Orange Coast College president Dennis Harkins, who was one of nine candidates being considered for the top job at a Florida college, was passed up for the position after the college narrowed its search down to five on Tuesday.

Harkins interviewed on Monday and will head back to Coast. His contract with the district is set to expire in 2013.

Harkins was hired by the Coast Community College District two

years ago to preside over the largest of the district’s three campuses.

“I received several calls for this position,” Harkins said. “It’s typical for executives to seek new oppor-tunities nearing contract renewal periods.”

Harkins originally signed a contract in December 2009 and it was amended in 2010 to expire in 2013.

Harkins said although he is looking for new options, he is impressed by OCC and is still happy to be in the district. Harkins received a $16,000 pay raise last year, making him the third-highest paid employee in the district behind the chancellor and Golden West President Wes Bryan.

“The Coast Community College District and OCC are great institu-tions,” he said.

According to several Florida media outlets, Harkins was among 40 candidates originally considered for the job managing the 26,000 student campus in Fort Meyers.

Harkins would have become the

second high-profile move from the campus in the last two years after OCC’s former Vice President of Instruction Melinda Nish left to become president of Southwestern College in Chula Vista in January.

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Coast Community College Dis-trict hopes to step into the modern age by giving students control of their educational plans online.

The district will purchase the rights to DegreeWorks, a web-based program that not only allows students to track their degree’s progress, but also informs them on the most efficient path to complete their goals.

Administrators hope that stu-dents with access to DegreeWorks will feel more confident knowing exactly what classes they need to succeed.

“Frankly, this is long overdue,” Andreea Serban, vice chancellor of Educational Services said. “We don’t have enough counselors for all of the students and filling out a paper student educational plan (SEP) means that those counselors have to spend most of their time doing clerical work.”

Instead, she said, DegreeWorks would let students explore “what if, scenarios online, create a new degree plan on the fly and select which classes would best fulfill its requirements.

Also, an adviser could then pull up the student’s SEP and edit it with them. That way, a counseling appointment could be spent dis-cussing the benefits of particular degrees and associated classes as opposed to the student sitting silently while the counselor spends most of their time filling out forms and looking through books.

Having the SEP in digital form also means that any other depart-

ment can easily access it. Cur-rently, if a student wanted to apply for grants or scholarships through Orange Coast College’s financial aid department, he would need to submit a physical copy of their SEP.

This is tedious and inefficient, Serban said, and if the student had changed classes since the last time he had visited his adviser, the information would be wrong.

DegreeWorks functions in real-time, so any changes to a student’s plan would immediately be acces-sible everywhere else.

With classes and counseling appointments in short supply, many students don’t meet with an adviser at all, so they end up taking random classes that don’t amount to anything, Serban said. This is hugely inefficient and further clogs an already economically weak-ened college system, so that even dedicated students sometimes find themselves at OCC for three or more years.

The new program will deliver both student educational plan-ning and degree audit capabilities into each student’s hands. Serban likened DegreeWorks’ system to a car’s navigation system.

“It’s like GPS on steroids,” Ser-ban said. “It’ll tell you how to get from A to B. It will also tell you if you have taken a wrong turn, and what needs to be done to get back on track. It will steer students away from roadblocks and other surprises that they wouldn’t know about until it was too late.”

One of those roadblocks is how many classes are available each semester. Administrators have had to use historical trends to decide which classes to fund and how many. Further course cuts are inevitable, Serban said, but at least with DegreeWorks, each school will be able to see

Orange Coast College’s 2012 summer class offerings will be reduced by more than 50 percent compared to last year.

While OCC offered 104 classes last summer, only 47 will be avail-able this summer. Coastline Com-munity College and Golden West College will take major cuts as well, with Coastline only offering 85 classes, and Golden West 38.

The schedule is selected by the OCC counseling division, which

makes its selections based on class-es the majority of students need to complete their time at OCC.

“Our system is heavily impacted so there is a lot of discussion about how to get students out in less time. The less time for students to move on, the better for everyone,” Michael Mandelkern, dean of Literature and Language and the Honors division said.

The counseling division does not only focus on providing transfer cur-riculum for the summer schedule, but the educational goals at OCC.

“We want to focus on the three main missions which are transfer, career certificate and basic skill,” Hue Pham, dean of Counseling and director of EOPS said.

Aside from the three main focus points, a goal of the counseling division was to provide prerequisite

courses to prepare students for the fall semester.

“We needed to look at classes that are a gateway for the students to enroll in classes in the fall. For example, we selected intermediate algebra because it is really a gate-way to other math,” Pham said.

According to Pham, it is not an option to eliminate general educa-tion classes in order to provide more core curriculum like math, science and English.

“People need general educa-tion. Obviously English is very important but there is never enough for the summer. People who need lower level English can take it in the fall. People who need general eds for transfer can take it in the summer,” Pham said.

According to Ron Johnson, in-terim vice president of instruction,

if the initiative doesn’t pass on the voter’s ballot in November, the district will be in serious financial trouble, and may opt to not have a summer session in 2013.

“The possibility of cancelling the summer session is always out there. I’d estimate about 30 percent of statewide community colleges have already done away with sum-mer sessions, but I would hope that OCC will be able to continue to run summer schedule even at this minimum level,” Johnson said.

In addition to summer cuts, OCC must reduce the fall 2012 class of-ferings as well.

“The district has given us a dollar limit on instruction and we had to take $1.3 million out of the instructional budget for next year in order to pursue this stabilization process,” Johnson said.

Harkins out of the running in Fla.

Transferring made easier

Summer classes cut againOCC plans 30 percent fewer offerings than last year.

BY ASHLEY LITWINSTAFF WRITER

DegreeWorks program designed to keep students on forward path.

BY JAMES DELAHOUSSAYESTAFF WRITER

And the hits just keep on coming to the state’s educational system.

On the heels of budget cuts, class cancellations, tuition increases and calls for tax hikes, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday that the state’s revised budget shows a deficit that has ballooned to $16 billion.

In an effort to deal with the deficit, the governor’s revised plan calls for an additional $4.1 billion in cuts on top $4.2 billion

in reductions already proposed in January. And, if a ballot measure to increase state taxes isn’t approved by voters in November, the plan calls for an automatic $6.1 billion cut in addition to the $8.3 billion in other cuts — the majority of which would be to schools.

At Orange Coast College ad-ministrators are already looking at across-the-board cuts to the fall class schedule and decreased state funding could have far reaching effects.

“We have a more difficult

problem. We’re going to have to cut deeper,” The Orange County Register quoted Brown saying Monday. “But cutting alone re-ally doesn’t do it. That’s why I’m linking these serious budget reductions — real increase to aus-terity — with a plea to the voters: Please increase taxes temporarily on the most affluent and everyone else.”

In January, when Brown ini-tially presented his 2012-13 budget proposal, his office pegged the deficit at $9.2 billion. Brown

said it has since grown to $16 billion because of the economy and because some reductions have been blocked by the federal government and by the courts.

To address the bigger gap, Brown proposes additional cuts to Medi-Cal, the court system, child care services and in-home supportive services, among oth-ers. Brown is also proposing a 5 percent reduction in employee pay, to be achieved through ne-gotiations with public employee labor unions.

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Orange Coast College will host a TEDx event on June 20 in the Robert B. Moore Theater from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

OCC student Mohammad Al-shootfa, the event orga-nizer, said he and a team of 15 other students have been working together since Janu-ary to bring a variation of TED Talks to the campus.

“The event will offer a new perspective of how students

view the world,” Al-shootfa said.

The event will feature stu-dent speakers and will be styled after that of the regular TED Talks that usually feature esteemed speakers such as Bill Gates, Jane Fonda and Dave Eggers.

The talk’s theme is, “innova-tion in education to inspire the next generation,” Al-shootfa said.

The event is the first of its kind at OCC and one of the first at a community college, he said.

Al-shootfa said he was in-spired to bring the talks to OCC because of his past expe-riences with education in

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different countries. He said he moved three times and was inserted into three completley different systems because he lived in Indonesia, Sudan and Ye-men while in high school before coming to the United States and eventually OCC.

“It was a terrifying time for me,” he said referring to the schools in Indonesia, Sudan and Yemen.

When Al-shootfa came to Coast he experienced a differ-ent system yet again, but said there was more information avaliable. Although the educa-tion system here is different and more advanced than some overseas systems, there are still

improvements that need to be made, he said.

“We want to change that —memorizing the book method, we need to learn a new curricu-lum that evolves with the time,” he said.

Al-shootfa will make a speech during Tedx along with fellow students Johnny Umanzor, Sol Courtney and Kolby Keo. OCC professor John Fawcett will also make a speech at the event. Ber-nadette Lim, a high school senior who will be attending Harvard University will also speak and discuss how high school students can be more active in college programs.

Al-shootfa created an iPhone app for the event that includes a list of the speakers, times and

updates. The event, unlike a regu-

lar TED Talk, is free. Normal TED memberships cost nearly $20,000 a year. TEDx is an af-filiated program but all events are hosted independently.

The cost to put on the event was minimal, Al-shootfa said because the event is being hosted at the school and there is already adequate equipment to tape it. Organizers spent a few hundred dollars on Facebook ads they hope will bring more members of the community and students out to the event.

The event will be videotaped and put on the TEDx website, Al-shootfa said. The event is free and there will be food and drinks provided.

Irini Vallera-Rickerson, a 60-year-old art-history profes-sor at Orange Coast College, was a special guest and pre-senter at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, in Santa Ana Saturday.

The lecture began at 1:30

p.m. and went a tad overboard from what was expected of the one-hour presentation covering part of the Aegean culture.

“I didn’t expect to like the lecture as much as I did but it was really cool learning how a lot of our culture came from these civilizations,” said Eric Froth, 19, a biology major. “Her style and humor made the presentation not so heavy as it could have been.”

The lecture touched on the Cycladic, Minoan, and Myce-naean civilizations that took place during the Bronze Age of Greece in Crete, the Cyclades

and part of the mainland. Much of the presentation

was tied into a comparison of Grecian influence over current cultures and explained the in-fluence Greek mythology had over the development of the

country itself. “Who knows, mythology

may possibly have some truth behind it,” Rickerson said.

Rickerson was the recent re-cipient of OCC’s first-ever Hu-manitarian of the Year award.

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CRIMEBLOTTER

Foul BallA female, whose affiliation

to Orange Coast College isn’t known, had the rear window of her white 2011 BMW smashed by a baseball Satur-day near the Fitness Center Parking Lot and the baseball field around 12:45 p.m.

According to Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer, a report will be sent to the district to reimburse the victim for costs to repair her rear window.

Also, a female student had the rear window of her four-door white 1996 Toyota Camry smashed by a baseball on Sunday around 11 a.m.

The incident file will be sent to the district to decide reimbursement to the student for repairs, Farmer said.

Public

obscenitiesA male non-student was ar-

rested on Sunday in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot during the Swap Meet for public urination and being drunk in public.

The man was escorted by the Costa Mesa Police Depart-ment to be booked after yelling obscenities and making rude gestures at the police officers, Farmer said.

Shocking assault

Farmer said a male non student was reportedly elec-trically shocked by a Hispanic male 25 to 30 years old and weighing 160 pounds.

The non- s tuden t was shocked with a stun gun after he parked and the student told him to slow down, Farmer

said.The suspect is charged with

battery and assault although the victim said he was not hurt and did not need any medical attention.

Lock up

your bikesA rash of reported bike

thefts over the past week has campus security on alert and warning students to lock up.

A female student’s locked bike worth an estimated $900 was reportedly stolen between 11 a.m and 5 p.m. from the Watson Hall bike rack while the student was in class on May 7. The next day a male student’s black Electra beach cruiser worth more than $200 was reported stolen from the Watson Hall bike rack between 10:50 a.m to 12:45 p.m. and a male student’s mountain bike was stolen between 10 a.m and 2 p.m.

A gray beach cruiser with black handles worth $600 was stolen along with the bike’s lock on May 9 between 7:50 a.m. and 1 p.m.

A few days later on May 10 a male student’s bike was reported stolen from the biol-ogy building. The value of the bike is $600.

There are no suspects for the stolen bikes and bike locks. Farmer said he recommends students purchase Kryptonite locks to assure bikes are not stolen because the regular bike locks were easily broken.

Anyone with information concerning the rash of stolen bikes is asked to call Campus Safety at 714-432-5017.

—The Crime Blotter was compiled by Connie Tolentino from Campus Safety reports.

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exactly what classes are being pursued by students and can adjust accordingly.

The software will also help with the changing policies in priority registration. Right now, the more units a student has, the higher pri-ority they have in choosing classes. This means that students with high unit counts who aren’t on track to transfer or graduate can still get into classes before others.

The Student Success Task Force, created by Gov. Jerry Brown, has recommended several changes to registration status policies which are expected to be implemented

by fall 2013. Priority registration would be

given to first-time students as long as they attend orientation and create a SEP. On the other hand, students who don’t have a defined plan by the end of their second semester would lose priority.

Those with over 100 units could also see their status drop to open registration.

“These changes are going to happen,” Serban said. “That’s why having a tool like DegreeWorks is so important. It’s a win-win for everybody.”

Running this comprehensive software will not be cheap though. Chancellor Andrew Jones said that

there would be an upfront cost be-tween $300,000 to $400,000.

The program would also need proper maintenance to make sure the latest requirements and degree changes across California schools were reflected online.

Jones argued that the cost is worth it, since students would move through community col-lege more efficiently, freeing up classes and helping with CCCD’s budget.

Students at Coastline, Golden West and OCC should expect De-greeWorks to begin being imple-mented this summer, and be fully operational by the fall of 2013.

Driving tips for a safe commute

It’s almost summer and with that time of year comes the all-American road trip.

And, while California drivers may think they have all the an-swers to road safety, the truth of the matter is that Southern Cali-fornians know next to nothing about road hazards and steering safely through real weather.

Students may find themselves traveling through the unknown during their summer road trips or, for out-of-state students, may be facing a long commute back home.

So if your summer plans are

taking you just to Big Bear or all the way to New York, here are some tips to avoid accidents as well as some advice about what to do if you are run off a road, swerve, get a flat tire or slide on a wet surface.

In addition to these tips it is important to remember that many states, including California, have stepped up enforcement of phone use while driving. A ticket for using a cell phone while driving can put a real damper on those summer plans.

Ten states have banned all cell phone use while driving and 38 states have banned texting while driving.

Other tips for a safe commute include being fully awake while getting behind the wheel. Driv-ers falling asleep is a dangerous problem that kills thousands each year, according to drowsy driving.org.

Of course another obvious safety hazard for college students is driving under the influence, which kills thousands a year.

Don’t drink and drive is an obvious tip, but being aware of other drivers who appear to be under the influence is equally important. Being alert, cautious and aware is always a top tip.

With road trip season around the corner make sure to stay aware.

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OCC art historyinstructor offers a lecture at the Bowers Museum.

BY IRIS OROZCOSTAFF WRITER

Like a real life Indiana Jones, William Breece, the archaeology instructor at Orange Coast Col-lege, spends his time excavating prehistoric artifacts and teaching anthropology and archaeology.

“Indiana Jones is no comparison to me,” Breece said. “But he has made archaeology popular.”

Of course for Breece, being a professor and archaeologist isn’t nearly as dangerous as it was for Jones.

“I spend the summer and winter holidays in France excavating up-per Paleolithic artifacts, and at OCC I teach archaeology and cultural

anthropology year round and world ethnology in the spring semesters,” Breece said.

Breece has worked in places like Easter Island, Panama, and Jamaica, and even traveled with his wife on a 26-day-long voyage via cargo ship from Long Beach to Tahiti.

However, Breece didn’t always know what he wanted to do for a living.

While stationed in Vietnam he traveled to Japan where his interest in archaeology was sparked.

“I was interested in the antiquity and cultural diversity that I saw in Vietnam and Japan,” he said. “It made me want to go to college to pursue that.”

After receiving his bachelor’s

degree, he said he took some time off to travel to Europe.

Before pursuing his doctorate degree, he spent 13 years doing field work in cultural resource manage-ment— where an archaeologist surveys land that someone wants to build on to make sure it is free of cultural artifacts and excavates on the land that does contain them.

“After 13 years of doing field work, it made going back and getting my Ph.D. much easier,” he said.

In 1991 he was hired at OCC, which also happened to be his last year in school finishing up his doctorate.

He spent that time teaching two classes at OCC, one at Santa Mon-

ica College, working in cultural resource management and writing his dissertation.

Even though he has been exca-vating sites since 1978, he says he still loves what he does.

“I love excavating a site and find-ing artifacts and knowing that I am the first person to touch the item since the person threw it away,” he said. “I get to pick up things the Neanderthals dropped and not many people can say that.”

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PARKING LOT DIARIES A star in the making

Majoring in philosophy at Orange Coast College and working as a fashion show stylist may seem like a hard act to balance, but Monet Salamon pulls it off.

The 21-year-old works for Carol Latham, a coordinator for fashion events put on by organizations like the Na-tional Charity League.

Salamon selects clothing from local boutiques for models to wear and the chari-ties raise money for a variety of philanthropic causes.

“I attended one of their events, a breast cancer char-ity event,” Salamon said. “It turned out the woman running it was a family friend, so I emailed her and got a job.”

At first Salamon was just interning and “being the go-fer,” but she kept asking her boss if she could help choose the clothing and create the outfits the models would wear on the runway.

“I guess you could say that I’m aggressive in getting the job I want,” Salamon said. “I’d rather show you I can do it then just stand back. That’s really important in fashion.”

She originally came to OCC as an art major, but after working in several design internships, Salamon said she wanted her educa-tion to move in a different direction.

“Once I realized that I wanted to work in the fashion industry, I wanted to take on a major that would help im-prove myself. If I’m going to do school, I want to get more out of it then just a piece of paper,” Salamon said.

With a full-time job that will hopefully lead her into bigger things in the fashion industry, Salamon said she sees her time at OCC as a personal growth experi-ence.

Unlike most aspiring singers, Emily Satterlee, a 26-year-old music business major at Orange Coast College, didn’t spend her childhood dreaming of becoming a pop star, instead she found out songwriting was her passion just five years ago.

“I wrote my very first song when I was 21 years old, I was kind of a late bloomer when it came to that,” Satterlee said.

It all started when Satterlee’s father bought her a guitar for her 18th birthday. She began learning to play right away.

From there she decided to move from her hometown in Michigan to California to pursue a career in music.

Before coming to California, Satterlee had researched good and affordable colleges in Orange

County and came across OCC, which she kept a poster in her room of until finally moving to the West Coast.

Once she arrived, Satterlee de-cided to sell her guitar to pay her rent and began working 70-hour weeks at two jobs in order to raise money to start her music career.

“Her writing and performing have variously been compared to Sara Bareilles, Florence and The Machine, Nikka Costa, Lana Del Rey, Michelle Branch and Colbie Caillat. And I can hear and feel the comparisons for sure, but to me she sounds like Emily Satterlee. She has her own sound and her own signature,” Gary Gray, music producer and engineer said.

When comparing herself to other musicians, Satterlee said she would be a mix of Colbie Caillat and Lana Del Ray, who both, just like herself, don’t shy away from using their personal experiences with love in their music.

“When you’re a songwriter you dig for those feelings that people can relate to and so far I’ve heard no complaints from the guys,” Sat-terlee said.

While already having her as-sociates in arts degree in English from OCC, Satterlee came back to school to get her music business certificate because in addition to being a songwriter she wants to produce tracks as well.

“Once in a great while a student will come along who has the vision of the big picture always in mind and will ask the exact right ques-tions, questions that even make the teacher think twice before an-swering,” Gray said. “For me that student was Emily.”

Satterlee’s vision of her future doesn’t involve wearing a ridicu-lous stage outfit and pouring her heart out in front of sold-out arenas, for her it would be to relax and write songs that others can sing along to.

David Murdy, a music instructor at OCC, said he also sees a future in music for Satterlee.

“Emily has a strong passion for music and her eyes light up when she talks about writing and record-ing her songs, I could see she has the capacity to go far,” he said.

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(Top left) President of the OCC Alumni and Friends Association Shana Jenkins, dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, shows her support for award recipients during Honors Night. (Lower left) Diana Aguilar recieves the Student Leader of the Year award. (Lower middle) Pastries made by culinary program students are served to guests before the award ceremony. (Lower right) Citizens from Munchkinland entertain guests during the event. (Bottom) Students write their hopes and aspirations on a Wildest Dreams Wall.

More than 380 OCC students recieved 440 awards and scholarships at the 54th annual Honors Night in the Robert B. Moore theater May 9. A total of $320,000 in scholarships was handed out. With the “Wizard of Oz” as its theme, guests enjoyed a lavish buffet catered by the Culinary Arts and Hospitality program.

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Theater

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“Mass Appeal 2012-Student Art Exhibition Now through May 30: The work of OCC photog-raphy students will be on display through May 30 in the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. Admission is free.

Art

“One-Act Play Festi-val,” Thursday through Sunday: This festival presents a wide variety of original and published works for mature audienc-es. Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Drama Lab Studio. Advance tick-ets $5 or $7 at the door.

“ M u s i c a l T h e a t re Workshop” Saturday: Directed by Beth Hansen. Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Tickets $10 at the door.

Music

“World Dance” Friday: Directed by Angelika Ne-meth. A lecture and demon-stration will show heritage of the world dance commu-nity. Friday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the Robert B Moore Theatre. Free admission for K-12 students . Tickets at the door $15. Hollywood hit films play hardball in the box office

A lot of the new movies that have come out recently have broken box office records earn-ing huge lumps of money but the movie companies that made the films don’t get to keep all of it.

The movie theaters also need a portion of a movie’s profit in order to stay in business.

According to film professor and member of the directors guild, William Hall, there is a lot of nego-tiating that movie companies and theaters go through when a movie is about to be released.

“The movie companies will play hardball with the theaters if the movie is getting a lot of buzz,” Hall said. “They tell them that the movie is going to be successful so they want 100 percent of the profit

the first week.”According to Hall that only

happens with the really big mov-ies though, and the bigger theater chains can also compete with the movie companies.

According to Hall, if Regal Cinemas has 300 theaters and the movie company wants 100 percent of the profits, Regal can tell them that if they want 100 percent then they will only show the movie in 100 of their theaters. So if they do something like that then they’ll possibly split the movie profits 80-20 as opposed to the movie company getting the full amount.

For the really big movies that they know are going to attract viewers even after the first week, the theater won’t see any of the movie’s profit, he said. The movie companies will sometimes cover the cost of showing the movie

opening weekend though. The theater will see a percentage

the second week, usually 20 percent, and then more the following weeks until they eventually reach a 50-50 split in profit, according to Hall.

The 50-50 split in profits is the most that the theater is going to get, it won’t get to a point where the theater gets more than the movie company, Hall said.

“I usually go to the movies like four to five times a month and I pay around $12 for a movie ticket,” Vincent Martinez, 21, a film major said.

The amount of money that a lot of big movies announce they make opening weekend may sound stag-gering but the amount it took to make and market it also has to be put into account.

“The Avengers” came out two weeks ago with its opening week-

end generating $207 million. But the negative cost, the amount it took to get the movie finished, of the film was $220 million.

The $220 million negative cost does not include the marketing and distribution costs of a movie that Hall said could range anywhere from 70-100 percent of the nega-tive cost.

So while the movie company that made “The Avengers” will see most if not all of the money made opening weekend, the $207 million would still not cover the negative and marketing costs of the movie.

Although a lot of current mov-ies have made a lot of money, if adjusted for inflation, many older movies have still made more money.

A movie like “Avatar” has grossed $760 million domestic

and is No. 1 in a top action films list that Hall provided.

However if the list is adjusted for inflation, “Star Wars,” “E.T.” and “Jaws” all beat it out on more money earned with $1.3 billion, $1 billion and $979 million re-spectively.

The amount that a ticket costs is a reason why movies are earning so much more now, Hall said.

One reason that movie theaters give for raising their prices is because they’re updating their projectors from film projectors to digital ones according to Hall.

The projectors cost about $75,000 a piece so they say that’s a reason as to why they need to raise ticket prices.

“I have no problem with digital projectors now,” Hall said. “And that’s something I never thought I’d be saying.”

BY ERIC GANDARILLASTAFF WRITER

An exclusive student showcase of work opened its doors and reflected talented students’ art at Orange Coast College.

The exhibition “Mass Appeal” included only student work and had more than 154 artists that participated.

“The show was put together to challenge the students — for them to use unusual subject matter and

interpretation,” Andrea Harris, the director of the Arts Pavilion said.

“It’s supposed to encourage people to be creative.”

There were not any rules for subject matter and type of art-work.

Most of the artwork consisted of sculptures, drawings, pictures and paintings.

Ashley Richards, a 21-year-old photography major entered a personal picture.

“It is a photo of his statue of Je-

sus,” Richards said. “It represents him becoming a monk.”

Richards said she made the photo for Photo 180, an intro class to professional photography with Agatha Bronossian.

Other students introduced work from other exhibits.

Judi Jordan, a photography major, included a picture related to her exhibit “Class Act” that showed in the Fine Arts building previously.

“Class Act” was a surprise

for her husband Bill, and was a gallery of pictures of him as a thank you for his support in her education.

“The print I submitted is a photo of Bill playing the piano,” Jordan said. “It is a light jet image that didn’t fit in the case for my last exhibit.”

“Mass Appeal” showed many other talented artists and in the middle of the reception Harris gave out prizes that included money and idea books.

Harris said the money is for the artists to support themselves and to be creative, because being creative takes a lot of time and pressure and many people fold.

“You have to invest in yourself,” Harris said.

“Mass Appeal” has a show every year and this is its fourth show.

The exhibit is open until May 26, and it is open to the public in the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at OCC.

BY AVI SEGALOFFSTAFF WRITER

A nearby dining spot with a Salvadorian twist A new restaurant in down-

town Santa Ana, only 15 min-utes north of campus, has a ver-satile menu with a Salvadorian twist at a reasonable price that will make you want to come back for more.

Izalco opened for business in April and brings traditional

flavor from El Salvador along with some Mexican food items on its menu.

I had never tried Salvadorian food before and went with my friend, also for her first time to take our tastebuds on a new adventure.

We both ordered the pollo y queso pupusas, which is a tra-ditional dish from El Salvador, that was incredibly mouthwa-

tering with tender chicken.I also tried the Mexican

tostada which had a mixture of beans, avocado, and was topped with onions with a cit-rus flavor to it.

For dessert we ordered Tres Leches which was delicious and consisted of three miniature va-nilla moist sponge cakes, was topped with a sugary cream, and had sliced oranges on the

side that were sweet.The décor was beautiful as

was the food presentation and it wasn’t too noisy.

The service was fast and the customer service exceeded expectations.

BY ELIZABETH SCHMIDTARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

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“If you have nothing to do it’s boring.” “I personally like it because it gives me plenty of time to do homework. If there is not more material to cover the teacher might

as well let us out early.”

“Usually the teachers at night do it a lot. I like it because it gives me time to do all my

other homework and projects.”

“I find it frustrating and a waste of time if we’re not being taught anything to be kept

in class.”

“Project and test days I expect to leave early. The teachers that seem to be actually

teaching seem to not do it.”

A solution that works

The district’s plan to imple-ment the new DegreeWorks program in the district by fall of 2013 is the first hint of good news for students this year.

The district has been criti-cized for several of its deci-sions in the past two years in-cluding entering into budget stabilization and giving raises to their top executives.

While these decisions may have been criticized by fac-ulty and students, this is one plan that will absolutely be worth every penny in the long run.

The program will effec-tively enable students to keep track of their educational plans online and finally offer a solution to a problem that many community college students seem to face when mapping out their classes.

Counselors are becoming harder to schedule by ap-pointments and often times students complain that be-cause counselors are over-worked, they aren’t able to devote enough time to each student’s educational plan.

The reduction in staff has no doubt contributed to the unavailability of counselors, who are guides to students when they are lost.

With DegreeWorks stu-dents will be able to moni-tor their own plans and will even be able to play around with different educational scenarios. With a variety of options, students will no longer have an excuse to not know which classes they need to take to transfer and they will have no excuse for taking a class that does not fulfill some kind of general education requirement.

The district chancellor did not hype the program as much as he could have but it should be viewed as the chancellor’s and the district’s biggest suc-cess in the last few years.

It’s good to know that al-though the state is cutting the educational budget and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else, the people we put in charge of getting us through community college are at least striving to make the lives of students easier.

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Should the Angels fly to L.A. or are they fine in Anaheim?City of Angels a perfect fit for the Halos Angels selling wings for bigger profits

T h e possi-b i l i t y of Los Ange-les An-gels of A n a -h e i m m o v -ing to L o s A n -g e l e s and leaving Anaheim sounds like a good idea to me.

The Angels have an escape clause in their stadium lease in 2016, that if not used would keep the Halos in Ana-heim until 2029.

A move to the City could be a profitable one for the Angels and could land them a much larger market than Orange County.

When you think of Anaheim, you don’t think of it as a city

filled with life and c h a r i s m a . O t h e r teams come to L.A. because of the glitz and glamor and the Hollywood treatment. Who wouldn’t want to live large?

In 2005, the team changed its team name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. If the team doesn’t want to be known as Anaheim Angels, I don’t see any other reason why they should appease fans by keeping the title or their stadium.

Angel stadium is 46 years old anyway. If you’re going to change the team name might as well change the location. The “of Anaheim” seems like a piece of information that is added only to make it sound longer.

Besides, there aren’t any sports teams that are popular in Ana-

heim. There’s the Ana-heim Ducks and of course the Los Ange-les Angels of Anaheim, but in L.A., you have various teams includ-ing the Dodgers, the Sparks, the Lakers and the Clippers.

If the Angels move to Los Angeles, then they would be a few miles away from Dodger stadium and there could possibly be a r iva l ry between the Dodgers and Angels like the Lakers and Clip-pers. As a Dodger fan, I relish the idea of them crushing the Angels on a frequent basis.

The only thing I would probably miss about the stadium is driving by on the Or-ange freeway and look-

ing at the big “A” with a halo around it. Other than that, I don’t care too much if the team left Anaheim. At the end of the day, It wouldn’t really be that big of a loss.

W h e n t h e Anaheim An-gels decided to become “The Los Angeles A n g e l s o f Anaheim” in

2005,

fans were out-raged by the team’s auda-c ious move toward profit-ability.

Apparently that was only s tep one of their master plan.

After call-ing Anaheim their

home since 1966, the Angels are

now considering moving back to L.A. –– the city that bred the team but never want-

ed them.Early on in

the team’s history, the Halos were ten-

ants of Dodger Stadium because L.A. never gave them a proper home. Anaheim eventually took in the team giving them a brand new stadi-um, and millions of loyal

fans, effectively making L.A. the deadbeat dad of the Angels.

Now the Angels are all grown up and they want to move back in with their absentee fa-ther who was never there and did absolutely nothing for them.

What is most surpris-ing about the move is that officials are citing Angel Stadium as be-ing too old as it is fast approaching its 50th anniversary, because according to their cal-culations stadium years are the equivalent to dog years.

Angel Stadium may not be the newest ball-park, and Anaheim may be a small market for the team, but it’s their home.

The team should cherish the fact that they can still play in what could be considered their childhood home

where fans can jump on the freeway and catch a game right after work.

All fans want the An-gels to remain profitable and avoid the unmiti-gated financial disaster that nearly drove the Dodgers extinct. At the end of the day money keeps the ball in play, but the team’s success shouldn’t have to cost them their integrity.

The Angels may be more profitable in a bigger market like L.A. but they won’t make it to the city with their soul intact.

It has become in-creasingly clear that the Angels want to break up with Anaheim. There’s no easy way to put it. But if the team wants to leave, they should take their giant A with them because it’s a sight that’s too painful to bare as you drive by the 57 freeway.

I’ll be hon-est , when I came to Or-ange Coas t C o l l e g e I wasn’t exactly happy to be here.

I a r r i v e d with the same objective ev-ery transfer s t u d e n t a t OCC has –– to leave. But now that my last semester here at Coast is coming to an end I am now realizing my time spent here was much too short.

The sour taste that high school left in my mouth also soured my expectations of OCC. The repu-tation of community colleges being known as clown colleges or, my personal favorite, “High School Part Two” didn’t seem to help much either.

My resentment for being rel-egated to a community college eventually subsided and with it came maturity.

Seeing as how I would re-main at OCC for some time, I put my nose to the grindstone and decided to get as much as I could out of the classes I was able to enroll in.

Slowly but surely, I racked up enough units that enrollment no longer became an issue for me. Parking however, was still a bother.

As I progressed through my courses, I began to see that OCC really wasn’t “High School Part 2.” It was a bona fide college with dedicated stu-dents, professors, faculty and staff that rival some of the best Universities in the state.

One question in particular posed by a certain professor made it really clear that I owed a lot to OCC. She asked the en-tire lecture hall, “After graduat-ing from your UC or Cal State, how many of you will actually mention that you are also OCC graduates?”

That question echoed a senti-ment that many students feel.

OCC wasn’t a place you boasted about. It was an embarrassment. You go there, graduate and you never speak of it again, like a skeleton in a closet that never sees the light of day.

It is absolutely appalling that community colleges like OCC get dragged through the mud not only by strangers but by their o w n s t u -d e n t s . C o m -m u n i t y c o l l e g e s might be s tep-ping-stones for other insti-tutions but they shouldn’t be stepped on.

The educational landscape has changed. Community colleges aren’t laughable anymore, they’re practical.

Schools like OCC do get you places, and students should re-member that when peeling open those acceptance letters.

In retrospect OCC, was a small detour in my educational plan. But it was one that was well worth taking.

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Finding some sense in successAlmost ev-

eryone has a passion they want to pur-sue, but the real question i s w h y w e o f t e n p u s h t h o s e p a s -sions aside in the name of being realis-tic.

People tend to go toward what is, in a sense, the money making job, in the hopes of mak-ing good money and then later on turning their attention toward their passion.

The problem with that is most of the people that do end up making good money, ignore their dreams, or put what they

are passionate for in the “some-day” file and forget about it.

A lot of times college stu-dents get nervous and frustrated with choosing their major, one day they want to become artists and the next they want to go to medical school.

I have been the struggling stu-dent, contemplating this as well. In my Psychology 100 class I learned that it is completely natural to be confused, be-cause this is the time where people are trying on differ-ent roles and seeing what fits them the most.

We all know money is one of our prime motivations in life because it provides wants and necessities, but it has been a scientific fact that if you take a random sampling of people and ask them if money can give

them happiness most will say it cannot.

If people tell you that follow-ing your passion isn’t going to bring you enough money t o b e a h a p p y ,

grounded individ-ual, they are mistaken.

As long as a person puts

absolute effort in their work, and they are 100 percent cer-tain that what they are doing is what they are passionate for and

what they are good at, then that person

can be making more money

than a per-son that h i g h l y dislikes t h e i r job.

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anyone con-vince you that

pursuing your pas-sion is not practical, be-

cause passion is what brings sense and importance to your

life.

RanaGhiassiStaff Writer

What has been your experience with classes ending early?

Handling a state budget worth billions of dollars is a task that ought to be carried out with, at best, extreme c y n i c i s m . Shockingly, Gov. Moon-b e a m w a s caugh t o ff -guard by reality when his naive optimism led to a rosy predic-tion of a $9.2 billion deficit that, in actuality, is $15.7 billion. Brown proposes to tem-porarily increase sales tax state-wide by a quarter-cent. Yes, the California state gov-ernment, well-known for ter-rible financial management, rigid unionization and run-away welfare, will impose a temporary tax. That’s less realistic than, say, a com-pletely unforeseen $6.5 billion increase in the state deficit.

The sales tax increase will be accompanied by a tax on the affluent. Those making over $250,000 a year will be sub-ject to a increased income tax, which is also “temporary.”

What’s worse, the tax in-come that is generated will, based on precedent, be spent frivolously without thought f o r t h e c o n s e q u e n c e s . Education, suffering as it is, should take some further cuts. The money available will have to be spent judiciously. For example, hypothetical district administrators should not re-ceive hypothetical salary in-creases while hypothetical cuts are made almost everywhere else in a hypothetical district. Debates can be had over whether or not the system would pay for itself in time, but in the present, it’s a moot point. The money for it is simply not avail-able, and indefinitely putting it on hold would give the legisla-ture more room to breathe.

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“It’s the best days of my life.” “They don’t let us out early that much. We come here to go to school, so we should stay

in class until it’s over.”

“I rarely get let out early but when I do it give me more time to catch up and finish

the assignments that day.”

“I’ve had some classes that let out early, like night classes. As long as you get the knowledge for the class it’s okay to cut it

short.”

“I’ve only been let out early a couple of times. It’s kind of nice. It depends on the class,

if it’s boring it feels good.”

AB IMO PECTORE

Brian Collard Staff Writer

What has been your experience with classes ending early?

Honor comes with successDear Editor,

The spring semester is almost at an end and many students are about to make the transition to uni-versities, some close to home and others hundreds of miles away.

The Honors Program has read-ied many students for this shift through the rigorous courses, headed by brilliant professors who see the vast potential in each student, and through leadership opportunities like the Honors Student Council.

Honor students look, eat, and sleep like ordinary people, yet within them is the desire to suc-ceed and persevere to be the greatest people they can be. Their courage and determination is contagious, helping each other focus on their goals, which at first

seemed so unattainable but now are so frighteningly close.

Meet an Honor student and you will see not only the hope in their eyes, but also the will to conquer great academic heights, having no boundaries for their success.

For a whole year I have sat with students in the Honors Student Council and have listened to the ideas and events that they have proposed, amazed at how much can be accomplished when there are many with the same drive and motivation to give back to their school and community.

Teresa Scarbrough, our advisor and Honors Office Coordinator, has given us inspiration and the wisdom that integrity shall never be lost no matter what, since that is what truly defines one as a great student.

The Honor students of Orange Coast College have put in the ef-fort and now know that with dedi-cation and the desire for excellence nothing is impossible. With their integrity and good will they will mold our world into something beautiful and powerful, spreading knowledge and pride wherever their paths lead.

I congratulate each honor stu-dent that is transferring this year and I thank you for spreading your courage, pride, and most of all the will to maintain your integrity. You have shown us there is nothing that cannot be achieved. Once again, congratulations and good luck on your journey to success.

Maxwell PedrozaStudent

final countdownIt is the time

of year that many students discover that there are actu-ally words print-ed inside their textbooks and caffeine sales skyrocket.

Finals.Just the mere

mention of the word is enough to send shivers down your spine.

There is something frightening about it. It just sounds so, well, fi-nal. No more chances to bring your grade up, no more trying to think of excuses to give your teacher for not turning in homework. It’s just over.

Finals are kind of like a near-death experience, except it is your future and not your past flashing before your eyes.

Few tests have such an impact on your future. In some cases that one test can mean the dif-ference between passing and having to take the class over next semester.

It is an immense amount of pressure but when you really think about it, what’s the worst that could happen? You bomb the final, fail the class, are unable to transfer, you get discouraged and drop out of school and end up working at McDonalds the rest of your life. That’s not so bad right? They have great French fries.

That may be a little extreme but, that seems to be my thought process whenever I hear that “F” word mentioned.

The one thing I want to avoid is being completely unprepared. There is nothing worse than read-ing the first question of a test and instead of the answer coming

to mind you realize, “Yup, just as I suspected. I’m screwed.” People all seem to have their different ways of getting through this difficult time, whether it be gorging on junk food, getting drunk, taking bubble baths whilst listening to Kenny G and burning insense, or just simply crying in a corner somewhere. I just want you to know whatever you decide I will not judge you.

I personally just try to think about other things when I start panicking about the future or feeling burned out from study-ing. I tell myself no matter what happens I will be at the beach soon and won’t have a care in the world.

So in the next week or so when it’s two in the morning and you feel like you have hit the wall, just remember this too shall pass. And hopefully so will you.

The pitfalls of early exits

In one of my classes, a student re-p o r t e d o u r teacher to the dean for let-ting us out of class early.

Our class is a night class that is sup-posed to go until 7:30 p.m. and we usually were let out around 6:45 p.m. If our teacher was done cover-ing the material.

I think it should be up to the teacher whether or not he or she can end class early.

As long as all the material is being covered and you are learning, then I don’t see what the big deal is.

I have a high B in the class, and it is definitely not my best subject, as a matter of fact one semester I failed it.

Our teacher is very thor-ough with examples, and when he let us out early he would say during every class “If you have any questions stick around so we can talk about it.”

It isn’t as if he was the first one gone. He always made it

very clear that we could leave, but he would stay to help us if we needed it.

My only two theories are ei-ther the student lives far away, or the student isn’t doing well in the class.

As for living far away, I guess there isn’t much you can do about that other than taking an online class or going to a dif-ferent school.

But as I said before, the teacher stays after, so if the stu-dent really didn’t want to leave right then they could stay after class and work with him.

If the student is doing poorly in the class, they can still stay after and get help.

They can also go to the Student Success Center for tutoring and extra help in the class.

I understand that when I signed up for the class, I was supposed to stay until the class let out, and I don’t care if I have to stay if I am actually learning.

But what is my teacher go-ing to do if he covers all the material and we still have 30 minutes of class left?

I could be going home but thanks to an anonymous per-

Faced with the stress of finishing my general educa-tion and mov-ing to a four-year college, a realization that California may irreper-ably broken has finally set in, making this student ready to, “say good rid-dance California.”

Starting with our state’s sub-par K-12 education system, many students realize they are in for a struggle but moreso when students enter the community col-lege system they begin to realize just how broken our system is.

Students in the community college system, including here at Coast, are constantly dealing with classes being cut, waitlists, and the impossibilty of getting counseling appointments.

This trend continues once a student transfers to a Cal State. OCC is the CSU’s number one feeder school but we are being fed into a mess perhaps bigger than the one we are in now.

Transferring to a Cal State or even a UC is no longer an escape from the broken community col-lege system, rather it is a lesser of two evils that is able to grant you a four-year degree if you happen to be one of the lucky 13 percent at Cal State Long Beach or the 16 percent at Cal State Fullerton that graduate each year.

California has many great fea-tures when it comes to education, for example computer science and engineering are two great subjects to come to California to study for but for other areas of study like business or journal-ism leaving the Golden State for school’s on the East Coast, Pacific Northwest or the midwest might be more practical.

Students are now going on hunger strikes and starving them-selves in order to bring atten-tion to how bad our system has become. Rather than give up my Chipotle burrito, I’d rather head off to Washington, Texas or North Carolina.

Although the weather is great, education costs are still relatively low and California has a more

open and liberal way of life. With that said, be careful.

Although California is econim-cally unstable, states like Nevada, Florida and Michigan are making our state look good.

The states who have suffered the least are North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, and Nebraska. While they may not have the best educational alternative but keeping your options open and looking outside California is something everyone should do.

One other method of schooling yourself without dealing with the flawed CSU or UC system is to attend a private school like Chapman. While schools like Chapman are expensive looking for scholarships and grants and applying for student loans may

be enough to you to get into a school that does not see you as just a number.

Avoid scams like the Art In-stitutes and the University of Phoenix type schools that offer you easy admission but then al-low you to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans only to find out that a degree from their will not get you a job that will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then you are in debt forever and your credit rating is dinged.

Education is the most impor-tant stepping stone to success, coupled with experience, it will bring a job you will want, but you have to keep your options open and consider escaping this disaster of an education system we have in California.

Abandon ship: California’s education system can’t help students

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In the opening round of the 2012 Southern California Super Region-als, the Pirates took charge against the Cypress Chargers, 3-0, on Fri-day at Wendell Pickens Field.

Keegan Yuhl (11-1), Orange Em-pire Conference Pitcher of the Year, earned yet another win throwing eight shutout innings and giving up seven hits with no walks and three strikeouts.

“I felt pretty good. They’re a free-playing team and I knew I wasn’t going to get a lot of strike-outs against them so I just wanted to throw as many strikes and hope it fills up,” the 20-year-old undecided major said.

Charger pitcher Daniel Ponce-dele (5-5) gave up three runs as well as two errors on eight hits in eight innings, with two strikeouts and three walks. One of Poncedele’s runs came off of OCC’s Stefan Sabol who blasted a two-run home run, giving the Pirates a 2-0 lead.

The other Pirates’ run came off an error by Jonathan Torres in the bottom of the seventh when Chris Carlson hit an RBI single, allowing Joel Licon to score from first and bringing the score to 3-0. Bijan Rademacher closed the game, giv-ing the Pirates 3-0 win.

The following day after the win against Cypress, the Pirates (35-4-1) surmounted Mt. San Antonio (31-9), 5-0 in the championship semifinals.

Standout Brandon Brennan (11-1) earned the win throwing eight solid innings, allowing no runs on seven hits with one walk and five strikeouts.

Between Yuhl and Brennan combined, they are 22-2 throwing a total of 139 strikeouts with a 1.53 ERA in 189 innings.

The first run of the game against Mt. Sac came off an RBI double by Carlson giving Licon the signal to go home and give the Pirates a 1-0 lead. After that, Rademacher hit an RBI single, allowing Carlson to score for a 2-0 Pirate lead.

The following at bat came from Bryan Garza, who hit his first home run of the season and drove in two runs, making the score 4-0. The final run of the Pirates came off a throwing error by the Mounties Robert Mier allowing Austin Wo-brock to score, 5-0.

Then came the Super Regional championship between Orange Coast(35-5-1) and the Glendale Vaqueros (29-11). The Vaqueros earned the championship spot af-ter defeating Cypress, 5-4, with a grand slam by Adam Ochart.

Still, all the Pirates needed to do was come up with at least one win in a possible doubleheader, earning them a spot in the State Final Four for the first time since 2009.

In the opening game, the Pirates lost 6-3. The only runs that came from the Pirates were Boog Powell, Garza and Trent Woodward. Still, with the Pirates in a deep hole, they were able to bounce back with an impressive 16-1 win over the Va-queros in game two.

“It was a kind of a heart breaker the first game, but the second game was more of a sign of relief since our offensive got going,” head coach John Altobelli said. “My story to them was what happened back in 2009 on championship day in which we lost the first game in extra innings in 100 degree weather in Fresno and the guys battled back and pulled it off.”

Eric Salcido (3-1) threw five shutout innings, earning the win

and allowing only two hits with four walks and three strikeouts. Andrew Bynum followed Salcido’s hot start throwing for three in-nings and giving up the Vaquero’s only run due to a wild pitch and a grounder that turned into a RBI for Chris Stroh.

The Pirates controlled the over-all outcome of the game scoring 16 runs off of 13 hits. Standouts Rademacher and Sabol helped out offensively earning half of the team’s total RBIs, 8.

Rademacher went 2 for 5, scor-ing two runs as well as five RBIs.

One of Rademacher’s many high-lights included him hitting a grand slam at the bottom of the fifth, putting the Pirates ahead 8-0. As for Sabol, he went 2 for 3, scoring four runs along with three RBIs. He also hit a three-run home run which put the Pirates up 11-1.

“The first game we thought we were going to roll through them, but Salcido stepped up pretty big and he gave us a chance to do what we do on offense and just relax and do some damage,” 20-year-old com-puter science major Rademacher said. “I’m happy about our team’s performance. I did what I had to do to win the game and when I hit the grand slam I knew we were pretty much going to win the game.”

The Pirates (36-5-1) enter the State Final Four as the No.1 seed in Southern California and will play against Sierra College (25-15-1) on Friday at noon. The other Final Four matchup will be between Rio Hondo (38-3), the No. 2 seed in the South and Cosumnes River (25-16), No. 7 seed in the North at 6 p.m.

The State Final Four will be held Friday through Sunday at Bakers-field College.

BY PATRICK PHAMSTAFF WRITER

Photo courtesy of Orange Coast CollegeOrange Coast College’s baseball team celebrates after the weekend’s win. The team will head to the state finals.

Orange Coast College base-ball coach John Altobelli has been named the Orange Empire Conference’s Male-Sport Coach of the Year, as voted on by con-ference administrators at their annual OEC Meeting in Palm Springs.

“It’s quite an honor,” the 20-year Pirate head coach said. “It’s always nice to be recognized by your peers for the work you’ve been doing — especially when

they work just as hard. We’ve had quite a remarkable season and hopefully, it will continue for another couple of weeks.”

Altobelli was awarded the OEC Baseball Coach of the Year for the fifth time in his career as he led the Pirates to their first outright conference title since 1987.

The 2011-12 school year wasn’t an easy for “Alto” who underwent open heart surgery on Dec. 15. Despite the life-chang-

ing procedure, it’s been business as usual for Altobelli. He wanted to have his surgery in mid-De-cember so he wouldn’t miss any of his classes, baseball practices or games.

Just 19 days after his surgery, Altobelli was back at practice with his team and both he and the Pirates have been rolling ever since.

— From Campus Reports

Altobelli named Male-Sport Coach of the Year

“It was kind of a heart breaker the first game, but the second game was more of a sign of relief since our offensive got going.

John AltobelliHead Coach