the Sharps are expanding in July.
with heidi sharp
With the advent of the Internet and smartphones that can access it, we have instant medical resources to browse.
Doctors will tell patients to stay off the Internet when it comes to medical questions. Don't self-diagnose, they say.
Whenever I bring up stuff I found on the Internet to ask my obstetrician about, he asks me where I heard the information.
But he knows the answer: he calls it Dr. Internet.There is an allure about it, though, especially the popular BabyCenter message boards. BabyCenter is home to a message board that thousands of preg-
nant women, mothers and caregivers can join and post on. These individuals can share experiences,
pictures and advice. I am guilty of Google searching ques-
tions that should be directed toward my practitioner, but the instantaneous answers that BabyCenter provides are more appeal-ing than messaging my doctor and having to wait two to three days for a response.
The problem is that the women on Baby-Center aren’t trained medical doctors.
Even though 50 people might have the same symptoms as me, it doesn’t mean it’s the same thing.
Knowing this full well, I still prefer to browse the site.
Another problem with asking questions on BabyCenter is that some women will tell worst-case scenario stories.
It could be their experience or the experi-ence of another.
When you go on and ask if this minor pain in your side is normal, you may end up with a horrifying story of how a person’s stomach blew up and if they had just done this, that and the other thing, it would have been okay.
After reading something like that, you rush to the doctor’s office to ask about this rare disease that it seems everyone has, and the doc-tor tells you that you are fine, its normal stretching pain, go home.
Then you realized you should have called him in the first place.You can also find your “Birth Month Club.” Mine is the July 2014 babies, because my baby is due in July.These are fun to read because everyone is around the same
number of weeks as you, and are easy to connect to. This is one of the worst drawbacks to BabyCenter.On these forums, mothers whose babies were born too premature
to survive, or miscarried, are welcome to post pictures of their babies.It’s scary when there are moms who are at the same gestational
time as you who are losing their babies. The hard part about it is that it’s easy to accidentally stumble across these pictures when they are the last things you want to see.
BabyCenter is a cool online forum that can be helpful and fun way to connect to people, but be careful when it comes to asking medical advice that should be directed toward your doctor.
And when you start to get into that depressing, scary part of BabyCenter, it’s probably 2 a.m. anyway and you should shut it down immediately.
Different methods of learning suit different lifestyles
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THE COLLEGIAN — SPRING 2014
Editor/feature editorChris Howze
News editorJustin Tristano Sports editorJermaine Davis
Entertainment editorsMonica GomezSonya Herrera
Opinion editorHeidi Sharp
StaffAlexis BustamanteEric CarranzaMichael JohnsonRobert JuarezSantana JuacheOrlando JoseSeth LowmanSean MendozaRichard Reyes
AdviserTara Cuslidge-Staiano
AdvertisingThe Collegian offers display advertising at competitive rates.
Call (209) 954-5156 or email [email protected] for more information.
Letters to the editorLetters raising issues and opinions not represented by the newspaper are encouraged, but should not be taken as a reflec-tion of the opinions of the staff or adviser.
EditorialUnsigned editorials reflect the po-sition of the entire Collegian staff.
Comments, letters and editorials with a byline represent the opin-ion of the writer, solely. This paper does not endorse or represent the opinions of the adviser, the mass communication department, the Fine Arts Division, the printer or San Joaquin Delta College administration.
Mission statement The Collegian is a student run First Amendment newspaper that prides itself on its commitment to the students of San Joaquin Delta College while maintaining its independence of any outside influence.
The Collegian will reinvigorate the credo that the newspaper speaks for the students, checks abuses of power and stands vigilant in the protection of democracy and free speech.
In the past decade, many public schools and colleges have implemented required identification cards – many making stu-
dents wear them as badges around their necks.At the college level, students often possess
identification cards. But instead of wearing them for everyone to see, these cards are hid-den in wallets.
At most colleges, the card gives access to the cafeteria, discounts and doubles as a library card.
It also serves as an identification to prevent strangers from hanging out on campus.
And, typically, these cards have one thing in common from campus to campus – they are free, and every student is issued one.
The replacements are the ones students are required to buy.
The identification cards issued at Delta aren’t through the Admissions Office, but through the Associated Student Body Govern-ment (ASBG).
The cost is $10.Benefits include: “Free or discounted en-
trance to college events, free food and prizes at ASBG college hour events, access to the ASBG
food pantry, and doubles as a library card,” ac-cording to the ASBG website.
The list of vendors off campus who accept a student discount is limited. The most notable are Subway, Tapa Taqueria and Casa Flores Mir-acle Mile. Other locations that offer discount or coupon services are Stockton’s Yoga Center, Delta Valley Towing and VIP Salon & Supply.
The list includes 15 total vendors, including an online bean bag store – not many of which seem to be all that appealing to local college students.
While we can appreciate the current list of discount choices, and the efforts of ASBG to pursue them, we wonder why can’t we have free identification cards?
We understand the $10 is a small fee, but at the same time, the benefit of widespread usage of the cards – and the fact that all students could then be required to have them – would be great.
Consider that not one staff member on the Collegian staff has one of the current cards. A poll of the students on our staff also shows that no one even knows a person who has ever purchased one.
We believe benefits should be available to the student body without paying $10.
As of now, it seems as though the benefits to this card do not outweigh the cost and hassle – a multi-step process – of purchasing it.
Consider, too, that if Delta implemented a universal identification card it could be linked to all aspects of our campus life.
It could be our identification, library card, link to student account information, discount card.
It could give students who as of now feel as if the school is “just Delta” a chance to feel connected to the campus. It would make stu-dents feel as though they are actually attending college instead of just “taking classes at Delta.”
Consider University of California, Berke-ley’s Cal 1 Card. It gives them discounts all over campus and tons of surrounding places. It acts as a student debit card, which can be used on campus and reloaded; it is also the students’ bus pass. University of California, Berkeley pays for their students to use the bus system to get to and from school.
If Delta has something similar, it would promote activities and help ticket sales for sports. This is worth the cost of the endeavor
Even if it’s more than $10 a person.
EDITORIAL
Charging for ID cards is hurting Delta College
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 may have been hacked in the world’s first “cyber-hijack.” The plane, missing since March 8, had 298 on
board.The plane is now reported as out of radar.Why is it not showing on radar? That is now one of the main questions. Also a question: Where are the nearly 300 people
that were on board?Several hypotheses are out there about what happen
to the plane.Iran has accused the United States of being a part of
the disappearance.
It begs the question: How would the U.S. benefit from hijacking a plane from Malaysia?
Of the passengers on the plane, 120 are considered Chinese. That would cause unnecessary conflict between China and the U.S.
The U.S. doesn’t hijack civilian airliners. Anyone inclined to think otherwise is hallucinating.
They are civilian passengers. It wouldn’t be wise to create a conflict with Malaysia and the U.S.
Malaysian officials said over the weekend that the plane’s disappearance was a deliberate act, and police started searching the homes of the jet’s pilot and co-pilot.
There is evidence of a plot by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a passenger’s Ukrainian jet.
Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov said his
government would do “everything possible” to solve the crisis, according to CNN.
In Washington, President Barack Obama warned Moscow: “Further provocation will achieve nothing fur-ther to isolate Russia and diminish it place in the world.”
The plane’s disappearance is causing is an interna-tional affair.
“I still believe that there is only one solution of this crisis, a peaceful one” Yetsenyuk said on CNN. “But we offer peace and Russia offers war.”
War veteran and Delta student Steve McCarty likens it to a fencing match, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the first move by brandishing his weapon and taking the first swing.
In response, Obama is threatening to go to war, while trying to deflect the first blow.
by alexis [email protected]
U.S. has no reason to hijack Malaysian plane, but theories abound
TEXTBOOK BUNDLES CHEATING STUDENTS OUT OF CASH
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It is safe to say that college football is a lucrative sport. With championship bowl games being sponsored by “Fortune 500” companies, Universities and head
coaches receive billions of dollars for the commercializa-tion of their school and players.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association uses their player’s image in video games, jerseys, and DVD’s — all which are moneymaking entities.
Is it fair for the sports programs to reap the benefits from the talent of their players? Coaches like Alabama’s Nick Saban have seven figure incomes while the athletes receive no compensation.
Coaches never have to set foot on the field and they receive plenty of pay whereas the players are the ones gen-erating the income. It's against the rules for any college player to accept a payment, but like any job, employees get paid for the duties performed. Some feel college players shouldn’t get paid because they
are considered amateurs and once they start receiving payments they are no longer that. In reality, there are some college players that are just as
skilled as the professionals.They both share the same work ethic; they train hard
all year around with strenuous exercise regimens and they risk their bodies on the field for college football to become and remain a multi-billion dollar industry.
Instead of receiving payment for their efforts, college players receive perks when they make it to a bowl game.
Items such as new clothing, shoes, luggage, TV’s, or iPad Minis are given as rewards.
The NCAA is not as stern in these types of situations.These are just minor compensations when compared
to the mental and physical damage they subject them-selves to every time the take the field.
Players at the collegiate level expose themselves to concussions and debilitating injuries that can end their career before it starts. If they are going to literally risk life and limb to keep fans entertained they should get paid for it.
A war of breakfast is erupting between fast food giants McDonald's and Taco Bell.Earlier this month Taco Bell began selling
breakfast items including the Waffle Taco and the A.M. Crunchwrap.
McDonald's is fighting back with a photo featuring Ronald McDonald crouching down next to a Chihua-hua with a slogan: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," according to USA Today.
McDonald's also launched a competitive move by offering free cups of McCafe coffee for two-weeks.
It’s like there's a new obsession between fast food restaurants and breakfast.
McDonald's has dominated the fast food breakfast scene and now the restaurant has competition.
According to the Slat's Moneybox blog in 2012,
breakfast made up $10 million in restaurant sales for McDonald's in the United States and accounted for nearly one third of the $31.7 billion in breakfast sales in fast food restaurants nationwide.
This is a competitive marketplace because it has an impact on how restaurants can benefit financially from having these early morning breakfasts for busy people on the go.
This can simply be a branding problem because both restaurants don’t necessarily have a specific popu-lar product.
Taco Bell is known for its tacos and not being cut-ting edge with inventive breakfast choices like McDon-ald's seems to be, but the company is attempting to be so with the creation of the waffle taco.
When you think of Taco Bell, you don’t associ-ate it with breakfast but instead as lunch, dinner or a late-night snack as we busy college students battle the
occasional late night munchies. Taco Bell seems to want a own slice of the fast food
breakfast pie.In order for this to happen the restaurant needs to
jump onto the bandwagon with other fast food chains.With an exception of Wendy’s and In-N-Out
Burger, the breakfast food craze seems to be going on right now between the two giant fast food franchises.
The three television ads currently airing on include the slogan that says: "Delicious breakfast anyone can love, including Ronald McDonald."
This spot has received more than 1.6 million views on YouTube.
The war between these two fast food giants may very be unnecessary because both are very popular, so maybe we all shall just wait patiently and see how this war between the breakfast plays out, but one thing is certain — it will definitely be interesting to watch.
Petty commercials sparking war between two breakfast moguls
Students at Delta are being robbed.Not because the
campus isn’t safe, but because of absolutely ridiculous book prices.
We all know about this, so why could I be possibly writing about it now?
Students have began to find a way out of this situation. This wonder-ful textbook resource is called Amazon.
Books are half, and sometimes a fourth of the price on Amazon as they are in the bookstore.
More and more students are taking ad-vantage of this resource and saving hundreds of dollars on their textbooks (that sometimes teach-ers don’t even use-even though they are “re-quired).
Unfortunately, this
life-saving resource is slowly being taken away from students.
Teachers are begin-ning to use “textbook bundle” packages.
The student is re-quired to buy the book brand-new from the bookstore, and it comes with an online access code, that is only good once and for that semes-ter.
Also, these books are usually “loose-leaf,” meaning not bound, so they cannot even be sold back to the bookstore.
These book packages run for $100-$150.
The teacher is the one who chooses the book for his or her class, and there is no reason to be choos-ing these types of books and then claim that the school “made a deal with the publisher and this is the cheapest way.”
Yes, I have actually had a teacher say that to
me after I purchased a $150 book.
Simply “because they have the latest, updated information on the sub-ject,” isn't a good enough reason to justify forcing the students to buy these ridiculously priced books that aren’t even bound.
There are many options of books for teachers to choose from, and having year-or-two old textbooks is typically not a problem in most subjects.
Allowing students to buy used books is good for the student body, just maybe not for the publishers.
But that’s the ticket.Teachers should be
out for their students, NOT for the publishers of outrageously priced textbooks.
After all, it’s not the publishers paying their salaries, its the students’ tax dollars.
by diane [email protected]
NCAA players deserve monetary compensation
by heidi [email protected]
by michael [email protected]
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It’s that time of year, when college students are gearing up for the summer break from school. The
problem young people frequently run into, though, is a lack of spending money to do fun things.
So the other activity students are gearing up for is finding a summer job.
Summer jobs can be exciting and profitable, but in
order to obtain one, you must get through the inter-view process and get hired.
Here are some good tips from someone who just finished doing mock interviews for Lincoln High School.
by heidi [email protected]
No one will hire a man (or woman!) with a wet floppy fish handshake. You won’t believe the impression it leaves.
Try using a firm grip, lasting one to two full seconds. It communicates sincerity.
It’s a no brainer or so you would think. But in the mock interviews I have done for high school students,
I was shocked at the amount of them who didn’t smile at me once. Smiling shows that you are, indeed, a human being that is going
to be easy to get along with.
This is the time to put your strengths on the table.If you get along well with the public, say it.You can use Microsoft Excel? Bring it up in conversation. You are fluent in English and Spanish? Make sure to bring that
up.Remember the job you are applying for and play up those
strengths. Never ever say you are “kind of lazy” or a “procrastinator.” That’s a
Kiss of Death. Yes, someone actually said that to me in an interview.
Put anything and everything you have on there. High school diploma, currently attending Delta College, your
major, mowing lawns over summer, previous summer jobs and babysitting your neighbor’s children are all excellent examples of experience to put on the resume.
Even if you have never had a “real” job, a resume is a mustBring a copy of your resume to the interview-the interviewer
may not have a copy! Also bring your personal and professional references written down in case you are asked for them.
It communicates preparedness.
It will show if you are tense, trust me. I know it’s important. I know it’s scary. I know it’s nerve racking.
You must relax. It will help
Thank the interviewer for his or her time (using the person’s name).
It seems as if something everyone already does, but once again, you would be surprised.
I’m not personally a fan of thank you notes. I prefer a phone call, which leads to my last bit of advice.
If you haven’t heard any-thing in a week, call back.
Call, call, call. Not every day, but once
or twice a week until you get an answer is appropriate.
“The squeaky wheel gets the oil,” is an old adage for a reason.
An interviewer would rather receive a phone call from someone who is genuinely interested in the job than a simple thank you note.
SMILE
HAVE A FIRM HANDSHAKE
GETTING A SUMMER JOB: Making yourself marketableduring the hot-month job hunt
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RELAX
DON’T SELL YOURSELF SHORT
BE APPRECIATIVE, SAY THANK YOU
FOLLOW UP
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Sounds simple right? You would be surprised at how many people go into interviews in their street clothes.
Obviously if it’s a summer job, you’re not interviewing to be a partner at a law firm, so a four-piece $400 suit is not necessary.
But a button down, neutral col-ored shirt, a pair of black slacks, and a matching tie are not hard-to-come-by items.
Simply walking in to ask for an application; you should be wearing these clothes as well.
DRESSED TO IMPRESS
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Delta College is diverse, unique and inspiring — much like art professor Joe Mariscal.
Mariscal’s journey is adventurous and rare. “Well, you know it’s kind of an interesting story,”
said Mariscal. “I got a letter from my professor his name was Bruce Duke, he taught here for forty-five years, and he said when you get home come see me.”
At the time Mariscal, was attending school in Mex-ico. He originally went for pottery, and then ended up switching to art history.
“When I came home he said hey I don’t want to teach at night anymore would you like to teach and I said I’ve never taught before,” said Mariscal.
Off to a rocky start, Mariscal didn’t have the best experience teaching his first class.
Mariscal said he had a student come back five years later that was in his first class.
She told him that she felt so bad for him because there were only five people left in his class at the end of the semester.
Therefore, she didn’t drop his class. She told him he had improved a lot from the first
class he taught.Incidents such as this are what encourage Mariscal to
continue teaching, first as a longtime adjunct, then as a full-time professor.
Mariscal looks back and appreciates that he had someone such as Duke as a professor at Delta to see his gift for teaching.
“He was the one that taught me the ceramics, he obviously thought I had something that he saw in me, I guess he was right I’ve been here since then 1975 to now,” said Mariscal.
However, Mariscal has teaching experience from dif-ferent institutions as well.
He taught at the Deuel Vocational Institution in
Tracy and also at the Alan Short Center, a Develop-mental Disabilities Service Organization.
At one point he was teaching at all three institutions at the same time.
Besides being a professor, Mariscal is a well-rounded person with an intuitive mind for art.
An interesting fact about Mariscal is that he doesn’t own a cell phone.
He says he’s never owned one, simply because he can survive without it and cell phones make life more com-plicated in the classroom.
Students seem to be constantly on their phones, which interrupts his classes.
There were definite experiences in Mariscal’s life that made him who he is today.
“Take at least a summer and go somewhere, I mean out of the country just to see how other people think, how they do things what their culture is like and you’ll come back so different,” said Mariscal. “Unfortunately you know there’s a lot of young people that have to do what I did and young people are doing now and that’s go to and war and come back different and you see the world in a completely different way.”
Some would say Mariscal’s unique story has a lot to do with chance and luck.
However, it also took a lot of dedication and hard work.
“You don’t get lucky you work hard that’s how you get lucky,” said Mariscal. “Serendipity is the thing that’s luck … I was just at the right place at the right time with the right person.”
Irony plays a role in Mariscal’s life as well — one of his students is also teaching in this department.
The student knew what he wanted to do after taking his class.
“It was totally by accident it was totally by circum-stance and I think life is like that if you keep your eyes open and you meet the right people that as long as you’re pushing towards a goal things pop up and if
you take advantage of them then they turn into some-thing sometimes and that’s what happened to me,” said Mariscal. Mariscal spent some time in Brazil in 2004, he had workshops set up and planned on teach-ing there. However, due to the unfortunate circum-stance of his mother being ill he had to come home sooner than he originally planned.
A year from this semester Mariscal will be retiring. He plans on returning to Brazil.
He wants to teach and enjoy the Brazilian culture.
With each bomb that goes off in Syria, the country is met with a deafening roar. On a college campus you’ll be met with a discerning silence.
Turn on a television, go online or flip through a newspaper and you’ll discover that tensions are high around the world.
There’s always been chaos in the world, but with recent issues arising in Crimea and Syria, topped off with talks of there being another cold war, concern should be raised.
As students feed their daily lives with their own personal drama, important world issues can sometimes be drowned out and forgotten.
Students sometime forget there is another world outside of their personal bub-bles. Only a select few are passionate and actively protest for those who might not have an active voice.
Delta College student Misoon Ghareeb considers herself to be knowledgeable about international issues.
Ghareeb said students show apathy because the troubles of the world don’t have an immediate effect on them.
“First of all, it doesn’t personally impact students. Also because their peers and surroundings aren’t focused on world issues. If they were to visit a country out of
America they would be more involved with what is going on in the world,” Gha-reeb . “Just because you can’t visit a different country with struggle, doesn’t mean you can’t do your part.”
This year, a London-based charity Save the Children, released a PSA entitled
“Most Shocking Second a Day Video” onto YouTube, raising the awareness of the children affected by the war in Syria.
The video centered on a young British girl being affected by a hypothetical war that could be easily compared to what Syria has been experiencing.
Bombs exploding, destruction ensuing and sickness developing, the PSA is effec-tive because it demonstrates how universal war could be and how it could impact anyone.
Since the release of the video, it has reached more than 20 million views on You-Tube.
The PSA was a success in raising international discussion, and it also raised con-cern for those who might not be knowledgeable of Syrian issues.
As the video became viral, concern was raised due to the striking images and mes-sage.
You don’t need knowledge of producing PSA’s or writing news pieces to spread awareness. All you need in this day and age is an Internet connection.
“I think the smallest things count. Reading a news article online and posting it onto social media matters. And being more aware of the world that they live in is something they can do to show concern,” Ghareeb added.
The Internet is far-reaching and anyone can be touched. This means change can occur with the simple exchange of a link. With the power of social media, anyone can be educated.
The Job of a college student is to learn. Not just about formulas or theories, but how they can have a positive effect on the world. The apathetic silence can in fact be broken, but only by using their voices.
PROFESSOR PROFILE
Art professor’s journey through art, culture by monica [email protected]
PHOTO BY MONICA GOMEZ
by seth [email protected]
Apathy leaves generation paying no heed to rhythm of war drums
Did you know of Stone Soup Radio?This newly formed Internet radio station, that is
located right off the miracle mile at 231 West Brad-ford Road.
Stone Soup Radio is the heart of a man named John Morearty; who dedicated his life to the Peace and Justice Center.
The building that Stone Soup Radio calls home, now christened the Morearty Peace & Justice Network.
“Its a new life, the passing of the baton,” said Stone Soup Station Manager/Delta Student Anthony L. Henry Sr.
“We’re not just a community radio, we are a building community radio,” he said.
Stone Soup Radio is all about letting all different genes of music come through their door. The station love greeting new volunteers.
Comprised of mostly Delta College students, the group has been showing up to local community events to get the name of Stone Soup Radio out in the community.
The name “Stone Soup” derives from an old folk tale about two travelers pass through a town with no
food and ask the town people for aid, one villager starts by giving a few carrots, then one by one each villager adds more, resulting in the stone soup that is shared to everyone.
The fable is about helping others out, even when things are scarce, and that doing so can mean more for everyone.
The group recently attended the Earth Day event off the Miracle Mile, where 22 trees were planted.
The group raffled T-shirts and did surveys on what kinds of music Stockton citizens like to listen to.
Look for upcoming community events. If you have public service announcement, if you’re
non profit and trying to get the word out about what you’re doing, please contact [email protected].
Please visit the station’s website stocktoncommunity-radio.com.
As baseball players run to home stretch, they are us-ing every fiber of their being to score for their team.
You can’t say they aren’t working hard when they’re running at high speeds toward a rewarding victory.
After spring break, college students experience their own type of “home stretch”, but unlike baseball play-ers, the “running” is nowhere to be found.
Once the fun of spring break is over, students are back in school, but with less motivation than ever be-fore. Once getting a taste of freedom over the break, the only thing on student’s minds is the end of the se-mester.
They are diagnosed with “spring break-itis” and the only cure is summer.
Running late to class, not turning in assignments and increased absences are all symptoms of this disease. As summer inches closer, it becomes apparent that most students have already checked out mentally before the term is actually over.
The shortness and the placement of the break could also attribute to why students turn into zombies.
They are only given a short taste of what it feels like to have freedom. Once they are exposed to this care-free week of fun, they become uneasy when they have to wait until summer vacation to experience something similar.
It’s akin to watching a movie trailer and waiting two grueling months to watch the full movie.
Delta student Eleanor Mafi suggests a cure to the lack of motivation students could be experiencing due
to spring break-itis. “Just get rid of spring break all together then. That would
really speed things up and students wouldn’t feel as unmoti-vated as they do with the break” Mafi said.
This is an interesting suggestion that could possibly work for students who were bitten by the spring break bug. Most students would probably disagree with this
sentiment, but teachers would be pleased to see their zombie-like student rise from the dead.
With finals just around the corner and with this epi-demic rising, grades also tend to see a drop as well. Stu-dents come so far and learn so much throughout the semester to fall under the spell of the break.
“With finals coming up I feel that we only have such a short time left as school, so it makes me want the rest of the semester to go by a lot faster” Mafi added.
Delta instructor, Melissa Deverall has noticed that there has been a change in student behavior since spring break has passed.
“It’s important as an instructor to ensure that students keep motivated throughout the year, es-pecially as finals come”
Accumulating all of the lectures and pearls of wisdom we have learned in our classes this year, finals are the last and vital road block until vaca-tion arrives. The importance of finals should not be dismissed within the mad rush of completing the semester.
Running towards their home stretch, students will have to face the heat of finals before they get to lay out in the sun.
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Return from spring break leaves students antsy, ready school semester’s end
What Is Stone Soup Radio?
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by orlando [email protected]
On Thursday, April 3 the lives of the Ochoa family were uprooted.
A man ransacked their home, robbed them of everything valuable such as a flat screen television and money they had in the home at the time.
The family clothing was used to set the garage on fire.
Red Cross has placed the family of five in a hotel until Sunday.
The family is low income. The Ochoa’s have no money to move into a
new home. Their plans are to stay with family members and friends till they have enough to get a new home.
A “Gofundme” account has been set up to help fundraise so they can put their lives back together.
Those who can help can donate to the family by visiting http://www.gofundme.com/825lpc
Food and clothing donations are welcome as well.
Contact staff writer [email protected] for arrangements of donations to the family.
Stockton family in need of help, possibly homeless without community supportby alexis [email protected]
‘Chavez’ whitewashes labor leader’s life storyby sonya [email protected]
Hit shows hook new members to service
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by sean [email protected]
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One day, at the age of 11, I start-ed working in the fields, and that’s where I witnessed for the
first time the injustice, and the indigni-ties, suffered by the farm workers.”
These words are among the opening lines of the first biographical drama on César Chávez, directed by Diego Luna and starring Michael Peña.
“Cesar Chavez” will introduce many people to the history of the famous labor organizer. But like all American heroes’, Chávez’s story was thoroughly whitewashed before being presented to a younger, broader audience.
Chávez was born in Yuma, Arizona in 1927. During the aftermath of the Great Depression, his family moved to California, where Chávez worked as a farm laborer.
In 1952, Chávez was introduced to the Community Service Organiza-
tion, where he learned to improve his leadership skills. 10 years later, Chávez started his own organization, soon to be known as the United Farm Workers (UFW).
UFW’s non-violent activism and nationwide grape boycott, as well Chávez’s famous 25 day fast in 1968, resulted in great gains for California grape workers in 1970, when grape growers in Delano County finally signed contracts with the union.
“Cesar Chavez” essentially begins in 1962 and ends in 1970. Because of this, one sees no depiction of the first 35 years of Chávez’s life and is basically left with a characterless movie.
Dolores Huerta does almost nothing except hang up the UFW office phone and tell her coworkers encouraging news.
Helen, Chávez’s wife, gets some inter-esting scenes (including one in which she flips to mom-with-baseball-bat mode) but only a few more lines than
Huerta.Only the rich white man character
(whose name doesn’t matter) gets extra helpings of complexity.
Played by John Malkovich, the character is himself an immigrant who employs a Mexican maid in his home, and who acknowledges that Chávez’s strategic ability surpasses that of his own college-educated son.
The dearth of complexity in the film wasn’t due to lack of source material. Miriam Pawel’s unauthorized biography “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” de-scribes the labor leader’s life, including his early childhood in Yuma.
According to Pawel, Chávez’s mother “instilled in her children the impor-tance of helping others and the need for personal sacrifice... She quoted dichos, or sayings, about not fighting and told them to just walk away from conflict.”
During meals, Chávez’s mother even went so far as to “cut food in equal
portions for the children; if someone complained they got the small piece, she took the food away from all.”
It’s clear that Chávez’s mother in-spired his thoughts on self-sacrifice and policy of non-violent protest, yet she is not present in the movie.
There was also a dictatorial side to Chávez that was only lightly touched upon in the film. Pawel wrote of an incident in which Chávez had “berated Huerta in public for the first time, ostensibly for her failures as a book-keeper. He had planned the confronta-tion...”
According to Pawel, Chávez said, “I run the show and I don’t give a damn what you think or anyone thinks. I’m gonna run it the way I want to run it, and you don’t like it, too bad. Get out!”
Overall, the film is a decent introduc-tion to César Chávez’s work. However, the labor organizer’s real life probably contains too many interesting details to contain in one movie.
Netflix has been known to be a great source for mov-ies of different genres: from comedy to horror, it has it all. Most recently, it has been a useful asset to people who want to catch up on or just begin watching popular TV shows.
TV hits such as Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy and the critically acclaimed The Walking Dead can be found on Netflix for a number of seasons. The whole series of Breaking Bad is currently available to viewers, now that the show has reached its end.
Netflix’s acquisition of TV shows from cable has giv-en the company a boost on creating their own works, available only to Netflix customers. It produced some
intriguing series such as House Of Cards, Orange Is The New Black and Hemlock Grove.
These shows have a huge number of viewers, who can tune in anytime they want. Netflix has made their shows’ season episodes available immediately for online viewing. Viewers won’t have to wait each week for epi-sodes to be released.
There’s also a number of Netflix original stand-up comedies and TV series for kids available. Netflix is working on adding more shows.
A couple of Delta College students who are also Netflix subscribers shared their views on the company’s original shows.
“I like to watch my TV series continuously and not wait week after week, and Hemlock Grove on Netflix is
definitely an underrated show and more people need to get into it,” said Marcus Shen.
Rachel Sorensen said, “Netflix is more for TV shows than movies these days but it still has some good mov-ies, the original shows are surprisingly addicting and I would recommend it to people.”
Viewers will just have to wait while Netflix grows their TV show environment.
entertainment
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Winter has come for ‘Thrones’ fansby chris howze [email protected]
Issue 12 • April 11, 2014 • deltacollegian.net9 entertainmentShow endings leave viewers disappointed
On March 31, the popular television show “How I Met Your Mother” came to what fans are calling another controversial end to a hit show.
Show runners have a habit of getting people to enjoy a show, run it for the better part of a decade, then when the finale ar-rives, run it off a cliff to the point of no return and leave wor-shipers speechless.
When “How I Met Your Mother” ended, the creators believed they were giving the fairy tale ending viewers wanted.
However, the majority of fans gave it a thumbs down. Thousands rushed to their computers or smartphones to voice angered opinions, as tragic flashbacks of the series finale of “Seinfeld” rang in their head.
That iconic show ended with Jerry Seinfeld and his friends locked up in jail as their karma came back to bite them. View-ers of “How I Met Your Mother” likely thought to themselves: Please, not this again.
“How I Met Your Mother” and “Seinfeld” aren’t the only shows to leave fans disappointed.
The ending of “The Sopranos” literally left people in the dark as the screen went black and the show ended.
There’s still debate on the ultimate fate of the characters of
“Lost.” For anyone that’s curious of how that one ended, they can just look at the title.
Then there’s “Dexter,” in which the charming murderer inex-plicably started a new life and left all the bloodshed behind, with no comeuppance for his crimes.
Not all show endings disappointed their followers.Shows such as “The Wire,” “Friday Night Lights,” “30 Rock,”
and “West Wing” had solid series finales. Most recently, the wildly popular “Breaking Bad” was able to
surprise their viewers and deliver a solid ending. These series’ were able to do what those aforementioned black
eyes weren’t: give the fans what they deserve and answer linger-ing questions with an ending that made sense.
Some writers may try to make a series finale more emotional or psychological than is required. Considering how sewed into a show most viewers are, the ending is going to be emotional no matter what.
Shows like Dexter are built with in-depth thought. But such depth isn’t needed in an ending: just give the last farewell and close it.
Fortunately or unfortunately, as long as there is television, there will be television shows that we love—and when it’s time to say goodbye, show creators might say it in a way that doesn’t make sense.
by robert juarez [email protected]
Fire, ice, blood, betrayal, incest, drag-ons, giant wolves and one blonde dwarf.
HBO’s top-ranked series “Game of Thrones” returned last Sunday with its season four premier. So many people watched at once that it crashed the servers to HBO’s web-browsing service HBO-GO.
Based on George R. R. Martin’s dark fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire, “Game of Thrones” revolves around seven family houses and their power struggle for the Iron Throne. Whatever house holds the Throne has all the power; so ensues an endless string of betrayals, deaths and dark secrets coming to light.
As a long-standing narrative, the series is an anomaly of success. With more than two dozen central characters, some separated by hundreds of miles, the show constantly shifts settings. Because of this, one can’t simply watch a random episode and hope to understand anything.
It is also one of the most violent and adult shows I’ve ever watched. There are sequences that are flat-out disturbing, yet the show still destroys ratings records.
One reason the show draws such a wide audience is that there is no central character, or at least not anymore.
Also, the series has an equal-opportu-nity approach to madmen and martyrs.
Each house is treated as a human:
there’s good and evil within each of them. No single family is completely villainized, for as depraved as most of the Lannis-ter house is, it still has fan-favorites like Jaime and Tyrion. For as noble as the
Starks are, they still have difficult-to-like characters such as Caitlyn.
Another ap-peal of the series is its scale: I can’t think of another show that was able to match Hollywood in terms of production. Each season is only 10 episodes: one can un-derstand why upon watching the show and seeing how expensive it looks.
Dragons setting fire to towns, an army of frozen walking corpses, a castle set at the base of an 800-foot wall of ice, and wolves the size of Volkswagon Bee-tles are peppered generously throughout.
People who haven’t been caught in the show’s pop culture vacuum may be surprised to learn how much it has invaded all avenues of entertainment.
Not one day goes by where I don’t see something referencing the series. It’s taken over a large portion of the Inter-net meme community, with lines and phrases being used outside of normal conversation. People wear T-shirts with their favorite house’s sigil.
Once you go to Disneyland and see a T-shirt depicting Elsa from “Frozen,” sitting on the Iron Throne, you know ubiquity has been achieved.
The upcoming season of the massively popular FX show “Ameri-can Horror Story” will be subtitled “Freakshow.” The co- creator of the show Ryan Murphy revealed the new title via Twitter last month.
The Show is unique considering that each season is it’s own self-con-tained story, taking place at different time periods and settings, and ex-plores a different theme each time.
Season one was “Murder House” and you guessed it took place at a haunted house with infidelity being the under-current.
Season two was “Asylum” and was a meditation on the perspectives of san-ity and insanity set in a mental ward in the 1960’s.
Season three, “Coven” dealt with a centuries old feud between witches in Voodoo practitioners set in the back-drop of New Orleans and had a whole female empowerment vibe going for it without losing any of its edge.
Most of the principle cast returns
each season, except playing new char-acters.
Jessica Lange, Emma Roberts, Dylan McDermott, and Kathy Bates were just a few names filling the previ-ous seasons with Michael Chiklis from “The Shield” will join the unique ensemble for season four.
“Freakshow” will mark the final season for Jes-sica Lange, who has been with the show since the very beginning.
She will be playing a German carnival manager in 1950’s Jupiter, Florida, who col-lects freaks at one of the last running freakshows, in the
time when such an attraction was coming to an end.
For a series that has featured ghosts, aliens, reanimated corpses, and human voodoo dolls, there’s a lot of potential this season for some truly creepy images like Bearded Ladies, Siamese Twins and other oddities.
One can only hope that the show runners can keep up the momentum and deliver another fantastic season.
Horror story fans are eager to watch new episodes that will leave them wanting moreby diane [email protected]
One year after serving a postseason academic ban for bad grades, and being kicked out of the Big East conference. The Connecticut Huskies were the last ones laughing as they won the National Championship over the Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 on April 7.
Shabazz Napier, one of the few to stick around through the fire storm, kneeled down at mid court as the buzzer sounded, and had tears in his eyes while cut-ting down the net.
The Huskies led from start to finish, leading by as much as 15 points in the first half.
The wildcats made a rally to cut the lead down to one in the second half, as Aaron Harrison, who had been making clutch 3-pointers, for the Wildcats missed
a 3 from the right corner that would of gave Kentucky the lead, UConn capitalized after the miss and were able to pull away for good.
A big stat that will haunt UK over the off-season is the eleven missed free throws. Kentucky finished 13-24 from the line, while UConn went 10-10. The last two sealing the win with 25.1 seconds left.
The (7) seeded Huskies won the programs fourth na-tional title since 1999. Other titles in 2004 and 2011, the team was also the lowest seed to win the national title since Villanova (8) seeded team in 1985.
Napier, who was a backup to Kemba Walker on the 2011 championship team, finished with 22 points, six rebounds and three assist, he was helped out by Ryan Boatright, who had 14 points and was able to put a clamp down on Kentucky’s freshman Andrew Harrison.
Kentucky was led by James Young who had 20
points, with seven rebounds. Young who also had the biggest highlight of the game, with a monster dunk to start a three-point play and ignite a 8-0 run for the Wildcats.
Kentucky, a team filled with five Freshman starters will now lead in to the off-season with questions on who will return to, if any next year. Julius Randle (10 points, six rebounds) is considered a lottery pick, while twin brothers Aaron and Andrew are considered late first round pick.
If the men's victory wasn't special enough, the women's team ( 40-0) set off another night of celebra-tion with a 79-58 victory over Notre Dame (37-1) for their ninth title on April 8.
These 2 victories for the UConn Huskies are the first sweep of both titles since 2004, when they were the last teams to do it.
Delta takes it to the track
by jermaine [email protected]
NCAA Championship titles, sweep for Connecticut Huskies
During Mustang invitational heptathlon/decathlon
by richard [email protected]
Issue 12 • April 11, 2014 • deltacollegian.net10 sports
The Delta College Track & Field team recently held the Mustang Invitational Heptathlon/De-cathlon event April 3-4, on campus at the Law-rence DeRicco Track.
This two-day event included Track & Field runners from Chico State, Humboldt State, Modesto Junior College and a number of runners with no school affiliation.
On the first day of the event, Track & Field spectators had the chance of witnessing athletes take part in the 100-yard dash, long jump, shot-put, high Jump and 400m.
The second day, the competitions consisted of the 110 hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500m.
For athletes who participate in the Decathlon event they must be involved in all 10 events, as opposed to single event runners.
“The Decathlon is what I train for and I’ve been really improving a lot,” said sophomore Travis Turner.
Competing in a Heptathlon/Decathlon event can be challenging and requires hours of training.
The Mustangs train for 4-5 hours on the track M-W-F and take part in weight training for 2-3 hours on Tuesday & Thursday.
By training for multiple hours, five days a week, the Mustangs have an opportunity to correct any noticeable mistakes in form and performance before the team’s next competition.
“I’m usually on the track for about four hours, working on my jumps and hurdles,” said freshman Dwayne Lee.
Members of Delta’s Track & Field team, value the advice given to them from the coaching staff, as these athletes move forward during the season.
“I don’t believe I’ve done as much work on my technique as I’ve done since working with Coach Bond… He’s the most fundamental coach I know,” Lee added.
Long/Triple Jump Coach Lester Bond is someone that has a lot of experience and knowledge to share with members of Track & Field team.
As a member of the San Jose State Track & Field team from 1961-1965, he became the first African-American Captain of a SJS Track & Field
team. In 1964 Coach Lester Bond was selected to the
same year was selected to compete in the Long/Triple Jump USA Olympic Trials competition.
If there’s anyone that can prepare Track & Field athletes for a long enduring season full of aches and pains, it’s this guy.
“In order to execute an effective Long Jump is believing you have the will to do it,” said Long/Triple Jump Coach Lest Bond. “It requires the most muscle effort of all the event,” he added.
Delta's next competition on campus is the Raydell Barkley Invitational on April 18 from 9am - 5pm.
Track athlete juggles responsibilities
College life can be over-whelming.
For Delta College track and field athlete, Chelscie Pacheco college life is stress-ful and demanding.
Pacheco balances school, work and track throughout her life. She is well disci-plined and works hard to reach her goals.
“Sleep is a huge thing, so I always make sure I get at least six or seven hours of sleep,” Pacheco said.
The norm for Pacheco is a high-paced life with little time to relax. Her hectic week includes school and practice. Her weekend in-cludes long shifts at Holly-wood Café in Lodi.
Pacheco has worked there for over a year now and she’s able to request days off to make it to the meets. Before she had to miss Saturday meets for work.
Pacheco said track has made her disciplined.
Track athletes also have to turn in progress reports before boarding the bus on Saturdays for meets.
The athletes have meets every Friday or Saturday, later in the season they also have Tuesday or Thursday meets.
Overall Pacheco benefits from being a student athlete. She said one of the reasons she’s had such a wonderful experience at Delta is because of track.
She enjoys the atmosphere of track. “I just love the sport of track and field, like I’m seriously
obsessed with it,” Pacheco said. “I just like how there’s an event for everyone.”
Pacheco’s runs the 1500m, 800m, 5k, and her main event in Track & Field is the 3,000m steeple.
“We’re all like a family like a huge family, I’ve made like really good friends on the team,” Pacheco said. “That’s like one reason why I’m glad I joined because I know, my experience at Delta wouldn’t be the same at all if I wasn’t on the track team," she added.
by monica [email protected]
PHOTO BY JERMAINE DAVIS
ON THE FIELD: Mustangs sophomore Travis Turner during the high jump event on April 3.
PHOTO BY MONICA GOMEZ
A red moon?What the worlds going to end?What is really a blood moon?Some students believe it to be just an-
other phase of the moon.“It actually reminds me of the harvest
moon,” Brena Hernandez said.Other students believe it to be some
kind of omen.“I think when there is a full blood
moon werepyres come out,” said James Shoemaker.
Shoemaker said werepyres are vampire werewolves.
On April 14 at 10:58 p.m the moon will be shaded differently, a shadow that gives off an uncanny color.
The effect will continue to project a different color on the moon overnight.
The blood moon also known as a lu-nar eclipse only occurs on a full moon. When the moon passes directly behind the earth. The effect happens when the moon, earth and sun are aligned exactly or very closely.
The length varies on the time depend-ing on the position of the moon this one is expected to last one hour 17 minutes and 48 seconds.
“This is a rare, but this won’t be the
only one there is supposed to be a series of four consecutive total eclipses occur-ring approximately six month intervals,” according to NASA.
Biblical references are sluing all over the world wide web.
“In four blood moons: Something is about to change,” Hagee, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Tex-as said according to Christianity Today.
Many people are starting to wonder is the world going to end all because of a verse in the Christian bible
"The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come," Joel 2:31
Beside the biblical references lunar eclipses are rare especially consecutive eclipses in a two year period.
The total eclipse of April 15, 2014, will be followed by another on Oct. 8, 2014, and another on April 4, 2015, and an-other on Sept. 28, 2015.
"The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the USA," said longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak.
A tetrad is a group or set of four.It has been a long time since a total
lunar eclipse has been visible from the United States. According to MacRobert, the last one took place on Dec. 11, 2011.
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by alexis [email protected]
The Delta College Fashion Club held their an-nual spring semester Nearly New Sale on April 4, in upper Danner.
Several designer brands and apparel for men, women & children were among many of the items on sale for students, faculty and staff to purchase.
This year, the accessories included a large collec-tion of men’s shoes, women’s health care products and fashion related books.
“The Nearly New Sale is fun and it’s challeng-ing at the same time,” said Fashion Club member Kasey Sneed. “It takes a lot of time setting up in the morning, but it gives you a peak into what it’s like to work in a retail environment,” she added.
Fashion Club members spend their time at the Nearly New Sale, making sure items are in place, customers are greeted kindly, and maintaining the retail store atmosphere.
The Nearly New Sale provides Fashion Club members with the experience of working at a fast pace, like what department store clerks deal with daily at retail stores.
Students who were in attendance at the Nearly New Sale, had a wonderful time exploring their options on which accessories to buy.
“I had a really good time today, I picked out a sick shirt that I wanted and got it,” said Delta student Ryan Camero.
Funds generated from the event go toward the Fashion Department’s fashion show on May 9.
Tickets are $30 and are available by calling (209) 954-5573 or stopping by the Fashion De-partment Shima 106.
Nearly new sale returnsby jermaine [email protected]
PHOTO BY JERMAINE DAVIS
BROWSING: Students and faculty browse through the clothing on display in search of anything that they may want from the nearly new sale hosted by the Fashion Club.
With recent changes on campus students and staff may have overlooked one of the far simpler ones, Delta Police Depart-ment (P.D.) has received four new fully electric carts, and two trikes to patrol campus as part of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution District Grant. The grant allows for organizations to purchase electric vehicles as long as they reduce the amount of carbon emissions.
The grant covers for the cost of the vehicle however anything such as helmets or emblems must be covered by the agency.
Delta Police Department used the grant to obtain four carts, which cost $42,293 as well as 2 trikkes that cost a total of $11,586. They also obtained a cart for the IT department as well as auxil-iary services. Although Delta Police Department is looking to use the grant again to obtain other vehicles which are also electric.
“If they work well we will look into getting more of the same type of vehicles” stated Sergeant Robert DiPiero during an in-terview.
DiPiero also mentioned that the grant has a limitation on how much it will spend before the organization becomes re-sponsible for the difference in cost. The process works by the organization simply applying for it. Once their application is approved they purchase the vehicles and provide receipts, which the grant will reimburse them for the vehicle.
The grant is accessed through the San Joaquin Valley Air Pol-lution Control District (Valley Air District).
According to their website www.valleyair.org “The San Joa-quin Valley Air Pollution Control District is committed to im-proving the health and quality of life for all Valley residents through effective and cooperative air quality programs.”
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Students and staff that are new to campus do not know what to do, or where to go for an emer-gency. Emergencies can range from natural disaster to assault.
The most commonly heard emergencies that are reported are assaults and theft. According to the most recent copy of Delta Col-lege's “Clery Report” also known as the campus safety report.
With any emergency, you can contact campus police either by dialing (209)-954-5000 or by using a blue phone. Some stu-dents have asked, “What is a blue phone and where are they?”
There are 52 older modeled blue phones on campus.
The Science and Math Center building has in 11 newer mod-eled phones. The difference be-tween the old and the new is that the new phones are a two-way system. You can commu-nicate with police with just the push of a button, and the police can broadcast information out of the speaker.
“The older ones are located in front of almost every elevator on campus, and found on all the
pathways,” said Officer Susan McAnelly of the Delta College police department. “The old phones will be replaced with the new as the department receives allocated funds from the dis-trict,” stated McAnelly.
A difference between K-12 schools and San Joaquin Delta College, is that there are no fire-drills to practice evacuations. “The district [does] test the alarms regularly to make sure they work,” said McAnelly.
McAnelly went into detail about fires and other disasters, that all students and staff should consult the emergency plan that is inside of each classroom. The plan will contain information, such as which parking lot to evacuate to during a fire and how to stay safe during an earthquake.
McAnelly mentioned that campus police have a special wheelchair they can use to help evacuate people with disabilities from buildings in case of a fire and that they plan on purchas-ing more in the future.
When asked about being stuck in the quad during an earth-quake, McAnelly gave a tip not found in the emergency plan. “Stay away from things that fly
away. Stay away from Danner Hall's windows.”
If there is an active shooter on campus, it is important to fol-low three safety measures “run, fight or hide.” McAnelly ex-plained that if you cannot find a place to hide, try to run from the situation. If you cannot find a place to hide or run to, the last option is to fight.
There are more details in a training video about how to deal with an active shooter on campus. The video is shown in classrooms by the campus po-lice. You may also view it on the campus police website.
The website contains all the information found in the emer-gency preparedness plan in class-rooms, and also other informa-tion such as securing bicycles so they are not stolen, and safety tips on walking to your car.
Students and staff should re-member that the blue phones are not just for emergencies, but can be used to receive general campus information. McAnelly suggested that staff can and should go over the emergency plans with their students, so that they are better prepared for an emergency.
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What is also unique is that teachers are critiqued too.
Teachers teach two classes a day, and for the rest of the day they grade papers and visit other classrooms to observe fellow in-structors and collaborate.
This is different from the United States where teachers will seldom sit in at another teachers’ classroom to hear and critique their lecture.
In China, many students wear glasses. The theory, though not proven, is that the Chinese re-quire intensive studying by their students, much of which consists of memorization. In-dicating that due to the intense studying and reading their eye-sight becomes affected.
“Chinese schooling has only one aim; to get into college. It is memorization,” Pine said that a parent once complained.
Education consists of teachers practicing lessons and repeating them to the students. The student must write down every word and memorize it for examinations.
Often times, students will read and cite in unison. This is based on
ancient Chinese tradition for com-prehension and memorization. Pine refers to this as “rehearsed.”
She describes the U.S. educa-tional system as more “improv.”
Students will work in groups, and teachers will meet with groups while others work inde-pendently. This is what allows the teachers to move around.
Where as in China, students sit single file in rows and will never work in groups.
In the U.S. students are encour-aged to explore new ideas, offer in-sights on things and ask questions.
Pine concluded with an im-portant lesson: We can all learn something from each other.
From the U.S., it is to teach students how to develop opin-ions. From China, it is to teach students how to focus long and hard on studying.
Pine concluded with an im-portant lesson: We can all learn something from each other.
From the U.S., it is to teach students how to develop opin-ions. From China, it is to teach students how to focus long and hard on studying.
of test animals. Estrogen can also promote the growth of breast cancer tumors.
Yet according to Mike Denison, a professor of environmental toxicology at University of California, Davis who took part in one of the studies, the wider impacts on human health are "still pretty controversial," adding that he himself uses plastic food containers.
Still, the scientist cautions, "If you clearly know there are chemi-cals, and those chemicals are impacting hormone systems, then it's, I think, naive to ignore it and say 'well, it's not gonna do anything.’ “
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CHEMICALS AFFECTS ON THE BODY: Plastic cups may con-tain chemicals that could create affects similar to estrogen.
