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INSIDETHIS ISSUE
The annual plant sale is a big hit on campus and within
the community.
ONLINE
NEWS
C-Span bus visits OCC
The bus has been traveling the country for 20 years and is packed with American history and politics.
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A&C
Say what you want
A Coast Report staffer weighs in on free speech and the Free Speech Zone on campus and whether it is right to contain it.
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VIEWS
Gaming for a cause
An OCC club is holding a tournament fundraiser featuring several games for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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April 24, 2013 www.coastreportonline.com Volume 67, No. 23
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Floral festivities at
OCC
Eight new senators elected
After weeks of preparation and campaigning, eight students have been elected to fill the Student Government of Orange Coast College senator positions for the upcoming school year.
OCC’s 2013-14 student senate will officially begin on May 13. The team consists of five new senators -- Josue Casteneda, Kou-rosh Momeni, Désirée Popelka, Cristian Salazar and Sohail Sa-ber Tehrani, and three returning senators -- Tiny Hyder, Buffy
King and Alex Parkin.
“ I t r e a l l y means a lot to be given this opportunity,” Cristian Salazar, 19, a psychol-ogy major said. “I’m very hon-ored and excited for the opportu-nity to represent the students at OCC.”
As one o f O C C ’s n e w senators, some o f Sa laza r ’s goals are to raise funds for pro-grams and services such as the Student Success Center and to work closely with the veterans on
campus. Salazar is not the only n e w s e n a t o r with a direction to positively im-pact the school.
“I want to fo-cus on increas-ing awareness for all the servic-es and events at school,” newly elected senator Sohail Tehrani, 20, a business administration m a j o r s a i d . “Those events did wonders for me as a student and I know that same thing can happen for other students.”
In addition to attending week-
ly meetings and serving on gov-ernance commit-tees, senators will also be responsi-ble for voting on the annual bud-get for programs and services and continuing the work on adopted plans such as the arcade business plan, accord-ing to SGOCC president Rachel Gajardo.
“Honestly, I’m really excited to see how they’ll [the senate] mix and see what they’re going to do for the students,” Gajardo said. “It’s great that we have five
new people who haven’t been on the senate be-fore because they’ll bring in new experi-ences with them and the three returning sena-tors to see what o ther th ings they’ll continue to do.”
Originally 13 candidates were running for the eight open posi-tions on senate. But either due to personal reasons or not meeting the necessary qualifications, only
The elected officials are ready to implement their plans for campus.
BY CATHY QUACHSTAFF WRITER
Josue Casteneda
Kourosh Momeni
Désirée Popelka
Cristian Salazar
Sohail Saber Tehrani
Alex Parkin
Tiny Hyder
Buffy King
Lights, camera, action
OCC club’s hand-built robot is more than meets the eye
The sights. The sounds. The candid camaraderie of opening night.
This is what’s to be expected at the Newport Beach Film Festival as it kicks off Thursday with the West Coast premiere of “Broadway Idiot,” a docu-mentary about Green Day’s transition from recording album to the stage.
The festival, which spans eight days at six different the-aters around Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, will give at-tendees the opportunity to in-teract with the showcased direc-tors and crew immediately after each screening.
“We are very proud that the Newport Beach Film Festival is an open and accessible event,” Gregg Schwenk, CEO/execu-tive director of the festival said. “The general public has a far greater opportunity to partici-pate in screenings and after-par-ties than at any other festival in Southern California.”
Last year, the eight-day event brought in around 52,000 at-tendees, according to Schwenk. This year, the internationally spotlighted festival will bring in films from the likes of actors like Steve Carell, starring in the closing night feature “The Way, Way Back.”
A selection of Orange Coast College film students will take part in the festival’s Collegiate Showcase, which features the work of eight colleges around Southern California.
“Just the fact that we could get a chance to expose our work to a big audience for those
Preparations for the film festival are complete and it is ready to go.
BY MATTHEW RICHARDSSTAFF WRITER
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Gone fishin’SeaWorld came to Orange
Coast College on Friday but Shamu stayed home and let the spotlight shine on much smaller ocean dwellers - white sea bass.
OCC marine biology students, looking like scientists, struggled to grab the slippery little creatures with gloved hands, jabbing their tiny cheeks with one-millimeter identification tags.
The students have been raising
55 white sea bass in the Lewis Center aquariums for the past two months with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild and contribute to the overfished and struggling local population.
“In the marine science world, it doesn’t get any better than this,” said Dennis Kelly, professor of marine science said as the students worked to tag the specimen.
The Lewis Center aquariums
were abuzz as Michael Shane and Nancy Caruso - described by Kelly as marine science celebrities - were on hand to help students prepare their white sea bass for release into the wild.
“The hope is that, eventually, we can bring the white sea bass back as a major commercial and sport fish,” Kelly said.
The white sea bass came to OCC as part of the Ocean Resource En-
hancement and Hatchery Program operated by the Hubbs-SeaWorld Reasearch Institute and has re-leased more than 3 million white sea bass into our waters since the program began in 1986.
“It’s a really popular fish for people who go out fishing and it’s a really tasty fish, so they’ve been fished to really low numbers,” said
By Beau Nicolette
Orange Coast College’s S.T.E.M. Club may not be building robots with artificial intelligence quite yet but they are building robots that are better than half of the other college campuses around the world.
The S.T.E.M. Club at OCC, which educates its members in the fields of science, technology, engi-neering and mathematics, placed
26th out of 52 teams at the VEX Robotics College Challenge World Championship last weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center.
S.T.E.M. Club President Andres Vourakis, a 20-year-old computer science major, said even though they didn’t place high, the com-petition was a great experience for his team.
“It combines mechanical en-gineering, electrical engineering and programming,” Vourakis said. “This was a pretty good experience. What’s interesting about the mis-sion was not fighting against the other team.”
Unlike BattleBots, where robots are pitted to destroy each other, teams this year competed in a game
called VEX Sack Attack. In this game, the team’s robots collected sacks in a 12-foot by 12-foot play-ing square and placed them into the team’s respective colored goals.
During the four-day event, Vourakis said the S.T.E.M. Club started the practice day just fine but when the first actual day of competition started, they didn’t do very well due to problems with the hardware and software.
The club played four matches on Friday and performed “stupen-dously,” moving from 51st to 21st, Vourakis said.
Things didn’t go as well on Saturday, since the S.T.E.M. Club moved down in the rankings to the final 26th place, he said.
Photo courtesy of Andres Vourakis
The team’s 25”x25”x25” robot they used in the competition.
Though they didn’t place first, the club is proud of the competition.
BY ANTHONY LEECOPY EDITOR
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Photos by Sarah BoreanTop: Orange Coast College student Josh Sellers, 19, a marine biology major, and Hubbes Sea World marine researcher Michael Shane measure sedated young sea bass in preparation to tag them for later release into the wild. Bottom: Student Briana Tre-vino, 20, a marine biology major, snaps an iPhone photo of the first six of 55 sea bass to being harmlessly sedated.
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Sleeping Drunk A warrant arrest was made at
6:30 a.m. on Sunday in Adams Avenue Parking Lot, accord-ing to Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer. The suspect was a male non-student.
The officer on duty walked toward a green Honda parked in the red zone to see the driver sleeping. He was going to ap-proach the driver to tell him to move his vehicle when he noticed an empty 20-ounce can of beer, Farmer said.
The Costa Mesa Police De-partment was called and found the driver had a warrant out for his arrest.
The driver was arrested and his vehicle was towed when no one picked it up.
Long gone A petty theft was reported at
2 p.m. on April 16 at Starbucks,
Farmer said. A female victim reported
the theft of a $700 iPhone, $30 cover, $30 headphones and a bracelet. The total value of the loss was $760.
VanishedAn HTC One cellphone,
valued at $599, was reported stolen at 3 p.m. on April 17 from the Literature and Lan-guages building.
According to Farmer, the victim, who was a male stu-dent, reported his cellphone stolen when he noticed he didn’t have it. The incident happened near the Literature and Languages study area.
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Orange Coast College Spring 2013 Study Skills & Personal Development Workshops
Extra Credit Slips Available Topic Date Time Presenter Location
How to Prepare for Exams W 4/24 11:30-1:00pm S. Muir Career Library
True Colors/True Personality W 4/24 1:00-2:30pm B. Figueroa Career Library
Discover Your Learning Styles TH 4/25 1:30-2:30pm D. Keegan Watson 242
How to Stay Motivated M 4/29 11:30-1:00pm M. Gleason Watson 244
How to Prepare for Exams T 4/30 12:30-1:30pm H. Codding Watson 262
Effective Communication W 5/1 1:00-2:30pm S. Kirch Watson 244
Memory Techniques W 5/1 11:30-1:00pm S. Muir Watson 244
De-Stress For Final Exams W 5/1 6:00-7:30pm N. Jackson Watson 244
Resume/ Preparation T 5/7 12:00-1:00pm J. Huynh Career Library
Nursing School Preparation W 5/8 11:30-1:00pm M. Gleason/E. Tom Career Lib.
Job/Internships Search W 5/8 1:00-2:30pm H. Codding Career Library
Interview Preparation TH 5/9 1:00-2:30pm J. Huynh Watson 242
Exploring 4~Year~ Universities T 5/14 1:00-3:00pm E. Marron Watson 242
Stress Management W 5/15 1:00-2:30pm S. Kirch Career Library
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Spanning the country
Driving across America for 20 years and counting, C-SPAN’s bus stopped at Orange Coast Col-lege on Thursday to share more than 192,000 hours of American politics and history.
The bus -- equipped with interactive touchscreen comput-ers, smartphones and tablets with access to C-Span’s online radio podcasts, live TV and vast archives -- is on the road for 10 months a year and visits places from middle schools to public events.
“I’ve been waiting since 1987 to get on the C-SPAN bus. I’ve never been on it before and it was fun,” OCC Vice President of Instruction John Weispfen-ning said.
Weispfenning said C-SPAN is a valuable source of public information.
“I think it’s great to have C-SPAN here. It’s a great resource to students interested in current events. [It’s] a great service to the cable industry,” he said.
C-SPAN’s marketing repre-sentative Jennifer Curran said the students she had spoken to about C-SPAN are really involved but wanted to spread the word.
“Our key message to students is that we are more than just an online resource,” Curran said.
Curran said that users could search for keywords in any video and a timeline of clickable short-
cuts will appear to take the user to the portion of the clip where that word is said.
Since the material is not copy-righted, students, for example, can shorten clips to use for school projects, Curran said.
“All of our videos come with transcripts. We don’t edit any-thing. We let you guys be the editors,” Christina Whirl, a marketing specialist for C-SPAN said.
Rick Matsumoto, 20, an eco-nomics major, said he often
watches C-SPAN with his dad.“I didn’t like it at first. Boy
was I wrong. It’s our govern-ment. It’s cool that they don’t put any copyright on this be-cause it’s a great resource,” Matsumoto said.
After learning about some of C-SPAN’s online tools, Kristin Clark, vice president of student services, said she wished this
was available to her when she was in school.
“I would’ve loved to have these resources when I was a student,” Clark said.
According to Curran, C-SPAN offers internship opportunities in Washington, D.C. for college juniors and seniors.
Visit www.c-span.org for more information.
Bus brings public information and awareness to students.
BY ANTHONY LEECOPY EDITOR
Photos by Anthony Lee
Top: The C-SPAN bus parked in front of the Student Center. Bottom: Brooke Lovelady (left), 20, an undecided major, and Jennie Burnside (right), 20, a sociology major, interact with audio wands on the C-SPAN bus.
Recycling center hits pay dirtOrange Coast College’s Recy-
cling Center will receive a gift of $500,000 from CR&R Waste and
Recycling Services to support the center’s expansion, officials announced Thursday.
Over the course of five years, OCC will receive $100,000 per year from the Stanton-based recycling collection company, which serves more than 2.5 mil-lion people and 5,000 businesses throughout Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Imperial and Riverside counties. According to their website, CR&R recycles more than 120,000 tons of mate-rials each year.
OCC’s Foundation Director Doug Bennett said the company has been a vendor of the OCC Recycling Center for many years.
“We reached out to CR&R and they were interested in connect-ing with the OCC community and the greater Costa Mesa com-munity,” Bennett said.
The company is committed to educating the communities about recycling and assuring that all
available markets always remain viable for products collected at the OCC Recycling Center, CR&R President David Ron-nenberg said in a release.
The Associated Students of Orange Coast College has al-ready committed $1.5 million to the center’s expansion, which will also include an educational center and instructional class-rooms.
“We are excited to work with CR&R. Together OCC and CR&R plan to reach out to the campus and community,” OCC Foundation chairwoman Janet Terrell said in the release. Ter-rell helped initiate the CR&R sponsorship. -
CR&R recycling team mem-bers will serve as educational consultants for college environ-mental programs.
Motivated by Ralph Nader and Gaylord Nelson to be established in 1970, the OCC Recycling Center was born from their sug-
gestion for a recycling drive.OCC environmental sustain-
ability coordinator Mike Carey said the center provides jobs for three full-time staff mem-bers and 26 part-time students. Last year, the center gener-ated $380,000 for the college. The proceeds support student scholarships and provide funds for student services.
The recycling center collects recyclables from more than 2,500 community residents each week. Furthermore, the center collects 75,000 plastic bot t les , 50,000 aluminum cans, a ton of metal and the equivalent to 17 trees in news-paper.
The OCC Recycling Center is located on campus on Adams Avenue between Harbor Bou-levard and Fairview Drive, and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
— Compiled by Malika Perry from Campus Reports
In the April 17 article, “Leaving a legacy of marine science,” the number of years marine science professor Dennis Kelly has taught at Orange Coast College was incorrect. He is retiring after 38 years.
In the April 17 article, “Fifty shades of sex awareness at OCC,” the date of Sex Awareness Day was incorrect. The event is sched-uled to take place today.
In the April 17 article, “Pirates scrap into playoffs,” the date of the men’s volleyball game against Grossmont College was incorrect as well as its standings in playoffs. The team played on April 5. The team was also eliminated from playoffs after the newspaper went to print.
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There are thousands of parking stalls on campus and each day they are packed with students. This week
the Coast Report found out a little bit more about ...
Gage Thiebolt
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LORI JARVISSTAFF WRITER
How would you like to be the star of Gage Thiebolt’s screen-play?
Thiebolt, 22, a film major, is studying to be a screenwriter. He said he has always been in-terested in creating and writing, and would create sets from his Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys when he was younger.
He said that this later made him want to become a writer.
“I didn’t realize that this was what I wanted to go toward,” he said.
He was in third grade when his story “The Storm Coyote” was published in The Orange County Register. After that, he thought of becoming a fiction writer and writing a novel, but in his junior year of high school he became interested in screenwrit-ing, he said.
Thiebolt had to create a film for his film analysis class so he, along with his cast and crew, made one based on an episode of “Seinfeld” that was set in high school. Although there were problems with the film,
including his first cast quitting and having to create the movie at the last minute, he was able to get it finished.
Thiebolt, however, said that the principal eventually pulled the film, and others, and left only documentaries in the fes-tival. The reason was never explained.
“I was never told why—I think that’s what got me the most,” he said.
Even though he was upset, he said he received advice from a teacher that helped him.
According to Thiebolt, his teacher gave him a box of round-heads, or paper fasteners, and told him that things were going to happen, but he should never lose hope.
“She said, ‘If you never lose your determination, you’ll make it,’” he said.
He said that this advice has made him more determined to become a screenwriter.
“Even though stuff happens—I get heartbroken at times—I still keep pressing on,” he said.
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Now, reflect for a moment. It’s time for Orange Coast
College students to take a break from reality and ease their minds by engaging in a yoga lesson.
The Yoga Club hos ted i t s f i r s t meeting on April 10, after gaining official approval the day before. By its second meet-ing, the club al-ready boasted 10 members.
“It’s cool because we have people who are yoga instruc-tors and others who have never tried it coming to the meet-ings,” club founder Gazaleh Shafie, 19, a business major said.
Shafie has practiced yoga in the past, but she didn’t get serious until about a year ago when she started having lower back issues.
Her love for yoga made her
come up with the idea of start-ing a club on campus. Shafie said it’s a way for students to come together and meet other people that like yoga as well.
“We’re doing a pretty good job. A lot of people are getting interested. We’re putting out posters and flyers and placing them on bulletin boards and in lecture halls, promoting it also by word of mouth,” Shafie said.
During meetings, members take part in yoga lessons that
Shaf ie i s cur-rently teaching. Physical educa-tion and athletics instructor Millie Sweesy-Barger is the club advi-sor and helps out with the agenda and practices.
Cristian Salazar, 19, a psy-chology major, said he likes to try new things and decided to join the club when he heard about it.
“It’s one of the clubs that I feel I have to go to,” Salazar said, adding that yoga helps to relieve the stress from school and work.
The club meets from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Wednes-days in the Aerobic Dance Studio.
Students can jointhe new Yoga Clubon Wednesdayafternoons.
BY MONICA ALANISSTAFF WRITER
Get your child’s pose on
Photo by Sarah Borean
OCC student Gazaleh Shafie, 19, founded the Yoga Club, which meets on Wednesdays from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
“It’s one of the clubs that I feel I have to
go to,”
Cristian Salazar19, psychology
Orange Coast College students will have the chance to see what
it’s like to go through a field sobriety test on campus.
A walking DUI checkpoint event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 30 in asso-ciation with RADD (formerly Recording Artists Actors and Athletes Against Drunk Driving), a nonprofit organization that is working with college campuses to encourage students to pledge to be designated drivers.
“[We’ve] set it up like a DUI
checkpoint, but on campus,” said Kelly Greene, program co-ordinator of the Student Health Center. “We’ll have Costa Mesa P.D. at the end and set it up like a checkpoint to conduct field sobriety tests.”
Toyota is sponsoring RADD with a cash cab.
“The mental health fair was extremely successful and we hope this one is even better,” said Crystal Nguyen, 28, a psychol-
ogy major and member of the OCC Peer Health Action Team.
The event is a follow-up to the action team shadowing the Costa Mesa Police Department on March 29 to see first-hand what goes into working a DUI checkpoint.
Health and kinesiology pro-fessor Anna Hanlon and Greene organized the opportunity for
DUI checkpoint to raise awarnessA group againstdrunken driving willset up simulationat Orange Coast.
BY ADAM CARR AND ANTHONY LEESTAFF WRITERS
See DUI Page 4
4 ARTS & CULTURE APRIL 24, 2013
Campus Events
Theatre
For information on most campus events,
call (714) 432-5880 or toll free at
(888) 622-5376.
Music
Dance
“Faculty-directed Play, The Three-penny Op-era,” May 3-4, May 5 and May 9- 11: Directed by Peter Uribe, the OCC theatre returns to the dark streets of Victorian London for a musical exploration of a corrupt and decadent criminal underworlds. In the Drama Lab Theatre. All performances at 7:30 p.m. and May 5 at 2:30 p.m. Admission $12 or $15 at the door, students and seniors $8 or $10 at the door.
“OCC Wind Ensemble, Music of Film IV” May 5: Directed by Dana Wheaton, Hear an afternoon of music from some scintillating silver screen epics. 3 p.m. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre Admission $5 or $7 at the door.
“OCC Jazz Ensemble,” May 6: Directed by Dana Wheaton and Paul Navidad.Enjoy the classic and con-temporary big band sounds of the studio jazz emsemble and the jazz improv em-semble. A special guest artist from the world of jazz will be announced. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Admission $8 or $10 at the door.
“Dance Department: Studio Hour,” May 14: OCC Dance Department students will perform in an end of the semester show-case featuring dance styles from jazz, ballet and tap to African, flamenco and Middle Eastern. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre at 7 p.m. Tickets are $6.
OCC gamers give back
Get ready to brawl in the name of charity with the Orange Coast College Gamer’s Guild.
The club --which was recently sponsored by Riot Games, creator of the popular “League of Leg-ends,”-- will be holding a fundrais-ing event at 12:30 p.m. on Friday in the Student Center Lounge.
“They [Riot Games] offer a sponsorship program and I ap-plied for it,” John Cao, 21, a philosophy major and president of the Gamer’s Guild said. “It took about two months of email-ing back and forth to get it final-ized.”
The tournament will feature games such as “Super Smash Brothers Brawl,” “Ultimate Mar-vel vs. Capcom 3” and “League of Legends.”
Riot Games donated several prizes to give away, including a
hat featuring the character Teemo from “League of Legends.”
The Gamer’s Guild is no stranger to fundraising events. Last semester, they accepted donations for Make-A-Wish, and this semester they are focusing on Big Brothers Big Sisters.
“We want the club to have a positive light and we definitely think a sponsorship will help and bring in new members,” Cao said. “When people go bad, like Tiger [Woods], the first thing they lose is their sponsors.”
In the early days of the club, Cao said they used to receive hate mail.
“We got emails saying we were wasting tax payers’ money because all we did was sit around and play games all day,” he said.
While the club does gather to play games with each other, their bigger focus is making friends, having fun and being involved with helping the community.
“We like being able to have the direct approach to gaming,” club Vice President Kitty Nguyen, 21, a psychology and communica-tions major, said. “People used to invite their friends over and play games together in the same room
but with online play, people don’t do that as often. It also helps you gain diversity in your play style and help you grow.”
Club secretary Tommy Phan, 20, a history major, agreed.
“There is also the problem with
being anonymous when you play online,” he said. “People say things they are much less likely to say to your face.”
Phan said while they enjoy gaming for causes, they also have a lot of different social activities
over breaks, such as going to the beach in the summer and an Eas-ter egg hunt over spring break.
After Friday’s tournament, there will be a second one at noon on May 24 in the Student Center Lounge.
Photo by Sarah Borean
Bam Marquez, 20, a culinary arts major, plays a computer video game during the weekly Gam-er’s Guild meeting. Marquez is thankful of the recent sponsorship of the guild saying, “It will actually benefit us a lot, the more sponsors we get the more locations we get to compete in.”
Tournament will raise funds for the Big Brothers Big Sisters nonprofit.
BY JENNIFER LANEEDITOR IN CHIEF
Musical explores low lifes and criminals
The Theatre Arts department at Orange Coast College will present the Threepenny Opera at 7:30 p.m. on May 3 and 2:30 p.m. on May 5 in the Drama Lab Theatre at Orange Coast
College.The play, by Bertolt Brecht
and Kurt Weill, is set in class-conscious Victorian London and depicts the grimy criminal activities of the city’s low lifes.
“The play is about this crimi-nal named Macheath who’s kind of a scoundrel, a rogue and an all around scallywag, but he’s charming and kind of adorable at the same time,” director Peter Uribe, a theater arts instructor at OCC said. “He’s trying to get from a certain class to another
class, so he’s trying to join the bourgeoisie from the lower class. He’s been a murderer and a rapist his whole life but he’s trying to get into a different sort of business now, which is belonging to the bourgeoisie and becoming legit.”
Although the word opera is used in the name, this musical is not what would be considered classical opera.
“It was a really cutting edge musical,” said theater arts instructor Rick Golson, who plays antagonist Mr. Peachum
in the play. “It’s an anti-musi-cal almost, normally we think of musicals as having climatic plots and happy storylines, this one is profane. It’s all about beggars and thieves that live in the underground of London.”
The messages the play gives are derived from the author’s own socialistic political views, Uribe said.
“The play was written in 1928 and at that time in Bre-cht’s career he was kind of flirting with Marxism, so this is one of his first sort of Marxist
plays,” Uribe said.The plot brings out the worst
of the characters, manifesting in liars, prostitutes, thieves and murderers.
“It’s really about the desecra-tion of man, and how greed, power, money and corruption overcomes at the end of the day,” assistant director Amelia Barron said. “It explores the rudeness of man.”
Tickets are $8 in advance for students and seniors and $12 for adults. Tickets at the door will cost $10 and $15.
Classic play from the 1920s will take to the OCC stage next month.
BY SEAN MILLERSTAFF WRITER
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DUI: Orange Coast students can learn about DUI checkpoints during a field sobriety test on campus.From Page 3
the students to observe the process from the perspective of the police from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. that night.
“It was somewhat intimidat-ing with all the lights and signs and everything. Going out there
it was completely different,” said Bradley Hughes, 36, a psychology major, “It was a relaxing atmosphere. They’re not out there to bust people for DUIs. They’re there to raise awareness.”
Students watched officers perform the three main field
sobriety tests conducted at DUI checkpoints: a check of astigmatism in the eyes, a bal-ance test requiring one foot be held for 30 seconds with arms at side and the classic: walk a straight line.
Before coming upon a DUI checkpoint, there were signs
warning drivers about the up-coming checkpoints and people can choose to avoid them.
However, at the shadowed checkpoint, four people were cited and the action team was there to watch the process dur-ing two: one for possession of marijuana and one for driving
without a valid license. “Talking to friends, they have a negative outlook on DUI checkpoints,” Nguyen said. “Before ever seeing what goes on behind the scenes, I realized they’re not out there to get you. They’re there to get you to be aware.”
outside of our own world is a big deal,” Nathan Laolagi, a 20-year-old film/video major, whose short film “A Revenge” will be shown, said.
Since its debut in 1999, the festival has screened films in a variety of categories, al-lowing amateur and seasoned filmmakers a chance to show their creations to the world. For OCC students, it provides a
great opportunity to prove their abilities.
Lily Young, a 21-year-old film student at OCC whose short documentary “Sweet Escape” will be shown in the collegiate showcase, said she expects good things from show-ing at the festival.
CJ Soto, 28, a film/video ma-jor with the short documentary, “The Art of Beer,” said there are greater options with the film festival.
“Big motion pictures are made by conglomerate multi-million dollar Hollywood com-panies,” he said. “[Many films in the Newport Beach Film Festival] are handcrafted.”
The event after-parties will include a variety of food from some of the best restaurants in Orange County, said Rhianna Conrado, the festival’s restau-rant coordinator.
“It’s going be a really good eclectic mix,” she said. “We
really cater to our international spotlight.”
Every night includes a smor-gasbord of culinary cooking from restaurants such as Mag-giano’s Little Italy, RA Sushi and a variety of French res-taurants.
As for the future of the Newport Beach Film Festival, Schwenk said it will just keep growing while staying true to the nature of the festival.
“I think we are always look-
ing forward to building on previous successes,” Schwenk said. “Internally, we are always looking to bring greater ef-ficiencies. Externally, we will never retreat from our focus on quality at both screenings and events.”
The Newport Beach Film Festival debuts on Thursday and runs through May 2. For more information and tickets, go to newportbeachfilmfest.com.
FILM: The Newport Beach Film Festival provides a great opportunity for students to show their films.From Page 1
FISH: Students have been caring for sea bass for two months.
10 candidates were left to fill the seats, according to Gaja-rdo.
“It was a bit disheartening,” Tehrani said. “They were peo-ple I was excited to work with that didn’t end up completing the whole process.”
Despite campaigning efforts to increase student participation in voting and achieve 1000 votes, only 543 students participated in voting, or 2.28 percent of the student body. Participation decreased by 0.38 percent from last year’s student elections.
“As opposed to last year, we just put in a lot of effort
this year, “Gajardo said. “We were prepared and dedicated to get 1000 students to vote and didn’t make that mark, but I’m still proud of the leaders who helped on the movement and hope the new vice president of communications can improve on some of the things we did this year and make it even better.”
SENATE: Votes were down 0.38 percent from last year.From Page 1
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Nancy Caruso - marine biologist, founder of the non-profit Get Inspired and responsible for con-necting the white sea bass program with schools.
Shane, a marine researcher for Hubbs-SeaWorld, guided students through the process of anesthetizing the group of fish, collecting weight and length and then tagging them with a one millimeter tag inserted in the cheek of each fish.
The program relies on fisherman to return the head of any white sea
bass they catch to their local fuel dock - once the head with inserted tag is returned, researcher can identify the fishes’ movement and growth, said Shane.
“The only way to tell if it’s suc-cessful is if people return the heads to Hubbs - it’s called the Return the Heads Program,” Caruso said.
The aquarium class raised the of fish for more than two months and Sandy Mattson, 55, a marine biology major, said she was wor-ried when they started going belly up due to the anesthetic.
“We have been feeding them
and caring for them,” Mattson said. “We’ve been working with these guys since they were little fingerlings.”
The fish regained consciousness and were put back into their tank, which can be seen through the front window of the Lewis Center, and will be released when they reach the appropriate release length.
“It is interesting to actually know that you are going to be part of the bigger thing, it’s totally revitalizing the ecosystem along the California coast,” Mattson said.
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Fire! In the theater!
There, I’ve said it.
There is a famous and fatuous ver-dict made by Judge Oliver Wendell Hol-m e s , w h o , when ques-tioned during a case in 1919 on what scenario is proper to limit freedom of speech, cited shouting “fire” in a crowded theater.
The judge gave this example when ruling on a group of Yiddish-speaking Socialists, whose leaflets were in a lan-guage the majority did not speak, who were leafleting in New York City in opposition to World War I.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is written with admirable clarity:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom to speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
My position is simple; it is that I completely agree with the text above. Unlike the good
judge, I believe in absolute freedom of speech – not free-dom of some speech.
I would suggest it’s far less absurd to oppose censorship in all forms than to accept it in some.
Indeed, once it’s decided that there is a line to be drawn, the obvious corollary question be-comes: who is responsible for drawing this line? To which, I posit, no one person – or group of people – is moral or good enough to decide at what point exactly something goes from acceptable or unacceptable for everyone else.
I don’t want that decision made for me.
Censorship commits its most disagreeable offense not in silencing one from expres-sion but in denying the rights of others – including those facilitating censorship – from hearing them.
I hold college as not only a place of higher learning but as a marketplace of ideas and a forum to exchanges these ideas. However, censorship also has a lively and recent history here at OCC, coming in the insulting form of the campus Free Speech Zone.
While leafleting in 2011, Nikki Benoit, of the non-profit organization Vegan Outreach, was detained and escorted off
campus by Campus Security on the charge of “disrupting the flow of normal student activity” for rightfully refusing to confine herself to the Free Speech Zone.
Acting dean of students ser-vices at the time, Kate Mueller, commented, “If this person is outside the confines of the free speech area and refuses to leave, then campus safety will approach. Colleges by federal law can define time, place and manner (of free speech on campus).”
Not unlike Judge Holmes, it appears our former dean pushed a policy that didn’t rec-ognize student’s right to free speech – but rather a right to some speech in some places.
What risk is it to allow (not provide, but allow), from the legal perspective, a platform for everyone? What are we afraid of? Where is the inse-curity?
Surely it is better for OCC to allow the platform, legally, and be able to rationally dis-cuss and debate ideas than to engage in censorship in any capacity.
I advocate and am hopeful for a policy that celebrates an open market of ideas through the extension of the Free Speech Zone to include the entire OCC campus.
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QUESTION of the WEEK
Ian Selzer20, philosophy
Macy Vu19, biology
Sarah Vu20, neuroscience
Christina Bellasalma20, political science
“I’m a science major, I don’t know.”
What is the First Amendment?
“Free speech, I think.” “Right to free speech, right? I should know this.”
“Isn’t that, like, from the Bible? I’m kidding. Yes, I know.”
Jenifer Hendricks21, fashion
“Just blanked. How dare you? The basics: freedom of speech.”
Hide your bike, hide your phones
EDITORIAL
Hundreds, even thou-sands of dollars of personal possessions are stolen on a weekly basis at Orange Coast College. That needs to stop.
The problem exists all across campus, but is es-pecial ly rampant in the Library.
On April 4, a $2,000 Mac-book and a $649 iPhone were spirited away from the Library, which is hardly an uncommon occurrence.
A Campus Safety officer should be stationed in the Library. If not all day long, such a presence would still act as a powerful deterrent to would-be thieves during the busiest hours of the day.
Understandably, resourc-es may be too thinly spread for an officer to constantly be keeping watch in the Library. Even that is not strictly necessary, however. Simply including the inside of the Library in a regular patrol route would be suf-ficient to scare off many potential burglars.
Of course, so many of these issues could be pre-vented if people simply did not leave such valuable items lying around unat-
tended. The Macbook and iPhone mentioned earlier would have been perfectly safe had their owner not left them for 15 minutes to return a library book.
Another regular problem is bicycle thieves. On April 13, a soon-to-be student reported a $1,500 Trek bike stolen. Most bikes parked at OCC are not worth quite that much, but thefts are still common. If a Campus Safety presence inside the library is established, the bicycle racks around the school should also be in-cluded.
Riders should also take additional steps to secure their rides to work or class. It is common to use a cable lock or U-lock to secure the front wheel to the rack. Avid cyclist Sheldon Brown recommends looping a ca-ble lock (with a contained locking mechanism, not a padlock) through the front wheel, the frame and the rack, and simultaneously at-taching a U-lock around the rear rim, tire and inside the rear triangle of the frame.
Both locks require dif-ferent bulky tools to cut, and will not be worth most robbers’ time.
Adam CarrStaff Writer
Our speech is free
Fun or nine-to-five?Thousands
of years ago, our only job was to hunt for food and reproduce.
W h a t ’ s the problem now?
The prob-l e m t o d a y seems to be that the ma-jority of people are unhappy with their jobs.
Most of the time society puts us to work in that 9 to 5 job—we wake up, drive to work, feel stressed all day, come home to a frozen dinner plate, go to bed and wake up to do the same thing all over again—our daily routine.
I think this only happens be-cause we allow it to. It seems like people don’t go for what they’re interested in, and in many cases money motivates them to follow a career path they are not passionate for.
I hear students say they’re studying to become a nurse or get into the medical field or whatever it may be because that’s where the money is at but is that what they really want to do?
People may say, “You’ll be risking a lot by following your dreams,” but many things we do in life come with risks as well.
Even just driving to work can have a risk in it. Life is too short to be working for someone else’s dream instead of living your own.
I know for a fact I don’t want to live my life living that daily routine, paycheck after pay-check, being in a crappy mood every day knowing that I could be doing better and especially
asking myself, what if?At first I had no idea what I
wanted to do. I felt lost.I was worried that at the
end I was going to be stuck working in a job I had no in-terest in.
That’s when I decided to put myself out there and explore the different courses offered here at Orange Coast College that caught my attention. I had finally taken a course on broadcasting and until I experienced it, that’s when I knew that was exactly what I wanted to do.
So now the question is am I taking a step further in pursu-ing my dream?
The answer is yes. I took this newspaper production class in hopes of improving myself and getting more experience. Little by little I know I will reach the point I’m trying to get to.
I think passion is what brings meaning to life and what makes it worth it.
Get yourself motivated and set goals to get yourself di-rected towards your passion and step by step you will get there.
Next time just ask yourself, “What is your passion? Are you doing anything to pursue it? Come on, don’t be afraid to say it. If not, what’s stopping you, the fear that you’re going to fail?”
Don’t let that be the case, follow your interests and ex-plore what’s out there.
And remember most suc-cessful people have experi-enced failure themselves and not just once, but from those lessons learned, it puts them back on track until they are able to succeed.
Take a chance and don’t live your life asking, “What if?”
None of you know the low riderD r u g g e d -
o u t r a v e r s giving each other back-rubs , danc-i n g a r o u n d to electronic beats, suck-ing on paci-fiers, passing around candy bracelets and giving light shows may be present at music festivals, or raves, but is that what they are all about?
What happened to all the music fans that attend these festivals? Well, they get judged by what the others do and what the media sees.
When someone dies at a fes-tival the media is quick to pick up on the story and that cover-age gives raves a bad name.
This is why sometimes you have people going in search of
drugs rather than paying atten-tion to the music at festivals.
If someone were to ask if you attend raves and you answered yes, they would assume you take drugs, and in particular, Ecstasy.
I personally have attended Electronic Daisy Carnival (EDC) and other music festi-vals, and to me, they are some of the most wonderful experi-ences I have had. Everyone is welcoming, you meet a lot of people and it’s a place where you can be yourself without judgment.
Violence is rarely found at these events and neither is rac-ism. These festivals are pretty diverse ethnically, so generally people are accepting toward others.
When the media gets to cover an event that is going to happen, most of the time they focus on the drugs instead of
putting the focus on the DJs that are playing or even the dancers that are hired to per-form and show their talents.
All of the DJs that perform have a unique style of their own. Many of which not only play songs created by others, but they also compose music themselves.
Two of the most popular festivals are Coachella and the EDC.
Although Coachella is more of a music festival featuring rock, indie, hip-hop and elec-tronic music and EDC is more of a “rave,” with electronic dance music such as house, dubstep, trance and hardstyle, both get stereotyped that drugs are involved.
Until you have actually ex-perienced a rave, don’t be so quick to jump onto that band-wagon and criticize what they are really about.
Monica AlanisStaff Writer
Monica AlanisStaff Writer
File photo
Last semester, a man preaching in the Quad draws a crowd of students with mixed reactions.
Swimming is hard, winning is harder – but over the weekend the Orange Coast College’s men’s and women’s swimming and div-ing team made both look easy.
The women’s team broke records and racked up several in-dividual titles on its way to its first place finish in the Orange Empire Conference championship while the men’s team finished a close second behind the heavily favored Golden West College squad.
“The time drops were just amazing for our team,” head coach Anthony Iacopetti said. “They battled hard all the way to the very end - just a phenomenal job all weekend long.”
The three-day meet came down to the final relay for the women’s team, which had to beat Riverside City College in the 400-yard freestyle relay to capture the conference champi-onship. They did.
Female Swimmer of the Meet honors went to Mackenzie Bai-lie, 21, a kinesiology major, for capturing conference titles and breaking meet records in all three of her individual events.
“I was in and out of the pool and really had no idea how I was going to swim, but I went into it with a positive look,” Bailie said.
Two weeks before the meet, Bailie’s training was interrupted when she had her wisdom teeth pulled out. But she stayed posi-tive and still managed to win the 100-yard butterfly with a confer-ence and school record breaking time of 56.31.
Vivianne Mai continued the record-breaking swims by break-ing a 30-year-old school record in the 50-yard breaststroke by just one one-hundredth of a sec-ond in her preliminary swim and went on to win finals that night.
Sean Richards was a standout on the men’s side and broke the 16-year-old school record in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 45:11 and came away with two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in his indi-vidual events.
“He swam out of his mind,”
Iacopetti said of Richards.OCC Athlete of the Year Ger-
rit Hill had big time drops and important swims for the men with a close second place finish in the 100-yard backstroke and a third-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke, said Iacopetti.
The Pirate men won the 400-medley relay in dominant fash-ion, a race that swimmer Chris Bernard, 22, an undeclared major said they “destroyed.”
The women had fast relays as well and broke the school, conference and state record in the 200-medley relay by out swim-ming the Golden West squad and touching in a time of 1:46.18.
The Pirates qualified a large group of swimmers for this weekend’s State Champion-ship meet at East Los Angeles College and hope to continue
dropping time in their quest for a state title.
“We are going into state pretty fired up,” Bernard said.
The last time Orange Coast College’s baseball team lost four straight games was back in 2010.
But, OCC lost 9-1 to Saddle-back College, tacking on their fourth straight loss on Saturday at Wendell Pickens Field.
“This year has been unusual and bizarre for us. We’ve been lacking that fire in our belly, but we’ve been keeping up with the other teams,” head coach John Altobelli said.
On April 16, OCC came into its game against Riverside having already lost to them on March 9 and April 12, and were in danger of getting
swept by Riverside in the sea-son series.
OCC led 4-2 going into the eighth inning thanks to Cody Bruder’s two-run RBI single in the sixth inning. The Tigers of Riverside responded with three runs in the eighth inning. After that Riverside never trailed again and clawed OCC 5-4.
“We’ve dropped a couple games here and there, but when it comes to playoff time, we’ll be ready,” Bruder, 19, a zoology major, said.
OCC traveled up to Saddle-back College to face the Gau-chos of Saddleback on Thurs-day. OCC was shut out 3-0 and dropped its third straight.
“Of all the seasons I’ve coached with John Altobelli, this has been the most odd and unusual,” assistant coach Nick McDonald said.
OCC returned to its home field on Saturday for a little
“home cooking.” Unfortunate-ly, OCC’s return was spoiled by Saddleback, as they beat OCC 9-1.
“What we mainly need to work on is eliminating freebies and our consistency,” McDon-ald said.
McDonald, who has been coaching with John Altobelli for three years, also said that the conference standings are unusual this year.
“The conference standings have had lots of parody this year. Of all the teams in our conference, I would have to say Fullerton is the most sur-prising this year,” McDonald said.
Fullerton has locked up the top spot in OCC’s conference after they beat Cypress 12-6 on Saturday.
“I give a lot of credit to Fuller-ton. Everything has gone right for them,” McDonald said.
The last time Fullerton won conference was in 1983. It’s hard to believe that last year Fullerton finished 6-15 in conference. It also has been 21 years since Fullerton made
the playoffs. “Coach Altobelli told the
team that he’s tired of tipping his hat to the other team and their pitcher. We can still make the playoffs, but we’ve got to
keep the other team off the bases,” McDonald said.
OCC wraps up their season on the road against the last place Irvine Valley College Lasers at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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Baseball still in the running despitea string of losses.
BY TERAN RODRIGUEZSTAFF WRITER
Orange Coast College still swinging for the playoffs
Swim breaks records, advances to stateThe women’s team won the Orange Empire ConferenceChampionship over the weekend.
BY BEAU NICOLETTESTAFF WRITER
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Several Orange Coast men and women’s swimmers broke records during a meet over the weekend at Golden West.
