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Night services cause controversy KAYLEE JOHNSTON News Editor
Walking down to the parking lot with little-to-nothing lighting the path. I will not stop,’” Hernandez Bravo said. Night classes, although convenient for busy student life, have brought up With parking far away during the numerous concerns during Saddleback College meetings. evening already bringing up safety With the amount of surveillance on campus being only one patrol offi- concerns, the closing of Lot 5 has only cer from 7-11 p.m. and two parking enforcement officers, many part-time increased the parking difficulties. faculty members, as well as students, have become concerned with student “I feel like especially with Lot and faculty safety on campus. 5 being shut down, I’m really conThe goal, discussed during the Saddleback College Academic Senate cerned about the safety and welfare meeting on Nov. 6, was to approach the subject of services offered in the of our college community in the evening. evenings,” Flanigan said. “I would “As far as student services, which is the bigger issue, where do they go like to see us really examine how in the evening if they have certain needs?” Dan Walsh said. “Potentially I we can better serve both our students see this going toward the Student Success Committee, but do we just wait and faculty members in the evening. for them to tackle it? Or do we get a smaller group together identifying To be honest, if I had a daughter and where are the problem areas, and come to the student success with ideas -- she was taking an evening class and that would be ideally what I’d like to think as a task force, working group, parking way out there, I’d be very con[or] sub-committee.” cerned, so I think that’s something we Although concerns have been brought up, President Tod Burnett has really have to look at as a college and seen the safety of Saddleback improve recently. what’re the best ways to move forward “One of the things I’m very proud of, even though we have a long way with how to support our evening.” to go I believe, is we have improved tremendously our campus safety, our The concerns, although mainly based emergency planning and preparedness in around evening many, many ways,” he said. students and facAccording to Carol Hilton, campus ulty, are opening the safety has been a target goal and has been broader topic of camconstantly improved through the intropus safety in general. duction of new permanent chief of police “To me, I’m recognizing Christopher Wilkinson, a dispatch center there are two different issues and various faculty and staff activities being raised; there’s campus and training requirements in safety. safety which is day and night. It’s Carmenmara Hernandez Bravo, chair not just nighttime issues, it’s daytime isof international language department sues as well, and then there’s student resource and language lab, has voiced her conissues, day vs. night,” Academic Senate memcern during various meetings as well as ber Karah Street said. “I was in my office and I - Patricia Flanigan Chapin was watching some of my students in the parkin emails to South Orange County Community College District Chancellor Gary ing lot down below and they were like hens in Poertner, Academic Senate Past President a henhouse, they all of a sudden got very craBob Cosgrove, Dean of Online Education zy, and only to find out a couple of days later and Learning Resources Patricia Flanigan Chapin, and other faculty mem- that they had watched two women drive into the parking lot and smash into bers about the lack of night services. She is adamant about students walk- a car that was parked. So my students went over to check on these ladies, ing in groups after night classes, and offers them rides to their cars if they and apparently they were incapacitated to some extent. My students called parked far from the school. campus safety, and they retorted with -- I’m getting this second-hand of “I told Gary [Poertner], ‘look, because of my religion growing up (Ca- course -- they retorted with ‘How do you know that they are inebriated?’ tholicism) the nuns twist your brain with the guilt -- if I don’t do this and [Campus safety] did not come.” something happens, I’ll feel guilty for the rest of my life.’ I told him ‘This This topic is up for further discussion during the Academic Senate is my new thing, and until you guys do something, I’m not going to stop. meeting today at 3 p.m. kjohnston.lariat@gmail.com
I would like to see us really examine how we can better serve both our students and faculty members in the evening.
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BRIEFS New class will be offered to student artists in the Spring semester International mixed media artist Cybele Rowe will begin teaching Art Survival: From Student to Artist (ART 143) a new art class through Saddleback College’s Fine Arts Division beginning Spring 2014 inside the Sculpture room FA 210. The course is will be open to all student artists from all mediums to prepare and present themselves and their art to the
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professional art world. Rowe, who works in bronze, clay and also creates jewelry, designed the course to help students from the production stage to prepare and develop their body of work. The class is designed to help the advanced students develop a cohesive body of work with a theme and then have the confidence to approach the right gallery for their artwork. The class will also help students market their artwork through developing a professional website. Students will design their own business cards and brochures, as well as learn how to photograph their artwork. Saddleback Sculpture instructor, Larry Jones, a colleague of Rowe, explained the
new art course’s main objectives for students. “What we are trying to do is get the advanced student artists to take the class and then go out into galleries and have their work inside galleries. Also to develop their work portfolios or organize their portfolios and then be able to put into a package that they can show a galleries or to be able to go out and maybe have their own show in a gallery,” Jones said. Rowe explained a mistake that art students make when presenting a mixed body of work to galleries. “You just don’t walk into a gallery and say, ‘I’m Picasso.’ Here is something from the 70’s, here is something from the 80’s, and here is something from the 90’s. Galleries don’t
care about that,” Rowe said. The class will begin Jan. 24, Fridays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. inside room FA 210.
Saddleback College Horticulture Department to hold plant sale Fall is here and so is the plant sale by the Saddleback horticulture and landscape design department Nov. 21 and 22 in the nursery from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The plant sale is held twice a year, during the spring and fall, with proceeds going toward student scholarships. Last spring, the department raised $7500 for this fund. Beautiful hanging baskets,
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seasonal color, bowls, succulents, Madagascar palms, cannas and herbs are among the seasonal plants offered. There are no pre-orders. Plants will be purchased on a first come, first serve basis. For More Information call the Advanced Technology and Applied Science Division Office at (949) 582-4541.
Saddleback College business class hosting dodgeball tournament The Business Management class at Saddleback College will host a dodgeball tournament on Saturday to raise money for the Business Department
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Scholarship fund. Teams will consist of five players and have up to two bench players. Teams had to pay $50 to register for the event. The first round of the tournament will be a double-elimination round, with the following rounds becoming single elimination. Each round will have a five minute time limit. The first place team in the tournament will walk away with a cash prize. There will also be a raffle held prior to the championship match. The tournament will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday at the Saddleback College Gym.
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