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CHOCOLATE MIGHT STEPPING UP PRESSURE STOCKS END BE GOOD MEDICINE UKRAINE PENALTY:U.S.,EUROPE ORDER RUSSIA SANCTIONS SHARPLY UP HEALTH PAGE 19 WORLD PAGE 8 BUSINESS PAGE 10 Leading local news coverage on the Peninsula Tuesday • March 18, 2014 • Vol XIII,Edition 182 www.smdailyjournal.com Skyline limits faculty speech Community college policy prohibits staff from talking to the press directly;officials say clarification coming By Angela Swartz The school sent out an email to that this only applies to talking submit their questions to you in on what the nature of the interview DAILY JOURNAL STAFF Skyline employees last week about program services, policies writing,” it states. “Please forward is, get the questions the reporter informing them that a media poli- or occurrences on campus and not the questions and your suggested plans to ask in writing and consult Skyline College students and cy has been in place — since 2006 to commenting on areas of expert- responses to the Director of Cherie Colin. It may be appropri- employees are concerned about a — at the San Bruno community ise in one’s field. Marketing, Communications and ate for you to go ahead and conduct media policy which some feel college that asks faculty and staff “If you are approached by the Public Relations, Cherie Colin. the interview, but only after hav- restricts their free speech, while go through the public relations media to discuss any program … Please do not agree to conduct ing a conversation with Cherie the administration says it plans to department before answering services, policies or occurrences an interview with a member of the Colin to properly prepare, may clarify it so people aren’t afraid to media questions. The school does on the Skyline College campus, media. If you are asked to be inter- talk to the media. plan on sending out a clarification please request that the reporter viewed, please gather information See LIMITS, Page 16 GUEST OF HONOR Embattled 7-Eleven may close its doors San Mateo city officials, property owners and operators negotiating By Samantha Weigel Shawn Mason DAILY JOURNAL STAFF said he could not comment on The disputed 7-Eleven that the status of the caused some in a quiet neighbor- negotiations. hood to band together in protest However, a and landed San Mateo in court, store manager may be closing its doors at the end confirmed it of the month as the city and prop- would be clos- erty owners are negotiating a set- Robert Ross ing at the end of tlement. the month and The city found itself in front of a 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret Superior Court judge in January Chabris confirmed it was in discus- who ruled the council did act sions with the city. The property appropriately when it determined owner Portfolio Development the store at 501 N. San Mateo Partners did not respond to a TOM JUNG/DAILY JOURNAL Drive was illegally operating in a request for comment. Congresswoman Anna Eschoo, D-Palo Alto, congratulates 95-year-old Navy veteran Carl Clark, the guest of residential zone and asked it to Mayor Robert Ross said the honor at the Herby Dawkins Freedom Fund Banquet and 88th Anniversary of the NAACP,San Mateo Branch, vacate early last year. negotiations weren’t yet complet- held on Sunday, March 16 at the Elks Lodge in San Mateo. Clark received the Navy and Marine Corps Even though the judge’s ruling ed, but was pleased with the Commendation Medal with the Combat Distinguishing Device in a ceremony at Moffitt Field on Jan.17,2012, gave the city a leg up, the parties progress and that it may alleviate more than 60 years after his actions helped prevent the sinking of the Destroyer USS Aaron Ward during the still have at least two pending lit- Battle of Okinawa in May of 1945. igation matters and City Attorney See 7-ELEVEN, Page 20 County targets human trafficking U.S.Rep.Jackie Speier,others unveil new protocol By Michelle Durand “I couldn’t believe what I was trafficking. The protocol grew out DAILY JOURNAL STAFF reading,” said Speier whose desire of the county’s 2011 Zero to act was compounded by person- Tolerance Initiative and establish- A girl known as M.C. told U.S. ally meeting another girl who said es concrete guidelines and stan- Rep. Jackie Speier her pimp made she had sex with as many as 14 dards for officers, dispatchers and $1,500 a night driving her from men for her boyfriend-turned- other investigators and first state to state selling her body. pimp. responders so that there isn’t any Once, she rode to Las Vegas in the “I shivered at the thought that question of how to handle victim trunk of her car. was going on to her or any young calls or where to take them, said It began when she was only 11, person in this country,” said South San Francisco Police Chief according to the published open Speier, D-San Mateo. Mike Massoni. letter Speier saw in the newspaper Speier joined a wide swath of law Human trafficking cases are par- MICHELLE DURAND/DAILY JOURNAL by M.C. and another human traf- enforcement and officials Monday ticularly challenging to address U.S.Rep.Jackie Speier,D-San Mateo,joined a wide swath of law enforcement ficking victim asking Craigslist to announce a new San Mateo and officials Monday to announce a new San Mateo County protocol to to remove their adult services ads County protocol to combat human See PROTOCOL, Page 20 combat human trafficking. Stubborn Fat? 650.588.0388 601ElCaminoReal San Bruno, CA 94066 Dr. Bruce Maltz, M.D. Dr. Carie Chui, M.D. Mon.-Sat. 10am-7pm ALLURA SKIN & LASER CENTER Sun. Noon to 6pm 280 Baldwin Ave. Downtown San Mateo (650)344-1121 2 Tuesday • March 18, 2014 FOR THE RECORD THE DAILY JOURNAL Thought for the Day “I take a simple view of living.It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.” — Laurence Olivier,British actor (1907-1989) This Day in History Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their 5-month-old embargo against the United States 1974 that had been sparked by American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur Wa r. In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765. In 1837,the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J. In 1913, King George I of Greece was assassinated in Thessaloniki. In 1937,some 300 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas. In 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized his country’s petroleum reserves and took control of for- eign-owned oil facilities. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany’s war against France and Britain. NICK ROSE/DAILY JOURNAL In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the NASA administrator Charles Bolden, right, has been making his rounds at the different NASA facilities across the United Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21, States and on Monday he stopped by NASA Ames in Moffett Field.While at Ames he got demonstrations and briefings on 1959.) two different aeronautics and space research activities being performed at the center. In 1962, France and Algerian rebels signed the Evian Accords, a cease-fire agreement which took effect the next day, ending the Algerian War. In other news ... In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Couple convicted of arrested at her Jurupa Valley home, tography account a desire to see Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were where deputies discovered the cock- America’s downfall, saying “I would required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who plot to rob Los Angeles bank fighting on Saturday night. love to join Allah’s army but I don’t could not afford to hire an attorney on their own. LOS ANGELES — A former Bank of About 50 people were detained, and even know how to start,” the complaint In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmo- America manager and her boyfriend 40 roosters were taken from the scene. said. naut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, have been found guilty of stealing more The sheriff’s statement says Acosta Later, he took to another online secured by a tether. than a half-million dollars from an East was arrested on suspicion of animal cru- forum to say he hoped to fight in Syria, In 1980, Frank Gotti, the 12-year-old youngest son of Los Angeles branch by pretending the elty, operating an illegal gamecock the document states. mobster John Gotti, was struck and killed by a car driven by woman had a bomb taped to her body. fight and other counts. It wasn’t immediately clear if John Favara, a neighbor in Queens, N.Y. (The following A federal jury convicted Aurora It was not clear whether she had hired Teausant had a lawyer. He was charged July, Favara vanished, the apparent victim of a gang hit.) Barrera and Reyes Vega on Monday of an attorney, and no phone listings for with a single count of attempting to bank robbery and conspiracy. Each Acosta could be found. provide material support to a foreign faces up to 30 years in prison. terrorist organization and was due to Birthdays Barrera claimed she’d been kidnapped California man arrested appear later Monday in U.S. District and forced to wear the device when she in plot to fight in Syria Court in Seattle.