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Change is coming with Project Change
May 11, 2021
Christian Carlo Ceguerra, Features Editor
COVID cancels the diamond
May 8, 2021
Zack Navarra, Reporter
Skyline hosts symposium to display social science and humanities projects
May 6, 2021
Monica Grace Dollezon-Yu, Reporter
Dr. Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza set to become CSM’s new president
May 5, 2021
Steven Rissotto, News Editor
Our true press freedom is under threat
May 4, 2021
Marco Milani, Opinions Editor
Where would mathematics take me?
May 3, 2021
Christian Carlo Ceguerra, Features Editor
Looking back on 100 days of President Joe Biden
May 1, 2021
Zack Navarra, Reporter
Bad timing
April 30, 2021
Hunter Feiner
TSV Sports Show Ep. 25
April 29, 2021
Review on Oracle Park
April 28, 2021
Steven Rissotto, News Editor
Fall Season being cancelled took a toll on the Women’s Soccer team
April 27, 2021
Arman Archouniani, Reporter
From the backyard to the college diamond
April 27, 2021
Steven Rissotto, News Editor
Why going to community college out of high school is a good idea
April 26, 2021
Marco Milani, Opinions Editor
Skyline Colleges Need for AB 53: A General Election Holiday
April 26, 2021
Zack Navarra, Reporter
Skyline is making the most out of teaching communication through a screen
April 25, 2021
Zack Navarra, Reporter
We say no to filtered and surface level reporting
April 25, 2021
Editorial Board
The man from the Bronx does it again
April 24, 2021
Arman Archouniani, Reporter
It’s Whacks world and we’ve only caught a glimpse
April 24, 2021
Jasper Lindsey, Sports Editor
Early Childhood Education: an overlooked program
April 23, 2021
Christian Carlo Ceguerra, Features Editor
The official end to the first Forever War
April 23, 2021
Zack Navarra, Reporter

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This Morning @potus and the CDC released and statement saying that people that are FULLY vaccinated don’t longer need a mask indoors and outdoors, however @gavinnewsom stated that this wouldn’t be effective in California until June 16.

How do you feel about this? Please let us know in the comment section below!
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COVID cancels the diamond Four games have been ca

COVID cancels the diamond

Four games have been canceled for the Skyline baseball team

Last week, the Skyline baseball team suffered a minor setback caused by one positive COVID-19 test. In response, four games have been canceled, two that would have taken place last week and two that would have taken place this week.
Those that would have taken place last week would have been non-conference games against the San Mateo Bulldogs, and were meant to be held on April 29 and April 30. The ones that would have taken place this week were conference games against the Cañada Colts and were meant to be held on May 6 and May 7.
“We did have one positive result this week,” Head Coach Dino Nomicos said. “The individual then tested the next day again and was negative. The individual has no symptoms.”
In accordance with San Mateo County protocols, the individual who tested positive for COVID-19 was instructed to quarantine for 14 days. Five members of the team who had been in close contact with the individual were also instructed to quarantine for the same period of time.
“The only reason all six members were asked to quarantine was because they were in a van together driving to a game for 45 minutes,” Nomicos said.
Despite the absences, 25 players were still available to train this week. However, the game roster was impacted by the missing players to an extent that meant that the team could not play.

To read more, go to: www.theskylineview.com

#covidsports #smccd #skylinecollegesports #skylinecollege #sportjournalist

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display social science and humanities projects
The virtual event featured students, experts, and creative ideas

By: Monica Grace Dollezon-Yu, Reporter
Skyline College’s first annual uSOAR, Undergraduate Symposium of Academic Research, brought together student researchers, student leaders, and professors to share the fruits of their conducted research. �
The symposium, a virtual event, is a showcase of research projects related to topics in social sciences and humanities. Based on experience, researchers in the event academically challenged themselves to explore their “why” in the topic of interest, connect their findings across multiple disciplines, and build solutions to certain issues community-wise through their research.
Danni Redding Lapuz, who is the Skyline College Dean for Social Science and Creative Arts, further expanded on the point of research being transformative and impactful in a student’s educational experience. ��
“The process of conducting and writing about your own research is an act of empowerment,” Lapuz said. “Student researchers shift from consuming academic content that is selected for them to becoming academic content creators. This is a powerful reframing of our students’ relationships to learning, and it elevates diverse voices and perspectives in scholarship. Our vision with uSOAR is the creation of a symposium to raise our undergraduate research scholar voices and demystify the research process. We are so excited to bring the uSOAR vision to fruition at Skyline College.”��
The first student researcher to present her project was Ellaine Frances Arroyo, who is a biology major at Skyline College, a member of the Honors Transfer Program, and an outreach ambassador at Skyline College. Her research delved into finding methods to better teach organic chemistry to students enrolled in STEM courses, and, in particular, using them to overcome racial, financial, gender, and mental health-related insecurities.

To read more, go to our website ñ: www.theskylineview.com (click in our bio)

Dr. Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza set to become CSM’s

Dr. Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza set to become CSM’s new president

The veteran educator becomes the first person of college in the school’s history

By: Steven Rissotto, News Editor

Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza has been named the next president of the College of San Mateo, after previously serving over 20 years in the educational field, including as Skyline College’s vice president of instruction.
The announcement came after San Mateo County Community College District chancellor Michael Claire recommended Taylor-Mendoza to the Board of Trustees. She will break barriers along the way, like becoming the first person of color to lead the College of San Mateo in its 99-year history. She will also be the school’s third female president.
“We are immensely proud of Dr. Taylor-Mendoza’s appointment as the next President of the College of San Mateo,” Skyline College told The Skyline View in a statement. “She leads with the highest of ethics, care, and compassion, and truly listens to the community in which she serves. She will be a strong leader for social justice, equity, and antiracist efforts at CSM.”
She will begin her tenure as president on July 1.
“I am honored to work alongside CSM’s talented students, faculty, classified professionals, and administrators to continue the college’s rich history of educational excellence,” Taylor-Mendoza said in a statement to SMCCCD. “CSM has been the vehicle for upward economic mobility for generations of San Mateo County residents. I pay tribute to the great work of my predecessors by continuing to build on this important mission, ensuring equitable access and outcomes for all students.”
Taylor-Mendoza holds a Ph.D. in education from Claremont Graduate University, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Northridge, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. She joined SMCCCD in 2011, where she was the founding director of CSM’s Learning Center. In 2017, she was named Skyline’s vice president of instruction.

To read more, go to our website: www.theskylineview.com or click in out bio #smccd #sanmateocollege #schoolnews #newaddition

Where would mathematics take me. By: Christian Ca

Where would mathematics take me.

By: Christian Carlo Ceguerra, Features Editor

I don’t need math in my major!”
“Why are there letters in math?”
“Calculus is difficult, why do I need to study it?”
“I only need arithmetic in my life!”
These are some of the classic harangues that cause students to sigh out of exasperation and frustration with the discipline.
Afterall, apart from English, one’s intellectual abilities are measured with their ability to do problem-solving, as required in aptitude tests such as SAT and ACT, both of which are exams many universities require for admission if you’re applying straight out of high school. In fact, some programs require applicants to take specific math courses before they can be admitted or move on to upper-level courses.
How important is mathematics in one’s career, really? Is it really essential? What difference would it make if students do not take this subject?
Skyline College mathematics professors Phillip Williams and David Hasson offered wisdom and imparted the practical use of math in different careers and its application in real-life scenarios.

To read more, go to our website www.theskylineview.com (click in our bio) #mathmemes #collegelife #smccd #studentnews #studentlife

What it’s going on in Colombia? 🇨🇴 Since

What it’s going on in Colombia? 🇨🇴

Since April 28, millions of Colombians took to the streets of different cities around the country to peacefully protest against a new tax reform. The goal was to ask Colombia's President, Ivan Duque, to withdraw the proposal.

"It's outrageous that - in the middle of a pandemic - while millions of people are starving and dying, the corrupted government wants us to pay more taxes," said California protester Manuel Londoño.

The protests continued, and 3 days ago, the government to ultimately take down the proposal. Unfortunately, it wasn't sent to the congress until this morning.

As days past, protests turned into riots, and the main cites became militarized. Hundreds of people were injured, and at least 19 people have died - many of them minors. Shootings and Bombings have happened in the hands of the police and ESMAD the protests, as well the amount of people on the streets, aiming to bring back peace, while at the same time a new healthcare reform has been trying to take affect.

"This is our 7th day of horror, the main cities haven't had a quiet night of sleep." said Gabriela, a student. "Shootings and helicopters are rumbling outside, there are dead bodies on the streets, right out of a horror movie."

Photo captions:
1.Buga, Valle April 28, Taken by Felipe Orvi ( he kindly allowed us to use his pictures).

2. Puerto Resistencia, Calii, Valle April 29, 2021. Credits: Juan Camilo Lasso.

3. Protesters outside of the Colombia embassy (May 4, 2021).
Photographer : @marki_bear

4. Puerto Resistencia, Cali, Valle.
April 29,2021. Credits: Juan Camilo Lasso.

5 &6: May 4,2021. Buga, Valle.
Photo credits @felipeorvi.

7, & 9:Protesters outside of the Colombia embassy (May 4, 2021).
Photographer : Mark Magat.

You can find more info and videos following these hashtags (discretion it’s advised)
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It’s Whacks world and we’ve only caught a glim

It’s Whacks world and we’ve only caught a glimpse

Rapper Tierra Whack is quickly becoming one of the most creative artists on the scene today.

The rap industry has grown like wildfire in the 21st century, with a plethora of generation-defining artists evolving into the rockstars of our time. The female representation in the genre in particular has seen exponential growth in recent years, with rappers like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion capturing the ears of listeners across the globe. However, one rapper hailing from Philadelphia is bringing her own charismatic spin to the rap game: Tierra Whack.
Born in 1995, Whack and her two siblings were raised by a single mother in North Philadelphia. Growing up, Whack always carried a shyness about her, but her introverted nature allowed her infatuation with writing and poetry to blossom. For Whack, writing in rhyme allowed Whack to escape her insecurities, serving as a medium by which she let her creativity flow.
“I couldn’t tell you how I felt verbally but I could write it down,” Whack told The Fader in 2018.
“(I felt) almost like I couldn’t find the words. I felt like in a box and kinda like I don’t wanna talk or know how to talk.”

To read more, go to www.theskylineview.com (click in our bio)

#rapper #newtalent #schoolnews #discoverjournalism #schoolnewspaper

Our true press freedom is under threat Marco Mila

Our true press freedom is under threat

Marco Milani, Opinions Editor.

Yesterday was World Press Freedom Day in the United States, and on this day, as a journalist, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a country where we are able to report on what people care about, and not be censored by any government or regime.
Despite this, I feel that we are being censored here at Skyline.
As the Skyline View’s most recent editorial describes, the writers and reporters of The Skyline View are struggling to get sources from our school. This is due to an email sent out to the staff from the new president, saying that we have to go through the school’s PR department rather than directly contacting the professors.
“With this email, the new president has aimed to create a glass wall between Skyline College staff and the press,” the editorial read. “It is a shame that the president’s office has chosen to censor information by driving the truth away from the college’s community, rather than creating a better way to access information”
Despite the fact that Skyline’s president, Melissa Moreno, sent out an updated email that essentially loosened the restrictions of the PR department to get interviews, there is still an amount of censorship that is being imposed upon us.
The Skyline View is protected under the freedom of the press, as well as freedom of speech. As mentioned in the editorial, these new guidelines limit the rights that the First Amendment grants us.

To read more, go to www.theskylineview.com
#pressday #reportage #freedomofspeech #smccd #schoolnews

Looking back on 100 days of President Joe Biden P

Looking back on 100 days of President Joe Biden

President Joe Biden’s first 100 days: the good, the bad, the moderate.

By: Zack Navarra, Reporter

We are 100 days in — It’s time to check in on the Biden presidency.
39 executive actions were taken in the first week alone — more than any other president in recent history. The actions largely adhered to the theme of Biden’s campaign: getting back to normal. In other words, most of Biden’s executive actions tackled COVID-19 and undid executive actions of former President Trump.
What started as a loud roar quickly turned to a quiet murmur. This was in part due to the failed impeachment trial of former President Trump, and in part due to the Democrats not being prepared for total control of Congress after having won the Georgia runoffs.
Biden has historically been slow when it’s come to getting his cabinet appointments approved. The appointments themselves have highlighted four things: zero Republican involvement, a mix of progressives and centrists, an acceptance of corporate influence, and a promise to ensure the most diverse cabinet in US history being kept.
Biden has faced similar problems when it’s come to legislation, complicating Biden’s attempts to paint himself as the modern FDR. In reality, Biden is a watered-down, diet FDR. In FDR’s first 100 days, he had passed 15 major pieces of legislation, while Biden had passed only one.
Biden indeed followed through on his promise to pass major COVID-19 relief legislation, the American Rescue Plan. While the plan received broad public support and was a major success for the Biden administration, it revealed harsh realities going forward.

To read more, go to: www.theskylineview.com
#bidenpresident #100daysofbiden #potus #schoolnewspaper

Skyline Colleges Need for AB 53: A General Electio

Skyline Colleges Need for AB 53: A General Election Holiday

By: Zack Navarra, Reporter

A day away from school, time off from work, the chance to have your voice heard⁠ — It’s high time for a new holiday to come about.
Assembly Bill No. 53 will provide Skyline students and faculty greater flexibility come the next Election Day. The bill calls for the creation of a state holiday to occur every even year on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November: Election Day. Turning Election Day into a state holiday would ensure that community colleges and public schools/universities would be closed for the day. Most state employees would get a paid day off of work as well.
California has the chance to expand voting rights and uplift the voices of Skyline students and faculty through greater accessibility to the voting booth. The oh-so-important biology test worth a quarter of your grade would no longer inhibit you from going to the polls in November. The after-class office hours you are scheduled to offer your students wouldn’t stop you from voting for the next president. The full 13-hour voting time frame would be at your disposal.
As someone who volunteered at an in-district polling site during our last election, I have seen firsthand how inefficient the current system is. The majority of the day is spent waiting as a few voters trickle to cast their ballots. There are only three time frames during which you see any real action: before work, during the typical noon lunch break, and during the after-work rush hour. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. there is an hour-long line stretching out the door and down the sidewalk. No one should have to wait in an hour-long line at night to vote. No one should feel the desire to turn away at the sight of these long lines.
Work and school hours create this bottleneck — An Election Day holiday would prevent it. Having the full day at your disposal would allow the Skyline community to go and vote when they please, likely evening out the rate at which people go to the polls throughout the day. Additionally, San Mateo County will allow its residents to vote at any in-district polling site.
To read more, go to: www.theskylineview.com

Randy and Gene Aberouette bring a family element t

Randy and Gene Aberouette bring a family element to Sykline’s baseball program

Steven Rissotto, News Editor

Randy Aberouette strapped on his spikes, doffed on his cap, packed his equipment, and set out to the field for his first practice as a member of the Skyline baseball team. Something wasn’t right when most of the other players rolled up wearing black t-shirts with their baseball pants — a dress code unbeknownst to Aberouette, who stood out in his bright white shirt.
As a freshman, Aberouette knew there would be some learning curves involved in learning a new group of personalities, all of whom had an aspect of history with each other. But a mistake on the first day? This is a learning experience, he thought. The practice ended, and a familiar face on the team approached him, tossing a black Skyline Trojans baseball shirt his way.
“We wear black on this team,” this teammate of his said.
It was Randy’s older brother Gene, who was beginning his second season with the club, and was in no mood to watch his brother make a common-sense mistake of wearing the frowned-upon white shirt ever again.
Even though the coronavirus pandemic that has caused many Trojan players to opt out for the entire season, the two Aberouette brothers have embarked on a unique opportunity to be teammates at the collegiate level.

To read more, go to: www.theskylineview.com (click in our bio)
#baseball #collegebaseball #skylinecollege #skylinecollegesports #smccd #schoolnews #collegenewspaper

Skyline is making the most out of teaching communi

Skyline is making the most out of teaching communication through a screen

The Skyline Communication Studies Department was tasked with the unique challenge of teaching public speaking through a screen.
Zack Navarra, Reporter
Over the last year, the education world has had to learn how to adapt to a world of lockdowns and uncertainty. At Skyline College, the communication studies department has spent the year learning how to answer one very important question: How do you teach communication and public speaking through a screen?
Jessica Hurless, a professor of communication studies at Skyline College, has dealt with the challenges of teaching a class on interpersonal communication.
“Communication is so much being able to see and interact with another human being, especially interpersonal communication,” Hurless said.
Her course contains weekly Zoom calls, during which she hopes to tackle this problem. While not every student always has their video on, she believes the ability for students to hear each other “helps a little bit with interpersonal (communications).” To read more, go ti : www.theskylineview.com (click in our bio)
#smccd #distancelearning #education #studientnews #schoolnewspaper #skylinecollege

We say no to filtered and surface level reporting

We say no to filtered and surface level reporting
Over the past few weeks, the journalism students and the staff of The Skyline View have struggled to find information from people on campus.
This reduction in access to information was the result of an email that was sent from the president’s office a few weeks ago — a few hundred words that challenged our core values: journalistic ethics, objectivity and freedom of speech. This email, which was addressed to the faculty and staff of Skyline College.
While it requested to honor and respect the role of our PIO and MCPR (the office of Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations), it disrespectfully stepped over us and our work. We see this as an attempt to silence the voices of the college’s community and as a threat to accountability.
With this email, the new president has aimed to create a glass wall between Skyline College staff and the press. It is a shame that the president’s office has chosen to censor information by driving the truth away from the college’s community, rather than creating a better way to access information.
It is alarming for us because it stands as an obstacle to our reporting on our community, and it, to some extent, limits the rights that the First Amendment grants us.
On numerous occasions over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve been referred to our PIO and MCPR more often than we had been over the past few years.
We’d like to make something very clear at this point: We at The Skyline View are not seeking approval, because we take pride in reporting with accuracy and objectivity. We stand firm in our commitment to our community and to journalism. We hereby request the president’s office to withdraw its new policy of requesting everyone to always refer to the PIO and MCPR, and ask them to do their job by creating a safer and transparent environment within the college district.
We never have and never will provide filtered information to our readers. We have continuously advocated for transparency and freedom of speech, and that does not change in this case.
To read more, go to our website: www.theskylineview.com
#schoolnewspaper #freedomofspeech #

Early Childhood Education: an overlooked program

Early Childhood Education: an overlooked program

By: Christian Carlo Ceguerra, Features Editor

Professor Sarita Santos will never forget how angry she was when a friend tried to dissuade her from pursuing a career in child psychology and special education.
“‘Rita, you’re so smart,’” Santos said, recounting what that friend said to her. “‘Why are you majoring in psychology and now you’re going to go get your PhD in special education, and babysitting retards?’ — quote, unquote.”
For a long time now, professionals in the field of early childhood education (ECE) have been doing their best to dispel misconceptions and misrepresentations of the discipline. The consensus of several districts’ professors is that early childhood education has long been “disrespected”, and has been reduced to the ideas of “babysitting” and “women’s work.”
Santos also described how colleagues from different departments from Cañada College themselves do not acknowledge the discipline as one that falls under the social sciences.
“There was pushback from some faculty with psychology folks and staff who said, ‘Early childhood does not belong in social science,’” Santos said. “And I said to them, ‘Look, my background’s in psychology too, so I know you’re what you’re thinking, but this is the thing I do in my classes: We talk about a typical development, we talk about the neurology of someone with autism, we talk about left brain hemispheric functions for someone with dyslexia…”
“It feels like a fight, sometimes, to have to defend what our students do for a living and what they’re interested in,” she added.
To read more, go to: www.theskylineview.com #earlychildhoodeducator #smccd #skylinecollege #sanmateocounty #schoolnewspaper

The official end to the first Forever War Skyline

The official end to the first Forever War

Skyline reacts to President Biden’s announcement to withdrawal troops from Afghanistan.
By: Zack Navarra, Reporter

The end to America’s longest war is finally in sight — US troops in Afghanistan are coming home. On April 14, President Biden announced that the US will fully withdraw all troops by September 11, 2021 — the 20th anniversary of one of the most destructive terror attacks in the country’s history.
Skyline College history professor Rosemary Bell believes that political pressure has a lot to do with the decision.
“Many many progressives and liberals have wanted us to get out of Afghanistan since probably 10 years ago,” Bell said. “I think it has come to a point at which we have accomplished the mission that we initially said we were going into Afghanistan for, which was to root out terrorism and to try to catch Osama bin Laden. Why we have been there another 10 years is because we have tried to make Afganistan in our image, trying to create a democratic equality state. What we tried to do was drag Afghanistan into the 21st century according to our terms, and it wasn’t working.”
“I 100% support (Biden’s) move to get troops out of Afghanistan, especially if it is coming from a truthful place,” said Jackson Gravagno, a political science and film major at Skyline College. “It’s nice to see someone put their foot down in a way that the past four presidents haven’t.”
Former presidents Obama and Trump both campaigned on ending the Afghan War, but neither ever followed through with the idea. Many question if Biden will succeed where his predecessors have failed.
“I definitely don’t want to get my hopes up,” Gravagno said. “I’ve known Joe Biden to lie in the past about certain policy positions, like the $15 minimum wage. From the way he is talking about it and the way he is being so public about it, it does seem like his administration is serious about getting people out of Afghanistan.
To read more go to www.theskylineview.com (click in our bio)
#bidensadministration #afghanistan #endthewar #skylinecollege #schoolnewspaper

What you need to know: Skyline College Monica Gra

What you need to know: Skyline College

Monica Grace Dollezon-Yu, Reporter|April 21, 2021

At Skyline College, students and faculty members tend to believe that being academically and professionally prepared for future success is no walk in the park.
This medium-sized educational institution, which is located between the coastline of Northern California and South San Francisco, was established in 1969, committed from the beginning to its goal of nurturing a global community of learners. Student activities held have been an integral aspect of how the school contributes to students’ intellectual development, sense of belonging and participation in community-related affairs.
Cherie Colin, the director of community relations and marketing for Skyline College, described the friendly environment and supportive attitudes of the individuals as being unique aspects of the Skyline campus. She described how faculty tend to go out of their way to help students out, because they care, and want to make sure success is within reach.

What you need to know: Student population
A Skyline College annual report from 2018-2019 communicated the importance of welcoming diversity and preserving equity in their curriculum.
According to the Skyline College Student Enrollment Dashboard, about 15,463 students have enrolled in the academic year 2019-2020. Colin had clarified that even though their campus is the smallest in the three-school district, it also boasts the largest population of students compared to College of San Mateo and Cañada College. The ethnic makeup of Skyline’s student body, according to the most recent fact sheet, are as follows: 2.7% are black or African American, 1.3% are Pacific Islander, 0.1% are American Indian/Alaska Native, 32.4% are Hispanic/Latinx, 18.7% are white, 17.8% are Asian, 16.3% are Filipino, 7.5% are multiracial, and the races of the remaining 3.3% are unreported.

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