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November 18, 2021
News
NEWS BRIEFS
the history of viewpoints
The rocky start of a new era
Campus will be closed Thursday Nov. 25 & Friday Nov. 26 Finals Week is Dec. 10-16 C S U & U C Tr a n s f e r Workshops: CSU San Bernardino is hosting career opportunity webinars for psychology and sociology students Nov. 19. The webinars are open to all students interested in transferring and will introduce students to resources available to them upon transfer. Psychology Webinar from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Link: https://csusb.zoom. us/webinar/register/ WN_wKU2Cj6pTKMh0Ky54ntDg Sociology Webinar from 1-2 p.m. Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/ webinar/register/WN_mvX_ w89mSUC8JD668_Aj9w CSU/UC Application Workshops: CSU Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Workshop link: https://bit.ly/ CSUAppWks Password: Transfer UC Nov. 23 from 2-4 p.m. Workshop link: https://bit.ly/ UCAppWk Password: Transfer UC Personal Insight Questions Workshop Nov. 24 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Link: https://bit.ly/UCPIQsWK Password: Transfer CPR Workshop Hosted by Red Cross Club Nov. 29 from 5-7 p.m. Location: Quad Courtyard CORRECTIONS: In the previous issue, there was a typo in the story on the study abroad program that stated Fabian Biancardi’s first name as “Fibian.” The story has been updated on viewpointsonline.org to reflect the correct spelling.
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DANIEL HERNANDEZ MANAGING EDITOR
IMAGE COURTESY OF BURIED UNDER THE BLUE
Police evict Palo Verde residents on May 9, 1959. other and created family-like bonds. STADIUM from page 1 There was no police interaction within those communities until it got close to a perfect time where people the time to to remove everyone are starting to rediscover their from their homes forcibly. Only indigenous roots,” Montalvo White police officers were sent said. “With all that education to the communities to harass we’ve given to them I think them, beat them and shove them that’s helped them come to an in patrol cars and drop them off understanding that they must in other neighborhoods to send question everything now.” the message that they needed to He strives to tell the leave soon. story accurately of how his “At the end of the day our grandparents experienced it. He country paid us by kicking us said how unfortunate it is that out of our homes,” Montalvo he, and many former residents said. “And that’s one of the or relatives of residents, main things that stuck with realized their families’ story them and why it was so painful of displacement was being told and stinging to this day. Most incorrectly. of the elders would never step “Most of it was obviously foot at a (Dodgers) game or the opposite of what happened even watch a game, and if you in the books,” Montalvo said, think about it that’s what the recounting one of many stories psychologists talk about with his grandparents shared with inherited trauma.” him. “I’ve listened to my Another Buried Under the grandfather ’s ways of life Blue spokesperson, Melissa there. They farmed, they raised Arechiga, experienced the their own food and they policed displacement firsthand because themselves, that’s another big her family was among those one.” in Palo Verde that refused to He said, because the leave their homes and were communities were closeforcefully removed by police. knit and lacked telephone People around the country signals, they did not reach watched from home as it was out to law enforcement for broadcasted on the news. any occurrence and handled it “I’m upset, I’m themselves. Similar to a tribal disappointed, I feel like our council. people deserve so much better,” Montalvo said this was the Arechiga said. “People say norm in the three communities I’m upset because, ‘It’s just because they all relied on each
because it’s your family.’ And yeah, it is my family, you’re 100% right, but if it wasn’t my family it would still be brown history. If it’s not brown history then what is their history? Christopher Columbus?” Arechiga’s family was one of the remaining families in Palo Verde. The other two communities that had not sold and left their homes were displaced after Black Friday. She said she hopes that by bringing broader awareness to what their families went through and their deep-rooted trauma that people who have not experienced similar situations will want to learn more. “Maybe they can start to grow a sense of understanding to lay the foundation,” Arechiga said. “When it’s personalized and they’ve experienced it themselves it changes the dynamics of how they digest the history ... but somebody w h o ’s n e v e r e x p e r i e n c e d these things, it’s like they’re removed from it, they haven’t been touched by those life experiences. So it’s always good to start there and ask, ‘Have you been or do you know anyone who’s been displaced’ and take it from there.” She hopes they will further the conversation and prevent further gentrification and displacements in browndominated communities by asking those questions.
Only one would remain after the untimely demise of most of the student publications at Riverside City College. It, too, would face strife as it attempted to service the community. The biweekly newspaper Viewpoints, previously known as the Tiger Times until its name changed until 1973, would be the only surviving publication to this day. Efforts to revive or create new publications would fizzle out and be for naught. The decline in interest in publications affected the journalism department as well. Jan Abrahams, who took over the reins of the publication in 1971, ran the entire program by herself. Faculty in the photography and mass communications department assisted her, but she was tasked with advising the paper and holding journalism lectures. Between the period of l972-1981, Viewpoints had a variety of issues afflicting the publications. Financial instability would directly affect the paper’s production. The responsibility of funding the college paper would frequently change between the Associated Students of Riverside City College and the district. This instability disrupted Viewpoints’ distribution throughout the campus, affecting its biweekly schedule. The news, or lack of it, happening on campus was another major factor affecting interest in the paper. Fewer events would be held on campus, club activities would be less prevalent and major events were no longer commonplace within the college’s property. If an event was covered, the news was no longer relevant by the time the publication was distributed. This led to the paper producing more opinion-based writing and growing the features section. Profiles on faculty, guest speakers, reviews, photo wild art and poetry became more common within the publication’s pages. The paper broadened its focus in the news as well. It began to cover state ballots, administrative policy changes and propositions that could affect district funding. Overall, the focus of Vi e w p o i n t s w o u l d c h a n g e yearly due to the talent of the students who walked through the newsroom doors.
