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EDITORIAL STAFF Devin Page ....................................Editor-in-Chief corsair.editorinchief@gmail.com Yasha Hawkins...........................Managing Editor corsair.managing@gmail.com Alissa Nardo ......................................News Editor corsair.news@gmail.com Bailey Peraita ..........................Health & Lifestyle corsair.lifestylepage@gmail.com Oskar Zinneman ........................... Opinion Editor corsair.opinionpage@gmail.com Josh Shure .........................................Sports Editor corsair.sportspage@gmail.com Nik Lucaj ..............Arts & Entertainment Editor corsair.calendarpage@gmail.com Claudius West .................. Multimedia Director corsair.multimediadept@gmail.com Jose Lopez ...........................................Photo Editor corsairphotoeditor@gmail.com Students browse glass pumpkins at the Santa Monica College Fall College Fair on Tuesday. (Dotan Saguy/Corsair)
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Students attend the Fall College Fair on Tuesday at Santa Monica College. (Dotan Saguy/Corsair)
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR DEVIN PAGE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF College applications are nearing their due date and everyone is awaiting the opportunity to start the next phase of their life by transferring to a four-year university. I will also be a part of that group stressing about what to put on my personal statement, if my grades are high enough to get into my potential schools, and overall just looking forward to the future. If you are one of those people then to put you at ease is the bi-annual college fair that invites colleges from across the country, including some international schools to inform students about any questions they may have. At first glance, it may look like a waste of time and you see a bunch of pamphlets, pencils, and a lot of information that looks like you could just pull it off of the college website. Contrary to this belief it was actually informative as college officials could answer any specific questions including if your GPA is high enough or if a certain major is impacted. In this issue, we cover the college fair for those who weren't sure about going or missed it because of classes, etc. Look out for the most anticipated albums of the year as our Opinion Editor goes through the albums you're waiting for, and for some you might still be waiting depending on whether Kanye decides to release his album anytime soon. And of course, Adele; everyone's awaiting the resurrection of pop music aka her album "25."
Participate in the legislative, political and administrative processes in governmental or public service agencies. Gain exposure to and experience in the process of public policy and public service. Broaden your awareness of and vision in pursuing public service as a possible career. Work with professional staff in research, analysis, and development of legislative proposals. Assist in organizing and participating in public forums and events. Acquire self-confidence and self-discipline, gain critical thinking skills and apply your knowledge beyond the classroom. It is almost Halloween and while it seems all in good fun to think of quirky costumes, it should go without saying that appropriating other cultures shouldn't be included in any costumes this year. Wearing blackface, a feathered head piece, sombrero or anything of the like should be pretty obviously offensive if you've ever opened a world history book. Most celebrities worth imitating have personalities and wardrobes that describe them much better than their skin color. As much as this should go without saying occurrences resurface every year, like at the recent UCLA frat party said to be about making fun of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. But who dedicates a whole party to those imbeciles? Leave the buttpads, grills, and dark makeup at home; but a Donald Trump wig should be totally fair game.
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COLLEGE FAIR BRINGS HOPE AND HELP TO STUDENTS Over one hundred four-year colleges came together to provide feedback to prospective transferees
ALISSA NARDO NEWS EDITOR Gathered around the quad, bright booths stood proudly against the sunny sky. Pamphlets littered the ground, while students chatted excitedly with college representatives and gained hope for their academic future. Santa Monica College hosted the biannual College Fair yesterday in the Fountain Quad during activities hour. SMC’s College Fair is the largest in the state, with around 170 colleges signed up for attendance this time around. The fair allowed students lacking the means to visit campuses to talk to representatives from universities. “I’m not transferring for two years, but it’s nice to have an idea before the time comes,” student Nassif Zmerli said. Students heard about special programs, gained information and feedback on what each schools are specifically looking for in application candidates. “Many schools feel SMC has well
prepared students and that our quality of students is higher than others,” Maria Bonin, transfer counseling staff said. Counselors can help you only so much in the transfer process, said Bonin. The best advice concerning specific major requirements and recommended GPA comes directly from the colleges themselves. “Any tips you can get makes your chances of getting into [schools] better,” Bonin said. Schools as close to home as UCLA and those as far away as the American University of Paris sent representatives to meet with prospective transfer students. “SMC is our main transfer partnership,” said an American University of Paris representative. “Most of our transfer students come from Southern California. We want to just plant the idea of going to school outside of the States.” If you missed the college fair, make sure to catch next semester's fair to learn about more transfer opportunities.
Students crowd around the University of Southern Califorina (USC) tent and ask questions regarding transfering. The college fair was on Tuesday at Santa Monica College. (Dotan Saguy/Corsair)
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE
THE AMERICAN DREAM
TCBY business owner follows his heart in the land of opportunity SAMUEL HUNTINGTON STAFF WRITER It’s a beautiful Thursday afternoon in late September and sitting at an oval table near The Coffee Spot is a slight man in his mid 60’s with silver hair, penetrating dark eyes and a warm, juxtaposing smile. If you hear him speak, the low tone carries a distinct Persian accent with a quiet intensity that requires one to lean forward to digest his words. “I learn everyday,” he says, “and I’ve learned a lot from the students.” He may look familiar on the SMC campus but most do not know that this man is Michael Eghbali, the proprietor of TCBY/ Starbucks and The Coffee Spot, two highly popular food service kiosks on campus since 1988. He's a man that has always done things his way. And perhaps it's his natural instinct for experimentation and independence which allows him to relate to the students that he works with and employs. “I never believed that there was any one way to do things and so I never had any difficulty relating to the youngsters.” It might also be a clue into what has has allowed him to navigate the choppy waters that come along with a life that has carried him across oceans. "They came in and took everything and I went down almost to zero," he says when describing his last years in his native Iran, which he was forced to leave during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 which resulted in the Iranian Oil Embargo and ushered in the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamic state. Like many successful entrepreneurs he started fresh and began lessons in business starting at a young age; joining the workforce at age sixteen, working in a variety of jobs such as accounting, collections, and sales before striking out on his own at the ripe old age of 21. He also picked up a degree in Sociology, the study of the development, structure, and functions of human society, which he claims to never have used but may have subtly helped him in his enterprises. One of his many businesses, Dairy World, was a food processing business which spe-
cialized in dairy which produced on average twenty tons of dairy products at the height of its existence. He then emigrated to Germany after the chaos of the revolution through the help of one of his exporting clients where he resumed his dairy business while branching off into several other directions including starting a construction business, industrial manufacturing business, and starting an operation in Greece. Eventually, curiosity got the best of him because after the death of his mother and father, he chose to try his hand in the U.S. with the help from some extended family and eventually taking up residence in Santa Monica. "I was looking for an opportunity and I began studying the yogurt business," he says. At the time, the mid 80’s, the first frozen yogurt craze was sweeping through Southern California. He found out that SMC was accepting bids for their first food service vendor and put in a bid to start a frozen yogurt business eventually winning out over established frozen yogurt companies such as Heidi’s and Penguins, because he was the only bidder that was willing to invest his own money into the project, thus creating “Icicle Frozen Yogurt.”
The difference with me is that I run my business with my heart. Today the company still serves frozen yogurt, but it’s just one of many products. “From the beginning it’s always been about two things, quality and price.” He says and equates that to being the difference between commercial versus custom or giving the analogy, “It’s like the difference between drinking a Budweiser or versus enjoying a craft beer.” Today, Eghbali works with several
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Mike Eghbali, owner of the two coffee kiosks at Santa Monica College (SMC) prepares iced mochas at his TCBY coffee kiosk. (Dotan Saguy/Corsair)
marquee brands including Starbucks, TCBY frozen yogurt, Boar’s Head deli products, and Evolution juices. He also has a long standing relationship with a local french bakery that supplies all of the muffins and pastries behind the sample case. He remains committed to these practices even as it becomes increasingly difficult to fulfill them. “I charge $6 for a Boar's Head sandwich. That’s great meat. Go into Ralph’s and they charge you $8 for the same thing, and they probably pay 20% less than I do.” Yet even with these difficulties Eghbali strives to serve products with convenience and economy to the customer. “We’re coming to the end of it,” he says referring to the current pricing structure, “I had one vendor implement three increases in the last year. The problem that we have today is that everybody is always wanting more and more trying to extract every last dollar. "The difference with me is that I run my business with my heart.” Eghbali says. In fact, Eghbali prides himself on quality customer service. He recalls an incident last week: “There was a woman who returned a Danish. We checked it out and there was something wrong with the dough. I took them all out of the case and returned them to the bakery. The next morning I met with him at his office and that was it.” Another way he listens to his customers @THE_CORSAIR •
is actually proven in the sandwich displays. He started selling sandwiches because he got a request from a student that wanted him to start offering fresh mozzarella and tomato sandwiches, and the relationship with Evolution juices came about because students were requesting healthier options. Now, a man in his mid 60’s with two adult children and two grandchildren, Eghbali seems to have some perspective on his life in business. Although he’s run multiple businesses of various size and scale he chose not to expand into other colleges and universities because it would take away from the time that he’s able to dedicate to SMC. “I believe that in any business you have to be on top of the business all the time,” he says. It’s the victories of life that are most important to him such as his enjoying his weekends off with friends and family, his business and now guiding others on their own entrepreneurial path. His eyes gleam as he relays the stories of several young people that have worked for him over the years and the progress that they've made in their lives including the story of a young man that started out as a troubled student with no self confidence who later went on to gain more responsibility where he opened his own restaurant in Colorado. Eager, Eghbali then proceeds to ask if he can go open his restaurant.
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The stage fills with the actors performing the Popol Vuh play on Sunday at Grand Park in Los Angeles, California. (Jose Lopez/Corsair)
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Visitors gather at Grand Park on Sunday for the weekend performance of the Popol Vuh in Los Angeles, California. (Jose Lopez/Corsair)
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Actors perform the Popol Vuh play on Sunday at Grand Park in Los Angeles, California. (Jose Lopez/Corsair)
A musician plays a flute for the Popol Vuh performance at Grand Park on Sunday in Los Angeles, California (Carlos Espinosa/Corsair)
s performance in the Popol Vuh event at Grand Park on Sunday in Los Angeles, California. (Carlos Espinosa/Corsair)
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n the scenic environment of Grand Park in downtown Los eles, beautiful trees and the City Hall building surrounding, tural event called Popol Vuh took place on Saturday. Popol translates to the “Book of the People.” This celebrates crenal mythology in the Mayan culture. heatre, music, and dance made up the event and were ormed by the neighboring Boyle Heights community and
Raul Pacheco, the guitarist for the play, speaks with Luis Valdez, the founder of Teatro Campesino, after the performance of Popol Vuh on Sunday at Grand Park in Los Angeles, California (Jose Lopez/Corsair)
members of El Teatro. Among the audience was Luis Valdez, director of Zootsuit and creator of El Teatro Campesino. This is a project that Valdez says has been in evolution for three or four years. “It started in El Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista and then it was brought to Los Angeles… to involve the the people in the community of Boyle Heights,” says Valdez. “It’s about the creation of the world… the Mayan bible. It’s the oldest story of creation in the Americas… the same stories told in different perspective.” Contrary to the Christian story about the sacrificial lamb,
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in Mexico is represented by the “Mazorca,” corn god. “The idea of life and death is more like the plants. You plant the seeds and you’re reborn rather than killing animals or sacrificing anything,” he says. Valdez connects with this event through his Indian blood, like people in attendance, he doesn’t distinguish between indigenous tribes. “We left those wars a long time ago, we’re all one people,” says Valdez. As Valdez describes in the “heart of heaven” and in the heart of Los Angeles, the latino locals celebrated as one. /THECORSAIRNEWS •
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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5 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS FOR THE REST OF 2015
Illustration by AJ Parry
1. “Swish (maybe)” – Kanye West I started actively “following” music in 2010. I was a junior in high school, and up until then I had listened to music, maybe had a few favorite artists, but it was yet to be a passion. That all changed when I heard Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” a record that snatched my attention and changed my relationship with music forever. My placement of Kanye at the epicenter of music culture felt validated in 2014. Kanye was absent from the game for the first time
since 2009, and the result was an incredibly dry year. With all due respect to “Run The Jewels 2” and “1989,” two great albums don’t make a great year. While music fans sat around waiting for Kanye to make his next move, the industry seemed to do the same thing. My theory was confirmed; there was no excitement in music without Mr. West. Kanye now finds himself in a puzzling position. The industry has started up again; they are no longer patient for their wise old grandpa Yeezy to show them the way. Between Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Future, Fetty Wap, Young Thug, and so many of the exciting young figures in hip-hop, there is enough passion and vision to find their own interesting direction. If we learned anything from Kanye’s last classic though, it’s that just because the culture has appeared to have shifted away from Kanye, that doesn’t mean Kanye won’t come through and shift the culture right back. 2013’s “Yeezus” may have been Kanye’s worst selling album to date, but it seized the cultural conversation in a way most, if not all, of this year’s releases have failed to. Kanye has promised his fans an album. Whether it’s called "So Help Me God," "Swish," or hopefully something better than that, people will be there to receive it. Will Kanye wait for a year of his own or try to prove he can still steal the spotlight? Does he have another classic in store, or are we headed for another Cruel Summer? Only one man, and possibly Kim Kardashian, has the power to give answers to these questions.
A look at what the music world has in store for the rest of the year BY JACOB HIRSOHN OPINION EDITOR
Illustration by AJ Parry
2. “Purpose” – Justin Bieber 3. “Views From The 6” – Drake Why am I always left wanting more from Aubrey Graham? He’s the biggest and most captivating man in music. His output is objectively good, and his career, in terms of quality and success, is undeniably superior to almost all of his colleagues. My frustration with him stems from high expectations combined with confusion about many of his decisions. My relationship with Drake started in 2011 with the release of his best album to date, “Take Care.” I didn’t particularly care for Drake’s work before this album and I was particularly turned off by his radio singles. Something about “Take Care” was different though, and it’s something he has never been able to capture since. I have continued to follow his music, and I have continued to become more and more underwhelmed by each album. My excitement for “Views From The 6” was starting to fade completely, until I read the excellent
5. “25” – Adele There is an argument to be made that Adele saved pop music. In 2011, pop music was divided, reeling with no figure to rally around. Adele then unleashed “Rolling In The Deep,” the most unavoidable song in recent memory. Unlike so many other unavoidable songs, usually by men named LMFAO or Pitbull, “Rolling In The Deep” was deserving of its ubiquitous status (really,
profile of Drake in the October issue of The Fader. In it, Drake unveiled a piece of information that put much of his artistic decline in perspective and gave me reason to believe in VFT6. Drake has had an excellent creative partner since day one in producer Noah “40” Shebib. 40 produced almost every song on “Take Care” and only slightly less on the follow-up, “Nothing Was The Same.” So far in 2015, 40 has disappeared from Drake’s producer list, working on only 3 songs on "If You're Reading This It's Too Late" and one song on “What A Time To Be Alive.” As 40 has disappeared from Drake’s music, so has his sonic cohesiveness, his distinct instrumental style, and any sense of broader vision for his albums as a whole. Luckily for his fans, Drake unveiled to Fader that the process behind “Views From The 6” has involved his most intimate collaborations with 40 since “Take Care.” This means the return of hope, as well as the danger of high expectations.
it may have been underplayed). Adele gave the music industry a massive jolt of energy and, just as importantly, money. How often have smash albums as big as “21” been followed up with an album just as big? Adele emerged from her hiatus, which involved voice-threatening medical issues and a new baby, to announce that “25” may be just around the corner. Adele has already saved pop music; now we get to see where she thinks it deserves to go.
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When will our time with Justin Bieber come to and end? For many lazy, humorless people, the answer would be “not soon enough.” If you take any indication from his latest mega-single “What Do You Mean” or the popularity of some recent paparazzi pictures of a before unseen side of him, it’s unlikely to be in the near future. I’ve personally had a soft spot for Bieber for a while now. People like to act like they hate Bieber because of his misdeeds: an ignorant comment about Anne Frank, urinating in a mop bucket while bad-mouthing Bill Clinton, and, most seriously, a DUI. Bieber has been one of the most hated boys
4. “Radio Silence” – James Blake James Blake came on the scene as a DJ, releasing a series of EPs that made him one of the hottest names in the electronic music scene. In the lead-up to his debut album, the world was unfamiliar with the sound of his voice. That changed when Blake converted himself into a post-Dubstep crooner — a singer-songwriter with the voice and the songwriting chops deserving of his excellent production. “James Blake” was a fantastic debut album, and Blake followed it up with “Overgrown,” far from a sophomore slump. “Overgrown” felt like a career peak; it was a culmination and combination of all the
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in America ever since “One Time.” This is partially rooted in misogyny; I still to this day see people insult Bieber simply by referring to him as a girl. Part of it is rooted in groupthink; Bieber has always been an easy target, and while the jokes may have been funny at first, we’re entering year six of the same old material. Besides the exhausting and depressing “he looks like a girl” jokes, the reliable trope people fall back on is less offensive but just as out of date: “his music is terrible.” While I hate to spoil so many years of a fun joke, this doesn’t hold up anymore either. Bieber’s 2013 mixtape “Journals” featured collaborations with hip names like Future and Chance The Rapper, as well as straight up legends R. Kelly and Lil Wayne. It also showed a dimension of musical maturity that was neither expected nor required of Bieber. Put simply: it was a very good album. “Journals” was by far Bieber’s best work but was light on hits and failed to make a lot of noise. It painted a vision of Bieber as a minor pop culture figure — the guy who used to rule the world now quietly turning out quality work without all the fuss. Bieber’s tumultuous 2014 managed to erase that vision and replace it with one more similar to Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears. Bieber was headed down an all too beaten path with an anything but pretty ending. With “What Do You Mean,” Bieber managed to rewrite his narrative a third time. The song is an absolute smash — one of the biggest of the year as well as one of the best. The Internet has forgiven Bieber for his sins as they are willing to with anyone making great music. Just ask R. Kelly. Now Bieber has one last item on the checklist to ditch all of the baggage: make a great album. “Purpose” aims to be Bieber’s “Futuresex/Lovesounds.” That’s a high bar to match, and I’m ready to see Bieber take the leap.
different styles he had experimented with over his various releases. They came together cohesively and beautifully and made for a powerful and unique album. Now it’s been two years since we’ve last heard from Blake, and I am as curious as ever about his next move. There have been teases of collaborations with Kanye, Drake, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and Chance The Rapper — essentially a dream list of collaborators in my book. This list suggests that Blake may be using “Radio Silence” to try and conquer the music world. He has yet to be a crossover success, peaking as an indie/electronic darling. His intentions seem clear, but if Blake has been anything so far, it’s unpredictable.
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OPINION
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THIN SKIN THREATENS FREE SPEECH ADAM THOMAS STAFF WRITER
In 2015 the US is beginning to show signs of a dangerous disease: ThinSkinned Crybaby Syndrome. Primary symptoms: an inability to handle dissenting views coupled with a selfish need to silence their source. Like chickenpox, this is something that people are supposed to catch in their youth, and then be cured of by the age old advice of “Sticks and Stones may break our bones, but words can never hurt me.” While this may be a gross oversimplification of stoic principles, it tends to work. People get over it and learn that when people say mean things about them, it is not, in fact, the end of the world. No one apparently inoculated the folks at the UN and the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, who last month released their long-in-the-making report on “Cyber Violence against Women and Girls." This report repeated long disproven “facts” like video games being a direct cause of violence (their source: Lyndon LaRouche) and the idea that “cyber” is a real word people still use after 1996. It was a farce that attempted to equate trolling, petty insults and differing opinions on the internet with serious threats of physical harm, and was as dismissive of the subjects it was theoretically trying to defend. Apparently, though men get harassed online too, only women are susceptible to this “cyber violence," on a visceral level. All this in an effort to spur the UN into action to censor the internet through increased centralized control of it so that precious feelings might not be hurt in the future. Cooler heads prevailed and laughed derisively at the report’s hastily thrown together, shoddy, and verifiably false “research," and it was sheepishly scuttled by
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the body. But these same cool heads were missing when the folks at Twitter recently revealed their newest bannable offense: disagreeing with someone. Twitter’s page to report users engaged in abusive or harassing behavior now includes “Offensive, disrespectful, or in disagreement with my opinion," as an option. If enough people report a person the account is banned, and the person effectively silenced on one of the largest social media platforms on the internet. Worse than the obvious ability for mob majorities to silence the voices of those holding a minority opinion is the implication behind this change. Twitter is a business. They would never have made a policy shift like this unless a substantial number of people had requested such a feature – make no mistake, labeling disagreement as abuse came from the user base first, not the policy makers. One constantly growing trend that does come from policy makers though is the encroachment of free speech on college campuses. Some universities, not content with existing speech codes and designated free speech zones to limit student discourse and “safe spaces” in case someone’s feelings are still hurt after all of that, feel ever more measures are necessary. Last month, the regents of the University of California’s Committee on Education Policy proposed a policy to “outlaw intolerance” along a host of vague guidelines after receiving pressure from activists to limit anti-Israeli sentiment on campuses by students from the left. At Louisiana State University, Teresa Buchanan, a tenured professor was fired for saying “F--- no” in June. Additionally, there are countless examples of student groups themselves at-
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VOLUME 110 ISSUE 05 • OCTOBER 14, 2015 • SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
MICHAEL CARLSON Once a bruin, now a Corsair
HANNAH KOVAR STAFF WRITER “I want to prove to everyone and all the universities that are looking at me, or who have overlooked me in the past that not only can I play, but I can play at a high level and I want to go out there a show everyone that I’m one of the better football players out there.” Michael Carlson, an athlete hungry and thriving for success, has joined the Santa Monica Corsairs football team this promising fall season. Carlson is an incredible asset to the Corsairs, he has big dreams of playing at the NCAA Division 1 level again, while still getting a good education and eventually improving his skills to enable him to play professional football. Carlson attended Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Washington and where he played four years of varsity football and was named first team all-conference his senior year. He received a Washington State Championship ring all four years of high school while also getting honored as second team all-conference for varsity basketball as well. An all-around athlete who knows what it is like to commit to the game he loves, he dedicates himself to being the best athlete he can be. After high school, Carlson was recruited to play for the UCLA football team. However, after a few setbacks and minimal opportunities of playing time, he felt that leaving UCLA would be in his best interest. On figuring out where to continue his football endeavors, Santa Monica College was an easy choice for him. “The location is really close to UCLA and I live in the area and
I didn’t have to move far,” he said. Still in search of being a big contributing factor at a D1 football program, he has yet to receive any word from any D1 coaches. “I'm interested in any school that shows interest in me, but I'm really interested in any Pac-12 school. Specifically University of Washington." An unfortunate injury in the last game against Glendale college on October 3rd caused Carlson to get carried off the field late in the third quarter. “He has a knee sprained. He is receiving treatment. He's out for sure this week [October 10th], but were hoping we’ll have him back next week or the following week,” said head coach Gifford Lindheim. Carlson plans on coming back strong as he is working on adding to his highlight tapes to send to schools across the country. From his experience playing for the Bruins he was able to bring a couple of words of advice to the Corsairs football team. “You really need to be on top things, and there is no mistakes, if you mess up that could be the end of your reps for the day or you could possibly losing your starting spot,” said Carlson. From his time at UCLA, Carlson walked away with better time management and an understanding of the competitive nature of D1 collegiate athletics. “UCLA was a great experience and some of the most fun and competitive time I've had.” he said. “I'm always shooting to go to the highest level and the NFL is the highest level and hopefully I can get paid doing something I love.”
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Michael Carlson, plays as Defensive back for the Santa Monica College Football team transferred from UCLA. (Carlos Espinosa/Corsair)
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