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San Francisco, Calif.

State Championship

State Championship

By Dakari Thomas As the clock ran down to zero and players began rejoicing with their families, the City College Rams completed their historic season on March 13 with a California Community College Athletics Association (CCCAA) State Championship win over the reigning champion Saddleback College Gauchos 68-57. Head coach Justin

City College Faculty Arrested In Labor Protest

By Patrick Fitzgerald and Audrey Garces Amid giant skyscrapers, hundreds of protesters’ chants echoed off the office of Jeff Sloan, the chief attorney for negotiations on March 11, calling demands for fair faculty wages and stronger support of higher education for both cultural enrichment classes and careers-oriented classes. “We are

Vexed Teachers May Strike For Higher Wages

By Audrey Garces Hoping to deliver a “wake-up call” to the district, the president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 2121 announced on March 10 that union members voted 92 percent in favor of the union executive board’s call for a strike. “Today we stand united for a

Jury Finds No Wrongdoing In Nieto Case

By Marco Siler-Gonzales The Nieto family will see no reparation, monetary or otherwise, from the City of San Francisco for their son’s killing at the hands of San Francisco police officers. City College student Alex Nieto was shot and killed in Bernal Heights Park on March 21, 2014 by

March 23 - April 13, 2016 Campus Briefs

Batmale Gets Makeover Construction began Saturday, March 19, on Batmale Hall at Ocean Campus to fix energy consumption, temperature and air-flow problems. The seven-story, 129-room building will be brought into compliance with the 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, mandated by the California Energy Commission. “They’re going to be working

Title Dreams End in Tilt With Huskies

By Shannon Cole The Rams women’s basketball season came to a disappointing end on March 11 as they lost their Final Four match up to the East Los Angeles College Huskies 47-51 in the California Community College Athletics Association’s (CCCAA) playoff basketball tournament. City College entered the CCCAA

Striving for Independence

Striving for Independence

By Dakari Thomas At first glance, Scott Samuels might not come off as a rapper. The 39-year-old who also goes by S-Class identifies as a socially-conscious MC whose lyrics discuss subject matter like environmental degradation, animal rights, gentrification and for-profit prisons. Samuels is both a musician and the head of