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Saddleback College’s water main break in the Advanced Technology and Applied Sci-ence Division on October 7 occurred when a 30-year-old, corroded, cast iron pipe burst earlier that morning. The wa-ter leak, discovered at 4 a.m, resulted in the college’s closure that same day, as well as the fol-lowing day.
The campus closure was due to water services being shut off in order to help Facilities and Maintenance repair the pipe. The estimated cost of the dam-age from the water line break is $150,000, said Assistant Direc-tor of Facilities Jim Rogers.
The automotive technology department was the most af-fected area of ATAS. Since the water leak, students enrolled in the department have been unable to use the auto lifts due to safety concerns. The biggest concern stability of the lifts.
“We can’t work on cars using lifts that are unstable,” said Da-vid Eyraud, 22, auto tech. “It’s unsafe working on cars while lifting them up when you have lifts that are unstable.”
Currently students have been using auto jacks, jack stands and creepers to work un-der the vehicles, but they admit that the process is more difficult and hinders instruction.
“Doing breaks on a car on jack stands are certainly harder to do than putting them on a lift,” Eyraud said. “Lifts are vital to doing work and they are vital to being able to correct repairs efficiently. Now we don’t have the advantage of putting the car
up on the lift.”Eyraud believes the building
is in danger of further damage because the water main break caused the soil to absorb mass amounts of water.
“You don’t want someone getting crushed by a car, or it tilting over, or the lift moving because the ground is not sol-id,” Eyraud said. “I have heard that the foundation itself is old
and that they need to renovate the building, but [the water leak] doesn’t help.”
The college closed at 1 p.m. on the day of the water main break.
“It’s ridiculous how long it took”, he said. “It took until about 1 p.m to make a decision. Who knows how much soil got affected and how long it’s ac-tually going to take to dry that out to become stable again, and how far it reached.”
With the closure, water ser-vices were shut off, but Eyraud questions the college’s decision to shut the water off nine hours after it was reported.
“It kind of sucks that it took the college forever to make a decision on this,” Eyraud. said “The [college] should have made a quick decision on turn-ing the water off because we had a bunch of water coming out.”
Facilities and Maintenance attempted to repair the leak and avoid the closure of the college, but after repeated failed attempts, they realized that the issue was more complex, result-ing in the shutting off of all wa-
ter on campus and the closure of the college for two days.
Jordan Kelly, 24, business marketing, was in the auto tech lab when the leak occurred.
“The morning of class we all came at 8 a.m. and there was flooding out in the main areas and all the students tried to help in preventing damage from flooding,” Kelly said. “We used push brooms to push [the water] into the drain. We used sandbags to re-direct the water to the drain and we did the best we could, but they didn’t turn off the water until noon or 1 p.m. in the afternoon after this water leak had happened.”
Kelly participated in an ef-fort to lead the water into the main drain by the outdoor lab. He says the maintenance per-sonnel brought sandbags, plac-ing them in a line to help lead the water into the drain.
“We did what we could to try to basically slow it down or stop it,” Kelly said. “We had to clean up some of our gutters after they became clogged be-cause there was so much water backing up. There was only so much we could do, but the wa-
ter wasn’t shut off until many hours after that.”
Brandon Champieux, 30, auto tech, has had many of his classes affected due to the dam-age done by the water.
“The most hands-on class, the engine class, hasn’t been too affected, but that’s only because we don’t need stable ground and the lifts for that,” Champ-ieux said. “[In] my suspension and alignment class, we haven’t been able to use the alignment racks, so everything we have
learned is in theory, and that was kind of a disappointment. I actually wanted to learn which nuts affected which adjust-ments on your alignment, and we can’t do it.”
The ATAS building as a whole has been affected by Oc-tober’s water leak according to Champieux.
“The [water leak] has affect-ed everybody in the [auto tech] and in the whole TAS. We have doors upstairs that don’t work because the ground is moving,” Champieux said.
Currently, the Facilities and Maintenance department is as-sessing the location for other possible damage from where the leak originated. Rogers said he hopes to have the damaged auto hoist facility open again in the spring.
“It’s a pretty involved and complex issue,” Rogers said. “We are trying to push the en-velope to get things up and run-ning again.”
Kelly expressed concern for the auto tech program’s future at Saddleback.
“We are very concerned about the future of the program due to the damage on the facili-ty,” Kelly said. “We all want this facility to be here in the future after its planned rebuild.”
Eyraud hopes to finish his certificate next year and be able to look back and boast where he got his education.
“I want to be able to come here in the spring, get all my classes and in the fall, finish my classes and get my certificate so I can work,” Eyraud said. “I want to be able to tell people, ‘Hey, I went to Saddleback.’ It can’t be beat anywhere else within a reasonable drive.”
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“It kind of sucks that it took the college forever to make a decision on this.” -David Eyraud
OPINION Page 2
how the SOCCCD Board hides.
LIFE Page 3
What is #RAK@S?
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Gauchos finish strong against Southwestern College.
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Thanksgiving is a holiday com-prised of copious amounts of food while inadvertently chanting in pride over the slaughter of Native Ameri-cans. While some might say it is about expressing your gratitude for what you have, in all actuality it is a holiday about this land being conquered.
As a brief history lesson, Christo-pher Columbus discovered the native Taino-Arawak people of the Bahamas who brought Columbus and his sailors food, water, and gifts. In “A People’s History of the United States”, histori-an Howard Zinn writes about the re-action of the Arawak men and women who greeted Columbus and his sailors with a sincere and friendly exchange. Columbus later wrote of the interac-tion in his log:
“They brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They will-ingly traded everything they owned.
They were well-built, with good bod-ies and handsome features. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of sugarcane. They would make fine servants. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Timothy Braatz, Saddleback history professor, speaks of Thanksgiving:
“Thanksgiving Day in the USA has lost any historical meaning, thank goodness, and it’s no longer a harvest festival since the harvests are mostly controlled by agribusiness. For many, it seems to have become a celebration of gluttony, football, and shopping. The holiday get-togethers are nice, but, for the comfortable, everyday should be thanksgiving,” said Braatz.
Columbus did to the American
natives what Cortez did to the Aztecs of Mexico, slaughter and kill millions of native people. The gold, slaves and other resources that were seized from the natives were used in Europe to in-duce the growth of a new economy.
Your kindergarten teacher probably had you draw a cute turkey with your handprint that you brought home to your parents as a gift. In later years, knowledge could have progressed in grade school when you learned that the pilgrims held a huge dinner prompted by good harvest calling the feast, “The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth.”
The origins of this holiday have nothing to do with the United States. Yet you’ll be sure to find the country stuffing its faces with food, blindly be-lieving anything its told. The creation of the federal holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 gave Thanksgiving a new meaning, whereas before the term colonists used to celebrate over dinner the elimination of another tribe.
Thanksgiving is celebrating the genocide of the only real Americans. This secular holiday was put in place by the United States government to feed the socioeconomic industrial complex, while simultaneously pre-tending that a genocide did not occur.
Sitting with our families on Thanksgiving, taking the opportunity to give thanks and appreciation for the
things and people we love, we realize that none of the things we are thankful for have anything to do with the Pil-grims, and everything to do with the lives of dead Indians who were massacred by the colonists in the name of Christianity.
Thanksgiving Day: a sanitized version of American history
AR 1600: a disabling policy for student press
Have you ever tried to talk to a ser-vice representative on the phone, only to end up talking to an audio record-ing on a machine telling you to please leave a message for a customer service representative?
What if you needed a particular service done urgently from that com-pany? Or simply needed an answer to a question? Chances are you have had this frustrating experience before, which is why the South Orange Coun-ty Community College District’s AR 1600 policy needs to be reviewed.
According to SOCCCD’s recent Administrative Regulation brief 1600, the following procedure is mandatory:
“Communications produced by dissemination to the general public and students must comply with rele-vant laws and regulations and shall be reviewed for accuracy by the respon-sible administrator. Communications subject to review include, but are not limited to, district and college mass communications, class schedules and catalogs, external and promotional newsletters, recruitment/marketing materials, websites, social media sites and other forms of electronic media. Exceptions include routine email mes-sages, memoranda, correspondence,
voicemail, and department/school re-ports.”
If a student wished to contact a member of the board to obtain infor-mation affecting the student body or their college campus, whether for an article or personal knowledge, they would be made to feel as if they were trying to contact the Pope.
The problem with AR 1600 is that it prohibits the press from efficient-ly informing the student body of the board’s decisions that will affect them and their education.
In other words, one must go through a maze of bureaucracy, a riv-er of red tape, and a human obstacle course to actually talk to someone on
the board, or at least someone who has the answers to questions being asked.
Representatives at the district have told the Lariat that the board is very busy, and that they will submit our questions for review as soon as pos-sible. However, there is no guarantee that the questions will ever reach the
eyes and ears of the board members. Further, there is no guarantee that our questions will remain intact or untam-pered.
The other small dilemma in AR 1600 is timeliness. Will we even get those answers back by deadline? Jour-nalism is a deadline-based job. Will the answers to our questions even mat-ter by the time we get them back? Is the dilemma obvious?
As a reminder, here are the goals of the SOCCC district and its strategic plan for 2011-2014:
+ District-wide Goal 1. SOCCCD will create a district-wide culture which is characterized by mutual re-spect and collaboration and which
celebrates the uniqueness of each in-stitution.
+ District-wide Goal 2. SOCCCD will support innovations that result in quantifiable improvement in student preparedness and success and will fa-cilitate the institutionalization of those innovations across the district.
+ District-wide Goal 3. SOCCCD will maintain its technological lead-ership and will make future advance-ments which enhance student access and success.
+ District-wide Goal 4. SOCCCD will increase the effective use of all re-sources by developing and implement-ing a cycle of integrated district-wide planning.
+ District-wide Goal 5. SOCCCD will develop, document and imple-ment data-driven district-wide deci-sion-making processes that are col-laborative, transparent, efficient and effective.
+ District-wide Goal 6. SOCCCD will assess the educational needs of the communities within the district boundaries and will pursue joint ven-ture partnerships with educational in-stitutions and business/industry.
“Collaborative, transparent, effi-cient and effective” are adjectives the district uses to describe their goals.
If the board of trustees truly honors these guiding principles, then AR 1600 should be reviewed to help bridge the gap between itself and the students it serves.
As it stands, the present method with which we are required to com-municate with our elected board of trustees, clearly explains to us that they are anything but collaborative or transparent.
Amarah Hernandezopinion editor&Sharon Taylercopy editor&Anibal Santoseditor-in-chief
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Journalism students face many nuisances when attempting to contact the board of trustees due to an unappreciated policy, AR 1600.
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Why Thanksgiving should not be celebrated, and an accurate look at the true meaning of the federal holiday.
“This secular holiday was put in place by the United States government to feed the socio-economic industrial complex, while simultaneously pretend-ing that a genocide did not oc-cur.”
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“The problem with AR 1600 is that it prohibits the press from efficiently informing the student body of the board’s decisions that will affect them and their education.”
Did you ever wish some-one would give up their park-ing space for you? Perhaps, amidst heavy traffic, did you wish someone would let you
lane-change without an atti-tude?
Let’s make it even more personal. Do you return your grocery baskets at the grocery store? Have you taken the time to text, email, or contact a loved one and tell them that you are just thinking of them and that you love them? Is there an elderly relative or friend you need to visit? As the on-going Nike com-mercial says, “Just do it.”
Better yet, partici-
pate in Saddleback College’s #RAK@S, or spelled out, “Random Acts of Kindness @ Saddleback.” Its logo says, “Believe there is good in the world,” or utilizing the first few words, one also derives the phrase, “Be the good.”
As stated in its website, Random Acts of Kindness at Saddleback, or #RAK@S is a “wildly interactive, academ-ically-focused, and a little bit heart-warming scavenger hunt designed by instructor Rebecca Knapp...,” who teach-es Social Media Marketing and Social Entrepreneurship at Saddleback College.
“The hunt’s goal is to inte-grate emerging social media and technology tools with re-al-life experiences, while also making the world a better place at a time when many are questioning if good is still in the world,” Knapp said.
According to the website,
the idea was inspired by the following:
1. GISHWHES, the five-time Guinness World Record breaking scavenger hunt host-ed by Misha Collins of Super-natural.
2. The teaching style and creativity of former educator Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture.
3. The Summer 2014 Social Media Marketing students at Saddleback College.
The Saddleback communi-ty can follow this creative and innovative, heart-warming idea through #RAK@S’s nu-merous sites: YouTube Chan-nel. Facebook page, Twitter, and Instagram.
“It is our grassroots effort of spreading joy, fun, and kindness at Saddleback Col-lege,” Knapp said. “It is also a powerful way to show the in-fluence that the “#” generates.”
The Lariat staff was the re-cipient of #RAK@S recently when one of Knapp’s students presented Lariat staff mem-bers with her presentation and flowers. It is nice to be pleas-antly surprised by a random act of kindness, anytime, any-where.
So “Be The Good,” to some-one today. Pay it forward. Kindness never goes out of style.
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Holiday visits can lead to stress especially when forced to be with unfavorable relatives.
The following is a Q & A with Saddleback College’s in-terpersonal communication skills instructor, Kimberly Stankovich on improving rela-tional struggles,
Q: What are some tools that can be used to effectively com-municate with others through-out the holidays?
“The skills used to com-municate with loved ones should be practiced on a daily basis. However, the people or in-laws that are seen once a year can possibly be tolerated during one turkey meal,” said Stankovich said. “It’s a matter of making a choice and realiz-ing that emotions and feelings are stronger during this time. Knowing how to use “asser-tion” is valuable in communi-cation and is a learned skill that takes some time to get right and one way is to exchange the word “but” for the word “and” in a sentence.”
Instead, Stankovich suggests one could say, ‘I want to go to Aunt Hilda’s and I want to study for finals,’ rather than, ‘I want to go to Aunt Hilda’s, but I have finals.’
“It creates equal feelings be-tween two people,” Stankovich said. “My want and your want are on the same level.”
Also using “I” statements rather than “you” statements can deviate from making the other person feel judged. For example, I feel embarrassed when you call me “chubby” because I want to feel loved by my family and it makes me feel inferior.
“You are in control of how you feel and by using ‘I’ state-ments you are taking owner-ship of your own feelings and wants by handling it in an as-sertive way,” Stankovich said.
“Something to keep in mind, is each person is in con-trol of his or her own emo-tions and no one can make someone feel or respond in a certain way because it’s each person’s own choice,” Stankov-ich said.
Q: What is one way to avoid being hurt or angry when someone tends to give you a “wintery” cold shoulder?
Stankovich feels it’s import-ant not to assume the other person is having issues about you. It helps you to slow down and not jump to conclusions. Suspending judgment is some-thing you should keep in mind and instead, try implementing the skill of “perspective check-
ing.”“There are three basic steps
to perspective checking,” Stan-kovich said. “The first step is to describe the behavior of the ac-tion or words said by the other person. The second step is to offer two possible and different interpretations of the behavior and the third is to request feed-back from the person.”
“For example if you text someone and this person doesn’t text back right away, you may start thinking the per-son is upset or not caring. So instead of allowing your mind to come up with a thousand reasons of misinformation, try using these steps to get your answer and avoid or reduce unnecessary conflict. Remem-ber your “I” statements in the process.”
“I sent you two text messag-es and I didn’t hear back from you as quickly as I usually do. I’m wondering if I did some-thing to upset you or you are just busy with finals. What’s going on?”
Then wait for the response and remember to accept his or her answer. It helps the relationship to not judge the person. This helps the person process what you want or need. They may not be ready to give a valid answer at that exact mo-ment. However, at a later time he or she may be ready and is
more likely to remember that you are a safe person to go to. This skill is known for its rela-tionship-building qualities.
Q: What is the greatest gift you can give someone this hol-iday season?
“The greatest gift one can give to someone during the holiday season is just be quiet and listen,” Stankovich said.
She stressed the most valu-able communication skill is lis-tening.
“Being mindful to just sit and listen to someone can be an act of kindness during the holiday season. If you try this, remember to act interested, point out certain words to keep the person’s trust open and re-peat part of their sentence,” she said. “Continue to remain quiet without adding your input or judgment unless they ask for your advice. Respect their re-quest, even if they start to judge you. Remember you will have your chance at another time.”
“If you can learn to become a more effective listener, I think it’s the one skill that will get you through life,” Stankovich said.
“If you have a strained rela-tionship and there is one thing you can change, it would be to listen and everything will start to fall into place. If you can say to the person ‘How was your day?’ and the person says
‘tough.’ Then instead of inter-jecting and telling them about your day, stop and reply with ‘tough?’ and simply be quiet and listen. And if they criticize you, then just say ‘What else?’
She added humans like to vent and it may have nothing to do with the other person.
“Somet imes they may take it out on you, but continue to say ‘what else?’ This is the best gift you can give to someone you care about.”
Q: What if I try these tools,
but I can’t seem to get past the hurt?
“These skills take practice and the intentions are meant to be helpful,” Stankovich said. “There are some folks out there that probably need professional help or medication and that’s OK, there are some concerns and life issues that go way be-yond the scope of an introduc-tory human level communi-cations course and we are just scratching the surface.”
Elizabeth OrtizLifE Editor
Speech 5: Is taught by Kimberly Stanovich at Saddleback College, Students learn about interpersonal communication skills.
Students step up to the plate and act upon kindness by paying it forward to their fellow students
“The hunt’s goal is to integrate emerging social media and technology tools with real-life experiences...”—Rebecca Knapp
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GIVING: #RAKaS is the hashtag for instructor Rebecca Knapp’s “random acts of kindness” social media campaign at Saddleback.
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Gauchos look great to start the season, with big test coming up
Nick NenadSPORTS EDITOR
In the Southern Califor-nia Regional playoffs, Irvine Valley College women’s soc-cer team lost in a close over-time game, 1-0 against the Cypress Chargers. The game was played on Cypress’ home field. As a reult, the Lasers are now eliminated from the playoffs and will not play an-other game this season.
IVC’s play has improved greatly under head coach Joe Supe this season, given that they came up short losing by only a penalty kick in over-time.
“It was a good game,” Supe said. “Unfortunately one mis-take [and] we paid the price. Everyone put [in] their 100 percent effort and there were no negatives in this match.”
The Lasers offensive strik-ers only had a few opportu-nities to take shots on goal. Cypress’ defensive play was strong, constantly stopping IVC’s strikers on goal.
“As far as this group of ath-letes goes, they played with a lot of heart which was fantas-tic,” Supe said. “The Lasers players had their chances to put up the win as freshmen. Rosa Soto-Aleman put forth tremendous effort. She al-ways put shots up on goal. Our chances of winning were close in regulation time with her just missing over the [goal].”
IVC’s sophomore, de-fender, Emely Portillo’s play helped keep IVC’s defense strong in this game as well as for the entire season.
“It was an awesome expe-rience to be in the playoffs this year,” Portillo said. “It was what we wanted to do.”
Sophomore, forward, Tia-na Salazar will be hard to re-place, having taken her team into the Orange Empire Con-ference ranking them No.3 in the playoffs.
The Lasers unfortunately will be losing some players af-ter this season. Celica Chang, Kailey Ortiz, Kristen Os-tler, Tiana Salazar, Courtney Smith and Emely Portillo will not be returning to the team next season.
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Saddleback men’s basketball completed another tournament sweep this past weekend in the Palomar College Tournament. The Gauchos finished the weekend off with a 61-45 win against Southwestern College in the tournament finals.
Saddleback now has an overall record of 9-1, their only loss coming to San Bernardino Valley College. This is the sec-ond tournament the Gauchos have won this season, which has contributed to their good start.
Saddleback opened up the tournament with a 68-50 vic-tory over Los Angeles Harbor College.
Head coach Andy Ground shared his thoughts on why he thought the Gauchos played so well this tournament.
“We have got a lot of con-tributions from many different players” said Ground, “Guys from our bench could play at most JC’s.”
Specifically speaking, coach
Ground is talking about the six players that scored in dou-ble figures during Saddleback’s semifinal game against Los Angeles Trade-Technical Col-lege. The Gauchos defeated LA Trade-Tech, 95-63, which was their largest margin of victory since defeating Orange Coast
College 97-57 last season. Freshman, guard, Dusty Baker finished with 15 points, which led the team.
In the tournament champi-onship game, Saddleback de-feated Southwestern College, 61-45. The Gauchos, lockdown defense was one of the many
reasons they were able to win the game.
“Always have,” when Ground was asked about whether he focused on defense going into games.
The Gauchos now will sad-dle up for one of their toughest tournaments of the year. The
upcoming tournament features eight teams that are ranked in the top 15 in Southern Califor-nia. The tournament is hosted by Riverside Community Col-lege.
“We will try to go in there with the same game plan,” said Ground. “Hopefully we can
continue to improve on the de-fensive side of the ball.”
Saddleback will play Contra Costa College, who is traveling all the way down from North-ern California. The game will be this Wednesday at 1 p.m.
COURTESY OF SADDLEBACK SPORTS INFORMATIONCHAMPS: Saddleback men’s basketball team has a 9-1 overall record to start season after defeating Southwestern College, 61-45 in the Palomar College Tournament.
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