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Volume 60, Number 12

City Choice ’06

Student Center on AS ballot this month News, page 3

Serving the San Diego City College community since 1945

April 4, 2006

Winning season so far for Knights badminton By Shanika Whaley City Times Badminton has started off with a great season. Winning all games and competing in tournaments, the team sees no failure in sight. On March 17, the City College Knights played against Mesa College in the Harry West Gym. With City leading Mesa through the entire game, the Knights took it home 21-0. The Knights’ current status is five wins, no losses. Defeating teams Lai Nguyen such as Orange Coast College, Fullerton and Santa Ana College, all games have ended with a 21-0 score, except for winning against four time state champion Irvine Valley 13-8. “I like it,” player Lai Nguyen said of the game. “I’ve been playing for five years now. Badminton is fun, it requires mentality, but it’s enjoyable.” The biggest achievement for the Knights was the recent tournament in Pasadena. Playing against other teams from Southern California, they took home first place in singles and first place in doubles. Ana Lozano won second place in the consultation round. “We took it home,” Ana Lozano said after mentioning the tournament statistics. Lai Nguyen placed first in the singles bracket, and was ranked third in the nation for badminton. Anh Le and Jenny Park also placed in the singles tournament, but in the bottom bracket, still in

Dashiell Kuhr / City Times Students from San Diego High School, located next to City College, march east on C Street past the college on March 28.

Thousands protest immigration bill City College students take part in LA rally By Jenelle Jung City Times More than 500,000 people flooded the streets of downtown Los Angeles to protest immigration reform on March 25. The topic was Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s H.R. 4437, a bill that will equate transporting undocumented immigrants to smuggling and subject those crossing the border illegally to possible imprisonment, not only deportation. Those who oppose the bill say it will criminalize these immigrants. Officially the “Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005,” it is a legislation that is working its way through the Senate. The day was put on by a large number of groups, radio stations and students, teaming up to make this one of the largest protests the nation has witnessed since Vietnam War times. The march commenced at 10 a.m. at Olympic Blvd. and Broadway Ave., and ended at Los Angeles City Hall where Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke. “They should be humane,

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they should respect families, they should reward hard work,” Mayor Villaraigosa said. “They should create an avenue so that people who work hard, play by the rules and who have not gotten in trouble with the law are able to have some earned legalization.” The day was characterized by the sounds of drums beats, helicopters overhead and chants for change. Thousands of signs were raised such as “Take a Stand, Vote No,” “Full Rights for All Immigrants” and “Not Criminals.” A number of City College students were involved and carpooled via bus to join the march, leaving the LRC at about 7:30 a.m. City student Jazmin Morelos helped organize the campus’ involvement, and flyers were distributed around school inviting students to ride the bus and march. Of these students were cousins and freshmen Raquel Coronado and Elizabeth Mariscal. Mariscal compared it to the protests she had seen at home in San Diego. “It was more exciting because there are more Mexicans here (in Los Angeles). They come out more stronger.” “At school we met Jazmin. She was promoting it at school, and we wanted to do something

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Josie Salazar / City Times City College students protest at a second rally at Chicano Park on March 31. A march followed the rally, drawing nearly 5,000 people.

Students march to Chicano Park By Shanika Whaley City Times Students from San Diego County area high schools, including San Diego High and several students from City College, marched through downtown to Chicano Park on March 28, protesting the new immigration law. City College students also protested on March 31. The H.R. 4437 bill makes it difficult for immigrants with-

out proper documentation to come to the United States. The law would also allow the government to ask immigrants to join a “guest worker” program. If the law passes, it would consider the already large number of undocumented immigrants in the nation as felons. The immigrants would face jail time or could be deported, leaving their American-born

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