Lariat Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 | vol. 52, no. 3 | lariatnews.com | serving Saddleback College since 1968
‘ENROLLMENT IS AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM’ SITTING DOWN WITH PRESIDENT STERN
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‘NO MORE LAYOFFS’ 1-on-1 with new president Dr. Elliot Stern // story & photo by Nik Lamas-Richie
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s editor-in-chief of the Lariat, I was critical of the campus direction and the messaging from Saddleback College president Dr. Elliot Stern. On Oct. 11, Stern sent out his President’s Update email to colleagues and faculty. He painted a grand vision of the future. However, it lacked the inclusion of fixes for current student surroundings. The following week, my opinion piece which was published for six hours and later pulled from Lariatnews.com found its way to
Stern’s desk – leading to an ensuing President’s Update, on Oct. 18, giving merit and resolution to the article. I decided to publish his emailed response on the back page of the Oct. 25 print edition of the Lariat. This opened a dialogue as Stern accepted my request for a sit-down Q&A. On Thursday, Oct. 31, a scheduled thirty-minute interview with Stern ended up lasting over an hour. He left no stone unturned, addressing students and faculty questions without any hesitation. There was a passion of care in
his voice as he tackled a majority of issues – from lack of parking, faculty terminations, enrollment shortcomings, stadium decisions, and more. You stated in a President’s Update on Sept. 20, “We are the Ritz-Carlton of community colleges.” Was that a joke or do you believe that? I mean the Ritz-Carlton of community colleges from the depth of my heart and with all full earnestness and sincerity. That is what I strive to be, to be high service, high touch service, to make every student feel like they are
going to Harvard in terms of the service they experience and the support they experience. Not just what happens, but how you feel in the experience. One of the main issues I had concerns with is immediate vision. What does next semester look like? [What is] The comfort level of the current student at large, especially when it comes to parking and outdated facilities. The gravel lots will be gone. This is the last year you will ever see gravel lots. We spray them to keep dust control down with petroleum-based material, it’s the
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@lariatnews only thing you can do, and it tore at my heart to allow us to do that, so I said this is the last time we are ever going to do it. FMO, facilities maintenance operations, has to make decisions this year, before the end of the academic year which lots to be paved and become permanent, which lots will be landscaped and returned to some sense of proper esthetics and we won’t have gravel lots anymore, the gravel lots will be gone. Stern was very adamant that there wasn’t an actual parking issue. He claimed that the issue at hand was a logistical dilemma for students and not a capacity issue. Now to address the larger parking issues, I’m very aware of the parking issues and what we did very carefully and methodically during the first few days of the semester is do we have a capacity issue or a logistics issue. A capacity issue would be, do the parking lots fill up, and people can’t find parking on our campus. The good news there is, no. We had additional capacity beyond what our student demand was, and with changing enrollment, we do 30% of our enrollment online now, so there are fewer students taking classes, we really shouldn’t have an issue with that at all. But we have a logistical problem, students want to park close to their class, and they can’t. Stern did offer three solutions to alleviate to parking problem on campus: One of the things we are trying to identify is whether we could do some sort of incentive for students who are willing to park further away. So would one of the furthers lots that’s the least convenient, carry a lower parking fee per semester, for instance. Something to create an incentive that allows you to save money. The second thing we need to do is create a more pedestrian and bike-friendly campus. Like much of Orange County, if you try to walk between any two places, that walkway will likely disappear on you. You may end up walking on grass. That’s crazy, so we must
have the walkways and wayfinding. And third, with that, we must have bicycle racks and ways to encourage bicycles. If you look at other universities you will see people walking long distances or riding their bikes, we don’t have it, it’s not our culture of Orange County, and I get that, I am from Detroit, it’s the same culture I came from. You drive from one strip mall to the next strip mall. But the reality is we can’t live that way, it’s not environmentally sustainable, and we don’t have any more room to build more parking lots, but I think new buildings will move people around in terms of where they are going to be on our campus so it won’t be quite as central-
on the work plan of what we are doing. It’s not very sexy, but it’s really what a short-term vision is for someone who is concerned about making things happen. Like I said, it’s not flowery. If you ask for a short term vision, it’s usually what are the steps that will get us to the bigger vision down the road. Some might be further along that will wrap up next semester and some of the things that will start next semester. In terms of construction projects – six major construction projects in the next six years. The next semester certainly by summer, we should open our stadium, our stadium should be completed. The second project, which is
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ing played at Saddleback College Stadium since 2016. Stern, who retained his post in 2019, had mixed feelings regarding the stadium. I want to be frank and honest; the decision to make and create the stadium when it was made may not have been the decision I would make today. Where does the 62 million dollars come from? We have operational dollars, that’s our overall budget what we spend for salaries, that is 93% of our operational budget is salaries and benefits. That comes from a combination of student fees but mostly from taxpayer dollars from our local district. Then there is capital money, almost all the capital money comes
“A PARKING STRUCTURE COSTS AS MUCH AS A BUILDING, AND RIGHT NOW, WE NEED NEW EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS MORE THAN WE NEED A PARKING STRUCTURE, NO, IT’S NOT AN OPTION.” ized as it is right now and that will help diffuse some of that logistical problem in parking. Why not build a parking structure? A parking structure costs as much as a building, and right now, we need new educational buildings more than we need a parking structure, no, it’s not an option. What is your short-term modern vision for Saddleback? So my vision for the semester if you will, is that we are making baby steps towards some of that long-term vision. In terms of construction projects, in terms of beautification of the campus, in terms of enrollment goals, budget goals. So my vision of the next semester, of the hundred or so projects and initiatives on this campus, some will come to completion, some will get started, some will move from step three to step four
our new advanced technology and applied science building, which is going to be where the tennis courts are right now, we will probably break ground and have a contractor in place. Our third project, which is our new student onboarding center called the Gateway building. That project will move into the state for DSA (state architects) approval. Students should start to see some re-beautification of this campus back to its historical roots, even in the time they are here, even if that ends this year. The elephant in the room, or in this case, the elephant on campus, is the 62 million dollar stadium, which is already over budget from the 55 million dollars allotted for construction. Breaking ground on this monumental sports ground was made in 2018, with the football team not hav-
from taxpayer dollars, the stadium comes from capital money, nothing from the stadium takes away from our general operating budget because that is allocated under a formula and we don’t get a dollar more or a dollar less than the formula says and not a dollar of that goes toward the stadium in this case. Although there was a concern for a while that if there were any more overruns it would actually have to come from our general operating budget and we put the kibosh on any overruns that would have allowed that. What’s the recoupment period for the stadium? Infinity, it will not happen. But I want to point out it’s not about financial recoupment when we do things like a stadium. For me, what a stadium does, it builds more community. If we have a
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STERN’S IMMEDIATE VISIONS FOR NEXT SEMESTER “We are starting some of the equity work we are doing. That is focusing where we have achievement gaps for students from underrepresented populations and creating a committee structure at a hierarchy, and a shared govern structure that will start doing some of the work. My vision is we will narrow or close those achievement gaps for students from underrepresented populations. The vision for next semester is we will take the first step toward doing that, which is creating a committee structure and assured governance for doing it.” “My access control system. If you turn around at the door, it was just installed last night [Oct. 30], by March, we will have installed the full access control system. An 11-million-dollar system, so in the event of an active shooter scenario, with one button at our police station or the Mission Viejo police station, we can lock down the entire campus. No one must lock their doors individually. So that’s huge, and that’s a benefit to students as terms of safety.” “By Thanksgiving, we will be planting trees out on the quad. By next semester we should see the next phase of the campus beautification project, which includes mostly quad work; we are focusing that as the core, but you will also see improvements in landscaping.” “You will see a couple of the buildings that are in the worst shape get painted; we are going to go out for contracts on that because we can’t even manage all the painting we have internally. We have two painters on our campus; one is out on medical leave. So we have one painter on our campus.”
stadium, students are more likely to get involved and be part of something bigger than themselves. And it may not have been the decision those leaders would have made today when we have so many other educational buildings in disrepair. To be fair, that decision to invest in a stadium many years ago was made before the old applied science building, the one next to health sciences was condemned for seismic concerns. One more thing I want to say about the stadium in terms of recoupment. We will recoup some of the cost, but this is not a return on investment, so we do have a naming committee who are trying to identify naming partners that might be willing to name the sta-
lariatnews.com to recoup those costs. That’s not going to happen. This is an investment in our community; that’s the biggest part of the investment. Not about a financial investment. What would you have done instead? It would have been another building. When we are talking about 50, 60 million, it would have been a building. Not with the circumstances, I have today with an abandoned building on campus, with another building that’s two-thirds abandoned, that’s the old math and science with pieces of the facade falling off. Not when we are trying to expand and build a new campus in Tustin to expand our reach where most of our industry partners are,
“I WANT TO BE FRANK AND HONEST; THE DECISION TO MAKE AND CREATE THE STADIUM WHEN IT WAS MADE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE DECISION I WOULD MAKE TODAY.” dium for a fee. It’s a possibility for us; I have to say it’s never going to come close to the cost of the project because we are a community college at the end of the day. We are not the University of Michigan; we are not going to get a major company to name our stadium. The other thing is, we will have facilities rented, for instance, there are small private high school in our area that don’t have their own football stadium, they will be able to rent our stadium, and we charge them rent that will help offset the cost of that stadium, but by no means and I going to sit across from you and tell you we are going
up in the north part of South Orange County. So under those circumstances, 5, 6, 10 years ago. No, I wouldn’t have done a stadium first, but those folks had different circumstances, so they made different decisions. You’ve taken on a huge responsibility considering the debt placed on your shoulders. Did you think the college over-hired or overspent before you got here? The college has released some senior employees and managers. Was this because of the debt issue, and are there more faculty layoffs to come? I knew that the college had debt when I came to it, I knew
there was a budget crunch and a budget deficit that I would be charged with fixing. There was a target of enrollment that was never realized, so it was ambitious, it was- we will build it from the ground up, we will hire more people, we will offer more classes, and we will, therefore, attract more people. And that’s not necessarily the best philosophy to have in managing a college, but to be fair, there were three short term presidents before I came on board. So I think people did the best they could with the situation and knew there would be a long term permanent President coming and then I arrived, and they said hey now you have this deficit and it’s yours to deal with and I took it on readily. Yes, we separated some folks from the college, but I think that understates the number of people we have separated from this college. Allow me to explain, we separated five permanent administrators from the college but long before that big announcement and that discrete event, we have been cutting sections of classes to become more efficient. So if we were running thirty sections of English 1A and we had 90% fill rates on all of them, we figured out, guess what we could eliminate three of those sections and fill the class and be more productive, give every student the class they needed, but guess what, there were three faculty members who lost their gigs. The unspoken victims in budget crunches in higher ed are adjunct faculty cause full-time faculty will always get their load, they are guaranteed their load, but it’s the adjuncts who lose their classes. And if an adjunct is teaching a 50% load for us, it might be two classes, and they lose one, guess what, your salary or income just went down by half at Saddleback College. It’s a huge impact that no one ever talks about, but that’s the first folks who are sacrificed when colleges begin to trim their sales a bit. So yes, there were five manag-
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ers that were separated from the college. Yes, there were adjunct facility separated from the college, the five folks who were separated were managers. We have not eliminated classified positions or full-time faculty positions, but what we are doing is taking longer and being more deliberative when we have an open position before we replace it. So we are freezing positions where we are not sure of what’s happening, or we are going to try to save some money for a while until we figure out what we want to do and this means hits are being taken all across campus in terms of other people being asked to pick up that workload while we are reorganizing.So there are no layoffs planned at this college. There are no more of those discrete separations where we let five managers go. We have come up with a budget fix where we think gets us where we need to go. When I started ten months ago, we were projecting a three and half-million-dollar deficit last year. With significant and minor budget changes, we ended up putting two and a half million dollars into reserves. We actually ran a
surplus, we overshot it a little bit, but we needed that because the tougher years are ahead. This year, maybe even a few months ago we were projecting a deficit of about three million dollars that was before we separated the five folks and made some other changes, we are now projecting that we will hopefully be close to zero deficit, maybe around a million dollars or so in deficit. Next year and the year after we still must tackle those, we are still projecting deficits. When inquired again if more jobs will be sacrificed at Saddleback College, Stern asserted: We need to keep making cuts and finding ways to be more efficient to save money along the way, but I think we have a way of doing that. So far, we are on target in meeting that goal without any layoffs, without any additional full time folks losing their jobs. Another concern facing Stern’s intended legacy at Saddleback is the issue of enrollment. In California and nationally, community college enrollment has been on the decline; this includes Saddleback. I asked Stern – “Why do you think fewer students are attending Saddleback?”
Stern provided a very long-winded response. Enrollment is an economic problem. So we actually have an enrollment increase this year so far, we are actually up 1%. Which is a goal we set shortly after I started and we are on target to achieve it by some little tweaks to things that are starting to make a difference, more things will kick in the next year or two, and the goals, therefore, are increasing. We are expecting a 2% increase next year and a 3% increase the year after that. Up until now, it’s that enrollment wasn’t declining per se, overall enrollment has actually been flat. The change in our enrollment that is impacting us negatively in a financial sense is that more of that enrollment has shifted to things like the Emeritus program; where under the state funding formula we don’t get the same allocation of resources per student that we do for a student who is taking credit-bearing classes. It feels like an enrollment problem, but it’s really the nature of our enrollment that has changed, not overall enrollment. And I have to say, being flat in
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the last five or six years and growing this year that’s pretty exceptional across the country for community colleges and in the state of California. ]When the economy is strongest fewer people are applying to colleges and going to college. The good jobs pull them away; it’s essentially a pull force away from college. They come back in a recession, if we ever get a recession in the next few years, one of the things we need to think about so we are not short term, and myopic is how are we going to handle all that additional enrollment that is going to come our way? Stern closed with a heartfelt message for students and wanted everyone on campus to understand the “buck stops with me,” if you have a problem, Stern will solve it. I think my job is to create a sense of culture and the culture that I hope we accomplish each semester in baby steps and overall in the years is a community of belonging, which means not only every student who attends here feels like they belong here, and it’s their right and we are here to support them. We want them to be successful and to feel that.
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If you have gotten take out recently or been to your local food court, you might have noticed a pesky difference. The straws available are made out of flimsy eco-friendly paper instead of the sturdy eco murdering plastic straws. Understandable and straightforward reason for the change is when those plastic straws make it to the ocean with the rest of our fantastic garbage; they are slurped up by sea turtles thinking they are jellyfish, ultimately killing Nemo’s friends Crush and Squirt. Seems smart and progressive to put an end to plastic clogging up our oceans until you realize the movement is only for the turtles. Once a plastic cup with a plastic lid and a plastic straw to shove in our plastic faces to feed our plastic egos now comes with a paper straw because it’s 2019, and we are proactive. While there are people genuinely making a difference in cutting plastic out of the world whether
Stop buying 3-in-1 shampoos JOSIAH CARINO VIDEO EDITOR
At this point in my life as a college student, you end up buying a lot of daily bath and body items such buy shampoos, conditioners, and body washes, and that adds up fast. And something like a 3-in-1 shampoo is something that you can buy that has all of those things in just one bottle. There was a time where I felt that I should just buy a 3-in-1 shampoo to try it out, and that experience wasn’t a pleasant one. I was out of shampoo and I thought that just getting a 3-in-1 shampoo would be an ok alterna-
it be going full paper or creating bacteria to eat the unbreakable material, most companies are using the specific turtle situation as a gimmick to pretend to be with the “no plastic” movement while flipping the bird at making any changes. Plastic is a leading cause of global warming and the destruction of the Earth (unfortunately, the US will have to wait until November 2020 to decide if we should recognize the obvious). Changes need to be made, but the first step is calling out the phonies using the concern and hype of profit and publicity. The second step is taking action as an individual to cut plastic out of your life. Simple changes like using reusable water bottles, using reusable coffee mugs, using metal utensils, and buying bar soap and shampoo as opposed to body wash and shampoo bottles. If you are still worried about those hungry dumb turtles, use a metal straw and switch to paper grocery bags or bring your bag.
If you are all about the nonplastic movement and want to help out on a larger scale, nonprofit organizations like Plastic Oceans International and Waves Not Plastic are always looking for more help through volunteer and donation to clean up the beaches and oceans from human’s destruction. Over five trillion pieces of plastic debris wonders the ocean already, and every year 18 billion pounds of plastic gets added while most people sit back feeling accomplished that they used a paper straw to drink from their plastic cup. It takes plastic over 1,000 years to decompose. To put that in perspective, 1,000 years ago, Rome was the most potent force, Vikings pillaged, and only Europe, Asia, and Africa were discovered by “advanced” civilizations. Its time to wake the fuck up and take action before kill every animal on Earth, and we are drowning in our garbage, hoping Elon Musk can get us to Mars because we wiped out our first planet.
tive. Since it’s a 3-in-1 bottle, I just thought I’d use it throughout my body from my hair to my legs like you regularly would with shampoo and body wash, but that caused it to run out quicker. By that, I mean it was gone faster than if I were to use all three separately. I also noticed that my hair bothered me a little more than usual and felt a little more dry, I felt like it could be because of the fact that it’s a 3-in1. Shampoo and conditioner have different properties from each other and there’s a reason they’re separate in most cases. I went around and asked a few students their opinions on 3-in-1 shampoos and if they use them or not, and some of the answers were a bit surprising to me. “I feel like there’s a reason on why they’re cheaper, you can better manage your hair health if you consider your hair type and hair’s behavior,” said Renz Lane, a current college student. Lane, who has curlier hair is someone that 3-in-1
products might not be targeting. Because his hair isn’t straight, it behaves differently than someone with straight hair, and requires him to use shampoo and conditioner separate. “I personally only use shampoo and conditioner, but I don’t disagree that they’re bad for you,” said Braden Wurlitzer. Wurlitzer, who only uses two of the three products only uses shampoo to wash his body since it still cleans your body. “I believe they are very useful and pocket friendly,” said Yessi Ozuna. Ozuna feels like for the sake of connivence, 3-in-1 shampoos are useful.After listening to these responses, it feels like some people have different opinions on how they feel about using 3-in-1 products for their hair. For the sake of convenience, it looks like that’s when people would be more likely to use them, but also depending on the type of hair that you have can dictate what products you use as well.
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Disney+ release day turns for the worst BRENDAN MONTES
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With the release of Disney+ last night at midnight, the streaming service has already seen many flaws in the system. For those who have been living under a rock the past few months, Disney+ is a digital on-demand streaming service where subscribers can not only view their favorite classic Disney films but also the other Disney owned companies such as National Geographic. As soon as the eager Disney fans saw the website was open, everyone rushed to the scene to see what the latest and greatest streaming service had to offer. Thus, causing the system to overload and crash. Many users began to see errors such as “Unable to connect to Disney+,” or even “There seems to be a problem connecting to Disney+,” with a cartoon image of Wreck-It Ralph. This caused the upset viewers to take their problems to the only place they know people will listen,
Twitter. According to Downdetector, a website that provides information on website problems originally reported 7,300 reports of problems on Disney+ by 7 a.m. But then reached 8,200 reports by 9 a.m. 72% of the problems were with streaming videos and the other 28% was with login difficulties. After seeing all of the problems with Disney+, I had to go and take a deeper look for myself. Upon signing up for the streaming service there was no problem at all putting in my payment information or even withdrawing the $7 a month from my account. But as soon as I went to login is when the problems started occurring. I too had a problem with logging into my account. It took me three attempts to finally get to the home page. At first glance, you see many of the wonderful films of Disney. All of the vault classics, the old Mickey Mouse cartoons, and then the Marvel and Star Wars sections. The items I was most interested in were the Disney+ Orig-
Disney+ expected to be the biggest streaming service inals. This includes the live-action film of Lady and the Tramp and television shows featuring Jeff Goldbloom. The first original I attempted to watch was Pixar in real life. As soon as I clicked the play button I automatically got an error message. “There seems to be a problem connecting to Disney+.” So I waited a few minutes and tried again and received the same error message. It took a total of 20 minutes to finally watch the show. Since my phone screen was so small, I attempted to play the show on my Apple TV. This opens another window of troubles. It took a total of four error messages and
The unsung California music county Orange County deserves respect for its mark on Californian music MATTHEW SIEGEL
OPINION EDITOR
When thinking of music capitals, the common person might think Los Angeles being repped by the alternative rock band Red Hot Chilli Peppers or the voice of the streets and introduction to gangster rap in NWA. Others may think Northern and go with Tupac and his Bay area love and Scott Mckenzie with his suggestion to wear flowers in your hair when visiting San Francisco. While those to counties represent the Northern California and Southern California music, Orange County sits in the shadows
with their rebellion taste in music as the third wheel of the California music capital tricycle. Social Distortion Members: Mike Ness, Jonny Wickersham, Brent Harding, David Hidalgo Jr. (Fullerton, CA) The first band is a worldwide famous rock band from the 80s and 90s but not being know they are from OC or even that they are responsible for bu time hits is the story of their lives. Reaching for the sky, they worked like they were on a ball and chain creating nine albums and if you think you haven’t heard of them, take a listen to their 1990 album “Social Distortion” and you will be saying “I was wrong.” No Doubt Members: Gwen Stefani, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Adrian Young (Anaheim, CA) Don’t speak. Of course you
have heard of this 90s and 00s band led by just a girl from the OC. Most people think Gwen and the rest of her band is LA based but through the spiderwebs and underneath it all, the band originated in Anaheim, just south of LA. Adolescents Members: Steve Soto, Frank Agnew, John O’Donovan, Jeff Chaney (Fullerton, CA) A lesser known band but Steve, Frank, John and Jeff stood at the forefront of hardcore punk rock making it enjoyable to listeners who don’t necessarily enjoy the angry and wild type tunes. They were made popular by having fans yell about a single-celled animal which was featured in the popular video game “GTA V.” Kids of the black hole who hate children and have their eye on an LA girl call the OC their home. Sublime Members: Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Bud Gaug
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another 15 minutes to get it playing on the television. I finally have my Pixar in real life all set up on my tv and after over 35 minutes I was ready to be amazed. But to my knowledge, the first episode of the show was only 6 minutes. I do understand that Disney+ is a new streaming service and will need to be more fine-tuned as the service continues but for a start the streaming service could have done a better job. Maybe all of the money that went into advertising should have been a little less and give the rest to the IT department as I assume they will be needing a raise after the next few months.
(Long Beach, CA) Taking in that southern California life, they jam out to the unpopular reggae rock with their ever famous song “Santeria.” What they got is the opposite of the wrong way while they smoke two joints living it up in the underappreciated music town in OC. The Offspring Members: Bryan Holland, Todd Morse, Kevin Wasserman, Pete Parada (Garden Grove, CA) Easily the most famous band from OC, The Offspring calls Orange County home and have everyone dancing. Pretty fly for some white guys telling kids, who aren’t alright, they’re going to go far with the self esteem to answer the question of why they don’t get a job.
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“THE FASTEST I’VE GONE WITH THIS CAR IS 162 MILES PER HOUR ON I-8.” Henry Lewis
From top to bottom, left to right: 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray; 1966 Mustang GT Fastback; Row of cars at the event; Interior of 1966 Mustang; Under the hood of 1966 Mustang; 2000 Ferrari 360 Modena Spider; Row of cars at the event; Under hood of 2015 Corvette
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Ready, set, stare! See what’s under the hood of the Saddleback car show with fellow classic car lovers BY NIK LAMAS-RICHIE
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igrating black crows swarmed the skies, gawking, while a vivid sunset led to motor city just beyond the unbuilt football stadium. An unusually warm afternoon in late October, as the Saddleback College car show made its debut at Lot 1. Tunes of the Beach Boys serenade in the background while a line of American-made Corvettes glisten as you enter the event. On display, front and center: a beautiful red 2015 V-8 Chevy Corvette Stingray owned by Mission Viejo resident Henry Lewis. Lewis decided to modify his Corvette, adding an AFE intake system and an internal chip called “the Demon” to the engine. “Factory is at 460 [horsepower]; I’m at 550 right now,” he said. “The lights on the side are aftermarket, and the fastest I’ve gone with this car is 162 miles per hour on I-8.” On the left side of the Saddleback car show is the M2 Automotive Technology building, which was opened for other unique vehicles. The car that got all the looks was a Mustang GT Fastback built in 1966 and owned by Hot Rods Unlimited club member Alan Beezley. With a stunning cherry-red leather interior, this ride is a head-turner inside and out, perfect for cruising up and down the Pacific Coast Highway.
Top and bottom: 1966 Charger 440 The only Italian car to make it to the show was an all-black 2000 Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, a beautiful car now reasonably priced at $75,000. For Ferrari standards, that’s cheap. But buyer beware, this 400
horsepower pony only gets 10 miles to the gallon, so be ready to invest. The bright beauty who stole the show, the 66 Charger in Incredible Hulk green. Built in 1966, the Charger 440 owned by
Steve Popely of Yorba Linda, was named “Big Green Machine.” This legendary vehicle is one of 300,000 made and has only 61,000 miles on the odometer. “The Big Green Machine raced at Orange County Speedway from 1970 to 1980,” Popely said. “In 1991 the vehicle was placed in retirement and stored in a garage,” said Popely. “This car was in the very first year of production for the Charger.” The Saddleback car show didn’t disappoint. The minimal turnout made for a very intimate feel. The food trucks kept everyone fed, and the DJ made sure to play music from the days of old. The nostalgia felt very modern as patrons could easily access vehicles and ask questions with car owners. The roar of American made engines won the day.
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A week to highlight undocumented students FRANK ROCHA COPY EDITOR
California Community Colleges are “committed to serve all students, regardless of immigration status,” and to highlight undocumented students and our fellow classmates on campus who are effected by racial transgressions and limitations to further obtain a citizenship. The event is “to help create a pathway for citizenship and to address current challenges facing our undocumented students.” Undocumented Students of Action Week, kicks off its 2nd annual event at Saddleback from Oct. 14-18. On Monday, the keynote speaker for the week Dr. Daniel G. Solórzano, UCLA Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education, has numerous awards in social justice for education, speaks on what everyday racism is on and off campus. Solórzano informs on racial microaggressions or racial incidents that occur every day. The data collected by the professor for over thirty years through the study of social sciences, informs that 35% of racial incidents occur in schools, out all racial incidents recorded every year in the United States. Racial microaggressions include poor racial climate, racial divide, racial segregation, gerrymandering, limit people of color to have the limited access to live peacefully, register, or to apply for citizenship. The professor’s main inspiration to be involved in social science began by reading an article of a close friend, and colleague, Chester Pierce. Pierce was a psychiatrist, past-president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Orthopsychiatry Association and a psychiatric consultant for the children’s TV show, Sesame Street. “One must not look onto the gross and obvious. The subtle, cumulative mini assault is the substance of today’s racism,” said Pierce in the article, affect-
ed Solórzano deeply. It was this quote that sparked the inspiration igniting Solórzano to eventually become a professor at UCLA and drove him to notice the mini assaults happening all around him. This lead Solórzano to author more than 60 articles, book chapters and reports on issues of educational access and equity for underrepresented minority populations in the United States. To combat these issues of racism, Solórzano pointed to microaffirmations or ways to provide people of color a chance of having a racial identity or to feel accepted in society, which aid against microaggressions. Without this aid, may lead to racial fatigue or even
term for a new policy on immigration, created from the multitude of Mexican immigrants who traversed the Rio Grande to illegally cross the border between Mexico and the United States. U.S. immigration law enforcement campaign during the summer of 1954 resulted in the mass deportation, for most estimates 300,000 Mexican nationals (1.1 million persons according to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Vetted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the operation was to stem the flow of illegal and undocumented Mexican workers into the United States and to discourage the employers who harbored such workers.
Ultimately, Congress failed to pass legislation authorizing punishment for those who hired illegal workers, but it did allocate increased funding for the Border Patrol. a cause of death. For the inclusion and representation is to affirm ones race, and could help physical, cultural and the mental health of an individual, a testimony to Pierce’s inspiration. “You put a name for my pain,” said by a crying student to Solórzano’s in previous on campus discussion at UC Davis. Solórzano’s further explains that from a prior event, a student had come forward and to him, and put a name to the racist acts of microaggressions that have occurred throughout her life. The 30-year professor argues that microaggressions directly or indirectly affect an individual of color. Just overhearing the racial act indirectly affects another individual of color. The United States has a history of racial microagressions, Solórzano points to Operation Wetback, which used the offensive
The plan was met with resistance from some legislators as well as from agricultural and farming groups that lobbied Congress. Arguing that an employer of illegal workers should be punished. Ultimately, Congress failed to pass legislation authorizing punishment for those who hired illegal workers, but it did allocate increased funding for the Border Patrol. But through the Bracero Program from 1942 to 1960, due to WWII and limited agriculture workers, the U.S. government, with cooperation with Mexican government, allowed short-term contract laborers from Mexico, known as braceros, to work legally in the United States. For this didn’t solve the immigration problem, but showed that the country needed cheap labor, regardless of their new operation. Many employers
in the agricultural industries still needed the work of immigrants in order to adequately meet demands and compete in the marketplace. Today, nearly one in ten California workers is an undocumented immigrant. This is the second-highest statewide concentration of undocumented workers (9.0%) in the US after Nevada (10.4%), according to the Pew Research Center (PRC) in 2014. In 2016, LA metro areas have 925,000 undocumented immigrants, 2nd in the U.S. population. Five out of the 20 metros with the largest undocumented immigrant populations are in California: Los Angeles, Riverside-San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose. Student volunteers spoke upon its growth from its previous year. For the year before included a student workshop, voter registration, and a film screening. In addition to this year’s event, a guest speaker, more workshops, and daily webinars for teachers, not just students. The organizers of the event support community colleges by planning their own action week by providing suggested activities, materials, resources, and more. The events partners funded statewide by the California Colleges Chancellor’s office, the Community College League of California, the Foundation for California Community Colleges, Immigrants Rising, and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges. Workshops on Tuesday and Wednesday included student artwork, informational bulletins of the week’s event, free butterfly buttons (the events symbol) and a free book, Undocumented by DanEl Padilla Peralta, while supplies last. And any info on how to apart of CCC for undocumented students, please visit here.
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The increasing popularity of thrift shopping Fashion’s most sustainable
trend
SOPHIA HOISETH ARTS EDITOR
Within the past few years, thrift shopping, or thrifting, has increasingly gained popularity amongst those who were never really meant to go to the thrift store in the first place. Middle class and wealthy shoppers have begun to partake in thrift shopping for its trendy appeal and wide variety of fashions. There are even shopping applications explicitly created for the reselling of thrifted clothing, such as Depop. Sellers on this app will buy thrift clothing at a low price, and significantly up-charge said items for profit. However, is this necessarily a bad thing? The myriad of environmental and economic bene-
fits that thrift shopping provides heavily justifies the move away from fast fashion and department store shopping. Why shouldn’t shoppers make a conscious effort to reduce their carbon footprint by not contributing to the further production of cheaply made clothing? Fast fashion, or the system in which clothing is mass-produced and in turn, poorly made, accounts for one of the world’s largest polluters. According to The University of Queensland, the environmental damage that fast fashion imposes is comparable to that of oil, as consumers cyclically buy and throw out clothing now more than ever. And why shouldn’t shoppers boycott the unethical labor processes that companies such as Forever 21 and SHEIN administer? Many of these companies utilize unregulated child labor or other immoral practices as an economical means of producing clothing. If you are looking to support
companies that are completely honest about their production policies, the online tool Good On You provides a comprehensive history of hundreds of brands, ranking their environmental and moral impacts. However, many of the ideal brands are highly expensive to maintain production methods that cost significantly more money as opposed to fast fashion. It only seems reasonable to choose thrift shopping, a method that resells already made clothing, reducing both the amount of waste and preventing further demand for unethical labor. I took to Twitter to ask a wide variety of people about whether or not they thrift shop, and what their reasoning behind this choice is. Most of the responses I received included the reduction of a carbon footprint. “1) [It’s] good for the environment. 2) [It’s] good for my wallet. 3) It’s nice to not look like everyone else and find one of a kind items.” Vic, @mom-
jeandream said. “Every piece is special, and I like to think of the past owners who had the clothes before me,” Brett, @crayolawombat said. Several responses related to the cost of thrift shopping, which is significantly cheaper than buying department store clothing. Because thrift stores are typically oriented towards lower-income buyers, clothing is sold at a much lower price, which does not equate to lower quality. I prefer thrift shopping. Although I occasionally purchase singular items from department stores, I mostly stick to thrift shopping. While I believe the ethical benefits are reason enough to thrift, I also find it much easier to craft a uniquely quirky style by thrifting. Thrift stores offer many fashions suitable for all buyers, so there’s an option for every kind of buyer. It’s just a small way in which you can further take care of the world and those who inhabit it.
The unsung California music county MATTHEW SIEGEL OPINION EDITOR
When thinking of music capitals, the typical person might think Los Angeles being repped by the alternative rock band Red Hot Chilli Peppers or the voice of the streets and introduction to gangster rap in NWA. Others may think Northern and go with Tupac and his Bay area love and Scott Mckenzie with his suggestion to wear flowers in your hair when visiting San Francisco. While those to counties represent the Northern California and Southern California music, Orange County sits in the shadows with their rebellion taste in music as the third wheel of the California music capital tricycle. Social Distortion/Fullerton The first band is a worldwide
Gwen Stefani/No Doubt famous rock band from the 80s and 90s, but not knowing they are from OC or even that they are responsible for bu time hits is the story of their lives. Reaching for the sky, they worked like they were on the ball and chain creating nine albums, and if you think you haven’t heard of them, take a
listen to their 1990 album “Social Distortion,” and you will be saying “I was wrong.” No Doubt/Anaheim Don’t speak. Of course, you have heard of this 90s and 00s band led by just a girl from the OC. Most people think Gwen and the rest of her group are LA-based, but through the spiderwebs and underneath it all, the band originated in Anaheim, just south of LA. Adolescents/Fullerton Although lesser-known, but Steve, Frank, John, and Jeff stood at the forefront of hardcore punk rock, making it enjoyable to listeners who don’t necessarily enjoy the angry and wild type tunes. They were made famous by having fans yell about a single-celled animal that was featured in the popular video game
“GTA V.” Kids of the black hole who hate children and have their eye on an LA girl call the OC their home. Sublime/Long Beach Taking in that southern California life, they jam out to the unpopular reggae rock with their ever famous song “Santeria.” What they got is the opposite of the wrong way while they smoke two joints living it up in the underappreciated music town in OC. The Offspring/Garden Grove Easily the most famous band from OC, The Offspring calls Orange County home and have everyone dancing. Pretty fly for some white guys telling kids, who aren’t alright, they’re going to go far with the self-esteem to answer the question of why they don’t get a job.
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Local band surprises everyone Bumblebee Saturday packs a new sound LOREN CHAVEZ
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Bumblebee Saturday has been working endlessly to create new, innovative music and over the past year as a local band trying to try to appease a steadily growing fanbase. The group consists of singer and lyricist Colby Wright, guitarist Ethan Porter, drummer Ben Robertson, and bassist Nick Richmond who first started as request by a mutual friend to play at her birthday party. Differing friendships were started prior to the band’s formation; however, this instance brought them together to play music in front of an audience for the first time. Singer and lyricist Colby Wright said, “We had a lot of fun preparing for that gig and afterwards we were just like ‘let’s keep playing together’ because we play, I think really well together.” When asked about their sound, they produced varying answers but overall as deriving from different branches of Indie. Although categorized as an Indie band, it’s used as an umbrella term, even though drummer Ben Robertson chose not to push their sound into one genre. “I don’t listen to the type of music we play which is so interesting to play for that reason specifically, I also don’t know what to call it,” he said. Interest in this band may come from the name, Bumblebee Saturday. The name came spontaneously to Colby almost a year before the band came together just as a fun name for a song or group. “When I write songs I think of weird words like that and I guess that one just stuck in my head,” he said. Each member has their own
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Bumblee Saturday members Nick Richmond (left), unique music taste ranging from funk to metal. They all appreciate similar genres and being exposed to various music through each other opened them up to new interests. Guitarist Ethan Porter said, “I definitely came from more of a classic rock background like Led Zep-
“We appreciate anyone who takes time to listen to our music.” Colby Wright
plin and Pink Floyd, they actually made me want to pick up the guitar.” Ben said, “I have been raised on metal music and hard rock music. I played in a harder rock band for nearly ten years and that was all I knew.” Colby answered, “I came from a jazz background, I went to OSHA for jazz. I like classic rock too, my mom always played Queen and Foreigner. While bassist Nick Richmond said, “I like yacht rock, funk and jazz, and I started off with viola in
orchestra,” and summed up how “It’s like we have the same majors but different minors.” Their first song released song was “Plum Tree Princess,” which was spread over various streaming platforms on Sept. 14 this year. Although they took a break for summer in the process of making it, recording it took one day while it took their producer 3 hours to produce it. Their process starts out with a short demo from Nick and Colby and Colby’s lyrics, the rest fill in with parts they write for their own instruments. Although the instrumentation is somewhat individual, they are always collaborating and communicating through rehearsal. 90% of Bumblebee Saturday’s listeners are from California, however, their song was picked up on a radar playlist and now their song has been listened to in 58 different countries. Although they try to get together once a week, they all have differing schedules. While Nick goes to Chapman, Ben and Colby go to Saddleback, and Ethan is a junior at Santa Margarita High School. They are not always able to get together for their weekly practice but
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constantly talking about the band keeps them active. They have both long and short term goals; right now, they want to get their upcoming album out and potentially more songs in the future, later, they hope to tour and travel both nationally and internationally. While expressing what they hope their audience gets from their music, they made sure to note that their music is intended to reach others through its positivity. Ethan kept it quick and sweet, “We just hope you emotionally connect.” Colby added on with, “We appreciate anyone who takes time to listen to our music because I write for the enjoyment of music. It’s a really powerful and beautiful thing when people are going through a hard time in their life and they can find a source of empathy through a song and it’s what helps them through it,” Their upcoming song “My Farm” is scheduled for release on Oct. 25, and they are planning for an album release in early 2020 while “Plum Tree Princess” is available on all major streaming platforms.
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Best places near campus to zone TF out Find a space you need for the time you lack BEAU HEIN
MANAGING EDITOR
Everybody has those days. Especially being a college student! Like why can’t the world just slow down for a moment? I never wanted to be a conscious being that has to do taxes! Haha, when can I get off this crazy ride? Anyway, here are my favorite places to let my brain dissolve
slowly: Kona Loa on Jeronimo Looking forward to lightly dissociate tonight? Hoping to see some kind of baristas? Mayhaps play a board game or two? Nurse your social anxiety with a red velvet mocha tonight. Open until 11:00 pm! (For our stoner readers, the Jack-in-the-Box next door is open until midnight. I recommend the curly fry sriracha burger.) Behind Saddleback College’s very own water treatment facility A well-hidden local gem. Includes a set of tables under the lovely shade of the trees. You can
hear the water in the pool nearby, and the rumble of maintenance car engines as they pass through the road. Perfect area for a good thousand-yard stare! Aliso Creek Trail underneath the overpass Revisit the childish, feral life. Go batshit. Feel invincible. Fight God and collect some pretty stones. The nearby river is known to carry the slimmest of frogs. Several underpasses to choose from, and all of the best quality mischief-making. Maybe find a goblin hole. Who knows? First floor of the LRC next to the gender-neutral bathrooms
Includes a lovely cushy bench and a nearby outlet! Prime real estate if you plan to cry over your ex on social media between classes. Don’t worry, we know you’re not mad that they’re happy, you just wish they’d mourn the relationship a little longer like you! What gives them the right to be more emotionally secure about this? Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Marguerite Who else likes high ceilings and good music? You do! This Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf boasts some spacious room and pleasant seating arrangements. They remain open until 9 p.m.!
The best movies and TV shows on Netflix right now Grab your partner and chill out with these gems MAGGIE BELFIELD PHOTO EDITOR
“Zombieland” Right as the sequel comes out, Netflix blesses audiences with the first installment of the comedy cult classic. Witty, gory, and full of A-list actors; this is the perfect movie to play during a movie night party where there are many different tastes in the crowd. “Superbad” The breakout film for Jonah Hill is a must-see for any comedy fanatic. If a viewer isn’t automatically drawn to this simply because it was Seth Rogan writing in his prime, then they must watch it merely for the most iconic and hilarious police officer characters of all time. Even though it is full of laughs, the message is something that every young person can relate to the fear of moving on from high school friends. “Lunatics” Chris Lilley is a master of portraying unique characters, but at
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the same time connecting the character with someone cooky we all know in real life. He brings the wittiness of “Summer Heights High” with the added variety of featuring many more characters in different locations all around the world. “Limitless” Netflix right now carries both the movie and TV version of this sci-fi blockbuster, in which Bradley Cooper is cast in both. It will leave you questioning why your writer’s block cannot be magically fixed by a little pill. It also makes you wonder if that pill does exist, and only the top people have access to it. “Gerald’s Game” Do not watch this one alone,
because you will soon not feel so alone. The genuine possibility of having your husband die after handcuffing you to the bed in a remote woodland cabin makes this movie even scarier. Especially when you mix it will hallucinations caused by malnutrition and an interesting twist near the end. “Circle” A very low-budget but highly interesting movie that takes place in only one room the whole movie with a group of strangers who have to decide who the one person is among them who gets to live. It shows just how far people will go to survive even if they can only talk to convince others of their worth.
“The Office” Do I really need to explain this one? “Gossip Girl” Good, old-fashioned drama and hot characters who are developed well. What more could one ask for to binge mindlessly on a rainy day? Even though it can get quite over the top, it is still believable given the vast wealth the majority of the characters possess, and the real-life examples of the antics rich teens get up to. “Heathers” Heathers is the ultimate cult classic teen drama that covers all the bases: suicide, popularity, school bombings, bullying, LGBT issues, and even murder. This movie is perfect for a girl or guy’s night in with some popcorn and pajamas. “Forensic Files” Every parent’s favorite genre: murder shows! In all seriousness, this show provided true-life entertainment that can also help you avoid ending up like one of the episodes. It shows how far science and crime-fighting have come and personally give me confidence that if I am murdered, at least the police will be able to find my killer from the mustache hair he/she accidentally left at the scene.
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Gauchos defeat San Diego Mesa 78-62 be looking forward to seeing that does a lot in the paint. The team this year has a hard-nose basketball approach that can surley bennefit in future. Saddleback looks to add another OEC championship this year, in hopes of there 8th OEC title in 12 years, if the Gauchos can keep their smothering defense, The Gauchos will try to improve for their 11 turnovers and a offensive onslaught and that their 2019-2020 season will not mysteriously disappear and have no chance of a playoff run.
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SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
The Gaucho men’s basketball team commanded a 78-62 victory against the San Diego Mesa Olympians for their home-opener and first game in the Orange County Empire Conference of the 2019-2020 season on Nov. 2 at Saddleback College. The Gaucho men’s basketball team is coming off a confusing conclusion to being co-champions of the Orange Empire Conference last year for the 2018-2019 season. The team was absent from the OEC 2018-2019 postseason after obtaining the co-championship and had to disqualify all of the men’s basketball games from the Gauchos 2017-2018 season. Saddleback College and the OEC have yet to comment on their absence and disqualification. Something that is not confusing, San Diego Mesa College’s physical presence, was minuscule compared to the towering Gauchos. An excellent example of Jameel Pratt 6’9”, who is the Olympian’s most significant player and also the center.
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Saddleback has four team players who are above Pratt’s height; the science is there. The Gauchos outmanned the Mesa Olympians, scoring an aggressive, 50 points in the paint. And were an immovable force of the glass, out rebounding the Olympians 48-29. The stars for the afternoon were sophomore’s Keegan Cummins and Captain Whitlock, who both finished with double-doubles on their season opener. Both combined for 24 rebounds, and an as-
tounding 48 points, which led the Gauchos to their victory. Coach Andy Ground can also be proud of the team for shooting 50% in field goal range. Looking at the defense, the Gauchos made 16 points off of 2nd chance plays, and 13 points off 9 Olympian turnovers for the afternoon. Saddleback’s big men looked to dominate the glass at both ends and suffocated the Olympians with their large frames. Opposing teams should
Upcoming Men’s Basketball: Nov. 20, 6p.m.:Mira Costa @SaddleBack College Nov. 23, 2p.m.:Canyons @The Master’s University Dec. 4, 5p.m.:Cooper Mountain @Riverside City Tournament Dec 7. 2p.m.:Cerriots @ Riverside City Tournament
Gaucho women’s basketball lose home opener to IVC FRANK ROCHA
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Upcoming Women’s Basketball: Nov. 21, 7p.m.: Mira Costa @ Saddleback College Crossover Nov. 22, 7p.m.: Southwestern @ Saddleback College Crossover Dec. 13,5p.m.: LA Valley @L.A. Valley College Tounment Dec. 20, 5p.m.: San Diego City College @ San Diego City Crossover
The matchup kicks off the Saddleback Crossover Women’s Basketball Tournament from Nov. 7-22. The Gauchos host the first game of the event on Thursday, Nov. 7, against the Irvine Valley College Laser’s. The matchup resulted in the Gauchos second double-digit loss since their first meeting against Rio Hondo College on Nov.1, where the Gauchos were outscored 80-43 at the Mt. San Antonio Tournament. The Women’s Basketball team looks to bounce back from a rough night from the line, forcing pesky turnovers and were in a scoring drought. Saddleback seeks to learn from their evening non-conference loss
to the Laser’s. The Gauchos didn’t take advantage off of free throws. Notably, Saddleback drew more fouls and got to free throw line than the Lasers, but still resulted in collectively shooting 30.4% from the free-throw line, 7-23. And behind the three-point line, the Gauchos were 9.1%, 1-11 for night. The Gauchos were out-hustled by the fresh legs from IVC’s bench, outscoring Saddleback’s, 36-16. The Lasers almost scored half of their points for the night from their deep bench. Irvine used their endurance and range of players to floor Saddleback for the full 40-minutes of playtime. Every Laser player was in-
volved, adding on at least one point for the night. Saddleback struggled to take advantage off of Laser mistakes, making 4 pts. off of 15 IVC turnovers. And it was just the opposite night for the Lasers, which they punished the Gauchos for their misdeeds, scoring 24 pts. off of 25 Saddleback turnovers. The Gauchos still has to time to improve before any Orange Empire Conference play; Saddleback doesn’t have to erase their meeting on Thursday from memory, but to learn from their mistakes and to know that there is plenty time to bounce back before their first conference game of the year on Jan. 8 2020, at Santa Ana College.
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Women’s soccer wins 2-1 against Fullerton MARIANA LOPEZ MEZA CONTRIBUTOR
Beginning of the first half, Fullerton College looked like they had the game in the bag, scoring 1-0 in the first 19 minutes. Fullerton was having ten wins in the season so far and raking 14th National, 10th in the State; they were ready to defeat the opposing team. But Saddleback did not let them take the win. With 13 minutes away from half time, the Gauchos scores the second goal of the night, putting the game in a 1-1 tie. Paige Vitolo played an essential role throughout the game, this being her 10th goal of the season and giving the team an energy boost for the remaining time. “My mindset going into the game is to stay calm,” says Vitolo, who plays the forward position. “I always try to have fun and smile with my teammates pre-warm up, so I don’t focus too much on the game and overthink it before we even start playing.” Every successful team depends on technical and tactical elements, but for Saddleback, those are not the essential factors. The coaches find the key to success in maintaining a positive and supportive team culture. Before every game, the girls
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Saddleback women’s soccer poses alfter defeating Fullteron College in a home game. get partnered up into teams of two called “Battle Buddy.” This helps the team’s performance allowing the girls to relax connect with each other. “I love the way our players work for each other and sacrifice for the greater good,” says BJ McNicol, head coach of the women’s soccer team. “Our motto this year is humility, hard work, and teamwork, and we saw all of that tonight.” During half time, it seemed like the match would end with a
tie, but the Gauchos gathered to change the game plan and take the win. After the 86th minute, Paige Vitolo scored the third goal of the night, making Saddleback the lead 2-1. This is Vitolo’s 11th goal of the season, defeating Fullerton by one point. “After scoring the second goal, I felt ecstatic,” says Vitolo. “I always turn back to my teammates because, without them, it couldn’t be possible. Them coming over to give hugs and high fives lets me know
we all did the job, and I was there to finish it off.” The story repeated itself last October when the Saddleback Gauchos played against the Hornets and took the win 2-1. It’s the 18th match of the season where Saddleback takes home their 9th victory. “We are excited for the chance to still compete for the OEC Championship, which we are now in 3rd place,” says McNicol. “We can finish in 2nd if we win all our remaining games.”
Students athletes can monetize, NCAA votes JOSIAH CARINO VIDEO EDITOR
In early October, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom appeared on "The Shop," where he signed the Fair Play to Pay act, allowing California student athletes to be paid for their likeness. Now it appears that the NCAA is now going to do the same. The NCAA's top governing board recently has decided to change their rulings on how student athletes can profit off things such as their image and likeness. Student athletes across the coun-
try who play for prestigious sports programs across colleges earned nothing from anything that has to do with them. While every student athlete in the three NCAA divisions can be paid, there are specific guidelines that have to be met in order for them to get an earning from their likeness. According to the NCAA, these guidelines are the following: Assuring student-athletes are treated similarly to non-athlete students unless a compelling reason exists to differentiate. Maintaining the priorities of
education and the collegiate experience to provide opportunities for student-athlete success. Ensuring rules are transparent, focused and enforceable and facilitate fair and balanced competition. Making a clear distinction between collegiate and professional opportunities. Making it clear that compensation for athletics performance or participation is impermissible. Reaffirm that student-athletes are students first and not employees of the university. Enhancing principles of diversity, inclusion and gender equity.
Protecting the recruiting environment and prohibit inducements to select, remain at, or transfer to a specific institution. It feels like Newsom's appearance on "The Shop," could have been an influence on the NCAA changing its rules to help benefit student athletes. From him signing off the act to these rule changes being announced, it seems that student athletes have a chance at earning something for themselves, rather than letting the schools they play for profit off of their likeliness and image.
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A Quiet Hour A ghost interview with photos by Beau Hein
Our ghost interview began with a lovely bio major named Beatrice. Pictured front and center, she reminices on her time as a student here, “The best part of my week was class! Until the fire, that is.”
Our third spectre of the night was Benjamin Henry. Shy but polite, he declined an interview.
Our second interview involved a young man named Cuthbert. Standing on the left, he gives us a small smile. When asked about his hobbies, he replies, “I often play with light switches to freak people out.”
Sibling rivalry! Nikolas and Vladimir are two local ghosts that prefer to stay on campus. Their hobby? Collecting the pens you turn your backs on for too long. Vladimir, on the right, as a collection of more than 1,600!