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A: What’s your personal thoughts on monogamy?

J: I think monogamy is good for people who want to be in a monogamous relationship. It’s not like “Oh, you have to be in a monogamous relationship or what you’re doing is just terrible.”

People can do what they want to do, and if it’s not hurting anyone else then just let them. I don’t think non-monogamy is for me because I get too insecure, but that’s just my thing.

A: One thing that’s funny too, is that when people say alternatives to monogamy they say, “What about jealousy? What about insecurity?” I think what’s worth mentioning is that sometimes that can bring up good things. You can communicate why you are insecure or why you are jealous.

That in turn can be solved or helped. I was super insecure when I started dating my first boyfriend. Then like a year after I trusted him so much. The relationship grew and we communicated to where we were able to get that place. Which I never thought was possible. So I think I absolutely understand what you are saying, but I also think there is a way to communicate out of that mentality. You can communicate enough and see if you can get to a new place through that.

J: Have you ever been to a strip club?

A: No, I would probably do it but as feminist I would love to be there. I would honestly want to talk to them and be like “Guys, what’s the sitch? What’s going on? Your hair looks amazing.

Who does your makeup? I need numbers.”

No but yeah, I’m super open

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to it. I think strip clubs are cool as long as the women are there because they want to be. Or they enjoy what they do. I think people are like “She’s only a stripper because she is just so miserable and can’t get money.” But that’s not always the case. There’s a good amount of people that are like “I like to dance, I know I’m hot, I’m going to make money.”

J: It’s funny that you assume strip clubs mean female strip clubs.

A: Ohh right. See. Heteronormativity.

J: What do you think of the Anti-Gay Mississippi bill and others like it?

A: It sucks. I think it’s funny because a lot of people are always saying “Well, this is a Christian nation, and this country was built on Christian values.” And I think well this country was also built on rape, theft, murder, and lying. So what’s your point? It’s interesting because a gay person having rights. The ability to get married or have your partner in your will. You know little things like that. Things that shouldn’t matter, but they do so we call them rights. They having that really doesn’t affect you. It’s just

shitty. My problem with it is, I feel like the religious community is trying to attack when nobody’s attacking them.

A: Why do you love psychology?

J: I like understanding why we as humans do the things we do. I also like understanding myself better and thinking “Oh well that’s why I was so sad and hurt by what she said.” Maybe things that people say aren’t directed at me but it hurt me because I’ve dealt with that personally. I like understanding therapy methods so I can empathize with people better.

Like active listening is when you hear what they’re saying, and you repeat back to them exactly what they said so they know for sure that you heard what they were saying. So it’s like “I heard you, thanks for listening, that seems really hard.” That is all people need to hear. I didn’t know that before taking some Psych classes.

A: I think there is some correlation with Journalism too. The act of trying to understand, and the act of finding people who are interesting and trying to understand them better.

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A first-time soccer coach’s journey to discovering what it really means to be a coach. By Lacey Sly

28 REVIEWS

The box office blew up these past weeks with cute kitten overload in Keanu and an unfriendly reunion in Captain America: Civil War

By Maria Marquez

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28 FOUND POPE’S IN FROM ISIS 12 WE 16 RUNNING A HOPELESS PLACE Here’s a look at what A personal account that describes the first-hand experience of being in a vacant desert strip for the first time.

By Morgan Lietz

20 THE REAL COST OF A TEACHER As teachers are valued less and less we need them more and more.

By Kseniya Taranyuk

ON THE COVER

it takes to become a refugee in the U.S.

By Julia Cheng

10 ACCOMMODATIONS

BY PHIL

Down South, Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant is turning a blind eye by winding back the clock on civil rights.

By Sidney Lazano

Photo by Jasmin Romero

And Now THIS CELEBRITYVSWORLD

By Kseniya Taranyuk Danielle Jonas is pregnant and expecting her second child with husband Kevin Jonas after an announcement made via Instagram

Beyonce released her new album, Lemonade Apr. 24 Russia’s submarine fleet, asleep after two decades, were found on coastlines of Scotland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean Sea

Oakland Athletics minor league pitcher Sean Murphy unexpectedly died at age 27, the team announced on Tuesday, April 26

Apr. 25 The city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to settle the federal lawsuit filed by the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy killed by police gunfire in November 2014, according to a settlement announced Monday in U.S. District Court

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Apr. 26 Twenty-six people, many of them from a single family, are dead after ingesting sweets that had been mixed with pesticide

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Matt McGorry got into a Twitter war over Beyoncé with Piers Morgan after Morgan slammed the superstar’s new visual album, Lemonade, for touching upon the topics of racial politics, among many other things Apr. 27

Kylie Jenner treated her 59.3 million followers posed in a not-yetreleased Kendall + Kylie Swim for Topshop bikini Apr. 28

Authorities investigating the death of music legend Prince found prescription opioid medication on him and in his Minnesota home.

An airstrike on a pediatric hospital in Syria has killed 50 people, rights and humanitarian groups say, as the United Nations warns that the situation in Aleppo has become “catastrophic”

40M The total number of users the platform has, making it the third most popular social media application ever created.

30 The percentage of users who check their instagrams once a month in the United States.

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The minutes on average a user spends browsing the app.

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being uploaded to Instagram each day.

Farm to Table Recipes Recipes by Professor Kathleen Lunette

2 bottles soda water 1 cup water 1 cup sugar 1 cup fresh lemon juice 5 lemons zest 1 bunch fresh herbs (lemon thyme or pineapple sage) Mix all ingredients bring to boil. Reduce heat simmer 5 minutes. Remove form heat let stand. Then place in freezer until slushy 1 to 1 ½ hours. To serve pour slushy syrup in glass top with chilled soda water. Garnish with small herb sprig. Makes 8 12-oz drinks.

Tuscan Kale Chips

12 large Tuscan kale leaves, rinsed, dried and cut lengthwise with center ribs and stems removed.

1 teaspoon olive oil Preheat oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Toss kale with oil in large bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Arrange leaves in single layer on 2 large baking sheets. Bake until crisp, about 30 minutes. Let cool.

-Cheree Vega

ASK AN ADULT ‘Adulting’ for dummies For 30 years Mark Carlson was a park ranger. After changing his major several times and graduating from CSUF, he couldn’t find a job as a teacher, so he worked as a groundskeeper for the state parks, but in less than a year he was promoted to park ranger. Now he’s retired, but works part time as a property manager. As a legit adult, with houses, a career, and a long-term relationship, Carlson sat down to chat about what it’s like ‘adulting’ in the real world.

How do you know you chose the right major?

[Anthropology] interested

With an abundance of applications to choose from, photo sharing apps have caught like wildfire among millennials. Instagram in particular has the quickest growing statistics you’re unawarely apart of.

me, and I found it fascinating. It was a subject I would enjoy teaching and I think I could have gotten some useful information across to the students.

How do you know you’re doing the right thing in life?

I could pay my bills and have enough time and money to enjoy my life--ski, play, buy a house or two.

Do you think voting matters?

Yes, I do very much, because when I went to Saddleback College I was 19 and I couldn’t vote. You couldn’t vote until you

were 21 then and I could be drafted and be sent to Vietnam at 18. I couldn’t even vote on the people who were gonna do that to me.

Is being an adult difficult?

Its harder than I expected in my youth and sometimes I wonder why my parents didn’t educate me a little bit more in things like finances and how to buy a house and that sort of thing.

How do you manage debt?

Don’t acquire it. I’m raised by my very tight fisted Swedish father and I learned to only buy what you need when you have the cash, except for a

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2.5B The

number on an average day of users who hit the like button.

Sources: Econsultancy, MediaKix -Carlos Marquina

By Julia Cheng

house, but then you have to get a loan for that. I just feel bad for kids today because everything’s so expensive and just getting through school, you know, I mean, in 1968 I was paying $107.50 a quarter at UCLA for tuition.

But I worked at the dorms there and got paid $2.50 an hour, which was pretty big money then. I was a dishwasher, I was a kitchen person, the state employed students who needed work.

You could eat there too, so that made it doable. My parents divorced and so the financial support didn’t come through for UCLA like

they’d told me to expect.

Do you know what ‘Netflix and chill’ means?

Oh yeah, yeah, Netflix streams movies from a service you can pay for and chill is what I tend to do a lot. Sit down and relax and don’t raise my blood pressure. Chillax.

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White-woman-walking-through-the-city-contemplatively playlist: ááDancing On My Own – Calum Scott ááHere’s to Us – Ellie Golding ááiT – Christine and the Queens ááRoll Up Your Sleeves – Meg Mac ááDon’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Lana Del Rey ááBored in the USA – Father John Misty ááSt Jude – Florence + The Machine ááLua – Bright Eyes ááI Get Along Without You Very Well – Chet Baker ááVienna – Billy Joel Moving-on-and-not-in-acute-way playlist: ááChasing Shadows –Santigold ááSorry – Beyonce ááCry When You’re Older – Robyn ááLies – Marina and the Diamonds ááLosing You – Solange ááBlue – Marina and the Diamonds ááPalace – Tanlines ááCloser to Fine – Indigo Girls ááYou’re Not the One – Sky Ferreira The-sadcore-break-up playlist: ááLove in Stereo – Sky Ferreira ááHow Come You Don’t Want Me – Tegan and Sara ááGun – Chvrches ááYour Graduation – Modern Baseball ááPotential Breakup Song – Aly & AJ -Adam Raber

Like many fellow college students finding themselves in a bit of a financial bind, it can become difficult to afford the simple luxuries that were once enjoyed back home (i.e. garbage disposal, paper towels, nice shower, non-over flowing trash can). Perhaps these easy college-hacks can at least help to provide you with the temporary illusion of having a respectable household.

1) Paper Towel Hanger: It’s a simple commodity that is easily overlooked in most households and can become quickly missed.

2) Disposable Coffee Maker: Though this modest contraption isn’t quite capable of producing a heart pounding double-shot espresso, or a savory pumpkin-spice latte, it can provide you with a constant flow of easyto-make and efficient black coffee.

3) Modern Student Trashcan: There’s nothing worse than finishing one of your signature gourmet microwave meals and coming to the sad realization that there’s no place to put your trash. Not wanting to add to the already overflowing mound of

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2 trash on the kitchen counter, you can find an easy solution by flipping over a nearby foldablefood table (as shown) or substitute it with a stool. Wrap a trash bag around the furniture’s 4 legs and voila! You have yourself a brand new functional trashcan.

4) Literal Shower Hangers: Finding privacy in a home that you share with several friends is often a common problem for many people and places such as the shower, can provide the momentary sensation of being in a sanctuary.

However, without a shower curtain, you may still have the lingering feeling of

Haist Gone Wrong Two men in Costa Mesa broke into a motorcycle shop, and attempted to steal two bikes.

Raw footage shows that the two men even brought their own rope and can of gasoline. The only problem was they couldn’t start up the bikes. They end up leaving the bikes and cut the chains on the gate to escape.

being exposed despite the closed bathroom door (which often has a broken lock, allowing unwelcome guests to frequently making the mistake of walking in on you). You can’t seem to find the time to make a trip down to the local Bed Bath & Beyond, and even when you do have the time, you’d rather make a trip to the much more conveniently located liquor store and spend money on a variety of relaxing drinks, rather than some fancy-shmancy shower curtain hooks. If there’s an excessive amount of clothe hangers lying around your place, they can serve as a useful solution to your problem

X-Rated Traffic An unidentified man stops traffic in Orange by standing in the middle of the street and removing his clothes. According to the Orange County Register, traffic came to a brief halt as the man proceeded to lay down in the middle of the street blocking an intersection.

-Morgan Lietz

OC Idiot

#Selfie Huntington Beach Police are on the search for a thief who took a selfie on an iPhone in an AT&T store before running off with it.

According to ABC 7 News, the store was able to retrieve the photo through their company’s iCloud account.

-Jasmin Romero

LOCALE (33°32’0.637” N 117°33’6.136” W) This local hideaway isn’t very hidden just off the Ortega Highway, about 20 minutes away from Saddleback College. Able to camp here, this wilderness park is one of the closest places to sleep under the stars. The landscape is made up mostly of beautiful environment preservations. The areas are further accentuated by seasonal wildflower displays and running streams. Filled with an abundance of wildlife, a multitude of trails lay under real live oak trees.

These coordinates allow you to get lost outdoors in a natural California landscape, and when the sun sets it get so dark the sky seems to sparkle.

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and help support that extra wall of privacy between you and the unwelcome guests.

5) Tennis Racket Spaghetti Strainer: Spaghetti and Pasta is a key component in a majority of college student’s diets. It’s cheap, simple and after watching a few Youtube cooking tutorials, can be quite delicious.

It’s considered bad craftsmanship to blame your tools, but lets be honest, the fact that your kitchen probably isn’t as equipped with the same extensive cooking hardware as your parent’s, you’re never going to become the next Chef Boyardee.

Separating the boiling water from the softened pasta is a difficult task if you don’t have a strainer and a good portion of pasta is often wasted and spilled down the drain. To fix this annoying problem, I used a tennis racket that was shoved deep into the back of my closet and rather than letting it serve as a haunting reminder of my quick and failed middleschool tennis career, it acted perfectly as a pasta-strainer and didn’t allow any of my prized noodles spill through the drain.

COLLEGE HACKS: Morgan Lietz; LOCALE: Ksenyia Tatanyuk

Playlists

Just eat kelp S

By Cheree Vega

top shelling out big bucks to cosmetic companies claiming they can help you get your floss on. You wanna know my secret?

It’ll give you that gloss you deserve keep big sexy intact. You wanna feel your “all eyes on me’’ fabulous formula is working, right. No problem. Put that extra cash to work on the wardrobe that’s gonna match your new look.

Real talk—just eat kelp. It’s magical. It has the nutrients the body needs for good health. Cosmopolitan reported sea kelp a “natural source of vitamins a, b1, b2, c, d and e, minerals zinc, iodine, magnesium, iron, potassium and copper. Has the highest natural concentration of calcium of any food – 10 x more than milk.”

Put your night cream and day cream up you won’t need them. Look forward to trading them in for the true haute of nature’s finest quality of ingredients and the sweet spot is its all natural. Purchases of Proactiv aren’t necessary; they only help a small amount of what is actually claimed. We heard them say “Acne treatment + premium skincare. Proactiv + clears acne + delivers the exceptional skincare benefits associated with a visibly hydrated, even-toned, radiant-looking complexion.” They make implied statements leading consumers to believe by using their products it clears up unpleasing skin eruptions – kills bacteria on face, etc. This is very challenging for a person to quantify. I checked and according to a study in the journal of drugs and dermatology they confirmed, uhh uhh!

A diet dense in kel naturally helps regulate thyroid hormones for healthy skin and hair according to Natural News. It will give you back what nature naturally intended your aesthetic inheritance to be. The by-product of this treasure will put money back into your piggy bank by reducing purchases of facial foundations.

If “Stella got her groove back,” you can get all kinds of turned up too. Just eat kelp. It’s more popular than most folks realize. Food manufactures are trying to keep little kelp secrets too. You can find sources of kelp in food products such as

ice cream, jelly, salad dressing, pudding, cakes and dairy products. Trader Joe’s sells this high nutrient delectable. They successfully market it as a healthy small bites item. That’s when kelp started showing up in lunch bags everywhere.

Remember when Kermit the Frog told Miss Piggy “it’s cool being green.” “if only you knew you’d want to be green too.

Just saying kelp is green algea you know.

Kelps a game changer. Here’s why were so fortunate to have it. November 04, 2014 the Orange County Register reported “mounds of kelp washed up on the local beaches point to a thriving offshore ecosystem created by restoration efforts over the past decade, expert say.” Looks like Orange County’s kelp forest are a thriving ecosystem.

Over a decade ago people asked if Orange County’s Kelp Forest would be restored. The answer was “yes” according to a team of biologist. Their goal was to reforest the entire forty-two mile coastline. Collaboration efforts of Ray Heimstra, with Oceankeepers, worked on kelp restoration for 15 years and marine biologist Mike Curtis managed a part of the restoration project associated with Wheelers Reef located at Crystal Cover State Park. Get Inspired founder Nancy Curoso, a marine biologist, works with students, the community, and leads a team of volunteer divers that help grow kelp, white sea bass and green abalone.

Her projects focus on planting kelp as well as monitor sea urchin behavior and white abalone population.

Worldwide there are four huge currents that circulate clockwise in the oceans. These currents make life possible both in the ocean and on land. The California current is a cold current that moves from Alaska to the south along the west coast of North America. California has dry hot air that merges with the current. When this occurs the water evaporates and becomes a mist covering the coastal area. The mist is an essential element that provides hydration to the surrounding terrains.

As the hot sun riase the temperature of the water it creates a convection (suction) system. Bringing dense minerals to the oceans surface. The rich nutrients and the cold-water temperature set up good conditions for robust kelp growth.

Boasting California with the largest kelp forest in the World. Kelp, is known as the king of all plant life. The dense forest produced in the deep waters is a colony of brown algae that serves as shelter and “superfood” for fish and invertebrates.

This rich colony of kelp thrived until 1997 when a very warm and very strong El Nino Hurricane hit Orange County causing the cool water temperatures to rise to the mid-70’s. This merger of warm water proved a casualty to the kelp life for decades. www.orangeappeal.org • 7

I love coffee and its on campus it all just really worked out for me, its so convenient and it gives me a platform.

I’m a fashion major so coming to work everyday I have a chance to show my outfits its such a safe ground but its not like that all the time. I mean yeah its equal parts I get likes and dislikes from all kinds of people usually Id get dislikes from the older crowd but there also days like today where I had an older lady come up to me and pinch my cheeks and said “you’re outfit is so cute, I love it!”.

In October I had to be a bit more careful because people would come up and say to me stuff like “oh, is that your Halloween costume?” and obviously I just laughed it off, and that’s just a reminder of how hostile a college campus can be.

Romiro Gonzales Fashion Major

Humans Of Saddleback

By Maria Marquez

This is my third pair of shoes that I get in my year of working at Las Golondrinas. All the stains are from making salsa. I hate working days like today, its Taco Tuesday, so that means people are just going to find an excuse to complain and it just makes the day longer. We make everything in the back. I usually make the salsas, and it makes me so mad when people say things like, ‘This is not authentic” . Are you kidding me? I just cut myself chopping up those onions, pretty sure I rubbed my eyes after washing those chilies and then I hear that. I think I might go back to Target.

Aaron Urquiza Undecided Major

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I’m an Environmental Science major moving up north, my plans are to bring the northern California green lifestyle and place it in the southern California living where its all urbanized and make it so that socal is on a more green path. I will be moving back because, I’m a southern California boy, maybe not specifically here in Orange County but I want to make LA more environmentally sustainable. In high school I realized that our planet wasn’t in the best shape so I took on a Natural History of Southern California class here at saddleback and it really opened my eyes to the natural beauty that we have here.

I think if you just look around you’ll see how beautiful things are.

Photos by Maria Marquez

Donald Reinartz Enviormental Science Major

It feels like I’m never getting out, it’s such a high school job you know?

And I think the crappiest part of it is having to grab carts in the rain. Oh and thats not the worst part, coupon weeks bring out the worse in people, I find myself saying “Sorry, We dont take expired coupons” probably every 2/5 people, such a stressful time. Grocery store jobs are exactly what you think.

Bagging, cashier, and getting asked where’s the milk? You’d think that people would know it’s in the refrigerators. But like I mean i’m constantly putting snap chats of me at work so how much can i really hate it. Then I realize every time I’m applying to other jobs I realize it’s to other grocery stores.

Carina Duran Criminal Investigation Major

Andrawos Kabbas Engineer Major I played football for four years, and I got a concussion once. It messes with your head you legit can’t do anything, you stare into space. You are incredibly unfocused; doing my math homework was the hardest thing. It

happened during practice one day I was up against the biggest dude on the team, we went full speed head to head and we collided. My head hit the floor with such an impact that I was out for three-four minutes. I remember not wanting to open my eyes because the light was horrible; the feeling was like being tipsy but not fun.

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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CONTINUES TO TRUMP PERSONAL FREEDOM Words by Sidney Lozano | Photos by Beth Morgan

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ecently In Mississippi, freedom has been taken away and for those who are victims at the forefront, they can’t even turn to the state because they are the ones who took their freedom. For those unaware of HB 1523, also called the Religious Accommodation Act , Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed the controversial Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act into law (April 15 2016.)

Bryant did so to protect the rights of people with deeply held religious beliefs.

But what about the people who believe in Christ or a higher power yet can’t help who they are.

House Bill 1523, authored

by House Speaker Philip Gunn, has drawn both national and state attention with groups as varied as the Human Rights Campaign and the Mississippi Manufacturers Association. All these groups call for the governor to veto the bill. Minutes after signing the bill, Bryant appeared on the JT Show, a conservative talk radio show to discuss the details.

While on the show Bryant, defended the bill, saying it only prevented government from interfering with people of faith who are exercising their religious beliefs in matters of marriage. He also went further to say that it would not allow discrimination of anyone (except for homosexuals or those who chose to go against the bill).

Those pro HB-1523 could argue that their rights have been taken away by having to serve people who clash with their religious beliefs.

ACLU Director of communications Zakiya Summers-Harlee says, "The Mississippi Legislature and Governor Phil Bryant have set

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Mississippi back to an era that treated some citizens as “less than” with the passage and signing of House Bill 1523.”

Among these citizens government employees, contractors, and for profit businesses are to act with impunity based on “seriously held religious beliefs or moral conviction objection” Summers-Harlee Further continues to say, “Far from protecting anyone from ‘government discrimination’ as the bill claims, it is an attack on the citizens of our state, and it will serve as the Magnolia State’s badge of shame.”

Mississipi is one of two states that allows such wide-ranging discrimination against same-sex couples, transgender people, single parents, and all unmarried people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The mounting fallout includes a growing number of businesses, faith leaders, public figures, and individuals who have voiced their concerns, condemning HB 1523 as a dangerous measure that not only hurts all hardworking people but also creates a

problem that doesn’t exist in Mississippi.

The bill isn’t just anti-LGBT, it’s anti-human. In conclusion Summers-Harlee says, “Bottom line: Prejudice prevents progress, instead of looking for ways to divide Mississippians, we should seek ways to unite us and increase opportunities for every Mississippian to succeed. There is no place for hate in our state.”

Not all people in Mississippi think HB 1523 is the answer to all their problems and it's important to realize that. This bill is simply Anti-Human as the ACLU says, and this bill in the most extreme cases would also put single mothers at risk of being evicted from their homes and apartments (because of having premarital sex or children out of wedlock.) It also could cost unmarried people their jobs or prevent them from being hired, if they let it slip that they have been sexually active even once.

The bill is not just an LGBTQ matter. It deserves closer inspection if that is all the bill is being considered as. HB 1523- says people can

deny services or goods for the "celebration or recognition of any marriage, based upon or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction," which would include pre-ceremony celebrations, post-wedding celebrations, anniversary celebrations and other related celebrations, opponents argue.

At a recent Human Rights Campaign in Mississippi, which held a protest and rally outside the state Capitol and the Governor's Mansion Phil Bryant was seen refusing to meet with LGBT people and ignored business leaders. Ten other states have passed or are considering similar bills.

North Carolina's governor and Legislature recently approved a similar law. Missisippi is losing tons of business accounts and according to the Human Rights Campaign executives from Paypal, GE, the Dow Chemical Company, PepsiCo, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Choice Hotels International, Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., and Whole Foods Market signed the open letter against the legislation.

One of the most prominent defenses of this bill is its protection of religious rights.

It also targets transgender residents, claiming that one's sex assigned at birth is fixed, and will be the only gender recognized by the state. The law takes effect July 1st of this year.

What the state fails to realize is that being a single mother is never an option, or being lesbian, gay or transgender is not a choice. HB 1523 isn’t the only law that is allowing refusal of service. In North Carolina HB 2 Passed a law that makes it illegal for transgender people to use a bathroom that was not of their birth given sex.

Once again the state is discriminating a person of their own free will, what happens to all those individuals who fought their lives to be seen as this person who now will not be recognized as a citizen but as a criminal. Everyone serves a purpose and most of us are trying to live as honest we can, so why try and mask who we are with an unknown identity.

If this is what the south calls Southern Hospitality I think I’ll pass. www.orangeappeal.org • 11

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By Morgan Lietz

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t was mid April of 2013 and it was nearing the last days of my senior spring-break vacation as I sat in the crowded backseat of my friend Connor’s compact sedan as it made its way down a vacant desert road. Connor had been a recent victim of heartbreak and me, along with my friends Nick, Sean and Riley made the brazen decision that the best place to mend the heart of our morose and beloved friend would be Pope’s Nude Bar: The only strip club 12 • Orange Appeal • May 2016

located within a 30 mile radius of the Palm Springs Courtyard Marriot.

When we arrived in the parking lot, the dilapidated and sketchy environment instantly took us back. The outside appearance of the strip club made it seem like I had a better chance of getting a good old fashioned shanking rather than receiving a lap-dance, but remaining unfettered, we all exited the car and made our way to the entrance.

Two bouncers sharing a Swisher Sweet greeted us and after making a quick up and down look at our group, they immediately could tell that we weren’t local

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to the area. I’m guessing they made this educated guess based off of the clothes we were wearing and also because of the bright, neon green Coachella bands being sported around our wrists. The flamboyant wristbands later helped the two bouncers form the wildly creative nickname for us, “Coachella boys.”

After they finished their brief laugh and collected our individual $15 entree fees, the two men then proceeded by opening the club doors and welcoming us into a world that we had only previously dreamed of.

All of our childish smiles quickly faded into looks of pure confusion once we stepped through the door and saw that we were literally the only customers in the entire club.

The only people there, aside from us, were a few strippers scattered around the floor looking at their phones and talking amongst each other and an overweight DJ stationed behind a music booth that looked as if it was also used as a bar area.

The whole interior resembled an abandoned set for the movie “Road House,” and it took my eyes a few minutes to adjust to the bright, fluorescent blue lighting obnoxiously placed throughout the entire floor. As Connor emptied his checking account in the form of $1 bills from the ATM, the rest of us made an attempt to play some pool.

None of us have been in a strip club before and I soon realized no one had ever played an actual game of pool either, only adding to the awkward atmosphere of the place. 10 minutes of uncomfortable touring around the main floor went by before a few more dancers walked out from behind the curtains and began to show recognition that they actually had customers, which I have the notion was a rare occurrence. Our tight-knit group began to disband as each of us became accosted by a different dancer making an introduction. The woman who approached me had a delicate, yet controlling voice and her body gave small indications that beneath all the

crudely-drawn, faded tattoos and various wrinkles stood a modestly attractive woman. Her skin was visibly worn from the effects of age, desert sun and the stresses of being an exotic dancer in a run down strip-club, but I maintained my manners and enthusiasm by looking at the glass half full and convincing myself that her older age just proved that she had more experience and skill.

At the time, my cunning wit was still underdeveloped and my mind easily manipulated, so before I was able to even process what was going on, I found myself standing with her in line waiting to use the VIP room. I stood next to her in a shy silence as she held my hand and towered over me in her 8-inch heels, giving the weird, NSFW appearance of a child waiting in line with his mother at a theme park. Connor occupied the room before me and as I walked past him to enter once his turn was over, he remained literally speechless when I asked him, “How was it,” and he simply replied with a goofy smile and rapid up-down head nod.

I sat down on the leather couch, trying to avoid the thought of what disgusting things may infest the cushion, and allowed myself to relax and focus on rhythmic music echoing within the room as the woman danced before me.

Though she didn’t exactly look like the insatiably sexy and young stripper I had envisioned, my recent hypothesis proved true and with her older age came more valuable experience.

The private dance finished within only a few minutes and it took a bit of effort to convince my inner-self that it was $45 well spent. I exited through the beaded doorway and made my way over to the catwalk stage where Sean and Nick stood providing their eager attention towards a blonde stripper displaying her luscious physical attributes through a seductive dance around a metal pole strategically placed in the center of the stage.

Riley was having his turn in the VIP room and Connor was taking his third trip to the ATM machine, which I regarded as a good sign. I turned my attention back towards the stage and noticed Sean had moved his position to an even closer area, right in front of the metal pole. The blonde dancer fin-

ished her routine and walked off the stage, followed by billows of smoke pouring out from the fog machines that helped to create a brief cover, allowing the next dancer to smoothly transition onto the Catwalk. She seemed to be a bit younger than the previous girl, as well as being what I considered to be more attractive with more energy, which I’m guessing Connor would agree with since he to began to cover the stage with a generous amount of $1 bills. Nick followed the lead of Connor and even I managed to find a few dollars that I proceeded to toss in her direction, but Sean remained the most enchanted out of all of us. Money poured from his hands, which quickly caught her attention and she began fo-

Riley remained muted for a few seconds after realizing that the naked woman sitting on his lap also happened to be his older sister’s childhood best-friend. cusing more towards him. We ceased our rain of money and drew our focus on Sean as he inched closer and closer towards the dancer until her ass was within only a couple feet of his face.

He scrambled through his pockets to find one last dollar, which he rolled up and pinched between his two fingers as he guided his hand slowly towards the dancer, who had her back turned and remained unaware of the approaching hand.

“No fucking way,” said Nick in disbelief. “He’s not gonna do it,” added Connor, but in the back of all our minds rested the possibility that Sean was literally about to stick a rolled up dollar bill into the crack of the strippers ass. We watched in awe as his hand continued to move closer until it was within only a few inches of her backside. Right when we thought he’d make the final strike, we simultaneously expressed our sounds of disap-

pointment after seeing him make the split-second decision to settle with something a little less extreme and delicately flick the rolled dollar bill at her right buttock. The oblivious dancer soon after finished her routine and collected the respectable mess of money spread across the stage and made her exit.

We remained standing along the stage with our spirits filled and our wallets empty as we waited for our missing friend to return from the enchanting VIP room. As he stepped out of the room Riley was greeted with a barrage of congratulations and questions, but rather than expressing uncontrollable jubilance, his face held the rather odd expression of being both disappointed and a little distraught.

After we settled down, Riley finally had a chance to tell us that his encounter within the VIP room was a little more than weird, which none of us could immediately understand since the girl he was with seemed to be one of the more attractive dancers within the club.

However, we finally understood his bad experience after he explained to us that after a little bit of small talk between him and the dancer, he discovered they were from the same area, and not only that, but the same city even.

She then asked him what school he went to and after replying it was Dana Hills, the same school she has graduated from, the dancer figured it appropriate to ask if he knew an old childhood friend of hers.

Riley remained muted for a few seconds after realizing that the naked woman sitting on his lap also happened to be his older sister’s childhood best-friend. After informing the dancer that he’s the younger brother of her old friend, needless to say things got a bit awkward after and Riley’s attention became mainly focused on counting down the seconds until his dance was over rather than his sister’s embarrassed childhood friend dancing topless in front of him. After listening to Riley about his unexpected and uncomfortable reunion, we made the decision to leave on that note. We left Pope’s Nude Bar with Connor’s broken heart mended and our minds engraved with the memories of our first experience at a strip club. www.orangeappeal.org • 13

What’s love got to do with it? an open conversation on sex, relationships, and the biology of monogamy Story by Adam Raber

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n the parallel universe of romantic comedies, where Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan films set the standard for what true love looks like, there is no question that our culture has a highly specific idea as to what relationship dynamics should look like. Sex was something that, for years, was a very hush-hush-winkwink topic. Now, it’s everywhere.

On every ad, in every show, a common topic among friends--you can’t escape it.

The current environment has opened the floor to different types of sexual expression, and the idea that limiting yourself to one partner isn’t necessarily, well, necessary. And while alternatives to monogamy sound like a foreign concept to most, historically, as long as there has been monogamy there has also been non-monogamy.

In his renowned Ted Talk, “Are We Sexual Omnivores?” Dr. Christopher Ryan discusses the prehistoric root of humanities perplexing sexuality. Only 200,000 years since anatomically modern humans have existed. Before that, human beings lived in hunter-gatherer based groups. Everything was shared among the community: food, shelter, protection, and even sex. Ryan makes clear in his presentation that our ancestors weren’t just having sex with strangers (as there were no strangers in a hunter-gatherer community).

Monogamy was a social construct born out of the agricultural revolution, Ryan says. It came out of an exchange for favors: the woman would stay with one man for food, protection, shelter and in return the man would know that all his children were biologically his. To put it simply our ancestors were originally not sexually exclusive, and Ryan cites anthropological research that shows monogamous practices are more so the ideal, not the reality.

When speaking to Justin Huft, a professor in psychology at Saddleback College, he notes the issues with trying to claim what is natural in the first place.

“We have to start by thinking of how we are operationalizing natural. Is it biological? Is it cultural?” Huft says. “ It is natural in the sense that there are basically groups all around the world that have non-monogamy and there are groups all around the world that have monogamy. So we see that monogamy is universal--to an extent.”

Huft goes on: that some researchers suggest

monogamy dates back to as early as Mesopotamia.

With monogamy being in lieu of property ownership, so in a sense you own a person like you would an object.

Besides researchers who look to explore the biological aspect of monogamous or nonmonogamous roots, there are those actually living their lives as the “others” to commonplace relationship structures.

Jesse Lovelace, a recent UCSD graduate, has had fantasies about polyamorous love since his adolescence.

“I used to totally fantasize about being in polyamorous situations,” says Lovelace. “I would just space out and imagine living with multiple partners, all of us loving each other, sleeping in the same bed, and just being so happy.”

For Lovelace, one of the biggest positives about being in a polyamorous union is simply being able to live out what is natural to him. The same way others feel monogamy is natural to them.

“Well, a major pro for me is that I’m poly by nature, so getting to be more open allows me to express that part of myself. I have always been someone who likes to express platonic love in sexual ways, and it’s great that I get to still do that while being with the person I love,” says Lovelace.

“Another pro for couples who are considering it to keep in mind is that it forces you to communicate better. Good communication is absolutely key to making an open or poly arrangement work, which is great because it’s also key for making any relationship work.”

Those in favor of non-monogamy often describe why they feel monogamy is unnatural, outdated, and limiting. But the point is not to discount monogamy, or to discourage its practices.

Just because studies have shown that it may not be a part of our genetic makeup doesn’t mean-well it doesn’t really mean anything. One could say that we naturally desire to eat meat, that doesn’t suddenly cause every vegan to revert back to their instinctual carnivorous habits. We all know the plus’s to monogamy, that’s never been in question. Neither has its validity, the issue is our culture’s need to force monogamy as the singular choice. Every alternative is seen as something for the sex crazed millennials who lack self control. Every relationship that doesn’t follow the

strict one man-one woman narrative is seen as other. Monogamy should be an agreement, not an expectation.

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Times

The State of Survival:

Photo of Nadia Murad speaking to the UN on behalf of thousands of Yazidi women and girls.

Story by Julia Cheng

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thize with or even understand.

One woman captured by ISIS, Nadia Murad, survived 3 months passed between more than 10 men as a sex slave before escaping. Now Murad is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and an activist for the Yazidi women and girls still enslaved by ISIS. She has spoken to the UN multiple times, urging them to respond to the crisis and rid the world of ISIS. In the U.S. a total of 85,000 refugees will be resettled by this September, which sounds like a lot of people, but not compared to the more than 200,000 refugees accepted each year in 1980, according to Glen Peterson, the Office Director of World Relief of Garden Grove. Another 100,000 refugees will resettle in 2017, but the process of resettling is quite difficult.

When people are displaced from their homes it is often an incredibly

long process requiring refugees to demonstrate oppression for race, religion, or politics. From the time a refugee files the first page of seemingly endless paperwork, it is estimated to take 18-24 months or much longer, according to Martin Zogg, Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee division office in Los Angeles.

Cynthia Bellows Danielson Bird, a retired college professor, began piecing together parts of what was happening on the other side of the world and started humanizing the trauma inflicted upon thousands with a single main character.

Writing mainly from news articles as the summer days unfolded, Bird composed a novella around the Yazidi people attacked. The main character of her in-progress work, Devil Worshipper, is

Photo by The Security Council: Used with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

s warm summer days dwindled away in August 2014, ISIS carried out a terrible massacre against the minority religious group, the Yazidis, in the north east of Syria.

The Yazidis live mostly throughout the middle east and west Europe, but now thousands have joined the other Syrian refugees in relocating to other countries.

Estimated numbers vary in the amount of civilians directly affected by the attack, but somewhere near 200,000 people were targeted, according to the UN. August 3 2014, while many of us here in the U.S. enjoyed our last days of freedom from classes or worked our menial summer jobs, thousands of people fled their homes under the immediate, deadly threat of ISIS. Living thousands of miles away from this massive assault on a mostly unknown people makes this event, and the ongoing struggle for these now-refugees, difficult to sympa-

Yazidi refugees and their tale of struggle, escape, and new hope

a teenage girl named Astria.

Focusing on the plight of one girl’s kidnapping throughout the book humanizes the suffering of thousands of Yazidi girls and women taken and forced into sex slavery by ISIS. About 5,000 girls and women are estimated to have been captured in August 2014 and 3,000 of them still remain in captivity today.

Here is an excerpt from Bird’s first chapter featured in the 2015 edition of Saddleback College’s literary journal, WALL. Devil Worshipper by Cynthia Bellows Danielson Bird Her ancestors were the first to believe in one God. Their earliest leader, Zoroaster, taught them that fire was a blessing. Now Astria panted, completely out of breath after running from horrific flames. She finally had to stop and turn, looking back down Sinjar Mountain at her rapidly burning town of Sinjar. The trail led straight up rocky boulders; she hid behind one and peered below to see the figures dressed in black. As the men

Fear still gripped her—there was no food in this treeless place where no grass grew. Would her family reach her by night if she stayed here?

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danced about the bodies they killed and mutilated, a black flag waved in the smoke. Anything that burned had been set alight—red fire plumes billowed.

“Run!” her mother had commanded as they fled. “Up the mountain—go.

Do not wait for me.” A baby sister was clutched in her mother’s arms because she had lost children to illness already.

The oldest, Astria, at twelve, worried about her brothers: the four-year old twins and two-year old Asure.

Her father had sent the females ahead in the pre-dawn dark before the first black turbaned force arrived. He

told them that the rumors were true: the Islamic State warriors were coming and would round up women and girls to use as human shields and to sell. New husbands would force them to convert to Islam. As for the men and boys of the Yazidi people, immediate and terrible death was on the way, he said. The last Astria saw of her father, he had Asure gripped around his waist like a sack of feed. On his shoulders, he carried one twin and held the other’s hand.

“Run ahead,” he ordered. “We will be right behind you.”

Now Astria’s breath returned, her gaze riveted on the burning terror below until she forced herself to propel her legs on the uphill climb. She heard her own sobs come from inside her red dress—red, her color, chosen when she loved fire.

The sun struggled to appear in a murky dawn, and she continued on, never stopping or slowing her pace.

The rocky trail led to a ridge and to the town of Kalkan. She had hiked there with her father to trade their goats after an earthquake demolished his restaurant and the family car only two months ago. He told her the story of how Noah’s Ark, with two of every kind of animal, had landed on top of the Sinjar Mountain after the ancient flood. It took two days to get to Kalkan, Astria thought wildly. Could she go by herself, or should she wait?

When the sun blazed overhead, she hid behind a rock and sipped carefully at her goatskin flask of water. A few wafers of her mother’s bread and small balls of goat cheese had been tied onto her skirt, but she was not hungry. Fear still gripped her—there was no food in this treeless place where no grass grew.

Would her family reach her by night if she stayed here?

“Devil worshippers, that’s what our enemies call us.” She remembered her father’s frequent warning. He was one designated as a Talker to recite the Yazidi history and their beliefs, including reincarnation. Now Astria quieted her fears as she sped up the trail by remembering his words: “Kurdistan has been eaten up by Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. We, the Yazidi, are still here in the

north of Iraq in the land that used to be called Kurdistan. Kurds worship our same God in the Muslim way but allow us our way. Always remember: life is a battle between truth and falsehood, and our beloved Peacock Angel will show you the right path.” Astria knew the details of the story of the fallen angel who had been rescued by God. He was the one the Islamic State warriors called the devil.

In recent weeks, rumors had spread about the Islamic State warriors who would kill all who were not like them.

They wanted their own country and to own the wealth from oil from which others had profited. So far they had taken over four hundred miles of territory. Many Yazidi fled Sinjar days ago, heading up the mountain.

The rest of the short story can be found on Saddleback College’s website.

200,000

civilians attacked on August 3, 2014 according to the UN

5,000

girls and women estimated to be captured

by ISIS in August 2014 according to an article by VOANews

8 the estimated age of the

youngest aged girl captured

by ISIS, according to the UN

3,000 estimated girls and women remain in captivity by ISIS according to an article

by Newsweek

5 the years it can take

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Saddleback College students engaging with their phones rather than with each other.

By Jalen Hall

SOCIAL MEDIA IN TODAY’S SOCIETY

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hether you are walking across campus or enjoying dinner in a fancy restaurant, it seems most people are hyper focused on their phones. More than 75 percent of online adults use a social networking site, according to the Pew Research Center.

That percentage has gone up exponentially since the first study in early 2005. There are pros and cons to social media. It all depends how it is used.

As a pro, it is great for keeping up with the latest news and friends, giving friends updates on what it is that you’re doing, networking, or just using it for fun. It gives us the chance to communicate with others worldwide. Making us closer to other parts of the world. We can contact anyone around the world at any time with just a few keystrokes whether by phone or computer. Social media allows us to share elements of our life from

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what we enjoy to photos of family, friends or ourselves.

It basically is allowing you to be apart of others world and lives even though distance may be the thing keeping you guys apart.

As a con, are things like spam, fake accounts, cyber-bullying, and inappropriate comments said about other people. Social media has also allowed people to hide behind their screens and limits our social interaction face to face. It allows you to have the feeling of being social without having to go out and socialize. Plus you get the feeling of having friends on social media without actually having to put any work towards the relationship. This is bad because people don’t even go out of their way to actually socialize face to face. But people will easily socialize behind a phone or computer screen.

It is a huge distraction in today’s world. Even when people are driving, people

be so obsessed with being on social media that they will be on it while driving which distracts them from the road and the simple fact that they are driving. This can lead to car accidents, which can end in severe injury or death.

The worst of social media is the simple fact that people cyber-bully. Cyber-bullying is the main reason people hate social media. When people are cyber-bullied it causes those who are victim to not even want to get on social media because they are scared that someone will be talking bad upon them. What sucks the most is that the cyber bully can never really be caught cause they can make a fake page via twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. They will make the page anonymous so that the victim will never be able to trace their steps in catching them. Cyber-bullying on social media can get so serious to the point it can cause someone to commit suicide. Another con is the

term “Catfish” which occurs on social network sites.

These can be anonymous people, child molesters, or childish people who make a fake account of someone.

These are all horrible things to deal with when it comes to social media. Especially the simple fact that child molesters make fake pages to try and lure in little kids at a young age. Things like this make parents very cautious of allowing their children to even use social media.

More than 10 years ago people had to wait to hear from each other rather than being able to go on social media and talk to one another. I personally feel as though social media has had a more positive affect on the world today. It gives you so many different avenues to get in touch with society.

Social media is sadly taking over our lives. When you go out in public all you see is peoples eyes glued to their phones.

Saddleback’s Verticle Garden in the on-campus greenhouse.

Eat Right

Three deparments go green(house)

By Cheree Vega

photo by Sara VandenBroek

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ou ever ask yourself some important questions and didn’t know where to search for the answers you sought? Frustrating isn’t it!

Why’s kids under age 12 are overweight? Why’s the foods we eat are linked to chronic illness? Why’s government law to have health coverage?

Kendrick Lamar asks the question “How much does a dollar cost?” According to him absolutely too much. He also says, “I love myself.” Well if you love yourself and all living things just ask yourself, “How much is nature worth?”

“I love the fact that ecological revolution is happening right now, and the costs are a lot less than the consequences that lay head if we keep pursuing the path we’re currently on,” says horticulture and landscape professor Robert Farnsworth, who’s firing on all cylinders for this cause.

“We’re collaborating with culinary arts on the farm to table project. Mainly because it’s unbelievable how far food travels,” he says. “Carrots travel roughly 1,600 miles,” leaving a colossal carbon footprint. The Nature Conservancy does the work to help undue the harmful trail of effects that human behavior bestows

upon nature. They provide solutions to tough tasks focusing on issues involving maintaining freshwater systems, climate change, renewable energy, and migratory birds for the past five decades, salmon protection they provide a calculator to help estimate your carbon footprint.

According to Farnsworth, “Fruits and vegetables are grown with shipping in mind, for example tomatoes are thick skinned, harvested for longevity. The idea behind farm to table is to teach people how to grow their own food. There are many benefits to growing your own food including chemical management.”

His dissent “The ’70s outlawed over 600 chemicals in the U.S. Some are still used on farming production in other countries we import from.” Monsanto a major food producer and culprit contributes to some of the top 10 deadliest poisons on the list.

Just ask yourself how’s this possible.

Naturally, there appears to be a conflict of interest. Monsanto in 1985 brought the artificial sweetener aspartame, which is linked to cancer and neurological disorders. In 1944 they manufactured the pesticide DDT – banned in 1972. However, replaced it with herbicide Roundup – supposedly more toxic than its predecessor DDT. The active ingredient in Roundup is linked to birth defects, reproduction failure and causing tumors and mortality in lab rats.

Then there’s Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) injected into livestock

triggering rapid growth. Consumption of animal products associated with this hormone is linked to breast cancer in women. “Agent Orange” warfare was a most extreme chemical tactic used against the Vietnamese. It is shameful how 72 million liters of this lethal herbicide caused lifelong birth defects to millions of babies.

Near two years ago Gov. Jerry Brown signed an anti-engineering bill (AB 504) banning commercial production of genetically modified or transgenic salmon in California waters, fearing they could escape breeding lots putting native species at risk by interbreeding and the spreading of foreign parasites and diseases.

The “frankenfish” as commonly known has the imminent potential to wipe out nature’s selection folks fear. In 2015 The Food and Drug Administration approved it as the first animal authorized for human consumption in the US. The FDA declares “it/them safe” in spite of their growth patterns being twice that of its native genus. Which are akin to that of the species of meat finished at feeding lots. Animal Feeding Operations (AFO) lots is a type of intense animal farming model used for finishing livestock to fatten them up just prior to slaughter. The practice closely resembles the suffering a goose endures to fatten their liver for human consumption.

Alice Waters, restaurateur of Chez Panisse in the Bay area, helped to launch the Edible Schoolyard project in Berkley that teaches sustainability. It’s a sticky model. The farm to table presence is essential in bridging nutritional education, community health and vitality.

The goal is to educate and change the way we think and feel about the food we eat through the widest lens possible.

The Edible Schoolyard sponsors Cal State Berkley’s farm to table series overseen by Michael Pollan. “we must share an underlying theme of human wellness in each programs landscape design. Improving the spaces we share on growing our own vegetables in farm to table,” Farnsworth says.

“Sharing art and dance we collaborate with environmental studies and more with architecture. His message “All programs are tied together for the human well-being whether it causes an enrichment of the human focus that being horticulture– architecture- culinary.” www.orangeappeal.org • 19

voices

The Real

CO$T of a Teacher The career path that helps pave the way to our countries future doesnt seem to pay much and thats a problem.

By Kseniya Taranyuk

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e need to stop so much money into out school system said Donald Trump.

“We have to change,” said Donald Trump at a Charleston South Carolina Campaign Rally. “We have to do like my campaign, I spent the least and I have the best results.”

Teachers aren’t valued when I comes to salary claimed Hilary Clinton, with teachers finding themselves near the lower end of the pay scale.

“A lot of people have been blaming and scapegoating teachers,” Hilary Clinton says at a CNN presidential debate. “Because they don’t want to put the money in the school system which deserves the support that comes from the government doing its job” Hilary is right but that doesn’t have to be a partisan issue. Regardless of your party, the importance of a good teacher has no price tag. Sadly though it seems that we take them for granted each and every day. This can clearly be seen in how low their salaries are.

K-12 teachers begin at around an average of $45,000 give or take and

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midrange teachers earn around only $65,000. How are we supposed to expect intelligent people to want to be teacher and teach our children when they won’t even make a good living.

Currently making about the same as a postal worker, teachers earn around 21 dollars hourly starting. That means teachers living in California, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware ar-

even less money to schools that need it most.

That fact that this proposition was passed though means that the people are voting for it. U.S. citizens speak with their money and their voice on education doesn’t look like it’s as strong as the areas getting actual funding.

In fiscal year 2015, the federal budget is $3.8 trillion treasury divides all federal spending into three groups including mandatory spending, discretionary spending and interest on debt. Mandatory and discretionary spending account for more than 90 percent of all federal spending, and pay for all of the government services and programs on which we rely.

Looking right at the military spending, 598.49 billion from the budget goes straight towards military spending with education receiving around 70 billion.

That 528.49 billion difference is remarkable putting in perspective the priorities of our government.

The government need to start redirecting its priorities and direct it towards the to how are teaching our future generations. Teachers shouldn’t have to live paycheck to paycheck fill a job that people should be eager to fill.

A teacher living in California, where you have to make $26.65 or more hourly, would require a dual income home, get a roommate, or make the decision to move to Arkansas, where it only costs $12.95 an hour to live. en’t even making a high enough wage to live two bedroom housing.

A teacher living in California, where you have to make $26.65 or more hourly, would require a dual income home, get a roommate, or make the decision to move to Arkansas, where it only costs $12.95 an hour to live.

To also take a closer look at California’s schools, they’ve slid to the bottom rank of all the states. This decline may have come with the passage of Proposition 13, a property tax measure that limits funds to most schools and provides

IDENTITIES Reflections on being a brown girl in a white world

By Jasmin Romero

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y friends and I sit cross-legged in front of our fifth grade class.

There’s a slight breeze that ruffles through the leaves and cools our overheated bodies. Our sweaters are sprawled across the ground, and our pants are rolled up in an attempt to fight the heat. The five of us are in our own little world, each one of us hunches over waiting to hear the exciting news Rachel is about to share. We pay no attention to the kids swerving past us and the laughter drowning our surroundings.

She was the only one with her jeans rolled down.

She had told us all before how she hated the hair on her legs. She has a sparkle in her eye as she reaches for the ends of her jeans. “I shaved my legs!” she squealed.

Rachel was the last to get permission. The girls yell in excitement and begin to discuss their own experiences. I sit their quietly, my face gets hotter by the minute.

My ears have begun to burn and the knot in my stomach makes me want to throw up.

I quickly lay my sweater over my legs, and hope the girls won’t notice. They don’t.

I laughed with them that afternoon, but that night I went home and cried.

I was born and raised in Orange County in a predominately White area. My elementary school seemingly lacked cultural diversity. Out of a hundred students, perhaps, 10 of them came from a diverse background. My life

at home contrasted drastically from my life at school. Spanish filled our household day in and day out. Telenovelas consumed the empty noise, as it constantly ran throughout the day. Dinner time called for savoring albondigas and blindly watching world news on Telemundo.

At school my best friends, all white, continuously immersed me in American culture. With time my accent eventually went away, and I began to stop speaking Spanish altogether. The telenovelas changed to Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire”, and dinner became a constant struggle.

Why couldn’t we eat the things my freinds ate?

Near the end of elementary school, my worries shifted from my accent to my physical appearance. I would come home each night, look myself in the mirror, and pick out things I wanted to change.

I wanted lighter skin and blonde hair.

To me, a 10-year-old girl, that was what beautiful wasdefined as.

My parents were both born and raised in Mexico and immigrated here in their 20s.

Their childhood was not a representation of mine. I will never know what it will be like to live in an impoverished nation.

To come home and wonder if there is going to be food on the table. To hope my mother’s friend, who has a bit more money than we do, will come by and give me a nickel so I can buy an ice cream.

As a 13-year-old I never thought how my parents felt when they were my age. At 13 I wanted to be able to put on makeup, and hangout with my friends, without being afraid to ask, because in most cases the answer was no.

My parent’s were raised in a different culture, environ-

ment, and time. They were not allowed to do the things I wanted to do. They were not aware of the culture I was being emerged in at school. I was angry because I believed they should have known I was the only one out of my friends who had never spent the night anywhere.

I realize it was not lack of empathy, but fear of what would happen to me if they did allow more freedom. A worry that American practices might lead directly to danger.

Perhaps if I would have thought about what it was like for them, I wouldn’t have been as angry. But would that have made me less embarrassed? Of the hair between my brows?

The problem I have come to realize is that I didn’t acknowledge cultural differences. I didn’t allow myself to step into my parent’s shoes.

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Pit for Attila at the Chula Vista Tour Stop

See You In The Pit Story and Photos by Maria Marquez

The smell of sunscreen, sweat, and a mixture of e-cigs, real cigs, and weed fill the air. The line to get in is huge, it’s about 9a.m. and 85 degrees but what else can you expect mid August in San Diego. The wait and anticipation is excruciating, Just standing in line surrounded by hundreds of other teenagers in all sorts of band shirts. Everyone talking about who they are most excited for, and suddenly the noise of sound checks makes the wait 10x’s harder.

For 21 years, Vans Warped Tour has been touring the nation. This isn’t your typical summer music festival. Showcasing different bands playing ranging from rock, punk, metalcore, ska, and even sometimes the occasional rap. This tour has climbed its way to the top. Founder Kevin Lyman has always been the in the festival business, from being part of skating competitions with live music he grew the idea of creating a summer long music festival. But its so much more than that. For many people, this tour has become thier summer tradition. Warped has grown on the concept of creating a day for people to enjoy all their favorite bands, with a set up of seven stages for the 2016 tour, more stages means more bands.

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es, talk about throwback. Every year it seems the amount moshpits, circle pits and crowd surfers goes up.

In comparison to Lollapalooza, Coachella, Stage Coach, and Ultra all lasting one weekend a year, Warped Tour lasts 3 months a year, which is longer than any other festival-tour of its kind. Tickets sales hitting quarter of a million for the entire tour and roughly 15,000 in attendance per tour stop, and this tour isn’t slowing down at any time soon.

Lyman invites band new and old onboard this hell of a tour. This year

“Very stoked to be apart of the 2016 Vans Warped Tour, the line up is incredible this year and we’re thankful we get the chance to share the stage with so many

friends and great bands”

Like Pacific Luke Holmes/Guitar British metalcore band Oceans Ate Alaska will be playing Warped all summer long for the first time.

“It’s very humbling to be asked to play Warped Tour, being able to do something we’ve wanted to do since we were very young is incredible, especially being from the U.K. being an international band asked to come along and play it” says Oceans Ate

Alaska.

Throughout the years, bands such like Blink-182, Green Day, and even the Black Eyed Peas have made their debut into the spotlight while on board the summer fest. Warped Tour gives bands the perfect amount of exposure.

Anybody can stop by a band’s set and watch, this gives people the opportunity to open up to new music.

Its so much more more than that, this tour has given bands just the right amount pf push to help alot of bands get out there. With the opportunity to donate canned foods at the gates Warped has been able to collect more than 100,000 cans per stop. Warped tour has been built on the idea of allowing non profit organization having a place to speak thier minds and show what they are about.

Organizations like Peta, To Write Love On Her Arms, all take part of this tour. Creating awareness to animal abuse and self harm but it also gives them a chance to educate those who are unaware of such problems. Music Saves Lives is one of the non proft organizations that is on board this year’s tour.

Music Saves Lives is offering backstage passes and VIP privelages to those who donate blood at certain locations and receive vouchers that can be redeemed at their tour stop.

“Our mission statement is simple we

want to educate people on the importance of life-saving causes and to use all forms of music and entertainment to motivate to get the message out” says the Music Saves Lives team.

The tents create an open minded atmosphere on the grounds of warped, every year you will find new and old (Like bands) organizations.

For many bands in the scene getting the chance to play Warped Tour is probably one of the biggest tour to be a part of. Many would say this tour has inspired them to start their band in hopes of one day to hopping on the summer tour bus.

“Ive been going to Warped Tour literally every summer since 2003.

The older I got, the more I wanted to be a part or have a role on the festival. In 2013 and 2014 we got to play the Toronto dates on a local stage, from there I knew I wanted to play the entire tour. It’s a dream come true for me.” says Like Pacific bass player Chris Thaung.

Meet and greet tents are the most popular by far, band tents are the a little slice of heaven to the typical fan girl or boy. Getting the chance to buy limited edition shirts, first press vinyl, old cds, and posters becomes the highlight of the day for many. It doesnt stop there though, most bands have signing times which means that getting all those new goodies signed by your music heros and have the chance to get a picture with your favorite dummer has never been easier.

Considering this tour is the summer most refuse to attend due to the weather, but Warped has specific locations where water slides will be your best friends, and free water bottle refill stations will be god tier in the afternoon when its bright and sunny. It’s little perks like these that has created such an open enviorment and a safe place for just about anyone looking for a good time.

Warped Tour has affected and changed the lives of any of those who attend, creating a safe-haven. Wether you are in the pit or standing in the back Warped is a place of acceptance, no matter what you listen you, you know you belong there because it’s such a mix of everything. The diversity has attracted many to this

Alex Koehler of Chelsea Grin killing it at the Chula Vista tour stop.

summer fest, and over the years it has become evedent that it has been a great contributer to the growth and rise of this tour.

But as time goes on, the tour only gets bigger and bigger. Warped isn’t only just music now; every stop on tour features hundreds of tents those including band merch, clothing lines, foundations, and charities With organizations like this and a super diverse band line ups Vans Warped Tour just gets better and better.

Warped hits 50 cities this summer creating many opportunities to catch.

Whether you are going for the tents, over priced food, a much needed sunburn, or maybe even the music this tour has something for everyone and is a must this summer.

Joel Quartuccio of Being As An Ocean at the San Diego Tour Stop

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voices

Me and my team celebrating our championship win.

Trophies

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Tangerines

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uties. Tiny succulent tangerines that are abundant during the halftime of a youth soccer game. They are being pulled apart and eaten by tiny ten-year-old cuties whose only care in the world is that some girl just elbowed them in their shoulder and it hurt, so they sit there configuring the obvious solution: revenge.

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ents sitting behind me. I can see a table filled with first place trophies all lined up from the corner of my eye. The score is 2-1; we are winning. The final minutes tick down, and I can sense the parents tentatively celebrating. The referee blows the whistle.

“Hand ball,” the referee declares from inside the goal box we are defending. My heart sinks. The parents start screaming and protesting in defense of their children. This cannot be happening. It is the final minutes of the game and we get a hand ball giving the other team an opportunity to tie the game.

How I realized I am much more than just a coach and they are much more than just a name

By Lacey Sly

The girl from the other team sets up the ball on the penalty kick line, takes a few steps back, and kicks the ball perfectly into the corner of the net. The game is tied.

I look at the faces of my girls, and they are in complete shock looking around with blank stares wondering why and how this is happening.

The referee blows the final whistle to end the game in a tie. Since this is the championship game, it cannot end in a tie, so it must go to shoot outs. This means that each team will pick five players to take penalty kicks one at a time,

m r win.

and the team who makes the most shots out of five wins.

I gather up my girls and tell them that it is okay; that they can do this.

Nerves take over and they miss a shot, and the other team ends up winning.

The girls break down; there are tears streaming down the tiny, sweat-infused faces of twelve eight- and nineyear-old girls who put their whole heart and soul into the entire season to have it all stripped from them at the minute.

My heart breaks into a million pieces as I look into their pain-stricken eyes, but it is my responsibility to put my emotions aside and build these girls back up. They have the hearts of lions and the strength of the ocean, and I needed to remind them of that.

Fortunately, the playoffs are double elimination and this is our first loss, so we have another chance to be champions tomorrow. They come back the next day stronger than ever and deservingly win with a perfect 3-0 game, and I get the pleasure to hand each of them their first place trophies they worked so hard for.

Let’s go back to the very first day this all started. I am driving 15 hours home from a road trip to Colorado with my dad and my brother. Sitting in the tiny space left in the backseat surrounded by luggage, I have nothing to do except think. I think about how much I regret quitting soccer after my freshman year of high school, but there is no way I can jump back into it at a college level after four years dormant.

“Why don’t you just coach?” my brother says after I vent. Every lightbulb turns on in my head. Why hadn’t I thought of that earlier?

As I scroll through the American Youth Soccer Organization’s website quickly answering questions about my background, the answers flow through my fingers transferring onto the coaches’ application with ease. I reach the end of the application and nonchalantly click ‘submit’ without fully under-

standing what this submission means.

Within a few weeks I am handed a list of twelve eight- and nine-year-old girls.

I read through the names, and in that moment they are simply just names.

They have no personality, character, or values. They are purely names of girls who have signed up to play soccer and ended up on my team.

It is a sunny California Monday; the birds are singing and the palm trees surrounding the soccer field are swaying in the breeze. The clock strikes 5

It is important for me to help them realize playing like a girl means playing with determination and purpose. o’clock, and it is time to put faces to these names.

“Hi, girls! My name is Lacey, and I’m going to be your soccer coach this year,” I say after counting twelve pony-tailed heads. “I promise you that we are going to win and have fun. How does that sound?”

The girls smile shyly, and we spend the first practice talking about our plan: to work hard and win games.

Afterwards, I realize I have made a promise I might not be able to keep.

How could I promise that we are going to win games when I haven't even seen them kick a soccer ball? I make the decision to put all of my effort into these little girls.

I need to make soccer players out of them by encouraging them to find the soccer player from within. I can only tell them to pass the ball or to be first to the ball; they have to find the drive within them to put my coaching into action. It is my job to make them trust me,

want to work hard for me, and for me to believe in them.

“Whether or not we win today is up to you,” I explain to them at our first game after three weeks of careful practice. “The winning team is the team that works the hardest. So, let’s go out and work hard, okay?”

We stand up and put our hands together to say a cheer, and they run out to take the field. After 50 minutes, the referee blows the final whistle concluding the game 3-0; our first game and our first win. The girls run off the field with big smiles to hug their parents.

“Thank you, Lacey,” one of the girls, in the most genuine voice, says to me as she hugs me around my waist. In that moment, I realize that these girls are no longer just names. They are real people with tender hearts and incredible minds. I realize that I am way more to them than just a coach; I am a role model. I am someone they look up to.

I have been lucky enough to be part of twelve little girls’ lives. Being a part of their lives gives me great responsibility to be a positive influence and have them leave with more confidence than when they started.

My words have the power to break them down, and my words have the power to build them up. My words have the power to strip them of their importance, and my words have the power to help them realize they are special individuals. This gives me great responsibility to choose my words carefully and configure my language in a positive way. It is important for me to help them realize playing like a girl means playing with determination and purpose. It is important for them to understand that the most beautiful thing about them is their strength and their ability to fall and get back up.

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League

His Own of

A world champion on his journey to the Olympics

story & photos by Jasmin Romero

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ounds of shuffling feet and metal quickly colliding echo the dimly lit walls of the Golubitsky Fencing Center. My presence blends into the shadows, as Olympian Race Imboden and Coach Sergei Golubitsky, three time world fencing champi-

on, get lost in their practice. A loud cry surges through the room.

As if breaking the fourth wall, Golubitsky looks at me in pain.

“Are you recording this? He’s trying to kill me. ‘World Champion Kills His Coach’ it will make headlines,” he says holding his chest.

Practice continues as quickly as before, and ends a couple minutes later. Imboden throws his blood stained gloves on the counter, and I quickly gather that injuries are a common occurrence. Ones that usually make for the best jokes.

They quickly begin to strip off their gear, and with each layer a sense of seriousness washes away. In the span of two minutes Golubitsky goes from reminding Imboden about his form to telling me a crude joke.

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perienced fisherman and a boy who is just learning. One day the boy notices the wise man using a red worm to hook all the fish. The next day the boy notices the man using a black worm to catch the fish. The boy finally asks how he knows what color worm will attract the greatest amount of fish. The man answers by saying, ‘It all depends on how I wake up. If I wake up and my penis is to the right I use a red worm. If I wake up and my penis is to the left I use a black worm.’ ‘Well what if your penis is erect?’ the boy asks. ‘Then I stay home with my wife” he falls back in his chair with a fit of laughter.

“That’s all he teaches me. More about sex than about fencing.” Imboden jokes laughing with his coach.

Imboden, 23, 2015 world fencing champion and model, has quickly made his way to the public eye. He is set to fence for his second time at the Olympics

this upcoming summer in Brazil for the USA Men’s Foil Team.

With time off, Imboden finds time to grab lunch and talk about his craft.

“I have a new coach who is one of the best fencers of all time. To finally work with someone who has the ability to call themselves great, is an honor. It’s something that no one else has had in the United States. I mean I moved across the fucking country to train with him.”

Imboden stresses how influential the help from international fencers has been.

“It has helped our country become good at fencing. It’s helped us gain traction.”

When I ask how he began fencing, he opens up with a story from his childhood.

“It’s always the same question” he laughs, “I was eight years old playing with a light saber in the park, and this guy came up to my parents and told them I should start fencing. We ended up driving to the mid-

dle of nowhere to meet this guy at a club.

As soon as he walks out he tells me I’m too young, and to come back when I’m older. I mean we came all this way so I stay and watch and become obsessed. I go back for my tenth birthday.”

Fiddling with his straw, Imboden recalls growing up in New York. He was an active child, and like any other kid, played several sports at once. Anytime he got too serious with a sport he began noticing he didn’t want to play anymore.

With fencing, he realized he was not getting to where he wanted to be.

“Suddenly I had this emotional connection to the sport where it was like winning or losing was what it was all about, and when that happens the work part and the discipline kind of falls along with it.

You do anything to succeed.”

This “do anything to succeed” mentality peaks into his every answer. Growing up, Imboden gave up a big part of his social life to fence. “I would wake up every morning at 4 to go fence, and then after school I was the first one to leave to go practice again. I missed my prom.

I missed a lot of things, but I mean I nev-

er really thought about it. It was never like ‘Wow I really want to go to prom’ It was like ‘Holy shit I can go to Korea and fence. I’m going.”

Despite the absence at school, Imboden strongly believes that he fencing has allowed him to becomr a different kind of student.

“You are a student of your craft. You become so passionate about it that you dive so deeply into it. When you see someone who's really good athletics, its not just like ‘oh he knows how to play basketball’ It’s that he knows every minute detail of the court and every step he takes.

When you see someone play any sport in the highest level, you’re seeing two high level doctors how to debate about a surgery, it becomes personal. An in-depth personal connection to something.”

Imboden stops eating to reflect on his words. He smiles as goes back to his school analogy.

“I mean you see kids at school studying an acing tests and I was always like ‘how do you spend so much time doing that? But they would say the same thing to me, ‘how do you spend so much time

in the gym poking people?’ Theres so much more to it. It’s your own utopia.”

The expression on Imboden’s face changes as he begins to talk about what he want’s fencing to be in the future. His light tone, is now serious and his arms are crossed against his chest.

“It’s not necessarily about changing the perception. A sport is a sport, it can’t change. I just want people to look at it and understand what went into it. I just want more people to have the opportunity and be given a platform to play the sport when they might not have been able to play the sport before. To be able to teach other people about this thing that has taught me more than anything else in my entire life. It’s not about me.

It’s about if this sport becomes big other people can partake in it.”

Imboden goes back to his motto of being the best version of yourself.

“Fencing is life, sometimes it’s amazing and blissful and other times it’s a grind and you force yourself to go in. It’s all about learning and continuing to progress. The second you get complacent and you’re no longer learning, you’re dead. “ www.orangeappeal.org • 27

Reviews

The war between stubborn super heros and the search for a gangster kitten gives friendship a whole new meaning.

By Maria Marquez

Captain America: Civil War

Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. Rated PG-13, 147 minutes, Superhero Easily one of the best Marvel films 2016 has experienced as of now and yes kinda beats Guardians of The Galaxy.

For those who saw the trailers upon the release day, this movie had quite the cast. If having most of the Avengers wasn’t enough, this film introduces a new Spider-Man played by Tom Holland, The Black Panther portrayed by Chadwick Boseman and the witty AntMan (Paul Rudd) made an appearance as well.

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Jr.) does not agree with Captains choice, leaving Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the other members and a call for new friends to pick sides in the battle that defines the future of the Avengers.

This film was action packed with superheros and unexpected villians.

Every single person had just about the right amount of screen time and perfect character development. It has so much going on but not overwhelming.As MC had stated they really did live up to the hype of this potentially being the las Captain America film. The aiport scene is by far one of the coolest superhero fight scenes. Get ready for Ryan Evans muscles, a super young Spidey and a new found love for The Black Panther.

Which side are you on?

Keanu Jordan Peele, Keegan- Michael Key Rated R, 160 minutes, Comedy

A hilarious blend of funny guys Key and Peele comes this cute kick ass comedy, although the poster for this film is a cute kitten be advised it is not for the family.

Rell (Jordan Peele) is reminded of the beauty of life after going through a horrible break up when Keanu (a formerly drug dealer owned cat) comes in his life. Being chased by two revival gangs, Keanu is cat-napped. With the help of his best friend Clarence (Keegan-Micheal Key) they have to make it out in the streets in order to get Keanu back.

This film has all the jokes you’d expect but with the perfect twist to go with it. Pretty much considered a very long Key and Peele sketch. Also this movie had quite the star studded cast, but not super overwhelming that it over powered the master minds behind it.

Fortunately for this film, it wasnt like your typical comedy. An original script, with a fresh new plot form what we are used to seeing on the big screen, they are thier own super heroes. As the film goes on they each grow as adults. With endless jokes and cute kitten overload this film is the perfect way to describe the minds of Key and Peele.

Screen Rant (“Captain America: Civil War”), Keanu Movie (“Keanu”)

Team Captain and his super hero buds get ready to attack thier other super hero friends.

A Quick Word with Tony Carter

By Carlos Marquina A clothing line is a slow and tedious process to start up. Tony Carter will be the first person to tell you that, he runs one. Juggling two jobs and a girlfriend, it astonishes me how he has the time to work on Providence Brand. Pushing his brand forward for around three years now, I finally got the chance to sit down with him and get an inside look into his Orange County based clothing company.

Instagram: @ProvidenceBrand Check out www.ProvidenceBrand.net

When did Providence Brand start?

Around three years ago. I started it in my senior year of high school. It was an idea back then, I was trying to figure out what name I wanted to go with. Back then I was just deciding what I wanted to go with, what type of product I wanted to create.

Any news on when your new line is coming out?

I’m going to say early June maybe end of May. It’s in the works right now, me and my partner have been busy with our other jobs, so it’s just finding the time to finish it all up. We have the blueprints of what we want to create, so now it’s all about just executing it and putting it out for summer.

From your previous line to your new line coming out, Whats changing?

Everything is going to be completely solid. We are focusing more on the detail that it takes to create new clothing. Our own personal tags for all the items. The artwork for the shirts are going to be more raw. The process is going to be at a higher standard then it was before.

Where do you find your inspiration to create each line?

It honestly all depends. A lot of my ideas for drawings come from my daily experiences. Whether I am out skateboarding or just hanging out with my friends, l like to keep an open mind with all the ideas that go into this brand How is Providence Brand different from other brands out right now?

I think the background and what the company is built on will separate me from other companies. I want people to know in the future that this brand did not come from mommy and daddy’s wallet, it didn’t come up like that. I saw an opportunity to turn my dreams into a reality and I took it. You have to believe in it before anyone else believes in it.

So is this a homie brand?

Hell yes it’s a homie brand. That’s where I am going with it, it’s for the homies. I am not in it to make a quick dollar because nothing good comes easy.

Any last words?

Honestly I’m just trying to do my best to create product that I am hyped on and that my homies are hyped on. But I truly think you have to be inspired to make something, It’s not something that you can just force because If you just start pumping out product left and right, you will lose the passion that started it all.

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Taking the Leap: Making the Choice for Community College

By Jalen Hall

Recruited players must go through the NCAA eligibility process by going to the NCAA website and filling out the application so college coaches can look them up at anytime.

In order for you to understand how stressful this process can be for a high school athlete here are some of the biggest steps in the college recruiting process: uu Making Contact With Coaches: First converation about playing for the school. uuCampus Visits: Official campus visits include transportation to the college, meals, and entertainment paid for by the university. uuVisits From Coaches: College coaches visit your current school to observe practice, a game, or in your home.

Coaches use these visits to evaluate you and to try to sell their program to you. uuScholarship Offers: The coach will call to extend an offer of athletic aid, and depending on the sport you’ll play and college recruiting you, you can be offered a full or partial athletic scholarship. uuSigning the National Letter of Intent: Marks the end of the college athletic recruiting process. The letter is an agreement that you will enroll in a certain school in exchange for athletic aid. At this point, coaches have to stop recruiting you, and if any coaches contact you, you have to let them know you’ve signed a letter of intent.

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Just as my sophomore year of high school was nearing its end, I was busy planning summer vacation.

However, my basketball coach called me out of class to give me life-changing news that would change my life’s direction. I had received my first letter of interest from Washington State University.

I met my coach in his office and when I got there he was smiling, holding a burgundy envelope with Washington State’s mascot on it.

Enclosed in the letter was information on the school, a letter from the coach and an invite to their basketball camp, which counted as an unofficial visit to the school. I was ecstatic; this was my first-ever college interest letter.

Following up on that letter of interest, I scheduled my flight for WSU’s basketball camp and was off to Spokane, Washington. Arriving there I was greeted by other players who were there for the camp, and we took a taxi to the university. When we arrived on campus, we were assigned to our dorms. Luckily for myself I got a room to myself, which made things a lot easier. After getting settled in, we met with the coaching staff and went over the schedule for the weekend. Next, we explored the campus and started our workouts-- we were treated as if we were already players.

Finally, I got to eat with the other recruits and meet some of the current players at WSU, then go back to the dorms for some free time. Then the next couple of days the workouts were just repeats of drills and scrimmages.

That summer I was traveling all over to different tournaments every weekend to gain more experience and exposure to the college scouts.

This period of time was considered the “live” period; where coaches are

able to scout, talk to you in person, and contact you by phone. In those tournaments I played well enough to gain interest from numerous schools, from Division 1 Universities to NAIA. Gaining the interest from numerous schools lead me to really experience what the “live” period was all about: constant phone calls, text messages, and speaking with coaches.

Summer flew by and suddenly I was back to start my final year of high school. To most students, senior year is supposed to be a breeze, but being a student athlete, it was one of my most stressful years. I had to maintain a certain GPA, achieve a certain SAT score, and stay focused on what was important. It was stressful trying to decide which school I wanted to pursue. The most stressful part of all of this was keeping a school’s interest or losing my interest in a school throughout the year. Coming to the end of my senior year, it was time to make that important, final decision about my future.

When it was all said and done, I only had one full ride scholarship offer to Adams State University, a Division II school in Colorado. I didn’t take their offer because I never took an official visit and I didn’t want to sign my life away without knowing what that school had in store for me.

That is when I got the call from Andy Ground at Saddleback College, inviting me to a visit and to come play in their open gym. Prior to the arraignments of a visit and open gym practice, I was a hesitant about playing for a junior college. But, after visiting and getting a feel for the school, I knew Saddleback would be a great temporary fit for me, so I decided to commit and spend my next two years as a Gaucho. I finally felt relieved feeling like I no longer had to stress about the recruiting process.

join the rebellion if there were journalists in ‘Star Wars’ BB-8 videos would break the internet.

become a part of something that can change the galaxy.

Video Journalism, Feature Writing, News Writing. Join the student newspaper the Lariat and the student magazine Orange Appeal.

Find out more at Saddleback.edu, keyword: journalism. www.orangeappeal.org • 5

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