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A late fourth-quarter field goal by College of the Canyons proved to be the deciding fac-tor in Saddleback College’s home-opening 31-28 loss on Saturday.

In the first quarter, Gaucho offense scored two touchdowns by quarterbacks Matt Morin and Tim Belman. Morin ran the ball 3-yards for a touchdown followed by a 5-yard pass from Belman to wide receiver Domi-nick Ela for the score. Ela fin-ished the night with 197 yards receiving, averaging a team-high 14.1 yards per reception.

The Gauchos saw their lead disappear in the second quar-ter, as the Cougars scored three consecutive touchdowns to take the lead, 21-14. The Cou-gars’ running back Louis Gip-son threw his first touchdown of the season on a halfback option, connecting with wide receiver Travion Tucker for a 51-yard touchdown. Tucker led the Cougar receivers on the

night with 172 yards and three touchdowns.

When asked about how this win will affect next game, Gip-son said, “It’s going to give us the motivation to practice hard-er in practice and hopefully next week we will get the W.”

Saddleback’s Belman threw another 5-yard touchdown with under a minute left in the half to tie the score, 21-21, to run-ning back Tyler Murphy.

At the beginning of third quarter, Saddleback regained the lead when defensive back Davonte Merriweather inter-cepted a pass from Jake Dash-naw and returned it 51-yards for the score, giving the Gau-chos a 28-21 lead. Gaucho linebacker Duran Workman also forced a fumble on Cou-gar quarterback Tony Dawson, recovered by defensive back Laquan Middleton, in the first quarter.

Canyon running back Gabe Peralta answered back with a 3-yard rushing touchdown, to tie the score 28-28.

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Saddleback College loses its second game of the season to College of the Canyons, 31-28.

Saddleback College is facing a mandatory mid-term accredi-tation report due by October 15. The report involves a self-evaluation, an on-site visit with review and status declaration of the college’s accreditation from the committee. A loss of accred-itation would lead to non-trans-ferable diplomas and credits.

The non-profit Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC)requires full self-evaluations every six years, however, since Saddleback was given a warn-ing in 2010 the school was forced to produce a progress re-port every year since.

The ACCJC issues guide-lines for self-evaluation through Chancellor Gary Poertner and individual institutions post the results. The ACCJC recommen-dations are broken up into two categories. Six recommenda-tions are for the school district and five recommendations are for the individual college.

District recommendation one asks that, “…the chancel-lor develop and implement both a strategic short-term and long-term plan that is inclusive of the planning at the colleges and that this planning structure drive the allocation of district

resources for the colleges, Ad-vanced Technology Education Park (ATEP), and the district.”

The result of major planning efforts has produced a district-wide strategic plan that includes the, “five-year construction plan for 2014-2018 and 2015-2019,” and the Educational and Facili-ties Master Plan (EFMP).

Progress is recorded into TracDat, a universal informa-tion system for faculty and staff, and an annual progress report is posted on the SharePoint site for district planning.

College recommendation one pressed the issue of the col-lege and its constituent groups needing to achieve a collegial working relationship with the current president to address is-sues with a new optimism, and that the college does not have the same type of relationship with the district leadership and the Board of Trustees.

Director of Operations Plan-ning and Accreditation Caroline Durdella said, “The district is everyone, we are the district now. There is more of a sense of unity that we all need to work together to fit the standards. We definitely addressed this in our mid-term report and our now in compliance.”

District recommendation two asks, “…the district and col-leges develop and implement a resource allocation model driv-

en by planning that includes all district funds, is open, transpar-ent and that is widely dissemi-nated and reviewed/evaluated periodically for effectiveness.”

The report called the process for allocating basic-aid funds “mysterious” and expressed a communication issue.

Saddleback College Presi-dent Todd Burnett said, “Frank-ly it was former administration, on a district level primarily. There were a lot of arbitrary guidelines and it wasn’t data-driven or a lot of transparency. Now it is very public. We have committees, both colleges and the district is involved. Our dis-trict website has an update of what the prioritization is.”

For future funding allocation administration is expected to review operations through the strategic planning process.

The developments in the report state that the projects qualifying for basic-aid are, “…capital construction, major reno-vation, large infrastructure proj-ects, and site development…Retiree benefit trust fund and other long term obligations…Major technology initiatives, and 50 percent matching funds for scheduled maintenance and smaller renovations.”

Saddleback student Niaz Rahimzadeh, 23 Biology, said, “It’s sad that all this funding goes to one place instead of go-

ing to each building.”College Recommendation

two says “…the team recom-mends that the college address the need for both maintenance and new facilities funds and use these funds to address the cur-rent safety, accessibility and ed-ucational needs of the students.”

Director of Operations, Plan-ning and Accreditation Caro-line Durdella said, “The com-mission really wanted to make progress in their self-planning and allocating resources, and decision making.”

This led to “District-wide Strategic Planning” start-ing with Analysis of Data to District-wide Strategic Goals, bringing Saddleback Strategic Planning to Irvine Valley’s Stra-tegic Planning to work together.

District recommendation three focused on communica-tion between faculty and staff. “The teams recommend that the college, district, administra-tors, faculty and staff develop a communications process among the entities on key issues of district-wide concern including academic calendar, planning, (ATEP) Advanced Technology Education Park, technology and building priorities.”

The recommendation is to create a new standardized chan-nel of communication that ev-eryone can use consistently and easily. The report also wanted a

definitive consensus for how to handle disagreeing board mem-bers.

The main concerns for com-munication were that decisions had been made and it was not clear they were made, to which the solutions listed were to post the meetings agendas, record minutes, handouts and docu-ments on SharePoint, delineate actions and decisions in meet-ing minutes, and provide RSS feeds. Now a monthly news-letter with highlights from the Board of Trustees is distributed.

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Accreditation (continued from page 1) Burnett said, “We added a board policy

within the report that is at least a year old. As for communication, before we had a lack of pro-cesses and poor decision making. Now we have better committees that have better representation of everybody, including students and staff.”

The committee made its third college rec-ommendation asking that, “The commitment to equity and diversity be demonstrated through multiple means, including an updated Student Equity Plan and greater faculty involvement on the Equity and Diversity Committee.”

The Equity and Diversity Committee has been reinvigorated and includes representatives from faculty, staff, and administration.

“We do monitor our student performance in various aspects…A portion of it will look at stu-dent performance through many demographics.” Durdella said. “You have to really look at your students and address any gaps.”

District recom-mendation four asks the Board of Trustees to com-municate its self-evalua-tion results annually and use them as the basis for improvement.

College recommendation four the team rec-ommends that the faculty have as a component of their evaluation effectiveness in producing student learning outcomes. According to the mid-term report Saddleback College has demon-strated its commitment to the SLO assessment and program review processes through the in-stitutionalization of the faculty-led Educational Planning and Assessment (EPA) Committee.

Monitoring student success has been in Bur-nett’s “Top 10 Goals” for the past three semes-ters. The Student Success Task Force has been the linchpin in achieving this recommendation.

“All last year at every board meeting we

talked about [student success], led by faculty in particular to give them updates on the student success task force recommendation, and at the last meeting we just had the state score card. Burnett said. “The board has been consistent-ly becoming more engaged on student success and in particular completion of the agenda of the state, so they are more engaged than they ever have been. This new strategic plan will be crit-ical.”

District Recommendation five tells the Board of Trustees to develop a clearly defined policy for a code of ethics. In the report eval-uation it is written that, “less than cordial dis-plays,” have taken place from board members at meetings.

The report’s conclusion states, “Board mem-bers who are found by a majority of the board to have acted unethically or to have violated this

policy may be sub-ject to reprimand, possible exclusion from closed ses-sions, public cen-sure, referral to the district attorney for prosecution, or oth-er action as deter-

mined by the board.”Burnett’s only comment is “there has been

notable improvement and it used to be a lot more contentious. It is a lot more collegial today.”

College recommendation five “recommends that a student services strategic plan be devel-oped and implemented to address issues includ-ing campus accessibility.”

The mid-term report states Student services has been an integral part of the

college strategic planning process and has addressed student accessibility and visibility for its student support services.

“I think there’s an emphasis placed on stu-

dent success, however students are not aware that the schools continuance (with accreditation) runs off student suc- cess,” Rahimza-deh said.

Students can keep updated with simple web navigating due to information only a click away on the Saddleback home page, making it accessible and keeping students well informed.

“The commission also strongly recommends that all accreditation records be a click away,” Durdella said. “That is one recommendation that we are in compliance with.”

The last district recommendation states that “the district provides a clear delineation of its functional responsibilities, the district level pro-cess for decision-making and the role of the dis-trict ion college planning and decision-making. The district should provide a regular review of district communities, conduct an assessment of the overall effectiveness of services to the col-lege and communicate the results of those re-views.”

According to the mid-term draft, “the need for clear delineation of roles and responsibilities within the district has been an issue since at least 1998, when it was addressed by the accreditation visiting team, and it continued to be identified as problematic in 2010.”

To solve this issue a district-wide function map describing workflow and entity functions was created by part of the District-Wide Plan-ning Council. The Task Force on Committees which reports to the Consultation Council also got involved and asked each committee to do a self-evaluation of committee charge, member-ship, communication processes and assessment of goal attainment.

“Everybody was a little perplexed and we

didn’t understand it fully but I think it had to do with, once again, communication. ‘What is the role of the college versus district services?’

that kind of stuff. We did clean up a lot of things,” Burnett said.

“I believe we are in a good place, what is clear to me when I reviewed the mid-term report and all

the follow-up reports is that the entire district including the college has made substantive prog-ress,” Durdella said.

All six of the recommendations were ad-dressed in the college’s 2011 and 2012 Accred-itation Follow-up Report. The follow-up reports were required under the 2010 warning.

To view the full draft of Saddleback Col-lege’s mid-term accreditation report visit:

https://www.saddleback.edu/accreditationFor calendar of overdue department reviews

www.saddleback.edu/asenate/epa/Chancellor Gary Poertner touched on ATEP

and gave a glowing review on his website at https://www.socccd.edu/Perspective012612.htm.

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The Saddleback College Cinema, Television and Radio program hosted a screening of “Hotel Rwanda,” on Friday night at 7:30, a movie about the genocide of nearly one million African refugees in 1994, starring Don Cheadle.

Keir Pearson, a Saddleback faculty member who wrote the film, was scheduled to be p r e s -ent for a Q&A a f -ter the v i e w -ing, but unfore-s e e n circum-s tances prevented his attendance. For-tunately, his colleagues held a discussion following the film.

CTVR faculty Maria May-enzet asked the attendees about how they felt watching a movie that so closely cor-relates with current events in Syria, their causes and how society should act upon atroc-ities.

The typical sentiment was that governments won’t typ-ically intervene during these conflicts if there is no finan-cial ‘upside’ to offset their military expense, of course

unless there are outspoken members of their populace pushing for action.

“We have become so com-placent,” said Vanessa Garcia, 22, political science. “[But] we have more power than money holds… history has a tendency to bend toward justice when people act for change.”

Lydia Burnam, 33, political science, an African student

w i t h U g a n -d a n r o o t s , b e -l i e v e s t h a t p a r t of the p r o b -lem is,

“...our leaders, and [that] we are messing up our beautiful world.”

She agrees with Garcia that the people have the power to create change, “It’s so hard to just sit back and watch.”

Ron Meyers, of Mission Viejo, felt the film’s depiction of the genocide was of benefit to society, because, “...it got to enough of the population that some people are paying attention.”

“Anytime where some-thing like genocide is happen-

ing, where people are getting hurt, I think it’s crucial that everyone get involved,” said Andrea Napoleon, music.

“That’s what sanity is.”Pearson’s second major

screenplay is “Chavez,” which is currently in post-produc-

tion according to IMDB.com. “Chavez” is directed by

Diego Luna, stars Michael Pena as Cesar Chavez and is

set to be released in 2013.

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[But] we have more pow-er than money holds… his-tory has a tendency to bend

toward justice when people act for change.”

- Vanessa Garcia, 22, Political Science

I can guarantee we will not ever be losing accreditation.”

- Todd Burnett

Coming from North Caroli-na, our school without a doubt

is racially diverse, it stands out.”

- Niaz Rahimzadeh

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Canyon running back Gabe Peralta an-swered back with a 3-yard rushing touch-down, to tie the score 28-28. Both teams then went scoreless for over ten minutes until the fourth quarter when Canyon kicker Eric Kreitz, put a field goal attempt through the up rights for the lead, 31-28. Kreitz was also 3 for 3 on extra points.

During Saddleback’s final drive starting on the 38 yard line after receiving a punt return at their own 42 and personal foul against the Cougars, with only forty five seconds left in the game, Belman drove the ball 23 yards, and then Cougar defender re-ceived a pass interference call for 13 yards pushing the Gauchos to the 2 yard line with twelve seconds left. Belman’s final throw was complete to wide receiver Tyler Mur-phy for no gain falling short of the end zone.

After coming off of a loss last week, Cougars interim Head Coach Ted Iacen-da knew this was going to be a big game against Saddleback, he said, “…any time you’re coming off a loss and you are facing a goliath, No. 4 team in the state, you got to tread very carefully to begin with, we got down 14 nothing and you know, it could be trouble for your team mentally, they could think here we go again so we had to fight that and we have great kids and we battled back, and we were able to get a quick score, and we started to get momentum.”

With the loss, the Gauchos fall to 1-1 on

the year, while the Cougars picked up their first win.

“We didn’t play well enough to win,” Gauchos’ head coach Mark McElroy said after the game. “We just got to regroup af-ter a tough loss like this.”

The Gauchos’ next game will be away at Riverside Community College, Sept. 21 at 6 p.m. The Cougars will be facing College of the Desert at home that weekend.

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Josh ”J. Saun” Saunders began tossing rhymes around for fun with his friends freshman year of high school. Two years later with a crisp new micro-phone, some recording gear, and a little encouragement, he decided to take rapping as a career more seriously.

Now a Saddleback political science student, Saunders realizes music is polar opposite from his plan of going to law school. But his passion is contagious, and the beats just won’t stop playing in his head.

Saunders wants every word to be well thought out and have a purpose. “I rap about life events and things people can relate to,” he says. “Also, I went all Will Smith in my album—I don’t cuss in my music.” Preferring not to use curse words as “fillers” in his beats.

Saunders’ first clean mixed tape titled, “Freshman of the Year” was just released online this September. The album has taken over two years to write but he is pleased with the album’s sound and variety. His songs “Swag” and “Never Made It” were written when he was only 17 years old.

Writing lyrics, recording, mixing beats and marketing has proven to be a lot of work but Saunders is taking on gigs and

showcases in his free time. His last gig at the Shark Club in Costa Mesa he ended up performing in front of an audience of over 200 and turned the crowd from boos to cheers.

“Some guy invited me to per-form at the Playboy Mansion but I didn’t go because my mom would kill me,” Saunders says laughing. “I’m really just looking to put my music out there. If people like my style, they like it. If they don’t, they don’t.”

Between studying and focus-ing on his music, Saunders runs the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles on the Saddleback track team. He plans to transfer to USC Gould School of Law fall 2014.

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Saddleback StudentS and friendS, Michael PaloMareS and JoSh nuzzi, relaxed a bit over SuMMer, but they alSo Started a coMPany.

CHELSEA JARRELLLife editor

Some guy invited me to perform at

the Playboy Mansion, but I didn’t go be-cause my mom would kill me.”

-J. Saun

Right in the midst

of the summer and

surf, a budding busi-

ness emerged when

Saddleback students

Michael Palomares and

Josh Nuzzi combined

their skills of photog-

raphy and T-shirt print-

ing. These creative

and business-minded

friends determined to

challenge themselves

by starting a compa-

ny.Palomares and Nuzzi

met junior year in high

school and continue to

be friends through at-

tending Saddleback.

Their surf inspired So-

Cal clothing brand is

called NVNT or “In-

vent Yourself.” They

thought of the idea as

both realized it would

take more than just

their combined talents

to get a clothing com-

pany started.

“We’re using the

talents of others,” says

Palomares. “It gives

people an opportunity

to invent themselves as

they help us with things

we need as a company.”

Currently the pair have

help with web design,

clothing design, model-

ing, videography, and

photography.

Palomares and

Nuzzi are managing

the company along-

side school. Transfer-

ring from Saddleback

to Fullerton to major in

Economics and Interna-

tional Business respec-

tively is both on their

list of goals. For now,

their start up is a fun

and frivolous pursuit.

Luckily Nuzzi’s t-shirt

printing knowledge is

what has made the t-

shirt company a reality

so far. “Michael has al-

ways been my friend,

but I never thought

we would be business

partners,“ says Nuzzi.

“My job is managing

design, web and my T-

shirt printing company

handles that kind of

stuff.” Designing mer-

chandise for the com-

pany’s events is also

Nuzzi’s responsibility.

They both have been

regularly hosting body

boarding contests down

at Salt Creek beach and

selling shirts.

“If there is a kid that

we think possesses the

right talent, we sponsor

them with free shirts,

stickers, and pay their

contest entry fees,”

says Palomares. “Our

first [sponsored athlete]

is a kid named Luke

who has proven himself

to be a really talented

body boarder.” Their

goal is to find a few

more talented athletes

to sponsor by the end of

the year.

This past weekend

NVNT made an appear-

ance at the BIA body

boarding contest in

Huntington Beach. The

two friends had a blast

giving away stickers

and helping kids stick

them on their boards.

“It’s pretty reward-

ing to see our logo out

there in the water,” says

Nuzzi. “Our brand rep-

resents fun and that’s

what this is really all

about.”

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We created

a brand

Saddleback rapper Josh ‘J. Saun’ Saunders

Josh Saunders poses for his new album “Freshman of the Year” cover

Model Tiffany Ferguson poses in her new NVNT shirt

Surfboard shaper, Jonathan Strom, models for the men’s line

To listen to some of J. Saun ‘s beats, scan the QR code below