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From left, Zela Goettler and her mother Mila Gaffney sign “I love you” on Thursday, May 2, 2019, on West Campus at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. Both Goettler and Gaffney are graduating this semester with degrees in American Sign Language.

Mother and daughter graduate together with AA degree in ASL

Elizabeth Saubestre, Staff Writer
May 3, 2019
From left, Allie Scudelarl, Glory McGuigan, and Rossio Zavala Perez answer questions about their experiences in California State University's sign language interpreation program. The entire panel discussion was given in American Sign Language on Friday, April 12, 2019, in the MacDougall Administration Building Room 211 at City College in Santa Barbara Calif.

Students share their journeys to becoming ASL interpreters

Delaney Smith, Editor-in-Chief
April 13, 2019
Artist Alison O'Daniel, towards the right in the orange and yellow shirt, participates in a discussion called “The Politics of Access and Visual Sound” at the Administration Building at City College on Friday, Nov. 2, in Santa Barbara, Calif. O'Daniel is also hard of hearing and one of the reasons she creates her work is so she can help others understand the spectrum of sound that one can experience.

Artist uses film to channel the experiences of deaf and hearing

Katie James, Features Editor
November 3, 2018
Jazmin Puignau along with her student, Broderick Shore, at the Outstanding Student Award and Scholarship Reception for The School of Modern Language at Santa Barbara City College in the Campus Center on Friday, May 4. “Broderick has shown great enthusiasm in learning Arabic and he has great skills for Arabic grammar,” said Puignau.

Language awards go to trilingual student, Arabic studies student

Kimberly Urrutia, Staff Writer
May 11, 2018

SBCC offers Ubi Duo technology for those with impaired hearing

KATIE JAMES, Channels Staff
October 27, 2017
Hugo Martinez, City College American Sign Language tutor, on Thursday, April 27, at Santa Barbara East Beach. Martinez was selected for the USA Men’s Deaf Volleyball team for the 2017 Deaflympics in Samsun, Turkey.

Sign language tutor invited to play volleyball at Deaflympics

ANNA LEIGH OGLE, Channels Staff
April 28, 2017
City College students attend an American Sign Language Club meeting, where President Jessica Clark, 20, explains the rules for a game in vocal silence, on Wednesday, March 5, in the Main Cafeteria at City College. Signing is a visual language in which the brain processes linguistic information through the eyes.

In Deaf Community, actions speak louder than words

BROOKE HOLLAND, Features Editor
March 7, 2014
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