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The Student Success Task Force (SSTF) has made draft recommenda-tions that will change how community college students go to school.

It’s in our name: Chabot Commu-nity College. Community, something that Chabot has worked to cater to. As a community, we are made of working students, parents, veterans, many who have demands in their lives that make getting an education more difficult.

Community college does more than just improve your job skills and pros-pects. Community college gives anyone the opportunity to change careers, look around at things they’ve never done be-fore and enrich their lives by having a hobby, or staying into a passion outside of work. These opportunities are being threatened by the SSTF. They are taking the community out of our college.

For some students, this could be a very good system. These measures pro-pose encouraging students to declare a major or course of study early, identify-ing whatever problems the student has and giving them the resources to over-come them and move on, move up. It focuses on giving serious students every opportunity to succeed, as long as they stay on track. This is an ideal system for those who find universities and private schools of a higher caliber too expensive in our down economy and have come to Chabot for their general education, with higher goals in mind. For a university or any state school, this would be the ideal model, but not for Chabot.

The SSTF draft recommendations talk about reforming the K-12 system so that students graduating from high school will be ready for college. The SSTF wants community colleges to sim-ply serve as a stop on the way to success for those who just aren’t quite ready for the big university show.

The SSTF also wants to put a time clock on how long getting your educa-tion should take, and if your time ex-pires, so does your financial aid eligibil-ity. If you’re approaching your third year at Chabot and haven’t declared a major or pathway, you could lose your finan-

cial aid and hurt your registration prior-ity. The Task Force wants to give that priority and financial aid to those who commit seriously to their education.

The truth is, success is far off even to those who commit. What the Student Success Task Force has failed to recog-nize is that students are at Chabot for multiple years because they can’t get the classes they need to move on. Classes are limited, class sizes are increasing, and the college population is growing. More concerning, the number of serious stu-dents meant to succeed in this system is also growing, and they can’t get the edu-cation they want either.

It’s no secret that budget cuts to our education have crippled our student-services, counseling division and class availability. Money has forced the State to make a task force in the first place, to figure out where corners can be cut, and how to benefit the students who so desperately want to succeed.

The draft recommendations put forth are attempting to make up for what we don’t have: money. There is money in this state. California, apart from the U.S., is a top ten world economy on its own. California businesses are doing well, corporations are drowning in money.

Why is our education suffering? The answer is our people. Politicians, the people we have chosen to represent us, are not making education a prior-ity. Maybe we, as citizens of California, have always assumed that education was our right and we would be taken care of; we were wrong.

In this State, we have made edu-cation a privilege, not a priority -- and we need to act. Politicians need to know that they aren’t going to get elected if they can’t put money where it is going to matter -- in our education system.

We have to fight to save our commu-nity college and declare that our educa-tion is a right, not a privilege. Get in-volved by writing letters, tweeting, and even using Facebook to let your repre-sentatives know that education is impor-tant -- and in crisis.

COMMUNITY COLLEGES PROMISE:

WE WILL FIGHTEDUCATION IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE!

- Special Statewide Editorial -College groups across California condemn the Student Success Task Force’s agenda to dismantle

schools. Over a dozen other community college newspapers are publishing similar editorials against the recommendations of the Student Success Task Force between Dec. 1 and Dec. 14

Make public comment on Task Force recommendations with your Facebook account: http://studentsuccess.ideascale.com/

Sign a petition against the Task Force:http://tinyurl.com/c3aj4kc

Tell these politicians that you don’t want California commu-nity colleges to become “transfer- machines.” Email at least once and together we can make an impact. CC ksaginor@

ccsf.edu so she counts your comments.

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHANCELLOR JACK SCOTT

Through assistant Faye James: [email protected]

GOVERNOR JERRY BROWNEmail: http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

READ THE TASK FORCE REPORThttp://tinyurl.com/4ycbn5n

(More contact information on page 2)

How you can help:

STATE OF EMERGENCY

Finals got you down? Don’t have enough scantrons or pencils?

Just want free coffee? Never fear, Destress Week is here!(Page 3)

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NEWS

Dr. David Morse, English ProfessorLong Beach City College

4901 E. Carson St. Long Beach, CA 90808

(562) 938-4458email: [email protected]

Dr. Melinda Nish, President, CCCCIO Executive Board Vice President,

Instruction, Orange Coast College 2701 Fairview Road

Costa Mesa, CA 92626 (714) 432-5015

email: [email protected]

Dr. Jane Patton, Past President Academic Senate

555 Capitol Mall, Suite 525 Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 445-4753 (916) 323-9867 email: [email protected]

Governor Jerry BrownEmail: http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/ mail.php

Selected Task Force Members:More can be found in resources at

ccsf.edu/academicsenate

Dr. Jeannette Mann, President California Community College Trustees Member, Board of Trustees

Pasadena Area Community College District2195 E. Orange Grove Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91104 (626) 585-7202


Dr. Ted Mitchell, President and CEO New Schools Venture Fund

9 Stevenson, Suite 575San Francisco, CA 94105

(415) 615-6860 (415) 615-6861 Fax


Senator Leeland Yee400 S. El Camino Real Suite 630

San Mateo, CA 94402 (650) 340-8840

08 455 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102

(415) 557-7857State Capitol

Sacramento, CA 94248-0001 (916) 651-4008

Assembly Member Fiona Ma 12 455 Golden Gate Avenue Suite 14600

San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 557-2312

State Capitol Room 3173 Sacramento, CA 94249-0012

(916) 319-2012

Assembly Member Tom Ammiano 13 455 Golden Gate Avenue Suite 14300

San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 557-3013


(916)319-2013

Assembly Member Tom Ammiano 13 455 Golden Gate Avenue Suite 14300

San Francisco, CA 94102(415) 557-3013


(916)319-2013

Fight against theTask Force online:

Sign a petition against the Task Force:

http://tinyurl.com/c3aj4kc

Vote no on Task Force recom-mendations with your Facebook account!http://studentsuccess.ideascale.com/

Support the movement against the Task Force on Facebook:

http://tinyurl.com/c4y7lle

Join the fight: Email or call the Task Force and CA representatives

Organizers of Occupy Chabot, Students for So-cial Justice, Chabot Forensics, Change It Now! Political Science Club, and Chabot Faculty spon-sored OCCUPY CHABOT this week.

Tomorrow they will screen short films and have an open discussion in Room 510 from 12 p.m.-1 p.m.

Yesterday, Professor Christine Warda hosted a workshop and discussion in the board room of building 200 to explore various forms of per-formance of protest, and creative venues of re-sistance. Students talked about multiple topics: varieties of protest, the definition of anarchy, the environment, and bringing the focus of the Oc-cupy Movement to Chabot.

“In order to be successful performing pro-test or performing resistance, you have to be thinking about whether you are making a sym-

bolic statement, or making a change to your ev-eryday life; for both of those can be powerful ways to change the system,” said Warda. “You need to think about who your audience is, and what you are trying to get them to do in the construction of your performance, this protest action that you’re looking at, so the more people think about it and the more people are creative, the more we can gather people around and ral-ly people to see our perspective and make the changes that we want.”

Tuesday, Professor Sherri Yeager talked about removing moneyed interest from politics. Later in the day, Next 10, a non-partisan organi-zation explained California’s budget process, and used clickers to let attendees vote on what cuts to make to try to balance the state budget. Students and faculty voiced opinions in a free environ-ment and the ending result of the mass clicking resulting in reducing the state deficit.

“I think important for students for all citi-zens to better understand the choices our legis-

lators are making in Sacramento,” said Next 10 presenter Sarah Henry. “I think there’s a discon-nect between how people connect themselves to the budget, I think people are very connected to the budget, they went to schools they pay taxes, but if you ask people if they care about the bud-get, I think most people don’t.“

She added that an interesting result of Chabot’s responses was that the vote decreased funding for education at the K-12 levels and vot-ed to raise funding for community colleges and CSU’s and UC’s.

Monday, the Student Success Task Force led a forum with faculty, including Kathy Kel-ley, Faculty Senate President. They made recom-mendations in regards to the state’s changes to the community colleges to inform students how their education may be affected.

An open mic is scheduled for next Tuesday. To stay updated on events, find the Occupy Chabot page on Facebook.

Occupy Chabot week promotes actionBy Cherly DaviD

STAFF WRITER

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New transfer degrees By Jessica caBallero

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Specific Sociology and Mass Communications guidelines ensure guaranteed acceptance

New to Chabot College for the spring 2012 semester, Chabot is going to offer specialized transfer degrees designed to get you on the fast track to your bachelor’s degree.

The new Associate of Arts - Transfer (AAT) and Associate of Science - Transfer (AST) degrees are meant for students who want to get into the CSU system, but aren’t set on a particular major or CSU campus.

The requirements don’t vary much from those that would be required if you were planning on transferring to a CSU or UC system school anyway, with a few crucial differences. As with most transfers, a minimum of 60 units of CSU-approved transfer units must

be completed with a GPA of at least 2.0 in those courses.

Due to budget cuts and limited space, a major in high demand could require higher than a 2.0 GPA for guaranteed admission - up to the discretion of the accepting school.

Furthermore, it is required that one of two general education pathways are completed; either the California State University General Education (CSUGE) Breadth pattern, or the Inter-segmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) pattern.

Though the practice isn’t popularized, this type of program offering guaranteed admission isn’t new to Chabot. Guaranteed admission programs are also available to students outside the offered degree areas and with several University of California campuses on an individual basis -- if

you’re willing to do the research. As with the new degrees, the agreement between the student and the accepting institution requires a specifically regimented course of study and a high GPA to be met.

Currently, Chabot offers the AAT and AST degrees in only two majors: communication studies and sociology. A program with a psychology emphasis is also in development.

There are a few pitfalls to consider. If you have your heart set on going to a particular CSU or have a very specific idea which specific major you want to pursue, this option probably isn’t for you. Although choosing one of these majors requires an intention to study that chosen major at the university level after transfer; Chabot’s addendum makes it clear that there should be no expectation

for a certain campus or course of study once you’re in.

The major benefit of the AAT and AST emphases is not only the guarantee of admission, but in being granted junior status once you’re there. With the completion of either the CSUGE Breadth or the IGETC patterns, you’re free to pursue your chosen area of study right away -- with only two more years of study between you and a Bachelor’s degree.

To get advisement in setting a plan for you to achieve your higher education goals, make an appointment with a counselor in building 700. Also, to see which courses fulfill the general education patterns, see the Chabot College catalog that is sold in the bookstore, or available online at www.chabotcollege.edu/academics/catalog/ where there is also a link to the Catalog’s recent addendum.

ASCC eases stressBy sydney Pascall

NEWS EDITOR

Every semester the ASCC does a destress week for the students the week of finals, providing aid to students coping with the difficulties of their final exams from Dec 14 to Dec 21.

“Destress week is a week that the ASCC provides free scantrons, pencils, granola bars, and coffee or tea,” ASCC senator Isabel Macasieb described, “We want the students to relax and not overstress about finals and we want them to know that we are here for them.”

This year the ASCC wants to make an effort to expand destress week to be all week long, while in previous semesters would be held exclusivly on Tues and Thurs. OSL student assistant Perla Azdar says, “Last semester

we only did it for two days, but hopefully this time around it will be everyday, because we don’t want to alienate the students who don’t have classes on Tues./Thurs... We also want to provide for the night students as well”

Handouts start at 11 a.m. and will continue till 5 p.m., as long as ASCC members are available to volunteer.

The ASCC will start their destress week on Wednesday, Dec. 14 in the cafeteria lobby. Be sure to stop by and grab your free test-taking supplies and let Chabot make your finals week a little bit easier on you.

Pa re n t s Vo i ces Pr o j e c t : fighting for qualityBy Gina Jackson

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Tuesday, November 29 Chabot College’s Children Center hosted Parent Voices to speak at the parent advisory committee meeting. Parent Voices is a parent-led grassroots organization, fighting to make quality child care affordable and accessible to all families. Over 26 students and student-parents attended the first meeting.

Parent Voices is a project of 4C’s (Community Child Care Council) of Alameda County. At the Parent Voices Chapter meetings, parents are provided an opportunity to learn leadership skills and how to speak up for their family. Parent Voices also provides opportunities for parents to share their story with Legislators and other decision makers. Parent Voices provides up to date information about what is happening in

regards to budget cuts that affect childcare. PV’s goal at Chabot College is to reach out and

educate student-parents who are facing budget cuts to their childcare and education. Parent Voices in the past year alone, saved over $600 million from being eliminated after Governor Schwarzenegger line item vetoed the stage three childcare programs.

The elimination would have displaced roughly 60,000 children statewide and would have made it quite and obstacle for parents to work and continue going to school.

Parent Voices believe in the same principles as Chabot College and that is why we held this meeting on campus with the students. In the future, Parent Voices would like to hold additional meetings on campus to do further outreach. We would like to invite all Chabot students and student- parents to actively participate with us and put democracy into action!

We would like to thank the Children’s Center at

Chabot for hosting our meeting and a special thank you to Vanessa Cormier the Children’s Center Director for allowing us to spread the Parent Voices message to students at Chabot!

Parent Voices has 16 chapters across the state of Calif. advocating for local, state, and federal childcare issues. Meetings are free to attend and commence outside of Chabot College. Once-a-month meetings are held in Hayward at 22351 City Center Drive Hayward Ca. 94541. Free dinner will be supplied as well as childcare at all meetings.

If you or anyone you know is interested in attending a Parent Voices meeting or would like to join our emailing list for upcoming events please contact Jennifer Greppi – Parent Voices Organizer @ 510-584-3115 or [email protected] you can also read more about Parent Voices and our accomplishments by going to our web site at www.parentvoices.org.

SYDNEY PASCHALL/STAFF PHOTO

OSL student assistant Perla Azdar with scantrons in pre-peration for distress week.

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FOCUS

Last August, Hayward inaugurated Diane Urban, its first female police chief. Urban came to Hayward from the San Jose Police Department where she gave 25 years of service. A seven-time NCAA Division II All-American in discus, Urban is quite qualified in her ability to perform under intense pressure while holding poise and balance. According to Dan John, a writer for the Discus Guru - the discus blog online, 80% of achieving success in the sport of discus consists of being able to hold your poise and balance throughout the throw. In addition to Urban’s athletic abilities, she holds a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Applied Social Sciences from Boston University. She also has a Bachelor of Science in Administration of Criminal Justice from Cal State East Bay. I caught up with Diane Urban to see what her first 120 days in Hayward have been like.

Chabot Spectator: As Chief of Police, what has been your focus for the last 120 days?

Police Chief Urban: It boils down to having strong relationships with everyone.

Spectator: How does a newly appointed police chief go about developing those strong relationships?

Urban: The key elements are excellence, accountability and public service. I have a quote I live by and anyone who gets to meet me will hear it, “Excellence is not a sometimes thing, it’s an all the time thing!”

Spectator: Prior to becoming the Chief of Police for the City of Hayward, you were Assistant Police Chief of San Jose, what differences are there between the two?

Urban: I don’t need to consult anyone if I want to make a decision that’s within my power to make.” I was in San Jose for 25 years and I really enjoy the years I spent there, [but] Hayward is a closer knit community just because of its size. You have the sense there is greater support from the community

and City Hall is more committed. I run at a pretty high energy level, “full throttle” all the time, Hayward has a incredibly responsive team and we are strongly involved in “community policing.”

Spectator: I have never heard of that, what is it?

Urban: What it is, is a whole philosophy -- with the community and police department coming together to create a better environment for the citizens that live and work in the community. In fact, my department is not opposed to “Smash Ops”; if we feel there is an undesirable element in a residence or company, that poses a threat to the safety of the community, where we need to use full force to control and return the community to a thriving environment.

Spectator: How do you feel about the system of punishment that is in place, housing those who have committed crimes?

Urban: I have more of a “progressive outlook” regarding our current system of how we incarcerate individuals who have committed tier one offenses outside the parameter of sexual offense crimes, I believe it’s not effective in turning around criminal activity.

Spectator: Are you suggesting that better use of tax dollars could be deployed?

Urban: The average cost to keep someone in jail is around $55,000, and there is a lot you can do to improve someone’s life with that type of funding.

Hayward is a safer place under the watchful eye of Police Chief Diane Urban. Her charm is her confidence, her sincerity and openness is a gift to anyone who has the chance to meet her.

Hayward’s first female chief of policeBy Dennis Murphy

STAFF WRITER

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With the Grammy nominees an-nounced and 2011 coming to a close, it’s time to think about who re-leased our favorite albums this year. With the multitude of different categories of music I feel it’s more appropriate to label the top records for each genre rather than a particu-lar top ten.

Best Hip-hop/Rap Album Drake: Take Care – Drakes sopho-more album was surprisingly deep, while still displaying the cockiness and confidence the Canadian rapper has exuded in his young career.

The album sold 631,000 units in its first week and is #1 on the Bill-board 200. In a year without a smash rap album, this one seemed the best.

Best Pop/Vocal albumAdele: 21 – Likely to take al-bum of the year, “21”, showcased Adele’s powerful voice; exemplify-ing heartbreak, soul-searching and compassion.

The release hit #1 in 18 differ-ent countries, solidifying the album’s top-notch rating.

Top Rock/Alternative AlbumBeastie Boys: The Hotsauce Com-

mittee Part Two – As a longtime Beastie Boys fan, I appreciate the revolutionary and unique style the Beastie Boys have always presented.

The album is a testament to how the New York trio has not lost their step. Their single “Make Some Noise” deserves music vid-eo of the year, if you have seen it – you know why.

Chabot College’s mass communica-tions department and campus radio station, KCRH, has given students the opportunity to grow and expand their skills as it currently has for one particular student: Alan “The Next Level” Samson, who has worked vig-orously to attract local big name acts to the campus.

In 2008, Samson moved to the Bay Area from Gilroy, Calif., where he began to establish himself as a rapper.

Samson stayed active in the garlic capital by producing his own music, pulling together local artists to col-laborate on different projects, while also working with the KDON 102.5 FM street team in Salinas, Calif.

“It’s difficult cause I’m so far away from everything, ya’ know? Like KDON was in Salinas, so that’s an-other 30 minutes south. We weren’t really considered the bay because af-ter San Jose it’s just kinda’ boonies or whatever, you know what I mean? It’s just like, oh it’s the country.”,Samson describes about working in his home-town area.

“I was far away from everything and the only time I actually got up close to anybody (big name artist) is if we did an event for KDON that was at the local club, but there was always drama at the club; so I never got the opportunity to actually meet people the right way and actually net-

work. I guess I was learning more at that time but it just didn’t pop off like it was supposed to.”

After the tragedy of his aunt’s death to cancer, he traveled up to the Bay to take care of his grandma and disabled uncle while still pursu-ing his ambitions.

In 2009, Alan “The Next Level” Samson enrolled at Chabot looking to grow his network as a business entrepreneur in the field of music and entertainment.

“I really didn’t wanna go to school, you know what I mean? But I’ve always been a fan of education and learning.

My cousin was like go to school and I was thinking about going to other schools like the digital arts and stuff like that, but it’s re-ally expensive”, Samson explains. He adds, “At Chabot it’s a little cheaper and inexpensive…”

Samson described that other schools didn’t offer the classes he wanted to take like Final Cut Pro for video editing. He also came for the Pro Tools experience to get better at his music editing as well as enhance his business skills.

In the same year Samson arrived on campus and kicked off, “The Next Level Show” through the schools ra-dio and TV station; KCRH 89.9 FM and KCTH channel 27 Comcast.

The TV show aired for one se-mester while his radio show has been broadcasted and streamed online for

three years now. Bay area hip-hop artist, The Jac-

ka (local rapper who reached #4 on the billboard rap charts and also was member of the group Mob Figaz) was his first guest on “The Next Level” radio show.

Samson has also attracted nu-merous musicians to his show at Chabot with names like: Mac Mall, Richie Rich, Ray-Luv, Celly Cel, Conscious Daughters, Yukmouth, and many more.

This past spring, Samson had VH-1 reality TV personalities Real and Chance in the building. He also had the chance to hang out with the multi-platinum selling group Yin Yang Twins this past July.

Since day one the show has set the bar for itself growing and con-

tinuing to attract a larger crowd, liv-ing up to its name by helping take Chabot to the next level.

“The show is about the next lev-el, it’s about bringing all the talent… because back when I first started: I was bringing America’s Best Dance Crew to campus.”

Samson explained of his show and mentality, “I was doing the in-terviews with them and everything. Dance, whatever it is, you know what I mean? If it’s part of entertainment, I’m wit’ it.”

“The Next Level Show” is on air Wed. from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. and Sun. from 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Chabot ra-dio station 89.9FM KCRH.

To watch streams of his inter-views, go to http://www.TheNext-LevelTV.com

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KCRH takes it up a level

Allan Samson (second from the left) with the Ying Yang Twins in the KCRH 89.9fm studio.PHOTO COURTESY OF THENEXTLEVELTV.COM

By Jaimé Hernandez

PHOTO EDITOR

Music and movies in 2011By Jon Comeaux

MANAGING EDITOR2011 has produced well put together mov-

ies, but in terms of excellence, they fall short.

Though there are still several releases on the horizon in the latter half of Dec. - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and War Horse await release, full of hype.

#1 – J. Edgar Directed by Clint Eastwood, J.

Edgar is a story about the man who created the Federal Bureau of In-vestigation’s (FBI) rise to power, while delving into his questionable personal life.

Eastwood does a magnificent job guiding the camera and the utiliz-ing lighting to emphasize the char-acters idiosyncrasies.

#2 – Moneyball Part of me wanted to put this at

the top spot, and I’m not even an A’s fan. Brad Pitt does a great job portraying Billy Beane (if he does in-fact act like that), while Jonah Hill does well stepping into a slightly more serious role.

Phillip Seymore Hoffman also never ceases to impress me. His per-formance of an unhappy manager in Art Howe is very impressive.

#3 – Rise of The Planet of The Apes

The prequel of the Plant of the Apes. James Franco, although a great actor, did not fill his role well enough for me, but none-the-less an excellent story that kept me interest-ed the entire movie.

#4 – Harry Potter and the Death-ly Hallows Part 2

For how much this film was built up to be, although good, did not sat-isfy me for what I was hoping for.

I was expecting a great close like, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. For the end of an era, I an-ticipated a bit more. Furthermore, the film did smash sales records and have a very positive reception.

#5 – Horrible Bosses Jason Bateman is hilarious, Jen-

nifer Anniston is hilarious, Charlie Day is always hilarious. This film contained numerous scenes that had me cracking up.

A story about how a group of friends plot ways to murder their ty-rannical, asinine, sexually beleaguer-ing bosses. Kevin Spacey seems to have a great time playing a pompous, dictatorial president of a company.

Movie time for Chabot student Cheryl David.

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Many believe that print journalism is dying or in-fact, already dead. Yes, I know online media is much more convenient for people and also easier to get a hold of in today’s age of ‘smart’ technology.

But to me, picking up a newspaper is more than just simply reading today’s news and headlines. It’s a relaxing experience, an opportunity to step away from everything else, turn through pages, be by myself in my own mind and focus on the writing style of the particular author.

If I owned a smart phone, or ipad, or what-so-ever – I know I would have an sfchronicle app and other news-type publications to read articles in my spare time. But even so, an online article for say, Sports Illustrated, would not be able to replicate page layout and design done by the people hired to do so.

Websites to me are plain, boring and overran with ads. Have you been to the tribunes or chronicles webpage? It looks like it was put together in five minutes – just a white page with text and ads on the side.

If you pick up a Sports Illustrated magazine, there will be art, pictures and other illustrations that make the story and page mentally and aesthetically pleasing. The front page for any daily paper contains pictures, and a unique design where the most important stories are emphasized – not just a template where its simply drag-and-drop and continually repetitive. SI.com is the same everyday, Yahoo’s main/sports page is the same everyday, the newspapers I mentioned are the same everyday – so much that if there were any break from the norm, its something ‘special’.

On a day where something monumental happened, like for example: the recent passing of Al Davis (longtime owner of the Oakland Raiders, if you’re oblivious), I pick up the paper and hold onto it as a keepsake. My parents also have the newspaper from September 11, 2001, and I’m sure many of you sports fanatics own the newspaper from when the Giants won the World Series. It’s a frozen moment in time that you cannot replace; ask your parents if they have the newspaper from the day you were born. To me, it’s just something special that adds to the mystique of that moment.

I was offered to write this story for our publications web-

week, but I felt it more suitable to produce for our print issue, for obvious reasons. I hope that some reading this share the same view on print-journalism as I do, because if it wasn’t for this newspaper print you are currently reading, odds are nobody would have ever read this article.

By Jon Comeaux

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Ever thought about playing a college sport? If you have its something that should be seriously considered due to some beneficial aspects I view it to have. Student-athletes often times receive different types of financial assistance from various colleges.

Having athletic ability comes the potential opportunity for you to go onto a four-year college, which can be paid for in various ways such as: grants, aids, academic scholarships, and athletic scholarships. If you possess the athletic prowess to do so, why wouldn’t you try?

Playing collegiate athletics also helps you create good friendships, and introduces you to an enormous amount of different people; thus creating bonds that could last a lifetime.

Many first year student-athletes say that going from high school to college is easier because they play sports and have the chance to interact with their teammates, and become good friends.

I know from personal experience by becoming friends with your teammates allows school to be that much easier on yourself. Mainly because you don’t feel that alone, since you’ve already met other first year players on your team that you become cool with.

Athletics can also bring job opportunities for many people. For instance: if someone has an extreme passion for baseball to the point where its something they envision doing their entire life - there are many jobs that come along with a strong baseball background such various coaching jobs and high level scouting professions.

Often time’s people use athletics as a way to escape from reality. Athletics not only gives kids the opportunity

to express themselves but also keeps them away from the distractions in our society.

“Athletics are ways for kids to be themselves and gives them a chance to express their talents and compete with other kids. Sports especially means a lot to me because I can personally say that it saved my life,” describes Chabot College athlete Josh Pride. “If I had not been involved in sports I can honestly say I don’t know where I would be in life or even alive.”

Luckily for Josh he found a sanctuary in sports that was able to keep him away from the distractions in our outside lives.

Children should invest their time in athletics because it not only builds characteristics for a person, but it serves as a positive influence into creating a better youth society.

Is playing sports beneficial?By Brandon Wynne

STAFF WRITER

ALLEN LIN/STAFF PHOTOSChabot Spectator print editions (top) and web edition (bottom).

Gladiator Brandon Wynne celebrating with teammates.JAIMÉ HERNANDEZ/STAFF PHOTO

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1. The most popular Christmas tradition in this South American country is the building of retablos, or nativity scenes.2. The Urn of Fate is where presents or empty boxes are drawn from for presents in this country.4. During the Chlausjagen Festival in this country, Sternsingers can be heard as children wait for Christkindli.6. Like stockings in the U.S., children in this country leave their shoes, called sabots, to be filled by Pere Noel.7. Summer Christmas, usually close to 100 degree weather, is appreciated here with trips to the beach and candlelight carols with mince pies.9.In this country, poinsettias are in bloom at Christmas. Colorful banana and mango trees are used for decorations.10. Eisteddfodde, or caroling, is taken very seriously in this country - more famous for their scandalous royalty than their traditions. They hold a national competition for a new holiday song every year.13. In this Mediterranean nation, children need to beware of mischevous holiday goblins called kallikantzen.14. La Posada, in this North American country, is accompanied by midnight mass or La Misa Del Gallo.

1. In this Asian country, a national pageant called Panunuluyan chooses a couple to re-enact Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter.3. In this European country, baked carp is considered traditional Christmas dinner.5. In this South American country, clay figures called pesebre are made and placed under the tree.8 . Summer t ime Chr i s tmas celebrations in this South American country go until Three Kings Day on Jan. 611. A celebration honoring Saint Lucia often begins the holiday season in this Northern European country.12. This country, with a reputation boasting the happiest people in the world, is famous for their ornately decorated Christmas plates.13. In this European country, children leave letters on their windowsills for the Christmas angel called Christkind.15. In this African nation, sourdough pan cakes called injera are served on their Christmas day, celebrated Jan. 7.16.In this European country, “Ignatius” is celebrated with the slaughter and consumption of a pig on Dec. 20

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The Chabot Gladiators handed Cabrillo College Se-ahawks their first loss of the season by winning 66-63 at home last Tuesday.

The last time the Seahawks (4-1) played against the Gladiators (5-1) was in the opening round of the Nor-Cal Regional playoffs. For-mer guard Joshua De La Torre led the way for the Gladiators as he scored 18 points in an 81-63 playoff win.

Cabrillo College came into the game undefeated winning games against Ohlone and Skyline Col-lege. The Gladiators also had a streak of their own, beating Monterey Peninisu-la and West Valley College.

The Seahawks jumped to an early lead as sopho-more guard Aaron Short hit two three point shots giving Cabrillo a 10-3 lead five minutes into the game. Cabrillo continued to domi-nate in the first half, as turn-overs by the Gladiators did not help their cause.

A three pointer by guard Jameal York helped the Gladiators cut the lead before the half came to an end, as Cabrillo led

Chabot 24-31 at halftime.The second half was a

different story.Gladiator Damarius

“Suge” Jones hit a three point shot right out of the gate, giving Chabot a much needed spark to be-gin the half.

“When he’s open or there’s a guy one foot in front of him he’s go-ing to shoot that,” said second year guard Kur-tis Ong on the freshman from Texas. “He is going to make it every time.”

The Seahawks lead started to shrink as the Gladiators played aggres-sive defense and forced turnovers. Jones would make another three cut-ting down Cabrillo’s lead 38-43 with 12 minutes left in the game.

Cabrillo, however, did not give the lead up easily. Short and guard Erik Witzig hit back-to-back three pointers to extend the Seahawks lead,52-41, with less than 10 minutes to play.

The Gladiators an-swered back by mak-ing shots of their own. Freshman Terrell Gates and Jones both hit shots beyond the key and made i t a five-point game with eight minutes left in the contest.

Jones sixth and last three of the half came with four minutes left in the game, as his shot tied the game at 56. Min-utes later Gladiator point guard Ong slashed his way through Cabrillo’s defense and scored ex-tending Chabot’s lead,63-60, with 30 seconds left in the game.

A desperate half court buzzer beating shot by Se-ahawk Tyler Vasquez hit the rim and bounced out, result-ing in a Chabot 66-63 win.

When asked to de-scribe the win, Gladiator assistant coach Devin Aye answered, “Clutch. One word would be clutch, we had guys step up.”

The Gladiators next home game is Sat, Dec. 17 against DeAnza College.

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NBA owners and players r e a ched a t en t a t ive agreement on Nov. 26 to resume basketball after a five-month lock out.

The NBA saved its season by agreeing to a new ten-year deal that will enable the play to resume in time for Christmas. The shortened season will have two preseason games followed by 66 regular season games.

While the deal isn’t finalized, many of the major issues that stood in the way of an agreement have finally been resolved. Revenue sharing, the most important aspect of the negotiation has been resolved with the players agreeing a 51 to 49 percent split.

It is a much better deal for the owners, whose previous deal had a 43 to 57 split, and should increase their profits by almost $1 billion over the life of the deal. Many other aspects of the deal include:• Contracts maxing out at

five years for players who are re-signing and four years for players that are signing as free agents.

• Teams will be required to spend at least 85 percent of the cap figure on payroll. Beginning in Year three of the deal, the minimum will go up to 90 percent.

• There is an amnesty clause, which allows each team to waive one player and not have it count towards their salary cap.Other impacts of the

deal are the fates of Kenyon Martin, J.R Smith, and Wilson Chandler, all of who signed deals to play in China and who it appears now will be forced to play out the season for their Chinese teams before they come back to the NBA.

With 20 percent of the season now gone the teams and players will have to work to get in shape and have the right chemistry for the upcoming season.

Free agency, which starts Friday Dec. 9, will have to be a quick exercise for any team that is trying to be ready for the Dec. 25 start date. Any team with a large number of players coming back will be a great advantage over other teams.

Overall, though many fans will be happy to see their favorite players coming back and any animosity towards the players or the owners will be gone once the season gets into full swing.

Of course the ten year deal also includes opt out clauses for both, the players and the owners after the sixth year of the deal. Which leaves it open for this whole process to happen again in six years.

As the first week of winter meetings get underway, Major League Baseball has already signed a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between its owners and the MLB Players Association. Unlike the NBA and the NFL, Major League Baseball has successfully avoided the threat of a lockout assuring their fans five more years of labor peace.

Highlights of the deal include:

• All players voted to the All-Star Game must attend, unless injured or excused by the commissioner’s office.

• Blood tests for HGH during spring training and offseason wil l be implemented.

• Instant replay will be expanded to plays involving foul lines and traps.

• The Houston Astros will move from the NL Central to the AL West.

• Inter-league play will last the entire year.

• Two more Wild Card teams will be added to the playoffs.

The deal, while great for the league, has been met with mixed emotions from its fans. Notoriously baseball has been very resistant to change, holding on to the very traditions that has made it America’s pastime for over 100 years.

Purists have been loud in their disapproval of certain aspects of the agreement, most notably the extension of inter-league play throughout the entire 162 game season.

Before the 1997 season, the only inter-league play was in spring training or the World Series, making the meetings special and holding true to baseball’s stance that it actually has two separate leagues.

But now with the Houston Astros moving to the AL, both leagues will consist of 15 teams making it physically impossible to stick strictly to league play.

The elephant in the room has become the designator hitter rule.

The NL has repeatedly refused to use the DH, claiming it takes away from the strategy of the game. But now with the NL and AL essentially becoming one league, it makes no sense to play by two different sets of rules. This is a decision that the MLB has to make that might bring players, owners and fans back at each others throats, but at least there is peace for now.

Chabot beats Cabrillo 66-63By RogeR Molina

SPORTS EDITOR

By BeRnaRd MiRanda

STAFF WRITER

MLB agrees to five year deal By Rashaan Mungo

STAFF WRITER

MLB and MLBPA ensure 21 consecutive years of labor peace.

NBA back in time for Christmas

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Women’s soccer:Amanda Murillo- MFDeandre Britton- F

Men’s soccer:Jose coria-mFalFredo navarro-mF

Football:Josh Pride-db

bryan Jones-rbbrian mickel-rb

volleyball: lisa nguyen-11amy litvinchuk-10

head coach:danny calcagnoamber sammonstony igwemarkus bathelt

Point Guard Terrell Gatesdefends Tyler Velasquez

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