THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
December 12, 2000
Audrie Lee volunteered to nauseate herself the other day in the name of science.The freshman at the University of California at Berkeley was a guinea pig in a dizzying test of a 20-year-old theory that says humans -- like birds, bees and bacteria -- can find their way using only Earth's magnetic field."I think it's kind of b.s.-y," Lee said of the theory after being blindfolded, twirled around and asked to point out what direction she was facing before the experiment began.
Argus, The (Fremont-Newark, CA)
December 1, 2003
AT THE END of narrow, winding Morrison Canyon Road -- past an ornamental metal windmill, a herd of cows and a Northrop Grumman airplane frame and through a wire gate -- is the 308-acre ranch where John and Leanora Avila live.The gravel road that leads to the house is bordered by large rocks they hauled and placed there when they moved into the new home they built 39 years ago. Even the wheelbarrow gate in front of the house is full of Avila memories; one of the wheels is from John
Argus, The (Fremont-Newark, CA)
April 26, 2004
WHEN JUDITH FONSECA began attending Ohlone College two years ago, she noticed something was missing."You don't see many Chicanos or Latinos there," she said. "You see a few, but not that many. It makes me feel bad that Latinos might think that that school's not for them. They have a chance, but they just don't know it."
Latino students are underrepresented by 50 percent compared with the district's general population, said college President Doug Treadway, who, during his first year
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
November 30, 2000
BERKELEY Jennifer Kho wrapped a blindfold around friend Audrie Lee's eyes, then stuffed her roommate's ears with plugs.
The biology major then led her fellow freshman into a 10-by-20-foot room at UC Berkeley's life sciences building and dimmed the lights. She strapped a colored headband on Lee's head, sat her in a desk chair and spun furiously all without a peep of protest.Now that's friendship.
"I'm all right," Lee assured observers. "A little dizzy."
Kho put her
West County Times (Richmond, CA)
November 30, 2000
BERKELEY Jennifer Kho wrapped a blindfold around friend Audrie Lee's eyes, then stuffed her roommate's ears with plugs.
The biology major then led her fellow freshman into a 10-by-20-foot room at UC Berkeley's life sciences building and dimmed the lights. She strapped a colored headband on Lee's head, sat her in a desk chair and spun furiously all without a peep of protest.Now that's friendship.
"I'm all right," Lee assured observers. "A little dizzy."
Kho put her
Argus, The (Fremont-Newark, CA)
April 12, 2004
FREMONT -- The next time Andrew Greenman delivers his award-winning speech, the California School for the Deaf student will be competing for $1,500.Greenman won the fourth annual Communication Contest for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in March. His speech "Thinking, Working and Expecting the Best" is about his struggles as a young teen and how staying positive helped him through difficult times.
He delivered his speech last week at a meeting of the Newark Optimist Club. The
Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA)
May 17, 2004
FREMONT -- California School for the Deaf student Justin Jackerson said his first impression of Russia was that it was dark."There was a darkness about it," he said. "It was cloudy, too, but there was just a dark feeling. People's expressions were very blank, and it was almost like communism again."
That impression changed as Jackerson and 15 of his high school classmates spent spring break visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg, with a quick stop in Stockholm, Sweden.
The
Daily Review, The (Hayward, CA)
May 11, 2004
FREMONT -- Loretta Amaral was cancer-free for less than a year when she was invited to walk the Survivors Lap at the American Cancer Society's annual Relay for Life."I didn't really consider myself a survivor," she said. "But when we started walking the Survivors Lap, everyone in the stands started clapping, and they released doves. I'm still emotional when I think about it, because it was at that moment that I realized, 'Oh my goodness, I am a survivor.'"
Amaral, a Fremont
Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA)
May 7, 2004
FREMONT -- In a move that could mark the end of a controversy, Ohlone College has selected two deaf finalists for the position of deaf studies and special services."The committee all agreed on these two," college President Doug Treadway said. "They both had 100 percent of the votes of all the members on the committee. That's impressive."
The two finalists are Michael Kemp, a professor of American Sign Language and deaf studies at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., for 26
Daily Review, The (Hayward, CA)
May 5, 2004
FREMONT -- California School for the Deaf student Justin Jackerson said his first impression of Russia was that it was dark."There was a darkness about it," he said. "It was cloudy, too, but there was just a dark feeling. People's expressions were very blank, and it was almost like communism again."
That impression changed as Jackerson and 15 of his high school classmates spent spring break visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg, with a quick stop in Stockholm, Sweden. The
