Monday is Talk Like a Pirate Day around the world, and where better to celebrate than at the home of the Pirates?

A very long time ago, pirates spoke a much different language. Their words were filled with “arrrs” and “avast me hardy’s.”

They were rude, took what they

wanted and were some of the most feared fellows to ever sail the seven seas. Modern-day pirates speak plain old Somali, steal files off the Internet, hijack cruise ships and are easily taken out by the world’s military forces.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Every year, on Sept. 19, the world remembers the golden days of pirating by celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day.

During this day of remembrance, everyday boring conversations about the weather and class sched-ules should be spruced up with various pirate slang and lingo.

About 20 Orange Coast Col-lege fashion students joined thousands of designers, retailers and other fashionistas during the annual Fashion’s Night Out event in Century City last week.

But rather than be there to ad-mire retail offerings or undergo a beauty makeover, OCC’s stu-dents were there to assist behind

the scenes and help the evening run smoothly. The students as-sisted with event production and logistics.

Fashion’s Night Out is a yearly event founded three years ago by Vogue editor Anna Wintour as a means to bring fashion to the masses. The event is hosted in more than 250 U.S. cities as well as countries around the world.

“Tonight, I think was a great success, and everything ran super smooth. Everybody was awe-some - it’s been a good day,” said Katie Conner, Coast’s fashion department assistant.

Conner and her students helped with the dress design competi-tion, one of the evening’s high-lighted events featuring students from the Fashion Institute of

Design and Merchandising.The competition required

small groups of FIDM students to design and sew a dress in just two hours. The catch? They had

to do it with limited supplies and use items like tape and staplers.

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Fashion’s Night Out included a dress competition using only shopping bags as material (above). Katie Conner (below), the Coast’s fashion department’s assistant, along with students, helped with production and logistics for the event.

Aid woes continue

Like other students across the nation, those at Orange Coast College receiving Pell Grants may face reductions in financial aid in the next fiscal year.

And while officials say the grants are on the chopping block, no one is sure what the exact reduction could be next year and what hit students may take. In fact, officials will only say to expect cuts, but the amount and when the cuts may come remain up in the air.

Federal Pell Grants are feder-ally funded financial aid giving need-based grants to low-income students. The grants are deter-mined by a formula calculating expected family contributions and this fiscal year basic students receive a maximum of $5,300.

Unlike student loans, Pell Grants don’t need to be repaid.

According to Melissa Moser, OCC director of financial aid, federal Pell Grants and state

Board of Governors fee waivers are in the cross-hairs.

“The California Legislature is looking at putting standards on the BOG fee waiver, such as a unit cap and a grade point aver-age, and the Pell Grant is the only source of funds that has no cap. That is why the feds are looking to cut it,” Moser said.

Moser added that Congress is considering cutting the Pell Grant’s maximum award from $5,550 to $3,040.

Sherie Lawson, a 24-year-old student in the Airline Travels program who receives a Pell Grant, said she is worried about the cuts and is even considering becoming a surrogate mother to help pay her bills and be able to attend school full time.

“I go to school full time so I can get done faster but that means I work part time and the Pell Grant is a huge resource for me. I don’t get the maximum amount as it is, so to cut what I do get makes it a lot harder,” Lawson said.

A spokesperson for Congress-man Dana Rohrabacher, who rep-resents Orange Coast College’s district, said in an email that the congressman doesn’t support the

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Congress may cut the Pell Grant by more than 50 percent.

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BY DOMINIQUE ALVAREZSTAFF WRITER

Orange Coast College is one of the top 100 associate degree pro-ducers in the nation, according to a new report by Community College Week.

With a total of 1,557 associate degrees issued in 2009-2010, OCC was second to Coastline Community College, the only

other community college in Or-ange County that made the list and a sister college to OCC.

This adds to the list of the col-lege’s achievements. According to the California Postsecondary Education Commission, in the same year OCC had a combined total of 1,323 students transfer to the UC or Cal State systems, making it one of the top five transfer schools in the state.

OCC’s Transfer Center coor-dinator Cheryl Jupiter attributes the success of the college to its already established academic track record.

“We have a history of suc-cess, so success breeds success,” Jupiter said.

Jupiter says she is elated when

students are admitted to the school of their choice and stay in touch with her to report news of their admission or even career developments.

“It just makes me so happy. I love to see them reach their goal. To see when they’re admitted or ones that have already graduated and are in grad school. It makes our day,” Jupiter said.

Students seeking an associate degree said they are drawn to the college for its high transfer rate and because it is cost-effective.

“It’s exciting to me because if we have a great transfer rate then that means I have a better chance at moving on somewhere else and that’s important to me,” said William Zschoche, 27, a

computer science major. Even international students

recognize the college as a well-known educational spring-board.

When Yong Jung, a 21- year-old chemistry major, decided to move to California after com-pleting his military service in Korea his research on the Inter-net and recommendations from friends and family brought him to OCC.

“OCC is a pretty good school in California. So I applied here for that reason,” Jung said.

Jung set his sights on America after realizing his country could

BY CHRIS SANCHEZSTAFF WRITER

The college sent 1,323 students to UC and Cal State schools last year.

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Students can find a home in one of Coast’s campus organizations.

BY DEAN NOTHSTEINSTAFF WRITER

Close to 40 different clubs and organizations set up shop in the Quad during the four-hour Club Rush Tuesday where students were greeted with a variety of groups to explore.

Balloons in school colors flew along the main pathway and on tables as a wide range of orga-nizations including the Mixed Martial Arts and the Chess clubs lined the Quad. Club Rush is held every semester in an effort to involve students with campus groups.

“[I’m looking for] lots of hu-man interaction -- some club that gets me somewhere,” said Zach Johnson, a business major. “Some club that gets me in a place I want to go.”

The clubs had a wide spectrum of things to offer. The Latter-Day Saints Student Organization was constantly offering bottled water to passersby while the Mixed Martial Arts Club members ea-gerly demonstrated their skills in the grass.

The Engineering Club steered its robotic pirate to roll around the Quad.

“Legend has it that this thing has been broken for quite some time, and now it’s been repaired,” Nima Maghoul, 20, an engineer-ing major and representative of the Engineering Club said of the robot. “It’s long overdue.”

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CRIMEBLOTTER

Desperate ThiefA Student Health Center em-

ployee reported that someone had stolen a wheelchair Sept. 8 at 10:20 a.m.

Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer said that it was the health center’s only wheel chair so they needed to get it back.

The wheel chair was stolen from the northeast entry door. Farmer said the suspect went northwest with the wheel chair and then west bound toward the Adams Avenue Parking Lot.

The responding officer said he attempted to stop the sus-pect, saw the Orange Coast College tag on the back of the chair and the attempted to detain him. The suspect then jumped over the wall to the apartments.

The officer recovered the wheel chair and contacted the Costa Mesa Police Depart-ment, Farmer said.

Pigskin PurgeA slew of items were stolen

from the Fitness Complex dur-

ing a football game Saturday between 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Farmer said the players came back to the locker room and noticed missing cash, iPods, and other items. The security cameras were checked but the suspect had not come through the doors because they were locked. The suspect is still unknown.

Fifty players reported miss-ing items and the coach was asked to come up with a list of all the items that were stolen.

Cruising awayA non- student reported

his blue Huffy brand beach cruiser was stolen from near the Fitness Complex Saturday at 5:20 p.m.

The responding officer said he was contacted by the victim who reported he locked his blue beach cruiser and there was no broken lock or chain.

The bike was worth about $90.

—The Crime Blotter was compiled by Jena Sheklow from Campus Safety reports.

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Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Quad Thursday to place flags in the shape of the Pen-tagon and World Trade Center to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 10 years ago.

9/11 remembered 10 years later

Students joined hands in a moment of silence, wrote let-ters to victims’ families, heard Taps played and planted flags to remember those who lost their lives during a 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 tribute event in the Quad Thursday.

Students helped plant 2,977 flags in an outline of the Pen-tagon and World Trade Center Towers in the Quad. The flags

represented each life lost in the attacks.

Shelby Montelongo, 18, a pho-tography student, said she saw the flags while she was walking back from the Student Center.

“It’s definitely respectful for the older generations and also it’s just to remind ourselves because honestly, we’ll forget,” Montelongo said.

Felipe Rodriguez, 19, a stu-dent and family member of one of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, explained how special the event was to him.

“Well to me, it’s important because I actually had an uncle that passed away at the twin towers, so to me it, like, kind of means more to me than most students,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said his uncle was killed while walking near the World Trade Center towers in New York when they were attacked. Rodriguez said he wasn’t aware he lost his uncle for a few weeks because he was only 9 at the time.

Rodriguez was one of many students to plant a flag in the ground representing a person

who had died in the attacks. He planted his flag in remembrance of his uncle, he said.

Student veteran Jennifer Mills, who was a member of the Air Force at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, said that for the first time she felt she had an understanding of what the na-tion felt after the attacks.

“When 9/11 happened we im-mediately left and I didn’t see all of the people in the country and even around the world showing their support and ap-preciation, so 10 years later to see it and to be involved in the appreciation and to be involved in the acknowledgement of the events - it’s just remarkable,” Mills said.

The college’s student govern-ment, which was responsible for the setup and planning of the event, led students in a moment of silence soon after Taps was played.

Students and faculty joined hands in the moment of silence to remember the events of Sept. 11 and what it meant to the country.

After the momentary si-

lence, students surrounding the flagged outline of the Pentagon and World Trade Centers were handed more flags to fill in the remaining space. One-by-one, students placed their flags in the outline and continued on their way.

Dianne Padilla, 19, vice presi-dent of College Life, said she was delighted by the positive feedback the student govern-ment received from students and veterans at the event.

“It feels good to know we did something good for the other students,” Padilla said.

There was also a table setup where students could write let-ters to fellow community college students at Borough of Manhattan Community College. That college had one of its buildings partially destroyed in the attack on the Trade Center and OCC has fund raised and supported that college in the past, according to Fiscal Af-fairs Council member Phil Ly.

“We’re just writing these letters in support of students who lost not only friends but possibly some family members,” Ly said.

Students honor those who lost their lives with silence, flags.

BY JOSH FRANCISONLINE EDITOR

Seat open on student board

A vacant senate seat on the college’s student government board will be filled through an interview and appointment pro-cess rather than an election after a student senator unexpectedly left Orange Coast College.

Former student Sara Katib was

elected to the board last semester, but has transferred to a four-year college leaving an empty seat in the student senate.

Among other responsibilities, the senate allocates more than $1 million in student funds to cam-pus organizations every year and sponsors a variety of events.

The senate voted to appoint a new senator through an interview process rather than through an election because it would be difficult to quickly organize an election and it is less expensive to appoint a student, officials said.

Student Senate President

Cody Joe Torre said the senate bylaws require the board to have eight student members.

Students interested in serving on the Student Government of Orange Coast College should fill out an application and a state-ment of intent as well as request a letter of recommendation from either a professor or campus staff member.

Applications are due Sept. 29 by 5 p.m. and interviews will be held Oct. 10 beginning at 3:30 p.m.

For more information con-tact the Associated Students of OCC.

A new senator will be appointed after elected student transfers.

BY CHRIS RASHIDIANSTAFF WRITER

Donations help Coast programs

Orange Coast College has received two donations this year – one dedicated to student scholarships and another dedi-cated to the Children’s Center on campus.

Doug Bennett, executive di-rector of the OCC Foundation, said an anonymous donation of $206,000 will be split between the college’s Cy Rockey schol-arship and the Basil Peterson scholarship. Another $24,000 National Charity League dona-tion went to the Children’s Cen-ter at OCC.

The scholarships are named after Basil Peterson, an OCC col-lege president, and Cy Rockey, an OCC professor who taught drafting and machine shop and helped build the framework for OCC’s technology division.

The Cy Rockey Scholarship received 40 percent and the Basil Peterson Scholarship received 60 percent of the money from the donation.

Bennett said the scholarships

are able to help students when they transfer.

“It helps students pay for tuition and books for when they transfer out of Orange Coast Col-lege,” Bennett said.

The Peterson scholarship goes toward students in the English, science and math divisions and the Rockey scholarship goes to students in the architecture divi-sion at OCC.

“We split the scholarship up for first and second-year students,” said Rose Anne Kings, an OCC architecture professor said. “I’m usually looking for a student with multiple architecture classes and that really in their heart want to be an architect.”

Last year, according to Kings they were able to fund more than two students with the Cy Rockey Scholarship since they received enough money and would want to do that again this year.

“We know if they are trans-ferring they need the money,” Kings said.

The Children’s Center was helped a lot by its $24,000 do-nation especially because it

no longer receives the grant money it used to due to economic hard times, according to Susan Bierlich, director of the Children Center.

“First and foremost the money goes toward subsidized families that need assistance and are now having to pay a higher fee,” Bierlich said. “We ended up with an 11 percent cut this year for subsidy care and the National Charity league understood our program with a tight budget.”

“The donation from the Na-tional Charity League can help families that lost a percentage of their subsidies,” she added.

The donation money also goes toward art supplies, materials, the parent library, earthquake kits and books for children who have gone through traumatic events.

“Last fall, the National Char-ity League also provided furni-ture and materials for the new preschool classroom,” Bierlich said.

The National Charity league in 2009 donated $8,000, last year donated $22,000 and this year $24,000.

BY ELIZABETH SCHMIDT STAFF WRITER

The correct name for the Orange Coast College student featured in “OCC Air Force veteran reflects on Sept. 11 at-tacks” is Jennifer Mills.

In “Fees may rise again,” the

correct title for Richard Pagel is vice president of Administra-tive Services.

In “Question of the Week,” the photos of Justin Jang and Alex-ander Droubay were switched.

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Former Orange Coast Col-lege student Jeff Hall created a new Orange County hot spot for “the modern local.”

Hall said OCC gave him an incredible culinary foundation that prepared him to open 12 restaurants and own two.

“I saw the potential and intrinsic value in Santa Ana which is unlike anywhere else in Orange County,” Hall said.

According to him, the location influenced the concept of Chap-ter One: the modern local.

“We embrace the history and culture of the building and are doing something to really cel-ebrate it,” he said.

Hall, also a founder and orig-inal owner of Haven Gastropub in Orange, opened Chapter One on St. Patrick’s Day this year.

“At the heart of Haven, it is a pub. With ‘the local,’ it takes it even further. We have a great kitchen and culinary cocktails,” he said.

According to Hall, no one else uses a culinary style in their cocktails like that of Chapter One.

Hall said that since his first jobs working in kitchens, he loved creating.

“What I like more than any-thing is to be a part of the kitchen,” he said. “Chef Barber (at OCC) taught me the basics. I learned to cook for an audi-ence.”

Since attending Coast, Hall has developed a following with Chapter One and according to him more than 5,000 of their unique Moscow Mules have been sold to date. He said that most of Chapter One’s notoriety comes from the cocktail, which is carbonated to order.

“We freshly press ginger root to make a house ginger beer (for the Moscow Mule),” Jeff Jensen, Hall’s business partner, said.

Hall said he is especially proud of the bar program and that the bar is treated as a kitchen as well.

“The bar program is where I put most of my heart into,” he said.

According to Hall, in addition to the strength of the bar, the kitchen is where creativity also thrives. Unlike the bar, which consists of beverages from every part of the world, he said the kitchen’s ingredients come lo-cally and within 200 miles from the storefront.

“We find whatever is fresh,

seasonal and local, and put creativity into it,” he said.

Hall said a constant goal for Chapter One is to be more refined and to push for more creativity and to be on the cut-ting edge of what is next.

“I’m just following what I love and what I am passion-ate about which is good food, good company, good times,” Hall said. “We love what we do here.”

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Kullen Baker has looked beneath the sea and has found not only a new world there, but his life’s passion too.

In fact, when he isn’t busy studying economics at Orange Coast College, he escapes the world with his scuba gear and goes night-diving with exotic sea creatures off Catalina Is-land.

Baker said night-diving is an escape from his real world of working and studying. Any chance he gets, he takes a quick boat ride over to Catalina and takes a dive into the ocean.

“It’s nice to take a dip into the ocean and see what other beings live on our planet and of course it’s always nice to leave everything else behind. It’s really exhilarating, yet calm-ing for me at the same time,” Baker said.

Not only does Baker love scuba diving in Catalina, he has dived in several places both in the United States and in other countries. His favorite night-diving location is off the coast

of Croatia.“Diving in Croatia was such

a different experience than diving here in California,” he said. “The fish and other sea creatures were much different than ours. I seriously felt like I was in a whole other element and world.”

Night-diving in Croatia was a life-changing experience, Baker said. He said he was intrigued by the diving, the people, the lifestyle and the culture. Since his visit to Croa-tia he said he has been more dedicated to finding exotic diving locations to be able to experience life and diving the way others do around the world.

Baker said he became scuba-certified three years ago when he was just 16. Since then there has been no stopping his grow-ing passion for night-diving.

He said he hopes future adventures may be night-div-ing in Hawaii, the Solomon Islands and especially the Philippines.

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Senate leader thinks big

Cody Joe Torre, a 21-year-old physics and engineering major, began his service as senate presi-dent this fall with big goals for student life.

“Orange Coast College is giving me a second chance and a learning opportunity — it’s only fair that I give back to the campus and the community that is giving me a second chance,” Torre said.

Torre’s role as senate president includes representing the student body, formulating an agenda and posting it for each academic school year. He also leads senate meetings and makes sure they are not in violation with the Brown Act.

Torre said his goal for the semes-ter is to promote student outreach committees and more student awareness programs for student services and activities. He plans on raising awareness for recycling programs and to increasing funds for student associations.

“(I want) a pot of money there

for future students and student organizations to use, because it’s the students, clubs and organiza-tions that create these fantastic opportunities for students to learn and grow,” Torre said of his de-termination to raise money for student associations.

“Cody Joe is truly an emerging young leader. Even though he has spent a short time involved in the student senate, he has gone above and beyond what is expected of him and has established a standard of excellence among his peers,” Catherine Tran, president of As-

sociated Students of Orange Coast College, said.

Thursday after the Sept. 11 anniversary event held by the ASOCC, Diana Padilla, vice president of College Life, spoke about Torre and his work ethic as a part of the senate.

BY AVA AMIRISTAFF WRITER

Cody Joe Torre is determined to improve student life at Coast.

Local raises the bar

Photo by Ava Amiri

Cody Joe Torre said his goal for the semester is to support programs for student services and activities at OCC.

Jeff Hall takes gastropubs to next level with Chapter One in Santa Ana.

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Photo courtesy of Jeff Hall

Jeff Hall said he is currently looking for interns at Chapter One: the modern local, a gastropub in Santa Ana.

Two extraordinary legal schol-ars will face off at Orange Coast College when the campus ob-serves Constitution Day Sept. 20.

Erwin Chemerinsky, found-ing dean of UC Irvine’s Law School, and John Eastman, former dean of Chapman Uni-versity’s Law School, will participate in a debate from 11 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. in the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

It will be Chemerinsky’s third appearance at OCC and the first visit for Eastman. Both have agreed to give of their time pro bono, said Paul Asim, dean of the Social and Behavioral Sci-ence division, who spent months planning the event.

“It promises to be a treat for those who follow the U.S. Supreme Court and some of

the significant cases before it,” he added.

Eastman served as dean of the Chapman University School of Law from 2007 to February 2010. He is the director of the Center for Constitutional Juris-prudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the Clare-mont Institute that he founded in 1999.

Chemerinsky, who earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, is an expert in constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He has written seven books including “The Conserva-tive Assault on the Constitution” published in 2010.

Both men regularly appear on local and national media as commentators on legal issues.

On Sept. 21 OCC will con-tinue its Constitution Day pro-gram with a trio of special guest speakers, including former mayor and Congressman Jerry Patterson and OCC political science instructors Herrick Ar-nold and Rendell Drew.

They will discuss topics per-taining to the U.S. Constitution as a part of OCC’s observance of Constitution Day from 11 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. in the Giles Brown Forum. Admission is free.

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Coast will host Constitution Day program starring scholars and guest speakers.

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not provide him the education he needed.

The success and popularity of the college comes at a high cost though, surprisingly because of its low cost.

Some students believe others tend to devalue the quality of the education because of its afford-able price.

“It’s not necessarily that if you pay a lot to go somewhere it’s better or you get more out of it. It can be easy to be dismissive of a place for being cheap,” said David Wilkie, 25, a psychology major.

“You get access to at least information or experiences that would normally be incredibly expensive,” he added.

In addition to a focus on trans-ferring students to four-year universities, OCC supports the

education of the community with its certificate program and supple-mental instructional courses.

The varying populations of other community colleges and their specialized focus on trans-ferring, explains their compara-tive success to OCC.

“We try to reflect our com-munity because everybody in the community does not want to transfer,” Jupiter said.

Dennis Harkins, OCC president , said though the college is proud to receive credit for its hard work, he wants the focus of the college to encompass as many individuals as possible.

“We really appreciate the rec-ognition but we really want to look at what happens to each individual student not just groups of students in general. We want to meet the needs of every student,” Harkins said.

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Campus Events

“Seascape for Sharks and Dancer,” Sept. 9-18: Don Nigro’s modern American drama will be performed by the OCC Repertory in the Drama Lab Theater. Performances run for two weeks. Sept. 9-17 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 18 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance, $8 at the door.

“Scene Night,” Sept. 24-25: Orange Coast Col-lege theater students will perform a variety of co-medic and dramatic scenes from both classical and modern works in the Dra-ma Lab Studio Theatre. Performances will be held at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. both days and admission is free. The performances are recommended for mature audiences.

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“Alex’s Abventures in the Five Rivers,” Sept. 9- Oct. 28: Former OCC instructor Arthur Taussig’s exhibit features paintings inspired by Dante Aligh-ieri’s “Divine Comedy.” The exhibit will be up in the OCC Art Center Sept. 9-Oct. 28. A reception will be held in the Art Center on Oct. 3 from 5-7 p.m. Admission is free.

“The Lebowski Cycle,” Sept. 10- Oct. 28: Paint-ings by Joe Forkan inspired by the Coen Brothers’ film, “The Big Lebowski” de-pict scenes from classical materpieces. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavillion Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Intimate play exudes emotion

The surprisingly romantic two-man performance of “Sea-scape for Sharks and Dancer” made its weekend debut Fri-day.

The continuous banter be-tween the two characters, Ben and Tracy, allowed audiences to feel the fierce attraction they had for one another throughout the entire play.

The play takes place inside an intimate room where the audience is literally on stage with the two performers. The set that was cleverly designed to fulfill its purpose had only one couch, a desk and two background doors, one leading to a bedroom and the other to a kitchen.

The emotions Tracy was feeling and why she behaved the way she did quickly be-came apparent to the members of the audience through the wonderful acting styles of Aspen Ford.

Along with Ford’s acting, Leo Martinez did a magnificent

job of making the audience feel his character Ben’s pain of trying to love someone who did not know how to love. The heart-wrenching emotions of

this play filled the room and likely the hearts and minds of the audience.

The costumes were simple pieces of clothing that anyone

would wear. Not very many costume changes or different lighting queues were added for any dramatic effects.

The play kept a homey feel

throughout its entirety. It gave the audience the feeling of be-ing on-lookers to all the action inside the characters’ relation-ship.

Don Nigro’s two-man play opens OCC’s fall theater season.

Photo by Lindsey Peters

Ben, played by Leo Martinez, 20, tries to stop Tracy, played by theatre major Aspen Ford, 21, from leaving in “Seascape for Sharks and Dancer”.

BY ALLISON PALMERSTAFF WRITER

Part-time Orange Coast Col-lege creative writing instructor Tucker Capps won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature at this summer’s Gen Art Film Festival in New York for his film “Goold’s Gold.”

The documentary features the exploits of geophysicist Jonathan Goold as he hunts for gold on land that has been exposed by the melt-ing of glaciers in Alaska.

Capps, who co-directed the film with Ryan Sevy, explained that while “Goold’s Gold” makes a point about global warming, it is foremost a story.

“It’s one guy’s adventure look-ing for gold,” Capps said.

“We want people to be aware that [global warming] is happen-ing — that people are out there to profit from global warming. There are companies out there and whole countries out there after wealth and minerals that aren’t so thoughtful or responsible,” Capps said. “I do hope that the movie is part of a trend of awareness.”

The film depicts the rate at which some of the glaciers in Alaska are melting and it keeps the issue of climate change on the audience’s mind as the story progresses.

In one of the expeditions fea-tured in the documentary, Goold is told about a potential place to look for gold. Hiking to the loca-tion, however, would prove to be impossible.

To get to the area that could potentially contain gold, Capps

and his film team had to fly to the location with a small plane and land on an inclined glacier. Any mistakes in that process could have been disastrous. In the end, he said it was the dedication to

the project that kept Capps and his team going.

The documentary will be pre-sented at a special screening on campus this fall at an event spon-sored by the Orange Coast College

Friends of the Library. The exact date of the screening has not been announced yet.

The film is currently mak-ing its way around the festival circuit.

Coast instructor directsgold-seeker documentaryAn adventure story is told in this award-winning documentary.BY EDDIE SINGERSTAFF WRITER

Photo courtesy of GooldsGold.com

Jonathan Goold, pictured above, is the subject of OCC instructor Tucker Capps’s documentary.

Baroque Hollywood at the Art Center

The premier of The Lebowski Cycle at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Saturday fea-tured the narrative art work of Joe Forkan. Combining styles of Baroque painters with the whimsical narrative of The Big Lebowski, Forkan presented his large scale oil paintings at the exhibit opening.

About 200 people attended the event, including Forkan’s former art students from Cal State Fullerton and great “Big Lebowski” fans.

“One of the great things about these pieces is that you can enter them from a variety of angles. If you’re a fan of the movie, if you know the Baroque-era painters, or if you just wanted to come at it from the style of painting, there’s a variety of ways to relate to the pieces.” Forkan said.

Those in attendance said there really is a variety of ways to view the art.

Andrea Harris, director of the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavillion, said she has known Forkan for three years and was asked to stop by his studio about a year ago. When she saw Forkan’s work she said she really wanted to bring his collection here to OCC.

Forkan has been working on this collection for the last five years, all magnificent and huge pieces with amazing composition. Forkan is a

master of oil painting.One particular quirky bit is a

large rug donated for the exhi-bition by the Rug Tycoon and placed in the center of the room. For any Lebowski fan, you al-ready know that “the rug really tied the room together.”

Harris said that once she real-ized the gallery would be doing an exhibit featuring work based around The Big Lebowski , she would have to get a rug, and the Rug Tycoon donated one for the length of the exhibition. It added to the overall ambience of the gallery, creating a pleasant sur-prise for those who caught it.

Many of the paintings look like

stills from the movie, but Forkan said that he actually used different time frames from the movie and meshed them together, which allowed him to get the look on the faces he wanted or change gestures with the hands to really make the work his own.

His signature piece, “The Oath of Horatio,” was an example Forkan gave, since not one of the characters actually made any of the gestures or faces shown in the painting at the same time, making the paintings feel excit-ing and fresh, unlike if they were just a still frame.

The gallery opening featured a wide range of drinks, sushi and white Russian cake adding an exciting detail to the gallery’s launch.

Alex Naylor, one of Forkan’s former students, said he always enjoys his teacher’s work.

“I really love how Joe puts a lot of comedy into his work, combined with the fact that Joe is no slouch when it comes to putting oil on canvas,” he said.

Fullerton professor transforms modern film into classical art.

BY CHARLES CASTILLOSTAFF WRITER

Photo by Eric Stoner

Joe Forkan, creator of The Lebowski Style exhibit at the Art Pavilion, stands in front of a painting with curator Andrea Harris.

“I really love how Joe puts a lot of comedy into his work.”

Alex NaylorFormer student of Forkan

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What’s your favorite coffee place?QUESTION of the WEEK

Paul Valdez27, music

Cody Mickelson18, music

Victoria Hoerth26, undecided

Jaime Edge28, speech communications

Jake Song21, political science

“My favorite coffee place is The Coffee Bean because I like to be

different. Starbucks is too trendy.”

“I like Starbucks because they have the best coffee.”

“I’ll say The Coffee Bean because it’s just like Starbucks but cheaper.”

“I like independent coffee shops the most but haven’t found one yet locally

that can beat Starbucks.”

“Mr. P’s because they are more personal. They know you by name, their coffee is delicious, and friends don’t let

friends drink Starbucks.”

As we all know, skate-boarding is not allowed on campus. Some may agree with skateboarders at Orange Coast College that the policy is ridiculous, but on Thursday a confrontation was witnessed that showed just how little respect some people have for authority and for other people in general.

During the Sept. 11 tribute event in the Quad, a student on a skateboard raced past campus safety officer Tony Bryant while he was sitting in his SUV in front of the Student Center.

At the sight of this, Bryant asked the student to come over to him so he could talk to him. Simple enough request right? After all, skateboarding is not allowed and the kid was dumb enough to skate past public safety.

Instead of just complying with Bryant’s request, the student shouted out, “Are you f------ kidding me?”

This comment infuriated

officer Bryant as he got out of his car and shouted at the student. The best part of the whole ordeal, though, was when Kate Mueller, the dean of students, began walking over to the confrontation.

Dean Mueller is a nice lady, but she is the one person you really don’t want to upset on campus, since she is the college’s disciplinarian.

The student was likely not kicked out of school or anything, but the event just prompted us to encourage students to show some respect for public officials, faculty and most importantly fellow students.

In this case the officer was just going to give the kid a warning, so if he had complied he would have never ended up in this mess. Even though it’s hard to be respectful, espe-cially when you are caught red handed like that poor chump, do it. It will get you further in life. Plus, you will not risk getting kicked out of school.

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EDITORIAL

It was Jan. 13. I was pick-ing up dirty cups and plates off the tables at a Red Robin restaurant when all of a sud-den, it hit me. What am I do-ing here? What am I doing with my life?

After graduating high school in June 2009, I decided to take a year off of school and go to work after not receiving any football or academic scholarships.

After taking about a year and a half off of football, I started to wonder if I was really done play-ing forever. I started thinking to myself, I should be playing ball somewhere, and I’m not ready to be done with this just yet.

So I started to look around on the Internet for junior colleges around California because, due to budget cuts, junior colleges in Washington and Oregon do not have football anymore.

After looking at a couple of schools in Northern California, I was not impressed with the location and population of those schools. So I started looking into some Southern California Schools.

Ever since I was little I have always dreamt about living in Los

Angeles and going to school at USC, which is my favorite school. So I began emailing a couple of schools and coaches around L.A and Orange County.

Before emailing the colleges, I talked to my buddy Hunter Van-derpool, also from Vancouver, Wash. and previously from the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D. and he told me he was planning on transferring down to Orange Coast College in Southern California.

Hunter told me to email the coach and school. I was thinking I also wanted to go to school with people I know.

A few days later coach Taylor emailed me back saying he would love for me to attend OCC and play football for the Pirates.

My other two friends also wanted to move down to Costa Mesa for school and football so they decided to email the coach, too.

Although it may seem like a simple story and decision into coming down here, it was actually a tougher decision for me than you might think.

Being more than a thousand miles away from my family, hav-ing to quit my job and now having to take out loans to pay out-of-state tuition were big decisions I had to make to come to OCC.

Things worked out great and five of us are now rooming to-gether here in Costa Mesa and having a great time.

And I’m looking forward to the game Saturday.

Dex HomerStaff Writer

The life of college stu-dents entails a lot of study-ing, and often-times, a lot of coffee.

Thankfully, coffee is read-ily available to students at the Starbucks located in the Art Center Parking Lot and The Drip Coffee stands located near

the Adams Avenue Parking Lot and the Quad.

Both coffee shops have a similar selection of blended/iced drinks, fruit smoothies, espressos and coffees, but while some Orange Coast College students thirst for Starbucks, others choose to drop by The Drip Coffee.

Nicole DiSandro, 19, a jour-nalism major, is an adamant Starbucks fan and said she gets Starbucks four to five times a week.

“I like Starbucks because they are consistent. They have a vari-ety of drinks, friendly employees and they’re everywhere,” DiSan-dro said.

The popularity of Star-bucks does not appeal to all students, however.

“I hate big corpora-tions,” Steffi Rehbein, 18, a business major said. “There’s a Starbucks on every corner. It’s become more about the trendiness of it than the coffee itself.”

Rehbein said she prefers small-er, independently-owned shops like The Drip Coffee.

Despite the availability of Starbucks off-cam-pus, the convenience of the two The Drip Coffee stand loca-

tions on campus is a big factor for some students.

“When you’re car-rying a bag full of

books The Drip Coffee is always easy to find

close-by,” Laura Telles, 43, a Spanish major said.

They also have the same tea for less money, Telles said while gesturing to her Tazo tea, which was nearly identical to Starbucks’ except for the miss-ing brand name.

Jessica Klauser, 19, a nurs-ing major, said she favors the cheaper prices and the coffee itself at The Drip Coffee.

“I work at a Starbucks off campus but I don’t get my dis-count here,” Klauser said.

S o c i e t y needs another stock market crash.

History does in fact repeat itself, and it is painfully clear by the sweep-ing fad that is planking. People across the country are mimicking wood planks by lay-ing face down in weird places, taking pictures of themselves, and posting them online because, well, just because.

That’s probably the most en-raging thing about planking, that nobody knows why they’re doing it, they just are. Quite possibly the most idiotic justi-

fication for doing something is, “because everyone else is doing it.” It’s sad to see so many people scramble to join this fad without knowing why.

Then there’s the people that want to take credit for starting the fad, which in essence just means they were way stupider for doing something before all the rest of the morons found out about it. It’s a stupid contest un-folding before our very eyes.

I’ve got news for plankers, you’re not original. Believe it or not, decades ago people were just as dumb as you if not dumber.

In the 1920’s people sat on flagpoles for long periods of time. They called it pole-sitting. Sound familiar? According to the Wikipedia entry on pole-sitting, H. David Werder sat on a pole

for 439 days. However, Werder reportedly did it to protest the price of gasoline while others just sat on poles for no specific reason other than to get attention presumably.

Fortunately, the stock market crash seemed to put things into perspective for pole sitters in America and after realizing they had more important things to do than sit around on poles (like get jobs), sitters abandoned their poles and the fad began to die out after 1929.

I am most angry at myself though for actually knowing what planking is. But I guess it’s just one the perils of be-longing to a young age group -you have to interact with some of the lowest common denominators.

I n m a n y cases fall is a dreadful time of year because it means the end of summer, warm weather, vacations and spending your days do ing nothing, but for sports fans it is actually one of the best times of the year because it is the beginning of the football season.

With the start of the football season comes the start of the fan-tasy football season. Over recent years fantasy sports have abso-lutely exploded into mainstream entertainment and competition for us sports fans.

Many of us sports fans spend at least some of our free time in the summer fol-lowing the National Football League hap-penings and plan out who we are going to draft for our fantasy football team. Many of my friends and I started talking about who we wanted to draft for our fantasy teams in July or before.

This summer was scary be-

cause with the NFL lock out happening we were worried we would not have a season. How-ever, the NFL resolved their dif-ferences for the time being and we are now into our first week of the fantasy football season.

Last season was the first time I attempted to play in a fantasy football league and it turned out to be much more difficult than I had anticipated. Although it was a lot of fun, I found out quickly that it is a time consuming and distracting hobby.

Now I am well into my second fantasy football season and I catch myself making con-versation with random strangers all around town. We all find com-mon ground in talking about who we drafted and how our teams are

doing. All in all I have nothing to say but positive things about fantasy football. It is the time of year when us football fans feel serene and al-ways have something

to look forward to. I look forward to every Sunday and to my managers dismay I am constantly checking my fantasy scores at work.

Campus coffee selections go head-to-head

In reality, fantasy is to be taken seriously

Ashley Ruiz

Staff Writer

Football dreams turn real

Planking is only for the boredCory

BriddleNews Editor

Photo by Chris Doesburg

Dex Homer came to Coast so he continue playing football.

Chris Sanchez Staff Writer

STRIPWRECKED

The Pirates football team took home its first win of the season against the Long Beach City Col-lege Vikings Saturday in a tight 38-31 match.

Coast outplayed the Vikings, leading them in total yards gained (442-376), rushing yards (315-28), and time of posses-sion (36:35-22:45).

Coast came out fast, scoring on the first drive when Silver Maake completed a three-yard run to take a 7-0 lead. Jackson Dionne followed up with a 32-yard field goal to increase the lead to 10-0 over the Vikings.

The Vikings scored twice in the second quarter with a 16-yard pass from Ryan Craighead to Sean Morris and a 25-yard field goal by Alex Valencia.

The Pirates answered both

plays with two scores of their own in the second quarter. Dylan Chynoweth made a 3-yard run for one touchdown and Jeremia Rideaux scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak bringing the halftime score 24-10.

Pirate football head coach Mike Taylor said Long Beach City College is normally a tough challenge for the team.

“LBCC is a tough team and it should be a good game. They have playmakers, as do we,” Taylor said.

The Vikings showed a lot of determination in the second half, taking a comeback lead. Quarterback Craighead threw for three touchdowns, had no interceptions and completed a 70- yard pass to Travon Payne.

Coast didn’t give up too much

ground as they scored twice in the second half, with a 16- yard run by freshman Domenic Betts, and a one-yard run from sopho-more Bill Shipley.

Taylor said after the game that his team showed a lot of promise.

“The defense last week was on their heels, but today showed their true colors. Our run game is superb this year, led by the fresh-man Betts,” Taylor said.

The Pirates next game will be Saturday at L.A Harbor at 6 p.m.

of the Engineering Club and the raucous shouts of the Improv Club were the comparatively more quiet representatives from the Modern Board Gamers and the Environmental Business clubs.

Modern board games are re-cently invented, have faster

playtimes and have simpler rules with less of a chance of some-one getting eliminated halfway through, according to Morgan Grant, 21, a psychology major and representative of Modern Board Gamers.

Across from them sat another quiet table representing the En-vironmental Business Club, which was distinguishable by

the unique-looking plants sit-ting on it.

“It’s therapeutical, if you ask me. We look for people that have patience because plants don’t grow from one day to the next, and who are really persistent,” said Raul Alvarez, 21, a horticul-ture major and representative of the club. “You gotta take care of it like it’s your kid.”

The chemistry is working well between the freshmen duo of Emma Pridmore and Jessica Amaral as the Orange Coast College women’s soccer team notched a 2-0 win over visiting L.A. Harbor on Friday at the OCC Soccer Complex.

Pridmore notched a pair of goals, both coming off of assists from Amaral to lead Coast to its second straight win (2-1-1).

The Pirates’ two tallies were more than enough for freshman goalkeeper Kate O’Banion, who stopped all four shots she faced for her second straight shutout. The Pridmore-Amaral show began in the

16th minute when a nice head-flick pass from Brooke Springer found Amaral, who streaked down the right side and fed Prid-more in front of the goal.

Pridmore made no mistakes and bur-ied her shot past Seahawks’ goalkeeper Natalie Zorro-Anaya to give OCC a 1-0 advantage.

It remained that way for most of the game before the dynamic duo teamed up again in the 63rd minute.

This time, Amaral again came down the right side and ripped a shot toward the goal, The shot was stopped but the rebound ended up in front of Pridmore and the Cypress High School grad again found the back of the net with her shot, putting the Pirates ahead by two.

The Pirates opened the Orange Empire Conference play Tuesday against Saddle-back College and will meet Fullerton Col-lege Friday at 3 p.m. in Fullerton.

In a back and forth battle, the Pirates surmounted a five-year curse with a 2-1 non-conference win against the Rio Hondo Road-runners.

Orange Coast College hasn’t beaten the Roadrunners in half a decade.

The Pirates started off with a 1-0 lead by scoring at the 45-min-ute mark when OCC’s Takuma Hori passed the ball through two defenders to Chase Nugent who kicked it in for the first goal.

Then, near the end of the first half, the Roadrunners’ Louis Cortez was able to kick one past Pirates goalkeeper Tyler Folkins, tying the score at one apiece.

After halftime, the Pirates were back at it again, scoring yet an-other goal. This time it was from a corner kick that bounced off of Hori, which was then followed by a header from Dong-Gi Shin, making the score two to one.

“I had a feeling the ball was going to come at that very spot,” Shin, 18, midfielder and photog-raphy major, said.

Despite the valiant efforts of the Roadrunners toward the end of the game, a goal at the 56-minute was the deciding factor, thanks to Folkins, who ended up with eight saves.

“It was a great feeling since we came in and played more as a team and produced the result,” Chase Nugent, 19, forward, a commu-nications major, said.

Both teams suffered a few in-juries, six for the Pirates and one for the Roadrunners. All of them were checked and treated.

Not only was it the Pirates’ first win of the season, but it was also coach Kevin Smith’s first win. Smith recently took over the job of longtime coach Laird Hayes.

“I was very happy with our team’s performance, especially this being our first game,” Smith said.

The Pirates will play another home game facing L.A. Harbor at 4 p.m. Friday.

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First season win

BY PATRICK PHAMSTAFF WRITER

Team effort leads men’s team to win against Rio Hondo.

Big wins for men’s, women’s soccer teams

Following its impressive 32-10 season, several sophomores from the 2011 Orange Coast College baseball team will continue their athletic and academic careers at the four-year level.

According to Pirates head coach John Altobelli, six former Coast standouts, Matt Moynihan (Uni-versity of Texas) Ryan Doran (San Diego State), Kevin Cho (Oral Roberts), Colton Hamill (Chico State), Jordan Beck (Chico State) and Steven McMichael (Concordia University, Irvine) —will continue their baseball careers after stints as OCC Pirates.

Moynihan, 2011 OCC Male Athlete of the Year, forever etched his name into the Orange Coast College record books, batting .479 in 2011, shattering the previ-ous all-time single-season batting average of .443, set by Joey James

in 1986.In 38 games with the Pirates, he

notched 67 hits (14th all time for a single season), 38 runs, 14 extra-base hits, 15 stolen bases, pro-duced a .621 slugging percentage and a .544 on-base percentage.

Doran compiled a 12-5 record over two years at Coast. After a 6-1 record in 2010, Doran was the “horse” of the staff, leading the team in innings pitched (96 1/3) and strikeouts (59).

He appeared in 18 games last year (13 starts), threw two com-plete games and notched a pair of saves as well. His 12 wins are 17th-best in OCC history.

After a slow start to the 2011 season, Cho was one of the most consistent hitters in the OCC lineup, batting .356 with 62 hits, 21 RBI and a team-best 47 runs scored. As a freshman, Cho led the Pirates with a .374 batting average, 52 hits, 28 runs and 21 RBI.

Like Cho, Beck was a two-year mainstay in the Pirates’ starting lineup. In 2011, he batted .340 with 53 hits, 33 runs scored and a team-best 44 RBI (third-best in the state). As a freshman, Beck compiled a .368 batting average with 35 hits, 25 runs and 22 RBI. His 66 career RBI is 17th-best all time in OCC history.

Whether it was off the bench or in the starting line-up, McMichael was a player the Pirates could depend on for two solid seasons. As a freshman, McMichael batted .304 with 14 hits, 14 runs and was a perfect 7-for-7 in stolen bases.

After spending his freshman year at Cal State Fullerton, Hamill came to Coast, moved from second base to third base and became an everyday starter at the hot corner for the Pirates. He batted .293 with 36 hits, 14 runs, two home runs, 12 extra-base hits and 27 RBI.

Baseball alumni on to higher edFROM CAMPUS REPORTS

Photos by Chris Doesburg

At left, running back Domenic Betts celebrates with teammates after scoring a touchdown at LeBard Stadium Saturday. At left, Betts blocks a Long Beach de-fender as he runs up the field toward the end zone. The Pirates defeated the Vikings 38-31.

BY ZAK FINKSTAFF WRITER

Coach says Pirates show promise af-ter team outplays Long Beach Vikings.

Nice plays and good chemistry get the Pirates a win against L.A. Harbor.

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS

AID: More money to be cut from grants.

Most importantly, students were not allowed to use fabric but instead could only design with paper bags from the mall.

Contestants were given their choices of shopping bags do-nated by the stores in the West-field Century City shopping center to create a fresh, unique, runway look. The winners won a $1,500 gift card to shop in the Westfield mall.

Fashion instructor Erin Bian-chi, who teaches classes in street

style and special events coor-dination, was this year’s event coordinator and selected students from OCC to participate.

“I think (Los Angeles fashion) is very different from Orange County’s fashion,” said Thanh Tran, a 23-year-old fashion merchandising major who par-ticipated in Thursday’s event.

Tran said that it seems like Orange County is more conser-vative in its fashion tastes than those in Los Angeles who may be trendier and more fashion conscious.

Tran said she loved the at-mosphere at Thursday’s event in Los Angeles stating.

LL Cool J kicked off the fashion show and got the party started for this year’s event. His daughter also walked in Bloomingdale’s segment of the fashion show.

Also on hand to model was Lisa Johnson, Magic Johnson’s daughter. Guests sipped on complimentary tequila cock-tails while MC Lite gave the models a hip ambiance to strut down the runway.

federal government giving grants for college expenses because it is outside the constitutional role of the federal government and is counterproductive.

The email also said federal

grants enable colleges and uni-versities to hike up the cost of tuition and, because of grant money low-income students receive, they are able to pay whatever the schools want them to pay. Ultimately, the taxpay-ers will be footing the bill, he

said.Moser said students need to

get involved on the issue.“Financial aid has one of the

most vocal local and state lob-bies, but now we need to put a face with it. They need to hear from students,” Moser said.

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