October 2019 – Page 3

Men and Women’s teams boast winning records

10Oct

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Sports

Men and Women’s teams boast winning records

By COREY McMULLEN The Pima Community College Soccer teams continue hot streaks. The women’s team is playing exceedingly well, winning the last five road matches and shutting out four of the last seven. Men’s Soccer also is winning, although not in such dramatic fashion. Men’s Soccer The returning national champs continue to roll through the competition by outscoring their opponents 26-2. Oct. 5: PCC 5, Glendale CC 0 The No. 7-ranked Aztecs turned up the volume on the Gauchos in the second half of play, scoring all 5 goals in the second half. Freshman Saul Lopez scored his first goal of the season in the 88th minute. The Aztecs’ defense impressively held the Gauchos to only one shot on goal. Oct. 3: PCC 0, Phoenix College 1 Once again, the Aztecs find themselves once again in ano...

Pima finishes in fourth at conference championship

10Oct

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Pima finishes in fourth at conference championship

By JOSHUA SHAVER The Pima Community College Cross Country Men and Women’s teams ran their hearts out at the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference in Mesa. The women’s team tied for fourth with Glendale Community College with 120 points each. Runner Iriana Sanchez received an All-ACCAC honorable mention after she placed 21st in the 5K race with a time of 21 minutes, 27 seconds. Rainbow Hoss finished just 14 seconds behind Sanchez with a time of 21 minutes, 41 seconds and finished in 24th place. Freshman Janae Quihuis showed her potential by finishing right behind Hoss in 25th place with a time of 21 minutes, 48 seconds. Carolina Vega-Picos finished 31st with a time of 24 minutes, 52 seconds. Alysa Canez rounded out the women’s race with a time of 26 minutes, 25 second...

10Oct

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News, Sports

Chapman Auto gives Pima a jumpstart

Story by ANGEL CANEZ and JOE GIDDENS Additional interviews by JOUSHA SHAVER Pima Community College is investing over $500,000 in upgrades to its athletics facilities in as a cost-saving measure and to attract recruits. The athletics department also has signed a $210,000 sponsorship deal with the Chapman Automotive Group for three years. However, despite both of these events, there’s consideration by Pima administration to terminate additional sports programs. Golf, tennis and track are the most commonly discussed. This comes near the end of the first year of the Jim Monaco era of Pima Athletics. Monaco took over the job from former Athletic Director Edgar Soto, who held the position for 11 years and now serves as Desert Vista Campus vice president. Soto also will remain as dean o...

10Oct

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PCC Offers First Autonomous Driving Certificate Program

By KYLE KERSEY Pima Community College and autonomous semi-truck company TuSimple announced the creation of the first autonomous driving certificate program for commercial truck drivers on June 13. The certification program, named the Autonomous Vehicle Driver and Operations Specialist program, consists of five classes and 12 credits. Those classes are Industrial Safety (AIT 100), Electrical Systems I (AIT 125), Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles (AUV 101), Computer Hardware Components (CIS 136) and Transportation and Traffic Management (LGM 106). The program is geared towards current truck drivers and requires a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) for completion as well as the safety class, though this can be waived if the driver has their OSHA 10 card. However, any of the five classes ma...

Tucson’s 42nd annual Pride Parade celebrated

10Oct

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Tucson’s 42nd annual Pride Parade celebrated

Photos and story By JOE GIDDENS You could hear the gleeful voices of the students from Rincon-University High School’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the participants of the “2019 Pride in the Desert” got ready. “Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me,” they sang. The 42nd annual Tucson Pride in the Desert Parade and Festival took place Sept. 28. This year’s theme was “Rise Up” for the Stonewall Riots’ 50th anniversary. The theme was of particular significance to one parade participant. Ira Nadborne was born in Brooklyn and came out in 1965, which caused “all hell to break loose” in the house. Later, he was sent for conversion therapy and was abandoned by his family. Four years later, he was living in Greenwich Village behind the Stonewall I...

10Oct

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Pima Police shakeup

By JOE GIDDENS Pima County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Harold “Buddy” Janes has been assigned as the Acting Chief of Pima Community College Police. The announcement was made in a Oct. 7 email to college staff by PCC Vice Chancellor Bill Ward. Janes assumed duties on Oct. 7 and will be assisting Pima Police with getting its International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators accreditation. Michelle Nieuwenhuis has been the acting Pima chief of police since August. Janes is replacing former Chief Christopher Albers, who stepped down from the role in mid-August after serving as Pima’s chief for three years. Ward said Albers stepped down for personal reasons. When contacted by phone, Albers declined to comment. In previous years, turnover within the department has been...

10Oct

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Opinion

System change for climate change

This opinion is printed with permission of TucsonSentinel.com Original can be found at: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091719_cease_climate_op/cease-system-change-needed-fight-climate-change By MIKE CEASE Special to TucsonSentinel.com Climate change is the most catastrophic environmental, social and economic crisis that the human species has ever faced. Impacts include rising average temperatures, vanishing polar ice, melting glaciers, stronger storms, rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, worsening droughts, growing deserts, increasing wildfires, more disease, hunger, world-wide climate refugees and human misery. While the ruling class mostly denies or ignores the issue, young people get it. Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg sailed into New York l...

10Oct

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Opinion

No to recreational weed use

By FRANCIS SAITTA The Arizona Cannabis Chamber of Commerce is opposed to the current efforts to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Not because of the proven dangers of this drug, but because they want a “piece of the action,” i.e. Big Money from the recreational sale of this dangerous drug. It’s a sham. The marijuana drug industry and its supporters are recklessly irresponsible regarding the health and safety of Arizona citizens. They either refuse or are incapable of an analysis of marijuana use. The marijuana of today is NOT like the marijuana used in the ’70s and ’80s. Through artificial selection, strains of pot have been developed by the marijuana drug industry that substantially increase the potency of the drug. As such, its use poses serious potential consequences. The...

Instructor details the never-ending battle to get published

10Oct

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Instructor details the never-ending battle to get published

By JERRY GILL In my early years as a professor, I tried to publish articles in very prestigious journals. One was “Mind” and it was edited by Professor Gilbert Ryle at Oxford University. My first submission was about some of the ideas of Professor Quine at Harvard. In his brief rejection letter, Professor Ryle wrote: “Dear Gill: This is a very astute essay on Quine. However, all of your criticisms are couched in the form of rhetorical questions. This is a very invertebrate way of raising criticisms. Yours, Ryle.” A while later, undaunted, I submitted another essay to “Mind” where I attempted to solve the complex issue of the meaning of religious language. I put together a long essay covering all the possible views that scholars had offered in trying to deal with this subject. After a c...

9Oct

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News

Local leaders address domestic violence

Story by JOE GIDDENS Photo by JOSHUA SHAVER Twenty-seven cases of domestic violence took place on Pima Community College property between 2016 and 2018, with the Downtown Campus making up over half of these incidents, according to Pima College Police’s 2019 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs2MoRxzNDI&t=7s Pima’s annual security report was released Sept. 30, the eve of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which was launched in 1981. “Domestic violence is the most common cause of injury to women and children,” said Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall during an Oct. 1 press conference. “And last year there were more than 15,000 reports to law enforcement.” About 2,000 residents who are domestic violence victims and are at high risk for se...