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Nursing Info Session

Aspiring to become a nurse? Here’s a great opportunity to take a step toward your career goal. The counseling office will be hosting a Nursing Information Session in the Distance Education Room on Monday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

USC Admissions WorkshopIf USC is on your list of schools you want to attend, come attend the USC Admissions workshop in MBA 209 on Monday from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

CSU Strategies Workshop

Have your sights set on attending a CSU? There will be a strategies workshop in the Distance Educa-tion Room on Tuesday from 1-2:30 p.m. For more information, call 310-660-3593, ext. 6137.

UC Strategies Workshop

Want to get a leg up on your UC applications or are you thinking about attending one? There will be a strategies workshop on Sept. 19 from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Distance Education Room. For more infor-mation, visit the Transfer Center located in the Student Services Center.

Health Science Info SessionWant to learn about the Health Science field? There will be an information session on Sept. 19. The session will take place in the Distance Education Room from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

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Parking permit cost rises for first time in 15 yearsSam TedlaStaff Writer

Students came on the first day of school looking for parking in frustation and were met by even more agony when they found the daily parking passes went up to $3.

“We have had the $2 parking fee since 1998. I honestly didn’t want to raise it,” Mi-chael Trevis, police chief, said. “The sad fact of life is expenditures go up and cost of living goes up.”

The price hike perpetuates the notion of buying a full semester parking permit.

“I would encourage full-time students to buy a semester permit for $35 instead of paying $3 every day for a whole semester,” Trevis said.

Students who had no knowledge of the mark-up are encouraged to check the col-

lege website and their El Camino email ac-counts.

On elcamino.edu, it states, “Purchase a semester parking permit today! Effective Aug. 24, daily parking permits will cost $3 per day. Do the math – a $35 semester per-mit is a great deal! Permits are available via MyECC or the Cashier’s Office.”

Some students are paying for passes while trying to add a class that they may not be able to get into.

“Paying for classes and then not having the classes added, that sucks,” Lilliana San-tiago, 22, business major, said. “I’m spend-ing $3 a day and the classes meet four times a week, so that’s $12.”

Another change in the parking lot meters that took effect last semester is the disal-lowance of credit cards for buying parking passes.

“It’s hard because I have to make sure I get change everyday I come to practice,” Karina Wohrstein, volunteer with the wom-en’s volleyball team, said.

Although most complaints of the mark-ups have been from students, visitors are also being affected.

“Well, it sucks because I come here to help coach volleyball, so I have to pay $3 every day for two hours of practice,” Wohrstein said.

Trevis said when someone pays with cash, the college receives the entire amount the student paid. But when they pay with a credit card, there are banking fees that go along with it.

“We felt the college is losing money so we discontinued the credit cards,” Trevis said.

Kyle Borden/ UnionTwo of the five levels of the parking structure are full with few spots left on the remaining levels. Available parking has been an ongoing problem and is one that should be improved with a new parking strucure being built soon.

Patricklee Hamilton/ UnionA car heads to the parking structure to look for available parking, a rarity recently.

Parking warsLorenzo Gutierrez Staff Writer

Students are looking for a better solution to the continuous parking problem in the campus parking lots.

“The first two weeks of the semester is where we get traffic; it’s crazy because everybody tries to find parking and go early to find their classes too,” Officer Erika Solorzano said. “People get angry at each other for the same spot. They are honking at each other and they get in traffic accidents. It’s a nightmare.”

Many students are complaining and are looking for a solution to this problem that happens every semester.

“Obviously it’s hard to find parking especially when the semester starts,” Lyanne Padilla, 22, criminal justice major. “It’s too much chaos, but then it goes down.”

She added it’s a problem because so many stu-dents try to get into a few parking lots.

Kenny King, 27, orthodontist major, is also one of many students that have trouble looking for a parking spot.

King said the parking on campus is terrible and he’s resorted to parking a distance from his classes.

Students left in the dark by MyECC problems

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Lorenzo GutierrezStaff Writer

Talk around campus on the first day of the fall semester was all about MyECC going down - and staying down - just hours before the first classes began.

“It went down from mid-night of August 26 until 6 or 7 a.m.,” William E. Warren III, assistant director of the Infor-mation Technology Services Department (ITS), said.

He added what happened was thousands of students were trying to get on and the portal went down around midnight.

Students, new and returning, wandered the hallways Aug. 26 looking for their classes. The portal was still down Monday morning; this left most stu-dents completely in the dark about where to go to get to their classes.

The problem is MyECC doesn’t have enough space to keep up with the demand, Chel-sea Whitehead, 21, criminal justice major, said.

MyECC was created in 2005 and during that time, only 5000 students logged on. Today, MyECC receives two million logins in a period of 100 days, John Wagstaff, director of the ITS department, said.

“We know that fall semester is by far our busiest semester; we track our portal activity from the first day that occurs in May to the last day to drop in September,” Wagstaff said.

Some students took to social media to ask why MyECC went down.

“MyECC is working. It may be intermittent due to a tech-nology issue which we are cur-rently working on. Thank you for your patience,” a tweet from

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Cosmetology students weave together a new look. Page 3.

Profile of cross country runner, Hunter Johnson. Page 7.

2 El Camino College Union September 12, 2013newsPOLICE BEATBy Chris Guzman

Bike theft outside of the Bookstore

sept. 5, 10:45 p.m.— El Cami-no Police responded to a theft. According to a male student, he parked his bike and secured it to the bike rack outside of the Book-store around 6 p.m. When he re-turned around four hours later, he discovered it was missing and a report was taken.

Suspicious person call, person wanted for $10,000 warrants

sept. 5, 9:45 a.m.— Officers responded to the fourth floor of the MBA Building regarding a suspicious person call. The stu-dent had two traffic warrants totaling $10,000 issued out of Compton Courthouse. The student was arrested.

Student with suspended license stopped in Lot B

An officer observed a vehicle stopped next to a red curb on the peripheral road adjacent to Lot B. The officer contacted the driver, a female student. A record check revealed to the officer that she was driving on a suspended license. She was issued a citation and re-leased on scene.

Bicyclist cited for possession of vandalism tools

sept. 4, 5:50 p.m.— An officer observed a male student riding his bike on campus near the Commu-nications Building. Upon issuing a citation for riding in an undes-ignated area, the officer found a sharp tool located in the student’s pants. The student confessed to the officer that he uses it for writ-ting his name on walls. The officer gave a citation for possessing van-dalism tools.

Student suffered from seizure outside pool

sept. 4, 11:20 a.m.— El Cami-no police responded to the pool re-garding a medical aid call. A male student was experienced a seizure just outside the main entrance. Paramedics were immediately notified and arrived on scene. He was transported to an area hospi-tal.

Theft of power adapters in the Art Building

sept. 4, 11 a.m.— El Camino Police responded to Room 218 in the Art Building regarding a theft report from a computer lab. A lab technician discovered seven Ap-ple power adapters missing from the room. The total value of the property is about $700.

Student’s phone stolen in Schauerman Library

sept. 3, 4:45 p.m.—El Camino Police responded to a theft re-port on the second floor of the li-brary. A female student fell asleep while her phone was charging on the southwest wall in the North Reading Room. When she woke up 20 minutes later, she real-ized the charger was still in the wall but her iPhone was missing.

Hit and run in Lot H

sept. 3, 10 a.m.—El Camino police responded to a hit and run call. A male student explained to authorities he arrived in the morn-ing and parked his car on the south side of Lot H around 7:30 a.m. When he returned, there was damage to the rear driver’s side.

Female student fell due to unstable sandals

Aug. 30, 10:53 a.m.—El Cami-no Police responded to a medi-cal aid call on the south side of the Communications Building. A female student tripped and fell over an uneven lip seam on the sidewalk because of the instabil-ity of her sandals. She complained about hip, back, and neck pain but waived assistance from medical personnel.

Measure E funds help build facelift for the campus

Jessica MartinezNews Editor

Students will soon see “safety, technology, and energy-saving im-provements” to instructional facil-ities on campus due to Measure E, according to a college document.

“It’s going to be an important asset to the community as well as the students,” Tom Brown, direc-tor of facilities, said.

The bond measure was on the ballot in November of last year but students and faculty are finally getting able to see where the mon-ey is going.

Brown said the newest build-ing, still in the construction pro-cess, will have auto tech, air con-ditioning, and welding classes.

“What we’re trying to do is get the building to be more effi-cient to house all the programs. It will house all the same programs as the old building,” Brown said. “Because of the way it’s built, we’re going to try to utilize it in all the ways we can.”

Brown said this project is one that will be “a lot more energy ef-ficient” and it’s one that has been in the works for “two or three years.”

Bob Bradshaw, construction manager, said they are in the pro-cess of remodeling the basement of the Natural Sciences Building as well as the Shops Building.

Brown said the original Shops Building was built in the 1940’s

and the newer buildings will have newer technology, including WiFi and conference rooms. They will add “some things that will mod-ernize what they (the students) were doing,” he said.

New electrical infrastructure has already been installed around campus, Bradshaw added.

They are also “in the planning stages of a student services center, new gymnasium, and a new park-ing structure,” which should all be completed in the next four years, Bradshaw said.

The biggest cost as a result of Measure E will be a new music, theater, and art complex. Plans in-volve replacing outdated buildings and infrastructure, according to a college document.

Smaller costs include a new fitness complex, counseling cen-ter and student services center, as well as renovations to Marsee Au-ditorium and Schauerman Library, according to the same document.

“In January, we will start de-molition and construction for a new stadium,” Bradshaw said.

The document states that by law, “funds from any proposed bond can only be spent on build-ings, classrooms, or instructional equipment.”

As for the next project, Brown said the student services center is “one of the two next (buildings) to go.”

MYeCCContinued From Page 1

Davion WalkerStaff Writer

With the 2013 fall semester underway, new teachers are being hired to fit the sudden demand of classes being added at El Camino.

During the fiscal crisis in 2008, community colleges across the state experienced having to cut classes.

For the past four years, more than $20 billion dollars have been cut from public education in Cali-fornia, along with the layoff of 30,000 educators. In the end, ad-junct teachers faced uncertainty about their jobs.

“We went through what we call a period of retrenchment, a down-swing, kind of less classes,” Con-stance Fitzsi-mons, dean of fine arts, said. “We began to have to cut class-es and offer less classes and it kept continuing through 2009 and 2010 and so forth, consequently the part-time adjuncts actually loss their assignments.”

Now that Proposition 30 has passed, the budget cuts that the state experienced in years past are now being funded, therefore, re-sulting in classes being added and teachers being hired to teach those classes.

With the budget crisis burden lifted temporarily, community colleges around the state are an-ticipating what administrators and teachers would call growth. The growth they’re referring to, in terms of students, is the ability to add classes back in schools.

“With the good budget news came the need for more part-time

teachers to teach the added sec-tions,” Elise Geraghty, associate dean of humanities, said. “At the community college level, we’ve got the news from the state of California as a result of this good budget news that we had a larger budget to work with.”

Although the economy hasn’t fully recovered, you get the sense that it is in rehabilitation. The state of the California Community Col-lege system is gradually moving from where it was, when teachers were laid off, to the recent high demand of teachers to satisfy the number of classes added.

This se-mester, more and more teachers have been hired than in re-cent memory. The hiring of adjuncts and newly added assignments for teachers is a clear sign of progress in Ca l i for n ia’s

public education system.“From an adjunct’s perspective,

it’s nice that more work is becom-ing available,” Anna Mavromati, part time-journalism instructor, said.

As the number of classes in-crease, the number of students increase along with them, subse-quently raising the possibility of needing even more adjunct teach-ers.

“School budgets haven’t had the most money to spare over the past few years, so I’d like to think it’s a really good sign that more adjuncts are being hired and that more classes are being offered to our students,” Mavromati said.

MyECC

Other students don’t have problems finding a parking spot including Kevin Lopez, 18, business major.

Lopez said he isn’t having any issues finding a spot because he has early classes and there has been more than enough parking space so far. He added the reason his friends haven’t found spots is because they are taking classes later in the day.

The Facilities Steering Committee proposed a new parking structure on the north side of campus by Manhattan Beach Boulevard, according to a master plan update.

Brown and Solorzano recommend students come to campus early to avoid frustration and packed parking lots.

The construction of the new Shops Building will take up a number of parking spots, Tom Brown, di-rector of facilities, said.

“The additional parking will improve access to the instructional areas, programs, and services that are located on the north side and the college’s growing population,” according to the same master plan.

Digital media archive up and runningNadia BasichStaff Writer

What do Jane Fonda, Jesse Jackson, and Suge Knight have in common? They have all put their foot on campus and they are also featured

in the Student Media Digital Archive.Kate McLaughlin, journalism instructor, had

been looking for past issues from War Whoop, specifically an issue when War Whoop changed its name to The Union in the 1990s. That was when she met the man who showed her the way.

Ed Martinez, former public access librarian, had kept and preserved issues of War Whoop (now known as The Union), The Union, Warrior Life (the college’s magazine), pictures, and year-books.

McLaughlin snaked behind Martinez as he showed her the way to the back of the library where he had been gathering and preserving these items for years.

McLaughlin was so moved by Martinez’s work she felt she needed all of it to be digitized and ar-chived for everyone to see.

“I was totally inspired and amazed and blown away by what he had done. And I was especially interested in his historical archives as it pertained to student media here on campus,” McLaughlin said. “Seeing the old papers, yellowed, torn out at the edges, deteriorating, filled me with a sense of purpose.”

In early February 2012, McLaughlin applied for

the Career and Technical Education Act, which pro-vides money for vocational programs. From there, McLaughlin and Martinez were on a roll to get this project done.

Martinez emphasizes the significance of the archive to the current EC students.

“It’s important for current students to know about the ‘fabric’ of El Camino and who created history,” Martinez added.

Martinez also said what kinds of cool stories students can find.

“There’s fashion, cars, old yearbooks, students protest-ing about Vietnam, but I think it’s fun to look at the different styles back then,” Martinez said.

Another person who is ex-cited about the archive is Caro-lyn Biedler, athletic specialist, who called McLaughlin to see if she had any past issues of the 1963 men’s state and metro

conference champion golf team, who is going to be inducted into the hall of fame.

“I could not believe how much information I got. I think it’s great and I think everyone should know about it,” Biedler said. “Anyone can get and look at what they want, especially since they had such great teams in the 50’s and 60’s.”

The archive is located on EC’s website under the Schauerman Library tab and it is an easy and cool way to look at past history of EC.

“I want people to start using the archive and I want students to make their own history,” Martinez said.

Parking warsPARKInGContinued From Page 1

“With the good budget news came the need for more part-time teachers to teach the added sections.”

—Elise Geraghty associate dean of humanities

“Seeing the old papers, yellowed, torn out at the edges, deteriorating, filled me with a sense of purpose. ”

— Kate McLaughlin journalism instructor

the college’s twitter account said.

Aaron Cortez, 18, music major, was another student affected by the downed portal. Cortez said he logged into his MyECC account the day before school started, and he saw an error appear where the schedule is usually located.

“I was frustrated because I tried to get my schedule since the weekend before school started and it wasn’t working,” Reem Shuaib,

20, English major, said.Some students concerned about

their schedules and getting to their classes on time were having trou-ble finding an alternate solution.

“I called them and it was very difficult to get somebody, also I was online constantly for help, too, for three or four hours,” Whitehead said. “I didn’t get any answer until an hour before my first class.”

The ITS department is con-stantly upgrading the software and is looking for more ways to

improve the issue, Warrant said. “To fix this problem, they have

to supply a faster service that they will keep up with the demand,” Whitehead said.

Wagstaff compares the ITS Department to the likes of cable companies as well as Amazon and eBay - they are not completely error-free.

“We are very pleased that stu-dents are using MyECC, but in some circumstances, we are vic-tims of our own success,” Wag-staff said.

Courtesy of the Digital Archive Project

The issue of The Union published two days after 9/11. Courtesy of the Digital Archive Project

One of the first issues of The Union from 1946.

Teachers hired to meet class demand

In the coming years, students will see a new technical arts building, parking structure, pool, gym, and music, theater, and art complex.

Kyle Borden/ UnionCars park in front of a “No Stopping Any Time” sign during the first few weeks of school.

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Philip Prins/ UnionItzel Mota, 18, cosmetology major, displays the area where her bangs meet her hair extensions. Mota’s real hair is no longer than her bangs but she has added an ombre style weave to simulate bleached hair that has grown out.

Different Do’s and

StylesMonique JudgeOpinion Editor

Each time Beyonce takes the stage to perform in front of an au-dience of thousands, her carefully coiffed, honey blonde do stuns.

Rihanna tends to alternate be-tween an asymmetrical bobbed haircut and long red tresses that swing below her shoulders.

Janet Jackson has rocked braids, short hairstyles, long curls and ev-erything in between.

What do these ladies have in common?

Weave and hair extensions. Hair extensions are nothing

new. For decades, women have worn wigs, weaves, extensions, falls and pieces either to enhance or accessorize their look.

With so many different types of hair extensions on the market, how does one know the difference?

Hair Weaves: Hair weaving is a technique in which hair extensions wefted (either by hand or machine) onto a track are attached to the hair via sewing or bonding glue.

For most sewn in weaves, the wearer’s hair is braided down to the scalp, and the tracks of hair are sewn onto the braids with a needle and thread.

For the bonding method, the wearer’s hair is parted in sections, and the tracks of hair are bonded to the bare scalp with a special type of glue that secures the hair

in place. Sewn in weaves are generally

for long-term wear, while bonded weaves are typically done for tem-porary styling that will last just a few weeks.

Wigs: Wigs come in several cat-egories:

Full cap: a wig that covers the entire head and is usually held in place with hair pins.

Half wigs: These wigs are usu-ally attached with combs, and only cover the back half of the wearer’s head, allowing them to have their own hair out in the front to blend in with the hair in the wig.

Lace Front: Lace front wigs have a special netting on the front of them that simulates a hairline. The wig is bonded into place with

a special type of glue, and it gives the appearance that the hair of the wig is actually growing out of the scalp.

Full Lace: a full lace wig is similar to a lace front wig with one distinction: the special netting goes around the entire wig, allow-ing for it to function just as real hair would. The wearer can part the hair, pull it up into a high po-nytail or bun and manipulate it in different ways without anyone ever knowing it is not real hair.

The country cousins of wigs and weaves are clip on tracks and drawstring ponytails.

Clip on tracks are just what they sound like. They are tracks that are clipped onto the wearing hairs, usually somewhere between two patches of real hair so as to blend in and create a “natural” look. They can be taken on and off in the same day, and do not require any special type of sewing, bond-ing or glue.

Drawstring ponytails are hair attachments that are worn on top of the wearers head. The real hair is pulled into a bun. The draw-string ponytail fits over that bun, with special comb attachments that will help secure it in place. Once in place, the drawstring cord is pulled to tighten it, and wrapped around the bun to further secure it in place. The finished look is very simple and cute, and one that a lot of women use on a daily basis.

Different Styles1. Hair Weaves

2. Wigs

3. Full Cap

4. Half Wigs

5. Lace Font

6. Full Lace

Weaves, Wigs and Do’s

Philip Prins/ UnionCosmetology major Dejionae Houston, 19, uses a rattail comb to part the hair of her client Meagan Milton before continuing braiding in preparation to add hair tracks in the EC cosmetology salon.

Philip Prins/ UnionCosmetology major Dejionae Houston, 19, attaches a hair track to a braid of her client Meagan Milton in the EC cosmetology salon.

Illustration by Eugene Chang

The Issue• StudentparkingatECisamajorproblem

Our Stand• ECneedstotakeactiontoalleviatetheparkingcongestion

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UNIONEL CAMINO COLLEGE

Here’s our policy

Write us a letter

Parking at EC is mission impossibleWiththefallse-

mester uponus, EC findsitself in the

same position it does at thebeginningofeverysemester.The student parking lots

resemble the 405 freewayduring rush hour. Studentswhipinandoutofeveryaisledesperatelylookingtofindaspotbeforetheirclassstarts.The new four-level parkingstructure, which was sup-posedtohelpalleviatesomeof the constant congestion,has done very little to helpwiththeproblem.Thestructurehasbecome

atrapforstudentslookingtofindparking.The digital signs, which

are supposed to show howmanyspotsareopenoneachfloor,areoftenincorrectandleavestudentsdrivingupanddowneachaisleonlytoreal-izetherearen’tanyspotsleft.The college needs to act

quickly and correct this on-goingproblem.ElCaminoCollegeissur-

roundedbyresidentialareas,eachwithitsownstrictlimi-tations on when people canpark there. Most, includingthe area just north of cam-pus, requirepermits toparkonthestreet.According to a Los An-

gelesTimesArticle,ECfirst

implemented a parking feeinSeptember1991.During this time the col-

lege planned to work withtheneighboringhomeownersassociationsandtheLosAn-geles County Public WorksDepartment to help obtainparkingpermitsfortheresi-dents.The neighborhood suc-

ceeded in receiving residentonlyparkingpermitsandal-most completely eliminatedany students from parkingthereduring theweekwith-outsufferingfinancialpenal-ties.If the college were able

to strike a deal with theseneighboringareasthatwouldallow students to park thereduring the week, that couldpotentially help reduce thecongestion.Thecollegecanalso take

noteofwhat theElCaminoCollegeComptonCenterhasdone.The Crystal Casino and

Hotelhasapartnershipwith

theComptonCenterthatnotonlyallowsstudents toparkthere, but provides a shuttleserviceto transportstudentstoandfromtheparkinglot.

El Camino College hasa large population of stu-dents,andthereshouldn’tbeaproblemfindinga suitablepartner to make a similar

dealwithwouldbemutuallybeneficial to both the com-munityandthecollege.The ultimate goal is to

make parking more read-ily available for studentscomingtothecampus.Another solution is one

that should be fairly easyto implement; the collegeshould eliminate staff onlyparkinginthestructure.Currently,thereisanarea

on thefirst levelof thenewfour-story structure that isdesignatedas‘staffonly’andtendstoremainfairlyemptyon a daily basis. Openingthisareauptostudentscouldalleviate parking congestionaswell.Thecollegeisplanningto

buildanotherparkingstruc-ture but that can’t happenfast enough and until thenitlooksliketheparkinglotswillcontinuetobeoverflow-ingwithcars.Let’s hope the college

comestoitssensesandfindsa solution quickly for thisissue, so we aren’t dealingwith this same problem an-other20yearsfromnow.

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IfonlySyrianscouldtwerkThe world is going through

some morally challenging timesrightnow.

The events occurring in themiddleeastcurrentlybeckonbacktothedaysoftheIraqwar.

It has become the main focusof thenewscyclefor the last fewweeks,yetmoststudentsprobablycouldn’tfindSyriaonamapmuchlessknowthecauseofthecurrentescalationinthevolatileregion.

America’s obsession with ce-lebrity, pop culture and socialnetworkingareperhapstheculprithere,butisthereadeeperagentatwork?

Although some would arguethat technology has provided uswith the potential formass com-municationona scalenever seenbefore, that potential is nothingmore than another pitch to sellsmartphones if it never comes to

fruition, and we’re falling for ithook,line,andsinker.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allegedly authorized theuseofsaringasnearthecapitolofDamascusonAugust21.

MileyCyrusmadeherappear-anceattheVMAsonAugust25.

Whichdidyouhearaboutfirst?Didyoustopandgiveboththe

sameamountofattention?Didyourushandtellyourfam-

ilyandfriendsaboutit?Didyouevencare?Sure, the latter proved enter-

tainmentandmadeforsomeinter-esting fodder at thewater cooler,but it probably didn’t make oneiotaofdifferenceinyourlifeotherthanonemorelike(ordislike)onyourFacebookpage.

IsignorancetrulyasblissfulasitlooksonTV?

During the civil rights move-

ment, colleges were a breedinggroundforpoliticalactivism.

InthedaysoftheVietnamwar,students protesting with sign inhandwere part of the strong im-agery.

We have no excuse not to doour part and be aware of what’sgoingonoutsideourbubbles.

More young people voted inthelastelectionthaninthehistor-ic 2008 electionwith19%of the

electorate,accordingtoaNationalExitPollconductedbyEdisonRe-search,despitenewvoterIDlawsaimedat suppressingcollege stu-dent voters. It’s never too late tomake our contribution to societyandhaveourvoicesheard.

Afterall,itwasThomasJeffer-sonwhooncefamouslysaid,“De-mocracy demands an educatedandinformedelectorate.”

Let’snotdisappoint.

BreakfastwasonmymindwhenIwokeuponthefirstdayofthesixthgrade.Couldmiddleschoolbethatmuchdifferentfromel-ementary?Ididn’tknowwhenIwalkedintothekitchenthattheworldhadchangedforeverduringmysleep.IcanstillseethemorningnewsofSeptember11,2001inmyhead.Lessthanamonthlater, thewarinAfghanistanwasdeclared;itallhappenedsofast.Tens of thousands of troops are still inAfghanistantoday.Modernhistoryhasfounditsdivide.Weliveinwhatisreferredtoasapost-9/11world.Formany,theshockofthatTuesdaymorningstilllin-gers.Bush. Twin Towers. Bin Laden. Patriot act. Weap-onsofmassdestruction.Iraq.Saddam.Guantanamo.Torture.Blackwater.Obama.Israel.Palestine.Egypt.Libya.Gaddafi.NSA.Syria.It’soverwhelming.Americans have remained in the dust cloud thatchargedthroughManhattanon9/11.DoesanybodyreallyknowwhytherearestilltroopsinAfghanistanorIraq?What’sreallyhappeningontheothersideworld?

Democracyandfreedomseemstomean,“shutupandletusdowhatwe’regoingtodo.”Andforthemostpart,thepublichasobliged.After countless lies and conspiracy theories, mostAmericans have thrown their hands up. There’s notrust,butwecandependonTMZtomakeusfeelgoodbecauseliesaboutKanyeWestarefarmoreinterest-ingthanliesfromSecretaryofStateJohnKerry.WhocanAmericanstrust?Afterwatchinganepisodeof‘TheDailyShowWithJonStewart,”watchingthenewsseemspointless.AfterthepublicwastoldWMDswereacertaintyinIraq,listeningtoleadersbeatingthedrumsofwarislikebackgroundmusicatthegrocerystore.Itwasn’tjusttheNewYorkskylinethatchangedthatday.Wedon’tonlymournthe2,000-pluspeoplethatpassedaway;wemournfortheoldsoulofanation.Thecountrythatralliedtosellwarbondstosavetheworld for a second time is gone. The country thatraisedhelltostophellonearthinVietnamisgone.The11-year-oldboywhothoughtwarwasarareoc-currencehascometoknowandforgetthatit’sanev-erydaything.Maybeit’stimetoshakethedustoff.Maybeifwegetloudagainwecanrememberwhowewere.

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COMMENTARY

Rigo Bonilla, Managing Editor

campus corner

By Lorenzo Gutierrez

Schmit , 23, journalism major, is the editor editor-in-chief of the Union and invites all stu-dents to enroll in journalism courses, try new things and

get to know more about them-selvesnd find new experiences and then they will find what they really love.

How does one become a member of Phi Beta Gamma?

We are not like other clubs; you cannot simply show up and have us take you in. You have to be enrolled in a either Journalism 1 or one of the journalism produc-tion classes.

What are the requirements to be able to write for the campus publication?

if you would like to write for the newspaper, you have to take J11 or other journalism production classes. There is a section in the paper called Campus Insight where someone who is part of the EC

community (faculty, staff or student) and is not a member of our paper can write a commentary article for us.

When do the publications come out?

We generally publish every Thursday, but we have an interesting pattern. We put out three weekly issues, and then we take one week break, and then we will be publish another three issues. This gives us a chance to recharge our batteries after pulling our hair out for three weeks straight.

How long has Phi Beta Gamma been on campus?

I’m not really sure how long we have officially been a club, but the campus newspaper has

been a part of the college since before we had a campus back. Our first issue came out in 1946. We didn’t have the same name that we have now. I think we were the El Camino School Paper back then, after which we became The Warwhoop and then we became The Union.

What is the experience of Phi Beta Gamma like?

Well, everyone in here is here because they are passionate about what we do. We are some of the craziest students of the campus. We go long periods without sleep or seeing our friends or family. Basically we hunt people down to get information. That means that we may have to wait outside of your office to interview you, but the reason we do all of that

is because we really care about what we are doing here.

What kind of interesting things you can find in Phi Beta Gamma?

I’m not really sure what you mean with interesting because I mean, for one thing if you walk in the newsroom and see eight people wearing snuggies trying to not freeze in the room when outside is 95 degrees that’s interesting. Randomly if you are coming here you can find us writing papers or doing the Macarena. We are very seriously about what we do, but we like to have some fun when we do.

Thomas SchmitPresident of Phi Beta Gamma

Angela YimUnion Columnist

September 12, 2013 El Camino College Union 5OpiniOn

Social sites are becoming a greater part of our professional lives, and we all must adapt to this change.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tum-blr are fun social sites that can have both good and bad effects on your life.

When used in a positive way, social sites can help promote your business, con-nect you with your customers and create a social presence for yourself online. you uses all your social sites for business, such as promoting and speaking with custom-ers.

If you are a very social person online, it can be much more difficult to maintain a professional image while keeping your social life separate.

There are still a few ways to maintain professionalism in your online profiles.

Unfriend all of your crazy friends on Facebook and block any of your Twitter followers who may tag you in questionable photos or videos.

Instagram and Tumblr are social sites that lean more towards photo blogging so with these two sites you have to be ex-tremely careful with who you follow and allow to follow you.

Be extra careful on Instagram; even if you have a private account, pictures you post can be screen captured by other users and reposted.

Your language on these social sites is also very important.

People use a lot of shorthand and made up words when they update their status be-cause Twitter only allows 140 characters.

Try try to spell out as many words as possible.

If you’re the type of person that uses a lot of profanity in your statuses, keep in mind that people will think you talk like that in real life, and they will think you lack verbal communication skills.

The bottom line is, you are responsible for your online image.

If you post something publicly, then it

is fair to assume that all employers and co-workers can view your online life, and it can affect your professional life.

Conduct yourself accordingly

At this point in the digital age, anyone with a social media profile has been told to watch what they post online, including Twit-ter tweets and Facebook pictures.

In some regards, this is a fair warning due to the fact the internet is not known for pri-vacy.

That being said, the consequences for tweeting a picture of a night on the town have been ridiculous.

On Device Research did a recent study finding that 1 in 10 young people ages of 16 to 34 have lost job opportunities because of posts they made or that others had made about them. This is quite ridiculous consid-ering the fact that this is the new generation who will be running the world sooner than anyone thinks.

These young people deserve to get a little bit of experience under their belt before that time comes.

Internet history never truly goes away so if a possible employer sees a picture of a col-lege party that was taken 3-4 years ago, it’s very unfair to not hire a candidate with all the requirements for the job.

Going to parties, drinking alcohol and having nights on the town are normal activi-ties for young high school and college stu-dents; why does being a typical young adult get such a bad rap these days?

Not being able to use one of the most vi-tal tools available for self expression is going to fill companies with mindless drones, and this is not the direction we should be head-ing in.

We need people who can think for them-selves and be themselves, proving that they are real people and that they indeed make mistakes. Even if that mistake is having too many drinks, it’s a part of life and censoring it does not make it go away.

This is the age of the internet. Cameras and phones are at arm’s reach at all times, and it would be near impossible to stop every silly drunk picture from appearing some-where online.

As of now, the only surefire way to keep your identity private off the internet is by not making any accounts on any social media site, as arbitrary as that may be.

Illustration by Eugene Chang

Maintaining an appropriate online identity is key

ASO isn’t connecting with average students

Trent LedfordStaff Writer Erin Logan

Staff Writer

up For DeBaTe

Should your online identity affect your personal life?

please connect with me by email at eccunionangela@gmail.com

Follow me on Twitter @eccunionAng

Join the conversation online at www.eccunion.com

The views expressed in this column are those of the author. They do not repre-sent the views or opinions of the Union, its staff, editorial board or advisers.

campus viewpoinTs

Should your online identity affect your personal life? By Monique Judge

Amgel Calderon, 19,Undecided

“No because it’s not dealing with the reality of life.”

Shiori ito, 20,Undecided

“No. It’s personal and no-body should judge you from that.”

Kristi Sprowl, 21,Nursing

“Yes. If you are going to represent yourself online, do so properly because you are your own brand.”

Jared Jones, 18,Business

“Yes. People should be more conscientious about what they post online.”

Trey Roberts, 19Sociology

“No. It shouldn’t matter. Something you did long ago shouldn’t be held against you later in life.”

Back to life and back to school

If someone had told me that I would be attending El Camino College at 25

years old, I would have said something sarcastic and made a bad joke about a depressing quarter life crisis, yet here I am, getting up at ungodly hours and preparing to take on a full schedule this fall semester. While the majority of my friends are preparing their dissertations or settling down and contemplating mortgages, I moved back to my hometown and had Cheetos for breakfast. Unlike the norm, when I turned 18 I skipped out of town, de-termined to live a free-spirited lifestyle and gave the man the finger. It wasn’t until 2010 when I learned first hand that working three jobs just to pay rent for an apartment I hardly spent any time in was not the life for me. Let me tell you, it doesn’t get more real than experiencing firsthand that when you live alone and forgot to buy toilet paper you don’t have toilet paper, and what happens next is between you and your porcelain throne.It hasn’t been the easiest transi-tion reverting back to a student mindset and prioritizing study-ing over beer pong, but so far the results show that hard work and dedication really does pay off. After having spent the past three years at another commu-nity college in Orange County, I can honestly say that I am thrilled to be here, back in this small town where I spent my adolescent years climbing trees and walking to Thrifty’s for a cone. Maybe it’s a coincidence; maybe it’s fate, but whatever universal parallel brought me back to this town after all these years - just in time for my last semester - I am obliged. I could sit here and dissect the iron, but instead I am ready to embrace whatever is in store for more this coming semester. As mundane as it may sound, the first day of this semester really felt like the cliched first day of school including all the nerve wracking anxiety that it entails.So with that said, I’d like to welcome the freshmen, transfer and all returning EC students to school for this fall semester.As we attempt to break out from our summer habits and pull away from that joie de vivre, remember that you’re not alone and that with a bit of will power, we can and will have a very successful semester.

Most Valuable Player en pointe Angela YimStaff Writer

The world of dance can be just as demanding as any major-league sport. The differences? For one, pointed toes. The similari-ties? A persistent effort to hone one’s skill.

By all accounts, ballerina-turned-commercial dancer, Alisa Carreras, has both bases covered.

“I think she’s probably one of the best technicians we have here right now,” Pamela Santelman, dance professor and department director, said.

In an attempt to calm her at-tention deficit hyperactivity disor-der, Carreras says, her parents en-rolled her in her first ballet class at the age of nine.

She stuck to ballet as she danced on and off for the next 10 years. However, Carreras has recently branched out, and in that time, she has already proven to instructors and peers that her tal-ent and grace transcend genres.

“She’s one of our very ad-vanced dancers in ballet and jazz, and she’s just now begun modern. She’s extremely reliable, she’s a beautiful dancer [and] very ad-vanced,” Santelman said.

Carreras was showcased in Santelman’s piece for The

American College Dance Festival Association’s 40th Anniversary Conference (ACDFA) last spring, which was hosted here at EC.

“I’ve worked with her for three years in what we call our Ad-vanced Dance Concert; every se-mester the faculty and some cho-sen students choreograph it. They go through auditions and must be chosen, and that’s where she’s been dancing,” Santelman said.

“She came in advanced.”

“I think she’s definitely going somewhere,” Santelman added.

“I don’t know if she’ll end up get-ting a degree in dance and go on or if she’ll end up being a profes-sional dancer, but either way she’s going to be successful.”

Currently Alisa is most ex-cited to be involved in a piece by Scarlett Hubberd, a student cho-reographer.

“She’s very talented,” Alisa said. “It’s exciting to meet people in the class that obviously want to do the same thing that you want to do but have different skill sets

and levels.” Now 20 years old and in her

third year at EC, Carreras says she has changed her focus from ballet to jazz.

She hopes to transfer to either Chapman University or Cal State Long Beach. However, even as she looks forward, Carreras ap-preciates the circle of people that helped her get here.

“All the teachers here at EC, all the dance instructors, aren’t just teachers, but also mentors,” she said. “I’m always in their of-fices asking them for advice, even about things that don’t have to do with dance. They’re like my dance parents.”

And like any other parents, Carreras’s teachers look forward to great things from her.

“We’re very excited about her prospects for the future,” Daniel Berney, professor of dance and department director, said. “She’s on the verge of getting an extend-ed tour in China, to perform and to teach.”

“She’s probably the most likely to succeed in a professional en-vironment; she’s strong in the technical areas, and has a high level of performance artistry,” he added. “Probably if we were an athletic team, she would be our most valuable player.”

Johnny Trevizo/ UnionAlisa Carreras diligently hones her form during Pamela Santelman’s Monday and Wednesday classes.

arts

Patricklee Hamilton/ UnionAn exhibit-goer stops to take meticulous notes during the Sept. 5 reception.

The unwelcome stroll through Salinger’s lifeMonique JudgeOpinion Editor

“Salinger”, the new ‘documen-tary’ film by Shane Salerno, isn’t so much a documentary as it is a faux reality TV show, and not even the good kind of faux real-ity TV show like Bad Girls Club, but the tacky, IDTV kind of faux reality shows that feature blurry re-enactments of real events.

The problem with the film is that moviegoers lack the basic mercy of commercials to break up what can only be described as 120 minutes of monotonous, TMZ-esque fetishizing of J.D. Sa-linger’s life.

And that’s putting it nicely.Nothing particularly new is

gleaned about the notoriously re-clusive Salinger from this film.

The most titillating item might be Salinger’s seeming fascination with young girls. Two of his fe-male companions are interviewed in the film and the descriptions of his relationships with these wom-en may raise a few eyebrows and pique further curiosity about Sa-linger’s private life.

Regrettably, those questions will have to be left to another film, because they are definitely not an-swered in this one.

Salerno explores the time Sa-linger spent in WWII, but these segments fail to address the core motives for anyone going to see this film. What people are looking for in a documentary is a docu-mentation of the artist’s life and work.

That did not happen here.Salinger’s work is not so much

discussed or scrutinized as it is repeatedly praised throughout the film.

There are lots of talking heads in which celebrities and others express how reading Salinger’s work, including the ubiquitous The Catcher In The Rye, changed their lives forever.

It certainly changed the lives of several killers.

The fact that Mark David Chapman (John Lennon’s assas-sin) and John Hinckley Jr. (Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin,) who both famously cited The Catcher in the Rye as an inspiration, are trotted out and paraded through the film would please Harvey Levin immensely.

The most ironic part is that Sa-linger himself would have hated this. He was a very private indi-vidual, and some of the footage shown includes voyeuristic, pa-parazzi-style shots of him.

The best word to describe it would be creepy.

The basic viewer expectation is that a documentary will offer new information about its subject. It will give some insight to what may have inspired the artist’s work and how that work has impacted soci-ety. It lets the viewer feel closer to the subject.

The viewer leaves this docu-mentary feeling cheated and vio-lated.

Overdramatization of a subject does not a documentary make. The drama should be real, not imagined.

And the deliberate prying into Salinger’s life, who went to great lengths to maintain his privacy, seems a bit cheap in this manner.

As a supposed fan, Salerno should have known better.

On the sceneErin Logan

Art

Exhibit with a personal touch

The EC Art Gallery is hosting “Personal Tales” from Aug. 26 to Sept. 19. Nineteen artists are pre-senting pieces that each represent an autobiographical experience using mediums ranging from paintings to pictures printed on aluminum. The gallery is open on Monday & Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Wednesday & Thursday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Los Angeles’s ambivalent soul

ESMoA is hosting “FAME,” an exhibition that explores the foundations of what might make things famous and the connec-tions between them throughout different eras. With this new expe-rience, everyone can decide for his or herself whether fame is gained or given. The exhibit opened Sept. 8 and will run until Nov. 24. ES-MoA’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is free to all. ES-MoA is located on 208 Main St. in El Segundo. Please call 424-277-1020 for more information.

Film

Sailing down the Rio

Marsee Auditorium will be screening the film “Sailing Down to Rio on the Queen Mary 2” on Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. This showing is part of EC’s Discovery World Travel series. The film is narrated by Doug Jones and goes into great and ad-venturous detail about the first voyage of the Queen Mary 2 in 2004. Admission is $7..

Dance

Tardeada Mexicana

Nuestras Raices, a nonprofit arts organization, will be hosting their 17th annual concert, Tardeada Mexicana. It’s advertised as a fun afternoon with traditional Mexican dance and music. The concert is scheduled for Sept. 15, with doors opening at 12:30 p.m., and performances beginning at 2 p.m. The event will be hosted at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center at 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd. in Redondo Beach.

Music

Japanese festival

Weekly LALALA, a weekly, Japanese entertainment magazine distributed in Los Angeles, will be hosting their 10th anniversary celebration on Sept. 15. The event will feature live music, a ramen festival with contributors from famous ramen shops, an art exhi-bition, an origami workshop, and much more. The event will be held at the Torrance Cultural Arts Cen-ter located at 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance,CA and it starts at 10 a.m.

theatre

A dramatic original comedy

The James Armstrong Theatre will be presenting the play “El-ephant in the Room: The Remix” on Sept. 15. The play is an origi-nal drama written and directed by Keyana Richards and touches on many issues that African Ameri-cans face, with a touch of comedy. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $25.

6 El Camino College Union September 12, 2013

“the problem... is that moviegoers lack the basic mercy of com-mercials to break up what can only be described as 120 min-utes of monotonous, tMZ-esque fetishizing of J.D. salinger’s life.

—Monique Judge

“Personal Tales” that go publicLocal artist turn to autobiographical works as a means of digesting and sharing their experiences

Evelyn AvilaStaff Writer

EC opened its doors to a new art gallery that offers viewers a window into an artist’s mind.

The exhibit, titled “Personal Tales,” opened August and is now available to students and the pub-lic through Sept. 19. It showcases pieces by 19 well-known Southern California artists through which they symbolize memories or a sto-ry from their personal lives. The mediums range from drawing, painting, sculpture, and video, to mixed media installation and per-formance.

“I’ve been working on these small pieces for a long, long time,” Susanna Meiers, a contributing artist, said. “They act as sort of a

diary for me, it’s sort of a synthe-sis of dream imagery and things that are going on in my real life, and it’s all totally symbolic so no-body will know what it means ex-cept for me.”

The exhibit hosted a reception Sept. 5, in which many of the art-ists talked about their pieces and gave a further explanation about their art. Some of the attendees included artists and their acquain-tances, but many EC students at-tended, drawn by the offer of extra credit.

EC student Jenny Cruz chose “Elixir” by Susan Hamidi as her favorite piece

“I like all the detail to it, and the mindset she might have been in to actually draw that,” she said.

While some of the pieces were

obviously memories or represen-tations of real life, others took a bit of time to understand, and even then they were subjective to the viewer.

“I love these two pieces but I don’t like the movie they remind

me of, “ Jarno De Bar, a local art-ist who takes classes at EC, said. “But I like this painting.”

Susan Hamidi, one of the art-ists present at the reception, of-fered some background into her work and described her personal tale.

“Before I start to paint I know what I want, but when I’m done, I have to introduce myself to my painting, and this is something very personal to me,” Hamidi said.

“The best hours of my life, are when I am painting, and I forget everything around me. I forget the minutes, I forget the people, I forget the sounds I hear, I just see myself and my canvas, and hours can go by,” she added.

The gallery’s artists were open to discussion about their pieces,

and Hamidi was just one of the many that were present. Other artists included Randall Von Bloomberg, Terry Braunstein, Angie Bray, Eileen Cowin, Stan Edmondson, Susan Hamidi, Zeal Harris, Lauren M. Kasmer, Thom-as Whittaker Kidd, Filip Kostic, Peter Liashkov, Lynne McDan-iel, Susanna Meiers, Jim Morph-esis, Nancy Mozur, Andrew Ortiz, Thea Robertshaw, Roxene Rock-well, and Lizzy Waronker.

Personal tales gives everyone a chance to enter an artist’s mind as they try to explain life.

“The spirituality, the spirit world, the metaphors, ideas, this is right up my alley, surreal, and dreamy, it’s about real life,” De Bar said. “Everyday life depicted by metaphors.”

“the best hours of my life are when I am painting, and I forget everything around me. I forget the minutes, I forget the people, I forget the sounds I hear.”

—Susan Hamidi

Thursday September 12, 2013 El Camino College Union 7sports

Water polo teams are ready to make a splash this seasonAngela YimStaff Writer

Women in high cut bathing suits and nearly naked guys in speedos, both yelling and throw-ing around what can only be de-scribed as a floating soccer ball. They may look harmless at first, but don’t let the uniforms deceive you, they are Warriors.

To most of us, ‘egg beating’ means forking a bowl of eggs until your arm falls off, but in the pool, it’s a term used when the swim-mers rotates their legs in opposite directions to stay treading water. What seems to be a fairly easy concept is actually one of those things that is harder than it looks. Not only are they beating the wa-ter with their legs to stay afloat, they throw around the ball with such ease, as if on a dry court, and the goalie net is something you wouldn’t want to be standing in front of.

Corey Stanbury, coach to both the men’s and women’s water polo teams, explains that the game of water polo is a combination of swimming, basketball, and WWF.

“It’s an intense sport that re-quires a lot of strength and team-work,” Stanbury said.

This coming season looks to be a transition period for the wom-en’s team while it introduces some new members to the program.

“This season’s women’s team is full of fresh faces and a lot of potential,” Stanbury said. “We graduated a lot of people from last season, so we are replacing quite a few of our starters. Some of our best incoming freshmen are Alexis Ivans, Lauren Gottschalk, Cambria Serrano who will be tak-ing up the goalie duties.”

Stanbury said that some better players this season include Arlene Alvarado and Lynsey Alabab.

The team will get a preview of what the season may be like when it travels to Los Angeles Trade

Tech Sept. 18.“What we’re going to do is take

a whole lot of freshmen and mix them in,” Stanbury said. “The majority of the players haven’t re-ally played a 2-meter position, so we’re trying to teach people to do things a little bit differently then they have done in high school. I’m trying to break them out of their mold.”

Stanbury said some of the stronger players this season are actually some of the incoming freshmen, which makes things promising for this season.

“It’s hard to see what the other teams are going to have, I’m just gonna try to have a goal of finish-ing,” Stanbury said. “Try to finish in the top half of the conference that would be awesome. That will require a lot of work.” Unlike the women’s team, the men’s team has several returners, along with a handful of very fast newcomers.

Stanbury says that this season’s team is different from the last, but more importantly, these guys know and understand what they’re doing when it comes to the game.

“I think we can do some things that we weren’t able to do last year,” Stanbury said. “We got a couple of guys with some real speed.”

Stanbury expects Jon Diaz to have a big impact after picking things up fast after being a mem-ber of the swim team.

With the first game of the sea-son just around the corner, the returning players remember their previous game against Fullerton College and are fully aware of their dirty ways. Although what happened under the water may have gone unnoticed to the crowd, the players didn’t forget and look forward to redemption.

“They’ll grab you, punch you, stuff like that,” Tanner Castro said.

The team will travel to Fuller-ton College tomorrow at 3 p.m.

Unlucky bounce gives Warriors 1-0 loss

Vanessa Adams UnionClaudia Ramirez, undecided major, finds help from Lisa George, Library Media.

Emmanuel RamirezStaff Writer

With only 10 minutes left in the game, the Warriors lined up to defend a corner kick.

After an unlucky deflection, Golden West was left with a wide-open shot. The goalkeeper had no chance of block-ing the shot which lead to the go-ahead goal and eventual 1-0 victory.

Golden West capitalized on the op-portunity leading to the Warriors’ first loss of the season.

“We played good soccer and con-trolled most of the possession during the game,” coach John Britton said.

El Camino was in control most of the game, but the unlucky bounce changed everything.

“We created a lot of chances but couldn’t take advantage of them,” Brit-

ton said. The team had a lot of chances to

score, but were unable to capitalize on the opportunities.

“The team played good overall but, the little errors messed us up,” midfielder Angel Lomeli said.

The team was dissappointed with its missed opportunities and will look to capitalize when coring opportunities come up.

“We could of beat them,” defender William Cando said. “The chances we got we didn’t finish them and the one they got they put it away, it’s soccer.”

Freshman Kyrian Nwabueze played an outstanding game, but it wasn’t enough to give his team the win.

The team will look to improve in its upcoming game when it travels to Santa Monica College tomorrow and the game starts at 3 p.m.

“We need to work on our finish-ing touches and more crosses from the wing,” Britton said.

The team will also look to get in the win column. So far the team has lost one game and has tied two teams.

The Warriors are second in the South Coast Conference in goals scored and the team hopes that this will translate into wins going further into the season.

H u n t e r Johnson looks to lead team this yearSaul Prado

Assistant News Editor

Amira Petrus/ Union Sophomore Hunter Johnson looks to lead the men’s cross country team this year.

The Tarahumara Indians say “do it barefoot”. The Tao Te Ch-ing says to “leave no tracks”. Hunter Johnson says bring it on.

With a new season ahead of him, Johnson, 19, sophomore, and the men’s cross-country team are eager to continue their quest for the state championship.

“We want to place at the top three at state meet,” Johnson said. “This year we’ve got a few new guys that are really fit and ready to go,” he added.

After being placed on a red-shirt status last spring season due to a mild hip & back injury, Johnson found himself losing the progress he had made his fresh-man year.

“I was really out of shape. It hit me hard because I had big goals for the season. It was hard to stay motivated but I kept work-ing hard and knew it would pay off,” Johnson said.

Johnson began running com-petitively for Torrance High School as a freshman under the tutelage of a former EC Warrior, Israel Pose.

“I was never that great at any other sports but I thought I might give running a try,” Johnson said, “I had a lot of fun with it and kept working every year and ended up being the top guy at Torrance.”

He gives credit to Pose for his work ethic and dedication to the sport, as well as his desire to one day become a coach.

“He really inspired me and helped me develop my love for running,” Johnson said.

Dean Lofgren, cross-country coach, also coached Pose and

had approached Johnson early on about possibly running as a War-rior.

“He kind of knew about me because of my high school coach,” Johnson said. “Dean al-ways comes out to a lot of the high school meets.”

Johnson and his teammates participate in the Redondo Beach 10K each year tethered together and run the entire course as a single unit or “centipede.”

“We try and keep everyone to-gether and run as hard as we can with everyone cheering us on,”

Johnson said.Ready for the challenges

ahead, Johnson is feeling positive about the upcoming season.

“The team is on an upswing and we are really excited for the state meet this year,” Johnson said.

Charles Ryder/ UnionFreshmn, Kyrian Nwabueze, forward, kicks the ball to a teammate. The Warriors lost against Golden West 1-0.

Thursday September 12, 2013 El Camino College Union 8sports

Football: Warriors 14 (0-1), Palomar 31 Men’s soccer: Warriors 3 (0-1-3), rio Hondo college 3 WoMen’s soccer: Warriors 0 (0-3-0), san Diego Mesa 4

WoMen’s Volleyball: Warriors 3, chaffey college 0Warriors 1, san Diego Mesa 3

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As the temperatures continued to rise last weekend, the Long Beach Quad tournament was beginning to heat up as well; the El Camino wom-en’s volleyball team was locked in a fierce match with San Diego Mesa (SDM) with both teams tied at 25 having won a set each. The Warriors continued to push on each rally, but could not hold off SDM as they de-livered the final kill of the match, putting the Olympians up for good.

“They started playing a little better and we just couldn’t hold the lead,” coach Le Valley Pattison said.

The Warriors dominated the Chaffey College Panthers with stel-lar defense and smart ball movement which led to a 25-19, 25-19, 27-25 win.

Sophomore outside hitter, Ni-cole Echeverri, continued her run of dominant play; registering 17 kills and 9 digs in the first game against Chaffey College.

“She played very well,” Pattison said. “She definitely has a lot of the load on her.”

Newcomers such as freshman middle blocker, Kimberly Haney, had a strong game against the Pan-thers with 7 kills and 4 digs.

“We just need to work and press-ing over with the block,” Haney said. “We made some mistakes but all we can do is learn from them and move on.”

Freshman outside hitter, Laynie Thompson, also hopes to improve upon her game as the season goes on.

“It’s taken her [Haney] a little while to adjust to the speed of the

game but once she gets a little stron-ger she is going to be a big force on the right side for us,” Pattison said.

Mismatches in size played a big factor in the second game as the Warriors struggled to keep any mo-mentum against SDM.

El Camino managed to take the first set of the match but failed to capitalize on the early lead; San Di-ego Mesa came right back to tie the match and eventually went on to win 23-25, 25-23, 25-15, 25-15.

“We need to adjust to a bigger block,” Pattison said. “We aren’t the tallest team in the gym so we need to make sure that we block a little bit better, move the ball around and make some adjustments.”

El Camino Classic tomorrow and hope to put on a strong performance.

second-half pick crushes Warriors

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Football: sept. 14 vs Hancock college Men’s soccer: tomorrow at santa Monica

WoMen’s soccer: sept. 17 at st. Jacinto college

WoMen’s Volleyball:tomorrow vs santa barbara college,cypress college(el camino classic)

Men’s Water Polo:tomorrow at Fullerton college

cross country:tomorrow at so. california Preview Invitational

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Sophomore quarterback Cole Webb had just taken a brutal hit, but managed to find freshman running back Rapha-el Lawson-Gayle for a 9-yard gain on fourth down to keep the Warriors’ drive alive; El Camino was marching down the field and looked poised to tie the score after trailing 21-14 at the half.

With third-and-goal on Palomar’s 5-yard line, Webb dropped back to complete a pass but was intercepted in the end zone by Javante O’Roy; who returned it 101 yards for a touchdown thus giving Palo-mar the lead for good as they beat El Camino, 31-14 Satur-day.

“That was the biggest turn-ing point,” coach John Feath-erstone said. “That’s a tough thing to recover from quickly. They [Palomar] took that mo-mentum forward the rest of the game.”

The final score reads 31-14 but it could have been switched around had it not been for a few key plays that went in favor of Palomar.

“I don’t really think the score is indicative of how close it was,” Featherstone said.

Despite some shaky play from the offensive line, which allowed two sacks, the team played very well overall on both sides of the ball; amassing 225 passing and 132 rushing yards.

The Warriors were able to consistently drive down the field but failed to capitalize on opportunities by going 2-12 on third-down conversions.

“We were able to move the ball a lot but we needed to be able to finish drives more,” Webb said.

Webb had a statistically good night, going 16-32 with 213 yards and one touchdown,

but would like to improve on some issues before heading into the next game.

“Honestly, I need to execute a little better,” Webb said. “Es-pecially on third-down or in the red-zone.”

The Warriors were also able to establish a strong running

game headed by Lawson-Gay-le, who had 12 rushing attempts for 52 yards, and freshman run-ning back Kendall Sparks, who had 29 yards on six carries.

“We did a pretty good job running the football,” Feath-erstone said. “We probably should have stayed with the run

a little bit longer.”The defense did a great job

throughout the night; keeping Palomar’s offense in check while keeping the Warrior’s within striking distance.

Sophomore linebacker Kris-topher Bass had a stellar game, leading the team with nine

tackles and earning Defensive Player of the Week honors.

“We just kept letting them get the third-down,” Bass said. “The defense let the offense down. We just need to finish.”

The Warriors must move on and will have a great chance to bounce back as three of their

next four games will be played at Murdock Stadium; their next game will be Saturday, Sept. 14th, at 4 p.m. as El Camino hosts Hancock College.

“We’re going to take from this experience,” Webb said. “The attitude this year is total-ly different.”

Charles Ryder/ UnionRaphael Lawson-Gayle, # 25, Runningback, running down the field getting El Camino a first down.

Amira Petrus/ UnionLaynie Thompson, #28, OH/OP hits a fast ball scoring El Camino a point.

Volleyball team split games at LB tourney