MAY 14, 2012 SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE VOLUME 47, ISSUE 13

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Annual May Day marchers speak out for worker’s rights

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Members of Seattle’s working class took to the streets on the

evening of Tuesday, May 1, 2012, to raise awareness and speak out in support of immigration rights as well as the state of the United States’ economic climate and poor job market.

The group of about a thousand marched from Judkins Park in the Central District to the front of the Federal Building in down-town Seattle where they joined in with the rallies that had been tak-ing place there throughout the day.

The mood was festive, which stood in stark contrast to other May Day events. Earlier in the day, a group of approximately 20 self-proclaimed anarchists vandalized storefronts in downtown Seattle -- smash-ing the front windows of Nike Town as well as the neighboring American Apparel store -- be-fore returning to Westlake Park where they stripped from their all-black clothing and scattered into the crowd that had gathered to peacefully demonstrate and listen to various speakers and musicians.

Many who gathered at Jud-kins Park were upset with the outbreak of violence earlier, but were determined to end the day of protests on a positive and more productive note.

The group, which consisted of hundreds of demonstrators, was

led by El Comité President Jorge Quiroga.

Quiroga led the group in both Spanish and English chants such as “si se puede” (Yes we can) and “no justice, no peace.”

“Just to have a rally (made the day a success),” said Quiroga, who felt as if the message of the day had been convoluted by other protesters who had different agendas.

“They tried to make this into something else,” said Quiroga of the myriad of issues being

protested throughout the day in Seattle. “Immigration reform is the issue ... we want to make sure people receive that message.”

Quiroga’s opinion mirrored what many in the crowd who marched from Judkins Park were concerned with.

Also marching was Seattle Central Community College economics professor Kshama Sawant who, along with Quiroga, wanted to focus the discussions on worker’s rights and well-being.

“The most glaring problem that we are facing is the massive jobs crisis,” said Sawant, who came down with a group of students from the community college.

“The financial collapse — engi-neered by the big banks ... be-came a global economic collapse and the way it works ... is that all the burden is put on the backs of ordinary people.”

Many other students were also among the crowd. Nick Peterson, a Seattle University student who participated in a walkout from

class earlier in the day that left from Seattle Central Community College, had many concerns on his mind, but cited a feeling of accountability for why he chose to skip class and join the demon-strations.

“I have the privilege of going to a good school and ... I have an obligation to speak out,” said Pe-terson, adding that he felt much of the working class did not have the same opportunities as him,

“I have the privilege of going to a good school and ... I have an obli-gation to speak out.”

— NICK PETERSON

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SUNFEST and Splash!: The A&E Board’s Bright Ideas

The Student Leadership Center’s Arts and Entertainment Board is teaming up with clubs around

campus for SUNFEST, a week long event meant to “welcome spring” and

“stimulate your mind and senses.” Orga-nized by Cynthia Darmawan, the week will feature smaller events sponsored by various clubs.

The majority of the events on Mon-day through Thursday will take place in the Courtyard and PUB Main Dining Room. The HEROES and Japanesse clubs will be sponsoring carnival

games, and the Solar & Alternative Energy Club is planning to make vegan chili and cookies in a series of solar oven demonstrations. DJ Super Mario will be spinning throughout the week, and there will be art mural painting throughout. The PUB Lobby will host a film festival throughout.

The week culminates in Splash!, an event with multiple parts. The PUB will play host to music, drama and open-mic poetry, as well as a bazaar in which clubs can fundraise, advertise and show what it is that they do. The Dol-Philm Festival will provide a forum for student and staff film and animation projects, and visual artwork will be on display in the bottom floor of the PUB.

The night will culminate in a student awards ceremony.

SUNFEST begins May 14 and goes until the 18. Splash! will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on May 18 in the PUB building.

Seattle Central Community College student and Occupy Seattle activist, Leo Liam, marches toward downtown Seattle, Wash. with fellow protesters during May Day demonstrations on May 1, 2012.

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leaving him with a responsi-bility to stand up for them.

Fellow protester Mike Carl-son chose to attend the May Day protest because of what he saw as a need for the U.S. to become more involved in the global day of demonstra-tions.

“We’re trying to bring in-ternational worker’s day back here to the States and into the public eye,” said Carlson, who is a member of the Red Spark Collective group that meets weekly to discuss issues related with the revolutionary transformation of society.

Michael Lapointe, who works for a non-profit home-less shelter in Everett, Wash. called Cocoon House, has felt the sting of a tighten-ing economy and decreased budget. Recent struggles have forced Cocoon House, which provides both long-term and short-term housing for home-less youth, to layoff many of their employees which left Lapointe angry.

“The workers are being screwed by the system,” said Lapointe. “They are being treated as a commodity but, really, we are the people who build this community.”

Looking around Seattle’s Westlake Park in the early afternoon before the march from Judkins Park took place, Lapointe was pleased with the turnout.

“This is a success right now,” said Lapointe.

Seattle was not alone though in its protests on May Day as many other cities around the world also saw demonstrators take to the streets.

Across the country, in Chicago, over 1,000 protesters gathered to speak out in sup-port of worker’s rights and in Europe, demonstrations took place in many countries with notable turnouts in Greece, Spain and France.

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MAY DAY from cover

SCC celebrated Multicultural Week, from April 25 to May 3, in a series of events

designed to celebrate, challenge and enlighten students. Students and faculty participated in panel discussions, watched thought-provoking films and heard pre-sentations from individuals from varied backgrounds and social groups.

The week happens annually, and allows for the Multicultural Studies department to showcase their program, and the impact it has on SCC students. One such event was held on May 2 in the PUB Quiet Dining Room, in which a diverse panel of students, moderated by professor Mimi Harvey, discussed the importance of multicultural understanding.

They talked about their experiences in multicultural understanding-oriented classes, and the way those experiences

have altered the way they see themselves, their peers and so-cial groups as a whole. Issues of privilege, oppression and equal-ity were discussed interactively with a full audience of students.

“It’s okay for people to recog-nize when they’re oppressed and be angry about it,” said panelist Heather Halloran. She went on to say that one cannot bring that anger into advocacy- change requires a calm and peaceful attitude.

SBA President Kanpong Thaweesuk mentioned that, in the past, students that are minori-ties have not been the focus at SCC because they aren’t seen as the people who will bring in money to the school. Thaweesuk has made it his mission to ad-vocate their rights in his second term as president.

“Guaranteeing the rights of oth-ers is ensuring rights for your-self,” said panelist Kala Heekin.

“If we don’t have allies among all social groups, it doesn’t bring

everybody into the discussion.”Heekin acknowledged that

sometimes it takes a person of privilege joining the discussion for the discussion to get the at-tention it deserves.

The week’s events also includ-ed the films “Soundtrack for a Revolution” (2009) and “Mooz-Lum” (2011). “Soundtrack” looks at the American civil rights music in song, from slave chants to the songs sung in picket lines.

“Mooz-Lum” is the story of a college student shortly from a Muslim background, who is forced to examine his beliefs, past and identity after the attacks on 9/11.

The week is an annual tradi-tion, typically organized by the Multicultural Center, but this year’s event hit a bit of a road-block.

“We’ve been without a program manager for our Multicultural Center for about a year,” says Women’s Center program manag-er Lynette Peters. “That position,

in a ‘regular year’ would have taken the primary responsibility for having to plan Multicultural Week.”

Rather than cancel the event, Peters stepped in and helped organize on behalf of the Center for Equity, Engagement and Service (CEES). She helped orchestrate events in a crunch, including a discussion that took place in the Women’s center at the end of the week.

Peters’ favorite was an interac-tive theater presentation about bullying, which utilized Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. The presentation was designed to make audience members con-sider what they would do if they witnessed someone being bullied, or if they were being bullied themselves.

The CEES is hoping to hire a new Multicultural Center program director soon, maybe as soon as over the summer, but nothing is set in stone yet.

Weeklong event gives students a place to learn, share, and advocate

Multicultural Week promotes diversity, understanding

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Plan ATarget: 1.1 millionFee: $7.65/creditCuts:5% across the boardCut 20% from Athletics and SpindriftCut 10% from SBA training budgetCut 10% from Parent-Child center budgetCut 20% from Intramurals sports budgetCut two Event coordinator position in A&E BoardCut advisor stipends for Ebbtide, spindrift and PTKMove CATI Resource advisor stipend to Contact level

Plan BTarget: $1.18 millionFee: $8.20 /credit+Decrease Tech Revenue by $80,000Cuts:Cut 5% across the boardCut 15% of Athletics and Spin-drift budgetsCut 5% of SBA training bud-getCut 5% of Parent-Child center budgetCut 5% of Intramurals sports budgetMove CATI Resource advisor stipend to Contact levelCut one Events Coordinator position from A&E Board

Plan CTarget: $1.3 millionFee: $8.20/credit+Decrease Tech Revenue by $80,000+Use Sustainable Com-muter Option Fee Reserves $120,000Cuts: None, but fee increase still needed to fund after 2012-13

Student Governments Proposals for raising revenue for next year’s Student Services and Activities

Arts, athletics and all other student-funded programs (including The Ebbtide)

will be subject to significant cuts in the fall unless an adjustment is made to the current Student Ser-vices and Activities (SS&A) fee.

Faced with this dilemma, Stu-dent Government’s initial hope was to increase the fee to the maximum level allowed by state law, like nearly all other colleges in Washington have done. For SCC, that would mean moving it from $7.65 per credit to $9.54 per credit. However, in order to raise the SS&A fee, Student Govern-ment (S.G.) needs approval from the Board of Trustees, some members of which have sug-gested they would not support any increase. The Board did not respond to an Ebbtide request for comment.

The college administration (separate from the Board of Trustees, which is the governing body) has indicated the only real hope for gaining the Board’s sup-port for a fee increase would be to decrease other student fees and have no net increase in total cost, members of S.G. said.

In light of that, Student Gov-ernment (S.G.) has approved three alternative proposals (Plans A, B and C,) to present at the next board meeting. None of them could support current spending beyond next year.

Only “Plan C” would not require any cuts, and so is the favorite of S.G. However, it de-pends on “one-time” money from surpluses elsewhere, and would only fully fund programs for one more year.

The need for an increase in the fee has arisen after recent years’ decrease in enrollment and an increase in both the number of campus clubs and organizations at SCC as well some of their as-sociated costs. Essentially, fewer students are enrolled and paying the SS&A fee, but it is support-ing a greater number of services and activities, in which a higher percentage of total students are participating.

At a recent meeting, the Board requested S.G. provide them

with an “unduplicated” count of students directly benefiting from the fee (those involved with one or more clubs or organizations funded by SS&A fee). Without a response from the Board, it remains unclear how they might use this number in assessing the value of SS&A fee recipients that engage students outside of their direct membership rolls (e.g., stu-dents attending sporting events, or theatrical performances, or those put on by Events Coordinators through the Arts and Entertain-ment Board).

Over the last few years, the college has placed an emphasis on expanding SCC’s “Virtual College” and online capabilities. When the Board last dealt with the issue of fees, it was the col-lege asking for an increase. The administration wanted to raise the college’s technology fee – beyond the level required to sustain the current technology – in order to support more technology-based initiatives. The Board said yes.

Clubs and organizations that are supported by the SS&A fee, though, have an impact mostly visible ON campus, and don’t fall as clearly within the Virtual College strategy. The Board will hear S.G.’s proposals in their next meeting, open to all students, on May 23.

Trustees silent about likely cuts to student programs

3Volume 47, Issue 13, May 14, 2012Opinion

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“Cute guys like Trey Songz or Chris Brown — I would date them.”

— Hamdi Yassum

“Chiyo, she is my girlfriend in Japan.”— Tsubasa Takahashi

“Girls with no physical characteris-tics, ones that can hold the conver-sation and just chill and be down to kick it.” — A.J. Kaihura

“Zac Efron because he’s a good ac-tor, good singer and cute.”

— Luydmila Popoch

Who is your dream date and why?

Student loan rates are set to double next year. Sounds like a big deal, doesn’t it?

Maybe not so much...The student loans that could be

affected are only the subsidized Stafford loans that students apply and are eligible for, based on fi-nancial need. Those are the loans where the federal government pays the interest while a student goes to college.

Unsubsidized loans are set at 6.8 percent and begin accumulat-ing interest as soon as the student receives the loan. Subsidized loans start at 6.8 percent and ac-crue interest immediately too, but the government pays the interest

while the student is in college and, since 2007 when Congress pass a temporary bill for finan-cial relief, a portion of the inter-est for the entire life of the loan.

Students are currently respon-sible for 3.4 percent interest on subsidized loans.

While a lower cost for educa-tion is a step in the right direc-tion, the recent uproar surround-ing the push to extend this bill one more year carries the stench of political theatrics. Most stu-

dents don’t receive these loans; according to the Department of Education only about 30 percent do. Most students that do receive these loans also take out loans

that are unaffected by the gov-ernments assistance. All this adds up to having a negative impact on the individual student.

The real issue at hand is the cost of education as a whole. Many professors who graduated in the 1970s and 80s are quick to describe how affordable their degree was. They tell of a world in which one could pay for col-lege with only a summer job, and

graduated debt-free.Students today generally take

more than a decade to pay stu-dent loans that exceed an average debt of $25,000 when they leave college, according to the the Institute for College Access & Success’ Project on Student Debt. Not shown are the other forms of debt students also borrow from, such as credit cards.

On the scale of “makes sense,” lowering this interest rate ranks alongside helping a drowning victim by patting them on the back. What really needs to be done is to lower the water level. Bring the cost of getting a col-lege degree down and give the assistance where it is needed most.

Increase funding to programs that offer student loan forgive-ness in needed and valued job sectors: teachers who work in disadvantaged communities, doc-tors who volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, and lawyers who work with nonprofit orga-nizations that focus on victims’ advocacy. In short, more federal money should be earmarked for

education.Where can we find this money?

Both political parties agree that the federal budget needs an overhaul. They merely disagree on how to go about the change. To fund a project comprehensive enough to offset student debt, the money would need to come from many areas. Pulling from the military’s budget would only serve to fill part of the need, and there are detractors who don’t think that budget should be cut. However, the philosophy that the military should be able to oper-ate and dominate in at least two theatres of battle is extravagant, to the level of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” An unscru-pulous amount of money is spent imprisoning people for minor, non-violent crimes such as pos-session of marijuana.

The government has wasted money bailing out car companies that are “too big to fail,” when they should be spending it on the disintegrating education system.

This country cannot afford to have an education that is not affordable.

Student interest rates aren’t the real interest

After graduating the average student loan payment is

> $275/ mo

If the interest rate re-turns to normal levels payments would be approximately

$300/ mo

based on a 10 year re-payment plan and

$25,000

average student loan balance.“On the scale of

‘makes sense,’ lower-ing this interest rate ranks alongside help-ing a drowning victim by patting them on the back.”

Obama makes an outrageously boring statement in the wild and crazy world of U.S. politics.

President Obama recently made one of the most spectacularly boring an-

nouncements I’ve ever heard: He believes gay people should be able to marry other gay people.

It’s almost like something the president would say if our coun-try’s moral compass weren’t so severely twisted by the tornado of regressive conservatives our system of government is cur-rently suffering.

Three cheers for the occa-sional glimpse of normalcy in an otherwise grotesquely distorted national dialogue. This may just be one small step for any sane person, but it’s one giant step to-wards sanity for American poli-tics. It’s not shocking that Obama believes in marriage equality, but I didn’t expect him to say it out loud – at least not until after he was reelected.

Sure, Obama may have been forced to “out” himself as a supporter of gay marriage by slippery-lipped Vice President Joe Biden (who spoke out in fa-vor before Obama) and by media criticism of his own equivoca-tions on the subject (first being for, then against, then saying his thoughts were “evolving” on the subject). Whatever his motives, though, the fact is that a sitting president has now come out in favor of gay marriage, and while it’s sad that this should be con-sidered big news, it actually is a pretty huge deal.

Over half of U.S. states now have constitutions forbidding gay marriage, including the most recent voyager into last century, North Carolina. Apparently this is what happens when you allow a majority vote to decide minority-rights issues.

It didn’t help, though, that peo-ple who have spent most of their lives in this century can’t seem to find the time, between manag-

ing their (virtual) social lives via the latest and greatest app, and playing Modern Warfare (or, to be fair, participating in actual modern warfare), to actually get out and vote.

As college students in a place like Seattle, we’re somewhat removed from the high level of socially acceptable discrimina-tion that permeates our country, like the unfortunate smog emit-ted from Rush Limbaugh’s vocal chords.

We haven’t grown up suf-focated by the same level of institutionalized discrimination as were older generations. Most of us have known more openly gay people than our parents and have been able to realize – shock! They’re not out to ruin straight peoples’ marriages! (As if straight people needed help with that.)

However, there are plenty of homophobic activists against civil rights for gay Americans (aka civil rights) ready to rile up their fellow freedom fighters to sanctimoniously “save” the

“sanctity” of marriage by voting Obama out of office. If the same hatred that has convinced some 30 states to relegate gay people to second-class citizenship mani-fests itself on the national level in our upcoming election, and college students don’t turn out to vote (like they normally don’t), it’s going to be ugly and sad.

We need to make sure they don’t embarrass the rest of us along with themselves, but more importantly, we need politicians who understand that civil rights should mean civil rights for every one of us.

College students are one of an apparently limited number of demographics with eyes good enough to see an obvious civil rights issue when it slaps them in the face with a rainbow, and our voices are desperately needed. Get off your apps and vote this November.

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S tudent life can be difficult. Between classes, homework and tests, it can be difficult

for some students to even hold down a job and a social life. Now consider adding a child into the mix. More than three percent SCC students identify as parents, a balancing act that goes far beyond the scope of the average college workload.

Student Savanna Dorati knows firsthand what that’s like. Her son Aiden recently turned two.

“He’s my life,” Dorati says with a smile.

Dorati has been in school off and on since before he was born, and even holds an Associate’s de-gree in business. She is currently majoring in communications and taking 17 credits, half online and half in-person.

“I don’t know if I’d like to be a guidance counselor, or focus more on prevention methods with parents with addictions,” Dorati says. She credits her little boy with inspiring her to pursue a career that helps children. “My son really made me recognize that that’s what I want to spend my life doing. I needed to come back to school to be able to do that.”

Fellow student Maureen Langston is in a similar boat with

her son, Finn, age 4. Langston is an environmental science major who has been a full-time student since her son was ten months old. She admits that it’s not always easy to be a full-time student and a full-time mother.

“Being a student is exhausting in itself, and then you have to deal with taking care of this tiny little human being who doesn’t understand that you have other things going on,” she says.

Between homework and in-class attendance, reliable child-

care is a necessity for student parents.

Some, like Dorati, are for-tunate enough to have family around. Dorati’s sister is also a student, and their schedules sync up so that one of them can always watch her son. Dorati says she would consider daycare if things were to change in the future, but she doesn’t want to send her son until he’s a bit older, so he can be potty-trained and better able to communicate.

Langston recently moved in

with her boyfriend, a change which provides an extra grown-up to watch her when she can’t. Her son is also enrolled in day-care during the time Langston has to be physically present in class.

SCC offers a Parent-Child Center on campus as well. The PCC offers structured childcare to students, faculty and non-stu-dent employees on campus and in the surrounding community. They have drop-in flexibility for parents who want to check on

their child between classes, stop by for lunch, or volunteer in the classroom during a break. There is also the option for parents, especially parents of younger children with separation anxiety, to check on their child by way of an observation room.

Being a student parent may be challenging, but Dorati and Langston are up to the challenge. Both cite their sons as their inspiration for pursuing their education, despite the difficulties it may raise.

Melynda Malley Copy Editor

The campus has picked up a club beat. DJ Super Mario can be found spinning on his

turntable around campus. Whether pumping music into events like Civics week or providing the background to open mic, this DJ can be found pressing his ear into headphones and focusing on the pulse of the crowd.

Mario Romero, who performs under the name Super Mario, has been an SCC student since 2005. You see, Romero lives a bit of a double life in more than one way. In addition to being a student he is also a SEABEE Navy Reserves (see info box).

Originally, Romero enrolled in pursuit of a civil engineering degree, but completing the degree didn’t take place in quick order.

“It’s funny,” Romero says, “I signed up for the (Navy) Reserves, but I’ve spent most of my time on active duty. It’s okay though. I’ve learned a lot.”

Recently back from his second deployment, he has shifted his aca-demic focus to computer numeri-cal control (CNC) machining and is almost finished with his degree. He spends as much time as he can teaching new students in the CNC program as an intern.

Much of the rest of his time is spent working for the Arts and Entertainment (A&E) Board as a media technician.

When not studying or working for the Navy, Romero has been setting up the speakers for SCC events for the last seven years. Just before the Valentine’s Day Ball he was asked to step out from backstage and into the spotlight. He headlined this year’s Valen-tine’s event as Super Mario, and has been the go-to DJ for SCC ever since.

“He’s one of the students who are actually bringing some life back to the campus,” exclaims Ken Wagner, who works with Romero on the A&E Board. “We didn’t have a DJ lined up for the Valentine’s event, but Mario was able to step in with only a week’s warning. The event just wouldn’t

have been the same without a DJ.”Perhaps it’s his military back-

ground talking, but Romero is a consummate professional while on the job, “I was DJing a wedding and one of the bride’s maids took a liking to me,” he says. “She asked me to go the bathroom with her. I was completely surprised, but I let her down easy by telling her that I was in the middle of a set.”

Sexual propositions aren’t the only things that Romero is bashful about. “Yes, I have played ‘YMCA’ by the Village People, but only when it’s requested by the crowd,”

he admits.When the crowd’s energy starts

to drop and the party starts to suck, Romero’s last line of defense is turning up the volume on Usher’s

“OMG.”“What’s next for me? I really

hope I get accepted for an intern-ship at a major machine shop. I would love to have that experience to go with my degree when it’s finished,” says Romero.

If you hear a bass line in the PUB, odds are DJ Super Mario is playing the soundtrack to your education.

Campus Catches a Beat

PHOTO COURTESY OF SAVANNA DORATI

— SAVANNA DORATI

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN WAGNER

Bradley Brown Business Manager

“Being a student is ex-hausting in itself, and then you have to deal with taking care of this tiny little human being...”

Mothers balance parenthood and student life

SCC student and mother Savanna Dorati kisses her son, Aidan.

SCC DJ Mario Ramirez mixing it up.

DJ Super Mario’s top five tracks

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For most, the experience that Elora Malama had after having only been in

Taiji, Japan — a city known for its controversial dolphin hunting

— for a few months, would have been too much to handle.

“We went swimming into the cove ... and I noticed that some of the rocks on one part of the beach were oddly colored,” Malama said. She was with a group of friends, she said, and

added, “I walked

over to them and I took my hand and wiped it

across and all this blood came up with me.”

A “slaughter” had just oc-curred earlier that day and Malama, who had travelled to Taiji with her father on a whim to begin an advocacy campaign with the organization “Sea Shepherd,” was getting a grisly introduction to the world of envi-ronmental activism.

“It was hard at sixteen years old to have your favorite ani-mal’s blood dripping off your fingers,” said Malama. Now, two years after the incident, she has helped Sea Shepherd amass hundreds of volunteers to help fight those who participate in the lucrative industry where just one dolphin can be sold on the mar-ket for as much as $100,000.

Malama’s career in activism started with a bang in 2010 when her dad, Scott West, retired from the Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) and began working with friend Paul Wat-son – known for his role as the

captain of the Steve Irwin (a boat named after the late “Crocodile Hunter”) on the reality television show “Whale Wars.” Watson requested that West come aboard his boat to help him as the orga-nization’s criminal investigator.

A few days before leaving for a trip to Taiji, West had a question for his daughter.

“He pulls me into the living room, and he goes, ‘do you want

to go?’ I wanted to scream ‘yes’ right then, but I had to think about it for a few minutes,” said Malama who had to scramble to make arrangements with her homeschool, Edmonds Heights, which allowed her to complete her senior project during her ensuing three months of work in

Japan.The trip was eye-opening for

Malama, who had little prior ex-perience with international travel, let alone any that included a key role in something that was, at the time, attracting major media attention.

Specifically, Sea Shepherd – the organization Malama was working for – was attempting to raise awareness of the dolphin hunting practices that take place in Taiji.

The organization’s methods were controversial to some, who thought the “in your face” style that the group uses with cameras and verbal accusations towards working fisherman was disre-spectful, but Malama stands by their tactics.

“We were all just there docu-menting what was happening

– basically making the fishermen hate going to work in the morn-ing … but we weren’t planning on doing anything illegal, we were just there to document, see what was going on and tell the world what was happening,” Malama said.

And while it wasn’t pretty – the group had frequent standoffs

with police who had been sent to monitor their protesting – it didn’t take long for their work to pay off.

“People all around the world were calling their Japanese embassies and complaining every single day for like a six-month period,” Malama said who admits to being surprised at the tremendous response.

Today, Malama is still active with the organization and is busy formulating plans for future pro-tests and other events. However, school is now her primary focus. Her time spent in Japan provided more than just a chance to create social change, it gave her a better understanding of what she would like to study; photojournalism.

“I’d like to go to Western and study environmental photojour-nalism and then maybe eventual-ly get a degree in environmental law,” Malama said.

Whatever Malama’s future holds in regards to education, she will undoubtedly come in with valuable experience in her field, along with plenty of stories to tell her classmates.

Young student gains experience in activism

Ian TerryPhoto Editor

“It was hard at six-teen years old to have your favorite animal’s blood dripping off your fingers” — ELORA MALAMA

New-arrival Japanese hos-pitality students are going to experience a brand

new culture: life in Seattle for 10 months.

About a month into the pro-gram, Hospitality and Tourism College (HTC) students often encounter problematic cultural differences. Many of the HTC students barely speak English, which makes communication an issue in their daily lives.

For the Thursday at the first

week of their arrival, the SCC Japanese Pop Culture club had held a small welcome party for them.

The HTC students were trying to communicate with the mem-bers in English. Student Tsubasa Takahashi is so talkative that, by the end of the party he had in-troduced himself to nearly every one of the club’s members.

“It is difficult to live in Amer-ica,” says Takahashi. “I want to know some foreign people, and while I am out of my country, I have a chance.”

In his time here, Takahashi says that he sometimes misses his family and friends back in Ja-pan. He admits that he is begin-ning to feel homesick.

“There is a lot of rain in Seattle, and it is a big place,” says his fellow student Sayaka Ii, from Osaka. Ii finds that people from Seattle are very kind to her,

though she sometimes gets lost in such a big city. “I want to learn English and the American culture,” she says.

“It is hard to talk with people when they are speaking fast English,” says student Hiroko Hitoosa. “Sometimes I cannot even hear what people are say-ing; they are speaking too fast.” Hitoosa is really happy with liv-ing in America, and life with her host family is funny and fresh.

For most of the HTC students, lack of communication is one of the major problems that comes with living in the U.S.

They try to express themselves in English, but often find that people cannot understand it. However, speaking is not their only way to communicate. “I use body language in case people cannot understand me,” says Takahashi.

Their schedule has also

changed. Back home in Japan, they are used to working during the day and studying at night. Time management is the first thing they learn upon arriving in America. “Sometimes I go down-town, and there is no bus for me get home,” says Takahashi. so I have to walk home. It’s (danger-

ous) for one person walk on the street at night.”

“I have to be careful about the time here, it passes so fast,” agrees Ii, because the bus schedule is different, and the city larger, than she is used to.

The HTC Program has quite a long history here at SCC, starting in April 1993. Well over 1000 students have gone through the program, now.

Aside from the regular class-room instruction the HTC students get, they are encouraged to partake in as many cultural activities as possible, and go on many field trips around the state as part of their program.

American life can be a hugely different experience for HTC students. The goal of the HTC program is to learn English and experience American culture. Food, environment, language, and locations are totally different and new for them, and they face new challenges every day.

No matter what challenges they face, their time here will become an unforgettable memory for them.

— HIROKO HITOOSA

SCC DJ Mario Ramirez mixing it up.

Rico TangStaff Writer

SCC welcomes Japanese hospitality students

“It is hard to talk with people when they are speaking fast English.”

Text book turmoil

SCC Textbook and tuition survey

Has the price of a textbook ever affected your decision

on whether or not to take a class at scc?

Relatively speaking, do you think the cost of tuition or

the cost of text books is more reasonable?

66% Said, “no, it has not affected my decision”.

67% Said, “the cost of tuition is more reasonable”.

33% Said, “the cost of textbooks is more reasonable”.

34% Said, “yes, it has affected my decision”.

Between April 16 and April 20, 2012 a total of 177 SCC students were surveyed on textbooks and tuition.

The survey, which was administered at random to students in the PUB, Library, VCT Building, Gym and various class-rooms, sought to gain information on students’ perspective on the costs they incur while attending school.

Why that book?

Textbooks are an impor-tant supplement to a student’s educational ex-

perience. They provide a source of peer-edited information that adds to the lectures that are covered in class and also provide a reference for further study outside of class. Without them, students would have to do quite a bit of their own time-consuming research and fact-checking to complete even the most mundane homework assignment.

So, how is your important textbook chosen from all the options that instructors have? There are many publishing companies competing to win over instructors and get their books in the bookstore. Span-ish language instructor Amelia Acosta has two large shelves in

her office, both chock-full of these sample texts. When the publishers print a new edition and begin to market, she said she receives quite a few, “I end up with like four or five books from each publishing house.”

Why four or five? In an effort to win over instructors that teach differently, publishers spend a lot of time and money creating texts in different formats, so that the odds of one of those books being chosen are increased. Terry Taylor, a history instructor at SCC, has two stacks of these in his of-fice. “I have these huge stacks of sample texts that publishers send me, that I never ask for… one of the things that makes textbooks so expensive is that they send out a lot of exam copies of the texts, without any guarantee of actually getting someone to adopt them.”

Another thing your in-

structors have to consider is supplemental material. Many publishers now include banks of test questions, homework packets, online material and exercises, and even PowerPoint presentations. “Plazas,” the text that Acosta uses in her classes, includes a workbook and online CDs, along with the main text. It runs close to $220 and is used for Spanish 1-3.

Amelia likes the extra mate-rial and it is a part of her choos-ing a book, “The workbook…do they give a testing program that I can pick and choose from, do they have an online compo-nent?” Some instructors don’t approve of the supplemental material, and believe that it isn’t substantial enough to use in the classroom. “I don’t know of anyone in the history depart-ment that uses that material, because frankly…it’s really not that good,” said Taylor of

Simon Walker A&E Editor

Simon Walker A&E Editor

Publishing powerWhy your textbook is so expensive

Over the last 30 years the prices of textbooks have increased by over 550 percent. In 1982, $100 textbooks would cost $550 dollars if they were priced as they are today. According to the US Bureau of Labor and Sta-

tistics, the only commodities that have experienced a higher increase in price are tuition, tobacco, and medical care.

So, how do we remedy this? How do colleges eliminate this very expensive prob-lem that students are grappling with every quarter? It seems that all of the parties that deal with the textbook on campus – from the faculty instructors that assign them to the bookstore that sells them – all empathize with students and understand how hard it can be to afford textbooks for a 15 credit load. They all see textbook pricing as a big problem, and would like to see the prices reduced. So where’s the holdup? All fingers point to the publishers.

Textbook publishers have always operated in a market that isn’t very traditional. Unlike a traditional consumer market, where one has some choice as to where they will buy a product and who they will buy it from, the textbook market contains very little competition outside the umbrella of the few publishers that dominate the market.

“You could argue that the publishers know that they have captive markets, and they know there will be a certain level of demand, so they can charge a certain amount,” history instructor Terry Taylor said.

“Price fixing” is an economics term that describes what happens in a market with very few producers. What happens is all the producers involved in the industry come to the realization that it is more economically intelligent to stop competing with each other by lowering prices.

Rather, product differentiation becomes the main tool used to compete. This is why we see so many ads from producers that attempt to differentiate themselves from their completion among industries that have few producers. How many ads do you see from insurance companies, cable companies, and cell phone service companies, all of which are within industries that have just a handful of producers in comparison to other markets?

Publishers are operating in exactly the same way. But instead of marketing to the students that will eventually buy the books for their classes, they are marketed to the professors that choose the books for the students. Instead of using ads to differ-entiate their product, they use things like test bank questions, PowerPoint presenta-tions, extra workbooks, and online materials to differentiate themselves.

They don’t need to lower their prices to compete with each other because their target market is not the consumer of the text. If the publishers had to market di-rectly to the student demographic, a group that is usually cash strapped, they would be bending over backwards to lower the prices of their texts in efforts to compete with other publishing houses.

It seems that under these market conditions, whereas the instructor is the con-sumer, and their choices are then passed on to the student, instructors should be the ones demanding lower prices from the publishers. As we see increases in reliable open source material becoming available, and instructors find more alternative means to supplement their classroom lectures, maybe they can create some lever-age and force publishers to compete by lowering their prices. Until then, students will continue to be captive to the prices that are forced upon them every quarter.

Most students are feeling the pinch of going to college because of high tuition prices already and textbooks are, in many students’ opinions, the tipping point for whether or not they will take a given class or not.

In our poll we asked students if the price of a book has ever affected their decision to take a class. Surprisingly, over a third of those students said yes. Should the price of a book really be a component in a student’s decision to experience a class – a class that could determine their future major and career path?

Compiled by: Simon Walker, Cam Keeble, & Ian TerryDesigned by: Drew Donaghy

SCC Textbook and tuition survey

Has the price of a textbook ever affected your decision

on whether or not to take a class at scc?

Relatively speaking, do you think the cost of tuition or

the cost of text books is more reasonable?

66% Said, “no, it has not affected my decision”.

67% Said, “the cost of tuition is more reasonable”.

33% Said, “the cost of textbooks is more reasonable”.

34% Said, “yes, it has affected my decision”.

Business behind the books

Why that book?

As part of this report, the Ebbtide interviewed the SCC Book-store to find out more about the way their business works. Mary Kelemen, Director of Auxiliary Services and head

supervisor of bookstore operations, along with Greg Jenson, the bookstore’s textbook buyer, sat down with us for an interview. This is what we found.

█ 70-80% of all sales are textbook sales.

█ Most textbooks are marked up by on average 25%. (The 25% markup is generally a statewide standard.)

█ The college owns the SCC bookstore.

█ The bookstore spends on average 60-65 thousand on shipping costs.

█ The increase in the amount of new editions being produced by publishers is against the interests of the bookstore. The bookstore prefers that instructors stay with old editions because they don’t have to ship new books, students get a partial refund, and they make more revenue.

█ The Nebraska Book Company is a separate company that buys books back for the bookstore.

█ If you have bought a used book and the bookstore is buying it back, you will receive 50% of the new book price. If the bookstore is not using the book for the next term, Nebraska may or may not buy the book back for depending on its value.

█ The move to the book rental program is an effort to increase revenue in response to publishers’ increasing prices.

█ The bookstore is a for-profit business. They make on average 350,000 dollars per year. This profit is contributed to the college “general fund.”

█ The bookstore is expected to contribute to the general fund, and has done so for the last 12 years running.

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structors have to consider is supplemental material. Many publishers now include banks of test questions, homework packets, online material and exercises, and even PowerPoint presentations. “Plazas,” the text that Acosta uses in her classes, includes a workbook and online CDs, along with the main text. It runs close to $220 and is used for Spanish 1-3.

Amelia likes the extra mate-rial and it is a part of her choos-ing a book, “The workbook…do they give a testing program that I can pick and choose from, do they have an online compo-nent?” Some instructors don’t approve of the supplemental material, and believe that it isn’t substantial enough to use in the classroom. “I don’t know of anyone in the history depart-ment that uses that material, because frankly…it’s really not that good,” said Taylor of

the bells and whistles offered by publishers. He also pointed out that the usefulness of these materials probably varies some by discipline.

All of the instructors we interviewed said that their number one priority is quality. Chip Dodd, an international studies and geography instruc-tor here at SCC said, “If I have the choice between a mediocre textbook that costs the student $70, and a substantial one that costs $115, I’m going with the $115 one every time.”

Acosta agrees, “It comes down to what the explanations are… how do they explain the grammar.”

However, as instructors place high priority on quality, price is definitely not an after-thought. Up until a few years ago, instructors weren’t privy to information about price. “For a long time, when I ordered

books I had absolutely no idea what they cost until I saw them in the bookstore,” said Taylor. Now, instructors are given price information before they choose from the many sample texts that they receive from publishers, and are therefore able to include pricing in their decisions.

Instructors are very aware of how much school costs today, and many choose to stay away from assigning multiple texts for one class as they did in the past. Most instructors are making a change, and assign-ing additional readings acces-sible through Blackboard rather than assigning multiple books to purchase. Not only does this keep students’ backpacks light, it also keeps their wallets a bit heavier. SCC instructors have your wallet in mind when choosing your book, but in the end, the buck stops at what you will get from the text.

Are tuition prices really more reasonable than textbook prices?

In a survey of 177 students (see left), The Ebbtide found that close to two thirds of those polled believe that the cost of tuition is in fact more reasonable than the price of textbooks.This belief that many SCC students have goes against the

actual increases in tuition costs in comparison to the increases in books. Although both of these commodities have increased in price drastically over the last 30 years, the cost of tuition leads the way.

The Consumer Price Index, a service provided by the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics tracks these items and gives us an idea of how much different products have increased or decreased in price of the years and is adjusted for inflation.

It states that many normal goods such as new automobiles have seen increases in price, and some such as sporting goods have even seen a decrease. (bellow) but many items have seen some very large increases.

Textbook prices have risen by an incredible 550% since the 1982-84 price average that the bureau uses as a baseline. As that is a huge increase in price, tuition takes the cake with a whop-ping increase of 613%. The only two commodities that have had a larger increase in price than tuition are tobacco products (which are heavily taxed to discourage use) and hospital services.

Simon Walker A&E Editor

Most students are feeling the pinch of going to college because of high tuition prices already and textbooks are, in many students’ opinions, the tipping point for whether or not they will take a given class or not.

In our poll we asked students if the price of a book has ever affected their decision to take a class. Surprisingly, over a third of those students said yes. Should the price of a book really be a component in a student’s decision to experience a class – a class that could determine their future major and career path?

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Kendra HayesWeb Master

SCC film students aren’t just learning about how to work out in the production field, they are basically experiencing it firsthand.

Kris Boustedt is in his fourth year as a film instructor at SCC. The great thing about him? Not only is he here on campus teaching, he’s out in the field making movies, and has been since 2007.

Kris owns a production company called First Sight Pro-ductions with his wife Lindy. He writes, directs, produces, edits and has worked on 12 films, 2 of which were features.

His first feature ‘PERFECT 10’ premiered at one of the largest film festivals in the world right here in Seattle, before hitting festivals around the world. ‘This is Ours,’ along with shorts ‘The Summer Home’ and Senior Show-case are about to go into the film festival circuit.

Boustedt is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades in the film in-dustry, and he encourages his students to learn more than one medium too.

This past fall students in Kris Boustedt’s Video Production class were hard at work creating Suspect, a modern Film Noir-style short shot in all black-and-white, with a modern take. The film is 11 minutes long

The story follows two detectives as they investigate a young woman’s murder. At first the boyfriend is the main suspect. The detectives begin to question the motives of the killer and believe he’s still on the loose.

The crew had the opportunity to rent and use profes-sional grade RED camera equipment. According to Boustedt, “it’s the same camera used to film a large

percentage of ‘Hollywood’ films. When they graduate, when they walk onto sets, the RED is probably the most common camera they’ll encounter.”

Impressively the group of 13 earned enough backing from the popular website Kickstarter, a platform that helps fund creative projects, to not only rent out profes-sional equipment, but even hired an actor who is a SAG member.

Richard Morris, seen on TV shows ‘Grimm’ and ‘90210,’ was cast as, Det. Harrison.

After successfully raising funding, the crew of 13 were ready to shoot. The storyline was written and planned over a period of 2 weeks, and shot in only 3 days in dif-ferent locations.

The story was written by SCC student Michael Fojt, who pitched his script to the class. The film was directed by Bill Kelley, produced by Marco Scaringi, photo-graphed by Sophia Perez and edited by Nick Terry, who also worked as a script supervisor.

“They’ve done some tremendous work!” Boustedt boasts, “they’ve sought feedback from people, they’ve made changes -- they’re attacking it in the same way a professional post-crew would.”

He remains humble amid his students’ success.“I’m just their sherpa. They’re doing all the work

themselves! Honestly, if the students weren’t as dedicated and passionate as they are,” he said, “there’s no way this would happen.”

He explains that the experience will help the students in seeing what it’s like working in the real world.

“The world is not designed to help anyone. If you want success, you have to make your own. And that’s exactly

what they’re doing.”He wants his students to succeed and see them utilize

their time here, as it will benefit them in their careers. “My overall goal for our film students is to have them constantly striving to create commercial- and festival-quality films throughout their entire careers here.”

Some of Kris’s students are not only going out in the film community and getting hired to work on film sets, some have even been hired on to work on Kris’s own projects.

“I’m excited to see the final product,” Boustedt said.So are we.The film is in its last stage of post-production, fully

edited and has been sent to the colorist and sound mixer to be fully completed.

Watch for updates on the first public screening of ‘Sus-pect’ at SCC.

The trailer can be viewed by scanning the QR code be-low and is also on our website www.shoreline.edu/ebbtide.

More behind-the-scenes with three of the key players involved in the production of ‘Suspect’ can be seen below.

Meanwhile, Boustedt’s class this quarter are at it again, preparing for a new film project. Some of the students involved in ‘Suspect’ are working on the new film, which will be called ‘Ex-Parte.’

The script has just been decided on and roles for the crew have been assigned. There will be more to follow with the pro-duction of ‘Ex-Parte.’

SCC students raised money to fund film project ‘Suspect,’ to be released soonLights, camera, SCC students in action!

William D. KelleyWilliam D. Kelley, or just Bill, is in his third quarter at SCC. Once, while enrolled in a Video Produc-tion class at Olympic CC, Kelley spent the whole quarter working on a short film he had written. He has never looked back. He’s taken part in the international 48 Hour Film Project, 4 times, helped Kitsap County produce videos for online candidates’ statements, and now is hoping to take ‘Suspect’ to the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).

What part did you play in the creation of ‘Suspect’?

I was the Director of the film. Michael Fjort pitched the idea to our class, and we liked the idea, but it still needed to be written. So, Michael and I sat for about a couple hours working on the story, the pacing and motives behind all of the characters. From there, it was a fun and yet, scary experience.What are you most proud of/ what do you wish you could change?

I’m truly proud to have the chance to do this. Half of my class was clamoring to be the director of this, but our teacher Kris wanted to give someone who had not directed a short in class a chance to direct.

Sophia PerezSopia Perez is the president of the SCC Film Club and is majoring in Digital Film Production. She’s been at SCC since last summer. She holds a BA in Public Relations, she is now returning to school to pursue her passion for film. She real-ized that working in film and television was something she had to do with her life after working as a PA on the set of ‘X Factor.’What part did you play in the creation of ‘Sus-pect’?

As the Director of Photography, I worked closely with the director and writer to create the storyboards and deliver their vision for how the film should look and feel. As DP I also worked with the grip to ensure the lighting suited the dark and moody feeling of this picture. Also, since we created a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds, I rallied behind this film to help get the financial support that it needed to become a reality.

What are you most proud of/ what do you wish you could change?

I am so proud that I had the opportunity to work on such a high quality production with such a great team and professional level equipment. The one thing I wish I could change was the timeline for the production- we developed the concept, fundraised and produced in 2 weeks. We only had 3 days to shoot the entire thing!

Nick TerryNick Terry has been at SCC for one year. He’s hop-ing to major in film production somewhere in L.A.His father is a screenwriter, and working with him is a lot of the reason Nick has gotten into Film.He has made his own feature film, ‘Senior Prom’ which showed at SIFF 2010.What part did you play in the creation of ‘Suspect’?

I was the script supervisor and editor for the proj-ect. Basically, that means on set I was always writ-ing down what take we were on, marking whether it went well (the camera was in focus, the actors said their lines correctly etc.) Then I used all that information after we were done shooting to piece together all the shots at home on Adobe Premiere

5.5 editing software. The experience on set was fantastic. All three of our shooting days went from 4 p.m. to 6 or 7 a.m. the next day. We were all exhausted, but it was an excellent experience. The editing portion has really showed me how much goes into even a shorter film like this, and opened my eyes to what my job will be like if I pursue editing (a small passion of mine).

Marco ScaringiMarco Scaringi graduated from SCC winter quarter 2012 with a Digital Film Production Degree after only being in the program for 4 quarters.With a B.A. degree in Theatre, his wife’s involvement in film school influenced his own interest in film. After losing his job in early 2011, he decided to pursue his passions. Together he and his wife own Scaringi Films.What part did you play in the creation of ‘Suspect’?

I was the producer. It was up to me to make sure everything was ready to go on the day we started shooting. I had to set up the auditions, set up the SAG paperwork for our union actors, get a fund-raiser going and promote it, rent the RED camera and professional lighting equipment, find police

uniforms, hire a police officer, arrange all the meals, secure the locations and get a filming permit from Seattle. It was a huge undertaking to complete in only two weeks, but I knew that I could do it. It was a great experience for myself.What are you most proud of/what do you wish you could change?

I’m just proud that we were able to shoot the whole film in 3 days, because it was a lot to get done. I was also really proud to see all my classmates work so hard on this film. We treated it like a professional film set. We really couldn’t have gotten it done without each person putting in as much effort as they did. It’s gonna be a great movie and I’ll be really proud to show everyone the final film.

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THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID . . .

Melynda Malley Copy Editor

Melynda Malley Copy Editor

Paseo Caribbean Restaurant4225 Fremont Ave N206-545-7440

If you have ever been to Fremont Ave you have prob-ably wondered about the

little pink hole-in-the-wall that has hordes of people outside it all the time. Are they giving something away over there? Why is there a line stretching out the door and halfway down the block? Only until you approach the commotion and you smell the freshly baked baguettes, roasted hand-pulled pork, and Paseo’s signature caramelized onions do you realize what all the fuss is about.

At this point you have a decision to make. Do you wait in line for 20 minutes to get a $9 sandwich, or do you go up the street and find something cheaper with no wait? Thank-fully, you chose to go with your instincts and wait in line.

This turns out to be the best decision you have made-and probably will make-in your life-time, for you are rewarded with the best sandwich in Seattle, and possibly the world.

The number two, or “Carib-bean Roast” is the most popular sandwich on the menu, and for

good reason. As you take your first bite you taste buds go into a state of shock and your brain doesn’t know how to process what is happening, you are lost for words and just keep repeat-ing “oh my god.” You go into sensory overload. You have never experienced such an ar-ray of different tastes that melt together into a perfect collage of

flavors.The first thing to hit your

tongue is the fresh baguette that has the perfectly crispy crust and soft, warm center. Then the Paseo marinade, juicy pulled pork, crisp lettuce, caramelized onions and fresh jalapeños hit you and you get that familiar feeling of bliss akin to enjoying a perfectly cooked steak. You

close your eyes and savor the symphony of flavors as you melt back into your chair.

After you take your last bite, the thought of getting a second, (or third) sandwich for later crosses your mind, but your self control wins out and you tell yourself to come back tomorrow.

Or not.

Simon Walker A&E Editor

Don’t pass up Paseo

On the night of Wednesday, May 2, the sounds of the SCC jazz band travelled

all the way from the PUB to the parking lots. The band had everything: brass, percussion, piano. There was just one thing missing -- a full house.

“I don’t think I need a mic with the twelve of you in here,” joked conductor Paul Harshman. “Those of you who did come, you’re really in for a treat.”

And it was true. Though the event was not widely attended, those present heard a perfor-mance that was both profession-al and passionate. Fans of jazz were treated to piano and saxo-phone solos, while those less familiar with the genre enjoyed a number originated by the Roll-ing Stones. The music turned what would otherwise be a big, empty cafeteria into an intimate jazz club. Even when something in the kitchen wouldn’t stop beeping, the band rolled with the punches, and audience members soon forgot all about it.

A brief intermission cleared the stage and reconvened with

a show by local duo Bad Luck, whose self-titled album was named the 2011 Jazz Album of the Year by Jazz Record. Harshman says that he “wanted to give people a chance to hear something a little bit different.”

As for the SCC jazz band, they’ve come a long way. In the fall of 2011, the group had only a handful of members, so

few that Harshman himself had to join in and play the trumpet. Now, he directs more than a dozen musicians.

They recently travelled to the Reno Jazz Festival, the largest of its kind, and placed third in the Community College Band category, with two individuals receiving Outstanding Musician-ship Awards.

“A lot of community college bands have adults in them,” Harshman said. “We were the opposite. We have kids in our band.”

The way they play, one would never have guessed. The SCC jazz band will be performing at the Strawberry Festival in Rich-mond Beach on May 12.

The month of May is a big one for entertainment media. Television begins

wrapping up for summer hiatus as movie studios prepare to release an onslaught of poten-tial blockbusters. Just before replacing your favorite show with a horrendous reality remake that somehow involves already-wealthy celebrities competing for money, networks release their final decisions on new pickups and cancellations.

NBC is apparently on board with fans’ cries of ‘six seasons and a movie,’ and has renewed ‘Community’ for another sea-son. Alec Baldwin must have realized that he would make a weird, angry politician, be-cause he’s signed on for a final season of ‘30 Rock.’ ‘Up All Night’ will also be returning, but NBC is doing a major clean sweep, exchanging a current total of eight programs for all-new pi-lots with vague, intense titles like ‘Do No Harm’ and ‘Revolution.’

CBS has chosen to go forward with hits like ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’ is looking like it will return, but ‘Rules of Engagement’ may have finally jumped the shark. Fox has followed suit, renewing ‘Family Guy,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘American Dad,’ but choos-ing to ax Jonah Hill comedy ‘Allen Gregory.’

This is a groundbreaking year for series-enders, with ‘Chuck,’ ‘House,’ ‘Desperate Housewives,’ ‘One Tree Hill’ and ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ com-ing to an end. As of publication, ‘CSI: NY’ and ‘CSI: Miami’ were listed as ‘Not Looking Good,’ approaching the chopping block with no definitive cancellation or renewal. These are shows that have been around for five years or more, that are going to be leaving a huge gap in network programming.

Summer hiatus does not, of course, mean the end of televi-sion. Netflix Instant, Hulu and HBO Go are all open for stream-ing of TV shows and movies, and old seasons of cancelled shows like ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Veronica Mars’ can be found elsewhere online. With new episodes coming next year, and a movie after that, this summer could be a great time to rewatch the first three seasons of ‘Devel-opment.’ Anglophiles can enjoy the BBC adaptation of ‘Sherlock,’ currently airing on PBS Master-piece Mystery on Sunday nights. There are two seasons thus far, with three 90-minute episodes each. Netflix has the first season available to stream.

The TV gap should be rem-edied by new movies this summer as well. If you haven’t seen global blockbuster ‘The Avengers,’ now is the time. ‘Five Year Engagement,’ ‘The Lucky One,’ ‘Cabin in the Woods,’ ‘The Raven’ and ‘Dark Shadows’ are also in theaters.

PHOTO BY IAN TERRY

PHOTO BY IAN TERRY

Neil Welch performs with his jazz duo “Bad Luck” during a show at SCC on May 2, 2012.

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Ben Goldstein Sports Editior

This time next week, SCC softball will either be in the playoffs or sitting at home.

Since Lance Swehla took over the SCC softball team four years ago, he has made the playoffs ev-ery single year, and this could be the first year he doesn’t make it.

As of now, SCC is in third place in the northern region, two games behind Olympic commu-nity college for second place and nine games out of first place to Bellevue community college.

Right below SCC in the stand-ings is Douglas community col-lege, who are a half-game back from SCC. The top four teams in the region make the playoffs, making SCC’s last five games (one against Douglas) extremely important.

“This season is definitely coming down to the wire,” Swehla said. “It (this season) will definitely be one of my more interesting.”

If SCC does make the playoffs, Swehla’s goal is to win it all, but

he realistically hopes to enjoy the moment and play as hard as possible.

“There is always a fun award banquet that the players love and of course making the playoffs is always an honor.” Swehla said.

Pitcher and infielder Alia Kelly who has enjoyed success this year with a batting average at .373 and seven homeruns says that she is ready for the playoffs.

“If we do make the playoffs I just want to play as hard as I can

and show that this team can win it all.” Kelly said.

Heading into this season the team’s goal was to make the playoffs but injuries and other circumstances have been tough to overcome Swehla explained.

“I don’t even want to think about not making the playoffs,” Head coach Swehla said. “But if we don’t, then recruiting will be a priority and taking a much-needed break will be a good thing for these girls and me.”

Kelly has a little bit of a dif-ferent view on how her offseason would look. “I just want to im-prove for next year by not letting my emotions get the best of me on the field,” she said.

But even if SCC doesn’t make the playoffs, this season has been full of highlights.

Six players accomplished a notable feat by having a batting average over .300. Three players had six or more home runs and 20 or more RBIs.

“The positives I have gotten out of this year are endless,” Kelly said. “I’ve gained a totally dif-ferent view on softball and I’ve made friendships that will last a lifetime.”

Swehla also knows how hard this team works and how much they deserve the playoffs. “We play hard, and this is a group of players that I really like,” Swehla said. “With all the hard work I hope we can make it because we deserve it.”

SCC Softball Jostling For PlayoffsSCC softball is fight-ing for playoffs and positioning with only five games left

Sports ScheduleWomens Softball

Mens Baseball

May 11

@ Skagit Valley CC . . 2 p .m .

May 12@ Everett CC . . . . . 2 p .m .

May 18-21NWAACC Softball Championship TBA

May 12@ Skagit Valley CC . . 1 p .m .

May 13vs . Skagit Valley CC . .1 p .m .

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On-campus jobs for Fall 2012$11.11 per hour

The Ebbtide student-run newspaper is hiring:

* An Editor in Chief to oversee content 12 hrs wk

* A Photo Editor to take and edit photos10 hrs wk

* A&E Editor to head up arts coverage10 hrs wk

* Business Manager to oversee ad sales10 hrs wk

* Distribution Manager to disperse the paper6 hrs every other week

*And possibly others…

Applications can be picked up outside Rm 9101, across from the SCC bookstore in the PUB. For more info, email pattijones@shoreline.edu.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: JUNE 1

The SCC Softball team will soon discover their fate as the playoffs near.

11SPORTS Volume 47, Issue 13, May 14, 2012

HANGE UP

Last week, retired NFL line-backer Junior Seau passed away from a self-inflicted

gun wound to the chest at his home in San Diego.

Seau was 43 years old, and had been retired for three years after a Hall of Fame career. He was a 12-time Pro Bowler, 10-time All-Pro, two-time AFC Champion and part of the 1990s’ All-Decade team.

During his playing days, Seau was a ferocious tackler that left everything on the field. He set the example of what a middle linebacker should be. After he was drafted fifth overall out of USC, over 10 USC linebackers in future years were drafted in the first round, all of them giving some sort of praise to Seau for inspiration.

Off the field, Seau was de-scribed as a kind, humorous and fun-loving guy who loved his family and friends, which makes this tragedy even more somber and confusing.

When I first heard of Seau’s suicide, I immediately thought about the impact that head trauma had on him after playing for almost 20 years.

Personally, I experienced at least two concussions while playing high school football, and while it doesn’t even compare to the kind of trauma Seau had, I can tell you that it is a tough subject.

My head trauma has caused me to become more forgetful and even more moody.

NFL players who have expe-rienced much more head trauma than I have become more forget-ful, moody and confused. This leads to depression and other mental illnesses that could lead to suicide.

The NFL has to take a stand against what is happening to retired players who are experi-encing this kind of trauma.

Unfortunately, it is tough to completely prevent head trauma in football-- unless commis-sioner Roger Goodell wants to turn the NFL into a flag foot-ball league. Getting rid of all the bone-crushing hits would affect NFL ratings significantly because, to put it bluntly, most people who watch football enjoy seeing hits like that.

So the NFL can’t completely get rid of hitting, but it can help after a career is over. After a player enters the NFL, they should be guaranteed a sort of package at the end of their careers that offers medical atten-tion specific to head trauma.

Another form of medical atten-tion that should be guaranteed is the opportunity to see a psychol-ogist for issues like depression or other mental diseases that could lead to suicide.

As of right now, Seau’s family is contemplating whether they want his brain to be examined for trauma. If they decide to let it be examined, the research would most likely show heavy head trauma to one of the great linebackers of all time, and one of the nicest NFL players ever.

Seau will be remembered for-ever, and as sobering as his death is, hopefully it can finally put the NFL into action regarding head trauma in retired NFL players.

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If you look through every single roster in Major League Base-ball, you won’t find one French

baseball player. But, if you look at the SCC baseball roster, you’ll find Henri Francois.

Francois was born and raised in Montpellier, France, where baseball isn’t the most popular sport.

“Soccer was definitely the country sport in France, baseball was kind of an afterthought,” Francois said.

But Francois decided to take up baseball because his older brother played and he wanted to do the same.

Francois started playing baseball at the age of seven in French little leagues. During high school he didn’t play for his high school team because French high schools don’t play sports.

Since there wasn’t a high school team he tried out for the French 21 and under national team and made it.

“The national team went to tourna-

ments all over the world including Spain, the Netherlands and Tokyo,” Francois said.

After graduating from high school, Francois wanted to keep playing baseball and get a good educa-tion. No universities in France had baseball teams, so he decided that coming to the US would be perfect for him.

Francois’ father had a friend in Seattle who gave him a list of schools in the area.

Francois applied to SCC and decided that it would be the best op-tion for him. The problem was that he didn’t get a scholarship, so he had to try out.

He ended up walking onto the baseball team and now is the start-ing shortstop.

When Francois first came to the United States, he lived with a host family but he didn’t like it. “It was kind of lame, so when I made the baseball team I got an apartment with some teammates,” Francois said.

Francois has noticed some major differences between America and France. He says that everything in America is much bigger and that he really does the notice how patriotic Americans are. One of the biggest differences he notices is how much

more competitive Americans are, especially when they play baseball.

“Americans are way more com-petitive, work harder and are more serious about the game of baseball- unlike in France,” Francois said.

SCC baseball has struggled this season but Francois knows there are good things ahead.

“This team is really young, it’s almost all freshmen,” Francois said.

“We have tons of potential to be a great team and could do something big next year.”

As for the future, Francois feels that making the major leagues prob-ably isn’t a realistic option.

“I do want to continue playing baseball,” he said. “Maybe get a scholarship to play at a four year university some where in California or Arizona where the baseball is good.”

Francois has also become a big Seattle Mariners fan in his time here.

“I’ve gone to like five games with my roommates and it is a lot of fun to watch and they have a lot of po-tential to be a good team,” he said.

In the end, though, Francois just wants to play baseball no matter what country he’s in, as long as he gets an education.

“Baseball is baseball, anywhere,” he said.

Playing baseball from France to America

Ben Goldstein Sports Editior

Pt. 3

of a three part series about

SCC’s international athletes.

PHOTO BY IAN TERRY

Suicide should propel NFL to deal with head trauma

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Dear Love & War, It’s been six months since I first met the guy who would forever

change my interpretation of love. When I first met this guy I had no clue he and I were so similar yet so far apart. Our love of music, dance, laughter and life was the glue that brought us together. The funny thing is neither of us ever expected anything other than a friendship with benefits (sex), but somehow along the way we got lost in the moment, and the decision was no longer ours. We fell in love, and the differences between the countries we were born in have torn us apart. You see this guy is from Saudi Arabia and his life is governed by religion and culture. In the United States he is able to be himself and live the way all Americans live (free), but when he returns home (in less than a month) he is expected to follow strict Saudi laws, that will determine who he may love. I am not saying that I disagree with his culture, all I am saying is that I love this guy and I can’t help the way that I feel, but his culture does not allow him to love me. At this point I am confused as to whether I should wait around in hopes that one day he will come for me, or just move on? —Lost in Love

WarHeartbreak in a relationship can come from anyone, no matter

where they come from. However in your situation, you’re dealing with a man that has a cultural commitment and his decisions af-fect more people than just him. You have to be realistic about this relationship. Even if he was to forget about his cultural and religious beliefs, how long do you think that would last?

He has known you for six months, but he has known his culture and religion his whole life. These connections will always be a part of him and the love that you and he share will be the one thing between him and all he has ever known. So I guess you need to ask yourself, do you really want to be a part of that?

LoveWith love there is no right time or right person, and when you meet

that one, you know. Nothing worth having comes easy and if you really love this man and he loves you, then don’t give up on him.

You are not the first person to love someone from a different cultural background and be denied by everything they believe in, but you may well be a part of the process of tearing down barriers. Rules are made to be broken. If it’s true love, your heart will never let you give up because when it comes to matters of the heart, the decision is not yours. Give him time to evaluate his situation and if it’s meant for you and he to be together, then you will.

RavesI would like to rave about Bruce Amstutz. He’s been my drawing teacher for the last two quar-

ters, and he is just a big old sweetie. He has been endlessly supportive and patient with me, without pandering or setting his expectations too low. Obviously, it’s been working — my drawings have improved a lot!

Everyone at SCC should meet the SCC librarians. They are a great resource. They can help you with anything from a computer question to getting info on a topic for a paper or speech. No matter the time or the day: If the library is open, you can bet one of the librarians is there and willing to sit with you and help as long as it takes. And if they don’t have the answer, you can bet your bottom dollar they will find it out and get back to you promptly.

Learning Center North is my favorite place on campus. This program turns at-risk youth and dropouts into college-going success stories. Caring and compassionate staff help give youth a second chance through innovative classes like fearless math and a partnership with Career Educa-tion Options. Getting your G.E.D. can be hard if you don’t have skills or confidence, but there are individual lesson plans and one-on-one help here. Not only that but each student has a case man-ager who helps with outside struggles like housing, or getting identification. A lot can be said about how valuable this program is to me and my classmates.

RantsI think it’s wrong that the only people who can use the SCC weight rooms and exercise equip-

ment are athletes and those registered in P.E. classes. At every other school, the facilities are open to all who are currently enrolled at the school. I think there should be a specific time when the weight room is open and anyone with a valid student ID can go work out. Staff are allowed to, but not students. That is really dumb. Granted, they do have open gym for the hoppers, but I’m not a hopper; I’m a weight lifter. And if you’re going to have an open gym for the hoppers, you should have one for the lifters.

This is a rant about sidewalk loogies. I can understand that sometimes one has excess mucus, and needs to get rid of it, but please don’t spit on the sidewalk! No one wants to look at the gelatinous goo in their path, nor have the possibility of getting biohazard waste on their shoes. It’s a foul, disgusting habit, and I see far too many sidewalk loogies on the pathways of campus. If you really must spit, please spit in the bushes or on the grass. It may take an extra step to the edge of the path, but it really doesn’t expend that much more effort to do so. Yuk!

The men’s bathroom stalls are way too close to each other. Some people might not have found this to be a problem, but I find it uncomfortable. I’ll be honest: there were times where it was diffi-cult for me to “go” when someone stood right next to me. To embarrass myself even further, I have

“pretended” to have finished my business, leaving the bathroom because of the nervousness I felt because someone stood so close. Long story short: We should at least have dividers. Thank you.

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