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Students in dark about accreditation

By Jen Verzosa and Jackson Ly The Guardsman As the deadline for City College’s Show Cause and Closure Report looms, Student Trustee William Walker organized two town hall-style forums Jan. 24 at Ocean Campus’s Ram Plaza to educate a student populace largely in the dark about the facts

Bus hub on Ocean to get a new look

By Madeline Collins The Guardsman Construction will begin this month on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Phelan Loop project which will replace the existing Muni bus loop on Phelan Avenue near City College. The new loop will utilize part of the existing loop as well as expand to

Laney narrowly defeats City College in double header season openers

By Dan Harrington The Guardsman It was San Francisco versus Oakland this past Friday and Saturday, the first baseball games of the season for the City College Rams and the Laney College Eagles. Laney won both games, 6-0 and 9-2. Freshman John Patrick Dunne started the home opener for City

Faculty spotlight: Greg Landau

Both a teacher and a music producer, his latest album is nominated for a Grammy By Jen Verzosa The Guardsman By 9 p.m. on Mission campus, the cavernous classrooms are vacant with the exception of room 162, where Music 25: Music of Latin America and the Caribbean is taught.

State Chancellor optimistic about the future but warns City College is not "too big to fail"

by Jandean Deocampo The Guardsman The conference room looked more like a war room scene from a movie than the site of a City College Board of Trustees meeting. Cameramen checked their machines. Soundboard technicians busied themselves over dials and switches. They were all waiting. Waiting for the hush, the

Kicking California Community Colleges when they are down: Do we really need a UC Regent to insult us?

Staff Editorial Funding for California Community Colleges has been cut by $809 million, or 12 percent, since 2008-09, according to the Chancellor’s office. Last month, Gov. Jerry Brown announced his proposed budget for the fiscal year 2013, which included $197 million in additional funding for the state’s community

The payroll tax increase hurts low income workers

By Dalton Amador The Guardsman The punditocracy and public opinion are unanimous: President Barack Obama “won” the fiscal cliff deal. The United States Congress, for the first time in almost 20 years, voted to raise taxes on the wealthy and avoided cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. President Obama