Rookie of the Year: Rudy Navarro

Gold Glove: Ross Feeley

Most Improved Player: Cole Compton

Pitcher of the Year: Leland Tilley

Giant of the Year: Ross Feeley

Coach’s Award: Rudy Navarro

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Sergeant Donnie Charles, leads students out the Kern building, Wednesday, May 15. The reasoning for the evacuation was reports of smoke coming out of the elevator shaft. Photo By: David Pasillas

Students were evacuated from the second floor of the Kern Building after black smoke billowed from an elevator shaft around 11 am.

The Kern building evacuation lasted for around 15 minutes. The smoke was cleared out from the building by airing it out and making sure there was no further danger.

According to campus police, no students were injured.

Carol Enns, the Division Chair of Social Sciences, said that dark smoke “filled the hallway” and they were escorted out of the building by campus police.

“It was to the point that it wasn’t good to breath the air, it was more of a dark smoke so we’re guessing that there might have been a rubber component to the elevator that might have been smoldering,” said Enns.

According to Eric Mittlestead, Dean of Student Services, the smoke was probably caused by a pump leaking hydraulic fluid from the elevator.

“I think the story will be that we have an elevator malfunction that turned out to be a pump that went out and as the pump went out it blew some smoke into the building, people saw the smoke so they evacuated the building,” Mittlestead said.

Stephanie Collier, Dean of Arts, Letters, and Business, said that she got an email that stated that the elevator was out of order, and then was notified about the smoke soon after.

“The elevator was out of order, that had already happened. We got some emails saying the elevator was out of order and then apparently the smoke kind of started coming,” Collier said.

According to Collier, students responded and evacuated the building in a quick safe manner.

“I think people did a really good job of clearing out in a good orderly fashion and checking to make sure that anyone with disabilities was able to come down.  It was good, there wasn’t a lot of chaos,” Collier said.

Currently, campus electricians are working to diagnose the problem with the elevator and at this time Middlestead  is not certain about the extent of the damage. Repair cost is currently unknown. Mittlestead says it could cost ”anywhere between zero and a hundred thousand dollars.”

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Melissa Leyva, who recently earned the Track and Field Women’s Giant of the year, finished in second place in the Women’s 800m run.

The Men’s Track and Field team dominated in many competitions. Akeem Alexander  finished in first place in the Men’s 400m dash. Gustavo Rivera placed second in the Men’s 800m run. Christian Gonzales earned first place in the Men’s 1500m run. In the Men’s 4x100m relay race, the team of Preston Foley Jr, Chris Bryant, Akeem Alexander, and Miquel Quinn finished in first place by a .03 of a second.  Michael Taylor, Mervin Green, Chris Bryant, and  Akeem Alexander earned first place in the Men’s 4x400m Relay.

The Track and Field team will attend the State Meet at San Mateo on May 18th and 17th.

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Nothing about this album is interesting, or even memorable, to the point that even dedicated fans of this style of music will be disappointed.

Monomania is the Georgian band’s sixth studio release. The band has always kept a fairly consistent tone by constructing simple, catchy indie rock melodies with noisy guitar effects pedals, which creates a harsh, yet drowsy-like effect on their music. This release is slightly rougher around the edges, more focused on rhythm and heavy chords than they have in the past.

These are subtle differences, but beyond that, the band takes it relatively safe. For a band that been hailed by the media as “avant-garde”and “experimental,” it sounds too much like music that I’ve heard before.

Lack of progression aside, this album is just plain dull. The songwriting just isn’t on the same level as it was on their highly acclaimed album “Microcastle,” or even their last album — the disappointing, but still enjoyable “Halcyon Digest.” It has adequate lyrics, adequate melodies, and yet nothing that can be easily recalled shortly after hearing any of the songs. I struggle to even remember a single guitar riff, or a single piece of lyrics; it seems like the whole album has passed right through me.

I cannot see any reason to recommend this album to anyone. Better psychedelic indie rock has come out recently to satisfy even the most starving of fans, and I would even advise huge Deerhunter fans to take caution and try streaming it before they buy it. It may not be terrible, but if it was, it might have actually had something memorable about it. Maybe it is worse off for that.

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Baseball- MVP: Ross Feeley. Giant of the Year: Leland Tilley

Men’s Basketball- MVP: Bill Borekambi. Giant of the Year: Larry McMorris

Women’s Basketball- MVP: Emily  Fechner. Giant of the Year: Vanessa Mancera

Cross Country- MVP: Christian Gonzales. Men’s Giant of the Year: Daniel Guerrero. Women’s Giant of the Year: Gabriela Zamora

Equestrian- MVP: Ellen Fries. Giant of the Year: Krista Vansurksum

Football- MVP: Jacob Newman. Giant of the Year: Maurice Royal

Men’s Soccer- Giant of the Year: Enrique Garcia

Women’s Soccer- Giant of the Year: Danielle Warren and Natalie Ramirez

Softball- MVP: Taylor Wright. Giant of the Year: Taylor Wright

Men’s Swim and Dive- MVP: Duston Gragg. Giant of the Year: Andrew Tiemersma

Women’s Swim and Dive- MVP: Alix Thierry. Giant of the Year: Zandra Mitchell

Tennis- Giant of the Year: Cerena Pompa-Ortiz

Track and Field- MVP: Akeem Alexander. Men’s Giant of the Year: Chris Bryant. Women’s Giant of the Year: Melissa Leyva

Volleyball- Giant of the Year: Lindsey Allen

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The event will include several guest speakers that will be addressing a variety of important topics including domestic violence, diabetes, and the dangers of social media. All lectures will be performed in the Hospital Rock building in room 134.

• Candy Silva, Promotora for Kaweah Delta Health Care District, will be speaking about diabetes at 10:30 a.m.
• Sandy Sanchez, Case Manager for Family Services Tulare County, will be speaking about domestic violence at 11:10 a.m.
• RaeAnn Redepenning, Victim Advocate for the Office of the District Attorney Tulare County, will be addressing issues surrounding the dangers of social media at 11:50 a.m.
• Jennifer Fraley, M.D., OBGyn for Family Health Care Network, will be speaking on the topic of safe sex and learning more about sexually transmitted diseases at 12:30 p.m.
• Finally, Mylene Rucker, M.D. and owner of Dr. Ruckers Wellness Center, will be talking to the audience about dreams, hopes and self awareness at 1:10 p.m.

Self defense classes will be offered throughout the day in the TLC Room above the Student Lounge. The sessions are 45 minutes long, beginning at 10:30, 11:30, and 12:30, sponsored by the Lifestyle Center.

Space is limited for these sessions to 15 persons and there will be a $5 donation due at sign up in the health center. All proceeds for the class will go to the Battered Women’s Shelter on behalf of COS and the Lifestyle Center.

Furthermore, numerous community resources will be present in the quad area to provide physical and mental health assessments, testing, screening, nutritional education, physical fitness and healthy cooking demonstrations.

For more information contact Patricia Alvarez, Coordinator for the Student Health Center, at 559-730-3880.

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The Lady Giants got things going early by scoring a run in the first inning. Taylor Wright was a standout at bat going 3-4 with three RBI’s and one run scored. Brigit Godfrey went 3-5 with two runs scored.

Cabrillo had six batters that all had two hits each: Annalise Bryant, Sierra Clark, Angela Martin, Emily Payne, Sherri Morioka, and Valerie Silva. Clark stood out in this game with three RBI’s and two runs scored.

COS struggled on the mound behind Franki Jo Perez who gave up ten runs and eight hits. Maylene Mazon came in to finish the game and gave up two runs and three hits with one strikeout.

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Pitcher Leland Tilley, Second Basemen Ross Feeley, and  Outfielder Rudy Navarro were named to the first team. Pitcher Cole Compton, Shortstop Nick Stoll, and Utility player Dylan Lee were named to the second team All CVC.

On top of those honors, there also three Giants that received honorable mentions. Catcher Tyler Newberry, First Basemen Matt Cota, and Designated Hitter Christian Gastelum were the players named.

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Gabriel Yanez

I’m a Film and Video Production major. Sadly, for myself and those like me, COS does not offer any film classes other than Film Appreciation. Despite this, the school still has a full AV lab with everything a beginning film student could need to record sound and to shoot and edit a video project.

Yet all these resources go unused. These issues were discouraging, especially given my chosen path. Until I met James Kelty, that is.

Kelty is a co-worker of my father’s, and when he found out that I was looking for experience in the film industry, he asked my father for my contact information.

Kelty runs a small production company from his home in Cambria, California. He is currently shooting a movie based on the life and works on Father Junipero Serra (the founder of the Catholic Missions), here in California for the EWTN network.

When he contacted me, I jumped at the chance to work on a movie set. This is how I began working for Kelty back in December. I started off as an intern doing manual labor — anything from helping construct the set we were filming that day to polishing a pair of boots for an actor.

Even though I wasn’t working with a camera, I felt like I had found my place in the world. Fast forward to now, and I am no longer an intern, but now the best boy (a helper to the camera man or director). Along with the new title, I’m getting on-the-job experience. I found a career that I love and I’m getting an education that the school could never provide.

What I’m saying is that we shouldn’t wait for the school to take action and provide the course for us. If it is not offered, we should find a way to get the same experience, instead of waiting on someone else to do it for us.

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