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How aware are you? Further coverage, Page 6 Volume CXII, edition 4 since 1949 October 11, 2006 Better Safe than Sorry by Carly Hubbell Buddy Check demonstration visits FCC Rampage Reporter in their lives. Though the death detection isn’t important, but the age is vulnerable,” said Barooji- The foundation was built upon rates are currently declining due reality is it can affect a woman an. a promise of two sisters, Susan It’s the dark cloud looming to better treatment and earlier as young as nineteen. A video The speakers advocated and Nancy Komen after Susan over every woman’s head. It’s the detection, in 2006, about 40,970 about a girl named Denise Garza, steps to help women detect breast was diagnosed with breast cancer threat of despair, suffering, and women and 460 men will die who tragically died at the age of cancer early, including partici- in 1978. This was before breast anguish. It’s breast cancer. from breast cancer in the United twenty-four after going through pating in the Buddy Check sys- cancer became the big issue it October is Breast Cancer States. a five-year battle with cancer as tem which Stephanie Baroojian is today. Sadly, Susan died, but Awareness month, and Fresno and NBC sup- not in vain. She got her sister to City College marked this event port. The Buddy promise to spread awareness of with speeches by influential system relies on this cancer and to someday find a speakers such as NBC’s news cor- friends reminding cure. Nancy followed through by respondent Stephanie Baroojian women in their organizing the Susan G. Komen and two representatives from the lives of the need foundation and turning it into a Susan G. Komen Foundation on to do a monthly global leader in the fight against October 5. breast exam. On breast cancer. The organization Representatives of the Su- the 24th of every is known as a leader in promoting san G. Komen Foundation, Me- month, (KSEE community outreach programs, lissa Knight and Sharon Johnson, 24), women are breast screenings, and research in gave advice on breast self-exams, encouraged to breast cancer treatment. So far, clinical visits, and insisted that call their buddy the program has advanced over a every woman should make aware- which can be any hundred and sixty million dollars ness of breast cancer their primary woman, a friend, in grant money across the United goal in life. family member, States to inform and to lend sup- “Breast cancer used to be or casual ac - port to all going through or those a taboo subject among women,” quaintance, and at risk for breast cancer. says Baroojian, “But now we can remind them to Knight and Johnson talk about it a lot. I remember do their monthly funded a grant that supplied doing a story of a woman seven self-breast exam. numerous books and materials to years ago who was really embar- This program has the Fresno City College library rassed to talk about what she was been going on to help students better understand going through, but now it’s much for eleven years breast cancer and how to detect it. easier to get out in the open.” and is still going Also in the library is a life-size Breast Cancer now strong, remind- diagram of a woman’s chest, with causes more deaths for women Photo by Michael Behlen ing women that one breast having nine lumps in it than any other cancer. According Demonstrations on self breast exam techniques were on display in the Student Lounge Oct. 5. self checks are and the other perfectly fine. It’s to the American Cancer Society It can be treated, but the well as bouts of chemotherapy extremely important. up to each woman to detect can- web site, 13.2 percent of women key is early detection. Many treatments, illustrates that cancer The women of the Susan cer in their own breasts through born today will be diagnosed women feel that if they’re not can strike at any age. G. Komen Foundation are also regular exams. with breast cancer at some point over the age of forty, breast cancer “Every woman of every strong supporters of this system. See Buddy Check pg. 6 FCC link in Dateline’s Predator sting Bernal worked as a Micro- CIT instructor Roberta Upon initiating contact with a coy made it very clear she was a computer Resource Technician Baber had Bernal in one of her decoy from the group Perverted 13-year-old girl. by Maylin Tu in the Learning Resource Center. classes 10 years ago. She remem- Justice, he quickly turned the Subsequently, he asked her Rampage Reporter According to the Fresno Bee, he bers him as a “neat kid”: conversation to sex, telling her what she was wearing, if she was has been on paid administrative “He was a really nice, quiet within ten minutes, “I’m bored a virgin, and if she had ever Fresno City College em- leave from the college since his young man—very competent . and horny.” SEE BERNAL PG. 4 ployee Fernando Bernal, 33, was arrest. very intelligent but didn’t flaunt Only problem—the de- arrested on August 26th in Peta- Fresno City College and it.” luma, California. SCCCD administrators declined After seeing him at the He was charged with at- to comment on the case. start of the school year, she was tempted lewd or lascivious acts Bernal graduated from surprised to learn from her son involving a child and burglary FCC in May of 1998 with an AS that he had been arrested. (entry with intent to commit a degree in Information Systems. “I would have sworn felony). If convicted, he could He subsequently graduated from he was one those people who face anywhere from 18 months Fresno State in 2002 with his BS. wouldn’t do that . he was a to 10 years in prison. At the time of his arrest, he had cool guy, always very respectful, Sonoma County records been working at FCC in some always very friendly.” indicate that Bernal has been capacity—first as a student lab According to FCC psy- released on bail. assistant in 1996—for ten years. chology instructor Dr. Michael Bernal was arrested as part As a student, Bernal par- Schuller, this kind of disconnect of a sting operation organized by ticipated in an impressive array between someone’s public life the Petaluma Police Department of extracurricular activities. He and their private obsession is not in cooperation with the group served as president of Club Az- uncommon: Perverted Justice, which bills teca in fall ’97 and spring ’98. He “A person can be a politi- itself as “The largest and best anti- was also a member of the Alpha cian, a banker, a bum, a congress- predator organization online.” Gamma Sigma Honor Society, a man . and you can’t tell. There’s The sting was also taped as part volunteer at the Poverello House, no way of knowing.” of NBC Dateline’s special “To and an N.H.S.F scholarship re- Bernal chatted using the Photo by Robin Vallentyne Catch a Predator.” cipient. screen name “a_latino_man559.” Next Issue: FCC “A Raisin in the Sun” Office: (559) 442-8263 Business: (559) 442-8262 Fax: (559) 265-5783 E-mail: [email protected] 2 Rampage News October 11, 2006 Stop the Hate by Ife-Chudeni Oputa Rampage Reporter Fresno City College ob- ence was made up of a diverse RAMPAGE Newsroom: (559) 442-8263 group of students and faculty. FRESNO CITY COLLEGE Business: (559) 442-8262 served “Stop the Hate Week – Fax: (559) 265-5783 1101 E. UNIVERSITY AVE. Building a Culture of Peace” from Some students were expressed E-mail: FRESNO, CA 93741 October 2 through October 6. discouragement, saying it was Editor In Chief: Though similar programs pointless to try and change people Editor in chief: Matthew T. Mendez [email protected] [email protected] are observed around the nation, who were set in their ways. Todd News Editor: Matthew T. Mendez Fresno’s “Stop the Hate” tradition Martinez shared the philosophy he Sports Editor: Quinn Robinson Rampage business Office: has a local motivation. Sudarshan subscribes to, “Pessimism of the Views Editor: David Witte [email protected] Kapoor organized the first “Stop intellect, optimism of the will,” Reviews Editor: David Witte Photo Editor: Robin Vallentyne Advisor: the Hate” week in 1997, after said Martinez. He empathized with Business Manager: Leah Edwards [email protected] the students who’d lost hope, but the brutal beating of a Fresno Adviser: Dympna Ugwu-Oju State student. The racially moti- said that though it seems hopeless, vated beating of Malcolm Boyd, people can’t stop trying. Reporters an African-American, by a white The other panelists adopted Rampage is an award-winning newspaper published biweekly supremacist gang member struck a similar attitudes. “If there’s injus- by the Fresno City College Journalism 4 & 5 program and is tice going on here in our own land, Matthew T. Mendez, Leah Edwards, Joseph chord throughout Fresno, and nine Rios, Quinn Robinson, David Witte, Eric Valdez, a member of Journalism Association of Community Colleges. years later the community is still it’s up to us to do something about Christian Beltran, DC Leavy, Chelsea Bieker, Carly Views expressed in The Rampage are those of the individual rallying together to stop hate. it,” said Bill, “If there are hate Hubbell, Efren Marquez, Johanna Tanori, Brian writers and do not necessarily reflect those of Fresno City Col- “Stop the Hate” originated crimes going on in your commu- Noonan, Buen Moua, Ana Zavala, Ife-Chudeni lege, its students, administration or the State Center Community Oputa, Maylin Tu, and Michael Williams on the Fresno State campus, but nity and you don’t say anything, College District.