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E D I T O R I A L S TA F F Alci Rengifo············ Editor-in-Chief c o rs a i r. e d i t o r i n c h i e f @ g m a i l . c o m Rachel Gianuario····Managing Editor Co-A&E Editor, News Editor c o rs a i r. n e w s p a g e @ g m a i l . c o m Paulina Eriksson·····Health & Lifestyle c o rs a i r. l i f e s t y l e p a g e @ g m a i l . c o m Jonathan Ramos········ Opinion Editor c o rs a i r. o p i n i o n p a g e @ g m a i l . c o m James Powel··············· Sports Editor c o rs a i r. s p o r t s p a g e @ g m a i l . c o m Ronja Jansz ........ Multimedia Director c o rs a i r. m u l t i m e d i a d e p t @ g m a i l . c o m Mia Duncans ············· Photo Editor c o rs a i r p h o t o e d i t o r @ g m a i l . c o m Ju a n L o p e z . . . . . . . D i g i t a l E d i t o r c o rs a i r. w e b e d i t o r @ g m a i l . c o m Jhosef Hern····················Illustrator c o rs a i r c a r t o o n @ g m a i l . c o m c o r s a i r s ta f f Zafer Acar, Jose Barajas, Brandon Barsugli, Scott Bixler, Carlos Espinosa, Jazmine B. Heard, Adrien Piteux, Luis Salvador, Raven Newaly, Brenda Cruz, Matthew Toss, Stacy Ellen, Jeffrey Chacon, Stella Ngigi, Carlos Espinosa, Alfredo Gutierrez, Zoila Campos, Jillisa Jenkins, Yasha Hawkins, Branisolv Jovanovio, Jose Gutierrez,, Julianne Oseberg, Nour Kabbani, Farhanah Ali, Devin Page, Jason Biney, Jose Lopez, Sherrie Dickinson, Patricia Stallone, Ava Gandy, Nicholas Cardona, Nick Carrion, Veronika Kacha, Hans Saudestroem, Adriane Hale, Tiffany Hernandez, Mary Leipziger, Claudius West, Deni Rodriguez, Richard Lewis, Brandon Wong,, Maddy Weber, Lorena Garcia.

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“Pyrometrics”, a career retrospective of noted ceramic artist Franklyn Phillips, is on display at the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery at the Performing Arts campus through December 6th. Phillips first began teaching at SMC in 1975. The show includes over 50 pieces of large-scale ceramic sculpture, some over 6 feet tall, encompassing vastly different styles from various stages of his career.

60’s political activist and author, Tom Hayden in his Los Angeles home on Thursday where he still writes articles and commentaries. Hayden has recently opened his personal archives for scholars, students and researchers interested in a deeper look inside the political activism and events of the turbulent decade.

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The times we live in feel like an unstable globe with various prairie fires without direction. The conflicts of today are mired in either fundamentalist fever dreams (the theocratic violence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria) or post-modern, directionless protest (Occupy Wall Street). Five decades ago, it was a different world.

In the 1960s the number of young people outnumbered the old by the largest number in history. The Doors made an allusion to this in their gritty protest song “Five To One.” The draft, Vietnam and the revolutions that swept the world amid the generational aftershocks of World War II inspired a generation of students to dream of progressive, at times utopian, possibilities.

My parents grew up in the latter stages of the period, at a time when the Cuban Revolution impacted all of Latin America.

It was not uncommon for university students to head for the mountains and join a guerrilla movement. Bogota, Colombia and San Salvador, El Salvador had cafes and districts no different than Paris in the 1790’s or 1840’s.

If Romanticism today means hearts and candy, for my parents’ generation it meant what it meant during the Enlightenment: The radical impulse to sweep away the old, decaying world and replace it with something new and better.

In this week’s issue we feature an interview with Tom Hayden, one of the key American figures of those turbulent times. One of the founders of the Students For A Democratic Society, one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement, Hayden lived through the entire epoch of the 1960’s and 1970’s as a major participant. Now he has opened his archives for scholars and talks with The Corsair about what it means to revisit a revolutionary time.

Speaking with Hayden was both a reminder of what the world was like not too long ago

and what it is today. The revolutionaries of the 60s were forced to commit a heartbreaking partition with their dreams as movements fizzled and even radical forces that did take power were soon voted out (the Sandinistas in Nicaragua) or fell into bureaucratic, authoritarian tendencies and sold out (China). Hayden himself admits a bleak outlook and predicts the coming of a new Dark Age as right-wing, fundamentalist groups rise within American politics, and in the Middle East the promise of the Arab Spring has descended into the nightmare of sectarian civil war and the rise of ISIS. And yet, with such technological progress, with such rapid changes in how we relate to each other socially (the emergence of women as powerful political forces even in Latin America where Brazil and Argentina are ruled by powerful women presidents), one could say there is even more potential now for change.

These are times when trends, a vapid form of pop culture and a shallow sense of human interaction rule our society. Even in a college environment the obsession is prestige and money when choosing a career. But if there is anything we can learn from the 1960s is that we should not fear to imagine broader horizons, critique power and create new ideas.

Maybe the storming of the Bastille won’t happen today or tomorrow, but maybe in the age of social media and cyberspace, being a revolutionary means how we think, act and see the world individually.

The Cuban independence hero, poet and writer Jose Marti once wrote that “all the glory in the world fits in a kernel of corn.”

Maybe before we try again to form grand parties and create Soviets, we need to dismiss the layers of shallowness and cynicism that rule our current epoch, and think, feel and create again.

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Santa Monica votes

Former A.S. director speaks out Diana Gutierrez accuses Associated Dean of Student Life of bribery, intimidation and corruption

Santa Monica heads to the polls to determine the fate of a diverse set of candidates and propositions Rachel Gianuario, Juan Lopez News Editor, Digital Editor As of 10 P.M. Tuesday night, general election votes gave way to a red America, with the majority of votes for members of the House, Senate and state Governors majorly Republican for the first time in eight years.

For the Santa Monica Elections, it looks like the majority is voting to keep old members in their seats. In the lead for SMC’s Board of Trustees is two previous members including Louise Jaffe and Nancy Greenstein. Following close behind in third is current and newest trustee member Barry Snell, appointed this past February. In fourth is Andrew Walzer, a third current member.

Falling behind the veterans in polls are this year’s challengers, Dennis Frisch, a former SMC professor, and Maria Loya, a nonprofit director.

It looks like Associate Director for SMC’s Public Policy Institute, Richard Tahvildaran, has a guaranteed seat on the Santa MonicaMalibu Unified School District board at his current standing in third place. He’s close to finishing in second, needing only .03 percent to rise above current board member Craig Foster. This comes as no surprise considering the founder of SMC’s Public Policy Institute, Sheila Kuehl, took the lead late Tuesday night for the 3rd District seat on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.

Currently, SMC alumni Nick Boles, one of the youngest candidates to run for Santa Monica City Council, is second to last in the polls.

One of the larger contested local issues is between measures LC and D, both over the Santa Monica Airport. Currently, the majority of votes are for no on Measure D and yes on Measure LC, both with the opposing vote trailing very close behind.

Measure LC restricts development on airport land unless it is for parks, public open spaces, and recreational areas. Such plans can be enacted without voter approval.

The cultural, art, and education spaces could also be maintained or replaced without voter approval.

According to impartial analysis from the city attorney on the voting information site, “This measure is expressly intended to compete with, prevail over, and nullify all provisions of a competing measure on the same ballot sponsored by aviation interests.

Unlike that measure, this one does not require a vote of the people to close the Airport or to restrict aviation fuel sales or the use of aviation facilities.”

The opposing Measure D’s focus is on lessening city restrictions on the airport and its operations. It even includes a retroactivity clause that vetoes any decisions made upon the airport dating between March 27 and last night’s general election.

Santa Monica resident Lisa Sandbank was campaigning in support of LC at Marine Park, near College Board candidate Dennis Frisch. “We need to deal with the jets and the only way to do that is through local control [LC],” said Sandbank. She stated that if LC loses to D, “What we lose in that case is what LC provides, a restriction on development.”

Mia Duncans Corsair SMC Student Nursing Association voulnteers liven up the Halloween theme in costume at Club Row on the Main Quad Thursday.

The SMC quad goes clubbing Campus clubs gather for costumed fun in drive to gain exposure and recruit new members from student body nick carrion staff writer

Last Thursday, Santa Monica College’s main quad was home to the 2014 fall semester Club Row. This event takes place every spring and fall semester, and is one of the best opportunities for SMC clubs to promote themselves and advertise to potential members. This semester’s theme was “Halloween,” and clubs strove to make their booth or table stand out from the crowd in the hopes of attracting students to their organization.

Some sold food and others advertised in elaborate costumes. There were also some unconventional draws, like Generation of the Future’s dunk tank and International Student Forum’s human whack-a-mole, and Future Alumni Club’s fortune telling booth.

Unsurprisingly, the more effort a club put into their presentations, the more students were drawn to them.

Club Grow, SMC’s gardening club, gathered the most people with their “Little Garden of Horrors” display. One member, Mark Biedlingmaier said of his table, “We spent a few days coming up with it. We have enough support so we were all able to come together in a short amount of time. I’m glad it came through.”

Apart from it being a bonding experience for the members of a club, Club Row is one of the main recruiting and fundraising techniques that these groups use.

Biedlingmaier says that although not everybody who shows interest in the table ultimately joins, it is a good way to raise awareness. “We do find a significant amount that come back for at least one meeting. I know sometimes life gets in the way, but we definitely get a boost in our turnouts for the club meetings. Club Row is definitely a good opportunity to recruit people and enlighten them to the opportunities that are around campus.”

Alison Dahlstrom, President of the Santa Monica College Republican Club, had a similar success story. She said, “We’ve gotten a lot of great sign-ups today. I think [Club Row] is a time where people know to come out and check what clubs are happening. It’s a good day to do tabling because people are aware that it’s actually happening.”

While clubs had the opportunity to recruit

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new members and relay the message about their club’s purpose, they also had the opportunity to win cash prizes for best table and costume contests. The contest winners will be announced at the weekly Thursday ICC meeting.

At the weekly Associated Students meeting on Monday, the board’s directors applauded the successes of Club Row and congratulated Inter-Club Council vice president Courtney King for all of her efforts over the month.

While Club Row undoubtedly helped clubs promote themselves, getting approval for a booth was a tricky process for some. “It’s a month-long process,” said Peter Guerrero, president of the honor society Phi Theta Kappa (PTK). He went over what had to be done before PTK’s booth became the festive “Disney Horror Nights.”

Guerrero explained the most difficult part was filling out all the paperwork, deciding what food they would give out and report back to the ICC on time. The fun part of decorating followed: “The decorating part, that’s something that we do on our own.

After getting approval for the food, it’s basically designing what we’re going to do.

We let the members choose the theme that they want, that’s a good way for them to get involved,” said Guerrero.

Some clubs truly suffered from the necessities of paperwork, like the GAX Club (gaming, animation, and special effects) which struggled to put together an impromptu display after originally not being able to get a table due to incomplete paperwork. “We did make it before the deadline, but the problem was that they lost our paperwork after we submitted it,” said Tristan Saint Oyant, who manages public relations for GAX Club. Despite this mishap, they managed to get a last minute table and as well as a little publicity for their club.

Saint Oyant was glad they were able to promote, even if it wasn’t what they had planned. “We just wanted to get something done. I’ve never been to club row before, and I didn’t know it was this much of a celebration,” he said.

Besides the displays that the clubs set up themselves, this semester’s attractions also featured food from The Boba Truck which sold bubble teas (milk tea with added tapioca), and a live band playing outside the book store.

So whether or not students decide to join a club during their time at SMC, Club Row provided a way for clubs to make their presence known around campus, and hopefully helped match students to others with similar interests. @t h e _ c o r s a i r •

Rachel Gianuario News Editor The recently resigned Director of Student Advocacy Diana Gutierrez, addressed the Associated Students on Monday about a small protest she held on campus last Wednesday challenging the relationship of A.S. student leaders and the Associate Dean of Student Life, Sonali Bridges.

Last Wednesday, Gutierrez and a UCLA student Areli Rios, appeared outside of the library and in the quad handing out fliers and asking student to sign a petition. The petition asked that a meeting be set up with the vice president and president of SMC to discuss troubles with their duties as directors without the interference of Bridges or other administrators.

Gutierrez and Rios called to students’ attention issues that “affect student health and mental health” of the SMC student leaders.

Directly referring to the issue of mental health, a social media post uploaded on Wednesday, which has since been taken down, stated that the Director of Outreach Robert Espinoza tried to commit suicide on campus due to pressures put upon him by the Associate Dean of Student Life. Whether or not Gutierrez or Rios made this post is currently unconfirmed.

Present at Monday’s A.S. meeting, Espinoza publicly announced that the social media post was wholly false, adding that Sonali has been his biggest supporter.

Following notification of the post, Vice President of Student Affairs, Mike Tuitasi handed out a statement at the protest that read, “No student or any other person attempted suicide at Santa Monica College.

It is shameful for any person to circulate such false information.” He went further to state that the student responsible for posting the “false and malicious information” will be brought up on disciplinary violations.

Campus Counsel Bob Meyers said of Gutierrez’s connection with the false post, “Whatever her motivation, her conduct is probably one of the most despicable and reprehensible actions that I’ve seen trying to exploit the private medical conditions of a particular student for political aim. It’s just plain wrong.”

She alleged that Bridges falsely accused her of harassment and scandal, which directly resulted in her resignation in early October.

Bridges was under the impression that Gutierrez resigned to pursue an internship at UCLA and that,“She left on very good terms.”

Gutierrez feels that other directors may want to resign, however, “They’re comfortable in their space, because [Bridges] does a very good job of that. But she also does a very good job at isolating them and spreading gossip so that way they don’t act on activism.”

The associate dean was further accused of bribery by purchasing a bed for a director to maintain a good relationship with this person on the board.

Gutierrez said she would be bringing these issues to KTLA as well as the Daily Bruin later that week.

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Tom Hayden outside his Los Angeles home last week. Hayden, one of the luminaries of the 1960s New Left, has just opened his personal archives to scholars, historians and students.

Autumn of the revolutionary: Tom Hayden At 73, Hayden has not lost the fevered

bombed and killed and what their strategy

obsessed with fundamentalism, oppression

“The first duty of a would-be revolutionary is to study,” said Hayden with an intense look. “And study is very difficult because your mind is clouded with invisible thoughts you bring from your parents and your heritage that you bring to every situation,” he added, citing the need to write everything down, even in cramped scribbles.

Hayden felt it was important to provide his archives to the public while he was still alive. “Some idiot wrote an article saying you’re only supposed to release your archives after your death,” said Hayden one morning at the Santa Monica College library. “I said ‘What?!’ So now they’re released. I’m alive and well,” he said.

The archives provide a narrative into Hayden’s living through history itself.

A defining part of the 1960’s was the incinerating war in Vietnam, which Hayden not only protested, but also worked with CIA officials to secure the release of POWs, and traveled to Paris for the peace talks that eventually ended the conflict.

Hayden also travelled to the scorched country with his then wife, actress Jane Fonda and their one-year-old son in the early 1970’s. The archives of his trip provide both a historical, but very personal set of accounts surrounding their journey from North to South Vietnam, recording the damage to civilians by bombing.

“Jane Fonda and I went to North Vietnam in the early 70s and took our 1 year old son,” revealed Hayden. “There is a long passage by a Vietnamese nurse about the importance of lullabies in life and growing up. Who when they find this in a notebook would know what this is about?” he pondered. “There are a million things like that in the archives.”

He explained that his archives on Vietnam, “Show a lot from the point of view from people who were on the ground being

to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro at a time when the Cuban Revolution inflamed passions all over the continent.

When Hayden interviewed Castro, he recalled being apprehensive. Afraid that his notes would be confiscated when he returned to the U.S., he wrote almost illegibly to conceal the text. “I didn’t take clear notes, I took scribbles. I have to try and understand what this scribble is about,” he revealed. Hayden is still collecting material from this time. What material that is now cleared up provides fascinating insights into the times, including a struggle by publishers over the rights to the diaries of Che Guevara.

To know the past is to have a clearer, mirrored view of the present. The same kind of issues that took the nation into Vietnam, Hayden explained, “Have taken this nation into Central America with the Contra wars and the idea that Nicaragua would be a Cuban dagger into the heart of Texas and into the Iraq War. The inflation of the national security threat, the invention of weapons of mass destruction.”

He mentioned these events are ignored by Americans continuously subject to tragedies that arise from unaffordable and unwinnable wars.

“The question for your generation is ‘why is it that young people get it and their elders don’t?’ I don’t understand. We were selftaught about what was wrong with Vietnam while the experts led us into complete folly. The archives are a preview of coming disasters,” he said.

Currently, he feels that the globe is heading into a new dark ages. “Half the world is

about South Texas, not simply Saudi Arabia,” said Hayden.

He attributes the disturbing rise of militia violence and fringe politicians like Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachmann as the result of a growing struggle between progressive and conservative forces. “I think we can make great gains in certain regions, like Latin America, or the so-called blue states in the United States, but it raises the question of how we deal with and manage the other side.”

For Hayden, there is some hope to be seen in Latin America, where popular, revolutionary movements have produced parties that have taken power in countries like Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.

“Latin America should be our greatest ally if we believe in democracy,” he said. He pondered the contradiction in U.S. foreign policy which tries to impose democracy through weapons in Iraq, while also criticizing leftist, socialist governments in Latin America fairly elected through their ballot boxes.

As the archives become further deciphered, Hayden maintains his avid passion to teach. In fact, he applied to teach history and political science at SMC not too long ago, but was rejected after the college seemed baffled by the desire of a major 1960’s political figure to want to teach community college freshmen. “It would be an honor to spend the rest of my life teaching freshmen at a place like SMC, for the same reason that I gave my archives. They are a gift to the next generation. I am leaving you what I have. It’s all yours, take it, move forward.”

The 60’s thinker and iconoclast drive to comment on the world and demand was for survival and winning.” of women, crushing of gays, torture of opens his archives and speaks equality, but his eyes are now more tempered Hayden’s archives from 1968 provide intellectuals, elevation of religion into by wisdom and experiences. accounts when he and a delegation traveled fanatical orthodoxy. I’m talking of course about the world as it is.

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enerations following America’s turbulent 1960’s have since longed to feel the passion and anarchy of the events that painted one of the nation’s most transformative period. Now, a key thinker of the age, an activist of the New Left political movement, Tom Hayden is allowing the public to read his first hand accounts of some of the 60’s most memorable moments.

150 boxes of his documents and notes, his life work in archives, went to the University of Michigan. He will spend the next four years trying to decipher his notes and bring them to life by giving talks to graduate students and seminars for undergraduates.

On the issue of North Vietnam alone there are about 25 notebooks.

52 years ago, Tom Hayden’s generation set out to change the world. Now, historians, students, and scholars are hungry to know what it was like to be a true revolutionary in the heated age of love, war and change.

Part of what introduced Hayden into the world of activism at the young age of 23 was his contributions to the 1962 “Port Huron Statement,” a manifesto crafted by the radical Students For A Democratic Society movement calling for the establishment of a more participatory democracy in the United States. It later became one of the first clarion calls of what became known as a decade of agitation, war, revolutionary passions, and social transformation.

Hayden would later be a participant in all of it, meeting icons of the era and finding himself later arrested as one of the Chicago 8 following the 1968 Democratic Convention riots in Chicago.

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“International Secret Intelligence Service” groups such as ISIS are rooted in human lasted five seasons with the name before nature and are limited by human capacity. the show’s creator Adam Reed decided to Yet we choose to take these very human replace the company name with the easier- groups and make them into something to to-recognize, and safer, CIA. be reviled and feared, like they are the realThe vehemently negative connotation life versions of Lord Voldemort. Soon, upon attached to the name prompts people to react utterance of the name “ISIS”, people will a certain way when they hear it in any given hiss and claw and remind you not to speak situation. A rock band named Isis, named so of “those who must not be named”. since its inception in 1997, has been under attack on Facebook in recent months due to confusion between it and the Islamic terrorist group.

Obviously, people are not bothering to check whether this band is some outlandish supporter of the group or just a band with the same name. People would rather writhe in fear of a word and condemn anyone who may appear to be associated with it.

This begs us to pose the question: why worry about the name? It’s understandable that the country be worried about the latest updates with news concerning Syria, Iraq, ISIS, and our other favorite real-life prime time villains. But somehow, Juan Lopez Corsair

people operate on a moral compass that is unlike our own, but it’s necessary to acknowledge that they are humans too. This is a complicated conflict we’re dealing with, not a battle against evil. Thus, we should do research on the conflict with ISIS and instead of operating like we’re on a red scare, witch hunt, in an attempt to dissolve a very human conflict.

The Islamic State inspires a show “Archer”, a show about the normal making them taboo seems like an even remember that the enemy we are facing four-lettered rash of fear at home day-to-day machinations of a secret spy bigger violation. is not a force of pure brutality and evil, agency, also named “ISIS”, which stands for However horrible their methods may be, but one of misplaced righteousness. These over cartoons, bands and more Jose Gutierrez staff writer

A constant paranoia and fear grips the hearts of the American people. Since the World Trade Center attacks of 2001, the United States has dehumanized people of Middle Eastern ethnicity.

There have been several bogeymen figures in this war on terror. The hit list has included the names of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein.

But recently the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the Levant (ISIL) elevated the ethnic label of “Middle Eastern” to a new level of infamy.

Al-Qaeda was, for a time, tattooed into the minds of United States citizens as the very worst terrorism had to offer. They attacked the country on its own turf. That surely was an unexpected and unthinkable act of cold hate in a time of readily available atom bombs and military response.

In the eyes of the West, Al-Qaeda is the end-all, be-all enemy of American freedom and democracy. Most immediately know of Al-Qaeda to be something bad once they hear it on the news, without even really knowing the situation in Iraq.

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ISIS is so terrible, in fact, that the mere mention of their name has become taboo.

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In the process of glass blowing, a torch is used to heat up the glass bubble at the end of a glass bowl to seperate it from the metal rod.

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HEART OF GLASS Jeffrey Chacon staff writer

Tucked away behind the SMC Art Building, in what looks like a highly renovated garage, comes the somewhat alarming sounds of shattering glass, hammering on pipes, and flaming wind tunnels. On any given weekday afternoon, a team of people, reminiscent of the coal burners pictured in the belly of the Titanic, fearlessly place rods of steel inside of a 2,000 degree flaming furnace in the wall.

From within the furnace, a melting glass prize rich with color and brilliance shines at the end of the long metal rods.

This is the unbearably hot world of glass blowing class at SMC. On a daily basis, elaborate multi-color bottles, bowls, jars, plates, vases, pumpkins (for the recent festivities), jewelry, and other pieces of art are being molded and pulled into unique forms.

Like so many of the various and interesting classes at Santa Monica College, the glass blowing classes offered are open to all levels of experience. Terri Bromberg, the glass blowing professor, teaches general techniques to advanced students who can form elaborate vases, and beginners who are mastering simple table objects.

Among her students this semester, one beginning student in particular shows surprising progress and skill. Stell Bahrami,

a UCLA graduate, does glass blowing at SMC as a hobby. “She is a beginner who has advanced faster than other beginners,” says Bromberg. Though she only began glass blowing this semester, she has so far designed cylinders (cups), bowls, caterpillars, and a pumpkin, all with intricate and advanced individualistic designs.

Bahrami agrees with her Bromberg who calls glass blowing an “artistic sport.” “You have to keep going from start to finish, even if your shoulders get tired of holding the heavy metal blow pipes, otherwise your piece will break and you will lose all the work you have doing for that day,” said Barhami.

She explained that glass blowers are very patient with their art because it takes very precise and refined movements with the hands to mold the glass with tools and movements into the desired shape or object.

However, speed in this field is absolutely necessary because the melted glass is constantly moving, forcing glass blowers to keep rotating the material before it cools.

Workers use wet wooden tools such as paddles and blocks to center the glass and gently reform it before they place it back in the furnace.

For Bahrami, what helps her be consistent is having confidence and being calm and patient. She also notes that it’s important to be dynamic at the same time. “Knowing that

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you are going to control the glass; the glass is not going to control you,” she said.

All the while, certainly expect to be heavily sweating, just due to the proximity to the furnace, known as the “glory hole”. The temperature in the room can be from 85 to 100 degrees depending on where a person is standing. The temperature can dramatically increase once a person steps even one foot beyond the red safety line, designated only five feet from the furnace.

Because of the danger present, teaming up with classmates when one is glass blowing is crucial. Working with others also helps construct a family atmosphere where everyone shares ideas with each other.

Bahrami explains, “It helps create trust with yourself as well with your partners and builds the atmosphere with energetic collaboration.”

According to Barhami, to be a great glass blower, fully understanding safety measures and avoiding accidents is a crucial starting point. In the “hotshop”, it is safer than sorry to assume that every surface is hot, and broken glass is a common occurrence. Glass can snap pretty suddenly from the end of the blowpipe and shatter into pieces.

“Before taking this class I would jump at the sound of a plate breaking,” said Barhami.

“Now, if I break a plate at home I don’t even flinch at the sound of glass breaking. I have @t h e _ c o r s a i r •

become desensitized to it,” she added. Glass that falls off of the blow pipe and breaks can still be up to 1,000 degrees, causing shards to melt into the sole of shoes and give off a burning rubber smell.

The possibility of being burned by shattered pieces are certainly real in this environment, which is why refrigerators nearby are stocked with burn cream and ice pops to put over burns.

In addition to the heat, the “hotshop” can also become quite deafening with the sounds of perpetual crunches of glass being stepped on, clanks of metal poles and metal sheers banging together. The furnace alone sounds like an unrelenting ocean of fire to anyone not used to it. “It is like being in a wind tunnel,” said Bahrami of the furnace.

Teaching in the “hotshop” actually requires an instructor to use a P.A. system to instruct the class.

The glass blowing class has extended into a very new club on campus, allowing joiners to understand and watch the glass blowing process. They meet on Thursdays from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M. in room 102 in the Art Building.

The ending result of the endured sweat, exhaustion, and close proximity to a hole in the wall like the eye of Sauron are truly individual and delicate works of art that can never be created the same way twice.

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Scott Bixler Corsair

Santa Monica College Glass Sculpture student, Stell Bahrami, shapes her glass bubble on the table after taking it out of the furnance during the Glass Blowing class on Friday in the Art Complex

Adam Pineda Corsair This Stained Glass Bowl is just one of the pieces that were on sale at a Glass Art Display on the SMC Main Campus which took place on Sunday.

Adam Pineda Corsair Stained Glass Plates on display at a Glass Art Sale on the SMC Main Campus which took place on Sunday.

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& Lifestyle 8 Health

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Dancers from Ballet COCO perform in the Day of the Dead / Dia De Los Muertos Celebration at El Pueblo Historical Monument, home of Olvera Street Oct. 25 through Nov. 3 in Downtown Los Angeles.

Carlos Espinoza Corsair

Los muertos viven Local Hispanic community comes together to celebrate the rites and revelry of Mexico’s “Day of The Dead” in Santa Monica Yasha Hawkins staff writer

Drum beats bounce off the walls of the Santa Monica College parking structure and the Foster’s Freeze across from it, and move directly through the ground while the sound of a conch shell fills the air.

Maracas and beads around danzantes’ feet compliment the sound, and danzantes act out how warriors cross over into the spirit world. Children focus on the movements of the danzantes performing before them, understanding their movements as a form of prayer.

So goes the opening ceremony of the celebration of Dia de los Muertos at Woodlawn Cemetery on a Saturday morning.

The Santa Monica Community and Cultural Services Department, the Santa Monica Public Library, Woodlawn Cemetery, and artist Paulina Sahagun worked together to produce the celebration of those who have passed, as well as educate the living about such traditions.

A rough estimate of 400-500 people came to enjoy music and dances from Ketzalitzli, a group which performs ceremonial Aztec danzantes, Quetzalcoatl, which performed music from various regions of Mexico, Los Angeles-based mariachis Los Dorados de Villa, performance artist Nobuko Miyamoto and her organization Great Leap, and New Dawn Children’s Dance Circle.

Attendees could watch artists on the stage, make coronitas of marigolds and papel picado to adorn gravesites or commemorate the life of someone not buried at Woodlawn.

A documentary on how the tradition is carried out in Oxaca, “The Feast of the Souls” was also featured at the cemetery, complimented by tamales or Pan de Muerto from Mama’s Hot Tamales and La Monarca Bakery.

People of all backgrounds came to celebrate the traditional Mexican holiday in which the souls of the departed are said to return from Mictlan, or the “place of death”, to their families.

Some came just out of appreciation for the culture like SMC student and volunteer,

Chanel Moser who admired the beautiful ways in which attendees set up altars before a loved ones’ gravesite.

For the family of Leticia “Letty” Vazquez, this was the first year the family set-up an altar for her at the traditional ceremonial event. Although it is initially a somber process, Vazquez’s family soon begin to share stories remembering her life. Families surround altars adorned in sheets, skulls, marigolds and flower arrangements, baseball and Dodgers gear, small skull-shaped bottles of tequila, and other items either typical of the holiday or loved by the deceased.

A musical offering also comes to the grave of Jesse Gerena, whose wife Lidia set up a modest altar, placing importance on celebrating the person’s life rather than the details that go into it. The afternoon’s heavy winds kept her leaning close to the altar, securing the adorned items she built for her diseased husband.

A performance of “Mottainai” follows, a song about curbing ecologically wasteful habits named after a Japanese saying that means “It’s a shame what you waste.” As Miyamoto puts it, “Mottainai” was a “method of survival” for Japanese immigrants.

Though it may seem unusual to observe Japanese burial rituals apart of a traditionally Mexican holiday, Sahagun explained, “Everyone has some sort of ritual celebration of death.”

The event concludes with another traditional ceremonial danza, this time from New Dawn Children’s Dance Circle, where members are motivated to keep the traditions of the Chichimeca of Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States alive.

For next year, event organizers plan to take festivities to 14th Street to “celebrate as the living,” and are considering the inclusion of African celebrations of the similar natures.

The importance of the Mexican celebration carries over to future years and future generations, and still holds reverence in Santa Monica’s highly diverse culture. “We need to honor our elders that have gone on to another world because it makes us aware of our humanity and the fragility of life,” Sahagun says.

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Health & Lifestlye 9

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One foot at a time: stretching into yoga Stepping into and stretching with SMC’s yoga classes which promise a different kind of exercise routine Devin page staff writer

I was nervously sweating, taking slow deep breaths, as I stepped onto my mat and waited for further instruction.

“Spread your legs out and get a wide stance, svanasana position, come down into downward dog, come up and namaste,” yoga teacher Herb Sandoval said, while teaching his advanced yoga class at SMC. I came to the class expecting to observe, but instead I experienced how yoga transforms your body as I struggled through Sandoval’s class.

Yoga has been practiced for centuries in India, both for spiritual and medicinal purposes. According to the American Yoga Association, yoga made its way to the U.S. in the late 1800s, but didn’t become widely known until 1960.

Stress management and health benefits of the immune system are just some of the benefits doctors have researched over the past few decades.

Recently, the LA Times wrote an article exhibiting benefits that extended to college students.

It was found by researchers in New Delhi that yoga helps the body resist the impairment of cellular immunity during stressful events.

The discharge of stress builds up the immune system.

Also, regular practice isn’t necessary to start seeing benefits, just one to three times a week does the trick, while results start to show in as little as eight weeks.

After diving into the advanced yoga class, Sandoval joked and said, “You didn’t think

it’d be that easy did you?”

He explained that every position has a purpose. Even twisting like a pretzel has its benefits.

“Standing poses work on structure, inversions work on your granular system and organs of perception, and spending time upside down strengthens your immune system,” Sandoval said.

College students on our own campus have also experienced benefits from practicing yoga.

Eva Segura, a biochemistry major, has taken everything from beginning to advanced yoga classes at SMC. She explained that it has done a lot for her physically and mentally.

“I used to have a lot of stress from going to school full-time, but yoga has taken a lot of the stress out of my life,” Segura said. “I used to have back problems and the poses help with my alignment and posture.”

Another SMC student also conveyed his release of stress.

Jesse Gutierrez, marine biology major said, “I was going through a really hard time with my family and I was really stressed out about work and school and it helped me release a lot of stress.”

The benefits didn’t stop there though; besides becoming more calm, Gutierrez also said it helped him with his flexibility and conditioning.

For other students like Sandrine Azisi, nursing major, her experience with her yoga instructor made all the difference.

“I don’t like it. The teacher does a lot of advanced poses even though it’s a beginner’s class so it’s hard to keep up,” she said.

Through struggling to do all the backbends,

Juan Lopez Corsair Herbert Sandoval’s Advanced Yoga class performing supported backbends. As opposed to most portrayals of yoga, this class focuses on the exercise rather than the meditation.

Philosophy major Aryan Sadat participating in Herbert Sandoval’s Advanced Yoga class.

Juan Lopez Corsair

handstands, and other compromising positions, somehow in the end I felt more relaxed.

The list of benefits from practicing yoga are endless as research has increased over the years. The challenging poses and the breathing techniques are proven to do a lot for your physically and mentally.

Personal experience will vary, but

consistency will likely display better results if you are looking to improve your overall health.

In the words of Sandoval, and I’m sure many philosophers and yogis, “Relaxation is the key to everything.” For in a world continously in stress, where will we be without peace of mind and body?

Namaste.

Sifting through thrift: where to find the best deals

Veronika Kachanovskaya Corsair Jacket display at the Buffalo Exchange store on Main Street, Santa Monica, Calif.

Shoppers interested in vintage clothing frequent this store often for the plethora of fashionable clothes that are offered here.

An odyssey through the racks For some, designer clothes are a must, but are largely unaffordable without $500 and corners of the local thrift lying around for a pair of jeans. Thrift can shops mean finally finding that one Céline bag Devin page staff writer

Most college students have multiple limitations and preferences when it comes to shopping, and if buying new clothes is on the to-do list, thrift stores serve as a remedy to cure any shopping crises.

from Pinterest, a pair of second-hand Jeffrey Campbell pumps, or a used Versace dress undoubtedly worn by an Oscar attendee all for only a fraction of its original price.

Unless you are Anna Wintour, however, or a die hard fashion expert, it’s easy ignore what season a particular item of clothing or outfit is from. For some, finding something that makes a statement of individual expression

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at a reasonable price is the highest priority.

Finding some crazy, funky vintage dress from the 80’s for $10 is a jewel find over mainstream American Apparel.

Whether it’s vintage or a popular designer, a plethora of unique finds can be found by going thrift shopping.

For men, thrift can simply mean getting a pair of oxfords for $20, or a widely brimmed hat and a tattered tweed jacket to out-hipster your comrades.

Thrift can also be the way to go if you want to find reading glasses and suspenders to add to a costume, or your everyday wear.

Whatever the meaning, hidden gems are everywhere at thrift stores.

For the students of Santa Monica, there is a wide array of choices to find clothing at lower prices than those offered in stores on The Promenade.

Stores like Buffalo Exchange, Crossroads, and Wasteland are just some of the options that offer hugely discounted prices on worn clothing, still in very good condition.

Buffalo Exchange, located on Santa Monica’s Main Street, offers designer and vintage clothing from cheap to moderate prices. While it is likely you’ll find something from James Perse or Marc Jacob’s, you are also just as likely to find something from designers a little harder to find these days like Member’s Only or Betsy Johnson.

While many Santa Monica College students shop at Buffalo Exchange, others work there, like Shaine Edmond an SMC Industrial Design major, who advocate “free expression through fashion.”

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budget. “Everything is reasonably priced, as opposed to retail. You can find current styles and vintage styles, whatever you’re into,” Edmond said.

Employees also get the chance to see everything first. “I got a suede Levi’s jacket with a waxed canvas that a guy paid $300 for,” Edmond added.

Crossroads Trading Co., across from the Third Street Promenade, focuses more on selling contemporary clothing, steering away from vintage.

At Crossroads sells modern pieces, heavily stylized on mannequins to provide a readyto-wear look. They have everything from Topshop and Zara, all the way to Gucci and Helmut Lang, all at affordable prices. It is easy to spend as little as $20 or as much as $300 and bring home a dozen of cool finds.

Wasteland, also considered thrift though it has higher prices, the bulk of their inventory being used clothes, still source new clothing from local retailers. Shoppers can find everything from grungy looking street styles to Haute couture pieces.

The store offers lightly used clothing, and new clothes for heavily discounted prices, despite some of their price tags for a simple t-shirt being $50.

Due to the store’s high standards, they often receive last season’s clothes from local celebrities, and people who stock their closets with designer.

Whichever style is desired, it’s more than probable that you’ll find something worth while. So instead of emptying your wallet at chain retail stores, be the one who starts the trend and go thrift shopping.

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& Entertainment 10 Arts

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Big Hero 6: A comedic poor man’s Marvel movie Rachel Gianuario News Editor Premiering this weekend, following last year’s Academy Award-winning Disney animation movie musical “Frozen” comes “Big Hero 6”, another one of Disney’s attempts to make a successful, 3D animation movie without the Pixar masters.

After their success with last year’s snowcapped musical about two sisters battling to simultaneously kill and save each other, Disney’s going to try to merchandize their way into keeping up with the current slew of multimillion dollar superhero franchises by using Marvel comic book characters. This year’s typical, baby-faced, big-headed, small nosed protagonist is a boy genius who, with the help of his marshmallow-like healthcare provider robot, attempts to use science to beat science. Oh Disney, when will your plots ever stop going in circles?

Will it do well in theaters this weekend?

Probably. It’s got a “Guardians of the Galaxy” band of misfits feel, combined with do-ityourself “Iron Man” tech, a hint of anime, and Nickelodeon’s "Jimmy Neutron."

The film, based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name, is set in San Fransokyo, a hybrid city of San Francisco and Tokyo, which wouldn’t be a bad combo of worlds for the Chinatown and the Wall Street folks from the financial district. Robotics prodigy, Hiro Hamada, voiced by Ryan Potter, teams up with highly loveable Baymax, an inflatable robot designed to be a personal healthcare companion and, unintentionally, a hypochondriac’s greatest dream. Though the story is about the trials and tribulations

of Hiro, it’s clear that his helpful, slow-paced, but entirely awesome balloon sidekick is the real star.

As the two interact with each other of the course of the movie, the disconnect between human emotions and robotic programing is perhaps what makes the duo so hilarious together. Baymax is the perfect household doctor; he immediately responds to pain, he listens, he provides quick analysis, he will not rest until your ailments are cured and his hands can even act as defibrillation paddles. Screw ever paying for a doctor's bill and putting up with unsatisfying, crummy medical services again. Baymax has it all.

The story gives us the impression that with the right kind of science and programing, basically anyone can be a superhero, and a super villain for that matter. Hiro takes a group of physically unskilled nerds,

puts them in a bunch of pretty incredible homemade costumes and, after a threeminute montage of training, turns them into a winning team. Though they collectively go through their moments of doubt, it only takes the 14-year-old’s pretty pathetic ‘just figure it out’ words of wisdom to help them through.

Does good win and evil triumph? Yes. You can’t even consider that a plot giveaway.

Seriously, when has a Disney movie ever not had a positive ending? They are about as predictable as Tom Hank’s film characters are favorable. Everyone knows his character will always come out on top, even when faced with Somali pirates. It’s just a given.

Of course, it looks like Disney will try to milk this new franchise of superheroes to death, which could have been the most unfortunate bi-product of this film. But

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“Nightcrawler” is a topgrade thriller offered a front-row seat to an unforgiving

“Over-Criminalized” screens at SMC with Q&A

Sharp thriller tells a dark tale city, witnessing his own dangerous and while exploring the world of unrelenting story of midnight-reporting.

The film is delivered in a hyper-punctual hard-boiled journalism

America’s broken prison system was subject of Brave New Films documentary

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"Nightcrawler" doesn't crawl; it runs.

Lead by Jake Gyllenhaal's strong, blunt and unnerving performance as Louis Bloom, an ambitious and resourceful freelance reporter, the movie delivers a mix of suspense, social and moral conflict, and a character you will love, or love to hate.

The movie opens with a picturesque gallery of perfect wide shots of Los Angeles. Dark, midnight views of landmark locales from Santa Monica's Pacific Park, to Hollywood and Vine set the stage for what we can only assume to be a wild ride.

We meet Louis Bloom, a goal-oriented man that pitches some seriously unsettling propositions to employers peppered with a hint of twitchy creepiness. Fascinated and driven by success and achievement, Bloom takes hold of a chance to make both a name for himself and profit, all the while satisfying his fearless, determined (and maybe even desperate) nature. Gyllenhaal’s performance employs his uncanny charm to plant his feet in the bustling media world, boldly going into news studios, rushing to car crashes and chaos to capture news footage, all the while grappling with competition and being an up-and-coming video reporter.

The audience is ushered into the city's nocturnal world, welcoming viewers to the untamed darker side of society.

“Nightcrawler” spends a lot of time in the dark, being able to fully exploit unapologetic scenarios and pragmatic characters. With Bloom (Gyllenhaal) at the helm, we’re

package, made raw by honest, unsympathetic, rapid-fire dialogue complimented with crime scenes and raw videography.

Gylenhaal's performance is more fully fleshed out by dynamic relationships with a morning news editor, played by Rene Russo, and a pretty desperate side-kick, played by Riz Ahmed.

The supporting characters provide further flesh to the movie. Ahmed's character Rick is the everyman, rooted in bewilderment over Gyllenhaal's fast-paced world. He provides us with the logical point of view in response to the outlandish situations he is falls into because of this new job.

Russo's character Rene is something of a Lady Macbeth catalyst for Gyllenhaal, being the female counterpart that looks at Bloom like the perfect tool for advancement. As the audience watches Bloom grow in leaps and bounds, furthering his goals and his ambitions, Rene shrinks. The two clash heads in argument, setting the stage for a finale that will ultimately question one's favor over the other.

The second act never lets up on suspense, vicious action or severe consequences. The film's climax leads to an ambiguous end, allowing the audience to decide Gyllenhaal's fate as they leave the theater.

As we're introduced to characters and plot elements, viewers will be at the edge of their seats, guessing how far Louis Bloom and company will go, and what it will take to achieve their hefty goals. In a world absent of clean daytime society, "Nightcrawler" takes the audience out for a night on the town that they will never forget, or ever want to mention.

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what are these new superheroes supposed to do? What is the potential problem for them to solve? Unless the plan is to have the protagonist continue to make messes and use this band of misfits to clean them up, it really doesn’t look like there will be a whole lot to do in this stable looking futuristic town. Even still, there's no way they would ever stand up against the family from 2004's superior "The Incredibles."

Pixar originally teamed up with Disney following it’s renaissance in the 1990’s to help them keep up with the modern world of CGI filmmaking.

Now that Disney’s imagineers have established their own department and have had some success with recent releases, it looks like Disney will attempt to try to raise its own CGI empire.

Unfortunately though, thus far, Disney 3D animation movies have barely been able to scratch at the surface of the original, imaginative and legendary films created through their collaborations with Pixar.

Yes, “Tangled” and “Frozen” were cute musical narratives typical to Disney. Yes, “Meet the Robinsons”, “Wreck-It Ralph”, “Big Hero 6” and “Chicken Little” managed to cater to the nerds for life in the audience.

But the reality of their films so far is that they are not much when compared to beloved Pixar 3D animated movies like “Wall-E”, “Ratatouille” or “Finding Nemo”.

Maybe if they didn’t insist on singing everything for the past 77 years, they would have established someone to write them a decent score by now to make at least some parts of their movies feel dynamic.

staff writer

You see them on the street getting stopped by the police. You assume that they’re doing something wrong, or that they’re a criminal.

You assume they’re not doing anything with their lives, not trying to get a job, and most likely doing drugs.

The criminalization of the mentally ill, homeless, and substance abusers is a societal issue that is very present in the U.S. It is a problem that is often overlooked by police, by citizens who believe they have more pressing issues to think about.

This problem is what producer Jim Miller sought to tackle in his documentary “Over Criminalized”, previewed at Santa Monica College on October 23.

TThe film acknowledges the fact that the U.S. imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and attempts to look at who is resolving this issue.

The first section about the imprisoned mentally ill. According to the documentary, the U.S. spends nearly $9 billion per year on mentally ill prisoners. In 2013, 356,368 severely mentally ill people were imprisoned in the U.S. The film also notes cases in which the police have shot and killed mentally ill people, mostly those diagnosed with schizophrenia.

In San Antonio Texas, however, police officers are able to handle situations with mentally ill through programs created by local hospitals. The training program known as Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), provides face-to-face screening and assessment, crisis @t h e _ c o r s a i r •

intervention, and psychiatric evaluation. 95 percent of police officers in San Antonio are now CIT trained.

The documentary goes further to discuss the imprisoned with substance abuse. In 2012, a staggering 29,960 people were arrested for drugs in New York State.

The film also focuses on treatment centers, like the LEAD Program established by multiple collaborators in Washington, providing counseling, treatment options, and housing to those with substance abuse problems.

To finish, the film discussed the highly contentious issue of imprisoning the homeless, suggesting that these people have nowhere left to go but jail.

It is explained that the homeless are often arrested for low-status crimes such as trespassing, petty theft, open containers, etc. Certain state legislature also appears to target homeless people. In 2014, 100 cities in the state banned sitting or lying down in public places, allowing for the homeless to be arrested numerous times for a law they cannot help but break.

Solutions were offered in the form of affordable housing which costs less for taxpayers than paying for them in jail.

Laurie Jones, the film’s Program Director, provided insight on the project and the various issues the documentary attempted to tackle.

Though concerns were raised about the affordability of some of the programs mentioned in the documentary, Jones explained that the pressure of the growing prison population on today’s taxpayers is in no way fiscally feasible.

She finally capitalized on the fact that the film expressed our human responsibility to take care of one another instead solely focussing on cost.

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Men’s soccer denied title contention

Scores and Schedule Home teams in Bold

10/31 WoMen’s Soccer

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Game held at Saddleback

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11/7 Men’s water polo

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Citrus SMC

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Scott Bixler Corsair Santa Monica Corsair running back Elliott Valdez runs the ball down the field against LA Southwest College on Saturday. SMC won the game 56-27.

Homecoming battle for WSC title looms

Homecoming Saturday spotlights a battle of undefeateds as the Corsairs take on Santa Barbara City TREV ANGONE Sports Editor With just two games left to play in the Santa Monica College 2014 football schedule, the Corsairs are finally starting to consistently play like the conference champions the fans of the blue and white have come to know and love over the past three seasons.

Although SMC trounced LA Southwest College Saturday 56-27, the true test lies in their final two season games. Most notably next week’s conference showdown with Santa Barbara City College, who is the only other undefeated team in the Western State Conference.

It goes without saying that Saturday’s game is the biggest of the season for the Corsairs. If SMC is going to leave the field with a victory, and preserve their chances at a fourth straight conference title, they will have to be firing on all cylinders. Luckily for SMC, in the past few weeks, that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.

“In preparation, everyone has a different role to play. Whether it’s the offensive coordinator studying the defense, or the defensive coordinator studying the offense, or the special teams,” said head coach Gifford Lindheim. “They’re very talented, well coached, disciplined, and balanced on offense, and defense. At the same token, I feel good about our team. I think that this type of game will hopefully bring out the best in our guys as well.”

With the whole season riding on one game, it’s to be expected that nerves will start to rear their ugly heads, especially for such a young team, but this isn’t the Corsairs’ first shot at a conference title. They’re in the middle of a dynasty, and they know exactly what it’s going to take to keep that dynasty alive.

“This group is really loose, and has had a lot of confidence since day one. For us, it’s been about keeping them level-headed,” said Lindheim. “It’s really exciting to get into a game like this. Our focus needs to be the same; we’re going to prepare the same way.

We all know that the results of this game are

bigger than most.”

Although the Corsairs know what it takes to win big games, Santa Barbara sits on top of the conference for a reason. They have two less out of conference losses than SMC. But at the end of the day, the conference champions will be crowned according to their conference record, and both Santa Barbara and Santa Monica have yet to lose in conference play.

In order to hand the Vaqueros their first loss of the season, the Corsairs will have to prepare better, and practice harder. But putting in the effort on and off the field is exactly what has given the Corsairs their edge the past three championship seasons.

“I think we have to execute our game plan.

On offense we have to play physical, we have to execute the game plan and limit turnovers.

On defense we can’t give Santa Barbara [City College] extra possessions, and we have to play fast.” Lindheim.

Though time to reflect is undoubtedly saved for after the season, it’s hard for Coach Lindheim to not give praise where it’s due.

But he just can’t pass up the chance at appreciating his staff, and supporters, that’s just the kind of guy he is.

“Winning is a bi-product of a lot of people’s work. There’s the counseling department, the training staff, our administration, our assistant coaches, and obviously the players,” said Lindheim “It’s rewarding to see us have success, and to see everyone’s efforts get rewarded with success like that. But I’ve told my team, and our staff that the time to reflect on what you have accomplished, is at the end of the season, and we’re not there yet.”

At the end of the day, he knows the Corsairs are on the doorstep of arguably their biggest challenge in his tenure here as SMC head coach, and they will be prepared to take on that challenge.

SMC will host Santa Barbara City College this Saturday at 1 p.m. for their annual homecoming game. If everything goes as planned, homecoming won’t be the only thing the Corsairs will be celebrating.

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TREV ANGONE Sports Editor The Santa Monica College Corsair men’s soccer team settled for a 4-4 tie Tuesday afternoon after the Glendale College Vaqueros snatched away a victory from the Corsair’s clutches at the last minute, eliminating them from conference title contention.

With less than 14 minutes to go in the match, Glendale forward Maxwell Trautmann found himself with just the goalie to beat, as he lobbed a chip shot over Santa Monica goalie Westin Adkins, just out of his reach, sealing the tie point, and preventing the Vaqueros from a loss.

“Getting the tie on the road is huge for us, and especially against a great team like Santa Monica,” Vaquero freshman forward Maxwell Trautmann said. “Getting the game-tying goal is a great moral booster for the team going into our last two games of the season, and hopefully we can pull out wins there too.”

The Corsairs got off to a slow start, scoring only one goal in the first half. But in the first 15 minutes of the second half, the Corsairs found themselves with a 3-2 lead thanks to sophomore midfielder Duncan Bochicchio’s two goals.

Despite Bochicchio’s efforts, the Corsairs’ defense just couldn’t put the game away, giving up multiple one-goal leads, and eventually allowing Glendale to salvage the game with a tie.

“It definitely feels like a loss. This team is behind us in the standings. We worked our butts off, but we let up some really soft goals.

I think the boys played really well today, we just got unlucky,” Bochicchio said.

With the loss and Western State Conference leading Oxnard College Condor’s inactivity Tuesday, the Corsairs move to 22 points and a 6-3-4 record in conference play with three games to go. The Condors sit atop the conference at 33 points.

After giving away a tie, only 14 minutes away from victory, not only are SMC’s playoff chances dashed, but so is their momentum on the season.

“It’s a tough one to stomach. Obviously we had some good moments out there, scoring four goals, but we’re just struggling with taking breaks during games, and teams are punishing us for that,” said Corsair head coach Tim Pierce. “On one side of the ball we were fantastic tonight, and on the other side of the ball, we made a lot of mistakes.”

“We have an explosive offense, and in the first half we were a little bit stale. The two goals we scored to start the second half were amazing. We were up 3-2, and then we gave up a pretty poor goal, it was a bad giveaway.

So now were looking at 3-3, and after we responded again, they were able to tie it up again. It was kind of one of those games, but it’s been one of those seasons too.” Pierce said.

The Corsairs will try to get back on the winning track this Friday as they travel to L.A. Mission for a 2 P.M. start.

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volume 108 issue 9 • November 5, 2014 • santa monica college

A tale of kings and queens: a history of Homecoming From imposters to grand soirées, Homecoming has a broad and strange history Jose Gutierrez staff writer

On Saturday, November 11, 1933, the field lights turned on and illuminated the Santa Monica Junior College Corsairs as they came home for the first time.

The festivities were short, as the lack of their own field prevented them from playing a homecoming game for a long time afterward.

But before attending the most recent edition, it's best to revisit the history of homecoming in the SMC community.

In 1948, Santa Monica City College was constructed, complete with its own stadium.

This would allow the school to start up a new homecoming tradition, as the newlychristened Corsairs would be able to play on their own field. School spirit must have flourished the following year, as Nov. 11,1949 hosted the first homecoming game played on campus, and student Diane Hixon was elected as the first homecoming queen.

Not only did 1949 mark the school’s first homecoming, but also the Corsairs’ first loss, as the El Camino Warriors blew them away 34-0.

The next year initiated the tradition of the homecoming dance. Queen Nancy Freeman reigned over the dance on Friday night, with the following Saturday afternoon hosting a parade. That Saturday night marked the SMCC’s second homecoming loss, this time to Mount San Antonio, who ruled the field that year 40-7.

Fast forward to 1955, when over 900 people voted to elect Pat Sheaffer as homecoming queen, the largest turnout in the school’s

history. SMC clubs created enough work to be displayed in a parade route that stretched three miles. In contrast, the homecoming game of 1956 against Harbor was won 24-7, but practically no one was there to celebrate.

Surrounding fog was so thick that the total paid attendance was one.

The 1968 homecoming program had something new to offer besides the traditional game, dance, and parade. That year, SMCC hosted a battle of the bands along with the parade. 34 bands followed in homecoming queen Frances Williams wake during the parade yet only Long Beach City College's marching band made the trip worth while, winning the junior college division.

Controversy surrounded the elected queen

of 1975, so much so that the Corsairs threatened not to play the second half of the homecoming game if she were to win. This was because the queen in fact a he, and the he was Michael Heesy, also known as “Goldie Glitters”. She was a female impersonator who ended up being crowned homecoming queen with a booming 38 percent of the vote.

A petition was put forth in favor of proclaiming Heesy ineligible for the position of queen. However, Heesy still won the crown, but was not publicly crowned at the game, and the Corsairs played anyway. The student was told to leave the campus after the ordeal, but was finally crowned officially by the previous Corsair advertising executive

In the 81 years Santa Monica College has held Homecoming festivities, the school has seen a man, Michael Hessy (top left, white suit) win Homecoming Queen, success on the field such as the 35-28 victory over Southwest in 1979 (top right) and the pomp of the debut of the Corsair marching band (bottom left).

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One year later in 1975, the title of “homecoming king” was introduced as a way of dodging the “Goldie Glitters” scandal that Heesy posed prior. The first acknowledged homecoming king was Ken Ransfer.

The year Heesy won the crown was met with silent half-time activities and a more than low-key approach to homecoming celebrations. Future celebrations, however, were vastly more cheerful.

In 1989, over $26,000 was invested in homecoming, but only received $6,435 in returns. It was a huge extravaganza concocted to honor the school’s 60th anniversary. The dance was host to buffets, bars, and a 60-candle cake. Free pompoms and balloons were even distributed among students at the game. “It was a big success in that we all had a lot of fun,” said former Budget Director, Jason Weisberger.

“Financially speaking, however, we are not doing it again," he added.

Only four years later, it seemed that the financial aspect, as well as the fun, of homecoming had been done away with.

In 1993, the visiting Bakersfield College provided most of the fans at the stadium.

As described by former faculty member Charles Donaldson, “Homecoming 1993 had few cheers, no pep band, no dance and no homecoming queen.” No alumni even attended the game. This year, according to Donaldson, marked the end of the wellknown homecoming tradition.

School spirit doesn’t seem to have stayed diminished, however. SMC continues the homecoming tradition even today and the upcoming game against the Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros this year promises to be full of excitement and the age-old rush of competition.

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