(Conservative, female, opinionated, intelligent . . .) Student Is Not Welcomed In LACC’s ASO

so i am really interested in a fellow blogger, dena leichnitz.
as a warning to readers i do not endorse the viewpoints expressed in her blog, but nevertheless defend her right to access to student resources, free from discrimination based on her political views.
i like dialogue, and i see her point.  that her views make her unwelcome at the ASO, too.

she has been coming to the thursday 4pm intellectual property law club at Holmes Hall.
thursday she said she would go blog up her story, and possibly make reports.
she came to the top of a bing search of "ASO LACC." go bing!
she has an amazingly smart young tech genius son.
lucky him to have a techy mom!

she is a far more dedicated and prolific blogger than i.
and for that matter, she can also write in coherent sentences, a grammatical talent which i find creatively frustrating.  she can even punctuate and capitalize.
while we have some drastic differences of opinion politically, one thing for sure is that she is confident and articulate and a voice of power for whatever cause she espouses.
if there is something we need more of, we need more strong female voices in politics and theory.
she has created a "silence no more" awareness campaign to talk about the special discrimination she received at ASO and more generally as an opinionated woman of color of a conservative political perspective.
i think it is really interesting that she would also be shut out of the ASO.
i think it is worthwhile to take a look at her site (which could be published as several books, there is just so much there!!!!!)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/silent-no-more-awareness-campaign/
http://blacknright.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/conservative-student-is-not-welcomed-in-laccs-aso/
her blog is Dena Leichnitz’s world in Black and Right 

Conservative Student Is Not Welcomed In LACC’s ASO

Ah the beauty of blogging! If I can’t get anyone else to tell my story then I can always do it myself. So here it goes:

I recently applied for a Senate position with my school’s Associated Student Organization (ASO).  I was called back to interview and I got the run around.  The person who would be conducting the interview was James Butler Zatino. He is the current president of ASO and does wield considerable influence in the process.  After playing phone tag, after trying to track him down I finally get an interview.  The interview goes pretty well, with my nervousness I do fumble a little but I recover overall. He asks me if the position I wanted was not open would I be willing to accept another one. I tell him yes. So I hear back from him and he says,  these are the positions available and for me to pick one.  He tells me to come back later that day at about 1 to let him know what position I picked. I get there and he is not there.  So I leave a message telling him what position I picked.  I run into him later and let him know I want the Senator at large position and that is when it all falls apart.

I am asked straight out, what is my political position? I tell him that I amconservative and he winces as if I actually stabbed him or committed some other violent act against him.  He asks me how to conservative, so I jokingly tell him “I make Rush Limbaugh look like a flaming liberal.”  He then tells me, “Well you are going to have to represent all the students.” I tell him, “I don’t have a problem with that but though I will represent the liberal students I will not tell the conservative students who come to me that I am not going to listen to them or that their voice can’t be heard as well.” Well that doesn’t fly with him.

I was supposed to be appointed the following week. He doesn’t show up and no one can find my paper work so it is going to have to wait until the following week. Then yesterday right before I was to get appointed I get two calls. One tells me appointments are being postponed and then the other telling me they have gone with someone else.

It was then that I went to the Dean of Student Life at Los Angeles City College and filed a complaint.  I am also in the process of talking to http://www.campusreform.org about the situation. I will also be heading to my school paper to let them know what is going on.  This should not be tolerated.

The thing is I don’t have embrace liberal ideology to be able to represent the students as a whole in the Senate.  Just like they don’t have to embrace my conservative ideology.  The thing is that they want a yes man, someone will just go along for the ride and not make any waves. Well they are not going to get that in me. I can represent all students because  I will listen to all students and take the best ideas from them and run with them.  But they just want a liberal parrot.  I wasn’t going to lie or downplay my conservatism. I feel they should know exactly who they are they getting  and if this was a club on campus like the Liberal Lions or some other club that pretty much catered to only liberal minded students then that is one thing. But you can’t say you represent the student population when you clearly do not!

This is not also the first time something like this has happened to me.  I was up for an internship during August. It was a paid internship. I would be helping to recruit students and organizing events. To show my experience in organizing political events-though truth be told they were small-I told them about my work with Silent No More Awareness Campaign and the male professor on the committee who is a political science professor-laid into me. “Well we are pretty far left do you think you could promote our agenda?”  He went from “pretty far left” to “extremely left” to trying to bait me about my abortion views. He was antagonistic and all in pretty obnoxious and I was glad I wouldn’t have to be working with this man. With his hostile attitude I thought they might be staging a coup d’etat or something. The fellow student I would’ve been working with was nice,  friendly and even if he was “extremely left” he had the common decency not to display any such obnoxious and unprofessional behavior! He was definitely a class act which is more than I can say for that professor! I don’t remember his last name but his first name was Zack and I am sorry I didn’t have a chance to work with him, I think we could’ve learned a lot from each other.

Things need to change at LACC and while I don’t think I am entitled to any position, I do think  it is unfair to be offered the position and then have it withdrawn, for no other reason then they don’t like my politics.  Well you know what ASO and Professor Hateful, I don’t like yours either! And if you think you are going to get away with treating students so abominably-you got another think coming!

LA Indy media outreach

i am so happy that LACC students read LA indy media!!!!

it is/was listed as a terrorist group by the FBI.
as the internet is so scary to authority . . . well . . . things are changing really fast.

i can't wait to personally write my fellow student thanks! for his comment re: my indymedia post.
it reads:

another perspective
by Pat Perez Saturday, May. 01, 2010 at 1:39 PM
pwee44@gmail.com


I have had a number of classes with you, the author of this opinion, and, have had a number of the professors that you make referance to as I am in the paralegal program at LACC. Mary, I respect your passion, dedication and commitment to justice but this article not only crosses the line it pretty much goes so far past the line that it comes full cirlce again. I believe that in your quest to see justice done the mere utterance of certain words inflame your self-rightous indignation. I mean, really? Under "Vargas" you put that he " brings in film with every other word whore or the n-word. not kidding". I have had three semesters with Vargas and never once have we seen a movie in any of his classes, let alone a movie such as you describe. While i believe the club he moderates may have had a movie screening or two, this is a far cry from the picture that you paint. And even if you were alluding to these film screenings, are you condeming him for allowing a movie to be viewed with these terms in them and making assesments on his personal views and character? I think you'd be hard pressed to find any movie now-a-days without something of this nature in them. Does that make it right? No, it does not. But it also does not give you license to make wild, out of context and just plain wrong assesments about a professor or their personal views (by the way, I very highly doubt that Prof. Vargas, or any of the other professors from the Law department that you have mentioned, acts or carrys themselves anywhere close to the totally off base pictures you paint).
As for Lanzer, Duffy and Lewis, do i deny that these quotes you have put up here have been uttered by them? I can't, for the simple reason that I was not there when any of these alleged statements were made. it could very well be that some of these things were said but as i asked previously, does that mean that these statements are reflection of these individual's views? Perhaps these phrases were said in the context of a story, giving an example, like the Duffy's example you give, "speaks of women as "cheesecake" and of wives who gain 100 lbs. eating bon-bons while trying to take advantage of men financially" These two i have heard in Duffy's classes but you know what? They were in the context of giving examples of legal principals where he was elaborating some of the details of the stories. So in your view, the mere utterance of these phrases makes them, sexist, racist, insensitive and
"hell-bent on being offensive as often as possible"? Sorry, Mary you are wrong, way wrong.
Do I think LACC is perfect? No, of course improvements could be made. However, the direction that you are casting your flashlight on is way off base, inaccurate and boarding on libel. You can help by being part of a workable solution to real problems at LACC. Don't highlight personal issues or problems that really are not there and really help no one.

hear is my response as of today!

the future
by mary eng Saturday, May. 08, 2010 at 2:55 PM
maryeng1@yahoo.com

oh i really appreciate the dialogue.
thanks for dedicating so much time to your very kind response.

i really sit on both sides of the debate.
i really like the idea of free speech, but don't understand why it becomes an excuse for sexism.

if you get a chance, check out the latest banality at LACC regarding the defamation campaign against sheila dharod for exposing the student government's drinking with an underage minor on teh school trip.
she has been verbally castigated and humiliated by a a very cruel student government.

thanks so much for sticking up for your school.
i really like vargas too.
when he brought in the film i wrote him a pretty cogent note.
i don't think he will do that again.
the film was full of lots of racism remarks in a historical context, but i found it very unpleasant.
the rampant sexism was ludicrous as well.
i am sorry for asking for so much respect.
i would also like equal pay for women, and equal representation in government, an end to rape, an end to the marital rape immunity, an end to all domestic violence, honor killings, an end to male-dominated religious structures, and many other wonderful idealistic things pertaining to the environment and human and animal rights.
so feel free to send me ideas about how to get rolling on utopia.

in the meantime, i don't want to be harassed at school.
joseph tolle screamed at me in the courtyard.
this should not be tolerated.

if you are not a victim of the abuse, it is totally easy to minimize the suffering.
it takes a lot of imagination to have compassion.

(more later).

amazingly the socialist conference at LACC costs 7$/10$.

listening through the back door where some officious guy told me i had to go to the front to be counted and charged.

father's rules:
never say an unkind word.
no contention.
no bickering.
never raise your voice.
verbal abuse is worse than physical violence.

if only we could teach this to the ASO and our harassy profs and students.

i'm thinking that if i do come back to LACC, i will take lots of science and computer and business.

really impressed with vargas's 100% glowing reviews on ratemyprofessors.com.

we do have a lot to be proud of.
i really love the diversity here.
i love it.

i want to take arabic, wills and trusts, and a lot of computer classes.

just saw eckford leave through the back door.
he's a wikipedia celebrity for his african-american studies.
i want to take that class and chicano studies too, especially.
wating for fate to tell me what's next.
oh yeah my test.
back to the books.
eckford totally got why i don't dig gendered harassment.
i really appreciate that.

cristy passman passes the buck

dan diamond provided the obvious: think about her job: cristy passman is there to collect paperwork and protect the professors.
of course.
her job is to protect the school, as a lawyer, as former DOJ.
she does nothing, because that is what she is supposed to do.
that is why LACC harasses frequently, flagrantly, and with impunity.
what was i thinking? oh optimism!

impunity |imˈpyoōnitē|
noun
exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action : the impunity enjoyed by military officers implicated in civilian killings | protesters burned flags on the streets with impunity.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin impunitas, from impunis ‘unpunished,’ from in- ‘not’ + poena ‘penalty’ or punire ‘punish.’

thanks LACC!

i wrote this letter two months ago in a fit of optimism about technology and LACC and disabled student outreach and accessibility activism.
the idea was to record and broadcast classes for alternative learning strategies.
i refer to the american foundation for the blind endorsement of the google books project for text to speech and braille reader access.

i wrote the founders of bambuser to thank them for their hard work and to let them know that our economically challenged school really appreciates the free technology!

susan matranga was initially supportive, but then backed off and told me not to write her.
eckford also told me he had no time.
kendell told me he had no time.
somebody should care about tech.  its 2010, right?
hello? LACC?
my 2-18-10 letter:

thank you for all your hard work and for inspiring your students---i don't know if you understand the magnitude of our thankfulness--

please only read this if you are not tired overwhelmed

i meant to write you b4 about it---

but now i can---

now if or if not it transpires

nonetheless i think it would be a great idea

to at least audio document lecture and load onto a free mp3 sharing portal

(with yr participation, and not covertly)

the trend with all the best schools is this digitization---and democratization of what would be a very pricey experience--

so i can hear anthropology from oxford, or listen to stanford law, yale law,science everything, climate change, even conservative think tanks, on Itunes U.

whatever you may think of Apples hegemonic dominance strategies---it holds amazing potential cognitive wealth for educationally disenfranchised persons.

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes_u/

also--and sublimely attractive is live streaming tech---which if the wifi is strong enough, an excellent easy stream can go thru a laptop with cam----

i have watched tech lectures in swedish from this amazing swedish start-up bambuser

the idea being free info to anyone internationally---

super easy to start a channel and the embed code could go in the anthro club blog.

or we could do the same with club---

even if no one caught on initially---the connectivity---or utilization as a study tool could really help people with bad eyes, attention issues etc

it would help to bring LACC up to date tech wise and reach into the ether realm---pertaining to eco crises, literacy--

http://bambuser.com/

now if all this remains conceptual as far as your personal involvement---i completely respect this, and perhaps share your concerns regarding image, ubiquity, and even the legal or professional implications.

one need not necessarily participate in an OPEN DATA movement to become aware of its potential---and web traces can be annoying to erase . . .

the audio file format may be an amazing compromise especially given the fact of some kinds of learning "disabilities" which preference audio versus literary communique.

for instance, my best friend with dyslexia would love your lecture if it were as easy as sending a link.

or my mother in oregon would love it too.

i am extremely inspired by a lecture on itunes U from new york law discussing implications for the google books settlement in terms of using text to speech recognitions and braille reader accessibility for the blind---in the sense that the google books settlement--- which is an overt disruption of copyright norms---or intellectual property interests---

defeats academic elitism---

as a former victim of overpriced edu---this i think, is such a wonderful trend---

and most importantly, the dearth of quality intellectual experience is such that i feel that we---your students---are absolutely starving for this information----

and to share it one day, or maybe now---might be a profound gift, or sacrifice---with humanitarian aim---not to be overly utopic---

and as the preference is yours

i just thought it might be at least flattering to run it by you

and it would be as easy as a laptop running a silent audio recorder---or all the latest ipods have this feature now too---

but then again a unique experience might be better with less tech---

well thanks again, and syllabus please?

thanks for letting me in the class

mary eng

this is my letter to bartelt, attempting to enlist his support on 2-25-10:

http://bambuser.com/channel/anthropologylacc/broadcast/585577

don't bother reading unless you want to---merely more polemic!

if it helps too, i might take a minute in class to elaborate on a legal basis for it, the benefits of the experiment, the company and alternatives, and inform students:there must be consent in a sense.also re: not cutting it for the film, its rather unlikely the MPAA will come after me or LACC re:copyright----but this law is being rewritten and unwritten as we speak and digital anarchists have the social good of literacy and communication at heart.

another student and i were talking about a proposal for a real IP law class or series for all the creatives---the deficiency of modernity is glaring . . .

prof at google books hearings said smthg quite poignant re: copyright in EU being natural rts theory, and in US actually being social good theory based---and so here it will evolve

actually the director of OSS (for:blind, dyslex etc) is quite interested---and i spoke to eckford and guerrero who were warm and want to stay informed of our progress, perhaps meet. they enjoy itunes U and tried to start something similar a while back.

the new tech just makes it way too easy!

i wish i had the same for some of my old profs----!  i am literally begging old friends to utilize the tech to provide readings or discussion groups---challenging content and information---i would love to hear them read their papers or speak outside of the predictable.

edu a right not a privelege in sweden---and the copyriot movement in force

susan b. matranga  at office of special services (re:disabilities)

is happy about the idea for it

and possible expansions

they used to have a budget for student notetakers for the blind etc but now nothing----

the digital options now are beautiful in terms of audio archive etc mp3s

and the cloud

i was thinking of a site eventually that could link to future multimedia

or the blog embed

and make a new interp of ADA

a more radical equality

bambuser is a pretty cool company 

with wifi expansion this could be in many classes theoretically

i ran around sniffing info on who would be interested in helping

one fellow ESL's evan kendall said "i don't know why you care, usually only people care if they have smthng at stake."

i replied---cognition communication technology learning.   by something i think he meant money, not cognitive wealth or communication.

its very international---and really quite normal all of the sudden.

bambuser was utilized during the pirate bay trial for commentary for the IFPI's prosecution last feb.

itunes university has a lot of functionality but would require more IT plus i like free open style better.

plus funny also USC film school fighting copyright for film editing classes---where what is possible now in a classroom has not relevance to the old laws

here is from the google books hearing

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/22/transcript-to-thursdays-fairness-hearing-in-google-book-search-case-now-online/

from

MR. MTIMA: May it please the Court. I'm Lateef

 Mtima. I'm the director of the Institute for Intellectual

 Property and Social Justice. I'm also a professor of law at

 the Howard University School of Law. I'd like to thank the

 Court for this opportunity to address

Finally, however, it is the fact that

 many governmental and even scholarly institutions have been

 slow to recognize the digital divide as a problem of copyright

 social utility that brings us to where we are today. Now that

 the meaningful mechanism for bridging this divide has been

 presented to the private sector, further delay is unfair to the

 digitally disenfranchised who have been overlooked for almost a

 quarter of a century.

 Now we recognize that the proposed settlement will not

 cure all of the deficiencies of the digital divide, but to

 those who say that this will provide only trivial improvement,

 we humbly suggest that they may be unfamiliar with what the

 disenfranchised can do with only a little

best of ratemyprofessors.com

ratemyprofessors censors the word "sexist" so writing these little haikus is an artform.
my most recent review is under review.

nevertheless, it is pretty entertaining, especially if you know who is getting the review.

i realize that the negativity towards christians might be contagious.
when you hang out with negative people it rubs off.
i don't want to absorb the bad language and hatefulness . . .
so here is the best of ratemyprofessors, based on teachers i find noteworthy . . .

re:lanzer

In his interpersonal interactions with students he is on the bias(in detriment to our grades?),despondent, disparaging&contemptuous among other prejudices.On the bright side he may . . . in time, if he choses to-benefit from his subordinate's superior quality skills in human relations.With hope and prayers.Do you have time?

Very nice man although a bit bitter over his divorce and women altogether. Also very funny and extremely helpful. He is also not hard on the eyes. I would suggest his class to anyone, not too demanding, just get your reading done.

re: bartelt:

Knows the subject but can be biased. He tells students never to put down others culture or religions but he always talks smack about Christians. Although I'm an agnostic its really not cool when he talks smack about others. Other than that he moves through the material fast but his test are straight forward and he prepares you for the tests.

I did not like Anthro before taking his class. Yes, he does come off negative and treat students like they have learning disabilities... But he has found a way to completely intrigue students, very passionate about subject. Just don't miss class a lot on tests is from class notes. Not so difficult once you get into it. I completely recommend him.

First day of class I really thought I was going to like this guy; he's hip and out there etc., whatever, and has lived an interesting life. I loved and still love listening to his personal anecdotes. With that said, he can be condescending and rude like someone mentioned, so it's hard for me (personally) to approach him and ask questions. Caution!

great teacher. you cat argue against that point logically. if you dont like him then you got offended by something he said about religion or something similar. he breaks everything down perfectly, but you need to take great notes and give 100% effort. great teacher if you want to learn and open minded bad if your super religious aka close minded.

re:duffy:

(sorry  about duffy hitting on a student, but if its true it may support my theory that his 1950's style sexist humor is out-of -touch and not to mention his homophobic feelings about gay marriage as it relates to property law)

I'm taking his class currently and his *** was hitting on me. Also his class is really . . .

re:richard lewis (who amazingly has some raving fans):

Lazy, lazy, lazy... but an easy A

This professor truly shows how unprepared an instructor can be. I had a great expectation prior to the class and he totally turned my interest down. He rarely uses the textbook, missed 3 classes so far, and gives idiotic, horrible lecture which many times its not even related to the topic.

This class was a VERY easy A, but a complete waste of time.

re: cabellero:

(i took him last summer and while he knows criminal law well, he often made sexist jokes, or picked on individuals)

He is very strict and tough but is ok pokes fun at people

I dropped my major because of him. He was the only teacher that taught all the admin. classes. He thinks he is a comedian and a stud. He is a total moron. He is also a chauvinistic pig which, I called him on, in class.

Well he has finally lost all control. now he not only talks about the raiders but his **** drinking problem. He gets more pitiful every semester

He likes to intimidate students, threaten them and put them down.

Caballero just came across as a very difficult person and it seemed like he was trying to intimidate everyone into dropping the class. I wasn't initimidated, but have better things to do with my time. I dropped the class immediately.

eric kim passes the buck

hey guys.
having a great time studying my constitutional law book about protected speech.
i had an awesome 27 minute conversation with district counsel eric kim today about future litigation he may confront.
he isn't prevention oriented.
it is really up to the student/victim to enforce the educational code against harassment.


i love talking to lawyers. they are so abstract and so money-motivated, so intelligent, and so lazy.
this is why i think i might make a good lawyer.
they usually have no morals either, which as a future lawyer, i don't think is so cruel to say.
they aren't allowed to have morals.
their only responsibility is honoring their client's interest.
in this case, eric kim represents LACC district.

i was trying to get through to him about preventing lawsuits, by ensuring that the professors and students don't harass other students or violate the CA educational code.

its not his job to enforce these laws.
in fact,
NOBODY CARES.
that is the most horrifying thing!

equality exists on paper, in a law, online, but not at LACC.
cristy passman is supposed to care, but doesn't care.
except about doing enough paperwork to keep getting paid.

kim referred me to gene little, head of diversity programs for the district.
when we talked i felt that gene was very dismissive and old school complacent.
he said claims were often fabricated.

i will duplicate my records for the office of civil rights federal division.
but as i recall, they were very dismissive in 2009 when i reported the paralegal department for protecting professor verbal abuse.

i liked how when i told eric kim about the "tits and ass" outburst, he asked well, in what context?

i can't think of a context, either professionally, or even in my leisure time that these words would convey anything intelligent.

eric also made comment of the "contours of academic freedom" which i thought was humorously vague and yet quite obviously pro-harassment . . . and resonated with bartelt's concern in 5-6-10 lecture and 4-17-10 email for his "academic freedom."

if "academic freedom" means freedom to hurl epithets at women . . .
i really feel sorry for people who feel "freedom" to mean freedom to abuse.
well . . .
i need a better world, obviously.
eric kim asked if sheila was pursuing administrative complaints for harassment.
he of course cannot give me counsel.
when scott clapson threatened a cease and desist letter from eric kim and asserted that eric kim knew about the impeachment/harassment campaign against sheila, this was untrue.
eric kim at least pretended to not know about the ASO harassment of sheila dharod in retaliation for her exposing the ASO member who used school money to get a 19 year old student drunk on ASO money and then harass her.
i think sheila is such a tough fighter.
i am so glad that the underage victim is pursuing criminal charges against ASO president james butler-zetino, if indeed he did try to inebriate and harass her.
she stopped going to the ASO after the incident.
that scott clapson admits all of the ASO was drinking at the sacramento conference to me begs the question, why is the ASO buying drinks for ASO student government and funding their little vacation?
why won't they do more for the students?
the letter of bradford, dismissing the case against president james is also telling.
i like it when guys cover up for other guys.
it is so old boys club.
it creeps me out majorly to know that ASO is so corrupt.
they have exceeded my expectations of banality and i wish i never met the harassers or their defenders.
bad vibes.
back to the books.

heavens bless dr. luther guynes, an incredibly honorable person.  thank him so much for his support!!!!
he teaches business at LACC and writes:

"MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND YOUR EFFORTS... WITH YOUR INSIGHT MANY OF THE SPECIAL CHALLENGES WILL BE OVERCOME.FOR STUDENTS FACULTY AND STAFF...WE DO NOT GIVE UP.. TAKES TIME TO REMOVE HATERS MIND SET IN PEOPLE"

i am so sorry this blog deals with such powerful stuff.
just so you know, i am filing harassment papers and mailing duplicates to the legal affairs department in sacramento.

i know cristy passmanwill push these under the rug, just as earic peters has done with my joseph tolle incident report.

she specifically told me not to send report duplicates to sacramento because then they get on to her about investigating the charges.
it is my right to file with the state chancellor.  i do not appreciate her attempts to restrict my access to administrative remedy.

reports going in the mail today
for:

1. porn graffiti in holmes hall

2. joseph tolle repeatedly grabbing my shoulder and lying when i reported his unwanted touching and screaming at me when i told him not to touch me

3. the ASO harassment of sheila dharod

4. ombudsman for discrimination and harassment cristy passman's attempts to silence me, obstruct justice, and  prevent me access to her forms and grievance procedure, verbal disparagement of my case "generally people take these things in stride."  (this bears similarity to teacher brian bartelt's email to me in which he said "you have no case")



stephen stapleton, a veteran, was harassed by students and professor lewis, who has heretofore been protected by cristy passman.
his studies have suffered due to the time pursuing justice and legal assistance.

as for videos, i really want to make a lot!!!!!

so if you want to talk to me about any issue of harassment on LACC, please email me!!!!

youtube is the future of citizen journalism.

we can make LACC a better place, by exposing the violations.
i want to hear your story!!!!

please email me and we can get going right away.

there is nothing hateful about a dialogue!!!

i really welcome comments, emails, youtube comments, etc.
but please do not curse at me or tell me to "suck it" as one youtube creep did last night.
don't harass me because i want to make my school a better place!!!!

plus i am meeting with school president jamillah moore on may 14 1pm, a friday.
earic peters is invited.

if anyone would like to attend as a part of the equality coalition please email me!!!
i want this to be a team effort and team dialogue!!!!

jamillah was very concerned that the repeated harassment by professors and students is causing a slip in academic performance and anxiety and absenteeism.

she was very concerned and looked quite shocked to find out that we hear the words
"tits and ass" and "slut" and "whore" etc in the classroom.

i believe she did her masters work in equality related issues, so i hope she really cares and that we can motivate her to enact a new level of leadership on campus.

evidently my complaints to Passman never made it to jamillah.
i think that is unfortunate.
as it now stands, i would be embarrassed to be on the payroll of LACC, and hope that our professors can rise to the occasion and activate against the complacency on campus which protects the ongoing abuses.

business professor DR. luther guynes writes:

DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY

yes,
but where do we draw the line???
can't we fight for civil rights here?
why should we take this lying down?


in pursuing justice might we find happiness?

ethics and imagination: equality in the future

cristy passman was very reluctant to give me a discrim form for the graffiti.
when i returned for two more forms, one for the tolle screaming, and one for the ASO harassment of sheila dharod, she almost tried to talk me out of it, but then realized i wasn't so easily deterred.

a more mild mannered student could totally get walked on here.
i will lodge a complaint about her trying to suppress my reports.
that will make the fourth report this week.

i may scan them and put them on my scribd.com acct for a how-to demo for the equality coalition.

about the porn graffiti, she told me she has contacted facilities and that i could do so online.
i asked where online?

she then said dismissively, "generally people take this in stride."
i don't know if she means giant bathroom porn, epithets, or also being screamed at by a student officer under the election tent.

i think she could see i was not in the mood for chitchat and platitudes and wanted to quickly put me in place as i was walking out the door.
as i returned  to the holmes hall bathroom to photograph the evidence, i wondered about taking things in stride.

i think it pertains to the "you are out of line" metaphor bartelt used in his email to me.
does he mean out of line with the avant guarde, or the normal people?  with america, or with the future?
i think they are out of line with the future of equality.

they should come along for the ride, a beautiful future with no harassment, and justice for the purpetrators and protectors.
phyllis tried to tell me to let the perpetrators off the hook.
i think she is focused on the future.
she speaks about the armenian genocide on my youtube channel, reading her comment as was published in the collegian.

and also a source told me the LACC holmes hall women's room was in last week's collegian!
way to go collegian.
did they show a picture of this?

can we see some solidarity from the faculty here??

does any one have the courage to defy this hate campaign on campus??

why is the faculty so laissez faire and so "good german" about this hate campaign?

i told adamski cristy passman brushes it under one side of the rug, and dean peters brushes it under the other.

so, then it shows up on the internet.

hallmark is coming out with a new card.
it says, "i'm sorry about the internet."

and for the record, i really am tired of facebook etc, but have worked hard to get all that facebookiness out there for those of you who only speak internet if its translated into facebook.

please follow support tweat replicate.
and hey, i am very open license oriented, so republish, remix, etc.

LACC anti-environment?

so it is 2010.
recycling is in . . . why does LACC act like its the fifties???
is the smog making us stupid?

sheila offers grammar advice to the ASO

sheila offers grammar advice to the ASO, clarification of the faulty "evidence," and points out the cover-up of LACC ASO misconduct.
i think this might be why she was removed . . .
she is the hero of my blog right now!!!!

i don't even think she knows how much i respect her for showing the light on this creepy scene.

i imagine we disagree on some aspects of the case.  nevertheless, i support her and strongly urge her to seek outside legal counsel.

LACC fights to keep styrofoam legal and widely available to the student body despite carcinogenic impact

ASO, carcinogens, and polystyrene
LACC loves cancer, harassment, and unrecyclable poisonous food containers

get your cancer edu LACC!  stop killing my fellow students with bad food and polystyrene!!!!!

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/heterocyclic-amines

http://www.verdant.net/nofoam.htm

reminding us that eating healthy should be a part of our academic future.

the fact that LACC sponsors a food truck that uses polystyrene containers is so environmentally deplorable and bad for human health.

see

http://www.verdant.net/nofoam.htm

A. REASONS WHY POLYSTYRENE FOAM IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH.

1. Toxic chemicals leach out of these products into the food that they contain. These chemicals threaten human health and reproductive systems.

2. These products are made with petroleum, a non-sustainable, heavily polluting and disappearing commodity.

3. The product does not biodegrade. It crumbles into fragments that have no expiration date.

3. A certain percentage of product will be dumped in the environment, persisting on land indefinitely as litter and breaking up into pieces that choke and clog animal digestive systems in waterways.

4. The product takes up more space in landfills than does paper and eventually will re-enter the environment when landfills are breached by water or mechanical forces.

5. Foam recycling is a public relations stunt, promoted by the chemical industries that manufacture it. This is done in highly centralized, distant facilities using complex chemical processes and expends far more energy than is ever saved by recycling the material.

unbelievably, even the airborne molecules of heterocyclic amines, which are formed when you cook the creatine in muscle tissue, are carcinogenic when inhaled.

for more on this google heterocyclic amines.

this is so interesting from pubmed:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1749106

The purpose of this report is to summarize data on carcinogenic heterocyclic amines mainly from the aspect of environmental medicine. Since 1977, a new series of heterocyclic amines has been isolated as potent mutagens and they have been shown to be carcinogenic to experimental animals. Among these carcinogens, carcinogenic amino-alpha-carbolines and amino-gamma-carbolines are widely distributed in such components of the environment as airborne particles, rain water, cigarette smoke, diesel exhaust particles and cooked foods. Moreover, most carcinogenic heterocyclic amines are reported to be present in cigarette smoke. These facts suggest that carcinogenic heterocyclic amines are likely to be ubiquitous environmental pollutants. These results also support the hypothesis that carcinogenic heterocyclic amines may be formed through combustion of various materials such as food, grass and petroleum.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8844793?ordinalpos=1&itool=PPMCLayout.PPMCAppController.PPMCArticlePage.PPMCPubmedRA&linkpos=1

The mutagenic activity and the mass amount of heterocyclic amines responsible for the mutagenic activity have been measured in some cooked foods. Cooked meats are the predominant source of mutagenic activity in the diet with values ranging from 0 to 10,000 revertants per gram reported in the Ames/Salmonella test with strain TA98. Several heterocyclic amines are present and have been quantified using solid-phase extraction followed by HPLC. Frying at higher temperatures and for longer times produces the greatest mutagenic response, and concomitantly, the largest amounts of heterocyclic amines. Most of the mutagenic activity in fried meat samples can be accounted for by MeIQx(2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-b]quinoxaline), DiMeIQx (2-amino-3,4,8-dimethylimidazo [4,5-f]quinoxaline) and IQ (2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f]quinoline), although other heterocyclic amines are present and PhIP (2-amino-3-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine) mutagenic activity becomes significant at higher temperatures. Non-meat products such as baked breads can also form significant mutagenic activity, particularly when overcooked. Commercially prepared hamburgers made from meat substitutes such as tofu, wheat gluten or tempeh and fried at 210 degrees C have up to 10% of the mutagenic activity of a fried beef patty cooked under the same conditions. When detected, amounts of heterocyclic amines in fried beef patties range from a total of 0.35 ng/g for commercial beef hamburgers to 142 ng/g for a beef patty cooked over a barbecue. Dietary intake is expected to have a large range, from less than one microgram per day to over 50 micrograms per day based on current knowledge of known heterocyclic amine chemicals and heterocyclic amine-containing foods.

ben reagan asked that the video be removed from the blog.

it can be still seen on youtube which he says is okay.

sham

joseph tolle screamed at me when i told him not to touch my shoulder (ultra condescendingly).
he immediately lied saying i touched him first.
super untrue, but super quick save---fast on his toes, lying!
good job, liar!
quick thinking, harasser!
he screamed at me under the ASO election tent on LACC campus last wednesday.
i wrote an incident report at the sheriff's.

"the crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive. See also assault and battery."

i hope he gets the consent of the next people he puts his hands on.
i don't think he will win his presidential election.
he also lied the next day to dean peters, saying i screamed at him.
i really admire someone who lies so quickly.

i think he is really smart, for a person of no ethics.

youtube description:

i think he should stop touching the girls.
when they launched another attack on an other female for alcohol consumption, she got upset. he ran over to put his hands on her.
when i told him not to keep putting his hand on me every time he talked (in a condescending way)---he screamed at me.
i think he should watch out for his future because this is often undesired, and could lead to future trouble with whatever company he is working for.
when he touched my arm, we had never met before and he snuck up from behind me.
he startled me.
i said, "who are you? i don't know you."
he then did it again as he talked, touching my arm.
i moved back, while continuing to listen.
then he tried to touch my hand and succeeded. i flinched.
he said, i'm sorry.
then he touched my shoulder out in the courtyard.
i said
"don't touch me. you should be careful about touching strangers."
he then proceeded to have a screaming fit.
the next day he lied at the ASO saying i was screaming at him.
this is untrue.
i never raise my voice.
i don't get liars who scream under the election tent while people are casting their vote.
he was running for prez.
you'd think he'd want to put his political career ahead of a tempertantrum.
but no. this is LACC ASO.

scott clapson thanks us for coming out to the ASO and discusses the copy machine theory.
i just realized i feel sorry that i have all this embarrassing footage that is up on youtube.
maybe he will come to me personally, and we can agree to delete it in exchange for a reinstatement of our senator, a public apology, and compensation to all witnesses who are surely suffering psychological trauma after realizing how petty vindictive and unintelligent their student government is and how weak and cowering the school administration is to allow the bully crowd to conduct this ritual of hatred on school grounds.

ASO: stop the hate!

allegations of ASO racism and sexism denied by scott clapson.

impeached for purported "vexatious" behavior.

i wonder why some of these people are so easily vexed.

maybe they need anger management.

i think clearly smart women will be punished for it if they show their face at LACC.

so are they expelling sheila from the ASO because she exposed the alcohol problem at the ASO convention?

why was linda badgering sheila?

ben reagan has asked for the removal from this blog but not from youtube.
he may provide transcript later.
i assure him he is an excellent speaker.

bathroom stall grafitti porn at LACC at holmes hall

(video of LACC bathroom coming soon)

the budget crisis has hit the schools hard.  california!
Los Angeles City College is literally falling apart at the seams.
no toilet paper.  professors with potty-mouth syndrome.
an ASO run like a jerry springer show.
summer college up in smoke.
no money for anything.
why the LACC has to cut janitorial services and toilet paper is uncertain . . . .
what creep would draw an anatomical cartoon in the bathroom and write "suck it bitch" on the door inside the stall?
someone cleverly changed it to "sock it, pitcher." someone also carefully erased someone's editorial comments that this was "misogynist BS."
i think this constitutes harassment.
i will be sending links to cristy passman.
i wonder if she likes to look at cartoon's of huge male anatomy when she goes to the bathroom.
i wonder if as ombudsman for discrimination and harassment she considers it harassment.
she would probably say it depends on the context.
i wonder if she likes toilet paper or no toilet paper.
personally, dear Los Angeles City College, i want toilet paper and only clean, non-insulting graffiti of artistic merit.
i wonder if i should tell ASO about the toilet paper crisis at LACC.
but they already know the school can't afford paper to print a syllabus.

more footage later from my small camera.
apologies for the technical nightmare of a quicktime recording on a laptop.
i have audio minutes as well by mp4 for anyone interested.

youtube caption:
who knew you could get federal and state tax dollars at work to enact your petty power politics at school?
kicking a competent woman out of student government, and launching a huge hate campaign the during election week, shows LACC students what losers fill the ASO.
i would never hang out with such creepy people if it were not to publicize their cruelty and incompetence.
sheila dharod is a very strong and powerful leader and has exposed the pettiness of the ASO. sadly the internet will now be filled with the bad press of yet more LACC cruelty and tax-waste.
sheila knows more about law and government than anyone in the room. she is extremely articulate and calls out the ASO for their tax-funded incompetence. so it is only natural they want to remove her from their club.

sorry the footage is so boring . . .
ASO hate campaign

explanation from youtube comments:
administrators endorsed and support the discriminatory hate campaign against sheila dharod.
the administration of LACC protects harassing professors as well as student government harassment campaigns and personal character attacks.
i am deeply saddened to have witnessed this monkey court torture us with their lack of reasoning, insubstantial "evidence," and poor communication skills.
this campaign of hatefulness and negativity directed at sheila dharod will reflect poorly upon on persons who gathered to support this spectacle of public humiliation.
joseph tolle also took the time to personally scream at me under the election tent. several people witnessed this. that he vehemently spoke against sheila, while never apologizing to me discourages my faith in his integrity.
scott clapson went to great lengths to create the bizarre "impeachment" proceedings. gene fernandez spoke about how sheila is not the "type" of person they want in student government.
let it be known i would never hang out with people so hateful and cruel if it were not so entertaining.
i also find it offensive that they are using tax money, school property, and administrative time to create their hate mischief.

i question also the integrity of dean earic peters for allowing this to go on.
while future ASO president Lopez is apologetic in public, despite supporting the hate campaign, i implicitly distrust him due to the violent speech i heard over the walls of the ASO offices.
at least he takes the time to be nice to my face, unlike joseph tolle, who took the time to scream at me when i told him to stop touching my arm.
the presence of the sheriffs at the meeting added a surreal martial law effect.
i made a report of tolle's screaming and touching of my shoulder. the incident will be passed to bradford, who will not respond to my emails.
i can also file criminal charges for battery, although the sheriff attempted to tell me that was not appropriate. i find this pretty funny that he thinks i don't understand the concept of battery.
anyway, who wants their student government in handcuffs?
that would just be too bizarre.
i will think about it.

are you ready for an uplifting story yet?
Dr. Luther Guynes is the most kind graceful and respectful teacher at LACC.
he teaches business.
i found my class notes from last summer's business class with Dr. Luther Guynes.  so much wisdom about human relations . . . . if only he could lead my "classroom etiquette for teachers and students" class . . .

when everything got extra depressing i wrote him:

"now can you explain why these young teachers are so disrespectful to women in class?

if only you could teach them how to be graceful elegant and respectful!!!!"

he wrote back:

MARY SO NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU .YOU ARE A WONDERFUL AND BRIGHT STUDENT.I AM VERY SORRY TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAD TO DEAL WITH..THANKS FOR HELPING SOME OF THE STUDENTS IN MY CLASS.CALL ME ANYTIME