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ESL Instructor Mary Frandina and President Ena Chen have organized a fun and successful Marin Shakespeare Company field trip for CCSF Downtown Campus students. Over 60 students participated on a beautiful sunny day.

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

"It's that time of year - time for Downtown Campus Library summer reading club! This year our theme is "I'm a reader, He's a reader, She's a reader...Are you a reader too?  Please consider joining us in ecouraging and promoting our reading program..."

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

Thousands of students, bus loads from all compuses rally at the state Capitol to protest the budget cuts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed for the state's three college systems in 2008-09.

• Dowtown Campus Lunar New Year Celebration
• 2009 is the Year of the Ox
• 2009 is the Year of Ji Chou.
• 2009 is Year 4706 in the Chinese Calendar

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

"Symbolism abounds in the decorative arts of China, rendering clothing, personal adornment, and household objects rich with meaning. A gourd-shaped vase decorated with bats is more than just ornamental: it is a promising omen, as the gourd symbolizes fertility by virtue of its numerous seeds, and the imagery of bats implies the sentiment "blessings vast as the sky." By surrounding themselves with such symbols, many Chinese believed that wishes would be fulfilled." Asian Art Museum

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

"With God of Luck, Ruthanne Lum McCunn has turned her descriptive and sensitive storytelling skills to the little known coolie trade to Peru. She beautifully combines the hardships and brutality of the kidnapping of a Chinese man, conditions on the slave ships, and the bitterness of back-breaking labor in a foreign land with the sadness and determination of a wife and family back home. Never separating history from its impact on individual people, McCunn has reached into her characters' hearts to bring readers a story of emotional depth and truth."

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

Nearly 3,000 students from across California, including over a dozen busloads of students from CCSF, rallied at the state Capitol to protest the $1 billion in budget cuts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed for the state's three college systems in 2008-09.

Emory Douglas - February 13, 2008 - No Gallery

"Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas traces the graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. Douglas's powerful visuals helped define the trademark visual style of the group's newspapers, posters, and pamphlets. Douglas's substantial body of work exists as a powerful graphic record of the Black Panthers' legacy, reflecting their development and evolving mission to improve the lives of African Americans by calling for resistance and change, as well providing social services to their communities."

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

"The Eighth Promise chronicles two lives -- that of Poy Jen, the author’s mother, who was born and raised in China’s fertile Pearl River Delta, and of the Toisanese people, those early pioneers who settled American’s west coast in the 1850s and created Chinatowns throughout America. Poy Jen spent her childhood reared in the traditional ways of the self-sufficient Toisanese who had lived in one place for a millennium and rarely moving more than fifteen or twenty miles from their place of birth." THE EIGHTH PROMISE by William Poy Lee

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

Associate Students Council put together an Ice Skating Fun Partay! Seventy students from the downtown campus hit up the Yerba Buena Gardens across the street for some slippery fun. The beauty of their essence cannot be described in the smiling faces, but in the sense of community they all share. Most students new to skating take on the challenge, pushing on until there is no more rail to hold onto. No words are needed to describe this fun gallery.

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

Associate Students Council put together a halloween luncheon that included food, drinks, and gift certificate prizes for the best customes. There were more students than expected and hungry students feasted on chicken, chowmein, fried rice, and spring rolls. Lines formed outside the 8th floor lounge. Thanks to student and faculty who dressed up for the occassion and to Dean, Steven Glick for personally helping to manage the mega crowd.

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

ESL Instructor Mary Frandina for a second time has organized the fun and successful Marin Shakespeare Company fieldtrip for CCSF Downtown Campus students. Over 75 students participated in the cultural outing and included a unique bus tranportation system, the colorful San Francisco Mexican and German busses. The discounted event was sponsored and supported by the Downtown Associate Students Council.

Sponsored and supported in party by the Downtown Campus Associate Students Council.

Looking for the new hot spot to eat downtown? Then reserve your table now at the Educated Palate-an elegant, street-side dining room conveniently located on the corner of Fourth and Mission at the Downtown Campus.The restaurant showcases the food preparation and service skills mastered by students in the Culinary & Service Skills Training Program. Completely run by students under the guidance of Dining Room Instructor Chris Johnson and Barbara Haimes and Chef Instructors Maureen Kellond, Betsy Riehle, and Greg Eng.

The City College of San Francisco Downtown Campus is located within a unique and vibrant community surrounded by art, archiecture, commerce, entertainment, and fine food. The neighborhood offers students a taste of everything that defines this beautiful city, including educational opportunities of all price ranges. Students can visit the Martin Luther King Memorial in Yerba Buena Gardens, survey the historic archiecture that surrounds our campus, visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), or visit the many many shops, galleries, and theatres that surround the Downtown Campus