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Students can petition to have GPA exclude failing grades Policy change will reduce elligiblity to one year Omar Rashad

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Omar Rashad/The Union Students sit at tables at The Common Grounds on Monday, Sept. 23. The popular hangout area will be fenced off during construction in December as the Student Activities Center, old Student Services Building and Peet’s Coffee will be demolished and replaced with a new Behavioral Science Building and art complex.

West side of campus to close

Construction projects will affect hangout spots and walkways Juan Miranda

Staff Writer @ECCUnionJuanM

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he demolition of El Camino College’s Student Activities Center and old Student Services Building begins in December and will cause the closure of the west side of campus, officials said.

Fenced-off portions of campus will extend from Peet’s Coffee located near the Art buildings to the walkway between the Communications Building and old Students Services Building, Executive

Director of Facilities and Planning Jorge Gutierrez said.

A walkway canopy will be placed around the demolition site for the safety of pedestrians on the ECC campus, Gutierrez said. Safety officials will be placed at Parking Lot B to help direct construction vehicles arriving on campus to their respective sites.

“Our number one issue is safety, as well as environmental,” Gutierrez said.

“We will have a consultant full time who is certified to make sure the abatement procedures follow through correctly with federal and state requirements.”

During construction, the Student Activities Center will be temporarily relocated to the Manhattan Beach Boulevard Modules (MBBM) on Friday, Nov. 1, Gutierrez said.

Peet’s Coffee, the coffee shop next to the Student Activities Center, will also be caught in the scope of the demolition project. Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Ann O’Brien said there are plans to make up for the loss of the popular beverage option.

“Right now we’re planning on having a coffee station probably between the Arts

Building and [Parking] Lot L because it’s important for students, faculty and staff to have a coffee option on that side of campus,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien added that information on how to navigate the campus during the closure of two large buildings on the west side of campus will be readily available to those who may need it most, including students with mobility issues and organizations which help them.

“We have an ADA accessibility specialist also serving as a consultant on the [See Construction, page 4]

Over 50 companies looking to fill positions

Career hiring event will bring employers to students, alumni Jose Tobar

Senior Staff Writer @ECCUnionTobar

Basic Skills Center gets new name and amenities

A ‘collaborative’ environment created Devyn Smith

Senior Staff Writer @ECCUnionDevyn

The Basic Skills Center on the second floor of the Schauerman Library has been renamed to The Study Center.

It has a reorganized floor space designed to give students a space to work collaboratively and contains tables and computers for students to work together.

“The way students are expected to learn and explore their academic course work is in a collaborative manner,” Sheryl Kunisaki, assistant director of the Learning Resources Center, said. “So in response to that, I think we have a responsibility to try and create

Football team success

ECC has 72 years of history.

We should be celebrating it and displaying more of it around campus.

Over 80 universities represented in annual fair as students get the opportunity to meet with admissions representatives to learn more about schools.

New jazz director shares his experience with U2 and Iggy Pop to his students.

Chicano studies professor composes movies outside of teaching with the hope of educating students about Chicano history.

Warriors outscore opponents 90-36 over its last two games after a 70-7 win over Los Angeles Harbor College.

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SPORTS

Chicano pride

FEATURES

Taking note

ARTS

Get ready to transfer

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appropriate spaces that work for students.”

Students can also print in The Study Center for 10 cents per black and white page and 50 cents per color page. Students can use credit and debit cards to pay but there is a $2 minimum charge. Students can also check out TI-84 graphing calculators by filling out and submitting a slip given by math instructors.

“We hope it’s a friendly, welcoming, warm environment where you want to come and study,” Kunisaki said.

The Study Center is open Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fridays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Omar Rashad/The Union Students sit at computers at The Study Center on Monday, Sept. 23. Students can work collaboratively at tables and rent calculators from the center.

El Camino’s roots

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Omar Rashad/The Union Automotive technology major Rene Ocegueda rotates a tire in his Automotive Technology 1 class on Monday, Sept. 23. Career Education runs over a dozen programs including Automotive Technology and is organizing an event in October for student to meet potential employers.

Students and alumni of El Camino College will get the opportunity to explore career options and learn more about job opportunities with over 50 companies at the upcoming Career Education Hiring Event on Thursday, Oct. 3.

Edgar Delgado, job developer and job placement specialist for ECC’s Career Education Department, said companies including SpaceX, the U.S. Census Bureau, Hollywood Park Casino,

Walmart and the Los Angeles Police Department will be present to discuss opportunities with ECC students and alumni from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

“What we are trying to do is to get companies that are going to be hiring students,” Delgado said. “We are looking for those companies who are going to be either hiring students that day or scheduling interviews [with them] that day.”

During the event, Career Education will also promote its webpage. The site will list a host [See Hiring event, page 4]

Failing grades may soon be excluded from a student’s GPA after one year with the approval of a new academic policy change, officials said.

The College Council approved a change to Administrative Procedure 4240 (AP 4240) on Monday, Sept. 16, which reduces the amount of time necessary for students to be eligible for academic renewal from two years to one.

Academic renewal is a process students can petition for to have substandard grades be disregarded when factoring GPA. If a student has at least a 2.5 GPA in the last 24 units they have taken, they can petition for academic renewal, according to AP 4240.

However, a student also has to wait two years after the substandard grades were received. With the College Council approving this new change, students might be eligible after one year.

“By reducing that time to wait, it’s going to hopefully allow students to shorten their time here,” Vice President of Academic Affairs Jean Shankweiler said. “College is expensive. The less time you spend

here, the less time you’re spending on your education.”

Shankweiler also said academic renewal, while it excludes substandard grades from being factored in GPA, does not remove them from student transcripts.

For students who may have found their first few semesters at ECC difficult or had outside responsibilities get in the way of school, academic renewal can raise their GPAs, Kelsey Iino, an ECC counselor, said.

Iino, who is also the president of ECC’s chapter of the American Federation of Teachers and motioned to pass the administrative policy change at the College Council meeting, said this can make or break an admissions decision for students.

“I think it’s very important considering we are a two-year college, and also [for] UCs and Cal States, you must apply one year in advance,” Iino said. “So someone that’s waiting two years to be eligible for a UC or Cal State, it may prolong their ability to transfer because of their substandard grades.”

Since the requirements to be eligible for academic renewal include having a 2.5 GPA in the [See GPA boost, page 4]

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EDITORIAL

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SEPT. 26, 2019

OPINION

Luciane Gasperis / Special to the Union

SAY GOODBYE TO

FAILING GRADES? BOARD OF TRUSTEES NEEDS TO MAKE PROCESS OF DUMPING SUBSTANDARD GRADES FASTER

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t the next Board of Trustees meeting, the El Camino College administrators have an opportunity to make a strong commitment to students seeking to transfer to universities by approving a change to an academic renewal policy.

Administrative Procedure 4240 (AP 4240) would reduce the amount of time a student has to wait for eligibility to apply for academic renewal from two years to one. AP 4240 was approved by the College Council on Monday, Sept. 16, and now awaits final approval by the Board of Trustees (BOT).

The Union supports the College Council’s decision to approve AP 4240 and encourages the BOT to vote the same way at its next meeting on Monday, Oct. 21.

Academic renewal is a process in which students may petition to have substandard grades (D, F or WF) be disregarded when calculating their GPAs. Students are eligible for academic renewal if they have at least a 2.25 GPA in the last 30 units of coursework, or a 2.5 in the last 24 units, which can be completed at any regionally accredited college or university, according to AP 4240.

By reducing academic renewal eligibility to one year, the College Council has taken a major step in the right direction to ensure determined students get a second chance at success without fear of being rejected because of a grade from their past.

Low grades on academic transcripts have the potential to bring down students’ GPAs below the entrance requirements set by their preferred colleges. Furthermore, students that decide to apply to graduate schools in the future could run into the same issue again.

The Union believes that there are many factors that can contribute to a substandard grade that inaccurately reflect a student’s work ethic, dedication or academic potential. Health complications, financial difficulties, family problems and other hardships can derail otherwise steady academic progress.

There are lots of other reasons that students receive substandard grades. However, many students return to school after earning substandard grades in their pasts and, after a break, experience newfound periods of professional and academic maturity. These students should not be prevented from making academic progress due to previous failures.

ECC is a place where people should be able to create opportunities for themselves

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through study and dedication. Making mistakes or going through a difficult time that adversely affects one’s grades should not hinder future opportunities.

College is not just about picking a program, getting perfect grades and then getting a job. Getting an education is a dynamic process in which students learn not just the content of their courses but also about themselves and their abilities.

By reducing the amount of time required for academic renewal eligibility, students will be able to take advantage of a second chance on their education.

Mistakes will happen during the course of getting an education, but that’s part of the learning process.

The Union believes that students with the drive and determination to overcome substandard grades should not continue to be punished throughout the rest of their academic careers.

By making academic renewal a more equitable process, the College Council is expanding opportunities for ECC’s diverse student population. The BOT should do the same.

E d i t o r i a l s a re u n s ig n e d a n d a re w r i t t e n a n d v o t e d u p o n b y t h e e d i t o r i a l b o a rd .

What is Academic Renewal?

• It is the process in which a student can petition to have any substandard grades removed when calculating their GPA’s.

• Students are eligible for academic renewal if they have at least a 2.25 GPA in the last 30 units of coursework, or a 2.5 in the last 24 units of coursework.

• The Board of Trustees will vote on whether or not to approve Academic Policy 4240 on Monday, Oct. 21.

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OPINION

SEPT. 26, 2019

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El Camino should embrace more of its history CAMPUS VIEWPOINTS: College’s history sparks interest in student after enrolling into journalism DO YOU PREFER TO EAT AT HOME OR EAT OUT? Cameron Woods Staff Writer @ECCUnionC

As a student sometimes we have to make on-thego decisions on how and when we retrieve our daily nutrients. The Union asked students if they preferred to eat at home or eat out and why.

Kealan Sucher, 18, English major

“If I have company I prefer to eat out, but if I’m alone I usually tend to either take food home or just eat at home because I do not like eating out alone,” Sucher said.

John Turner, 29, air conditioning and refrigeration major “I like to eat at home instead of eating out because I know what I am consuming and I have a choice of making better decisions on what I put in my body, especially with fast food having a lot of GMO,” Turner said.

Devyn Smith Senior Staff Writer @ECCUnionDevyn El Camino College has 47 years worth of history and takes up roughly 26 acres of land. The farthest distance I’ve had to walk across campus is from Parking Lot H to the Humanities Building.

I’m not a stranger to this trip and it isn’t painful, but it is really dull. When I was new to campus about two years ago, I’d dart my eyes back and forth in an attempt to find something amusing.

The buildings looked nice and pretty, but ultimately I wasn’t interested in anything I saw.

Nowadays when I walk to class I just look straight ahead.

However, ECC does have some sort of decoration. There are street-pole flags stretching across most of campus that show off prestigious and famous alumni that have walked the campus as well as all of the opportunities ECC gives its students.

But there’s little to be seen around campus that displays ECC’s history.

Old editions of Warrior Life magazine dating back to the 1960s and 1970s are fascinating because of what the students of the time were writing about and how much in common we share with them.

Ryan Fukuhara, 18, English major “I guess thats kind of a complicated question because eating out is easy, because it is convenient and usually fairly inexpensive,” Fukuhara said.

“At the same time, eating at home you can make your own thing and it is usually more healthy.”

Juan Miranda Staff Writer @ECCUnionJuanM The Union staff recently asked students and staff what holiday they were looking forward to most and why.

Maryam Orujova / Special to the Union assignments.

Street poles close enough to ECC’s athletic venues are the perfect space for banners of former athletes from the sports those venues host.

The softball field already does this but the idea should be extended out campus-wide.

The exterior of the South Gym could be lightened up with photos of volleyball and basketball players.

The new gym complex being built could easily have pictures of badminton, basketball, and volleyball players on its walls.

The Physics Building has a fun painting that’s complete with an old Chevrolet El Camino car. I really appreciate the energy of the painting and I want the campus to be full of things just like it.

I want to walk down the sidewalks and see the lineage

of normal everyday students that attended ECC before me. I want to see pictures of the great achievements earned by students of the past.

It was only after enrolling into ECC’s journalism program and having a chance to flip through previous editions of Warrior Life, that I became more intrigued with our college’s history.

By painting photos of ECC’s history around campus or by even just having more decorations that honor the past, more students would be able to appreciate ECC and they wouldn’t have to exert as much energy as I did to draw that conclusion.

ECC is a campus that has been established since 1947 and has a lot of history. In an age where construction is ruling over campus, it would be great if ECC gave a nod to its roots.

Manny Gil, 19, communication studies and sociology major “Our hometown team, the Dodgers all day,” Gil said. “They look pretty good.”

More phone charging stations should be installed

With additional requirements to use technology for classes, we need to stay connected

Mikayla Schwartz Staff Writer @ECCUnionMS Rajanee Lloyd, 18, business major “I’d rather eat at home because it saves money and I get to make more,” Lloyd said. “If I eat out it will be something quick like a burger or something, but then I get hungry within 30 minutes. At home I get more for my money.”

But to be honest, the best part about reading the magazines is getting to look at the photographs of ECC. By looking at past copies of Warrior Life I was able to find out that parking on campus was a well-documented issue in the 60s. The football and baseball fields have stayed in the same locations this whole time. And according to the spring 1997 edition of Warrior Life, there was even an ECC roller hockey team.

The history of ECC was something I never stopped to think about until reading these magazines. It never really hit me that the campus hasn’t always looked like it does now.

But unfortunately there’s no easy way to know about all of this history.

Seeing the college embrace its history would instill a sense of pride in me. I’d truly feel like I’m part of the college’s history and I would be motivated to do better academically.

The library has resources both physical and digital to see historical photos of the college, but what I really want is for the photos to be integrated into the daily life of the campus.

That doesn’t mean ECC needs to be painted with murals that span across 20-foot walls, but it would be really enjoyable if walls in hallways showed some old photos of students and the campus.

It would be especially cool if the photos related to the buildings they were in.

The new Student Services Building has plenty of wall space that could be adorned with photos of students graduating or interacting in the old Student Services Building.

The walls in the hallways of the Humanities Building are begging for old photos of student journalists at work, students reading poetry aloud before their classmates and classes collaborating on written

CAMPUS VIEWPOINTS: WHICH MLB TEAM WILL WIN THE WORLD SERIES?

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s technology has improved, our phones are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives. This is especially true in the way we are using our phones more frequently to manage daily school activities.

With this increased use of our phones for school work, El Camino College should have more phone charging stations on campus to make it easier and more accessible for students to charge their phones.

Currently, the only charging station is in the library in the North Reading room.

I know as a student I am using my phone on a daily basis for school work more so than I used to in the past.

I use it to check my email, use Canvas and to stay connected with my fellow journalism classmates on the group messaging service, Slack. I even use it sometimes in

class for my classes that do not use a textbook to have articles on hand for our discussions.

ECC Public Information Officer and Government Relations Director, Marc Stevens said that the school will be installing more charging stations in the new Student Services Building in a couple of months.

However, I do not believe that adding more charging stations to the Student Services Building is enough for such a large campus.

There were 33,684 students enrolled last year, according to the ECC 2017-2018 Annual Factbook.

I think the best way to solve this issue is to have more charging stations on campus.

This would involve ECC providing one charging station on every floor of each building on campus. For example, the Humanities Building would have three charging stations, one on each floor.

I know that this may be too costly for the school, so at the very least the college should have one charging station in every building so students do not have to go across campus just to charge their phones or be forced to hunt for an outlet.

Since there is just one charging station in the library, only a small handful of students can charge their phone at any given time.

I have had experiences where I have had to wait for someone to unplug their phone so I could

Cindy Lopez, library media technician “[The] boys in blue, baby,” Lopez said. “All the other teams have a shot, but our players are clutch.

This is the year, the third time’s the charm.”

Joseph Hernandez, 22, art major “It’s kind of a maybe for me,” Hernandez said. “As long as they play more aggressively and efficiently [under manager] Dave Roberts, I think they could win.”

Maryam Orujova / Special to the Union charge my phone. This has put me in a time crunch sometimes where I am estimating how long I can stay to charge my phone before having to dash to my next class.

Using all these school related apps on your phone can affect your phone battery and can drain it faster.

It is fair to assume that if I am using these apps on a daily basis for school, many other students are probably doing the same

thing and are most likely having similar experiences.

Students also should not be having to be searching for wall outlets. Some professors might not allow students to charge their phones and laptops during class.

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Brennen Hightower, 17, engineering technology major “I’d like to say the Dodgers are going to win. They have been good all around this year,” Hightower said. “If they don’t win, they should just stop [playing].”

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Police Beat Omar Rashad

News Editor @omarsrashad Monday, Sept. 16, at 2:04 p.m.

A student had a seizure in the Music Building. Following the seizure and becoming coherent, she declined requests to be taken to a local hospital.

Monday, Sept. 16, at 8:29 p.m.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) responded to a student feeling nauseous in the Art and Behavioral Science Building. She was treated and declined requests to be taken to a local hospital.

Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 10:39 a.m.

The LACFD took a student having a mental health-related crisis at the Health Center to a local hospital.

Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 1:10 p.m.

Students and staff were evacuated from the Schauerman Library after faculty members that were painting triggered a smoke detector on the second floor.

Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 11:40 a.m.

The LACFD responded to a student having an asthma attack in the Math Business Allied Health (MBAH) Building. She declined to be taken to a local hospital and returned to class after being treated.

Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 12:11 p.m.

A dispute occurred between a student and a member of staff at Café Camino. Police responded to the incident.

Thursday, Sept. 19, at 2:30 p.m.

Students and staff were evacuated from the Schauerman Library after a smoke detector was activated by a faculty member.

Thursday, Sept. 19, at 2:50 p.m.

ECCPD officers were dispatched after receiving a report that a student was sitting on a wall on the third floor of Parking Lot C. He told officers he was trying to take a selfie.

Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4:51 p.m.

A student’s mother contacted ECCPD officers after she received an SOS text from her daughter who was at the Warrior Pantry. ECCPD officers were dispatched to the Warrior Pantry and learned that the daughter sent the SOS text to her mother by accident.

Thursday, Sept. 19, at 5:51 p.m.

ECCPD officers were dispatched to the Art and Behavioral Science Building after a student was reportedly making threats to fellow students in a classroom. When officers arrived, they detained the student and discovered an outstanding warrant for his arrest upon a records check.

Thursday, Sept. 19, at 6:46 p.m.

An instructor reported being harassed by a student in the Music Building. ECCPD officers gave the student a two-week suspension.

Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8:56 p.m.

A drunken man was taken to a local jail by police after he was reported to have been lying on the ground of the Arts and Behavioral Science Building’s second floor.

Corrections

Storming the Art World preview was incorrect.

News Preview was incorrect.

Mikayla Schwartz’s Twitter handle was mispelled.

Storms was mispelled as Storm and Stroms.

SEPT. 26, 2019

Admissions representatives meet with students More than 80 universities attend Transfer Day Fair Patrick Ezewiro

Staff Writer @ECCUnionPatrick

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epresentatives from dozens of universities lined up at the Library Lawn to help El Camino College students learn about transferring to universities at the Transfer Day Fair on Thursday, Sept. 19.

Organized by ECC’s Transfer Center, the annual event gives students the opportunity to find out about admissions requirements, college life and programs available at universities.

“We want students to meet with about 80 universities on campus,” Transfer Coordinator Rene Lozano said. “Instead of students going to the universities, we bring them here.”

The Transfer Day Fair gives students a first hand experience of meeting with the representatives of any school so they can get more information on housing, student life, financial aid and the

admissions process, Lozano said.

“It’s very ideal for students to go to this event even if they are not transferring,” Lozano said. “It’s important to know all about the school they want to go to before a decision is made on their next level of education.”

Ross Miyashiro, vice president of Student Services, said he wants students to be able to talk with representatives from universities.

“Students should be able to specifically ask questions about the major they’re interested in to the institutions they’re interested in transferring to.” Miyashiro said.

Jehali Hall, psychology major, said it’s important for ECC to organize events like the Transfer Day Fair.

“It gives students a good opportunity to know what they need to know to transfer to the school they want,” Hall said. “El Camino does a really good job of helping students with events like these.”

Yemi Burka, nursing major, was

Kevin Caparaso/Special to The Union Janelle Cardenas, an admissions representative for UC Merced, talks with National University Representative Mary Anne Nguyen at the Transfer Day Fair on Thursday, Sept. 19. The fair gives students the opportunity to learn more about universities they could be interested in transferring to in the future. able to get answers to her questions ahead of the upcoming transfer application season when she got the opportunity to talk with a representative from the University

of Southern California.

“It was extremely helpful,” she said. “It’s not just that I got the answers I wanted, but it’s that I finally now know the school I want

to go to.”

More information about transfer opportunities is available at the Transfer Center in the Student Services Building.

Fair promotes financial aid, rights

[Hiring event, from page 1] of employment services and resources like Jobspeaker, an online jobs board that students are able to register for now, Delgado added.

“It’s a service that we’re using to accommodate employers and students with jobs,” Career Education Job Placement Assistant Agnes Qatto said. “It will suggest jobs to [students] based on their majors and their skills.”

Qatto added that students will have access to the service 24/7 via their mobile devices to allow for a more personalized experience for employers and candidates alike.

Shaun Thompson, 29, English major, said his pursuits towards a career in the restaurant business have taken place outside ECC, but he believes that events that promote hiring opportunities can provide students with the chance to learn essential real-world skills.

“School’s awesome, but it’s a very sheltered sandbox environment,” Thompson said.

“It’s quite a stretch to go from being in class for two to four years not knowing how to draft a résumé or how to interview properly. Having job recruiters out here really helps bridge the gap between the school place and the work place.”

[GPA boost, from page 1] last 24 units taken, Iino said students may not need the entirety of two years to complete that course load.

“A student can do 24 units in one year. They don’t need to take two years to do the 24 units,” Iino said. “It just means you’re not waiting around on campus for an extra semester because you’re not eligible for academic renewal.”

Iino related back to her own experience in college and how she remembers petitioning for academic renewal. Had she not, she said her GPA would have been substantially lower and that could have compromised admissions decisions for her.

“It just makes me identify that people make mistakes,” Iino said.

“There are so many reasons why you’d get a substandard grade in a term or multiple terms.”

Iino added that fellow counselors have been eager for this academic policy change to be enacted because it supports students. In order to be fully established at ECC, the Board of Trustees will have to approve the item in its next meeting.

“It should be a slam dunk,” Iino said. “I don’t know why anyone

that works on campus would be like, ‘No, keep it for two years.’”

Cindy Lopez, a library media technician at the Schauerman Library and president of El Camino Classified Employees Union, seconded the motion to approve AP 4240 and said it promotes a second chance for students.

“I support what Kelsey [Iino] advocates for,” Lopez said. “I believe in second chances. I think if anything this allows students who are not given resources at the beginning to maybe have a doover.”

Many students come from disadvantaged backgrounds and those factors may play a role in their academic performance, Lopez said.

Academic renewal is a powerful tool to give students who may come from a disadvantaged background an opportunity to move on to the next level, she added.

“I seconded because it then goes on record, the people behind it— not that everybody else wasn’t but that was important for me because voices need to be heard,” Lopez said. “Not just ours as classified, as faculty, as members of this community, but students need to be heard.”

Event commemorates signing of U.S. Constitution Juan Miranda

Staff Writer @ECCUnionJuanM

Birthday decorations, brochures, pizza and prizes decorated tents and tables at the Constitution Day and Financial Aid Fair on the Library Lawn on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Put together by the Associated Students Organization (ASO) and the Student Development Office, the event presented students with information on constitutional rights, voter registration and financial aid.

“Our main [goal] is not just promoting our organization or ASB sticker, but how important the Constitution is and why we even celebrate this day, what it’s done for our rights and what that means for each individual,” ASO Council Member Makayla Propst said.

Constitution Day is celebrated annually on Sept. 17, which marks the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution and historical efforts to mobilize and register voters, Propst said.

“Everybody should know their rights and what [they mean],” Propst said. “Knowing your rights is going to be what keeps you from getting taken advantage of.”

ECC’s Financial Aid Department, which presented at the event, informed students on its workshops and the upcoming 2020 to 2021 FAFSA and Dream Act applications.

Financial Aid Student Services Specialist Maria Ehrlich said she

appreciated the opportunity to give students information about financial aid.

“It’s important to give students information and that we get to do it in a fun atmosphere,” Erhlich said.

The League of Women Voters (LWV), which serves the areas of Torrance, Carson, Gardena and Lomita, helped students with registering to vote.

Terry Furey, an LWV board member, said that college students need to register to vote and mobilize, since women, with a similar mission to those in the LWV, fought hard to lower the voting age to 18.

“It’s important to let the youth know about an organization that is non-partisan [and that] supports and promotes their right to vote,”

Furey said.

Furey also said it is important for similar organizations to engage and interact with students, as they assume this type of interaction to be a significant obligation.

“If you want a say in the system you’re living in,” LWV member Sharon Alexander said, “you need to access your right to vote. You need to say your piece and this is the way.”

Jason Limon, computer information systems major, said the food, prizes and music caught his attention but he stopped by booths to find out more about the U.S. Constitution’s history.

“It’s important to learn about the Constitution,” Limon said. “We [Americans] are meant to help each other, not be against each other.”

[Construction, from page 1] project to ensure that these paths accommodate everyone with mobility issues,” O’Brien said.

“We know it’s an important concern with some students.”

Emails and social media posts containing construction notices and announcements will be sent out by ECC administration in October, O’Brien added.

“We wanted to just really make sure that we were proactive in getting in front of campus [concerns] by communicating often,” O’Brien said.

In addition to the various forms of communication, the online interactive map will also be updated to reflect the construction project.

As a result of the construction project, events that are normally held on the Library Lawn will have to find new locations that can host the events.

“We want to ensure that [student

clubs] have inviting, comfortable spaces around other areas of campus to hold their events.”

O’Brien said. “We’re going to proactively work with students [to relocate] events that typically would be on the Library Lawn.”

The new Behavioral Science Building and art complex will be built in the place of the Student Activities Center and old Student Services Building once demolition of the two buildings is complete.

Construction for these two new facilities is scheduled to take place from Aug. 2020 to Aug. 2022, Gutierrez said.

“Overall, you’re looking at almost three years that this area will be impacted,” he said.

Jose Solis, construction engineering major, said the construction project will affect students and will be a big inconvenience.

“This [area] is basically in the middle of the school, everything is

all super close.” Solis said. “This is the place you want to go to in between your classes.”

Art major, Sara Wermers, also said the closure will be a major inconvenience for students and staff, as the passage between the Pool and Classroom Building construction site and the former Student Services Building will be closed during demolition.

“This area is the social hub [of El Camino],” Wermers said.

Psychology major Jackson Keesal said he was dissapointed area he usually hangs out with friends will be affected.

“Whenever I want to meet with someone it’s always, ‘Let’s meet at the Activities Center.’”

Renderings of the new arts complex depict an open outdoor area that will be used as classroom and independent studying areas; the new arts complex will also have a film lab, jewelry and ceramics lab, and an art gallery.

Juan Miranda/The Union Associated Students Organization Council Member Makayla Propst gives pizza to students on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The Constitution Day and Financial Aid Fair commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution.

Jaime Solis/The Union Vice President of Academic Affairs Jean Shankweiler discusses an agenda item at a College Council meeting Monday, Sept. 16. The council approved a change in Administrative Policy 4240, which lets students wait one year to be elligible for academic renewal, instead of two.

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Jeremy Yap /The Union Jazz professor, David Moyer, plays his baritone sax in his office on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Moyer performed on tour with The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Big Daddy Kane and Tears For Fears before teaching at El Camino College. “It was eye-opening to be able to travel to these places that I otherwise would never be able to travel,” Moyer said.

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reakestra is preparing to go on stage and perform at the Glastonbury Festival, the United Kingdom’s equivalent to Coachella. Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti is following and waits backstage along with the rest of his band and Breakestra. One of Breakestra’s members takes a look at his saxophone and sees that its taken some damage.

Glastonbury Festival parallels Coachella in more ways than one, including it’s proximity to nothing much at all. The man examining his saxophone, David Moyer, is trying to get the neck of his saxophone to fit into the horn.

But Kuti saw Moyer struggling and called over the youngest member of his group to examine the saxophone. The band member looked over Moyer’s saxophone and asked if he had a razor.

Moyer didn’t have a razor and said the horn player walked over to his saxophone case and grabbed his reed box. From within this box that had been traveling in the overhead compartment bin of an airplane, he pulled out a razorblade.

“The kid is under the gun, trying to fix my horn,” Moyer recalls.

“Working. Working.”

T-minus 15 minutes. T-minus 10 minutes. T-minus 5 minutes.

Moyer’s saxophone was fixed right before he and Breakestra were set to perform. After the fact, Moyer understands how weighted that moment was. “[Femi Kuti and his group] live in Lagos in Nigeria and I don’t know what their repair facilities are like or what their access is to instrument repair,” Moyer said. “But this was a test for this kid.”

This moment in time was an instance that clearly stands out for Moyer, and not just because the show was good or that he got to see Kuti and his group perform.

“We take for granted a lot of things that we can be thankful for,” Moyer said.

David Moyer, 40, is El Camino College’s new Director of Jazz Studies and Concert Jazz Band Director.

A Los Angeles native, Moyer received his Bachelor in Arts in Music Performance from University of California, Los Angeles and earned his doctorate in musical arts and a master’s in jazz music at the University of Southern California. He got his teaching credentials from California State University, Northridge.

“I made the rounds of the universities,” Moyer said.

In his first semester of teaching at ECC, Moyer is excited to learn from his colleagues and to learn how the school operates.

“When the job was offered to me I jumped at the chance,” Moyer said.

“This, from day one of going to grad school, had been the objective. So I couldn’t be more thrilled to be here.”

ECC Dean of Fine Arts Berkeley Price said the college is lucky to have him.

“He’s a fantastic guy, great personality,” Price said. “He cares about students.”

Moyer began informally teaching when he was an undergraduate at UCLA and started teaching full-time as part of his profession when he was 24 years old.

By the time Moyer was 33, he was working full-time for the Los Angeles Unified School District and for the non-profit Harmony Project.

He decided to go back to graduate school and was motivated to work at a community college because of his interests in social justice and equitable access to education.

“My dad went to Santa Monica College and I’ve heard throughout my entire life the best teaching that he’s ever had has been at the community college level,” Moyer said.

Moyer also wanted to work at a community college because he believed that’s where he could cause the most amount of change.

“I can teach the subjects that I really enjoy and I’m teaching adult learners that are here because they want to be here,” Moyer said.

Moyer earned his doctorate in May 2018 and is getting used to his new title of “Dr.” “For the majority of my teaching career, my students have either called me Mr. Moyer or private students have called me David,” Moyer said.

“So it’s a bit of a transition to go from that to Moyer or Professor Moyer.

But I kind of like it.”

Music has been part of Moyer’s family for a long time. Moyer’s grandfather was a violinist and his grandmother was a pianist and choral director at Paul Revere Middle School.

But Moyer got into jazz in large part due to his father. Moyer’s dad is an avid record collector and fan of music despite not being a musician.

“We used to go on road trips and it would be a big thing to go into his record collection and pick out the records and make the mixtape,” Moyer said. “He just had me into music at an early age.”

Moyer got into jazz music in the eighth grade when he started playing the saxophone. His dad saw he was playing saxophone and recommended albums that slowly introduced Moyer to jazz.

“It’s just been a passion of mine ever since,” Moyer said.

Moyer realized he wanted to pursue jazz music when, as a UCLA undergrad, he went to see bassist Christian McBride at Catalina’s Bar and Grill in Hollywood.

“I saw Christian McBride’s band play that night and they were on fire,” Moyer said. “They sounded great. They were just having the time of their lives.”

It was May at the time and he had already declared his major as history.

He realized that he wanted to pursue music but thought it was too late to

switch his major.

“But my high school had a relationship with UCLA, so they were able to arrange for me to have a late audition for the music program,” Moyer said. “I actually switched my major before I even took my first class at UCLA.” When he’s not teaching at ECC, Moyer composes, arranges, performs and records. He also co-leads the retro-futuristic jazz quintet D.D. Horns with trumpet player and former UCLA classmate Danny T. Levin. The band has released one record and is in the preproduction stages of their second.

“We started releasing original music under that name a couple of years ago and it’s been a great creative outlet for both of us,” Levin said.

Levin enjoys playing alongside Moyer because they have the same ideas about timbre, phrasing, tone and other aspects of music.

“Because we both grew up listening to a lot of the same records, we both almost always have the same endpoint in mind about what we want things to sound like,” Levin said.

Moyer has played saxophone on Jimmy Cliff’s Grammy-winning 2012 record ‘Rebirth’ and has worked in the recording studio with artists and groups including U2, Twenty One Pilots, Gary Clark Jr., and Iggy Pop. “I love working in the studio,” Moyer said. “There’s more room for experimenting but there’s less room for error because you have to be able to play whatever parts that you’re figuring out with a producer or artist.”

Moyer has performed on tour with The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Big Daddy Kane and Tears For Fears among others. He spent three years touring around the world with Breakestra, a music group that plays popular funk, jazz and soul breaks live.

“It was eye-opening to be able to travel to these places that I otherwise would never be able to travel,” Moyer said. “Meet people that I would never be able to meet, see how music really can kind of connect us all together.”

Moyer sees all of his musical activities as intertwined and connected.

“Being a sideman, playing with other people, doing session work, teaching, being a professor here at El Camino ... they’re all part of the same musical life,” Moyer said.

The more that Moyer gets to know the history of ECC, the more he’s impressed.

“There’s a really deep list of alumni that have gone to school here,” Moyer said.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker and jazz pianist David Benoit are a few of El Camino’s music alumni.

“The impact that El Camino has had on the musical life of the L.A. community is pretty deep,” Moyer said. “I’m really thrilled to be a part of that and to be able to help build on that for the future.”

UPCOMING EVENTS ON CAMPUS

The Janitor, a New Comic Opera Saturday, Sept. 28 @ 8 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 29 @ 3 p.m.

Prices: Student $ 10 General Public $ 21

Byron Hurt:“Locker Room Talk Toxic Masculinity?”

Tuesday, Oct. 1 @ 7 p.m.

Prices: Student $ 10 General Public

$ 24

Iran-Behind The Scenes Discovery Film Series Individual Film Monday, Oct. 7 @ 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Prices:

Student

$12

General Public

$14

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David Alonso/The Union Conjunto Hueyapan performs Sones Jarochos during “Noche Mexicana 2019” in the Marsee Auditorium, Friday, Sept. 13. This family band, founded in 1973 by professor Fermin Herrera of CSUN, has performed all over the U.S., including the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center and the Performing Arts in New York City and Washington D.C.

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composer, musician, and professor.

Growing up he was surrounded by educators and the sound of music. His father not only has been a Chicano studies professor at the California State University of Northridge, but he also founded a musical group called Conjunto Hueyapan that would later inspire his son.

Xocoyotzin Herrera, professor of Chicano history and ethnics studies, has been playing music since he was eight years old, but later became a performer at the age of 13 for Conjunto Hueyapan.

“Many people in our family have gotten degrees in Chicano studies or related field and being in the music,” Herrera said.

Because of his father, who instilled a love of music in Herrera, it helped him learn to play various Mexican instruments, the main one being the Veracruz harp that comes from Veracruz, Mexico.

“It is a 36 string harp, in this part of Mexico, they play a lot of this instrument,” Herrera said. “I also play a lot of rhythm instruments called the Jarana and the Requinto, and a bit of flute harmonica [and] the six-string guitar as well.”

As the lead vocalist and harp player, Herrera had the opportunity to perform with his family in Noche Mexican 2019 at El Camino College.

“I perform with Conjunto Hueyapan and does accompany Nuestras Raices,” Herrera said. “We provided musical accompaniment for them.”

Other than performing, Herrera is also doing vocals and composes Mexican music for film and television in the Los Angeles area, he said.

“LMS records company specializes in film and television, I am the composer who pretty much does all of their Mexican music,” Herrera said. “A lot of my original compositions and arrangements have been found in many films.”

According to IMDB, films including “Remember Me” and “Machine Gun Preacher” are two of the many films his music was presented on the soundtracks.

As for the writing process, Herrera said writing music can take days, sometimes even weeks.

“I want something that is really good so that when I listen to it I will never be ashamed,” Herrera said. “I get a melody, so I record it and remember it, [then] I start to think about rhythm, then I fill in the blanks later on. When the foundation of music is there I start to think about lyrics.”

Though music has been a big part of Herrera’s life, he incorporates Chicano style as a way to educate students about the culture.

“I am Chicano, I am Mexican, of Mexican descent,” he said.

“People who are of Mexican descent from the U.S. are called Chicano’s; those people are very proud of their heritage and actively write and engage in cultural practices.”

Daniel Walker, a history professor, has been sharing an office with Herrera for five years.

They have worked together earlier this year in May on a cultural program called ‘A Celebration of Chicano Culture’, Walker said.

“He is been building certain things, I should say [about] our Chicano Appreciation Week in May, where he’s brought topnotch scholars, artists, politicians, historical figures,” Walker said.

Professor Herrera is very fond of his work in ECC. His work helps him not only explore the

history of other aspects of culture but also make money, Herrera said.

Herrera has been teaching Chicano and ethnic studies at ECC for seven years and loves the vibe ECC has, he added.

“I come to the school and in our division, everyone is high in spirits and gets along,” Herrera said. “That is a plus for me, then I get to stand in front of the class and talk about the history that most engage me.”

Argelia Andrade, a Spanish professor, said that Herrera’s classes are very popular.

“I think [that] there is a lot of students interested in learning about the Mexican-American, the Chicano culture,” Andrade said.

“I understand that his courses are very popular with the students.”

Alisa Buriel, 20, English major is currently enrolled in History 112 taught by Herrera.

“Herrera’s class is a class I always look forward too,” Buriel said. “I love his class so far and his Chicano background makes me feel like I have a professor who I can relate to and who understands my background.”

Buriel added that Herrera brings humor into lectures which helps students realize he is passionate about what he does.

“I think it’s important to relate to your professor in order to be able to actually enjoy the classroom environment,” Buriel said.

With teaching about the roots of indigenous Chicano’s pasts, Herrera is confident that ECC’s Chicano students will be able to learn a little more about themselves.

“Their ethnic confidence builds, their awareness of identity strengthens,” Herrera said. “This is because of fact, that I am able to relay this information to them.”

David Alonso/The Union El Camino College history professor Xocoyotzin Herrera plays the Veracruz harp during “Noche Mexicana 2019” in the Marsee Auditorium on Friday, Sept. 13. “It is a 36 string harp, in this part of Mexico, they play a lot of this instrument,” Herrera said.

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l Camino College Health Center hosted the ‘De-stress with Dogs’ event on the Library Lawn, Tuesday, Sept. 24. Paws-to-Share, an organization aimed to help bring animals and people together, brought three of their dogs, Annabel, Scooter and Piper, to help students de-stress between classes.

The Health Center has scheduled three more de-stress dog visits for this fall semester.

Mari Inagaki/The Union Don Agustin, film major, pets Annabel, a boston terrier, to relieve some stress during El Camino College Health Center’s de-stress event Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Library Lawn.

Scheduled dates for de-stress dog visits: • Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 11 to 1 p.m.

• Tuesday, Nov. 19 from 11 to 1 p.m.

• Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 11 to 1 p.m.

Viridiana Flores/The Union Scooter, a dachshund-pug, stands still as students around pet him during the event “De-Stress with Dogs” hosted by the Student Health Center in collaboration with Pawsto-Share at the Library Lawn on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Scooter was abandoned by a homeless man at a park because he had seizures, his handler Susan Ludwig said.

Mari Inagaki/The Union El Camino College student plays with Piper, a papilloncorgi (left) and with Scooter, a dachshund-pug (right) during the Health Center’s de-stress event held on the Library Lawn, Tuesday, Sept. 24. Both Piper and Scooter were rescued by Susan Ludwig after being abandoned by their owners and now help people relax.

Mari Inagaki/The Union El Camino College students gather aroung boston terrior Annabel during the Health Center’s de-stress event on the Library Lawn on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Students were invited to stop by the Health Center’s tent to pet and play with the three dogs brought by Paws-to-Share.

Mari Inagaki/The Union Three El Camino College students enjoy the company of Piper, a papillion-corgi, during a de-stress fair put on by the Mari Inagaki/The Union Health Center at the Libary Lawn on Tuesday, Sept. 24. De-stress dogs are scheduled to come back three more times Leslie Cook, administration of justice major, holds Piper, before the end of the fall semester. a papillion-corgi from Paws-to-Share during the destress event hosted by El Camino College’s Health Center on the Library Lawn on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

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David Alonso/The Union El Camino College Warriors’ wide reciever Robert Ferrel evades the Bakersfield College defense during a 54-yard punt return that put the team up 21-13 after halftime on Saturday, Sept. 14. Ferrel ended the game with 266 all-purpose yards and continued his scoring streak with a touchdown in the 70-7 win against Los Angeles Harbor College on Satur-

Football team overcomes early season loss

Warriors kick game-winning field goal against Bakersfield College, defeat LAHC 70-7 Matthew Sandoval

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fter missing the first field goal of the game, El Camino College kicker Campbell Geddes stepped onto Murdock Stadium’s Featherstone Field with the crowd roaring with two seconds remaining and a chance to win the game.

With the game tied up at 23, the crowd went silent as he winded up for his kick.

“These guys worked so hard through spring, summer and then fall camp,” ECC Warriors football head coach Gifford Lindheim said.

“They deserved to win tonight and I was happy to see them be able to feel that victory.”

The ECC men’s football team defeated Bakersfield College 26-23 on a late game-winning field goal Saturday, Sept. 14.

Defensive linemen Justin Martz showed off ECC’s defensive prowl sacking Bakersfield quarterback Braden Wingle on the first play of the game.

Wingle would finish the game completing six of 22 passes for 105 yards with a touchdown and one

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interception while being sacked five times by the Warriors’ defensive unit.

After a quick three and out on the first drive from Bakersfield, ECC quarterback Dylan Lemle opened the scoring, connecting with wide receiver Taariq Johnson for a 15-yard touchdown.

However, Lemle was carted off 10 minutes into the first quarter and replaced by Jake Novello.

“We hate to see that happen to [Lemle] but we knew our guys were prepared,” Lindheom said. “[But] we’ve prepared all three [quarterbacks] to play.”

Bakersfield followed up the Warriors’ touchdown with 13 unanswered points on two field goals and an 8-yard touchdown from running back Isaiah Martin, who finished as the leading rusher of the game with 25 attempts for 85 yards and one touchdown.

Novello capped off the first half with a 32-yard touchdown pass to Johnson to give ECC a 14-13 lead and some momentum heading into halftime.

But Warriors’ Robert Ferrel gave them the spark they needed to carry out the victory in the second half as he sped through the defense on a 54-yard punt return touchdown that put the Warriors on the board first in the third quarter.

“I felt great [today],” Ferrel said.

“I just energized the team and I feel like I played a big impact [on special teams] with some yardage situations.”

Ferrel was big in the return game for ECC tallying up a total of 266 all-purpose yards in the game, including 130 yards on punt returns and 99 yards on kickoff returns.

The BC Renegades showed they would not go down without a fight as they converted a pair of defensive stops in the fourth quarter for a field goal and a 70yard touchdown lob from Wingle to Adarian Rowel to tie the game before losing to a field goal in the final seconds.

“We’re disappointed we lost,” Renegades coach Jeff Chudy said.

“But we gave ourselves a chance to win. You have to give [ECC] a ton of credit for weathering the storm and they did a great job of finishing it.”

Just a week before, the ECC

David Alonso/The Union El Camino College Warriors defensive lineman Vandrew Epenesa sacks Bakersfield quarterback Braden Wingle during the first quarter, Saturday, Sept. 14. men’s football team suffered a harrowing 55-17 loss to Riverside College for their first game of the season.

However, the Warriors followed up their game-winning field goal with a 70-7 route of Los Angeles Harbor College (LAHC) Saturday, Sept. 21, outscoring opponents 9630 over the last two games.

Men’s soccer team ranked No. 8 in national polls Warriors undefeated through first seven games after starting season unranked

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After coming into pre-season unranked, the El Camino College men’s soccer team are off to their best start in the last four years and continue to move up in the weekly community college national rankings, according to official reports.

ECC’s Warriors (6-0-1) were ranked No. 8 in the country, according to the fourth iteration of the United Soccer Coaches National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III men’s soccer poll. The rankings committee responsible for the weekly rankings of junior college soccer teams spans the country, consisting of members from Utica, NY to San Antonio, TX. “We have some really good character-type guys in the group this year which goes a long way in terms of players learning the process, players learning the system [and] players being coachable,” Warriors’ second-year head coach Michael Jacobson said. “It’s a lot of different factors adding up to being successful this year.”

The 2019 season marked a clean slate for Jacobson, who arrived at ECC last year after years of

working with the California State University, Los Angeles men’s soccer program.

In 2016, two years before Jacobson, the Warriors finished the season with a .100 win percentage.

However, during his first season in 2018, Jacobson coached the Warriors to a .500 win percentage, falling just short of a playoff spot.

“We have a lot of players that just want to win,” Warriors’ midfielder Armando Alonzo said.

The Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) men’s soccer team, boasting a seven-game win streak, has remained No. 1 in the polls over the last three weeks, with Cerritos College trailing at No. 4.

The Warriors will play Cerritos College Friday, Oct. 11 and Mt. SAC Tuesday, Nov. 5, which will be their last regular season game.

a work in progress,” Lindheim said.

“Even though the score [against LAHC] was lopsided, we have to get better if we want to accomplish the goal of winning a conference championship.”

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SCORES AROUND CAMPUS

WOMEN’S SOCCER

El Camino

4

L.A. Valley

1

(2-4-1) (2-4-1)

MEN’S SOCCER

El Camino

(6-0-1)

Chaffey

(6-1-1)

MEN’S WATER POLO

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1 0

Sept. 24, 2019

El Camino

16

Southwestern

6

(4-5)

Division III Top 10 rankings 1. Mt. SAC 2. Richland College 3. Herkimer College 4. Cerritos College 5. Nassau Community College 6. Fresno City College 7. Oxnard College 8. El Camino College 9. Mohawk Valley Community College 10. Santa Rosa Junior College

“We have to execute all three phases of the game and make sure we are playing our type of football,” Lindheim said. “If we can do all of that, the scoreboard will take care of itself.”

The Warriors (2-1-0) improved to two wins for the year and will host Orange Coast College (1-2-0) Saturday, Sept. 28, at 1 p.m. “We’re

(0-4) Mt. Sac Tournament

Sept. 22, 2019

FOOTBALL Jaime Solis/The Union Warriors’ midfielder Eduardo Grados maintains possession of the ball during the second half of the game against Norco College on Tuesday, Sep 10.

El Camino

70

L.A. Harbor

7

(2-1)

(0-2)

Sept. 21, 2019