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Voices“I love the Anthropology

Club’s booth. It seems like a really interesting group.”

-Hanalee Hines, 20 Art major

“Every semester there is something new and inter-esting. I’m having a great time checking out all the booths.”

-Christian Membrillo, 21 Math major

“We’re getting awareness of Salsa music and dancing out. We want to get the com-munity involved and maybe get a competitive team go-ing.”

-Malika Perry, 27, Jour-nalism (dance club rep)

“I’m here for the Gamers Guild. It’s a great commu-nity of like-minded people. We all support the fantastic gamer culture.”

-Justin LaForge, 21, Marketing/Computer Sci-ence

-Reporting by Nicholas Petrella

Clubs rush the Quad

JAM TIME

Statistics show that today, just under 500,000 college students in

California are waitlisted for col-lege courses.

With so many waiting for class-es, students say they are becom-ing increasingly frustrated with the waitlists used on campus and professors who hesitate to drop flakey pupils.

“It’s not fair for students who need classes to transfer to be wait-listed,” said Elizabeth Gomez, 18, a biology major.

Gomez said she was waitlisted for four classes this semester and was only added to two. She said that even now, in the second week of the semester, people are still sitting on the floor of her algebra class hoping a space will open up for them.

Gomez added that her profes-sors have been inconsistent at giv-ing waitlisted students information about their probability of being added to the class.

“One teacher told me that there was no way she could add any more students than what she had,” Gomez said.

She attended the next class anyway and found that three more students had dropped, leaving a spot for her.

“If I hadn’t come back, I would’ve missed out on a class. I wonder how many other students miss out on classes for the same reason,” Gomez said.

Christina Pech, 19, a business major, said she was waitlisted for her philosophy class and had to attend for two weeks before being registered.

“There were some people who were already registered in the class that didn’t show up on the second day, but the professor kept them enrolled for another week before giving us wait-listers a chance to add,” Pech said. “It’s not fair to take a course seriously and commit to attending, only to be rejected, especially when someone regis-tered clearly doesn’t care enough to show up.”

Even students who have never been put on a waitlist say it’s unfair to keep a registered student in a class when they fail to attend the first day.

Andre Thompson, 19, a history major and running back for the football team, said he has never been waitlisted but agrees that professors should be in agreement with when to drop uncommit-ted, registered students from the class and begin adding waitlisted students.

“People who don’t come to class the first day should be dropped automatically,” Thompson said. “It just shows disinterest on their part.”

Some students are frustrated with the waitlist system that they call unfair.

BY CASSIE HAMMONDSTAFF WRITER

Admissions vary by instructor

Photo by Josh FrancisTwo Southern California Roller Derby teams faced off on Saturday at a roller derby event in Huntington Beach. A few Orange Coast College Students were in attendance at The Rinks Huntington Beach Inline. The event featured several jams with teams from southern California competing against one another. OCC biol-ogy instructor Marc Perkins was keeping stats and tracking the number of penalties each player had.

For the full story see Page 4

Orange Coast College’s deadline to drop a class with-out adding a “W” to students records has been moved up by two weeks this semester in an effort to encourage students to commit to a course sooner.

The deadline, which requires students to drop a class without a refund and without a “W” has been moved from Sept. 24 last year to Sept. 10 this year.

An email sent to students by the Enrollment Center at Orange Coast College, said districts will no longer receive funding for students not en-rolled long enough to receive a grade.

“For students who decide that dropping a course is their only option, an earlier decision may actually permit waitlisted students to take their place in class,” Admissions Director Efren Jose Galvan said.

While the state is trying to cut back on its funding to colleges, students and teachers said its not in their best interest.

“It’s terrible to move the deadline that close to the be-ginning of the semester,” phi-losophy instructor Marcella Norling said. “It’s terrible for students. I don’t think it’s good for teachers.”

Norling said that she gives her students an in-class writing assignment the second week.

By the time she can give her students their first grade, she said, it will already be too late to drop the class with a full refund if they are not satisfied with the grade or if they feel that the class is not for them, she said.

“Part of the mission of the community college is to give students a chance to try out dif-ferent topics, different majors and different areas of study,” Norling said. “This basically takes that away from them.”

Norling said that it isn’t just about the state being interested in keeping student money.

“It’s also a way to destroy the original master plan for higher education in California and change the mission of the com-munity colleges,” she said.

Some students objected to the deadline being moved up.

“How do you know if you’re going to be able to handle a

Photo by Sarah Borean

A list of waitlisted students that instructors print out before class.

Less time todropBY LISA STEPHANIANSTAFF WRITER

See DROP Page 4

Photo by Lisset Mendoza

The Hip-Hop Club shows off some of their moves to potential members at Tuesday’s semi-annual Club Rush event. The event featured 44 clubs several booths to attract passing students who may otherwise be unaware just how many campus groups Coast has to offer.

It’s that time of year again and Orange Coast College student clubs are looking for new mem-bers during Club Rush in the Quad Tuesday.

The festive atmosphere was dominated by the speaker system playing a collection of top 40 hits past and present -- and the Dance Club wouldn’t have it any other way.

With 44 club booths and 10 student service booths, this club rush is one of the biggest ever, organizers said.

Jackie Muniz, a 20-year-old member of the Interclub Council, said that Club Rush is all about

giving clubs the chance to put themselves out there, sign up new members and provide ca-reer opportunities for interested students.

Clubs like Doctors of Tomor-row, with a first meeting sched-uled for Sept. 19 in the ABC building, look to provide career-oriented fare.

The representative said the club tries to bring in speakers from non-profit organizations and other medical fields to speak to students at every meeting.

The Gamer’s Guild was a crowd favorite, drawing students from all walks of life with a com-mon interest in gaming media and sparking heated debates about what the best video game is.

The Music Club was hard at work entertaining people with a set of musicians playing for the crowds.

Groups look for new additions at campus event.

BY NICHOLAS PETRELLASPECIAL TO THE COAST REPORT

See CLUBS Page 2

Kate Mueller is leaving Coast

The dean of students will take 15-month leave while she works in the United Arab Emirates.

See Page 3

EA releases new Madden

A look at the newestaddition to the EA Sports sports game lineup.

See Page 4

SPORTS

Pirates defeat Lancers 27-10

The Orange Coast College football team rallies back after a heartbreaking week 1 loss, defeating Pasadena City College Saturday night.

See Page 6

Evangelist argues with students

Students did not agree with most of what a religious ac-tivist set up in the Quad had to say on Wednesday. The Campus Safety chief said the man has been on cam-pus several times before.

See Page 2

ONLINE

A new Java exploit has given hackers the ability to make all users on all operating systems run malicous programs.

If you thought you were safe on your Mac, think again. This exploit gives the Java applet on a webpage the ability to down-load and install any program the hacker wants.

“0Day is a flaw when a bad guy can exploit it before they can issue a fix for it,” Stephen Gilbert, the Orange Coast Col-lege Java professor said.

Java is a programming lan-guage that can be used to run programs on your computer or to run applets on webpages. If you have been to an online banking site or even OCC’s own Black-board, you have used Java.

A Java applet is a very small Java application that runs in webpages.

Java is usually safe in its own Sandbox, however, this exploit lets the applet escape this Sand-box and run on your computer. Hackers can use this to install keyloggers, or anything else they want, without your permission.

This isn’t the first time Java has had a security exploit. Last sum-mer Flashback infected 630,000 Mac users in much of the same way. Recently an FBI agent had his laptop compromised using an old version of Java.

To make sure you and your

identity are safe, make sure you disable Java, or update to the newest version as soon as possible. Even if you only go to respected websites, a crafty hacker can inject his own code into the content delivery system of the ads that use Java.

“Internet Explorer is not as good as [Google] Chrome or Firefox,” Gilbert said.

Although Internet Explorer is better than it used to be, Firefox and Google Chrome take harsher measures to ensure that you are safe. Firefox will disable Java as soon as a new exploit comes out, and Chrome will ask for your permission each time you visit a webpage that runs Java.

Apple, which is known for its security, was shocked by last summer’s exploit and has outsourced its Java program to Oracle, a software tech firm.

Note fake outPolice reported hit and run

accident Wednesday around 11 a.m. in the Merrimac Way Parking Lot.

According to Chief of Safe-ty John Farmer, the male victim returned to his car after class and found a note on his vehicle. A woman who saw the accident wrote that a gray pickup truck had hit his car and left scratches.

According to the witness, the suspect had allegedly walked up to the car as if he was going to leave a note but instead walked back to his vehicle and drove away.

Near missA female student reported

almost being hit by a blue Volvo in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot on Aug. 5.

According to Farmer, the victim was riding her bike through the parking lot and swerved to avoid a drainage grill when she was almost hit. The Volvo driver allegedly yelled at her and said it was her fault.

The woman got the driver’s

license plate number and re-ported it to Campus Safety.

Placard PhoniesTwo female students were

caught apparently using other people’s handicapped parking placards on Aug. 6 and a male student was caught doing the same thing on Aug. 7.

The first suspect was caught in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot and claimed the placard belonged to her mother. It was confiscated and the suspect was fined $250, Farmer said.

The second suspect was caught in the Fitness Center Parking Lot and claimed it was her father’s. The placard was confiscated also and she was fined $250, Farmer said.

The male student parked in the Gym Parking Lot and when confronted said the placard belonged to his grand-mother who wasn’t with him. He was also fined $250.

Farmer added that students trying to use other people’s placards should be aware that

CRIMEBLOTTER

2 CAMPUS SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Speaking God’s word

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Orange Coast College stu-dents didn’t appreciate the mes-sage given by an evangalist on campus last week, and con-fronted the man with loud voices and questions.

The man, identifying himself only as Paul, drew a crowd of about 40 onlookers and was watched by two Campus Safety officers.

Carrying a large sign embla-zoned with black, white and red lettering, Paul argued that those who break God’s laws will go to Hell.

He didn’t receive a warm welcome from students and his presence resulted in an all-out shouting match in the Quad.

Many of the spectators dis-agreed with his views, and the two parties frequently shouted back and forth.

“I feel like this guy doesn’t even go to this school. He comes here with a sign and a

fanny pack and says go to hell or repent. It’s just not fair at all,” Noah Stillman, 18, an undecided major said. “It’s more of a joke. A lot of people aren’t even ask-ing serious questions.”

The confrontation consisted of yelling and shouting and Campus Safety monitored the situation closely.

“He has the right to be there,” said Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer.

Farmer said the man did noti-fy the front office that he would be in the Quad and the school said as long as he stayed in the Free Speech Zone he would be allowed to stay on campus.

Farmer said Campus Safety has dealt with the man in the past and there have never been any physical altercations with the man.

“There was just a lot of verbal stuff going on,” Farmer said.

Students and the public are allowed to set up tables, hand out fliers, and preach in the Free Speech Zone but not anywhere else unless administration al-lows it.

Paul is not a student at Orange Coast College and left campus shortly after 1:30 p.m.

-Editor in Chief Josh Francis contributed to this report.

BY ANTHONY LEESTAFF WRITER

Focus on the Constitution

—The Crime Blotter was compiled by Derek Herandez from Campus Safety reports.

OCC students confront evangelist who doomed them to hell.

BY DEAN NOTHSTEIN AND ANDREA DINHSTAFF WRITERS

While every computer connected to the Internet is vulnerable to the Java virus, students can take measures to prevent their computers from falling prey.

Until recently, Apple’s Macs were touted as virus-free, unlike their PC rivals.

Times have changed and both Windows and Mac users need to browse the Internet with caution until Oracle finds out how to patch exploitable vulnerabilities indefinitely.

Another option is to un-install Java, which would protect your computer from this exploit but may affect daily Internet surfing.

Oracle is scheduled to re-lease its next security update for Java on Oct. 12, a date too far away if you have an unsecure computer.

Frank Cohen, a computer repairman at Julian’s Com-puters in Santa Ana, has a few tips for safe comput-ing.

“Be sure to update Flash [player] and Java to the lat-est versions, run an antivirus and avoid clicking on ads that don’t seem legitimate,” Cohen said.

Because the specifics lie with holes in Java, no browser in its stock form can protect a computer from malicious code after it ex-ecutes.

This includes popular browsers such as Apple’s Safari, Google Chrome, Mi-crosoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Ads, a main source of rev-enue for many websites, can be deadly because they can link to just about anywhere.

“Most people don’t know they can see what the link is actually going to lead to. When clicking links of any kind, hover your mouse over the link to the bottom left of the screen and check if the url there is the same as the link provided,”said student Tommy Phan, 19, an unde-clared major.

For the more tech-savvy, consider installing NoScript, an add-on for Firefox (or ScriptNo, an alternative for Chrome users) which allows plug-ins such as Java and Flash to only execute when given permission or when the website is whitelisted into your database.

OCC students are at risk for identity theft and computer viruses.

Corrections and clarificationsDue to a reporting error in the Sept. 5 Coast Report story

“Classes are hard to come by,” the 20 classes cut from the Lit-erature and Languages department referred to English classes only.

Also, because of an editing error in the Sept. 5 Page 3 story “Learning from the master,” Professor Susan Smith did not bring a representative of the Occupy Wall Street movement into her classroom. Rather, she spoke of the Occupy Wall Street move-ment during her lecture.

Constitution Week is ap-proaching and Orange Coast College will host three events in honor of the country’s founding document.

Consistitution Week begins with Constitution Day on Sept. 17 and runs through Sept. 23.

According to Paul Asim, dean of social and behavioral sciences, these events will give students a better understand-ing of the Constitution, its amendments and the electoral process

“The main point of Constitu-tion Week is to educate students about the Constitution and help them get involved with the elec-toral process,” Asim said.

Constitution Day corresponds to the same date in 1787 when the Constitution was ratified at the Constitutional Convention.

The first event will take place at OCC on Sept. 17, from 11:10 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. in the Forum Lecture Hall. Speakers will include OCC instructors Herrick Arnold and Rendell Drew and former congressman and current Coast Communtiy College District Trustee Jerry Patterson.

Patterson will share his expe-riences about his time as a con-gressman with Coast students and faculty.

The second event is another assembly in the Forum Lecture Hall on Sept. 18 from 11:10 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.

Professor Patrick Coaty will lecture students on the rule of law and the Constitution regarding the issue of war on terror.

The third and last event will be held at the Robert B. Moore Theatre on Sept. 19 from 11:10 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. During this as-sembly, Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean of UC Irvine Law School, will debate with John Eastman, former Dean of Chap-man University Law School.

The two law experts will debate the same topic as last year—the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

BY JAMES FANTUZOSTAFF WRITER

The electoral process and the country’s founding documents will be discussed.

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The Wrestling Club was work-ing to recruit fresh blood and a new club, the Pirates on Wheels, is trying to generate interest in rollerskating and roller derby.

Culture-oriented clubs like the Vietnamese Students Associa-tion offer students a first-hand look at a different style of life. Their meetings are usually social events like beach bonfires or cookouts.

A moment of silence was held during the event for the to com-memorate the Sept. 11 tragedy on its 11th anniversary. The Associ-ated Students of Orange Coast College had a card outside OCC President Dennis Harkins’ office for students to sign.

The letter will be sent to OCC’s sister school, Borough of Man-hattan Community College. Eight members from BMCC were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

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PARKING LOT DIARIES Dean destined for Dhabi

Jessyka Blaylock, 24, loves history, heavy metal and throwing knives.

She said she enjoys throw-ing knives at targets because it involves family participa-tion.

“I love knife throwing be-cause it is a great way to bring my family together and it helps us have a good time when we have nothing to do,” she said.

Blaylock’s favorite kind of music is heavy metal and said she thinks it’s really fun to listen to.

“I love heavy metal be-cause it’s so energetic and I specifically like listening to my favorite band, Avenged Sevenfold,” she said.

She said she enjoys go-ing to concerts and spending time with her friends to forget about the stress of going to school.

Blaylock is working to ob-tain her bachelor’s degree in history and has one more year left at Orange Coast College.

She declared her major to be history because she hopes to pursue a career working for museums.

“I love history,” she said. “I love learning and sharing my knowledge about the past with others and making sure such great legends are never forgotten.”

After OCC, Blaylock plans to transfer to Cal State Long Beach to complete her de-gree.

Blaylock works at Staples as a copy assistant and said the job can be a bit frustrating but for now it’s enough.

“Sometimes people can be a bit stubborn but the job isn’t completely unbearable,” she said. “And at times it’s kind of fun.”

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Orange Coast College’s Dean of Student Services Kate Mueller has accepted a new position as director of Al-Rowdah Academy at the Institute of Applied Tech-nology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Mueller agreed to a 15-month contract with the Abu Dhabi institute and its renewal will be dependent on a mutual decision between her and the school when

the contract nears expiration.The Board of Trustees ap-

proved Mueller’s leave of ab-sence at its last board meeting

and approved Carla Martinez, OCC Student Services coordi-nator and ASOCC adviser, to become acting dean of Student Services.

Mueller’s brother, sister-in-law and 11-year-old nephew currently live in Abu Dhabi.

“I knew I wanted to visit them,” Mueller said. “I’ve never been to that area of the world before.”

While the job comes with a housing allowance, she will be living with her family instead.

Mueller said she wouldn’t have taken the job if she didn’t have any family in Abu Dhabi.

Mueller said she discussed the move long and hard with her husband whom she has been mar-ried to for nearly 25 years. Her

husband will be visiting her from time to time, she said.

“The more we thought about it, the more it turned out to be a great professional develop-ment opportunity for myself,” she said.

Having been with OCC for 11 years, Mueller said she is going to miss a lot of people.

“I’ve made some really strong relationships here,” Mueller said. “Time flies so fast.”

Kristin Clark, OCC’s vice president of Student Services, has known Mueller since she was hired 11 years ago.

“She’s always been there for me if I need her for something,” Clark said. “She’s probably one of the most ethical people I know.”

Kate Mueller will travel to the other side of the world to institute in UAE.

BY LISA STEPHANIANSTAFF WRITER

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It takes an individual of high moral character, experience and commitment to be respon-sible for the well-being of the more than 20,000 students at Orange Coast College.

John Farmer is that man. Fa rmer was an Orange

County sheriff’s deputy who received a commendation for outstanding officer in 1986.

In the early 1980s Farmer began to work for what would become the campus safety for Chapman University as a founding member.

Farmer has handled an array of campus safety issues, from gang-affiliated bike thefts and

sexual assaults to the imple-mentation of anti-skateboard-ing rules and increased night patrols.

In his 27 years of service at OCC, Farmer has seen many things change.

Except for the swelling pop-ulation and the lack of parking, it has all been for the better, Farmer said.

“The campus is under our watch 24/7 by a contingent of 25 safety officers, student assistants and office aids,” he said.

During peak hours, three officers and five student as-sistants patrol the campus on foot, in golf carts or in patrol cars.

Dennis Aldana has been a stu-dent assistant for nine months and said he has confidence in the operational readiness of the campus safety staff.

“There is nothing we can’t handle,” Aldana said.

Student assistants and pa-trol officers are CPR and first

aid-certified. In the event of a medical

emergency, campus safety of-ficers will asses the scene and if necessary provide first aid care to stabilize the patient.

The student assistants are tasked with escorting paramed-

ics to the scene, Farmer said. Staff members said cam-

pus safety operates on a high level of professionalism under Farmer’s guidance.

Farmer was described by his office aides as a “fair and wonderful boss.”

To protect and serve at OCCA little investigationon the man who keeps campus and students safe.

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Chief of campus safety John Farmer has worked at Orange Coast College for 27 years.

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Theater

Lectures

Art

“The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca,” Oct. 12 through Oct. 21: A Sherlock Holmes mys-tery about the death of a Catholic Church official. Directed by OCC Theatre Arts instructor Alex Gol-son. The play runs two weekends In the Drama Lab Theatre.

“Body Language,” Now through Oct. 11: Exhibit featuring the work of 10 artists organized by new gallery director Trev-or Norris. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. Opening reception on Sept. 12 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Pavilion is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Admission is free.

“Reconcilable Differ-ences,” Sept. 20: OCC instructors Lisa and Tom Dowling will combine her poetry and his images in a Friends of the Library lecture at 7 p.m. in the Lido Isle Clubhouse, 701 Via Lido Soud in Newport Beach. Admission is free for OCC students and extra credit is available.

“Sixth Annual Pilates Guest Speaker Series,” Sept. 19: A series of lec-tures addressing various elements of pilates. Lec-tures are Sept. 19, Oct. 10, Oct. 24, Nov. 14 and Nov. 28. Admission is free for OCC students and $20 per lecture or $85 for the series for the community. De-scriptions of each lecture can be found at http://goo.gl/V9zqrn.

“Constitution Day De-bate,” Sept. 19: Two con-stitutional scholars will speak on the Affordable Care Act and the recent U.S. Supreme Court de-cision. Speakers are Er-win Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine Law School and John Eastman, former dean of Chapman Univer-sity Law School. The the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Begins at 11 a.m.

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New twists to an old favoriteBY JAKE BURLEYSTAFF WRITER

Minoti Vaishnav, 24, has come a long way from when she first started singing at age 11.

Now an accomplished singer-songwriter, Vaishnav describes her journey as a budding pop singer.

Born in Mumbai, India, Vaishnav was majorly influ-enced by her musical family at a young age.

At the age of eleven, Vaish-nav began to express a budding interest in writing and singing

songs. Vaishnav recalled listening to

artists such as The Beatles and Aerosmith, which sparked an interest in music for her.

Although she cites the latter as her first influence in music,

Vaishnav does not limit her-self to only one genre; rather, she intends on bringing as many genres possible into her music.

After becoming intrigued with such artists, Vaishnav be-gan to pursue a future in music and started learning how to play the guitar by ear at age 13.

Vaishnav continued to further her musical talent by learning how to play the piano and began taking vocal lessons.

At this time, Vaishnav really began her music career by re-cording her own songs.

In 2008, Vaishnav had her first success with her song ‘Psychologist,’ which became a popular single on the internet. As a transfer student as Or-ange Coast College, Vaishnav worked hard on her music and studies which paid off.

In 2010, Vaishnav released

her first album, ‘The Fictional Truth,’ which she describes has an acoustic sound, influenced by artists such as Katy Perry and Alexz Johnson.

Vaishnav graduated from Orange Coast College after two years with an associate’s degree in music. and now attends the California State University at Northridge.

When asked about her up-coming sophomore release, Vaishnav said she wants to tran-sition from acoustic to a more commercial pop sound.

Artists such as Ellie Gould-ing and Christina Perri are listed as her influences for the upcoming album.

Although Vaishnav intends to transition to a poppier sound, she carefully notes that she wants to continue writing deep-er, meaningful lyrics.

With this sophomore album,

Vaishnav desires to not only progress her sound, but to de-velop a strong fan base in order to continue doing what she loves most- making music.

Check out her music at www.youtube.com/MinotiMusic or www.reverbnation.com/minoti.

Festivals“Orange County Chil-

dren’s Book Festival,” Sept. 30: The 8th annual book festival at OCC will feature authors, illustra-tors, storytellers, a petting zoo, crafts and entertain-ment. Kareem Abdul-Jab-bar and OCC instructor Raymon Obstfeld will promote their children’s book. From 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.

“Banff Film Fest - Radical Reels,” Sept. 26: Sponsored by the OCC Friends of the Library, the festival includes sev-eral extreme sports films. Films include “The Art of Flight,” Germany’s Con-crete Dreams,” and “Cat Skiing” from Canada. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Curtain at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for OCC students or $12 public.

Dance“So-Cal Dance Invi-

tational Concert,” Sept. 21: Performances of con-temporary ballet, modern and jazz performed by the Golden West Col-lege dance faculty. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Curtain at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for OCC students or $15 general.

An OCC graduate has one album under her belt with another coming up.

BY HANNAH LAMSTAFF WRITER

Pirates on Wheels is rolling on its way to becoming a formal club at Orange Coast College.

The new club was spear-headed by Marc Perkins, 36, a biology instructor at OCC and an avid fan of all kinds of roller skating, including roller derby and artistic style skating.

“I knew that I was really inter-ested in skating,” he said, “so I was thinking to myself ‘maybe others are interested too,’ and I decided to put up fliers and find out.”

His curitosity certainly paid off when approximately 30 people showed up to the pre-liminary meeting.

“I t absolutely exceeded my expectations,” he said. “I thought it might be myself and one or two other people but hav-ing so many people interested is really exciting.”

The club was formed for any-one who had an interest in any kind of skating, not just derby.

Perkins said that skating in general is fun and a great work-out.

“Nothing against joggers and runners,” he said, “but I look at them and sometimes they just look miserable and I look around the roller rink and ev-eryone is happy.”

Among the attendees of the first meeting was Kim Manell, a 31-year-old undecided major who skates for The Outlaw Ren-egade Roller Girls of Orange County, a league with no rules and no penalties, Manell said.

Manell is a six-year veteran of roller derby going by the name of Kimie Knockers while skating.

“I was living in Tennessee and a girl came up to me and was like, you look like you could do roller derby,” she said. “So when I moved back [to California] I joined up locally.”

She said that she had seen the flier and decided to check the club out.

“I think the best thing about roller derby is the confidence it gives girls and how it helps them out of their shells,” she said.

Unlike Manell, art major Hannah Grajciar, 21, has had no experience with skating aside from when she was younger but has always found roller derby to be an interesting and excit-ing sport.

She said that she had been interested in derby for awhile and got even more interested after seeing the movie, “Whip It” which Perkins said is a great movie to introduce people to the sport but not exactly an accurate portayal of the roller derby culture.

He said there’s not as much drama in real life.

“I was attracted to the modern sport and the subculture it’s framed around,” Grajciar said. “There is a sense of camraderie and I really like the different themes and personalities for each team.”

During the first meeting of the club, a representative of Sonic came in to offer their support and sponsorship to the team.

“We are really involved in the community and anything that has to do with skating cer-tainly has our attention,” Justyn Jackson, general manager for Sonic, said.

Perkins spent a great deal of time explaining the rules of roller derby.

He said that is it played on a flat track and the games have two teams with 14 players each.

Each team will have five play-ers on the track at any time.

The only person on each team

who can score points are the jammers, who are identified by stars on their helmets.

Their goal is to get past the pack, which is made up of the other four members from each team, and lap them which will score them a point.

The pack is made up of four blockers from each team whose goal is to stop the jammer from getting by.

But unlike Manell’s ruleless

league, the OC Roller Girls, with which Perkins is involved, has a strict safety policy.

“We take safety very seriously and have rules that the players must follow,” Perkins said.

He said that they are not al-lowed to intentionally trip or push other women on the back. He also said that there is no fa-cial contact allowed or elbowing of any nature.

“There is a penalty box for

minor penalties, but serious penalties such as an elbow to the face will get you ejection from the game,” he said.

While the club is just now in infancy, only turning in the formal papers to the Interclub Council on Friday, they are already starting to plan some events.

“We would like to do skate nights, attend derby games, and get involved in some fundraising for a cause,” Per-kins said.

Some of the club’s new members attended a roller derby event on Saturday in Huntington Beach.

“I was interested in it but never had a chance to do any-thing about it,” Sarahi Torres, 18, an education major said. “I want to get out there eventu-ally. I think it will encourage me to be tougher.”

The next formal club meet-ing is set for Sept. 20.

For more information stu-dents can email mperkins@occ.cccd.edu.

Check out the club Face-book, www.facebook.com/ OccPiratesOnWheels.

Roller skating and roller derby are focal points of OCC’s new club.

BY JENNIFER LANEFEATURES EDITOR

Photo courtesy of Nick Lovell Photography

OCC student Kim Manell (middle) pictured during a match for her league The Outlaw Renegade Roller Girls of Orange County.

Derby girls are rough, tough and sexy

Former OCC student makes her move in the music industry

Photo by Josh Francis

Sarahi Torres, 18, an education major and member of Pirates on Wheels and her friend Myrna Pena attend an OC Roller Girls match Saturday.

Photo provided by Minoti Vaishnavclass if you don’t even have a grade on your first assignment,” said Maya Farnum, 19, an unde-cided major. “A grade is going to tell you if you can handle it or not.”

As of now, it is officially too late to drop from any of your classes, unless you don’t mind receiving a “W” and not receiving your refund.

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Deadline: Drop early or don’t get a refund.

To the delight of football gamers everywhere, Electron-ic Arts released “Madden 13” into the world on Aug. 28.

This new and innovative game makes the player feel as if he is actually in the game, on the field with the players.

The first thing to point out is EA’s attention to the graph-ics on this game.

They are by far the best of any game that has been out this season.

Another thing that caught my eye was the Kinect Headset Voice Con-trol.

If the person has a Kinect for his Xbox 360, it will allow him or her to

m a k e p r e -snap adjust-ments, and audibles a l l by mic ro -phone.

These micro-phones can be purchased at most retail electronic

stores.EA Sports also

adjusted the players in the game to make them to make

t h e m m o r e l i k e t h e i r r e a l - l i f e c o u n t e r -parts. The computer p l a y e r s aren’t a l l

j acked up , and force a

fumble e v e r y down, y o u

a c t u a l l y h a v e to make pret- ty good contact with the other bot.

“Running with a running back is no longer nine carries for 150-200 yards a game, it’s more like 30 or more carries for 110-120 yards, and it’s because the gameplay is more realistic,” Blogger Lineman-clark on Madden13review.com said.

Madden has really stepped up its game in this category.

There are also some new features in this game that weren’t in “Madden 12.”

In this game, they de-veloped a practice mode which enables the player to practice with their team of choice and allows them to get a feel for their team and the game.

One other th ing that I noticed and liked was the versatility of was the play-actionsystem. This system

allows the player to make adjustments if he sees a po-tential threat to the offense.

The game’s score on the Metacritic website is an 82 out of 100 and GameInformer magazine gave it an 8.25.

GameSpot’s website us-ers were a little more harsh on the game, giving it a 7.5 average.

Better get fast though, be-cause they sell quick and the price is $59.99. So if you’re a sports fanatic, then this is the game for you.

To get your copy of “Mad-den 13” visit GameStop at 1450 Baker St, Ste D, Costa Mesa.

Already have a copy? Email the Coast Report and tell us what you thought about the game. coastreport@gmail.com.

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QUESTION of the WEEK

Hayley Nichols20, counseling

Brittany Duran23, undecided

J.R.24, film

Allen Do18, undecided

Kelly Jaimes19, psychology

“I feel it’s a good idea because it pre-vents students from being lazy in their

classes.”

What do you think of the new drop deadline?

One step may not seem like a whole lot to Neil Armstrong, but with that step he has rewritten the book on exploration for the 20th century and beyond.

Yes, there were many other influential figures in the 1900s, more so than any century pre-ceding it some might say, names such as Henry Ford, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates and many others. But if you had to pick one name from the 20th century that stands out, Neil Armstrong’s is hard to argue against.

Being the first human to walk on anything besides our own

planet, Armstrong rewrote what mankind is able to accomplish. True, there were thousands of other people who made his jour-ney possible. But people tend to only remember one name from each century as time goes on.

One day when we finally colonize the Moon and Mars, we will look back to Armstrong just as we do to Christopher Columbus for discovering the new world. The only difference is people discovered the new world way before Columbus did, we just choose to give him credit for it.

I don’t think you could credit anyone else for what Armstrong did, and still be considered sane.

No time to waste on syllabi

Like most Orange County residents, the students at Orange Coast College are having their trust in police shaken.

Anaheim had six officer-related shootings this year alone and the brutal murder of Kelly Thomas in Fullerton last year.

I want to ask a simple question. Do you trust the police?

Well, I don’t.After the past year my opinion

has changed drastically and it first started with the Thomas killing in July.

I couldn’t believe a person could do that to another human being, let alone a person trained to make the right decision.

With the case coming closer to its long-awaited end, maybe there can be some justice for an innocent man.

Now on to Anaheim where this summer was crazy.

Two officer-related shootings in July were followed by large-scale protests.

It almost seems unreal, students

and residents alike find that it’s no help that Anaheim’s crime rate has gone up but when it comes down to those moments when a cop has to use force, he or she should know what’s crossing the line.

I find it amazing that the offi-cers involved with the shootings in July are back on the streets right where they allegedly killed two people.

What’s even more disturbing

is when people went to protest in Anaheim, things got out of hand so police started to fire beanbags bullets at the crowd which in-cluded children, women, and the elderly.

If we don’t stand up and de-mand change the violent cycle will continue. So go to a protest, don’t give consent for a search, learn your rights, people.

If we don’t act now they’re won’t be a point of fixing it

It’s not likely to be seen by many Barack Obama sup-porters , but “ O b a m a ’ s A m e r i c a : 2016” couldn’t have come at a better time, certainly not for its box office revenue of over $20 million.

Although “2016” opened on a single screen in Houston, Texas, it is now the ninth all-time gross-ing documentary, behind “An Inconvenient Truth,” according to boxofficemojo.com.

Dinesh D’Souza, director of the film, got this tactic from filmmaker Michael Moore.

“When he released ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ in 2004 ahead of the election, it sparked intense debate. I learned some lessons from Michael Moore, and hopefully he might learn some lessons from me about handling facts,” said D’Souza in an inter-view with Fox News Network.

Unlike the Moore film, “2016” lacks the attack-style interviews and overt editorializing.

Clearly D’Souza is setting out

to prove Obama is a dangerous president, but I only counted one claim which D’Souza didn’t back up with research or interviews.

Much of the material of the film was taken from Obama’s autobiog-raphy, public statements Obama made and interviews with people who knew Obama or the Obama family, including his impoverished half-brother who lives in Kenya.

The film starts with D’Souza drawing parallels between himself and the president. Both grew up abroad (D’Souza in India, Obama in Indonesia), both graduated from an Ivy League school in 1983 and both had strong reasons to hate colonialization.

The film is broken into three parts — an explanation of the foun-dation of Obama’s politics, how Obama was elected and predic-tions of what the world will look like in 2016 if he is re-elected.

The main thrust is that Obama is against America as we know it and wants to strip this country’s status as a superpower. The film demonstrates this with examples of Obama’s relationships with several mentors and friends, especially Barack Obama Sr.

Although he met his father only once, Obama writes in his autobi-

ography about the strong impact his father had on him, through cor-respondence and what his mother told him.

Obama Sr. is portrayed as radi-cally anti-West, extremely com-munist (an article he wrote ad-vocated a 100 percent tax rate) and an alcoholic philanderer and bigamist who died in a drunken car accident.

The film convincingly argues that because of these relationships, including with a college friend who bombed the Pentagon and other landmarks, Obama steadily radicalized.

In part two Obama becomes elected because of his talents as a manipulator, particularly his ability to make the white voting majority feel good about themselves for electing the first black president.

The third part brings the gloom and doom. If Obama is re-elected, the film argues, America will have a shrunken international presence with a gutted military, leaving us defenseless.

Second, the economy will col-lapse under the combined weight of the national deficit and debt.

If you like documentaries and dislike Obama, this unlikely hit is worth watching.

Keep watch on cops

Film shows scary Obama

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“I actually lost a lot of my classes this semester because I didn’t know the deadline was coming so soon.”

“I think it’s really unfair because it doesn’t give you a chance to decide to stay in these classes or not.”

“It’s kind of stressful because it gives you less time to decide which

classes to take and still get your money back.”

“If you know you’re going to drop a class, you’re going to drop it. The deadline shouldn’t matter.”

B u y i n g a used car from the classifieds is something most college students have experience with.

A l i t t l e knowledge into what to look out for can save someone a lot of money and headache along the way.

Just by looking at the ad and doing a bit of Internet research can tell someone a lot about the car.

Kelly Blue Book has prices and reviews for new and used cars alike. Carfax gives you an entire vehicle history report of the car in question for about 40 dollars.

If the seller is letting you know that they are leaving the country, it most likely means they don’t want you to come back to their house with a baseball bat when the car you just bought falls apart on the way home.

Don’t trust a car if all the pic-tures were taken in the back of a repair shop in Downey.

Try to stay clear of salvage titles.

That is, a car that has been written off by the insurance company after an accident. Then some guy named Keith buys it from the junkyard for about $300 and with the money he saves, buys beer to drink while he fixes what’s been damaged.

However salvage titles are not always bad news, but if you want to be on the safe side, don’t get a car that has been previously wrecked.

Although these tips can help you when choosing an ad to trust, none of these will tell you if the actual car you’re buying will be any good mechanically. For that you need to do a bit of poking around once you get there.

Boring things like checking the bottom of the oil cap to make sure there is no water residue. If white smoke comes out the tail-pipe when it’s warm outside, you should stay clear. These are signs of a cracked head gasket.

Uneven tire wear, broken odom-eters, engine knocking and rough gear changes are all key points to watch out for. Make sure the seller smog checks the car prior to purchase and never, never buy a lowered car.

Ryan McLaren Staff Writer

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Protesters voice anger over police shootings in Anaheim.

Signs of a bad used car

Sean Miller

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Every semester Orange Coast College students face difficulties registering for im-pacted classes. Many end up on wait lists with the hope that students currently enrolled in the course decide to drop. With hundreds of students being wait listed, many become frustrated when professors don’t follow OCC’s wait list procedure which says profes-sors must add students into the course based on the student’s position on the wait list.

It is unfair to students who registered for the wait list properly and are in class on time hoping to get a seat, when other students who are enrolled in the course couldn’t care less about coming to class on time or at all, and still get to keep their seat in the class.

It is important for professors and students to follow all wait list procedures to ensure that all students receive a fair chance of taking a class.

Some students assume that being first on the wait list is the

safest spot when trying to get into a class, however some professors don’t always take the wait list positions into consideration or follow the procedure of dropping cur-rently enrolled students who do not show up on the first day of class.

It is normal to see at least a dozen students crowding classrooms on the first day of class hoping to be added to the class if a currently enrolled student does not show up. While that is supposed to be the way that wait listed students are given add slips, many students have experi-enced professors letting even a couple classes go by without dropping the student enrolled in the class just to give them a few more chances.

With the amount of students who are wait listed every semester, proper wait listing procedures need to be followed by professors to give students a fair chance at taking classes that they need.

Last week we were subjected to the most un-necessary lec-ture on campus: the syllabus.

That is not to say that syllabi are unneces-sary.

If the rules and dates of events weren’t codified somewhere there would no doubt be mass confusion. I shudder when I think of how lost we we would be without our stu-dent learning outcomes.

But syllabi are written down. So why do highly trained profes-sors spend an entire class reading it to us?

As Woody Allen says, “Thank you, but I’ve been doing my own reading since about first grade.”

Some might argue prudence

— setting up a contract of limited liability so that you’re covered when that one student begs for a passing grade. In an ideal world reading the syllabus out loud would prevent that.

There would cease to be ques-tions about the appropriate color of scantrons. It would subdue excuses, and emit an electro-magnetic pulse that permanently silences cell phones.

In practice it is a bureaucratic exercise that subtracts a day from learning and sets a bad example for the priorities of a classroom.

Western civilization has roughly 5,500 years to cover. One day can mean sacrificing two centuries, or missing the nuance from turning events into bullet points.

For students there is another real concern: money. The harsh economy means every hour in a classroom is an hour you’re not working.

The opportunity cost for stu-dents has gone up greatly.

Even if you could cover the material in time and money isn’t an issue, there is still the reality that we need to do better.

By 2020, four out of every 10 college graduates in the world will come from China and India. Students will enter a competitive labor market drawn from a global pool of educated and intelligent students like them.

To think we can squander even a day of class on legalistic for-malities is out of touch.

The small percentage of stu-dents who try to lawyer at the end of the semester aren’t deterred by the lecture on the first day of class.

But the rest of us are robbed of a day, which might mean missing an in-depth lecture on opportunity cost. The irony.

Sergio Olmos

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We will always owe ArmstrongBY SEAN MILLERSTAFF WRITER

BY JACOB BENNETTSTAFF WRITER

The Orange Coast football team beat Pasadena City Col-lege in an SCFA non-confer-ence game at Robinson Stadium Saturday evening with a score of 27-10.

Coast started the first half weary but defense proved to be a powerful asset to the team.

The Pirates fumbled the ball in the first quarter, giving the Pasadena Lancers the oppor-tunity to take the lead 0-2 on a safety.

Jackson Dionne, Orange Coast’s kicker, put the Pirates on the scoreboard with a suc-cessful field goal. In response, Pasadena’s quarterback reacted with a 3-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.

The Pirates’ quarterback Jon Newsom capped a 28-yard TD pass from 24-yard line to run-ning back Buzzy Yokoyama. Dionne gave OCC a 10-7 lead with just over a minute left in the first half.

Coast’s defense held the line together by not allowing the Lancers to get a first down.

After a quick three-and-out and a 13-yard field goal by PCC, the Pirates had the ball at the Lancers 41-yard line.

Twelve seconds were left on the clock when a short pass was completed by the Pirates, then called a timeout. Newsom passed

to wide receiver Bryan Keller on a 9-yard completion, and Dionne ended the second quarter with a 49-yard field goal.

OCC closed the first half with a score of 13-7.

In the second half, a series of turnovers from Orange Coast almost gave the Lancers the edge to dominate. But the Pirates defense didn’t let that happen as they boosted the offense up.

PCC’s defense was no match for running backs Robert Penny and Graeme Fraser, each secur-ing a TD in the last minutes of the fourth quarter.

Penny fought off the Lancers tacklers and scored a 12-yard touchdown off of a 70-yard drive ball. And Fraser broke through the defensive line scoring a 17-yard TD.

Lancers l ineman Deion Steppes blocked a 35-yard field goal attempted by Dionne, which made the highlight of their home opener.

Newsom finished the night with 243 yards passing on 20-of-34 passing with one inter-ception.

Pirate middle linebacker Nick Cody had 12 tackles, three solo, one fumble recovery while out-side linebacker Austin Bennett with 11 tackles, six solo, two tackles for loss, and defensive end Vince Coleman with 11 tackles, five solo, 3.5 TFL, 1.5 sacks.

Pasadena racked 15 penalties for 169 yards unable to collabo-rate with any offensive opportu-nities to give them a win while OCC only had 54 penalty yards on six infractions.

The Pirates will play Long Beach City College Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Coast beat Pasadena City College 27-10 Saturday in a non-conference game. They will play Long Beach on Saturday.

The OCC women’s soccer team won its last two games of the preseason, making them undefeated in the preseason.

Sara Gomez, OCC’s soph-omore forward, scored the team’s only goal in the match against Rio Hondo on Wednes-day, giving them the win 1-0.

On Friday, the women’s soc-cer team brought home a 5-1 victory against Los Angeles

Harbor. “This is the best preseason

we have had since I can re-member,” said Kevin Smith, OCC women’s soccer coach. “This year is as good as any other year for OCC women’s soccer.”

After an undefeated pre-season, the OCC women’s soc-cer team faces a very difficult start to its regular season.

The season began Tuesday against Cypress College and a game will follow Friday against Santiago Canyon Col-lege at home at 3 p.m.

“The first two teams we face in our regular season will be the most difficult teams to beat in our conference, as they finished first and second in our conference last year,” Smith said.

It was a long second half under the LeBard Stadium lights for the Orange Coast College men’s soccer team.

Leading 2-0 and up a player for most of the second half, the Pirates watched the visiting Vi-kings score three straight short-handed goals to shock the hosts, 3-2, on Monday night.

Things looked good early on for the Pirates (0-2-1) as they scored two goals in the first 20 minutes of action. The first one

came on a 2-on-1 break when Brandon Bauman slipped a nice touch-pass to teammate Baji Chela, who ripped a shot past Viking goalkeeper Francisco Magana in the 11th minute.

Nine minutes later, it was Chase Nugent, who slipped past the defense and sent a shot off a LBCC defender, but the ball rolled to Chela, who buried his second goal of the game, putting Coast up 2-0.

However, after that second tally, the Vikings regained con-trol of the game and controlled play the rest of the first half, outshooting the Pirates 10-7 in the first 45 minutes of play. Despite the strong play by Long Beach, OCC’s goalkeeper Con-

nor Nelson managed to come up with key saves and kept his team up by two at the half.

Early in the second half, Viking midfielder Jonathon Rodriguez picked up two yel-low cards on consecutive fouls over a six-minute span, putting LBCC down a man for the rest of the game.

The call seemed to further rejuvenate the guests as they went on the offensive. Just five minutes after being put short-handed, Andre Martinez took advantage of a free kick just outside the OCC scoring box and ripped a shot past Nelson into the upper-left corner, cut-ting the deficit to 2-1.

Just eight minutes later, poor

defensive execution by the Pi-rates enabled a long ball-carry on the foot of Jesus Casteneda and the sophomore slipped a shot into the lower-right corner of the goal, tying the game at 2.

Finally, in the 79th minute, the Vikings grabbed the lead for good when Francisco Magallon sent a pass toward the OCC goal and teammate Anthony Dheming used a back-heel deflection and slipped the ball past Nelson for the game-winning goal.

Nelson and Magana each have seven saves in the game.

The Pirates will return to action on Wednesday at 3 p.m. against San Bernardino Valley at the OCC Soccer Complex.

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Photos by Saeed Fardin

The Pirates fell to the Vikings 3-2 at LeBard Stadium Monday. The team will play next at 3 p.m. Wednesday against San Bernardino at the OCC Soccer Complex.

Men’s soccer takes hard hit

Women undefeated in the preseason

BY GARNER ROOSEVELT HICKS IIISTAFF WRITER

Pirate soccer earns 5-1 victory over L.A. Harbor. will play against Santiago Friday.

A f t e r 1 6 long years in the NFL, Ter-re l l Owens may have put too much but-ter on his pop-corn.

The Seattle Seahawks re-leased Owens this season af-ter he had only two receptions for 41 yards and looked like he had butter fingers with several key drops in three preseason games. The six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver is a free agent once again.

Owens hosted his own workout where NFL coaches were supposed to show up, but no NFL coach did. He then resorted to signing a one-year, six-figure contract with the Allen Wranglers, a professional indoor football team in Texas. He had 35 receptions, 420 yards and scored 10 touchdowns with the Wranglers.

TO, as he’s known, has had

his ups and downs. He has been released by three top NFL teams in the past few years -- the San Fran-cisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys, and not always for lack of performance.

TO has always been a fan of the camera and sometimes doesn’t say the smartest things. For ex-ample, in San Francisco he did an interview for Playboy magazine and created controversy when he insinuated that quarterback Jeff Garcia of the 49ers was a homosexual.

He went on to play for the Cow-boys, who released him after two seasons. Why? He wasn’t a good teammate.

Owens was reportedly stunned to know that the Cowboys had released him.

The highlights of his career are his 1,078 receptions with 15, 934 receiving yards, the second all-time in league history. Another TO record is 153 touchdowns also second all-time. The receiver has never been on a Super Bowl winning team.

Get your popcorn ready Terrell Owens

Christian Ruiz

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