Vol. LXI • No. 1 • October 29, 2011 Los Angeles Harbor College Wilmington, CA

What’s insideCampus Comments........page 5meatless mondays.......page 6steritt exhibit............page 7

10 reasons................page 2letter to editor.....page 3mosquito attaCks...page 4

by alexandria merChant

Assistant Editor

Numerous students un-der the age of 21 have openly admitted to par-ticipating in the use of alcohol. Although many believe this is a problem, when does it really start tinkering on the edge and becoming an out of con-trol issue? Alcohol, drugs and edu-cation are three words day to day people wouldn’t normally de-scribe in the same sen-

tence, but it is becoming a widespread concern that the public should be aware of. “I’ve had friends actual-ly mix alcohol and sprite in a bottled container and bring it to school” said an underage drinker who didn’t want to incrimi-nate themselves.Other students suggest that attending class high on Marijuana helps them concentrate better and quote on quote “get the job done.” Is this true? How long has this been

going on? Are teachers alert about this popular trend? Quite frankly this is college, and in college the way one handles their educa-tion is their prerogative, but things can so quickly take a turn for the worst. The daily news is filled with crime; studies sug-gest that over 50 percent of those crimes are relat-ed to the consumption of Alcohol and drugs. The question lingers rather or not Los Ange-les Harbor College will

ever be at the center of local news? With alcohol known to increase ag-gression and the use of alcohol possibly taking place on campus, any-thing can happen. “If a faculty member alerts us of a student be-ing high we will monitor that student while they are here on campus. We will then find out if the student is under the in-fluence of alcohol or any other medical drug, an ar-rest will only be made if a crime has taken place.”

Said Officer Phillip W. Powdrill, campus sheriff. Young people look at alcohol as a popular gateway to social accep-tance. It’s used as a sym-bolism of fun, people en-joy the ease it brings and the company that comes with it, not realizing that danger is no more than a few cups behind. Alcohol is part of the western culture, to pre-tend that the kids of this generation will grow up being completely off drugs and alcohol is sim-

ply unrealistic. “If students have a prob-lem with alcohol and drugs they can go to the student health center and someone will assist them in counseling.” Said Nurse Carole Stevenson. She also mentioned that she’s working on a school hot line for stu-dents who struggle with alcohol and drug abuse as well as suicidal issues. The health department is located in café 110.

Alcohol becoming a growing problem on campus

by andreW laszaCs

Tides staff writer Los Angeles Harbor College has an interna-tional program available for students from all over the world that offers transfer and non transfer degree courses. The pro-gram is run by the direc-tor of the international student program, Profes-sor Paul Grady and his senior office assistant Miss Kaman. The pro-gram also hosts the inter-national student club that meets every Thursday from 10-11a.m. in the in-ternational student room. The cost of tuition isn’t exactly pocket change but, the programs of-fered at Harbor allow the students to get all their general education cred-its out of the way before they finish their major at a university. The program costs some universities such as Long Beach state, where according to http://csulb.edu, the cost of tuition for a non resident at-tempting to take 12 units is $7584.00 per semester. LAHC only costs $3,483 a semester for Interna-tional students enrolled in the program and with Annual savings of over $8,000 on tuition.

“I love Harbor Col-lege, one of the reasons I chose Harbor College is because of the friendly environment and profes-sor Grady really goes out of his way to make sure he is available to you if you have a problem or need help.” said Ethan Chang, President of the International Club.. “The international program has been wonderful to my experience so far and I would highly recom-mend it. “ The club, which has meetings every Thursday isn’t only available to in-ternational students. All students are welcome. “The whole purpose of the club is to bring cultural awareness to the school that we have many different students from all over the world, and for people like me to learn the American cul-tural.” Chang said Students are told to stay active and positive be-cause when you’re an in-ternational student it’s a whole new atmosphere. You don’t know much and it can be intimidat-ing, just stay active and don’t be afraid to be ad-venturous. The Club can be reached at (310) 233-4111 or LAHCworld@lahc.edu

International club spotlightby kymberly laCey

Tides staff writer

Smoking on college campuses has been an issue for many years. More than 500 colleges across the country have created a smoking ban, or at least designated smoking areas. At Los Angeles Harbor College, many students and facul-ty members have agreed that they would enjoy seeing similar actions taken. They don’t ap-preciate having to walk across campus to get where they need to go, traveling through clouds of smoke. The smoking issue was discussed during a LAHC board meeting in 2009, which included board members as well as students. The com-mittee suggested a stu-dent survey be put out so that the student body would be given the op-portunity to voice their opinion. Although be-ing a very creative idea, this was never followed up on. In the 2009 Los Angeles Harbor Col-lege General Student Survey, many students seem to have been op-posed to smoking being allowed on campus, and included comments that they would like to see more patrol of smoking

in and around building entrances, more signs around campus buildings to indicate smokingprohibition, and for the campus to be entirely smoke-free. The current opinion on campus seems to be mixed: few students areopposed to banning smoking completely, some think that designat-ed areas would be more appropriate, while others feel that banningsmoking would be ben-eficial to their health. When revealed to stu-dents that a citation would be given (not toexceed $100), they seemed a little more opinionated on the mat-ter. Culinary Arts stu-dent Michael Devine, 20, completely disagrees with the fact that smok-ing might be banned. Devine feels that it willlimit his break time, and that he would “most likely get a little edgy and wouldn’t be able to concentrate in class.” Among those who sup-port designated smoking areas but not a total banis Business Administra-tion student Jennifer Lo-pez, 25. Lopez works ata hospital and knows all of the negative conse-quences of smoking andsecondhand smoke, but feels if people wish to

endure those it shouldbe their choice. Former smoker and Music major Anoosh Yaraghchian, 21, fully agrees with banning smoking completely. Yaraghchian feels that the smokers around cam-pus have no consider-ation for others around them, and that the litter-ing of all the cigarette

butts around campus is affecting nature. “Banning smoking on campus will help me not have to endure the affects of secondhand smoke,” Yaraghchian says. “I myself havebeen smoke free for 25 days.” Only time can tell how this will affect students at Harbor if it is passed.

Photo by Kymbely lacey

smoking: This would make harbor a smoke free school

Campus smoking to be banned?

Harbor Tides

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2 October 2011

By Ryma TifritTides staff writer

I was on campus about a week ago enjoying a beautiful sunny Califor-nia day, when I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on a conversation taking place on the bench-es right next to me. I glanced over quickly and noticed three young male students giving their opinions or “grad-ing” the girls that walked by. They had taken it upon themselves to rank the girls from 1-10 add-ing rude remarks about their appearances. I felt ashamed at that moment that someone could be so shallow, but in hopes of something positive com-ing out of the situation I proceeded with caution and kept on listening. In a sociology class I had taken a few years back, we learned that males are worse at criticizing

females than females are at criticizing their own kind. I must admit I was quite surprised. I had always thought wom-en to be harsher critics amongst society. I listened intently ana-lyzing and trying des-perately to comprehend the male mind which resulted in nothing more than a sense of shame and a lack of understand-ing as to why males’ per-ception of beauty is so distorted, perhaps it is in their genes I pondered. I refused to accept that as a legitimate excuse. The majority of males I know between the ages of 21 and 30 say that looks are very important to them, but they’re not looking for just any type of good looking female, they’re looking for the perfect “10.” Now let’s remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what one man may define as

beautiful may not be the same as another’s. Most males I know ex-pect a woman to stay in shape, they want legs for days, curves here and there, the beautiful long locks, well, they want it all and they emphasize on this before personal-ity. When it comes to her personality I’m usually given the same flat an-swer, “oh and a great personality of course.” So what could it be that has created a society of superficiality and con-trived misconceptions about how a woman is supposed to look? Well, I blame the entertain-ment industry or the Hol-lywood image of beauty as I like to call it. It’s not easy to miss the fact that Hollywood focuses primarily on looks, and women are portrayed as close to perfect as possible. This leaves me with the ques-

tion what kind of mes-sage are we sending out to women and men? Are we perhaps putting pres-sure on woman to look a certain way? Dress a cer-tain way? And if so how does this affect them on the inside? Perhaps we are shaping

our future generations to view women as objects of desire rather than a human being. Instead we should be teaching them that these fictional char-acters portrayed on the cover of magazines and movies are not what the average woman looks

like on a daily basis. And with 6 hours of hair and makeup, an extremely strict diet and regimen, not to mention a skilled photographer with an ex-cellent Photoshop tech-nique we would all look like a perfect 10.

Are men only interested in looks at L.A. Harbor?

Photo by Ryma tifRit

perfeCt: some of The producTs women use To accomplish perfecTion

10 reasons why Harbor is a good place to attendby espoir ChiCk

Tides staff writer

In order to jump, one must first bend down; When we see darkness, we should be happy because light is next. On the first publication of the school newspaper this semester, I wrote a piece in which the ar-gument of Los Angeles Harbor College being the worst in the district was put forth. This ar-gument was mainly to grasp the reader’s attention before being redirected by the right tides. So those ten reasons were used as a low point from which we can gather momen-tum and jump into the sky, well, this is the time to get off the ground. The Location: Harbor Col-lege is the one college in all of California that stands truest to the nomenclature of such institutions. LAHC is a Com-munity college in every sense of the word. Take El Camino community college for in-stance, ask ourselves what community that belongs to; Torrance? Gardena? Redondo Beach? The prospective cit-ies go on quite lengthily, but at Harbor College, we are lo-cated in a real community of real people where we are the main attraction. Santa Monica or Long Beach colleges can’t say that can they? The parking: On most cam-

puses, parking a car for one day on the parking lot without paying results in immediate ticketing but Harbor College parking enforcers have a heart. I have been parking there for five weeks now and still haven’t been ticketed. I hope the parking enforcers don’t read this for my sake. The dress code: In my years at Santa Monica College, I sat on the same chair as Arnold Schwarzenegger and watch girls dressed up like Nicole Schlesinger. In other words, it is a campus of ‘wannabes.’ Those who go out their way to show a bright outside are likely dull inside and vice ver-sa. Thus it is safe to conclude from LAHC dress code that the mind of the student body is quite bright. The teachers: It would be a superfluity to point out the qualification of LAHC teach-ers, but what is worth noting is their dedication. Seldom are teachers absent from class and when they do, as in the case of Administration of Justice in-structor Ralph Webb, the class is notified weeks in advance and an activity is set up for the given day, now that is what I call caring volume one. The students: The student body at Harbor College is more or less a family or at most a tight neat community. Walk-ing to and from class on the

daily basis, one comes across the same faces to a point of in-tense familiarity. The food corpse: The school restaurant offers something not even the United States government offers, transpar-ency; The side windows of the restaurant are always open such that passing students can see their meal in preparation, I personally can ask for nothing more. Campus restrooms: I have never seen anyone smoking weed in the campus restroom and that is commendable. Dur-ing my years at Long Beach City College it was not strange to have the fire department called for smoke in the bath-room. Some of the restrooms might not have mirrors, but not everyone enjoys looking at themselves as much as the crazy guy who wrote the arti-cle about Harbor being deplor-able, what a jerk! The School Website: False advertising is a contemporary trend in the human experi-ence where people always try to make themselves appear much better than they really are; Harbor goes for no such falsehood. What you get on the website is what you get on campus, nothing more nothing less! The Sports fan: In their sea-son opener, the Volleyball girls were killed off the court by

their El Camino counterparts, but that would have been hard to tell by the endless enthu-siasm on behalf of the home fans. Parents, friends and oth-ers cheered their losing team simply for the effort and pas-sion they threw into the game and the same atmosphere is present in the women’s soccer games. The Bus system: Several bus lines run on the 110 freeway right above our Harbor roof but that is just the tip of the iceberg. The two major lines running for Harbor students

are the 205 and the 232. The latter line runs four times an hour during peak hours, mak-ing stuff quite convenient for students. The 205 takes a step further, it does not run as often but it is almost like a private taxi given the proximity of its bus stop to the campus. I take a music class in the morning and the bus drops me off feet away from my classroom, how cool is that? With today’s economy, every student can use help from public transportation and harbor College makes this help quite easy to get.

Photo by Sunny Zahidin

reasons: harbor’s new parking makes parking easier

Harbor Tides

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3October 2011

Upon reading your “Food for Thought” editorial, one must ask several questions. First, have you ever actually stepped foot into the school’s cafeteria during breakfast hours? Second, how much do you think lamb shank costs per pound? I could go on, but let’s move forward. I have it on pretty good au-thority that, never in the four years that the program has existed, have lamb shanks been served for breakfast. This is coming from Chef Giovanni Del Rosario, Chef Instructor for the entire Cu-linary Arts program. As for the measly five dollar por-tion cost, this price covers your entrée, choice of both vegetables and starch, and a soup or salad. For com-parisons sake, let’s look at the price of just lamb shank. We at the school get it for $5.85 per pound because we are able to buy in bulk from a large purveyor. In your typical grocery store, if they carry lamb shank at all, they will charge around $7.99 per pound. This price doesn’t even take into consideration the cost of any of the other ingredients on the plate. Then again, that’s not the only factual error made in your article. I’m going to go ahead and let you in on our trade secret; the super secret handshake, nod and wink known only by an elite group of students that grants you access to the breakfast and lunch menu. As you walk into the cafeteria, let’s say you’re coming from the open courtyard just outside, look to your right. If you do so, you will see two friendly women standing by a cash register. TO your left will be an assortment of freshly baked pastries. You walk up to the register, smile at the woman who greets you and look to your left. Now, here’s the really important part, if you look to your left, hiding in plain sight is a menu, full of all sorts of breakfast and lunch faire with very reason-able prices. Included on this list is your pancakes and egg special, eggs over easy with bacon and toast, French toast, waf-fles, breakfast burritos and an assortment of other break-fast classics, including the weekly special, all cooked to order. I happen to know for a fact that we serve eggs eleven different ways: over easy, over medium, over hard, sunny side up, basted, poached, scrambled, French omelets, America omelets, hard boiled, and soft boiled.

Not to mention, if you ask, I’m sure we could whip up a baked egg as well. Breakfast is served until 10:45 and then the switch is made to lunch where we grill up burgers to order, make our own hot wings, nachos, French fries, pizza and patty melts. Breakfast could be served all day long, but that would require something we, as one of very few programs actually in the black, are solely lacking: funding. Ah, that brings us to your next point quite nicely. What is the major difference be-tween the food programs you so diligently mentioned and our own? If you an-swered the amount of mon-ey invested, you’re today’s big winner. Whereas some schools might be able to provide the facilities needed for a better food service sys-tem, we have to make due with what we have. We have to scrounge up what little equipment we can, buying what we need from the stock of what other schools have deemed too old to continue to use. WE actually cannot, by California Health Codes, have a sandwich line in the cafeteria. This is because of a lack of proper equipment. As for the grill with freshly made burgers, the pizza, and such, we do provide these things, and to quite a few people. As for the “Highly re-garded Harbor Grill,” let me enlighten you. The Harbor Grill had one griddle and a salad bar, both of which we have currently. It was oper-ated by workers who were not certified Food Handlers in the state of California, un-like the students and faculty that now prepare your food. Basically, it provided fewer options, questionable sanita-tion, safety and regulatory practices, all for around the same price. Where the food and pricing are concerned, let me ask you this: have you been to a fast food restaurant lately? Every single combo or meal will cost you at least $5.00 at Jack and the Box, Burger King, Carl’s Jr. the list goes on and on. Meanwhile, in the cafeteria, you can get braised lamb shake with potatoes au gratin and pan roasted asparagus with your choice of soup or salad for $5.00. Or, if you’re in the mood for something simpler we offer the same burger and fries combo for less. Hiring staff to provide food will ac-tually increase cost to bring in the same amount of rev-

enue. This is due to the fact that you will have to actually have to pay people to work. Not to mention providing them with the facilities, equipment, and food needed to produce said meals. As a Culinary Student, this article is extraordinarily insulting. Saying that stu-dents should not be tasked with proving food is akin to saying journalism students should not be tasked with writing a newspaper for stu-dents. The facts of the ar-ticle are flat out wrong, the research is shoddy and yet, it is put on display for all to see in our school’s newspa-per, highlighted in a shadow box so that people really pay attention. The grammar has numerous errors as well. For example, “Instead we get lamb shanks. And other such things.” That should be one sentence, not two, as the sec-ond half is a fragment, some-thing that wouldn’t even get past your typical word processor. “No that would be too much like subway,” the word subway should be capitalized, like so: Sub-way. Capitalized, it refers to the largest restaurant chain in the country. In the lower case, subway refers to the main mode of transportation for New Yorkers. “…. for-mer college President Linda M. Spink, shut the highly regarded Harbor Grill,” I be-lieve you meant to say shut down, as that is the only thing that makes sense. In some sentences you spell the word “vendors” in others, it’s “venders” there should be some consistency here, pick one and stick with it. And last, but certainly not least, the very line of your article, “Cause the food that we are being served today sucks,” contains yet another error. I believe the word you were looking for is because or even ‘cause. As it is, I am writing this rebuttal with a cause in mind. I aim to fur-ther the cause of all Culinary Practitioners, to provide people with better, healthier food, at lower costs, some-thing we practice every day for preparing food for the students of Harbor College.You have offered your ques-tion, I pose a different one. What is it going to take for students to get better jour-nalism here at Harbor? Be-cause the articles we are reading today suck.

Brendan CollinsCulinary

letter to the editor

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by lisa goetz

Assistant editor

I was recently giv-en the opportunity to earn extra credit for a class by attending the Los Angeles County Fair. Although I am a fiend for extra cred-it, I had not planned on going after learn-ing of the contro-versy surrounding the fair’s elephant rides. The rides were conducted by Have Trunk Will Travel, an organization that was recently investigated by Animal Defenders International. The animal rights group released undercover video which shows elephants being “beaten about the body and legs with bull hooks” and “re-peatedly given elec-tric shocks with hand held stun guns . . . [an elephant] cries outwhen being shocked into performing a headstand.” As an advocate for animal rights I was not going to give money to an event that profited from the abuse of elephants. However, the fair has several offers available for free ad-mission, including donating books or canned food, so on the last Friday of the fair season a friend and I made the trip up to Pomona. We decided to free two birds with one key, determined to do outreach for the ele-phants while earning my extra credit. We went inside the main barn which housed pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, and chickens. We heard loud, persistent moo-ing coming from the first pen, which held several cows and two recently born calves. As we joined the crowd of onlookers,

the mother’s loud moos subsided to in-termittent, soft moos toward her calf, who was taking unsteady steps around the pen. The watchful mother followed behind, then began bellow-ing loudly toward the crowd. “I think she wants us to leave,”my friend said. We moved on. We passed pig rac-es and horse races, a bear show and a shark show. We saw racks of ribs on a spit and people eating gi-ant turkey legs. Theanimals that people were just fawning over inside the barn, baby versions of which their children were chasing in the petting zoo, were now slathered with barbecue sauce for their consumption. As a vegan, this was also disheartening. I had wondered earlier if the fair took this into consideration, when I noticed signs around the cattle penwith kid-friendly facts on dairy pro-duction, on signs with cute, Holstein-print borders — even though the cows in-side the pen were An-gus, used for beef. I guess baby cows are cuter when you’rethinking about ice cream, I thought, than they are when you’re thinking about hamburgers. The bear show and elephant rides both had large signs de-

scribing the organi-zations’ commitment to wildlife conserva-tion, and the prior isalso described as “cute, cuddly furry . . . performing pets” by the L.A. County Fair website. Curious about what carting wild animals around the country to per-form tricks for peo-ple could possibly have to do with con-servation, we took a seat at the bear show, presented by Welde’s Big Bear Expedition. But after watching the grizzly bear bal-ance on a ball, we decided we weren’t learning anything and moved on to the elephants. I watched the two female elephants giv-ing rides inside the small tent,and took the opportu-nity to engage in con-versation with otheronlookers. While there were still peo-ple participating in the rides,the consensus among the crowd was pri-marily disapproval. I was ableto pass out fliers de-scribing the investi-gation by ADI, sev-eral peopleapproached me on their own to ask questions after real-izing why I wasthere, and one teen-age girl was so over-come with emotion afterlearning of the cruel-ty that it brought her to tears.

L.A. County Fair: Not fair for animals

Photo by liSa GoetZ

fair: gary Johnoson seen here wiTh his elephanT

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by stevie domingo

Tides staff writer

The Fifth Annual Walk for Lupus Now at Expo-sition Park in Los Ange-les was an accomplished turnout. The Lupus Foundation of America hosted the event, and the organization reports that there were 5000 walker-sand 100 volunteers who participated in the event on Saturday, Sept. 24. The fundraising goal of $225,000 was exceeded with the donations from the walk totaling over $255,000. Several Hollywood stars were in attendance, in-cluding Eduardo Xol of ABC’s Extreme Make-over: Home Edition and Busy Philipps from television series Cougar Town. LFA National Board Member Randall Winston took the liber-ty of cutting the ribbon for the start of the walk. Other celebrities included writer and producer Joss Whedon, actress Feli-cia Day from The Guild, Grant Imahara from Dis-covery Channel’s Myth-busters, actress Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon of Dr. Horrible’sSing-Along Blog, and ac-tress Kay Panabaker. Students from all over the Los Angeles and the South Bay area attend-ed this family-friendly event. Some were retun-ing activists participat-ing in their fourth or fifth walk and others attended

for the first time. Community college stu-dent Daniele Ambrose, 21, was diagnosed with Lupus just 1 year ago. With this being Am-brose’s first walk, conquering the adapta-tion and lifestyle of the sickness seemed possible. “This is my first Lupus walk - I just found out I had the disease a year ago. All of these people here make me feel more aware of the fact I am not alone and so many people are affected by the dis-ease. There actually are other people who under-stand how I feel day-to-day withLupus,” Ambrose said. With 1.5 million people affected by the disease and 200,000 of them be-ing California citizens, the community participa-tion in the eventseemed to be a great suc-cess. Families, students, supporters, and those af-fected by the disease all came together to partake in the ongoing journey to a cure. Even canines joined the party with 1 out of every 3 people bringing their dogs along. Although there wasn’t any report of any of these dogs hav-ing lupus, which has also been detected in horses, they did show their pa-tronage nicely with col-laborated outfits and the color purple – the des-ignated color for lupus awareness and support. Volunteer Lisa Mooney

was ecstatic about the amount of people who registered this year. “It is way busier than Orange County was,” Mooney said. “I’m hap-py to see this many reg-isters. It’s probably the most crowded I’ve seen it.” Plenty of water, snacks, and refreshments were given promoting hydra-tion and healthy living as a way of life with Lupus. Colorful over-sized but-terflies on a stick and t-shirts were also given out along with a giant sticker sign to paste onto your

clothing in order to pro-mote who you are walk-ing for. Most were walk-ing or strolling, others running. Money was raised and the walk was conquered by all. The efforts raised at the walk will be used to ser-vice the 200,000 people in CA affected by lupus, and research and spon-sorship efforts nationally Checks or money or-ders can still be turned in to the Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. at P.O. Box 418629 Boston, MA 02241-8629. .

Lupus walk held at Griffith Park

Photo by Stevie dominGo

lupus: daniele ambrose participated in walk For lupus

Studenst are becoming more aware about the harassment happening on campus.by andreW villanueva

Tides staff writer

As many students go about their daily routine on campus, some are ac-customed to hearing the occasional cat-call. Cat-calls on campus are prohibited by Los Ange-les Harbor College’s zero

tolerance policy on sexu-al harassment. The policy is very clear and outlines of it can be found in the Seahawk center. According to the Los Angeles Community College District, sexual harassment is described as: “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical con-duct of a sexual nature.” Any student that is a vic-tim of these unwanted remarks is encouraged to report these acts to the campus Sexual harass-ment compliance officer: Nina Malone. Any campus affiliate ac-

cused of sexual harass-ment will be spoken to by the Dean of Students and a representative of the Sheriff’s office. If the case is severe enough it will be evaluated by the school President, and he will have the final say on a suitable punishment for the offence. Anyone convicted of ha-rassment can be expelled from the school and sur-rounding schools accord-ing to the Los Angeles Community College Dis-trict. The LACCD has a zero tolerance policy and in-vestigates all accusations of harassment. Malone

encourages anyone who feels harassed to come and file a complaint at her office. “If students remain anonymous there is noth-ing we can do,” said Malone. Nina Malone can be found in the Student Ser-vices office in the Se-ahawk Center to answer any questions anyone may have about this is-sue.

Students are tired of sexual ha-rassment happening at Harbor

Students are concerned about the growing num-ber of mos-quito attacks taking place on campus and it has af-fected their education.by andreW laszaCs

Tides staff writer Los Angeles Harbor College has numerous mosquitoes in various areas around campus and it’s not just a few, there are hoards of them. Some of it could be attributed to the new construction attract-ing more, the Harbor golf course adjacent to school or Machado Lake at the Kenneth Malloy Memorial Park which has mosquitoes everywhere in the area. Mosquitoes can carry diseases such as West Nile virus which has been a problem in Los Angeles in recent years. The LA County Department of Public Health labels these dis-ease caring insects as vectors. According to http://www.glacvcd.org/ the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Con-trol District, a vector is any arthropod, insect, rodent or other animal of public health signifi-cance capable of har-boring or transmitting the causative agents of human disease (e.g. malaria, plague) to hu-mans. The problem that haunts the speech and drama building isn’t as noticeable during the day, but during eve-ning classes and well into the night there are a multitude of these in-sects and they have a taste for students and teachers. Mosquitoes can be an exasperation in and out of class, with their bites being an itchy

and painful reminder to seek caution when they are around. With the worry of the West Nile virus students have to be careful and make sure to avoid these in-sects. “There is always a swarm of them hover-ing around the speech and drama building during the evening.” Said Jacob Chavez, 23 The mosquitoes on campus have become such a problem that it is hard for students to concentrate on their school work because they are too busy swat-ting them away or try-ing to smack one that has landed on them. An attack happened in an evening class where an unknown girl was bitten and suffered swelling of her face. “The mosquitoes dis-turbed our class and a girl was bitten in the face and her arms which made her face swell up noticeably.” Chavez said. “Once the unnamed girl an-nounced to the class about the mosquito problem it interrupted the whole class.” Not everyone has the time to complain to the authorities at Harbor College or they just don’t know exactly who to go to file a com-plaint. Most students assume you can just inform the teacher and they will fight about your complaint when they get into their next faculty meeting. The fact is, there are so many pressing is-sues running a school under constant con-struction that minor incidents may get over looked and this mos-quito problem may not be a top priority.

Campus insect attacks reported

The author of the pro-fanity story in the Sept. 28 edition of the Harbor Tides was misidentified. The correct author was Stevie Domingo.

Correction

Phot by: Poil0do/flicKR

mosquito: attaCks at lahC

Harbor Tides

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5October 2011

Campus COmmentsby zakihha bahar

Tides staff writer

It is everywhere, construction I mean. When I first enrolled in Los Angeles Har-bor College I did the online application, it wasn’t until the first day of class that I ac-tually saw the cam-pus. My first day of school was horrible, not only because I was absolutely lost but also because all the construction made it even more difficult to find my way around. Even though I had a map of the campus it still seemed like everywhere I turned there was a dead end do to construction work. Don’t get me wrong, our school is beautiful, but with

all the isolated areas and dirt everywhere it makes our school look extremely trashy. It is obvious that Harbor College is working hard to pro-vide the best educa-tional atmosphere possible for their students and staff. Personally I think that working on a single part of the campus rather than multiple portions of the school would have made it easier for students and per-sonnel to get from one building to the next, not to mention a whole lot less con-fusing. Although the maps are located almost near every building on school grounds, it can still be very

misleading and un-appealing to visitors and new students. LAHC has done a great job keep-ing students and staff safe from the construction sites by blocking off en-trances and posting signs letting stu-dents know that only workers are allowed in certain areas of the school. Our school has a long way to go when it comes to a finished job, but hopefully harbor keeps up the good job in protect-ing it students. Students who find it hard to get from one class to the next or students who get lost can visit the in-formation desk in the student services building.

Campus construction woes for students

by espoir ChiCk

Tides staff writer

English is a Ger-manic language and Spanish is a Ro-mance language and historically, these two groups of lan-guage have been feuding over Broca’s areas and geographi-cal turf. The Los Angeles Harbor Col-lege campus is an extension of such a turf war for one pri-mary reason; most of its students are bilin-gual in Spanish and English, thus setting the stage for yet an-other battle in this ongoing linguistic war. In the 1400s, Span-ish was the ‘Lengua franca’ of the world and today English has taken over that role, but how exact-ly that pans out with students on campus is a whole different

history. In order to find out just how this his-torically linguistic war takes shape on the Harbor College Campus, random bilingual students were given a ques-tionnaire to fill out. The results reveal what direction the linguistic tides flow on this bilingual campus. The results seemed to be pretty leveled on this campus; with more students liking Spanish affection-ately, but for profes-sional reasons they tend to lean towards English given its universality. Most students think English is easier to learn, but I strongly disagree. I have a bachelor’s in Eng-lish literature and I had to learn Spanish as a third language. It took me two years

to speak Spanish flu-ently, but I still con-sider myself a stu-dent of English. The reason the stu-dents gave for Eng-lish being easier to learn than Spanish is gender marking that does not exist in English. I on the other hand feel like English has a much bigger and much more complex vo-cabulary such that, to rhyme in poetry one must be truly linguistically dex-terous whereas any-body can rhyme in Spanish. Well, this is just the first of many lin-guistic battles that are taking place on this campus and be sure that in the fu-ture there will be more battles until then, please learn a language that is not your first.

The battle of lan-guages wages on at L.A. Harbor College

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“the bReaKfaSt buRRitto iS Really Good, bacon, eGG S and haSh bRownS!”brandon blaxland, 23 undecided

“the yoGuRt PaRfait iS my favoRite”ea ginson, 19nursing

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Tides staff writer Are you in debt or know someone who is? More than likely in this reces-sion era, everyone knows someone who is in this pre-dicament. A workshop of the im-portance of financial lit-eracy took place at 1111 Figueroa Place Wilming-ton, CA 90744 in build-ing special program ser-vices room 101 Sept. 27 at 12:45p.m. The speaker of the work-shop was Julia Garcia and covered the importance of having a budget, how to stay financially stable and how to get yourself out of debt. Upon arriving at the meeting the projector was not available at the time of the workshop. Therefore all the members of the au-dience received a packet of the power point presenta-tion. The beginning of the workshop began with questions to the audience like “what does money mean to you.” Followed by 13 slides beginning with the understanding of why people spend beyond their means. Some common mistakes many people make with their money are impulse buys, having too many credit cards and not watch-ing expenses, late payment penalty fees and bounced checks. These common mistakes are contributing factors to the debt problem. Once someone is in debt it may seem like there is no way out, but Garcia emphasizes that one of the best ways to desolate your debt and create future fi-nancial stability is by cre-ating a budget. Students can create their own budget by listing all of their sources of monthly

income including gifts, Free Application for Fed-eral Student Aid checks, child support, work bonus-es, etc. Then they should separate their expenses into three categories: fixed, flexible, and discretionary. Fixed expenses are ex-penses that remain the same every month like rent, car loans, and auto and medical insurance. Flexible expenses are items that can be controlled by the amount spent each month such as household and grocery items, dining out, utilities, and entertain-ment. Discretionary expenses can be described as items that are not a necessity for survival such as new Jor-dan’s, cameras, iPhones. If people are spending more than they earn these are the first items they should eliminate purchasing or cut back on the amount. The next step in creat-ing a budget is totaling all monthly expenses together and subtracting the total from the total monthly in-come. If the monthly ex-penses outweigh the total monthly income a decision needs to be made on what can be cut back to reduce expenses. The final step in making a successful budget is priori-tizing expenses and only using credit cards on items that benefit a future such as school. Some additional ways of saving money are carpool-ing, riding bikes, and using public transportation once a week. Using coupons for almost everything you buy. A website to check out for coupons is extremecou-poning.com. Julia Garcia is a staff member at LAHC and is available to help students personally with their own financial literacy just by making an appointment with her at 310-987-8485.

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Many students on campus have already become aware of the culinary arts program that provides hot meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the cafeteria; yet students still resort to eating snacks from vending machines, or even bringing in sack lunches. “Personally, I think the (food) prices are fairly reasonable.” said Brandon Collins, a third semester culi-nary major. “I think a lot of it is just people want what they want, and so we end up doing things like lamb chops, and stuff like that, and it’s still five-dollars, or five-fifty, but people don’t necessarily want lamb chops, they want just a simple burger.” Many people can’t eat just “a simple burg-er” due to health rea-sons, diet, or even reli-gious beliefs. One way to improve the quality of the cafeteria food is by, perhaps, spicing up the schedule a little bit - that is by introducing Meatless Mondays. It is quite simple and hardly any effort is involved; it is sim-ply cancelling out all selections of meat on Mondays and replacing them with nutritious and delicious selections for the health-con-scious, the vegetarians and the vegans who also exist on campus, and are forced to put up with the poor quality of food. If Harbor introduced Meatless Mondays to the culinary syllabus, it would introduce thou-sands of students to de-licious cruelty-free cui-

sine. Perhaps they will like it so much that they would eat it the remain-ing six days as well. “As long as there’s a big enough demand for it, it would work.” Collins said. “We get small enough crowds as it is because so few people know about the program, know about the lunches and things like that, that restrict the small crowd that we already get, which make things a little bit worse.” The Meatless Mon-day’s movement is sweeping the globe with several other com-munity colleges, and Universities such as UC Berkley and Ox-ford University, already testing out the new Monday food theme, and has received such good reviews that they

permanently placed it in their schedule. “When we feature our Vegan Festive Meals, I get raves from the veg-ans and vegetarians.... Student feedback is the key to our program. We meet with them and encourage their sug-gestions. They lean to-wards bountiful salad bars with vegetarian protein options, pasta dishes, fresh vegeta-bles, Tofutti ice cream and Tofurky for the hol-idays.” Said Tim Zintz, a chef at the University of Pennsylvania This new theme could also spike interest among other students and bring in larger crowds for the hot lines, which could mean more funding for better reci-pes, materials, and the culinary classes in gen-eral.

“For every meal we do two starches, two veg-etables, we do the pro salads; we do the salad bar, so it’s a pretty big selection of whatever you want.” Collins said For full-time students, who are usually on campus the entire day, food and nutrition is important, and a salad bar with a few selec-tions of veggies won’t keep students, full, en-ergetic, and happy. Los Angeles Harbor College President, Mar-vin Martinez has stated that he is on-board with finding better, more nu-tritious food options, but his hands are tied. With the lack of fund-ing, the Culinary Arts program is the only op-tion on campus, so why not make the best of it?

Will Harbor introduce meat-less Mondays to its menu?

Photo by Aisha J. ShahMeatless: Vegan ribs offer a great alternative to meat ribs.

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Sterritt exhibit at LAHC gallery through DecemberThe art gallery at Los Angles Harbor Col-lege will be displaying the works of well-known artist Coleen Steritt until early December.by Jazmine sims

Tides staff writer

The Harbor College Art Gallery will be pre-senting the artwork of Coleen Sterritt titled “rehab” now through Dec. 8. Coleen Ster-ritt is a sculptor whose work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Sterritt has public and private collections at The Museum of Con-

temporary Art, Scripps College Collection, The Anderson Museum ofContemporary Art and The Capitol Group Com-panies in Los Angeles, New York and London. Sterritt has her Bach-elor of Fine Arts Degree in sculpture from the University of Illinois and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in sculpture from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. For 30 years, she has created art that expresses nature and cultural is-sues. She is a recipient of var-ious residencies, grants, and fellowship,including the Art Fel-lowship from the City of Los Angeles (COLA). Sterritt has taught at several schools includ-ing Pepperdine Univer-sity, Otis College of Art and Design, and Long Beach City College. The exhibition is cu-rated by faculty member Ron Linden. The mean-

ing behind the name was explained as rehab, reha-bilitation and rededica-tion of discarded mate-rial by Linden. He went on to explain the prece-dence, for it comes from a modern art movement in the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s called arte povera — lit-erally meaning poor art, but it wasn’t just about poor art, it was about art made without restric-tions. Sterritt embodies this in her work by using scraps and other leftover mate-rials. The exhibition features her recent work and opened Saturdaywith an artist reception from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. For additional infor-mation contact the Fine Arts Gallery at 310-233-4411. The gallery is open Monday through Thurs-day, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. Photo couRteSy of the lahc aRt GalleRy

sterritt: harbor’s arT gallery presenTs The works of colleen sTerriTT

by stevie domingo

Tides staff writer

A moratorium an-nounced Monday, Oct. 3 by Chancellor Daniel LaVista will put a stand-still to 67 projects that are not yet in progress in the Los Angeles Com-munity College District. This creates challenges for several community colleges throughout Los Angeles, including LA Harbor College students and staff. Chancellor Daniel LaVista states, “As the planning and construction process continues for projects that are under contract, I have placed a temporary moratorium on any new contracts, extensions, task orders, or expendi-tures for any bond proj-ects that have not started work or are already on hold. This temporary moratorium applies to 67 projects identified as ‘Not Started,’ ‘TBD’ or “On Hold’ on the ‘Pend-ing’ columns on page 5 of the August Dash-board reports, which can be found at http://www.laccdbuildsgreen.org/.”

(Chancellor’s Update-Oct.11, 2011) The Trade Technical College, West L.A. Col-lege, and L.A. Valley College are amongst the nine with stalled plan-ning of buildings and projects. West L.A. and Trade Tech will lose four projects each, LAHC los-es one: the outside mod-ernization of the entire campus. All of LAHC’s remaining projects have been funded. $464M is budgeted to the Cam-pus, $418M is devoted, $275M has been finished, and $189M is remaining. Of the total building pro-gram, over 90% has been contracted and is funded with voter-approved bonds under Proposition A, Proposition AA, and Measure J. The Tech-nology Building, Child Development Center, PE Wellness Center and the New Learning Resource Center projects are partly funded with State capital outlay funds. Amongst the nine com-munity colleges, 3 mil-lion square feet of build-ing space will be added to campuses while state

budget cuts have forced 500 courses to be can-celled. According to the L.A. Times, president of the Faculty Senate at Los Angeles Valley College Don Gauthier, welcomes the moratorium stating budget cuts are forcing colleges to take from faculty salaries in or-der for building upkeep. Gauthier emphasizes the fact that the faculties who teach the classes are what make the colleges function. The district will spend $145 million more than the $6.2 billion construc-tion budget with other community colleges. This will come from state grants in addition to the bonds approved. The district will conduct a 30-day study of opera-tions costs and mainte-nance for funding during the adjournment. Although there is cease-less budget management and concern about over-spending, the student body should not have to worry about any eye-sores on campus or un-finished acceleration. LAHC budget is right

on track, according to Economic Development Director: Lauren McK-enzie. This halt on com-munity college projects are for those not yet un-derway, and do not effect Harbor College greatly except for the following overall modernization project(s) still in plan-ning or design: Commu-nity Services Modern-ization (In Planning) est. budget: $8,020,561 cur-rent budget: $8,020,561 estimate at comple-tion: $7,999,437; Nurs-ing Modernization (Old Admin.Bldg.) (In Planning) est. budget: $12,672,071 current budget: $12,672,071 es-timate at completion: $12,638,943; Theater Drama Speech Building (In Design) est. budget: $15,782,790 current budget: $15,782,790 es-timate at completion: $15,716,145; Existing Building Exterior Up-grade - Campus Wide (Not Started) est. budget: $529,753 current bud-get: $529,753 estimate at completion: $529,753. The sub total for ma-jor projects est. budget:

$423,137,483 current budget: $423,137,483 estimate at completion: $424,684,326. Current building will continue as planned, and is right on schedule. The library and Science building is expected to be done by spring se-mester. Chairman, Brad Young, is appalled at the idea of allowing other buildings to be built at

LAHC and is focusing on perfecting the recon-struction plans for the current and recently new buildings on campus, such as ADA (American Disabilities Act) doors and EXIT signs or routes. Construction seems to be perpetual on campus, but there are over 20 major building projects com-pleted to date.

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by margyus slaughter

Tides staff writer

Los Angeles Harbor Col-lege has a lot of activities it is known for, but other than the popular football and basketball teams, is there anything else for the student’s who don’t par-ticipate in those sports? The women’s teams do not have the same luxu-ries that the men’s teams do. This is due to bonuses schools receive by hav-ing an excellent men’s athletic program. Football teams In Universities and other schools rely heavily on their football and bas-ketball programs. When their football or basketball teams have a good year they partici-pate in tournaments such as NCAA Football Bowl Championship and the NCAA March Madness, which generates a lot of money. The average bud-get at schools in the six major conferences that participate in the NCAA Football Bowl Champi-onship Series was much higher. It rose from $14 mil-lion to $34 million be-tween 1996 to 1997 and 2001 to 2003. Some of the funds are given back to those schools, to invest in their programs. These programs pay their way, meaning that more atten-tion and funds should be funneled into them. In return they can afford to build new facilities. These schools may have excellent programs for fe-male sports, but no female sport team can bring in the money that the men’s program can. Game atten-dance show that women’s sports have a lot less in-terest compared to male sports. People like to watch games that are more ag-gressive, and have more action to keep the energy

and excitement high. A football game between two top teams in the Dis-trict is able to attract both male and female audienc-es in thousands, where a women’s college softball game might have in atten-dance a couple hundred of spectators. “I think men sports are more exciting, and more competitive than wom-en sports,” said Jessica Aparicio 22, communica-tions major. The ability for these col-leges to fill up stadiums and attract big television deals is what has kept their programs going. It is less likely that division in schools would cut down scholarships awarded to male athletes for foot-ball or basketball in order

to have a proportionate number of men and wom-en playing sports. “Men’s sports are great, but I enjoy watching women sports to see them being very competitive and fast paced,” said Ra-fael Maio, 19, internation-al Business major. “Some of the sports I think wom-en are spectacular at is basketball and tennis” The problem that exists today is schools, colleges, and universities have been forced to reduce minor men’s teams. By doing so, it has opened more oppor-tunities for girl Athletes, to close out. Although TITLE IX has opened a lot of doors for athletes, is it really the solution to the lack of interest in female sporting?

Women’s sports not receiving recognition

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Women: isabella de la espierella, middle blocker

by mario Juarez

Tides staff writer

It would be easy to say that Harbor gave away an automatic win this past Saturday. The Long Beach City College Vi-kings (2-4, 1-0) pulled off a thrilling 31-28 up-set on the road against the Harbor College Seahawks (4-2, 0-1) in Saturday’s Central West Conference opener for both teams. Vikings placekicker Alex Va-lencia booted a 32-yard field goal as time ex-pired that capped off a nail-biting Viking drive that started from their four yard line with 1:11 left in the game. The Seahawks sec-ondary had no answer for Vikings’ sopho-more quarterback Ryan Craighead, who fin-ished the decisive drive three for seven with 41 yards. Craighead fin-ished the game 30 for 54, throwing for 397 yards and two intercep-

tions. The Seahawks shook off five early first quar-ter penalties to lead 14-7 after the first, scoring on freshman quarter-back Chris Smith’s two yard touchdown run and sophomore linebacker Daniel Bird’s 39-yard pick-six, both happen-ing within 19 seconds of each other. The Seahawks fresh-man running back Theron West, returning to play after sitting out two weeks ago against Golden West College, aggravated his ankle injury midway through the second quarter. “I just went down again,” said West. “Same ankle and every-thing.” The Seahawks went into the locker room down 21-14 at the half, after two stellar touch-down drives by the Vi-kings to end the second quarter. The Viking’s held a 28-21 lead with 3:09 left in

the fourth quarter when the Seahawk offense soared. Smith, who fin-ished the game 15 for 30 with 155 passing yards and 85 rushing yards, dismantled the Vikings defense, finding the holes in the secondary and on the run. Smith led the Seahawks all the way to the Viking’s 13 yard line, when West ended the drive with a 13-yard touchdown run with 1:18 left in the game. West pushed through the ankle pain to finish the game with 29 rushing yards on five carries, and one rushing touchdown. The Viking’s simply outmatched the Se-ahawks, who now find themselves in last place in the Central West Conference. The Seahawks will have a chance to turn it around this Saturday at home against con-ference rival Chaffey College. Kickoff is at 6 p.m.

L.A. Harbor loses, 31-28, to Vikings due to last second field goal

Football 10/29 @ Citrus 1 p.m.11/5 vs. Antelope Valley College 6 p.m .11/12 @ Moorpark College 6 p.m. Men’s Soccer10/28 vs. Pasadena City College 2 p.m.11/1 @ El Camino 2 p.m.11/4 @ Long Beach City College 1 p.m.

Women’s Soccer10/28 vs. Pasadena City College 4 p.m.11/1 @ El Camino 4 p.m.11/4 @ Long Beach City College 3 p.m. Women’s Volleyball10/28 vs. Los Angeles Trade-Technical College 6 p.m.11/2 @ Mt. San Antonio College 6 p.m.11/4 vs. Pasadena City College 6 p.m.

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