An Orange Coast College EMT student was left brain dead after he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in Santa Ana late last month.

Chris Chavez, a 26-year-old OCC student and Saddleback High School drum line instructor, was crossing Bristol Street near Central Avenue in Santa Ana at about 2 a.m. on April 20 when he was struck by a BMW that had apparently run a red light, ac-cording to the Santa Ana Police Department.

The aspiring EMT was rushed to the hospital but because of the severity of his injuries, he was officially declared brain dead by doctors around 10 a.m. on Friday.

“The kid worked hard for sure, he walked into every single class time with a big smile on his face” said Janie Walker, an EMT in-structor at OCC. “Hearing about it on the local news just really broke my heart. It took the wind out of my sails.”

A witness at the scene reported that the driver of the car initially stopped and got out of her ve-hicle but got back in and drove away less than a minute later.

The victim’s father, Ralph Chavez, told KTLA 5 that he

was being kept on life support in hopes of donating viable organs to those in need. Ralph Chavez and other members of the victim’s family told KTLA that Chris was becoming an EMT be-cause he wanted to help people.

“All of the students in his EMT class just really thought the world of Chris. You don’t usually get a student like that where ev-ery person in the class looked up to the kid,” Walker said. “I know that in this profession he would have been just fantastic because

of how nice he was to everyone in the program.”

The driver of the car-turned-weapon has not yet been found but has been described as either a Latino or Filipino woman around 5 feet 2 inches tall. She was reportedly driving a four-door, black 2005 to 2010 BMW with paper plates. Police have reason to believe that the car would have significant damage to both the windshield and the front end.

Though the perpetrator has not been found, there is a hefty

reward for anyone who can help identify her. Santa Ana officials offered $10,000 during a press conference Friday morning with the Chavez family promising to match the $10,000 — making the reward $20,000.

The family held a vigil for Chris Chavez on Friday night when friends and family met at the Santa Ana site of the hit-and-run to mourn and celebrate his life.

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Orange Coast College’s stu-dent senate has taken a bold yet risky gamble with student funds to get more bang for their buck.

During a recent regular meet-ing, the senators were met with

a proposal to take $1.25 million earned from student service fees, the bookstore and the recycling center, and reallocate it to OCC’s endowment fund for investment. The proposal, the first of its kind using student funds, was approved unanimously.

The move to invest the money was made by Devin Smith, the

21-year-old Associated Students of OCC student body president and business management ma-jor. According to Smith, after the student senate had finished allocations for next year’s budget he felt the need to do something with some of the $2 million that

Student senate invests fundsBY CLAYTON SPIVEYFEATURES EDITOR

Theft, drugs arrest made

EMT student still on life support

An Orange Coast College stu-dent was arrested last week on suspicion of stealing a phone, books and prescription drugs from two students’ backpacks in the Library and was later found to be in possession of black tar heroin and a syringe.

Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer said a video cam-era captured the image of the suspect and Library officials were given photos of him taken from the film. They were asked to call Campus Safety if he returned.

Emily Friesen, a lab assistant in the Library, said she noticed a man who fit the description and called Campus Security.

“He walked out of the bath-room wearing the same outfit as in the picture and carrying the same skateboard with the Baker written on the bottom of it, so I called Campus Safety,” Friesen said.

She added that she let officers know the suspect had been in the Library but was gone. About an hour later she noticed that same man walk up to a ta-ble outside the Library and sit down. She again called campus officials and waited, she said.

Farmer said officers watched the man from the video cameras and once he was identified they called the Costa Mesa Police Department.

“Once the suspect was iden-tifiable we called Costa Mesa PD and figured out a plan to approach the suspect in an ap-propriate manner,” Farmer said.

After the man was searched, police found black tar heroin and syringes in his pockets and arrested him.

The two reported thefts were filed with the police so they could retrieve the video from OCC for use in court.

Hordes of anti-Trump pro-testers swarmed the parking lot and streets just outside the Pacific Amphitheatre during a Donald Trump rally Thursday night, turning an otherwise peaceful protest into disorga-nized chaos.

Demonstrators blocked off traffic on the corner of Fair Drive and Fairview Road, near an Arco gas station, as they marched on the asphalt. Row-dy protesters started fights, leaving one Trump supporter bloodied and beaten, tagged the OC Fairgrounds sign with Trump hate messages and even stomped out the rear window of a police cruiser.

Earlier in the evening,

tensions began to rise when the doors for the event were abruptly closed at 7 p.m. caus-ing hundreds of event goers to charge the entry gates and trample each other in a last ditch effort to see Trump.

After all of the doors were shut, the crowd began chant-ing, “Let us in!”

“It’s probably going to get violent soon if I had to take a guess. Most people are mad because they didn’t get in,” said Jason Aula, an associate delegate of the Republican Party from Long Beach.

The Sheriff’s department began setting up a perimeter with barricade tape while the sun was still up in an attempt to keep the two parties at a distance.

“Our mission is to keep the peace, make our presence known and keep the citizens safe,” said Ernie Hernandez of the OC Sheriff Department.

Some protesters on site seemed to have a differing story of the law enforcement’s

role in the event. “I witnessed a middle aged

woman punch a teenage girl on a cheer squad from one of the local high schools who was protesting,” said Edwin Elias, a student from UC Riverside, “Ironically, the cops were protecting the woman instead of actually trying to handcuff her for assaulting an underage child.”

Protesters and Trump sup-porters continued to butt heads, cursing and flipping each other off in what could be described as two armies at a standoff.

“I’m here protesting Trump because of his insults toward Mexican and Muslim people,” said Gil Sanchez, a Bernie Sanders proponent from Santa Ana, “He threw the gauntlet down first by insulting Mex-icans.”

Trump has received massive criticism in the press recently for his comments toward Mexi-cans, calling them rapists, drug dealers and killers.

“People are told that this is a post-racial society and clearly that’s not the case. The one silver lining is that we can now tell this country has got plenty of racists,” said Irene Morrison, a grad student at UC Riverside.

Agitators waved Mexican and LGBT flags while Trump aco-

lytes waved the American flag.“We are here to say that

when Trump brings hateful speech and hateful people to the rally we are going to be facing him down. There is no room for hate in Orange County,” said Jeff Letourneau,

on the inside

Senators elected Five students are selected

to lead the stuent government in the first of two rounds of balloting.

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Volleyball misses The Pirates fall to Long Beach City College in the state championships after a win-ning season.

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Noodle glory Coast Report food critic

slurps Chris Toland his way through Orange County’s finest ramen.

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Photo by Devin Michaels

Protesters line the street near the Pacific Amphitheatre Thursday as they wait for presidential candidate Donald Trump to arrive. The quiet protest turned violent later in the evening when supporters left the venue. About 20 people were arrested and several were beaten up by the crowd.

OCC remains calm as tensions flare during Trump’s OC event.

BY CHRIS TOLANDARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

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Photo by Aaron Cuha

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There is a $20,000 reward for anyone who can help identify the driver.

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Surveillance cameras catch an image of the suspect.

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No trespassingA man was reportedly tres-

passing and climbing onto the Forum Friday at 4 p.m., John Farmer, chief of Campus Safety said.

The suspect was a male non-student who was climb-ing on top of the Forum build-ing and by the time officers arrived he was running on top of the new Reprographics building, Farmer said.

Once officers reached the suspect he was behind the Re-prographics building walk-ing on the sidewalk. When officers identified the man they asked him to stop but he instead took off running.

Officers pursued him on foot until he was brought to the ground when he became combative and resisted arrest. Farmer said officers put him in handcuffs and called the Costa Mesa Police Depart-ment.

The man said he was not a student and was visiting from Russia, but didn’t remember any of his other information.

No damage was done to the top of the buildings he climbed on.

Ouch my toeA male non-student report-

edly stepped out of a mov-ing vehicle and was struck Saturday at 8:17 a.m. in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot, Farmer said.

The man had minor injuries to his left calf as well as his left foot. Officers said upon arrival the man was sitting on a chair with a bloody left big toe.

The victim refused an am-bulance but once he started feeling nauseous campus offi-

cials called for an ambulance and the Costa Mesa police.

Police arrived and deemed there to be no criminal action and that it was an accident.

Oh crackA w o m a n r e p o r t e d l y

slipped off a sidewalk when she stepped in a crack Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Adams Ave-nue Parking Lot.

She reported that her ankle hurt but refused medical aid and told officials she was probably OK.

The women wrapped her foot and continued to shop at the Swap Meet with her daughter and mother.

Odd fall A man reportedly fell and

was unresponsive in the Ad-ams Avenue Parking Lot Sat-urday during the Swap Meet, Farmer said.

Upon arrival officers saw a man in a sitting position being held up by a bystander and 911 had already been called.

The victim was breathing but unresponsive so officers laid him on his back. He be-gan to vomit and the officer rolled him onto his side.

He regained consciousness and a witnesses said that he was helped to the ground and no traumatic fall had occurred.

Paramedics arrived and took him to Fountain Valley Hospital.

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The results of the election for five of the nine available stu-dent senator seats were posted outside the Associated Students of Orange Coast College office and four more candidates will be voted on in a special election that will run from May 16 to 20.

The election had 1.66 percent of the student body participating, according to the posting, which was a .52 increase over the pre-vious election. The new senators,

in order from most to least votes, are Karen Caspa, Giang Nguyen, Omar Haddad, Omatayo Aleshe and Alexis Marfil.

“It’s a sink or swim type deal— you either have to learn to swim or sink and I don’t like to sink,” said Devin Smith, the student body president.

The election process was di-vided into two parts because four of the original candidates dropped out after ballots were ready. A second round of appli-cations was required and the May 16 to 20 election is for the four later applicants.

Being a student senator doesn’t require being a perfect student but the position does re-quire someone with intelligence, who likes to be well informed and is able to make decisions, Smith said.

Two current senators, Caspa and Marfil, will return for the fall 2016 semester to lend experience and knowledge to the new senate members.

Caspa received the most votes which has earned her the posi-tion of interim president until the new body votes on the position.

Originally Caspa graduated high school in Mexico and was able to attend law school in Colombia. Later she decided to move to and attend school in the U.S. because she found it safer and enjoyed the culture.

“You only have one life so why not get involved,” Caspa said.

Caspa’s goals for the coming semester include increasing student involvement along with cultural awareness and to bring

feedback to new committee members.

Marfil, who had unforeseen circumstances that led her to move to Los Angeles, shows what it means to be dedicated to school and those who she pledged to represent.

“I have to take four buses and a train to just to get to school,” Marfil said.

Although she has to spend roughly three hours to get to and from school she tries to fill that time doing work but says it’s challenging with bus changes and the people who ride alongside her.

For the future senate members Smith advises to not stretch themselves too thin which steals the potential joy out of the pro-gram and could ultimately cause them to resent even joining.

DANCING DELIGHT

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Students perform during Orange Coast College’s 53rd annual Student Dance Concert held Friday and Saturday in the Robert B. Moore Theatre. More than 30 student dancers participated in the event which featured a wide range of dance styles in-cluding modern, ballet and hip hop. Dances were choreographed by students and OCC faculty.

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Nearly every cash strapped college student worth their salt at some point in their life has sub-mitted themselves to some late night packaged ramen. Yeah, I’m talking to you.

What you might not know, how-ever, is that your bowl of instant ramen extends far beyond the cupboard in terms of deliciousness and history. In Japan ramen is king and without a doubt is the most popular dish in the country.

Much like barbeque in America, there are many different styles of ramen in Japan and they each vary from region to region.

Like a perfectly smoked brisket that melts in your mouth and can take upwards of a day to reach readiness, authentic Japanese ra-men is treated with equal intensity, care and a fervor that at times can border on the maniacal.

Typically each bowl will contain four primary ingredients — a soup base with added flavoring, alkaline noodles, chashu (braised) pork, and a variation of toppings which can range from slow cooked soy marinated eggs to fresh and pre-served vegetables.

Lucky for you, Costa Mesa and its surrounding cities are a hot bed for ramen shops, many of them imported directly from Japan.

While this may not be a com-prehensive guide to all ramen in

the south county, I assure you we will cover the most popular hubs that can overcome any hangover and enlighten you while satisfying your noodle needs.

Santouka Ramen - 665 Paula-rino Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Hokkaido Ramen Santouka was founded in 1988 in Japan by Hitoshi Hatanaka and was one of the first authentic ramen shops in Costa Mesa. You can now find the Japanese import inside every Mit-suwa Marketplace across Southern California.

Santouka is notorious for its original dish called tokusen to-roniku ramen (ramen with special roasted pork cheek). The soup base for this ramen is tonkotsu (pork bone) and you can choose from either salt, soy, miso or spicy miso as flavoring for the broth.

I recommend the salt or miso variations as that is what the region of Hokkaido is typically known for. They top off each ramen with wood ear mushrooms, green on-ion, braised bamboo shoots and a slice of fish cake.

What sets Santouka apart from the rest is its intense flavorful broth and delicate pork cheeks. The broth has a richness of deep roast-ed pork bones that when combined with a bite of melt in your mouth pork cheek is like a flavor bomb that punches you in the taste buds with every spoonful.

Shin Sen Gumi - 18315 Brookhurst St #1, Fountain Val-ley, CA 92708

Shin Sen Gumi, pronounced “shin sen goo-me,” is a traditional Japanese noodle bar in Fountain Valley that specializes in Hakata ramen.

The Hakata region is home to

tonkotsu style soup. While most ramen is slowly simmered at a low temperature, tonktosu broth is prepared at a rolling boil for days at time, giving the soup a rich and creamy body full of delicious pork fat and bone marrow.

At Shin Sen Gumi you have but one choice of ramen, full size or half size. Each bowl comes with two slices of chashu pork, green onions and a dollop of sliced ginger.

What makes Shin Sen Gumi unique is their options for cus-tomization. They will ask you how powerful you want your broth, the texture you would like your noodles to be cooked along with the amount of meaty pork oil you would like added.

Finish off with a plethora of toppings such as flavored egg, corn, spinach, marinated bamboo or spicy miso paste. You can also get extra noodles if one order is not enough.

Kitakata Ramen Ban Nai - 891 Baker St B21, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Ban Nai has deep roots in north-ern Japan going all the way back to 1958 and is one of the newest ramen transplants to open its doors in Costa Mesa. With 57 locations in the motherland, Ban Nai brings a serious pedigree and unique style of soup to the city.

Kitakata, one of the top three styles of ramen in Japan (the others being Sapporo from the island of Hokkaido and Hakata), boasts a no-frills light, clean, soy based broth made from pork bones that has a delicate sweetness to it.

Ban Nai’s flat, wide and curly noodles are the most unique com-pared to all other ramen shops

in the OC. Each bowl of ramen at Ban Nai comes with minimal toppings and a generous helping of toro-chashu, which is their sig-nature hand crafted and uniformly cut 3-hour-braised pork belly.

If you’re a ramen veteran or just want a healthy option that won’t make your cholesterol levels spike then Kitakata Ramen Ban Nai is your go to stop on this ramen journey.

Traditional ramen in Costa MesaExplore the different styles of authentic ramen in Costa Mesa.

BY CHRIS TOLANDARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

Photos by Chris Toland

Toroniku ramen from Santou-ka Ramen and hot tsukemen ramen (above) from Kitaka Ramen Ban Nai.

CHAVEZ: Orange Coast College EMT student was declared brain dead Friday after he was involved in a hit-and-run last month.From Page 1

His father was just one of the many who expressed his heartache.

“Our family is broken. We have a lot of healing to do and my focus is for that. We pray for the woman, that she just do the right thing,” Ralph Chavez said

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A long, long time ago — well

in 1977, on a college campus far, far away — actually not that far, students at Orange Coast College were probably wield-ing imaginary light sabers after George Lucas released the first installment of “Star Wars,” titled “A New Hope,” launching sci-fi fans into a frenzy.

Today the frenzied tradition continues as the franchise is cel-

ebrated on May 4 or Star Wars Day. The holiday of fandom, which started in 2011, spawned from a play on words because May 4th can be punned to sound like the iconic Jedi phrase, “may the force” be with you.

In December, the franchise was rejuvenated by the mega smash hit, “The Force Awak-ens” that acted as a sequel to the

original Star Wars episodes four through six. Star Wars fans, old and young, were treated to an amazing plot line and a cast of fresh faces who portrayed brand new characters like Ray (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega), allowing them to forget what Hayden Christensen’s acting did to ruin the franchises prequels in episodes two and three.

Naturally, because of the recent film release, this year’s Star Wars Day will likely have an outra-geous number of fans turn out in a variety of ways to show off their geeky pride.

Now you may be wondering, how do I celebrate this magnifi-cent holiday? Nerd out of course. In California, probably more than any other state, there are multiple places that are tailor made to do just that. Here are a few:

1. Take a pod racer on over to Disneyland. The theme park is still in the process of creating Star

Wars Land but you can still enjoy a variety of Star Wars-themed attractions.

Star Tours, a ride that debuted in the 1980s, has been rejuvenated with impressive 3D effects and now offers 54 different adven-tures that the strongest Jedi would spend the entire day exploring. The park also offers the Star Wars Jedi Training Academy where young Padawans can hone their light saber skills through the guidance of Jedi masters.

2. Take a Bantha ride out to Death Valley where parts of “Return of the Jedi” were filmed at areas like Desolation Canyon. You can hike the canyon but be careful — Sand People are known to roam these parts and they might just turn you over to Jaba the Hut.

You might need to access light speed from the Millennium Fal-con, but a trip north to the Red-wood National Forest would take you to another “Return of the

Jedi” setting. The iconic scenes were supposedly shot on private forest land but if you’re lucky enough, you might spot a rogue Ewok lurking around.

3. A trip to the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood might be enough to warrant consideration for your acceptance into the Jedi Council. The famous theatre is where the franchise had its world premiere in May 1977. The the-atre features famous Hollywood footprint slabs of C-3PO, R2-D2 and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) among others. There is also a guided tour that will make you feel like you were present at the 1977 premier.

Now if you’re not up for too much adventure, dress up in your favorite character’s cosplay, have some imaginary light saber battles and do your best to watch the seven episodes in succession.

May the force, or fourth, be with you.

Dominant, consistent and hum-ble are just some of the words that women’s head coach Chris Ketcham used to describe Orange Coast College female athlete of the year Clarisa Colling.

Colling had a dominant 2016 season going 20-2 overall in singles play and finishing 16-1 in doubles play, all while leading her team to an Orange Empire Conference championship.

“Clarisa is easily one of the best players I’ve coached,” Ket-cham said. “I knew I could always count on her to get our team two points every match.”

Along with winning the female athlete of the year, Colling also won the Orange Empire Confer-ence player of the year and the ITA (Intercollegiate Tennis Associa-tion) freshman player of the year.

“I was surprised when I won all those awards. I never thought

I could get that far,” Colling said. Despite her success at OCC,

however, Colling said that the recent looming postseason ban on OCC sports programs had her considering transferring to another community college. By transferring to Irvine Valley Col-lege or Cypress College she could compete in the state tournament.

“I love OCC and don’t want to leave but if I can’t compete in the state tournament than I will have to transfer,” Colling said.

This season Colling went unde-feated in conference play and was able to make it all the way to the state title where she lost for the second time this season to Dan-ielle Garrido of San Diego Mesa.

“It was frustrating losing to the same person twice and those being my only losses this season but I’m still happy with my per-formance this year,” Colling said.

She was also able to make it to the state playoffs in doubles with her partner Karen Trinh where they were upset in the third round by Glendale College’s Veronika Galstyan and Tsukimi Ono. The duo finished their season with an impressive record of 16-1.

Colling was so dominant and beyond her years at only 18 that

Ketcham, who is also head coach of the men’s team, would often have her practice with the men’s team. Most of the season she did double duty, practicing with both the men’s and women’s team.

“I needed to challenge her more so I decided to have her practice with the men to improve her skills,” Ketcham said. “I knew that she would be able to handle it.”

Even though she was only a freshman, Colling quickly be-came one of the vocal leaders on the team, leading not just by her stellar play but also leading by her composure and demeanor on and off the court.

According to Ketcham, even with all her success this season she still carried herself very well and was able to stay humble.

“I was really impressed with the way she carried herself all season,” Ketcham said. “She was a great example for the rest of the team.”

For Colling, tennis is not just her passion but it has also be-come her life. When she is not on the court for OCC she can be found at Santa Ana’s Matchpoint Tennis Academy where she coaches children on the week-

ends and works as a receptionist during the week.

In addition to working for Matchpoint she also plays for their club team in the offseason. If she is not playing or coaching

tennis she likes to hang out with friends and relax from all the hard work she’s put in for tennis.

“Tennis has a bit of a love-hate relationship for me — I love to play but sometimes hate

the grind of practice and staying focused,” Colling said.

She dreams of one day being able to get a scholarship to a Di-vision 1 school and maybe even taking her career further.

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Women’s tennis player Clarisa Colling was named female athlete of the year, Orange Empire Con-ference player of the year and Intercollegiate Tennis Association freshman player of the year.

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Harry Potter may have come to sunny California but he left me feeling more like a muggle than a magician.

Just two weeks after The Wiz-ardly World of Harry Potter’s April 7 opening at Universal Studios Hollywood, I had the chance to experience the magic promised by the fictional land’s recreation. By the end of the visit it was clear that other than the people in the art department, the park designers didn’t even have the magic in them.

The Hollywood park was pre-ceded by the hopefully better, Universal Studios Orlando ver-sion. The Hollywood version featured one park with only two rides while the Orlando version had two complete parks and even offers a ride on the Hogwarts Express between them.

The Wizardly World in Holly-wood is comprised of the town of Hogsmeade and most impressive-ly, Hogwarts.

Hogsmeade featured some

memorable shops from the films and novels but don’t expect to find all of what you’re looking for. Other than Olivander’s, featuring all of your favorite character’s wands, the remainder stood to do nothing more than push merchan-dise completely unrelated to the names of the iconic stores etched on the windows outside.

Now, it was time for the rides. However, calling them rides seems to be a bit of an exagger-ation. The only two rides they had either lasted 30 seconds or relied almost solely on 3D movie screens.

The main attraction was nes-tled inside of Hogwarts but the castle itself was the only thing worth a second look. The ride Harry Potter and the Forbid-den Journey was a nauseating viewing experience featuring an incoherent amalgamation of Harry Potter lore. The mix of the jarring motion-simulating seats and flashing graphics were surely an epileptic’s nightmare.

While the first ride was more a show than a ride, the next ride, the Flight of the Hippogriff, was a roller coaster that wasn’t even worth the line I waited in. To begin with, the seats didn’t even accommodate two of the three members of my party due to leg room and positioning. I was un-lucky enough to have to ride it by

myself — good thing because the coaster ride was over in the blink of an eye.

Even though the rides fell harder than a wizard falling off their broom in a Quidditch match, there is something to be said of the environment that surrounded them. One of my companions put it best when he said that the journey through Hogwarts was tenfold better than the ride itself.

The creators reimagined the magical world with exquisite per-fection. Inside the castle I was met with hyper-realistic recreations of some of the most memorable pieces from the films. From the Mirror of Erised to Dumbledore’s Pensieve, it was as if I was look-ing through Harry’s eyes himself.

Outside of the brilliant life-size castle, I had to indulge myself with the wizardly world famous beverage Butterbeer. The long line, stretching from Olivander’s to Honeyduke’s, gave me time to decide between cold, hot or frozen.

I, along with most people in line, opted for the frozen variation and my lips were met with tanta-lizing sweetness. Unfortunately, that sip of frosty butterscotch goodness was the most magical part of the day.

In all, The Wizardly World of Harry Potter did not live up to the expectations of Potterheads

everywhere. If you decide to go, make the most of your day by fo-

cusing more on your companions than the content around you.

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“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell-ing Bee” Friday through May 15: Directed by Naomi Buckley, OCC’s Theatre Arts production is written by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin. Six spellers compete at the annual spelling bee at Put-nam Valley Middle School in Putnam County, NY. Event will take place in Drama 101 at 7:30 p.m. General admission $15.

“Mass Appeal 2016,” through May 19: The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pa-villion will be presenting the OCC annual student art show. Reception and awards will take place to-day from 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

“OC Review Exhibi-tion and Book Release,” through May 19: The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pa-villion will be presenting art, poetry and prose by OCC students and faculty.

Wizardly World lacks magicUniversal Studios’ Harry Potter-themed land underwhelms and disappoints.

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Photo by Clayton Spivey

Features Editor Clayton Spivey poses for a photo at the Wiz-ardly World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood.

MONEY: Student senators agree to invest more than $1 million of student funds to earn interest.

was left over.“I took it upon myself to try and

get more from this money so we’re not losing purchasing power and have another form of revenue for the students,” Smith said.

Smith expressed concern over the fact that the remaining money was just sitting in an account. According to Smith, his plan to reallocate $1.25 million of the remainder to OCC’s endowment fund would then put it in the hands of an organization that could invest it to turn a profit.

Doug Bennett, the Executive Director of College Advancement, is essentially a partner between the students and the investment group. According to Bennett, the financial services firm Northern Trust is in charge of all of the college’s en-dowment investments and would continue to do so for this money as well.

The partnership is one that has worked well for OCC in the past, he said.

“The foundation endowment has been going for about 30 years and we have made about 5 percent growth a year over the long haul,” Bennett said.

Bennett is optimistic that this will be the case for the $1.25 million being invested this year. However, according to Bennett, there are many steps before the money can even start to grow.

Even though the student senate has unanimously approved the reallocation, there is a long way to go before the money can change hands, Bennett said. The move would have to be approved by the OCC Foundation Board, then President Dennis Harkins and last-ly the Coast Community College Board of Trustees.

“They are taking just the first step in a long multi-step process,” Bennett said.

According to Bennett there is a large amount of risk involved in taking this money and investing it into stocks and bonds.

Both Bennett and Smith ad-mitted that along with investing comes some fluctuation in the market that could affect the invest-ment— good and bad. Smith is well aware of the risks but believed the risk was well worth it.

“There is definitely going to be a risk and I gave that full disclosure to the student senate. However, I would rather take that risk and have better returns,” Smith said.

According to Smith, he is shoot-ing for a plan of 100 percent investment for the first two years and then have a portion come back for use by ASOCC.

Bennett made sure to explain that this is something that he supports but is entirely the stu-dent’s doing. He joked about the endowment’s role in the whole transaction itself.

“We are just acting like a benev-olent bank,” Bennett said.

While the move to invest this much money is risky, and accord-ing to Bennett the first of this mag-nitude here at OCC, it’s something that students are taking ownership of and really have faith in.

Joshua Recalde, a 17-year-old student senator and political science major, cited dropping bookstore sales and the inflation rate as reasons why he voted yes on the proposal.

“We want student money to ac-

tually be worth what it was when they put it in. It’s an investment in our students because they have already invested in us,” Recalde said.

According to Recalde, this in-vestment move is really in the spir-it of helping his fellow students by using the funds they already put in themselves.

“I hope 10 to 20 years from now this is going to be some-thing we can look back on and say we have something good,” Smith said.

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Tempers flared Thursday night when presidental candidate Donald Trump held a rally at the OC Fairgrounds across the street from Orange Coast College. Riot police joined the fray in an effort to control the crowd.

TRUMP TURMOIL

Protesters line up in front of riot police (above) as Trump’s rally Thursday night turned violent. As many as 20 people were arrested and police from every city in Orange Coun-ty arrived to help calm the swelling crowd. A protester (left) chants a slogan in Span-ish that he translated to “The people united will never be divided.” The mostly Hispanic crowd came out to protest Trump’s idea to build a wall across the United States. A man waves the Mexican flag at police (bottom left) during the disturbance while an-other held up his skateboard with an anti-Trump slogan underneath.

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Students attending classes at Orange Coast College Thursday night couldn’t help but hear helicopters circling overhead amid the chants from protesters at the Donald Trump rally

across the street. Hundreds of people showed up to protest Trump outside the Orange County Fairgrounds.

Tickets to the event went fast and the Pacific Amphitheatre filled to capacity quickly, leaving many Trump supporters unable to gain entry to the event. As the evening wore on, crowds swelled and turned violent. One police car was vandalized and had its windows broken out and several fights erupted with at least one Trump supporter left bloodied. Protesters also surrounded the cars of people trying to leave the event and blocked the intersection of Fair Drive and Fairview Road. As police moved in, protesters headed toward the northbound onramp of the 55-freeway in an attempt to shut it down.

The remainder of the crowd dispersed by about 11 p.m.

W h e n i t c o m e s t o politics, I’m your typical young man without any real clue who I should vote for. I know, shame on me. My parents say vote for Trump and my friends say Bernie. I don’t like either candidate’s total point of view, but as a photojournalist, I was curious about the recent Trump rally and protest across the street at the Pacific Amphi-theatre.

When I showed up I didn’t know what to expect but I knew what I came for: photos and interviews with the protesters. The total experience made me decide on two things: one, that I don’t like many Donald Trump protesters and two, that I don’t like many Trump supporters.

Naturally, the first thing I no-ticed were seven topless women who were representing the Free the Nipple Campaign, a move-ment to end female oppression, sexualization and censorship.

Tiernan Hebron, 22, said the group was there for the dual pur-

pose of protesting Donald Trump and advertising their need for 1 million signatures in recognition of the U.S. Constitution’s need for an equal rights amendment. Here is the problem I see, those two goals are incompatible at a Trump rally.

If they want Trump to support an equal rights amendment, they need to convince his voters it’s the proper thing to do. That requires discussion. Standing topless and allowing shameless, spiteful Trump supporters to throw money at them is not an invitation for dialogue.

Many Trump supporters would agree that men and women should be treated equally and that this should be explicitly stated in the Constitution. There is no need for the shock and awe of topless women.

Other protesters like Melissa Fazli, 44, suggested that Trump’s plan for building a wall between the United States and Mexico are not just to stop illegal immi-gration but to psychologically isolate Americans from the rest of the world. Many protesters opine that Trump is a dicey, or even baneful candidate for wom-en, Muslims and Mexicans. Fazli even called him “The Hitler of the 21st century.”

Those protesters were the early birds, and relatively calm. When night fell, it seemed like the agents of chaos arose from their hideouts. I heard the continual, “Fuck Trump,” and the crowd smelled like sweat, weed and booze. People were climbing on top of things, van-dalizing property, shaking cars and the crowd had completely stopped traffic on Fair Drive. Some people were waving Mexican flags, almost as if they wanted the actions of those around them to represent their cause. That is not going to prove their point to Trump supporters. Rather, it is going have the op-posite effect.

This type of improper behav-ior is not fair to the protesters

who may have valid points or legitimate methods. Calling Trump a hate monger and then

turning a protest into a riot is the quintessential pot calling the kettle black.

I watch pro-fessional ath-letes consis-tently blowing the chance at a lifestyle that mi l l ions of people dream about and I’m c o n s t a n t l y asking myself, “What the hell is wrong with professional athletes nowadays?”

In the past two weeks, we have seen former Heisman Trophy

winner Johnny Manziel indicted for a misdemeanor assault of his ex-girlfriend and NFL draft pick Laremy Tunsil had a video of himself taking a hit from a bong released on his Twitter account just minutes before the draft —ultimately dropping him in the draft and costing him millions.

Manziel and Tunsil are not the only ones acting out. I’m sure we all recall Michael Vick run-ning dog fighting rings, Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg with a hand gun in a night-club, Josh Gordon failing multi-

ple NFL drug tests for smoking marijuana and of course, O.J. being O.J.

I believe the problem is that as soon as these athletes are given these enormous contracts that guarantee them ridiculous amounts of money, they sudden-ly think they’re invincible and above the law.

Nobody is above the law. Even those of high social and econom-ic status.

Just because people glorify fame and watch these athletes play a sport on TV, it doesn’t

make them better or above any-one else. If anything, these ath-letes should be model citizens given how much exposure they have in the public eye.

Children look up to these athletes as role models. When they see their favorite athlete getting caught for smoking weed or getting charged with a DUI, what kind of message does that send?

There are millions of young athletes across the country that dream of having the opportunity to be able to play the sport they

love at the professional level, and watching these gifted and privileged athletes wash their careers down the drain makes my blood boil.

These ignorant athletes need to realize the damage they’re doing with their unthoughtful actions and set a positive example for the future professional athletes that idolize them.

Professional athletes need to stop seeing themselves as su-perhuman and start acting like what their title says they are — professionals.

The recent Target boy-cot t has r i -diculously ac-quired almost 1 million sig-natures, but if the public doesn’t agree with the new bathroom pol-icy they are free to take their business elsewhere.

In a recent post on their cor-porate site, the retailer stated they welcome transgender team members and customers to “use the restroom or fitting room that corresponds to their gender identity.” And then the conser-vative public freaked out.

A privately-owned company

has the right to set policies in place, and it’s not the right of anyone to demand that a corpo-ration change something that is not at all invasive.

If you don’t want to share a bathroom with non-cisgender humans, you have the right not to use their facilities.

I don’t see how missing out on all of their products is stand-ing up for any beliefs. I mean, have you seen their dollar section? I could get lost in the stationery and decorations for days. Days, I tell you.

Maybe I’m biased by my extremely rose-colored glasses for Target, but I don’t care if a dude uses a women’s restroom and vice versa.

From my perspective, what’s the difference between a man

who dresses like a woman and just some guy entering the women’s restroom?

True, I have never stepped foot into a gender-neutral bath-room in a public space. But I shared a bathroom with my annoying brother growing up and I survived.

Maybe I have to wait to experience the novelty in real life, but I foresee that if I felt uncomfortable, I would just boycott the use of Target bath-rooms, not the store itself.

My biggest concern would be how dirty the stalls would be because of men. Ugh, urine ev-erywhere except the bowl. Bleh. I’ll just hold it until I get home.

I do understand the legitimate concerns of parents for their children. Imagine the devas-

tation from perverts or pedo-philes taking advantage of the new policy and simply strolling into whichever bathroom they please and committing awful acts.

But news flash: deviants don’t care about policy. Sure it’s one less obstacle in the way, but you really think a store pol-icy is going to keep them from what they want? Probably not.

They can find children unat-tended in all kinds of places, like the Target toy depart-ment, honestly. Maybe parents shouldn’t leave their children unattended while they get their shopping done.

And there’s the concern for daughters, yet it’s OK for their sons to be in a restroom with them? I would be willing to bet

money that we have all crossed paths with perverts in public spaces, but were unaware.

I guess ignorance is bliss in those cases, because it seemed no one cared when they were oblivious to pedophiles sharing a bathroom with their sons.

Luckily there are solutions. If no one can be appeased, just make all the restrooms single, unisex bathrooms. Problem solved.

Target’s official statement says “everyone deserves to feel like they belong. And you’ll always be accepted, respected and welcomed [here at Target].” Sounds like a great company value.

So to all you boycotting Target: that’s cool, more stuff for me.

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Some corrections of last month’s article published in th Coast Report entitled “Home to OCC’s Youngest” written by the Views Editor, Justis Zimmerman.

The Harry & Grace Steele Children’s Center was founded in 1969, when Vietnam Vets were

returning to community colleges on the GI Bill. In response, the Associated Students initially funded the Children’s Center. In the early 2000’s this mission of serving student parents came to include faculty and staff, and then community families.

The Center is licensed for 168 children. By design, the out-door yards are large enough be licensed for 500 children. The

outside environment includes gardens and animals in each yard. Children learn to care for and respect all living things by directly interacting with the-plants and animals. Our philos-ophy encourages active contact with the natural environment towards developing a young child’s trust and understanding of the world. The center is home to two Nigerian baby goats that the

preschool age children feed and take care of. The four preschool classrooms also take turns caring for their hand-raised chickens, collecting eggs each day to take home.

Because the Center operates under Title 5, CA Dept. of Edu-cation, the 11 full time lead staff members hold Teacher permits from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. A

large number of support staff is needed to be in compliance with licensing child- to-teacher ratios. Applications for support staff, accepted on a continuing basis, include a DOJ background check, currentnegative TB test and clearance from the Dean of Students.

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If women’s rights advocates want to be taken seriously at political rallys they should cover up.

Pot meets kettle at Trump rally “When night fell, it seemed like the agents of chaos arose from their hideouts. I heard the continual, “Fuck Trump,” and the crowd smelled like sweat, weed and booze.”

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Orange Coast College was the host of the 2016 Orange Empire Conference Track and Field Championships Friday and once the final gun sounded, both the Pirate women and men finished second overall.

On the women’s side Riverside City College won the team title while Saddleback (84.50), Fuller-ton (50) and Golden West 26.50) finished behind the Pirates.

On the men’s side, the Pirates were led by standout runner Gabe Warner, who helped the Pirates to three OEC titles. The freshman took home the gold in both the 200 (21.65 seconds) and the 400 (47.5) and also helped lead the Pirates’ 400 relay team

to a winning time of 42.31 sec-onds, barely edging out RCC’s group, who clocked in at 42.35.

Despite several RCC victories for the women over the two week-prelims and finals, there were still several strong per-formances turned in by Orange Coast. Leading the way was the 110-meter hurdles, where the Pirates finished 1-2-3 in the race as Sims took home the title with a time of 15.05 seconds, followed by Mychal Robinson (15.85) and Heising (16.36).

Sims and Heising finished 2-3 in the 400 hurdles, with Sims taking the silver medal with a time of 1:06.39 and Heising the bronze with a 1:06.89.

The Pirate men ran into some tough luck. In the 400 hurdles, sophomore Tommy Duong was

among the leaders just after the final hurdle was cleared, howev-er in the final dash to the finish line he tweaked his hamstring and had to settle for a third-place time of 57.29 seconds.

In the 800, sophomore Eamon Smythe battled a Riverside trio down to the finish line, but was tripped up from behind by another runner near the finish line and slammed to the ground, just past the finish line with an injured shoulder and a fourth-place time of 1:56.38.

The Pirates will now prepare for the 2016 Southern California Regional Championships, which begin with the prelims on Satur-day at Antelope Valley College, beginning at 9 a.m., with the finals on Saturday, May 14 at AVC, also at 9 a.m.

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The Orange Coast College men’s volleyball team played Long Beach City for the third time this year on Saturday at Los Angeles Pierce College in the California Community Col-lege Athletic Association State Championship.

The two teams came in with double-digit winning streaks, near-identical records and had beaten each other once this year. But in the end only one team was crowned the state champion.

In a match that had a rau-cous crowd and that lasted two hours, Long Beach City topped OCC in four sets (32-30, 18-25,

25-21, 27-25).The Vikings (21-2) won their

ninth state championship in team history while the Pirates (21-3) fell to 6-10 in championship games.

“We didn’t pass well enough to win. That has been our Achilles heel all year long,” OCC coach Travis Turner said.

Even though the Pirates lost, they were close to forcing a decisive fifth set. Trailing 2-1 in sets, the Pirates went into set four down 8-4, forcing Turner to take a time out. The Pirates found themselves down 10-5 but roared back to take a 17-15 lead, forcing the Vikings into a time out.

The Pirates had set point three times at 24-21, but LBCC tied the match at 24-24 thanks to a Charles Belvin kill, a Jordan Molina service ace and an OCC hitting error. The Vikings had championship point at 25-24, but outside hitter Gianluca Grasso kept OCC in the match with a thunderous kill, tying the match at 25-25.

From there the Vikings took the next two points courtesy of an LBCC double block and an OCC net violation, clinching the match.

The Vikings stormed the court, while the Pirates looked on in disbelief knowing they let set four slip away.

“Our guys just tried to stay even and make the right plays at the right time and I’m happy for my guys,” LBCC coach Jonathan Charette said. “OCC played really good volleyball and pushed us to our limits. They’re a phenomenal program and their coach does a good job training his boys.”

Another set the Pirates had a chance to win was in set one. OCC led 15-8, but the Vikings used an 11-4 run to tie the set at 19-19.

After OCC tied it at 24-24, both teams exchanged points throughout most of the way. OCC had set point at 27-26 and 29-28, but was unable to finish off LBCC.

“We just weren’t on our A-game. I thought I played al-right. I could’ve played 10 times better but I did all I could,” out-side hitter Adrian Faitalia said.

Grasso and Faitalia led the Pi-rates with 20 kills apiece. Grasso also chipped in 10 digs giving him a double-double. Middle blocker Matthew Ujkic had 10 kills with a .412 hitting percent-age. Ujkic and Faitalia both made the state all-tournament team.

The Vikings were led by Josh-ua Nehls who had 15 kills. Bel-vin had 12 kills on 15 attempts and Andrew Pearson chipped in 11 kills. Molina, who was named the tournament MVP, had 14 digs and four service aces.

Pirates fall short in state title gameMen’s volleyball can’t pull off a win despite almost forcing a 5th set.

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Track teams take second in OECFROM CAMPUS REPORTS

PROTEST: Events turn violent at Trump’s Costa Mesa protest.

a 30-year-old year LGBT activist from Brea.

In the background, Trump devotees opposite two Mexican banners shouted, “USA!” and “Build the wall,” a nod to the candidate’s much-discussed plan to build a wall across the Mexican and U.S. border.

“I like the wall because I worked on the border at Otay Mesa. I know that border inti-mately,” said Miguel Hidalgo, a Trump advocate from San Di-ego. “A lot of illegal immigrants get abused and raped. They are coming across not only for the drugs but they are also coming into this country for the slave trade which Trump has not mentioned. It’s heavy and it’s

dirty,” he said.Jessi Rose, a political activist

from Fullerton, stood between the two warring factions holding up a sign that read, “Make Love Not Walls.”

“I believe that we are all one big family and we need to break down those walls that separate us and pit us against ourselves,” Rose said.

However, love was not a pre-vailing emotion at Thursday’s ral-ly as protesters began to hurl filled water bottles at Trump supporters and rocks at motorists attempting to leave the venue.

One group even blocked off the north entrance to the 55-freeway at Fair Drive and Newport Bou-levard, setting up benches and chairs at the on ramp.

“It’s important to stand up against the hatred that Trump es-pouses, and I think that if people

protest, they will at least not take it lying down,” said Doug Kerr of Irvine.

Local law enforcement began deploying extra forces clad in riot gear as the evening pro-gressed.

A line of armored vehicles pulled into the fairgrounds lot and emptied squads of officers decked with shields, rifles and shotguns in an effort to contain the crowd marching on the street.

The Orange County sheriff re-ported approximately 20 arrests by the Costa Mesa Police Depart-ment at the end of the night when crowds dispersed around 11 p.m.

“What’s going on out here is crazy,” said Jake Yelverton, a veteran from San Clemente who was watching the march. “Every-one inside the rally was so happy, nice and kind to each other.”

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