The Union, Vol 72, Issue 3

EL CAMINO COLLEGE

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Students more likely to get into local Cal States California legislators order CSU officials to admit more “placebound” students onto campuses

Health Center to assist students with the stresses of relationships and college Tanya Silerio

Staff Writer @ECCUnionTanya

If you’re struggling with campus life, stress management or any other personal problem, worry no more; the Student Health Center is hosting Wellness Wednesdays.

Wellness Wednesdays is a series of workshops designed to help students with problems that may be affecting them.

The topics vary from managing stress to managing relationships, all of them being relatable to today’s society.

“Something like this would have helped me last year. It’s hard knowing when your relationship is bad,” Lori Vegas, undecided major, 18, said. “I would attend this to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes.”

There were many people involved in picking the topics for the workshop.

“Many of the staff at the Student Health Center have been working with El Camino students for years and some for even decades,” Kwon said. “I asked staff what concerns them most commonly see as well as drew from my own decade in the field.”

Students admitted to needing workshops like Wellness Wednesdays.

“Making new friends has always been a struggle for me, this could really help,” Jane Lorenzo, 18, undecided major, said.

Both students and professors agree that this is something that could be benifical for students.

“Healthy relationships and helping a friend are interesting to me,” Kassia Wosick, sociology professor, said. “I think a lot of times we talk about lovers, boyfriends, girlfriends, and hookups. We don’t talk a lot about friendship or how to handle friend in need when friends are big part of our lives.”

Dr. Wosick feels like this could really help students transition into the next part of their lives.

“This age time in our lives there’s a lot of stuff that happens and changes,” Wosick said. “If we can give you opportunities to develop your skills give you some tools that you could use in you friendship and intimate relationships then that’s just gonna make (students) healthier, not only in terms of school, but terms of life.”

Wosick agrees that El Camino is a great place to get help in both school and any other personal problem.

“One of the things I like about El Camino College is that it is a great place to make you academically stronger but also personally stronger,” Wosick said.

The workshops are held on the first Wednesday each month at the Student Health Center.

Q&A with former Warriors quarterback David Sills, P. 7

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Emma DiMaggio/ Union The following data was obtained from the El Camino College 2016 Annual Factbook.

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Every year, hundreds of EC students apply to transfer to a California State University. Some get in, some don’t, but now a student’s location could improve their chances of acceptance.

It was recently reported that California state legislators have ordered CSU officials to give admission preference to what are called “place-bound” students.

Place-bound students are students who are local to the area where the CSU is located. For example, a place-bound student would be a student who lives in Carson, California that attends California State University Dominguez Hills.

This means that if two students were to apply to Cal State Dominguez Hills, both with the same GPA, test scores, extracurriculars, etcetera, and the only difference between them was that one lived in Carson, California, and one lived in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, then that would be the deciding factor.

With the push by the state legislatures to give local students admission preference, the student living in Carson would be given admittance over the Rancho Palos Verdes student.

However, according to EC transfer coordinator Rene Lozano, this practice of giving admission preference to local students is nothing new.

“It’s been around. Local area has been around now for a good half decade at least,” Lozano said. “I know how it’s impacting (students because) it’s been happening already.”

According to the ECC Annual Factbook, during the 2015-2016 academic school year, a total of 860 EC students transferred

to a Cal State. That is an eight percent decrease when compared to the 2012-2013 academic school year, in which 935 EC students transferred to a Cal State.

The more local admission preference is pushed by state officials, the more of a negative impact it seems to have on EC transfer rates. EC transfer coordinator Rene Lozano agrees.

“If El Camino is not considered local to (Cal State) Long Beach for example, that means our students are going to have a harder time getting into Long Beach than their local students or (Cal State) Fullerton, or Cal State LA,” Lozano said. “Anybody that uses local area where we’re not their local college, it’s going to absolutely negatively affect the number of our students that can get into that school.”

When it comes to transfer applicants from community colleges, a preference for more admissions for local students has been shown to be a drawback for EC, at least according to EC Transfer Counselor Dr. Kelsey Iino.

“If I’m speaking from El Camino College specifically, we are at a disadvantage,” Iino said. “We’ve always been at a disadvantage in this whole grand scheme of local campus.”

Calvin Mosley, 18, English major, believes that the order to give place-bound students admission preference over other students is unjust.

“From a personal standpoint, I don’t stay anywhere close to El Camino nor do I stay close to any Cal States,” Mosley said. “Say I wanted to apply to Dominguez.

If I have the same grade point average as someone else and they get to go to Dominguez over me just because they live closer, I feel like that would be an unfair advantage.”

Journalism program awarded at recent conferences

The Union newspaper and Warrior Life magazine receive recognition from state and national associations

Emma DiMaggio

Arts and News Editor @ECCUnionEmma

Publications from both current and former Union and Warrior Life magazine staff members have received awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) and the College Media Association (CMA).

Amongst the awards received for Warrior Life magazine were those for general excellence from the JACC and an honorable

Metro-U pass offers discounted transit for students, P. 2

mention in the Feature Magazine of the Year category for two-year college by the CMA. The most recent issue of Warrior Life magazine was headed by editor-in-chief Alba Meija, who was a writer on both the magazine and newspaper in the spring of 2017.

Several staff writers and photographers for The Union newspaper also received awards from the two associations.

Jorge Villa, who has been a return writer and photographer for The Union and currently serves

as photo editor for The Union, received a second-place award in the CMA’s Pinnacles competition for the design of an in-house ad that The Union used in spring of 2017 to promote the then upcoming issue of Warrior Life magazine.

Villa also received a thirdplace award for student designed advertisement and fourth place for environmental photo portrait from JACC. A slew of other fourth-place awards were given to former writers for the newspaper and the magazine.

Marsee Auditorium pays homage to Mary Shelley during Frankenstein event, P. 3

Awards Received: • General Excellence of Warrior Life Magazine (JAAC) • Honorable Mention for Feature Magazine of the Year by a TwoYear College (CMA) • Second-Place Best In-House Ad (CMA)

Football player, P. 3 Volleyball player aims to return to state championships, P. 8

NEWS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION 2

Student creates music scholarship in memorial of daughter

Female music student with an emphasis in voice in inspired to give money away after receiving scholarship Reyna Torres

Staff Writer @ECCUnionReyna

An El Camino music student is planning to create a scholarship in memory of her daughter who died in July of this year.

“Since (Jennifer) is no longer alive, I want to keep her name by creating a scholarship,” Lorna Katz, 57, music major with an emphasis in voice, said. “So that years later when I’m gone, there is this legacy that is continuing on forever.”

Katz established the “Jennifer Worrell Music Scholarship” as a memorial of her daughter, who died by suicide.

The scholarship was originally named the “Katz Scholarship” but was later changed because Katz thought it would be best to name it after her daughter, Jennifer, in support of her music.

Katz is establishing the scholarship using $1000 from a charity family foundation that was passed on to her husband and her sisters-in-law.

“Recently my father-in-law passed away. He was very well off and had an organization called ‘The Ronald L Katz Family Foundation’ which gives out scholarships and donates to charitable organizations,” Katz said.

In spring of 2017, Katz was awarded a music scholarship through EC upon encouragement from her music professors to apply for scholarships. Katz received the “Engelbarts Scholarship” of $1,000. At the time, she really needed the money for her tuitions, Katz said.

Katz said she always wanted to

establish a scholarship for students, long before being awarded her own scholarship.

Katz believes in returning the favor and hopes that creating her own scholarship will lead her to fulfill that desire.

“I always wanted to give back,” Katz said. “I feel you should pay it forward.”

According Katz, Students hoping to apply for the “Jennifer Worrell Music Scholarship” must have a 3.0 GPA, be a music major, take a minimum of six units, and audition for the EC Music Committee.

Paperwork for the “Jennifer Worrell Music Scholarship” is already turned into the ECC Foundation, Katz said.

Andrea Sala, executive director of ECC Foundation for over two years, was delighted to hear about an EC student wanting to give a scholarship to other students. “(Katz) is doing an endowment scholarship so that legacy will forever live at El Camino,” Sala said. “She knows what all our students are going through and for her to be able to identify that and give back it is pretty amazing.”

Katz’s music professor, Joanna Nachef, supports the idea of Katz’s scholarship.

“I was blown away by (Katz) generosity and her desire to keep the legacy of her daughter alive at El Camino,” Nachef said.

Katz wants students to reach their educational goals in life with the help of this scholarship. In the next five years, Katz hopes to establish a second scholarship for students in the medical field. “(I want) to encourage students to do their best,” Katz said. “To go for every opportunity, there (the scholarship) is to help them achieve that goal.”

POLICE BEAT

Jeremy Taylor

Staff Writer @ECCUnionJeremy

According to police logs

Man shoves women and caught on video

two gets

Monday, Oct. 16, at 9:40 a.m.

A male non-student was arrested for battery and transported to Torrance P.D. Two females students reported that the subject was driving fast and almost struck them. When told to be careful by the female students, the subject exited his vehicle and shoved both of them. Another female student recorded the incident on her cellphone and the video confirmed the male subject shoving both females. The students signed a private person’s arrest because the crime, a misdemeanor, did not occur in the officer’s presence.

Neither student sustained any injuries.

Women experiences seizures in the Industry Technology Education Center Monday, Oct. 16, at 1:36 p.m.

A male staff member in Room 202 of the Industry Technology Education Center was taken to the Little Company of Mary Hospital after he began experiencing chest pains.

Non-student found with methamphetamine in Lot C

Emma DiMaggio/ Union Lorna Katz, 57, music major with an emphasis in voice, sings from a sheet of music in front of the Music Building.

Tuesday Oct. 17, at 8:30 a.m.

A male non-student was cited for possession methamphetamine on the third level of Lot C. The subject was observed by an officer sitting with what appeared to be a glass smoking pipe lying next to his feet. The subject denied that the glass that the glass smoking pipe belonged to him. The subject was issued a trespassing notice stating he is not allowed to return to campus for 14 days.

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Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 8:54 a.m. A female student in the Art Building was taken taken to the hospital after she began to feel dizzy in class. The woman, who stated she suffers from high blood pressure, was taken to Gardena Memorial Hospital.

Hit-and-run incident on upper level of Lot F Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 1 p.m. A male student reported a hit-andrun in the upper level of Lot F. His right fender sustained moderate damage. There are no surveillance cameras in the area where the crime occured. Report was taken.

Jorge Villa/ Union A bus taking off from one of its stops near the EC campus. This is one of the many lines available to studetns who purchase a Metro-U pass.

Metro-U passes offer discounted transit for students Associated Student Body hopes that passes encourage students to take bus Jorge Villa

Photo Editor @ECCUnionJorge

Student transit riders now have the ability to use their EC ID card as a metro pass with the starting price of each 21-week semester at $210.63, which then lowers to $10.03 every week, according to LA Metro as part of the U-Pass Pilot Program.

Fall semester kicked off with the announcement of the Metro U-Pass, which launched last year and designed to boost ridership around colleges, universities and trade schools in Los Angeles County.

“It’s geared to promote ridership for college going students providing a reduce public transportation option to think about sustainability and greener ways to go about life,” Greg Toya, director of student development, said.

The pilot program will provide fares for Zone 1 transits, which are Torrance and Gardena transit buses without paying any extra fee.

The TAP card which students are familiar with provides their own college discount starting at $43 a month, but does not cover Zone 1, which is an additional 50 cents a fare.

Applicants of the Metro college discount can only apply with a 12 unit cap versus the Metro U-Pass 6

unit minimum required to qualify.

Although the school semester has started, “the 26-week-pass can be bought at any time and the reduced cost schedule makes it affordable as time goes on,” Toya said.

Students in good-standing with their classes will need to verify on the LA Metro site which will enable the applicants to receive a registration code, in which you may purchase the pass inside the bookstore at school.

“We recognize that the board of trustees in El Camino has a goal to address like food transportation, and security for students and Metro U-Pass helps fulfill that goal,” Toya said.

Lines you can take: -Metro Rail and Bus -Torrance Transit -GTrans (Gardena Transit)

Basic Information:

-Cost: $232.35 -To Qualify: Must be taking at least six or more units during the Fall 2017 semester -Duration of use: From the Fall 2017 semester to the beginning of the Spring 2017, more exactly August 28 to February 25

Student experiences seizures in Humanities Building Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 2:13 p.m. A female student in the Humanities Building was transported to the hospital after walking into the location making grunting noises and being unresponsive. She was taken to the Gardena Memorial Hospital as it was later determined that she suffers from seizures.

Corrections In the October 19 issue, Dena Maloney’s name was misspelled in a story.

The Union regrets these errors.

ARTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION 3

Campus commemorates the 200-year legacy of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein-themed exhibits held at Marsee Auditorium

Jorge Villa

Photo Editor @ECCUnionJorge

With a towering stance, his barrel-chest, squared jaw and washed-out green hue depict the creation present in author Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” which inspired a legion of writers.

This larger-than-life fable character influenced over 200 years of reincarnations, which were commemorated through panel discussions, workshops and screenings at El Camino College at the Marsee Auditorium on Saturday, Oct. 14.

The theme surrounding the event was to “make the connection between art and science,” Betty Sedor, director of community education, said. “I decided that the perfect thing to do would be (to throw the event). It’s the 200 year anniversary of the publication of the novel ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley.”

The event was hosted a day after Friday the 13th— a Halloweenadjacent date— and was met with a diverse age turnout comprised of five to 40-year-old attendees.

The event entrance fee was $10 for adults and $5 for children over the age of eight.

The patio outside of the Marsee Auditorium launched a set by DJ Jenny Nono, who played a slew of Halloween-esque music. The music ranged from pulsating electronica

to shrieking riffs of horror punk rock music.

Along with the music was a collage of Halloween inspired images projected onto the side of the building facing the orange and yellow color-coordinated pulpy bean bags.

Also available was live screenprinting by an independent screen printing company from San Pedro, “Calimucho.” They offered free print jobs for anyone who brought a T-shirt or other items containing cotton fabric.

The print graphic was a daunting image of Frankenstein from the 1931 film of the same name by James Whale, with the text print on the top reading “Frankenstein 200” and on the bottom “It’s Alive.”

Pre-made T-shirts and tote bags of the same graphic were on sale as well.

Sitting adjacent were makeshift laboratories with members of the EC Chemistry Department wearing, as a uniform, green “Frankenstein 200” T-shirts. In order to engage, attendees and staff could use simple chemistry, of which any level of experience could partake.

In contrast, while the maker stations devoted time to showcasing the science inspired by Frankenstein’s alchemy, they were only a fraction of what was inside of the auditorium, which steered the focus onto the art aspect.

Inside, the first black and white 1931 film of “Frankenstein” was shown to audiences, followed by a

panel discussion about the movie and novel.

The panel discussion signified an effort to deconstruct and analyze the themes surrounding the Frankenstein monster.

Panelists included Fuson Wang, who was the host who lead the discussion, Chelsea Henson, who has an expertise in “monster studies” with a medieval slant, Jim Towns, filmmaker and Teresa Palos, EC biology and microbiology professor.

The only activity that required hopping into a white van in the front of the Marsee Auditorium was the interactive art installation located at the MBBM Building in Room 137.

The “Diodati Revisited” is an interpretation of the Villa Diodati in Switzerland, where Mary Shelley’s conceived the idea for her novel “Frankenstein” during the summer of 1816.

The room was dark and the only source of light were fluorescent LED light tubes, in which the minimalist structure was built on.

Placed meticulously in the middle was a slab where a pen and knife laid parallel to each other.

Ominous noise like a pulseless electric activity with an underlying sound of heavy rain came out of the alternative space which was intended for creatives, according to Sedor, who curated the event.

She hoped people felt inspired to create art like Shelley’s in the space.

It will stay open on Fridays and Saturdays until 2018.

Jorge Villa/ Union An attendee of the Frankenstein event plays with pieces of slime at one of the interactive art installations at the event held on Saturday, Oct. 14.

Pianist performs at Marsee Auditorium Faith Petrie

Opinion Editor @ECCUnionFaith

Jorge Villa/ Union A pen and knife lay on the middle of the slab enclosed within the open space parameters of the LED lighting. The “Diodati Revisited” is a reinterpretation art installation of the Villa Diodati, where author Mary Shelley conceived the idea for novel “Frankenstein” which is located at the MBBM building in Room 137. Ominous noise like a pulseless electric activity with an underlying sound of heavy rain come out of the alternative space which was intended for creatives, according to Betty Sedor, director of community education, who curated the event.

She hoped people felt inspired to create art like Shelley’s in the space. It will stay open on Fridays and Saturdays until 2018.

As professional pianist Ko-Eun Yi steps on to the stage in a long black gown with sparkling jewels embellished on her waist, she waits for the polite, introductory applause to cease.

She bows and finds her way to the piano bench and makes herself comfortable before beginning to clink out individual keys that swiftly make themselves into a fluid arrangement.

Yi performed at the Marsee Auditorium on Friday, Oct. 13 to a crowd of students, faculty, and community members alike.

According to Zzyzx Burke, 19, classical music is not his “go-to” choice of genre but he still found Yi’s performance enjoyable.

“I enjoyed (the performance) because it has that timeless classic kind of sound to it,” Burke said.

“You can play it anytime and you can recognize ‘Hey that’s a good song.’”

Music major and pianist Adriann Smith went to the performance to encourage a fellow artist.

“I am a pianist myself so I do come to support other pianist and musicians’ period,” Smith said.

Smith found Yi’s technique pleasant and engaging to the audience.

“I loved the passion she played with so when it was loud, it was appropriate. I think she executed the feeling of her piece really well to the audience,” Smith said.

Cast currently rehearsing for debut of ‘12 Angry Jurors’ at the Campus Theatre

The Union asked the cast of the teleplay how they related to their character in real life, and whether they shared similarities.

Faith Petrie, Opinion Editor. @ECCUnionFaith

Katherine Shilenko, theatre major

Brandon Hernandez, theatre major

Kreli Washington, theatre major

“I myself am a foreigner so that’s a huge connection that I share with my character. I find this play to be a very strong political statement and taking into account of the fact that I’m from Russia so I know about the history of Russia and how much oppression there’s been in the history.”

“ I feel like naturally I’m the type of person who likes to see things from different angles. I don’t usually go on my first instinct. I step back, look at everything, and then make a decision and I think that’s kind of the way that juror No. 8 has seen this trial.”

“Though where he’s directing his passion may be different from how I would I still feel like, in that sense, being passionate about something and wanting to see justice in his own way be served.

He may be bad and seem like a bully but his intentions are in the right place.”

Read more about ‘12 Angry Jurors’ at eccunion.com

EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION 4

OPINION/EDITORIAL

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Editorial:

Cal State decision to prioritize local students is the right move

State legislator verdict can eliminate financial issues among other struggles that come with applying to colleges for incoming undergrads

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Jose Tobar/ Union

I’m willing to wait for it Finding love, or at least someone to click with seems so easy when scrolling on Twitter.

A girl tweets, “Hit me up if you tryna fall in love,” a guy will hit her up and the next thing you know, they’ve been together for months.

Love isn’t easy to find these days, especially when you’re a part-time student and have a part-time job with crazy hours.

Finding someone to really connect with is definitely a challenge, but I have a strong feeling that it’ll be worth it.

I believe what makes finding someone difficult is wanting something real in a hookup generation.

I’m sure all of “that stuff ” is great, but ever since I was in middle school I knew I wanted all of that with someone I was dating.

I felt like it would mean more to have those experiences with someone I was connecting with, rather than someone I just met.

I’ve talked to my fair share of girls since I really started looking to date in middle school, and I’ve been ghosted and ignored more times than I bother to remember.

Being ghosted is a terrible feeling. To believe you made a good friend and to have them just stop talking to you completely. It stings.

Despite all the heartbreak I’ve gone through, I’m still going to keep on looking and hoping.

I know that the feelings I’ll have with my future girlfriend will be greater than all of my heartbreaks combined.

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It’s near impossible to forget my first heartbreak when I was in the eighth grade though, she was my first love.

I met her through what could be the most unconventional way anyone can meet anyone: cobrastarship.com.

I was a big fan of the band and a cute girl was messaging me about the band, so we became friends.

We talked for nearly a month and had everything except a favorite color in common.

Her’s was yellow, mine was dark blue.

I was more into her than I had ever been into anyone.

One day I came home from school and I saw that I had an email from her, tell me that she told her parents about me.

Upon reading that statement, I was already more nervous than I’ve ever been.

Later in the email it read, “My parents have forbade me to talk to you, so I’m sorry.

Goobye.”

I knew what heartbreak was, I then understood every sad love song ever written.

So for the rest of that day, I listened to, “I Don’t Believe in Love” by Queensryche.

I’ll always remember her and how much it hurt to see her leave like that, but I still have hope that I’ll find someone, regardless of the pain.

Lately I’ve just been on Tinder and OKCupid, and it hasn’t worked out well for me. Either no one’s interested or I’m swiping on the wrong girls, who knows.

One thing I do know, is that all of this is worth the wait. I’m excited for when I meet that woman I’m meant to be with.

This notion eliminates some of the issues that may arise in the application and transfer process that many students face every semester.

El Camino houses hundreds of transfer students every year, so a decision as groundbreaking as this can cause students to apply locally without the fear of being rejected.

While the decision is a constructive one, it has its flaws.

Place-bound admission can enable students to remain in their comfort zones instead of seeking out other options.

For many students, college is a time of exploration and discovery.

With this action in place, some students may be encouraged to remain at home and not explore their options and surroundings because they are more confident in receiving an easy admittance to local universities.

Though change is not the

most comfortable option, it is sometimes necessary for a person to grow.

Overall, the decision to allow place-bound students a better chance at being admitted to their local schools is worthwhile to bring change to the way that students experience the application and admittance process.

We hope that this is not the end to bettering the CSU system.

Read more editorials and opinion stories online at eccunion.com

The journey to finding my voice

Looking for love in a hookup focused culture Dmitri Hansen Editor-in-Chief @ECCUnion

he state legislative decision to favor local student admission to California State Universities is ultimately a positive change to the application process for incoming freshman and transfer students.

Before this notion was approved, it was not uncommon for students who met the qualifications of their respective schools to be turned away due to overcrowding and impacted majors.

Now with this decision, local students, or “place-bound students,” are able to have a fair chance of getting into a school closer to their residency.

Students may have multiple reasons for wanting to attend universities locally rather than go out of state, such as financial struggles, family responsibilities, and commuting problems to name a few.

How spoken word helped me overcome my fear of public speaking

Oshari Arnett

Staff Writer @ECCUnionOshari

In the spring of 2004 I was chosen by my school to recite a poem for my fifth grade graduation ceremony at Watts Learning Center.

My initial attempt at reciting this poem for everyone at the ceremony was a disaster. I couldn’t remember parts to the poem which eventually led to me standing center stage all alone crying.

I was an 11-year-old kid who had never spoken publicly in front of a large crowd; the nerves, excitement, and uncertainty overwhelmed me.

Seventy-four percent of people suffer from speech anxiety, according to the Static Brain Research Institute.

Although I wasn’t aware at the very moment that I began to cry, I wasn’t alone at all.

Many of the people who were

watching me cry probably felt exactly what I was feeling at some point when they were speaking in front of a big group: scared and embarrassed.

Feeding off of the encouragement from everyone in the room, I gathered myself, took a deep breath and recited my poem from beginning to end.

After that moment, I never thought I would grace another stage in my life.

Identifying myself as an athlete, playing basketball and football throughout my adolescence, I never felt it was “cool” to write about your emotions and express sides of yourself others may not regularly have access to.

Then in 2011, my senior year in high school playing for the No. 2 ranked team in the state at the time, I quit basketball.

Days before our first game, and just weeks after talking with and sitting down with coaches

from colleges discussing my recruitment, I lost my identity.

I was no longer an athlete.

I didn’t know who I was, so I began searching.

Many long days and nights went by where I had no idea where I was headed; the only thing I knew was that I wanted others to learn from my mistakes.

I didn’t want others to have to suffer the same agony that I was troubled with.

I had to recreate who I was and the only sure way I knew to do so was to begin writing because I felt you could create whatever you want when writing.

I knew if I could articulate my thoughts on paper, my everyday perspective would become more clear but it didn’t stop there.

My goal is to be impactful. It did me no good to write and keep everything to myself; I had to be heard.

As time passed, my desire for

personal growth intensified.

I felt the only way for me to evolve towards promoting prosperity and growth in the world was to step out of my comfort zone.

On Sunday, June 11, I got on stage for the first time since I was 11 years old.

There were no tears shed this time, only an indescribable feeling of joy, excitement, and fear that I never once felt my entire sporting career.

I’ve played in championship games, state tournaments, and an NFL stadium but nothing could compare to that moment.

Four months from the first time I got on stage as a poet, on Sunday, Oct. 22 I was one of the feature poets at Spoken Word Sunday in Long Beach.

I let my guard down, I stepped out of my comfort zone, I didn’t give up when I heard whispers to do so; I kept fighting.

Letter to the Editor and Guest Column Policy

Students and other members of the El Camino College community outside the journalism staff are also invited to submit guest columns for consideration.

Only guest columns relating to El Camino will be accepted.

Unless the editorial board determines that an exception should be made, no more than two guest columns (including

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Campus Insight) from the same person will be considered for publication or online use in the same semester, and 60 days must elapse before a second column is published. Guest columns should generally run 300-450 words. Publication or rejection of any column is at the sole discretion of the editorial board.

Similarly, no more than two

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EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION 5

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

ll ll stacks on stacks Adjunct librarian returns to EC to promote student success

Jorge Villa/ Union Camila Jenkin, adjunct librarian and former El Camino student believes that teaching is right where she is destined to be. “What I love the most is teaching people how to rely on themselves to find the best information and how I want to teach people how to do that,” Jenkin said.

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former Warrior decided to fill her purpose in life by becoming a librarian after discovering how much she enjoys teaching people how to search for information and wants to continue that legacy at a community college.

Camila Jenkin has been working in the Schauerman Library as a part-time reference librarian at El Camino College since Spring 2017. Jenkin’s role as a reference librarian is to help students with research for their assignments, finding credible websites, articles and books, and most importantly to

guide students in the right direction in learning and understanding how to find information.

Jenkin was a student at EC for three years and realized that starting at a community college was a great start.

“I went to (Palos Verdes Peninsula High School) where nobody goes to a community college,” Jenkin said. “(El Camino) is a place where you can come and you can erase your high school record and start fresh. I saw (community colleges) as one of the most important institutions in our country.”

After graduate school, Jenkin decided to take a year off and volunteered as an ESL tutor in Torrance. Jenkin taught Korean

parents how to speak English. That is when she found her purpose in becoming a librarian.

“I am good at teaching and tutoring people and working one on one. I realized that makes so much sense I should be a librarian,” Jenkin said. “What I love the most is teaching people how to rely on themselves to find the best information and how I want to teach people how to do that.”

Jenkin noticed that students who are new to school haven’t been exposed to Microsoft Word.

“Half of the students that come here do not know what Microsoft Word is,” Jenkin said. “I teach them and I show them this is what Microsoft Word is, this is how you write your paper (and) this is how

you do some basic searching using Google.”

Jenkin chose to become a librarian at a community college because she believes it is a place where students need the most help.

“My personality is much geared towards working with community college students,” Jenkin said.

“Most of the students here are just so sweet. What I like is finding the gaps in their education and we help to get them past them. The whole purpose of a community college is to give them an opportunity.”

One of Jenkin’s memorable experiences as a librarian is when she saw that a student was struggling with writing an essay.

The student at the time was so stressed over her paper and wanted

to give up, and drop the class.

Jenkin said all she had to do was engage in her “just a little bit” and encourage her to not give up since the student was almost done with her essay. Jenkin felt happy in the fact that she was able to rescue a student from giving up and failing. “(That is) why I became a librarian just to work with students who are in danger of falling into the cracks,” Jenkin said. “If I can just catch a few of them then that is honestly why I am doing my job.”

Jenkin’s peers have noticed how she is passionate about her professionalism and how she is student-oriented.

“You can tell how much she cares about the students and how she enjoys what she does,” Cindy

Lopez, library media technician No. 3 said. “She goes into great lengths to explain things. It is like that old saying ‘you don’t give someone the fish, you teach them how to fish’ and she is really great at doing that.”

Another librarian admires her work ethic.

“She is an integral part here at the library. She has been so excellent to work with, really,” reference librarian Analu Josephides said. “It is my hope that all other librarians can reflect that same generosity in customer service so students can feel that they can work with all the librarians equally.”

Jenkin’s advice for students is “to take full control of your education and to value yourself.”

On the shelf Librarians share their favorite books in the Schauerman Library

CINDY LOPEZ

“At the moment “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, I really feel like it’s a great guide into why things happen in the world. It goes back to hard work and practice”

GARY MEDINA

“My favorite book would have to be “Long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela. His story is so inspirational.”

ANALU JOSEPHIDES

“My favorite book in the (library) is the Handbook of North American Indians because my mother is HalfHawaiian and we identify indigenous of Hawaii.”

SPORTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION 7

The best problem to have

Freshmen quarterbacks Cole Klayman and Jerman Gotoy are running the show for the EC football team this season

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ne good quarterback is hard to find, two capable quarterbacks rarely happens, three quality quarterbacks is an afterthought.

After battling it out in camp this summer, EC started the season with confidence that three separate quarterbacks could lead their team at any given moment.

“You’re lucky to get one, you’re grateful to get two, and you’re blessed to have three that can win football games for you,” EC head coach Gifford Lindheim said.

Without warming up, Jerman Gotoy entered the game for the injured starting quarterback, Aaron Thomas. Gotoy prepared to begin his college football journey, one he imagined would be favorable.

His first two plays as a college football player were a disaster.

“I told my whole team that I would make up for it,” Gotoy said.

It’s safe to say he didn’t disappoint, Gotoy’s next play from scrimmage resulted in a long touchdown run on a quarterback keep, breaking three tackles along the way.

“I just waited and then made the best of my opportunities,” Gotoy said.

His competitiveness and strength were in full effect, much like they had been when EC recruited him.

“I was really impressed, honestly with his guts,” EC Offensive Coordinator Tim Kaub said. “I remember saying to Giff, we got to recruit

that guy, that kid is tough.”

Gotoy wasn’t the only one to impress after Thomas went down, in the second quarter, Cole Klayman, transfer from Shippensburg University, entered and immediately led EC to a touchdown.

“I went out there and made sure I was accurate and efficient with the ball,” Klayman said.

Midway through the season, Klayman is ranked as one of the top Junior College quarterbacks in the state.

“I love putting in the work, I love putting in the hours, it’s something, if I wasn’t doing it, I wouldn’t like it,” Klayman said.

“This is what I love to do.”

The Warriors were blessed with a good problem to have.

Klayman started his football career at linebacker and didn’t begin playing quarterback until the eighth grade.

“I think a lot of those skills that you learn playing linebacker and the physicality of it translates to playing quarterback,” Klayman said.

“Its something not a lot of quarterbacks have because they grow up with the training since they’re young and they don’t really know what the other positions are like.”

Klayman’s time spent leading the opposite side of the ball has paid huge dividends towards his mentality as a quarterback.

“You don’t know until you get into a fight, Cole is very tough and a competitor, he wants to win,” Lindheim said.

Gotoy and Klayman have been athletes much of their life which has contributed to competitive,

tough individuals with unbelievable talent.

“He has a really high ceiling, Jerman’s super talented and the best has yet to come with him,” Lindheim said.

Gotoy is motivated and inspired to prove he is the best so his mother sees him succeed.

“I fed it to my son as if it were breakfast, ‘There’s no one better than you,’” Gotoy’s mother, Loraine Hackett, said.

That confidence instilled in him growing up has noticeably impacted his development as a young leader.

“Jerm’s got more swagger than you could ever imagine,” Lindheim said.

“He enters the room, he’s got a big personality, guys want to follow him.”

Klayman’s fire and desire is released when he leads the offense down for a touchdown and filled with excitement, flashes a Hulk Hogan flex towards the sideline.

“They have the ability to play fast,” said Thomas.

“They both have division one potential, they both have amazing talent, they both show that they can lead and throw the ball accurately, they can read the defenses as well, they have D1 potential.”

Klayman is larely recognized by his toughness and compact delivery.

Gotoy creates with intangible playmaking skills and athleticism.

“They’ve made it the hardest it’s ever been (to decide who to play), in a good way,” said Kaub.

Jeremy Taylor/ Union Freshmen quarterbacks Cole Klayman (left) and Jerman Gotoy (right) pose before their game against No. 2 Riverside College on Satuday, Oct. 28.

For more on Gotoy and Klayman, visit eccunion.com

Sam Hill /Union Starting women’s soccer forward Maddy Simones has scored 10 goals through 17 games this season.

She is tied for No. 46 in the state for goals and No. 14 in shots taken. She also leads her team in games played, goals, points and shots.

Athlete Spotlight A Q&A with David Sills Photo courtesy of WVU Athletic Communications/ Dan Friend

“The Union” interviewed former Warriors quarterback, and current West Virginia University wide receiver David Sills. He is No. 10 in the nation in receiving yards and is tied for No. 2 in the nation for most touchdowns.

As the quarterback for the Warriors in the 2016 fall semester, Stills completed 54 percent of his passes and threw for over 1600 yards and 15 touchdowns.

Question: What did you take from your time (El Camino)?

Answer: Being from a Division 1 program and going to a junior college, really just appreciating the game of football, you know working on all the little things. Getting to know all the different guys on the team and everything like that. Just being able to work with all of them, all of them came from different scenarios and different levels of football.

Q: What has been the has been the hardest part about transitioning from a quarterback to a wide receiver?

A: Really just the mindset has been the biggest thing that’s switched from playing quarterback to wide receiver.

Q: What are the top three songs on your playlist?

A: Solo by Future, Save me by Meek Mill and Tomorrow Til Infinity by Young Thug (feat. Gunna) For more about David Sills, visit eccunion.com

Interview by Jeremy Taylor

Starting forward Maddy Simones

Maddy Simones 19, is a starting forward for the El Camino women’s soccer team. She currently works for an ice cream parlor in Manhattan Beach. She loves to snowboard and listen to records on her record player. Simones is not the only athlete in her family, her grandfather is in the Hall of Fame at Cal. Poly Pomona and her mother, sister, and two uncles played a variety of sports at Missouri University.

Question: What is your major?

Answer: My major at El Camino is Childhood Education Q: What do you plan to do with your major?

A: I plan to become an elementary school teacher because I love children, have lots of energy and I believe I can make learning fun for them.

Q: Where to you want to transfer?

A: After (EC), I am not exactly sure where I want to transfer, but I would love to be nearthe snow so I can snowboard all the time.

Interview by Sam Hill

FEATURES

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION 6

write of passage English professor releases inaugural mystery novel

Jorge Villa/ Union English professor Suzanne Gates spent the past six years writing her debut mystery crime novel. “It is difficult being a writer and professor. When I think about my two jobs— writer and teacher—they seem similar, because I teach writing. Yet, I teach a kind of writing that is very, very different from what I write,” Gates said.

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uzanne Gates is lecturing on Marilyn Monroe. She mentions that Monroe had several abortions during one of her relationships. A student comments out loud, “That is sad.”

Gates agrees and then transitions into Monroe’s relationship with former President John F. Kennedy.

After playing a YouTube video of Monroe singing to the president, she then explains the significance of that relationship in American history and Monroe’s life.

Gates then comments that is it time to take a break and that class will resume in ten minutes.

As a professor, this is what the process of teaching is like, however, as a writer, Dr. Gates has another, dissimilar process.

Gates typically writes her book during the summer, four to five hours a day, and the rest of the day is filled with research.

“I love to research little nitpicky questions like ‘What did people in Los Angeles eat for breakfast in 1940?’ I search newspapers and magazines from back in the day, mostly advertisements, to see what kinds of breakfast foods were advertised,” Gates said. “That’s just one example of the details that have to be historically accurate when placing a story in a particular place and time.”

The story that Gates is referring to is “The Glamorous Dead,” a

historical mystery novel set in 1940s Hollywood that follows a young woman who is accused of her best friend’s murder.

Both the young woman and her best friend were female extras on the set of a historically real movie: Preston Sturges’s “The Lady Eve.” “(The) story blends history and fiction,” Gates said. “The murder is fiction, but the movie and most of the actors in the movie, like Barbara Stanwyck, are historical.”

Gates found inspiration for the book from looking through her mother’s scrapbook, which she kept in the 1940s. Gates’s mother had cut out pictures of movie stars and pasted them together in this scrapbook.

“I started thinking about the relationship that these girls had with the movies and with movie stars in the 1940s, and the more I researched, the more I found that a lot of women came to Los Angeles,” Gates said. “My book became partly a research project into what happened to those women and partly just getting to know my mom and what she was like.”

As far as balancing being a professor at EC with being novelist, Gates thinks that the balance is very hard to maintain.

“It is difficult being a writer and professor. When I think about my two jobs—writer and teacher— they seem similar, because I teach writing. Yet, I teach a kind of writing that is very, very different from what I write,” Gates said.

Due to being a full-time EC professor as well as a novelist, her time and energy is often focused on one endeavor instead of two or more.

“It took me six years to write ‘The Glamorous Dead,’ because my schedule only gives me time to write during summers. I don’t balance aspects of my life very well. I’m more the kind of person who goes all out on one thing, then all out on another,” Gates said.

However, colleagues of Gates, like EC English professor Inna Newbury, seem to think the opposite and are very awestruck at her ability to be both a professor and a writer.

“I find it amazing that she has always been so productive since coming to EC,” Newbury said.

“Now her latest book is published.

I honestly don’t know how she does it, because teaching, grading students’ papers, (and) responding to so many students in her online classes is enough to swamp the average professor. But not Suzanne.”

EC English Instructor, Tiffany Huynh, also shares similar sentiments and looks forward to reading the novel herself.

“I’d love this novel to be my first experience to noir literature,” Huynh said “I imagine reading the novel would be like sitting in one of her classes and experiencing the fascinations noir has to offer.”

“The Glamorous Dead” was released on Tuesday, Oct. 31 and is available wherever books are sold.

Synopsis Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a starstudded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder...

The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway— no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it doesn’t take long for the police to identify its owner. Miss Penny Harp would recognize that pink anywhere: it belongs to her best friend, Rosemary. And so does the rest of the body buried beneath it.

Rosemary, with the beauty and talent, who stood out from all other extras on the Paramount lot.

She was the one whose name was destined for a movie marquee—not for the obituaries. And for an extra twist, now an LAPD detective thinks Penny is the one who killed her...

— courtesy of “The Glamorous Dead”

SPORTS

8 EL CAMINO COLLEGE UNION

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Jorge Villa / Union El Camino sophomore Jaylin Motley poses in the EC South Gym. Motley looks to finsh strong and get to the State Championship game this season to make up for a lackluster performance last year.

The road to State is all she’ll take

Opposite hitter Jaylin Motley is leading the offensive charge for the women’s volleyball team

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aylin Motley got into her sport later than most athletes do for their respective sports, but once she played volleyball as a freshman at Torrance High School, she knew it was for her.

One thing that made sure she stayed with the sport was her height. Motley stands at six feet tall and knows that her height has given her an advantage over other girls during games. “(My height) was something that I was insecure about growing up so having volleyball to really embrace it was super awesome for me.”

When on the volleyball court, it’s easy to spot Motley. She one of the tallest women on the court, has her long, brown hair in a ponytail and has a big smile on her face.

What may be easier to see is the impact she has on the game. Her coaches praise her vocal leadership and her

ability to perform on the court.

“She’s really embraced being a leader this year. Jaylin has taken on being very vocal out there, so that really helps us,” Hazell said. “Her hitting this year is 100 times better than last year, she’s hitting balls hard all the time.”

Motley is second in the South Coast - South conference and No. 29 in the state with 3.33 kills per set.

She’s totaled 223 kills this season, which is good for second in the conference and No. 37 in the state.

What drives Motley to play so well was suffering a five-set loss last year at the State Championship to L.A. Pierce College. Freshman Jaylin Motley underperformed

in that game and she still feels bad about it, nearly a year later.

“I didn’t have the performance I thought I would and I think that’s what pushes me to work hard is knowing that I feel like I have to make up for that game.

It pushes me to want to get better so we can get back to that (State Championship) and show myself that I can do more than I did.”

Recently, the Warriors played the L.A. Pierce Brahmas and won in five sets, coming back from a 2-1 set deficit.

That victory was a relief for Motley, but the end-goal is to win the State Championship.

“I was so emotional,” Motley

said. “I literally felt all the guilt of playing bad at state come off my shoulders. I couldn’t have asked for more from my teammates, we all laid it out.”

Despite beating No. 4 ranked L.A. Pierce, Motley still has No. 13 Long Beach in her sights.

According to Motley, EC hadn’t lost to Long Beach until this season, so the home game against Long Beach on Wednesday, Nov. 8 is circled on her calendar.

“We’re all anxious about that game, we’ve been working hard. We know if we want to win (the) conference, we have to win that game.”

Her teammate for two seasons, Aiko Waters, can see Motley’s

growth as a player and as a teammate.

“She’s great. She has a great attitude. I look to her when I’m down,” Waters said. “(This year) she’s more aggressive, she’s more focused and she just wants it.”

Some of Motley’s favorite teammates are Taylor Brydon and Micah Hammond.

Motley said she owes a lot of her hard work because of them.

“Playing with them really gets me in a competitive mindset and makes me want to work hard and be as good as them,” Motley said.

“They really are amazing athletes.”

effort and come up a little short.”

Riverside scored the game’s first 10 points and the Warriors answered with back-to-back field goals, then Riverside quarterback Vic Viramontes exploded with with a 71-yard touchdown run.

“He’s tough to bring down, everyone knows he’s going to run with the ball,” said EC head coach Gifford Lindheim.

“We’re not the first ones to have trouble bringing him down, he’s a good football player.”

The Warriors scored a touchdown late in the second quarter, a

2-yard run by running back Okalani Taufahema-Langi but the Tigers still led 17-13 at halftime.

The second half was a wild one with both teams scoring a combined 57 points.

The Tigers’ wide receiver Tyrone Marshall scored two touchdowns in the third quarter with second being a 98-yard kickoff return.

Not to be outdone the Warriors’ running back Torrance Brumfield, who answered with a 87-yard kickoff return to the house.

“It was just like we practiced hit the hole and go, it just

opened up,” said Brumfield.

The two teams went back-and-forth exchanging touchdowns including back to touchdowns by wide receiver Trevon Clark, he scored on receptions of 10 and 44 yds.

“My mindset coming into this game was knock this team off and take their crown, we were capable of doing it, we just picked it up late,” said Clark.

In the fourth quarter, EC lost two of it’s starting offensive lineman due to be ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct, it’s unknown at this time if they miss

the next game due to the ejections.

“We’ll see what that looks like, we will look at the rules and figure out what’s going to happen with them,” said Lindheim.

The final score of the game came when Klayman rumbled 46 yards making the score 4542. The Tigers recovered the onside kick attempt and ran out the clock to clinch the victory.

In the fourth quarter of the game, sophomore offensive lineman KingJames Taylor and freshman offensive lineman Jacob Pugh-Scruggs were ejected for,

“level three decorum violation.”

Both Taylor and PughScruggs were also suspended two games for the incidents.

“King(James) responded in retalition and threw a punch, although he didn’t throw the first punch the rules are pretty clear,” Lindheim said.

Despite the suspension, Taylor plans to be in the stands for the remaining games.

“It’s not about me, it’s about the team. I messed up for the team,” Taylor said.

Football players lose their cool in game against Riverside College

Two players ejected as attempted comeback falls short Jeremy Taylor Staff Writer @ECCUnionJeremyT

The Warriors spirited comeback fell short on Saturday as they lost their first home game of the season to the Riverside Tigers,45-42.

“This is a tough loss, it hurts,” quarterback Cole Klayman said.

“You comeback, make a late

WARRIORS SCHEDULE FOOTBALL vs Chaffey College Saturday, Nov. 4 at 1 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER at Chaffey College Friday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY Southern California Championships at Central Park, Santa Clarita, CA Saturday, Nov. 3 - All day

WARRIORS SCOREBOARD

WOMEN’S SOCCER at Chaffey College Friday, Nov. 3 at 4 p.m.

FOOTBALL vs Riverside College Loss, 42-45

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Four mile team run: One hour, 50 minutes Third place

WOMEN’S SOCCER at Cerritos College Loss, 0-3

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL @ L.A. Trade-Tech Friday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER at Cerritos College Loss, 1-3

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Four mile team run: One hour, 54 minutes Fourth place

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL vs. Chaffey College Win, 3-0 Four-match winning streak