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Several Hispanic students in the Orange Coast College Theatre Arts department will perform in the world premiere of “One More Day,” a play centering around migrant farm workers, or braceros, who participated in the U.S.-Mex-ico Agricultural Program from 1942 to 1964.
The play, written by Michael Roddy, portrays the conditions braceros faced, who they were as a people, and the signiicant contribution they made to the U.S.
“Being Hispanic, this play ex-
cites me, these are my people and it honors them,” said Christian Palatto, actor portraying Juan, a bracero worker.
According to Palatto, the play honors braceros by educating the audience on what Mexicans of that period went through and how that affects people today.
“It’s special because it relects the culture of so many of our stu-dents and it’s a world premiere, it’s never been performed,” said Tom Bruno, director of “One More Day.”
According to OCCs’ Atlas, the Hispanic population of OCC in fall 2012 was 30.5 percent — and represented the largest increase of any group since fall 2002.
A variety of Hispanic cultures are represented in the production, including Mexican and El Salva-dorian.
Actors in the play said they feel excited and honored to be a part of this historical theatre opening.
“I come from Mexican descent and I feel I’ve been given a voice whereas my ancestors that came here, who had to work shitty jobs, didn’t,” said Chloe Campas, who is portraying Sylvia, the wife of a farm worker.
Campas said she hopes students come with open minds and leave feeling something.
Michael Roddy, playwright of “One More Day,” said he was inspired to write the play after a friend had invited him to the Smithsonian Institution which was hosting an exhibit that honored the
braceros. It was during that visit when he turned to his friend and told him that it deserved a play.
“I was also inluenced by the dedication of U.S. Highway 101 to the braceros that died in a train accident in 1963,” Roddy said.
The accident, which killed dozens of braceros, is considered the worst trafic-related accident in
The Tour de Orange Coast College could soon be in full swing as proposals from the college’s Facilities Planning Committee look to add a new bike and skateboard loop on campus.
OCC has hired John Hollo-
way of KTU+A Planning and Landscaping in San Diego to design the proposed bike and skateboarding path. Holloway served two terms as president of the San Diego Mountain Biking Association and was a volunteer trail planner.
He has also designed campus loops on notable campuses in-cluding UC San Diego and San Diego State University.
“A campus core or loop is something we’ve designed for campuses throughout Southern California,” Holloway said. “The project also contributes to a state study on both biking and skateboarding regarding
campus safety.”The proposed campus loop
will serve as a sort of rectangular path distinguished by color that will border the exterior of the campus and major parking lots allowing easy access to mobile students.
Holloway’s loop design pro-posals have weighed the most eficient routes for students to follow on the exterior of campus in terms of access to classrooms — bike racks will be placed ac-cordingly, Holloway said.
When a student uses the loop they will ride to different class-room path access points across campus where a sign will indi-
cate walking only zones, forcing riders to pick up their board and walk. The loop will eliminate any grey area for students who wish to travel by bike or skate-board on the interior walkways of the loop, making it easier for Campus Safety to control improper mobile transportation.
While campus officials are supportive of a loop, some stu-dents say it’s futile to add such restrictions to bikers and board-ers.
“It’s not going to happen, let’s be real. There is no way that (a
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BY ALEX RACECOPY EDITOR
Orange Coast College is not going down without a ight as oficials appeal a one-year post-season ban that was issued to them by the California Commu-nity College Athletic Association earlier this month.
OCC administrators and their attorneys iled a 70-page appeal to the CCCAA, the Orange Em-pire Conference and the Southern California Football Association on Friday stating that the one-year postseason ban levied by these organizations on all of OCC’s 22 sports programs was unfair, unreasonable, inappropri-ate and unjustiied.
“We believe that these sanc-tions were very unfair and hope that our appeal is heard and considered,” Doug Bennett se-nior director of institutional advancement said.
OCC also stated in its appeal
that in almost every violation cited in the sanction’s memo-randum, the school self-reported the violation and took the proper steps to avoid the violations from happening again in the future.
“The CCCAA never took into consideration the measures we took to punish the violators and the measures we took to avoid future violations,” Bennett said.
OCC administrators said there is some bias being shown against them, stating that the success of the college’s sports programs has led to envy from other schools within the conference.
Bennett said the envy has led to the “witch hunt” put forth by the OEC and the CCCAA with help from opposing schools in the conference.
“We feel that other schools in our conference are jealous of our success and that’s why they were more than happy to aid in the investigation,” Bennett said.
The appeal letter also argued the fact that these sanctions are unprecedented and that there has never been a postseason ban on an entire sports program for the violations of a few of its teams.
“In all my years at OCC I have
Sports ban appeal filedSanctions called unfair, unjustified and unreasonable by college.
BY KODY DODIERSPORTS EDITOR
World premiere “One More Day” tells the story of farm workers.
BY NATHAN RUSINIAKNEWS EDITOR
Play brings bracero life to stage
Photo courtesy of Orange Coast College
A world premiere play about the life of migrant farm work-ers between 1942 and 1964 will be presented starting Fri-day in the Drama Lab Theatre.
If you go
What: “One More Day”
Where: Drama Lab Theatre
When: Friday to Sunday and
March 24-26
Cost: $8 advance, $12 door
Photo by Aaron Cuha
Noah Howe, 19, a political science major, says skateboarding on campus has landed him two $15 citations and he would welcome a loop allowing him to get to class on his board.
Photo courtesy of Orange Coast College
Officials are considering a path around OCC dedicated to bikes and skateboarders.See LOOP Page 6
See SANCTIONS Page 6
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For over four years, Orange Coast College’s Kinesiology and Athletics division has been trying to get money approved to renovate the campus’ sport complexes.
The department hopes to inally break ground on a new gymnasium and locker rooms in spring 2017 with the building operational two years later.
Planning for the new building started in 2013, when Measure M funds were allocated for fa-cilities in athletics programs that needed remodeling. Measure M was a $698 million bond used for the three campuses in the Coast Community College District.
Renovations will start with the swimming pool. While the pool is usable, the pool is not available for competitions.
In addition to the pool, oficials are looking at classrooms used for the adaptive physical education program. They are small class-rooms in the health center and don’t provide enough space for the students.
Finally, oficials said they are looking to move the gymnasium and locker rooms because the fa-cilities are over 50 years old.
“Fifty years ago these facilities were perfect and it the school’s needs but are now inadequate for our current situation,” said Dean of Kinesiology and Athletics Dr. Michael Sutliff.
While $30 million was orig-
inally budgeted for the renova-tions, when the department de-cided to move the entire building next to Lebard Stadium it moved closer to $51 million, oficials said.
Richard Pagel, vice president of Administrative Services, said OCC got the funding in 2013 but it is not enough money to do everything in the plan.
“The remodel is looking to be $50 million and we only got a budget of $30 million, so if we can’t get the other $20 million we
will have to start prioritizing and rebuilding in sections instead of all at once,” Pagel said.
The gym will go in next to the football ield and wrap around the front of it where the Game On food truck is located. Pagel said the Game On truck wouldn’t be a problem because it is easy to move.
“It is on wheels and not dificult to transport. The only thing that would need to be rebuilt is the plumbing and sewers underneath the truck, but that wouldn’t be a
problem,” Pagel said. Sutliff agreed with Pagel.“We are considering all op-
tions. We potentially could build the entire building at once but it’s more realistic to think we will have to phase the building in,” Sutliff said.
One beneit to all students is that all the old buildings will be removed and more parking will be added. They also will be able to hold many more events in the gymnasium, including graduations and campus events, Sutliff said.
Campus MARCH 16, 20162
You lockA bike was reported stolen
on Sunday at the Orange Coast College swap meet between 12:45 p.m. and 2:25 p.m. near the Chemistry building and the Literature and Language build-ing, said John Farmer, chief of Campus Safety.
The victim of the reported bike theft, a male non-student, was attending the swap meet when he had his black beach cruiser stolen. He had parked his beach cruiser at around 12:45 p.m. and when he later returned he saw it was gone, Farmer said.
The bike is reportedly worth about $250 along with a $50 U-lock that was also stolen.
Higher groundA male non-student was re-
portedly smoking marijuana on Sunday in front of Social Sciences Room 107. He was sitting on the ground putting what appeared to be a green substance resembling marijuana in a small bowl while holding a bong, Farmer said.
He was advised that this activ-ity was not allowed on campus and was asked to show iden-tiication but refused to do so. He chose to show identiication after the Costa Mesa Police De-partment arrived where he also showed his medical marijuana paperwork, Farmer said.
He was advised to leave and was told he would be subject to trespassing if he stayed, so he left, Farmer said.
Unlocked carA male student reported that
most of his belongings were stolen from his car on March 7 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot. The victim’s doors were unlocked so there was no forced entry, Farmer said.
A blue snowboard jacket
was reported stolen along with snowboard goggles, a facemask, car chargers and an angel statue. The total value of the items missing were valued around $720, Farmer said.
Mustang banditOn March 8 between 1:10
p.m. and 3:30 p.m. a male stu-dent reported that his Ford Mustang was broken into in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot, Farmer said.
The victim returned to his car after class and noticed the con-sole was open and belongings were missing, Farmer said.
Two males were seen walking back and forth in the vicinity of the vehicle during the day. The men were unidentiiable because the car was out of view from a parking lot security camera, Farmer said.
A JBL boom box, Chrome Cologne, and $6 in cash were reported stolen. The total value of the items stolen totaled $150, Farmer said.
You lock Vandalism was reported on
March 7 at 7:30 a.m. at the southwest exterior corner of the Technology building.
The suspects were not iden-tiied and the informant was a male staff member. Campus Safety responded to the reported vandalism and made contact with the informant, Farmer said.
The suspect reportedly rolled the blue dumpster from the woodshop to the treehouse on the southwest corner of the Technology building. The re-sulting damage was a chip in the wood base of the tree house, along with two broken windows. The damage is worth $200 to $300, Farmer said.
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OCC may start construction to replace the Basil H. Peterson Gym as early as spring 2017.
Students looking to make their mark before leaving Orange Coast College will have another chance — they can try out to be this year’s commencement speaker on March 25 at 2 p.m.
in Literature and Languages room 244.
“It’s always wonderful to hear what real students have discov-ered about school and about life while at OCC,” said communica-tions studies instructor Courtney Anderson, who will serve on the selection committee. “Being the
student who is chosen gives them an even more intimate experi-ence of the ceremony, and it will be something that they remember forever.”
Any student who is walking in OCC’s 2016 commencement ceremony is eligible to try out to be commencement speaker. The
speech is four minutes long, and students who are interested in trying out may contact Anderson at [email protected] for advice and guidelines.
Commencement will be held May 20 at 5:30 p.m. in the Paciic Amphitheatre across the street from Orange Coast College.
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Features 3MARCH 16, 2016
The movement of micro-breweries is sweeping Orange County and we
happen to have one of the best ones here in our own back yard right here in Costa Mesa.
Barley Forge was named Orange County’s Best Brewery of 2015 by OC Weekly so I had to try it out.
I took my irst step into what was a large open warehouse with exposed beams and rus-tic pendulum lighting. I was greeted with the aroma of sweet beer and fresh popcorn thanks to a self-serve, complimentary popcorn station that was set up.
The music instantly set the ambiance. The 1950s-themed music made you feel relaxed and uplifted.
As some patrons were shout-ing over an intense game of Connect Four, I made my way to the bar where I ordered a taster of every beer they had available that day.
As I waited for my drinks I noticed a table with all sorts of board games, ranging from Candy Land and Monopoly to Uno and Jenga.
My date for the night grabbed the stack of Uno cards. I grabbed my 12 beers, organized in three 14-gauge steel beer lights, and made my way to one of the many tables in the tasting room.
We sat and played a couple hands of Uno. I tried everything from the Horchata-infused Bel-gian Witbier Don Perfecto to the chocolate milk stout dubbed
Hug Me. After trying 12 beers and feel-
ing my speech starting to slur, I was ready to pick my top three.
My top beer was The Patsy. It’s a beer I’ve had a few times around Orange County and is the brewery’s most popular. Tasting a freshly brewed co-conut rye stout was a different experience.
The Patsy was smooth, deep brown in color with a creamy white head. The scent gave me hints of chocolate and coconut -- very pleasant to say the least.
Bring a growler and take some home with you, it’s a delicious beer.
Nom Nom came in second place. The mango hefeweizen was a different take on a classic
beer.It was a very cloudy hefe, yel-
low in color and had an intense fruity aroma. The after taste is where the mango really came into play.
In third place was Fugue State. The barrel-aged Russian imperial stout came in at 9.25 percent ABV, making it the strongest offering.
It was dark, roasty and choc-olaty. It wasn’t the sort of beer that deserved to be enjoyed and savored.
Barley Forge is different than many other breweries I’ve visited. It wasn’t as loud and busy. They didn’t seem to take themselves too seriously. They let the beer speak for itself.
They’re number one for a
reason and those of you with no plans and looking for a fresh brew for St. Patrick’s Day Thurs-
day – it’s worth taking a look. The brewery is located at 2957 Randolph Ave in Costa Mesa.
Finding victory at Barley ForgeA Coast Report staffer suits up to sample one of OC’s best micobreweries right here in Costa Mesa.
BY JESSE CASTRO, STAFF WRITER
Photo courtesy of Barley Forge
Costa Mesa brewery Barley Forge offers a variety of brews in its tasting room. One Coast Report writer picks his top three from a flight of 12.
Many will rummage through their closets for a lucky green shirt to wear on St. Patrick’s Day Thursday while I, on the other hand, will focus on chow-ing down on the holiday’s best local eats.
After visiting multiple restau-rants and trying a variety of Irish dishes, I decided on the best three restaurants to go and join the St. Patrick’s Day festivities this year are:
#3 Silky Sullivan’s Restau-rant and Irish Pub
With the feel of a real Irish pub and a plethora of authentic Irish dishes, Silky Sullivan’s is a great place to celebrate your St. Patrick’s Day festivities.
One thing that Silky Sullivan’s seems to have mastered is its appetizers - all 18 of them. I would recommend Silky’s Irish Pub Crisps which are made from house chopped potatoes. They are topped with melted cheese and scallions, then inished with your choice of corned beef or bacon.
The Irish Faire portion of the menu really drew my attention and consists of authentic Irish cuisine like shepherd’s pie and corned beef. The menu also includes a traditional Irish meal, Irish Boxty which is a potato pancake dish.
I preferred their shepherd’s pie which is composed of ground beef, carrots, peas and onions in a house-made gravy all topped with a layer of mashed potatoes. I am typically picky when it comes to shepherd’s pie but Sullivan’s
seemed to have the perfect ratio of beef to gravy and it was not too runny or chunky.
Silky Sullivan’s will be able to fulill any of your St. Patrick’s Day needs, whether it be through food, live music, or green beer. Silky Sullivan’s is located at 10201 Slater Ave. in Fountain Valley.
#2 O’Malley’s on MainIf you’re looking for fun night
with some Seal Beach locals, O’Mal-ley’s on Main should be your go-to spot for St. Paddy’s Day.
Located on Main Street in Seal Beach, the Irish pub does an excel-lent job of capturing an authentic Irish experience through the atten-tion to detail on almost all aspects of the bar. O’Malley’s actually features a fireplace on their main dining room loor.
When it comes to food, O’Mal-ley’s does not mess around.
First off, order the ish ‘n chips. Don’t even think about it, just do it. The lakey breading on the outside of the fresh caught Alaskan halibut still has my mouth watering.
With a variety of traditional Irish foods, making a decision at O’Mal-ley’s can be slightly dificult.
I advise you to play it safe and
stick with the ish n’ chips but the bangers and champ is also a great choice. With a base of mashed potatoes and topped with sausages and gravy, you’re going to be glad that you decided to venture to the little town of Seal Beach to celebrate your Irish heritage, even if you don’t have one.
O’Malley’s is located on 140 Main Street in Seal Beach.
#1 Killarney Pub and GrillKillarney is normally seen as the
rowdy and wild bar to attend on a Saturday night in Huntington Beach, but not many people know of its best commodity. Its food.
I start every meal at Killarney with an order of hot chicken wings. As a self-proclaimed chicken wing connoisseur, I must say that these are my favorite wings.
Something in the sauce gives it a beautiful combination of savor and spice, while the chicken falls off the bone in each bite.
If you don’t ill yourself up on reills of the chicken wings, I highly recommend trying one of the Finn McCool burgers. The burger features a seasoned 10-ounce ground beef patty topped with lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese, bacon and a runny fried egg.
If you want to respect your heri-
tage and keep the Irish theme going this St. Paddy’s Day, you can choose from one of Killarney’s Irish entrees such as shepherd’s pie or bangers and mash, but the burgers are what
really keeps me coming back.St. Patrick’ Day at Killarney is
a great choice if you’re looking for some quality pregame grub, just don’t be surprised if an overly
friendly patron tries to steal one of your wings.
Killarney Pub and Grill is located on 209 Main Street in Huntington Beach.
Chowing on a bit ‘o the Irish grubPubs across the OC will be offering fine Irish fare on St. Paddy’s day.
BY COLE DAWSSTAFF WRITER
Photos by Cole Daws
Shepherd’s pie at Silky Sullivan’s in Fountain Valley (above) is a treat for the senses and one of the best Irish dishes served in Orange County. O’Malley’s on Main (below) offers a variety of Irish specialities but its fish ‘n chips are a sure winner. The restaurant’s bangers and champ is also a hometown favorite.
Photo by Cole Daws
Killarney’s in Huntington Beach has delectable chicken wings and a great shepherd’s pie.
Just as the bottle that collides with John Goodman’s face, so too were my low expectations of “10 Cloverield Lane” shat-tered.
“10 Cloverfield Lane” is centered around Michelle, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who while running away from relationship troubles inds herself unconscious in an overturned car.
When we see our star again she awakens in a bare bones, concrete, windowless room hooked up to an I.V. with fresh scrapes over her face that match her blood stained pillow.
Howard, played by Good-man, enters to bring Michelle food through a door that looks as if it would withstand an atomic blast, which it may very well have after Howard explains their current situation.
They are in his underground bunker and there has been an attack by an unknown entity that has left the air outside com-
pletely uninhabitable which means everybody she loved is now dead.
Howard is a retired veteran who appears to be aggressively anti-social and mainly likes to keep to himself.
Emmett, played by John Gallagher, Jr., is the only other inhabitant of the bunker that be-comes the mediator between his fellow survivors. He provides a softer tone in the anxiety-illed ilm.
Although the backstory on both Michelle and Emmett is brief it’s just enough for the audience to get a real glimpse at who they are as people.
The budget was a tad low, es-timated at $5 million according to imdb.com and left me a little skeptical.
Cloverield, because of the previous ilm, is synonymous with alien invasion and with a budget of $5 million I knew most of the movie would take place in the bunker which seems like the most boring place for an alien invasion ever. I was wrong.
“10 Cloverield Lane” made up for the low dollar amount with solid writing and seasoned actors who knew how to estab-lish chemistry with one another.
The combination of the two caused me to struggle just as
much as the characters on the screen with the question of is Howard their savior or captor?
Goodman, you know the guy who voiced Sully from the children’s movie “Monsters, Inc.,” is a haunting visage of a psychopath that caused my heart to feel like an entire per-cussion orchestra was beating in my chest and an anxiety that envelops my mind even as I write this.
Winstead was stuck being
the damsel in distress for the beginning of the movie, but as I watched the events unfold she proved herself as an actor by portraying a “MacGyver”-es-que heroine.
Gallagher was the glue of this movie because his performance as a mediator was what made me question whether Howard’s motives are virtuous or vile.
This ilm from what I could see had very little relation to the previous “Cloverield” to
which I uttered a small “thank God.”
“Cloverield” was a ilm that mainly relied on special effects, which was ruined due to the ilms’ poor choice of shooting style and a lack of story.
The ending felt a little thrown together at the last minute and seemed annoyingly reminiscent of ilms of a similar genre but it doesn’t detract from the overall enjoyment of “10 Cloverield Lane.”
Ted Baker and Rick Steadry, former instructors of ine arts at Orange Coast College, will be exhibiting their art at the Notting-ham Gallery in Newport Beach starting this week.
From now through April 30 you can admire the painting and photography of two of OCC’s steadfast pillars of art instruc-tion. The opening reception will be on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. with both artists present in attendance.
“Nottingham Gallery loves
supporting local artists and when I had stumbled upon work of Ted and Rick I really fell in love and wanted to give them an exhibit,” said Michelle Darabi, owner of the Nottingham Gallery.
Ted Baker was born in Long Beach, California and served in the US Navy from 1956 to 1958 before becoming a full-time art teacher at Los Angeles High School. He received his MFA from Claremont Graduate School in 1966 and began teaching at Scripps College around the same time.
“I make a drawing or take photographs on site, and these images become my references while working in my studio. As the painting develop, the images create their own reality and become a personal medium for my visual dialogue,” Baker said.
By the fall of 1968 Baker was hired as a full-time faculty member at OCC. After 10 years of art instruction at the school he became the dean of ine arts which he served as until his retirement in 1999.
“Ted is largely an abstract painter but he uses real obser-vations of the world to create his abstractions. It’s not just throwing color on the canvas,” Steadry said.
Steadry grew up in the windy city of Chicago and is a Harvard Alumni with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in photography. He taught at Harvard following his graduation.
“I remain ever fascinated by light and the way photographs can both imitate and initi-ate non-conscious memory,” Steadry said.
In 1971 Steadry came to OCC
to share his vast knowledge of the arts and photography and became one of the school’s most lauded photography in-structors.
“We don’t necessarily re-member the grand things in life. A lot of our memories are the little things. I try to make images that function in the way memory does,” said Steadry.
Steadry spent 41 years culti-vating students at OCC before his retirement in 2012. His leg-acy lives on through The Rick Steadry Scholarship – “Fasci-nated by Light.” This schol-arship awards $2,000 to one deserving art student each year.
The Nottingham Gallery will be providing wine and cheese for the guests attending the reception located at 4229 Birch Street, Suite 170 in Newport Beach.
“What in the hell are you doing in Bakersield on Sun-day,” my father asked with a worried look in his eye. “Cage the Elephant” was the reply as a grin started to stretch from ear to ear on my face.
As a part of Cage the Ele-phant’s “Spring Fling Rock AF 2016 Tour,” a concert at the Rabobank Theater in Ba-kersield consisted of the bands Bear Hands, Foals, Silversun Pickups and of course Cage the Elephant as the headliner.
Waking up Sunday morning there was something different. It could’ve been the slight hangover but it more than likely was a giddy feeling of excitement because I was going to see my favorite band in less than 12 hours.
My companion for the trip had seen Cage the Elephant twice already and spent the day illing me in on what to expect, such as lead singer Matt Shultz always crowd suring even when he’s speciically told not to.
Two and a half hours of driving was what separated us from the rest of the crowd as my social but-terly of a friend found out when he asked people where they’re from and almost all responded with a nearby local location.
After a long wait in line to buy overpriced merchandise my friend and I were left con-
fused as to where to sit which shouldn’t happen with general admission ticket.
The confusion was due to the venue changing from Rabobank Arena to the Rabobank Theater, which is still a mystery because staff on hand were either unin-formed or unwilling to answer as to why the change.
We sat in a random seat near the front and just as we got done praying we weren’t in someone’s seat Bear Hands took to the stage.
I had no knowledge of the band but they had a smooth
rock sound that seemed to cap-ture the younger audience that was in attendance.
The Foals were another that I hadn’t ever heard of but their performance provided a fun beat and an emotional perfor-mance that mesmerized my friend and me.
Silversun Pickups has been that band that you say you’re pretty sure you’ve heard a couple of songs from but in reality have heard the name on the radio and their music turns into white noise.
The sound they have is pe-
culiar but the real show was an overweight couple located a row down from us that decided Silversun Pickups was the band to dirty dance to, keeping in mind these are tightly packed rows and they are seated near fairly young looking girls.
Eventually the white trash couple was kicked out and Sil-versun Pickups inished their set and left the stage.
I’ve always heard about an electricity in the air when you see a concert so when the lights went down I could feel the level of excitement from the audience
that had been lacking all evening.As the crowd’s unintelligible
roars and screams thundered through the stadium the lights came up on the stage and Cage the Elephant was there right in front of me and it felt unreal.
Cage the Elephant delivered a performance I will never forget from Matt Shultz bal-ancing his knees on top of bass guitarist Daniel Tichenor to Brad Shultz, guitarist and older brother of Matt Shultz, pulling a kid on stage that impressed him by doing a front lip into the front pit of the theater.
arts & Culture MARCH 16, 20164Campus Events
For information on most campus events,
call (714) 432-5880.
Theater
Happening
Exhibits
“Into Her Own: Diane Nelson, Four Decades in the Art World,” through April 9: About 70 works featured in the galleries of OCC alumna and gallery owner Diane Nelson will be displayed. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. An artist talk is slated for March 9 at 5 p.m. Free.
“One More Day,” Fri-day to Sunday and March 24 to 26: Tom Bruno will direct the Michael Rod-dy play about migrant farm workers who came to the states to work for the U.S. -Mexico Agri-cultural Program. In the Drama Lab Studio . Cur-tain 7:30 p.m. Admission $12 or $6 with student ID.
“Study Abroad in Flor-ence, Itlay,” March 22: Spend a month in Florence, one of the world’s centers of art and culture. OCC Faculty member, Franca Hamber, will be holding a preview meeting in Lit-erature and Languages Room 215 from 5:30 p.m.
“Tranfer to CSU Work-shop,” Thursday: The fol-lowing workshop will help you optimize the chances of attending the CSU of your choice and make sure you will get credit for all applicable courses. In the Watson Hall 3rd Floor Con-ference Room from 11 a.m.
“Tranfer to UC Work-shop,” Monday: The fol-lowing workshop will help you optimize the chances of attending the UC of your choice and make sure you will get credit for all appli-cable courses. In the Wat-son Hall 3rd Floor Confer-ence Room from 1:30 p.m.
OCC artists to showcase works in Newport
Road trip to Cage the ElephantA staff writer’s love for music turns into a two-hour trek inland.
BY NATHAN RUSINIAKNEWS EDITOR
Photo courtesy of kzap.org
Cage the Elephant performed at the Rabobank Theater in Bakersfield Sunday as part of its 2016 tour.
Photography and paintings by two past Coast teachers will be on display.
BY CHRIS TOLANDARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR
‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ exceeds low expectationsA strong script and cast make up for the low-budget film.
BY NATHAN RUSINIAKNEWS EDITOR
Photo courtesy of movieweb.com
Three people are held inside a shelter after Howard, played by John Goodman (right), claims the world outside has been affected by an unknown entity leaving the environment uninhabit-able.
If you go
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K a n y e West’s debut of his Yeezy S e a s o n 3 clothing line went off with a bang on Feb. 12 i n New York.
Yeezy Sea-son 3 is the third install-ment of West’s clothing line with Adidas and was arguably the most anticipated fashion show of New York Fash-ion Week this year. After the fash-ion show sold out 20 thousand seats at Madison Square Garden, it’s pretty obvious to me that his vision is working.
West’s “post-apocalyptic” de-signs seem to have taken over the mainstream fashion world and has reached as far as the White House
with President Obama rocking West’s shoes. At Orange Coast College you might even catch a few ballers lexing some Yeezy Boost 350s on campus.
For most students, West’s $216 shoes prove a bit too pricey but for others, the opportunity to rock the Footwear News 2015 “Shoe of the Year” is totally worth it.
“I honestly think it is worth the cash because if you worked hard for your check and you were actually able to get your hands on a pair, that’s a dope accomplish-ment and also a great feeling,” Armand Hernandez, a 22-year-old marketing major said.
It’s actually not that easy to get your hands on a pair of Yeezy Boost 350’s. You can order them online through Adidas.com but they sell out within about 5 min-utes of a limited release. You can also try to get a pair by going to
your nearest Adidas Originals store but you must enter yourself a rafle to have an opportunity to buy the shoes.
To meet the insane demand of the shoe, West is taking to height-ened production efforts.
“@Adidas is making a million Yeezys this year, opening up new factories…” West said on Twitter.
As an employee of Adidas Originals, I love the thought of people lining up for a chance to get these shoes and check out West’s new clothing line. Nothing is more exciting to me than see-ing all the “hype-beasts” come into the s t o r e
flexing new streetwear from 2016, especially Yeezy’s. I think the clothing line looks great and the Yeezy Boost 350s are totally worth the price.
On Feb. 26 West has announced his newest music venture, “Tur-bo Grafx 16” along with his plans for a Yeezy Season 4, and on Friday Ian Con-nor, a bud-d ing
fashion designer, announced he will be resurrecting West’s 2000 clothing line “Pastelle.”
Between his fourth announced installment with Adidas, his seventh studio album, and ability to sell out entire stadiums for a fashion show, I think West has earned his place in the fashion and entertainment world.
Monsanto is often referred to as “the most evil company in the world.” It’s a pretty ominous title but one that is probably de-served.
The compa-ny rebranded itself as an agri-culture company back in 2000 and currently controls 80 percent of the genetically modiied seed market.
Before that it was a chemical company founded in 1901. It was the company that gave the world Agent Orange, the poisonous her-bicide used in the Vietnam War, and glyphosate, the carcinogen and the main ingredient found in Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the agriculture industry.
Monsanto is now focused on
genetically modifying the food we eat with the goal of providing more nutritious, longer lasting, higher yielding crops.
It’s been over 20 years since the company entered the industry and the results have been controversial. It’s failed on many of the fronts it supposedly set out against.
Since entering the industry glob-al hunger has decreased steadily, something attributed to the hard work of men and women around the world to stop hunger — not contributions of Monsanto.
The World Hunger Organization reports 795 million people are chronically malnourished. GMOs have failed on the front against ending hunger. The nutritional value is equal but the health effects cause reason to pause.
It all goes back to Roundup. The Journal of Entropy and the Wash-ington Post now link residue left behind by the herbicide on crops to sterility, hormone disruption, birth
defects and cancer.California just made a move ad-
vised on behalf of the International Agency for Research on Cancer to place glyphosate on its list of known carcinogens. Monsanto rebutted with a lawsuit, claiming no due process was done.
Monsanto has provided no beneit to the consumer and hun-ger worldwide continues yet the company has introduced risks and an unsustainable model.
The spraying of an additional 383 million pounds of herbicides has left mass land pollution where many other non-Roundup ready crops succumb to fungal root disease.
The solution is simple though —buy organic. Spending a few more dollars on groceries is cheaper than the health costs down the line. Warning labels on foods contain-ing GMOs are also needed.
Europe requires labeling for food containing GMOs giving
the consumer a more educated approach to buying groceries. In 2015 the House of Representatives voted against such a thing here in the U.S.
GMO lobbying in Washington is powerful and having former Monsanto executives in positions
of power in the USDA and FDA has made legislation in the U.S. dificult.
Ultimately joining the likes of 19 different European nations who said no to Monsanto is the end goal we should strive for. Until then the dollar must decide.
A s a f a n of football I was a lways amazed when I saw Peyton Manning op-erating an of-fense on the ield. Now one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play in the NFL has decided to retire after 18 seasons.
When I irst learned Manning was calling it quits after the 2015-2016 season I wasn’t very surprised, given that he inished off this past season a Super Bowl champion. I thought it was perfect timing especially since many could see that his age, 39, had inally caught up to him on the ield. Also, the fact that his jersey number was 18 and this was his 18th year in the league could have something to do with it.
I’m not a Colts or Broncos fan but when I saw Manning orchestrating his offensive unit on the ield I always felt bad for the opposing defenses. It must have been tough trying to counter the audibles he was making or when he would run the no-huddle offense and have defenses beg-ging for a timeout from being so exhausted.
What Manning has done for the NFL shows how much he
appreciates the craft of not only playing the quarterback position, but also showing how a hard working veteran carries himself on and off the ield.
Off the ield, most of us are go-ing to remember his funny pizza commercials. On the ield, he will always be known as The Sheriff.
It was unfair to have Manning’s championship season overshad-owed by the accusations of him using human growth hormones and sexual assault allegations, which I strongly believe aren’t true.
It’s also unfair to point out that he missed a handful of games this past season due to injuries
and that when he did play it was usually a subpar performance es-pecially in the concluding games of the 2015-2016 season.
It’s also unfair to say that he never had a lot of success in the postseason and only played well in each regular season.
People sometimes forget that he was a five-time NFL MVP and that he took two different franchises to the Super Bowl. He is also the league’s all-time leader in career touchdowns, passing yards and wins.
It’s going to be different wak-ing up on Sunday mornings and not being able to see number 18 on the ield.
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“I’ll be at Beyond Wonderland get-ting turnt.”
Alexandra Madraiga19, kinesiology
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“I’m gonna be drinking every green drink I can ind.”
“If I knew when it was I would be doing something.”
“I’ll be working then going home and eating green food.”
“Honestly I don’t celebrate St. Pat-rick’s Day so I’m pretty sure I’ll just
be at home.”
Javier Dejesus20, kinesology
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The year-long post-season ban on all 22 Orange Coast College sports teams by the California College Athletic Association is completely unreasonable.
As reported in last week’s issue of the Coast Report, 22 OCC teams were issued a year-long post-season ban after an investigation found that just ive sports programs had committed violations.
OCC has filed an appeal and the Editorial Board of the Coast Report believes that was the right thing to do.
The editorial board also believes it’s crazy for a gov-erning athletic body to as-sume that every OCC sports program under the CCCAA umbrella should be punished for a few teams not following the rules.
Just because five of the teams feel like they had the freedom to violate rules doesn’t mean the entirety of OCC athletics should be rep-resented as cheats.
The ban is unprecedented and the CCCAA should have followed the guidance of ma-jor collegiate organizations
like the Pac-12 who have ruled on similar violations on what seems like a yearly occurrence.
In 2010 USC’s football and basketball programs were issued some of the stiffest penalties ever laid down by the NCAA following a probe that found two star players had forfeited their amateur status’ by accepting gifts from agents. No other USC sports programs faced bans.
The editorial board also believes that the ive sports teams who committed viola-tions should be given leniency.
Some of the violations span back to a date as late as seven years ago and were self-re-ported.
All violations were taken care of directly by OCC which leaves us to believe the inci-dents were ixed shortly after they were reported.
The college’s appeal was delivered on Thursday and the Coast Report Editorial Board hopes it is at least enough to help the teams who didn’t commit any violations at all from receiving an unfair post-season ban.
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It’s that time of year again. March Madness is here and peo-ple all over the country break out their brackets or ofice pools and pretend like they’re college bas-ketball experts.
With a wide open pool of 68 teams and no clear favorite, this tournament stacks up to be a very exciting one.
I’ll start out in the Southern region where Kansas is the No.1 seed and comes into the tourna-ment as the number one overall seed.
Kansas is the clear favorite in this region as it comes in as the Big 12 conference champions and consists of a well rounded and experienced team.
A couple of teams that could knock off Kansas are No. 2 and three seeds Villanova and Miami, respectively.
Miami in my opinion poses the biggest threat to Kansas as it brings in a senior laden team with plenty of talent and experience but in the end I believe Kansas will move on to the inal four and win the Southern region.
In the Western region, Oregon comes in as the No. 1 seed after crushing Utah in the Pac-12 title game.
The Western region looks to be a deep region with big names like Oklahoma and Duke sitting at the two and four seeds.
My sleeper team in this region is Texas who comes in as the sixth seed. Texas is a young talented team with a tournament proven coach in Shaka Smart who has inal four experience.
The team I look to advance from this region and to the Final Four is Oklahoma who is led by presumptive player of the year in Buddy Hield and if history of the
tournament has taught us anything, it’s that a star player can carry his team through the tournament.
In the Eastern region, North Carolina comes in as the No. 1 seed after beating Virginia which is the No. 1 seed in the Midwest region in the ACC title game.
The Eastern region looks to me as the toughest region with power house programs like Indiana and Kentucky at the fourth and ifth seeds. Indiana looks like the big-gest threat to North Carolina as it brings in a talented team led by star guard Yogi Ferrell.
In the end I believe North Car-olina is too much for Indiana and the other top teams in the Eastern region to handle and will march on to the the Final Four.
Last but not least is the Mid-western region where Virginia comes in as the No. 1 seed. Vir-ginia getting the No. 1 seed came as a bit of a shock after it lost the ACC title game, but the commit-tee didn’t let that go unnoticed as it seeded powerhouse Michigan State the two seed in the region.
Even though Virginia is the one seed, Michigan State seems to be the sexy pick to make the Final Four. The only team I see that can stop the inevitable Virginia-Michi-gan State matchup in the elite eight is Seton Hall.
Seton Hall is the Big East tour-nament champion and is a tough, gritty team that just might have
what it takes to take down Mich-igan State or Virginia. In the end I believe that Michigan State will move on to the inal four after a tough win over Virginia in the elite eight.
In the Final Four I have Kansas taking on Oklahoma and North Carolina taking on Michigan State. I see Kansas knocking off
Oklahoma for the third time this year and North Carolina beating Michigan State setting up a dream matchup of college basketball power houses Kansas and North Carolina.
I see this as one heck of a game with North Carolina coming out on top and winning its sixth National Championship.
Orange Coast College baseball players may not have to worry about getting grass stains on their uniforms thanks to head baseball coach John Altobelli’s million dollar idea to install a new artiicial turf ield.
The ield would cost an esti-mated $1.6 million but the school would get a discount for being a returning customer since the same company already installed OCC’s soccer and football ield bringing the ending price to about $1.4 million.
“I know the cost is high but I believe it is necessary and long overdue,” Altobelli said.
According to Richard Pagel, vice president of Administrative Services, talks for a new turf ield are on hold due to the $30 million project proposed for a new ath-letic and kinesiology building.
“Once we igure out how much the athletic and kinesiology building will cost then we can really start considering the new baseball ield,” Pagel said.
Altobelli told members of the Facilities Planning Committee that safety is a main factor in his
recommending a new ield. According to Altobelli, in-
juries on the ield range from broken or bloody noses due to crazy bounces by the ball on the uneven inield surface, to a rare case in 2009 when a player was cut by a cleat and some of the chemicals from the ield infected his cut and he was ultimately hospitalized with a lesh eating virus.
“The number of injuries that this ield has caused is outra-geous and I believe we need to ix this problem soon before someone gets seriously hurt like in 2009,” Altobelli said.
Altobelli added that a new ield will actually save the school money in the long run.
According to him, a turf ield does not need much maintenance which will save time and money. The current ield takes hours to get ready and utilizes expensive equipment to prepare, he said.
The new field will also be environmentally friendly since a turf ield doesn’t need to be watered saving the school on water and also helping with the current drought.
“I think at the end of the day the new turf ield would be a win-win for both the baseball program and the school,” Alto-belli said.
Not everyone is in favor of the new ield though. Some teachers and faculty members argued that other projects up for discussion
have been on the docket for a lot longer than the baseball ield and they should be considered for funding irst.
“There’s plenty of other
projects that should be consid-ered before the baseball field is considered. I don’t know why they’re getting preferential treatment,” Rose Anne King, an
architectural instructor said. According to Pagel, the project
is probably about a year away as they wait on the total cost of the athletic and kinesiology building.
“I’m in favor of this project and would like to get it done as soon as possible, but there are other things we have to get to irst,” Pagel said.
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campus loop) is going to work. I board to my classrooms and I’m not going to stop,” Karti Tripathi, a 21-year-old computer science major and skateboarder said.
According to Richard Pagel, chairman of the Facilities Plan-ning Committee, the main focus of the loop is to provide a safe pathway for mobile students and campus carts so they can avoid interactions with walking pedes-trians. However, OCC students who skateboard would like to
see the bike and skateboard path plan extend to the interior walk ways.
“As long as people are not aggressive with their riding, like kick lipping or trying tricks, I don’t see the problem. I’ve never been in a situation where I almost hit someone walking,” Tripathi said.
Pagel said he does not person-ally have a big problem skate-boarding on interior walkways and could envision a scenario where there is an allotted time for boarders to skate on interior walkways while campus popu-
lation is low. The campus loop plans are
however, intended only for modes of mobile transportation and pedestrians would not be allowed to walk on the path.
Facilities Committee members expect Holloway to be at their next meeting in April where he will give a final presentation and allow for the proposal to be voted upon.
Assuming the motion passes, the facilities committee will sub-mit plans and cost estimates to OCC President Dennis Harkins for inal approval, Pagel said.
LOOP: Boarders and bikers may get a path of their own.
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PREMIERE: New play opens on campus this weekend.
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California history, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
“I think students don’t know how awful the conditions were and are for migrant farm workers,” Campas said.
Roddy sent his script to several schools but it was OCC’s director Bruno who was quick to accept, resulting in the play’s premiere.
“I’m naturally curious and wanted to learn more about it,” Bruno said. “I found something that had a historical and human interest. I saw it as a story that needed to be told.”
According to student George Morales, who portrays a labor-er named Ignacio, “One More Day” puts a spotlight on the inequities forced upon a group of people.
“There are 20,000 migrant workers who suffer from pesti-cide poison every year and this play is only a fraction of the injustice people face coming into any country,” Morales said.
The play will run in the Dra-ma Lab Theatre from Friday to Sunday and March 24 to 26 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 at the door, $10 in advance and $8 for students and seniors.
never seen this stiff of a penalty at any collegiate level,” Bennett said.
Bennett added that he hopes the appeal will be heard by an
outside party with no bias in-volved so that the college can get the due process that it deserves.
There is no time table for the appeal to be heard yet but Ben-nett said he hopes it will be heard as soon as possible so teams can
move on and get back to their normal schedules.
Among the violations cited were allowing teams to practice before season start dates and allowing players to compete without proper paperwork.
SANCTIONS: Oficials ile an appeal on one-year ban.From Page 1
