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February 16, 2011: Issue 4, Spring 2011. Lariat is the official student-run publication of the SOCCCD.
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Dengue Fever: Guest researcher lectures about virus. Page 2
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Saddleback College’s Associated Student Government is cur-rently negotiating with the district to
have two student trustee posi-tions on the board of trustees, opposed to one for both Saddle-back and Irvine Valley College.
Unnecessary issues broke out between Saddleback and IVC last semester over the one seat for the student trustee position, according to Melissa Fenerci, Saddleback’s ASG President.
“A candidate from IVC and Saddleback ends up running for the student trustee elections and one of the people win,” said Fenerci, 20, sociology. “It cre-ates competition that’s unwanted between the two sister colleges.”
Due to this reoccurring prob-lem throughout past elections, Saddleback’s ASG has decided to ask the district to handle the student trustee elections instead of Student Development.
“Student Development also handles the advisors for ASG,” Fenerci said. “They do what they can, but when there’s this kind of drama they can’t real-ly focus on us, or what they are supposed to be doing.”
Eve Shieh, current student trustee, represents both Saddle-back and IVC on the board of trustees. Shieh, 20, international relations, is a student from IVC and takes no classes at Saddle-back. Shieh believes that two stu-dent trustees would cause possi-ble conflict among the board of trustees.
“Having more than two [stu-dents] representing one from each school will create even more opinions about what is
brought up at the board meet-ings,” Shieh said. “Instead of having one unified opinion of a topic, there is a possibility of cre-ating conflict between multiple student members on the board.”
According to Tere Fluegeman, acting director of public affairs for SOCCCD, the student trust-ee policy has not yet gone before the trustees.
“The policy is being reviewed and discussed in the Board Pol-icy/Administrative Regula-tion (BP/AR) committee,” said Fluegeman. “It is anticipated that the committee may recom-mend an amended board policy in a future board meeting.”
Saddleback’s ASG hopes to gain more of an overall equal representation of students at both colleges.
“Our student cultures are so different that there’s no way that issues among both campuses can be represented equally,” Fener-ci said. “Just because we are in the same district, doesn’t mean our students at our colleges shouldn’t be represented equally and fairly.”
However, if the policy is not changed and one student contin-ues to represent both colleges, Shieh believes it would be bene-ficial for both colleges if the next student rep is a student at both campuses.
“I [think] it should be a re-sponsibility for the next student [trustee] to attend both colleges to get a good feel of the campus, as well as always being updated on what’s going on in each cam-pus,” Shieh said.
At this time, the college pres-idents have agreed to alternate years for the student trustee po-sition between Saddleback and IVC, according to Chancellor Gary Poertner. “The student
trustee needs to adequately rep-resent both ASGs,” Poertner said.
The policy is still seeking revi-sions by members of the BP/AR committee before it is addressed
by the board. “There is not necessarily a con-
flict going on, just a discussion regarding the current policy on student trustees.” Fluegeman said. “The board of trustees will
review the recommendation of the board policy committee in a future meeting.”
ASG, ASIVC seek to change student trustee policyKYLIE CORBETT
MCKENZIE SIXT
New clothes can now be add-ed to the list of reasons to re-cycle thanks to
the environmentally conscious company, SustainU Clothing.
This American compa-ny uses 100 percent recy-cled fibers to create apparel for the collegiate community.
SustainU established the Na-tional Collegiate Clothing Drive to bring clothes and proceeds to the those who need them most. This program will be taking place Feb. 21-23 in 44 states at over 150 schools.
Durign this three-day event, senators from Associated Stu-dent Government will distribute door hangers in their communi-ties asking people to leave out clothes for donations.
The donations will be pickd up by volunteers, weighed, and taken by Goodwill. Students are encouraged to participate as well.
Donation boxes can be found in the various senators offices in the SSC building.
According to their website, SustainU focuses creating sta-bility and awareness in a world filled with poverty, hunger, en-vironmental damage, economic fluctuations, and social unrest.
The idea that “oneSHIRT can change the world” is at the fore-front of the upcoming clothing drive.
Instead of being thrown away and contributing to the solid waste stream, “one old t-shirt or article of clothing, when donat-ed, can make a meaningful dif-ference to someone in need,” according to the SustainU Clothing website, http://www.sustainuclothing.com/.
However, some of you may not be ready to part with your most beloved Hudson Jeans or Forever 21 top.
Volunteering your time to pass out door hangers and col-lect the clothes is helpful to the program.
Another way to participate is by buying an official oneSHIRT campaign T-shirt from www.sustainuclothing.com. Proceeds from the purchase benefit Nuru International, a company work-ing to end extreme poverty around the world. http://www.nuruinternational.org/
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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STUDENT POLICY: Saddleback ASG president Melissa Fenerci, 20, sociology, believes that the stu-dent cultures at both campuses should be represented equally on the board of trustees.
Prayer in school: Should it be allowed on public school grounds? Page 4
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SAVING LIVES: The Orange County Fire Association recently gave a working ambulance for stu-dents working in the Emergency Medical Services program.
OCFA donates ambulance to EMT/paramedics program
The Orange Coun-ty Fire Author-ity donated an ambulance to Saddleback Col-
lege’s Emergency Medical Services program last Tues-day to be used by the emer-gency medical technician and paramedic programs.
The ambulance will be used as a mobile classroom provid-ing students the opportunity to practice health emergency sce-narios in a confined space simi-lar to what they will be working in as EMT and paramedic pro-fessionals, according to presi-dent Burnett’s Gaucho Gazette.
This will allow EMT stu-dents, the majority of whom have never worked in an emer-gency vehicle, the ability to work with equipment they will use in the field within a fully-functioning ambulance.
“Before we got to go in it last week, I had never been in an ambulance,” said Chel-sea Motak, the department’s senior lab technician and stu-dent enrolled in the EMT pro-gram. “So that was cool to get to go in and look around and know what to expect when you’re doing your ride-alongs and where things are.”
EMT students are required to complete three ride-alongs, which are eight-hour shifts where students participate within professional ambu-lances. Paramedic students are required to complete the EMT program and at least a year of basic first response
in an ambulance or fire en-gine before returning for full paramedic certification.
Chelsea Gray, EMT and paramedic program special-ist, said the ambulance will be equipped with resources such as functioning oxygen lines, gurneys, and expired medical drugs donated by the OCFA and other fire departments.
Another beneficial acquisi-tion for the program was two 3G human simulators, which the program obtained indepen-dently from the OCFA. The simulators will serve as patients during emergency response training exercises. These in-teractive robotic humans look, feel and react like real humans would in a trauma situation.
“They have all vital signs, they blink, they breath, they speak, they moan, or cough, or cry,” Gray said. “You can send them into full cardiac arrest, you can do almost anything you would want to simulate.”
Gray said their goal is to in-corporate the ambulance in with their entire department. Because the new human simu-lators are wireless, EMTs, para-medics and nurses will all be able to participate in the emer-gency response simulations.
“I think just having a hands-on experience will help our students greatly,” said Chel-sea Gray, EMT and para-medic program specialist.
Gray’s rough quote for the cost of building this type of simulation within a class-room would be $30,000.
AUSTIN MESSICK
WikiLeaks, the now-popular website from which major sto-ries involving corruption, torture, censorship, killings, and suppres-sion of free speech, is being ex-plained and analyzed by a team of Saddleback College faculty.
On Feb. 22 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., Timothy Braatz, Mike Reed, Jim Repka, David DiLeo, and Larry Twicken will be en-compassing WikiLeaks in a pan-el discussion in the Health Sci-ences Building, Room 102.
The instructors will be dis-cussing the worldwide histori-cal precedents, legal questions, and the political and philosophi-cal ramifications of WikiLeaks.
Many of the fastest growing ca-reers do not require a four-year degree, but rather demand spe-cific training and expertise that can be earned with a certificate.
Career Technical Education programs offered at Saddleback College prepare students by pro-viding them with entry level or ad-vanced knowledge and skills crit-ical for successful employment. CTE certificates offer an alterna-
tive route to acquiring skills to fur-thering an educational experience.
As part of the college’s CTE Month celebration, sev-eral activities are sched-uled on campus next week.
CTE panel discussions on Tuesday will feature informa-tion on earning a certificate as well as job opportunities. Both will be in the Student Servic-es Center, Room 212 from noon to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saddleback’s CTE Day of-fers a job fair and information booths in the quad on Thurs-day from 10 a.m. to noon.
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Weather re-port for Or-ange County predicts rain from Wednes-day to Sunday.
The dengue virus has emerged as the most important mosquito-transmitted virus in the world. This was the topic of the second lecture in the sci-ence series hosted by the Math, Science and Engineering divi-sion of Saddleback College last Friday.
Guest speaker Richard Kuhn, head of the biological sciences department at Purdue University, gave a comprehen-sive presentation to a crowd of about 75 curious students, fac-ulty and staff.
“I’m interested in medicine and biology,” said Brett Lar-son, 35, a soon-to-be graduate student in physician assistant studies. “I’m also interested in the development of scientific research to aid prevention and treatment of disease.”
Kuhn dedicated the lecture to his friend and colleague Richard McCullough, former president, dean and instructor at Saddleback.
Kuhn and McCullough met five years ago and struck up a friendship. Kuhn said the two men shared a lab at Purdue.
“[McCollough] has a pas-sion for education. He loves Saddleback College,” Kuhn
said. “He single-handedly changed Saddleback. It’s been a remarkable change.”
Dean Jim Wright shared a brief biographical sketch of McCullough, crediting him for his nearly 40 years at the col-lege in various roles, including setting up the electron micros-copy lab, the solar observa-tory, as well as McCullough’s efforts initiating the Veteran’s Memorial project. Wright also enlightened the audience say-ing McCollough once said to always be kind to people. This rang true as the two men often switched roles as dean-to-in-structor and vice versa.
“He began teaching at Sad-dleback in 1971,” said Wright. “He taught everything in the biology department except botany.”
Presenting McCollough with a formal certificate as a me-mento, Wright dubbed the lec-ture the “first official Richard McCollough Lecture.”
The lecture began with Kuhn explaining basic infor-mation about the dengue virus. He said scientists don’t really know its origin, but assume it came from Africa.
The Center for Disease Con-trol reports with more than one-third of the world’s popu-lation living in areas at risk for transmission, dengue is a lead-ing cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics. As many as 100 million people are infected yearly. Dengue is caused by any one of four re-lated viruses transmitted by mosquitoes.
Kuhn said dengue is spread by “urban mosquitoes,” be-cause it is found in more densely populated areas, and not necessarily in areas with high poverty. He warned that up to 2.5 billion people world-wide are at risk.
Dengue has emerged as a worldwide problem only since the 1950s. Although dengue rarely occurs in the continental U.S., it is endemic in Puerto Rico and in many popular tourist destinations in Latin America and Southeast Asia with periodic outbreaks occur-ring in Samoa and Guam.
“The CDC is worried about the spread of dengue from tourists coming into the U.S.,” Kuhn said.
There are not yet any vac-
cines to prevent infection and the most effective protective measures are those that avoid mosquito bites. However, there are several vaccines in various stages of clinical trials.
Kuhn said 87 percent who contract the virus will have no symptoms, which include fever, headache, joint pain, vomiting and rash, but seldom causes death.
Some develop dengue hem-orrhagic fever, or DHF. Ac-cording to the World Health Organization, it is the leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian countries. DHF is a po-tentially deadly complication that is characterized by high fever, often with enlargement
of the liver, and in severe cases circulatory failure. The illness often begins with a sudden rise in temperature accompanied by facial flush and other flu-like symptoms. The fever usu-ally continues for two to seven days and can be as high as 106 F, possibly with convulsions and other complications.
“Dengue makes influenza seem mild,” Kuhn said. “Pa-tients with even mild dengue say they literally want to die because the pain is so bad.”
When infected, early recog-nition and prompt supportive treatment can substantially lower the risk of developing severe disease.
After explaining the virus for those with an understand-
ing of microbiology, Kuhn ac-quainted the audience with the details of his laboratory’s work and how it specifically ties into establishment of a vaccine.
“The virus is far more complex than we originally thought,” Kuhn said. “We study basic biology to design antivirals and better vaccines.”
As the PowerPoint and pro-jector shut off, and the house lights came up, Larson felt he’d learned a great deal dur-ing the 90-minute lecture.
“It was very interesting, in-formative, and a little confus-ing,” Larson said. “But devel-opments are being made and that’s what is important.”
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LOCATIONS: The dengue virus is believed to have originated in Africa and has spread to multiple parts of the world.
Dedicates lecture to friend and former Saddleback President McCollough
Familiar guest researcher lectures on dengue virus
MARYANNE SHULTS
Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey is attempting to redefine the word “rape” under House Bill 3 for reasons ad-dressing abortion funds.
Smith, Republican, intro-duced the third bill of the year, called the “No Taxpayer Fund-ing Abortion Act,” into the House in late January. It calls for the permanent banning of federal funding in many cases of abortion.
It includes the Hyde Amend-ment, passed by Congress in 1976, a bill prohibiting health-care programs like Medicaid from funding abortions except in cases of incest, rape, and dan-ger to the mother’s life.
The Hyde Amendment was nearly a fluke, according to Congressman Henry Hyde, the proposer of the Bill. While the Medicaid Bill (HR 3962) was originally being proposed, Hyde was approached by Maryland Representative Robert Bauman to “make an issue” of the $50 million in the bill proposed for 300,000 Medicaid abortions.
Bauman did not want to offer the amendment because the rest of the House knew his disposi-tion, said Hyde. As Hyde was a novice with only one year of office in Congress under his belt, Bauman felt he had a bet-ter chance of getting the bill to pass.
“Not [all] of it made a lot of sense,” said Hyde in an inter-view with Dr. Fred W. Beuttler. “But anyway, that was all right.”
Bauman wrote the amend-ment, thereby taking away the $50 million toward the abor-tions, said Hyde.
“Much to everyone’s sur-prise, including my own, my amendment passed.”
The bill was almost immedi-ately challenged as being un-constitutional, and was taken all the way to the Supreme Court,
called Harris v. McRae. In a four to five decision, they ruled that the amendment was consti-tutional.
The Supreme Court argued, “Why do you have a right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade? You don’t have a right to have it paid for by the government. You have a right to free speech. You don’t have the right to have the government buy you a mega-phone or a typewriter,” said Hyde.
After declaring it constitu-tional, the amendment became a law, and since then has been reinstated every year.
Smith’s new Bill proposes this amendment to be made per-manent, as well as expanding it to include banning indirect funding that could potentially come in contact with abortions, according to the summary from OpenCongress.
“For example, it would deny tax credits to companies that of-fer health plans that cover abor-tions and it would block any-body with insurance that covers abortions from receiving federal subsidies, even if the abortion portion is paid separately with personal funds,” according to the summary.
Finally, it would redefine rape to read “forcible rape,” there-fore making it harder to women
to receive funding for coerced and date rape pregnancies.
In addition, abortion funding to rape victims as a result of in-cest will only apply if the vic-tims are minors.
California Senator Barbara Boxer has already given more than $550,000 in opposing the Bill’s pass, while House Speak-er John Boehner called it a “top legislative priority,” according to ABC news, and currently supports the Bill,
Other opposition comes from the National Organization of Women (NOW). Terry O’Neill, NOW president, told CB-Snews’s Political Hotsheet that the “forcible rape” redefinition was “outrageous.”
“It takes us right back to the 1950s, when women had to prove they were physically as-saulted,” O’Neill said.
However, the Bill did not define “forcible” and leaves it open to determine how and what women will need in order to prove the rape was “forcible.”
Then on Feb. 3, Smith told Politico that the word “forc-ible” would be changed to the original working in the Hyde Amendment, yet as of Feb. 9 the word had yet to be removed.
Rape possibly redefined by congressman
HOUSE BILL #3: Representative for New Jersey Chris Smith is trying to permanently restrict government funding for abortions.
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SANTANDER: The student exchange program is planning a trip to Spain for the 2011 summer to a port city called Santander.
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Electrical power on the Saddleback College campus will be shut down on Sunday [Feb. 20] from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. for scheduled maintenance.
The facilities, maintenance and operations department has asked that all electronic devices be turned off prior to this time as there are no classes on Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day.
Power shutdown
BSU bloc partyThe Black Student Union
will be holding a special bloc party out in the quad on Thursday, Feb. 17 in order to commemorate Black His-tory Month. The event will go from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will have activities tailored specifi-cally for the occasion. There will be jazz musicians, food, and various forms of entertain-ment that celebrate the achieve-ments of African-Americans.
A meeting for a student exchange program this sum-mer will be held on Thursday Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. in SSC 212.
The meeting is titled the “Study in Spain Summer Pro-gram,” and is hosted by Car-men Hernandez-Bravo, a Span-ish instructor at Saddleback.
Hernandez-Bravo will in-form students about the pro-gram, which will teach stu-dents to speak Spanish while getting to know the city of Santander, Spain. This port city is the capital of the com-munity of Cantabria, located
on the north coast of Spain.
Saddleback College students wishing to graduate must meet application deadlines. Students must apply for an official gradu-ation evaluation of their records by March 1 if a May 2011 gradu-ation date is to be posted. The graduation ceremony will be held on May 20. Further infor-mation is available at (949) 582-4555, Admissions and Records.
Summer in SpainDegree apps due
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The happiest place on Earth is beckoning the Superfriends Club at Saddleback College.
The club is responding with a bake sale and fundraisers to earn money for an end-of-the-year trip to Disneyland.
The mission of the club is “to provide an opportunity for socialization and friendship for persons with disabilities,” ac-cording to the Superfriends’ constitution.
There could not be a better place than Disneyland to reward a club with such a mission.
Club members with disabili-ties are also a part of the Adult Transition Program.
The program’s members are able to transition into society by learning “basic skills…so then when they graduate from the transition program they’re able to live independently, that is the goal,” said Superfriends Club President Isha Cecere, 21, dance.
Superfriends is a “friendship club,” said Lori Thibeau, a spe-cial education teacher and fac-ulty advisor for the club.
With the club, members and volunteers alike are able to build lasting friendships while working toward their goal of the Adult Transition Program.
As a chance for members to bond outside of class, the club participates in monthly group events such as bonfires, themed parties, karaoke night, and
school sporting events. The group takes outings to
theme parks including Boomers and Disneyland and also partici-pates in events with the Special Olympics.
Reminiscing on these past events, Riley Hess, 20, an Adult Transition Program and Super-friends member, expressed his
love for the club and excitement about the Disneyland trip.
Thibeau said the month-ly event and club membership are good for all the students in-volved.
“It’s very rewarding, it’s fun, and it’s good for these guys be-cause it helps them get integrat-ed into the college,” Thibeau
said. This year the goal is Disney-
land. In an effort to attain that goal Superfriends held a Val-entine’s Day bake sale and ice cream social on last Monday.
Club members were socializ-ing and “entertaining the mass-es” with their “vivacious per-sonalities,” Cecere said.
Cecere tirelessly went from bakery to bakery asking for do-nations for the sale.
Aside from the home-baked goods donated by club mem-bers, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts provided some sugary dona-tions.
High hopes for the outcome of the sale are for profits to be
somewhere near the $500 range, Thibeau said.
An estimated 60 people will be attending Disneyland and “all together it costs $2,800 for us to go,” Cecere said.
Other fundraising efforts, do-nations, and member payments are underway to contribute to the goal.
Regular Saddleback students can join the club to volunteer their time and friendship.
Superfriends also recruits members at club fairs.
More efforts to recruit mem-bers include visiting classes such as those that cover topics like abnormal psychology, child development, human services and special education or other professions that concentrate on helping others, Thibeau said.
However, membership is open to any interested student.
“We go and we bring some of our students, our Superfriends, and we present our program and see if people want to join,” Thi-beau said. “It’s really good for them to get this experience.”
There are many college stu-dents who participated in Super-friends “who afterwards were hired on with us as staff and they’ve gone into teaching and adaptive PE,” Thibeau said.
The college students who just want to help and volunteer “gives me hope for the genera-tion,” Thibeau said. “There still are good people out there.”
Every Thursday at 7 p.m., priest and instructor, Rev. Brad-ford Karelius gives the Saddle-back College students insight into their own inner “enchant-ment” and “mystery” in his world religion class.
Karelius joined the facul-ty in 1973, teaching students the philosophies of world re-ligions after serving as as-sociate rector and priest St. Mary’s Parish in Laguna Beach.
Around eight years into his profession as an instructor, he started working again in the Episcopal Church of the Messiah, located in the heart of Santa Ana, where Karelius has been helping the impov-erished Hispanic parishioners for 30 years.
Though the statuses he holds in the church and in school are quite different, Karielius says that these two aspects of his life coincide well.
“What I come to find as a priest is that one of the key problems in people’s lives is a sense of dissatisfaction. People feel that life has a hollowness,” Karileus said. “I work with peo-ple in my church who seek an-swers in their life and I see the same within my students.”
Karleus said that he never pushes his own religious beliefs onto his students.
He stated that “keeping [his] boundaries” are of the utmost importance to him and that he is
“not a priest at Saddleback.” He says that his focus in the
class is not on religion but rath-er spirituality.
“I help the students see that even if you’re agnostic, even if you are not connected to a reli-gion, we are all seeking insight and direction in our life,” Karei-lus said.
As he describes his class-
room’s dynamics, one can see that it’s unlike being in an Eng-lish or chemistry class, what is expected in class goes beyond general academics.
Karelius says he wants his students to become comfortable in his class to find what he com-monly refers to as an “enchant-ment” and to be curious about their own spiritual journey.
“In school, reads and ratio-nale are important, but the work we do in this class is an inner journey,” Karelius said. “I in-
vite the students to go to a place of mystery.”
By first educating students about teachers of spirituality such as Buddha, Mohammad, and Moses, he then can give stu-dents the tools necessary to ex-plore themselves spiritually.
When taking a class with an instructor who is also a priest, one may get a sense that this in-
structor may have a bias, but Karelius points out just the opposite.
He explains that one class assignment of his is to vis-it a place of worship other than one a student is already familiar with. Karelius says that this takes students out their comfort zone and helps broaden the student’s choices when finding spirituality that best suits them.
In the 38 years he has worked for the college, Kare-lius says that the level of cu-riosity to explore spirituality and the diversity of students who take his course has never been higher.
“Classes were quite Ang-lo-dominant then, my classes
now are very multicultural,” he said comparing his classes to-day to those 30 years ago. “I see most of the faces of world reli-gions in my own students now.”
As for students interested in enrolling in this course, Kare-lius promises his curriculum is unlike many others and poten-tial student should “prepare to encounter re-enchantment and mystery.”
Superfriends Club wants love for Valentine’s DayMCKENZIE SIXT
BEST BUDDIES: President of the Superfriends Club Isha Cecere, 21, dance, left, vice-president Lisa Ushino, 21, dance, and Anton Lupher, 20, undeclared, helped sell baked goods meeting their goal of $300 in the quad.
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Bradford Karelius teaches sections of Philosophy 10 at Saddleback College where he discusses world religion.
Saddleback Poetry Club
What: Censor This!
When: Today from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Free Speech Quad
Why: Working with the public to bring awareness to censorship
Saddleback Teachers Association
What: Hosting a pencil drive
When: Today
Why: To collect pencils that will be donated to a
local high school
Bring: Unsharpened pencils
What’s happening? Feb. 17 at SSC Quad1 to 3:30 p.m.5’7’’ Height RequirementMust be available for May 5
and Thursdays for practice
Come in fitted clothing
For more information contact Karissa at [email protected]
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“Italy because I have family there, it would be easier than going somewhere I didn’t know anyone, and they have really good pizza.”
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“Spain or Italy for fashion, I want to see Milan. Its super nice and so different from here, especially the history.”
Isha Cecere, 21dance
“Somewhere tropical, like Figi. I love the thought of studing the culture of somewhere exotic and interacting with the people.”
“Greece because I’ve never been there, it’d be like heaven. I’d love to study fashion or film.”
Ariel Llorente, 20business administration
Colin Naughton, 19political science
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Everybody knows about adver-tising on television, on the radio, even on YouTube. It confounds us by offering products we don’t use, and delays our lives by 15 to 45 seconds at a time. Let’s face it, it’s a major inconvenience.
At the same time, some of the most entertaining content we watch is advertising. Viral ad-vertising, according to USA To-day, is advertising that makes use of pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand aware-ness. Generally speaking, these
advertisements are only success-ful if they are extremely entertain-ing, because they are spread by users instead of corporations. So is viral advertising a good or bad thing?
Recently, this idea of enter-taining ads has spawned the Old Spice Man and the Old Spice Odor Blocker, Doritos ads, Hyun-dai ads, E*Trade ads and the Wheat Thins ads, to name a few.
These commercials generally started with something that was an Internet fad, and then a com-pany either hired the creators, or paid the creators, to make a com-
mercial for them.Nearly everyone knows of the
Old Spice commercials, wherein Isaiah Mustafa, the newest face of Old Spice, explains how the prod-uct makes literally anything a pos-sibility. These commercials are global, and appeal to most audi-ences. Old Spice started this cam-paign on television. Shortly after-wards, Mustafa went viral with his new persona, continuing to bring attention to Old Spice products. Recently, Old Spice has begun pr oducing television commercials again, still starting Mustafa. Ul-timately this has been one of the
most successful campaigns, and Mustafa is now a known pop-cul-ture icon.
The original Doritos Super Bowl ads came from a group of fans who wanted to make awe-some commercials specific to that target audience. They pitched their commercials to Doritos, re-ceived an endorsement, and ad-vertising magic was made.
Hyundai hired the indie mu-sic group Pomplamoose to make Holiday ads to promote their cars. Pomplamoose is known on You-Tube for their “videosongs” in which a viewer sees every bit of
music that is made over the course of the song. Hyundai gave the group complete creative control, and the commercials were instant hits.
The E*Trade baby is also among the popular viral advertis-ing commercials. These commer-cials were conceived by E*Trade itself, but the commercials actual-ly gained popularity on the Inter-net, vs on television. This is kind of the reverse of normal viral ad-vertising, but it still works.
Wheat Thins’ current campaign makes use of Twitter to surprise random fans of their crackers.
People who tweet about Wheat Thins to @CrunchIsCalling have been receiving visits from the Crunch is Calling team with en-tertaining results.
Now where this advertising re-ally goes viral, is the online com-ponent. The funny thing is, many people spend their time online watching these advertisements. It’s the entertainment value of these viral advertisements that keep us coming back, just like the television shows that they normal-ly interrupt.
The idea of holding prayer in a public institution is an issue long debated in cities across the nation.
In an ongoing lawsuit involv-ing the South Orange Coun-ty Community College Dis-trict, Westphal v Wagner, the court said the college district is within its right to hold invoca-tions during public events. This means the district has the right to hold prayers during events pertaining to the college.
Many people are on conflict-ing sides when it comes to the practice of prayer in a place such as a college. A news re-port from The Virginian Pilot said that the Virginia House
of Delegates passed a law al-lowing people the right to pray on public property. This in-cluded such places as public schools and according to Del-egate Bill Carrico, R-Grayson County, “the people’s right to pray and recognize their reli-gious beliefs, heritage, and tra-ditions on public property, in-cluding schools, shall not be infringed.”
On the other end of the spec-trum, practicing prayers in an environment such as school or the workplace can cause some form of discomfort and even unsettle those who practice a different religion. America is a melting pot of people from all different cultures, ethnici-ties, and beliefs. The country
is predominantly Christian and the Forefathers were raised in a faith-based environment. How-ever, times have changed and now there are numerous people practicing different religions
and mingling together. A moment of silence is an
alternative way to pay respect and unites people from all different backgrounds with-out causing as much tension.
However, the act of holding a moment of silence can also be deemed tricky. A Jan. 14 arti-cle in The Huffington Post had all of the public schools in Il-linois reissue a moment of si-
lence during the beginning of the curriculum. This sparked a debate all over the nation in re-gards to the action being passed off as prayer. Previously, the Illinois state legislature passed
the Silent Reflection and Stu-dent Prayer Act, which made schools in the state observe a moment of silence before start-ing the day.
In spite of the controver-sies connected with the idea of prayer in a public institution, people should have the right to practice their respective re-ligions. In 1947, the case of Everson v Board of Education was heard in the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Hugo Black held a decision in regards to the practice of religion in public places.
“...No person can be pun-ished for entertaining or pro-fessing religious beliefs or dis-beliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance...In the
words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of reli-gion by law was intended to erect “a wall of separation be-tween church and State.”
The issue of splitting church and state is an ongoing issue that will continue to last. Peo-ple from religious backgrounds believe that since America was founded on Christian val-ues, then U.S. citizens must adhere to those values and at least acknowledge their signifi-cance in society. On the other hand, some people believe that church and state must be firm-ly separated in order to have all people’s rights preserved.
“The Middle East because we think differently from what it really is. It’d be interesting to study politics, and to see students and professors views are.”
What was the first thing that you remember when you were a child? Learning how to ride a bike? Your first day of real school? Perhaps when you were toilet trained? One may not re-member being trained to use a toilet but we just do our business and get on with the day.
So I ask all of the students and faculty, why can’t we do our business without making a public bathroom an unsanitary place?
Everybody has their own per-sonal phobias but many peo-ple have the fear of a public re-
stroom. Urophobia is the fear and inability to go to any bath-room other than a personal one at home. Why do these peo-ple have an aversion to a public bathroom? Because public bath-rooms are disgusting!
The reason most bathrooms are disgusting is because people seem to lose their sense of prop-er hygiene. Now I’m not obses-sive-compulsive, but this in my opinion is a flaw in our culture. Day in and day out I go to the bathrooms on campus and see toilets that haven’t been flushed and people who have not washed their hands.
Ever since entering middle school, the bathrooms have pro-
gressively been getting more and more disgusting as I moved up to high school and then into col-lege. I’ve asked myself, ‘Is it the custodian’s fault?’ ‘Has the plumbing gone bad?’ ‘ Is the soap used to wash my hands poi-sonous somehow?’
As I’ve gotten older and seen the human race in action I’ve noted that the only reason the bathrooms are like this is be-cause there are both males and females that are just ignorant to cleanliness.
Sometimes I want to grab a person that I know didn’t flush a toilet after using it or didn’t wash their hands and ask them, “Do you do the same exact thing
at your house?” The answer will most certainly be a big fat no. Nobody in his or her right mind will use the bathroom at their home and just let it sit there. Nor would they forget to wash up as their parent’s taught them.
I started wondering if this is just a guy problem or if both sex-es are to blame. I’ve spoken to many of my friends of both gen-der to inquire if they’ve seen people do this when they go to a public bathroom. Apparently women are just as likely to be as unhygienic as men.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, proper hygiene in a bathroom has the potential to, “prevent at
least 9.1 percent of the global disease burden and 6.3 percent of all deaths related to disease.”
Among the nasty germs and parasites spread or contract-ed due to improper hygiene are lice, ringworm and other fungal infections, pink eye, lymphat-ic filariasis (yes, friends, that’s worms), pinworms, scabies, not to mention viruses ranging from a nagging cold to hepatitis. All of these hygiene-related issues can be prevented, according to the CDC, by just a little soap and a good scrubbing of the hands un-der warm-to-hot running water.
So in wrapping up this little reality check I urge all of you-please flush those toilets and
please wash those hands. May-be if we can learn to act our age we can make this world a better place, or at least make the bath-room a little less grimy.
“A moment of silence is an al-ternative way to pay respect and it unites people from all different backgrounds without causing any form of tension.”
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Many famous jazz musicians will provide music for the evening. There will also be a perfor-mance by Michael Paulo, “an internationally recognized saxophone player,” said Judy Davila, who conducts membership services for KSBR. Tickets are $40. Proceeds from the evening go to benefit the KSBR radio. For more information regarding the evening, go visit KSBR’s website.
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Rassouli’s art ignites inspiration from the heart
FUSIONART: Art exihibit featuring Freydoon Rassouli’s work attracts people of all ages with his unique conceptual techniques. Countless viewers meandered through the intriguing and colorful works of art.
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Fusionartist Freydoon Ras-souli displayed his collection “Journey of the Spirit, from dream to reality” at an artist re-ception in Saddleback College’s Art Gallery on Feb. 8.
This Iranian-American artist has been called the Master of Fusionart, a title he has gained within the local community, as well as international art society.
The guests, consisting largely of art students, flocked to differ-ent walls, gazing into the work of the artist.
With titles for his art such as “Dream Passage,” “Free Flight,” and “The Soul’s Jour-ney,” guests got to see for them-selves what fusionart truly rep-resents.
The work displayed at the event was a mix of older and more recent works, ranging in prices upward of $2,000.
On display was a collection of books and magazines, some in English and others in Farsi, that Rassouli illustrated.
Guests were able to read some of Rassouli’s quotes framed along the walls of the gallery.
“My paintings inspire, for they allow the observer to ex-perience infinite viewpoints
and perceptions,” Rassouli said. “They are not abstract; for they represent what is actually more real than what our eyes are able to see.”
Rassouli made it clear that his art is all about his initial in-stincts. Rassouli said that he must always feel his inspiration rather than think about it.
“I get inspired from my heart. My inspiration can only stay with me for a moment. If it stays too long and goes into my thoughts, it can become danger-ous,” Rassouli said.
Rassouli claims he does not always understand his own art.
When one looks at his art, they may view it as a dream first, then reality and then a dream again.
With the infinite definitions that his art portrays, Rassouli said he encourages viewers to
find their own meaning for his paintings.
Rassouli conceptualizes his art as the fusion of the oppo-sites, he said.
The mixing of the dream and reality, as Rassouli explained it, represents opposites like good and bad, light and dark.
“This is the main thing that stands in my heart. You are somewhere between a dream
and reality,” Rassouli said while giving insight into the concepts in his work.
Real matter, such as wom-en, men, and animals, were il-lustrated in his paintings with a backdrop of intangible con-cepts such as swirls, circles, and a wide range of colors, further defining his concept of fusion.
Chelsey Bolt, 20, music, un-derstood this concept.
“I think this is really beauti-ful. I love how he uses circles in his art to reflect light and dark,” Bolt said while looking at his piece, “Soul’s Journey.”
People of all ages attend-ed the event. This event was planned and organized and host-ed by gallery director and art in-structor Bob Rickerson.
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ARTIST TALK: Rassouli talks to crowd about his fusionart, discussing his featured works.
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COSMIC ART: Viewer admires Rassouli’s piece of work.
“This Iranian-Amer-ican artist has been called the Master of Fusionart, a title he has gained within the local community, as well as international art society...”
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Writers and storytellers worldwide have a new medi-um for expression, as there is now an easily accessible way to write with friends, acquaintanc-es, or even completely random people, collaboratively.
Since the creation of spo-ken language, stories have been passed down by oral tradition. This exchange of ideas evolved when people began to share sto-ries together, and take turns tell-ing the story to introduce new drama, action, and comedy.
Neovella.com, a new start-up website, lets you do just that, take turns telling a story. You can do it privately with friends, publicly with other users, or a mix of both. Each person writes for 45 seconds, and then the next person takes a turn. The se-quence repeats continually until the co-authors deem the story is finished.
“Some people think litera-ture is dying and losing ground to other forms of media,” said Michael Siedlecki, 22, a UCLA graduate and creator of the site. “If we want to revive literature, we have [to] get immersed in it with our friends.”
A Neovella needs as few as two people to co-write, but can be co-written by up to ten at a time.
Siedlecki created Neovella to help bring more genuinely entertaining content creation to the Internet, and give the cre-ators the ability to profit from their work while having fun.
Siedlecki has named the stories Neovellas, after the website’s name.
“We want to take social media to the next level by providing a means for social production of worthwhile content,” Siedlecki said. “Gamification of the writ-ing process makes it much more immersive and exciting.” Gami-fication is an industry term for the use of game play mechanics in a non-game application.
Siedlecki has already set up a way for popular Neovellas to be sold using a service provid-ed by Amazon.com. Depending on how successful Neovella be-comes, Siedlecki intends to alter the amount of money co-authors receive depending on the given story.
Siedlecki, and his marketing manager, Henry Wang, have been using students from Sad-dleback as a testing group. Brett Dobosy, 19, computer anima-tion, Tyler Brown, 20, business, Minh Mai 19, computer science, Joel Reaves, 20, film, Alex Sperling, 23, undeclared, and Evan Silverman, 23, chemistry, participated in the final beta test of Neovella.
“I like the idea that it is us-ing collective creativity,” said Dobosy. “Neovella is whatever you make it.”
Dobosy participated in a hand written version of the same con-cept in a scriptwriting class at Saddleback.
“Writing with a different group of authors is always a unique experience, but the writ-ers from Saddleback were eas-
ily some of the more creative we’ve had.” Siedlecki said.
Siedlecki began work on Neovella in October of 2010, and began building his team in December. They quickly start-ed testing the product. Once Neovella is stable, he hopes to expand on the idea of online social production. “Neovella is just the first experimental step to test if social production can work through the Internet, sim-ply by enforcing a very minimal rule-set – take turns every sen-tence,” Siedlecki said. “So far, we’ve tested that to some very optimistic results.”
Neovella officially released Monday, and can be signed up for privately, or by using Face-book Connect.
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NEOVELLA: Entrepreneur Michael Siedlecki, the founder and designer of Neovella. Siedlecki graduated from Tesoro High School in spring 2006.
As part of the Concert Hour series, Dr. Matt Hare on double base, Catherine Tibbets on pia-no, and Branden Muresan on vi-olin began the show performing a Mozart-composed piece for a weekly faculty recital Thursday at Saddleback College.
The group played for an audi-ence full of students, staff, and music lovers of all ages. Hare began with a piece by Edward Elgar titled “Salut d’amour, Op. 12.”
“We watch professional mu-sicians, get taught about the mu-sic business, and watch and learn new things, it gives us ideas on the steps to go through,” said Taylor Campbell, 22, music. “I liked the mix of duets, I loved
the closing piece, it caught me off guard, it was engaging to the audience.”
Campbell’s main concentra-tion is vocals, but he dabbles in the guitar as well.
The last piece Hare played on the double bass was titled “B.B Wolf (An Apologia).” Before he
started he asked the audience to imagine all of the wolves in ev-ery fairy tale ever told, and to combine them together. As he started the piece, he made sound effects.
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CONCERT: Matt Hare plays the double bass in faculty concert hour.
The Saddleback College men’s and women’s swim teams par-ticipated in the season’s first competition when they took on Orange Coast and Fullerton Col-leges in a dual meet at the OCC swimming facilities on Feb. 11.
Saddleback’s men lost to both OCC 160-40, and suffered defeat to Fullerton 123-75.
Mel Holley, 19, history, was disqualified when his finish in the 400 medley was deemed illegal.
“My finish was illegal, because the hands were uneven as they touched the wall,” he said.
Saddleback’s Denis White, 18, undecided, also made a tre-mendous effort in the 200 yard freestyle. He came up short in the last 50 meters finishing in 27.62 seconds.
Michael Huan, 18, undeclared, captain of Fullerton’s mens team said he was happy with his team’s results despite of it not being at its peak.
“Its too early in the season.” he said.
The Saddleback women were defeated by both schools as well, losing to Orange Coast 212-40 and coming up short against OCC 161-85.
Ashley Montogmery, 18, en-vironmental studies, was not satisfied with her results in the 200 yard individual medley. She attributed her performance to lack of practice.
“I lost because I’ve had a late start to my season.” she said.
Both the men and women have another chance for victory Friday, Feb. 25, when they travel to Gold-
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ConCentration: Erica Wingard’s technique was not enough to propel Saddleback to victory against Fullerton and OCC.
Irvine Valley College hosts Saddleback College tonight in the second leg of the Presidents’ Cup for men’s and women’s basketball with a possible men’s conference title on the line.
Tipoff for the women is 5:30, followed by the men at 7:30. IVC captured both games in the first meetings.
The women’s teams at IVC (4-6, 13-14) and Saddleback (2-9, 9-18) have struggled in the Orange Empire Conference.
It’s a different story for the men, where IVC (8-2, 21-5) and defend-ing state champion Saddleback
(8-3, 23-6) are virtually even with Riverside for the conference lead.
Saddleback hosted Orange Coast College Feb. 9. The men won, 77-60, but the women lost, 62-50.
Men’s center Wendell Faines had his usual monster game, lead-ing all scorers with 21 points. Faines also grabbed 13 rebounds and two blocked shots. When Faines was not in the game, Sad-dleback struggled both on offense and defense.
The Gauchos committed nine turnovers in the first half alone. Saddleback starting guard Prince Obassi suffered a difficult night all-around, coming away empty in the points column. But freshmen
guard, Vonchae Richardson picked up the slack, scoring 10 points and dishing out seven assists.
The Saddleback women had a more daunting task against South-ern California’s seventh-ranked team. OCC came into the game with a 7-1 record in OEC play and its level of skill reflected its record.
The game become more dif-ficult for the Gauchos when lead scorer Audri Sargent fouled out of the game with six minutes left. Sargent averages 15.8 points and 12.2 rebounds per game.
Freshmen, Desiree Ale did her best to pick up the slack scoring 14 points and grabbing six rebounds.
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viCtorious: Saddleback sprinters James Poole (left) and Tanner Terry (right) charge through the final turn of the 400-meter dash at Friday’s meet against Fullerton. Terry won with a time of 50.0 and Poole took second with a time of 51.5, leading to a team victory.
In their season opener Fri-day, Saddleback College’s mens and womens track and field teams both earned victo-ries over Fullerton College.
The men won 106-48 and the women won 88-53.
“Today’s a good checkpoint to find out where we are,” said Coach Mark Blethen.
“And we’re in a good place.”
The mens 110-meter hur-dles was an exciting event with the top five runners sprinting side by side from the blocks.
Saddleback’s Vincent Fusco was able to gain a slight lead over the field in the final 10 meters to win with a time of 15.73.
In a thrilling 800-meter race, Edgar Vazquez used his strategy to slip past two
Fullerton runners to gain vic-tory.
Vasquez trailed closely behind Fullerton’s Danny Gonzalez and Donald Quig-ley through 550 meters, and passed both runners after he turned on the after-burners with 220 meters to go.
Vasquez won with a time of 1 minute, 59.66 seconds, edg-ing out Gonzalez by only .32 seconds.
“I was hurting, I’ve never done an 800, this was my first 800,” Vazquez said.
“I felt completely exhaust-ed, but you know you just got to show a lot of heart and go right through it, that’s exactly what I did.”
Michelle Wicker put forth a similar performance when she fought off Fullerton’s Kellie Desanti in the 400-meter hur-dles.
Wicker led from the start, but ran stride for stride with
Desanti in the final 100 me-ters.
She was able to pull ahead just before the finish line to win with a time of 1:10.53.
“I felt her with the last like 150 meters right there, and I was just like ‘Oh gosh I have to start spriting now!’” Wick-er said.
Wicker also won the 100 hurdles with a time of 15.50. Tia McFarlane was victori-ous in the womens 100 and 200-meter dash, posting times of 12.73 in the 100, and 27.35 in the 200.
Tanner Terry continued Saddleback’s winning ways when he took first place in the mens 200 and 400, posting times of 22.08 and 50.0
The meet came to a close after Saddleback’s mens 4x400 meter relay team won definitively, posting a time of 3:28.00 over Fullerton’s 3:39.19. Inexperience did not
hinder the Gauchos perfor-mance, with athletes taking first place in 25 of the meets 36 events.
Both teams are young with 28 freshman on their com-bined roster, and are returning only 13 sophomores between them.
“We have a lot of freshman, first chance to be in a college meet like this,” Blethen said. “It’s a good first meet, Ful-lerton’s got a good program, they’ve always been tough for us to beat, and I think we were pretty lucky to get two wins.”
Both the mens and womens teams will compete in the Cer-ritos Invitational, at Cerritos College, this Friday and Sat-urday. Friday’s meet begins at 3 p.m., and Saturday’s meet begins at 9 a.m.
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Saddleback College baseball team broke its two-game losing streak last Thursday, defeating the Palomar Comets 11-5.
Sophomore pitcher Jordan Helmkamp proved to be a vital asset in Saddleback’s victory. He pitched seven innings, struck out seven players, and allowed only eight hits.
The first three innings got off to a slow start with Saddleback gain-ing one run during the first inning.
At the bottom of the first, Ma-cauley Anderson hit a double down the left field line.
He scored following fourth bat-ter Spencer Kuehn’s RBI for the first run of the game.
The game heated up when Sad-dleback was up at the bottom of the fourth inning.
Palomar pulled pitcher Justin Bellez, putting in Jarrod Caster-jon, then the Comets’ fielders got sloppy.
The combination of three RBIs and three errors from the defense, Saddleback’s Tyler Pugmire, Matt Paradise and Cole Shidaki all scored. (Sample based on play-by-play report/MShults)
During the sixth inning, Spen-cer Kuehn manages to get a home run in the time span as well as Cole Shidaki (#34) and Tanner Gore (#17). The inning proved to be a great success for the Gau-chos, as they raised the score to 9-1.
The top of the eighth inning proved to be a challenge for the Gauchos as the Comets scored four runs in the span of the inning. Four of Palomar’s players showed strong batting skills, making the score jump to 9-5.
In spite of Palomar’s sudden gain, the Gauchos seized two more runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, bringing the final score to 11-5.
Coach Jack Hodges said that Palomar College was one of their strongest rivals, but he was glad that the team improved.
“I told the players, we’ve gotta play better,” Hodges said.
“We’ve got to play better de-fense, and the rest will take care of itself,” he said.
“You can’t think about past per-formances. Today’s a new game.”
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