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Associated Students President Harrison Wills leads a group of concerned students and legislators set on bringing greener food to Santa Monica College by changing the way SMC works with its vendors. According to SMC’s policies for arranging food options on campus, a Request For Proposal (RFP) is a document that solicits services or products and defines vendor requirements. Wills, looking to gain support for his vision, is submitting a petition to the Board of Trustees for a new RFP. “We’re trying to create a culture of critical thinking, sustainability, and conscious consumption, thrift, and resourcefulness,” explained Wills. “You see that in our programs, like the Big Blue Bus, the carpool program, double-sided printing, and the organic garden – so now we’re looking at our food.” According to the current RFP from 2008, the SMC cafeteria must serve at least 50 percent organic produce and meat, which must be free of antibiotics and hormones. According to Wills, there is currently no position to make sure that vendors at SMC use organic food. A solution to this, Wills said, would be to create additional job descriptions in the bylaws for the student government’s director of sustainability and the director of sustainability for the college. These additional responsibilities would include monitoring the food brought in by vendors. “By creating this position in the criteria, we’re driving it home that this is something that is valued and has to be handled,” Wills said. Kendall Blum, commissioner of legislative affairs to the A.S. president, has been
collecting signatures for a petition to show that the student body is behind sustainable food changes. “It’s really hard to find food at this school,” said Blum. “That shouldn’t be the case. There shouldn’t be people who are going to class hungry because they aren’t comfortable supporting the lack of sustainable principles being practiced in the cafeteria.” SMC’s sustainability efforts have long been a priority, but Wills explains that the college can’t truly be green without taking a closer look at the food sold to students on campus. “There’s no way that we can talk about sustainability on campus, have all these high sustainable values in our mission statement, without addressing the food we eat,” Wills said. “It’s really hypocritical, and we have to address that. Otherwise, we should stop talking about it.” If the proposal is approved, the SMC cafeteria will serve 100 percent organic food and actively practice sustainability in purchasing produce through local farms, using free-range meat with no artificial hormones, and instituting an all-vegetarian day in the cafeteria, called “Meatless Mondays.” The new RFP proposal comes with certain financial affects, however, such as an increase of food prices in the cafeteria. Daniel Shindel, an SMC student, is not overly concerned by the increased prices that may result from changes to the RFPs. “I think I would appreciate healthier food on campus, giving me options to eat better,” Shindel said. Not all students agree with the idea of a 100-percent organic cafeteria at SMC. “I
don’t think it’s a good idea. There is a very small percentage of the population who are currently supporting organic food. Even though it’s trending and becoming more popular, it will be more expensive,” said SMC student Natalie Waldon. Organic food is more expensive because consumers are not only paying for the actual food, but also for the process of how that food is being produced. Producers of organic foods often practice fair trade, which is a system to promote equality and sustainability in the marketplace. “I would still buy food from the cafeteria, provided the food was good and reasonably priced. I wouldn’t buy it just because it was organic,” said Darlieshia Verner, an employee at SMC’s Counseling complex. Wills argues that even though students will be compelled to spend more money on campus cafeteria food, it will be beneficial in the long run. “It’s cheaper to get a 99-cent hamburger, but when you get diabetes and high blood pressure and obesity, plus the environmental degradation, it’s actually not cheaper,” Wills said. “You’re always going to have some people who would prefer the current or older way. I’m sure there were people who were upset when Carl’s Jr. left,” said Wills who recognizes the resistance to change but still believes in moving toward a healthier future. The new RFP will be sent for approval within the Fall 2011 school semester. If approved, campus eateries such as Eat Street and Campus Kitchen won’t have to abide by the new guidelines until their fiveyear contracts run out.
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despite forseeable hurdles, smc administrators announce possibility of expanding soccer to men By Muna Cosic & William Courtney News Editor + Sports Editor To the pleasant surprise of many, Santa Monica College athletics project manager Joe Cascio confirmed at a recent Board of Trustees meeting that men's soccer will be coming to SMC. During the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees meeting last Tuesday, Nov. 1, SMC athletics project manager Joe Cascio announced the possible addition of a men’s soccer program at SMC in the fall of 2012. According to Cascio, the possible addition of men’s soccer has already been approved by the Western State Conference, and is in
compliance with the third prong of Title IX. Title IX is a federal law that requires schools to offer a fair distribution of sports for both men and women. A three-pronged test for compliance with Title IX was established by the U.S Department of Education, and only one of the prongs must be met in order to establish a new sports program.
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Santa Monica’s new Bike Center
Silvia Spross Corsair The self service Bike Centers at Broadway and 4th Street, and Colorado and 2nd Street, are part of the city's bike friendly additions to downtown.
By Christina Sziatinszky . Staff Writer Bicycles are becoming an emblem of the future for the city of Santa Monica, as locals are quickly saying goodbye to cars, traffic, and noxious fumes. By Friday, Nov. 18, the Santa Monica Bike Center will be opening its doors to the public, offering secure bike parking, rentals, and many other cycling related services. “The Bike Center is part of a comprehensive strategy to get people to ride bikes, walk and take transit more, and drive less,” said Santa Monica’s deputy director for special projects Lucy Dyke. “Encouraging people to bicycle instead of drive is just one way to achieve these goals.” The Bike Center has two locations in Downtown Santa Monica, with its main offices at 2nd and Colorado and its selfservice location on 4th and Broadway. Dyke has worked in the planning of the Bike Center, and described it to be a kind of ‘mobility hub’, which “connects people and provides information about bike related events as well as offering programs, classes and sponsoring its own events,” said Dyke. She feels it’s part of the city’s approach to making the planet a better place, one step at a time. The City Council Report, written back in April, stated that the city’s Land Use and Circulation Element calls for an increased emphasis on cycling and other active transportation modes to improve access and congestion, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote healthy living and foster community. The City has also already implemented some bikeway improvements around the
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Bike Center, such as bike lanes, signal detections, and what are called “sharrows”, also known as shared lane markings. According to Dyke, a comprehensive agenda to complement the programs in the city’s Bike Action Plan is also being considered, a plan that is aimed at integrating bicycles into the fabric of everyday life. The new Bike Center includes features like access-controlled indoor bicycle parking, repairs, accessory sales and rentals, guided bicycle and Segway tours, safety classes, programs, and events. Access to most of the features requires paid membership, however. These memberships vary by usage options, with monthly rates starting at $15 and going as high as $50 (depending on services), and annual fees range from $99 to $299. Though some might see the prices as high, the City has no intention of financially benefiting from it. “It’s set to recover costs, not make money for the City,” said Santa Monica’s city manager Rod Gould. Mark Ponsness of Cynergy Cycle hoped the facilities would function like those he’s used in Santa Cruz where one pays $2-$3 at day to lock up your bike in a locker, and receive a key that gives you open access. “For those who want to come down just for the afternoon and enjoy the area that would be better,” said Ponsess. Ron Durgin, who is associated with the Bike Center, said the bike valet does offer daily drop-off for $3 at day during certain hours of operation, with access to bikes
in valet only during valet hours. Paying members will be issued a key card giving them access at any time during any day of the week. An anonymous bidder in the early stages of the project said with the cost of the hours of operation the city required after doing the numbers it seemed like a financially unsound endeavor. He found that they would need all 262 parking spots filled at $30 a month just to break even and was also worried about the distance from the center to the Expo Line. The center is operated in partnership with Bike and Park LLC, and other organizations such as Perry’s Cafe and Rentals, which will operate the bike rental and tours components, Urban Motion Inc.’s division in Los Angeles, which will offer limited Segway tour opportunities, and Sustainable Streets (which will conduct local marketing, employer and community outreach, as well as bike education activities). “We have a lot of work to do in the next several years to provide safer, more visible pathways for bicyclists,” said Gould. “But having the Bike Center will encourage more people to try biking to work, or to shop and play in the downtown Civic Center.” Separately, Santa Monica College, in keeping with sustainability goals, has also created a transportation task force that is working to promote commuter bike use to campus, and is in the process of renovating and improving bike racks around campus in attempts to achieve these goals.
[Soccer From Pg.3] According to the U.S. Department of Education, SMC is currently not in compliance with the first two prongs because there are more male than female athletes and is not expanding any female programs. SMC is in compliance with prong three because it offers the sports requested by female students. Based on incoming student application data that is looked over annually, all the women’s sports that incoming students wished to play have been accounted for and offered at SMC. This allows SMC to add a men’s soccer program, which is by far the most requested sport at the school, according to Cascio. Both Cascio and Mike Tuitasi, SMC Vice President of Student Affairs mentioned that women’s golf could be added in the future, even if it is not highly requested, in order to balance further the female to male ratio. “Our goal is to continue to offer all of the sports that our students want to play that are available in the California Community College system,” said Cascio. Tuitasi said that SMC is in compliance with Title IX because men’s soccer has been the most requested sport by incoming students during the application process. “We have a lot of students that want to play and we’re trying to provide that opportunity for them,” said Tuitasi. Zouhair Elatache, second-year student at SMC from Morocco, said that he asked a lot of people about a men’s soccer team. “I even went to the Admissions center and, since I’m an international student, I went to the [International Student Center] to get information about it. I am wondering if this is the only college that doesn’t have soccer.” At the Board of Trustees meeting, Cascio said, “We didn’t even consider a budget
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until we went through the Title IX and general equity aspect of it.” Since Title IX and the general equity aspects have been cleared, it now comes down to finalizing the budget and getting it approved by the Board of Trustees. Tuitasi has already submitted a budget request and is waiting to meet with SMC Vice President of Business and Administration, Bob Isomoto, to discuss instructional and auxiliary dollars. Tuitasi mentioned that the soccer team would have to raise funds on its own. “It’s really the money,” said Cascio, during an interview with the Corsair, in reference to men’s soccer becoming a reality and overcoming the budget concerns. If the budget is approved, the next step will be to find a coach, something that Cascio believes won’t be a problem. “We have enough candidates that we are looking to promote a coach from within,” Cascio noted during the meeting. Board of Trustee Dr. Nancy Greenstein said during the meeting that, “Athletics is important for many students because this is what motivates them to come to school and stay in school,” and that the “emphasis on the student as an athlete is critical for any institution, and I’m glad that we are refocused there.” Greenstein might have been talking about students like Juan Ochoa, a freshman at SMC who was considering other schools because there was no competitive men’s team at SMC. “Yeah, I was going to go to El Camino or L.A. Harbor. But I came here because it was closer to me,” said Ochoa. “We were just waiting for the soccer to come through.” But Cascio, who is very pleased with the possibility and the progress already made, is still “cautiously optimistic” about the final outcome.
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Censorship cannot silence the voice of the people By Mia Shilpi . Staff Writer The first half of 2011 saw a historic string of revolutions in the Middle East and across the world, as various Arab dictators were overthrown by citizens no longer content with tyranny, brought together by the power of the Internet. Ranging from shutting down social networking sites to shutting down Internet services entirely, tyrants across the region did everything they could to stay in power, and mostly with little success. When Libyan rebels saw their Internet access cut off, they managed to get portable Internet towers to coordinate the revolution across the culturally scattered nation. Wael Ghonim, a Google executive and Internet activist, is revered across Egypt as a hero due to his involvement in the revolution against the Mubarak regime. Across the region, while anger and discontent drove citizens against their dictators, it was social networking that
bound them together into a force strong enough to drive the revolution. The Internet brought change in many profound ways which the world would not have known less than a year ago, and now its impact is more than obvious. The second half of 2011 has brought progress to nations in upheaval, most of which are now forming entirely new governments and learning how to balance democratic principles with their own customs and cultures, scattered as they may be. Unfortunately, this does not leave censorship as a relic of the past, but all too currently a product of the present - as a new movement grabs the attention of the nation and the world: Occupy Wall Street. While many city police forces have been attacking protestors with brute force, the American federal government has largely ignored the movement, save expressions of support from individual officials. So far, the government has not attempted to actively censor the movement, which gets most of its publicity online as traditional media outlets cover their own very slanted viewpoints. The movement depends on social media to spread photographs of peaceful protesters and police brutality across the digital landscape. Within days of violent beatings and tear gas at Occupy Oakland, thousands of Egyptians marched from Tahrir Square to the U.S. Embassy in a show of solidarity. Some of them waved signs adorned with Twitter hash-tags, as many heard of the raids long before the Americans who woke to the news hours later. This event showcased the true power
undecided majors falter students’ graduation goals By Maria Dimera . Staff Writer Many students start off their college journey by taking general education classes with an “undecided” major, while others come with a major in mind and take classes to support that concentration. For international students, this can be difficult, as there are strict immigration rules that they need to follow prior to enrollment. “F1 status students are required to choose a major prior to being admitted to [Santa Monica College]. That major appears on their 'SEVIS I-20' admission document,” said Denise Kinsella, associate dean of international education at SMC. Entering college without a clear major can lead students to enroll in unnecessary classes, and possibly end up staying at the school longer than expected or necessary. This was the case with Gabriella Lopez, a sophomore student at SMC. “I thought I wanted to major in fashion, but after taking my English 1 class, I was interested in journalism, and eventually in communications.” To get an associate degree from SMC, one must complete a minimum of 60 units. This means that a student must attend SMC for approximately five semesters-assuming they’re full time students. These do not including summer and winter sessions either. As a result, SMC hosts a great many students who have been here for three years or more. One cannot help but to wonder why anyone would want to stay in school longer than necessary. Many students become noticeably comfortable at SMC as semesters pass by. SMC becomes a part of their daily routine, and one simply does not want to give up the comfort. Also, this is more common among U.S. residents than international students.
The fact that they must pay almost ten times more is probably a major reason why international students are not too happy to “waste time” at SMC. “It does sometimes happen that F1students change their major after arriving at SMC,” said Kinsella. “I do not have statistics on the frequency.” It is definitely safe to say that students with a major in mind tend to leave SMC in a much more timely manner than those who are still undecided. It makes sense that if there’s a clear plan, one is likely to stick to it and delineate his or her priorities accordingly. This is also where the counselors step in. Counselors are available to help students keep track of their education. It is a free service and more students should utilize it by updating their counselors on what they have accomplished, and where they wish to go. The student’s stated goal, whether it is an associate degree, a transfer, or a certificate, will determine the classes he or she will need to take at SMC. Since different colleges and universities have different requirements, students always have to plan a step ahead to succeed. Of course, there will always be things to delay graduation. Some of the factors for such a delay might be math and English assessment tests, course repeats, or that deluge of unforeseen circumstances where a student must withdraw from all of his or her classes. Having had to take an academic detour of sorts, one can only advise new students to plan ahead and see a counselor more than a few times each semester, with a clear goal in mind.
of the Internet—global unity. Social networking and rapid media coverage have allowed activists across the globe to unite and move together, often within hours of the idea that started it. But many other nations are not so receptive. China has gone as far as to block any phrase with the word ‘occupy’ from Internet searches, as well as from their Twitter-like site, Sina Weibo. Ostensibly, this flies in the face of the Occupy movements in Beijing and Hong Kong, which are already stifled, and feature an extremely low number of occupiers - an anomaly for such densely populated cities. India attempts comprehensive Internet censorship; but outside of pornography, the system is spotty in its effectiveness. Large though its mesh may be, Indian censorship seems to be increasingly successful in working against the Occupy movement, though activists in the land of computer experts are already fighting back. Unfortunately, America is not free of censorship – many people have found e-mails not sent if they included links to Occupy Wall Street, though Yahoo has since stopped blocking such e-mails. American censorship is more insidious, though, with NYPD officers taking away Occupiers’ generators and other fuel sources in the face of looming winter cold. In response, the central website has listed ‘winter gear’ as its number-one resource priority. All these cases show the nature of censorship itself: that it’s impossible to block everything. Even in the heavily censored digital landscape of China, activists manage protests - small as they are - and every
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Isis Enriquez sits with her dog and fellow members of Occupy L.A. whole they sit on the south side steps of city hall in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 19. Enriquez and her fellow Occupy L.A. peers discuss moving the tents out of City Hall on the morning of Oct. 20 to make room for the farmers market.
Occupy the world, one city at a time Santa Monica College student Isis Enriquez thinks that there is a big difference between the Occupy movement and the rest of the world. “We’re lifting off those barriers of societal norms and thinking differently,” she said. The Occupy Los Angeles movement began Oct. 1, 2011 and since the movement began, protesters have been camping out on the lawns of City Hall, located on First and Main in downtown Los Angeles. Enriquez says she has been “wanting to have something like this for six years, to have a revolution.” And her visions of revolution may have finally become reality, with sister protests springing up nationwide, and the mother protest, with New York’s Occupy Wall Street, leading the pack.
Enriquez, like other protesters, has basically been living on the lawns of City Hall, but she still manages to go to school. Enriquez says that school is important, because, “I learn something, it’s so simple but I learn something.” Occupy Los Angeles is like one big community where people share food and living accessories, such as toiletries, reading material, and other miscellaneous items. The lawns of City Hall have been occupied for one month and seven days, and still have managed to remain peaceful, unlike other occupy protests such as Wall Street and Oakland. Enriquez plans to stay there for the foreseeable future. Story and Photos by Paul Alvarez
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Isis Enriquez rubs paint together on her hands as she prepares to put her hand prints on a big sign that will have many different hand prints to show unity at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 19. Protesters occupy the lawns of City Hall to protest against the one percent.
A resident of Occupy L.A., who chose to remain anonymous hangs out at the medical tent that is located on the north lawn of Los Angeles City hall on Oct. 19.
Adam Wise has the 99 percent motto of the occupy movement tattooed on the back of his neck.
Enriquez holds her dog “Lucky” while she is living on the lawns of city hall in downtown Angeles on Oct. 19. Protesters occupy the lawns of city hall to fight back against the one ent.
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Bringing the By Valerie Serrano · Staff Writer According to the Barenaked Ladies, the musicians responsible for ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ show’s theme song, “Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait...the Earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, we built a wall (we built the pyramids), math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with the big bang!” On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Santa Monica College “Eating Well, How Life Begins, & More: Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series,” featured Dr. David Deamer, a research professor in the Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of California Santa Cruz and author and editor recently featured on NOVA. Deamer provided listeners with information regarding our Earth, the solar system, and the Big Bang theory. The author, who has done extensive research in astrobiology, gave an evolutionary narrative of how stars give rise to life. In the process of his research, Deamer formed some possible answers as to how simple hydrogen atoms 13 billion years ago came to become the planets and complex life forms that we know today. According to Deamer, solar systems are produced when a giant cloud of dust, known as a nebula, begins to form a star.
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The dust that is left over after the creation of the star then starts to form planets. “There is strong evidence that the moon was formed 4.4 billion years ago when a planet the size of Mars collided with Earth and created so much energy that the earth and the moon were extremely hot and red for an extended period, until they both cooled down resulting in the moon,” said Deamer. When this happened, the heat was so intense that any organic carbon and water that might have existed disappeared. But given such incredibly long periods of extreme heat, the question over where and when carbon came into the picture still presents mysteries. “We think it came from the impact of comets and water vapor coming out from the interior of earth from volcanic action. Go out and look at the ocean. It is comet water. We are quite certain that comets contributed much of the early ocean water as well as some of the organic compounds that were required for the beginning of life,” said Deamer. According to Deamer, for life to begin, we need monomers, such as amino acids, bases like the bases of DNA guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine, carbohydrates and phosphates. In addition, we also need something to make compartments, which are amphiphiles, a soap-like molecule that both “likes and dislikes” water, or
Preventing cancer and STDs in males with HPV vaccine By Amber Antonopoulos · Staff Writer For today’s youth, there is a way to prevent the most commonly occurring sexually transmitted disease, directly responsible for many cancers, even long before becoming sexually active. On Oct. 25, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices extended their recommendation for the human papillomavirus quadrivalent vaccine to be routinely administered to 11 and 12-yearold boys. Prior to this announcement, the vaccine was only recommended for females. “[The ACIP] thought that there was likely to be additional benefit to girls and women by reducing the spread of the virus, but they did think that the burden of disease in males alone was sufficient to recommend the vaccine,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a press briefing. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists estimates that three out of four of those who are sexually active will acquire genital HPV, or human papillomavirus, which currently infects 20 million Americans. There are more than 40 types of genital HPV, most of which are asymptomatic, according to the CDC. Although there is no cure for the viral infection, 90 percent of HPV infections clear without medical intervention within two years. However, persistent low-risk strains can cause genital warts, and high-risk strains can lead to several forms of cancer. The National Cancer Institute claims that the leading causes of cervical and anal cancer are linked to ongoing infections with high-risk types of HPV. These high-risk HPV types are also linked to cancers of the vulva, vagina, penis, throat, head and neck. Gardasil and Cervarix are the only two vaccines currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent certain types of HPV and their associated complications when administered before exposure. For those not vaccinated as children, the ACIP now recommends routine vaccinations for men up to age 21, as well as women up to age 26. A permissive recommendation for vaccination of men from age 22 to 26 still stands, according to Schuchat. “It turns out that the age of 11 or 12 is a very good time to be vaccinated,” Schuchat told reporters. “Antibody or immune responses are the strongest and that’s
hydrophilic and hydrophobic. “When you have an amphiphile, you can make membranes, an enclosing that acts as a selective barrier within or around a cell. If you have ever blown a soap bubble, you’ve made a membrane – it’s that simple. It’s called self-assembly. Amphiphiles are required to make cellular compartments,” said Deamer. When a certain meteroid is opened, you discover the monomers of life, such as amino acids and amphiphiles, that with the addition of water can produce membranes.“We think that this might have been the compartments available for the origin of cellular life, and that’s really what we are getting at here,” said Deamer.
Deamer also talked about the orbiting satellite Kepler and its main function. When it sets its focus on a single star, it carefully monitors for little dips in the light coming to Earth from that star, an effect that is caused when a planet passes in front of the star. The last lecture of the “Eating Well, How Life Begins, & More: Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series” will be on Nov. 22 at 11:15 a.m. in the Science Lecture Hall, room 140 on the main campus. Hsing-Jien Kung, deputy director of the Cancer Center Basic Science at the UC Davis Cancer Center, will be presenting “Self-eating or Self-killing: How to Trick Cancer Cells to Die.”
Chris Alves Corsair Dr. David Deamer, a research professor in the Biomolecular Engineering department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, lectured students and staff members at Santa Monica College on ‘How Life Can Begin on a Planet Like Earth.’
well before girls or boys would become sexually active.” In 2006, the ACIP recommended the quadrivalent vaccine Gardasil for routine use only in females, primarily to deter cervical cancer. Gardasil protects against HPV types 6 and 11, which are associated with 90 percent of genital wart cases, as well as types 16 and 18, which are responsible for causing 70 percent of all cervical cancers, according to the ACOG. Shortly after the FDA first licensed Gardasil for use in males, the ACIP issued a permissive recommendation for males in 2009, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The ACIP’s recent strengthening of the recommendation was primarily based upon clinical data that has since become available on the vaccine’s ability to prevent anal cancers, according to Schuchat. The bivalent vaccine Cervarix was approved by the FDA in 2009 to protect females against the cancer-causing HPV types 16 and 18. The recent ACIP recommendation applies only to Gardasil, as Cervarix has not yet been approved for use in males. Either brand is recommended for routine use in females, but only Gardasil has been shown to protect against cancer of the vulva and vagina, according to the CDC. There has been a disappointing uptake of the vaccine among young girls since the initial recommendation, according to Schuchat, who hopes that the universal recommendation will improve uptake among boys and girls. Both vaccines are administered in three doses over a six-month period, according to patient information leaflets. The CDC estimates 20,096 reports of adverse effects out of the 40 million Gardasil doses distributed as of Sept. 15, 2011. Most were non-serious, including pain at the injection site, headache, fever, dizziness, nausea, and fainting. In 2009, the FDA revised precautionary labeling to include seizure-like activity that may occur in those who faint after vaccination. There have been rare reports of more serious side effects such as muscle weakness and blood clots. The 34 confirmed deaths following vaccination were mostly attributable to other factors, according to the CDC and FDA who claim that Gardasil is safe and whose benefits outweigh its risks. “I am in favor of all children receiving this vaccine at age 11 or 12, whether male or female,” said Carole McCaskill, who teaches nursing at Santa Monica College. “The only reservation I have is cost, which is fairly expensive.” According to the CDC, Gardasil currently retails for $130 per dose, or $390 for the series. Many health insurance companies provide coverage for Gardasil, according to Merck & Co., Gardasil’s manufacturer. In the absence of health insurance, or if a policy fails to cover immunizations, there are two programs to provide assistance to those who cannot afford the vaccine. The Vaccines for Children Program uses federal funds to give free vaccines, including Gardasil, to qualifying children 18 and under. The Merck Vaccine Patient Assistance Program, funded by Merck & Co., offers free vaccines to eligible adults 19 and over. Vaccines are excluded from coverage in the current health insurance policy offered through SMC, by Renaissance Agencies, Inc. SMC requires that international students maintain health insurance coverage through Renaissance, while domestic students may do so on a voluntary basis. Gardasil is available to both males and females up to age 26 at all 17 Planned Parenthood locations in the Los Angeles area, including the Santa Monica clinic located at 1316 3rd St. Promenade #201, according to the public affairs director for Planned Parenthood, Serena Josel.
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Exploration #2: Geocaching Where are you right now, reader? Bored? Sitting around on campus, killing time before your next class? Have a smart phone or GPS-enabled device on you? Well, perk up, because this week I’m going to teach you about a mini-adventure that you can have at any time and almost anywhere. It’s Geocaching. Geocaching, which has been around since a GPS enthusiast named Dave Ulmer created it 11 years ago, is a worldwide treasure hunting game in which participants simply plug in a set of coordinates into a GPS system, which guides them to a location where they use clues and their virtual map to locate a hidden container, or “cache.” These carefully concealed caches range from Altoids tins, ammo boxes, to even larger containers, and can
hold anything from a logbook to an assortment of small items that the seeker can swap out for a trinket of their own. The official Geocaching website says that Ulmer came up with the game on May 3, 2000, a day after the Clinton administration switched off the government-mandated “selective availability” that made the GPS system far less accurate for civilians then for the military. Ulmer, wanting to test the potential of this updated system, hid a black bucket filled with items in the woods near Beavercreek, Ore., and posted some coordinates on his website along with a simple rule: "Take some stuff, leave some stuff." The concept began to spread, and by Sept. 2 of that year, a web developer named Jeremy Irish was ready to launch
geocaching.com, an online community for geocachers where they could post their caches and log their finds. Eleven years later, the community is still thriving, and it makes finding a cache near you as easy as pie. Simply plug in an address or city, and loads of listings will pop up, complete with coordinates, difficulty levels, reviews from other finders, as well as hints and clues. Anybody can hide and post their own cache, and some hiders set up elaborate “multi-caches” that require seekers to travel to numerous locations, gather coordinates, solve puzzles, and
figure out clues to reach a final container. There’s even a handy iPhone application that can be used to search for and navigate to caches near your current location. The best part of the whole thing is that the community has grown so large that Geocaches can truly be found anywhere. The idea that hundreds of these secret treasures are sequestered away, waiting to be found, alights the whole city with possibility for adventure. So, no excuses, explorers! Whip out your iPhones and Garmins now. You’ve got caches to catch!
Geocaching Jargon FTF: First to find : Often written in logbooks or on a cache’s online page by the first person to find the cache. Ground Zero (GZ): The place where your GPS tells you have reached the cache’s coordinates, or where you are “zero feet away” from the cache. Hitchhiker: An item in a cache that is intended to move from cache to cache. Often has “Travelbug” tags attached. Virtual Cache: A cache with coordinates that lead to an out-of-the ordinary location as opposed to a container. Locationless (reverse) cache: A backwards cache where you are asked to find an object or place and then log it’s coordinates. (For more information, visit geocaching.com’s “glossary of terms”)
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Swedish dance rock band, The Sounds to crash in L.A.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
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Sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching , feverish and stuck on a tour bus. The Sounds are in Washington D.C. and their drummer, Fredrik Blond, is ill, very ill. Blond got sick two nights ago, on the band’s day off, and played New York the very next night in a much worse condition. “I’m the drummer, so I can sort of get away with just keeping my head down and just play the drums, nothing else,” Blond says. “But if you’re the front person, you have to sing, be the entertainer. I can see it’s a lot harder if you’re not feeling well. So I guess I’m a little bit lucky in that way.” Swedish rock band The Sounds are making their third California stop in a month. They’ll make a big loop around the country and come back to Los Angeles next week. “When you’re sick, all you want to do is be at home in your own bed, have some hot tea or soup, watch TV or read a nice book,” the drummer confides. “ You don’t want to be traveling on a tour bus with 11 different people, and play onstage, and play for an hour and a half, that’s what you don’t want to do.” Even though a vicious cold would be bad
Global Connections Series Thomas Plate: “Inside the Asian Power Elite: Secrets to Asia’s Rise” 11:15 a.m. @ HSS 165 Sunday, Nov. 13 KCRW Presents: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: The Comedy of Errors 2 p.m. @ The Broad Stage Monday, Nov. 14 International Education Week: Film & Discussion: “The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista)” by Salvador Carrasco 7:30 p.m. @ HSS 165 Tuesday, Nov. 15 International Education Week: Global Citizenship Day Festival 11:15 a.m. @ SMC Quad International Education Week: “To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America” by Gayle Ferraro 6 p.m. @ HSS 165 Wednesday, Nov. 16 Stephan Koplowitz: “Modern Composition/Improvisation Master Class” 10 a.m. @ Gym 104 Thursday, Nov. 17 Global Connections Series International Education Week: Kenneth Turan: “Foreign Films in a Global Community: Their Impact and Evolution” 11:15 a.m. @ HSS 165 Clothesline Project hosted by Feminist Majority Club 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. @ the Quad
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enough off the road, The Sounds persevere with their international tour. Colds and traffic notwithstanding, Blond and the rest of the band enjoy traveling the world and exploring the areas that surround their nightly venues. As the Occupy movements are gaining force in New York and D.C., the band doesn’t allow the events to disturb their leisurely walks. “In Sweden the government is at least a little more agreeable,” says Blond. “It’s a nice sunny day for a walk.” “I like walking, it’s a good way to see things,” says Blond. “When you sit on a car or a bus, things just sweep by.” Discussing the stretches of time he and the band must spend on the bus, Blond says, “I don’t want to think about it. No ways around it, just
deal with it.” “It is what it is” and “dealing with it” are natural and common phrases for the drummer, especially when it comes to critics’ issues over their changing style. “We like trying new things. [Our style is] going to keep changing all the time, but I think you always recognize us as still our band, though. It’s never a step too far, at least not in my opinion. Whenever you do one thing for too long, it gets boring.” “We always go out there and try to have a good time, and make sure the audience have a good time, that there’s some kind of interaction, some kind of connection between you and the audience,” Blond says. “That’s always what we’re looking for.”
NaNoWriMo memoir 50,000 words, 30 days By Mia Shilpi . Staff Writer As a writer, I am a slave to a special kind of panic the first half of the semester up and screamed a heavenward #2: Bunnies toIt takes my muse, so after three days, I make your fingers shake outlining the entire book scene “NOOO!”. by scene, my desk at home being taken over by index cards and colored sharpies. Then I started writing, already caught up in the challenge’s proverbial “literary abandon” at 1 a.m. on Nov. 1. I typed up the prologue to my story, slept barely enough hours to avoid collapse the next day, and was already pounding away at the next chapter in class on Tuesday morning, when a new idea careened into my racing mind. If I hadn’t been in the middle of a class at that point, I probably would have jumped
while typing, one mainly driven by too much caffeine, and too little sleep. But here I am, panicking, as on day three of National Novel Writing Month, I get to start all over – in a way. While the actual writing of the novel is saved for November, writers will spend weeks or even months preparing for it, outlining stories and gathering research, driving up anticipation and excitement for the challenge. I decided on my own novel back in June. I spent the Illustration by David Hawkins summer researching for it and
Ideas, also known as plot bunnies, aren’t new to writers. Like cute, but quickly breeding rabbits, plot bunnies will chew away at your brain and take over your thoughts until you end up writing out the story just to make it go away. During NaNoWriMo, the best idea is to just ignore them, but sometimes they just keep chewing. For the next two days, what started out as an idea grew and grew, until suddenly I had a whole new book in my head, mocking me, waiting to be written.
gave in and started writing. The 2,000 words I had managed of the first novel are staying, of course. They’re even being expanded on the side in the high hopes that that is where my muse will return. But in the meantime, I’m crunching letters to catch up on this new idea. I’m keeping up with the old one, though, just in case – hopefully, my brain will go back to the story that is already planned, instead of running off to every new plot bunny that hops its way.
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By William Courtney . Sports Editor Every Sunday, the gym at Santa Monica College is transformed into a community recreation center. From outside, passersby would probably assume the loud sneaker squeaks emanating from within to be a byproduct of either basketball or volleyball. Yet instead, it is badminton players who fly across the court and table tennis players who rally back and forth on the many tables in the center of the gym. Members of the SMC table tennis team often compete in the Sunday round-robin tournaments. The gym has been open to badminton and table tennis like this for the past 40 years – ever since Professor Emeritus Jo Kidd started the Sunday lab for recreation majors back in 1971. This coming Sunday, however, the mood will be a little more serious, as SMC will play host to the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association’s semiannual regional tournament. The tournament takes place every fall and spring and this semester features 10 southern California universities, including
USC and UCLA. SMC is the only junior college competing in the team event. The SMC team is grouped into A, B, and C divisions, which will compete on Sunday. Team A is headed by first-year coach Kamran Khairzed, who played table tennis and volleyball for SMC in 1994. In order to move on to the nationals, teams have to finish first or second in their region. Khairzed believes the toughest opponents will be USC and UCLA, but thinks his team definitely has a shot to advance. SMC has competed in the regional qualifier since 2009, but their best finish has been fourth. He mentioned that he’d be disappointed if the team doesn’t finish at least second. “We have a really solid team this time,” Khairzed said. “In the past we had, really, one good player.” If the team does advance to nationals, Khairzed thinks it will speak highly of the players and the school, as the only time his team can practice together is on Sundays, meanwhile universities have the facilities to practice every day. The four players from team A include
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On Nov. 1, I and many other NBA fans could have been on our way to the Staples Center to watch Kobe Bryant take on Kevin Durant in the Lakers’ first home game of the 2011/12 NBA season. After the Lakers’ painful elimination from last year’s playoffs by the Dallas Mavericks, this was the one game that all Lakers fans have been waiting for all summer. Instead, I was at home watching ESPN reruns of NBA games from the ‘90s. What could have been a deal-breaker at the Oct. 28 meeting between NBA owners and the Players association, turned out to be a cancellation of all November games according to NBA commissioner David Stern at a press conference post meeting, and so, the lockout continues. With one month’s worth of games cancelled, it seems as if the next meetings are going to focus on making up the millions of dollars in revenue lost during the month of November. As an NBA and Lakers fan, it’s not only the owners and players who are affected by the lockout, but we the fans as well. We are the ones who pay part of what the two sides
can’t agree on - the revenues. The players are asking for 52.5 percent while the owners are willing to negotiate a 50-50 split. A 5050 split sounds pretty fair to me, but as the lockout continues to drag on, I’m starting to sympathize with the players, only because the owners already make so much money off these players and throughout this lockout, the owners look greedier and greedier. In addition to fans being affected by the lockout, so are franchises, sponsors and sports bars. The baseball season recently wrapped up, leaving NFL to be the moneymaker for many bars. Many sports bars will be hit with a revenue loss once the NFL season is over, in early 2012. Jahmal Gillespie, chef at South sports bar in Santa Monica said that, “off-days are killing us. Tuesdays are supposed to be NBA game nights and they are dead.” Although bars are hurting, not all sponsors are in the same boat. One West Bank has been a Lakers’ sponsor since the end of last season and their partnership with the Lakers is not all waste.
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captain Moqadas Atifmal, co-captain William Graff, Lu Shunzhi, and Nirut Ukositkul. Players must attend SMC and maintain a GPA of 2.0 or above. “I think Kamran is a great coach,” said Atifmal, who has been training with Khairzed for over three years. “I’ve learned many things from him.” Graff, who is excited for his first collegiate event, says that the players on the team help each other get better. Graff mentioned that a tournament like this opens doors for SMC students who want to move on to four-year universities. In an event like this, it is as much strategy as it is skill. As a coach, Khairzed must match his players against the right opposing player, so that the team has the best chances of success. Some of the many styles include attack, defense, blocker, looping or spin ball, and counter-looping. The tournament begins at 8 a.m. this Sunday Nov. 13. Matches will be played in a best-of-five format, where games go up to 11 points.
Art Bikidjian, manager at One West Bank said, “We’re not losing anything. We sponsor the Lakers by having Lakers debit and credit cards, and vice versa.” The Staples Center has reserved Dec. 13, for an additional Jay-Z and Kanye West ‘Watch The Throne’ concert, a day according to Lakers website is suppose to be a home game against Toronto Raptors. Of course, arenas and fields connected to the NBA must come up with a ‘plan B’ in order to stay on top, but is there something that these people know that the rest of us don’t? Perhaps. It seems as if everyone is throwing in their towel early and has completely abandoned the idea of possibly having an NBA season. As a fan, the idea has struck my mind a few times, but as much as I dislike the NBA lockout, I’m not throwing in the towel until Stern says it’s time to. If the owners and players can come to an agreement soon, it will not only save the NBA’s reputation, but it will also save us fans from watching players marry reality stars in order to pay their rent.
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SMC Freshman Hometown: Beverly Hills, Calif. Major: Psychology The Corsair: How did you get into water polo? Salgado: “My sister played water polo so it has just been a family thing.” The Corsair: Greatest sports memory? Salgado: “I scored 126 goals my senior year in high school.” The Corsair: What were you for Halloween? Salgado: “I dressed up as a ballerina. Then, the night of Halloween, I went to the gay parade in Hollywood, it was lots of fun.“ The Corsair: If you could have lunch with anyone who would it be? Salgado: “Alex Myers, captain of the men’s water polo team.“ The Corsair: Which do you prefer, water or land? Salgado: “Definitely the water, it’s just prettier and I can appreciate being in the water more.“ The Corsair: Artist definitely not on your playlist? Salgado: “Lady Gaga. I don’t really like her. Right now, a song I listen to to get pumped up is “Gangster Party” by Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne. I also enjoy listening to Kings of Leon.“ The Corsair: If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be? Salgado: “Any of the Caribbean islands, Fiji, or Bora Bora. The beaches and water there are just ideal for relaxation. So really just anywhere that has a nice beach that interests me. “ The Corsair: Any advice for someone starting to play water polo? Salgado: “Being a strong swimmer is really important in playing water polo. Stamina is also very important - you are swimming back and forth, so you don’t realize how much you have been swimming, so it is really important to be able to swim that throughout the course of a game.“
As the season nears its end, Salgado and the rest of SMC’s women’s water polo team look to finish strong. Despite a record of 5-25 this year, which includes a 0-4 record in conference play, the Lady Corsairs are working hard to develop their young team. They will play in the Southern California Championships at Riverside, Nov. 10-13.
Jeannie Cole Corsair Head Coach Jerome Jenkins (far left) and Assistant Coach Greg Gioiosa (far right) with the Santa Monica College Corsair men’s basketball team. Their first game is at SMC on Saturday, Nov. 12 against Cerritos College at 7 p.m.
Last season, Santa Monica College’s Jerome Jenkins led his men’s basketball team to a conference championship, a 20-8 overall record, and was voted Western State Conference Coach of the Year. The team came up short of reaching their state championship goal, however - they lost in the first round of playoffs to Los Angeles Harbor College, 71-66. This year, Jenkins is looking at a young team only carrying one returning starter. Jenkins is looking to replace guards Everett Brown, A.J Harris, and forward-center DeShawn Stephens, who were first-team allconference players last year. Both Brown and Stephens earned scholarships at the next level, Brown to Cal State Dominguez Hills and Stephens
to San Diego State. With this season’s team lacking experience, returning sophomore Lee Lark will be looked to as a leader. “He is one of the top 100 players,” Coach Jenkins said. “He will be huge.” Last season Lark averaged 13.6 points per game and was one of the Corsairs’ leading scorers. “I feel like we have a good group of returning sophomores that can help our freshmen adjust to college basketball,” Lark said. Returning sophomore Esvan Middleton will have to adjust to his new role on the floor, as Stephen’s replacement. Used mainly as a defensive presence last year, Middleton has worked hard in the offseason to improve his offense. Another addition to the offense will be freshman point guard Donte Bowie who is
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trying to establish himself as the offensive facilitator. Sophomore transfer Julian Wheeler will also get a chance to contribute early. Wheeler is a versatile wing player, who fits well into Coach Jenkins run-and-gun style of offense. “We think he is pretty big time,” Jenkins said. “Every game is a big game for us,” sophomore guard Johnell Young said, “ We want to win.” Young, who played for Coach Jenkins two years ago, is familiar with Jenkins’ style of offense. “All we need is a little bit of time, but in the end we will be straight,” said Lark, who feels that the Corsairs are ready for the challenge of defending their conference championship. The Corsairs begin their season by hosting Cerritos College in a nonconference match-up on Nov. 12.
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ready to roll By Myles Johnson . Staff Writer
Last year, the Santa Monica College women’s basketball team finished 17-10 overall and 8-4 in conference play, making it to the Western State Conference South Division Championship game. Even after losing three conference players from last year, including leading scorer Hayley Henderson, Head Coach Lydia Strong believes her team can pick up where they left off. She mentioned that this year’s team is taller and has better ball-handlers. Expectations are even higher this season with fresh legs and a few returning starters. “I’m pretty happy with their efforts so far and there are no complaints,” Strong said. Strong’s strategy is different every season but she will continue to implement her uptempo offense and full-court press defense. ‘’We’re always going to
Jeannie Cole Corsair The Santa Monica College women’s basketball team with Head Coach Lydia Strong (far right) and Assistant Coach Ivano Newbill (back center) during practice on Thursday, Nov. 3 Their first home game is Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 5 p.m. against Moorpark College.
press,’’ coach Strong said. ‘’Every team is different. I always look at the talent and personnel first then that’s when I decide if we as a team can do one thing from another.’’ The players to watch this season include freshman Catherine Johnson from Long Beach Poly High, freshman Kimberly Alvarez from Garfield High, and sophomore Atiyah Vidiono from Sweden. Alvarez is looking forward to start the season with her new group of teammates. "Our team right now is looking pretty good and were really excited with hopes on winning a Championship," Alvarez said. Vidiono reiterates the fact that the team is bigger this season and she feels the College of the Canyons is on her list of teams to beat this season. “I just want to beat them because they beat us last year,”
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Vidiono said. Her way of playing basketball is different than when she played in Sweden and she mentions the program has been a big influence, “Coach Strong is a great coach and she has taught me a lot about basketball.’’ Johnson, known as “Cat” to her teammates, has high hopes for herself as well as the team. She understands what she has to do on and off the court to win a championship and receive a scholarship to Cal Poly Pomona. "I’m counting down the days to our first game,’’ Vidiono said. The Lady Corsairs return to the court Friday, Nov. 11 at the San Diego Mesa Tournament, hoping it will be a start to a promising season. "I just want to beat everybody," Coach Strong said.
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