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Calendar Friday, Oct. 27 Deadline to Drop Full-Term Classes: Last day to drop classes with a “W” grade.
Monday, Oct. 30 Heart Disease Awareness: An information booth on heart disease awareness hosted by Student Health. The booth will be open from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Rancho Campus in the CCE-Quad.
Wednesday, Nov. 1 The Life and Death of the First Amendment: A panel discussion of the First Amendment held in WH-142 from 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Panelists will include Kevin Cameron, Beau Yarbrough and Dan Loomis.
Sunday, Oct. 29 Trunk or Treat: The Chaffey College Car Club will be hosting a Halloween celebration in parking lot 18, East of the ATL building. The event will include free trick-ortreating, a haunted house, games and prizes.
Monday, Oct. 30 Noches De Animas: A “Tzintzuntzan” film screeening and Q&A with the filmmakers, Armando Espinosa and Craig Johnson, held on Rancho Campus in CAA-211 from 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. Limited space.
Thursday, Nov. 2 Dia De Los Muertos: A Day of the Dead celebration in the Rancho Campus Quad from 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. The celebration will feature a community altar, Aztec danzantes, pan de muertos, face painting and more. Financial Aid, Admissions, EOPS and Counseling information will also be available for students and their families.
Editor-In-Chief Jullian Aiden Bravo
A&E Editor Edward Gutierrez
Managing Editor Esmeralda De Santiago
Opinion Editor Chris Salazar
Online Editor-In-Chief Chris Santee
Life & Style Editor Alondra Alarcon
Photo Editor Emmanuel Vargas
Culture Editor Hector Solorzano
Features Editor Anissa Campa
Audio/Visual Editor Emmanuel Vargas
News Editor Brody Salazar
Baseline Editor Anissa Campa
Sports Editor Christopher Sainz
Social Media Editor Imani Smith
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CONTENTS
January 20, 2016
4. PREVENTION PANEL 8. DISCUSSION
THE COLLECTIVE
5. STATE OF SANCTUARY
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JOHNSON’S LEGACY
LAWS: 12. DISPENSARY FUTURE OF
CANNABIS
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TRAUMATIC EVENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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TO 11. FIGHTING PRESERVE MARSHA P.
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FOUNDATION 14. MORAL UNDERPIN POLITICAL
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ANIMOSITY
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THE PREVIEW
COVER PHOTO AND ILLUSTRATIONS
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Violence Prevention Aftermath Anissa Campa @anissacam_ As a result of the Las Vegas shooting that took place on October 1st, a panel discussion was held to promote a sense of solidarity within the Chaffey College community. The event, titled “Violence Prevention Aftermath,” which took place on Wednesday, October 18, provided students and faculty with an opportunity to discuss topics regarding the issue. Among four panelists were Chaffey College Chief of Police Officer Frank Martinez, Communication Studies Professor Carmen Navarro, mass shooting survivor Sally Cardinale and student Jessica Martinez. Each panelist shared a different perspective on their experience with the topic. Professor Navarro initiated the discussion with an overview on America’s gun violence history, displaying graphs and statistics on various aspects such as frequency, location and mass shooting outcomes. She explained the most common area of shootings are businesses at 45.6% and schools at 24.4%, according to an article by CNN. Following the panel was student Jessica Martinez, whose parents were attendants of the Route 91 Festival in Las Vegas. “I didn’t get a hold of my parents until about 10 a.m. and to this day, my mom doesn’t talk about it,” she said. Survivor and former projects specialist at the Inland Regional Center, where the San Bernardino incident took place, Sally Cardinale said her office was located directly in front of the door where the shooters entered. She explained getting up two minutes before the incident to use the bathroom, and witnessed a puff of white smoke from the wall while she washed her hands. “I didn’t really put it together that it was the dry wall,” she said, “Some of my coworkers rushed into the bathroom to take cover and we all huddled into the stalls over the toilet seat and just hugged each other. I tried to call 911 and it was busy.” Although the shooters did not enter the bathroom where they hid, Cardinale explained assessing the final moments of her life and began to analyze her purpose.
Chaffey Chief of Police Frank Martinez, Sally Cardinale, Jessica Martinez and Carmen Navarro at the forum. Photo by Hector Solorzano
Cardinale turned to advocacy, stating she had testified twice in front of state senates sharing her experience. “We need to stop giving notoriety to the shooters and start talking about solutions,” she said, “We all process things differently. It’s not fair to try to force a perception on how someone should react, or assume that how one person reacted is how everyone is going to react.” Officer Frank Martinez explained another perspective on the December 2 shooting. While working at the assignment sheriff’s office at the time, he explained receiving information about the incident and began driving around looking for the suspects. Officer Martinez also mentioned
receiving false claims about active shooters at different locations. “Unfortunately the thing about active shooters is you just don’t know,” he explained, “in order to have a free society, our options are limited.” Officer Martinez said he is constantly playing the “What If ” game in terms of analyzing different possibilities of a situation. In moving forward, Martinez suggests the “Run Hide Fight” technique while dealing with an active shooter. Other topics in preventing these incidents include self-evaluation, planning and preparation, raising awareness on social media, advocating unity and utilizing professional services on campus such as counseling.
Students, faculty and staff attend the Violence Prevention Aftermath forum Photo by Hector Solorzano
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alifornia Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark “sanctuary state” legislation (SB54) into law on Oct. 5, which will make California a sanctuary state for immigrants once the law goes into effect. The law will prevent law enforcement from questioning people about their citizenship during routine procedures. It will also prevent local and state law enforcement agencies from questioning, holding or sharing information about people with federal immigration agents, with the exception of individuals who have been convicted of one or more offenses from a list of 800 crimes, via California Legislative Information. Gov. Brown wrote a signing message about SB54 in which he says, “These are uncertain times for undocumented Californians and their families and this bill strikes a balance that will protect public safety, while bringing a measure of comfort to those families who are now living in fear every day,” said Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr,. Democratic law-
makers and Gov. Brown have also protracted the legislation towards healthcare, financial aid, and driver’s license. Although this law will protect immigrants from being questioned about their citizenship from law enforcement, it does not protect immigrants from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Recently, ICE reported the deportation of roughly 500 illegal immigrants across sanctuary cities in Philadelphia, California, and New York, according to Fox News. The raid as ICE called it “Operation ‘Safe City’” took place across the U.S. for four days. Criminals and gang members were targeted, it was made clear that DACA recipients were not. This new law will help protect Californians under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which Trump announced the repeal of on Sept. 5. Immediately following the DACA news, the DREAMers Club at Chaffey College held a peaceful Awareness Rally on the Rancho Campus. The rally was to support
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Maranda Gonzalez @chaffeybreeze of students who are beneficiaries of the DACA program. “We heard the news, and we announced them to the club at our meeting last Monday,” said DREAMers Club President Moises Rosales in a statement on behalf of the club. “We were excited because we had asked the college last semester to assure its students it would be a sanctuary college. We didn’t really get that, instead we got a resolution passed by the college’s governing board. We also heard that ICE will now do raids at large-without a single target, which means more ‘collateral damage’ may occur.” “We are not new to this. We have lived our whole lives fearing and facing deportation. SB54 is a victory for our community, but we still have a long way to go.” The “sanctuary state” legislation is not set to take effect until January 2018, according to Los Angeles Times. Until then, law enforcement can still question anyone on their citizenship status at any given time.
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Traumatic Events & Social Media Anissa Campa @anissacam_
The internet is perhaps the fastest and most accessible form of news tracking. Many outlets are urgent to produce the latest (and hopefully most accurate) content for their readers.
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o far, there have been evocative and horrendous videos taken by attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Festival and crowd-source speculation on their ideas of “what really happened.” There is no true answer. Only the fact that anyone could have been a victim at the event. In this case, at least 58 casualties and an increasing number of injuries, amount to more than 500 people. With many individuals taking to social media to express their sorrow, several updates and enduring assumptions continue to ignite a search for any form of positive relief. Hashtags on the internet have made it possible to incorporate one’s own opinions or ideas into a stream of similar thoughts, which sometimes results in recycled tweets and redundant phrases. In his article “After the Tragedy,” Joshua Fields Millburn
explains there is certainly more people can do, than saying “praying and thinking of the victims. […] We must do more than exercise our Twitter fingers: a hashtag and a photo alone will not solve the problem, and they can be dangerous because they ape the form of real action.” Millburn encourages donating to charities and utilizing time, attention, influence and creativity. Having a group conversation at home, school and the workplace about these catastrophes can inflict significant differences in our own communities. He states, “Social media can be a good first step, as long as it’s just that — a first step. Once we’ve expressed our grief and shown our solidarity, we must then do something about it — because if we don’t, then all we’re left with are
well-meaning but solipsistic status updates.” As of October 4, the Las Vegas community and the nation have raised over 8 million dollars on a goal of 10 million from their GoFundMe page. Online banking and credit card payment methods have made donating to charities a quick and easy process. Our psychological wellness is also impacted during times of domestic tragedies. Different coping mechanisms are taking place as we each process traumatic information differently. This includes humor, self-interest, judgment and silence. Dr. Grainne Kirwan, a psychologist from The British Psychological Society (TBPS) states: “In situations where people are sharing terrible information we may still appreciate likes, retweets, [and] shares as it helps to reinforce and validate our beliefs and position on the situation. It tells us that others feel the same way, and so it is okay for us to feel this way.” With nearly every news source declaring their own version on the subject, readers are collecting excess bits of information that may likely contain bias and inaccurate or sometimes made-up information. Everyday social media users and content providers post videos, images and compelling headlines meant to evoke and persuade readers to share that information. Grief and uncertainty are possibly the most common shared emotions felt by those affected by the Las Vegas attack. This occurrence has made past, present and future visits similar to these a fear of recurrence. Concern and mental stability techniques such as dissociating from constant reminders and investing own energy into individual strengths are helpful in overcoming traumatic events.
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review, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is defined as “a formal assessment or examination of something with the possibility or intention of instituting change if necessary.” Reviews help consumers decide if they want to purchase a particular good or service based on experiences from other consumers who have paid for that product or service. With the spark of electronic commerce — or e-commerce — companies now rely on product reviews to increase profit and business flow. To satisfy that need, there are many who are willing to write a positive review in exchange for cash. Fake reviewers are relatively abundant, cheap and easy to locate. They are a common marketing strategy for corporations. They can be found on Craigslist and other sites with prices ranging from $5 to $10 for each written review, and higher prices for video reviews. Amazon reigned the world of online purchases in 2016 accumulating approximately $136 billion in net sales according to Statista.com. Their product reviews essentially define how good the product and service are. Size, shape, color, accuracy and quality, as well as product
description to real product precision, are all factors that contribute to having a positive or negative review. Yelp, a leading review site for food establishments and services, is visited by approximately 70 million people per month. Thus, making it a target for misleading companies who are buying positive fake reviews, or removing the already existing negative reviews. Websites such as ReviewsThatStick.com specialize in writing “genuine” reviews for websites such as Yelp, Google Places, Trip Advisor and Yahoo! Local, consequently deceiving the trust of the consumer with faulty reviews. ReviewsThatStick also provides companies with an option to pay for removal of negative Yelp reviews that may be harming their business’s image. It is not news that the Internet is generally not to be trusted, but in the online consumer world there is no form of other than reviews. The issue with product and service reviews is that, unlike film, music, books, plays and concert reviewers, there is no professional criticism. Consumers must place their trust on an amateur review. The more important matter is when the validity of potential health-harming products is jeopar-
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dized. This can be seen frequently for weight-loss products as they are a multi-billion-dollar industry striving to reach for better profits year after year. There have been instances in which reviewers have posed as credited doctors claiming to verify the product promise, putting many at risk as those products could be extremely dangerous for the consumer’s health. As reported by The Consumerist, there are ways to identify fabricated reviews. Utilizing “marketing speak” is one of them, as real consumers generally do not utilize fancy or product-specific terminology. Another one would be repeatedly mentioning the name of the product throughout the review. Lastly, beware of reviews in which the product or brand is praised or bashes another with no proper justification or reasoning.
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Culture
THE COLLECTIVE
KHAIRI CHRISTOPHER
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ield Day, a collaborative art group of young artists, held a weekend art show in Los Angeles in late September. The artists come from the Inland Empire. One of these artist in particular is filmmaker Khairi Christopher. Khairi, a former actor, has appeared in commercials and shows on networks such as ABC. The pursuit of his acting career required him to be home-schooled for most of his childhood. Watching all of his friends from afar made him yearn for social interaction. “It was cool because I was able to be whoever I wanted without anyone judging me,” Khairi said about his homeschool experience. “But It was kind of messed up because I still had all my friends on social media and they would be having a good time so I wanted to stop and see what it was all about.” Khairi attended Rancho Cucamonga High School in the fall of his senior year where continued to act until he decided to quit. He said acting as a child made him very insecure and unsure of himself.
Still from the video “Flush.”
“Acting is really difficult. Like when I started, I was just a kid and I was super outgoing and like loved it. I actually had a good run. I could have went somewhere but, it gets hard when you have a lot of eyes on you. I became very insecure.” Putting a hold on acting, Khairi began working at Starbucks and attending Arizona State University online as a film and media major. Although he stopped acting, his heart is still very much in love with film and all aspects of it. Simply shifting his role he began working behind the lens rather than in front. Even though he decided to quit acting he was still haunted by the insecurities that came from it, and he feels they at firstheld back his cinematography. Khairi said he would shoot a lot, but was never confident in what he was making, he deemed them as “not worthy.” This anxiety was relieved when he and his friends created Field Day. Their kinship not only helped him gain The installation “Flush.” Photograph by Cassandra Casas. thebreezepaper.com
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Khairi Christopher poses in front of his installation “Flush.” Photograph by Hector Solorzano.
For the Field Day Art Show, Khairi prepared an installation based on the insecurities he had as a young artist. He released a film installation titled “Flush” presented on cathode ray tube television sets he found at the Goodwill. “It’s a video installation. I worked on it everyday. It’s kinda strange. It’s about how I wasn’t releasing a lot of my art because I thought it wasn’t good enough. So, I’ve always had all these files on my computer and although they aren’t the best shot pieces, at one point in time I was really happy with them. So this instillation is my way of flushing out.” Still from the video “Flush.” He will only release this installation at the show, but is currently in the works of another short film which he plans to screen in November. In regards to future plans, Khai’s dream is to work with the film studio A24, and to continue studying film at Chapman University after graduating from Arizona State. To keep up with Khai’s future films and art shows, follow him @off.screen on Instagram! Still from the video “Flush.” thebreezepaper.com
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any artists sample music to pay homage to the original artist by taking a song and putting their own twist on it. Sampling music can come in different forms such as taking a portion of another artist’s sound, or reusing lyrics in a different song. This technique has become a common staple in the music industry. Artists such as The Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls) have been sampling music for decades. Most of Biggie’s music stems from sampled music, and now his music is widely sampled. Songs such as “Mo Money Mo Problems,” where he took Diana Ross’s vocals from her 1980 debut “I’m Coming Out” and lyrics from 112’s song “Only You (Bad Boy Remix)” are examples. Ross’s song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Chart, while Biggie’s song peaked at No. 1 in 1997. This proved that there is success in reusing a song that is already familiar to the audience. The sense of nostalgia from popular songs during its time creates a remade track for a new generation to enjoy. Additionally, this summer’s biggest hit “Wild Thoughts” by DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller, which collected 37.5 million U.S. streams in July 2016, took a classic song from Carlos Santana’s legendary 2000 song “Maria Maria” and introduced a new version to the next generation. The fusion of Santana’s Latin-American sound mixing with Rihanna and Tiller’s vocals provides the audience an urban take on a classic song. If there was no “Maria Maria,” there would be no “Wild Thoughts.” This poses the question of creativity among artists. Are artists more creative for creating a new song or a remaking a classic song with a modern twist? According to WhoSampled.com “more than 400,000 songs featuring more than 225,000 samples have been cleared” over the past eight years. This means almost every song has been created by using a part of another song. Does this mean that the new song is now considered an original song?
Sampled songs get a new makeover changing the message of the song and in many cases the genre. Rapper Big Punisher (also known as Big Pun) had his song “Still Not a Player” sampled for Ariana Grande’s song “The Way” which features Mac Miller. Grande’s song not only uses some music from “Still Not a Player”, but Miller raps the chorus from the song as well, essentially remaking Big Pun’s song, but changing the original message. Big Pun’s song is about being able to sleep with different women and not having a committed relationship with them. Ariana Grande’s song with Mac Miller is about their relationship together and their love for each other. A completely different meaning and take on the original song. Although the meaning has changed, it could just be the artist’s interpretation of the original song.
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Systemic Trans-gression
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Activists Syliva Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson , Barbara Deming, and Kady Vandeurs at NY City Hall rally for gay rights Photo by Diana Davies
n October 6, 2017, Netflix released a documentary titled “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” which has developed into a controversy involving activist, writer, and filmmaker Reina Gossett. Gossett is a black trans women who spent countless hours researching and obtaining files containing information about Marsha P. Johnson. They were developing a documentary about Johnson’s life along with Sasha Wortzel. “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” dives deep in the unsolved case of the death of Johnson. It also creates a narrative for the activism and accomplishments Johnson participated in during the New York City Stonewall riots. Archived videos of speeches made by Johnson and Silvia Rivera, found by Reina Gossett, were presented in the film. The speeches, especially Rivera’s “ya’ll better quiet down” speech, were critical to the inclusion of the trans community in the LGBT movement. After the documentary premiered on Netflix, Gossett posted a picture and a caption on Instagram pertaining to the release of the film. They begin with “This week while I’m borrowing money to pay rent, david france is releasing his multimillion dollar netflix deal on marsha p johnson. I’m still [...] reeling on how this
movie came to be and make so much $ off of our lives and ideas.” According to Gossett’s post, France was inspired to make a film about Johnson when Wortzel and Gossett made a grant application video and sent it to the Arcus Center for scoial Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College while he was visiting the center. He later succeeded at getting in touch with the contacts and advisors Wortzel and Gossett discovered during their research. David France released a statement on Facebook stating his version of what played out. “Reina Gossett has suggested that I’ve stolen both the concept and footage for “The Death and life of Marsha P. Johnson” from her work, the experimental short narrative “Happy Birthday, Marsha. I owe a debt to those who have kept Marsha’s story alive over the years.” France also explains that he had began his research on Johnson years before he knew about Gossett’s film. He ends his statement by saying; “I admire Reina Gossett and look forward to her beautiful film. Alone, among researchers, she has dedicated her work to the legacy of Marsha and early trans activism.” In an op-ed for Teen Vogue, Gossett further opens up about the controversy and said, “We did a ton of archival research, interviewing, and collecting oral histories.” She also claims that she applied thebreezepaper.com
for the same grants that “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” director David France applied for. Without the same platform and recourses as France, Gossett and Wortzel knew they would face difficulties in accomplishing the film. The biggest problem Gossett seems to have according to her essay is that this film should have been made and presented by people of the trans community. “I can’t stop thinking about the voices that have been pushed aside in the process. Too often people with resources who already have a platform become the ones to tell the stories of those at the margins rather than people who themselves belong to these communities,” Gossett said. Gossett continues to work on her film “Happy Birthday, Marsha!,” a biopic about the life of Marsha P. Johnson and her surrounding companions. The prejudice, violence, and injustice Marsha P. Johnson faced up to the day of her death, are still present in the life of Reina Gossett. The trans community continues to fight for their rights and inclusion both in present movements and past, fighting through the obstacles society places in front of them. To support Gossett and their work, you can visit their website www.reinagossett.com or www.happybirthdaymarsha.com.
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DISPENSARY LAWS: THE FUTURE OF CANNABIS
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ince Colorado’s legalization of recreational mar- who barter and gift the plant within the loopholes of the ijuana in 2012 and enactment in January 2014, proposition. This has resulted in the startup of cannabis the Schedule I drug, cannabis, raked in just over a dispensaries in local communities. billion dollars in revenue last year. Most workers in the industry are considered “volunAccording to the United States Drug Enforcement teers” and are asked to help whenever they please, acAdministration (DEA), Schedule I drugs are classified cording to Dulce a local member who chose to remain as “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a anonymous. high potential for abuse.” Within this category are heroin, “Compensation is not required, although tips are aclysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), methylenedioxymeth- cepted by patients,” she explained. amphetamine (ecstasy) and cannabis. Because it has been Abiding by the state and federal laws, gifts are passed widely refuted, California will soon add marijuana to the through the establishments, which is founded upon giftlist of legal recreational use beginning 2018. ing and donations. No black market transactions are proProposition 64, which California passed in Novem- cessed. ber 2016, ruled that the following day it was legal within Dulce also explained that volunteering is “much like state law to use and grow up to 6 plants of marijuana per being a barista or a cashier in the sense that there is a household. Beginning in 2018, the proposition will allow customer service standard that must be upheld, along with for the sale and taxation of recreational marijuana use, maintaining a clean and compliant establishment.” with regulations set by the state, according to Ballotpedia. When asked about her views on marijuana, Dulce statorg. ed, “Marijuana is great, whether it be medicinal or recRegulations including the purchase and use of canna- reational. It’s positive in the way that it lets people just bis, are strictly forbidden to any person under the age of relax and have fun, but can be negative to those who are 21. Much like alcohol, driving under the influence of mar- irresponsible.” ijuana still qualifies as a DUI, and sales within the black Recreational cannabis in California is dawning and market can still be considered illegal. modeling its proposition after the success of states like Cannabis products and plants can be legally gifted if Washington and Colorado. the individuals are of age, but if an exchange of US currency takes place it is considered a drug deal. This has created a large community of marijuana users and producers thebreezepaper.com
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34th Fulerton College Classic November 8th-11th @ Fullerton Novemeber 8th 7:00 PM 34th Fullerton College Classic
The mens basketball season is just around the corner. Citrus Tournament November 17th-19th Last season the team came close to Santa Monica @ Glendora reaching the Final Four but they lost to Novemeber 17th 5:00 PM Fullerton College. Lead by Brian Beard, Citrus Tornament the team won the South Coast North Conference in their inaugural season in Mt San Jacinto Hoops and Crops November 30th- the conference. December 2nd They are hoping to go back to back. This year’s team has a lot of learning Game TBD to do. They are taller in stature, but head coach Jeff Klein has yet to see a Brian Beard type player. He said this team Fullerton December 13th 7:00 PM will have to make its biggest adjustment when it comes to scoring. They will have Comptom Tournemt December 18th-20th to pass the ball more, and not rely on Games TBD one guy when they need a basket. Klein said that this is a young team Chaffey Tourmeant Januarty 3rd-5th and they are going to play their best basketball in the second half of the season. LA Southwest @ Los Anegels Their talent showed in the first tourJanuary 13th 11:00 AM nament of the season. Los Angeles Shouthwest Showcase “We were winning all four games,” Klein said. “In many of them we were up by over 10 points, but playing a full at Mt. San Antonio January 17th game at this point wasn’t in the cards.” 7:00 PM Because of the team’s lack of experience, Klein feels that some teams are disrespecting them.
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He said he really felt the disrespect when he heard that Fullerton chose to play them in the first round of the Fullerton tournament. Not even a year removed from the playoff game against Fullerton he said it surprised him. Klein said Chaffey has always been a team you don’t want to play. “I’m Hoping we are not the all airport team.” Klein said they hope to play as big as they are. He does not want to look good and then stink it up. The team is looking to improve from last year. It will be quite a process.
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In The Bell Andy Gutierrez @andy_sw_
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itting in a Starbucks, laughing and reminiscing on old times, is Marie Azares. At first glance it may appear that she is a happy person, but she struggles with depression. Marie,19, just completed her freshmen year at UC Irvine. She is taking a break from college to focus on her mental health, describing her first year as a difficult time due to the transition from high school to college, causing her to feel “lost”. “I majored in something I did not like. I was getting pressured to be a nurse, or a doctor, or a biologist and I did not want to be those things. I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” she said, admitting she felt pressured from her parents who expected her to live up to high standards. Marie felt like she was inferior to her peers, yet she also experienced constant pressure from her professors to be at the top of her class. She admitted to spending hours crying on the staircase of her dorm, suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. “I felt numb,” she said, “I did not find pleasure in things after a while. I would go out with my friends, my boyfriend and my family and did not feel pleasure. I did not love anyone, I did not love myself.” Marie tried to excuse her feelings as stress or seasonal depression, never considering major depression as a possibility. She began to push people out of her life, feeling like she “did not deserve them,” and even lost interest in eating. Then, she began to wonder what it would be like if she wasn’t around anymore. On May 4, 2017, Marie attempted her first suicide by jumping off a parking structure at her university. Her boyfriend, Cameron, stopped her before she could jump. “I ran out the door. I ran all over. I ran up the parking structure. I was so close to jumping, when he grabbed me and carried me away because I was fighting back. He carried me away from the parking structure and watched me,” she said. Two days later, Marie made a second suicide attempt by overdosing on pills. After that attempt, her friends notified her parents. They took her to the emergency room. She was placed under 5150 hold, which is medically referred to as “suicide watch.” She was taken to a psychiatric center, where she stated she thought she would “die without her phone,” but later admits time without it benefited her.
“I realized that social media had an impact on my depression. I felt like I did not belong there. Once everyone started to share their stories, I realized that these were my people. They all feel the same way,” she said. Marie was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and eating disorders. On Sep. 10, 2017, she posted her story on Twitter:
“I couldn’t make friends and also became antisocial. I felt my roommates hated me at times & that my bf would leave me bc I was like this ” Via Twitter Marie is taking time to mentally heal and notes that she still has good and bad days. Her recovery process includes therapy, where she learns psychologically why she does certain things; arts and crafts, which helps her focus on the art instead of things around her; and interior design, as she enjoys shopping for new decor for her room. Marie also plans to create a lifestyle YouTube channel, using it as a platform to raise awareness of depression. She hopes to open a non-profit organization someday to help people going through similar situations. Depression is a silent, growing epidemic that affects more than 16.1 million Americans over the age of 18, according to The National Institute of Mental Health. Symptoms of depression include introversion, loss of sleep, loss of interest in daily activities and suicidal thoughts. “We are not crazy. It is not just mood. There is a difference between being depressed and going through depression. Depression is a chronic pain that stays for a while,” Marie said.
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Moral Foundations Underpin Political Animosity Humans do not enter the world as blank slates. Morality is a cultivated and inborn set of categories later demonized by opposing political parties. The concern is whether we can overcome the lesser angels of our nature.
Chris Salazar @ChrisEclectic23
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olitics is the communal narrative directed by hidden analogies and symbols, refereed less by the men and women who exercise their will, and more by the primacy of the foundations that impregnate their ideologies. "People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives," Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, wrote in his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. "Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds." It’s a feature, a heuristic borne of our evolutionary psychology, typified by cooperation and conflict. Political animosity exists between the left and the right because liberals and conservatives utilize divergent moral foundations: the former favors care and fairness, while the latter tends toward the cohesive qualities of loyalty, authority and purity. At bottom, both liberals and conservatives aim to protect society from social disorder. But the left and the right prioritize different moral foundations. In turn, the specific moral foundations utilized by the left and right fuel their moral narratives and policy solutions along
distinctly liberal or conservative lines because the mind is, as Haidt wrote, "a story processor, not a logic processor." Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory proposes that morality is an innate, yet malleable, perspectival condition. That is, moral behavior is a matter of nature and nurture. We don't enter the world as blank slates. Instead, our brains are organized in advance to learn, for example, language, or, as Haidt argues, moral behavior. So newborns, whether they're born to liberal or conservative families, all begin as morally agreeable across the pentagonal spectrum. But while nature provides the neural structure, culture fertilizes the soil. In time, moral inertia creates a liberal or conservative political worldview. Granted, the degree to which individual temperament is dictated by, or is a combination of, genes and environment, is debatable. But consider the stereotype that, in this case, corresponds to reality: liberals tend toward novelty while conservatives tend toward familiarity. Then, the moral divergence that underpins the political dichotomies between the left and right seem sensible, predictable. But the fundamental issue concerns thebreezepaper.com
the tribal psychology at play. Because once liberals or conservatives demonize one another, their respective insights go unacknowledged. Liberals recognize that if too much emphasis is afforded to authority, loyalty or purity, then maligned groups suffer exclusion - women, ethnic or gender minorities are rejected groups. Liberals understand that tradition limits change. Conservatives, however, understand a fact of societies: they tend toward social entropy. Disorder is consequence of repudiation - of dismissing the authority of the institutions that govern society, of recanting the sanctity of loyalty and purity. The aggravated political atmosphere illustrates the severity of our disengagement. It's a transgression on reality, on truth, or at least an honest attempt to mitigate the political caricatures that propagates our distrust in each other, that both liberals and conservatives are guilty of committing. Because members on either side of the political continuum are concerned about societal well-being, the necessity to venture beyond the allegorical cave is dire. Our future, if is to be less polarized, demands it.
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