Twenty two years ago students expressed outrage when then-Mills College Board Chair Warren Hell- man announced the infamous de- cision to go co-ed. Today Mills mourns his death and remembers him as a generous, fun and eccen- tric man – an important part of the institution’s history. Hellman, who served the Col- lege as Board Chair from 1982 to 1992, died Dec. 18 from leukemia complications. He was 77. Perhaps Hellman is remembered by many at Mills as the bearer of bad news. On May 3, 1990, he an- nounced the Board’s decision to admit men at the College’s under- graduate level. “I think that Warren felt that the College was not on sound finan- cial terms at that time,” Econom- ics Professor Nancy Thornborrow said. She chaired the faculty com- mittee that explored ways for Mills to resolve its financial issues while remaining a women’s college. “He really believed, I think, in his heart that we would be better off if we became a co-ed institution and in his mind make it more cer- tain that Mills would go on forever and ever.” For Women Always For two weeks, though, student strikers passionately raised their voices against going co-ed, and the Board (and national media) heard them loud and clear. The decision was reversed. On May 18, 1990, Hellman silently unrolled a banner: “Mills. For Women. Again.” “All the students were scream- ing and crying and carrying on,” Thornborrow said. “That’s a mem- orable moment. Here’s this captain of industry or whatever doing a 180-degree turn and saying, ‘You want to be a women’s college? Be a women’s college.’ I thought at the time, ‘You’ll never see him again. He’ll resign from the Board.’ But he didn’t right away.” Former Mills president (1991- 2011) Janet Holmgren had asked Hellman to remain as Board Chair during her first year as president so that she could learn from and work with him. Hellman came up with an idea to inaugurate Holmgren and wel- come her to Mills. “He decided to give me his yel- low beret,” Holmgren said. Yellow had been the official strike color, and the student strik- ers gave Hellman the yellow beret after the Board changed its mind about making Mills a coed institution. “He was so proud of that yel- low beret, and he gave it to me. I still have it here on my desk,” Holmgren said, laughing. “He was proud of the fact that during that very infamous strike period, students really took him on per- sonally, and he took on this ques- tion of what the mission of an institution meant.” Thornborrow has a slightly dif- ferent perspective. “I think Hell- man recognized the strength of the alumnae and the students, their op- position, and their willingness to actually leave the institution,” she said. “I think he was a pragmatic person and decided, ‘This is not the time to be doing this, obviously.’” Holmgren said Hellman abso- lutely believed in the mission of women’s education. “He believed in women leading and women learning,” she said. The Mills College Facebook page echoed this sentiment shortly after Hellman’s death last month. “In the end, he knew the strik- ers were right,” read the page’s wall post, “and that Mills should remain for women always.” A Family of Philanthropy The Hellman family ties with Mills College reach back for gener- ations, according to Vice President for Operations Renee Jadushlever. Hellman’s mother, Ruth Ko- shland Hellman, served as chair- man of the Joint Committee of the Mills Board of Trustees and the San Francisco Museum for summer concerts. Both his grand- mother, Frances Jacobi Hellman, and grandfather, I.W. Hellman, Jr., served as Mills College trustees. VOLUME 97 ISSUE 14 www.thecampanil.com Tuesday | Jan. 24, 2012 Find more stories, photos, videos and live updates at www.thecampanil.com News analysis: Occupy across the globe In memory of Warren Hellman Elizabeth Rico COPY EDITOR On Dec. 6, 2008, 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed after police discharged their weapons during an alterca- tion with a small group of teen- age boys. Four days later CNN reported that students in Greece, outraged by Grigoropoulos’ death, began to occupy universities in or- der to protest police brutality. Since then similar instances of civil unrest have spread across the globe, creating thousands of protests in its wake. Although the spark that ignited each protest was different, there were three under- lying causes that essentially drove people to the streets: the economy, the corruption of government, and police brutality. These youth-led protests in Greece served as a catalyst for political movements to come, and exposed years of repressed anger toward economic stagna- tion, government corruption and police brutality. According to Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic’s national correspon- dent , the percentage of youth un- employed in 2008 was somewhere between 25 and 30 percent. Ka- plan also noted that the disparity between social classes had grown exponentially, public education systems were in shambles, and the government was in need of a complete overhaul. While older citizens were will- ing to soldier on, young adults had had enough. Throughout Dec 2008, CNN followed the civil un- rest as young adults took to the streets in droves and rioted against a failing government. The sheer violence and de- struction that followed Grigoro- poulos’ death was unnerving, but it brought people back to real- ity. Gone were the days of sit- ting idly by as things spiraled out of control. Greece made one thing clear: now was the time for action. From Tea Party to G20 In Feb 2009 the Tea Party, a grassroots movement comprised mainly of Americans who identify as rigid constitutionalists, came to life in an overwhelmingly negative response to stimulus money that Wall Street and corporations like GM and Chrysler received, and the fear that the government was getting too big. USA Today’s corre- spondents, Susan Page and Naomi Jagoda, found that Tea Party mem- bers were frustrated with both po- litical parties and strove to return America to its former glory. April of that same year saw thousands of protesters in Lon- don expressing their displeasure with the state of the economy at the G20 Summit, a gathering of finance ministers and central bank governors from the top 20 leading economies to discuss the looming global recession. However, what was intended to be a peaceful demonstration soon got out of hand as tempers boiled over. Protesters smashed bank windows, started fires, and fought with police, reported The Independent. Arab Spring and Occupy The Middle East saw the birth of the Arab Spring on Dec 17 2010, after Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, accord- ing to The Guardian. Bouazizi, a graduate who was unable to find employment in a jobless economy, had begun sell- ing fruits and vegetables to make ends meet. When police seized the food cart he was operating on the streets Bouazizi took his life in protest, which caused people to take to the streets. We all know more or less how Occupy Wall Street started. On July 13 2011 a Canadian anti-cap- italist magazine, Adbusters, sent out a call to flood lower Manhat- tan with protesters starting Sept. 17, Constitution Day. By July 26, a group called “New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts” proposed a meeting on Wall Street to discuss potential protests. A blog entitled “We are the 99%” emerged on Aug. 23, encouraging people to complain about how the 99 percent had been treated unfairly. When Sept 17 finally arrived, 1000 pro- testers gathered in Zuccotti Park and marched on Wall Street. Just like the protests held in Europe and the Middle East, Oc- cupy was fueled by citizens frus- trated with the economy and gov- ernment. As Occupy Wall Street spread, police brutality entered the picture and gave protesters another See Occupy page 3 Hundreds of Occupy protesters congregated at the Oakland Port in November of last year. Spaces of Life See page 4 HEATHER MCDANIEL Diana Arbas CHIEF NEWS EDITOR Jen Ramos ASST. FEATURES EDITOR Warren Hellman dons his yellow beret; students cheer. COURTESY OF F.W. OLIN LIBRARY See Hellman page 3
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Twenty two years ago students expressed outrage when then-Mills College Board Chair Warren Hell-man announced the infamous de-cision to go co-ed. Today Mills mourns his death and remembers him as a generous, fun and eccen-tric man – an important part of the institution’s history.
Hellman, who served the Col-lege as Board Chair from 1982 to 1992, died Dec. 18 from leukemia complications. He was 77.
Perhaps Hellman is remembered by many at Mills as the bearer of bad news. On May 3, 1990, he an-nounced the Board’s decision to admit men at the College’s under-graduate level.
“I think that Warren felt that the College was not on sound finan-cial terms at that time,” Econom-ics Professor Nancy Thornborrow said. She chaired the faculty com-mittee that explored ways for Mills to resolve its financial issues while remaining a women’s college. “He really believed, I think, in his heart that we would be better off if we became a co-ed institution and in his mind make it more cer-tain that Mills would go on forever and ever.”
For Women Always
For two weeks, though, student strikers passionately raised their voices against going co-ed, and the Board (and national media) heard them loud and clear. The decision was reversed. On May 18, 1990, Hellman silently unrolled a banner: “Mills. For Women. Again.”
“All the students were scream-ing and crying and carrying on,” Thornborrow said. “That’s a mem-orable moment. Here’s this captain of industry or whatever doing a 180-degree turn and saying, ‘You want to be a women’s college? Be a women’s college.’ I thought at the time, ‘You’ll never see him again. He’ll resign from the Board.’ But he didn’t right away.”
Former Mills president (1991-2011) Janet Holmgren had asked Hellman to remain as Board Chair during her first year as president so that she could learn from and work with him.
Hellman came up with an idea to inaugurate Holmgren and wel-come her to Mills.
“He decided to give me his yel-low beret,” Holmgren said.
Yellow had been the official strike color, and the student strik-ers gave Hellman the yellow beret after the Board changed its mind about making Mills a coed institution.
“He was so proud of that yel-low beret, and he gave it to me. I still have it here on my desk,” Holmgren said, laughing. “He was proud of the fact that during that very infamous strike period, students really took him on per-sonally, and he took on this ques-tion of what the mission of an institution meant.”
Thornborrow has a slightly dif-ferent perspective. “I think Hell-man recognized the strength of the alumnae and the students, their op-position, and their willingness to actually leave the institution,” she said. “I think he was a pragmatic person and decided, ‘This is not the time to be doing this, obviously.’”
Holmgren said Hellman abso-lutely believed in the mission of women’s education.
“He believed in women leading and women learning,” she said.
The Mills College Facebook page echoed this sentiment shortly after Hellman’s death last month.
“In the end, he knew the strik-ers were right,” read the page’s wall post, “and that Mills should remain for women always.”
A Family of Philanthropy
The Hellman family ties with Mills College reach back for gener-ations, according to Vice President for Operations Renee Jadushlever.
Hellman’s mother, Ruth Ko-shland Hellman, served as chair-man of the Joint Committee of the Mills Board of Trustees and the San Francisco Museum for summer concerts. Both his grand-mother, Frances Jacobi Hellman, and grandfather, I.W. Hellman, Jr., served as Mills College trustees.
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News analysis: Occupy across the globe
In memory of Warren Hellman
Elizabeth RicoCopy Editor
On Dec. 6, 2008, 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed after police discharged their weapons during an alterca-tion with a small group of teen-age boys. Four days later CNN reported that students in Greece, outraged by Grigoropoulos’ death, began to occupy universities in or-der to protest police brutality.
Since then similar instances of civil unrest have spread across the globe, creating thousands of protests in its wake. Although the spark that ignited each protest was different, there were three under-lying causes that essentially drove people to the streets: the economy, the corruption of government, and police brutality.
These youth-led protests in Greece served as a catalyst for political movements to come, and exposed years of repressed anger toward economic stagna-tion, government corruption and police brutality.
According to Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic’s national correspon-dent , the percentage of youth un-employed in 2008 was somewhere between 25 and 30 percent. Ka-plan also noted that the disparity between social classes had grown exponentially, public education systems were in shambles, and the government was in need of a complete overhaul.
While older citizens were will-ing to soldier on, young adults
had had enough. Throughout Dec 2008, CNN followed the civil un-rest as young adults took to the streets in droves and rioted against a failing government.
The sheer violence and de-struction that followed Grigoro-poulos’ death was unnerving, but it brought people back to real-ity. Gone were the days of sit-ting idly by as things spiraled out of control.
Greece made one thing clear: now was the time for action.
From Tea Party to G20
In Feb 2009 the Tea Party, a grassroots movement comprised mainly of Americans who identify as rigid constitutionalists, came to life in an overwhelmingly negative response to stimulus money that Wall Street and corporations like GM and Chrysler received, and the fear that the government was getting too big. USA Today’s corre-spondents, Susan Page and Naomi Jagoda, found that Tea Party mem-bers were frustrated with both po-litical parties and strove to return America to its former glory.
April of that same year saw thousands of protesters in Lon-don expressing their displeasure with the state of the economy at the G20 Summit, a gathering of finance ministers and central bank governors from the top 20 leading economies to discuss the looming global recession.
However, what was intended to be a peaceful demonstration soon got out of hand as tempers boiled over. Protesters smashed bank windows, started fires,
and fought with police, reported The Independent.
Arab Spring and Occupy
The Middle East saw the birth of the Arab Spring on Dec 17 2010, after Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, accord-ing to The Guardian.
Bouazizi, a graduate who was unable to find employment in a jobless economy, had begun sell-ing fruits and vegetables to make ends meet. When police seized the food cart he was operating on the streets Bouazizi took his life in protest, which caused people to take to the streets.
We all know more or less how Occupy Wall Street started. On July 13 2011 a Canadian anti-cap-italist magazine, Adbusters, sent out a call to flood lower Manhat-tan with protesters starting Sept. 17, Constitution Day. By July 26, a group called “New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts” proposed a meeting on Wall Street to discuss potential protests. A blog entitled “We are the 99%” emerged on Aug. 23, encouraging people to complain about how the 99 percent had been treated unfairly. When Sept 17 finally arrived, 1000 pro-testers gathered in Zuccotti Park and marched on Wall Street.
Just like the protests held in Europe and the Middle East, Oc-cupy was fueled by citizens frus-trated with the economy and gov-ernment. As Occupy Wall Street spread, police brutality entered the picture and gave protesters another
See Occupy page 3
Hundreds of Occupy protesters congregated at the Oakland Port in November of last year.
Spaces of Life
See page 4
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Diana ArbasChiEf NEws Editor
Jen RamosAsst. fEAturEs Editor
Warren Hellman dons his yellow beret; students cheer.
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Portal glitch quickly resolved
Technical issues, due to com-plications involving a system up-grade, prevented many students from accessing their Portal and online bill payment resources over the Winter Break.
In December, Mills updated Oracle, a computerized framework for storing, organizing and review-ing data. According to Financial Aid Director David Gin, CASH-Net, which allows for Portal pay-ments and displays e-bills, had difficulty merging with the new system after the upgrade.
“CASHNet couldn’t ‘talk’ to the new system, as it was still searching for the old one,”
Gin said.This inability to “merge,” so to
speak, created various intermittent problems for students trying to log into the Mills Portal and make payments. It also interfered with Blackboard access.
Senior Ashley Lavado de-scribed her experience as being, “aggravating more than anything.”
“Every time I attempted to log onto anything through the Mills Portal, it continued to say my user name or login password was incorrect,” Lavado said. “I even changed my password, thinking it must have been me that made the mistake.”
Although Lavado wasn’t wor-ried about making payments on-line, she knew others who were, and her transition to the new se-mester was affected by being be-
cause she was unable to log in and check that she was up to date.
For those experiencing dif-ficulties, Lavado’s story is a familiar one.
“I was logged on to the com-puter and clicked the button to pay and it gave me a message saying I wasn’t authorized to perform this action,” said sophomore Casey Honath. “I called the M Center and they said a lot of people had been experiencing this problem and it was a technical problem.”
Some students, however, had no trouble using the Portal.
“I haven’t been experiencing any issues with the Portal,” said sophomore Rose Lopez. “It was news to me that people were.”
Gin said that Mills made al-lowances for these delays by sending out an e-mail on January
10, explaining that the payment deadline had been extended until January 17. It stated that students would not receive late fees as they were not at fault for being unable to pay by January 9, the original payment deadline. On January 11, another e-mail communicated that the technical difficulties had been resolved.
Although the technical issues were an added burden and resulted in a heavier workload, Gin, speak-ing on behalf of the M Center staff, said he believes that by extend-ing the deadline of the late pay-ment fee, a creative solution was found offered that least impacted the students.
“We’re doing just as well as we were at this time last year,” Gin said. “We just want to make sure that students feel served.”
Ruby WoodsBreaking news editor
Police identified Mills Col-lege alumna Yasmeen Vaughan as the woman who died of ex-posure last month after being found in the cold waters of the Oakland Estuary.
The Oakland Tribune reports that Vaughan had no identifica-tion when she was discovered Dec. 15, and it took the Alameda County coroner’s office a month to identify her through finger-prints. Her father Glen Vaughan reported her missing two weeks ago.
Four days ago, her brother Umi held a rally in front of the West Oakland Library to draw attention to her disappearance, according to Oakland Local.
Vaughan was last heard from on Dec. 13, but as she often withdrew communication from her family for weeks at a time, suspicion did not rise until late December when her father entered her apartment and found it in disarray. Oakland Local reports that both Vaughan’s family and the police did not sus-pect foul play, and police found no signs of trauma on her body when she was found near Jack London Square.
Vaughan graduated from Mills in 2006.
The Mercury News hosts a guestbook that people can sign in memory of Vaughan and share con-dolences. Mills community mem-bers have already begun leaving their thoughts on The Campanil’s Facebook page.
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Mills grad chained self to Wells Fargo in San Francisco Occupy protestRecent Mills graduate Sarah Lombardo participated in a daylong Oc-
cupy SF protest in the Financial District on Friday morning, Jan 20. She and other activists chained themselves in front of Wells Fargo to create a blockade that would prevent employees from reaching their work.
While one person wrapped a chain around their waist and was at-tached to the actual door of the building, others stuck their arms to-gether in a circle.
“Our purpose was to shut down Wells Fargo, at least temporar-ily,” said Lombardo. “We expected to be arrested by noon, and we were correct.”
Lombardo and others were arrested for trespassing, before being cited and then released.
“This was an opportunity for us to share our story with people in power, some of whom would take the time to come and talk to us.”
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reason to find a cozy piece of park or sidewalk and stay put.
The day Occupiers first ap-peared on Wall Street, few took them seriously. In fact, Fox News’ business corespondent, Charlie
Gasparino, called occupiers “idiot-ic” because they were not protest-ing in Washington.
“That’s where they’re squeez-ing Wall Street and basically tak-ing money out of the welfare state which these protesters want to
grow,” said Gasparino.To date, the Occupy Movement
has taken up residence in over 1,500 cities world wide; over 100 of those cities are here in the United States. It has even inspired some-thing historical, the Russian Awak-
ening, a youth-led protest against a rigged election that took place in Dec 2011. Jeffery Tayler, The At-lantic’s contributing editor, noted that this was the largest demonstra-tion in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Although Occupy Wall Street is fairly new to the scene, it was based on the protests led by young adults in Greece, the marches at G20, the outrage of the Arab Spring, and yes, even the grass roots movement of the Tea Party helped out.
A look at the e f fec ts of the Occupy movement wor ldwide
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Hellman’s close ties with the Mills comm u n i t y
Ten Hellman family members have attended Mills. Six have served as trustees; current trustee Sabrina Hellman is Warren Hell-man’s daughter in law.
Hellman’s philanthropy — discussed at length in The Bay Citizen’s “The Billionaire Who Loved Bluegrass” — also runs in the family.
“In 1954, his father, uncles and aunts established an endowed mu-sic fund honoring their mother,” Jadushlever wrote in an email. Two years prior, “in an early com-mitment to women’s athletics, his grandmother gave $15,000 for the construction of the Hellman swimming pool, used by stu-dents until it became what is now Adams Plaza.”
Holmgren recalled a story Hell-man used to tell about that pool. When Hellman was at UC Berke-ley in the 1950s, he and some friends came to Mills to use the Hellman Pool.
“And so he and his friends were caught trying to go into the pool after dark,” Holmgren said. “The security folks asked him who he was and he said, ‘Well, I’m I.W.F. Hellman.’ And they said, ‘Yeah, right,’” Holmgren laughed. “But in
fact his grandfather had given Mills the pool, and his grandmother had been a great donor to the music building. It ran in the family.”
Hellwomen
Dr. Helen Walter never met Hellman, but she loves him for his contributions to the Hellman Sum-mer Science and Math Fellows program, a four-week residential program which enables students to experience a rigorous academic transition to college in preparation for their science studies. Walter di-rects the program.
Every year, the Hellman schol-ars communicated with Warren Hellman about their research and accomplishments and sent him HELL WOMEN t-shirts, according to Jadushlever.
“In May 2007 I was given the Hellman budget and asked to make something to focus on the study of the sciences (a biology and a chem-istry component) that was similar to our sister, and very successful, program SAW,” Walter wrote in reference to the Summer Academic Workshop. “Our faculty decided that themes would be important, so we made an environmental chem-istry and a forensic biology course.
These themes are popularized by the media and would enable an in-terest we could build on to teach advanced science concepts. Most students do not realize that the Hellwomen learn about genetics in a way that they often don’t cover until their junior year.”
Walter explained that the pro-gram began as a way for first-year students interested in the sciences to transition from high school to college.
“The Hellman program started because we identified a need to change the way science majors first encountered science classes at Mills,” Dr. Walter said.
The science faculty created an environmental chemistry and fo-rensic biology course as part of the program.
“Both courses teach lecture ma-terial around these concepts, and students also attend lab. Here they learn basic scientific techniques, learn about lab safety and learn how to work in the time frame of a lab period,” Dr. Walter said.
The first group of Hellwomen entered Mills in the summer of 2007 and graduated in 2011. One graduate from that group has gone on to a pre-surgical intern pro-gram at University of California,
Davis and another is studying an M.D./Ph.D program at UC Irvine. The first nursing Hellwoman is set to graduate from Samuel Merritt University as part of Mills’ 2+2 nursing program and will move on to work for a VA hospital.
The influence Hellman had on this program will not be forgotten.
“Warren Hellman gave us the ability to create something unique and exciting – the Hellwomen! We always loved hearing the tales of Mr. Hellman wearing his sweatshirt and proudly proclaiming himself an honorary Hellwoman. His legacy
will remain in the lives of these stu-dents who continue to inspire me in everything that they accomplish,” said Dr. Walter.
After the inception of the Hell-man Program and its first summer, members gave Hellman a HELL WOMEN jacket that they did not think he would wear because the program’s name was written on the back in flames. On the contrary, he wore it all the time and even on the ski slopes, according to Dr. Walter.
She said Hellman would boast, “Look at what my Mills women gave me.”
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Warren Hellman stands at the podium as he announc-es that Mills College will become a coed institution.
Timeline: The globilization of Occupy Dec. 6, 2008 - Greek 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos is shot and killed by police, sparking student protests.
Feb. 2009 - Tea Party protests April 2009 - Thousands in London
express their displeasure with the state of the economy at the G20 Summit.
May 5, 2010 - A series of general strikes across Greece protest national austerity measures.
Dec. 18, 2010 - Mohamed Bouaziz sets himself on fire in Tunisia, sparking the Arab Spring
Aug. 2011 - London Riots take place, following the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police.
Sept. 17, 2011 - Occupy Wall Street gives birth to the national and worldwide Occupy Movement
Dec. 4, 2011 - Tens of thousands peacefully rally in the center of Moscow to protest the Putin administration’s stuffing of ballot boxes.
Dec. 1 - Occupy Petaluma protesters stop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from evicting families during the holidays.
Dec. 7 - Occupiers from 46 states gather in Washington DC to occupy the offices of their representatives.
Dec. 8 - Occupy Redding sup-ports postal workers as they face potential job cuts
Dec. 12 - Occupiers shut down the ports in Oakland, CA; Portland, OR; and Longview, WA.
Jan. 19, 2012 - Occupy movements in Irvine and Riverside saved several families from having their houses foreclosed on.
TIMELINE BY CHRISTINA MACIAS
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Christina Yglesias and Bri Scharman, soph-mores, catch up and make time for a photo.
ALL PHOTOS BY JEN RAMOS
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On Jan 18, the Mills College Museum bustled with excited patrons as they held an opening reception for Sonya Rapoport’s exhibition Spaces of Life. Rapoport is a longtime resident of the Bay Area and works out of her studio in Berkeley. The exhibition welcomes visitors to peruse the exten-sive exhibition that glimpses into some cerebal and intimate works from her past and current times. Curated by Terri Cohn and Anuradha Vikram Space of Life will be open until March 11. In conjunction with her exhibi-tion there will be a discussion and perfomance on Feb 12 at the Museum.
ALL PHOTOS BY BRIDGET STAGNITTO
Top: The trees occupying Adams Plaza are await-ing warmer weather in the coming weeks as stu-dents and staff have lunch in the sitting area. Bot-tom Students get their grub on in the Tea Shop
The dining room at the Tea Shop is com-pletely packed on the first day back at school.
the art of Sonya Rapoport
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Above: the finished product, with added brown rice.AMBER MENDOZA
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Keeping your resolution the healthy wayIt is common knowledge that
the first goal to be written down on our ever-expanding, always chang-ing list of New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight.
According to statistics provided by USA.gov, the most popular reso-lutions made by Americans include saving money, quitting smoking, drinking less, becoming more orga-nized and taking steps in order to better their education.
However, the resolution that gets written down the fastest, and abandoned just as quickly, is to lose weight. Living as we do today, we have been cultured to aim for a weight loss goal and achieve it at all costs. There’s no harm in set-ting this goal for yourself, but the real danger that accompanies such a popular resolution lies in the rea-soning behind your goal and how you intend to achieve it.
Sophomore Vanessa Cisne-ros has written down on her list of resolutions to lose enough weight in order to achieve a flatter, more toned abdomen.
“I just really want a flat stom-ach because I want to wear those cute midriff-style shirts,” Cisneros explains as her reason behind set-ting this goal, “so I’m going to start exercising more.”
Cisneros faces no harm in set-ting an image goal for herself, but it is important that she creates an explicit fitness plan involving more than just exercise, since that is not
the only factor necessary to foster health and wellness. Telling your-self you’re going to “start exercising more” is too broad of a goal as it has no boundaries or specific path clearly laid out, and it becomes an empty promise made to yourself, accroding to Elizabeth Zelvin, an online therapist who specializes in the rehabilitation of people with eating disorders.
Zelvin explains on her online counseling site www.lzcybershrink.com that the pattern of Americans who make generalized resolutions to lose weight and get fit fail more often than not because the goals they set are not realistic.
Her website also notes that the success rate for a New Year’s weight loss goal is so low because many of us choose to diet, but in “dieting,” we only deprive ourselves nutri-ents we actually need, binge and then loosely promise ourselves we’ll make up for it later.
About 45% of Americans con-sistently resolve to make adjust-ments to their weight or health, and of that percentage, only about 8% reach their goal. The number of Americans who maintain their resolutions get their desired results because they remain committed to a clear, realistic plan they set for themselves.
“I’ve been trying to be healthier and live better for a while now and decided that the New Year was a perfect opportunity to really set
my plans in motion,” said junior Ariana Cuellar. “I’m making much healthier choices when it comes to food. The only problem I really have is Taco Bell,” she said, mus-ing over her love for the fast-food restaurant chain.
For Cuellar, when intending to reach a weight loss goal it is imper-ative to keep her health and safety in mind.
“My goal is to lose 30 pounds by June. I’m taking the Zumba fitness class here at Mills, which meets on Mondays and Wednesdays every week, and have made arrangements with another student to try to exer-cise together every other day I don’t have Zumba,” she said.
Cuellar set a plan for herself and has sought out support from friends while integrating healthier food choices along with her exercise regimen, a step most people for-get to include when attempting to lose weight.
Many people choose between an extreme exercise routine or a radi-cal diet, thinking the physical activ-ity will compensate for their poor food choices or that the healthier food options will allow them to sequester on their couches, rather than settling for a harmonious combination of the two.
Additionally, some people often do not give themselves a realistic amount of time to reach their goals. Attempting to lose a large amount of weight and not allotting yourself
a sensible amount of time to lose it can pose several health risks and may result in quickly gaining the weight back. Cuellar has set herself up with a very realistic timeline of 6 months that can surely make her resolution a reality.
There are several resources avail-able to help us set realistic goals for ourselves and reach them.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, CDC.gov, offers valuable tips on not only how to start living healthier, but how to have healthier homes, families, communities and workplaces.
On December 22, 2011, the USDA released a new SuperTrack-er, a free visually appealing and easily accessible feature found on ChooseMyPlate.gov. With it you can personalize and track your diet and exercise recommendations, measure your progress and even support your friends and family in their own personal resolutions by inviting them to create individual profiles to promote feeling good and living better.
Fitocracy.com offers another unique way to track your health and fitness standings by turning your goals into a game, where you are rewarded for your progress with points, allowing you to unlock achievements to level up online and in your health. The community on Fitocracy.com provides you with a network of excellent advice to help you stay motivated.
Recipe: Vegan Tuscan Kale & White Bean Soup Did youknow...?
This one-pot-meal is incredibly easy to throw together and best of all, it’s inexpensive to make! I found this recipe when I was in need of something quick and easy to make for my husband and I for dinner. I wanted it to be ready for him by the time he got home, but I also needed to find some-thing that would accomodate his carnivorous appetite.
With about an hour to spare, I discovered this life saver, added some shredded chicken to his bowl, and it was a hit! This was my first time cooking with kale, and I was very satisfied with its taste, and the soup overall.
If you’re unfamiliar with this veggie, it is a high fiber, crucifer-ous vegetable (from the mustard greens family) loaded with vita-mins K and A. Vitamin K aids the retention of calcium in our bones and helps to maintain a healthy heart. Vitamin A, also present in carrots, promotes good eyesight and cataract prevention. By eating these veggies together, you’re not only getting a well balanced meal of carbohydrates, protein and fiber, but are promoting a healthy body. Now if you’re ready, grab your veggies and that fancy new apron you’ve been looking for an excuse
Method
In a large saucepan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion and cook 3 minutes or until onions be-gin to lose their color. Add garlic and cook 2 minutes longer. Add broth, kale and tomatoes (and fresh carrots, if using) and cover. Cook 5 minutes or until kale is tender. Add beans and canned carrots and heat thoroughly. Spice to taste. Serve while hot.
Amber MendozaCopy Chief
Eden Sugayhealth & SportS editor
One of the biggest culprits of weight loss failure is setting un-realistic goals. Often times a lofty standard is set from the get-go, not allowing the resolver to gradually adapt to a workout routine. The re-sult is a starved, over-worked body and a burnt out ex-gym rat. The so-lution? Start small!
If you've never set foot in a gym before, utilize the common free training that comes with a new membership and soak up the train-er's knowledge! Start with 20 min-utes of cardiovascular exercise per day, 3 times per week on a tread-mill or elliptical to get your blood pumping and your body used to the movement. Exercising with gradual increase and moderation is the key to success!
There are several gym and fitness centers located around us in the Bay Area. If you’re interested, check out some of these local fitness sites:
- Club One Fitness Center: 1200 Clay StreetOakland(510) 895-1010
- CrossFit East Bay:520 Thomas L Berkley WayOakland(510) 910-2919
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: approximately 1 & 1/4 cups.Per serving: 284 calories (80 from fat), 8g total fat, 1g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 460mg sodium, 33g total carbohydrate (8g dietary fiber, 7g sugar), 9g proteinThanks to Whole Foods Market for this recipe (http://www.wholefoods-market.com/recipes/2451)
to wear, and let’s get cooking!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 cup diced yellow onion- 4 large garlic cloves, roughly chopped in small pieces
- 4 cups packed chopped kale (I recommend cutting out the stems before cooking by folding a leaf in half, and slicing along its center as they are often tough)
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can Italian-style diced tomatoes- 1 (14.5-ounce) can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed (no-salt-added, optional)
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can sliced car-rots, drained, or two large carrots, peeled and sliced
Feel free to experiment with these ingredients! Try spinach in place of kale, or pasta instead of beans. You can even opt to add some tur-key sausage if you’re a meat-eater. I added brown rice to my recipe, so the possibilities really are endless. It can also be frozen and stored for a last minute meal in the future.
6 Health & SportsJan. 24, 2012
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Budget cuts sacrifice track and field
Use the Mills Fitness Center to reach your helath goals!
Fitness Interim HoursJanuary 18th-27th:
Monday-Thursday: 4-8 p.m.
Friday: 3-7 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 12-3 p.m.
Regular Hours resume January 28thMonday, Wednesday and Friday mornings:
7-9 a.m.
Monday-Thursday: 12-10 p.m.
Friday: 12-7 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 12-3 PM
PE at Mills: a unique way to get in shape with your friends!
Mills offers several fun and exciting physical education courses each semester, including:
PE 011G Pilates - Saturdays from 10-11:40 AMPE 012E Aerobic Power Sculpting - Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 4-4:50 PMPE 012H Capoeira - Mondays from 10-11:40 AM
PE 012K Zumba - Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-4:50 PM
IMAGE COURTESY OF FLICKR
The Mills College track and field team will no longer be offered af-ter this spring semester. Mills cut the sport due to the budget cuts implemented last semester in or-der to balance the College’s $3.5 million deficit.
“The only way that we could ac-complish that was to cut a team,” said Themy Adachi, the Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (APER) at Mills, who was tasked with cutting a sig-nificant amount from the program’s curremt budget.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have sponsor-ship regulations that Mills needed to meet that pointed toward the elimination of track and field being the team to cut. APER chose to cut track and field in order to maintain these regulations.
“Those that were possible to cut and still maintain our NCAA mem-bership, two out of the three sports had endowments, so we had no choice but to cut the track and field team,” said Adachi.
Beginning this spring, Coach Lache Bailey will be serving her second year at Mills as the Head Coach of the Track and Field team. She started as an assistant sprint
and hurdles coach in the 2008 spring season, with Laura Davis as the Head Coach.
Bailey explained last year that the team was awarded many ‘Life-time Best’ awards, achievements given to runners who beat their best college career times.
“It was a brand new program, but we had 22 people on the roster and we competed in all our meets and every week our athletes did bet-ter,” said Bailey.
Bailey learned of the school’s decision to cut the program only an hour before team members did. “Students are really disappointed and a lot of alumnae have reached out to me and wanted to know if there was anything they could do,” said Bailey.
Word of losing the Track and Field team has reached alumnae. whose feelings about the cut are mutual to Bailey’s.
“It’s a shame and depressing to see all these resources being taken away,” said alumna Gloria Gisel, who was part of the Track and Field team last semester. Gisel described her experience on the Track and Field team as being “really cool” and “very empowering to see how all these women interact with each other.”
Last year, Bailey specifically recruited three students that de-cided to attend Mills in order to participate on the Track and Field
team. Those students, according to Bailey, did not return for the 2012 spring semester and have trans-ferred out of Mills.
“Nearly all of my fondest memo-ries of my whole undergraduate career are of the Track and Cross Country teams with the friends that I have made on those teams,” said track and field team captain Mariah Olivera.
Other students who participate on the team, such as junior Nko-sazana Nkululeko, are equally af-fected by the sudden decision to cut the team.
“I’m really saddened that the program is being cut, because I feel it has served as a very valuable ex-perience for people at the college and for the Oakland community as well,” said Nkululeko, who partici-pated on the Track and Field team for the past two years.
The Track and Field team estab-lished a sister program called “You Go, Girl!” where team members would mentor underserved girls in the Oakland community as well as help to improve their track and field skills and promote sportsman-ship in order to begin practicing healthy competition.
Bailey and Adachi are encour-aging Mills students to participate in the last season for the team. The team is scheduled to have their first meet on February 2nd at UC Berkeley.
Come support the Mills Track and Field team during its last season!- Cal Berkeley All Comers: Saturday, February
4, 2012 at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 10 a.m.
- Santa Cruz Tri Meet: Wednesday, February 8,
2012 at Santa Cruz, CA; 4 a.m.
- Cal Berkeley All-Comers: Saturday, Febru-
ary 18, 2012 at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;
10 p.m.
- Delta College Open: Friday, February 24,
2012 at Modesto, CA; TBA
- UC Santa Cruz Invite: Friday, March 9. 2012
at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; 10 TBA
- Maurice Compton Invitational: Saturday,
March 24, 2012 at Merritt College, Oakland,
CA; 10 a.m.
- Cal/Nevada Championships: Saturday-Sun-
day, March 31–April 1, 2012 at Claremont/
Mudd/Scripps, Claremont, CA; 12 p.m.
Alheli CuencaAsst. HeAltH & sports editor
7Opinions & Editorial Jan. 24, 2012
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Dear Mills Community;
In light of the $3.5 million defi-cit currently facing the College, it would erode the foundation of Mills and be irresponsible for President DeCoudreaux to prolong or forgo decisions including implementing furloughs, cutting staff and sus-pending positions. It is imperative that the fiscal health of the College be stabilized, so that the integrity of the mission and evolution of the vision continue.
Based on her message in the Mills Quarterly, DeCoudreaux forthrightly, chose to address the fiscal reality of where Mills stands at this juncture.
We live in a society where the intersection of legal guide-lines and human resources man-dates often prevent the practice of full transparency.
The message details that De-Coudreaux took many factors into consideration and made decisions that affected not only her own support staff, but members of her cabinet and the faculty. Your fu-ture may well depend on master-ing the fundamentals of “Human Relations and Strategic Decision Making 101.”
Making institutionally strategic
decisions certainly is not always the most popular route to take, but it is an integral dimension of vi-sionary and responsible leadership.
One of the worse decisions you could ever make is to participate in an alternative consciousness where you absolve yourself of making any decision, simply doing nothing. Just as she had to make these tough and decisive calls, as future leaders of communities, colleges and coun-tries, you will have to do the same.
A woman of DeCoudreaux’s professional experience and intel-lectual depth certainly came aboard to grow Mills even deeper into the 21st Century, not debt. Her vision and professionalism require her to maximize the future of the College and ensure that its legacies mani-fest beyond memory.
In this economy with the batter-ing rams going ballistic on higher education and women on a daily basis, navigating these waters is no simple fete. As the rivers of racism and sewers of sexism overflow and the chasm of class grows deeper, the mission of Mills is more critical than ever.
As its heart, you are integrally woven into the fabric of Mills in ways that are both challenging and transformative. You stood in your
power and made your voices heard regarding the dismissal of key staff and the impact on your studies and lives. As you continue to play a piv-otal role in the evolving academic and social realities of the academy, it is crucial that you remain en-gaged in transformative discourse with President DeCoudreaux, ad-ministrators, faculty and peers.
You want to ensure that you are heard and propose ideas that have the potential to navigate the Col-lege into an even more remark-able future. Collaborating with the president, faculty and staff (the soul of the College) and President DeCoudreaux, you could be in the vanguard of making the seemingly impossible a reality.
Great leadership produces re-sults that translate across time and are memorialized as daily principles that strengthen indi-viduals, communities, institutions and countries.
From demanding racial and eth-nic change in the 1960’s to chal-lenging the gender paradigm in the 1990’s, students have brought their ideas and strategies to the table and elevated the mission to reflect greater demographic and pedagogi-cal inclusiveness. But the human toll these decisions extract on those
laid off can be devastating, espe-cially in an economy experiencing turbulent free fall.
It also can have a deleterious effect on the larger community, as professional and personal alliances are tested and partnerships dis-solved. Such decisions also may require others to take on additional responsibilities that can push them into overdrive.
Each person let go brought a particular set of valuable skills and breadth of experience to the table. They often forged intellectual and personal bonds with students and sometimes their families. Their work involved integral partnerships with staff, alumnae and members of affiliated communities beyond Mills. In some cases, what they brought to the table will become woven into the fabric of Mills’ in-stitutional memory and embedded in its pedagogy.
Continue to value and learn from the professional contributions of those let go. Now with “big-ger fish to fry in deeper grease,” they have to recover and gain new footing to move forward and sta-bilize their lives. Compassion, support and ongoing commit-ment to them as friends and allies can serve as a stabilizing factor
for them.Thousands, including old school
alums and new school students, are passionately vested in passing Mills on to future generations of women, as well as men willing to engage with a community where women’s voices and actions drive the leadership and discourse of the institution. Remain fierce, focused and academically and socially engaged Mills women. Over the course of your professional growth and the breadth of your leader-ship, current peers, or administra-tors could become part of a team you lead. It certainly is not out of the question, that from the desk of the White House, one of you may rise to the station of being respon-sible for making strategic deci-sions that could lead our deeply fractured country into becoming a phenomenal nation.
Daphne Muse is a writer, social commentator and Chief Visionary Officer for Grandmothers Going Global. Over the course of four de-cades, Muse became a Mills Wom-an while serving on the faculty, as a Scholar at the Women’s Leadership Institute and Director of the Wom-en’s Leadership Institute.
If there was a “Sh*t Mills people say,” what would be in it?
“What’s your prefered pronoun?”
Q U E S T I O N O F T H E W E E K
Letter to the Editor
“Let’s deconstruct this.”“Check your heterosexual, cisgendered, white male privilege.”
“Totally partying.” “Why are all the grad students men?”
STAFF EDITORIAL
— Katy Kondo — Sophia Colmenarez — Tarin Griggs — Nick Wang — Les Stuck
COMPILED BY BRIDGET STAGNITTO AND MICHELE COLLENDER
The outrage over the U.S. bills intended to protect intellectual property, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), has drawn considerable attention to both how successful internet-based protests can be as well as how tight-ly knit our government and corpo-rations are in this country.
What with the comeback of physical, woman-in-the-street protesting during the wake of the Occupy movement, it is curious
that the next publicized form of civil unrest in the United States would come from within the world wide web.
But with the Jan. 18 public blackouts of Wikipedia and Reddit — two widely used websites — in protest of SOPA and PIPA, we can see that protesting on the internet is equally as strong as marching in the streets.
Most of the discontent with these bills stems from the idea that
the government cannot and should not be able to censor its people.
SOPA in particular, threatened to give the government enough power to take down blogs and other social media that threatened intel-lectual property rights.
While some do agree that piracy is wrong and should be regulated, the question is, at what price? The government cannot sacrifice the constitutional rights of the many to protect the legal rights of the few.
And now that both bills have been dropped by congress, as more an more politicians felt the virtual heat on the issue of internet free-dom, it seems the online blackouts were successful.
The Jan. 18 blackouts are con-sidered the largest online protest in history and it is clear that they affected the outcome of the SOPA and PIPA bills.
Internet activism has changed the course of history in this
particular case.But is this really the wave of the
future? Will we no longer see pro-testers marching in the streets, wav-ing banners and shouting through megaphones? Will the internet be-come the new medium for social unrest and activism?
Or should we hold on to the physicality and permanence of live action demonstrations?
The answer, it seems, is not clear.
Strategic Decision Making: An Integral Dimension of Visionary and Responsible Leadership
Internet blackouts: successful means of protest or a flash in the pan?
8 Meet the PressJan. 24, 2012
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