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The Niners faithful recall a different time as they celebrate their team’s victory

Minutes from Candlestick Park, the ancestral home of the 49ers, several of the Niners faithful gathered Sunday to drink, eat and celebrate at a 126-year-old bar as their team romped their way to a Super Bowl berth. The Bloody Marys, Irish coffees, and micheladas flowed while the lumpia and chicken wings fried as lifelong fans repeatedly lost their minds watching Raheem Mostert run roughshod over the Packers while the defense dominated, creating multiple turnovers. One of them, Hector Desanti g
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Japanese American family at heart of beloved Golden Gate Park garden

The Japanese Tea Garden, the oldest public Japanese garden in North America, is a popular attraction with tourists and locals alike. But few know that it was once also home to the man who designed it and his family — or that they were abruptly removed at the start of World War II and interned along with thousands of other Japanese Americans. This month, as Recreation and Parks officials prepared for a $2 million spring renovation of the garden and its pagoda to celebrate its 125th anniversary,
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Chinatown fixture Yuet Lee prepares for New Year with new leadership in the kitchen

Although Chinese New Year is a holiday, at newly anointed legacy business Yuet Lee the staff will be busy at work, serving one of the most important meals of the year. And at the helm will be co-owner Wo Jie Zhen, who on Friday will be running the New Year’s Eve dinner for the first time. The restaurant at the corner of Broadway and Stockton, on the border of Chinatown and North Beach, has been serving authentic Hong Kong style seafood dishes for the last 45 years. Every year on Chinese New Ye

Oh So Close! – The Guardsman

The City College women’s basketball team went toe-to-toe with the #2 ranked team in Northern California, Diablo Valley College Vikings on Saturday, March 7, and nearly pulled off an upset to advance to the state finals. The Rams traveled well, and although it was an away game, City College fans at least equaled the number of Vikings supporters in the bleachers. Each quarter told a different story and the game swung back and forth wildly throughout the night. After a tense first few minutes, th
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Black Hawks Down, Rams Defeat Las Positas 110-74 – The Guardsman

The City College Rams stayed undefeated in their toughest league test yet, and manhandled a strong Las Positas team Wednesday, Jan. 29, winning 110-74. The second place Hawks gave the Rams all they could handle early on, and were up eight midway through the first half. Star sophomore guard Michael Hayes scored 23 points that half for Las Positas and was able to consistently finish at the rim and get to the line. The Rams typical world-beating swagger quickly morphed into gritty smash-mouth int
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Men’s Soccer Advances to Second Round of Playoffs in Dramatic Fashion Before Losing to Top Seed – The Guardsman

The eighth-seeded City College men’s soccer team advanced to the second of the Northern California playoffs with a dramatic 1-0 victory over the ninth-seeded West Valley College Vikings on Saturday, Nov. 23. The Rams came out flat, and struggled to keep possession throughout the first half. They came close to conceding twice. In the eighth minute, a West Valley player fired a point blank shot off the post that would have ricocheted into the goal if not for a goal line clearance from freshman c
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Panelists Breakdown Problems Around Big Tech and Journalism – The Guardsman

Facebook, Google, and Apple have grown into insurmountable competitors and obstacles for many local news outlets according to a panel of journalists at the Diego Rivera Theatre at City College on Wednesday, Nov. 20, discussing the impact of Silicon Valley giants on how the public gets its daily news. They collectively said these corporations have become gatekeepers who soak up all of the advertising revenue that local publishers rely on to stay in business, and although social media has provide
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Bomb Scare Raises Alarms Around Emergency Text Notifications – The Guardsman

The bomb threat that prompted the evacuation of three buildings on Ocean campus on Oct. 17 was a false alarm, but raised questions over the emergency notification systems City College has in place. The City College Police Department worked in tandem with the SFPD, SFFD, and SFMTA to evacuate the Multi-Use Building, Science Hall, and Creative Arts Building to search them with officers and bomb sniffing dogs. By 4:33 p.m. the sweep was complete and students and faculty began trickling back into t
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HEAT Press Conference Calls for Bridge Fund to Restore Classes – The Guardsman

City College supporters gathered outside of San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 10 to hold a press conference in protest of what some have called “the midnight massacre” of 270 classes two days before Thanksgiving break. The press conference was organized by the Higher Education Action Team (HEAT), which consists of students and various college faculty. Several speakers referred to the elimination of 90% of the older adult courses, as they decried the cuts as racist and agist, and asked the college
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Budget and Finance Committee Moves $2.7 Million Bridge Fund to Board of Supervisor Floor for a Vote – The Guardsman

A $2.7 million bridge fund to restore almost 300 Spring semester classes which were cut on the eve of registration in late November moved through the Budget and Finance Committee by a 2-1 vote on Wednesday, Jan. 15. The full Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on whether or not to approve the $2.7 million at a meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28. Supervisor Shamann Walton is confident that at least six supervisors will vote to approve, but is working to get eight on board to prevent a possible vet
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The Search for Gavin Octaviano Continues – The Guardsman

Gavin Octaviano, a classic overachiever and friendly young man, was set to graduate from UC Irvine this Spring when he went missing near the Golden Gate Bridge in late November 2018. Octaviano was home on break, enjoying the holiday season alongside his family and friends. The day after Thanksgiving, Octaviano started his night by helping his family decorate their Christmas tree, he then told his mom that he was going to get dinner with some friends from high school and his cousin, and assured
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Three Rams Go Pro – The Guardsman

Three former Rams have signed professional contracts and will battle for spots on NFL rosters this coming season. Pacifica native, quarterback Anthony Gordon led the Rams to their most recent national championship in 2015 before transferring to Washington State University (WSU). In his lone season starting for the WSU Cougars in 2019, Gordon threw for 48 touchdowns, second only to Heisman Trophy winner and top overall NFL draft pick Joe Burrow. He signed with the Seattle Seahawks on April 25, w
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Buildings on Ocean campus evacuated after bomb threat – The Guardsman

Students and faculty on Ocean campus were evacuated from the Multi-Use building (MUB), Creative Arts, and Science Buildings Wednesday, Oct. 17 after an unidentified caller at 2 p.m. told campus police that a bomb would go off at a designated time in one of those buildings. Given the size of each building and the volume of students on campus, law enforcement made a joint decision to evacuate before conducting sweeps, said City College Chief of Police Colleen Fatooh. The goal was to make sure eve
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California Bill Strikes Big Blow to NCAA – The Guardsman

A landmark piece of legislation, Bill SB-206, was signed into law on Sept. 30 by Governor Gavin Newsom allowing college athletes in California to sign endorsement deals and hire agents despite opposition from powerful state and national institutions.. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that regulates all of the most high profile institutions across the United States, has waged a long, and until now, successful campaign against the payment of student-athletes. College sports is
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Rams Roast Eagles on the Gridiron – The Guardsman

The City College of San Francisco Rams football team put on an absolute clinic Saturday afternoon, October 5, obliterating the College of The Siskiyous Eagles 73-7 during their first annual homecoming game. After an early three and out, the Rams offense took advantage of a muffed punt by the Eagles and reeled off seven unanswered touchdowns to go up 49-0 with 4:43 left in the second quarter. Starting quarterback Ethan Bullock, from Orlando, Florida, scored on a quarterback keeper in the first
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Artist’s Good Deed Inspired New Facebook Group of Volunteers

After having all of her scheduled events canceled in quick succession, Bianca Nandzik – a Sunset-based artist who goes by the name of Entropy – was feeling the impact of COVID-19, and was upset. Shortly after San Francisco went into lockdown, the artist was on her way to the store and made a Facebook post asking if she could pick anything up for her neighbors. Her post got significant buzz and positive feedback. It planted a seed. Entropy’s spontaneous act of community service kicked off a chai
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Music Concourse at the Heart of GG Park Draws Millions of Visitors Each Year

The heart of Golden Gate Park is the Music Concourse, an open-air plaza flanked by two state-of-the-art cultural institutions: the California Academy of Sciences and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. It is also the site of the beloved Japanese Tea Garden. Renovated in the early 2000s, the Music Concourse now sits atop an 800-car garage to help accommodate the millions of annual visitors. At the southwest corner of the ovular concourse is the Japanese Tea Garden, the oldest public Japanese gard
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