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Chinatown Northbeach Campus Opens With a Celebration After Five Years of Construction

By Dalton AmadorThe GuardsmanCity College officials and the San Francisco public alike celebrated the grand opening of the school’s newly constructed Chinatown campus, providing a cathartic end to a nearly twenty year long struggle to bring a campus to the neighborhood. The ceremony began with The Lion Dance of

Q&As with the Board candidates: Rafael Mandelman

By Carolina Orozco RinconThe Guardsman Why do you want to be a trustee right now in the middle of this accreditation crisis? Well, I have done a lot of stuff for San Francisco. I was on the Building Inspection Commission, on the Board of Appeals and I am into public

Q&A with the Board candidates: Jackson

By Dalton AmadorThe GuardsmanWhy do you want to be a trustee right now in the middle of the accreditation report?I’m running for the Board of Trustees because we’re at a critical point and there will be a lot of tough decisions to make regarding City College’s

Board Candidates Strive to Capture Votes

By Jandean DeocampoThe GuardsmanIn Ocean campus’ Multi Use Building, candidates and Board of Trustees members gathered on Sept. 19 in front of an audience of camera crews, concerned students and voters for a Q&A Forum co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and Educational Access

Music department sings for salvation

By: Dannie HawkinsThe GuardsmanIn the midst of the accreditation crisis, you may have heard a rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s classic song “We will survive” passionately played from a worn piano in the Creative ArtsBuilding while faculty member Helen Dilworth feverishly sang with an operatic coloratura soprano.If the Accrediting

Local artist "spits" law and rap

By Shane MenezThe Guardsman Kae Ranoa’s upbringing as a poor Filipina-American is self-described as “arrested, chewed up, and spitted out.” That personal history has led her to working in careers which allow her to bring voices to female rappers underrepresented in hip-hop as her stage persona Hopie Spitshard, and

Latino Heritage Month: Revolutionary painters celebrated

By Marilyn Fernando & Jandean Deocampo The Guardsman Across City College spaces, from art bars to the Southeast campus, appreciation for two dynamic Latino artists has culminated in lectures and exhibits that explore the abiding timelessness of their work. “Frida and Diego: The Past is Present,” reflects the lasting effects