volume 45, issue 3 - october 3, 2012
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Third issue of the Fall 2012 semester of the Lariat, Saddleback and Irvine Valley Colleges' student newspaper.TRANSCRIPT
The Saddleback Associated Student Government hosted a tailgate party for the Gaucho Homecoming football game on Saturday, Sept. 29 in front of the Saddleback stadium.
ASG provided activities for the tailgate party for chil-dren including a Waffle-Licious food truck and a DJ. ASG also had many charities attend to help donate to the public.
The activities that ASG provided for the children were rubber ducky races, pumpkin decorating, face painting, bal-loon paint dart game, a can toss and bounce houses.
For each booth that had an activity, ASG provided a jar in which parents could help donate to the local charities.
“People are not required to pay for the activities, but they are welcome to donate to help the charities,” said Sa-har Ghassemi the Senator of Kinesiology for ASG.
There were also different charities attending to inform the public of their services and to accept donations.
Among the charities that attended were the Ronald Mc-Donald House, Village of Hope, McKenna Claire Founda-tion and Maxlove.
The Ronald McDonald House gave out a wish list for the needs of Orange County Ronald McDonald House. The wish list included kitchen goods, cleaning supplies and oth-er miscellaneous items.
To find out more about how to donate to The Ronald McDonald House please visit their webpage at www.ron-aldhouseoc.com.
Maxlove informed the Tail-gaters of childhood cancer and the small amount of research funds that are available to research childhood cancer. September was their national awareness month for childhood cancer.
Maxlove is selling fedora hats and sending five dollars of the proceeds to the St. Balricks Foundation. And for each beanie that is sold Maxlove will donate an addition beanie to a child fighting for cancer.
To find out how to get your head wear visit www.give-maxlove.org.
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Long-time Los R i o s C o m -m u n i t y C o l l e g e D i s t r i c t Chancel-lor Brice W. Harris was appointed as the 15th Chancellor of the Califor-nia Community Colleges in a unanimous decision by the Cal-ifornia Community Colleges Board of Governors, Thursday.
“It is humbling to be asked to lead such a tremendous sys-tem of colleges serving the edu-cational needs of California,”
Efraim Medina, who has been purchasing the bus pass as a disabled commuter, voiced his thoughts on a potential increase.
“Its too much for me,” Me-dina said. “I don’t have a job, I can’t do it, it’s impossible.”
Orange County Transporta-tion Authority (OCTA) pro-posed a 25 percent increase of bus fares to the Orange County community at the bus council meeting in the Santa Ana, on Sept. 20.
The city council bus meet-ing gathered in the Southwest Senior Center mixed with the OCTA board members, com-munity members, and Spanish
OCTA fares to rise 25 percentAngie L . P inedAStaff Writer
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“Listen for Life” Musicfest inspires peace
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IN THIS ISSUE:
MICHAEL GREnnELL / LARIAT
Crows flock to feast on litter at Saddleback
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Gauchos fall to 1-3 with loss at homecoming
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Harpsichord benefit concert resounds IVC
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Allison Williams, 5, Mission Viejo, (right) enjoys a face painting session from a member of PAinT iT red:
IVC debate team looks to extend success
STEM program offers students scholarships
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COMICS:
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interpreters. The room was col-orfully decorated with piñatas hanging around the room and a large projector that would soon introduce the next stress induced issue into the OC commuters’ lives. Although the meeting was announced publicly as only a proposal for the Orange County transit consumers, Vice Chair-man of the board, Gregory Win-terbottom, promises an increase during the recorded meeting.
Andrew Oftelie, director of Finance and Administration, said that there’s a fare adjust-ment every four years. He con-tinues to explain that in order to receive funding from the state, that they need to condition the sales tax.
According to the Transpor-
tation Development Act (TDA) the consumers must pay at least 20 cents for every dollar spent on transportation service. OCTA will be forced to cut bus servic-es if they fail these agreements. “Wouldn’t you rather pay more than have less service?” Oftelie asked. “Five percent of the bus service will be cut if we do not raise fares.”
“We are trying to get people to ride the monthly pass, be-cause it’s the cheapest way to go.” Winterbottom insists. The passengers are paying $55 for the monthly pass, but early next year they will be paying $69.
Alejandra Arcos, commu-nity member of Santa Ana, said, “Let’s just say gas goes down, will you think about lowering
the fares?”“That will never happen,”
Winterbottom responds.The passengers continue to
battle the meeting with con-cerns asking the board members what will happen if passengers discontinue using the bus due
to price increase. Oftellie ex-plains that when they had last increased fares, they had lost 8 percent of their riders. “But they come back,” he contin-ued, “but the 92 percent stay and pay the increase anyway.”
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KirA edmondsonStaff Writer
ASG during the Gaucho Homecoming tailgate festivites last Saturday at Saddleback College.
JOSEPH ESPIRITu / LARIATBUST: Saddleback’s bus loads could decrease with a fare increase.
Gaucho Games
JosePh esP ir ituStaff Writer
Harris whose record includes serving as president of Fresno City College and as Vice Chan-cellor of the Kansas, MO. com-munity college system will head the state’s community college system, the largest in the nation at 112 campuses.
“I have had the pleasure to know and work with Dr. Har-ris for many years beginning with my time working in the state chancellor’s office in Sac-ramento,” Saddleback College President Tod Burnett said in a campus-wide e-mail.
“Dr. Harris is a superb leader and advocate of our California Community Colleges and I can-not think of a better person to succeed Dr. Jack Scott as chan-cellor.”
Harris will overlook colleges in 72 districts beginning Nov. 6 and will also take responsibil-ity of the more than 2 million students enrolled in the state’s community colleges
“It is gratifying to see that my longtime friend, Dr. Brice Harris, has been selected to lead California’s great community college system. As we navigate our way through unprecedented economic and structural chal-lenges, I am comforted to know that Dr. Harris will lead the community colleges back to full strength,” Irvine Valley Presi-dent Glenn Roquemore said in a district-wide press release.
Harris appointed chancellor of state community colleges
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Harris
BOyS in THe HAll: Former NFL quarterback Colt Brennan (left) and Texas Ramgers pitcher Robby Ross (right) walk in the Sad-dleback Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday.
78 inducted into Hall of FameSeventy-eight former Gau-
cho athletes were inducted into the Saddleback Athletics Hall of Fame in a cermony during halftime of Saddle-back’s homecoming football game on Saturday.
Athletes are only inducted every four years. The induct-
ees selected for the ceremony competed between 2004-08.
Eighteen of Saddleback’s 19 athletic teams had mem-bers selected.
Inductees included NCAA record-setting quarterback Colt Brennan and Texas Rangers pitcher Robby Ross.
Homecoming tailgate provides food, games, and charity options prior to football game
An overwhelming number of universities and four-year institutions took over Saddle-back's transfer center quad on Thursday, Sept. 27. Representa-tives from universities such as Chapman, the University of San Francisco, University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles, and Uni-versity of California, San Diego were in the quad from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. answering questions asked by Saddleback students.
Booths were set up all around the quad, each universi-ty-specific. The majority of the schools in attendance were Cal-ifornia schools, with the excep-tion of Arizona State University and University of Colorado.
According to sophomore student, Vlaho Asic, who is 19 years old and currently undecid-ed on his major, the transfer fair is one thing in particular that he looks forward to. "It's a lot more productive than seeing a coun-selor here because these people actually work at the schools I'm interested in, and they can give me specific details as to what I
need to transfer."Another student, an eigh-
teen-year-old, business ma-jor who wished to remain un-named, expressed his views on the number of representatives at each booth, stating that there needed to be more reps. The student went on to say, "I only have a couple of minutes in be-tween classes and UCLA only has two reps and a line of five people. It sucks."
With more than 20 different schools attending Saddleback's transfer fairs annually, most stu-dents find it crucial to use this time to talk to representatives of their school of choice. This is true especially if students can-not fly out to talk to represen-tatives of schools that are far away, such as the University of San Francisco.
Although it is understood that not every student can make it to the transfer fairs when they are held, most representatives still believe it is important to make an effort to contact the school's counselors, even by e-mail.
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Concerns about student suc-cess, honorary degrees and the IT challenges that plague the campus were hot topics dur-ing the fourth Academic Senate meeting of the semester.
The committee examined items in the President’s Report that included topics such as the renaming of the new Library Resource Center to include for-mer college president Richard McCullough’s name – a motion that is still up in the air.
The report also mentioned a proposed building in the lower campus to be converted into shared offices where instruc-tors can meet with students that will include a lounge and filing drawers for each faculty mem-ber.
In addition to the proposed-changes around the campus, the Senate also had a lengthy dis-cussion pertaining to the process of awarding honorary degrees in which Item 1C from Adminis-trative Regulation 6200, which previously stated that honor-ary degrees shall be conferred by the college President, was re-amended to say that honor-ary degrees will instead be con-
ferred by the respective college faculty.
Moving onto student success, the committee further discussed the IT challenges that have bad-gered instructors and students since the beginning of the se-mester, with the Dean of Busi-ness Science Division, Rocky Cifone, bringing up the issue of the shortcomings in the prepara-tion of laboratory computers, on behalf of the IT Department that affected his division.
“We are here specifically to discuss the impacts that the lack of IT preparation had not only on the teaching and learning ex-perience, [but] the impact that they had on our students and the impact that the lack of prepara-tion and timely follow-up had on student success,” Cifone said.
Cifone further addressed that while this issue might be con-sidered a blip in the radar by some of the faculty, he and his colleagues think otherwise and have loss faith in the IT Depart-ment by saying that this issue will repeat itself - pointing out the failure of follow-ups in the work orders as the primary rea-son why.
“Nothing beats the sheer sense of helplessness when you’re a dean and to not be able to get students what they need in the classroom,” Cifone said, adding that the problem is sure to have campus-wide ramifica-tions if not handled immedi-ately.
In support of Cifone, instruc-tors from the college’s Com-puter Information Management
division also spoke out, detail-ing the 62 work orders that were submitted during the spring se-mester for the 135 computers in their classrooms and labs that were not met.
“When you have an 8-week class and by the end of the fourth week you don’t have a server, the student’s have no way to do their assignments,” CIM Instructor Carolyn Gillay said, pointing out that she has had a couple students drop her class to avoid a “W” on their academic records.
Mark Schiffelbein who di-rects the college’s Technology Services rebutted by saying that their focus was directed toward the LRC since it was given to them as a high-priority assign-ment, but that they never meant to neglect all the labs in the campus.
Schiffelbein cited late orders on software and troubles that he and his crew ran across while installing computer hardware
that snowballed preventing their efforts in completing the work needed on time.
“We have 28 different com-puter laboratories around the campus and each supports a very select group of instructors and programs,” Schiffelbein said, denoting the specialized programs that each requires. “It’s quite a juggling project to get all the software working to-gether.”
Ultimately, both sides agreed that the problems arose due to a lack of IT staffing, but also ac-knowledged that not just anyone can grasp the fundamentals re-quired to operate said labs.
“It’s not just a situation where we can bring somebody in and say if you need extra help grab someone and bring them in,” Schiffelbein said. “These people have worked with the instructors and those programs for years and years just to get an understanding of what needs to be put into those labs – so outside help is usually not that beneficial, especially at the last minute.”
A proposed solution was to cross-train the existing IT staff, but according to Schiffelbein that in itself is difficult consid-ering some technicians can man up to five labs at any single time.
Students who were affected by the lack of re-imaged com-puters and had to drop are urged to contact their instructors to discuss a possible refund of their tuition.
Joseph esp ir ituStaff Writer
“Nothing beats the sheer sense of help-lessness when you’re a dean and to not
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Academic Senate discusses honorary degrees, student success andsolutions to IT challenges.
Faculty face-off with IT during Senate meeting
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The South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees met for their monthly meeting, Monday Sept. 24.
Topics discussed included the the board’s strategic plan for 2011-2014 and its progress. Saddleback and IVC’s expan-sion of their English programs, the renaming of the district’s retiree liabilities budget short-age, and the proposal of Propo-sition 30.
District Director of Research and Planning, Denice Inciong, presented the district’s six-point strategic plan for 2011-2014. The six points include:
1) A district wide culture2) supporting of innovations
in student readiness programs3) maintaining technological
leadership and future advance-ment
4) increasing the effective use of resources for/by students
5) use of data-driven deci-sion making of the district’s through surveys, and
6) assessing the educational needs of certain districts and boundaries within the districts.
Fourteen objectives and 76 action steps have been imple-mented in the plan to ensure its success, and in its first year 44 percent of these have been com-pleted. This is the first ever dis-trict plan to be adopted by the district.
Dr. Brenda Borron, Irvine Valley College English Profes-sor, and Dr. Jonathan Alexan-der, University of Irvine Cam-pus Writing Coordinator and English Professor, discussed English, writing, and articula-tion workshops held by IVC, and UCI used to inform stu-dents of requirements of higher-level English courses as well as IVC’s current concerns with their English department.
The instructional workshops were led jointly by IVC and
UCI English instructors and in-formed visitors, both students and the general public, of Eng-lish composition requirements for both schools and gave them hands-on learning experience with those instructors.
Issues facing the IVC Eng-lish department however seemed to be a serious concern among professors as they spoke of overcrowded classrooms, a lengthy curriculum, and too little time to teach students, however these problems appear to be affecting local Irvine high schools as well.
Borron went on to quote Ir-vine high school teachers on what they feel is limiting their English departments and caus-ing their students to be less prepared for college-level cur-riculum.
“The cognitive ability of our students does not match with the academic standards/demands for their grade level,” Borron said.
“The quantity of students we have limits what we do; we have huge numbers,” Borron later said.
In an effort to address these issues and better prepare in-structors heading into these conditions, IVC and local high schools will be taking a series of steps including: 1) AWPE (Analytical Writing Placement Examination) scoring for high school teachers 2) upper-di-vision scoring workshops for community college instructors, and 3) a summer institute on the teaching of writing.
The most pressing issue of the board meeting was present-ed by the district Vice Chancel-lor Debra L. Fitzsimons who informed the board that the Re-tiree Health Benefit Liabilities trust fund is more than $15 mil-lion over budget for this fiscal year.
The original amount of as-sets planned to be paid to the fund was slightly over $69 mil-lion, however, the projected li-
ability for this year totals close to $85 million.
Not paying the amount in full would result in a hit to the district’s credit rating and a loss of retiree benefits.
“There were more retirees around this time,” Fitzsimons said. “Normally each year we have six to eight retirements and with 52 retirees for faculty, that was a huge spike.”
Before allowing additional spending to fund the trust, the board motioned to send the re-port back and have the numbers validated.
Once the report has gone through this process, the board will then decide on a plan of ac-tion.
Finally, district Executive Director of Fiscal Services Kim McCord spoke on Proposi-tion 30, which would increase funding to community colleges while raising a few key taxes.
These taxes include a .25 percent increase in California’s sales tax for the next four years, a one percent income tax in-crease on Californians making $250,000-300,000, a two per-cent increase for those making $300,000-500,000, and a three percent increase for those mak-ing over $500,000 each year - over the next seven years.
“The budget reductions over the past several years have re-ally had a tremendous impact on the community college system,” McCord said.
Since 2008 state-provided community college funding in California has dropped $809 million, course selections have dropped by 123,000, and enroll-ment has decreased from 2.9 million to 2.4 million.
Voting for yes on Proposition 30 would result in an increase in the taxes mentioned above and more available revenue that could potentially be used in the community college system, though where was unspecified.
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District addresses six-point plan
The IVC women’s soc-cer team played a tough game against Saddleback on Friday, securing a tie within the last 10 minutes of the game.
IVC picked up speed within the last half of the game as they had possession of the ball the majority of the time. Nonethe-less, it was with some acciden-tal help from a Saddleback de-fender that the Lasers earned a goal.
The first half displayed excellent defending from both teams. The Saddleback Gauchos took four unsuccessful shots on IVC Laser’s goalie, Amanda Rashtian. The Lasers were only able to make one shot on goal which was deflected by the Gaucho’s keeper.
The second half began with no successful goals from either team.
With almost 19 minutes left in the second half, Saddleback sophomore student Kacey Curran swiftly maneuvered around the Lasers defense. Curran took a hard shot at the goal, and the ball grazed off the goalie’s fingertips and landed in the net for the first point of the game.
The Lasers didn’t lose courage from Saddle-back’s lead though, as IVC Freshmen Julian Hy-odo stated: “In the last ten minutes we wanted [to win] extra badly, because we were losing, so like it kinda put a fire in us.”
In the final minutes of the game, with Saddle-back in the lead, Hyodo saw an opening for a shot, and went for it. The ball hit the head of a Gaucho defender trying to deflect it, and it unin-tentionally flew past the Gaucho goalie and into the net, which ultimately lead the teams to tie.
Rashtian wanted the Lasers to win overall, but was glad with the skills her team displayed.
“I think we connected as a team very well,”
Rashtian stated. “We communicated with each other, and we stayed strong throughout the whole game.”
Head Coach of the Laser women’s soccer team, Joe Supe, was also impressed with the per-formance of his team.
“I thought we dominated the game for the most part, and I saw a lot of good possible move-ments from the team,” Supe stated.
The ferocity of the Lasers in the latter part of the second half didn’t go unnoticed by Supe ei-ther: “They wanted to win, and they showed it within the last ten minutes. They were there and they were pressing.”
The Laser’s overall record is 2-5-2, while the Gaucho’s is 2-3-2.
Next Tuesday, the Lasers defend their turf at 3:00 pm against a team ranked third in the state: Santiago Canyon.
Wednesday afternoon the Saddleback wom-en’s water polo team (1-9, 0-3) played host to the Fullerton Hornets (9-1, 1-1).
The Hornets defense was quickly put on its heels as Melissa Klaeb started the scoring for Sad-dleback. Shortly after Sarah Tennis fired her own goal past the Fullerton net-minder for a quick 2-1 Saddleback lead. Not wasting time, the Hornets offense jumped to life scoring three unanswered goals before being interrupted by Tennis’ second goal of the half.
With the first quarter expired, and the second starting, Saddleback looked to get back in control. A couple saves early in the quarter by Tiffany Grey kept the Gauchos alive, but only temporari-ly. Saddleback was penalized several times in the second quarter, and Fullerton capitalized taking the score to 9-3 before Saddleback could regroup. Fullerton had scored six unanswered goals before Shelby Schmidt added herself to the short list of Gaucho goal scorers.
The score was 9-4 Fullerton lead going into the third quarter, when things got ugly for the
Gauchos. Fullerton scored three quick goals to start the quarter before Coach Jennifer Higginson called for a time out. Fullerton quickly went back to work following the timeout, scoring another five goals before Saddleback called for another time out. The score was now 18-4 and the Gau-chos were exhausted, while Fullerton continued to add fresh players thanks to their larger roster. As the final seconds expired, Fullerton claimed victory by a final score of 24-7.
When asked later about their efforts during the game Sophomore Shelby Schmidt said, “They’re a tough team, and I thought we played hard to the very end, but realistically, we need more players on our bench to give some of our girls a rest.”
Schmidt said that the team needs to stay posi-tive and learn from the loss. “The biggest take-away from this game would be to just move on, and learn from the mistakes we made,” Schmidt said. “This is a new team, and new teams do take time to meld together.”
Saddleback’s next game is Wednesday against Golden West, and then they travel to Modesto for a two-day tournament on Friday and Saturday.
Struggle: Saddleback’s Alexa Winder (7) and Itvine Valley’s Yasmin Hart (10) fight for ball possession in the latter stages of Friday’s match.
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Women’s water polo falls flat, sunk by Fullerton
RACHeL SCHMId / LARIAT
UpCoMING:
As the Saddleback Gauchos foot-ball team walked off the field at Sad-dleback Stadium on Saturday night, one thing was clear.
This was not the same team from last year.
After losing to the Santa Ana dons 33-20, the Gauchos fell to 1-3 on the season, their worst start to a season since they started off 1-3 in 2000.
“We made a couple of stupid mis-takes early,” quarterback Jake Ger-inger said. “I made a couple of bad reads at the end, including the (in-terception return for a touchdown), which really hurt us.”
Among the stupid mistakes Ger-inger talked about, were a couple of penalties the Gauchos incurred early on. penalties have been costing the Gauchos all season, and that trend continued on Saturday. Two weeks after being charged with a season high 95 penalty yards in the loss to Riverside, the Gauchos set season highs in penalties committed (15) and penalty yards (114).
one key penalty came with just over five minutes remaining in the game. The Gauchos appeared to con-vert on fourth down on a 14-yard pass from Geringer to running back Anthony Cade. But Saddleback was hit with a 10-yard holding pen-alty, which nullified the completion and forced the Gauchos to punt, ending any chances of a fourth quarter comeback.
“It’s difficult to have a penalty called on fourth and ten at that time in the game,” Head Coach Mark Mcelroy said after the game. “This game it was very difficult to overcome the penalties.”
Geringer got off to a hot start in the first half, completing 19-of-26 pass attempts for 166 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 17 yards. He struggled in the second half though, completing 10-of-22 passes for 65 yards and two interceptions, while rushing for 31 yards.
despite going up against the best run de-fense in the SCFA Southern division, Cade once again put together a good game, rushing for 101 yards on 16 attempts, while also catch-ing eight passes for 50 yards. Saturday marked the third time this season that Cade rushed for
90 or more yards, but it was also the second straight game in which he failed to find the end-zone.
Freshman wide receiver eric Lauderdale continued to see an increase in his production on Saturday, as he led the team with 63 yards receiving on seven catches. After only catch-ing five passes for 33 yards in the Gaucho’s first two games, Lauderdale has lead the team with 13 catches for 144 yards over the last two games. over this span, Lauderdale is the only Gaucho with over 100 yards receiving.
Lauderdale spoke after the game, saying that connecting early on offense was a part of the problem for the Gauchos. He said that it has been slightly chal-lenging with the changing of the team’s quarterbacks. “We need to work on chemistry,” Lauderdale said. “We’re just trying to get to know each other.”
After seeing limited time in the loss to Riverside due to an an-kle injury suffered in the second week of the season, opening day starting quarterback Tim Belman saw himself on the sidelines for almost the entire game Saturday. Mcelroy talked about the change in starting quarterbacks after the game, saying “Belman is fully healed from (his ankle injury), now it’s just a decision of which quarterback will be the best op-tion for being successful on of-fense.”
The Gauchos (1-3) will look to turn around their season on Saturday, as they play the unde-feated Ventura College pirates (5-0). despite falling to 1-3, McElroy remains confident in his team. “Our kids are good kids,” he said. “our kids give great ef-fort, and they practice hard every
single day.”Geringer, while disappointed with the team’s
performance so far, still believes that the Gau-chos can turn it around.
“We’re just not executing like we should, we are killing ourselves with penalties, with quar-terback reads, whatever it may be. We are just killing ourselves. I don’t think there is any rea-son we can’t beat any team we play.”
michael GReNNellStaff Writer
MICHAeL GReNNeLL / LARIAT
Gauchos wide receiver Exavier Edwards-Ford blows past a Santa Ana defender to catch a touchdown pass from quarterback Jake Geringer in the first quarter of the 33-20 loss on Saturday at Saddleback StadiumBlown AwAy:
eR ik WOOdSStaff Writer
eRIK WoodS / LARIATSplASh: The Hornets sting the Gauchos in a 24-7 win to up their record to 9-1 while Saddleback falls to 1-9.
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10/3: 3-4 p.m. Men’s Water polo vs. Golden West 4-5 p.m. Women’s Water polo vs. Golden West 6-7 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. Orange Coast
10/5: 3-4 p.m. Men’s Soccer vs. Santiago Canyon 6-7 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. Cypres10/9: 3-4 p.m. Women’s Soccer vs. orange Coast
9/26: Women’s Volleyball 0-3 Loss to Grossmont 9/29: Football 20-33 Loss to Santa Ana9/25: Women’s Soccer 0-3 Loss to orange Coast9/26: Women’s Water Polo 7- 24 Loss to Fullerton
9/25: Women’s Soccer 1-3 Loss to Norco9/28: Women’s Soccer 1-1 Tie with Saddleback9/25: Men’s Soccer 0-3 Loss to Cypress9/28: Men’s Soccer 0-1 Loss to Fullerton Women’s Volleyball 1-4 Loss to Golden West
Saddleback, IVC battle to a draw
“They wanted to win, and they showed it...”
-Head Coach Joe Supe
Gauchos’ struggles continue, fall to 1-3 on season
Have you ever thought of staying on the Saddleback cam-pus just to watch sunset? If you haven’t, then you’ve missed out on one of the most beautiful and natural occurrences the campus offers. This is because at dusk, the orange sky swarms with
hundreds of birds- crows to be exact.
Beginning in fall and ending at the start of summer, the crows flock away from campus in the early morning to find food, and they return at dusk to settle into the tall trees behind parking lot 5A. This pattern has been re-peated for years here at Saddle-back. It is a rewarding sight to someone whose mundane life of studying needs something inter-
esting and fresh. Misty Orzechowski, a
27-year-old fashion design ma-jor, has seen the crows descend over campus many times.
“It’s nice that the crows have a place to go,” Orzechowski said.
Fellow fashion design ma-jor, 24-year-old Katrina Toice hasn’t let this spectacle go un-noticed either.
“It’s really cool and really
pretty when all the sudden you see a group of crows... or a murder of crows as you put it,” Toice stated.
Remember though that these are birds, so make sure to have some sort of cover over your head as you watch. It is known that these crows release a healthy dose of fresh droppings on the unsuspecting on-looker.
Don’t count on looking at this scene from your car either.
It blocks the full range of rota-tion your head needs.
Appreciate the beauty these synchronizing birds create as they fly away from the sunset. Since these are crows, expect nothing peaceful to the ears.
After a hard day of classes and long lectures that seem to go on forever, take a step back and go to the village parking lot about half an hour before sun-set. Take a deep breath and en-
joy the view with the sunset and the birds flying around. With the cold weather starting to creep up, bring a jacket or coat. Take a seat or stand outside. Anywhere is a good place to observe since there are so many of these crea-tures passing by.
Then wait.Look up and enjoy the view.
don congjuico & Rachel schmidStaff Writers
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Murder of crows fly around the parking lot of Saddleback College during the evening after their daily scouring, continuing their annual traditional flight that has been gracing the campus for many years.The birds:
A murder of crows at saddleback
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Irvine Valley College’s Japa-nese Program screened the first documentary of their Japanese American Film Series, Friday.
The documentary called “442 Extreme Patriots of WWII,” fo-cused on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 100th Battalion during World War II. The film showed the remaining veterans of the 442nd who survived the war, and their interviews as they tell stories about the struggles they faced at the time of war; some telling their stories for the first time.
The 100th/442nd was made up of Japanese-American sol-diers. Even after their people were discriminated against, la-beled as dangerous and forced into internment camps, although many of them were born in the US, the 442nd still remained loyal, fighting for the country.
“You not only fought the enemy. You fought prejudice -- and you won,” President Harry S. Truman said, recognizing the achievements of the 100th Bat-talion after the end of the war.
Their heroic efforts included liberating Bruyeres, Italy, res-cuing the Texas Battalion, the Battle of the Gothic Line and many more.
The regiment is known as the Purple Heart Battalion due to the 21 Purple Hearts that was awarded to them.
“The older soldiers of the
war had a positive attitude even though they went through the misery of the war,” Ting Liu, 19, administration, said on what really caught her eye in the film.
Their tremendous courage, loyalty and heroism during the war still remains remembered and celebrated around the globe.
“It’s a great movie for the awareness of Japanese Ameri-cans,” said IVC Professor of Japanese and Japanese Program
instructor Fumiko Ishii. “People should be aware of it. Not many Americans know about this [442 Regiment], so I thought I would make it available.” The goal of Ishii is to explore the Japanese-American efforts that were made during the war. Ishii is enthusiastic to be able to present all war-based films during the semester at IVC for the Japanese Program.
“MIS -- Human Secret Weap-ons” will be shown on Oct. 26 and “Toyo’s Camera- Japa-nese American History during WWII” will be shown on Nov. 30.
For more information contact Fumiko Ishii at [email protected].
“It’s a great movie for the awareness
of Japanese-Americans”
-Professor of Japanese Program Fumiko Ishii
glory: Documentary honors Japanese-Americans who fought in WWII.
KatRina andaya
Japanese-American war film seriespremieres at Irvine Valley College
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Staff Writer
High School freshmen get priority to transfer to Cal State Long Beach.
There are rumors circulating that high school seniors are getting prior-ity into Cal State Long Beach with im-pacted majors.
If this is true, the community col-lege system can suffer a potential cru-cial blow to the number of admitted students that look to community col-lege as a second option.
As a college student myself current-ly in the community college system, I think this eventually leads to time lost studying in community college. Stu-dents in the current system thought it would be a good idea to take general education classes for cheap that are still equal to Cal States and University’s standards.
For returning students it dims the light of re-invention and takes away the valuable resource of time.
Community college is a place for re-birth whether it is for the unsure sopho-more who doesn’t know what he or she loves to do yet or the successful entre-preneur who wants to live their life a little more adventurously.
The priority rumored to be given to high school seniors to go into these higher institutions is actually counter-productive in terms of being economi-cal. At this day and age it is very impor-tant to save money wherever possible. High school seniors that have little to no work experience end up getting loans if they can’t afford it or get the money from their parents.
It is true that some students graduat-ing their senior year are in the top of their class but the odds of them trans-ferring to a Cal State school when there are better schools for them are close to none.
The majority of seniors graduating this year are going to end up in a com-
munity college or a Cal State school but why must they go into a school that forces them to pay three times as much when they can get the same education for less.
Pre-requisites are offered at both schools but why pay more to get the
same quality education for a more rea-sonable price in this economy. Why take out a loan to get these subjects when you can just work part-time and get the subjects you need at your pace?
It would be better to avoid these problems and just not give priority to
these freshman that go with the allure of being in a “real” college. I’m guess-ing that’s what they think but when it comes down to it, community college is a better option in general.
If the rumor is true, it will trample a high school senior’s wallet and pro-
long the dream of the community col-lege student wanting to make it into a higher tier school.
For the parties involved in this, hopefully, it is just a rumor.
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Campus Comments
Last Wednesday the culinary lab was going to prep a linguini pasta dish. The students were going to use whole wheat pasta with some vegetables such as zucchini and peppers, as well as some herbs like parsley and oregano.
Dalton Pacino, Taylor Gauth-ier and Melissa Armstrong all said, “The culinary lab is aw-some.”
“I prefer the lab because i am a more of a hands-on type of person,” Gauthier said. They stated that they have only had three recipes to cook, but their favorite so far was the turkey meatloaf.
The only thing none of them like about the lab is that the stools are uncomfortable. They also said that the instructor is very informal compared to what is seen on TV such as “Hell’s Kitchen” where they have to an-swer “Yes Chef.”
It is clear that the students studying culinary arts not only enjoy the lab but the delicious recipes they cook themselves.
What’s cooking in the kitchensteven JungStaff Writer
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Staff Writer
The main stage at the Per-forming Arts Center in Irvine Valley College welcomes back students who’ve once filled the halls with their music, inviting them to perform again Sept. 28, at 8 p.m.
Eight students who studied music within the walls of IVC reunited Friday night honor-ing the school with their talents that have evolved since they left. Andria Gaskill, Michelle Packman, Edward Park, Ma-thieu Girardet, Ashley Johnson, Jeff Ramos, and Ross Sellers, and JP Marquez returned to the familiar stage and performed their music pieces to the 400-seat theater.
Although the theater was only 70 percent filled with an audience, the artists still per-formed enthusiastically.
Opening the performance was Andria Gaskill in her beau-tiful purple gown and a voice that earned the audiences at-tention. The soprano singer delighted the listeners with an Emily Dickinson song, “Na-ture, the Gentlest Mother,” from “Twelve Poems by Emily Dickinson.”
“I am so happy to be able
to come back and perform in a theater that is so comfortable to me,” Gaskill commented. “I was first here when the build-ing was being developed, and I was one of the first performers to sing here.”
The 4th Annual Alumni Recital began this musical tra-dition in 2009 when the new Arts Center was built by Arqui-tectonica, so the center is still a new, raising IVC artists and letting them go on their way to explore what more may come.
“It’s such a wonderful and warm environment,” Ashley Johnson said about the IVC the-ater. “It’s so nice to come back to our teachers who actually care about everything we are doing.”
Johnson, also a soprano, stood onstage with a deep blue flowing dress, and cheeky man-nerisms to fit the song, “Fair Robin I Love” from the opera, “Tartuffe.”
She was accompanied by pianist Dean Erick, who played
for every solo and duet. Togeth-er they bowed as the audience were entirely grateful to hear Johnson’s outstanding voice.
“Being here today is spe-cial to me because it feels like home,” cello player Michelle Packman said. The girls haven’t lost touch since they’ve left IVC.
As Erick and Packman syn-chronize keys and strings, the audience is silenced. They per-formed the piece called, “Strubs from What?” composed by art-ist Edward Park, who after the song had ended, came onstage and bowed.
Packman also performed as a soloist with only her cello, and a projector that emitted art which related to each piece of music from the “Gallery Suite” written by American composer Robert Muczynski.
More talents joined the per-formance including, clarinet player Mathieu Girardet, Jeff Ramos on Vibraphone, Ross Sellers, and JP Marquez as a jazz combo.
All of these performers ei-ther attend CSU Long Beach, CSU Fullerton, or have now en-tered the arena of musical arts as a vocation.
IVC welcomes back student musicians
Anglie l . P inedA
Staff Writer
Linda Carver played Saturday night at IVC’s Performance Art Center. She played a combination of the harpsichord and the piano. Carver’s performance is part of IVC’s Guest Artist Series.
Lucinda Carver has played with the Los Angeles Chamber Orches-tra and the Los Angeles Philhar-monic. She is a current instructor of piano, harpsichord and conducting at USC’s Thornton School of Mu-sic.
Carver interpreted Sonatas from Domenico Scarlett, Les Bari-cades Misterieuses from Franois Coupenin before the intermission.
After the intermission she con-
cluded with Johanannese Brahms’s Rhapsody in B minor and Franz Schubert’s Sonata in G.
In between the sets she present-ed the audience with a backstory.
“This is a piece of music that is of funny satire,” says Carver when describing the Baricades Mis-terieuses.
“In the last act all hell breaks loose because of all the monkeys and bears break loose,” said Carver.
The performance was enjoyed by the audience, which included also included visiting students from USC.
“It was amazing and wonderful. It’s a great program,” says Kyle (last name not provided,) a music student from USC.
“A fine attention to detail, good
to hear harpsichord and piano,” says Peter (last name not provid-ed,) a student of Carver.
IVC’s keyboard instructor Su-san Boettger praised Carver’s mastery of her renditions.
“It was an inspiring program playing from 1600-1800,” Boett-ger said.
“Carver described such pieces with such humor…it was very clear,” Boettger said.
After the performance Carv-er spoke to the Lariat about her thoughts on being part of the Guest Artist’s Series.
“It was a real pleasure to play here, I’m really happy to be invit-ed,” Carver said.
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Pianist strikes a harpsichord at IVCAnibAl SAntoSStaff Writer
Originally released in Ja-pan back in June, the PS3 ex-clusive Tokyo Jungle finally makes it’s way onto PlaySta-tion Network.
Coming from the team at PlayStation C.A.M.P., Tokyo Jungle is a survival action game that revolves around animals in post-apocalyptic Japan.
While a few things fall flat, Tokyo Jungle is surprisingly ad-dicting and provides exciting action.
Mankind is extinct, the once vibrant city of Tokyo is rotting away and now animals must fend for themselves. Everything from lions, tigers, hippos and beagles roam the streets.
The main story campaign in Tokyo Jungle follows a once spoiled Pomeranian who now must learn how to fight for him-self.
The story really doesn’t evolve or go anywhere exciting and the ‘true ending’ the game gives you is less than satisfying. That being said, the main star
in Tokyo Jungle is it’s survival mode.
Tokyo Jungle’s survival mode is addicting and exciting. In survival mode, your goal is to survive as long as you can.
You do this by taking over territories, hunting down other animals to rank up and then finding a mate to create a new generation.
This may sound simple but each objective has it’s own chal-lenge.
For example, there are dif-ferent levels of mates: desper-ate, average and prime. Prime gives you three offspring, aver-age gives you two and desperate only provides one.
The more offspring you car-ry, the longer you’ll be able to survive in the next generation but, in order to mate with the prime you must be ranked high enough.
This mechanic, among other ones, really adds a variety of strategies to the game, allowing enough room for you to experi-ment.
Tokyo Jungle does an excel-lent job of constantly giving
new challenges and rewards to go for.
For each play through of survival, you’ll be able to take on up to 20 different challenges which all have different re-wards. Some of the rewards are basic, such as medicine, but cer-tain challenges reward you with a new animal to play with.
It’s rather addicting to keep unlocking new animals and go through survival mode with them. With well over 20 animals to unlock, that alone is enough to keep you busy for a very long time.
Tokyo Jungle may look a bit absurd from afar, but it’s addic-tive gameplay and consistent re-wards will hold anyone’s atten-tion for quite some time.
It’s definitely the standout on the PSN this year and with the asking price of only $15, Tokyo Jungle is hard not to recom-mend.
Tokyo Jungle is available for download now on PS3’s Play-Station Network.••• Overall ScOre: 7.5
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PianiSt: Linda Carver fills IVC Performing Arts Center with sweet melodies Saturday.
COURTESY OF PLAYSTATION EUROPEit ’S A Jungle out there : Animals run wild all over the streets of Toyko in post-apocalyptic Japan.
Surviving tokyo Jungle
“Being here today is special to me because it feels
like home”-Michelle Packman