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Learning Resource Center tutoring reported a dra-matic increase in students serviced and enrolled in the tutoring program over the last year in a presentation given to the Board of Trustees April 28 at Saddleback College.
“Tutoring is vital to students for a few reasons,” said Christina Hinkle, a faculty tutorial specialist with the LRC Tutoring Program. “It really prepares the students and allows them to interact with the faculty in a relaxed setting.”
From fall 2012 to fall 2013, the number of students enrolled in the LRC’s tutoring class increased from 2,292 to 3,243, an increase of 41 percent. Student hours served also increased from 25,067 hours served in fall 2012 to 51, 879 hours in fall 2013, an increase of 106 percent.
“It’s an immense program and it’s growing,” Hinkle said.
Along with the increase in student hours, the tutor-ing program has also increased the amount of faculty available.
“We now have a faculty member available during every hour of tutoring,” she said.
The inclusion of more faculty members has allowed for new classes such as Crunch Time, a special tutor-ing session designed to get students ready for finals and important exams. Increased faculty participation also helped spur new ideas and creative thinking within the program.
“The faculty bring with them these new ideas. I’ve been here 28 years and these last two years I’ve been amazed,” said Patty Weekes, director of LRC Tutoring. “Usually during crunch time we’re all freaking out. It’s so amaazing to walk in during crunch time and see all the students and faculty working together.”
While normal students are a priority, student ath-letes are also assisted through their own unique pro-gram. The Program Assisting Student-Athlete Success
(PASS) was created not only to have open study and tutoring hours for all athletes, but to improve their self-confidence and preparation.
“We’re fighting on two fronts,” said Hinkle. “I’ve seen a dramatic change in our students. Not only are they not prepared, they also lack the confidence.”
Since the creation of the PASS program, 40 percent of all student athletes made the honor roll in fall 2013, the highest in any year of Saddleback’s history. Hinkle credits it to how a community has formed around the tutoring program.
“It’s really turned into an authentic learning com-
munity,” Hinkle said.The Board of Trustees reacted favorably to the pre-
sentation and the results, with Trustee Timothy Jemal stating that he’s “a big believer in tutoring.”
However, for the program to succeed, funding is es-sential. Hinkle reiterated that point in the meeting.
“Money. Money to expand the supplemental in-struction in science, math and basic English programs,” she said. “Online tutoring as well.”
Enrollment in the Tu300 class is required to receive tutoring from the LRC, and students can enroll at any time during the school year.
Laziness and a lack of self-ef-ficacy are two reasons why people do not exercise much, according to UC Irvine doctor-al student Svetlana Bershadsky during PsychWeek, May 1 at Saddleback College.
The talk was designed to examine “the psychological in-fluences in exercise,” and why people do not exercise despite knowing the health benefits.
“Physical inactivity has been identified as a health risk,” he said. “The Department of Health released guidelines for physical activity. It includes one hour or more of physical activity, three days a week.”
Bershadsky’s research sug-gests that these guidelines are not being met, especially by young people, and he claimed claimed that only 17 percent of adolescents and young people got one hour or more of physical activity three times a week.
Bershadsky’s research also suggests that while exercise and physical activity improves mood, relieves stress and helps self-esteem, people are dis-couraged from working out by scheduling conflicts, laziness, access to facilities and self-ef-ficacy. She added that the last element is key.
Self-efficacy is the state where a person knows they can accomplish a goal or complete a task. Bershadsky’s research studied this, as well as psy-chological “effect,” in order to determine how people’s psy-chological states affected their willingness to be physically ac-tive.
One theory brought up was the Theory of Planned Behavior, suggesting that attitudes toward behaviors, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control all factor into whether or not some-one will exercise.
Bershadsky, along with a team of experts from UCI, did two studies gauging exercise and psychological affect. In both studies, subjects felt better when exercising as opposed to staying inactive. However, most of the test subjects either did not continue to exercise over long periods of time or stopped par-ticipating in the study.
Bershadsky attributes this to habits and subjects not being monitored when they exercised at home.
“We lost a lot of participants when they worked out at home. Many of them were not exer-cising at all, or gave incorrect data,” Bershadsky said.
She also attributed this to people’s dispositions.
“There’s research to suggest that how we are feeling during exercise, relates to our disposi-tion,” she said. “What’s missing in the research, so far, is whether or not your affect is stable over-time.”
Bershadsky recommended that positive reinforcement for physical activity came at an ear-ly stage in order to create hab-its that were beneficial to one’s physical and mental health.
“We need to provide the nec-essary equipment and encour-agement,” Bershadsky said.
Reasons behindsedentary habitsdiscussed
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Orange County Social Entrepreneurship Competition reaches out to the international community to solve the world’s social problems
The Orange County Social En-trepreneurship Competition Showcase finalists will be pre-senting their sustainable busi-
ness plans to the public at the UC Irvine on May 10 at 9:30 a.m.
Finalists were chosen May 2 with applicants from nine countries, 13 states and over 30 cities in California.
“Social entrepreneurship is so im-portant because generating sustainable businesses that do social good often end up needing donations. Everybody is begging for the same finite pot of money. This is about businesses with their own profits not worrying about philanthropy and donations,” Dr. Scott Frederickson, executive director of the Entrepreneur-ship & Innovation Learning Center at Saddleback College, said.
The competition allows the interna-tional community to pitch sustainable business ideas with a motive for social change. Based off the Michigan En-trepreneurship Challenge, Saddleback College organized and administered the Orange County competition and opened it to communities internationally. This is the first time the Social Entrepreneur-ship Competition has been done on an international level.
“There are so many reasons to be excited. First is that we get to find new ways to solve social problems. We should utilize the free market in our dem-ocratic system and look at the power of free market and business knowledge to help solve problems,” Saddleback Col-lege President Todd Burnett said. “This is a great opportunity and the chance of a lifetime. We encourage everyone to come forward with ideas. These busi-
nesses could have lasting ramifica-tions for people, issues and the economy.”
Fredrickson has been working on the showcase for three months.
“We’re trying to be a leader in the so-cial entrepreneurship movement. The new way to look at business plans is for the triple bottom line. The first bottom line is to make a profit. The second is to ask what are you doing for people. The third is what is the business do-ing for the environment,” Fredrickson said. “All plans have to have a social aspect. Think of all the social issues - homelessness, hunger, women sex trade, veteran unemployment. What issue is the business going to solve and can they make it sustainable”
According to the Stanford Social In-novation Review 2013 www.ssireview.org, “The social entrepreneur is a te-nacious leader with a pragmatic vision and a solution that address a clear social problem. Social entrepreneurs address systems — not just the symptoms of a problem they seek to address, and their business model prioritizes social impact while generating a sustainable funding stream.”
Saddleback has also opened and en-trepreneurship center which hosts class-es, seminars and resources available to the community. The classes are a part of the Community Education program in response to community needs.
“We are setting up the center to help people figure out how to open a business and be socially sustainable,” Fredrick-son said. “Many people don’t know how to setup a business, we want to open up community outreach. Many services
will be free. People can come for re-search and figure out new opportunities to start a business.”
For more information visit www.en-trepreneurship.saddleback.edu
Michael Horrell, 26, civil engineering major helps his friend Peter Laurente, 26, kinesiology major, prepare for his algebra exam in the LRC at Saddleback College.
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The proposed public safety camera system board policy was approved unanimously during the Saddleback College Academic Senate meeting on April 16.
During the discussion of the camera system, the meeting attendees discussed the pos-sibility of an advisory board who would monitor the sys-tems, however moved forward with the policy that would be enforced for the whole South Orange County Community College District.
According to the written policy, “these cameras can be used for detecting and deterring crime, to help safeguard against potential threats to the public, to help manage emergency re-sponse situations during natural and man-made disasters and to assist District officials in pro-viding services to the college community.”
Academic Senate Past Presi-dent Bob Cosgrove said during the meeting that any addition of a campus camera system should be mentioned in the Stu-dent Handbook.
Although the board policy is just now becoming written, there are already 47 camer-as located on the Saddleback campus. According to Chief of Police Christopher Wilkinson, however, no more cameras are to be installed or changes made
until the board policy is offi-cially approved.
“It’s a policy we’ve always had in law enforcement, so we’ve been abiding by this,” Chief of Police Christopher Wilkinson said. “They’re using our existing policy that both police departments have had for awhile. It’s fair and equi-table, and now we have some-thing in writing.”
The cameras are Advidia IP video cameras from Video In-sight, a company used by vari-ous other universities as well as K-12 schools. Saddleback was a case study for Video Insight, having had no public camera system prior.
The cameras are not mon-itored 24/7 and are activated solely by movement. Only Wilkinson and ITs have access to downloading the raw foot-age. Other police staff can view the footage and print still shots based on the procedures and policies in place.
“The public safety cameras has been a solution on univer-sities and schools K-12 for a decade plus -- it’s been quite common,” Wilkinson said. “After the Sandy Hook inci-dent, there’s a more heightened awareness so as a group -- when I say group, as a college team, everybody, regardless of title -- we needed another tool to en-hance or ability to respond and get an idea of what’s going on the campus to enhance safety.”
There are multiple types of
cameras available from Video Insight, some even having au-dio ability. The Advidia A-44 IR camera has two-way audio ability when manually turned on. Currently there are five A-44 IR cameras on campus located near some of the main public doors of the buildings.
During the Academic Sen-ate meeting, some concerns arose about the placement of the cameras and the necessity of them.
“There are some campus security issues and there are some Big Brother issues,” Scott Fredrickson, business/entrepre-neurship instructor, said.
Academic Senate President Dan Walsh assured the place-ment of the cameras to be only in public places of the campus, not found in classrooms or of-fices so as to not disrupt the Fourth Amendment.
“This solution is the most advanced technology now in the market, so it’s kind of ex-citing because we’re able to come in here and take the latest working state-of-the-art tech-nology that’s all brand new,” Wilkinson said.
With concerns arising about campus safety during school hours and after, the campus police department brought a presentation about the imple-mentation of a public safety camera system to the Board of Trustees. Wilkinson brought up the idea after having worked in other districts that already
carry the public safety camera systems.
“I’ve been having cameras for 10 years at other districts, and so we’re just now catching up,” Wilkinson said. “It’s nice that we get newer technology.”
The first tested area with the cameras was the Child Devel-opment Center that has 17 of the cameras.
“We met with the director, we met with the staff, we go, ‘What do you need? Tell us how you want this solution to work.’ We literally walked the buildings and we said, ‘We can take this technology and put it here and you’ll be able to get this,’” Wilkinson said. “It takes a lot of work and planning on paper so the cameras overlap.”
The overlapping of cameras is used to assure a 360-degree view of the public areas, creat-ing a safer environment without any hidden crevices, according to Wilkinson.
Having gotten a good re-sponse from those in the Child Development Center and visi-tors of the center, the cameras have made way through cam-pus, being used for multiple problems that may arise.
The cameras have so far al-ready assisted in the shooter ex-ercise that was held as well as a mental health issue, said the report put out by Video Insight after the case study was com-plete.
The systems are being used for a variety of things, such as
traffic concerns/accidents, me-chanical safety issues, emer-gency management, etc.
“It’s not just the solution of enhanced personal safety for the students and faculty,”
Wilkinson said. “If there’s a major incident, we can look at the cameras and decide how we’re going to respond to that incident.”
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Observing: An Advidia IP video camera outside the LRC stairwell, one of the 47 cameras on campus
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21-year-old student wins a prestigious award
We like to make examples of our students at Saddleback College. These examples vary widely across the spec-trum, but without a doubt the fact remains that our body of scholars are always offering new and compelling stories to follow or catalogue.
Saddleback College Hon-ors Student Daisy Bautista has drawn the attention of her peers and professors during her pursuit of higher learning. She meets us in the cafeteria above the school store where we pass her colleagues who flag her down to say hello.
The 21-year-old American history major has established herself as a leader amongst peers. With such topics as the ‘origins of the double-stan-dard found in ancient Aztecs’, to the ‘development of fem-ininity in gang culture,’ her research work has been fea-tured in conferences held at UC Irvine where faculty and students alike have come to appreciate her findings.
So much so that Bautista has been awarded the pres-tigious Juan Lara Scholar-ship by the University of Ir-vine. The scholarship awards $2,500 for demonstrating exemplary academic partici-pation as well as outreach in state-sponsored programs.
Bautista’s family is from Michoacán, Mexico. She and her siblings pave the frontier in education for generations to come, particularly for Aaron, her three-year-old son.
“My son is my main pri-ority,” Bautista said. “I want teach him to read and write. I want to get him in preschool while he’s three, but he’s gotta be potty trained first!”
Beyond the Honors Trans-fer Council of California (HTCC), Bautista is also a member of Phi Theta Kappa, a community geared toward the excellence of two-year students. She also maintains her role of co-vice president of Fellowship in the Beta-Ep-silon-Beta chapter of Saddle-back College.
During crunch time she can be found at the tutoring center in the LRC, or meeting with professors during office hours.
“I want students to know
there should be no limitations. For them to take advantage of Saddleback’s resources and the tutoring center especially, for things like math and En-glish,” Bautista said.
Bautista’s affinity for edu-cation started early in life, go-ing back to her days in middle school.
“All of this really started at my middle school, Shore Cliffs, when I got involved in the Advancement Via Indi-vidual Determination (AVID) program,” Bautista said. “Ba-sically, it’s for students who don’t have that orientation or what classes to take. All they know is that [they are] de-termined and want to go to a four-year university.”
Bautista’s commitment to grade school honors programs continues today. She oversees the promotion of honor pro-grams in high schools as proj-ect chair through outreach and campus events like club rush.
“As a first generation stu-dent, I know it can be chal-lenging to know what steps come next,” Bautista said.
Daisy carries heavy re-sponsibilities, as well as a work load that demands a strong level of time manage-ment. Despite these challeng-es, Daisy does not come off as the hermit book hauler many perceive honor students to be.
She has a sunny disposition on her projects and deals with the stress through admirable positivity.
“Don’t get me wrong, it’s difficult. You have these as-signments and I get kinda
scared, like ‘I really don’t wanna do this,’’ Bautista said. “So what I do, it’s pretty cheesy, I have this board, and will write stuff out like ‘I can do this…I’m having fun…’ I have to mentally prepare my-self.”
Through Bautista’s work we see that higher learning programs aren’t the nightmare that people make them out to be. In fact it’s understandable to hear these acronyms and organizations like HTCC, Phi Theta Kappa, WRHC; only to be turned away by the infor-mation over-load. However, these Honors Societies can offer a world of professional opportunities and resources to succeed. Priority registration, exclusive study rooms, special transfer center counseling, smaller classes and enhanced preparation for upper division work are merely a few perks.
“It’s all about action” Bau-tista said. “You can’t be afraid to make mistakes. It should be normal for you to make mis-takes. To have a growth mind-set, intelligence and skill are not fixed.”
Bautista will be transfer-ring to UCI, where she will finish her degree in pre-pro-gressive American history, and soon afterwards tackle law school at her choice of Irvine or UCLA. She wishes to become a public defender, working to represent under-privileged juveniles dealing with the justice system.
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HONORS: Daisy Bautista (left) with fellow honors student and Phi Theta Kappa member, Susan Cane.
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IVC theatre students preview the dramedy “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Thursday at 8 p.m. in the studio theatre.
The play illustrates the main character’s journey with a greyscale set.
“It’s really difficult to paint color in a world of grey, and that’s what McMurphy is trying to do,” said Bonnie Dolan, 23-year-old Theatre major. “He’s trying to push back against her control. It’s a great visual representation of the story.”
Based on the 1962 novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest follows rogue Patrick McMurphy and the other inmates who suffer under the authoritarian Nurse Ratched.
“The greyscale is a cool choice for the show because it really perfectly illustrates the opressiveness with which Nurse Ratched runs the ward,” Dolan said. “Everything is grey, so ev-erything’s the same, monotonous, controlled environment for the patients.”
IVC students have been preparing and rehearsing for six months to perfect their roles.
The show will officially open Friday at 8 p.m. and continue through May.
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TEA POT #1: Saddleback student Lucy E. Patton creates this ceramic piece using clay and mixed-
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• Strawberry shortcake will be served in bowls made by fine art stu-dents and faculty today from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the fine arts courtyard. • The Department of Theatre Arts will pres-ent a musical theatre showcase at 5 p.m. in the fine arts courtyard. • Art talk “Auction Houses, Galleries, and Museums: Art History at Work”, will be given by faculty members Dr. Patricia Levin and Dr. Deborah Solon at 6 p.m. in FA 202.• The Angels for the Arts will host a recep-tion with champagne and dessert at 6 p.m. before the Angels Scholarship and Trans-fer Recognition Recital in the McKinney The-atre at 7 p.m.
• Student art displays will will be presented at the Shops at Mission Viejo on the lower-lev-el near H&M and Old Navy from noon - 4 p.m. and will include City of Mission Viejo Artists’ Workshops for Kids.
• Speech and debate students will perform at the speech showcase in the Fine Arts courtyard at noon. • Award-winning comedy All in the Timing will be performed in the Studio Theatre at 7:30 p.m. • The Commercial Music Ensemble, Saddleback’s newest addition to the music department, will perform classic rock, folk, hip-hop, and origi-nal compositions in the McKinney Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
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• A Chamber Music Per-formance will be held in the McKinney Theatre at 9 a.m.• The Printmaking WoodBlock event will be held in the fine arts courtyard at 7:30 p.m. Students will be able to carve a block of wood for free to take home with them. • Saddleback’s Wind Ensemble performs in the McKinney theatre at 7:30 p.m.
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RECLINING FIGURE - MUSIC: Saddleback student M. Jayne Cohen’s sculpture created with clay.
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NUMBER 7 OF 8: Saddleback student George Kornivsky creates a sculpture and ceramic piece.
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Saddleback student athletes earn a higher GPA than full-time studentsSuccess throughout student athletics have become more strict Saddleback College but produce positive numbers to show success in program
All community college student athlete trans-fers enrolled since the 2012-13 academic year are now held to the National Collegiate Athletic Association requirement of at least a 2.5 grade point average.
According to recent statistics from a 2014 press release by the Saddleback Athletics Office Saddleback says that since 2008 student athletes who are also full-time athletes have earned an average 2.75 GPA.
“Our initial drive or proponent behind provid-ing this information was to show the community that student athletes in particular regardless of their ethnicity are more successful in the class-room as well as on the field because there is also a misnomer out there, ‘those stupid jocks don’t know anything, all you know is how to play bas-ketball,’” said Senior Administrative Assistant Jess Perez. “That’s just not true especially at this level, I don’t know what it’s like coming out of high school but the first thing that happens when they get to this level especially here at Saddle-back we are constantly pushing them you that you a are a student first before you are an athlete, student athlete. So you got to do the job in the classroom and the caveat to that is if you don’t, you can’t play sports.”
Saddleback College student athletes on aver-age earn the highest GPA on campus while also earning the most term units per semester, accord-
ing to the press release. Since 2008 when students athlete education-
al statistics started to be studied by staff of the Division of Kinesiology and Athletics at Saddle-back, student athletes at Saddleback earn on av-erage .06 points higher than that of regular full-time students.
“80 percent success rate as far as students transferring out of Saddleback to four-year uni-versities, that number is still accurate,” Perez said. “What that is based on, this is based on data that is collected by the district, our district level.”
Compared to full-time students and all part-time students attending Saddleback, stu-dent athletes have the largest success rate transferring to a four-year univer-sity with the nec-essary amount of units to transfer.
“This is kind of comparing students athletes versus the other stu-dents and their ethnicity, so you can see in every single area we are right at or higher than the av-erage student here,” Perez said.
Although Saddleback student athletes are ethnically diverse, ethnicity isn’t a factor in de-termining the success rate of one athlete versus another.
The only students who are full-time that earn higher grades than student athletes are Asian stu-dents who earn about three percent of a higher
success rate.According to the student success scorecard,
75.8 percent of Asian students successfully transfer -- 17.6 percent more students than the second highest ethnic group.
However, student athletes who are Asian earn a higher GPA than those Asian students who are only full-time students. Student athletes of all genders and ethnicities earn higher GPA’s than those students who are strictly full-time.
“There is a misnomer out there for a lot of the kids out there who think, ‘Oh, I’m going to be the next Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant or whatever,’ playing basket-ball or football and when they start to see their dreams fall apart they got nothing to go back to. So that’s kind of where that be-
gins, is teaching at a elementary, middle school then high school level, education, education, ed-ucation, and so now there is some data to support that. There’s been a couple generations who have come through the community college level, so I think that was a big proponent,” said Perez.
Saddleback College Athletics also offers the Program Assisting Student-Athlete Success pro-gram which is based out of Saddleback’s Learn-ing Resource Center. It provides students with free tutoring Monday through Friday.
Any students at Saddleback are able to use the LRC, it is not only limited to athletes or priority students.
The LRC is open to students from 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. (Monday - Thursday) and 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. (Friday).
All students have to do is login on Mysite, the school’s class registration program, and enroll in tutoring programs.
Although student athletes at Saddleback are priority students who qualify for priority regis-tration, they do not have priority over students for getting tutoring in the LRC.
“Simply looking at overall graduates who leave here with or without an actual degree, you can complete your degree requirements but not actually receive your degree here, you have that option as a student,” Perez said. “Whether they applied for and actually received the degree or whether they just completed the degree require-ments at the community college level. It still ap-plies, they’re still moving on they’re still trans-ferring so that’s the data thats looked at, that’s recorded and then collected and provided to us.”
Saddleback College out of all other California Community Colleges ranks in the 10 percentile in transferring students to University of Califor-nia and in the top 25 percentile transferring to California State Universities.
Saddleback has transferred students to 104 four-year universities after they met their trans-ferable requirements.
According to the student success scorecard, approximately 57 percent of Saddleback stu-dents successfully transfer.
“Education is the pathway to success, sports can be also but you need something to rely on to fall back on if sports don’t work,” Perez said.
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According to Saddlebackgauchos.com the lady Gauchos softball team swept through a best-of-three series, 2-0, against East Los An-geles College during the Southern California Regional Playoffs, Saturday and Sunday at Monterey Park.
Saddleback (26-14) beat East LA (29-10) in nine innings, 5-4 on Saturday after Sarah DiTommaso successfully hit a pinch hit home run over the center field fence.
The Huskies had a second chance on Sun-day but the Gauchos were able to, again, over-come their opponent, 3-2 to move on to Cy-press College (30-12) for the Super Regional Tournament this upcoming Friday.
The Gauchos now 27-14 will face Cypress College, who they have defeated two times this season with one loss, away at Cypress in the Super Regionals, in a four-team tournament. Mt. San Antonio College (33-8) and College of the Desert (36-6) will be the other two
teams facing each other.Contact Assistant Athletic Director and
Sports Information Director Jerry Hannula at (949) 582-4490 or go onto saddlebackgau-chos.com for more information.
Saddleback College’s Athletic Department will be hosting their 12th annual fundraising golf tournament at Tijeras Creek Golf Club in Rancho Santa Margarita, 12:30 p.m., May 29.
There will be an early bird special pricing of $175 per person before May 16 and $200 after May 16.
There is also a early bird foursome price of $700 before May 16 and after $800. The four-somes will be played in a four-man Scramble format.
Check in starts at 10:30 a.m. and shotgun start goes off at 12:30 p.m.
After the outing is over, social hour starts at 5:30 p.m. followed by a dinner and prize draw-ings at 6:30 p.m.
If there is a rain out, dinner and a prize cer-emony will still held at the Tijeras Creek Golf Club. A $50 portion of your entry fee will be donated to the Saddleback College Foundation.
For more information or questions contact Jerry Hannula at (949) 582-4490.
12th annual golf fundraiser for Saddleback College FoundationEarly bird specials, four-man Scramble format, rain or shine events will be hosted at Tijeria Creek Golf Club
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Simply looking at over-all graduates who leave here with or without an
actual degree, you can com-plete your degree requirements but not actually receive your degree here, you have that op-tion as a student.”- Jess Perez, senior administrative
assistant for athletic office
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Lady Gauchos softball move on to Super Regionals
Saddleback sweeps Cypress (5-4, 3-2), in best-of-three Southern California Regional Ployffs tournament game
LINDSEy GOETSCH | LARIATSaddleback’s softball team take a 5-4, 3-2 best-of-three victory in the South-ern California Regional Playoffs against East Los Angeles College.
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Sep. 6: @ Cerritos 7 p.m. Sep. 13: Riverside 6 p.m. Sep. 20: El Camino 6 p.m.Sep. 27: Palomar * 6 p.m. @ Escondido High School
Oct. 4: Santa Ana
6 p.m.*
Oct. 11:@ Canyons6 p.m.
Oct. 18:@ Grossmont*1 p.m.
Oct. 25:Orange Coast*6 p.m.
Nov. 1: Fullerton*6 p.m.
Nov. 15:@GoldenWest*6 p.m.
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2014 Saddleback College Football Schedule
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Sep. 7 @ Mt. San Antonio W, 44-20 Oct. 5 @ Santa Ana * W, 21-15 Nov. 2 Palomar * W, 45-17 Nov. 23 Citrus L, 25-14Sep. 14 Canyons L, 31-28 Oct. 12 Ventura W, 52-28 Nov. 9 @ Grossmont * W, 53-42 Sep. 21 @ Riverside L, 38-31 Oct. 19 Fullerton * L, 48-44 Nov. 1 Golden West * L, 30-6
2013 Saddleback College Football Schedule and Results
