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Faculty members at two CSU campuses will hold day-long concerted actions after fail-ing to come to an agreement with the CSU over salary raises.
Cal State Dominquez Hills and Cal State East Bay will host their actions Nov. 17, said Nate Thomas, president of CSUN’s California Faculty Association (CFA) chapter. Northern Califor-nia CSU campuses will gather at East Bay, and southern campuses will gather at Dominguez Hills.
A concerted action is a form of protest, but not a strike, Thom-as said, but both forms of protest have to meet requirements for them to be legal.
“A concerted action and a strike are legal because the chan-cellor’s office has broken the contract,” he said.
One of two contracts from 2008-09 and 2009-10 have been broken, and they include sal-ary raises, said Erik Fallis, CSU spokesman.
Fallis, who speaks on behalf of CSU Chancellor Charles Reed, said the action planned by the CFA is inappropriate.
“It’s premature and poten-tially disruptive for the students,
CFA to take action
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Emergency alerts warn-ing students, faculty and parents of a possible gun-man on campus last Tues-day were sent around 11:45 a.m., over an hour after police were notified. How-ever, some people admitted to not receiving the mes-sage until later in the day, if at all.
CTVA professor Thelma Vickroy said she didn’t receive her alert through
SMS, or text, until 2:26 p.m., almost three hours later than other members of the campus community.
“I was notified because my students’ parents started calling my students,” said Vickroy, who was in class when the first alerts were sent out.
Vickroy signed up to receive SMS messages instead of having voice-mails sent directly to her cell phone. Although she received a voicemail to her office that was forwarded as an email to her phone, Vickroy said she was not
inclined to check her email or office phone during class time.
Deaf studies major Alys-sia Johnson never received the first alert. Though her phone was off during class, when she turned it back on, Johnson said there was no message until an update at 3:30 p.m..
Vickroy holds a contract with AT&T and Johnson with Verizon, and campus police spokeswoman Chris-tina Villalobos said this
Reason for late receipt of emergency notifications unclear
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two students walk by the oviatt library during a rainy day on Wednesday.
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the first of many emergency notification texts students, professors and staff received from CSUn on tuesday, Sept. 27. Many, like Jaiseth Caraan, communications major, 24, did not recieve their texts until later on that night. “At first i was like, ‘oh, here’s CSUn hitting me up again,’ but i appreciated it.”
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and to take concerted action of any sort at this point is premature,” Fallis said.
CSUs Dominguez Hills and East Bay were selected to hold the concerted actions because of the circumstanc-es they are facing due to the budget cuts.
“Those campuses chose themselves because they felt like they were ready to be the campuses to lead those one-day actions,” said Audrena Redmond, CFA regional representative for CSUN.
Though the size of Dominguez Hills and East Bay is relatively smaller than other CSU’s, represen-tatives from both campuses said they are the right candi-dates to make the first step.
“We serve working-class students and we’ve suf-fered the most under some of the misguided polices of the chancellor,” said David Bradfield, Dominguez Hills CFA chapter president. “They’re misguided priori-ties. We don’t think he’s supporting what the students in California need.”
East Bay CFA chapter president Jennifer Eagan added that both campuses have strong union leader-ship. Eagan said their cam-pus took a bigger hit from the budget cuts compared to other campuses.
In addition to student needs, faculty salaries are an issue the CFA and CSU have not been able to agree on.
“There’s the point made that faculty salaries are somehow stagnant. That’s far from true,” Fallis said. “We have, between 2008 and 2010, provided $59.05 million in raises to mem-bers of that bargaining unit through various means. One of which was general sal-ary increase, which faculty received in 2008.”
But Thomas said the rea-son why the CFA is execut-ing their concerted action is because the CSU has not given faculty raises.
“We deserve, as facul-ty, to be treated fairly and we’ve been treated extreme-ly unfair by the chancel-lor’s office,” Thomas said. “(Reed) has the money and he decides to use it the way he wants to use it. He’s not being fair to the faculty, and it isn’t all about raises, but it is about working condi-tions.”
CFA is also planning to have an informational picket on Nov. 8 or 9, that would be the precursor to the con-certed action.
“It’s time to escalate. It’s enough playing games. It’s been a year and a half now without a contract,” Thomas said. “And some of the pro-posals they’ve thrown out at bargaining are really funny. It’s comical. Life’s too short for game playing.”
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problem may be attributed to those companies.
“A lot of what we have learned and see from Black-board about text messages and delays depends on the carrier,” she said.
Emergency alerts are sent directly from CSUN
Police Services through Blackboard Connect, a mass notification service.
Blackboard would not comment on the delayed messages.
Villalobos said she has never heard of delays of messages hours after being sent, however, she did say that some of the police staff’s messages came sev-eral minutes or seconds apart.
The decision to send out an emergency alert depends on the information the police are given in a par-ticular situation, Villalobos said.
The campus was not notified to lock their doors during the Sept. 27 inci-dent, but there is safety information posted around CSUN in case of emergen-cies.
On some college cam-
puses, such as San Diego State University, there are emergency procedures post-ed in classrooms that dis-play what should be done in different situations, includ-ing an active shooter, fire or earthquake on campus.
In Southern California, there are also annual emer-gency drills, including one this month as part of the Great Shakeout, a nation-wide earthquake drill.
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Bartenders and waitress-es start closing down O’brien’s Irish Pub in Santa Monica just after 1 a.m. Wes Singerman, guitarist for funk-jazz band BAMF, approaches bandmate Austin Yancey with a pat on the shoulder. They are wind-ing down from the band’s per-formance. Singerman hands his bandmate him his cut for their show that evening—$20.
Students in performing arts have faced challenges to break into their designated fields while trying to make bank and juggle classes at the same time.
BAMF, made up of CSUN music major students and cre-ated by bassist Jack Keller, began playing gigs at a house party when they decided to branch out. Now they play mainly at bars, on average once every other week.
“We’re doing music to get jobs,” said Yancey, 21. “We do this so we can pay rent.”
Yancey, whose father had been a musician since he was young and worked the Las Vegas Strip for 23 years while teaching band and drug coun-seling to make money, moved with his family to California for better opportunities musi-
cally.The baritone saxophone
player said that while he didn’t spend 18 years of his life in music to give it away for free, these experiences allow him to network and meet other musi-cians.
Gary Pratt, director of CSUN’s jazz studies, said the music program pushes students to begin networking early into their careers.
“We put quality artists in situations where our student can come in contact with them,” Pratt said. “We feel it’s an important aspect for our students.”
Just recently, a group of jazz students had the opportu-nity to meet noted saxophone player David Binney at Blue Whale, an L.A. jazz club.
For some musicians, like BAMF’s Connor McElwain whose dad was a drummer and his mother played the clarinet, the music performance world is not foreign.
McElwain said music was the only thing he could identify with and relate passion to.
“It’s not only music, it’s stage performance,” said McElwain, who was one of the finalists at this year’s Angels City Jazz Competition.
McElwain also competed at this year’s Next Generation Jazz Festival, where he and fel-
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low musicians had an opportu-nity to play with famous Jazz artists.
“We just blew them away,” he said.
A graduating senior, McEl-wain hopes to pay off his stu-dent loans by performing his music on cruise lines this sum-
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Steven Horist also plays with BAMF on some gigs.
Horist started his music career when he was in sixth grade.
“I wanted to play the sax like Lisa from the Simpsons,”
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Music “turned into a pas-sion, then an obsession,” he said.
Horist now plays and writes music for several instruments.
Other student musicians also explore more than one instrument to reach different music industries.
Thomas Gallegos, a 21-year-old music major focusing on composing for film, began playing piano at the age of nine.
Gallegos moved from piano to drums, drums to the guitar, and from the guitar to singing, growing tired of each along the way. In high school, he became interested in musical theater.
“That’s when it started coming together,” he said. “(I thought) where can all these things become a strength for me? The guitar helped me establish harmonic rhythm, the drums create the tempo that makes me hear odd rhythms and being a pianist puts it all together.”
By the time Gallegos came to CSUN, he was expanding his network by writing music for other students. It wasn’t long before Gallegos and two of his colleagues, Garrett Crosby and Ian Rees, created their own production company, Reelscore Productions.
For their first job, Gallegos said they worked for video game composer Garry Schy-man. They were able to com-
plete a project in two days which would have normally taken three weeks and cost $1,200, but the trio did it for the experience.
“At that period of my time at CSUN, I was taking 21 units,” he said. “There was no way I could have done it on my own, but we managed it together. I have never seen the sun rise so many times.”
Since then, Gallegos said their company has scored sev-eral deals with films and docu-mentaries.
To fulfill his degree, Gal-legos is required to produce a live orchestra, which typi-cally runs between $4,000 and $5,000 for food, projectors and players, he said. The students are responsible for funding the production themselves, wheth-er by scholarships or hard-
earned cash.“Even with my jobs it’s still
going to be tough,” he said.Yancey also thinks about
the financial side of things.Just like the beat boxers
of the 40’s who were living in poverty, Yancey said, “the soprano, tenor, alto sax, clari-net, flute, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, these are all the instruments I need to know on a master’s level to make, maybe, $30,000 a year.”
Pratt said in every profes-sion there are challenges, espe-cially performing arts when the values and musical taste of society fluxuates.
“That challenge is quite known to our students and we encourage them to face them quite readily and fast,” said Pratt.
Yancey said he’s continu-ing his education and going for his credentials to make a career out of his music, which he said people often mistake for a hobby.
“It’s a lifelong goal,” Yanc-ey said. “It’s not something you (achieve) in a couple of years, it’s a lifelong commit-ment.”Additional reporting:Brian De Los SantosFeatures Editor
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thomas Gallegos, a 21-year-old music major, has played piano since the age of nine. interested in composing music for film, Gallegos has recently started a production com-pany, reelscore Productions, with two of his colleagues.
Recently Bank of America announced that it would be charging debit users a monthly fee of five dollars for using their debit cards. Appropriately there has been uproar over this, but is the target of this anger properly Bank of America?
Several complaints seem to be about Bank of America ‘stealing’ the hard earned money of its consumers, but let us carefully consider this. Bank of America does provide a service to its clients; it allows one to avoid carrying large amounts of cash on them for their daily transactions and to make purchases over catalogs and the internet. A monthly fee of five dollars is hardly much compared to these ser-vices. Do you disagree? Then simply close your account with Bank of America.
That is that beautiful thing about the market is it not? You are never forced to purchase any service or good. You can elect to be the patron for any company as you please. If you wish to terminate relations with them you simply stop. They can offer all the discounts in the world, but ulti-mately they can’t force you to do business with them.
Compare this to the state who does not allow you this luxury. You cannot simply choose to no longer be a citi-zen of the United States. You can nominally terminate your citizenship, but you’ll be forced to leave your home under the threat of violence. Coincidentally it is the state’s mandates that have forced Bank of America to charge the monthly fee. Previously it would have been acquired through vendors, but someone in the state decided to ‘help’ and ended up shifting the burden to consumers directly.
the recent Warren Buffett edito-rial “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” published in The New York Times, drew attention to the fact that some people in the United States are obscenely rich, but have garnered the protection of the government.
I would like to make it clear that student activists, up to now, have failed.
Part of that might be because we rally and yell in the streets over a tuition increase, then go off and spend $30 on drinks at the bar. With tuition going from $5,076 in 2010-11 to $6,488 in 2011-12, the nearly $1,400 increase should have us upset, but the fact that students aren’t poor compared to the homeless, and narrow our focus on tuition, prevents our movement from appealing to the broader population.
It is not that student activists and organizations, such as Students for Quality Education, are incompetent. It is about taking our political organizing to the next level.
We often don’t have our facts straight. We still know more about the Dodgers, Lakers and “American Idol” contestants than elected representatives. We have to know what happened in the Russian Revolution, in the Carnation Revolution of 1974 in Portugal, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 – there
is a lot of history for us to be building on, but instead, ego and naïveté rule the day.
We still don’t have the structure and organization to show up to all relevant meetings and make intelligent com-ments. We show up once in a while when “they” are about to vote on increas-ing our tuition and yell and pound the windows a little. Chasing Chancellor Charles Reed off of our campus might have felt good, but students running after a golf cart? Reed’s and President Jolene Koester’s salaries are significant, but focusing on those small issues mar-ginalizes the movement.
A news release put out by the Cali-fornia State University board of trustees regarding approved tuition hikes was made available to the public before the board actually voted on the tuition hikes at its July 12 meeting. The premature news release shows what they think of us.
It really is simple: the budget cuts keep coming, tuition keeps rising and the quality of education continues to decline because students don’t vote. We also need to get beyond the two-party binary.
We need to make our activism sus-tainable. We can’t be working eight-hour days flipping burgers or selling clothes in the
mall, then have class, do our homework and be expected to devote the energy and brain power required to be effective in our political organizing.
Yelling in the streets is visible and gets people’s attention, but that is just the first half. In order to get attention, we have to stop protesting in a way that is acceptable to those powers we are protesting against. But we also have to be nonviolent, unafraid to step on toes and capable of working toward a solu-tion through dialogue.
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With a strong first week of Big West Conference games behind it, the CSUN women’s soccer team is looking to continue its success with home matches against Cal Poly Fri-day and UC Santa Barbara Sunday.
The Matadors (3-6-2, 1-0-1 Big West) kicked off league play with a 1-1 tie against Pacific and a 3-1 win over UC Davis last weekend.
Junior goalkeeper Cynthia Jacobo had a total of 11 saves in both games, including a season-high seven stops against Pacific. After her stellar play, Jacobo was named Big West Confer-ence Defensive Player of the Week Monday and made her way up the CSUN record books. She is now fourth in school history in saves, passing former Matador Leah Elliott. She’s also second in school history with 19 career wins, breaking a tie with April Cline.
"I owe a lot to the team,” said Jacobo, who has an 11-3-1 all-time Big West record. “I am proud of the effort we put together."
The Matador defense, led by Katie Russ, Chloe McDaniel, Stephanie Norton and Shannon Ward, helped CSUN earn four points, enough for a tie with Pacific for second place in the Big West standings.
The Matadors’ offense did thier part as well. Senior forward Heidi Farran scored two goals to bring her
season total to five. CSUN had 31 shots – with 14 on goal – in the first two conference games.
The Matadors’ first Big West home game will be Friday at 7 p.m. against the Mustangs (7-5-1, 1-1-0), who are coming off a 6-0 loss against Long Beach State.
Cal Poly has scored 22 goals for the season and has allowed a conference-high 24 goals. They are averaging 1.69 goals per game and 11.6 shots per game.
Senior midfielder Tiffany Gum-mow is leading the Mustangs with seven goals, which ranks her second in the Big West, and freshman for-ward Sara Lancaster has five goals.
Senior goalkeeper Brooke Gauvin has played and started in all 13 games for the Mustangs. Gauvin has 55 saves and two shutouts this season. Gauvin is seventh in the conference with a save percentage of .696. Gauvin is also tied for third with 4.23 saves per game.
The Matadors' weekend continues against UC Santa Barbara on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The Gauchos (5-7-2, 0-2-0) are averaging 14.07 shots per game and one goal per game.
UC Santa Barbara has given up 19 goals in 14 games.
The Matadors will continue their three-game home stand next week when they face Long Beach State for the first time since the 49ers beat the Matadors in the 2010 Big West tournament.
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Defender Jessa Yukihiro, left, and the Matadors host cal Poly Friday.
the players that are coming off the bench, with their attitudes and doing whatever it takes to help the team.”
Garcia may be a key component to CSUN’s success, but Davila feels that it takes more than one person to make a difference.
“(Garcia) doesn’t have to have the ball to affect the game and not many players can do that,” Davila said. “To me, we have about 16 to 17 starters.”
With both teams having six points, Saturday’s match will deter-mine who will be at top of the Big West.
“I just take it game by game, and Irvine’s the biggest game of the year,” Davila said. “It’s like cards. One card changes everything. One game changes everything.”
ter Sydney Gedryn with Orlan-dini after the first set against the Titans. Orlandini, who admit-tedly was “really nervous” in her first action of the year, had 26 assists.
Going into Pacific, Gedryn’s still the starter, Stork said.
“Orlandini does certain things real well and Gedryn does things real well in other areas,” Stork said. “The two are actually quite a bit different. It has to do with which one of their skills is more valuable at any one time. Typi-cally those are practice-time, game-time decisions.”
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When asked about the Mat-adors’ chances for their next game, Friday at Pacific, CSUN middle blocker Casey Hinger gave her usual self-assured forecast.
“I have total confidence in our team’s ability to take down (Pacif-ic),” Hinger said.
The statement was no shocker. Confidence is one thing Hinger’s never lacked, and if anyone in the Matador locker room was ever short in team belief, CSUN’s Saturday win over defending Big West Confer-ence champion Cal State Fullerton in straight sets should have served them an immediate faith injection.
Not only did the Matadors (8-7, 2-1 Big West) win at home for the first time this season, they did it with mettle, winning an extra-point battle in the first set and overcoming a six-point deficit in the second.
Hinger’s not crossing the line from confident to cocky, however.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do and we know that,” she said. “We know that was a big win for us, but (CSUN head) coach (Jeff Stork) told us, ‘You’re only as good as your next win.’ So we got to keep push-ing on.”
The Matadors, who will also face UC Davis on Saturday, aim to make Pacific (10-7, 1-3) their next vic-tim. Led by outside hitter Samantha Misa’s 3.97 kills per set, the Tigers come into the match wounded, los-ers of their last two games. Adding insult to injury, one of those losses, 3-1 to UC Santa Barbara on Friday, saw them drop a set by a score of
25-6, their worst single-set loss in the rally score era.
With the disgraceful performance still fresh in their minds, the Tigers figure to come out swiping, CSUN senior setter Sam Orlandini said.
“They’re a physical team, espe-cially at home,” said Orlandini, who made her season debut against Ful-lerton. “They play tough. We got to push back even harder.”
Orlandini added that Pacific has a special section close to the floor at the Spanos Center where other stu-dent athletes like to sit to “heckle” opposing teams.
Stork hopes his game plan will offset whatever homecourt advan-tage Pacific might have.
“They play primarily a perim-eter defense,” Stork said of Pacific. “Also, the speed of their players is such to where if we can get their players to the floor, they have a more difficult time handling the ball.
“So when they do go to the floor, even though they may touch the ball, they tend not to come out of that situation very well.”
While the plan is to beat Pacific with speed and tip-downs, the Mata-dors are also preparing to defend
themselves against their .222 hit-ting percentage, the second best in the Big West. The Tigers average the most kills per set (14.08) in the conference.
“Can’t wait to block them,” Hinger said.
Last weekend was one of experi-menting for the Matadors. Stork inserted junior Monica McFarland as the starting libero during CSUN’s 3-1 loss to Long Beach State Fri-day, opting to bump season-long starter Cindy Ortiz. McFarland had a career-high 30 digs and played “unbelievable,” Stork said.
The following night against Ful-lerton, McFarland started at libero again, but Ortiz, who averages 4.23 digs per set, subbed in at the position midway through. Stork said he’ll stick with Ortiz for the time being.
“McFarland adds so many things, her read on the play defensively is uncanny and her speed to the ball is unbelievable,” Stork said. “Ortiz right now is just a little bit better of a passer.”
Stork also replaced starting set-
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Currently riding a three-game winning streak, the Mata-dors are looking to stay on top of the Big West Conference as they face No. 7 UC Irvine at Anteater Stadium Saturday night.
CSUN (5-4-1, 2-0 Big West)is tied for first place with UC Irvine (10-2, 2-1) in conference with six points each. CSUN got wins against UC Davis and Cal State Fullerton last weekend.
CSUN head coach Terry
Davila sees UCI as a big chal-lenge for his team.
“UCI is a dynamic team,” Davila said. “They have about five players that can possibly score goals. It’s hard to shut them out.”
The Matadors have shut out their last three opponents. Midfielder Rafael Garcia says the coaching staff has stressed defense in order to succeed.
“The coaches have done a great job of putting in our minds that when we get shutouts, it usually comes with a (win),” Garcia said.
Davila added that his group needs to play organized and be cautious of the Anteaters.
UCI forward Christian Her-nandez leads his team with five goals and four assists. He is also an accurate striker, with 15 shots on goal out of 35 shots.
The last meeting between the teams resulted in CSUN coming away with a 2-1 victory on Nov. 3, 2010 at Irvine. The Matadors also lead the series 18-14-4, but they’re 2-3 over the last five matches.
Winning their first two Big West matches, Davila thinks the preseason had a lot to do with their performance.
“People are maturing,” Davi-la said. “That’s why we have preseason games, to find out who you are. I think we’re start-ing to get an identity and feel comfortable with one another.”
After tallying three assists during CSUN’s win over Fuller-ton Saturday, Matador midfield-er Carlos Benavides was named
Big West Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.
“It feels really good,” Bena-vides said. “All the hard work has paid off for the team and I think it’s a byproduct of the team working hard.”
Benavides hopes to carry his offensive performance against the Titans into Saturday’s game.
“Hopefully I can carry that momentum into the (game against UCI) and produce maybe a couple more assists,” Benavides said. “Maybe even a goal, help the team get another (win) on the road because Irvine is going to be a tough team to beat.
“If I have a clear shot or clear way of getting to the goal, maybe creating myself an opportunity, then I’ll take (the shot). If not, if I see someone else that has a better chance of scoring, then I’ll give it to them.”
Garcia’s return to the starting lineup four games ago has given the Matadors multiple ways to
execute their game plans.“We have depth right now
and we have the quality that when any player comes in, we’re at the point where we
don’t really miss a beat,” Gar-cia said. “I’m really happy with
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LACMA brings Chicano art to life“Asco: Elite of the Obscure” explores the L.A. art scene
Photography, film and performance documentation consume the second floor of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the LACMA for the “Asco: Elite of the Obscure [A Retrospective 1972-1987]” exhibition.
The six-room gallery invites visitors to explore the underground world of Latino artists during a time of cultural intolerance.
The self-proclaimed Chicano art group, Asco took its name from the Spanish word for disgust and nausea in response to socio-political injustices in Los Angeles.
“Being of Latin decent, I found their (Asco’s) message so interesting coming from an era when there was no Latin presence in the art world,” said Xavier Loza, 29, a visitor from Santa Barbara.
Founding artists of Asco, Willie F. Herron, Patssi Valdez, Gronk and CSUN Chicana/o studies professor, Harry Gamboa Jr., pushed the limits of Chicano art by merging activism with a variety of different art forms.
Photography was a core medium used to document Asco’s many public performances. The first of their political messages was “Stations of
the Cross” where Herron, Gronk and Gamboa carried a 15-foot cardboard cross along Whittier Boulevard on Christmas Eve in 1971. The mile-long procession in resistance to the deaths caused by the Vietnam War is the first series of photographs welcoming visitors to the exhibit.
The first room, alarmingly white, details Asco’s many public affairs through the late 1960s and early 1970s. A collection of artfully produced hand-colored gelatin silver prints by artist Ricardo Val Verde decorate the back end of the room. In the photograph of Asco’s Day of the Dead performance,“Termites y Guerrero,” three masked men parade the streets in almost alien-like costumes. One of the costumes hangs from the ceiling above the photographs.
A projector showcases photographs along the dark grey back wall, accompanied by an acrylic on canvas painting and movie artifacts like the golden snake on adjacent walls. Opposite the replaying movie reel, six powerful photographs by Gamboa depict the rejection and emotion of Chicano art, many of which were explicitly violent.
Ceiling to floor drapes disguise two entries into a center room with yet another movie projection. Unique multimedia set this room apart with
life-size canvas figures and large arrows hung from the walls. A spray painted mural bleeds from the canvas to the wall itself, separating the two back rooms.
The spray painted mural, “Bound” was originally created in 1985, artist Patssi Valdez reproduced it at the LACMA for the Asco exhibit. As stated in the description, Valdez chose spray paint for the convenience of being able to carry it in her purse to the studio.
In an almost maze like layout, patrons can meander from one of the last three rooms to the next with a variety of photographs, hand-drawn art work and silk screen productions through the end of the 1980s.
The “Asco” exhibit is part of “Pacific Standard Time,” a city-wide collaboration of cultural centers to tell the story of the L.A. art scene across Southern California.
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Latin artist Patssi Valdez recreates her 1985 spray paint on canvas piece for the ‘asco: elite of the obscure’ exhibit at the LaCMa.
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Photographs depicting the political performances of asco line the walls of an exhibit at LaCMa.
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asco, a group of Latino artists, is currently displayed at LaCMa. the exhibit features the work of Willie F. Herron, CSUN Chicana/o studies professor Harry gamboa, Patssi Valdez and gronk, among others.
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a gelatin silver print photograph entitled ‘Zero Visibility’ by CSUN Professor Harry gamboa Jr. is currently on display as part of the asco exhibit at LaCMa.
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KCSN 88.5 FM will begin tak-ing on-air donations on Oct. 14 in order to keep the noncommercial, public station up and running
The cross-platform, contem-porary radio program has been struggling since last year after losing federal funding.
From Oct. 14 - 23, the station will stop its regular programming four times each hour to solicit do-nations from listeners, said Karen Kearns, KCSN general manager. Donations also will be accepted on the KCSN website.
The pledge drive is done twice a year, Kearns said.
KCSN is hoping it can collect more than it did during its spring
pledge drive, which brought in about $60,000.
“We no longer receive funding from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), at all,” Kearns said. “Our funding mostly comes from donations and some spon-sors.”
KCSN lost CPB funding in 2010 because they did not meet the minimum requirements in audi-ence and fundraising, according to the KCSN website.
A lack of funding resulted in the loss of weekday hosts and a change in programming, said Kearns.
“I just hope the change didn’t make us lose some of our loyal listeners,” Kearns said. CSUN supports KCSN by providing their location and paying salaries, but
does not cover the cost of run and maintaining programing, equip-ment and telephones, and bills, said Kearns.
“I have to pay rent for two antennas as well,” Kearns said. “The antenna at our Oat Mountain station reaches San Fernando and Santa Clarita and our booster antenna to reach the west side.”
In addition to donations, KCSN is asking supporters to volunteer their time to help answer phones during the pledge drive. Indi-viduals interested in volunteering during the pledge drive can sign up on the KCSN website.
“We’ve heard from about 40 people who have just signed up, and they are continuing to sign (up), so that’s great news,” Kearns said.
During the recent CSUN production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” more than just award-winning spellers were in attendance at the production’s six sold out shows, a rare but not an unheard of occur-rence.
“Days don’t come much better,” said Bill Taylor, theatre manager in an email. “It was a giant day for our students ... learn-ing we’d sold out the entire run, then last evening (Sept. 29) two
stars from the original Broadway production showed up in the audience.”
Adding to the excitement, in attendance Sept. 29 were Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and Celia Keenan-Bolger, who played Leaf and Olive in the original Broadway production.
“Congrats to the cast of ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell-ing Bee’ @calstate university! You totally charmed mine & @celiakb’s socks off!,” tweeted Ferguson on Sept. 30.
The next production by the CSUN theatre department is “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” opening
night is Friday, Oct. 7. For more information, check out the CSUN theatre department’s website at www.csun.edu/theatre.
The third CicLAvia event in downtown Los Angeles will take place on Sunday, Oct. 9, where people can roam the streets without any fear of automobiles in their way.
The event will start at 10 a.m. and conclude at 3 p.m. and at-tendance is free to the public.
“You don’t need to register; you don’t need to do anything. You just go,” said Aaron Paley, producer and co-founder of CicLA-via.
The event will open up miles of roadway for people to walk, bike, and enjoy the city, Paley said.
The exact route of CicLAvia can be found on its website at www.ciclavia.org, as well as the schedule of street closure times.
“We open up miles of city streets so that people can enjoy their city in an entirely different way,” Paley said. “We’re creating a new public space, like a tem-porary public park. Just imagine there’s a public park and you get to ... run, walk, and hang out.”
With streets closed for only people to use, people will get an
opportunity to enjoy the city’s ar-chitecture, meet their neighbors, eat food, and see the historic core of the city, Paley said.
“You’re going to discover all these different neighborhoods, from Koreatown, to the Central-American neighborhood in Ma-cArthur Park, to Little Tokyo, Cen-tral Avenue and Boyle Heights,” Paley said. “Each neighborhood has its own characteristics and has its own local businesses.”
There will also be six hubs, and at each hub, there will be food trucks, water stations, public restrooms and free bike repairs, Paley said.
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Jesse tyler Ferguson, the original ‘Leaf ’ in the broad-way production of ‘the 25th annual Putnam Coun-ty Spelling bee,’ poses with alex tordi, who played the role of ‘Leaf ’ in CSUN’s production of the play.
With a broad entry way and bright skylights, white walls and what looks like a steel roller coaster embedded in the doors, the “California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way” exhibition at LACMA screams modernity.
The exhibit features
an eclectic collection of household furniture, wall décor and futuristic inventions to show off mid-century modern design. California’s innovative style helped shape the trends and culture of the whole nation.
Located in the entryway of the Tim Burton exhibit, the small space packs a large assortment of funky,
less than ordinary pieces. An array of colorful
women’s clothing on trend in the 1960’s and miniature home models pop against the back splash of stark white and steel throughout the exhibit.
“California Design” of-fers patrons a blast from the past giving a unique perspective on contempo-rary style.
The eerie, dark setting of Edward Kienholz’s “5 Car Stud (1969-1972)” sets the mood for his civil rights era depiction cur-rently on display at the LACMA.
The headlights of four mid-century cars and a green Dodge pickup illuminate the gruesome scene of four life-size masked men holding down a
half-clothed black man while attempting to castrate him. A fifth figure stands nearby hold-ing a shotgun.
Carefully constructed during the late 1960s - early 1970s, Kienholz’s work was a reminder of the violence and racial intol-erance during the civil rights movement.
The “5 Car Stud” exhibit first debuted in Germany in 1972 and was then acquired
by a Japanese collector, where the collection sat in storage for 40 years.
Kienholz’s exhibit was thought to be too controversial to be displayed in the United States for many years. This is the first public showing of Kienholz’s “5 Car Stud” in the United States.
*Please be advised this ex-hibit contains explicitly graphic images of violence and nudity.
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an exhibit by edward kienholz entitled ‘Five Car Stud’ vividly depicts the vio-lence and racial intolerance during the civil rights movement.
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Steel railings and curvilinear architecture compliment the unique style of ‘Liv-ing in a Modern Way,’ the California design exhibit at the LaCMa.
What: on the destruction of the crystal Palace (Museum on Fire)Why: artist liz Glynn constructed and burned a steel frame structure and is now bringing the charred remains to Moca where visitors can sift through the wreck. the film of the burning will be shown in Moca’s arco court.Where: Moca Grand avenue - 250 south Grand ave., los angeles, ca 90012time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.PriCe: Free
What: Frank strazzeri QuintetWhy: spend the evening listening to exceptional jazz music at lacMa. strazzeri has played with musicians such as billie Holiday, louie bellson, Maynard Ferguson, and many oth-ers.Where: lacMa Grand entrance - 5905 Wilshire blvd. los angeles, ca 90036time: 6:00 p.m.PriCe: Free
What: redondo beach Pier: taste of the PierWhy: the second annual taste of the Pier will include live bands, art and food tasting. tasting tickets are $1 each and if you buy 10, you get two free.Where: 100 Fishermans Wharf, redondo beach, ca 90277time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.PriCe: Free admission
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mondaysundayWhat: ciclaviaWhy: Go out and enjoy los angeles’ largest block party. approximately ten miles of streets will be closed to cars from east Hollywood to boyle Heights. take this opportunity to explore the city, including the archi-tecture, culture and food.Where: check out the ciclavia website (www.ciclavia.org) for exact route information. time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.PriCe: Free
What: Keep it clean comedy showWhy: this standup show is where working comedians go to test out new material, so grab a beer and enjoy a good laugh.Where: Public House - 1739 n. Ver-mont ave, los angeles, ca 90027time: 10:30 p.m.PriCe: Free
wednesdaytuesday1009 1211What: tuba Faculty recital - usc thornton school of MusicWhy: enjoy the evening listening to music by bill cunliffe, anthony Plog and beethoven performed by the talented thornton faculty.Where: alfred newman recital Hall - 840 W. 34th st., los angeles, ca 90089time: 7:30 p.m.PriCe: Free
What: duff McKagen discusses and signs “it’s so easy: and other lies”Why: McKagen is one of the found-ing members of both Guns n’ roses and Velvet revolver. listen to him speak about his book and sign your copy ($26).Where: book soup - 8818 sunset blvd, West Hollywood, ca 90069time: 7:00 p.m.PriCe: Free
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