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Get your date on

Pros and cons of online dating, as more college students turn toward the computer for love.

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FEATURES

Hitting the ice

Why more people should watch hockey now, and all the time.

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Photo essay: Think pink

The Susan G. Komen Race for a Cure heralds in October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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U.S. soccer heads to World Cup

After defeating Mexico, the U.S. men’s team secures their spot in the Brazil tournament.

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VIEWS

A change in Coast Com-munity College District board policy may have Or-ange Coast College students looking for off-campus plac-es for their smoke breaks.

A recent review of board policies at the district level have led to a revision of board policy 3550, which currently deals with drug and alcohol use on district campuses.

Last July, the Coast Com-munity College District’s three colleges — Orange Coast, Golden West and Coastline — were given until this March to deal with a number of accredi-tation-jeopardizing issues.

The three colleges were all told to correct those issues or face having their accred-itation revoked.

One of the issues that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges found was that the district board policies, which are due for review ev-ery four years, had not been reviewed in seven years.

The board immediately

OCC may become smoke freeThe district board could vote to bantobacco on all three campuses.

BY MELISSA MYERSSTAFF WRITER

As if school isn’t stressful enough, students should also be aware of scam artists that lurk around campus.

They look like normal, av-erage students, but beneath the typical exterior lies a deceitful plot to trick students into buying products that are a scam. Some have even been reported to use force and intimidation on female students.

“Contact campus security im-mediately and we will remove them from campus,” said Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer.

According to Farmer, many of these solicitors show up with groups of people at a time and work their way around campus.

“Sometimes a van comes and drops off four or five of them. They are usually out of state without an ID. Companies hire them and put them up in hotels or motels and they leave in a

Watchout forscamartistsCampus Safety can remove individuals who are selling on campus.

BY MELISSA GONZALEZSTAFF WRITER

Photo by Ben Wightman

A large amount of students took advantage of Orange Coast College’s Transfer Day on Monday in the Quad. It is a valuable event that helps undecided students see some of their options for the years ahead.

For many students at Or-ange Coast College, this cam-pus isn’t their last stop in their educational journey.

For some, transferring to

any four-year campus will do, while others will accept only the best.

Where things get complicat-ed is figuring out how to get accepted to that dream school. According to US News, trans-fer students often have it harder than freshmen when looking at elite schools. Many schools only open up a few spots to transfers.

Successful transfers get involved. They take advan-

tage of the many different programs available to them at OCC. They work hard. They write a killer essay. They do their research. They are confident. Maybe that much is obvious.

Let’s make it personal. April Chaney is a 29-year-

old UCLA student who trans-ferred from OCC in fall 2012. As a high school dropout, UCLA was once a very far away dream.

After an early, less-suc-cessful attempt at community college, she came back an older, more driven student. Her second go at OCC saw her maintain a 4.0.

For Chaney, this was a sec-ond chance and one she was ready to work hard for.

She stresses that UCLA courses are intense. Though classes are more difficult than most of the classes she took at

Former Pirates talk about what set them apart when transfer time came.

BY MELISSA MYERSSTAFF WRITER

A portrait of a successful transfer

One of the first poverty law attorneys Rudolph John Basile died at his Laguna Beach home on Aug. 29. He was 86.

Basile always loved helping the less fortunate. His wife Phillis Basile, a former OCC economics professor and for-mer CCCD vice chancellor of human resources.

Basile came from very hum-ble beginnings.

A son of two Italian im-migrants, he was one of four siblings, said Phillis Basile. His father John worked as a butcher and his mother Maria Raia worked as a seamstress.

Basile was born in 1927 and grew up during the Great Depression.

“Rudolph always gave the advice, ‘don’t personalize, and don’t give up,’” said Phillis Basile.

Phillis Basile said that in addition to her husband’s career choice in poverty law, he was

always interested in helping others.

“Rudolph was always there for those who needed him, and the thing he was most proud of was that,” Phillis Basile said.

Basile practiced poverty law in Laguna since 1971 and he maintained law practices in Orange and Modoc counties.

From the late 1970s to early ‘80s, Basile co-owned the Clamdigger Restaurant in Birch Bay, Wash.

Basile served in the mil-itary during World War II. Afterward, he attended Cath-olic University of America in Washington, D.C. and majored in philosophy and received a juris doctorate from St. John’s University in New York.

He is survived by his wife Phillis; two children, Katy and George; his older broth-er, Matthew; son-in-law, Michael Fero; daughter-in-law, Christina (Faris); and six grandchildren: Kelly, Allie, Shelby, Mostyn, Con-nor and Delaney.

Local poverty attorneydies in Laguna BeachBY SEAN MILLERFEATURES EDITOR

Campus security is watching

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Students smoke in one of the designated areas on campus.

Students might not notice them, but all around Orange Coast College security cam-eras are recording the goings on of campus life.

The college is covered with about 250 cameras that record video that is kept for two weeks, with some exceptions, and is viewed when crime is reported. But, not everywhere on campus is recorded by the eyes in the sky, despite the addition of more cameras last year.

The security camera system gives Campus Safety officers the ability to watch crimes play out live.

“If something happens we could go to that location via camera and radio to the offi-cers on the ground what hap-pened, who the suspect is and which direction he’s going,”

Bai Nguyen, staff specialist for Campus Safety, said.

Mark A. Goode, mainte-nance and operations director mentioned the importance of victims reporting crimes as soon as they happen.

“It’s important to get that victim calling in immediately while the images are fresh, while the suspect might still be in the area,” Goode said. “If someone calls in a week later, you have a weeks’ worth of video to go through.”

Over the summer, three male suspects stole golf carts from faculty at OCC, and then proceeded to take them on joyrides.

Two staff members had called in reporting their carts had gone missing, a third staff member heard about the two carts disappearing so they went to check on theirs, only to find it too had been taken.

Once the first call came in, Campus Safety was able to get a bird’s eye view on the situation to inform the officers on the ground with the suspect’s whereabouts as

they took the speediest tour of OCC’s campus.

The recordings show that the suspects had got to enjoy their little cars for 10 to 15 minutes before their rightful owners realized and called Campus Safety.

Officers were able catch up with them almost imme-diately – after the suspects had caused about $5,000 of damage.

This is not the first time golf carts had been stolen on campus, but it is the first time cameras had helped in that crime.

The presence of cameras hasn’t completely thwarted crime though.

“The majority of crimes that happen on campus we cannot see from the cameras,” Nguyen said.

Some think it would not be feasible to catch every crime.

“It would be physically impossible to have enough cameras to catch everything that happens on campus,”

Security cameras help uncover and deter crime at OCC.

BY SEAN MILLERFEATURES EDITOR

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Class TheftA burglary was reported

on Sept. 24 at 1:10 p.m. in Consumer and Health Science, room 102.

Accord ing to Chie f of Campus Safety John Farmer, an officer was called to meet an instruc-tor and students.

The instructor told the officer that someone took money from her students’ wallets and purses. There were two victims from class who reported theft.

Farmer said one student was missing about $200 and the other about $50.

He interviewed the vic-tims and they said they met one classroom and moved to a lab study.

When the class moved to 201, the students left their personal belongings in the other room. Farmer said one of the students said she was going to stay behind to do paperwork but was distracted by a visitor.

Someone reported a fe-male suspect in the class-room going through the notebooks and then they saw her leave and they knew she didn’t belong in class.

Students went back to class but didn’t notice anything unusual until later in the day, and then they called Campus Safe-ty.

Farmer told them to re-port it to the Costa Mesa Police Department, and they are still reviewing the security tape.

Stolen PhonePetty theft was reported

on Sept. 24. A female student reported

someone stole her phone worth $120, a black AT&T iPhone 3S 16 GB.

Farmer said the student went to the Library to study and was sitting on the benches by the study rooms in the first floor.

Her phone was next to her when someone took it, but she does not know who did it.

Hit and RunA hit and run was report-

ed on Thursday by a male student in the Merrimac Way Parking Lot.

The student’s car is a 2010 Toyota Corolla, silver four door.

According to Farmer, the student says he returned to his car in the evening and found a note on his car from another student who said he witnessed a black BMW hit the car without stopping or leaving a note.

Farmer took pictures of the left rear of the victim’s vehicle for insurance pur-poses.

He was told to make a report with the Costa Mesa Police Department. The witness wrote down his number for further contact information on the hit and run so police also can con-tact him.

CRIMEBLOTTER

— The Crime Blotter was compiled by Maritza Meza from Campus Safety reports.

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More than 25,000 people came out to support the 22nd annual Komen Orange County Race for the Cure at 7 a.m. on Sept. 22 in Newport Beach. The annual event is the nonprofit organization’s largest fundraiser of the year.

Goode said.The reason for the blind

spots is not only because of the odd angles of struc-tures and plants, but also be-cause cameras are not usually zoomed in on specific areas unless there’s a call.

“[The cameras] always work best if it’s a live situation, since we can’t zoom in on a recording too well because it gets blurry,” Nguyen said.

During a live situation, a Campus Safety officer can immediately zoom in and even rotate some cameras by 180 degrees for a better pic-ture of what’s going on via a desktop PC.

“We have cameras in every single parking lot on campus. The position of those cameras varies,” Nguyen said.

Despite this blanket of video protection, some crimes go undiscovered until it’s too late.

“We had a staff member whose car got hit 10 feet from our [Maintenance and Opera-tions] building,” Goode said. “At the time, the [rotating] camera was looking at the driveway. There’s no way to see it, you can’t go after the fact and look at areas that are not videotaped directly, even with 300 cameras we are cov-ering only–I’d say about 20% of the campus.”

In another incident, a stu-dent took off another stu-dent’s rear-view mirror with a skateboard, over a dispute about a parking spot.

The suspect parked in the same aisle as the victim, who returned first and called Cam-pus Safety, who identified the suspect by his car and waited for him to return. The suspect admitted to the crime.

Sometimes, things don’t work out so well.

A girl forgot her phone on the counter inside Starbucks and another girl took it and did not turn it into the lost and found or Campus Safety. Because the suspect had her back turned the whole time, the cameras never got a view of her face and the suspect was never found.

“Unfortunately, the [Cam-pus Safety] desk operations are closed on the weekends so we cannot zoom in or pan the security cameras,” Nguy-en said.

Nguyen said that despite lacking the ability to zoom in and out and pan back and forth over the weekends, they are still recording.

“I do get some complaints about the cameras regarding vehicle traffic accidents and vandalism in the parking lots by students who say there are not enough cameras [to see the crime happen],” Nguyen said.

The majority of cameras on campus are the adjusting and zooming ones. Nguyen demonstrated the camera’s clarity by fully zooming in to view a license plate number across Adams Avenue Parking Lot from on top the stadium.

Power outages will not pose a threat to all security cameras on campus, as they have a plan B for when the lights go out.

“Most of our server rooms have back-up power,” Goode said. “The cameras are plugged into a power over Ethernet or POE switch. So as long as the Ethernet is capable of sending data the camera has power.”

OCC employs seven full-time officers, 12 part-time officers, 12 desk staff and 17 student assistants (parking en-forcement) at this time, and at least two officers are on staff all day, every day.

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“I’m break-ing up with you. Things just aren’t working out. It’s not you...it’s me. I’m keeping the house, the car and the TV. You can keep the dog.”

No, my ex-husband or ex-boyfriend did not tell me that, a stranger on an online dating website did. That was their first message to me.

While growing up, my peers spent middle school through high school dating many dif-ferent people, while I was in a relationship with God. After leaving the church and entering college as a single female, the pickings were slim. I felt as if my biological clock was ticking and as more and more of my friends – even from the church – were getting married around me, I felt like the only single person at a party.

Over time, I started to hear more and more people talking

about meeting their match, and even getting married, through an online dating website. My friends, friends of friends, teach-ers, pastor and even my dentist had positive experiences with it, so I gave it a whirl.

According to statisticbrain.com, approximately 40 mil-lion people have tried online dating, and there are only 54 million single people in the United States. It is no wonder that most people either know someone who has tried online dating, or have used the services themselves.

After a grueling hour of filling out my profile, looking for an attractive photo of myself and paying a hefty fee, I was on the market. Online dating is like going to the grocery store: we pick our matches based on quality, price, dietary content and variety.

I hoped my profile reflected a person who would get a stamp of “Grade A Quality Meat,” because with a click of a but-ton, I could be filtered out by education status, income, career, religious beliefs and a plethora

of other things. “I tried online dating because

I was trying to meet friends. Being gay, well, it’s hard to meet people as it is,” Kristina Johnson, 27, former OCC stu-dent said. “I live in Huntington Beach, and you can’t really trust any superficial bitches around here. People tend to be more real elsewhere. I was trying to get out at a new scene, and meet sober people.”

Traditional values like chiv-alry might not be part of the equation anymore.

It’s such a robotic and emo-tionless process – completely contrary to the notion of dating. There does seem to be a trend toward taking the fast route to dating or even becoming too picky about a potential date. However, easier and faster may not be a bad thing in this case.

“I think online dating is easier than traditional dating because you can really get to know someone on a non-physical level,” Adrienne Terrill, 24, a former OCC student said. “It’s on a level of who they are and what their values are and just

what’s in their heart. You really get down to the soul of a person instead of what they just look like. It’s really a beautiful thing.”

The Internet has made ev-erything in life faster and easier to access. Terrill believes that online dating actually slows down the process of building a relationship. While relationships can be formed just by being seated next to a cute girl or guy in class, you have to question how much you really know about them.

“Nowadays when you meet someone at a bar, or even at col-lege, you move so fast because everyone is having sex, or ev-eryone is drinking, or everyone is doing drugs,” Terrill said. “It’s kind of like, what everyone is doing and when you are meeting someone online it’s not like that. It’s just you and that person, communicating. You don’t have friends around, no pressure.”

Like Terrill, all of my experi-ences have not been bad. There was the guy who just moved to Huntington Beach from New York. He was quite successful

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U n f o r -tunate ly, m o n e y does not g row on trees and I was going broke from traveling Europe.

Realizing that finding work abroad was not as easy as I originally thought, my op-tions were limited. After ruling out prostitution in Am-sterdam and drug smuggling in the eastern countries, I chose the best alternative that I could think of… marriage — just kidding.

After much deliberation, I decided to take a job op-portunity in China as an En-glish teacher so that I could continue to see the world and experience everything. Little did I realize at the time how life changing this choice would prove and I am only one month into my new adventure.

I am currently living in Shanghai, China, and teach-ing high school students American literature (Henry David Thoreau to Walden), history, geography and oral English. I work 12 hours a week, live on the 21st floor of a high-rise for free and make enough money to travel the Asian countries during my five-week vacation during the Chinese New Year.

Despite all of the amazing benefits to my decision, there have been numerous cultural differences that I

was not prepared for. Most notably, having to relieve myself in a filthy hole, with no toilet dividers, toilet paper or soap to wash my hands was an experience I will never forget and be-lieve me, I have tried.

Oh, I forgot to mention it was 90 degrees and humid, so the smell alone threw me into dry heaves of disgust.

Regardless of the cultural dissimilarities, I am thrilled to live here for my 10-month contract and possibly longer. I am excited to immerse myself into a culture that is so different from my own and I am thrilled to discover another side of myself that was previously unfamiliar.

I’m having a blast as I navigate the biggest city in the world based on popu-lation (24 million people) and I am continually enter-tained as people stop me in the streets to take photos, elbow me on the subway for a seat or try their best to financially take advantage of me because I look for-eign to everything they are accustomed to.

In defense , though, watching babies poop on the street, finding whole chicken feet in my soup and having 20 or more mosquito bites all over my body is rather foreign to me as well.

If I had to speculate on the next 10 months of my life, I would guess that both China and myself are in for quite a memorable time together.

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Online dating: the good, bad and the ugly

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OCC Faculty Dance Concert, Oct. 27: Ame-lie Hunter directs the annual Faculty Dance Concert, featuring OCC faculty as performers and choreographers in a mix of Tap, Jazz, Modern, Ballet and World Dance forms. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in ad-vance, $15 at the door.

OCC Concert, Oct. 5: Featuring the new 9-foot Steinway concert piano, music professor Brian Gould will play Gershwin’s “Concerto in F” accompanied by the OCC Symphony, conducted by professor Ricardo Soto.

The program also includes Prokofiev’s “Lieutenant Kije Suite” p e r f o r m e d b y t h e Symphony under the direction of profes-sor Eliza Rubenstein. Professor Paul Navidad will direct the Sympho-ny in a rendition of a “Medley of Gershwin Songs” by OCC instruc-tor Susan Ali.

Event includes des-sert reception in the music classrooms patio following the program. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $15 for general admis

Film“The Sixth Sense,”

Oct. 14: Do you see dead people? Come experi-ence the classic thriller on Movie Night. Games, a photo booth and free snacks. Sponsored by ASOCC/College Life Committee. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. in the Quad.

Art“ S a n Q u e n t i n

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We have entered a new digital age where musicians can perform live and entertain not only a physical audience cheering at the arena, but also a virtual audience that is tuning into the concert online.

This new type of concert was demonstrated at the 2013 iHeartRadio Music Festival, which was streaming online last weekend, Sept. 20 and 21. The music festival, which took place in Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, opened its doors and virtual doors to ex-cited fans all over the country.

The artist lineup at the music festival included Katy Perry, Queen, Adam Lambert,

FUN, Elton John, J. Cole, Muse, Tiesto, Chris Brown, Benny Benassi, Keith Urban, Robin Thicke, The Summer Set, Justin Timberlake, Paul McCartney, Drake, Tim Mc-Graw, Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, Phoenix, KE$HA, Miguel, Zedd, 30 Seconds To Mars, Miley Cyrus and all were broadcasted live on 150 radio stations and streaming online at iHeartRadio.com, Yahoo and various online sites. Plus, the CW Network aired the concert on TV.

Anyone with access to these websites enjoyed the same concert and experienced the same thrill and excitement that those who paid thousands for a ticket and a stay at Vegas. Of course, nothing can ever com-pare to actually being there.

The environment, the fans and the energy of an audience is the perk of attending these kinds of concerts. One’s not only paying to see their favor-

ite artist, but also for the ex-perience. Still, many unlucky fans that missed out on this experience don’t necessarily have to miss out on the show.

I, like many unlucky fans, also watched the concert online and it was awesome. In the comfort of my own home I was “fangirling” out when Paul McCartney and Katy Perry took the stage and I could skip the artist I didn’t want to see.

Many music festivals are also starting to stream their concerts online as well. The iTunes Music Festival in London has been live stream-ing their concerts since the beginning of September and will continue to do so until the end of this month. It’s an interesting time for music and concerts.

Could this lead to more streamed concerts in the fu-ture? Could artists on world tours also give their fans the

option of watching their con-certs online? Possibly.

Does that mean though that people will stop attending concerts and watch them online for free? Absolutely not. The MGM Grand Garden Arena can seat 16,800 people and the iHeartRadio festival

was sold out both nights. It is nice to have an online concert as a last resort when getting tickets is essentially impossible.

For those who missed the concert in Vegas and missed it online, it can be viewed on YouTube.

Music enters the virtual worldiHeartRadio MusicFestival, and other concerts, are nowstreaming online.

BY MELISSA GONZALEZSTAFF WRITER

Photo courtesy of iHeartRadio

Paul McCartney was one of many artists to perform at the iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sept. 20 and 21 in Las Vegas.

Hello, my name is Me-lissa, and I am a recovering binge-televi-sion-watch-ing addict.

When I first got Netflix, I did not think it would be a problem. I was aware of the dangers of it — I have relatives and friends whose lives were ruined by it. However, I figured I could con-

trol my usage of it. I thought to myself, “Hey, everyone has it, everyone is doing it, and I can keep it under control.”

But, I was wrong. Like most people, I used Net-

flix to watch a movie, catch up on a television show I missed, or see what was new out there. At first it was fun. I felt like I was a part of something, and even at times, found a friend in Netflix.

It knew what I liked, had my favorite shows programmed into it and it made me feel good. When I was lonely, I could turn

to Netflix and laugh along with old episodes of “Roseanne” and feel like I was part of their family.

Then things started to change. It turned into some kind of

compulsion. I had to keep up to date with the new programs, I stopped answering my phone if I found a good show and when I did go out with friends, I would find myself checking my watch, wanting to go home to Netflix. At that point, I still didn’t think I had a problem.

“Orange is the New Black,”

a show about a woman’s expe-rience in prison, was released exclusively on Netflix. It was suggested to me by Netflix and since Netflix knows me so well, I decided to watch just one episode.

One episode turned into two, two into three, and then I found myself saying over and over, “Just one more episode and I will go to bed.”

Deep down inside, I knew this was wrong. I knew this was getting out of hand, but I could not stop myself. The sun was starting to come up when I passed out on the carpet of my bedroom, with the remote in my hand.

I woke up groggy, unaware of why I was laying there in a puddle of my own drool, and a fit of anxiety and self-loathing fell upon me. I needed to finish the season.

After the last episode, a pit of emptiness burned inside of me. Tears streamed down my face, remembering the friends and family before me that warned me about the dangers of binge television watching. That was when I knew I had hit rock bottom.

“I think more people are watching television at their own speed and their own time,” mass communications instructor Diana Janas said, “and doing things like watching an entire season or series rather than waiting for it to come on TV.”

Still, Janas sees some positive aspects of binge watching.

“People are using it to be freer in what they do, to control their own ‘gate keep,’ if you will, their television schedules,

have the opportunity to just get into enjoying something all in a row,” she said.

On the contrary, Janas said we live in a society where we need everything on demand. As for the cons of binge watching, she said, “They need to get a life.”

“Arrested Development” was another show released exclu-sively through Netflix, and was the highlight of a June 2013 ar-ticle in “Entertainment Weekly.”

“I will point out that if you take in several episodes of anything in a row, the word repetitive will likely come to mind,” author Mark Harris said in the article.

With ever-growing techno-logical advances, a society is created where now is not fast enough and the idea of mod-eration has been tossed out the window. With freedom comes choice, and with choice, comes responsibility.

“But the choice offered by the all-at-once full-season release of a new show is one that favors the glutton over the savorer, the hare over the tortoise, and the solitary over the shared,” Harris wrote in the article. “It turns TV into something we do alone. And for all the freedom it offers, that feels like a step backward.”

If you, or a friend, suffers from binge television addiction, seek help. Locations for meet-ings of Binge Television Addicts Anonymous will be announced once organized.

The first step to recovery is admitting that you are powerless over your addiction, so after I finish the last season of “Law & Order: SVU,” you might see me there!

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COMMENTARY

I t ’s tha t time of year again, when enormous , heavily pad-ded gentle-men in hel-mets try to crush each other in the n a m e o f sport. That’s right. It’s NHL preseason! You thought I was talking about football didn’t you? Foot-ball, football, football. Hockey knows just how Jan Brady felt, living in the shadow of her more popular sister.

Just because TV ratings seem to suggest that football, basket-ball and baseball are more pop-ular than hockey, doesn’t mean that these sports are superior. In fact, I suggest that hockey com-bines some of the most-loved features of certain other sports, and manages to surpass them in awesomeness.

Fans of basketball will find some things familiar in hockey. In both sports, each team is looking to score by placing their object of play into the opposite team’s net. Both have five play-ers on the field of play at a time,

(not including hockey goalies). Both are team-oriented games, with big stars.

Basketball boasts some of the greatest athletes of all time. Think Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson. Hockey has some serious star power, too! Wayne Gretzky isn’t just known in hockey circles. Neither are Gordie Howe, or Sidney Crosby.

Hockey, like basketball, is fast paced. There are pauses between plays, but there isn’t anywhere near the waiting around that goes on in football or baseball. A 2010 Wall Street Journal study found that there are merely 11 minutes of actual play in an av-erage NFL game – which would take up about four broadcast hours.

A similar Wall Street Journal study found baseball to have about 18 minutes of action per game. Baseball has no time limit and can go on for upward of five hours. With so much ink spilled lately on shortening attention spans, how is anyone lasting a whole football or baseball game?

Hockey offers the intensity of football, with the full contact that baseball lacks, but with

much more action than either sport.

When I say “full contact,” I mean 200-pound men skate toward one another at 20 to 30 miles per hour, with a stick in their hands, and as a part of the game, crush one another’s bodies against the boards sur-rounding the rink. It makes a crunching sound kind of like that breaking celery noise that they use in movies to represent the sounds present in a particu-larly gnarly fist fight.

Oh, and speaking of fist fights, though they’re penalized, fist fights are common and essentially encouraged in NHL hockey. The tradition of fighting is nuanced, and there’s a (mostly informal) system of etiquette involved that governs how and when a player fights.

This makes hockey one of the most charmingly quirky sports around. Interestingly, for all the fighting, there’s an award given at the end of the season to the most gentlemanly play-er – the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.

Then there are the fans. Traditions and superstitions in hockey are.... Well, they’re strange. Strangely awesome

that is. In Detroit, Red Wings fans throw octopi onto the ice to encourage their team. The eight legs of the octopus once stood for the eight wins needed to win a Stanley Cup. That number has changed, but the tradition remains.

The Florida Panthers throw plastic victory rats on the ice when their team is successful. During the playoffs, many play-ers opt to let their beards grow wild, refusing to shave to pre-serve their team’s luck through-

out the run for the Stanley Cup. Speaking of Lord Stanley’s

Cup: When a team wins, two nifty things happen: Every play-er on the team has their name inscribed on the cup, and each player gets one day to spend with their hard-earned trophy. Several players’ days with the cup have become the stuff of legend.

With all its action and idiosyn-crasy, it’s hard not to fall in love with hockey. The new season started Tuesday. Check it out.

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QUESTION of the WEEK

How do you feel about being watched by security cameras ?

“I see it both ways: safety at night when you’re walking by yourself. At the same time, it’s a privacy issue. It depends how intrusive they are with

the cameras.”

Calvin Wong40, business

“It’s rude. It’s an invasion of our privacy, but it’s in agreeance with

us coming here I guess.”

Eric Stockstill21, kinesiology and speech

communication “Didn’t notice ‘til you told me. Doesn’t matter.”

Conner Iriyi19, undecided

“The number [of cameras] seems like an excessive amount.”

Trevor Powers20, computer science

“Surprised, didn’t know that, but I’m just here to do homework and

study.”

Diana Olivares21, biology

Hockey will steal your heart

Melissa MyersStaff Writer

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In hockey, every player on the team that wins the Stanley Cup gets their names inscribed on the cup, as well as an entire day with the hard-earned trophy to do as they please.

Cigarettes are an in-creasingly controversial subject and it seems as though whether you are a smoker or a non-smoker, you are stepping on some-one’s toes.

Coast Community Col-lege District Board Policy 3550 is the most recent discussion to be thrown on the burner in our ASOCC conference room.

BP 3550 deals with the Drug and Smoke-Free Environment and Drug Prevention Program. This policy, in the past, has underlined a complete-ly alcohol and drug free campus.

However, it is now re-vised to also restrict the use of any tobacco product on campus, including but not limited to: cigarettes, pipes, cigars or smokeless/chewing tobacco.

BP 3550 states a hand-ful of reasons for this new potential ban, like the dangers of second-hand smoke or maintaining an educational and healthy environment.

It also extends this rule to faculty, staff, administrators and essentially anyone who sets foot on the Orange Coast College property.

If this policy goes into effect, information about smoking-cessation pro-grams would be provided

to students as needed. In order to ensure com-

pliance, violation of the policy by any student or employee would result in disciplinary action.

During our discussions of this policy there were ample ideas being explored. Some thought the campus should go cold turkey and not allow smoking anywhere from the center of campus to the edg-es of the parking lots, while others thought designated smoking areas would be a better route.

Needless to say, powerful arguments were made for both sides, and our student representatives are relaying as much student opinion as possible back to the District Council.

Interested in joining the conversation? We welcome you to join us at any of our weekly meetings, which are listed below:

• College Life Commit-tee, Mondays and Wednes-days 12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

• Communications Task-force, TBD

• InterClub Council, Tues-days 11:10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

• SGOCC Executive Board, Mondays 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• S G O C C S e n a t e , Wednesdays 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

• Fiscal Affairs Council, Thursdays 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Advocacy Committee, Thursdays 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Smoke-free OCC?ASOCC CORNER

BY KAYLEEN PERLOFFVP OF COMMUNICATIONS

Gun-free zones were created for a good pur-pose: to keep gun crimes f rom hap-pening.

T h i s i s apparent ly because the gun criminal would hesitate before pulling out a 9 mm to murder inno-cent people upon the sight of a gun-free zone sign and think, “Hey, I shouldn’t commit murder here because this is a gun-free zone.”

Maybe if communism worked, gun-free zones would too.

Not all people will follow the rules, though. A much smaller percentage would turn out to be sick, twisted individuals. These are the people who commit heinous

acts like school shootings, not the law-abiding, legally registered gun owner who would always obey the rules and not take their firearm into a gun-free zone.

The latter is undoubtedly the person you would want in control of a firearm in any scenario though.

Sadly, the gun-free zones only protect those few twisted nut cases out there, who now have no one in their way of committing murder for the 10 or so minutes (45 if you live in Detroit) before the police ar-rive to end the horrible thing.

These terrible killings can be put to an end before they escalate if law-abiding citi-zens with the proper licenses are allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights wherever they choose.

Although I might have all the Californians up in arms with this (please excuse the

pun), it really is only as dan-gerous as driving a vehicle.

You can take 30 or more lives if you are a maniac and decide to crash into a bus, shopping mall or local pre-school at high speed. These people will be just as dead as 30 gun victims. I don’t see car-free zones around motorways.

The media has done a good job at demonizing gun owners over these killers, calling for stricter legislation – some-times preceding executive orders being issued by the president (who usually can’t get his laws through Con-gress) to further restrict and demonize legal gun owners.

This has left many people wrongfully afraid of guns, so much so they are willing to give up their rights for a false sense of security, which may actually be more dangerous now than before it was made “safe” with gun-free zones.

Sean Miller

Features editor

Gun-free zones? No wayCourtesy of USA Today.

Police responded to the recent mass shooting at U.S. Navy Command Complex in Washington, DC.

commenced rev iewing , which is where board policy 3550 came up.

As currently written, the policy prohibits the use of drugs and alcohol on district

property. It’s currently under re-

view to add the use of to-bacco products. It is unclear if the policy will extend to “e-cigs.”

It does, however, extend beyond students. The rule

would apply to faculty, staff and visitors as well.

Golden West already has a similar policy in effect. It’s the policy of their cam-pus, that smoking is only allowed in the parking lots, rather than on the campus

itself. UCLA also implemented

a policy regarding nicotine use, by outright banning all products containing the substance on university property, which includes the dorms. Stress during

finals time has led some students to smoke inside the dorms, which set off smoke alarms, disrupting study patterns and wasting resources, UCLA student sources said.

The item is still under re-

view. If adopted, the policy will be in effect for four years, until the next board review.

Each campus wi l l be able to decide individually how to implement such a policy.

SMOKE: The Coast Community College District is considering making Orange Coast, and its other colleges, tobacco free.

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Orange Coast College’s women’s volleyball team is currently 5-0 for the year. Part of the reason why the lady Pi-rates are undefeated is because of the leadership of freshman outside hitter Sierra Brown.

“Sierra has done a lot of good things for our team, as she improves. Her best game was against Pasadena where she came through at the end of the game,” head coach Chuck Cutenese said.

Brown, 19, an undecided major, had 31 kills and 22 digs in the game against Pasadena on Sept. 20.

“I like playing volleyball at OCC. I get to have fun while I compete at a high level,” Brown said.

A graduate of Newport Harbor High School, Brown started playing volleyball during her freshman year when her father Bill, coach of Orange Coast College’s women’s beach volleyball team, inspired her.

Eventually, she would play on varsity during her senior year.

“I liked playing at New-port Harbor, but I never got a chance to express my full potential,” Brown said.

Brown’s high school varsity coach Dan Glenn said she worked hard.

“Sierra was a real hard worker for our team during her senior year. She helped us a lot when we were in the playoffs. I’m very excited on the success shes had at Orange Coast College, and I wish her the best,” Glenn said.

Life hasn’t always been easy for Brown. During her fresh-man year of high school, her mother divorced her father.

“It was a tough time for me during my freshman year, but after a while, I got over it and moved on,” Brown said.

Team captain Courtney Chadderdon, 19, environ-mental science, talked about Brown’s improvement for the team.

“Sierra has been a player that we can rely on. The thing she’s improved on the most is her attitude. She’s brought a lot of positive energy, which makes her really important for our team,” Chadderdon said.

The team returns to the volleyball court at 6 p.m. this Friday in their first con-

ference game against Saddle-back College at home.

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The United States defeat-ed Mexico 2-0 on Sept. 10 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, to se-cure their tickets to South America.

The victory marks the fourth win over the Mexi-cans at the Columbus venue after World Cup qualifying victories in 2001, 2005, 2009 and now 2013, making the stadium a fortress for the Americans.

With two games left in the qualifying stages, the win also marks the second consecutive time that the U.S. clinched a spot in the tournament with victories over their ailing ri-vals to the south.

“It’s great to do it sooner than later, but to get it against your rival is even sweeter,” said USMNT captain Clint Dempsey in an interview with ESPN.

Dempsey, who will partic-ipate in his third World Cup tournament, was given the captaincy for the first time this year after impressing boss

Jurgen Klinsmann.Vast improvements in the

system of the U.S. Soccer Federation, including the hiring of Klinsmann, who has coached and participated as a player for soccer pow-erhouses such as Germany, have allowed the Americans to catch up to the dominance set by the Mexicans over the past two decades.

Up next for the U.S. are the two remaining qualifying matches against Jamaica and Panama.

Regardless of the two re-maining qualifiers, it’s hard not to say that all eyes are already set on the summer of 2014.

First though, the tourna-ment’s final draw, which is used to determine each team’s opponents in the group stage, will be held on Dec. 6 in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

The tournament, which is scheduled to start on June 12, consists of 32 countries who have qualified through a pro-cess by the six FIFA Confed-erations. The host country is always reserved a place, with the remaining 31 slots being determined by qualifications.

It’s up to the boys in stars and stripes to determine whether we, as supporters, experience it for the better or for the worse.

Freshman Sierra Brown brings positive energy to the team.

BY TERAN RODRIGUEZSPORTS EDITOR

Freshman phenomenon

Photo by Ben Wightman

Freshman Sierra Brown, 19, is new to the women’s volleyball team, but is already making her mark with her positive attitude.

OCC, there were a number of factors at OCC that she felt helped her prepare.

“The honors program, with-out a doubt,” was a major factor in helping Chaney get in the door, she said. It also helped that she chose a major that was not impacted (geography), and of course, it all boils down to hard work. She used ratemypro-fessor.com to seek out rigorous teachers who were nonetheless fair. At Coast, she recommends taking honors classes from Professor Mark Roessler (gov-ernment) and Professor Erik Rangno (English) to get a taste of what major university courses expect.

Michael Gandy is a 37-year-old who transferred to UCLA this fall with a 4.0 GPA.

Like Chaney, he was a poor student in high school. He decid-ed to join the Marine Corps, and after he was discharged, spent a few years in the workforce before enrolling at OCC.

Gandy founded the Alpha chapter of Omega Psi Sigma, the political science honor society at Coast. He’s a Garrison Fellow, and also received the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Undergrad-

uate Transfer Scholarship. In addition to the honors program, Grandy feels that students need to believe in themselves first and convert adversity into positives.

“Everyone encounters ad-verse conditions in life. These arduous times should be per-ceived as an opportunity, used to test the bounds of a person’s capability,” Gandy said. “We must face these challenges in order to reach our full potential.”

It’s inspiring to see students work hard, and build their own futures, but it leaves a lot of questions.

Mostly, how does a similarly driven student follow in their footsteps?

According to transfer sta-tistics available on the school website, OCC is one of the top California community colleges for transfer.

Leadership is an important component of many highly successful applications, as is a good GPA.

At Coast, the Associated Stu-dents office is a great place to start when looking to get in-volved on campus. Of course, outside leadership and volun-teerism count as well, but many find that getting those hours is more easy when done right on

campus. It’s important not to over

schedule though. Student lead-ers often forget that they are students first.

Placing studies first is critical, because in many institutions, GPA is the most important factor.

Individual schools offer more information about their GPA requirements, but remember those are minimums. The av-erage GPA of admitted UCLA students in the College of Letters and Sciences in 2013 was 3.72. That’s a far cry from the 3.2 minimum.

For many appealing transfer institutions, like Stanford and UC Berkeley, the admissions es-say can be even more important than a GPA. Crafting a good one is necessary.

The Transfer Center, on the second floor of Watson Hall, can help with the essay. The center even offers workshops on essay writing, as well as applications in general. They also arrange campus tours of some of the more desired transfer campuses. Information is key.

The more you know about the school you want to go to, the better prepared you will be.

Another common thread

among many successful transfer students is participation in the OCC Honors Program.

It has transfer arrangements with amazing schools, including UCLA, Georgetown, NYU and Columbia, just to name a few.

A student who maintained a 3.25 GPA could already qualify to enroll.

Looking to transfer next year is Sara Nordstrand, a 20-year-old political science major. Nordstrand is looking to go to UC Berkeley or UCLA. She’s also considering a number of private institutions.

“I have taken rigorous class-es at Coast, both honors and non-honors and I believe they have prepared me very well for what my future academic journey has to bring,” she said.

Nordstrand keeps busy as well, seeking out opportuni-ties to serve at OCC. She sits on the Advocacy Committee, is involved in Participatory Governance, and is the current president of Omega Psi Sigma.

Her applications will be head-ing out this fall.

Each student is one-in-a-mil-lion. It’s up to each individual to decide whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

U.S. clinchesWorld Cup berthThe national men’s soccer team will compete in Brazil next summer.

BY IGNACIO CERVANTES JRSTAFF WRITER

TRANSFER: Former Orange Coast students share their tips on transferring.From Page 1

couple of days,” Farmer said.These campus solicitors sell

anything from magazines and perfumes to spa packages and hair products, and they always ask for cash or a personal check.

Student Elizabeth Prado, 19, undecided, has encoun-tered these solicitors on cam-pus during finals week. The solicitor kept trying to get her to buy hair stuff.

“The guy kept insisting I buy the thing, but he finally got tired of me saying no and he left. I should have told one of the security guards, but I was stressing

over my final,” Prado said, adding she wasn’t sure if they were even allowed on campus.

According to Farmer, as long as these solicitors are given permission and are ap-proved by the ASOCC they are allowed on campus, but only in the free speech zone. Yet, while some solicitors follow the law, some choose not to.

Solicitors who roam the campus are in violation of the law.

“In the California Penal Code, there is a section that makes it illegal for anyone to disturb the natural flow of students on campus,” Farmer

said.Some solicitors also can

get violent. According to Farmer, there have been many instances where wom-en reported being manhan-dled and intimidated into paying for the scam. One female student also had a solicitor come to her house because she gave him too much information.

Students should be on the lookout for these solicitors. If a student feels like they have been scammed, the best thing to do is let a security guard know and possibly contact the bank to cancel the transaction if they used a check or a credit card.

SCAM: OCC students need to be aware of vendors on campus.From Page 1

for a man of 26. So success-ful, in fact, he offered to buy me a new car after the trans-mission in my beat-up ’89 Buick Electra blew. Pretty nice guy, eh?

I had known him for about a week and since he made six figures a year, it seemed like a totally rational thing to offer someone you bare-ly know. After explaining to him that was a little bit crazy (and I may have used different wording), I decided to look elsewhere.

Then there was the man who I could only describe as a mixture of Robin Wil-liams, Jim Carrey and Ted Bundy. He was a lot of fun, but something told me it was probably not a great idea to take up his offer to go on a road trip in a secluded area of the woods to go hunting.

“Sometimes online dating and regular dating can have the same ups and downs. I

mean, a psycho is a psycho. I think it’s easier to find psy-chotic people online,” John-son said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re online or offline, two faced is two faced.”

For me, not all of it has been bad. I had a two-year relationship with a great guy that is still my friend, and most of the men I met are generally shy, kindhearted individuals.

With online dating, some may perceive it as a way to hide behind a computer screen, but in reality it gives people the opportunity to show their true colors in a comfortable setting and in the privacy of their own home without the judgment of people around them.

I may have not met Mr. Right quite yet, but in a way, online dating is like looking for a job. For every 100 ap-plications you put out there, you get a call back from two or three that you are really interested in.

DATING: Tales of online courtship.From Page 3