Coast Report
May 7, 2014
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Volume 68, No. 20
HOME RUN
Photos by Camila Prisco Paraiso
Orange Coast College infielder Jake Thumm takes a swing while on bat. The team took home several year-end awards after finishing conference as co-champions with Santa Ana.
It’s a beautiful day for baseball
The baseball
team swept the
year-end awards
at conference.
BY MAX MAYER
STAFF WRITER
Not only did the Orange
Coast College baseball team
finish as Orange Empire Conference co-champions with
Santa Ana College this year,
but team members also snagged
the Most Valuable Player, the
Co-Pitcher of the Year and the
Coach of the Year awards.
Sophomore shortstop Cody
Nulph won the OEC Most
Valuable Player for the Pirates.
He was a hitting machine
for the team this year, leading
the conference with a batting
average of .393 while racking
up a conference high of 35 hits.
Most impressive was the
consistency he maintained this
season.
The Auburn University-bound shortstop ended the
regular season on a 21-game
hitting streak, with 20 of those
at the final games of conference.
“It has a lot to do with the
approach we’ve taken as a
team,” Nulph said. “I like what
the coaches have done with us
on our hitting approach.”
Nulph has also been a steady
backstop at shortstop this year,
only making four errors in 21
games and racking up just over
100 chances.
While he has held down
the load at shortstop, he also
acknowledged the defensive
success of the entire team.
“Our infield coach has had
a lot to do with our defense
having success,” Nulph said,
“and overall, we’ve put a good
amount of work in and we’re
seeing results.”
While Nulph was keeping the middle infield sharp
this season, the University of
San Diego-bound Hill brothers were anchoring the team
with masterful pitching on
the mound. The effort earned
them the Co-Pitcher of the
Year award.
David Hill led the conference in a plethora of categories including innings pitched
at 64 2/3, strikeouts with 55
and an earned run average
of 1.11.
He also hurled a leaguehigh three complete games,
finishing up conference with a
5-1 record.
“A big part of it was our
pitching coach because he calls
on the games and nobody was
really scoring off us all year,”
Hill said. “And also, our whole
infield played solid defense all
year. Even though we got the
award, it’s not ours, it’s the
whole teams.”
Forming the other side of the
formidable duo was Jacob Hill.
He followed up his brother’s great performance with
equally good pitching from the
left-handed side.
He pitched 46 conference
innings, while striking out 26
Retired speech guru dies
Former OCC
speech and debate
coach was known
for his voice, skill.
BY COAST REPORT STAFF
Mike Leigh, a retired Orange
Coast College speech communications instructor and speech team
coach, died late last week after a
long illness in Arizona. He was 64.
Leigh taught Essentials of Argumentation at OCC, coached the
speech and debate team to numerous titles and was also elected by his
peers as president of the Academic
Senate.
Colleagues said Leigh was dedicated to his students during his
teaching career and was visible
across campus.
He was widely considered one
the best Academic Senate presidents
to serve at OCC and colleagues said
he was both organized and helpful
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to faculty
while in
the position.
N
o
stranger
to competition,
Leigh
competed
in speech Mike Leigh
and debate
See SPEECH Page 3
and walking just 11 batters.
He led the entire conference in
wins, with a perfect 7-0 record,
racking up 10 wins total on
the season, good for second in
the state.
Adding to the recognition,
head coach John Altobelli was
named OEC Coach of the Year,
sharing the honors with Santa
Ana’s Bryan Harris and John
Bryant.
This is his fifth time winning
the award, as he coached the
team to the top ranking in the
Southern California Regional
Playoffs.
The team aided this award
winning trio and coach with
OEC First-Team catcher Daniel
Delaney, and OEC First-Team
outfielders Cody Bruder and
Tommy Bell.
They also had four players
who made second team: sophomore first baseman Chris
Iriart, freshman outfielder Robert Longtree, freshman relief
pitcher Dominic Purpura and
sophomore infielder Justin
Broussard.
Pirates breeze past
El Camino College
BY TERAN RODRIGUEZ
SPORTS EDITOR
The Orange Coast College
baseball team showed El
Camino why it was the No. 1
seed of the playoffs, as they
swept the Warriors in the best
two out of three series last
weekend.
OCC (29-9) beat El Camino
(23-15) on Saturday at Wendell
Pickens Field by a final score of
8-2. The day before, OCC
See BASEBALL Page 6
Take a magical mystery tour
Music instructor
will bring music
history to life in
study abroad trip.
BY RONNA WHITE
STAFF WRITER
Next summer will bring music
to the ears of Orange Coast College students who are looking to
study abroad.
Jeffrey Mayor, OCC’s history
of rock music instructor for the
last seven years, is planning to
take around 30 students to Cambridge University in England
next summer for a study abroad
program.
Although prices and a set itinerary have yet to be announced,
Mayor plans to have class on
Cambridge’s campus and said he
will take students on smaller trips
to London and Liverpool during
their stay in England.
Students will go on a twoday overnight trip to Liverpool
to partake in The Beatles Tour.
They will then go to the Cavern
Club with the Liverpool Institute
of Performing Arts College,
which was founded by Paul
McCartney.
There will also be an overnight
trip to London, just 55 minutes
from Cambridge by train, to go
See TRAVEL Page 4
And on
On the inside
the web
History hunt
Good, not great
Game, set, win
Irini Rickerson contines her
her hunt for the Palace of
Odysseus.
Spider-Man II hits the big
screen to tepid applause
despite plot twist.
Travis Turner leads the
volleyball team to its first
championship in 20 years.
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Campus
CRIME
BLOTTER
Torturous texts
Campus Safety received a
harassment complaint from
a female student at Writer’s
Row Thursday at approximately 12:45 p.m., Chief of
Campus Safety John Farmer
said.
The victim alleged that her
ex-boyfriend, who sat in the
same class, had been incessantly texting her after she
had asked him to stop.
Farmer said Campus Safety
officers offered the student
the option of safety escorts
to and from her car.
Both students will receive
counseling from the Dean of
Students on how to approach
the problem and the possibility of changing one of them
to another class, Farmer said.
Feeling faint
Campus Safety officers responded to a medical aid call
after a female student fainted
while doing a blood-related
lab on herself, Farmer said.
The student reportedly hit
the left side of her head on
the way to the floor and was
transported to the Student
Health Center.
Ouch!
An ambulance was called
to the Captain’s Table campus
restaurant Thursday after a
male custodian was injured
while performing his cleaning duties, Farmer said.
The campus worker hit his
left leg and reportedly had a
pre-existing condition that
caused a sensitivity and subsequent bleeding. Farmer said
the man was transported by
ambulance to Hoag Hospital
in Newport Beach.
This place smells
Costa Mesa police were
called Thursday when a student refused to leave campus after he was asked to
leave and escorted off campus
by Campus Safety officers,
Farmer said.
Bystanders said the student
had been disrupting a class
in Lewis Center for Applied
Science room 201, mumbling
to himself aloud and spraying
air freshener while walking
around the classroom, according to Farmer.
The student returned to
campus as soon as he was
escorted off, at which point
the police were called and the
student was cited for trespassing and released, Farmer said.
—The Crime Blotter was
compiled by Gino Riccardi
from Campus Safety reports.
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expanded this month
Orange Coast College students studying for final exams
can take advantage of extended
hours next month in the OCC
Library and the Student Success
Center.
The Library:
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•May 19, 8 a.m. to midnight
•May 20, 8 a.m. to midnight
•May 21, 8 a.m. to midnight
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•May 18, noon to 5 p.m.
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MAY 7, 2014
Video games galore
“Tech This Out”
event brought
technology to the
forefront.
BY GINO RICCARDI
STAFF WRITER
Awareness Day went off without a hitch on Wednesday with
the cafeteria, Quad and Student
Center Lounge abuzz with games,
exhibitions and more games.
“Tech This Out” was the theme
and technology was everywhere.
Inside the Student Center
Lounge, professionals gave entertaining and highly informed
lectures on topics such as online
dating and cybercrime, while
outside, Gamez on Wheels
hitched their videogame-packed
trailer for all to participate in
the fun.
“Everything we do has been influenced by technology,” Andrew
Buckner, president of the OC4 Car
Club said.
Buckner sat at a table opposite
two cars he had positioned across
from one another, one old and one
new, in an exhibition whose goal it
was to show just how far cars and
technology have come over the
generations.
However, the cars exhibition
was cancelled because of the
Photo by Gino Riccardi
Students play video games in the Student Center Lounge during Awareness Day on Wednesday.
weather. The hot wind gusts that
plagued the day kept anyone from
staying outside in the open.
“Everything got blown out and
now we’re just kind of out here,”
he said.
Inside the cafeteria and student
lounge however, students came for
the free coffee and snacks, but they
stayed for the video games.
“This is really great to have right
here at the end of the semester,”
Stephen Larkin, 21, a biology
major said about the festivities.
“Especially with how hot it is out
there. It’s just nice to be able to
stay inside and play around for
a while.”
In the back of the cafeteria,
members of the College Life Com-
mittee manned booths designed
to get students participating. Each
booth had a technology based
theme, like recycling or trivia.
Students who lined up answered
questions and won raffle tickets
based on how many questions they
answered correctly. The tickets
were drawn at the end of the day
for prizes.
Searching for the Palace of Odysseus
An art professor
hosts a lecture to
raise money for
scholarships.
BY ASHLEY ANDUJO
STAFF WRITER
Each semester Orange Coast
College art professor Irini Rickerson raises money for a cause
and this spring she helped to fund
OCC scholarships by presenting
a lecture about Homer and her
search for the Palace of Odysseus.
Homer, who wrote “The Odyssey” and “the Iliad,” left a legacy
but there are still mysteries about
him. He influenced many things
throughout history like art, literature and cinema.
In the painting “The Apotheosis of Homer” by Ingres in
1827, Homer is depicted as an
honorable man by many respectable men in history. Rickerson
deciphered each person in the
painting and how Homer inspired
their works.
“He touches every human in
one way or another,” she said.
Historians, using much of
Homer’s works, have been able
to construct a close timeline of
when the Trojan War occurred.
Homer described certain scenes
that are historically true events
and places discussed in “The
Odyssey,” like the walls of Troy
and the tomb of Agamemnon.
Rickerson has been working on
the search for the Palace of Odysseus for the past five years with
her husband and Gary Stickel, an
archeologist. For Indiana Jones
fans, he is the archeologist who
confirmed several facts for the
film and made it more realistic.
Students attending the lecture
said it was interesting and impressive. The Forum was filled
for the event.
“She is very informative and a
great person,” said Anh Le, 19, a
political science major.
While some of “The Odyssey”
is reliable, there are parts in it that
many professionals believe isn’t.
During the lecture, Rickerson
played videos of the island where
she believes the Palace of Odysseus is. Being Greek, she has
been studying Homer for most
of her life and hopes to continue
with her work.
“It’s not a perfect situation
like the movies, we are matching
science with clues from ‘The
Odyssey,’” Stickel said.
Each semester, Rickerson said
she wants her students to help her
think of new ways she can raise
money for different fundraising
events. She said she always wants
to give back to OCC scholarships.
She continuously finds new ways
to help her students be successful
and interested in her class.
Rickerson is excited to continue her work in Greece this
Photo by Ashley Andujo
Art professor Irini Rickerson
(center) has been searching
for the Palace of Odysseus
with archeologist Gary Stickel (left) and her husband Bob
Rickerson (right).
summer and will continue to raise
money each semester for a cause.
She said she loves to give back to
the community.
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MAY 7, 2014
BETWEEN THE SHEETS
Using your head
Before
attending
Orange
Coast College and
taking Olga
Perez Stable Cox’s
H u m a n
Sexuality
class I was Ronna White
Staff Writer
clueless
about the human body and
being a sexual being.
Perez Stable Cox opened
the eyes of all of her students
by informing them about all
things sexual, but the most
informative thing that I feel I
learned was how to properly
give a mind blowing blow job.
Depending on your partner
and his preferences, it may be
difficult to find what makes
him tick or possibly what he
wants you to do but is too
scared to ask.
If you want your man to
experience the most intense
orgasm of his life then learn
how to give the best oral.
Everyone is capable of giving a guy head but not everyone knows how to approach
it or even if they are doing a
good job. A lot of guys would
say that any blowjob is a successful one simply if the girl
doesn’t use her teeth but I feel
that you can better your skills
and make him beg for more.
A lot of girls think that all
you have to do is suck a guy’s
penis and move your mouth
around a little. That may
be true but that’s definitely
not a great blowjob, only a
mediocre one and nobody
wants that if they can have an
amazing one.
The first tip I learned when
giving a blow job was to
approach it with tons of enthusiasm and energy. Being
extremely excited and willing
to give your man oral is super
sexy and will drive him crazy
right from the start.
The next thing you should
do is go in slow. Tease your
man for a while by kissing or
licking the head of his penis
before you jump in. You can
also kiss his neck to arouse
him even more.
When you’re ready to give
him a blowjob make sure
to focus mainly on the head
of the penis since it has the
most sensation but also don’t
completely forget about the
shaft. You can always jack
him off while you give him
head as well.
The most important thing I
learned from Human Sexuality was that under the head of
the penis where it meets the
shaft is very sensitive and by
stimulating it correctly you
can make your man’s orgasm
intense. Run your tongue
over it softly or even provide
more pressure and speed your
tongue up to drive him insane.
Don’t be afraid to get a little
sloppy with your saliva or
even spitting into your hand
when jacking him off. It will
drive him crazy.
Lastly, don’t forget to stimulate his perineum, which is
a soft patch of skin located
between his testicles and anus.
Some guys even like to have
their balls played with, but not
all do so be sure to communicate with your partner before
doing anything he may be
uncomfortable with.
Always communicate with
your partner and see what he
wants or what he is comfortable with. Not all guys are the
same so their preferences can
be completely different.
Have fun with it and don’t
take it too seriously.
Giving blowjobs can be
pretty fun and exciting when
you’re informed on what
makes your guy tick.
SPEECH: Instructor remembered.
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tournaments beginning at 12 in his
native Chicago.
He attended Redlands University on a debate scholarship and
graduated magna cum laude in
1972 with a bachelor’s degree in
English. He earned his master’s
degree in English there and a
second masters in speech at USC.
In addition to his work at Orange
Coast College, Leigh coached
two national champion teams at
Moorpark Community College. He
coached several winning teams at
OCC during his tenure here.
Leigh was also a published author and wrote seven screenplays
and two textbooks, “The Care and
Feeding of Readers Theater” and
“The Approachable Argument.”
Michael Mandelkern, dean
of the Literature and Languages
division, said Leigh was an influential faculty member during his
work at OCC and was a force to
be reckoned with.
Colleagues rememberd his
“beautiful speaking voice” and
dedication to the college and
students.
Funeral arrangements are
pending.
3
A student’s working man
Features
Former OCC
president keeps
students at the top
of his list.
BY ASHLEY ANDUJO
STAFF WRITER
When David Grant is presented with a decision about education the first thing he thinks is,
“How does this benefit students.”
The question has served him
well over the years, in his former job as president of Orange
Coast College and in his current
position as a trustee on the Coast
Community College District
board.
Grant retired as president of
OCC in 1995 after 32 years of
service. He hired as many as 80
people during his tenure at OCC
and many of the staff and faculty
are still working at the college.
Grant first came to OCC as a
student and athlete right out of
high school. He transferred to
UCLA, then returned to OCC as
a crew coach and history teacher. He became associate dean,
dean, vice president and finally
president. He was elected to the
board of trustees following his
retirement.
He also coached the crew team
for 38 seasons and the OCC sailing center was recently named in
his honor.
“I absolutely love all the faculty and staff at OCC,” Grant said.
When he was the crew coach,
the team won 10 Henley Royal
Regatta competitions, won the
Charles Regatta in Boston 10
times, and headed the first American crew to compete in China.
File photo
The rowing center for Orange Coast College was recently named in honor of David Grant, a
former president of the college and a current trustee for the Coast Community College District.
Not only did he coach the
Coast team but also the 1984 U.S.
Olympic crew team.
With his success he went to the
Boat House to become a director
of marine programs.
Among other accomplishments, Grant has helped raise
$6.9 million for Orange Coast
programs and created many
others including the Puente
Project, the Transfer Opportunity Program and the Re-Entry
Center.
“He has overall passion and
commitment to the college,”
Doug Bennett, director of the
Orange Coast College Foundation said.
Grant said he still keeps in
touch with many of the faculty
he worked with either to listen
to lectures or just to catch up.
“He still sends me a birthday
card every year,” Irini Rickerson, an art professor at OCC
said.
Currently, Grant is involved
with building a new planetarium at OCC and has helped
raise the funds needed to start
construction. He has worked
with astronomy professor Nick
Contopoulos who is one of the
faculty members he hired.
According to Grant, by next
spring the planetarium should
be underway.
Student design to go on display locally
Orange Coast College students
enrolled in its Architecture Design & Build class will present
their final structure at the South
Coast Collection in Costa Mesa
on May 24 and the Patchwork
Show in Long Beach on May 25.
The structure is a Japanese
influenced pavilion that features
sustainable, community-sourced
materials and promotes a blend
of hand-craft and digital fabrication with a modern design.
Students spent three weeks
designing the structure followed
by another six weeks of construction. The result is a 16-foot by
8-foot modern pavilion, which
is envisioned as a studio or home
office that can be opened up and
used for weekend relaxing or
entertainment.
The structure is wood frame
construction with some modern
elements and includes an interior
and an exterior porch.
The design places heavy em-
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sustainability: reduce, reuse and
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4 Arts & Culture
World dance to be showcased
MAY 7, 2014
Students will offer
an assortment of
dances and show
off their style.
FROM CAMPUS REPORTS
The Orange Coast College
Dance department will present
Studio Hour, a fun, spirited
and upbeat program featuring
students performing material
learned in class during the spring
semester on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
in the Robert B. Moore Theatre.
The program, a fast-paced
two hours with no intermission,
features classroom choreography translated to stage with
costumes, and lights designed by
OCC theatre events coordinator
Brock Cilley.
“Every style of dance that is
taught in our program is represented in short choreographies of
approximately three to five minutes, and the program includes
performers with all levels of
training,” said OCC dance professor Linda Sohl-Ellison, who
has organized the event since
1980, when she began teaching
at OCC.
Studio Hour began more than
35 years ago as an informal, free
dance showing held in Dance
Studio B, Sohl-Ellison said.
“Over the years it became so
popular that we had to move the
presentation to the theatre, adding costumes and lights.”
Eventually the Dance department moved the event to
the Robert B. Moore Theatre
to accommodate its growing
audience.
The presentation frequently
sells out.
“One year when the presentation was still free, the attendance
was so high that the fire marshal
paid us a visit. After that year
we began a small charge for the
event,” Sohl-Ellison said.
Dance styles include modern
dance, ballet, jazz, tap, flamenco,
African sance, Middle Eastern
sance, hip hop, Latin dance, plus
short student-choreographed
compositions.
“This presentation is a great
way for new students to see if
there is an OCC dance course
BY MEL LE
STAFF WRITER
The anticipated sequel, “The
Amazing Spider-Man 2,” was
all-around a pretty good movie
— nothing great, nothing bad.
The film started with a flash-
back to when Peter Parker,
played by Andrew Garfield,
was a kid and his parents
abandoned him. The flashback
went on a little bit longer than
you would expect in a sequel.
Usually, people watch a sequel having already watched the
original, so the elongated flashback was almost unnecessary.
The movie slowly but surely
made its way to a minor action
scene with Spider-Man handling a New York City crime,
but is then interrupted by a
“Spring Awakening,”
through Sunday: The
college’s spring musical
tells a coming of age story
set in 1890s Germany.
Directed by Naomi Buckley and featuring 13 cast
members. In the Drama
Lab Theatre. Curtain 7:30
p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 2:30
p.m. on Sunday. Admission $12 advance, $15 at
the door, $10 for seniors
and $8 for OCC students.
File Photo
The Orange Coast College Dance department will present its lively Studio Hour performance on
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Robert B. Moore Theatre.
that they might like to take next
semester, in the summer or the
future,” Sohl-Ellison said.
Tickets are $6 and are available online at www.occtickets.
com or at the OCC Bursar’s Of-
fice, (714) 432-5880. If the event
is not sold out, tickets will also
be available at the door.
phone call from his girlfriend
Gwen Stacy (not Mary Jane)
who is played by Emma Stone.
Although in the original story
Parker is a teen when bitten by
the radioactive spider, maintaining that aspect of the story
makes the film a tad less believable than if he was an adult.
It almost sounds a little silly
that a high school kid is the
one saving New York from all
of its crime.
Aside from a bit of a plot
twist, the film’s graphics and
sounds were decent. Again,
nothing stood out, and nothing
was terrible.
The movie moved along at an
odd interval — one minute it
was high school graduation and
the next everyone was already
working in their careers. I guess
they just skipped college.
There was definitely a plot twist
toward the last 30 minutes of the
movie, so if you decide to watch it,
don’t leave the theater before the
movie is over so you can see what
makes “The Amazing Spider-Man
2” slightly different than every
other super hero movie.
TRAVEL: Students can take a trip to the Beatles’ birthplace and earn class credit next summer.
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on a rock ‘n’ roll walking tour to
include Abbey Road studio, and
some evening events that have
yet to be decided.
“The class will most likely
meet on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday so there will
be time for local and regional
trips along with plenty of time
for individual exploration and
travel,” Mayor said.
Cambridge has many things
to do, including visiting pubs
with live music and open mic
nights and large music venues
like The Junction and The Corn
Exchange. There is also boating and museums, parks and
churches located on campus,
according to Mayor.
There will be live-in supervisors and 24-hour contacts at
the university who are available
to help and assist students for
the entirety of the trip. Each
live-in supervisor will either
be a Cambridge alumni or a
local resident who is familiar
with the town and all of its
local gems.
For information on most
campus events,
call (714) 432-5880.
Theatre
Verdict on the new Spider-Man: Meh
Same story, same
plot makes the film
a little tired and
repetitive.
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So each student will get the
full, real English experience
by people who know their way
around tourist traps, he said.
Students who want to attend
must be 18 years old by the
time of trip and enrolled in
the summer course Music 139:
History of Rock Music. This
class is six weeks long, which
includes two weeks at OCC
where students will learn the
fundamentals as well as getting
to know each other before their
four-week trip in Europe.
The class fulfills the three-
unit general education requirements for humanities for both
Cal States and UCs.
Prices have yet to be announced but students will be
expected to pay for the summer
course as well as the trip package, which includes staying at
Cambridge University, meals,
trips to Liverpool and London
and the round-trip flight.
Students will have to pay
for their personal trips around
England and Europe if they
plan to do so. Students who
want to attend, but may not
have enough money, are encouraged to apply for a federal
Pell Grant or even look into a
loan with low interest rates in
Watson Hall.
Students interested in studying abroad can find out more
information about this trip by
going to the reachstudyabroad.
com/rock2015 page and submitting your email to receive
notifications about course and
trip developments.
Student can also contact
Mayor by emailing him at
Jmayor@occ.cccd.edu.
“One Act Play Festival,” May 16-18: Student
produced and directed
productions. An eclectic
festival featuring original and published works.
In the Drama Lab Theatre. Curtain 7:30 p.m.
on May 16 and May 17
and May 18 at 2:30 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. Admission $5 advance, $7 door.
Exhibits
Photographic Surveys
of the Wild Edible Botanicals of the North American continent, through
May 19: Photos of edible
plants in front of a black
backdrop by Jimmy Fike
who says the exhibit is relevant to issue of sustainability. In the Art Center Gallery
on the second floor. Free.
Rituals, through May
19: Photographs by Mark
Allen Francis captured
over a three-year period
depicting scenes from a
mix of community festivals around the country,
including a 5,000-egg giant omelette celebration
in Louisiana. Francis attended 40 events. In the
Fine Arts Gallery. Free.
Concerts
“Sweeney Todd,” Friday and Saturday: The
OCC Symphony will
perform Steven Sondheim’s classic. In the
Robert B. Moore Theatre. Curtain 7:30 p.m.
Admission $5 and $10.
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Public documents
must be accessible
Despite repeated requests
by the editors of the Coast
Report to obtain a copy of the
recommended annual budget
allocations from the Fiscal
Affairs Council, the document
wasn’t released to the Coast
Report until days after it was
discussed.
It was too difficult to obtain
the annual budget proposals
and make them available to
the student body prior to the
student senate voting on them
this year. The senate will vote
on the recommendations today at 3 p.m.
The allocation proposals
are a public document about
spending the public’s money
— to the tune of $1.5 million — and should have been
available to the media when requested. Student Government
of Orange Coast College staff
members agreed to send the
document to the paper April
28 and two reporters went to
the ASOCC office to confirm
it would be sent over that day.
Despite assurances that the
paper would receive the document that Monday, in time
to write a story for the Coast
Report on Tuesday, as late
as mid-morning Tuesday the
recommendations still weren’t
available.
Editors were told that only
the vice president of fiscal
affairs had a copy of the recommended annual allocations
and he wasn’t available.
While this may be true, it is
curious that only one copy of
a public document was stored
on only one person’s computer
— and a student’s computer at
that. Staff members tried to
get the recommendations sent
to the paper, but the student
wasn’t available.
The newspaper finally received the recommendations
just before 11 a.m. and was
able to write a story for a 3
p.m. deadline. However, when
a document can’t be located
or isn’t forwarded in a timely
way it raises suspicion and
reporters begin to think it is
being withheld for a reason.
If the document wasn’t
available because only one
student had a copy of it there
should have been redundancies so copies of the document
could be made. There should
be a more organized way to
handle this in the future.
Housing woes
The search
for housing
for students
near Orange
Coast College is getting
more expensive and less
available.
I have been
searching for Jacob Patti
Staff Writer
a place to live.
I am moving
from a two
bedroom apartment with a
roommate across from the
college into what I hope, and
really need, to be a one bedroom place.
I have searched from Long
Beach to Irvine and Newport
Beach to Garden Grove for a
place to live.
And, the price of a single
person unit is shocking.
The most affordable place I
found was in Long Beach for
a studio half the size of my
current living room in what I
would describe as the ghetto.
It was $695.
The going rate of a studio
or one bedroom in the area
surrounding OCC ranges from
about $1,050 to about $1,450,
a price that for a student is
unrealistic.
The only real option for a student who wants to live around
Racism isn’t dead, yet
E v e n
though our
country is
continuing to
improve in
terms of equal
opportunity
for all, we
still encounMax
ter racism in
Mayer
many facets
Staff Writer
of life.
Whether
it’s police officers racially profiling
Latinos or airline security workers
profiling people of Middle Eastern
descent, people of various minority groups are treated unequally and
unfairly all over the country.
There are people who are prejudiced in all job fields, as many
people fail to realize that we are
all humans with similar goals and
aspirations despite the color skin
we have.
Just last week, a tape went viral
about billionaire and Los Angeles
Clippers owner Donald Sterling,
which was secretly recorded by his
girlfriend, containing cruel racially
prejudiced content.
Despite his enormous wealth,
and the intelligence he used to
attain his wealth, he still fails to
see the larger picture. The people
around him, whom he feels are
lesser than him, are the only reason
he is able to get places on time and
Photo courtesy of Forbes
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling (left) is embroiled
in scandal after a recording of racist comments was released.
even run his basketball team.
The point is everybody plays
a role in life, no matter what
color skin they have. We are all
here to benefit one another and
leave the world a better place
when we leave. The only way
to do this is to live through unity
and treat everybody equally in a
positive way.
If we are constantly tearing our
community in half with racial
battles and racial profiling, then
we are holding our community
back from improving as a whole.
Racism is not dead. The issues
are improving and becoming more
and more minor compared to the
many issues in the past, but until
everybody is treated equally, rac-
ism will remain alive.
Even though people are not as
vocal about their racial prejudice
as they were many years ago, some
people and often employers still
make judgments about people
based on their skin color instead
of seeing everyone as an equal
contributor to society.
I’m not sure racism will ever
cease to exist in the world because
of the ignorance and stubbornness
of some people and their inability
to realize they are just a small piece
of a much larger puzzle.
We can, however, continue to
press toward equality and stand
up to the opinions of those who
put down the value of others based
on appearance.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LETTERS TO
Understanding
Christianity
But as for Christianity in
particular, it is the tenet of that
faith that you are indeed doomed
unless you accept Jesus as your
savior. Period.
That is what being a Christian
is all about.
Believing.
Otherwise it means that you
are not a Christian or that the
faith is not for you.
Dear Editor
I have not seen the movie
“God’s Not Dead” as did staff
writer Jacob Patti, so I will have
to rely on his veracity as to its
theme.
And if true, it would seem
that his very article, in the April
23 edition of the Coast Report,
proves the movie’s theme of
Christianity under attack.
Mr. Patti seems to lament that
the movie “portrays that without
God or Christianity you’re either
a real prick or doomed to damnation.”
I can’t speak to the former
(being a prick), but as to the
latter, it is very true of Judaism,
Christianity or Islam.
All three will tell you that you
need God to not be doomed.
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the school is to shack up with
a roommate.
The only other option is to
expand the search, which I’ve
had to do.
Long Beach is a good option
if you find a place to live in the
right part of the city, and the
city is more conducive to college age students than suburbia.
Now that the search has been
narrowed to a general area, the
hard part begins.
As a student who isn’t making $60,000 a year, getting
approved for a place to live is
to say at the least challenging.
When walking in to a property management office as
a student the people leasing
properties consider you their
least important client.
The average property management company takes up to
four applications for any one
property, and then they discuss
with the property owner the
best candidate.
As a student who isn’t working full time, it’s not often
you’re the best candidate.
After the $20 to $30 application fee, and filling out paperwork that anyone could steal
your identity off of, comes the
waiting game.
Landlords are on their own
time frame and the gravity of
the situation for the tenant-to-
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be isn’t much of a concern. At
least the ones I’ve dealt with.
After being approved, which
I’m hoping happens soon, you
get to pay a deposit fee.
I’m secure saying no matter
how nice you leave your property, you don’t get your deposit
back. Ever.
It’s almost like your due-atlease fee.
Once you’ve given away
about $2,000, first and last
month rent, it’s time to move.
There are a couple ways of
going about the move. Option
one: movers. This will require
a solid $200 minimum.
Option two: U-Haul. You
can trick one of your friends
into moving your stuff up and
down stairs while still having
to pay about $100 plus gas for
the truck.
Then when you’re finished,
you’ve got to buy your buddy
beers and food which turns out
to be about the same price as
the movers when it’s all said
and done. At least this way you
finish with a bit of a buzz.
Oh, and after everything is
moved and all your money is
gone, you’ve got a new place
to sleep that’s not your car,
and you still need to furnish it.
Because, let’s face it, no matter where you move, furniture
never fits perfectly.
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Jacob Patti
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Ronna White
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Interracial relations
broaden horizons
It seems almost comical
to think that
only 50 years
ago, Americans were still
being segregated and 47
years ago interracial relationships were
Ronna
illegal. Now
White
interracial reStaff Writer
lationships are
commonplace
and widely accepted.
Interracial relationships are
nothing new to our society but
not all individuals involved
understand or even realize the
immense amount of benefits they
have to offer to both parties.
Each person can learn about
another culture or religion, be
exposed to new ways of thinking,
possibly learn a new language,
and even learn how to incorporate new aspects of their significant others culture into their
everyday life.
One of the greatest gifts an
interracial relationship offers to
both people involved is learning
about their partners’ culture and
values.
It’s amazing to see how another person lives from day to
day and how it differs from your
normal routines that were passed
down to you by your parents.
I’m currently in an interracial
relationship and my favorite
aspect of our relationship is
learning all about his Arabic and
Spanish culture.
I love experiencing the dayto-day activities, the new and
interesting food, the beautiful
language they speak, and even
the way they see the world.
It’s so fascinating to see how
others live their lives due to what
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their ancestors have passed down
to them as well as their values
in life.
Realizing what other ethnicities value can help you understand their culture more and even
help shape your personal values.
Another benefit is being able to
be around another language and
being able to see how people of
a different culture interact with
each other.
I know for me personally, it
was a huge culture shock watching my boyfriend’s Arabic family
interact.
The men lead all of the conversations and typically do not
involve the women in the conversations unless they need to be.
It was very unusual to me,
since all the women in my family
wear the pants.
This cultural aspect took me
awhile to get used to but now I
understand another part of their
lives.
Being multicultural is a wonderful thing.
It broadens your way of thinking and can lead to more respect
and acceptance for other cultures
and individuals.
I feel that interracial relationships benefit not only the two individuals involved but also their
family, friends, and even society.
By experiencing someone
else’s way of life and their values
opens one’s mind to endless possibilities and can lead to a more
accepting and tolerant society.
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19, child development
“As
long as people can still get
their hands on them nothing is
really going to change.”
Callie Barbee
Austin Byrne
18, political science
22, music
“It’s going to be safer. It’s an
important thing. They’re more
trustworthy now.”
“I thought they had always been
regulated. I just heard they were
going to be confined to smoking
areas.”
Mendrit Muqolli
19, film
“I
quit cigs to start vaping.
Regulating them sucks
because they don’t cause
harm like cigarettes.”
6 Sports
Turner turns volleyball team around
MAY 7, 2014
The team won its
first championship
in 20 years under
coach Travis Turner.
BY TERAN RODRIGUEZ
SPORTS EDITOR
When the Orange Coast
College men’s volleyball
team won the California
Community College Athletic
Association state championship, head coach Travis
Turner became very popular.
According to the 45-yearold Turner, his phone was
blowing up with text messages and he kept getting
shout outs from Facebook
and Twitter.
But the success didn’t
happen overnight.
Last year, the team finished 12-9 and was knocked
out of round one of the
playoffs by Long Beach City
College.
“There was a lot more
leadership on this year ’s
team compared to last year’s
team,” Turner said.
Turner also needed to rebuild his team after he lost
standouts Johannes Brink,
Austin Bagby and Cody
Martin.
“I was able to recruit Nick
Amado and Jimmy Webb
through club volleyball. I
knew Nick had leadership
after he led his club volleyball team to a club championship,” Turner said.
In addition to getting new
players, Turner needed a
new assistant coach, after
then-assistant coach Kevin
Burch took a head coaching
job at Springfield College.
Turner brought in one of
his good friends Scott Panaro who coached at Laguna
Beach High School.
“Scott did a lot for
this team. I don’t think I
would’ve gotten far without
him,” Turner said.
Panaro said it was natural
that he returned to OCC,
where he had previously
worked as assistant coach.
“Travis and I are good
friends, so I thought me
coming back to OCC was
a natural fit. Laguna Beach
wasn’t a good fit for me,” he
said. “My role with the team
was to help out the blockers
defend opponents at the net
and I also did some recruit-
ing. As long as Travis will
have me, I’m happy being
at OCC.”
Not only has Turner impacted Panaro’s life, but
he’s impacted the lives of
his players.
Co-captain Ty Hutchins,
20, a history major, said
Turner has had an impact
on his life.
“Travis taught me how
to be a man on and off the
court. My favorite memory
with him was when he gave
me a phone call over the
summer and how he talked
to me whether or not I was
going to come to OCC or
not. He made it absolutely
clear that it was pivotal in
my life that I needed to come
back and play another season
at OCC so I could learn from
him,” said Hutchins, who is
bound for Brigham Young
University.
Other co-captain Brendan
Duff, 20, a psychology major, agreed that Turner made
changes in his life.
“Travis taught me how to
carry my own weight and he
taught me how to be a doer.
My biggest advice to anyone
is to trust Travis,” Duff said.
J i m
Webb, 18,
an undecided major also
expressed
on how
Turner impacted his
life.
“ Tr a v i s Travis Turner
has made
a huge impact with my life.
He’s fully supported me
every way possible,” Webb
said.
Turner began playing volleyball in junior high school
and continued at Foothill
High School.
He briefly coached Foothill’s girls’ frosh/soph volleyball team after graduating.
After Turner’s brief coaching stint, he laced his shoes
back up to play volleyball at
OCC, where he led the Pirates to back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990.
Turner then went on to
play volleyball at UC Berkeley.
While at Berkeley, Turner
helped the team win a club
championship in 1991 and
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The Orange Coast College men’s volleyball team won its first
championship in 20 years under head coach Travis Turner.
1992.
After that, Turner decided
to hang up his sneakers for
good and pursue coaching.
He got his first job as a
head coach in 1995 when he
coached Tustin High School
boys’ volleyball team to a
CIF championship.
Turner, who also is a coach
at the Balboa Bay Volleyball
Club, started coaching at Orange Coast College in 2006
when Chuck Cutenese who
coached the team, and currently coaches the women’s
volleyball team, decided to
step away from men’s volleyball.
“Turner has done an excellent job keeping the tradition
alive. His record speaks for
itself,” Cutenese said.
Whenever Turner isn’t
coaching, he likes to hang
out with his 5 year old nephew Turner Hughes, watch
movies and see friends.
“I hope to be here for
100 years,” Turner said. “It
would be hard to leave this
job for another job.”
BASEBALL: The Orange Coast College Pirates sweep the El Camino Warriors in a three-game tournament to move on.
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won 7-3.
OCC’s first game against
El Camino looked like the
Warriors were going to upset
the Pirates, as they led by as
many as three.
OCC however, was too
much for the Warriors and
the team was able to rally
back and win 7-3.
“In game two we got off to a
much quicker start than in game
one. Our pitcher Art Vidro was
huge in game two and Tommy
Bell came up big all series,”
head coach John Altobeli said.
In game two, El Camino
only led by as many as one,
as the Pirates would get
hitting contributions from
Cody Nulph, L. Grant Davis
and Justin Broussard, lead-
ing to an 8-2 victory.
“We were able to keep everything under control in this
series. We just have to keep
ourselves composed and we
have to have our guys get it
done from here on out,” Bell,
20, a business major said.
Cody Bruder, 20, a zoology major, said the team
stepped it up and that is
what was needed for OCC to
defeat El Camino in the best
of three series.
“We got it going late in
both games, but once we get
everything going, there’s no
stopping us. All we have to
do is take care of us,” Bruder
said. “If we want to continue
our winning ways we have
to have no walks, make the
other team play catch-up and
it’ll be an A plus.”
OCC, which has now won
eight straight games, will
face Allan Hancock College
in the second round of the
playoffs, which upset fourth
seeded Palomar College in
the first round of the playoffs.
Game one will begin on
Friday at 2 p.m. at Wendell
Pickens Field, while game
two will begin at noon on the
same field.
If necessary, game three
will be on Sunday at noon
at home.
“I’m not too concerned. We
try to play faceless opponents,
but we need to be ready for
any team,” Altobeli said.
Tickets for the playoffs
are $8 for adults, $5 for
students, faculty, staff and
seniors or $12 for a tournament pass.
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