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OCC’s defensive line prepares for the offense from Golden West College to hike the ball during the bell game on Saturday.

The Pirates (3-6,1-3 in EC) were two quarters away from reclaiming the Victory Bell, but the Golden West College Rustlers (5-4, 3-1 in EC) made a come from behind win in the West-Coast Showdown—the Battle of the Bell Friday.

After leading 20-6 in the first half, the Pirates couldn’t seem to get it together and was shutout in the second half resulting to a 27-20 loss. In the end, the Rustlers will control the Victory Bell for the second straight year.

Still, freshman running back Domenic Betts made history during the game by earning the single season rushing record of 1,574 yards and surpassed Ray Holley’s 2009 total of 1,457 yards. He achieved this feat while carrying the ball for 223 yards and scoring two touch-downs off of 28 carries.

“I’m just happy I broke it. We accomplished it together as a team, lineman, running backs, receivers, coaches, everybody,” 20-year-old business major Betts said.

Pirates quarterback Mike Frank threw for 140 yards on 17 of 25 attempts and two interceptions.

“We didn’t really get a win, but the offensive line was stellar and ridiculous, it was because of them I barely got touched,” 19-year-old criminal justice major Frank said.

In the first drive of the game, the Pirates scored first with a

Jackson Dionne field goal. Soon after a Rustler’s punt, Dionne’s second attempt was blocked.

After the blocked field goal and a defensive stop, Betts ran for a 38-yard touchdown mak-ing the score 10-0. The Rustlers then scored when Michael Pierre pushed over the goal line for a 1-yard touchdown. The extra point was missed when the ball hit the left upright of the goal post leav-ing the game at 10-6.

On the next drive, Betts made sure his name was heard by breaking Holley’s record with

a 57-yard touchdown, making the score 17-6. Near the end of the first half, Dionne kicked a 46-yard field goal, leaving the Pirates with momentum and a 20-6 lead at halftime.

“When our offense was on our defense wasn’t, when our defense was on our offense wasn’t and in order to win games both have to be on,” the team’s wide receiver Tyler Duncan, a 19-year-old pre-law major said.

At halftime, Orange Coast

In a rivalry game, OCC drops the ball against the Golden West Rustlers.

BY PATRICK PHAMSTAFF WRITER

Students at Orange Coast Col-lege will begin paying $2 to $3 more for the college’s health fee when registering for classes next year, an increase that will allow for increased mental health ser-vices on campus.

The Orange Coast College Stu-dent Health Center is a service on campus that is dependent on stu-dent health fees. The fee, which is $16 per semester and $13 per summer session, will increase to $18 and $16 respectively.

The fee increase was unani-mously approved by the Student Government of Orange Coast College during its regular meeting Wednesday.

A health fee increase of $2 will increase the health center’s funds by $92,000 per academic year, according to Sylvia Worden, as-sociate dean of the Student Health Center.

“We need the health fee in-creased to preserve what we have,” Worden said.

Unlike other programs on cam-

pus, the mental health services at the center grew this semester by offering 70 hours of therapy per week, an increase from 33 hours per week previously.

Despite doubling the amount of hours students can receive thera-py, the cost of the program was reduced from $1,900 per week to $1,700 per week. According to Worden, this was made possible by a mental health internship pro-gram made up of three psychol-ogy interns from various doctoral programs and a social work intern from CSU Long Beach.

The interns provide counseling to students in addition to the three licensed clinical psychologists working with the program.

“The internship opportunity has provided me with a vast ar-ray of experiences with diverse students that has broadened and strengthened my clinical skills,” said Lauren Cahill, a clinical psychology graduate student at the Chicago School of Profes-sional Psychology in Los Angeles who is working as an intern at the health center.

“Every day has provided me new experiences and opportuni-ties and I would not expect any less in this type of environment,” she said.

Worden said the interns have

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Jackson Dionne, No. 10, goes through the motions of a kick during a game against Southwestern College on Oct. 22.

During a typical week at prac-tice, Jackson Dionne kicks 50 footballs on Tuesday, 40 on Wednesday, 30 on Thursday, and, if he has a game Saturday, he’ll rest his leg on Friday.

As a field goal kicker for the Orange Coast College Pirates, repetition is his practice. On Tuesday afternoon while the rest of the team warms up on one side of the field, Dionne is on

the other side practicing his kicks before joining the team.

A player helping Dionne prac-tice kneels down with several footballs at his side. He yells as he snaps a football into place sig-naling Dionne to charge forward. His right leg swings up from under him as it connects with the ball, producing a small boom that resonates across the field, and sends the ball sailing into the air spinning end over end.

The 18-year-old college fresh-man has only been kicking for the Pirates since August, but in that short time has proven himself to be a skilled kicker, according to the coaching staff.

“When I saw him kick the first time I knew he had a pretty good leg, but having a good leg

doesn’t always equate to being a successful kicker. You have to be consistent and you have to kick under pressure,” said head foot-ball coach Mike Taylor. “He’s just doing his job and he does it real well.”

Last month, Dionne scored a 51-yard game-winning field goal that helped the Pirates beat Southwest-ern College in double overtime.

Coach Alan Bohn recounted the game-winning play, which he said Jackson was not supposed to make.

“He shouldn’t have made that field goal. It was in the mist and rain. It was 51 yards. He’d been standing on the sideline for the most part of almost four hours. There was no reason why he should have made it, but he

did because he’s a competitor,” Bohn said.

His coach may have been un-certain of the play, but for Dionne, who had missed a 40-yard field goal earlier in the game, missing the field goal that would earn the Pirates an early victory and pre-vent them from going into triple overtime was not an option.

“I was just trying to keep my eyes sound. I could see how someone would be anxious under the pressure. I was just trying to keep my composure making sure that my team was there to protect my kick,” Dionne said.

According to Taylor, the fresh-man’s consistency has led him to kick three field goals over 50

Jackson Dionne scored a 51-yard field goal and is just warming up.

BY CHRIS SANCHEZSTAFF WRITER

Freshman kicking into high gear

Spider-Man’s old theme song needs an update these days as the new version of the old super hero can not only do whatever a spider can, but can also become invis-ible and paralyze people with his new spider stinger ability.

Launched in September, Mar-vel comics killed off Peter Parker to introduce Miles Morales as the new Spider-Man in the Ultimate Spider-Man line of comics. The original Spider-Man was killed in a climactic battle with his nemesis, Green Goblin, in issue 160 of the Ultimate Spider-Man series of comic books.

While the new Miles Morales Spider-Man appears in Ultimate Spider-Man comics, the old Peter Parker Spider-Man will still ap-pear in a different line of Marvel comics.

Some say the writers invented the new super hero because the old one’s story line had become so complicated that there was no-

where to go with it. Others insist the Miles Morales character, who is half black and half Hispanic, was developed as a role model to children from similar back-grounds.

The new Spider-Man was introduced in issue four of the comic book series “Ultimate Fallout.”

Morales has all of the original Spider-Man’s powers as well as several new abilities and his personality, perspective and back story are very different from Parker’s.

The super hero revamp is not exclusive to the Marvel universe.

The DC universe remade 52 of its original comic-book fran-chises in September with fresh new numbers and cancelled all of its current comic book lines. Those include the stories of popular heroes like The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Batman and Superman, all of which are having their entire stories rewritten to better reflect today’s society.

Most notable of the relaunch is the return of the first line of comics to feature Superman and Batman in them, Action Comics

Marvel and DC redo their old comic books for modern reboots.

BY ISAAC MARTINEZSTAFF WRITER

Costs for medical care on campus are planned fornext semester.

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CRIMEBLOTTER

John Breihan has been at Orange Coast College for two weeks filling in for Vice Presi-dent of Student Services Kristin

Clark and will be there until the end of the fall semester when he will retire for a fourth time.

Breihan has worked at all three schools in the Coast Community College District over the last 34 years. He has already retired three times and said his reason for coming back was to fill in for various positions at the colleges as needed.

“I am trying to maintain the effort Kristin Clark has already made and will provide support to student services and concerns to any other segments of the college,” Breihan said. “Student services needs a voice and I will try to provide that in her absence.”

According to staff members, Breihan’s return was a seamless transition and relatively easy since they’ve worked with him in previous years.

“From day one since he has been back it seemed like it was yesterday when we worked together,” said Shirley Macy, who has worked closely with Breihan in the past. “As hard as he has been working while Kristin has been gone it has been nice reminiscing who is where now and it has been fun since he has been back.”

Macy, the confidential staff assistant for the vice president of student services, will be working with Breihan closely again this semester as he takes the role of acting vice president of student services.

Breihan and Macy worked together at Coastline College and she was his record control clerk fom 1976 to 1980. Macy will also retire in December and has worked at different schools in the district for 35 years.

Rich Pagel, vice president of administrative services, and Breihan worked at Golden West together for about ten years and also at the district about six years ago.

Now Pagel and Breihan will work together on daily projects and activities at OCC, he said.

“He is a people person and as far as a replacement I be-lieve he is the best outcome for us since he has worked at all three campuses. I am glad we could have him come out of his retirement and help us out,” Pagel said.

Breihan received a call from Clark and OCC President Den-nis Harkins to fill in as act-ing vice president of student services while Clark went on

administrative leave to receive her doctorate.

Breihan will oversee every area that includes student ser-vices while filling in for Clark during her leave.

Breihan is greatly looking forward to his finalized retire-ment, and has many things he wants to do, he said.

“I plan on retiring again because I retired to be with my grandkids,” Breihan said. “My wife and I are fortunate enough and we have five grandkids in our family.”

Breihan said he is also look-ing forward to other activities when he retires.

“I enjoy golf and singing,” Breihan said. “I sing with Pro-fessor Eliza Rubenstein in the Long Beach Chorale through OCC and also sing in the Mesa Verde United Methodist Church choir.”

Breihan said he is looking forward to more traveling with his wife during his retirement and last year they went to Alaska on a cruise.

“We are going to Sweden and Scandinavia this summer and doing a house exchange with a family so they can visit California,” Breihan said.

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John Breihan will retire for the fourth time after filling in as vice president of Student Services.

He’s on the job againCoast employee looks forward to retiring again at end of semester.

BY ELIZABETH SCHMIDTSTAFF WRITER

Weekend snatch

A male student reported his red and black Mongoose moun-tain bike stolen on Monday, according to Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer.

The victim parked his bike at the technology annex build-ing on Nov. 2. He told Campus Safety that he chained up the $134 bike, but left the bike there over the weekend and when he came back on the following Monday it was gone.

Lock your door

Campus Safety was called for a petty theft in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot on Nov. 2 around 11 a.m.

A male victim reported two wallets, textbooks, iPod touch, three pairs of sunglasses, and a TI89 Calculator were sto-len from his vehicle -- a total value of $600, he told Campus Safety.

The vehicle had no signs of a forced break in, Farmer said and the man told officers he didn’t recall locking his car door.

Wood hurts

Medical aid was called Thurs-day around 6:50 p.m. at the technology building.

Farmer said a male student reported he was clamping two pieces of wood together. The pressure was so strong that the wood shattered and flew into his face. He received scratches on the bridge of his nose and his lip.

He refused any further medi-cal attention.

Unwelcome visitor

An expelled student was caught trespassing on Monday on the first floor of Watson Hall around 10:20 a.m., according to Farmer.

The man refused to give Campus Safety identification.

Campus Safety then escorted him to his bike and told the for-mer student that he can’t return until 2014.

—The Crime Blotter was compiled by Deena D’Angelo from Campus Safety reports.

Corrections and clarificationsCoast Report staff writer

Eddie Singer wrote “OCC readies for vets” in the paper’s Nov. 2 issue. Due to an edit-ing error the wrong reporter’s name was attributed to this article. Also, “Loyal fans will

want to visit ‘Arkham City’” was written by staff writer Isaac Martinez in the Nov. 2 issue. Also, in the Oct. 26 is-sue “GPA policy in flux,” J.P. Torre should actually read as J.P. La Torre.

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Students across the California community college system are increasingly applying for financial aid and a new federal law could make paying them back more costly for students continuing their education.

In a last-minute agreement over the summer to save Pell Grants and reduce the country’s deficit, a new law eliminates the subsidies put toward the interest on de-ferred student loans taken out after July.

Some off ic ia ls say tha t because of the deal, student loan payments will continue to edge higher and higher because interest will accrue for graduate and professional students who

previously had interest on loans deferred.

Under the deal, however, Pell Grants were protected. The grants, which don’t have to be repaid, are available to students meeting a variety of qualifica-tions including limited income.

And while the cut to subsidies are expected to save the country $21.6 billion over 10 years ac-cording to the Congressional Budget Office, the result could be devastating to students plan-ning to attend graduate schools.

In California alone, the num-ber of students applying for financial aid has increased by about 27 percent since 2008 and awards increased by 35 percent, while nationally applications increased by about 33 percent and awards increased by 65 per-cent, according to a report by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.

Melissa Moser, OCC’s finan-cial aid director, to combat the change in loans, students should avoid applying for any financial assistance.

“My advice for students at OCC is to not take out loans unless if you absolutely have to,” Moser said. “These loans never go away and stay with you forever. I would try to use OCC career services and work-study programs as a form of financial aid.”

Moser said that instead of loans, students fill out the FAF-SA form and see if they can qualify for Cal Grants along with a Board of Governors Fee Waiver. The waiver pays all of the enrollment fees at California community colleges, she said.

One bright light on the ho-rizon may be a proposal by the Obama administration called Pay as You Earn that will reduce a graduate’s monthly student loan payments to 10 percent of their discretionary income and forgive debt balances after 20 years of payments.

“The student loan debt nation-wide is higher than credit card debt,” Moser said, adding that students should avoid adding to the loan debt whenever possible.

When it can’t be avoided, Moser said OCC has a recom-mended a loan limit of $12,750 per academic year for students. Annual in-state tuition for OCC and other community colleges in the state is estimated at $3,000.

Along with higher student loan debt, students are gradu-ating from four-year colleges with lower starting salaries or no job prospects, according to Moser.

Students say they are con-cerned about the future of stu-dent loan subsidies and what the changes will mean for their financial futures.

“I have between $4 thousand and $5 thousand out in student loans, and I estimate I would have $150,000 by the time I fin-ish school in eight years,” said Matt Jachowicz, a 26-year-old pre-med major at Coast.

Jachowicz said it’s ridiculous that students are incurring mas-sive debts to pay for school when there are no jobs waiting for them when they graduate.

Loan repayment may riseNew law means students borrowing after July won’t see deferments.

BY CHRIS RASHIDIANSTAFF WRITER

Drilling for education funds

Peter Mathews, co-author of the Tax Oil for Education initiative and a professor of political science and inter-national relations at Cypress College, lead a discussion in the Science Hall of Orange Coast College on Nov. 7 to promote the initiative and an-swer people’s questions.

The initiative would place a 15 percent severance tax on oil companies and use the money for public education in Cali-fornia. However, the initiative still needs more signatures before it can be placed on the California.

“One of the biggest pieces of misinformation that’s put

out there is that this initiative will cost jobs if it passes and that it will also make the price of gasoline go up,” Mathews said.

Mathews also said the ini-tiative prohibits passing on fees in the form of higher gas prices. In addition, if oil com-panies try to pass on the price of the tax to consumers, the attorney general will fine them and redistribute the money back to consumers in the form of rebate checks.

The money from the sever-ance tax can be used to reduce tuition fees, rehire educators that have been laid off and bring back classes that have been cut.

“Education is a basic hu-man right, which we need for a democracy, so we can encourage critical thinking,” Mathews said.

Many people in California seem to share this sentiment as polling data already indicates that a majority of registered

voters in California favor the tax, according to Mathews.

According to Ivan Orquera, a Cypress College student volunteer, he knows firsthand what difficulties the state bud-get cuts have had on students going to school.

“I do have f r iends tha t dropped down from UCs and Cal States because they can’t pay the tuition and their classes are being dropped. And that’s putting a hold on their dreams,” Orquera said.

According to Nancy Brajas, another student volunteer from Cypress College, it has been difficult to get people inter-ested in the initiative.

“People would rather talk about Kim Kardashian than the tax oil for education initia-tive,” Brajas said.

According to officials, if the initiative proponents are able to gather the necessary 500,000 signatures, the mea-sure will be placed on the November 2012 ballot.

Prop. 1481 looks to tax oil companies 15 percent for public education.

BY EDDIE SINGERSTAFF WRITER

Orange Coast College ar-chitecture students rewarded elementary and middle school students for their exceptional writing by illustrating posters to compliment their work.

A celebratory dinner was held on Oct. 20 at the Captain’s Table to present the young students with the posters. The essay contest winners were able to choose their favorite poster to take home as a prize

“It means a lot to have made this poster for elementary school students because they have some-thing special to remind them of the work that they have done,” 20-year-old architecture major Maria Caneja said.

OCC architecture instructor Rose Anne Kings teamed up with Costa Mesa Library Foundation for their second annual essay contest this year. The elemen-tary and middle school students were asked to write about their favorite books.

“For a city of our size in the state of California, we have the least amount of library space. We are hoping that our collaborating with OCC’s architectural depart-ment will help draw attention in a more visual and creative way to the need for improved and expanded li-brary services in Costa Mesa,” said Barbara Steck, vice president of Costa Mesa Library Foundation.

Steck’s idea led to Kings’ architecture students drawing up ideas for a better Costa Mesa library based off of what the elementary and middle school students wrote in their essays for the first contest last year.

OCC’s architecture students said they were excited to take

part in the collaboration, not only to hone their designing skills but also to work with the children and give back to the community.

“My students designed some delightful posters. It was an excel-lent way for students to improve their skills with Photoshop and Illustrator, come up with a graphic concept and engage in a commu-nity activity,” Kings said.

Architecture major Richard Machesney, 20, said because of the partnership project with the students he one day wants to teach an architecture class of his own be-cause it was an exciting experience to work for younger students.

Having been provided with a handful of stories to work with, OCC’s architecture students spent two days designing post-ers. Their work was displayed at the Captain’s Table restaurant on campus on the celebratory night for the essay winners.

“I was very excited to have had the opportunity to work with the

elementary school students. It made it that much more exciting for these students not only to celebrate with their family, but to receive a gift that was made just for them. I am honored to have shared this moment with them,” said 22-year-old architecture major Alina Meza.

In the fifth to sixth grade cat-egory, the first place essay went

to Arielle Esparza who wrote about “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” with runner up, Victoria Madrid writing on “Ro-meo and Juliet.”

In the seventh to eighth grade category, Kinani Asuega won first place with an essay on “The Giving Tree,” with Jocelyn Vidal being the runner up with her es-say on “Charlotte’s Web.”

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After finishing up cosme-tology school in New York, Ashlee Hauenstein, 25, came to California to achieve her new degree in business at Orange Coast College.

Hauenstein had a rough childhood leading to her suc-cess in the arts. She was raised on a farm in Charleston, Mo. until the death of her parents when she was only 9. She was taken in by her godparents whom lived in New York, and from there continued to pursue success.

She graduated from the Hair Design Institute in New York in 2009. In March of 2010 she moved to California.

“Ever since I was a child, I have wanted to come to California and see for myself what’s so great about it,” Hauenstein said.

Hauenstein said she spends her time cracking down on books at OCC, or is in a sa-lon where she is a stylist and makeup artist. She works on

average 40 hours a week, has three business classes at Coast and runs a volunteer program.

Hauenstein began a pro-gram to help the homeless when she was 18 and still lived in New York.

“My uncle was homeless until he died of cancer. Af-ter he died my godmother and I talked about building a homeless shelter. Ever since that point that was my goal in life,” Hauenstein said.

Hauenstein started a peti-tion, getting more than 600 signatures and working her way to her goal. A new home-less shelter in the heart of New York was built.

“The New York Homeless Services contacted me and I was the youngest advocate of the task force, and the shelter was finally open,” Hauenstein said.

Hauenstein said she was awarded the Jefferson award, and received much praise from the community.

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OCC students bring the essay’s of grade school children to life.

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Photo courtesy of Rose Anne Kings

Architecture students illustrated posters for elementary and middle school students who won an essay competition. Two first place winning essay’s complementary art are featured above.

Chris Hanmer, a graduate of Orange Coast College’s Culinary Arts program, took the $100,000 grand prize in the “Top Chef: Just Desserts” competition that aired on Bra-vo television network last week.

The “Top Chefs” competition invited 14 of the world’s best known pastry chefs to outbake, outblend and out-brulee the competition, where the main fo-cus is the Achilles heel of most chefs–desserts. Contestants spent a month on the series that was televised nationally. Each week, several contestants were eliminated.

For the finale, Hanmer made an array of desserts. His dis-play piece was chocolate with blown sugar flowers, his en-tremet cake was chocolate mousse, vanilla cremeux and raspberry jam. His savory bread was a brioche with ba-con-maple butter, his bonbons were coffee-infused ganache with caramel. And his plated dessert was butter almond cake, banana caramel and ba-nana tuille, banana ice cream and mango sauce.

“I honestly still can’t believe

that I won,” Hanmer said follow-ing the final event. “For 30 days, from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, you have to be ready. And you never know what’s going to come. I think it pushed us all.”

Each episode in the series included two challenges for the pastry chefs: the first, a Quick-fire test of their basic abilities and the elimination challenge designed to test their versatility and inventiveness.

“The whole point of this show and its concept is to be the chef who can be the most bendable and not break, the most flexible,” Hanmer said, adding that the experience opened up “a new creativity” for him.

It is the second time Hanmer has won a televised contest. In 2010 he was the champion in the Food Network Runaway Chocolate Challenge, and he took home $10,000 for his ef-forts. This time the stakes were 10 times higher.

As a student at OCC, Han-mer’s work was “stellar,” ac-cording to OCC Culinary Arts associate professor Bill Barber, who described his former stu-dent as a culinary star.

Hanmer won a silver medal with OCC’s Hot Food Team in the Western Regional Hot Food Championships in 1998. That marked the beginning of an illustrious career for the young chef, who got his start peeling potatoes at a country club at the

age of 15. He later became the young-

est-ever American chef to win a World Pastry Team Champi-onship. His accolades include world-class recognition and experience, and in 2006 he be-came the executive pastry chef for the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas property.

Hanmer works in a stu-dio kitchen in Las Vegas, the School of Pastry Design, where students can master the art of pastry design.

Hanmer takes top prizeCoast graduate’s pastries earn him $100,000 in Bravo’s ‘Just Desserts.’

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Art“Across the Sands of

Time,” Oct. 31-Nov. 10: An exhibit of 40 posters from “Lebowski Fests” held across the United States for the past 10 years in celebration of the Coenn Brothers’ film, “The Big Lebowski,” will be in the Orange Coast College Art Center’s Student Project Space. The gallery will be open Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Fridays by appointment. Admission is free.

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Culinary“Captain’s Table Ser-

vice: American Regional Fare,” spring semester: Orange Coast College’s campus restaurant, The Captain’s Table, will be serving dishes from all over the United States this semester. Lunch service begins at 12 p.m. on Thurs-days. For reservations, call 714-432-5876, ext. 22. The price for lunch is $12.

“Eclectic Cafe,” spring semester: The Orange Coast College culinary arts program offers those on campus a three-course gourmet menu for lunch on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cafe is lo-cated in the Student Center cafeteria area closest to the administration building. The cost for a meal is $6.

Theater“10 or Less Festival,”

Nov. 4-13: The Orange Coast College Student Repertory hosts its an-nual short-play festival with several pieces written and directed by students. Some pieces contain ma-ture themes. Performances will be held in the Drama Lab Studio Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, 5, 6, 12 and 13 with a 2:30 p.m. mati-nee on Sunday, Nov. 13. Tickets can be purchased at the Bursar’s Office for $5 in advance, or for $7 at www.occtickets.com or at the door.

“An Old-Fashioned Christmas Melodrama and Ice Cream Social,” Dec. 2-11: Orange Coast College’s Repertory The-atre Company will perform “Return of the Pepper-mint Prince,” written by OCC theatre instructor David Scaglione, as well as vaudeville acts, music and a holiday sing along. All attendees will receive a free ice-cream treat, and Santa will make an appear-ance. Performances will be held Fridays through Sundays from Dec. 2-11 at 7 p.m. with matinees at 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Movie melodies at OCC

The Orange Coast College Symphony delivered a riveting performance Saturday in the Robert B. Moore Theatre with its “Symphonic Hollywood” in a way that was almost as educational as it was enter-taining.

The symphony featured songs that have been nominated for Academy Awards such as selec-tions from the soundtracks of “Exodus” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” in addition to lyri-cal songs like “When You Wish Upon a Star.”

As what was seemingly the last piece – “Pirates of the Ca-ribbean” – was about to begin, many in the audience seemed especially eager to listen, lean-ing forward in their seats. The song covered the highlights from the movie soundtrack,

concluding with an emphatic flourish from the conductor as the audience raucously ap-plauded.

Soon following, the audience was treated to a surprise music lesson in the form of an analysis of the theme music from “Raid-ers of the Lost Ark.” The lesson was concise, informative and interesting.

It was explained that the music was composed in an ABA form, with the two A sec-tions being similar melodies. As each section was taught, the symphony performed it, adding in various instruments until the section as a whole was performed.

The A sections were pointed out to be forerunners of Darth Va-der’s theme music from the first three Star Wars movies (Episodes IV-VI) produced, while the B section bore striking similarities to Princess Leia’s theme music. When the whole thing was put together, it was almost indistin-guishable from the music in the actual “Raiders of the Lost Ark” movie.

The first music performed – the “Exodus” soundtrack – was

well orchestrated and sounded remarkably similar to Ernest Gold’s music from the film. The progression of the song was likely to fool those unfamiliar with it into thinking it was over before it was, as the music built

to a climax more than once, end-ing with a memorable finale.

Following were two lyrical songs, George and Ira Gershwin’s “I’ve Got a Crush On You” and the well known “When You Wish Upon a Star,” sung by Beth Hansen.

Hansen sang with a strong voice, clearly not wanting for breath and able to sail through each song without any notice-able fumbles. Her strongest performance was during the rendition of “Skylark.”

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Orange Coast College music professor Ricardo Soto, pictured above conducting the OCC Symphony in March 2010, lead the symphony throughout “Symphonic Hollywood” Saturday.

Coast musicians performed Academy Award nominated pieces.

BY DEAN NOTHSTEINSTAFF WRITER

‘10 or Less Festival’ at CoastThe audience chatted away

distractedly waiting for the show to start, the lights dimmed and darkness filled the room. Stage lights brightened to reveal an actor in the middle of a spotlight who captured the audience with his monologue.

Held in the drama lab, the “10 or Less Festival,” features five short plays per night and will continue to run on Friday, Satur-day and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with

a Sunday matinee at 2:30.On Sunday, Leo Martinez,

20-year-old actor and theatre major, lit up the stage in David Ives’ play, “A Singular Kind of Guy,” about a man reflecting on his own personality.

Martinez said that the director approached him to perform the monologue and he enthusiasti-cally agreed.

“The end [of the play] is my favorite part. Usually with mono-logues they can be depressing, but this one wasn’t at all. It has a fun twist,” Martinez said.

The next play, “English Made Simple,” featured three actors that discussed the do’s and don’ts of conversation etiquette and the various possible outcomes of each. Actors demonstrated their talent through a wide range of emotion from joy to anger.

The timing was impeccable during the play as actors Wes Espinosa and Stephanie Geran-mayeh maintained a strong stage presence and paused for each interjection from the narrator, Myles Warner.

“This was my first play at

OCC and I was glad that I got to participate, it was a lot of fun,” Geranmayeh, 20-year-old actress and English major, said.

Another play, “Knowing Nora Blackwood,” told the story of a teenager dealing with the loss of his closest friend. The combina-tion of the dialogue between the two characters, the cast and the simple bedroom props - a desk, a chair and a bed - helped bring the play to life in a heartfelt performance.

Contributing to the on-stage emotion was the strong and real-

istic storyline that David Miles, 22-year-old Film major and director of the play, wrote.

“My inspiration came from personal experience. I’ve been trying to deal with the loss of a friend from school for my entire life, and unlike James [a char-acter in the play] I didn’t have someone to talk to,” Miles said.

The other two plays were comedic and well performed as well, and each play had at least one truly powerful line that hit home and captured the audience.

BY ASHLEY RUIZSTAFF WRITER

Coast hosts haunting gallery

Some “Things that Keep Me Up at Night” will be on display at Orange Coast College this month to show scary and socially dis-turbing images that keep the mind racing.

Contrary to the title, the ex-hibit contains more than just pieces meant to arouse fear.

“Things that keep you up at night could be something that scares you. Joel Peter Witkin makes very, very grotesque im-ages in his art,” said curator and OCC photography instructor Rick Steadry. “Haunted doesn’t always mean like a ghost. It could mean that you can’t get something out of your mind.”

Steadry selected French pho-tographers who shot in and around Paris. He said this is partly because he has photo-graphed extensively in Paris and has therefore found inspiration from the work of past French photographers.

Tom Dowling, an art and paint-ing instructor at OCC, is also a co-

curator for the “Things that keep me up at night” exhibit.

“The things that keep me up at night are not art. As a profes-sional artist, I think a lot about my art, but it rarely keeps me awake at night. I took this title literally. The things that keep me up at night, personally, are the things in our society right now, the things that are in our social fabric that really are trouble-some to me.”

To keep with this theme, Steadry chose the work of two artists, Pat Sparkhul and Richard Ross, who address social issues in their artwork.

Sparkuhl is an instructor at OCC and a sculptor who comments on everything from religion to poli-tics and the environment.

Ross is an internationally-known photographer who does �ine art and takes on journalistic endeavors. Ross will have fea-tures at the exhibit relating to juvenile justice.

The exhibit is open for view-ing in the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Saturday through Dec. 16 and admission is free.

BY EDDIE SINGERSTAFF WRITER

“Goold’s Gold,” Nov. 15: This free screening of the film, which was ed-ited, directed and produced by Orange Coast College English instructor Tucker Capps, is sponsored by the OCC Honors Program and Friends of the Library. The award-winning film follows the adventures of a man searching for gold in Alaska’s melting glaciers. Capps will be available for questions following the screening. The screen-ing will be at 7 p.m. in the Robert B. Moore Theatre

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QUESTION of the WEEK

With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down and troops returning home it is becoming more and more important for not only schools such as Orange Coast Col-lege to be accommodating for returning veterans, but for students and faculty to be wel-coming to those who fought for our nation.

The reasons for the United States and its allies invading Iraq might be in question by many, but the decision to invade was not the soldiers’ to make.

The younger generation of students may not remember the 1970s and 1980s and how Americans treated Vietnam Veterans, but it is important to learn from history and not repeat past mistakes.

The poor treatment of Viet-nam Veterans did nothing to progress society or further the cause of the antiwar movement — instead it increased the hardship for returning soldiers who already had to deal with a host of problems associated with their time overseas.

When veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars return, it should be nowhere in our thought process to blame the soldiers, but rather to blame and question the politicians. Whether you believe in war or not our troops sacrifice their own lives fighting for their country.

It is important to reiterate the cliché “support the troops not the war.” The treatment of veterans of the Vietnam War is

certainly something we should not be proud of so preventing that kind of treatment now is of the utmost importance. Not only should we not treat our soldiers poorly, we should instead honor them and thank them for their service to our nation.

When the troops return en-masse later this year, schools such as OCC will experience an influx of military service members and not only should the college provide a welcom-ing environment, as it has thus far being ranked among the top 15 percent for military friendly schools in the nation in 2010 and 2011 according to www.GIjobs.com, but students and faculty members need to do their part to welcome home the troops and assist them with their transition to civilian life.

We have highlighted one stu-dent veteran this year, Jennifer Mills, who said she was appre-ciative of the Sept. 11 event on campus held earlier this semes-ter and it is up to the students and faculty here to provide a similar gesture of respect and honor to our incoming troops.

With Veterans Day coming up on Friday it is a reminder for us to support all veterans of all wars our country has taken part in.

So next semester at OCC or even if you run into a veteran around town, be sure to show them a gesture of respect, shake their hand or just thank them for their service and be mindful of their struggles adjusting to civil-ian life after fighting overseas for months and years.

A hero’s welcome

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Who is your favorite superhero and why?

Leo Tran25, biology

Stephanie Suarez31, dental assisting

Hayley Tran26, nursing

Danny Perez45, undecided

Chad Gac18, computer science

“Batman because he had a lot of cool toys.”

“Green Lantern because his powers are based on his own will.”

“Spiderman because my kids like him.”

“Steve Jobs, I admire him because of his innovation.”

“Spiderman, the theme song was great and I always got a kick out of whenever

the villains called him web head.”

For love or moneyNo matter

which news site I check these days, the top story is yet another article with unravel-ing informa-tion about the Kardashian-H u m p h r i e s divorce.

From work-out shoes to nail polish, the Kardashian empire has grown to take over the world, so of course the news of Kim Kardashian’s divorce after a short 72-day marriage is going to make head-lines.

If you’re a fan, to put it lightly, like me, then you know every detail of Kardashian’s and, her soon to be ex-husband, Kris Humphries’s extravagant $10 million wedding.

After months of contemplat-ing whether or not to televise her much-anticipated wedding, Kardashian decided to, just like

every other aspect of her life, have her wedding be watched by over 10.5 million viewers.

From her three custom-made Vera Wang wedding gowns to having each member of her bridal party show up in Rolls Royce Phantoms, every sane fan that watched would’ve thought this wedding would have made a long-lived marriage.

In all honesty, if I was in Kardashian’s place and was already speculated to have no talent and be famous for just being famous, I would’ve tried harder to prove to the world and myself that this really was for love and not money by sticking it out in my marriage a couple more months just to not be on the list of Hollywood’s shortest marriages.

As someone who has followed every step of Kardashian’s jour-ney, from finding true love to having her fairy tale wedding come to life, I honestly thought that maybe Humphries was the one. Unfortunately to anyone liv-

ing in the year 2011, the principle of marriage has become a little like a joke.

With the divorce rate in the United States at a staggering 49 percent, according to divorcerate.org, it is hard to think any mar-riage – let alone a reality televi-sion couple – can make it.

It’s really sad to see the statis-tics and see people around you or in the news getting divorced and then to believe that Humphries didn’t just want to be a part of the media frenzy that is the Kardashian’s multi-million dol-lar empire.

So even now, more than a week after the news that rocked the entertainment world broke, people want to know the usual W’s: who, what, when, and most importantly why.

I will be patiently waiting for the information that is without a doubt bound to come out on why Kardashian’s fairy tale wedding turned out not to have the story-book ending us Kardashian fans were hoping for.

Ava Amiri

Staff Writer

Praying is for churchFrom “owl-

ing” to “bat-manning” to “p lank ing ,” Denver Bron-co quarterback Tim Tebow has inspired the wor ld’s newest main-stream posing trend known as “Tebowing.” According to Tebowing.com, “Tebowing” means to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely dif-ferent. I don’t appreciate the fact that “Tebowing” is mainstream-worthy like planking, that’s why I would rather see a touchdown be celebrated with a simple high five or a player jumping into the crowd cheering. Are all of you seriously going to get down on one knee and pretend to pray only because you want to fit in? “Tebowing” may be another way of pray-ing, but why do you need to do it on top a building or on top of other people. I have nothing against praying, but I think if you’re going to pray, it should be done in church or at least show you actu-ally care, not by pos t ing

pictures on Facebook or twitter thinking of the coolest way to pray. It all started when Tebow somehow pulled a comeback win against the Miami Dolphins when they were leading by 15. After the win, Tim Tebow knelt down on one knee and started to pray. All of a sudden the manager of StreetEasy.com, Jared Kleinstein took pictures of him and his friends and participated in this so called “Tebowing” and posted pictures of themselves on Face-book. It became a huge hit, the pictures got many likes and com-ments and Kleinstein became the founder of Tebowing.com That’s how lame it is — some-one created a website only be-cause some guy got a lucky win.

The worst part of it all is that you can win prizes such as

shirts and jackets for a picture of a figure

“Tebowing,” that’s if your picture

qualifies as the best picture

of “Tebow-i n g . ”

I have e v e n s e e n my fa-vor i t e a t h -l e t e s

“Tebowing” and I get extremely furious, because I refuse to see my favorite athletes like Dwight Howard, Albert Pujols, Stephen Strasburg and oth-ers take part in this nonsense. “Tebowing” may have spread onto ESPN, Fox, CBS, and other TV networks, but if I was seen or saw anyone with a “Tebowing” shirt, I would honestly go crazy. A few weeks ago, the Denver Broncos lost to the Detroit Li-ons with a score of 45-10. The bigger story wasn’t the win, but how the Detroit Lions’s Stephen Tulloch and former Denver Bronco Tony Scheffler mocked Tim Tebow’s “Tebowing.” Tulloch’s mockery was the worst one because he tackled Tebow for a sack and then began to mock him while Tebow was down on the ground and beside him. Tebow said it wasn’t disre-spectful and was fine with it, but in my mind I think he’s really pissed off. Not only do the Broncos lose big, but they lose in style. When players say they’re not bothered by other players showboating, they’re basically lying only to not make a big fuss about it. I think Tebow doesn’t want to show that he really is in-deed mad, but knows that it would draw more media at-tention. Sure, people continue

to do it, but I’m not wor-ried, because if the Denver Broncos keep losing, then just like anything main-stream it will get old, as will “Tebowing.”

Patrick Pham

Staff Writer

In America, we are privi-leged with the right to free-dom of speech, ideology, and the right to as-semble. But these freedoms are questioned w h e n t h e y cross into the grey area be-tween the first amendment rights granted by the constitution, and speech that is clearly inciting hate and violence.

For instance there was a rally in Pomona on Saturday orga-nized by the National Socialist Movement, an American Neo-Nazi movement protesting Cali-fornia’s passage of the DREAM Act. Many people would argue that this rally was to incite hate, but aren’t these people allowed the same right to assemble and voice their opinion as me and you?

This was the same issue in Skokie, Ill. in the late 1970s when the same political move-ment held a political rally in a town where many Holocaust sur-vivors lived. The Supreme Court found that the National Socialist Movement’s symbol known as the swastika is a symbolic form of free speech and they had the right to hold their rally at Mar-quette Park.

Whether you like it or not, the freedom of speech, ideology and the right to assemble is a right that people in other countries would give anything for. The fact that we have immigrants coming from nations with oppressive governments shows that this right is something we all should fight to protect.

The government of Syria is trying to prevent their citizens from assembling to voice their anger with the government by blocking social media websites and enforcing curfews on their people.

The fact that the National So-cialist Movement or any other movements like the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Tea Partiers are granted the right to freedom of speech and assembly from the first amendment of the Bill of Rights is something that we should not take for granted.

Some 250 years ago, our founding fathers saw that the freedom of speech and assembly was so integral to the foundation of this nation that they fought to include it when they amended the constitution to include the Bill of Rights.

The right to free speech and the freedom to assemble is grant-ed to the people of the United States. Although your neighbor may not have the same beliefs as you, we are all entitled to our own opinion.

ChrisRashidian

Staff Writer

Freedom of ze speech

and Detective Comics. This is the first time these two comic series have received a renumbering.

This degree of hero makeover will vary from comic to comic, but it means new costumes, new villains and new personas. Readers will be exposed to new tales for their favorite crime fighters unlike anything they have read before.

Some examples of change include Hal Jordan no longer be-ing the Green Lantern, Superman stories being more about aliens and how he feels isolated from humanity, and the story about

how the members of the Justice League first met each other.

All of these new stories cre-ate a new generation of comics. It gives DC universe creators the opportunity to take a more modern approach when creating their characters.

This remake may not only for loyal existing fans and readers but also gives new readers a starting point to enter into the DC universe.

“It’s a new generation, we need new stories,” said 18-year-old comic book fan Andy Escobar.

College welcomed its five new-est members into the Athletics Hall of Fame. They were Steve Timmons, Ken Moats, Bob Wetzel, Nancy Hatsushi-Rodgers and Chris Clark.

In the second half, the Pirates were shutout 21-0. Rustler’s quarterback Raymond Huizar threw three touchdowns for 229 yards on 21 of 29 attempts. His main target was Jared Cohen who caught six passes for 89 yards and two touchdowns.

The Rustlers took the lead when Huizar threw a pass to Ryan Watson making the score 27-20. After that play Pirates quarterback Mike Frank threw a pass intended for tight end Ste-ven Hauptmann that was bobbled and picked off by the Rustlers.

Near the end of the game the Pirates had one more try for a tie

and put it into overtime. With lit-tle time left, Frank’s pass intended for wide receiver Chris Brown

was picked in the end zone. Golden West College took a knee

and rang the bell once again.

The Pirates last game of the 2011 season will be at 1 p.m. Sat-urday at Santa Ana College.

yards, a feat that no other player has accomplished in a single season.

The freshmen’s longest field goal stands at 53 yards, and he is currently looking to break the school’s record for longest field goal of 55 yards currently held by Lucas Vademan.

“He doesn’t have the school record, but he’s got more 50-yard field goals than anybody in the school’s history,” Taylor said.

His coaches attribute his kick-ing ability to the soccer experi-ence he had earlier in his child-hood before he moved on to play football at St. John Bosco High School, where he played as a defensive back and eventually

became the team’s kicker during his senior year.

Kicking in high school is much different from kicking in college because there is no tee and players must kick the ball off the ground, coaches said.

“One of the great things about Jackson is that he hadn’t kicked a football off the ground until about three weeks before the season started so he had all that to learn,” Bohn said.

Though some may think of kickers as specialized players, Bohn said Dionne has a full range of skills.

“What people don’t realize is that if Jackson had been a foot-

ball player all along instead of a soccer player, he’d probably be at two or three different positions on the team. He can throw the ball, he can kick and he’s real fast,” he added.

As for the pressure of being a kicker, the player said he’s actu-ally learned to benefit from it.

“It’s obviously a pressure po-sition but I enjoy the pressure. I live on it. It’s a really good adrenaline rush,” Dionne said.

Though Dionne admittedly said he doesn’t do the same full-contact drills in practice as the rest of the players, his teammates still respect his work ethic.

“He works really hard. He’s

always out here before practice kicking balls. He’s very focused at all times and takes his kicking very seriously,” said 18-year old business major Nick Cody, who is number 34 for the Pirates.

Dionne credits much of his suc-cess to his team and his coaches.

“A couple times he’s thanked me for believing in him. Obvi-ously when you make it, we really believe in you,” Taylor said.

During practice Bohn remind-ed the kicker to keep his head down, a habit he developed.

“I’m always anxious to see where the ball goes, so it’s just something I keep in my head and remind myself to do,” Dionne said.

Women’s basketball coach Mike Thornton is staring down the barrel of a pretty remarkable shotgun.

When his team takes the court at home Friday night, it will not only be the start of the Tip-Off Crossover Tournament against Cuesta College, but, if the women win the game, it will also be the coach’s 500th win for Orange Coast College.

And, in winning 500 games for the college, Thornton will match the record of only four other bas-ketball coaches in California.

“This win will not be like any other regular win in my career -- it’s going to be pretty spe-cial to me once we achieve it,” Thornton said.

And he is hopeful that winning day will be Friday.

Thornton is entering his 23rd season with the Pirates and averages 23 wins a season with the team. He has taken the Lady Pirates to the playoffs 20 out of his 22 years at OCC.

Thornton said he is pretty excited to accomplish this goal in his coaching career.

This season’s team members are hopeful that they will be the ones to help Thornton reach this milestone, and he is anxious to see what they can do.

Ten of the 14 players are fresh-man this season.

“Our goal is to just keep get-ting better as a team each and every day on and off the court,” Thornton said.

Tessie Pikula, a 6-foot forward and the only returning player who saw significant playing time last year, will be a force to be reckoned with for the Pirates.

“We expect big things out of Tessie this year,” Thornton said

“She has really improved this off season and will be one of our key players for the team this year.”

Ashley Engeln, a 5-foot 7-inch sophomore transfer from Colo-rado is also expected to have a breakout season.

“Ashley has tremendous abil-ity to get to the hoop from any-where on the court and is also one of our better ball handlers on the team,” Thornton said.

In addition to meeting the 500-win mark, he said is expecting a great season once again this year.

The Tip-Off Crossover Tour-nament begins at 7 p.m. Friday in the Basil H. Peterson Gym against Cuesta College and con-tinues Saturday at 2 p.m. against El Camino College.

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“This win will not be like any other regular win in my career.”Mike ThorntonWomen’s basketball coach

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been a valuable addition to the center.

“Having the interns has been helpful,” Worden said. “We have them do most of the mental health intake. It used to take hours out of the nurses in the medical clinics day and we don’t have psycholo-

gists here all the time.”The health center has had to

cut the number of clinical psy-chologists and other profession-als on its staff but has hired more interns to make up for the loss.

Despite the cuts, Worden said that the student health center

is a successful service and that this semester has been a good one. With increased hours and services, the program is expected to better accommodate its high demand from students.

“There has always been a need for mental health, but year after

year of having a bad economy does increase the demand for our services,” Worden said.

Cahill described the students she works with as being from different age groups and various cultural and economic backgrounds.

According to Worden, OCC students are allowed eight ther-apy appointments total.

“By midterm each semester, people are pouring in and we have a waiting list. If you are in a crisis you can’t wait for three weeks - you need help right away,” she said.

Worden said the interns were

surprised how seriously mentally ill the students they encounter are. She said that some students have mental health issues that exceed the capacity of what they can offer.

“Orange County mental health services [administered by the government] are financially stressed. We work with students until they get into some sort of program,” she said.

According to Worden, students continue to seek help until the last day of the semester and the college works with the students to find services that don’t close

over the semester breaks. Cahill said the students are

appreciative of the services provided but that they have in-dicated a need for more sessions and have had to be referred to community resources to provide them additional support.

“The biggest challenge at this internship has been becoming accustomed to having only a brief number of weeks to work with each student,” Cahill said. “However, it has been encour-aging and inspiring to see the progress that students have made in a short period of time.”

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