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City College Journalism Students Are Finalists in National MAGGIE Awards Competition

Two City College journalism students are finalists for 2016 national MAGGIE Awards for student publishing. Alysia Thompson is a finalist in the Best Print Magazine Article category for a feature story entitled “Parkour Ascends at City College.” Matthew Patton and Thompson are finalists in the Best Magazine Print Cover category.

City College Journalism Student Picked for Environmental Reporting Fellowship

City College journalism student Calindra Revier received on March 9 a New American Media environmental reporting fellowship. The fellowship includes training and an opportunity to write an environmental-related story for publication in El Tecolote, a biweekly, bilingual newspaper in San Francisco’s Mission District. For her published work, Revier will

City College Journalism Students Capture CCMA Awards

City College journalism students captured five awards during the 2016 California College Media Association competition titled “Excellence in Student Media.” The winners were announced on Feb. 20 during the annual awards banquet at the Sheraton Universal in Los Angeles. They included the following CCSF journalism students: David Hackett First Place

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