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INDEX

News.... . . . . . .2,3 Opinion.... .....4A&E................5Life................6

Sports............7,8

On news:

The event Great 948,

was hosted in Irvine at

the Great Park. Citizens

came together to share

their favorite time and

place through artwork.

On life:

The band Wake the

Street was created by

a Saddleback student.

The band became offi-

cial in December 2009.

On A&E:

Saddleback offers one of

the only puppet courses

available at the commu-

nity college level.

VICTORY: Saddleback College football team raised its record to 4-0 with a 48-14 victory against Victor Valley. Up next: Cerritos College.

photo by alyssa hunter/lariat

Campus comment:

Do you think that home-

coming king and queen

is appropriate for a

college setting?

On opinion:

Google + vs. Facebook

SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

Students gathered at the pre-game activities for Homecom-ing 2011 at Saddleback College last Saturday.

“We do a tailgating party every year for the families that come and alot of their administra-tors to play games,” Jo-seph Hassine, 19, soci-ology said.

“Plus the fact that we are gathering donations for one of our faculty member’s son who has brain cancer.”

Many clubs had most of their proceeds going to CHOC and to Direc-tor of Student Develop-ment, Audra DiPado-va’s son, who was diag-nosed with brain cancer at the beginning of August.

“I am here because I feel like this is an awesome way to give back to CHOC and to Max,”

Jessica Barr, 34, psychology said. “We are apart of a student community so it is important for students to get together and help each other out.”

ASG also gave students the opportunity to make their own headbands with Saddleback col-ors.

Games like a pie eating con-

tests, making a pet rock, a jel-ly bean guessing game, and the “Worlds Greatest Game” which was a toss to knock down all the aluminium cans where just

some of the many activ-ities ASG had to offer at the tailgating event.

“There is really not a sense of community at Saddleback, so ASG’s motive behind doing these types of activi-ties are to bring student life,” Eric Bremen, 19, business administration said.

ChompChompNa-tion.com, Mun-Chee5, and Panfiniti were some food trucks ready to serve fresh meals for at-tendees

“Our activities re-volve around kids and

are benefiting Max who is Au-dra’s son to enjoy the many as-pects that Saddleback offers.”

EVELYN CAICEDO

photo by alyssa hunter/lariat

PIE EATING CONTEST: Pierce Larsen, 18, broadcast journalism, and Andrew Johnson, 18, undecided competed in the pie eating contest at the tailgate event before the homecoming game.

ecaicedo0@saddleback.edu

Relief efforts support Haiti

Over 1,500 volunteers worked in Saddleback College’s parking lot 1 last weekend, in an effort to thwart famine and hunger in several Third World countries.

The event, put on by Kids Around the World, an organi-zation that sends playgrounds and non-perishable meals to communities in need, produced 840,000 packaged meals.

“Saddleback donated a gen-erator, and they cleaned out the warehouse for us to store food,” said Paul Gates, a re-gional director for Kids Around the World. “We’ve done lots of packing events with schools, businesses, and churches, but I wanted to do a community-wide event.”

Gates had difficulty in the past finding a location in south Or-ange County to host the event. “When I thought more about the location, I thought Saddleback College was very [distance] neutral, and right in the middle of everything,” Gates said.

Gates’ mother contacted Sad-dleback to see if anything could be arranged, and a few weeks later they received a phone call regarding their request.

According to Gates, Saddle-back was eager to host the event for KATW.

“It’s such a blessing to be able to have access to all of this,” Gates said.

In addition to the donated facility and supplies, plenty of volunteers showed up from all walks of life to support the event.

“We had around 1,500 peo-ple here [over the course of] the weekend,” Gates said.

Volunteers had showed up Friday morning and stayed un-

til they closed late Friday night, and many returned Saturday for a second helping.

KATW was first interested in sending volunteers to assem-ble playgrounds in Third World countries.

As the organization grew in strength, they looked for ways to include people who could not give up enough time to travel overseas.

“We want to do something here on a broad scale that will give people a taste of what it means to care for the poor, without leaving their comfort zone,” Gates said. “The hope is that some of these young people who showed up this weekend will become future humanitar-ians.”

The meals packaged this weekend are being shipped to Haiti and several countries in the horn of Africa, where there is currently a famine.

“Our goal was one million meals, and while we fell short, it was not by much,” Gates said. “Working Friday from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. and then 6 a.m. un-til 5 p.m. [Saturday], the group packaged 840,000 meals.”

The meals consist of rice, soy, vegetables, and a daily supply of nutrients and vitamins mixed with seasonings.

The dehydrated meals are non-perishable until opened, and contain enough nutrients for a full day, even if the person can only eat one meal.

KATW ships the food and playgrounds in 40 foot shipping containers.

“Sportsgift donates full uni-forms for soccer teams, along with cleats, shin guards, socks, and more,” Gates said. “Hurley donates and sends water purifi-ers.”

ADAM JONES

SEE HAITI PAGE 2

Your student-run newspaper

Tailgating at homecoming

photo by alyssa hunter/lariat

DONATIONS: People who attended the tailgate before the homecoming game were able to make donations to Audra DiPadova’s son, Max who was diagnosed with brain cancer.

See the web:

Kirall Gliadvosky per-

formed at the McKinney

Theatre with his wife

Anna and daughter, An-

astassia, commemorat-

ing his new position as

a faculty member in the

Department of Music.

See the campus page for puzzles,

recipes, and what’s happening in the

music world.

photo by aray Chen/fliCkr/CC by-nC-sa 2.0

photo by JaCk spear

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The Reactor Institute and Ir-vine Valley College teamed up last week to create an exhibit on innovative transportation prod-ucts and energy solutions for students.

On Sept. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the IVC Performing Arts Center, the Reactor Institute hosted the Reactor Cafe event to network with entrepreneur-ial individuals while promoting technologically advanced prod-ucts for the future.

“The goal for this event is to bring students of all ages from high school and college to meet a lot of local entrepreneurs to learn about careers in energy and transportation,” said Brian Hagerty, the director of the Re-

actor Institute.Over 100 high school and

college students from around southern California met with the company leaders and learned about their work in the technol-ogy industry.

“[The students] heard the per-sonal stories of these inventors, innovators and engineers which were stories that they could re-late to,” said Kathy Johnson, the CEO of Vital Link. “We want the kids to feel inspired and go into the fields.”

Keynote speaker Steve Trin-dade was the first to speak at the event. He founded and is the CEO of Automotive Technol-ogy Group, which is a motor sports and vehicle engineering firm in Irvine.

“[The exhibit] gives you an idea on what you really want to

focus on in this industry,” said Matias Araya, 23, mechani-cal engineering. “[Trindade’s] presentation really inspired me to look into a more automotive field. He definitely put things into perspective for me.”

The second to speak was

Doug Malewicki who is the founder and inventor of Sky-Tran, which is a high speed Magnetic-Levitation Train.

“It is so fascinating how this type of technology, [SkyTran], is coming in the future,” said Taylor Jennings, 17 from Hill View High School. “All we need is the right funding to make this happen. Who wouldn’t want to fund this type of project?”

The SkyTran venture is be-ing formulated in full scale on a short track by NASA’s Ames Research Center in northern California, according to the re-actorcafe.com website.

“It seems like both the high school kids and the adults grasped [the speech] pretty well. Even one of the other pre-senters was really impressed with how SkyTran can improve

the world,” Malewicki said. “I guess I could say he was in-spired about how SkyTran could solve congestion, pollution and accidents and understood its im-plications.”

Last to speak was Ira Munn, the Team Leader at Team IKE Aerospace. The company is cur-rently developing products like the Seraph Super Plane, which is a described to be a hybrid diesel-electric plane.

The Seraph Super Plane plans to compete in the NASA Café Green Flight Challenge that will test airplanes to fly 200 miles in less than two hours with one gallon of gas.

After the keynote speakers, the audience changed to a busi-ness community and educators began to discuss ways to work together for the students.

Johnson said that they dis-cussed “how the industry and educators can work together to expand the capacity of those programs and develop enrich-ment for the students.”

Reactor Cafe plans on having an event in the Orange County Fair Grounds in April for any students and adults that are in-terested in attending.

“The young people who work hard and stay interested in the world around them will have plenty of opportunities to make their own creative contribu-tions,” Malewicki said.

Visit reactorcafe.com for more information on the exhib-its and http://www.vitallinksoc.org for career exploration in the fields.

Local students learn from experienced technology entrepreneursEVELYN CAICEDO

“The young people who work hard and stay interested in the world around them will have plenty of opportunities to make their own creative contributions.”

ecaicedo0@saddleback.edu

Changes to the MySite web portal, effecting both the Sad-dleback and Irvine Valley Col-leges, will be going into beta testing this semester as part of a larger effort focusing on student success.

Jim Gaston, who warned of his long title, is the associate director of information tech-nology, academic systems and special projects for the South Orange County Community College District.

He is calling this project the MySite refresh, and stressed the importance of student involve-ment.

“We’re constantly looking for student feedback, so there’s a feedback link on the My-Site homepage, and we read every single thing that comes through,” Gaston said.

Gaston receives feedback numbering in the hundreds from students every year, but not all of it has been related to helping improvement.

Among the mismatched messages, students have com-plained about getting bad grades in classes, and one student even posted a love poem to his girl friend.

Another way Gaston is in-cluding students comes in the form of a design team.

Members of this year’s design team are Laura Niculescu, Bree-anna Matsumoto and Tommy Argo from IVC and Shaunna Huynh from Saddleback.

“They’ve made it very clear that it’s student oriented, so they take what we think seriously,” said Niculescu, 20, psychology. “We have implemented a to do list to help students keep track of what they need to do, when they need to do it and give them the ability to check it off.”

The calendar feature will also be getting a makeover.

“We’ve made changes for the calendar, to make it a little bit more interactive and easy to use,” Niculescu said.

The announcements section will be updated as well. It will be sorted into channels users can choose to subscribe to, such as arts, sports, Transfer Center, ASG and more.

Unfortunately, these changes won’t permanently go into ef-fect straightaway.

“When we go live, we’re go-ing to be in preview mode, so there won’t be any changes the student doesn’t opt-in to be able to see,” Gaston said.

There will be a bar at the

top of MySite, asking users if they want to view the new ver-sion. Students will then be able

to send feedback. However, Gaston isn’t looking for love poems, but rather helpful mes-

sages from students concerning the changes.

“For the most part, MySite is

going to work exactly the same, registration is exactly the same, viewing your grades, your tran-scripts, all that’s the same,” Gaston said. “What has changed is the type of information and the flexibility of what we pro-vide you on the homepage.”

The optional preview mode is scheduled to be available by the end of September, provided everything continues to go well. Otherwise, it may be delayed into October.

This is all a single step in a larger project called Sherpa, guided by a design team con-taining faculty, students and staff from both campuses.

Acknowledging that different students have specific needs, adapting to those needs is the goal of Sherpa, tailoring infor-mation so users will see what’s most important to them.

Speaking of the motivation pushing the changes forward, and again asking for student in-volvement, Gaston said, “The whole reason we’re doing this is to help our students succeed. So if there’s any ideas people have, just use the feedback link in MySite and let us know what those are, we really pay atten-tion to that.”

MySite update brings helpful new features, improves older servicesMICHAEL DORAME

UPDATE: MySite’s makeover makes detailed information more accessible through main MySite features like the calendar, index, announcements and to-do list. The update is still in development.

Image courtesy of JIm gaston

mdorame0@saddleback.edu

The Transfer Admission Guarantee is a program offered by the Saddleback college trans-fer center to help University of California hopefuls get into their school of choice.

Currently, TAG is available from UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Merced, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbra and UC Santa Cruz.

The application period to ap-ply to UCs for Fall 2012 is Sept. 1- 30, 2011. While this year’s deadline is almost over, it is im-portant to look into the future and begin to think of entering the TAG program for Fall 2013.

The application filing for TAG 2013 will be Sept. 2012.

Each UC has specific require-ments to enter their school. One must have met all the require-ments before applying to the UC of your choice.

All UCs require students to have 30 transferable units in or-der to be eligible for TAG.

“The TAG program is a great opportunity for students looking to transfer,” said Barba Bena-vides, senior transfer center spe-cialist

Students must also attend school the year before entering their UC of choice and maintain a good GPA. GPA requirements for most of the participating UCs ranges from 3.0-3.5.

“In a time of tough competi-tion it is important that students do very well in ALL of their classes,” said Sara Nieves-Lu-

cas, a transfer center counselor.Keeping a high GPA is key to

getting into any UC. It is also important for students to work on their math, English, and other general education requirements while maintaining a high GPA.

“The math and English class-es are really important to get done as soon as possible. Most the UCs ask for them the be completed or at least started,” Nieves-Lucas said.

Also, it is important to decide upon a major while at Saddle-back. The UCs require that each applicant for TAG has a major and has taken at least two class-es for that specified major.

Visit the assit.org website to verify which classes are trans-ferable to a given school. The assist website can also help pick classes for future semesters. Also, transfer center counselors can help verify the TAG require-ments for each specified UC.

Students can only TAG to one UC, so applications to other schools must be made without the TAG program.

“It is important that TAG stu-dents also apply to other Univer-sities. There are so many options out there, they should see where they get accepted and then make the decision,” said Judi Pohl, a transfer center specialist.

Check out the transfer center in the Student Services Center at Saddleback for more infor-mation on the University of our choice, or visit them online at www.saddlback.edu/transfer.

KIRALYNN EDMONDSON

kedmonson0@saddleback.edu

Transfers receive green light from UC schools with TAG

It is no secret that Saddle-back College has started mak-ing some major changes to its campus, the most recent change being the library remodel.

However, many not-so-ob-vious changes are also in the works. New buildings, roads, parking lots and walkways are planned for the campus.

Many of these changes will not go into effect for several years, but construction is begin-ning in some places and ongo-ing in others.

The Saddleback’s President, Tod A. Burnett, would like to make Saddleback’s campus the “first choice” for community college students in south Or-ange County.

In order to succeed in this goal, major changes to the ac-cessibility and modernization of the institution are in the works.

Among these changes is the much needed new science building, which is scheduled for completion in 2013.

It has been over 40 years since the college was built, and the classrooms in the current Sci-

ence and Math building, where the science classes are currently held, have not been updated since construction.

“The new science building will give us state-of-the-art labs and classrooms for our science programs.” Burnett said. “We are certainly in need of it and are very excited about it.”

The science building is set to be built in place of the current parking lot 7, which is a faculty parking lot.

Burnett also has plans to make the campus more “student centric.” He acknowledged the

need for a place for students to be able to study and hangout.

In an effort to help meet this goal, the transfer center in the quad is due to be demolished to make way for a large plaza that will take its place.

The transfer center will move to the student services building permanently.

Future renovations and up-grades of all the facilities on campus are a priority for Presi-dent Burnett, and many are in the near future.

CASSIE ROSSEL

Improvements to campus underway, more to come

crossel0@saddleback.edu

SHIPPING OUT: Volunteers load the packaged meals into a truck to be transported overseas.

Photo by adam Jones/LarIat

“We’ll take anything anyone will give us and ship it out.”

Organizations and individu-als donate time or money to KATW to make their shipments possible. Several firefighters from around the region partici-pated in the packing, and a few local businesses were repre-sented as well.

KATW also trains teachers to work in underprivileged com-munities. They currently have 16,000 trained teachers work-ing in more than 30 countries.

“Any time you care for the poor it enlarges your heart,” Gates said. He encourages anyone interested in volunteer-ing, hosting a packing event, or making donations to con-tact KATW at 815-229-8731, or visit their website at kidsa-roundtheworld.com.

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The California School Em-ployee’s Association is finishing negotiations with the South Or-ange County Community Col-lege District to discuss updated faculty salary rights.

According to Instructor Lee Haggerty, the union’s chief ne-gotiator, the old contract ended in 2009 and, when ratified, the updated contract will be en-forced until its expiration date in 2014.

The new contract addresses some issues in the work force and the salary of instructors at Saddleback College.

“When the previous contract expired we had two choices ahead of us,” Haggerty said. “We could either extend the contract another three years as it is or we could go to the bargain-ing table. We chose to go to the

table.”In the negotiations the union

did not ask for raises, but in-stead asked for a restructure in the salary for part-time faculty.

Due to the Equal Employ-ment Gratification act in Cali-fornia, the district is required to negotiate with the union.

This right is called collec-tive bargaining. Due to recent legislation in other states, many unions have been denied access to collective bargaining. Specif-ically, collective bargaining has been suspended in Wisconsin and Ohio as of last Feb.

According to Haggerty, he and the union have been negoti-ating for the last two years, with most of their issues resolved. One exception is lab instructor salaries.

The contract is being pre-pared to be ratified by SOCCCD and CSEA.

“Certain faculty members were at the top of the salary schedule for nearly 20 years with out compensation,” Hag-gerty said. “We hoped to change that.”

The recent change in the con-tract includes a table that shows a percent increase in salary af-ter a number of years. After five years salary increases two per-cent. Every additional year, this percentage increases by one.

Unfortunately this compensa-tion package doesn’t apply to part-time employees.

“With the economy the way it is, it may not be the best time to negotiate. But the contract ex-pired, and we have a responsi-bility to make sure union mem-bers have their rights,” Hag-gerty said.

Teachers’ union contract ratification enters final stages of completion

DAVID GUTMAN

dgutman1@saddleback.edu

Nursing program takes only the bestTamera Rice, head of Saddle-

back College’s nursing pro-gram, held an informational meeting on the application pro-cess to enter Saddleback’s nurs-ing program Sept. 19.

Many aspiring nurses showed up to the meeting to get a clear description of what it takes to enter the program. The nursing program only accepts 60 stu-dents each semester.

There are two application deadlines each year, one for each semester. The due dates are in Feb. for spring and June for fall each year.

Future nursing students must finish a series of pre-requisites before becoming eligible for the program. Several biology class-es, including BIO 11, BIO 12 and BIO 15, must be completed with a GPA of 2.8 or above.

Students must also complete English 1A with a grade of a C or better.

Eligible students must also pass the Test of Essential Aca-demic Skills. The test must be passed with a score of 62 per-cent or higher.

However, even with a score of 62 percent, there is a high possi-bility a student may not be in-vited into the program. Students are encouraged to study for the TEAS and score as high as pos-sible to increase their chances of acceptance into the program.

There is limited seating in the program and students should aim high in order to help them-selves stand out among other applicants.

Along with fulfilling the pre-requisite courses and passing the TEAS test, aspiring nurses can do more to up their chances of entering the program.

For example, work or vol-unteer experience with direct human patient care will better the odds of being invited to the program.

Rice, who is also the assis-tant dean of Health Science and Human Services, advises that students also take the recom-mended nursing courses.

Students do not need to be in the program to take these courses but might look good on an application to the nursing

program.Proficiency in a language oth-

er than English also looks very good on a nursing program ap-plication.

Rice has scheduled an ad-ditional informational meeting for those looking into the pro-gram. The meeting is scheduled for Nov. 15 from 7-9 p.m. in the Health Science and Human Services Building. The room number will be announced at a later date.

For additional information about curriculum and forms vis-it the nursing program’s website at www.saddleback.edu/hs/rn/.

KIRALYNN EDMONDSON

kedmondson0@saddleback.edu

DISCUSSION: After the informational meeting, Tamera Rice, right, explains details of the nursing program to interested students.

Photo by Kiralynn Edmondson

Many Orange County citizens gathered at The Irvine Great Park Art Exhibit on Saturday evening to admire the public Masonite-tile artwork.

Members of the community decorated tiles with their favor-ite places and times. Popular

tiles depicted Mickey Mouse, beaches and some even con-tained poetry.

Across the wall where the tiles were mounted, “Orange County is 948 square miles, and in the heart of those 948 miles is the Great Park.”

In the heart of Orange Coun-ty, citizens of all ages stopped

to admire each others’ favorite places.

“The exhibit’s primary pur-pose was to build community with inter community. This is a proven model that works, people decorated something the same size with their favor-ite place and time, and turned it in to allow others to reminisce about good times and places they have been,” said Kristina Colby, a Great Park Gallery As-sociate.

“It turned out to be a lovely night, the weather is perfect, and the artwork is beautiful. I am happy to see so many young people interested in art,” said Gary Stewart, a citizen of Mis-sion Viejo.

It is not too late to pick up a Masonite tile and decorate it. The exhibit is showing every Sat. through the end of Oct.

Tiles are available at the Great Park during the week. To submit a tile, be sure to turn it in before Thurs. to add a decorated Masonite tile to the community wall, to be viewed by fellow citizens in the heart of Orange County.

OC community comes together to decorate tiles

KIRALYNN EDMONDSON

kedmondson0@saddleback.edu

MOSAIC: Residents view the artwork displayed at the Great Park.

Photo by Kiralynn Edmondson

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Lariat “Saddleback’s student-run newspaper since 1968”

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One copy of the Lariat is free. Additional copies may be purchased at the Lariat newsroom, located in the Student Services Center at Saddleback College.

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IS HOMECOMING KING AND QUEEN APPROPRIATE FOR A COLLEGE SETTING?

KYLIE CORBETT AND ALYSSA HUNTER

“I just think it is weird to vote for someone that I have no idea who they

are.”

“I think it should just be a homecoming football game without any king

and queen.

“Yes I think it is OK because people that

weren’t king and queen in high school get another

chance.”

“How can you vote for someone that you don’t

even know?”

“I think it is because it has been a part of a tradi-tion for so long that there is no reason to get rid of it. It is what makes a col-lege community spirited.”

“No, I don’t agree with it. It would be more appro-

priate if they publicized it more.”

“I am running for queen right now, so it is just a

really good chance for my organization to get it.”

“Yes because you do get $150 for the organization you are running for and it is more of a school spirit

thing. It is something worthwhile instead of a

popularity contest.”

Mac or Windows: A continuing battle The battle between Mac and

PCs have been raging since the late 1970s, and Mac and PC us-ers have been butting heads as to which computer is better.

I am a student at Saddleback College that uses both PC and Macs. Since I have a PC com-puter and my mom uses a Mac, I have a minimal amount of ex-perience in both.

To be honest, it’s really an-noying that this argument has been going on since the ‘70s. It’s a never-ending cycle that just keeps going on and on.

Mac commercials are always portraying PCs as really slow computers that when you put a lot of stuff on it, you have to wait a long time before the com-puter starts slowing down.

Well, I hate to say this Apple, but PCs aren’t the only com-puters that end up getting slow

from time to time. I mean, the speed when downloading iTunes or updating the new soft-ware is really slow and can be very annoying.

I like both Macs and PCs, but when it comes to the price, PC is the best. This is because Mac’s version of the laptop, the Mac-book and the desktop comput-ers for Mac can set people back thousands of dollars, while the PC desktop and laptop comput-ers cost around $500 or $600.

Seriously, is Apple trying to take money out of a consumer’s pocket, like a leech sucking blood from a human being?

Mac computers are espe-cially bad when it comes to the different types of computers they have. Apple only produc-es Macs in nine basic models while PCs have an unlimited variety of computers students at Saddleback can choose from.

The really awesome thing

about PCs is the latest com-mercial from Microsoft, which recently ran on TV earlier in the year. The advertisement announced a special deal for students that if a they buy a computer with Windows 7 on it, then they can receive a free Xbox 360 with purchase.

I felt myself saying, “Oh my God, I wish I had a job so I can get in on that deal!” It was like a dream come true and I wish I really did have a job so I would have enough money to get one of those computers.

This greatly differs from Macs, which are not capable of connecting to an Xbox 360.

Even though PCs work really well when it comes to gaming and the large variety of com-puters that they have, there are some good things about the Mac as well.

For one, Macs have yet to be threatened by a virus or experi-

ence a major security breach on its computers.

PCs are notorious when it comes to viruses, with hackers easily being able to gain access into the computers.

However, the price difference outweighs the possible conse-quences.

JESSICA OSIECKI

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Reading wars: Digital books vs. paperPaper books are slowly dying

out as the digital age creeps its way into society with the inven-tion of e-books.

While the convenience of having an e-book and thousands of digital books seems like a nice idea, the feeling of a physi-cal book in your hands and pag-es to flip is a unique experience an e-book is unable to offer.

Often people wouldn’t con-sider “curling up” with a ma-chine.

Though, as the the appeal of e-books increases, it’s hard to decide which one is easier to use or better for the environ-ment. There are pros and cons with each option.

As bookstores, like Borders, go out of business and e-books come in, the whole feel of read-ing a book is changing. Many young kids are denied the privi-lege of sitting down and enjoy-ing a good read.

While libraries and few book-stores are still available, it is probable that they will eventu-ally go out of business as well.

A draw to e-books is how

little they weigh (Amazon’s Kindle 8.5 oz.). Lugging books around can be undesirable.

Often people don’t consider the fact that not every book weighs several pounds, there are light reads or magazines, as some prefer, which are just as light as the device.

Some may argue books are not the most eco-friendly when it comes to CO2 emissions and trees that are cut down, Howev-er, it is doubtful the average big business doesn’t go through just as much or more paper a year than a single person’s library.

Many environmentalists have done studies to show that e-books are greener to produce, but Amazon has never released a statistical study themselves, making them seem suspicious.

Not taken into account is the additional energy it takes to charge the machine each time.

With any technology or elec-tronic device, there is the risk of glitches or failures. If you spill something on the device, it may cause a malfunction. So, naturally with any e-book there is risk of losing all your stored books or other prints.

Also, with any screened elec-

tronic like lap-tops, iPads, etc., there is risk of eyestrain or RSI after long periods of time.

There has also been issues with e-book hackers cracking Kindles and deleting stored data. These hackers have made careers out of messing with these devices just to see if they can. Many have been success-ful.

Having a digital copy may also make it easier to censor certain sections from books, which you are unable to do with a printed book.

This may be a nice feature for parents of young children, but undesirable if you don’t want your story cut short.

Part of reading a book is be-ing able to share it with other people and building community around a new story.

E-books, like the Kindle, make it difficult to share books because every book is not “lendable.” If you don’t have the rights to lend a book to a friend then you don’t really own the book.

The books that are “lend-able” make it difficult to do so, because it is exclusive to U.S. residence and there is a 14-day

loaning period. During this time, the owner cannot read the book himself or herself.

In addition, the borrower has to have an Amazon account or set one up and can only borrow a book one time.

For leisurely readers, 14 days is not always enough time, espe-cially in our fast-paced society in which many people barely have two seconds to take a breather and read.

All of this can be avoided with a physical book that can just be handed to someone.

Another note is the costli-ness of the Kindle and other e-books claiming to save money. Though, the initial price to purchase one is approximately $120 and each book around $10. Having to purchase every book can become expensive in the bad economy.

With paper books, there are libraries where you can borrow books for free, used book stores where you can pick up books for next to nothing, and circula-tion of books between friends, exchanging to constantly enjoy new pieces of literature.

MELANIE ROBERTS

mroberts32@saddleback.edu

The many faces of social networkingSocial networking is an im-

portant part of life and business these days, but despite that it can be quite a hassle.

Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn are the big names but which service is right for any given person?

Twitter keeps it short and sweet, allowing friends, com-munities, businesses and ce-lebrities to keep in contact and share ideas with whomever they please.

Facebook allow for more substance, allowing you to post without length limits and share with greater ease.

Celebrities have fan pages, many businesses have pages and even some neighborhoods make pages for themselves.

LinkedIn is more for profes-sional networking than social networking, but can be used to

link social contacts for the pur-pose of expanding one’s busi-ness network.

Google+ combines Twitter and Facebook into a single ser-vice.

Posts are made more in the way of tweets than status up-dates, but one’s profile is more akin to Facebook.

Personal information is left out of the mix on Google+ to protect users, but if someone really wants to share their per-sonal information, they can.

So which one is the best? To determine the answer, the draw-backs of each service should be clear. In many cases, however, they are not.

Facebook is personally my least favorite of the big wigs.

Facebook does not treat its members as customers.

Facebook members are very low on the priority list for Face-book.

On Facebook, advertisers are at the top. An individual is just someone to click links and cre-ate ad revenue. Members are the product for advertisers to con-sume.

Twitter is useful and keeps things to the point, but its use-fulness is often abused.

Many active tweeters think that everyone constantly wants to know what they are doing, and therefore post simple things, such as “Donuts for breakfast, off to class.”

That’s great that you had doughnuts, but I really don’t need to know that you didn’t know how to spell doughnut.

Google+ is my favorite of the unprofessional social networks. It keeps things short, allows me to see pictures, and treats me like a human being.

Google+ members are the consumer for Google, so there is no lack of priority to the needs

of the person using the service.LinkedIn is my personal fa-

vorite social network, however, because it cuts the social aspect out of the network.

This isn’t to say that it is anti-social, but instead that it leaves the social aspect of the network to the user, and not to the ser-vice.

I prefer to be social in person whenever possible, rather than using the medium of a computer screen, and LinkedIn leaves me to do just that.

Despite being treated like a second class citizen on Face-book, dealing with nonsensical yammering on Twitter, sharing with my friends on Google+ in the way that I please, or keeping my life professional on Linke-dIn, I realize that I need some of these services in my life.

ADAM JONES

ajones54@saddleback.edu

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COMPUTER CRAZINESS: Many people own and operate on Windows PCs and Macs. De-spite the popular advertisments from both sides, people still choose based on preference.

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*Ingredient amounts are optional*

Sometimes it’s difficult to choose what we can truly af-ford to eat.

Going out to restaurants can be expensive and it’s a confus-ing choice whether to cook or not.

The truth is that going to col-lege and trying to keep up with class work can be stressful, not including the fact that some people have jobs to keep up with as well.

Unfortunately, some people are so busy they forgot the most simplest parts of their day.

Life can be so hectic that we don’t remember to sit down, relax, and eat healthy and good food.

How can we forgot to re-spect the way we live, and actually put a little respect in what we eat?

It can be a hassle to cook but in reality it’s very simple to cook if its just a small event: breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

You don’t have to start cook-ing everything yourself, but it really feels like an accomplish-ment when you can provide your own food independently.

The belief that cooking food at home is a longer wait then ordering food at a restaurant needs to be corrected.

The only time it’s going to be an extended time for waiting for food is if you cook some-thing that has a longer prepara-tion and cooking time.

It’s great and easy to cook quick and easy recipes that can be only ten minutes worth of actually cooking.

One of the main points of making an easy meal is to pick simple ingredients.

You pick a recipe that bases itself on a main ingredient. It can be a simple moment of your time where you can get nourishment and feel the ac-complishment of providing yourself food.

One of the simplest ingre-dients to work with are veg-etables.

Not only being healthy, they are also very versatile in cer-tain recipes.

Vegetables are good in soups, salads, and sandwiches.

Salads are the simplest and most flexible recipes ever. You don’t always have to use a stove or microwave to make some food.

Sometimes all you have to do is buy, prepare, and assem-ble your ingredients.

With a salad you can use let-tuce or spinach.

There are plenty of veg-etables to add into a salad. To-matoes and cucumbers can be sliced up and put in a salad.

You can also incorporate other non-vegetables into the recipe.

Just dice up strawberries and grapes into a salad, and maybe even shredded cheese would make a salad different than just an average salad.

Simplicity is a great ingredi-ent in any recipe.

It keeps cooking time to a minimum or none at all.

The simple things in life are the qualities we all eventually try to find in life.

So why not start slow and make our own food that easily fit into even the most chaotic schedule.

For those who eventually want to accommodate their schedule to their cooking in-stead of fitting their mealtimes in between their full schedules, it’s a great way to learn the ba-sics of good cooking.

I admire the flexibility and energy it takes to plan a meal and prepare it and cook it.

Not much can be done to stop a busy schedule, but for those who want to start enter-taining the idea of cooking at home more often it’s an easy start to just make salad. From there on you might expand your cooking skills while keep-ing a busy schedule.

The boys of Blink-182 are finally giving worldwide fans what they’ve been begging for with the release of their sixth studio album, Neighborhoods, yesterday.

A new record seemed near-ly impossible since Blink-182 announced that they would be taking an “indefinite hiatus” in 2005.

After the split, each member of the band went on to do their own projects, which further led fans to believe that Blink-182 was really over.

Travis Barker and Mark Hop-pus formed the band +44, while Tom DeLonge formed the band Angels and Airwaves.

Barker also made a solo re-cord along with several side projects.

The incident that brought the band together once again was Barker’s near death experience three years ago.

DJ Adam Goldstein and Barker were the only survivors of a flaming Learjet 60 crash site in South Carolina.

After the terrifying crash, the three longtime friends began to come into contact once again.

At the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009, Blink-182 fans were astonished when the band an-nounced that they were reunit-ing.

“We used to play music to-gether, and we decided that we are going to play music together again,” Barker said at the award show.

Henceforth the creation of Neighborhoods, which is Blink’s first full-length album in eight years.

Neighborhoods plays out 14 new songs including the first single, “Up All Night,” which is a decent foreshadowing of the 13 other tracks on the record.

The album opens up with “Ghost On The Dance Floor,” which is very reminiscent of DeLonge’s stay with Angels and Airwaves .

The song starts off with a classic Blink-182 fast pace drumbeat, but then synthesizers and abstract noises take over the track as DeLonge comes in on the vocals.

Fortunately, it is safe to say that most of the album does not go along with the Angels and Airwaves theme that “Ghost On The Dance Floor” took on.

The next song, “Natives,” stays true to the band’s origi-nal sound and will unknowingly bring you back to Blink’s Ene-ma of the State days.

Besides “Natives,” a couple other tracks will leave the “old stuff” Blink-182 fans more than satisfied.

“After Midnight,” “Kaleido-scope,” and the uniquely titled “MH 4.18. 2011,” all have the pre-millennium Blink sound to them.

Other songs on the album have a whole new sound alto-gether, and it honestly cannot be compared to anything else that the band has done before.

This is most likely due to the change in maturity level of the band members.

Today, all three members of the band have their own fami-lies, and they all seem to have changed gears from their fast

pace lives to focus on subjects of more importance.

Neighborhoods showcases the band’s change of mentality through its lyrics.

Nowhere on the record will you find lyrics about first dates, rock shows, or Josie.

To say that Neighborhoods is a classic Blink-182 record would be wrong because the band has grown up and evolved since the release of their first al-bum.

It is invertible that the boys of the Mark, Tom, and Travis Show would eventually become men.

Overall, Neighborhoods will not be a complete disappoint-ment to the fans of pre-millen-nium Blink-182, but it is safe to say that it will not be difficult to absorb the musicality of their new sound found on the record.

Whether we like it or not, when Mark Hoppus, Tom De-Longe, and Travis Barker get together to make music, it’s Blink-182.

Their evolution in sound is something that is bound to hap-pen with every band, and it should be respected.

The eight years of waiting was well worth it, and it looks like Blink-182 is back. For good.

Blink-182 releases its much anticipated album, NeighborhoodsPLAIN GOOD MUSIC BY CASSIE ROSSEL

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NEW ALBUM: (Left to Right) Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 released their first album.

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FOOD DONE EASY: Simple foods to make without actually hav-ing to cook for many hours in the kitchen.

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Saddleback College is one of the only community colleges in California to offer a class in puppetry.

For seven years, instructor Diane Lewis has taught the one- unit class.

“I’ve been into puppets from a very early age,” Lewis said.

Lewis said students rang-ing from ages 18 to those in their late 60’s have attended the class, representing a wide array of skill levels.

Sitting at a large table, An-drew Green, 25, technical theater, carefully shaped his puppet’s head with a small scal-pel-like knife as he explained how the class was working on finger puppets for the “Punch and Judy” production.

“Punch is a violent, violent man, that likes beating people up,” Green said. “Punch beats up his own wife, his own baby, his own dog.”

“Punch and Judy” is an in-tensely violent puppet show that’s been around since before the Victorian era.

Mr. Punch, and Judy his wife, who don’t get along, are the main characters in the tradition-al comedy.

Throughout the play the squeaky speaking main char-acter punches, hence the name, many of the other puppets.

Punch also lays the smack

down, swinging his famous stick, on his doctor, the local constable, and his neighbor, whom he decapitates in many versions.

“Puppetry is coming back,” Green said. “Punch is a charac-ter that people love to hate, or at least they like to see him beat up.”

The type of puppets used in “Punch and Judy” are finger puppets.

But they aren’t the only pup-pets students have created in the course.

Last semester they were con-structing marionettes, which are operated using strings.”

Green said it takes about eight

or nine layers of paper-mache, which has gone through some-thing like 40 or 50 used coffee filters, to construct the puppet’s head by using a mold.

Other students, in addition to constructing the puppets, actu-ally give them life on stage.

“I’m not sure if I’m going to do a squeaky voice,” said the-ater major Diana Campos, 21.

“There’s a special tool called a swazzle.”

A swazzle is a special de-vice with which puppeteers can produce the squeaky voice be-longing to the belligerent Mr. Punch.

This is her third time taking the class.

She said it has added to her endeavor to gain knowledge

encompassing all types of the-ater.

Lewis, opened an old puppet-design book, as she spoke of the influence puppets had in her childhood.

“When I was four, my dad read to me from the traditional version of “Pinocchio”, which was the volume printed when he was a boy in 1924,” Lewis said. “I’d save up all of my allowance so I could buy clay.”

She even joined girl scouts because they had a badge in puppetry, though she never re-ceived the badge.

She would often check out books from her school library about how to make puppets.

Lewis said nowadays chil-dren spend much of their time on the computer, watching TV, and playing video games.

“They are not creating, she said. “They’re not coming to grips with their own ideas and ways of expressing them.”

She talked about how pup-petry helps promote creativity in children, and how it has its place in both teaching and psy-chology.

On the subject of physiology, she said, “Sometimes I tell my classes that if they took some of these people in mental insti-tutions, who are always having conversations, and gave them puppets, they could just put on puppet shows for people, and maybe that would be a socially exeptable way of dealing with the fact that they have very ac-tive imaginations.”

Regarding the “Punch and Judy” puppet production, Lewis said, “The traditional “Punch and Judy” shows are very politi-cally incorrect.

“Punch is kind of a psycho-path; he kills his neighbor by striking his head off, and then he kills his baby by dropping it out the window.

“Finally, when his wife complains about his merciless behavior, he does away with her,” she said.

With all the allegations of misconduct by Punch the pup-pet, various opportunities for reply were given. However, all attempts for an interview went unanswered.

“Sometimes people come in with nothing but a love and de-sire to create,” Lewis said. “In the future,”she said, “if people want to take the class, there are no prerequisites; anybody is welcome to come.”

More students add punch to the class, she said, but “a desire to make puppets is really the only thing that is necessary.”

When most people think of ceramics, they picture vases and urns. They imagine peo-ple molding clay on a potter’s wheel into the various shapes and sizes desired. Indeed, what has become the modern art of ceramics originally began far back in ancient Greece as (by modern standards) primitive pottery. Even the word “ceram-ics” comes from the Greek word keramikos meaning for or of pottery.

But far from outdated, ceram-ics makes its presence known. From toilet bowls, lamps, and coffee mugs to statues and life-sized recreations of office cubicles, this practice has far more depth than what a cursory observer might believe.

Richard “Richie” White is an accomplished ceramicist for over 40 years and instructor at Saddleback for 10. He has re-cently begun working with the

designers of Toyota, trying to expand their horizons through working with different creative forms of expression.

Despite this formidable re-sume, White adopts a relaxed attitude.

“That’s my specialty,” he said, being loose… that and be-ing spontaneous.”

Heexplained to me that there were mental and emotional as-pects to ceramics that go beyond the physical molding involved. While yes, a student pursuing this profession will attempt to assert their will over the physi-cal nature of the piece they are working on, White argues that this process will simultaneously sharpen the practitioner’s mind in finding alternative or uncon-ventional solutions. “That’s what ceramics does” said White,

“It builds creativity through problem solving. By giving a student the ceramics equivalent of a blank page to create, that individual is forced to wade

through quite literally thou-sands of possible options and solutions when creating a par-ticular piece. White urges his

students to “get your brain to quiet down” in order for them for them to create. The irony of trying to fashion a box while

thinking outside the box isn’t lost on the ceramics department. This practice is more than just molding clay, a student will also paint and modify their creations in whatever way they choose.

White’s philosophy is that in a world that is becoming more and more “virtual” every year, its important for students to get back into the “real world” with some hands on crafting. Working with three dimensional objects forces people to think about their work in a different way. “If you’re not having fun, then you’re doing something wrong.”

Stressing the point that cre-ative, unconventional thinkers are needed in today’s increasing-ly “modernized and digitized” world, White proceeded to give a detailed description of the aes-thetic and imaginative thinking that goes into ordinary house-hold objects.

From the handles on outdoor umbrellas to the edging on a mosaic, someone specifically

thought of and applied each de-tail to their work based on their goals for the piece.

Jon Ginnaty, a gifted ceram-ics practitioner and instructor at Saddleback for six years, told of many things he’s learned though ceramics have translated into other aspects of his life.

Throughout his life, Gin-naty has had the opportunity to feature his art in galleries in multiple states.

Manwhile, the ceramics pro-gram on campus is booming.

“They come to us,” said White, while explaining the ce-ramic’s appeal to students.

While the program does have an outreach program to various lower education schools around the state, their bodies usually ar-rive due to a genuine interest in the subject.

Saddleback has offered ce-ramics as a class to students since it’s founding and has en-joyed steady popularity.

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Ceramics department continues to inspire studentsRILEY TANNER

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POTTERY: Tim Hawkins, 21, Undeclared, Paints designs on his pot.

Diamonds in the rough, jewelers at Saddleback shineThe jewelery program at

Saddleback College teaches stu-dents the complicated process of making their own jewelry from paper and pencil to pol-ished product.

There are three different jew-elry crafting classes ranging from most accessible to more advanced: Jewelry 1, Jewelry 2, and Mixed Media demonstra-tions and explorations.

Jewelry 1 is the basic crafting

class. According to instructor Larry Jones, students learn ba-sic techniques like soldering, etching, fitting, and other forms of fabrication.

“This class is for both de-signing and making jewelry by people who want to become professionals or are just doing this as a hobby,” Jones said.

“Some already are profession-als and are taking the classes to expand on their horizons.”

Possible the main draw for some students to take the class is the fact that if crafted correctly,

the pieces of hand crafted jew-elry can be kept by the student and used.

Amazingly, if a student cor-rectly crafts a piece of jewelry, its possible that that student will be allowed to keep their piece. This may be one of the main attractions for students to this class.

“I joined this class because I really wanted to learn the pro-cess of making jewelry that was both functional and personal-ized to what I want,” Keagan Ward, 18, undecided said.

Jewelry 2 is the advanced crafting class, involving more complicated techniques and more fragile pieces to work with.

Many students who enroll in advanced jewelry also re-enroll in the beginning jewelry class as well.

“Speaking from experience, a student can learn more and more if they take both classes, for one it can be a refresher of what we learn and it can give somebody a greater understand-ing of the techniques, said Larry

Ward, 50. According to Jones, the jew-

elry crafting program has been at Saddleback for almost 30 years but it’s popularity began to decline about 20 years ago.

“We were avoiding closing the program altogether so jew-elry class was combined with metal casting for a semester, until interest was drummed up among the students to make one class,” Jones said. “Now there are three different classes taught by four faculty members instructing the classes.”

Overall this class can be a very hands-on approach to mak-ing personalized rings and such but to some there is so much more.

“A student learns how to build things like an architect or an engineer but it’s art,” instruc-tor Marilee Johnson said.

“The same principles learned here are all how to make 3-D art and it can be used for all sorts of different applications that are not limited to jewelry.”

DAVID GUTMAN

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Student puppeteers pull strings for puppet show

MICHAEL DORAME

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PERSONAL ENCOUNTER: The constable character in this show is beaten with a stick and humiliated by main character Punch.

“Punch and Judy” are finger pup-pets, but they aren’t the only puppets students have created in the course. Last semester they were constructing marionettes, which are operated us-ing strings.”

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Unique class allows students to work with, and build, pup-pets. Some of them are as mean and nasty as they can be.

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ASG to host showing of the documentary, Invisible Children

the invisible Children docu-mentary will be presented on campus at the student service Center on Oct. 4, at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

asG is hosting this event through the efforts of abby Freeman, 21, international rela-tions.

Freeman first became in-volved with invisible Children her sophomore year of high school and has since become an avid voice in the cause to end this twenty-five yearlong war in africa.

“The film educates about the situation in northern Uganda and Central east africa, the lives of those affected by the lord’s resistance army (lra), and the power that story telling has in uniting us all”, said Free-man.

“This film isn’t about feeling bad for someone. some parts are hilarious, others eye open-ing, and all in all a film that should be on every one’s prior-ity list.”

“i don’t know much about the invisible Children but i have always been interested in learn-ing more about it”, said Collin sidler, 22, business.

“i’m glad that the campus is giving the students an opportu-nity to watch the documentary.”

invisible Children is a docu-mentary that exposes the very real and tragic realities of Ugan-da’s night commuters and child soldiers.

the lra and the Govern-ment of Uganda (GOU) have been in a twenty-five yearlong battle that has left at least two million innocent civilians to suffer.

after a shift in leaders in the lra, the group began to loose support leaving the rebels to re-sort in abduction of children in order to indoctrinate them into their army.

as a response to the attacks

from the lra the GoU began to evict thousands from their home into overcrowded camps in 1996 hoping to provide pro-tection.

more than a decade later about a million of these people are still living in these camps, struggling to survive.

with increased concerns about the crisis in africa the U.s. and many other foreign na-tions have joined efforts to try and resolve this war, but there is still so much more that can be done to help the children of this war.

“After seeing this film, I only feel inspired to do more. there is an emphasis in the film about how these remote areas that are attacked by the lra are repeat-edly attacked because there is no communication between vil-lages. even organizations that are involved with the conflict don’t find out about attacks until months after. the Congo needs radio towers so villages can warn others, keep organizations involved, and get help”, said Freeman.

“the radio towers are saving lives and right now we need to aim to raise as much money as we can for the radio towers and the lra crisis tracker (http://www.lracrisistracker.com/). we are young, educated people and it is our responsibility to act.”

the showing of invisible Children is open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to come and invite friends and family.

“i’m really hoping that a lot of people will be able to make it to watch this film, it’s definitely a film that every student should see. Having this opportunity right here on campus will be a great way to expose students to the troubles going on around the world,” said Kelly Hatter, 19, psychology.

For more information please visit:http://www.invisiblechil-dren.com/.

kerisa ward

OC wakes up to local band Wake the Street

inspired by his father’s musi-cal abilities, alex mcCracken, 22, advertising, learned guitar at a young age, and later be-came a part of something big-ger, his own band called wake the street.

“i never really thought i would actually be talented enough to play in a band and have a good following of my own, but it was always a dream of mine,” mcCracken said. “[while i was] learning to play my favorite songs, i came to re-alize that i might have a voice if i really work on it.”

in high school, mcCracken began learning to play his fa-vorite songs by Cartel, and soon found out that he could write lyrics with meaning behind

them.“i showed my next door

neighbor and best friend, Jack spear and he thought that i could have something going for me, but with a lot of work,” mc-Cracken said. “i took the criti-cism and worked my ass off.”

every day after school, mc-Cracken would play guitar and sing for up to three hours.

“i would blow off all my homework until late at night,” mcCracken said. “i fell in love with music, and couldn’t get enough.”

later, mcCracken discovered that pop rock was the genre he would want to pursue when starting a band. During his first semester of college, mcCracken and his high school sweetheart parted ways.

dealing with the break up, mcCracken decided to try and write his own song, which later became known as “all in time.”

“it was acoustic, but i envi-sioned it to be played with a full band,” mcCracken said.

“that’s when i decided, this is what i want to do for the rest of my life.”

as a result, mcCracken start-ed looking for band members to create wake the street.

The band now consists of five people: alex mcCracken (lead vocals/guitar), derek bonanni (bass), anthony Cavallo (gui-tar), Chris lungo (lead guitar), and Cole bonanni (drums).

according to mcCracken, choosing a name for the band was one of the most difficult

parts of getting started. Cavallo, mcCracken, and lungo decided to go to Cavallo’s house one night to think of a band name. late at night, they turned up their amps to play loud and proud.

“On our way down the hall, we passed anthony’s brother who asked what we were going to do, we told him ‘we’re gonna jam really loud all night!’” mc-Cracken said.

in response, Cavallo’s brother said, “are you crazy, do you want to wake the street?”

Wake the Street became offi-cial in december of 2009.

On dec. 19, 2009, the band played its first show at Hogue barmichaels in newport.

“it was pretty crazy because we had over 100 people there for us, which is really unheard of for a bands first show,” bonanni said.the band’s musi-cal inspirations are Cartel, an-berlin, aFi, the beatles, and the Foo Fighters.

Currently, the band has been playing at local venues like Chain reaction and the House of blues to gain respect amongst the pop rock scene, according to spear, the band’s manager.

in may, the band recorded

its first 7 song EP, “Following spotlights,” at the noise Coali-tion studio in Costa mesa.

the album is available for purchase on itunes.

“we plan on working really hard these next few months to finish up writing some new ma-terial to get back into the studio this winter for a spring release,” mcCracken said.

“this album is going to be huge for us. the songs are not just about love and girls, but of world problems, ideas, and our love for music.”

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wake the street: Band members, Alex McCracken (lead vocals/guitar), Derek Bonanni (bass), Anthony Cavallo (guitar), Chris Lungo (lead guitar), and Cole Bonanni (drums).

kingJordan larson, 21, business

administrationwhy did you run?i ran for the prize it was $150.

i thought it would jump-start my chess club.

i plan on making t shirts, buy-ing a new marble chessboard for the school, and student, and also i am planning on buying a new chess clock.

why do you think you de-served to win?

i am the student trustee, so i am very involved in the school. i know the issues going on in the school and the district since i have been going to saddleback for four years now.

plus i know a lot of students, so the school would only ben-efit to have me be Homecom-ing King. also, i have put the

money to the best use.what did you think of your

competitors?i think that they are very im-

portant to our school because they bring our school together and want to be involved in dif-ferent parts.

i would like to see more peo-ple like them at our school.

why did you make a new club and what are some goals for this semester?

i got bored playing on a com-puter so i wanted to play real people. i made this club to meet cool new friends and i wanted some competition.

my goal for this semester is to educate other students about chess and to hopefully travel to compete against other schools around the area.

i plan to have a Chess Club dance at saddleback next se-mester.

what are some of your personal short term and long term goals?

short term: i hope to transfer next fall and go to UCi to study business administration with a concentration in accounting, but i will also apply to san luis Obispo.

long term: i want to earn the

CPA (Certified Public Account-ing) license and own my own business one day.

Queensydne ames, 19, theater

why did you run?it was a chance for asG to get

more money and for students to get more involved.

i think we can do more activi-ties for the students.

what do you hope asG does with the money?

i gave the money to the whole of asG, so hopefully they will focus it on outreaching to the students for the student body to get more involved in all the events and athletic activities.

Just so students can get in tune with what is going on at saddleback.

why do you think you de-served to win?

Olivia and i were doing it for asG so we were all good sports about it.

i just wanted someone from asG to win. i wanted to the money to go to all of asG be-cause i don’t think it would be fair to favor one branch over the other.

what did you think of your

competitors?they were all really nice and

they were all really good sports. we all supported each other. it was a great group of people and were all doing it for a good cause.

as an asG member do you have any goals this semester?

i am the chair of iCC so i would like to see all clubs get involved in asG hosted events and bridge the gap between us and them and not just be

what are some of your personal short term and long term goals?

short term: my whole fam-ily went to saddleback and then transferred to UC berkeley, so that would be my short-term goal. i want to transfer in 2013.

long term goal: my long term goal is to do theater for the rest of my life.

what is your future career path?

i want to become a theater teacher at a high school or a middle school.

any last words?i would like to thank my run-

ning mate Jordan larson. He was really awesome about

networking and getting our name out.

Royal couple discusses its inauguration last week

homecominG: Jordan Larson, 21, business and Sydne Ames, 19, theater are announced homecoming king and queen.

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photo by alyssa hunter/lariat

homecominG: Associated Student Government crowns the homecoming king and queen during tailgaiting event. ecaicedo0@saddleback.edu

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Fresh off its 48-14 homecom-ing win over Victor Valley, the unbeaten Saddleback College football team is set to host Cer-ritos College this week.

Quarterback Ben Gomez broke a Saddleback passing re-cord, throwing for 478 yards.

He completed 32 of 51 pass-es for a 62 percent completion rating, and he also threw three touchdowns with no intercep-tions. Saddleback is 4-0.

Before the game against Victor Valley, there was some entertainment for the family, friends, and fans of the Gau-chos.

A DJ by the name of Rad Sci-ence, food trucks selling dinner, and the Sea Salt Candy Com-pany selling dessert made this event even more enjoyable.

The Children’s Hospital of Orange County was also accept-ing donations.

Since it was homecoming, players and coaches were a little

more pumped up than usual, but at the end of the day, they under-stand that it is all about winning.

“Homecoming is in the back of our minds,” Saddleback Coach Steve Crapo said. “But the most important thing for us is to focus on our opponent, Victor Valley, and come out and execute.”

Gray shirt freshman Keith Hartwell Jr. said, “What’s more exciting is where we’re at right now. We’re number four in the nation.”

The Gaucho defense needed to show up in order to make a big impact and ultimately win this game.

“Our goal is to always stop the run first, but we really need to contain that quarterback.” Crapo said. “On any given day at the community college level, you can get beat by anybody.”

The Rams came into this game to face a good Gauchos team after being humiliated by Riverside, 73-7.

“We respect our opponents,

and we respect the team that’s going to come in here and show themselves and us that they are an a lot better team than the one that showed up last week.” Cra-po said.

The game started off rather close.

It wasn’t until late in the sec-ond quarter, with Saddlebck leading, 10-7, that it began to extend the lead and never look back.

Gaucho quarterback, Ben Gomez threw a touchdown to Terrell Johnson with 6:52 left in the second to make the score 17-7.

A field goal was made mak-ing the score 20-7, and the gauchos made a great intercep-tion with forty-one seconds left in the second quarter.

The only depressing part of the night was when Gauchos’ wide receiver, Sean Sierra in-jured his leg and had to be carted off of the field.

At halftime, the score was 20-7.

The cheerleaders came out and did some fantastic routines, and Chick Fil A let two lucky Saddleback athletes kick field goals for chicken sandwiches.

Together they received 20 free chicken sandwiches.

The second half was all Gau-chos.

Gomez threw two more touchdown passes: A 58-yard pass to Rodney Woodland, and a short pass to Anthony Cade, which led to a 77-yard break-away for a touchdown.

“Ben is a really good quarter-back because he is so accurate

with his throws.” Hartwell Jr. said.

“Not starting since the 10th grade was a good thing,” he said, “because now he plays with a chip on his shoulder, and he plays a lot harder.”

Saddleback’s defense allowed the Rams to gather up 200 rush-ing yards, but 70 of those were on one carry by running back JaQuor Williams for a touch-down.

Overall, the defense played very well, and the Gauchos of-fense was off the charts.

Freshman Terrell Johnson fin-ished the game with 137 yards and a touchdown off of ten re-ceptions, Rodney Woodland finished with 98 yards and a touchdown off of six receptions, and Anthony Cade finished with 96 yards and a touchdown off of two receptions.

Keith Lawson racked up 69 rushing yards and a touchdown off of 11 carries.

Trent Von Yokes, Jake John-ston, and Kyle Smith all had seven tackles, and Von Yokes also had an interception for 33 yards.

“We need to improve on our mental aspect and treat every team like they are top contend-ers.” Hartwell Jr. said.

After four brilliant perfor-mances by the Gauchos, a lot of fans are excited and hoping that a national title is achievable.

Hartwell Jr. said, “We could definitely make nationals. Mt. Sac. is the only team in Cali-fornia that has a shot at beating us.”

Gauchos trample Rams in homecoming battle

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IN YOUR FACE: Gauchos quarterback Ben Gomez takes the snap in a 48-14 homecoming victory over Victor Valley this past Saturday. Gomez set a school record passing for 478 yards. Saddleback will play Cerritos College Saturday at 6 p.m. on their home field.

CHRIS CANTWELL

Evonna Ramirez earned All-Or-ange Empire status and fin-ished 23rd in the state finals in 2010.

Cross country is an endur-ance sport that requires a lot of discipline, especially since mar-athons are normally 26 miles or 5 kilometer.

Cross country running is not for the undisciplined and fit-ness is essential. Cross country runners constantly watch what kind of food they are eating. They also have to drink plenty of water so they don’t become dehydrated.

“It changes your entire life-style,” Ramirez said, about her cross country routine and how she adapted to it.

Ramirez got involved with running because her doctor ad-vised her to start doing sports.

“I never really did any sports, so my doctor suggested that I should,” Ramirez said.

There are only five girls on the cross country team.

“More people should join, it’s really a great experience,” Ramirez said. “Although it can be exhausting at times.”

Ramirez’s personal record time for a three mile race is 19:02 minutes. That is an av-erage of around six and a half minutes per mile.

For someone who doesn’t regularly play any sports, this mile time seems astoundingly fast. Cross country is a perfec-tionist sport, where the miles become shorter as the runner improves.

Sports can help people stay active. Ramirez confirms that people who stay healthy and ac-tive, have an improved outlook on life.

“People who exercise tend to be more positive in general,” Ramirez said.

Cross country running has changed Ramirez’s lifestyle not

only in a way where she has to discipline herself, but also with how she deals with everything else.

“Cross country teaches me how to deal with being under stress and not letting it get to me,” Ramirez said. “I feel like a stronger person because of it.”

Since the cross country sea-son is in the fall, a lot of events will be coming up soon. There will be competitions that deter-mine which cross country teams will be eligible to play in the state competition.

“The next event we’ll be at-tending is the SoCal Preview Race. It’s called a preview be-cause that’s what it is, just a preview of all the teams and to condition ourselves for more running,” Ramirez said. “It’s going to be this upcoming weekend.”

The SoCal Preview is going to be in San Bernardino Valley on Friday Sept. 30.

“I haven’t run lately because of my sprained ankle,” Ramirez said. “I hope to begin running soon.”

The cross country season has just started, so there are plenty more of events to run in for Ramirez.

“I don’t know what university I want to transfer to, but when I do I want to join the cross coun-try team at the college I transfer to,” Ramirez said. “Cross coun-try running is a big part of my life.”

Athlete, Cody Casey, 19, fire science, has been playing water polo for six years and continues to be a great teammate and stu-dent at Saddleback College this fall.

Casey started water polo since his freshmen year of high school at Capistrano Valley.

This is his second year at Saddleback and even with his academics and sports classes he is taking a total of 16.5 units this semester.

“He is an awesome guy and he works hard,” said Pat Hig-ginson, the men’s water polo coach. “Cody is establishing himself as a leader on the team, and his game has improved tre-mendously.”

Cody is used to being part of a team because he’s participated in soccer and tae kwon do as well.

“When it comes to water polo I get my support from my team-mates and friends,” Casey said.

The athlete started taking in-terest in the sport before he even started high school.

“In my eighth grade year I was overweight and I never felt good about my body, but then the football coach from Capo Valley came to my school with fliers of all the different sports that were offered,” Casey said. “I took a lot of fliers and showed them to my family and asked their opinion on what sport would be best for me, water polo was the outcome.”

Casey originally started off his college career with psychol-ogy in mind, but is currently majoring in fire science. Water polo actually guided him to-wards his new major.

“While playing water polo, I got recruited to be a lifeguard in Mission Viejo,” Casey said.

Life guarding and water polo went hand in hand because being a strong swimmer is

important for both. “In the life guard program I

received first-responder train-ing and became more interested with fire science.” Casey said.

When Casey is not busy be-ing a teammate or student, he enjoys spending time with his girl friend, going to the gym, and playing video games.

Once he starts playing water polo though, his favorite thing to do during the game is block shots. This means that right when the other team is about to score he blocks the ball.

“People would say that it feels good to score a point, but it feels really good when you block the other teams point and they feel bad. It is a good motivational feeling,” Casey said.

Current teammate, Carter said, “Cody is the man with the plan.”

Water polo is a physically demanding sport, like much others.

“The most challenging part about water polo,” Casey said, “is when I am sprinting as fast as I can to the front to score the ball, getting rejected to score, than having to sprint all the way back.”

“It’s a constant fight because the whole time you get pushed and pulled,” he said.

“[Water polo] will be hard at first, you’ll be really sore for the first month, but keep going and don’t give up,” Casey said.

NICOLE BULLARD

nbullard0@saddleback.edu

Athlete spotlights: water polo and cross country standouts

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WATER POLO: Cody Casey of Saddleback College men’s water polo team.

CROSS COUNTRY: Evon-na Ramirez of Saddleback College women’s cross country team.

photo by alyssa hunter/lariat

Cody Casey was last year’s most inspirational player.

TAYLOR CARNEY

What’s going on at IVC?ccantwell0@saddleback.edu

WOMEN’S GOLF TEAM DOMINATING: The top four spots in statistics for the Or-ange Empire Conference belonged to Irvine Valley College players. After their win on Sept. 22, they remain undefeated.

MEN’S SOCCER TEAM ABOVE AVER-AGE: After a win over Glendale on Sept. 20, the Men’s Soccer team improves to a record of 4-2-1. Both losts were in the Hartnell Tourna-ment which featured some very good teams.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL SUFFERS FIRST DEFEAT: IVC lost their game against Moorpark on Sept. 23. They lost 3-4 sets, but they were close games. Before this game, they were ranked fifth in the state.

WOMEN’S SOCCER OFF TO A BAD START: IVC falls to a 1-5-1 record after a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Santa Ana on Sept. 23. The Lasers are 0-3-0 in the Orange Empire Conference.