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For the 12th anniversary of one of the most tragic catastrophes to hit the United States, both Saddleback College and Irvine Valley College will be holding commemoration ceremonies on their campuses in honor of 9/11.

Saddleback’s Campus Police will be organizing the event for Saddleback. Some of the guest speakers for Wednesday’s noon event include Orange County Fire Authority BattalIt isn’t just with ion Chief Terry Scortt and Military terrorism, it’s with all Vet Dustin Ardolf. elements of public safety…

There will also be a musical perforMy message is that we all mance by Senior Administrative Aswork together. sistance for Student -Mark Billingsohn, Development Erin Long. Jim AmormiOrange County Assistant no will be presenting a wreath at the Sheriff Veteran’s Memorial and then will be concluding the ceremony with a speech of his own.

Saddleback’s ceremony will be held at the Saddleback College Veteran’s Memorial from noon until 12:30 p.m.

IVC will be holding a similar ceremony. Guest speakers Orange County Assistant Sheriff Mark Billings, Orange County Fire Authority Chief Keith Richter and Irvine Police Chief David Maggard Jr. will be speaking at the event on Wednesday at noon. The First Responder Ambulances will be there and the Irvine Police Honor Guard will perform for the crowd.

When asked what kind of things he’d be addressing in his speech, Assistant Sheriff Billings said it would be about vigilance.

“Being vigilant is really everyone’s responsibility. We don’t have to be zealots and we don’t have to have it take over your day, but everyone has to be alert and aware that everyone is part of the solution to public safety. It isn’t just with terrorism, it’s with all elements of public safety…My message is that we all work together,” he said.

Billings goes on to say, “There really isn’t any way for law enforcement to do these kind of things on their own…there aren’t enough of us. But if people see something unusual, or recognize things that might be of concern to public safety, bring it to our attention…Talk to someone about it. It might be more important than you think. And recognize that you’re a big part of the solution.”

IVC’s ceremony will be held at the Performing Arts Center.

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WALL is a publication written and edited by students. The content includes personal essays, short stories, poetry, artwork, and photography.

Gina Shaffer, faculty adviser to WALL, described it as “a literary journal produced annually at Saddleback College by students, for students. It showcases the artistic and literary talents on campus in an elegant format.”

“One of the things WALL does is showcase significant is-

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Last year the 2012 edition of WALL received a first-place award in a national competition held by the American Scholastic Press Association.

“I was ecstatic,” Shaffer said. “I think we won the award just because of the quality and diversity of the content and the elegance of the style.”

Shaffer said WALL plans to submit this year’s edition to the American Scholastic Press Association as well. “We have submitted to a couple of contests so far, we hope we are recognized again this year,” Shaffer said.

The students who promote, edit, and choose content from student submissions for the publication are enrolled in the class English 160. The threeunit class meets every spring semester.

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Shaffer said students in English 160 “develop skills in reading and evaluating creative work, learning about the process of publishing, how to work cooperatively as a team, and those students who are editors learn leadership skills.”

Saddleback students may submit work to WALL with a chance of being published. The deadline for submissions to the 2014 edition is February 10.

A limited supply of paper copies of WALL are available at SSC 213, the Liberal Arts Division office, the Fine Arts Complex, and the Learning Resource Center and Business and General Studies buildings.

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Column: Bombing Syria is now a necessary evil Nick Cerneka Opinion Editor The Geneva Convention ruled chemical weapons are off-limits.

Although the United States didn’t refrain from using them in ¬Vietnam, they are still a big no-no. If you use them, you can expect that United States President Barrack Obama will arrange for B-52 bombers to pay you a visit. Lucky you.

While there is a recognized need for US intervention in Syria, the US may not be taking the appropriate course of action. If you are not ready to go all the way, don’t be involving yourself in a manor that may require you to go all the way. President Obama has taken a strong stance on Syria and deployed battleships to the Mediterranean warning Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, an airstrike will soon follow. This has given Assad and allies time to take precautionary measures, while the U.S. is racking up a cool $25 million (according to fool.com) tab every week for battleships to remain in striking distance of Syria. It’s a small cost to pay in comparison to what the cruise missiles these ships are planned to launch will cost, plus a resupply fee. Considering the United States’ national debt is soon to surpass $17 trillion, it seems that a bullet would be cheaper.

Simply killing Assad wouldn’t send an appropriate message the United States is looking to portray to Iran either. Cratering Syri-

an airfields, command centers, and nuclear facilities, with Tomahawk and XR cruise missiles, backed with the support of Arab nations including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Pakistan, the U.S. hopes that Iran will not proceed in weapons development.

As Sun Tzu, author of “The Art of War” said, “When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.” Currently, there is enough danger to go around for everybody.

Most Americans must find it comforting when President Obama assures the country that U.S. soldiers will not be on the ground in Syria; although it would be interesting to know how many soldiers he is willing to deploy around the world in order to protect our country’s assets from brutal retaliation. Russian warships have already entered the Mediterranean in support of Syria, and it’s important not to forget about other Syrian allies

such as China, North Korea, and Lebanon.

Going all the way means if the US were to bomb Syria, Lebanon is next, and we are not stopping there. While diplomacy should always come first to any political problem, at this point, there is no turning around. If the U.S. backs down, they will appear weak. This perception of being weak will be motivation for U.S. enemies to continue producing chemical weapons and use them against our allies.

War in Syria directly affects our lives on the mainland. The United States can very quickly be forced into exhausting all of our military capability in fighting other militaries, and the effects of this will be catastrophic for the US and our allies. ncerneka.Lariat@gmail.com

Editorial: Veteran Centers provide outstanding services Through a number of services and programs, the Vet Centers of Saddleback and Irvine Valley College help veterans’ transition comfortable back into day-to-day life. The counsellors on campus guide the vets towards the best course of action that will get them settled as quickly and comfortably as possible.

Dean of Transfer, Career and Special Programs Terrence Nelson said, “We have many combat vets. We’re the college that’s just north of Camp Pendleton. North Base Camp Pendleton houses the infantry units. So it’s most of the combat, the tip of the spear, guys that have seen the bulk of the work in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have a higher propensity of service connected disabilities. Such as tinnitus in the ear, brain injury, or PTSD…We have a lot of guys who have seen a lot of tough combat.”

Saddleback is able to accommodate the students by providing them with an enclosed, quiet study area that only Vets can use. “They really like a set aside study area away from the general students to be around a like kind of cohorts, makes them comfortable. So not only do we have the study room, but also the noise cancelling headphones. Helps with focus,” Nelson said.

The counsellors of the Vet Center are constantly looking for ways to help their students. Instead of having their students drive out to meet with off-campus support, the counsellors arrange for that support to be brought to campus. “We don’t believe in duplicating services, so we bring them on campus and build the relationship,” Nelson said. Some of the services include: Veteran’s Service Officer, The Vet Center for Counselling Therapy for War Vets, and the Laguna Hills Health Clinic.

Both Saddleback and IVC have full time counsellors on campus to help Vet students figure out which educational path is best for them. IVC has Mark Minkler and Saddleback has Kolin Williams.

IVC was actually granted a $50,000 dollar check from the Wells Fargo Group to expand their Vet Center and its services.

Both Minkler and Williams see hundreds of vets a year and assist them with psychological and career counselling.

Minkler has been a vet counsellor for 10 years, and joined the IVC team a month ago to help the student vets for that campus.

“I’m the counter-part to the vet counsellor at Saddleback,” Minkler said. He helps vets in the same fashion that Williams does by helping to create solutions for “anything that stands between [vets] and their educational career goals,”

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Both counsellors work exceptionally hard to make sure the needs of their students are taken care of. “[Williams] sees over 625 counselling sessions per semester. Which is phenomenally high…He’s the key to the first part of the veteran’s services. I also release him to go out to camp Pendleton every Thursday. Before folks are discharged, he helps them with counselling before they get out of the military. It’s something very different than most institutions do,” Nelson said.

Even with all the support that student vets receive

while going to school, most still needs jobs to pay the bills and buy food. “[Saddleback] also helps many of the student vets with employment while they’re here…[The Vet Center] typically hire 5 or 6 vets to work on campus. Overall, the campus hires 20 to 25 students a year. We’re able to get them on-campus jobs so that they can focus on their studies,” said Nelson.

Vets also get to look forward to the Sept. 25 Veteran’s Resource Fair. It will be the fifth fair that the Vets Center has hosted and over 50 organizations will be there to show the different ways they can help vets transition back to civilian life.

One of the major contributors is Patriots and Paws, a pet adoption organization. A lot of veterans who are living on their own sometimes struggle with depression and feelings of loneliness.

Patriots and Paws provides an animal that the vet can feel connected to, said Nelson.

It is quite impressive all the measures one institution is willing to make in order to provide the best possible academic experience for a group of students. Being a wartime veteran can be rough, and thankfully the Vet Center is able to ease some of the burden for those students.

[Williams] sees over 625 counselling sessions per semester. Which is phenomenally high…He’s the key to the first part of the veteran’s services.

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from the hired professionals, the Vets Center believes in peerto-peer counselling and interaction. “We have the veterans club, the most active club on campus. Last year they held a lot of events,” said Nelson. There is also peer-to-peer mentoring and study groups held in the Vets Center.

While vets use the G.I. Bill to pay for tuition and housing

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Many of the audience members were impressed and highly entertained by McCloud’s talk.

One student, Joanna Carlos, 19, communications, said, “I’ve always been interested in this kind of thing.” She went on to say, “I like seeing how different people communicate and how effective or ineffective it is and how to fix that. And then how not to make that mistake myself.”

Other students were so spellbound by McCloud’s lecture that they were simply at a loss for words. Cody Martin, 19, physical therapy, said, “Yeah, that was pretty cool.”

To see for yourself the interesting dynamics of McCloud’s research and understanding, visit scottmccloud.com.

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no boundaries. The idea that most artists and content designers are applying the “shape of the previous technology as the content of the new technology” is absurd to McCloud.

The monitor is a window with which one can view the vastness of the universe behind the screen, but it is not the limiting barrier to which the content may be constricted to.

McCloud has given numerous talks all over the world in the past twenty years since his first book, “Understanding Comics”, was released. He has spent his life analyzing comics existence in there original state.

Also, taking an outlook as to how they connect with a vast array of people over the centuries, and what the potential holds for comics in the future with the expansion of technology.

He prefers digital creation of art over the more “old school” act of drawing everything out on paper. With the use of tablets, Photoshop, and online publishing, he has been able to efficiently distribute his art and stories at a fast rate.

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Friday night’s lecture at Irvine Valley College’s Performing Arts Center was both enlightening and entertaining as Scott McCloud, the most recent guest speaker for IVC’s Distinguished Academic Lecture series, dove into the subject of the importance of visual communication and the expansion of that communication with technology.

At 7 p.m., McClouds presentation utilized a PowerPointtype visual aid, containing well over 400 slides. The images on the slides ranged from comic excerpts, to simple animations, to video clips, and there was never a dull moment during the

hour long talk.

While the topic being addressed was seemingly complex in nature, McCloud conveyed to the audience the importance of using images to improve an understanding of complex messages. From government information to graphic novels, McCloud stressed on the importance that visual communications retains information with a vast amount of people.

90 percent of a story is held in the artwork of a graphic novel or comic. McCloud used examples of comics without text to show that you do not need words in order to tell a story.

He goes on to urge artists to make any digital space their place of creativity and design.

In the digital world, there are

The idea that most artists and content designers are applying the ‘shape of the previous technology as the content of the new technology’ is absurd.”

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Saddleback College’s football team defeated Mt. San Antonio away at Hilmer Lodge Stadium 44-20 on Sept. 7, the 2013 season opening game.

Although last season the Mounties were victorious in both of these non-conference matchups, Saddleback overcame the losses and hammered the final nails in the coffin with offensive and defensive triumphs in the fourth quarter starting the season off with a record of 1-0.

Gaucho Head Coach Mark McElroy said, “Anytime you can win your first game it’s good.

Anytime you can beat a team at a program that is outstanding as they make it even better.”

While both teams produced positive results on both side of the ball, Saddlebacks defense showcased why the defense wins games. McElroy said, “The defense really forcing all those turnovers made a huge difference for us, and it put the offense in a great position.”

Gaucho’s defense forced seven turnovers on the Mounties game. Gaucho sophomore cornerback Laquan Middleton led the defense in interceptions today having picked off the football three times while safeties Langden Lapp, Doug Ruggles, and slinebacker James BoisD’enghien matched his total of grabbed interceptions.

The Gauchos also forced a fumble by the hands of freshman linebacker Ka’ena Paikai in the second quarter.

After the game, Middleton said, “We practiced hard, we came out here and played hard, and we executed.”

Even though the defense had seven turnovers Middleton said, “There’s always room for improvement, once we watch the game film we’ll see the little areas where we need im-

topple Mounties, 44-20 provement, and just go from there.”

Three Gaucho quar terb a c k s lead the G au cho s to the v i c t o r y, sophomores Tim Belman, Matt Morin, and freshman Anthony Berg.

Morin drove back two opposing tacklers into the end zone for a rushing touchdown in the second quarter, while Belman threw touchdowns in all four quarters of the game.

Belman threw five touchdowns for a total of 359 yards, completing 36 of 59 passes. Belman’s first touchdown was a three yard pass to sophomore receiver

ONE MAN SHOW: Gauchos wide receiver RJ Dedrick reels in one of two touchdown catches he made in Saturday's win. Dedrick finished the game with a team high 110 yards.

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R.J. Kelly on a drive of 5 plays. He threw two touchdowns in a row to freshman receiver RJ Dedrick once in the second and third quarter. Dedrick caught the ball for 110

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The Gauchos women's soccer team defeated the Palomar College Comets, 3-2, to improve to 2-0 on the season.

After trailing 2-0 at halftime, the Gauchos rallied to score three unanswered goals in the final 45 minutes.

Freshman Danyelle Allen scored the game-tying and game-winning goals for Saddleback, bringing her to five goals on the season. The team record for most goals by a single player is 12. Three players have accomplished this feat in program history, the last one to do so was Kaelyn Kaichi in 2010.

The Gauchos next game will be on Friday, when they travel to MiraCosta College to take on the Spartans at 2 p.m.

At San Diego City College on Friday, the Irvine Valley women's soccer team tied San Diego City 1-1, in their second match of the season.

Irvine was able to hold off San Diego 1-0 until the 80th minute, when San Diego City scored to tie up the match.

Since the matchup ended in a tie, the Lasers are now 1-0-1.

The next game for IVC is on Friday, when they host East Los Angeles College at 2 p.m.

Lasers volleyball walks away with close win

The Lasers women's volleyball team Women's volleyball off to defeated Santa Barbara College in five sets (25-21, 25-18, 22-25, 23-25, 17-15) to imbest start since 2000 prove their record to (2-0).

IVC won the first two sets, while SanSaddleback's women's volleyball team ta Barbara battled to win the second two. improved to 3-0 on Friday, after defeating SB ignited a spark in the beginning of the the Santa Monica College Corsairs in five fifth with a 10-5 lead but IVC came back sets (20-25, 26-24, 25-21, 22-25, 15-8). with 6 unanswered scores and continued The Gauchos 3-0 start is their first such to hold off Santa Barbara. start since 2000, when they finished the IVC women’s volleyball next match will year 14-9 and made it to the first round of be Wednesday night at 5 when the Lasers the Regional Playoffs. host the Rio Hondo College Roadrunners Gauchos outside hitters Nicole Rice in a non-conference matchup. and Allie Rowe tied for the team lead with 13 kills each. Rowe also led the team with 22 digs.

Saddleback will play on Friday at Santiago Canyon, taking on the Chaffey College Panthers at 3 p.m. and the Rio Hondo College Roadrunners at 5 p.m.

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SCORE: Gauchos wide receiver R.J. Kelly receives a touchdown pass from quarterback Tim Belman late in the first quarter of Saddleback's 44-20 win over Mt. San Antonio College on Saturday. yards on the day with a long of 14.

During the fourth quarter Belman connected with sophomore receiver Dominick Ela and freshman tight end Chris French. Belman managed to only turn the ball over twice on interceptions by Mountie defenders Dallas Deville and Ima Polamalu.

This was only the first game of the season and it’s a long trail to the playoffs Belman said, “We are going to move on with this, it’s over with, we got the W… starting Monday we are going to put the next game plan in and go to work.”

Mountie standouts include quarterback Rocky Moore who threw two touchdowns on the day, one to receiver Romell Smothers for seven yards in the 2nd quarter and another in the 3rd for 96 yards to sophomore receiver Kaelin Clay with a total of 220 yards (18-30). Kaelin Clay also

returned a punt for 75 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter.

The Gauchos are now 1-0 overall on the season after this non-conference game with the Mounties now 0-1.

Saddleback Gauchos next game is a non-conference matchup against Canyons, home at Saddleback, Sept. 14, 2013, 6 p.m.

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