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The student voice of Los Angeles City College since 1929Wednesday November 20, 2013 Volume 171 Number 5
CollegianLos Angeles
11:20 a.m. AIR FORCE ONE DEPARTS FOR DALLAS
Air Force One, with the presidential couple aboard, departs Carswell Air Force Base for the short fl ight to Dallas.
11:38 a.m.AIR FORCE ONE LANDS
Air Force One lands at Love Field.
11:44 a.m. KENNEDYS DISEMBARK AIR FORCE ONE
President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, Texas Governor Connally and Mrs. Connally disembark Air Force One.
11:46 a.m. KENNEDYS GREET THE CROWDS
President and Mrs. Kennedy bypass scheduled plans and approach welcoming crowds at fence line of Love Field.
Over 2,500 people had turned out to greet the Kennedys.
11:52 a.m. MOTORCADE LEAVES LOVE
FIELDThe motorcade departs
Love Field Airport, headed for the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart.
12:21 p.m.MOTORCADE TURNS ONTO MAIN STREETThe presidential limousine turns off Harwood onto Main Street in downtown Dallas.
12:27 p.m.MOTORCADE PASSES ADOLPHUS HOTEL
Large crowds line Main Street in downtown Dallas near the Adolphus Hotel. Over 150,000 people lined the 10-mile motorcade route.
12:30 p.m.THE PRESIDENT IS SHOTPresident Kennedy and Governor Connally are shot in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
12:31 p.m.THE RACE TO PARKLANDThe presidential limousine races up Stemmons Freeway to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
12:36 p.m.ARRIVAL AT PARKLANDThe presidential limousine arrives at Parkland Hospital.
12:40 p.m.BREAKING THE NEWSThe CBS network interrupts TV soap opera, "As the World Turns" and Walter Cronkite announces to America the president has been shot.
1p.m.PARKLAND HOSPITAL DOCTORSDoctors pronounce President Kennedy dead while crowd gathers outside the hospital awaiting news.
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Theories onConspiracy
HOURS TO LIVE: NOV. 22, 1963
HOURS TO LIVE
Photo Courtesy http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewobject.pl?object=8977 Cecil W. StoughtonPresident John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was assassinated later in the day.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe Vice President was a Texas native, and could easily infl uence local law enforcement. Conspiracy experts theorize that LBJ feared he would be dropped from the Democratic ticket.
Three or four rogue CIA offi cers acting independently or on behalf of the mafi a, big oil, or even LBJ may have planned and executed the assassination.
Although little physical evidence for this theory exists, some believe a Secret Service offi cer’s gun was accidently deployed ending the life of JFK.
Enraged over countless U.S. attempts to overthrow and assassinate him, Castro had the motivation.
The two nations were on the verge of war, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was recently humiliated over having to back down following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
CIA
Secret Service
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Special Issue
Examining the Life, Politics, and Death of President John F. Kennedy, 50 Years Later
http://trcs.wikispaces.comFidel+Castro
Photo Courtesy WikipediaRussian Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Vienna, Austria in 1961.
Source: Ginger, Otis. "Whether it's CIA, Mafi a, LBJ or even aliens, JFK assassination conspiracy theories never die." New York Daily News, Nov. 17, 2013.
See JFK Page 4
By Jessica Brecker
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed Nov. 22, 1963, exactly 50 years ago this month. The Social Sciences Department of Los Angeles City College and the campus ob-served the fi ve-decades since JFK’s death with a three-day symposium in the Student Union during the fi rst week of No-
vember. Students from all over campus were invited to hear eyewitnesses to
the assassination and subsequent investigation discuss the 35th presi-dent’s time in offi ce, his death and ensuing controversies. Guest pre-senters included reporter Bob Huffaker, special investigator Dr. David Montague, and Parkland Hospital trauma room nurse Phyllis Hall.
LACC’s political science professor Joe Meyer interviewed Dallas Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone and took questions from the largely stu-dent audience. Boone found assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifl e on the sixth fl oor of the Texas School Book Depository.
Boone set the scene of that afternoon in Texas with a description of the political climate. He said Texas was heavily democratic, but there were two kinds of Democrats in 1963.
“Liberal Conservatives [tore] the Democratic Party of Texas to pieces,” Boone said. The 1960s presidential camp was fractured accord-
ing to Boone, and JFK could not win the support of the people unless he went to Texas to heal the wounds of the Democratic Party. The John Birch Society, an extremist conservative group, was also causing friction between liberals and conservatives.
“We didn’t have any responsibilities for the motorcade,” said Boone as he described why he was off duty that day. “My area was the downtown Dallas area. We didn’t have any reason for parade security of any kind.”
But Boone was there and he saw and heard shots fi red. The president had already spoken to the Chamber of Congress that
drizzly, rainy morning. When the motorcade set out later, the weather had changed and it became a beautiful sunny day.
“He ordered the Plexiglas taken off the presidential vehicle,” Boone said, “because [Kennedy] felt it would interfere.”
Dressed in plain clothes, the Dallas sheriff blended into the crowd of several hundred people.
“Yes, I heard the shot. I was about 25 feet from Houston Street when I heard the shot,” Boone said.
When Professor Meyer asked how many shots were fi red, Boone answered without hesitation.
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Election Results: 1960
Source: Education Department, JFK Presidential Library and Museum
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Getting a higher education has not always been as easy to obtain as it is today, yet we take it for granted. We come to class without doing our homework or advancing in our readings;; we skip classes, are dis-ruptive in the classrooms, or a lot of us drop out before the end of the se-mester. We do not put enough effort into our education as we should.
Before there was an oppor-tunity to choose from a myriad of colleges, many students, particu-larly students of color, were denied admission to a number of schools. It wasn’t until after the court case
in which two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, had been blocked from en-tering the University of Alabama because of their race that John F. Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, allowing them to be admitted to the university.
Kennedy’s actions opened the door to all students, giving them an opportunity to receive a higher education at schools previously reserved for a limited population. That opportunity is still available today and results in better jobs,
and in politics, and a generally more prominent place at the table.
These opportunities to attend college are met with new challeng-es in today’s modern world. Sadly, a great number of students drop out of college for a variety of reasons such
school, family, or work. Despite the obstacles we en-
counter or the temptation to drop out, let’s keep in mind that it is a privilege to receive a higher educa-tion, a right that comes from that Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the many brave actions taken to make
it law. College is always going to be challenging because we’re always learning information we have not seen or heard before, but that’s why we decided to attend college in the
-cated.
If you’re struggling in a class, seek the help of tutors that are pro-vided here at Los Angeles City Col-lege, like the Writing Laboratory for those struggling with writing skills located in Jefferson Hall or the Pi Shop for math students located in Franklin Hall. Both students and faculty are available there and are
willing to help. Not only that, pro-fessors also provide us with their of-
taking so that we can go to them for assistance. Financial aid and child care assistance are available as well.
Kennedy’s decision to propose the act became a stepping stone for every student in America to get a college degree, whether associate’s, bachelor’s master’s, or even a doc-torate. College is where we can all learn and develop our skills, so let’s not give up. Let’s meet the chal-lenges and use the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to realize our full potential.
Don’t Let College Go to Waste
November 22, 1963. While riding through the streets of downtown Dal-las, in his presi-dential motor-
cade, John F. Kennedy is shot and killed. Many people believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. Was he?
On Nov. 4-6, 2013, a three-day
symposium was held at Los Ange-les City College, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death. On the second day a debate was held to determine if Oswald had acted alone or if there was a conspiracy. The overwhelming majority of those who participated believed there was a conspiracy to kill the president.
The evidence for both views is compelling. However, I have al-ways believed that one man could not have acted on his own. In order
to do what many claim Oswald did alone requires much planning and preparation. It is a task, I believe, much too big for one person to car-ry out by himself.
According to witnesses, three shots, some say four, rang out on that fateful day in Dallas. I can believe that Oswald may have had time to squeeze off one, maybe two shots, but not three or four. Not only is it highly improbable, it is highly unlikely. Therefore, the fa-tal shot, the one that struck Kenne-
dy in the head, and killed him, had to have come from a different loca-tion altogether. The grassy knoll, perhaps? Or another building, or even an expressway overpass? But
-las School Book Depository.
Unfortunately, the mystery of who actually shot John Kennedy (one person or several) will prob-ably never be resolved. Just as in the case of John Wilkes Booth, who killed Abraham Lincoln one week after the Civil War ended, both he and Oswald were gunned down. Booth was killed by a Union sol-dier, while he was trapped inside a
blazing barn, and Oswald by night-club owner Jack Ruby, while he was in the process of being trans-ported from Dallas Police Head-quarters to the local jail. Both men were silenced before either one had a chance to speak or have their day in court.
Today, the greatest crime of the 20th Century still has many un-answered questions, questions one person could have answered, but was silenced before he was able to. So, it is left up to us, the people, to decide who really killed Kennedy. Was it one man? Or was it a con-spiracy?
Who Killed Kennedy?
Illustration by Stephanie Bolhuis/Collegian
EDITORIAL
The educa-tion budget in California is a constant hot top-ic on the minds of educators.
With the increase in sales tax ear-lier this year, schools saw a little
-cit. This allotted the Los Angeles
School District $30 million, which they used to purchase iPads for ev-ery student.
Thanks to the passing of prop-osition 30 during the 2012 general election, sales tax has increased to nine percent, up three-quarters of a percent. This increase is sup-posedly going toward California’s education budget. The Los Angeles
that this money is to be used by
buying students iPads for learning. LAUSD’s decision is generating some strong opinions with half of them opposing this purchase and the other half in favor.
Back in elementary school I used textbooks for my classes. Sure they were worn, old and written in,
Using an iPad in classrooms is a big mistake. They are likely to be misused, stolen or broken. The cost
of maintenance and repair of iPads exceeds the cost to replacing an old textbook. Some may argue we have computers in classrooms so what's the difference. Well, mobility is the difference. Students can easily put an iPad in their backpack, a desk-top computer not so much. Offering students iPads also detaches their interest from the teacher who can offer hands-on experience and com-munication.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan believes this plan will save money. He also argues that it will
support student achievement. Tech-nology not only disrupts discus-sion and social interaction, but also enables students to decrease their physical activity level which can lead to obesity.
Instead of focusing on high-tech gadgets, LAUSD should fo-cus on educating students on the importance of physical education. They should also focus on making healthy foods and nutrition more accessible. iPads are a great gadget for personal use, but they don’t be-long in the classroom.
Generation Ruined by iPadsBy Tara Rumore
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Creating Balance Between Work and School
City Views
What was your overall impression of the JFK events?
Compiled by Clinton CameronPhotos by Jessica Brecker
Manar Ahamad - Nursing
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Josh Barnhart - English
David Feurtadot - Russian Studies/History
Julia Uribe - Business
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“Three. Three shots were fired,” Boone said.
As Boone said to Vincent Bu-gliosi in the 1988 television special,
“On Trial Lee Harvey Oswald,” he was in front of the sheriff’s office at 505 Main Street at 12:30 p.m. when he heard shots coming from the Texas School Book Depository Building and the freight yard. He headed to the freight yard first.
“I ran down Main Street and around the cement works, across this grassy area here, and then eventu-ally over the fence and cement abutment here, and into the freight yards,” said Boone back in 1988.
For the City College audience on Nov. 6, how-ever, Boone was more descriptive about what he saw in the grass on his way to the freight yard.
“I saw two people to my right were on the ground and I thought ‘there are two dead ones’,” Boone said. Soon though, he saw them began to move.
The grassy area Boone had to traverse to get to the freight yard would include the infamous grassy knoll, and he would have had to climb over the picket fence, touted by conspiracy theorists as the location of the additional shooters. Boone recalled cars being parked in the area just above the knoll and fence at this time.
“I did examine the flower bed and the foliage in this area,” Boone said, in 1988, and he reiterated that for the LACC audience. Both times he said he saw no footprints in any of the flower beds surrounding the knoll, nor did he see any evidence of gunpowder burns on the plants.
At the freight yard, Boone questioned Lee Bow-ers, a railway signal man in the railroad control tow-er. At the time Bowers said he did not hear shots or see anyone, even though he would later change his mind.
“As the search centered on the school book de-pository, it became a more organized search,” Boone said. The interior of the building was very dark, so Boone used his battery-powered flashlights and dry cell flashlights to see. Boone made his way up to the famous sixth floor.
“I just happened to be one of the officers,” Boone said, as he explained how he bumped right into the now famous sniper’s nest. “Oh yeah, we had to go over to take a look.”
Boone once again could not smell or see gun-powder. What he did see was two rows of boxes and a crevice that he said, “looked like someone had set it up beforehand.” In the crevice he saw a gun.
“There wasn’t any way for me to tell [if it had been fired],” Boone said. “It had a scope. I looked at the weapon. I never touched it. I looked at my watch and it was 1:22 p.m.”
It was at this time that Oswald, according to Boone, slipped by city police officers in the stairwell.
“Mr. [Roy S.] Truly said ‘he works here’ and they let him go,” Boone said. But later Truly, Os-wald’s employer, would find Oswald missing.
“I went to the sheriff’s office and made my re-port to the sheriff,” Boone said. “Everyone wants a statement, right now, so it was really chaotic in the sheriff’s office. I was kinda stunned. It was probably 10 at night before I left to go home.”
Oswald was ultimately arrested by another po-lice officer, James Leavelle, for fatally shooting Dal-las patrolman J.D. Tippitt. This happened 45 min-utes after killing Kennedy, a fact seldom discussed as
Oswald is most often associated with the president’s assassination.
Boone and Jack Ruby, Oswald’s eventual killer, had a past. Before he was deputy sheriff, Boone worked for the Dallas Times Herald in advertising. He was familiar with Ruby because he would buy ads for his Carousel nightclub.
“I knew Jack because he was one of my clients when I worked for the newspaper. He was always trying to get some gimmick or something unusual to get people to go to his club,” Boone said of the man who would shoot Oswald later that weekend. According to Boone, Ruby voted for Kennedy, and Boone feels he was capable of shooting Oswald.
“I believe that’s the way he thought,” said Boone, who also explained that Ruby, “hung around the fire department.” Boone saw Ruby as a legiti-mate businessman, even though he ran a strip club. Ruby, according to Boone, did not have prostitution or gambling at his club, nor was he a gangster.
Boone’s wife, Charmaine Boone, also knew what Ruby looked like.
“It looked like Jack Ruby shot Oswald,” said Charmaine, when she called Boone at work after viewing the Oswald shooting broadcast live on tele-vision.
Ruby was convicted of murder. He would later appeal, but he died of cancer in 1967.
“He was the kind of guy that you saw, but you didn’t see,” Boone said. “He’d go get a sandwich for ‘em, he just liked police officers, I think that’s how he got in [to city hall].”
Boone’s life was distinctly changed afterwards. “We were all afraid we’d have to move away
from Dallas,” said Boone. “I didn’t talk about this for the first 12 or 15 years. I’ve just really never talk-ed. We didn’t have the time to talk about it.”
Boone’s reasoning was that, at the time, it was not socially appropriate to talk about it. Life moved on. It’s possible that he grew tired of the conspiracy theories, some of which implicate him in a cover-up.
“No, I didn’t plant the rifle,” Boone said. “I didn’t touch it, I just found it.”
He also explained that, contrary to what many believe, only three shots were fired; three spent shells hit the floor.
“Deputy Moony found three shell cases on the floor,” said Boone.
Boone believes that the release of the Oliver Stone movie “JFK,” which came out in the 1990s, is the root of many of the theories claiming Oswald did not act alone.
“Oliver Stone made a big deal of a tree in front of the window [of the sniper’s nest in the book de-pository], Boone said, “there were only leaves over the windowpane then; 25 years later, the tree grew!”
However, Boone did mention that Secret Service men muscled in and took JFK from Parkland Hospi-tal in Dallas before the autopsy could be performed. He also questions Oswald’s behavior.
“From an investigative standpoint, Oswald de-nounced U.S. citizenship, lived in Russia, Mexico and New Orleans, yet all of a sudden the president is coming to Dallas and he’s moving books around in the school book depository?” Boone said. “If there was a conspiracy, it was to put him there. The only way to come through downtown was to make a right on Houston and a left on Elm, and the only way to get out was to get on the freeway.”
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The Day It Didn't Rain on the ParadeAssassination in America
Death of a President
Jessica Brecker/COLLEGIANPolitical science professor Joe Meyer, (right), leads a discussion with Dallas Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone, (left), who found the rifle used to shoot President John F. Kennedy from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Jorge Ponce/COLLEGIANMore than 100 students, faculty and community members gathered early in November for a special symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
By Jessica Brecker News reporter Dr. Bob Huffaker was
standing only a few feet away when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. It was an event millions of Americans watched live on CBS television as Huffaker broadcast from Dallas Police Headquarters.
Anthony Clark, associate professor of so-ciology at LACC, interviewed Huffaker for a unique, interactive three-day symposium fo-cused on the 50th anniversary of the JFK as-sassination.
Speaking to a crowd of students at the Student Union, Huffaker recalled that the day JFK was shot did start out gloomy when he first arrived on the field at 4:30 a.m., but that soon changed.
“As it turned out, it was a beautiful spring day in late November,” Huffaker said. “When the motorcade came by, it was sweet.”
Huffaker fondly remembers the “glittering dark blue limousine” the president rode in as the motorcade made its way through “tall buildings, like a canyon down there.” He also recalled that his own unmarked news van was “covered up by kids.” However, Huffaker somehow missed the events that transpired next, as he returned to the studio only to have his idealism shattered with the news of the attempt on the president’s life. He was told to head right back out to Parkland Hospital where the president had been rushed after he was shot.
Huffaker went into emotional shock, but he managed to function on his journalistic in-stincts. When he got to the hospital he found he couldn’t get to the emergency room through normal channels, so he jumped curbs to get back to the parking lot and found another en-trance.
“What was a wonderful welcome in down-town Dallas has become a scene of indescrib-able horror,” Huffaker broadcast over the radio. “Faces are ashen white and people are wonder-ing, is our president going to live?”
Huffaker remembers when attending phy-sician Dr. Charles Crenshaw pronounced the death of JFK.
“We are at Parkland Hospital, where the horrible announcement has just come … that our president is dead,” Huffaker said, obviously choked up over KRLD radio. Huffaker stayed on the beat though, and reported all he saw and heard.
But far more emotional than that broadcast was the one Huffaker made two days later in
the basement of the Dallas Courthouse, when Jack Ruby walked up to Oswald and shot him in the chest, in front of Huffaker, his cameras, and anyone who was tuned into CBS on their television sets.
“I watched what the police did that morn-ing,” said Huffaker of the carefully constructed security plan he witnessed. “I was shocked as anybody when Ruby lunged forward and shot Oswald.”
In retrospect Huffaker feels his film crew was partly to blame for the breach in security.
“Not one member of the Dallas Police De-partment would have wanted to make that a public transfer,” Huffaker said. “It was my job to shoot it, if we hadn’t have taken our shots, Jack Ruby couldn’t have taken his shot.”
However, if was not Huffaker, but patrol-man Roy Vaughn, who was guarding the en-trance when the decoy armored truck, which did not contain Oswald, exited and Jack Ruby walked in and shot Oswald. Vaughn, a traffic cop by trade, stepped out to direct traffic 50 sec-onds before the shot was fired.
“Yes it’s an improbability,” Huffaker said to the audience, “so was your birth, so was mine.”
Although Huffaker was only about 10 feet away, he said he did not see the shot because the blue Ford Fairlane which was the actual vehicle meant to transport Oswald to jail was backed into position a split second before the shot was fired. He did see Oswald grimace and grab his abdomen.
“I had a hot CBS mic,” Huffaker said, “talking about what I could say at a time like that, I had to keep saying what I was seeing.”
Huffaker continued the broadcast as Os-wald was taken away in an ambulance. To this day, he is adamant about one thing: “This was not a conspiracy; it might have been improb-able, but it was true.”
As the segment ended and they prepared to take questions from the audience, Huffaker noted the significance of being at LACC for the historic symposium about the assassination.
“The man who knows more about it than anyone I ever met is sitting beside me,” Huffak-er said of Professor Anthony Clark. Consider-ing Huffaker was there in Dallas, and reported bravely and professionally in a way few report-ers can, one can hardly think of a higher com-pliment to bestow on an LACC professor.
After speaking, Huffaker stayed behind and personally signed copies of When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963, his recollections of those three days the country will never forget.
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By Jessica Brecker
Students and faculty were on the edge of their seats as Los Angeles City College as journal-ism professor, Rhonda Guess led a lively discussion with Phyllis Hall R.N., who worked at Park-land Hospital, in Dallas Texas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day JFK was shot. “My name does not appear on any record,” Hall said. “This was my first job.” Hall had been working at Parkland Hospital for about four years the day the 35th president of the United States was to speak in Dallas. “It was very cold and rainy,” Hall said of that morning. She acknowledged that Dallas, at that time was not a very hospitable place for a Democrat to visit, but JFK was there to smooth the waters and make things better for his political party. Hall’s day started like any other, perhaps even slower than most days, but that would soon change.
“It was about 10:30 a.m. and I was looking out the window,” Hall said, “and the clouds just broke apart, and the sun just came through beautifully, and the sky was as blue as I have ever seen it.”
Hall says it was at this point that she noticed the presidential plane coming into Dallas Love Field. It was visible from the van-tage point of Parkland Hospital.
“I could see this airplane coming into view, I was about a city block away,” Hall said. “You could see the president’s insignia on the side.”
Hall was just about to leave for lunch when her supervisor spoke to her.
“There’s been an accident in the president’s motorcade, and they are on the way here,” Hall was told. But just as soon as the words left her supervisor’s lips, the doors to Trauma Room One exploded.
“There was lots of pandemo-nium and yelling and screaming for carts, ‘get out of the way,’” Hall said.
Normally carts were called for when a baby was being born in route to the hospital, but when Hall and her co-workers went out-side with the carts; they found the presidential limousine instead.
“It was like watching some-thing on television,” Hall said. “It wasn’t real to me.”
By Clinton Cameron
With so much vested in the digital age, it seems unlikely that Generation Y and Millennials would show any interest in hearing first-hand accounts of a president’s assassination 50 years ago.
The unlikely occurred between Nov. 5, and Nov. 8, at Los Angeles City College. Students in their 20s converged on the Student Union Build-ing’s third floor to engage in learning opportunities as speakers recounted theories and memories of the day JFK died.
For all the excitement, the Multipurpose Room was quiet and the 70 to 80 attendees were attentive on the second day of the three-day event. Fewer notes were taken by pen and pad than by iPads and other electronic devices.
Keegan King is an English major at LACC who attended the symposium Nov. 5. He was born in 1992, eight months after the Los Angeles upris-ing associated with the acquittal of the police of-ficers who were accused of beating Rodney King. His ninth birthday was a month and a week after 9/11. King believes there is a reason for his peer group’s specific interest in Kennedy’s assassination, as opposed to other historical events. He describes the events surrounding the assassination as a puzzle piece connecting two wars.
“My generation was born between two wars; the Cold War and the War Against Terrorism,” Keegan said.
He admits being motivated to attend the events strictly for the social experience, but says he also took the time to think of it in today’s context. Keegan has seen three presidents during his life-time. He recalls Bill Clinton’s presidency during his childhood, the George W. Bush years as a pre-teen and as a teenager, he watched Barack Obama as-sume the highest office in the nation. He imagines how he would react if a president during his lifetime met with the same fate as Kennedy.
“If it were Clinton, I don’t think I would have understood. If it were Obama I’d be shocked more than anything,” Keegan said.
Reneze Lopez is a chemistry major who was born in 1996. She attended the Kennedy sympo-sium with a friend, Francis Gomez. Gomez was born in 1996 and is majoring in history. They made their way to the Student Union Building to screen “Clouds over Cuba.”
Lopez was born in the Philippines and came here when her parents migrated to the United States in 2006.
As she recalls, her parents introduced Kennedy as an influential person when she was five or six years old. The name also came up in high school history class.
“I’ve always heard about him, but I never really knew who he was,” Lopez said. “And so I went [to the Clouds over Cuba screening] and saw that he was very influential, especially, I guess in the Cold War.”
Gomez’s parents met in 1982. His mother is from Guatemala and his father is from El Salvador. He says he became familiar with the idea of corrupt government power from stories he heard from his grandfather.
“My grandfather was, I think, in the secret police [in El Salvador]. I heard very high-powered people were assassinated,” Gomez said.
As far as conspiracy theories, Gomez is still on the fence, but doesn’t count anything out.
“It’s still something that’s unknown,” Gomez said. “We’re still trying to put the pieces together, because [of] how it happened and why it happened.”
Political Science major Loui Vasquez turned 19 this past June. Like Gomez, his parents were from Central America and migrated to the United States between the 1960s and ‘70s. He did not hear about the assassination from his parents, but another rela-tive talked about Kennedy with admiration.
“He just remembers that the community he was in, they were really surprised, because they believed he was going to be one of the local leaders that was going to change the atmosphere when it came to immigration.” Vasquez said.
The political science major attended the first day of the program, and gives credit to the profes-sors who brought classes to the event. He remarked that the classes brought a high level of energy to the room.
“It was definitely brought on by the professors that were there,” Vasquez said. “I saw some of the professors I had before. What they teach isn’t usu-ally correlated with the event.”
Days after the program, the discussions spilled over into another class for Vasquez. The assassina-tion became a topic in his cinema class.
“The Tuesday right after the event my cinema teacher showed clips of how JFK would talk and a debate with him and someone else.” Vasquez said. “It actually brought out emotion in class with peo-ple that are actually from that era that actually saw it.”
Despite their youth, members of Generation Y and Millennials can be vested in the idea that Kennedy’s assassination involved conspiracy and a cover-up.
Ana Sanchez is a 22-year old nursing major. Her primary interest for attending the event during the second day was to see if the nurse who was on duty when Kennedy’s body arrived at the hospital, supported any conspiracy theories.
“The nurse mentioned that it took 43 minutes for him to be announced dead when he had [come] in already in the hospital, dead,” Sanchez said “So what I asked was how was it that it took them 43 minutes to say ‘OK he is dead.’’’
Sanchez says that some of the information sup-ported conspiracy theories. She says there may have been a second or third shooter.
“According to them [the official government record] there was only one bullet, but for her [Phyl-lis Hall R.N.], she said there [were] two bullets and the second bullet was never photographed,” San-chez said. “It was funny because the man who had spoken before, they asked him the question, ‘did you ever see that second bullet?’ and he said it was brought up, but they just never brought it up to the public. So, that was really interesting. “
Sanchez said that seeing eyewitnesses was the most impressive part of the event.
“What I found fascinating was they brought people who were eyewitnesses and so it’s really cool to bring it up in the light,” she said, “so you’re not just in the dark and you don’t know about this stuff. So you’re kind of more educated about what hap-pened.”
In three days, a 20-something and younger au-dience connected to historical events interactively.
“I’m sure we talk about it in history class, but it wasn’t as interesting,” Sanchez said. “Now you’ve got witnesses that were there and then it makes you want to research more. ”
Jorge Ponce/COLLEGIANMore than 100 students, faculty and community members gathered early in November for a special symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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Hall first saw the mayor of Dallas enter the trauma room, followed by Vice President Lyn-don Johnson.
“He was so pale and sweaty that they thought he was having a heart attack,” Hall said. Gov-ernor [John] Connelly was so gravely wounded it’s a miracle he survived his wounds.”
Hall explained how a bul-let had gone through his lung, wrist, and thigh, causing profuse bleeding. Finally, Kennedy was wheeled in.
“Jackie Kennedy was laying across the president’s head and shoulders,” Hall said. “I felt for vital signs, detected no pulse. This president was, in my estimation, dead on arrival.
The first thing Hall noticed was a huge exit wound near JFK’s adam’s apple. Mrs. Kennedy re-fused to leave her husband’s side, holding onto the president’s foot with her left hand.
“The only thing I heard her say was, ‘no, I’m going to stay with him,’” Hall said.
It was at this point that Dr. Ken Clark, the head neurosur-geon began to examine the presi-dent, pulling the skin back from his head wound.
“It looked like someone had taken a couple of ice crème scoops and scooped his brain out,” Hall said.
She saw brain tissue all over Mrs. Kennedy and Gov. Connel-ly, and after 45 minutes of effort, the obvious became clear.
“OK, let’s just stop this,” Clark said, according to Hall.
And with that, the surgeon made his way toward the door, turned, and said to Mrs. Kennedy as he walked out of the trauma room: “Madame, your husband is dead.”
Hall looked at the first lady.“She was probably in the
deepest state of shock I have ever seen anybody in,’ she said.
Other recollections for Hall on the day JFK died include memories of feet shuffling and the sounds of cursing and argu-ing between the Dallas FBI and Federal Secret Service men in the hallway outside the trauma room. The agency personnel could not agree on who should stay with the president’s body. Hall left the trauma room at this point, as her superiors stayed to clean up.
JFK’s body was then re-moved from the hospital, placed aboard Air Force One, and taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
“With the massive brain in-jury there was just nothing we could do,” Hall said. “There was just too much damage there.”
At this point, professor Guess asked Hall if she accepts all the explanations the govern-ment has offered, and Hall an-swered with a prompt “No.” The audience applauded as the nurse admitted, she is a “conspiracy theorist.”
“The nurses that were work-ing there started getting threat-ening letters,” Hall said. “I got a letter, I don’t know why because nobody knew that I was even in-volved in that.” She also indicat-ed that the body did not arrive at Bethesda in the same condition that Parkland Hospital had left it. It had been tampered with ac-cording to Hall. There was a $10 fine for illegally taking the body before an autopsy could be per-formed in Dallas.
“The signal Nurses that were working that day, there were four or five of them, they left the state within three months because they were very frightened of the aftermath that happened, so no I haven’t spoken to anybody [about it],” Hall said. “But about three years ago my niece went down to the Sixth Floor Museum and she spilled the beans on me. The museum called me, and now I just talk about everything.”
Recollections of a Trauma Room Nurse: ‘It Wasn’t Real to Me’
Photo Courtesy Gegham Khekoyan Phyllis Hall, R.N.
Generation Y, Millennials Embrace Kennedy Legacy
“My generation was born between two wars; the Cold War and the War Against Terrorism.”
—Keegan King, English Major
“It’s still something that’s un-known. We’re still trying to put the pieces together, because [of] how it happened and why it happened.”
—Francis Gomez, History Major
“I’ve always heard about him, but I never really knew who he was, and so I went [to the Clouds over Cuba screening] and saw that he was very influential, especially, I guess in the Cold War.”
—Reneze Lopez, History Major
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By Richard Chang
Three veteran comedy writers gave students a rare peek inside the Hollywood machine in Octo-ber, when the LACC Foundation sponsored a panel on the enter-tainment industry.
Alan Zweibel, Jay Kogen and Arnie Kogen delivered advice and anecdotes that were as funny as they were forthcoming.
With the weight of eight com-
bined Emmys among the three men and credits that include “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Simpsons,” “Saturday Night Live,” “David Letterman,” “Frasier,” “Mad TV” and countless other programs, the panel fi elded questions on top-ics ranging from practical writing advice, to how to network in Hol-lywood, to what to do on stage if a joke bombs.
Arnie Kogen delivered most
of the noteworthy one-liners dur-ing the evening. Kogen began his comedy writing career with Mad Magazine before moving on to shows such as “Newhart,” “Emp-ty Nest” and “The Carol Burnett Show.” Besides being nominated for seven Emmys (winning three), one of Arnie’s greatest accom-plishments was raising his son, Jay Kogen, an industry kid that grew up watching his dad write for television and decided he wanted
to follow in his father’s footsteps, sort of. Jay initially pursued act-ing before, admittedly, discovering he wasn’t very good and turned to comedy writing. He wrote spec scripts for Gary Shandling, which got him a job writing a sketch for Tracy Ullman, which got him his big break – writing for “The Simp-sons.”
Jay was encouraging through-out the evening, but he warned students of the harsh realities that
Producers, Writers Show Students Entertaiment Ropes
come with pursuing a career in the entertainment industry.
“You’re going into a fi eld where 98 percent of the time you’re told, No!”Jay said. “But keep your eye on whatever your goal is and eventually you’ll get a break.” He also offered practical advice to get a job as a writer’s assistant for hands-on work experience.
Where Jay offered insight on writing for a living, the third pan-elist, Alan Zweibel, gave straight talk to the artist within each of the audience member.
“Hone your craft,” Zweibel said. “Writers are born, they aren’t made.”
Zweibel began his career at the bottom and worked his way up. He performed bad stand-up comedy routines hoping someone would recognize the quality of his mate-rial over his lackluster stage pres-ence. Someone did – Lorne Mi-chaels. Zweibel was hired as one of the original writers for "Saturday Night Live" and has been a work-ing comedy writer ever since. He’s written books, movies, contributed to Broadway shows and is credited on his friend Larry David’s HBO show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
“Friends are good to have, be-cause when you’re working long hours on a creative project, who do you wanna be with at two o’clock in the morning?”
Friends are good to have for another reason: networking. In an industry with such a high bar for entry, who you know can be just as important as what you know.
“One of the biggest advantag-es of being at LACC is that the stu-dents are in the midst of the enter-tainment business throughout the year, which is an enormous advan-tage over students who are study-ing at schools outside of L.A. or
California,” said Robert Schwartz, Executive Director of the LACC Foundation. “The aspect of creat-ing networks and being present at all that L.A. offers in the way of networking opportunities cannot be understated. The students just need to take advantage of these opportunities as relationships can often make the difference between success and failure.”
Panels like the one that brought these three writers to LACC are designed to entertain and inform students about what the professional world is really like.
“It is intended to provide some insight as to how, on a prac-tical basis, to launch one's career and to move it forward as this is not generally offered as part of coursework at any college or uni-versity,” Schwartz said.
After an hour or so of round-robin questions and answers from the host, the panel began fi eld-ing questions from the audience. Many students used it as an op-portunity to plug themselves and their projects. Some asked for jobs, or offered their screenplays to the panel for notes, but the recurring question from audience members seemed to revolve around one ubiquitous hurdle: taking the next step.
The next step was never made clear. If it exists at all, based on the insight from the panel, the next step seems a sort of mishmash of hard work, thick skin and luck.
“The most important thing that we try to explain is that the re-ality of the entertainment business is that everyone will experience some form of rejection and/or failure, but that persistence, focus, and talent will lead to some level of success,” Schwartz said.
By Jessica Brecker
Native plant expert, John Uloth, lives as a houseguest on the Lloyd Wright compound in Malibu. He literally watches Cen-tury Plants bloom and fall. Uloth has seen them send up their huge center stalk at alarming rates right before his eyes and has ob-served the plants as they dry up and plummet to the ground, dead.
The landscape of the beauti-ful and unique compound in Mal-ibu is the creation of Eric Lloyd Wright. Uloth has been working for Wright and his son Devon for 13 years landscaping and house sitting.
“I’m just playing around with native plants in their planters,” Uloth said.
A few weeks ago students may have noticed our own wilt-ed Agave type plant in front of Camino Theatre start to lean over, and maybe wondered if the poor plant needed a little water. The plant then made a mysterious and quiet disappearance. The my-thology surrounding its birth and death has already started.
“To be honest, I don't have a clue [about the plant’s origins],” said photo-journalism professor, Joe Dojcsak. “However, thinking backward about who might have known, I'm almost positive the late Barbara Joe Hoshizaki, pro-fessor of biological science, clear-ly identifi ed the plant, put a label on it as she did with all plants throughout the entire campus, and may have planted it.”
It is indeed possible that she did.
“Barbara Hoshizaki spent most of her non-class time iden-tifying and cataloging,” said Ren Colantoni, director of academic computing, as quoted in the April 12, 1999 issue of The Collegian.
In the article, “Destroyed Plants to be Replaced,” LACC journalist April Ingram expands on the extent of Hoshizaki's in-volvement with campus plant life.
“She brought many exotics in here--perhaps several hundred ex-otic and rare trees and plants you won’t fi nd anywhere else in the city,” Colantoni said.
Unfortunately Hoshizaki re-tired in 1988. After she retired LACC’s interest in botany waned and the school’s greenhouse was left to rot. Now it is gone.
On the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture’s website, the Century Plant is formally called Agave americana L. from the family Agavaceae. It’s a perenni-al--a plant that lives for more than two years.
“The reason why they called it the Century Plant is because it was wrongly believed it lived up to 100 years,” said professor of life science, Sean Phommasaysy.
The plant thrives in inhospi-table environments, conserving all of its energy and nutrients until one day when it sends up a big central stalk topped by dozens of fl owers. Once the stalk is sent out, there is an extremely fast rate of growth. The Century Plant has been known to grow 17 feet and higher.
“They grow where nothing else does,” Uloth said. “They are a monster, awesome!”
Dan Marlos, head of the pho-tography and journalism depart-ments, captured the plant in its full glory, and Danni Connor, a Photo 1 student, documented the fall of the Century Plant with her camera (see photos and captions).
“Patty Schmolze, a retired faculty member from the Child Development department, men-tioned to me that the Collegian should do an article on the Cen-tury Plant,” Marlos said. “I used the opportunity to demonstrate the use of a 4 x 5 view camera to my students, by photographing the Century Plant.”
In the Marlos photos the stalk looms all the way up and over the roof of the theater build-ing. It looks like an asparagus stalk fi t for giants.
Eattheweeds.com is a web-site dedicated to the edibility of plants. Depending on climate, it can take the plant from 10 to 60 years to bloom according to their website.
“The Century Plant’s leaves are used by the Sonoran Des-ert’s Indians who used its fi ber for rope, ate its roasted pineapple
center, and probably brought it north to Arizona,” Uloth said. “It’s pollinated by hummingbirds and bees.”
Eattheweeds.com offers sug-gestions on how to consume the plant. The fl ower stalk and heart of the Century Plant can be roast-ed, and the seeds ground into fl our for bread or soups. Even a beer-like drink can be made from its sap, and what health nut hasn’t heard of Agave sweetener? How-ever eattheweeds.com suggests not to drink the juice raw and to con-sult with an expert prior to pre-paring the plant for consumption to avoid illness.
Perhaps the key to under-standing why this plant is so tasty
and nutritious is the fact that it spends years, even decades, build-ing up a storage of nutrients so it can send up its huge stalk. After the fl owers bloom, all its energy is spent, and then it dies.
But that is not the end of its story.
“It might not be dead,” Uloth said. He says to look for a “pin-cushion-like thing,” or anything that looks like a dead celery stalk with smaller green shoots coming up right next to it. “It makes a fl at seed that looks like a large tick.”
Found at the site were dried fl owers and fl at seeds that did re-semble fl at ticks. Professor Phom-masaysy confi rmed that these were indeed from the dead plant
and sure enough, right next to where the dead stalk of the plant is, are several shoots and a large “pincushion” like foliage.
“Is human-assisted suicide for plants an ethical issue?” wondered environmental world history pro-fessor Glenn Britton.
What about the plant’s civil liberties for that matter?
“A lot of the plants have dis-appeared since I attended campus in 1999,” said Ingram, who still at-tends LACC part time. Presently, Ingram walks around the quad and laments the loss of some rose-mary and lavender plants she re-calls fondly, as well as some tall birds of paradise plants she re-members residing next to the ad-
ministration offi ce. “It seems like plants have not
been a priority over the last few years,” Ingram said. “The bushes keep getting shorter, sparser.”
Ingram seems to recall a lush-er and greener campus, but real-izes it is fall now, and some plants may be out of season. She also un-derstands the Century Plant does wilt and die on its own, and con-fi rms that after the initial growth and fl owering of the stalk dries up the plant loses its beauty.
So the myth continues. But one thing is for certain, the Cen-tury Plant has left its mark on his-tory at LACC, and we can look forward to another one, although we may have to wait a few decade
Plant of the Century
Sepia Photo Courtesy of Dan Marlos Agave americana L., better known as the Century Plant towers over the Theatre Academy Building in an image of the wilting succulent, captured in early October.
Photo by Danni ConnerSantiago Gonzalez, a campus gardner, chops down the Century Plant in early October. The stalk presented a potential hazard, because it would have eventually fallen over.
Beatrice Alcala/COLLEGIAN Comedy veterans shared laughs and important information with students interested in the entertainment industry last month in the Caminito Theatre. (Left to right) Producer Jay Kogen and his father Arnie are each three-time winners of primetime Emmys. Producer-writer Alan Zweibel began working on Saturday Night Live in1975, and is also a three-time Emmy winner."Simpsons" image courtesy of todoseriesok.blogspot.com; "Curb Your Enthusiasm" image courtesy of Mark McLaughlin; "Saturday Night Live" photo courtesy of Google Images.
ScholarshipsLos Angeles | COLLEGIAN
Wednesday November 20, 2013
Jessica Brecker/ COLLEGIANCesar Franco (left), and Gary B. (right) were among the many students lined up in front of the Financial Aid Office in early November on a Monday morning. Students waited for up to two hours in a line that seldom moved, in many cases still waiting for their Fall semester financial aid checks, as well as those for the winter semester.
All Access Scholarship $2,500Deadline: Nov. 21, 2013Eligibility: Open to all U.S. Col-lege studentsProvider: www.collegeweeklive.comInformation: Sign up at College Week Live; visit three colleges of your choice while logged on to earn an entry.
Courage to Grow $500Deadline: Nov. 30, 2013Eligibility: Open to U.S. College students with a minimum of 2.5 GPA or better.Provider: www.courageto-growscholarship.comInformation: Complete the entry form and submit a 250 word or less statement on why the scholarship should be awarded to you.
Foreclosure.com Schol-arship Program Contest $6,000Deadline: Dec.1, 2013Eligibility: Must be currently enrolled in an accredited college, legal resident of the U.S., and 13 years or older Provider: www.foreclosure.comInformation: Complete entry form. Submit an essay (800 – 2,000 words) on the following topic: What sort of creative programs, solutions or initiatives must a presidential candidate come up with in order to help stimulate the United States housing market and secure your vote. Come up with your own original stimulus plan or idea, which can be included as your response.
Elie Wiesel Prize in Eth-ics Essay Contest$500 to $5,000Deadline in early December 2013Eligibility: Open to full-time juniors and seniors in college or university during fall 2013.Contact: The Elie Wiesel Founda-tion for Humanity, 555 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (212) 490-7788, [email protected], http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org
SMART Scholarship $10,000Deadline: Dec. 16, 2013Eligibility: U.S citizen 18 years and older with availability to participate in summer internship at DoD laboratories, willing to accept a post-graduate employment with the DoD, minimum cumula-tive GPA of 3.0 and pursuing an undergraduate degree in one of the disciplines listed on the SMART page.Provider: Science, Math, and Research for Transformation (SMART) www.smart.asee.orgInformation: Applicants are required to submit an applica-tion online including supporting materials including test scores and references.
Steven J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarship $5,000Deadline: Dec. 5, 2013Eligibility: Must be en-rolled in an accredited educational institution, citizen of the U.S., demonstrate ongoing commitment to their community with performance of unpaid volunteer services impactinghunger in the U.S.within last 12months, and volunteer servicemust be helping non-family members.
Provider: www.sodexofoundation.orgInformation: Complete application and register email address through ISTS. Provide information on all volunteer activities completed in the last 12 months; write an es-say or video essay regarding the most outstanding of your volun-teer service, community service recommendation, and up to two supplemental materials related to volunteer service.
Recycling Scholarship $4,000Deadline: Dec. 13, 2013Eligibility: Open to all U.S. Col-lege studentsProvider: www. DOSomething.orgInformation: Help the environ-ment by running a recycling drive at school or in your community. For every 50 aluminum cans col-lected, participants will receive an entry into the scholarship drawing.
Sh*t You Can’t Say To Your Teacher Scholarship Slam $1,000Deadline: Dec. 13, 2013Eligibility: Applicants must be between the ages of 13 – 25 years old who is attending a U.S. col-lege. Register to become a Power Poet online, and write an original poem in response to the topic. Provider: www.powerpoetry.org Information: Is there something you want to change in a class or even the entire school? Show your teacher who you are and what matters for you in education.
Dr. Pepper 2013 Tuition Giveaway $100,000Deadline: Dec. 13, 2013Eligibility: Must be between the ages of 18 – 24 during participa-tion in contestProvider: www.drpeppertuition.comInformation: Tell your one-of-a-kind story on how you plan to influence the world to receive a chance to compete and win up to $100,000 in tuition.
Savvy Saver Scholar-ship $2,500Deadline: Dec. 15, 2013Eligibility: U.S. college student attending an accredited 2-year or 4-year school, at least 18 years oldProvider: www.offers.comInformation: Students write an essay telling how they used the Internet to save money on their college expenses.
Crosslites Scholarship Contest $2,000Deadline: Dec. 15, 2013Eligibility: Open to all High School, College, and Graduate students both domestic and inter-nationalProvider: www.crosslites.comInformation: Select one of Dr. Park's original quotes and write a reflective essay (400 – 600 words) on it, and submit your official transcripts along with it.
QuickshipToner.com Essay Contest $1,500Deadline: Dec. 15, 2013Eligibility: Any student enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate de-gree program in fall 2013 or spring 2014 at an accredited American college. Provider: www.QuickshipToner.comInformation: Submit a 1,000-word minimum essay on one of the two topics:1. How will technology affect the printing industry?2. How has printing contributed to your education?
Custom-Made Scholarship $1,000Deadline: Dec. 15, 2013Eligibility: Any student enrolled in an undergraduate or gradu-ate degree program in Fall 2013 or Spring 2014 at an accredited American college.Provider: www.custommade.comInformation: Submit a 1,000-word minimum essay on the topic, “Why buy custom furniture?”
MyBookBuyer.com Text-books For a Year Schol-arship $1,250Deadline: Dec. 15, 2013Eligibility: Legal residents of the U.S., 18 years and olderProvider: www.mybookbuyer.comInformation: Complete online application. Submit essay (750 – 1250 word) on the following topic: Name a published author you ad-mire greatly and write the reasons why. Use one of their books to help support your reasons.
Birkenstock Scholarship $1,000Deadline: Dec. 16, 2013Eligibility: Must be 15 years or older and enrolled in an accred-ited secondary or post-secondary institution. Provider: Footwear University www.birkenstocks.sandals4less.com/blogInformation: Use creative humor writing to talk about the best shoes you have ever had, or your grandmother’s beautiful toes. Be interesting and educate the judges in 400 – 1,000 words.
Save a Life Scholarship $4,000Deadline: Dec. 19, 2013Eligibility: Must be 18 years or olderProvider: www.DOSomething.org Information: Organize an event for people to join the bone marrow donor registry to earn an entry to win the scholarship.
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Minorities in Govern-ment Finance Scholar-shipDeadline: Website places their deadline in early February. Follow website for details.$5,000 stipendEligibility: Must be a full- or part-time upper-division under-graduate or graduate student in public administration, governmen-tal accounting, finance, political science, economics, or business administration. Must be a minority who is a citi-zen or permanent resident of the U.S. or Canada. Cannot be a past winner of a GFOA scholarship.Contact: Government Finance Officers Association, Carole Colin, Manager, Scholarship Committee, 203 N. La Salle St., Suite 2700, Chicago, IL, 60601 (312) 977-9700, [email protected], http://www.gfoa.org
The Getty Center Multicultural Undergrad Internship Grant ProgramDeadline: Applications due early FebruaryAward: A 40-hour per week intern-ship position at the Getty Center with a stipend of $3,500.Eligibility: Applicants must be of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent and be currently enrolled undergraduates. Students must have completed at least one semester of college by time of applying. Graduating students in spring are also eligible. (Students who are enrolled in a second BA or BS program are not eligible.) Applicants must reside or attend college in Los Angeles County and be a United States citizen or permanent resident.Contact: The Getty Foundation, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA, (310) 440-7320, [email protected], http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/mui/mui_stu-dents.html
Gates Millennium Un-dergraduate Scholars ProgramDeadline: Jan. 15, 2014Award: Cost of tuition, fees, and books not paid for by grants and scholarships already committed as part of the recipient’s financial aid package. Graduate school funding for continuing Gates Millennium Scholars.Eligibility: Must be African American, American Indian/Alas-ka Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American; a citizen, national, or legal perma-nent resident of the U.S.; have attained a cumulative high school GPA of 3.3 on an unweighted 4.0 scale or have earned a GED; will enroll for the first time at a U.S. located, accredited college or university (with the exception of students concurrently pursuing a high school diploma) in the fall of 2014 as a full-time, degree-seeking, first-year student; have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in communi-ty service, extracurricular, or other activities; and meet the Federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria.Contact: Gates Millennium Schol-ars, P.O. Box 10500, Fairfax, VA 0, (877) 690-4677, [email protected], http://www.gmsp.org
Frank L. Greathouse Government Accounting Scholarship$5,000 stipendDeadline: Website places their deadline in early February. Follow website for details.Eligibility: Must be a full-time undergraduate, at least a junior, or graduate student in accounting preparing for a career in state and local government finance. Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or Canada. Cannot have been a previous winner of a GFOA scholarship.Contact: Government Finance Officers Association, Carole Colin, Manager, Scholarship Committee, 203 N. La Salle St., Suite 2700, Chicago, IL, (312) 977-9700, [email protected], http://www.gfoa.org
CenturyLinkQuotes.com Internet Safety Laws Scholarship $1,000Deadline: Dec.18, 2013Eligibility: Open to all U.S. college students with minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higherProvider: CenturyLink www.cen-turylinkquote.comInformation: Is there anything you would change about your current internet safety laws? Should ano-nymity online be continued to be allowed? Include credible research with your answer.
Harry S. Truman Schol-arship FoundationDeadline: Application opens Au-gust 1. Deadline in early February 2014, follow website for details.Award: Up to $30,000 for gradu-ate study, attendance at the Tru-man Scholars Leadership Week, and entrance into the Summer Institute and Truman Fellows pro-gram following graduation.Eligibility: Undergraduate juniors in the fields of public service and government with a 3.0 minimum GPA. Must be a U.S. citizen or a U.S. national from a Pacific Is-land. Preference given to students planning to attend graduate school and a career in government.Contact: Harry S. Truman Founda-tion, 712 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC 20006, (202) 395-4831, [email protected], http://www.truman.gov
American Atheists Founders' ScholarshipDeadline: Scholarship due late January. Check website for details.Award: One $2,000 award and one $1,000 award, and an addio-nal award of $1,000 is offered for LGBT atheist activismEligibility: For current college students or high school students entering college next year who are Atheists and have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 (in academic subjects) or better. Must be a member of American Atheists to accept the scholarship. Applicants are judged based on their actions as atheists.Contact: American Atheists, AJ Johnson, P.O. Box 158 Cranford, NJ 07016, (908) 276-7300, [email protected], http://atheists.org/scholarships
Clair A. Hill ScholarshipDeadline: Feb. 1, 2014$5,000Eligibility: Applicant must be: California resident; Full-time junior or senior in the year the scholarship will be applied. Attending an accredited, publicly funded college or univer-sity in California.Demonstrate commitment to the field of water by pursuing degree related to engineering, agriculture/urban water supply, environmental studies, or public administration;Planning to attend school for the complete academic yearContact: Association of California Water Agencies/Patterson Irriga-tion District, 910 K Street, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA, http://www.acwa.com/content/clair-hill-schol-arship-0
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By Vanessa Ruiz
Beta Pi Kappa Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa inducted 21 new members from Los Angeles City College into the offi cial and highly recognized Honor Society of the American Association of Com-munity Colleges Nov. 15.
Beta Pi Kappa’s Induction Ceremony was located on the sec-ond fl oor of the Student Union Building. Current club offi cials, President Rocio Flores Huaringa, Vice President Judith Sorto, along with club adviser Dr. Danielle Muller, worked together to induct the new members. The ceremony started at 5 p.m. and went until 5:45 p.m., and was followed by a reception for the members and guests.
A brief presentation on Beta Pi Kappa’s history was given by the treasurer Kimberly Thomas and Recording Secretary Marnee McClellan.
“Phi Theta Kappa traces its beginnings to a Society that origi-nated with six charter members under the name of Kappa Phi Omicron at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri in 1910,” Mc-Clellan said.
PTK’s origins are rooted in women’s only junior colleges, but after the passing of 1924’s consti-tutional amendment, the activity fi eld was enlarged to cover all ju-
nior colleges.“Today, Phi Theta Kappa
is the largest honor society in American higher education with more than two million members and 1,200 chapters located in 50 United States, U.S. Territories, Canada, Germany, Peru, the Brit-ish Virgin Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the United Arab Emirates,” Thomas said.
Each society chapter helps provide students with the oppor-tunity of growth and development through honors, leadership and service programming.
“These students have fulfi lled all requirements for membership and have been selected because they have chosen scholarship, leadership, service and fellow-ship as their hallmarks,” said Dr. Muller, who is also a professor of English/ESL.
Professor Muller also serves as the Director of the Ralph Bunche Scholars Program here on campus.
“Being part of Phi Theta Kappa is not only meeting the re-quired GPA and being successful students,” said Professor Muller, “It also has to do with us being part of a group of people who get together to share our experience, grow together and make this jour-ney to transferring or getting a de-
gree less diffi cult.” During the induction pro-
cess, new members were called to the induction table where they signed the chapter record and lit a candle, symbolizing the torch of knowledge. After the mem-bers were inducted, they remained standing while the current offi cials were inducted.
Once they were fi nished tak-ing the oath, each student was pre-sented with a white rose, symbol-izing each member’s newly formed intellectual friendship in the club.
The emblem for PTK is a gold slab keyed at both the top and bottom, and it has a black band with letters on it.
“Shining through the black enamel background are three Greek letters which are the initials of the Greek words meaning wis-dom, aspiration and purity,” said Vice President Sorto.
Students who are interested in becoming a member must fulfi ll the following criteria: be enrolled in an accredited two-year insti-tution, maintain a 3.5 or higher GPA, and complete at least 12 hours of coursework that is ap-plicable to an associate degree. Students must also receive an in-vitation of membership from the chapter at the college the student is enrolled in, and adhere to the moral standards of society.
Inae Bloom/COLLEGIANNewly inducted Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society member Albina Che signs the Chapter Record Sheet before lighting a candle as a symbol of the torch of knowledge. Phi Theta Kappa welcomed fi ve offi cers and 20 members during an induction ceremony that took place in the Conference Room of the Student Union last Friday evening.
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By Rocio Flores Huaringa
Teaching students how to read and write is one of the main objec-tives of a school located in Forward Operating Base Torkham, a military base on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, achieving this objective is diffi cult because school supplies are lacking.
LACC communications major Amber Mason wants to help her fellow scholars on the other side of the world. She has started a school supply drive with City College’s Phi Theta Kappa Honors Club (PTK). She hopes her efforts will provide the students in Torkham with the supplies they need.
“Since PTK Honors Club has the motto ‘scholars helping scholars,’ I thought it would be a great oppor-tunity for us to extend our helping hands to our fellow scholars who are especially in need,” Mason said.
Judith Sorto, the vice president of PTK Honors Club and a psychol-ogy major, supports the project.
“When Amber Mason presented her project, I felt obliged to help my fellow scholars, Sorto said. “I am blessed to live in a place where I receive aid and support to fulfi ll my educational goals, and it is only right that I do the best I can to help others who are not as fortunate as me.”
Supplies needed in Torkham are spiral-bound notebooks, folders with pockets, unopened packs of pens and pencils, highlighters, sta-
plers and loose-leaf paper.The Associated Student Gov-
ernment (ASG) approved the event request to host the drive submitted by Mason and professor Danielle Muller, the adviser of the club.
The ASG also helped create a drop box that is located on the second fl oor of the Student Union Building.
To make people aware of this project, students are making an-nouncements in their classes. Joc-elyne Palant, a dietetic technician major, is one of these students. She talked to professor John Giarelli in her English 103 class, and he gave his consent to announce the project.
“I encouraged students to open their hearts, to give something for the project,” Palant said. “The stu-dents responded very well, all of them clapped for a few minutes. Then professor Giarelli went fur-ther to speak about the diffi culties in these countries.”
Palant’s classmates are not the only ones responding well to the project. Several students have dropped by the Student Union leav-ing notebooks, binders, markers and other supplies. Everyday members from the ASG collect the materials left in the drop box and store them in their offi ce.
To contribute to this project, stu-dents may visit the drop box located on the second fl oor of the Student Union Building, or contact [email protected].
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By Maria Vallarta
If totalitarian leader Big Brother were real, he would have been furious that Los Angeles City College students highlighted his oppression in the “1984” student art show at Da Vinci Art Gallery last week.
Student artists submitted more than 39 artworks that celebrated George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.” They created var-ious artworks, ranging from acrylic paint-ings to cardboard sculptures. The art show gave students the opportunity to showcase their talents and to gain publicity.
“I have been drawing a lot lately, and I considered this an opportunity to use it as an outlet,” said Dawn Burns, an anthropol-ogy major. “[‘1984’] seemed like an inter-esting theme.”
The pieces that students created had to relate to the themes of “1984,” or to the book itself. Even though most students chose similar themed pieces, each artwork still had its own uniqueness.
Scott Cardona, an art major at LACC, made an acrylic painting of a security camera with a Facebook logo on its side. His artwork focused on the novel’s theme that “Big Brother is watching you.”
“I thought about the whole fact that Big Brother was watching,” Cardona said. “I thought it was perfect because Facebook is always watching us, too. Most people don’t know that Facebook gives our infor-mation to corporations. I decided it would tie well with the piece and the book.”
Patrick Chumnikai, a fi ne arts major, submitted two pieces to the student art show that dealt with different aspects of Orwell’s “1984.” One of his pieces was a cardboard sculpture of a broken Rubik’s Cube called “Spirit of Man.” His sculpture represented a critical scene in the novel when the protagonist Winston is being tor-tured.
“For ‘Spirit of Man’ I took a scene from the book where Winston is being in-terrogated and tortured,” Chumnikai said.
“At the time, Winston had a strong mind and he always believed in what he did and he never betrayed Julia. O’Brien tortured him in order to make Winston into a fol-lower of Big Brother.”
Alfredo Diaz drew inspiration from the novel’s theme of oppression and Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” a book that focused on themes of oppression and the manipulation of education and his-tory to paint his portrait of Freire with the word ‘truth’ blacked out.
“It’s kind of this whole thing about the manipulation of truth, you know, try-ing to cover it up,” Diaz said. “[These kind of things] happen now. You never know when some newspapers change things.” Many who attended the “1984” student art show seemed impressed with the kind of artwork LACC students created.
“[I attended] the show so I can see what is being done by our students and particularly our art students,” said Lawer-ence Schenck, a professor of marketing.
“I am very impressed because everything looks very professional and intriguing.”
Music major Bisquite Powerpoppin was not aware of the art show, but stum-bled into the show because he heard music coming from Da Vinci Gallery. “I didn’t know there was an art show going on. I heard music coming from the building, particularly a Jay-Z song,” Powerpoppin said. “I wanted to know which Jay-Z song was playing and I found the show. I defi -nitely see some potential in their work.”
According to art professor Alexandra Wiesenfeld, the “1984” art show was com-pletely student driven. Students created most pieces outside of class, and they also curated the show. “I advised them in class and we talked about the themes,” Wiesen-feld said. “Five or six students curated … Everything was done by the students.”
By Tanya Geddes
Mistaken identity pushed to its lim-its runs the show of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors,” directed by Louie Pi-day and now showing at the Caminito The-atre through Nov. 23.
Anyone who has experience with twins knows that the wool is easily pulled over the eyes of the beholders. When twins switch places in school classes or bestow elicit kisses, the deception can be success-ful, especially when the teacher or loved one is unaware that a double exists.
That slight degree of plausibility has added to the enormous success of mis-taken identity themes featured in enter-tainment throughout the ages. From “The Importance of Being Earnest” to “Dead Ringers,” an audience delights in being complicit in the secret of identities, until the truth is fi nally revealed (for better or for worse).
Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Er-rors,” is no exception, and its entire prem-ise is based on two sets of twins separated at birth. When one set, consisting of mas-ter and servant, arrives unknowingly in the other set’s town, the series of mix-ups en-sues. The main characters fi nd no recourse but to repeatedly blame the confusion on “nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,” and “dark-working sorcerers that change the mind.” This holds the rather fl imsy fabric of the play together.
The Theatre Academy actors appear to understand Shakespeare’s text and convey its meaning quite well. Especially compel-ling and still relevant to the times is the scene between the wife and her sister.
Riley Dandy, last seen in a VW Bug as a 1960s sex-savvy British schoolgirl in LACC’S production “AutoPLAY,” plays the part of Adriana. Playing Adriana’s sis-ter is Chanelle Danylowich, who was also last seen in “AutoPLAY,” taking down a
corrupt senator in the back of a limousine. The relationship and tensions between
the two women is well conveyed through their back-and-forth dialogue about rela-tionships:ADRIANA: Look when I serve him so, he takes it ill.LUCIANA: O, know he is the bridle of your will.ADRIANA: There’s none but asses will be bridled so.LUCIANA: Why, headstrong liberty is lash’d with woe.
Kristian Rasmussen is very strong as the two twin leads, Antipholus of Syra-cuse, and Antipholus of Ephesus. Maury McFadden is almost too good as the ser-vant Dromio. I found myself wincing each time he was hit on his 'pate' by his master. Shakespeare has tons of puns and witty jokes about the abuse--so it’s all in good fun.
The supporting cast adds lively vi-tality to the play. Noah Katz carries over his comedic talents from his role as a hi-larious-yet-tragic junkie in “AutoPLAY,” to his role as the pathetic and forlorn es-tranged father of the Antipholuses. The comedy starts out with his melodramatic lines: “Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall; And by the doom of death end woes and all.”
Stayton Danylowich plays Doctor Pinch, ‘a conjuring schoolmaster,’ who also adds dramatic comedic fl avor, as he proclaims that demon possession is most surely the explanation for all the madness.
Additional supporting actors include Jose Furlan, Stan Nessum, Vincent Perez, Ryan Connolly, Jai Marquel, James Gill, Gabby Duguay, Meme Scott, Emily Put-nam, Stephanie Hernandez, and David Gafafyan, all of whom are wonderful or a twin to fool their professors and take their tests for them before the last-minute cram sessions can relax, perhaps with a fantasy in the seats of the campus theatre.
The Comedy of Errors plays at the Caminito Theatre on Nov. 19 and 20, at 7:15 p.m., Nov. 21, at 3 p.m. and 7:15 p.m., Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. and Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission; $8 students/seniors/veterans.
ABOVE: Antipholus of Ephesus, played by Kristian Rasmussen (center), is restrained by offi -cers Vincent Perez (left) and Jai Marquel (right) after falling into the fountain in Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” during a dress rehearsal in the Caminito Theatre last Friday.
BELOW: Offi cers Vincent Perez and Jai Marquel break up a fi ght between merchant James Gil (left) and Antipholus (right).
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Classic Comedy Hits Theatre Academy Stage
You never know when some newspapers change things.
Students, faculty, and artists attend an opening reception for a “1984” themed student-curated art exhibition at Da Vinci Gallery on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Patrick Chumnikai used acrylic oncardboard for “Spirit of Man” (2013).
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THE THEATRE ACADEMY presents
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare
Join the Bard on a comic adventure in exotic lands! Two sets of twins separated at birth are mistaken for each other in hilarious confusion before being reunited in Shakespeare’s madcap classic.
Tuesday November 19 @ 7:15 PM - Preview Wednesday November 20 @ 7:15 PM - Open Thursday November 21 @ 3:00 PM & 7:15 PM Friday November 22 @ 8:00 PM Saturday November 23 @ 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
THE CAMINITO THEATRE INFORMATION AND TICKETS: 323-953-4000, x 2990 $12 General, $8 Students/Seniors/Veterans
directed by Louie Pidayscenic design Tesshi Nakagawa
lighting design James Moodycostume design Benny Lumpkins & Yuliya Mozgova
sound design Vern Yonemuraproduction stage manager Victoria Chediak
‘Big Brother’
Keeps His Eyes Trained
on Campus
By Jake Carlisi
During a recent NBA game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Oklahoma City Thun-
der, Clip-pers for-ward Matt Barnes got i nv o l v e d in a scrum with Thun-der for-ward Serge Ibaka after
coming to the aid of his team-mate Blake Griffin. Barnes shoved Ibaka, who feigned an attempt at retaliation by clenching his hand into a fist that he never would have actually thrown. In another case of overreaction by NBA referees, both players were ejected.
Incidents like this have been all too common for decades upon decades in sports. A player gets ir-ritated, shoves an opponent out of frustration and then gets tossed from the game and sent back to the locker room. Six years ago, Matt Barnes would have perhaps broken a few things in the dressing room, and then taken a couple of minutes
to cool down before his chat with an agent or publicist regarding the proper thing to say in response to the situation.
Fast forward to 2013 and in-stead of letting his frustration fade, Barnes went to his locker where he immediately grabbed his phone and headed for the Twit-ter app. During the third quarter of that game, Barnes tweeted, “I love my teammates like family, but I’m DONE standing up for these n#**as! All this s*#t does is cost me money.”
During the same game from which he was ejected, Barnes man-aged to stir up debate over use of a particular racial slur and have his loyalty toward his teammates brought into question … all in a single mistimed tweet.
But these are simply the times in which we are living. Athletes continuously stir things up on Twitter. The social media tool has given fans an opportunity to get a glimpse into the real lives and thoughts of their favorite players. Like so many before him, Barnes quickly deleted the tweet he com-posed in his fury and apologized for his language. Not surprisingly
however, once a tweet is sent it can’t truly be deleted from the In-ternet.
For the higher-ups of the NBA as well as other major league sports, Twitter represents a loss of power. Athletes’ voices are no lon-ger heard simply through cliché-filled interviews and politically correct press conferences. The cur-rent athlete has the ability to say what he wants, wherever he wants, for millions to read. For the fans, this is something special.
Twitter has brought a sense of realism to the game and has pro-vided a different way to connect to any given athlete. Entire articles are being written based simply on stories created on the social net-working super-tool.
Sure, there have been many attempts to prevent these Twitter outbursts. Ironically, Barnes’ frus-tration over losing money on tech-nical fouls cost him $25,000 for his use of inappropriate language. League officials across all sports are going to continue to try and minimize the impact of Twitter as much as possible, but the land-scape of sports has already been changed, possibly forever.
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Jorge Ponce/ COLLEGIANAristote Tumba heads for a layup while Giorgio Tiozon attempts to block his shot to the basket in a special "Faculty/Staff versus Students" game in the Women's Gym on Monday during Spirit Week.
By Jake Carlisi
Playoffs are just around the corner as the door to intramural basketball's regular season has closed.
The teams were focused dur-ing the last day of regular season play on Nov. 15.
Four teams played two games in preparation for the playoffs.The first game of the day saw Unity taking on Run ’N Gun in an especially intense match-up. Both teams tied in the standings at 4-2, trying to improve their playoff seeding.
The first half saw great back-and-forth action. Both teams appeared eager to jump out to an early lead. The man simply referred to as “C-Smoove” had a productive first half, using his distinct athletic advantage to play well above the rim and throw down a dunk whenever possible for Run N’ Gun.
Mohammed Manhani got things going early for Unity, us-ing his versatility to score from multiple positions on the court including from the free-throw line.
Marc Bautista also contrib-uted well for Run N’ Gun, hitting multiple timely threes whenever his team needed a basket. It was a total team effort on both ends as the first half ended with a score of 30-30.
The second half of this one saw what was likely the most in-tense basketball that has been played all semester. Both teams were committed to the defensive
end. Unity went with an unlikely zone, while Run N’ Gun simply locked down on their man de-fense.
Marc Bautista was able to hit two shots from beyond the arc early, causing Giorgio Tiozon to go off on his teammates. When any one player would miss a de-fensive assignment, Tiozon was the first one to make sure his teammate was aware.
Rather than encourage Unity however, the team seemed to get more discouraged as the game drew closer to an end. “C-Smoove” got yet another dunk in traffic while Henry Edwards hit a dagger late in the clock to put away Unity and give Run N’ Gun the win at a score of 61-56.
The second game of the day featured two teams with many fa-miliar faces.
The first half began as Jer-maine Small asserted his domi-nance inside early for Elite, while The Runnerz put in a combined effort. True to their name, The Runnerz got out in transition while Brandon Kilgore sliced his way through the defense getting to the basket easily as he has done all semester.
While his shot selection was questionable, Jason Taylor hit multiple shots from beyond the arc that were crucial in keeping The Runnerz so close. Small used his nearly seven-foot frame to dominate, while Chad Gammon used his athleticism to get to the hole and finish over his defenders.
With Elite up 24-18 at the half, Small immediately demand-ed the ball in the post when ac-
tion resumed. He began with a nice drop step to draw the foul and complete the three-point play for Unity.
The Runnerz were deter-mined though. Kilgore got an early layup while Taylor once again pulled up for a nice transi-tion game. Small quickly decided to take over, however, getting deep post-position and seemingly being put on the line every time down the court. Gammon and Aristote Tumba provided nice help for Small, finding space on the perimeter and making nicely timed cuts to complement the big man.
Bryan Orellena finally as-serted himself on the glass while Victor Lowe made a couple shots for The Runnerz, but to no avail. Elite was just too athletic and too big, especially with Small con-tinuing to dominate the post.
Elite drove the score up to 38-27 with around seven minutes remaining, and by the two-minute mark they were up 47-33. Lowe continued to fight for The Run-nerz, even taking the ball coast to coast through all five defenders for a beautiful lay in, but it was too late as Small and Elite won the game 51-35.
Tumba, who along with play-ing for Elite also serves as Intra-mural Coordinator, seemed very pleased with the day’s action.
“Everyone played really hard; it was exciting. We are look-ing forward to next week when the playoffs start for sure.”
Playoffs begin Nov. 22, and Dec. 6, at 1 p.m., in the Women's Gym.
Big Men Dominate Intramual Play
Photo CourtesyBryan Tong Minh
Matt Barnes (left) of the Los Angeles Clippers argues a call, as teammate Ryan Hollins (right) looks on.
By Gabriel Killian The Ultimate Fighting Cham-pionship (UFC) will be live from Jaragua do Sul, Brazil on Feb. 8, 2014, with UFC Fight Night 35. Headlining the event is a middle-weight contest between the Arme-nian, Gegard “The Dreamcatcher” Mousasi and the Brazilian, Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida. The win-ner of the bout will likely be a number one contender for the UFC middleweight title. Machida is coming off a very impressive first-round knockout victory over “The Filipino Wreck-ing Machine” Mark Munoz, in what was his middleweight debut, after having competed in the light heavy-weight division throughout the en-tirety of his career. He put Munoz out with a well-timed head kick, making an immediate impact in the UFC’s middleweight division. Mousasi has been competing in the light heavyweight division for most of his career. Much like Machida, he never needed to cut weight in order to make 205 pounds like most light heavyweights. He will now be dropping down to mid-dleweight for this match-up against Machida, who he has been asking to fight for a very long time. Mousasi considers Machida to be one of the
best fighters in all of mixed martial arts, and certainly one of the best in his division. UFC matchmaker Joe Silva did an excellent job pitting these two Octagon warriors against each oth-er, as fight fans everywhere already can’t wait to see this battle. There is lots of talk about it all over MMA forums, social media, and even amongst students at Los Angeles City College. “My cousins and I were talk-ing about this fight yesterday,” said Karo Abrahamian, biology major at LACC. “We’re Mousasi fans. We’re really looking forward to this. We were saying we wish we could save up and fly to Brazil for the fight.” “The Dreamcatcher” will be in enemy territory, as he steps in-side the UFC’s Octagon to square off against the Brazilian in front of his fellow countrymen. He will be in a very loud and hostile environ-ment, but I don’t think that will faze him. Mousasi seems to have a su-perpower that allows him to remain calm and collected, regardless of the situation. “The dude is like a zombie robot, always looks like he just woke up from a nap and doesn’t care about the fight, but goes in there and de-stroys his opponents,” says Eddie Tran, a cinema major at LACC.
“The Dragon” is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, and with a drop down to middleweight, he looks to become the champion in his new home at 185 pounds. Com-ing off a knockout victory over Mu-noz, a win over Mousasi will surely get him there. “Machida is going to dominate the fight, every single round,” said Joey Locolano, an undeclared stu-dent at City College. “I don’t see how he loses.” That is in fact the public percep-tion, as oddsmakers have the Bra-zilian as a 3-to-1 betting favorite over the Armenian. However, not everybody agrees with those odds. “No way, man, that fight is a coin flip,” Tran said. "Mousasi could take it. Wouldn't surprise me at all if I had to bet, I would bet on Mousasi."While Machida is coming off a knockout win in his middleweight debut, Mousasi is coming off a long layoff following knee surgery."The Dreamcatcher" is now healthy, training harder than ever and will be ready to face "The Dragon" on his home turf. Fight fans at LACC now look ahead to UFC Fight Night 35, for a potential Fight-of-the-Night caliber matchup where surely anyting could happen.
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