CERRITOS COLLEGE WWW.TALONMARKS.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017 VOLUME 61, NO. 22 FIRST ISSUE FREE, ADDITIONAL COPIES $1 David Jenkins/ TM Voices of Cerritos: Students stand in protest against the group Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, which has placed itself in Falcon Square displaying graphic images relating to abortions. The students stance is that this is not informative free speech but rather hate speech. Anti-Abortion group returns to Cerritos Students protest onstration creates an unsafe envi- According to the centers web- What angered him the most have no choice, but to see it.” photos are false. ronment for the women campus. site the group goal is to establish about the whole demonstration was He claims that the images are “They aren’t coming here with against the return of The group first came to the “prenatal justice and the right to life not that it was there, but that the imposing especially since they are scientific information,” he said. Center for Bioethical school on March 28 where they of the unborn.” school allowed it to be there. right in front of the students center. According to Peterson a lot were met with a small gathering of Kevin Olivier, Director of Op- “I feel really disappointed in He said, “People don’t want to of the images that the center used Reform pro-choice student who protested erations at the center, said that the Cerritos College for not taking a see this before they eat.” have already been prove false. them being on campus. main reason they are on the cam- stand to protect its students from Monique Nethington During this first demonstration pus is to educate students about this.” Peterson has an argument that “They are over simplifying a Editor-in-Chief the center had just a medium-sized abortions and what a baby looks He said that these images are states the center’s information and complicated issue.” @sniqueee94 display that portrayed graphic im- like between fertilization and birth. unavoidable, and that regardless To the dismay of students on ages of an abortion. “We want to show that abortion of warning signs students have to campus, the school has allowed The The students that had gather is an act of violence,” Olivier said, walk past the graphic images to go Center for Bioethical Reform to re- attempted to block the graphic im- “that actually decapitates and dis- to class. turn to Falcon Square on Monday, ages, but were later asked to move members a real human being.” As the day went on more people May 8 and Tuesday, May 9. away from the center’s display. Early in the morning Peterson began to join Peterson. Charlie Peterson, anthropology Now, the center is displaying gathered up signs of his own in One of those students was com- major, stood up against the group graphic 30-foot-high images dis- protest of the center,a and in fa- puter science and engineering ma- on Monday saying, “It’s propagan- playing the aftermath of an abor- vor of a women’s choice to have an jor Jamie Bogacz who said he was da. This isn’t a matter of free speech, tion, as well as different genocides abortion. unaware the demonstration was David Jenkins/ TM this a matter of medical misinfor- that have occurred in history. “I didn’t plan a lot of this,” he even going to be taking place. My Body My Choice: Students stand at “The Hill” near Falcon Square in opposi- mation.” It’s stance is that abortion is said. “I just kind of showed up with “People have to see it when they tion to The Center for Bioethical Reform. They were asked to stand behind the set He stated that this type of dem- genocide. posters.” go to their class,” he said. “They barricades. New budget approval sees cuts within ASCC funded programs Jocelyn Torralba vid Ramirez objected, and moved $10,000 because it’s a lot of money Staff Writer to actually decrease the budget en- for CCMUN, which is money that @JocyTorralba tirely. can used for other clubs. After a long discussion the Sen- Senator Ramirez moved to ap- On May 3 ASCC Senate final- ate finally decided to approve a bud- prove an amount $13,086 so the ized the 2017-2018 budget. get of $12,780 to PBL. club can come back and request It reviewed the objectives that The next item on the budget funds for their conferences. remained unfinished from of the was Cerritos College Model Unit- Senator Joseph Escandon moved past week. Alpha Gamma Sigma was the ed Nations who initially requested to approve CCMUN for $13,100 first item on the list in Section $42,539. The senate decided to approve Three, it requested $6,600 and they Model United Nations Presi- CCMUN’s budget for $13,100. were approved for $3,560. dent Carlos Diaz and club members Diaz felt it was unfair Senate Phi Beta Lamda initially re- Nathaly Guerrero and Kishan Lalla did not agree with what the Budget quested $16,100 for conference presented to the senate as to why Committee had settled on and de- travel, career skills building and the amount requested is necessary creased its budget way more than in leadership. stating the money will be used for comparison to other clubs. Jocelyn Torrable / TM Senator Lucio Ramirez moved educational trips. “We as a club found this issue, More money: Model United Nations President Carlos Diaz and club members Nathaly Guerrero, and Kishan Lalla presented to increase the budget to $18,000, at Senator Eduardo De la Rosa to the Senate why they need the funding requested. CCMUN attend educational conferences and have won several awards. which time Vice President elect Da- moved to drop the amount to Continued on Page 2 News 2 Wednesday, May 10, 2017 • www.talonmarks.com Hughs, Lopez-Pulido earn top honors at ASCC banquet Benjamin Garcia her and otherwise “demeaning” her ASCC puts on, including the awards Opinion Editor character. banquet. @pieloverable Now Hughs is working with According to Jara, the commit- STIXA advisor Valyncia Rapha- tee holds an evaluation of the appli- There was a point in time when el and Dean of Student Services cations for the various awards and Co-Chair of STIXA Arielle Hughs Elizabeth Miller on steps to ensure rate them. It is Jara’s job to calculate suffered an injury and couldn’t that (bullying on the senate floor) the scores and determine who gets doesn’t happen again. ASCC Pres- walk. She was in a wheel chair and what award. had “a lot of doctors say” she would ident-elect Karen Patron and For- When Lopez-Pulido intro- never walk again, “let alone dance.” mer ASCC President Saul Lopez- duced Jara during the banquet, he That is what Hughs said when Pulido are also assisting. mentioned that he had to ask her talking about the struggles that Lopez-Pulido took home the to leave the room so that the com- lead to her receiving the Woman of Man of the Year Award, as well as mittee could decide to present her the Year Award at the 2017 ASCC a Gold Falcon and a Lifetime Mem- bership card. with the Special Award-- and that Awards Banquet on Friday-- held in The Lifetime Membership card she has refused the award two times the student center. is described in a bylaw in the ASCC before. “I learned how to walk all over Constitution as token of achieve- As she walked forward, she re- again,” Hughs said, “with the sup- ment to be presented for service ceived a standing ovation. port of God, my friends and family. and commitment to ASCC. The Jara concluded, “Life always “I came to Cerritos College, presidents and vice presidents re- throws curve balls and the students some things happened where I had ceive lifetime membership cards. have always kept me positive, and financial aid issues and I couldn’t The Man of the Year then it’s been a very rewarding career.” quite transfer-- but I was given job thanked his parents and siblings after job here because of my person- saying that although his family likes She thanked all the students at ality and the way I love talking to to “cause a mess” he wouldn’t be the Cerritos College. people and helping people.” man he is without them-- adding At the end of the night,Chief She went on to say that she has that he owes them everything and Justice Rodrigo Quintas inaugurat- had “a few encounters with students he will be eternally grateful for its ed Karen Patron and David Ramirez that didn’t like,” her, but she did not support. into office. let that bother her-- citing an inci- Student Activities coordinator Patron also said that the award Benjamin Garcia dent in senate of Fall 2016 where Amna Jara received an ASCC Spe- banquet is a continued reminder of Woman of the Year: Co-Chair of STIXA Arielle Hughs received the Woman of the Year Award for her service and leadership. senators and people from the public cial Award. the heights students reach “with out When giving her acceptance speech she became so overcome with emotions when mentioning that her mother was unable to were “attacking” her and “bullying” Jara oversees the events that wings of truth.” come to the awards ceremony. Faculty Senate seeks clarity on class cancellation Perla Lara the one that was canceled, which fits both their classes have been canceled nor do we know how Clubs continue fight for Managing Editor educational plan and the rest of their class sched- classes are going to be cancelled, so yeah that’s @pslaralara ule.