Year in Review - Stacy Sare Cohen

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7, 1994
December
SMC '94
Brazilian Festival at SMC
The Year In
Review
□ Newly formed Club Brasil introduces SMC to a sample of Brazilian
culture by kicking off the holiday season in high style.
By Marcelo DaSilva
By Stacy Sare Cohen
Corsair Staff Writer
Corsair Staff Writer
January- Northridge earthquake
February- Free shuttle buses
March- Student workshops
April- SMC still No.l
May- Tuition increases
June- Summer classes
August- Moore resigns
September- Donner appointed
October- Kathleen Brown at SMC
November- Gubernatorial election
December- Holidays
The Jan. 17 Northridge earthquake
hit Santa Monica College the hardest
ofall community colleges, shattering
windows and damaging structures.
Repair costs were initially estimated at $26 million but now are up
to $75 mill ion, due to inspectors finding more structural damage, probably caused by aftershocks.
The closing of the science building
and the damage to more than 300
spaces in the lot B parking structure
created chaos on campus.
Shuttle service from the Santa
Monica Airport has been successful
with buses leaving for SMC approximately every 15 minutes free of
charge.
Summer-session classes were significantly smaller because of cutbacks in state funding.
The November 8 gubernatorial
Above: Earthquake damages SMC
Right Dr. Richard Moore
Below: Students rally against
fee hikes
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CORSAIR STAFF PHOTO
election was a major concern to SMC
staffand students thisyear."Gov. Pete
Wilson has vetoed almost every bill
that enhances education," said Patrick
McCallum, executive director of the
Faculty Association of Calif. Com-
Language Differences Cause
Foreign Students Confusion
By Marcelo DaSilva
Corsair Staff Writer
At the beginning of this semester
I had my very first assignment for a
newspaper: Find out why the Santa
Monica College's admission office
had moved. Well,at leastthat'swhat
I thought my editor wanted me to
cover.
Fearing being labeled stupid, 1
failed to ask the editor to repeat my
assignment to me, and that was,
unfortunately, stupid.
When 1 brought the story to the
Corsair office-—with a big smile on
my face —I got bad news. "This is
not what I asked you to do," said an
irritated editor.
I had once again fallen victim to
the number-one-mistake of nonnative speakers of the English language: misinterpretation.
Most foreign students, particularly those coming to SMC from
countries where English is hardly
spoken or not spoken at all, say they
Please See Language
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STAFF PHOTOS
munity Colleges. "Students face
higher tuition, larger and fewer
classes," he said.
According to the American Civil
Liberties Union, Prop. 187 is unconstitutional. Teachers would be required to report any students who
were suspected of being undocumented.
After Gov. Wilson won the election, he.ordered healthcare workers
to refuse prenatal care and nursing
home admission to anyone suspected
of being an illegal immigrant.
SMC Interim President Tom
Donner said "SMC will not enforce
Prop 187."
After 20 years as SMC president,
Dr. Richard Moore relocated to Nevada in October to work in the community college system. The SMC library will be renamed in his honor.
SMC has been the No.l transfer
college for the past decade. Moore
attributes this success to team work.
"A president has to focus on small
groupsand not wait for the majority,"
he said.
The SMC Board of Trustees appointed Tom Donner SMCs chief
business officer, as interim president.
Donner presented a $3O million plan
for a three-story science complex with
33 percent more space and a computer lab.
,
A festival celebrating Brazilian heritage,
with native music, dance and costumes will
take place at the Santa Monica College Concert Hall Saturday, December 10.
The event is sponsored by the Associated
Studentsand promoted by the recently formed
Club Brasil, which promises to give SMC a
taste of what the Brazilian Culture has to
offer.
Clifton Dobbs 111, counselor at the Collegiate Center and Club Brasil's co-founder
and adviser, said that a lot of people fantasize
about being at a carnival party. That is why he
thought of bringing to SMC a part of the
"biggest street party of the world."
"This is cultural enlightenment," said
Dobbs, who has been fascinated with Brazil
since he got his hands full of Bossa Nova(the
Brazilian new wave which catapulted some
of the best known Brazilian artists into the
musical mainstream during the '6os.)
An array of Brazilian artists will perform
at the event. Sonia Santos will perform songs
both in English and Portuguese, Luizinho and
Banda
will provide the rhythm
of the samba, and Daniel Mazzeu—who performed lambada during the recent Club Row's
presentations —will show some of his skills
on the Brazilian choreography and dance,
among others.
Also performing at the festival is Mestre
Amen who will demonstrate the Brazilian
dance/martial art capoeira, which was created by slaves in Brazil as a form of selfdefense. The dance-like aspect of it was a way
todisguise the martial art so it would not look
so obvious to the slave-owners. Capoeira was
outlawed in Brazil during slavery, but reapPHOTO COURTESY OF CARLA BROWN
peared strong at the beginning of this century Exotic costumes will highlight festival
state
ofBahia.
particularly in the northeastern
"This is top flight entertainment!" Dobbs
Dobbs invites students to attend the festival dressed
said. He said he believes students should take advantage
up in costumes. He said that the best costume will
of this chance to experience Brazilian art and entertainreceive a dinner for two at a Brazilian restaurant in
ment. Dobbs said the open-doors characteristic of the
town.
event is to "encourage people to come and have the
Dobbs is very enthusiastic about this opportunity to
opportunity of seeing the beauty of the Brazilian culture,
present the Brazilian culture to SMC. "I believe that all
free of charge."
According to Club Brasil's president Sandrinha Cruz, cultures have something positive to offer the world
community to embrace and love," he said.
this is the first time that a festival of this kind will happen
The event will take place from 4-8 p.m., and Dobbs
on the weekend before finals. Nonetheless, Dobbs said
invites everybody to come. He said the festival is a gift
that the proximity with the final exams should not preto the SMC faculty, staff, student body and community
vent students from attending the festival.
for a year of hard work and support. He said he believes
"The festival will be a stress buster," Dobbs said. He
that the Concert Hall will be packed with people, whether
also said he believes that if students allow themselves to
wearing costumes or not, because the festival is not an
have some fun, they can go home with a greater disposieveryday event.
tion to do well on their finals.
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