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The Citizen

Peralta Community College District's only student-run publication.

The Citizen

Peralta Community College District's only student-run publication.

The Citizen

Beto O’Rourke draws in the crowd during a Town Hall-style event in San Francisco. Hundreds lined up for blocks to hear the candidate from El Paso, Texas.

Presidential hopeful O’Rourke addresses S.F.

Alice Robinson, Staff Writer May 16, 2019

Beto O’Rourke has a long, hard road ahead of him — he’s one of 23 Democrats (and counting) who want to be president. But unlike many politicians who want to brag about how great they are, O’Rourke...

Sarah Backes-Diaz facilitates counseling career mapping with a rainbow metaphor in Laney’s Survey of Mass Media Class.

Overwhelmed but planning for the future 

Laney counselors focus on student graduation goals
Sydney Toth, Staff Writer May 16, 2019

What’s your major? What school are you transferring to? What are your goals post-graduation? Questions like these torment college students. For many students, college is a whirlwind. It’s easy...

Manuel Delgado, one of the TWLF leaders, and other march through Sather Gate at UC Berkeley in an event that led to the creation of Ethnic Studies. Photo courtesy of UC Berkeley ethnics studies library.

Community defends UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies 

Bay Area residents organize to protect and improve the longstanding program
Geremy Lowe, Staff Writer May 13, 2019

The demands of the 1969 Third World Liberation Front Strike at the University of California, Berkeley, raised emotions and sparked intense conversation on April 24–27 of this year. Commemorating the...

Laney Architecture team ‘Miso Soup’ gathers inside of their spacious creation. The structure served as a communal hangout space for Peralta students for the duration of the three day event at California Polytechnic State University.

Architecture club attends annual competition 

Students attend Cal Poly event and spend weekend living in their unique designs
Jordan Hankston, Staff Writer May 13, 2019

As night fell over the Laney college campus there was unusual commotion, Architecture Club students could be spotted loading construction materials on trucks. They then drove hours through the night towards...

A charred school bus lies among debris at the entrance of Pine Ridge Elementary School in Magalia, California, one of the communities heavily impacted by the 2018 Camp Fire. Upwards of 70 volunteers descended on the school April 27. to plant gardens and work the land at the only school still operating within the burn zone.

Restoring Paradise with Permaculture

California’s first ecosystem restoration camp rejuvenates school in the Camp Fire area
Saskia Hatvany, Co-Editor May 7, 2019

Down a dusty road in a field between two California highways in Butte County, a herd of cattle greeted volunteers as they arrived to a small oasis. Visitors were assailed by a dry breeze similar to...

What Really Happened

What Really Happened

admin April 19, 2019

Laney Tower Cover by Saskia Hatvany Rodent ‘sets off’ electrical failure. Trustees take quick action, hire firm to effect ‘emergency electrical repairs.’ By Saskia Hatvany. Story posted below: https://medium.com/laney-tower/rodent-sets-off-electrical-failure-b6c33d65fd75?source=friends_link&sk=94344e938d334229851011450e2f3850

The melted three-phase switch that powers the Student Center and the F building was compromised when a rodent touched two poles and caused a 1200 volt ‘arc flash’ that compromised the power distribution to the buildings on March 28, causing students, faculty and personnel to evacuate.

Rodent ‘sets off’ electrical failure

Trustees take quick action, hire firm to effect ‘emergency electrical repairs’
Saskia Hatvany, Co-Editor April 19, 2019

In an emergency meeting on April 15, the Peralta Board of Trustees unanimously approved a $220,108 contract for Rosendin Electrics to effect “emergency electrical repairs” to the Laney College Student...

Laney Tower delegates pose for a photo on March 30 at the 2019 Journalism Association of Community Colleges conference awards ceremony. Reporter Isis Piccillo won first place in an opinion writing contest, Tower co-editor Saskia Hatvany placed in the news writing and editorial cartoon categories. Photo by Eleni Gastis / Laney Faculty.

Spirited journalists swarm Sacramento

Califorina’s JACC Statewide conference kicks off: Laney Tower wins 11 awards
Jordan Hankston, Staff Writer April 19, 2019

Curiosity, passion, courage and ethics are the qualities that drive a journalist’s heart. Community college journalism students gathered to celebrate these qualities in what could prove to be a life-changing...

Laney College’s Vincent Garrett and Alejandra Landin pose under the seal of the Department of Education seal after receiving technical support for their goal to help students with the Alameda County Clean Slate Program. (Photo: Vincent Garrett/Restoring Our Communities)

Formerly incarcerated? Lose your ‘RAP’!

Alameda County’s Clean Slate Program offers system-impacted a fresh start
Eva Hannan, Co-Editor April 19, 2019

Drew Gamarra was on the inside. When he finally got outside, he discovered he had no options. “I get it, my background was just too vicious,” he said. “I beat my case, and I came home. They wouldn’t...

Marc Rowland lives in a maroon-colored van in the Laney College parking lot. A student at Merritt college, Rowland is taking sociology and psychology classes. He also takes a weight-training course at Laney. In 2008, Rowland lost his job of 17 years as a stationary engineer with Siemens.

Disparities in food and housing run high 

Thirty percent of Peralta Students homelessness, according to survey
Michelle Snider, Co-Editor April 9, 2019

In a time when wealthy parents can spend huge sums to get their unqualified children into universities, community college students are struggling for the basic means to survive. Thirty percent of Peralta...

Tower Watch — Inconvenience and inaccessibility plague Laney campus elevator systems

admin April 8, 2019

by Jordan Hankston/Tower Staff Writer An effort to repair Laney’s dysfunctional system of elevators is underway. Of the campus’s 10 elevators, six are fully operational at this time. However, by...

Former Vice Chancellor Sadiq Ikharo (center) answers questions about the Fire Watch at the Feb. 26 Board of Trustees meeting. His replacement Leigh Sata, was announced on March 26, just days after the fess of the fire watch at Laney reached $100,000

Ikharo placed on permanent leave

Decision underscores longstanding infrastructure deficit; Leigh Sata named interim VC
Saskia Hatvany, Co-Editor March 29, 2019

Exactly two weeks after Jowel C. Laguerre officially left his position as chancellor, the district announced on May 14 that the vice chancellor of general services, Sadiq Ikharo, had been put on permanent...

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