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ABIGAIL MONEDASta! writer

On Sept. 11, 2001, a national tragedy struck America. The stories told by two Ohlone stu-dents show that echoes of that event continue to affect Americans today.

Abdullah Khan Niazi, an Ohlone student and a Muslim, was 7 years old when the attack hap-pened. He was subsequently bullied and the victim of racial slurs targeting his cultural and ethnic background.

Niazi and Thant M. Thini experienced this hate- and fear-filled fallout from different per-spectives. Thini, an Ohlone biotech major, was also a child in 2001, but she grew up in a Chris-tian household. She had many Muslim friends. In the aftermath of 9/11, Thini’s family forbade her from being friends with Muslims.

“I didn’t care what my family had to say,” Thini said. “I know my friends, and I know they would never do anything to hurt me.”

Both Thini and Niazi suffered constant ha-rassment from people who generalize that all Muslims are terrorists. Every time someone insensitively accused Niazi of being a terrorist, it made going to class less and less tolerable for him. He knew he wasn’t the one at fault, but he still needed to find the strength to realize who he really was as a person.

Thini knew that a person being Muslim did not mean they were associated with the attack, but it took a lot of courage to go against her family’s wishes and act on what she believed to be right.

“America needs to be more open-minded,” she said.

RYAN PARCHEREditor-in-chief

About 30 portable classrooms are sitting unused this semester on the Fremont campus after there was a delay obtaining permits.

In addition to occupying 455 sorely needed parking spots, the decision not to use the portable classrooms and offices caused confusion for students looking for classes that had been moved last-minute, and frustration for faculty forced out of offices or shuffled around.

Heidi Birch, a program manager with Gilbane Building Co., said the plan was to use the buildings this semester, but in the end, teachers would not have had adequate time to set up classes and offices.

The problem was a delay in obtaining the necessary permits from the Divi-sion of State Architect, officials said. The classrooms are leased from Mobile Modular. A contractor is then hired to connect all the power, data, plumbing and sewage. The DSA oversees construc-tion on state-funded schools, ensuring it is done according to applicable build-ing codes.

Ron Little, Ohlone’s vice president of finance, said the portable classrooms, or “swing space,” were being rolled out in two phases. The first phase included the general classrooms and several of-fices. The second phase will include the specialized classrooms and the remain-ing offices.

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ALBERT REBOSURASports editor

After spending the last four years as an assistant coach at the University of Hawaii, Fremont native Scott Fisher stepped up to the head coach position for the Ohlone men’s basketball program.

Although Fisher said his time at UH was a great learn-ing experience, he said he is looking forward to being a head coach again.

Fisher is one of two new basketball coaches at Ohlone. Liz Rizza will head the women’s basketball team.

“The Ohlone job should

be more fun and what it will take to enjoy this job again,” Fisher said.

Before his time at UH, Fisher was the head coach for the Perth Wildcats in Australia’s National Basket-ball League, where he led the team to the NBL finals in each of his four years there.

Fisher played profession-ally around the world for 16 years. Winning most valu-able player twice and three league championships high-lighted his time in Australia and explains his place in the NBL Hall of Fame.

Fisher was naturalized as an Australian citizen in

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Instructor honored

Computer applica-tions teacher Christine Sibley has been named the Faculty Person of the Month for September.

Sibley worked in the health care industry and probation department for several years before pursuing a career in edu-cation. She has worked as a librarian and computer applications instructor at Ohlone for six years.

She serves on the Com-puter Applications and Occupational Technol-ogy Advisory Committee, and the BSM Supervisory Committee.

Cafeteria to host Soul Surge

The Soul Surge open mic event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in the Cafeteria on the Fremont campus.

The event is for Ohlone students only, and a stu-dent ID card is required. Sign-up is at 11:30 a.m. Performance slots are limited.

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Club Days Sept. 23-24

Ohlone students can find out more about the variety of clubs on cam-pus at Club Days, com-ing up Sept. 23 and 24.

Club Days, including free food and activities, will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of Hyman Hall.

Care package for trustee

Ohlone officials are orga-nizing a “care package” for Trustee Garrett Yee, who is serving a yearlong deploy-ment in Kuwait. Recom-mended items include:

- Edibles such as k-cups (coffee), beef jerky (make sure package states USDA beef), candy (not choco-late), energy bars, chips, pretzels, nuts, and cookies.

- Non-edibles such as baby wipes, lip balm, hand lotion, and AA and D bat-teries.

Items should be dropped off to Jackie Whitehouse in the Foundation Office, Room 1141, by Friday so the package can be sent to the 335th Signal Command by mid-September.

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The bus routes serving the Fremont campus have been moved from Pine Street to Witherly Lane be-cause of construction work.

AC Transit lines 210 and 217 now will pick up and drop off passengers at two new stops off Witherly, at Key A near Building 4 and at Key B west of the Smith Center.

In addition, two new stop signs have been added on Witherly at Key B to make it safer for buses to turn.

Line 210 will continue to serve its regular stops on Bryant Street at Pine Street and on Bryant Street at Anza Street.

The changes will not af-fect bus service to the New-ark campus.

Meanwhile, Lot P is still restricted to authorized

construction vehicles, hu-man resources applicants, specified administrative personnel, and vehicles with disabled parking per-mits. There also is one fac-ulty-only 15-minute park-ing space.

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The 30th annual Ohlone College Golf Tournament will be held Sept. 22 at Cas-tlewood Country Club in Pleasanton.

The daylong tournament costs $250 per player.

Proceeds from the tour-nament support Ohlone’s athletic programs, helping to pay for facility upgrades, travel, equipment and uni-forms.

Registration for the tour-nament will be at 9:30 a.m., followed by breakfast at 10 a.m. and tee off at 11:30 a.m. A banquet, including awards and an auction, will be from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

For more information about the tournament, go to www.ohlonefoundation.org/events, email registra-tion@ohlonecollegegolf.org or call the Ohlone Col-lege Foundation office at 510-659-6020.

Tee-up to support Ohlone College

Lot B next to Hyman Hall, where the portable class-rooms have been placed, is closed, including the un-fenced area along the east side of the lot.

In Newark, the previous temporary lot is now paved

and lighted, and will be a permanent parking lot.

There also is an unlit tem-porary lot open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The lot will be closed after 5 p.m. and on week-ends for safety reasons.

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age and data connections were not necessary for the general classrooms and of-fices, and so the plan was to complete them during Phase Two of construction. However, the DSA required that those connections be completed for the Phase One buildings before the necessary permits could be granted.

“It was a tight schedule to begin with,” said Little, explaining the decision to delay use of the buildings.

While the delay did end up causing some confusion at the start of the semester, it will not directly cost Ohlone any extra money, Little said, explaining that Ohlone will not begin lease payments to Mobile Modular for the classrooms until the build-ings are actually occupied by students.

Also, Little said, there

is an upside to the delay. When students begin using the classrooms next spring,

the asphalt should be re-surfaced, the landscaping should be completed and

the area should look more like a village than a con-struction site.

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Niazi said he still is treated as though he had something to do with the tragedy that happened on the other side of the country, but he doesn’t let it affect his self-image.

Sept. 11, 2001, will al-ways mark one of the most tragic days in American

history. The outcome left many people bitter, and sometimes created strife between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans. Here however, amid the diver-sity found on Ohlone’s campus, is an example of how strength of character can overcome the oppres-sive influence of fear and hatred.

RYAN PARCHEREditor-in-chief

The accreditation team, which evaluated Ohlone College last March, released its official report over the summer. The report reaf-firmed Ohlone’s accredita-tion for another six years.

“This is the excellent outcome we were striving for,” Ohlone President Gari Browning said in her State of the College address in August.

Browning went on to say Ohlone was one of seven col-leges to be reaffirmed out of 18 colleges looked at by the commission.

“Some of our neighbor colleges, including West Val-ley, Mission, Evergreen Val-ley, and San Jose City were among those sanctioned,” Browning said.

The accreditation report included eight commenda-tions for Ohlone. According to Browning, most colleges receive only two or three commendations. “In several areas where other colleges typically receive recommen-dations, we received praise,”

she said.The report also included

seven recommendations for Ohlone. Three recommen-dations address urgent is-sues Ohlone should address in order to meet accredita-tion standards. Ohlone will have to provide a follow-up report addressing those is-

sues by March 15. The other four recom-

mendations are intended to help Ohlone increase its institutional effectiveness. Ohlone is expected to show progress on those issues by the time its midterm report is due, in three years.

The accreditation report

also followed up on recom-mendations made at the time of the last evaluation in 2008. The report indicated that Ohlone had success-fully met all eight of the previous recommendations.

The entire report is avail-able at www.ohlone.edu/org/accreditation

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FEATURES4MITCHELL WALTHERFeatures editor

Experiments are usually saved for the science lab, but the movie “Boyhood” takes the test tubes out onto the silver screen.

Directed and written by Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”is a literal coming-of-age movie. Filmed over a period of 12 years, the film follows the character of Mason, a young boy who grows up to be a man.

The actors play the same characters throughout the movie, and they age over the course of the film.

Acting in such a movie would take considerable dedi-cation, and Ellar Coltrane maintains a strong lead, ma-turing and playing a normal everyday boy, a rebellious pre-teen, and an existential young adult.

The rest of the cast is su-perb as well, starring Ethan Hawke as Mason’s estranged father, Patricia Arquette as his troubled mother, and the di-rector’s daughter Lorelei Lin-klater nailing a performance as Mason’s sister.

“Boyhood” is a movie every-one should see, but it is also very hard to pin down.

Surreal is how you will feel

throughout the film. The events they talk about, the music on the radio, the shows on TV; they are a perfect rep-resentation of the past dozen years.

Something simple like copying reality succeeds and creates a strong air of nostal-gia. It offers a great opportu-nity for young adult viewers to really ponder the world they grew up in.

The culture around Mason progresses naturally as we see him move from city to city and watch him find himself sur-rounded by different music, activities, and people.

If Linklater’s goal was to capture reality on film, then this movie is a monumental achievement.

Reality is all around us though, so is the story worth the almost three-hour run time? Careful pacing allows us to take deep breaths through-out and completely submerge ourselves in this boy’s life.

With twists and turns that feel truly stranger than fiction, the simplicity of events make this a movie you won’t want to have end.

Each stage of early life is given sufficient screen time and explored in all of its victo-ries, failures and silver linings.

While it’s impossible to call this film anything other than a drama, you will laugh almost as much as you want to cry, and smile the whole while through. The saddest bit will not come from an on-screen tragedy, however, but from feeling like you truly know Mason.

As the credits roll, you’ll have to remind yourself that he doesn’t exist, even if the

world he lived in did.

Boyhood is a journey worth tak-ing, and though long, is definitely nowhere near the 12-year adven-ture the creators put themselves through to give us this breathtaking work of art.

Bliss presents‘Precious Gems’ dance show

ALIZAIB LODHIOnline editor

Bliss Dance Co. will p e r f o r m “ P r e c i o u s Gems,” an Ohlone Col-lege Summerfest fund-raiser show, at the Am-phitheater on the Fre-mont campus next week.

The show, about a w o m a n ’s j o u r n e y through the mystical

world of diamonds, sap-phires, rubies and emer-alds, will begin at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20.

Guest artists will in-clude GroovMekanex Lockers, Floetic Move-ment and Epic Foot-print.

Tickets cost $15 for adults and $12 for chil-dren, students, staff and seniors.

CINDY LEWISOhlone student

I just moved to the Bay Area in April. Participating in the Color Run 5k Mara-thon in downtown San Jose was my first exposure to my new community. So May 31 we put on our shoes.

The real fun began once the runners were released into the streets.

Every kilometer or so there was a different color station, with volunteers enthusiastically dousing runners in colored paint powder.

At the end of the mara-thon an immense festival greeted us.

Participants were given their own packets of pow-der and a battle ensued.

I swear I was stained green for a week. It was definitely an energetic ex-perience all around, and I’m looking forward to my next 5k on Oct. 18. This time it will be a Blacklight Run through the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds at dusk.

See you there.

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Starring in‘Sweeney Todd’

Rocking out atBFD

MARLENE VIRELASOhlone student

This summer I was cast in Ohlone’s Summerfest production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” It was di-rected by Ryan Weible.

It was a musical of epic proportions and we were lucky to have sensational people working on the show, both performers and tech.

It’s not every summer you get to act alongside such an amazing group of individuals. Even with such a dark-toned story, when-ever the audience couldn’t see us, we were all smiles.

As a member of the ensemble, I was fortu-nate enough to see it all come together. All of the quirks and perfect mo-ments made it a time I will never forget.

It was amazing to be onstage and be a part of the murder, revenge and cannibalism.

It was an insane amount of fun that I’d do all over again.

MITCHELL WALTHERFeatures editor

There are so many music festivals over the summer, it’s easy to lose track and forget where you ended up.

I had a chance to go to radio station Live 105’s BFD festival. Headliners included Fitz & The Tan-trums, Kongos and Foster the People.

The only thing I can really say is it was a blast!

There was a good mix of local and well-known art-ists, and the Subsonic Tent put on a good party.

As with any big event, the beer was overpriced and I gritted my teeth through one Stella before I decided I didn’t want to make my wallet too angry.

The rock scene defintely feels different, though. The bands are mellow com-pared to previous years, and people are more focused on a good time than a wild ride.

Overall, BFD was easily a highlight of the Bay Area’s summer and I can’t wait to go back next year and rock out.

FEATURES 5MITCHELL WALTHERFeatures editor

Every year on the last Sunday in August, Fre-mont’s Niles neighborhood puts on a town-wide flea market. This year was no exception, as locals poured out every garage-sale item they could find.

From little totem heads to vintage welcome signs, if you wanted it, chances are you could find it.

This annual event has been a tradition for so long that strange items have been traded from house to house. Someone buys it, keeps it a year, then sells it back on the street 365 days later.

A fitting finale to the summer, friends and family can scrounge up whatever cash they can find to spend on a few treasures.

Pick any home in the Niles area, and it’s almost a guarantee the interior is filled with flea market prizes.

There’s also food and dancing, with the grills fired up and the zumba blasting down main street. Though this year’s fair has come and gone, keep your eyes peeled next August.

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MITCHELL WALTHERFeatures editor

Hopefully most people know about the recent be-headings of reporters James Foley and Steven Sotloff by ISIS militants.

The killings were filmed and uploaded to the Inter-net, accompanied by the speeches of both the victims and the terrorists. Graphic decapitations don’t make it onto CNN or FOX, though, and even YouTube had them taken down within minutes.

A quick Google search will surface the videos, but the question remains: “What is the responsibility of news outlets when it comes to showing the public the true nature of war and terror?”

Do we need to see what these people are willing to do to our own, or is being told of the atrocities enough for the American public?

This double-edged sword of journalism is not a new is-sue. The censoring of war has been going on since before we could even take pictures.

Stills of victory will always make it onto the front page over photos of the dead. Even just a couple years ago, the question of published war crimes was active, as Ohlone ethics Professor Wayne Yuen pointed out.

“Does it have to be the full video, with the gore includ-ed?” he said. “I really asked myself this when Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002. I watched the whole video, and

it was very uncomfortable to watch. But it also helped me understand the lengths that (al-Qaida) was willing to go for their cause, which made me get a better sense of their flawed character.”

When our government gets called out, and our civil-ians are brutally murdered, should officials be the only ones to hear? Ohlone jour-nalism Professor Bill Parks’ opinion is clear: “Of course the public needs to know what is going on, and it is the duty of the press to tell them.”

It’s not a black and white issue, though. There are the victims to think of. War begets humiliating forms of death, even if faced fearlessly. The brutality of our enemies is something we need to con-

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“When I was young, I thought it was a movie on the TV screen. I remember being scared”

ASHLEY WHENPsychology

“My mom’s co-workers were killed in the Jewish Center next to the Twin Towers”

DANIEL MARQUEZUndecided

“I was really scared. … My aunt was in New York at the time”

YUSVA ILYASComputer engineering

“After 9/11, they changed the immigration laws, which made it harder for me”

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front, however, and sheltering the public from reality will only stifle the resolve of a country and promote further ignorance.

Yuen is quick to remind us of the importance of tact, however.

“I think that the media also has an obligation to report on these beheadings with a touch of sensitivity as well,” he said. “How the media re-ports on these topics could deeply harm people who are connected intimately with these reporters. Families and friends are grieving for their loss, and it may be difficult

for them to escape their loved one’s last moments, since it is now recorded saved on the Internet forever.”

The respectability of this doesn’t end with news station or the journalists. Once the facts are made clear, people have to make a choice. They can opt not to allow these be-headings to serve as terrorist propaganda.

News is a vehicle and cata-lyst, not the end of an issue.

“If the public demands responsible journalism, that’s what they will get,” Parks said. “Education, awareness, action.”

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1993 and represented the basketball team that placed fourth in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Coaching wasn’t always what Fisher wanted to do after his playing career.

“I stayed away from bas-ketball,” he said. “I did TV work for two years.”

The Perth Wildcats eventually convinced Fisher to become their head coach, but the tran-sition from being a player to a coach wasn’t easy at first.

“As a player I worried about myself first, but as a coach, it’s how could I put the players first,” he said.

Fisher has been coach-

ing for nine years now, and has found himself back in his hometown of Fremont, where his basketball career began. He attended Mis-sion San Jose High School, class of 1981, and actually played his last ever game for MSJ at Ohlone’s Epler Gymnasium.

Fisher’s coaching style is “always evolving” and

focused on “trying to get better and learn a little more every day,” he said.

Fisher views his return to the Bay Area as an “op-portunity to give back.” He said he wasn’t inter-ested in earning coaching accolades, but intends to focus on the Ohlone play-ers.

“I’ve done all that: I’m in

three hall of fames, I’m a two time MVP in Australia and I averaged 20 (points) and 10 (rebounds) in three different countries,” he said.

Fisher’s coaching debut will be here at Ohlone’s Epler Gymnasium at the Jonathan Wallace Tourna-ment, which starts on Nov. 6 and ends on Nov. 8.

SPORTS

MEN’S SOCCER

Friday, 1:30 p.m. vs. Folsom Lake College, Accinelli Park, Union City Sept. 26, 1:30 p.m. vs. Shasta College, Accinelli Park, Union City

Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m. vs. Mon-terey Peninsula College, Tak Stadium, Fremont

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Sept. 23, 4:30 p.m. vs. Las Posi-tas College, Tak Stadium, Fre-mont

Oct. 3, 1:30 p.m. vs. City Col-lege of San Francisco, Central Park, Fremont

Oct. 10, 1:30 p.m. vs. Skyline College, Central Park, Fremont

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Times are good

It’s an exciting time to be a fan of Bay Area sports teams.

The Bay Area is spoiled with a num-ber of successful sports franchises. The San Francisco Giants have won two World Series the past four years.

In Oakland, the Athletics haven’t won a World Series since 1989 – against the Gi-ants – but they have a roster that’s consis-tently in the playoffs and have the poten-tial to win it all year after year.

The San Jose Sharks have made the play-offs for 15 consecu-tive seasons, and al-though they haven’t won the Stanley Cup in their 23-year exis-tence, there’s no de-nying that the Sharks have been the most consistent winning team in the Bay Area.

The Golden State Warriors went from a team that could barely win 20 games in a season to making the playoffs the past two seasons, earning the reputation of one of the most exciting teams to watch in the NBA.

The San Francis-co 49ers have come close to being Super Bowl champions the past three seasons, including making it to the big dance in 2013.

The Oakland Raid-ers obviously haven’t been as successful as other local teams, but I can say that the transition from the late Al Davis is com-ing to a close and they seem to be going in the right direction.

The NFL season started last weekend, and MLB playoffs as well as the NBA and NHL season start in October.

Let’s kick back and enjoy this wonder-ful time for Bay Area sports, and try not to remember the years of bad draft picks, missing the playoffs, barely winning any games, and all the years of frustration.

VOLLEYBALL

Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m. vs. Canada College, Epler Gymnasium, Fre-mont campus

Oct. 17, 6:30 p.m. vs. Gavilan College, Epler Gymnasium, Fre-mont campus

Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m. vs. Skyline College, Epler Gymnasium, Fre-mont campus

MEN’S WATERPOLO

Oct. 10, 3 p.m. vs. West Valley College, Swimming Pool, Fre-mont campus

Oct. 22, 3 p.m. vs. De Anza Col-lege, Swimming Pool, Fremont campus

WOMEN’S WATERPOLOCanceled

Upcoming Renegades games

ALBERT REBOSURASports editor

After getting swept in the first match against Lassen College on Wednesday, the Ohlone Lady Renegades turned in a great perfor-mance to defeat Los Meda-nos College in the second match 3-1.

“We played a solid game,” Head Coach Jer-emy Penaflor said about his team’s performance against Los Medanos in the Ohlone College Classic.

“We had favorable match-ups and we used that to our advantage.”

After middle blocker and captain Shelby Bolduc was lost for the season due to a torn ACL, newly appointed captains setter Briana Hill and outside hitter Jennifer Brochu picked up the slack for their injured captain.

“Jenny played like a captain. She’ll always be a good offensive threat,” said Penaflor, describing Brochu’s 22-kill perfor-mance.

The first game started out even as both teams exchanged points, but the Lady Renegades led 15-8 midway. Ohlone domi-nated the rest of the game as they scored points in a variety of ways to win the first game 25-16.

Los Medanos came out on fire in the second game, taking a 10-6 lead. The Lady Renegades ral-lied to tie the game 11-11, and then kept the scoring up to take the lead 15-11. The rest of the game was close but Ohlone prevailed in the end, winning the game 25-21 off a great tip by Alexis Chang.

The third game was all Los Medanos as the Lady Renegades struggled to score and made some cost-ly errors. Ohlone did make a comeback led by the play from Brochu, closing the gap to one point, but Los Medanos responded with

a surge of their own and only allowed the Lady Ren-egades to score one point after the rally. Los Meda-nos won the third game 25-17.

Penaflor made adjust-ments before game four, adding another setter to the lineup, and the move helped as the energized Lady Renegades got off to a hot start, 9-3.

Los Medanos put up a good fight, keeping the score close at 15-10 as Ohlone struggled to get a rhythm going offensively.

With the score 24-12, the Lady Renegades were one point away from winning the match but Los Medan-os made things interesting, scoring six straight points to make the score 24-18. Their rally was cut short, however, and Ohlone wrapped up the game and won the match 25-18.

The Lady Renegades’ next game is Friday against Columbia College in So-nora.