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Night services cause controversy KAYLEE JOHNSTON News Editor

Walking down to the parking lot with little-to-nothing lighting the path. I will not stop,’” Hernandez Bravo said. Night classes, although convenient for busy student life, have brought up With parking far away during the numerous concerns during Saddleback College meetings. evening already bringing up safety With the amount of surveillance on campus being only one patrol offi- concerns, the closing of Lot 5 has only cer from 7-11 p.m. and two parking enforcement officers, many part-time increased the parking difficulties. faculty members, as well as students, have become concerned with student “I feel like especially with Lot and faculty safety on campus. 5 being shut down, I’m really conThe goal, discussed during the Saddleback College Academic Senate cerned about the safety and welfare meeting on Nov. 6, was to approach the subject of services offered in the of our college community in the evening. evenings,” Flanigan said. “I would “As far as student services, which is the bigger issue, where do they go like to see us really examine how in the evening if they have certain needs?” Dan Walsh said. “Potentially I we can better serve both our students see this going toward the Student Success Committee, but do we just wait and faculty members in the evening. for them to tackle it? Or do we get a smaller group together identifying To be honest, if I had a daughter and where are the problem areas, and come to the student success with ideas -- she was taking an evening class and that would be ideally what I’d like to think as a task force, working group, parking way out there, I’d be very con[or] sub-committee.” cerned, so I think that’s something we Although concerns have been brought up, President Tod Burnett has really have to look at as a college and seen the safety of Saddleback improve recently. what’re the best ways to move forward “One of the things I’m very proud of, even though we have a long way with how to support our evening.” to go I believe, is we have improved tremendously our campus safety, our The concerns, although mainly based emergency planning and preparedness in around evening many, many ways,” he said. students and facAccording to Carol Hilton, campus ulty, are opening the safety has been a target goal and has been broader topic of camconstantly improved through the intropus safety in general. duction of new permanent chief of police “To me, I’m recognizing Christopher Wilkinson, a dispatch center there are two different issues and various faculty and staff activities being raised; there’s campus and training requirements in safety. safety which is day and night. It’s Carmenmara Hernandez Bravo, chair not just nighttime issues, it’s daytime isof international language department sues as well, and then there’s student resource and language lab, has voiced her conissues, day vs. night,” Academic Senate memcern during various meetings as well as ber Karah Street said. “I was in my office and I - Patricia Flanigan Chapin was watching some of my students in the parkin emails to South Orange County Community College District Chancellor Gary ing lot down below and they were like hens in Poertner, Academic Senate Past President a henhouse, they all of a sudden got very craBob Cosgrove, Dean of Online Education zy, and only to find out a couple of days later and Learning Resources Patricia Flanigan Chapin, and other faculty mem- that they had watched two women drive into the parking lot and smash into bers about the lack of night services. She is adamant about students walk- a car that was parked. So my students went over to check on these ladies, ing in groups after night classes, and offers them rides to their cars if they and apparently they were incapacitated to some extent. My students called parked far from the school. campus safety, and they retorted with -- I’m getting this second-hand of “I told Gary [Poertner], ‘look, because of my religion growing up (Ca- course -- they retorted with ‘How do you know that they are inebriated?’ tholicism) the nuns twist your brain with the guilt -- if I don’t do this and [Campus safety] did not come.” something happens, I’ll feel guilty for the rest of my life.’ I told him ‘This This topic is up for further discussion during the Academic Senate is my new thing, and until you guys do something, I’m not going to stop. meeting today at 3 p.m. kjohnston.lariat@gmail.com

I would like to see us really examine how we can better serve both our students and faculty members in the evening.

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BRIEFS New class will be offered to student artists in the Spring semester International mixed media artist Cybele Rowe will begin teaching Art Survival: From Student to Artist (ART 143) a new art class through Saddleback College’s Fine Arts Division beginning Spring 2014 inside the Sculpture room FA 210. The course is will be open to all student artists from all mediums to prepare and present themselves and their art to the

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professional art world. Rowe, who works in bronze, clay and also creates jewelry, designed the course to help students from the production stage to prepare and develop their body of work. The class is designed to help the advanced students develop a cohesive body of work with a theme and then have the confidence to approach the right gallery for their artwork. The class will also help students market their artwork through developing a professional website. Students will design their own business cards and brochures, as well as learn how to photograph their artwork. Saddleback Sculpture instructor, Larry Jones, a colleague of Rowe, explained the

new art course’s main objectives for students. “What we are trying to do is get the advanced student artists to take the class and then go out into galleries and have their work inside galleries. Also to develop their work portfolios or organize their portfolios and then be able to put into a package that they can show a galleries or to be able to go out and maybe have their own show in a gallery,” Jones said. Rowe explained a mistake that art students make when presenting a mixed body of work to galleries. “You just don’t walk into a gallery and say, ‘I’m Picasso.’ Here is something from the 70’s, here is something from the 80’s, and here is something from the 90’s. Galleries don’t

care about that,” Rowe said. The class will begin Jan. 24, Fridays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. inside room FA 210.

Saddleback College Horticulture Department to hold plant sale Fall is here and so is the plant sale by the Saddleback horticulture and landscape design department Nov. 21 and 22 in the nursery from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The plant sale is held twice a year, during the spring and fall, with proceeds going toward student scholarships. Last spring, the department raised $7500 for this fund. Beautiful hanging baskets,

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seasonal color, bowls, succulents, Madagascar palms, cannas and herbs are among the seasonal plants offered. There are no pre-orders. Plants will be purchased on a first come, first serve basis. For More Information call the Advanced Technology and Applied Science Division Office at (949) 582-4541.

Saddleback College business class hosting dodgeball tournament The Business Management class at Saddleback College will host a dodgeball tournament on Saturday to raise money for the Business Department

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Scholarship fund. Teams will consist of five players and have up to two bench players. Teams had to pay $50 to register for the event. The first round of the tournament will be a double-elimination round, with the following rounds becoming single elimination. Each round will have a five minute time limit. The first place team in the tournament will walk away with a cash prize. There will also be a raffle held prior to the championship match. The tournament will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday at the Saddleback College Gym.

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How do you feel about the availability of services on campus for night students? “It’d be a good idea to open the cafeteria at night and have more, you know, security just because it’s nighttime.”

-DALLAS KIRKWOOD, 19, undecided

“There isnt’t much security and if you see a horror movie you know what happens at night. But yeah, there should be like a night shift. It’s pretty fair too. I mean, it gives more jobs, there’s more security, or equal amount of security as daytime students at night, and the cafeteria should be open at night. ”

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The cast of “Metamorpheses” gives thanks to their sound director.

Critical Review: “Metamorphoses” MICHELE HARDY

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From Nov. 7 to Nov. 10, Saddleback College’s Theatrical Arts department put on the Tony Award winning show, “Metamorphoses.” Based on a series of Greek myths, “Metamorphoses” is part musical, part dramatic collection of romantic stories with many of them tying in together. Favorite stories include that of Psyche and Aeros, Myrrha, Midas, Apollo and Phaeton, Persephone and Orpheus, among others. The set was phenomenal. A 50 foot pool had been set up in the middle of the stage, equipped with a sunken hole for actors to disappear into. The first couple rows of the audience could have been considered in the splash zone with all the water flying around. The backdrop was beautiful and the

lighting above the set was complimentary to each scene being enacted. Sometimes the background music was a little hard to hear. When there was silence on stage, the audience was treated to sweet melodic tunes. When the actors were speaking, the music was drowned out completely at points. What’s the point of having an elegantly orchestrated score if no one can hear it? Each actor’s costume was both simple and elegant. Sometimes they adorned traditional Greek robes, other times they had on black tanks and pants, and some even paraded around topless (men only). The only oddball in the group was when Midas’ story was told. Midas wore a threepiece, complete with cell phone and wallet. Not exactly Greek attire. And then there was the acting. While each actor has the right to perfect their own, unique style and method of acting, there are

certain boundaries that a theatrical artist should not cross. One actress in particular could have put William Shatner to shame, her dialogue was so static and stoic. Another actor appeared to be emotionally stunted and read his lines without a single vocal inflection. Not that everyone was bad. Several actors and actresses were very talented. Some were emotionally moving and aweinspiring. One girl in particular had a voice that brought some audience members to tears when she sang. In all, it may not have been Broadway worthy, but it was an excellent performance, considering the cast and crew only had a select amount of weeks to put on the show. Given more time, I’m sure that it would have been absolutely spectacular.

-CHRISTIAN HERMANSON, 18 , business

“There’s not as many people and you never see any like security guards ever at night so I guess they could change that. They should probably up security a little bit at night for everyone that’s taking night classes.”

-TAYLOR OLESON, 19, general education

“I do think that we should have some services because some students don’t really eat during the day and we should have the cafeteria open at night just in case we want a snack . . . It’s also nice to have some security guards around in case something goes down.”

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-ARIA AYATI, 18, marine biology

Social Media: Is it ultimately good or evil? MICHELE HARDY

COPY EDITOR

Social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter and Myspace) enables us to communicate with others all around the world in ways that were not possible a decade ago. Because of this instant accessibility, we must ask ourselves whether or not social media is primarily used for acts of good or evil. After all, Uncle Ben in “Spiderman” said it best: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Recent events in the media have showed that it swings both ways, and the masses must be aware of the traps they may fall into. One recent case showed exactly how social media could be both helpful and horribly abused. It is the individual’s responsibility to be aware of these possibilities and know what to do if

something seems a bit fishy. On Jan. 2012, Daisy Coleman of Maryville, Oklahoma tried to tell people about her being allegedly raped by high school football player, Matt Barnett. Barnett’s sister then made a twitter account to verbally bash Coleman. The harassment became too much for the Coleman family and they ended up leaving the town. The fact that Barnett made a twitter account specifically to ridicule one individual is just a bit messed up. But wait! There’s more. Coleman’s purported rapist was never charged for her assault. In fact, according to the Huffington Post, he had been booked and then almost immediately the charges were dropped. Wanting justice for the young girl, the cyberhacker group, Anonymous, took the case into their own hands and rallied thousands of people via Facebook and

Twitter to take action. Within a 24-hour period, not only was Barnett detained, but Anonymous took it a step further and encouraged their followers to show up at the courthouse where the trial was going to take place. Hundreds of people gathered in support of justice for Daisy on Oct. 23 holding daisies. Anonymous used social media to rally the troops into action and made a change in an otherwise stagnant situation. This is an excellent example of how social media has been used for good. There is, however, something occurring under the surface that is less noble than it seems. The people who showed up in front of the Maryville courthouse may have been there in support of a good cause, but they fell into something known in the psychological community as the “herd mentality”. This defined by psychcentral. com as “making decisions based on the actions of

others” and states that research has found that only five percent of any given group is in control of the entire group’s actions. If Anonymous had decided instead to tell their followers that the entire town of Maryville needed to be burned down because it was the 21st century Gahmora, it is quite possible a portion of the group might’ve done just that. Despite the good that came out of this situation, there was still too much potential for things to go horribly awry. Cyberbullying can be prevented by having a zero tolerance policy for harassment. If you are being heckled or abused by someone online, it is easy to block them, report them, or just don’t read what they write. It can only affect you if you let it.

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The dangers of working while going to school KAYLEE JOHNSTON

LIFE EDITOR

Clock-in. Stress. Clock-out. Stress. Go to class. Students, with the hopes of ridding themselves of the financial burden of college, continue to take on numerous stresses of life. Working full-time while going to school isn’t an uncommon struggle, and it is proving to cause more damage to a student than it does in assisting them. Working more than 10 hours during the week already proves to be a hinderance to academic success, yet one in

five undergraduates is working a minimum of 35 hours a week according to CBS. Those hours spent in your minimum wage job only lead to exhaustion that won’t be used toward finishing that history homework that needs to be done by midnight. Instead of actually sleeping, however, you’ll lie in bed thinking about how you should be finishing the homework even though you can hardly think well enough to form anything even remotely eloquent. TIME noted that those who are new to the college experience often struggle

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with financial responsibilities, and, not knowing how to handle this stress, it’s common for them to aim for as many hours on the job as possible. These hours may help to pay for classes, but paying for classes you aren’t passing because of a jam-packed schedule is a waste of time and money. Freshman especially tend to become more anxiety-ridden as they are trying to become self-sufficient and separate from their parents. By trying to fit in too many activities, though, they will become burnt out sooner than if they were to stay de-

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pendent for awhile while focusing on their education. In 2011, 71 percent of college undergraduates were working while going to school according to the U.S. census report. Students should be focusing on getting careers, not balancing low-paying jobs while trying to get a somewhat decent education. Education is supposed to help them acquire these careers, however, students find themselves too caught up in attempting to hold a job during their classes and becoming less inclined to ever remove

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themselves from the job they’re using just to make ends meet. Some situations do require students to work, such as family hardships, but it is important to recognize priorities in life. If a job is what is necessary to live at the moment, then taking minimal classes while working could be the best decision. However, if the option of focusing on education instead is possible, then putting off any full-time job positions may be the smartest decision in ultimately reaching the goal of a career. kjohnston.lariat@gmail.com

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Gauchos end season in 1-1 tie MICHAEL GRENNELL

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MICHAEL GRENNELL / LARIAT Gauchos freshman midfielder Krista Flores drives down the field in the second half of Friday’s 1-1 tie against Golden West College.

Football gains bowl entry despite loss MICHAEL GRENNELL

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The Saddleback College football team dropped its final game of the regular season Saturday night with a 30-6 loss to the visiting Golden West College Rustlers The loss drops the Gauchos to 5-5 for the year (3-3 in conference), but on Sunday it was announced Saddleback would be hosting Citrus College in the California Community College Athletics Association Beach Bowl on Nov. 23. If Saddleback loses to Citrus, the Gauchos will finish with a losing record for the first time since 2000, when they finished 3-7 in head coach

Wide Receiver: Grant Frum extends himself for a catch a few yards from the endzone.

Mark McElroy’s second season with the program. The bowl matchup will be the 19th time that Saddleback has faced off against Citrus, and it will be the first time they’ve played each other since 1987, when the Gauchos throttled the Owls 55-9. The Gauchos have a 10-4-4 record against the Owls dating back to 1970. Turnovers were the main issue for the Gauchos on Saturday, as they lost two fumbles and two interceptions to the Rustlers defense. The Rustlers have the top ranked passing defense in the Orange Empire conference, with opponents averaging only 203.3 yards passing per game. G o l d e n West has allowed the fewest points to opponents this season (16.5 per game), and are second in the conference in interceptions (15) and fumble recoveries (13). Saddleback also struggled with turnovers on downs. The Gauchos converted on third down only three times out of 14 attempts, and converted one fourth down out of five attempts. Gauchos quarterback Tim Belman got off to a rough start in the first quarter, as he completed seven passes on 13 attempts while also throwing two interceptions. “It’s a tough loss. We came into the game and we just didn’t get our

rhythm going in the first half,” Belman said. “Nobody wants it to turn into a turnover battle, but unfortunately that’s what it did.” Belman finished the night completing 33 of 53 passes for 314 yards and two interceptions. The loss marked the first time all season that Belman did not record a passing touchdown. The last game in which Belman did not throw for a touchdown was last year’s bowl game against Mt. San Antonio College, when the Gauchos lost 12-7. The No. 9 ranked Gauchos will play at home in their final game of the season, hosting the No. 6 ranked Owls. Citrus College finished the regular season 7-3 (4-2 in conference), winning the National Conference Central Division title. The Owls will look to put pressure on Belman, as their defense led the division with 39 sacks. Belman will look to set two additional records in his final game at Saddleback. He needs only 55 passing yards to break the national junior college record for career passing yards, previously held by former Marin College quarterback Geary Davenport (7,072). Belman can also set the school record for career passing touchdowns previously held by Ben Gomez with his next touchdown pass. The game will start at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23 at Saddleback’s home stadium.

The Saddleback College women’s soccer team closed out its season in a 1-1 tie at home against the Golden West College Rustlers. Because of the format for ranking playoff teams, the tie will most likely end up helping the Gauchos into the playoffs. According to a press release from the Saddleback College Athletics Department, “With a playoff formula that involves power rankings, the Gauchos

were better served by tying the game than winning it, thus helping their power ranking. A win against the Rustlers would have dropped Golden West below .500 for the season, thus hurting their total points for the year.” Freshman Danyelle Allen scored the Gauchos’ lone goal in the 25th minute of the game. The goal was Allen’s 28th of the season, giving her two and a half times more goals than what the previous school single

season record was. With the tie, the Gauchos finished the regular season 12-3-6, their best record since 2003 when they finished 15-4-2 and advanced to the first round of the regional playoffs. Saddleback will learn if it receives a playoff spot during the seeding meeting on Tuesday. Check out lariatnews.com/ sports to find out the results of the meeting. mgrennell.lariat@gmail.com

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Winterdance enchants McKinney audience Nathalie Lozano

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Parisian Spirit: Dancers perform “Bastille Nights” in the last performance of the Winterdance 2013 at Saddleback.

The Saddleback College McKinney Theater was a full house for the third performance of WinterDance on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. Anticipating the stars of Saddleback’s dancing program, the night brought forth to the stage a diverse selection of dances. Dorothy Garant, director of Winter Dance 2013 and dance instructor at Saddleback College was applauded by the dancers for having such a colabarative group. Katherine Loung, a 25-year-old biology major, was in the dance called “Kiki,” which was bright, poppy, and full of sass. “Besides being an awesome experience, the collaborative work with the group and director was the best and made this showcase possible,” Loung said. The performances varied from ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Modern, Tap, Latin Dance

and Social Dance. The dancers’ families were ecstatic about the performances and showed their support through flowers, balloons and congratulatory embraces. The Morawa family waited with flowers to congratulate their daughter. Camera in hand, they were delighted with the events of the evening. “Being a first impression, it hit close to home and brought me a good night, seeing how much my daughter gains from these experiences.” Camberly Morawa’s father said. The Morawas have always been a musical family and by having their daughter attend a dance program after graduation keeps their tradition strong, Mr. Morawa said. Camberly Morawa decided to join Saddleback’s dance program after having already transferred out of the community college.

She came back to be a part of what she has always enjoyed: dance. “It is a well put, super program, and creative, since there is students from all levels, each contributes differently. It must be good since I came back to school even after graduating,” Camberly said. Rabecca Woodruff, a 20-year-old broadcast journalism major, was able to share a good night with friends, what with this semester being her last at Saddleback as well as her last year participating in the Winter Dance. “I love the connection between the students and choreographer. It feels like a real or even better dance show than any of those on T.V. We actually communicate amongst each other and come up with greater ideas with the turnout of an awesome learning experience,” Woodruff said. nlozano.lariat@gmail.com

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