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This holiday, the ASG events cabinet collected canned food and provided turkeys and enough food to feed 30 families. The cabinet was working with Adopt A Family to try and accomplish their goal.
“The turkey drive is for the families of EOPS,” Rodman Oveisi said.
The cabinet collected 189 cans of corn, 19 cans of sweet peas, 184 boxes of gravy for turkey, 80 cans of mashed potatoes and much more.
The cabinet managed to get permission to ask for donations in front of Trader Joe’s and tried some other locations. They attempted other grocery locations, such as Pavilions, and at first seemed successful but the day the events cabinet showed up to collect, the store changed their mind and told them it wasn’t pos-sible.
The cabinet also gathered cranberries, sweet pota-toes and corn bread mixes, which are all of the main foods one might find in a Thanksgiving dinner. Some students felt that the approach ASG used was accept-able, because they did not force or guilt anyone into helping. They only sought to ask those that were inter-ested in helping with their turkey drive.
“I feel that helping the less fortunate is a good cause,” student Lora Roberts said.
Zion Mills also believes that helping the less fortu-nate is a good thing too.
“It’s a good idea and its not like its hurting anyone. Its your choice to help,” Mills said.
It seems the approach the cabinet used is what got help from those that were interested.
Another student felt charities cannot have a bad im-age at all.
“It’s kind of hard to have a negative attitude about a charity,” Kelly Mitchell said.
Mitchell also explained, “People don’t always have dinner and they have to eat.”
It would seem that charities are a good choice if someone would like to help out around the time of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
According to the Giving Children Hope organiza-tion there are about 22,000 children in Orange County who are considered homeless.
According to another recent tally report by the Na-
tional Alliance to End Homelessness, California alone was estimated to have 135,982 homeless people.
There were also many opportunities being offered in the Orange County community to help the charitable events out. The House of Blues in Anaheim and Sec-ond Harvest Food Bank of Orange County chose 650 students and family members to gather together and have a Thanksgiving meal. These people were chosen by the Anaheim City School District and were selected because of their living conditions or lack thereof.
There was a chance to pre-exercise Thanksgiv-ing dinner with the Turkey Trot in Dana Point where around 10,000 members participated in a 5K and 10K race. The proceedings went to Marine families.
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The students of the Fashion 147 and Busi-ness 147 classes produced their annual fall project “Daisy Dukes and Cowboy Boots” in the Saddleback quad on Nov. 15.
This country, western-themed event fea-tured a fashion show, vendors, pie-eating contest, and dogs waiting for adoption.
Director of the event Jamie Cannon, 27, described the biggest challenge in creating this fall project.
“One of the biggest things we had to in-corporate was the adoption with the dogs,” she said. “It was hard to find an agency that wanted to come on campus, but once we did, it ended up working out pretty cool.”
All of the proceeds from the event ben-efited the Ark of San Juan Animal Rescue. The Ark brought four loving dogs ready for adoption to the event and the dogs were even able to waddle down the catwalk and partici-pate in the fashion show.
“We are excited that we were able to come,” Ark volunteer Kathy Hamersley stated.
“We’re glad that [the dogs] could be part of the fashion show.”
The Ark of San Juan is a non-profit, all-volunteer group aimed at rescuing animals and relocating them to owners capable of takiing them.
“We make sure that the strays of San Juan get a second chance,” Hamersley said. “We don’t have a pro-humane facility in San Juan, so our animals go up to the Orange County animal shelter where they are euthanized for time and space. We make sure we pull them before their time is up so that they can get the second chance that they deserve.”
The students who helped organize the project dealt with a few minor mishaps
that arrive with any event. One of them be-ing that a dog fell off the stage when it was walking across.
Business marketing major Taylor Palitze, 18, helped organize the event and even nar-rated the fashion show.
Palitze and her team dealt with an issue when a model participating in the fashion show called in sick.
“We handled the situation smoothly and were able to find Colton, who is in the make-up/hairdressing class, and he filled in as a model,” Palitze stated.
Despite the minor challenges, the team enjoyed watching the pie-eating contest which drew a large crowd.
Saddleback student Marco Lozano was stunned when he won the pie-eating contest and received a gift basket filled with movie tickets and other goodies.
“I thought I was losing the whole time!” Lozano stated.
The event also featured multiple ven-dors like Muse Boutique, Park Lane Jew-elry, Cookie Lee Jewelry, C&K Kettle Corn, Sweet! Candy, Body & Soul Botanicals, and others.
Diane McGroarty, the professor who teaches the class that produced the show, looks forward to this fall project every year.
“I enjoy watching the students create the event from conception to completion,” Mc-Groarty said. “Every semester we have a dif-ferent group that bring new ideas to the table and it’s an excellent way for students to get hands-on experience producing and direct-ing a fashion show.”
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Daisy Dukes fashion show benefits dog adoption
Ceramics, artworkon sale
Geography shows world’s experiences of death
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Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats perform at Saddleback
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Rachel schmidStaff Writer
Students embrace holiday spirit
angie l . P ineda & steven JungStaff Writers
Thanksgiving DonaTion: Students help collect food for 30 families with their turkey drive.
For aDopTion: Dogs join the models on the runway at the conclusion of the western-themed fashion show at Saddleback
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PHOTOS COuRTESy OF SADDLEBACK ASGSaddleback ceramic students
are preparing for the 34th An-nual Holiday Student Art Sale happening Dec. 1 to Dec. 4.
“It’s ceramics, print mak-ing, photography, drawing, jewelry, sculpture, painting and watercolors so its all different art from the art classes here,” said ceramic student, Alicia Ira-clides.
Non-traditional art may also be featured in this year’s art sale as well.
“Sometimes there is screen printing … we never know what’s going to be there, but there will be ceramics there for sure,” said Iraclides.
According to some of the 33 students who previously have had work featured, ceramics is among the most popular among art buyers.
“People come every year to buy. Certain people like certain artists and come to purchase their piece,” said Iraclides. “Ce-ramics takes up most of the art sale because the pieces are big-ger.
Tables are going to be set up and its mostly going to be ceramics, according to ceram-ics student Tim Carmin, the art sale offers an opportunity to find gifts for the holidays.
“This is the opportunity for people to pick up affordable art that perhaps they wouldn’t at other times,” said Carmin. “Its also a way to find nice Christ-mas gifts at affordable prices.”
The art sale also offers art collectors and art lovers the op-portunity to find gallery level artwork available here on cam-pus.
“A few of our people exhibit at the Sawdust Festival and dif-ferent galleries, so it’s a great way to get affordable art,” said Iraclides.
Saddleback Student Art Sale starts Saturday, Dec. 1 at noon in the Saddleback College Art Gallery.
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Take the first step in helping to save a cancer patient's life.Care about cancer? Running, something many students
and even some athletes don’t care for. It’s physically draining and mentally exhaust-ing. The first step to becoming a success-ful runner is to believe that you can keep running, that you can keep pushing your-self until the finish line is reached, or until you feel you have reached your own per-sonal finish line.
For Saddleback Cross-country runner Will Murphy, his own finish line has yet to be reached. Murphy is a 22 year old, Liberal Arts major who has a serious passion for long-distance running. Murphy shared his passion for running with me in a brief email interview, when asked if he ever thought about trying any other sports, and his re-sponse was “Running is pretty much what I do. If I were to play another sport it would have to have a lot of running in it."
While running is Murphy’s passion, many students can relate to how difficult it can be at times. “There’s nothing to running for a long time I just put one foot in front of the other then just go. Your body just adapts and everything just melts away,” he said.
When asked if he had any passion for any other sort of running, such as sprinting, Murphy stated that “I’m not fast enough to compete as a sprinter but give me a few
miles and I would catch up. Competitions at Saddleback consist of 4 mile races for Cross-country and a variety of long-distance events and track. Anywhere from 800m to 10k are the long distance for track.”
Hydration and proper nutrition are criti-cal in any sport, but in long distance run-ning, it is imperative that you have the cal-ories to burn and the liquids to rejuvenate your body.
“Before each run I hydrate usually drinking between 70 oz. to100 oz. of water. Other than that, I make sure I plan meals and snacks so that i have enough energy when it comes to workouts or races. If I do that the run goes way better. If it’s hot out I’m thinking of nice cold water when I
get back but usually I’m just thinking about what I’m going to eat,” Murphy said.
Murphy’s longest run was 14 miles, and his fastest mile time was during his high school years, where he ran speedy 4:35. During his time in college, the mile is changed to a 1500 meter course, which he ran in 4:39.
“I will run as long as I have legs. As far as running for my next school, I will if at all possible. Schools haven’t been trying to recruit me. My times are considered aver-age,” Will said.
The honors cultural geog-raphy class presented their se-mester project Geography of Death Posters on Thursday in SSC 212.
Honors cultural geography Professor Maureen Smith in-structed the class to research and complete a poster with in-formation on climbing death rates in other countries other than the United States or US Military.
She said that the main aspect was for the students to connect the why to the where; why some people are dying in other parts of the world and not in others. The goal was to connect those two aspects.
“[The project was to] give out knowledge about death go-ing around in the world in the past 10 years,” said cultural ge-ography student Chip Bronsky, 20.
Topics presented included
Child Burn Mortality in Tanza-nia, Malaria in Uganda, Chagas Disease in Bolivia, Famine in Somalia and many more.
The students were very knowledgeable on the topics discussed, which pressed on se-rious issues affecting different parts of the world that most of us are unaware of.
“I learned a lot about new topics that I was not informed
about,” said Saddleback Col-lege student Patrick Costa, 21.
This is the third fall honors class to do this Geography of Death project.
Food and beverages were also provided for people at-tending the poster session.
Geography students discuss world death demographics
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Murphy sets trails ablaze
Run MuRphy Run:Will Murphy (right) leaves another opponent in his wake as he makes his
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Saddleback cross country runner Will Murphy shares his passion for the sport and how he prepares for events
way to the front of the pack during the Palomar Invitational, Sept. 9, 2012 at Guajome Park.
rOBerT ShOeMAke / LArIATposted: A poster describing death in the Sichuan Provence of China.
“Black Ops 2” came out last Tuesday, and I have noticed some changes in the mul-tiplayer.
One thing I noticed that is a big change, is the kill streak system has become the score streak system. Rewards are based on how many points earned in one life, which in previous games was based on kills.
The kill streaks are different as well, es-pecially since part of the game takes place in the future.
There are some similar kill streaks such as a VTOL with a gunner or attack dogs. The new rewards that caught my eye were the ones never in a previous “Call of Duty” games such as the Guardian, Dragonfire, and Swarm. The Guardian is a mini-microwave weapon that can stun and if exposed long enough, can kill an enemy; in one match I was killed by it three times because I had no idea it was there and what was going on in my first multiplayer match.
One reward streak that is considered old and new is the Orbital VSAT. It can be con-sidered new because it is a satellite in low orbit, which has never been a reward before but it reveals enemy movement and posi-tions. The fact that it shows players where their enemies are is what makes it an old reward because revealing enemies has been in almost every known “Call of Duty” game whether it’s a spy plane or an unmanned UAV drone.
Another new feature in multiplayer is in the zombie mode known as “Tranzit.”
This game mode allowed me and other players to add additions to the bus as it took us from one location to another. There are several different stops on the bus route, which we found tools to add to the bus’ de-fenses. Two of my allies found two different ladders to allow us to be on top of the bus and my borther found two tools to make a riot shield out of a car door and a small lad-der.
In the other two maps I played a game mode called “Grief” where me and three others played against zombies and another team of four. As the I progressed through earning zombie kills or reviving team mates, I earned new portraits or “emblem” like in multiplayer games such as team death match.
As I completed rounds and the modes
“Grief” and “Tranzit” the new emblem I earned was a cross bones and recently I gained a skull, but I want to earn the skull with blue lights in the eyes. In order to earn the cross bones, the player must complete “Grief” in both the town and farm maps as far as I know because I completed one round in each, which was when I got the cross bones emblem.
In order to progress further however, you must also not only complete the town and farm map, but the bus map (Tranzit) as well. I have not completed “Tranzit” but I know I have to find clues toward something.
It appears that the publisher of “Call of Duty” has come up with some new features besides making three new zombie maps.
Another new feature I liked is the world map that appears when I go looking for zombie game modes. There is only one area unlocked called “Green Run” but I assume that when the new downloadable content comes out they will add more maps and other areas on the world map.
It is a wonder what new features will be made in the next Call of Duty zombie mode if they continue to make them.
“I’m actually enrolled in the honors classes. By the end of the semester; I’ll be sub-mitting my application for the honors program, and I have one open class next semester so I’m thinking about playing tennis for the school.”
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The term ‘Ugly American’ is typically used for those Ameri-cans traveling abroad and dis-playing offensive behavior.
Actually this term started in 1958 during the heart of the cold war and after a novel by the same name was published describing a range of thought-less mistakes Americans typi-cally make.
If you want to travel com-fortably abroad, without being treated like an Ugly American, you have to think less ethno-centric.
For example, if you are in Europe, will they see people socializing only with their noisy American friends, talking loud, using offensive language, or will they discover folk im-mersing themselves in a differ-ent culture, ready and willing to experience new lifestyles and perspectives?
All you really need is the right attitude and some knowl-edge of the dos and don’ts.
Don’t assume English is the only language everyone speaks; Europeans can’t figure how we try to speak only one language.
Don’t criticize their ‘strange’ customs. Remember who the stranger is!
Don’t be a demanding American who throws a fit if things don’t immediately go your way. So what if the air conditioning breaks down … you’re on vacation, so relax! Nobody wants to deal with a mean jerk.
Remember that supersize was invented in your coun-try, so when you get smaller portions on your plate, it isn’t a matter of being ripped off. Don’t compare things to back home.
Ask a local what the appro-priate way to greet someone is. Will you use a handshake, a kiss on the cheek, one or two cheeks? You get the idea.
Europeans think Americans are all poorly dressed. If you make an effort to look well put
together and are clean, chances are you’ll get a better first re-sponse.
Do speak slower and even lower. It’s a good idea to match the voice level and tonality of the other person; it makes them feel more comfortable.
Using slang from your own country typically makes you appear insensitive, so it’s best to avoid it. Think of your vaca-tion as a practice lesson in bet-ter vocabulary and articulation.
Pay attention to what is important to the people you are visiting. For example, if you are in a hotel that values conserving energy, then don’t overstock your towels, just use one. Don’t swipe all of the lit-tle shampoo bottles when you leave. Turn off the lights when you leave the room … just use common courtesy wherever you are.
Just because the German guy next to you lets out a yo-del, doesn’t mean you should run up to him and ask him to do it again so you can take a video with your wife. The cam-era hanging around your neck screams tourist, so remember to be polite always.
Blend in with the locals and ‘do as they do’. In Europe you will probably want to go a soc-cer game or drop into a local teahouse; in Canada maybe go to a hockey game. Or just wan-der through the streets, ride a bus or visit a supermarket. It’s a great way to learn their cus-toms.
The biggest gift you can give both yourself and your new friends is to be observant and respectful, and ask ques-tions about whom they are and what is important to them. Take the time to listen and experi-ence a whole new world.
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“So originally I was on the wrong path at Sad-dleback; but then I saw Carl Williams, the Vet-erans counselar. He set up everything for me to get back on the right track to transfer.”
“I’m going to take time off because I haven’t chosen anything and I feel like I’m wasting my time.”
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Saddleback’s McKinney Theatre hosted a group of extremely talented and athletic performers last Sunday, Nov. 18. The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats performed their 2012 North American Fall Tour Program.
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats performed a variety of stunts ranging from balancing, acrobatics and flips. A wide array of props that were in line with the culture of China were showcased in the event.
The program read, “A truly oriental spectacular and a show for all ages, the grace, and precision of the acrobats are the triumph of years of dedication training and discipline but their art has been formed by centuries of tradition.”
Determinants of skill and precision indeed did shine throughout
the performance where the feats of the performers were applauded constantly by the enthusiastic crowd. Each and every end of a dar-ing performance was met with thunderous applause with each pass-ing one with more appreciation from the audience than the previous one.
“For over 30 years, the Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats have taken audiences on an incredible journey, exploring the depth and breadth of human possibility with artful grace, style, and panache!”
This, of course, was not in any exaggeration to the level of dif-ficulty these performers have to perform in. The truly spectacular feats of this performance cannot be fully expressed through words simply because it takes one’s breath away.
The truly daring feat was when a young male Chinese acrobat had to make and maintain his balance when making a tower of chairs that had to be at least 30 feet in length.
An air of uneasiness grasped the audience as they looked on to
the most daring feat performed by one so young. There was a point when the tower was at its highest point when sounds of “Don’t fall” and “Please be careful” were heard all around the hall.
The whole experience was not without faults and the perfor-mance did suffer minor mistakes that were playfully played off.
Nevertheless it barely made a dent on the whole performance which was a very entertaining and cultural experience. Evidence of this was the standing ovation that the performers received after the finale as they gracefully took a bow.
This event is part of the “Professional Guest Artist Events at Saddleback College.” Upcoming events include “The Nutcracker,” “ An evening of comedy and magic,” the “Minneapolis guitar quar-tet” and the “Eisenhower Dance Ensemble.”
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Kinesiology students and alumni perform their hip hop piece “Hip Hop on the Rise”in McKinney.
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The Winderdance performance was presented by students enrolled in the dance classes through Saddleback College’s Kinesiology program at the McKinney Theatre Nov. 15 at 1 p.m.
Director of the dance chair Dorothy Ander-son Garant, who has been teaching at Saddleback since 1990, said that the Winterdance performance is the 46th concert she has directed.
“The Winterdance 2012 concert is an enter-taining, thoughtful and a diverse evening of dance with pieces like brush on Silk by Sharon Rest haas, heroes by marji himes, At the Edge of the Shadow by Deidre Cavazzi, my own Arachnea and others,” Garant said.
The dance techniques that were used for the performance were ballet, jazz, modern, tap, Latin dance and social dance.
There were a variety of ten performances all together, some which evoked emotion from the audience.
heroes in particular portrayed families waiting for their loved ones who have gone to war.
The family began dancing around military duf-fel bags and were later joined by soldiers who
integrated military training moves into the actual dance.
“i am extremely proud of the dance faculty’s imagination and the dedication given to our stu-dents in preparation for dance as a career,” Garant said.
hip hop on the Rise was an upbeat perfor-mance that excited the audience who cheered and shouted as the dancers spread onto the stage. The dance included Anthony Tuason and Kimberly baglino-Tuason who graduated from Saddleback and who are now invited by the faculty to perform and help choreograph some dances. They both have grown in dance together and have expanded their talents into the professional dance world.
“My career as a dancer and choreographer blossomed all because of this program ... it’s in-credible,” baglino-Tuason said. “it’s done a lot for me and i met my husband!”
in order to be a part of the Winterdance 2013 performance the students must be signed up for dance and production or rehearsal performance classes. The auditions will be held Jan. 24 at 1:30 p.m. and Jan. 25 at 7 p.m.
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The Shangri-La Acrobats display a variety of performances showing off their strength and flexibility for the audience at Saddleback College.HAND iN HAND:
Before coming to Saddleback, campus police officer Santos Garcia had a 30-year career during which he earned a medal for his bravery in a situ-ation that had him pitted against a mountain lion. Garcia retired from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, where he was a helicopter pilot, in 2007 and has been a campus officer for five years. he has a few grey hairs, but that’s nothing against his handsome looks, calm demeanor and physi-cally fit frame. “i have my own work out, i work out three times a week for about an hour, some-times i spend the hour running or i do weight training,” he said.
After retirement he looked for more work as a pilot but found nothing desirable. he did con-sider flying a news chopper, but that required him to fly out of Van Nuys which is “too far of a com-mute,” he said, so he chose Saddleback College to serve as a campus policeman.
his career began in 1977 when he did his required three years as a deputy in the James A. Musick facility that he refers to as ‘the farm.’ Then he did an additional five years on patrol in areas of North Orange County such as Tustin, La habra, Rossmore and Anaheim, where he would change shifts and areas every six months. “if i hadn’t become a police officer i probably would have pursued a law degree and a job prosecuting crimes,” he said.
Garcia sees himself fully retired in the years to come and enjoying his children and grandchil-dren. he speaks proudly about his oldest daugh-ter having just been married. Easily the best days of his life were when his daughters and son were born, while the worst days of his life were spent in Vietnam in the Army as an mP.
“i was in a war zone in Cam Ranh bay, i han-dled the sentry dock and patrolled ammo dumps, which were ammo storage sites and a big target for the enemy,” he said.
Those who had the biggest influence on his life were clearly his parents.
“i really looked up to my father,” he said. his father worked hard as a landscaper at UCi and then as a carpenter he said. he looked up to his
dad the most for the fact that he built their family home from the ground up he said.
“i never did anything i could get arrested for,” he said. As an officer he has done what is referred to as “officer friendly” duties; speaking at schools and at times even speaking for his children’s classes when they were young. his main messag-es were things like “Do the right thing and obey your parents, stay out of trouble and enjoy life.”
he is also the recipient of the medal of Cour-age, which is an award for the display of brav-ery or heroism above and beyond the normal demands of law enforcement service in response to a non-criminal situation. he earned this honor when answering a 911 call for a mountain lion attack of a female bicyclist, Anne hjelle, 30, at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park on Jan. 8, 2004.
“They basically requested that we land and drop off somebody with a gun to protect them be-cause she was mauled pretty bad,” he said. Gar-cia was brought in with his Glock .40 sidearm, providing armed ground protection for the fire and rescue staff that had hiked in and were ren-dering first aid to hjelle.
“her incident occurred at night. She was with a friend and the friend actually pulled her away from the lion,” he said. They were then joined by two other deputies who had also hiked in bearing rifles. From the chopper they saw that the moun-tain lion was still circling and the danger level in-tensified with it being at night.
The chopper, still circling with a spot light, spotted another bicycle down so Garcia and one of the firemen went over to where the bike was and found the remains of another bicyclist, 35 year old mike Jeffrey Reynolds. by this time more officers were showing up on the scene. Garcia stayed with the victim’s remains while the helicopter negotiated the mountain lion’s posi-tion with the rifle armed officers and they were able to shoot and fatally wound the lion. hjelle of Santa Ana, a former marine and fitness instruc-tor was airlifted out and survived. Three deputies received the Medal of Courage for their bravery that day.
ShivAn CeSPeDeSStaff Writer
Campus cop with courage
Into the dance zone
Lariat Comics Campus Events:Saddleback College:
11/29 8 p.m. Winter Winds
12/5 10:30-2:30 p.m. Cause Hope
irvine Valley College:
12/30 8 p.m. Guitar Ensemble
11/30 6:30 p.m. Japanese American Film Series
