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The Collegian Volume 115 2017-2018 Article 12 3-6-2018 Volume 115, Number 12 - Tuesday, March 06, 2018 Saint Mary's College of California Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Saint Mary's College of California (2018) "Volume 115, Number 12 - Tuesday, March 06, 2018," The Collegian: Vol. 115 , Article 12. Available at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian/vol115/iss1/12 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Saint Mary's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Collegian by an authorized editor of Saint Mary's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MORAGA, CALIFORNIA • VOLUME 115, NUMBER 12 • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018 • STMARYSCOLLEGIAN.COM • TWITTER: @SMC_COLLEGIAN • FACEBOOK.COM/SMCCOLLEGIAN Editor-in-Chief of SF Chronicle speaks on campus What’s Inside Audrey Cooper lectures on the importance of news and challenges facing it NEWS NEW MASTER OF ARTS BY KATE ARENCHILD Saint Mary’s begins a Master ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR of Arts in Intercultural Communications. PAGE 2 “‘Alarmingly enterprising. Startlingly original. Honest and fearless. Spark a revolution.’ These are the words I think of every morning when I wake up and most evenings when I go to bed,” Audrey Cooper said, reminiscing over the famous quote by William Randolph Hearst. On the evening of Monday, Feb. 26, Cooper, the Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, gave a talk in the Soda Center titled “Fake News and the Future of Media.” Dr. Zhan Li, Dean of THE COLLEGIAN INTERVIEWS the School of Economics and Business AUDREY COOPER Administration, introduced Cooper. He Student reporters must speak highlighted their special connection, truth to those in power. PAGE 3 having both studied at Boston University. Cooper stressed the fact that news keeps OPINION power in check, and with healthy news outlets absent, the country will suffer the AUDREY COOPER is shown here with Zhan Li, the Saint Mary’s Dean of SEBA. (Courtesy of San Francisco Chronicle) NEW PARKING RULES AND consequences. TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT She began her lecture by explaining the of her news reporters and their children’s citizens think that they are informed from Public Safety did not implement new schools online. Cooper herself had never clicking on “two articles on Facebook.” rules in an effective way. PAGE 4 received more death threats than in that According to Cooper, it is harder to attract Instead of getting period of time. In spite of these experi- consumers of the Chronicle when people carried away in the ences, Cooper is ever the more commit- consume a whole host of other articles political climate, Cooper ted to convincing people that real news from media outlets with a less-than-satis- is important. factory commitment to journalistic ethics. wants the Chronicle to She stressed that “the current tumul- In our current news environment, two remain a steadfastly tuous news environment” is not new. issues concern her specifically. The first William Randolph Hearst, whom Cooper is the “anti-Trump” response that asks objective news source. quoted in the beginning of her lecture, be- people to donate to news rooms, as if sub- gan running the San Francisco Examiner scribing to the New York Times is part of importance of the quote she recited. The after his father won it in a gambling debt. a “resistance” against the President. The revolution one must start is unique to During this time, 250 newspapers were second is the push for the media to adopt SAINT MARY’S NEEDS each individual. She is called to a revolu- created, but they folded immediately af- the same communication tactics as the CONTRACEPTION ON CAMPUS tion against “indifference [and] people ter. While she encouraged us to not think president. Cooper described receiving an Providing birth control to who think news is not something they of our situation as a specifically harsh email in which a reader asked her to no students would not contradict need to pursue anymore.” She is against time in the history of news, we do need to longer refer to the President as “Presi- Catholic values. PAGE 5 the outright antagonism felt towards be worried about the commoditization dent,” because “he likes it and it feeds his the Chronicle as well. She described the of news. ego.” The reader, instead, referred to him CULTURE “doxing” instances of 2016, where people News has become less valuable as more as “the man who sits in the Oval office.” threatened to put the personal addresses and more of it appears. She explained that see SF Chronicle, page 3 MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF: Australian artist Vance Joy returns with his second album. PAGE 6 Br. Camillus: a history of the beloved fist-bumper BY HUGO STERN her mother got sick, he and his brother California, including Sacred Heart High CONTRIBUTING WRITER Ricky were sent to live with their godpar- School in San Francisco, San Joaquin High ents, and they went back and forth every School in Fresno, Sunset High School in It was 10 o’clock on the morning of Sat- year, living between their godparents and Hayward, and Saint Mary’s College High urday, March 3, when The Collegian spoke their mother. School in Berkeley. Although the faculty with Br. Camillus in his room inside the He entered Cathedral High School labeled him as “too kind” and “too forgiv- Joseph Alemany Community. in 1943 and graduated in 1946. It was ing,” he connected with the Mexican stu- All around his room were various there that he was first introduced to the dents there through the Spanish language. paintings of the Mother Mary all done by While he was teaching at Sunset High, SPORTS different people: some by famous artists, the Chicano students had organized a one by his Mom, and one by him. In the “Learning to connect walkout to protest the lack of attention MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL moments before the interview began, it deeply with yourself given to them, which was preventing Both teams hope to finish out was quiet, and you could hear the fountain them from getting into university. Br. the postseason strong. While from outside. and others will help Camillus and five other Mexican teachers the women’s team is out of the Br. Camillus is one of the quirkiest char- you discover your supported the protest by putting on an tournament, the men’s team gains acters you can find roaming around Saint passion and gift auction to raise money for scholarships a win over Pepperdine. PAGE 7 Mary’s College, fist-bumping everyone for the Chicano students. The protest in his path. His lectures are like perfor- to the world.” and auction was successful, and that year mance monologues, giving off a surreal some Chicano students were able to at- and almost psychedelic vibe about him. tend Stanford, Mills College, and other Though many know his prominent face, Christian Brothers, who taught there and prestigious schools. many might not know of the rich history inspired him to want to be a Brother and It was also at Sunset that Br. Camillus of his life. an educator himself. After attending East first encountered meditation through the Br. Camillus was born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Community College, where Jose Silva Mind Control workshop, where California, in 1929, during the Depression he developed a liking for the liberal arts, he had a strong experience and a stronger period. His father, who worked at a water he decided to go through novitiate that desire to teach it to students. He calls and power plant, was put out of work, so sent him to Saint Mary’s College, which meditation “the deepest focus of the mind, he and his family moved down to Mexico looked very different from what it looks much deeper than prayer,” but to him, me- SOFTBALL HOPING FOR A where they found out, he says, that the like today. There were about 700 students diation is a personal, spiritual experience SUCCESSFUL SEASON Depression was even worse there. So (all male, most of them GIs) and about and doesn’t interfere with Catholicism. Coming off a 7-1 win against his mother saved up money from selling 30 Brothers, who were the only teachers In 1975, his old friend Br. Desales Perez Stony Brook, the team is headed clothes she made with her sowing machine then. He graduated and became a Brother (one of the first Latinos in the US to get to a tournament in New Mexico and moved them back to Los Angeles, in 1949. a PhD) asked him to come back to Saint next weekend. PAGE 8 where she got a cleaning job saving five From 1952 onward, he began teaching in Mary’s and to get a PhD of his own. He cents a day for her family to get by. When various high schools throughout Northern see Fist-bumper, page 2 2 THE COLLEGIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018 STMARYSCOLLEGIAN.COM THE INSIDE PAGE New Master of Arts in Intercultural Communication BY ADRIANA AVILA ending the course with the re- Students who are a part of nication. Currently, Imamura is NEWS REPORTER alization that their American this program will be prepared the program director of MAIC. norms and standards were not for a variety of career paths When asked what it is like to Saint Mary’s has a new gradu- the universal guidelines for such as tourism, international be the chair, she said,“Without ate program coming in Fall 2018.