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On A&E:
Emeritus student
Jose D. Thomas will be
displaying his art work
this Friday.
See page 3
On Life:
The Jewelry Club and
Environmental Awareness
Club will be hosting
a jewelry sale.
See page 5
Saddleback College culi-nary instructor, Guenter Rehm, teaches baking basics on cam-pus and also advanced bak-ing along with three separate classes that specialize in cake making.
These classes are designed in mind for students who would like to build a foundation for
their future in a commercial culinary career. The baking ba-sics class focuses on the baking and dessert aspect, including bread, pies, custards, muffins and many European breads. Advanced baking educates stu-dents on how to temper choco-late and different chocolate and caramel sauces. His three cake classes all incorporate different structures of cake making.
The final in advanced bak-ing is what Rehm calls “hotel desserts,” because they are the type of dessert served in a ho-tel. Each student must make the dessert including the sauces and condiments that go with it. The baking basics class can choose from either making a bread or pound cake.
California State Assembly speaker John A. Pérez has recently been receiving mas-sive college student support for his proposed Middle Class Scholarship Act, which aims to slash state college fees by two-thirds.
Ever since Pérez introduced his plan to the State Assembly in February, he has been trav-eling to different college cam-puses and sending out press packages soliciting support for the act with positive results.
On March 5, an estimated 10,000 protesters made up of UC students marched to the State Capitol in Sacramento as part of the 10th Annual UC Student Lobby Conference to lobby the passing of the act’s two Assembly Bills, the AB 1500 and the AB 1501. The former closes the Single Sales Factor loophole and redirects funds into the Middle Class
Scholarship Fund, while the latter establishes the Middle Class Scholarship program to distribute the funds.
“We need to close the Single Sales Factor loophole,” Perez said. “Too many out-of-state companies can choose their own tax rates for California.”
In addition, the SLC also ad-vocated for the Working Fami-lies Student Fee Transparency and Accountability Act (AB 970) and Same Day Voter Reg-istration (AB 1436).
The act intends to address the Single Sales Factor tax loophole and redirect the rev-enue lost to out-of-state corpo-rations into the Middle Class Scholarship program, which provides scholarships for stu-dents in the California State University and University of California systems as well as funding for California Com-munity Colleges.
The target recipients are stu-dents whose family have an income of less than $150,000 but do not qualify for any kind of financial aid.
“With the collapse of our economy, we have made our colleges and universities more
expensive and less accessi-ble,” Pérez said. “The Middle Class Scholarship Act intends to turn that around.”
California Community Col-leges students will not receive direct scholarships, but $150 million will be allocated to the CCC system to alleviate its financial burden in order to reduce costs for students, ac-cording to Pérez.
“The average UC student will save about $8,200 a year,” Pérez said. “For CSU students, they would save ap-proximately $4,000 per year.”
In order to pass, the corre-sponding bills require two-thirds votes from each house of the California State Legis-lature.
If the act passes, California will join 23 other states in-cluding Texas and New York, that do not have this tax loop-hole.
The Single Sales Factor al-lows out-of-state corporations to enjoy large tax breaks even if they only have a small num-ber of employees or very little involvement in California.
Irvine Valley College an-nounced its teacher of the year winners that included the cat-egories of full time, part time, and Emeritus instructors.
Marie de la Palme was awarded the full time teacher of the year honor. De la Palme is a ballet instructor at IVC and has been teaching there for four years.
De la Palme is a native of France and has performed with numerous dance groups such as Alvin Ailey III, Trisler Danscompany, Keith Lee Bal-lets and others. She graduated from Princess Grace Acad-emie, Monte Carlo.
De la Palme found her in-spiration for ballet when she attended a ballet show in New York when she was eight years old. She is thankful for her students for their extra effort to help her win the award.
“This award means a lot be-cause the kids took the time to write and that means more than anything to me,” de la Palme said. “They didn’t just take the class, they took the extra step to download the form and write something meaningful and submit it and that’s huge, so for me it’s a huge rush of affection for my kids.”
De la Palme is currently the artistic director of IVC’s Per-forming Dance Ensemble and the dance company Motion/Tribe.
The part time teacher of the year award was given to art and design instructor Jo-seph Gerges. Gerges has been an instructor at IVC for two
years.Gerges is a first generation
Egyptian-American and grad-uated from Art Center Col-lege of Design and earned his masters in drawing and design from California State Univer-sity, Fullerton.
Gerges has been painting since his early teens and his drawings tackle topics like conflict, discrimination and class structure. In addition to drawing he also directed a film documentary titled Solo. Gerges has also worked with
elite studios such as Para-mount and Universal.
Becky Rigali won the Emer-itus teacher of the year honor. Rigali teaches Pilates and fit-ness courses to elderly adults as part of IVC’s Emeritus In-stitute. She has been at IVC
since 2008.Rigali is a graduate of Cali-
fornia State University, Ful-lerton earning her bachelor’s degree in gerokinesiology and her master’s in public health.
Rigali is a former personal trainer for Total Woman Gym
and Day Spa and gets to know her students individually so she can cater to their needs.
Rigali volunteers as a guest speaker to numerous group fitness courses.
TAMEEM SERAJ
Scholarship act receives support
JASON CHUNG
Students bake cake and eat it, too
See bAkiNG page 5
IVC awards teacher of the year
JUST dANCE: Ballet instructor Marie de la Palme leads her class in warm-ups. De la Palme is a full-time instrcutor at Irvine Valley College, and has been teaching ballet there for four years. De la Palme, originally from France, has been interested in ballet since the age of eight when she saw her first performance. She is also the artistic director of IVC’s Performing Dance Ensemble.
Photo by tameem Seraj
YUMMY YUMMY: Students create delectable desserts which help to create a foundation for their future culinary career goals. Students are required to create every aspect of their dessert including sauces and presentation.
Photo courteSy of fN245 claSS
NiCOLE bULLARd
State Assembly is reviewing proposal to close corporate
tax loophole
On A&E:
Saddleback holds its
annual fashion show
fantasy and fairy tale
meets nightmare.
See page 3
On Sports:
Saddleback third baseman
Josh Fuentes talks about
his experiences on
the diamond.
See page 6
The Saddleback College Lar-iat has been named Most Out-standing Community College newspaper in the nation by the American Scholastic Press As-sociation from New York.
For the second time, the Lar-iat also topped the category of First Place with Special Merit.
The student-run publication was chosen over three other
California community college newspapers to win its awards, including Chapparal from Col-lege of the Desert in Palm Desert, The Collegian at Los Angeles City College and The Roundup from Pierce College in Woodland Hills.
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Correction
In the April 4 issue of the Lariat Arts and Entertainment section, a pull-out quote attributed to director Steve Miles was actually made by assistant director Josh Landa.
The idea of combining the currencies of the three North American countries, namely Canada, the United States, and Mexico, has been entertained by various parties following the launch of the euro in Jan. 1999, but nothing ever became of it because many thought it was impractical for the continent at the time.
But now that stories of how the euro is about to fail have began to circulate, coupled with the declining influence of the U.S. dollar, many economists are juggling with the concept again.
Although no one is seriously considering combining the cur-rencies, for the purposes of de-bate, let’s discuss why it would be a bad idea.
The new currency, referred to as the amero, was first proposed by Herbert Grubel, a former Ca-nadian politician and now emer-itus professor of economics at the Simon Fraser University in
Vancouver, in a research study he wrote for the Canadian pub-lic policy think tank Fraser In-stitute in Sept. 1999.
Titled “The Case of the Am-ero,” Grubel argued primarily from Canada’s standpoint. At the time of his study, he feared the newly launched euro would become so successful that it would replace the U.S. dol-lar’s usage in many parts of the world.
He believed by introducing the amero, the risks associated with currency trading in North America could be eliminated and bring about price stability for essential resources such as oil and food.
But most importantly, it would lower the interest rates for the money Canada and Mexico borrowed from other countries. He admitted that al-though the proposal did have immediate benefits for Canada and Mexico, the U.S. wouldn’t see much improvement.
The euro was issued follow-ing the same logic. Among the 27 countries that are members of the European Union, 17 of
them thought merging curren-cies would eliminate heavy cur-rency conversion costs in their close-knitted trade network and establish interdependence be-tween the countries so they can back each other up financially, according to a Time Moneyland blog post by financial analyst Michael Sivy.
But geographically speaking, North American countries are very unlike countries in Europe.
European countries exist within close proximity of one another, and are often surround-ed by two to four countries on each side.
A product being traded across half a dozen countries over there in a single day is not surprising. That is why a common currency was more convenient for them.
North America, on the other hand, is clearly divided into three sections with the U.S. separating the Canadian and Mexican borders. We already have the North American Free Trade Agreement in place to en-sure tariff-free trading as a way to stimulate investments. There-fore, having the amero would
not do us much good.Besides, having a central
monetary policy will only be-come a burden when problems arise.
Just take a look at the situa-tion in Greece right now. In the past, its solution to debts and other financial problem was to print more drachmas. But now that they belong to the euro-zone, the EU cannot print more euros just for them. So instead, they are being asked to make drastic cuts to their budgets, ac-cording to an CNN.
Same thing for North Ameri-ca. If one of the countries hap-pen to fall into financial crisis while the other two are not in a position to help, the entire union will get dragged down.
This is because the country that fell behind either has to make huge cuts to its budget, or the other two countries will have to lend money to the first.
Seriously. If we ever get to vote on combining North Amer-ica’s currency, don’t do it. It will just end in a nasty breakup eventually.
Given state-wide concern with student’s lack of basic skills to perform successfully at the college level, Saddleback College has formed committees to recommend and implement strategies leading to better stu-dent achievement and success in the classroom.
Leading this effort through the college’s Liberal Arts Divi-sion is English instructor Re-nee Bangerter. Using the input from members of the Liberal Arts Division Student Success Committee, she has developed a series of videos outlining the characteristics of a successful student.
The videos are intended to encourage students to be ac-tive, organized and responsible learners. Students are urged to follow specific guidelines to help them experience a higher level of academic achievement.
“We are developing a re-source that instructors can use in their respective classrooms that will outline specific recommen-dations leading to higher levels of student success,” Bangerter said.
With input from several dif-ferent academic areas, strate-gies to help instructors encour-age student participation and enhance student achievement are also included.
The college’s effort puts it in the forefront of a state mandate for more accountability in the state-wide community colleges.
“A state task force has been formed to come up with recom-mendations from instructors, students and representatives in all disciplines, regarding how to make decisions how to fund programs and prioritize educa-tion at the community college level,” Bangerter said.
These videos are part of the Basic Skills Initiative at the col-lege, Bangerter said.
“The success of these vid-eos will be measured looking at better student performance in the basic skills courses,” she said. “Success will be measured looking at matriculation num-bers. A decrease in the number of students enrolled in basic skills programs and better stu-dent performance in the courses taken will be important mea-surements.”
All students, however, can
benefit from this program, in-cluding students who are al-ready getting “A” grades and just need to reduce stress or be-come more efficient with time management, she said. Students who are first generation college students and need more strate-gies to achieve academic suc-cess will be able to use the rec-ommendations to achieve their goals.
Students who find it difficult to cope, either because they lack motivation or because they lack a vision of what their fu-ture holds with find concrete recommendations to find focus, said Mike Reed, journalism de-partment chair and Liberal Arts Student Success Committee member.
Reed sees the state-level task force leaning toward supporting only students who are seeking degrees or certificates.
“There will be less room for students who don’t have specif-ic academic goals set and there will be pressure to see progress toward that goal,” he said. “The emphasis will be on transfer with more support for programs that help students toward that goal.”
“That is the goal of Saddle-back’s Student Success Com-mittee, we are developing lists of specific characteristics and skill sets for students and in-structors to focus on that lead to more student success,” Bangert-er said.
Titles of specific videos that will be available to students and faculty include:
“Setting Up For Success: Characteristics of Successful Students”
“Being Active, Being In-volved”
“Staying Ahead of the Game”“As an associate faulty mem-
ber, I’m looking forward to hav-ing these videos available to show to students.
The strategies outlined will make a difference to both in-structors and students who uti-lize them,” said Debbie Thier-cof, ESL instructor and Liberal Arts committee member.
The college plans to make these videos available on the college Web Site.
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that allows its users to unleash all their pent-up creativity, col-lect photos and videos of places and things they normally could only dream of and organize their future goals with the use of multimedia found on the In-ternet.
The website became available to the public as a invitation-only open beta in March 2010.
According to techcrunch.com, Pinterest has over 10.4 million registered users, 9 mil-lion monthly Facebook-con-nected users and 2 million daily Facebook users. Techcrunch.com also wrote that over 97 percent of Pinterest’s users are women.
The main goal of their web-site is to find interesting things
for people around the globe to share on their virtual pinboard. It’s easy to share beautiful photos of “interesting things.” To post a photo on Pinterest is called a “pin.”
Trending pins are fashion, art, food, and interior design. Although it might seem narrow-minded to say Pinterest is bla-tantly aimed at the female popu-lation, this is not the website’s fault.
After all, the user decides how they want to apply the website to their lives. And with things like photos of the latest fashion and cute throw pillows, it’s no surprise people assume.
One of the growing benefits of Pinterest is blogs are getting far more traffic than they used to. People will look for the pho-to they want, and can often find it on a blog. Pinterest is a great opportunity to take advantage
of, especially if one wants to promote their writing or pho-tography.
The website is also an effi-cient organizer. Imagine if in-stead of having to make a com-plicated list and to decide on very important choices based on an image only in our thoughts, it could be planned out visually on a pinboard—that’s what Pinter-est excels in.
It allows people who are vi-sual learners to organize their book clubs, companies, fund-raisers, photography, recipes and much more.
It’s no surprise that Pinterest has become like a visual board for people. They see delicious food on the Internet so they make a pinboard with photos of food on it. Someone sees a cute photo of a Victorian-themed room, so they make a pinboard of interior design. It’s so simple
and to the point. It’s brilliant. After all, before Pinterest exist-ed people were still scrapbook-ing. It’s the same thing, just now it no longer requires glue sticks and an album book.
Also, people who join Pinter-est tend to be artistic, which you can observe as a Pinterest user. It’s a website of art, imagination
and creativity- but it’s also a website of wishes. People are always wishing and wanting more than they have.
We always want to feel com-plete, and sometimes it seems easier to satisfy our wants with clothes, food and products.
So maybe Pinterest is really just cure for shopaholics?
Doubt it, but it would prob-ably work.
Whether Pinterest be crowd-ed with fashionistas, designers or people planning their future company, it will be interesting to see what’s trending.
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The Norwegian terrorist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who was convicted of acts of terror and voluntary homi-cide, has pleaded not guilty to the charges on April 16.
Breivik had open-fired on a Labour Party youth camp on Utoya Island, killing 69 people, and car-bombed a government building only 25 miles away in Oslo, killing eight, on the same day last summer.
On the date of his trial, he openly denied to recognize the au-thority of the Norwegian court as well as the judge, citing they receive their mandate from a government that supports multicul-turalism as his reason.
Although he denies criminal guilt, he admitted to committing the acts. This man truly believes from the bottom of his heart that he killed all those people in self-defense because, according to him, anyone who supports multiculturalism and pro-immigration policies are a threat to the purity of Norwegian blood.
This man is clearly insane. His monstrous acts of random vi-olence in the name of ethnic cleansing has caused much grief around the globe.
The fact that he believes himself not guilty, even with hun-dreds of witnesses, is an outrage.
The trial is expected to only last up to ten weeks, according
to CNN.com. And the only thing keeping him from prison is the possibility that his crimes could be seen as psychotic.
Whether Breivik is psychotic or not is being evaluated by ex-perts and they’ve concluded his sanity will determine his punish-ment.
It is still uncertain whether he will imprisoned or placed in a mental facility.
But Breivik’s lawyer Geir Lippestad is trying to not pull the insanity card.
The even crazier part is, Breivik was the one who refused to be classified as insane, calling it a worse fate than death.
Not a wise move on his part, but at least it will increase the chances of him being convicted.
In the 1,500-page manifesto he released online before the kill-ings, Breivik claimed he intends to use the court trial as a media platform to spread his extreme views, which is what he doesn’t want to be called insanity and have his message revoked.
This is evidence that this person is seriously messed up in the head. Every second he spends in publicity is an eyesore to the rest of the world.
He should be quickly labeled insane and be jailed or convicted and start serving his life sentence.
Editorial: NorwEgiaN tErrorist too crazy for iNsaNity claim
North American currency union: The next euro flop
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The Saddleback College An-nual Fashion Show will be showing off its student designs including corsets and evening wear.
The theme is fantasy and fai-rytale meets nightmare, with inspiration from movies such as A Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice In Wonderland and Snow White and the Huntsman.
Produced by Fashion 147, the show will also have Athena College of Beauty for hair and makeup styling, hors d’oeuvres prepared by the culinary arts department and the whole show will be taped by communication arts students.
Student design categories include corsets, evening-wear, ready-to-wear and fantasy. The Best in Show Award will be $500.
Along with Saddleback stu-dents, there will be several boutiques attending, including Buffalo Exchange, Muse, The Lobby, Luna B. and Shangri-La.
The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:00 p.m. in the McKinney Theater on Saturday, May 5.
Presale tickets cost $15 and at the door is $20. Tickets are available through the McK-inney box office. For further information, contact Diane McGroarty at [email protected].
For all those college students tired of dishing out around five bucks for a simple caffeinated bev-erage at Starbucks, there’s a solution. This recipe for hot chai tea is relatively simple with fragrant spices like cinnamon and clove. This chai tea recipe is only 111 calories, which can be compared to a grande sized Tazo Chai Tea Latte from Starbucks which clocks in at 200 calories.
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Ingredients:
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The paintings of Emeritus student Jose D. Thomas will be displayed in honor of his artis-tic contributions to Saddleback College on Friday, April 20, at the Library Writing Lab.
The Emeritus Institute, along with Saddleback’s Liberal Arts Division and the Writing Cen-ter, will host an artist reception for Thomas from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Village #8.
Admission is free and refresh-ments will be provided.
Thomas will be showcasing
his paintings of state, regional and county parks throughout Southern California. The paint-ing exhibition is entitled Plein Air.
Plein Air is a style of paint-ing that gained popularity in
the early 19th century when paint manufacturers developed pre-mixed oil pigments, which finally allowed painters to take their tools outdoor with ease, according to PBS.org.
The term takes reference from the French expression “en plein air”, which means “in the open air” when translated to English, to reflect the use of natural sunlight, as opposed to artificial light sources inside a studio, in rendering the paint-ings, according to About.com.
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The department of music at Saddleback College will be holding a piano recital fund-raiser for the Saddleback Piano Program, starring pianist Dan-iel Pollack.
The performance is being held on Sunday, April 29 at 3 p.m. in the McKinney Theater, and a meet-the artist cham-pagne ticketed reception at $10 per person will follow the re-cital.
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“There’s three nights on cake decorating, the first class is when you make the cakes,” Rehm said, “the second is when you make all the buttercreams and fillings and the third is when we sample the cake.”
There’s a lot of information provided in his cake classes, which is why he divided them into three corresponding class-es.
According to the book “How Baking Works: Exploring the Fundamentals of Baking Sci-ence” by Paula I. Figoni, “To-day, bakers and pastry chefs have more challenges. They must master more skills. They must adapt to faster-changing trends. They must learn to use a wider array of ingredients from different cultures. They must learn all this in a shorter amount of time. Baking and pastry pro-grams in colleges and universi-ties are laying the foundation to meet these new challenges.”
Just as Figoni said, college baking classes are beginning to stand in a more energetic stance and honing professional culi-nary skills. However, it is in-deed demanding on instructors and students.
“Until I came on board, they had a kind of home economics class, we would like to make it more commercial and get the students prepared for a job, not just home use.” Rehm said.
As a result of the lingering home economics feel to the cu-linary department, Rehm sees a lot of students enrolling in his classes purely for home use, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but his hopes for his class are that finding job opportuni-ties as culinary students will be a piece of cake.
“I’d like to see that Saddle-back is going more commer-cial to train the students, and it looks like it’s going that way, but it takes money,” Rehm said, “they’d have to invest more money into the culinary depart-ment.”
In his advanced baking class, Rehm mentions there are stu-dents who know little about baking but are still placed in the advanced class.
“The reason why is there wouldn’t be enough students to fill the class, you need 20 stu-dents in a class,” Rehm said, “so it’s difficult when some students have no baking skills.”
His class is on Mondays from 6 p.m. to 9:50 p.m.
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Jewelry sale will feature ‘steampunk’ in honor of Earth Week
Students and faculty from Saddleback College’s jewelry classes will be selling their cre-ations and demonstrating jewel-ry-making at the annual Spring Jewelry Sale on Wednesday, April 25.
Organized by the Jewelry Club in conjunction with the Environmental Awareness Club, the event will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Student Ser-vices Center, Room 212.
“[In honor of] Earth Week,” said event coordinator Gloria
Gimbrone, “we will do a form of jewelry called steampunk. It’s the recycling of found ob-jects.”
The sale will also feature other one-of-a-kind, handmade jewelry pieces crafted by stu-dents and faculty from a variety of materials such as new gold, copper and sterling silver. The items will include rings, brace-lets, necklaces, glass beads, and even sculptures.
“It’s all handcrafted,” Gim-brone said. “Nothing can be purchased. They must make ev-erything.”
Prices for the jewelry will range from $10 to several hun-dred dollars, depending on the cost of the materials and the de-signs.
“We will be demonstrating different techniques,” Gimbro-ne said. “There will be bead-ing, but none of the heavy stuff. So [the attendees] will be able to observe [and] actually see what’s going on.”
Cash, checks, as well as, Visa and MasterCard credit cards will be accepted.
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BAKING “There’s three nights on cake decorating, the first class is when you make the cakes,” Rehm said, “the second is when you make all the but-tercreams and fillings and the third is when we sample the cake.”
Irvine Valley College men’s volleyball team clinched playoff berth by finishing second in the Pacific Coast Conference with an 8-3 record.
The Lasers are 10-7 overall this season and are led by soph-omore middle blocker Mark Metrakos. The Lasers are the
defending state champions but were almost eliminated from playoff contention.
If they had lost to Grossmont College on April 6, their hopes of the postseason would have been over. IVC was down two sets to none but rallied to win in five sets in a match where Grossmont had three match points. Metrakos had 26 kills in the match.
The Lasers hosted the Moor-park College Raiders last night, check http://www.ivc.edu/ath-letics/mvolleyball/Pages/de-fault.aspx for the result of the match.
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Saddleback College men’s tennis team wins Orange Em-pire Conference crown with a 9-1 record.
The lone loss of the season was to district rival Irvine Val-ley College on March 27 in a hard fought 3-6 match.
The team finished 15-5 over-all this season and await the de-cision of the seeding committee to see what seed they are placed.
If they are the higher seed then the Gauchos will have home court advantage in the first round of regional
playoffs. The first round match was yesterday, check http://www.saddleback.edu/athletics/Tennis/ for results.
This is the first title for the
team since 2004 and the first under coach Bud Davis.
This is Davis’ third season as coach. He has completely turned the program around from his first season when the team went winless in conference play.
The seven year conference title draught was unusual for a program that has a history of winning.
Prior to the draught the Gau-chos had won 12 straight con-ference titles and 25 titles in a 26-year span dating back to 1979.
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FlY Ball: Second baseman Josh Fuentes catches a pop fly during a game against Golden West on March 30.
Fuentes leads struggling Gauchos
Saddleback infielder Josh Fuentes, 19, undecided, is put-ting up great numbers so far this season. He has a .342 batting average and 13 runs-batted-in.
“One word to describe my baseball career is passion. I play with so much heart and pure love for the game. I couldn’t think of doing anything else but playing ball,” Fuentes said.
Fuentes is from Mission Vie-jo, but he has lived in Rancho Santa Margarita for most of his life. Fuentes’ high school team was very successful his senior year.
“I started off slow my fresh-man and sophomore years at Trabuco Hills, but then I worked hard and hit every single day and became a good player,” Fuentes said.
“We won league my senior year,” he said.
Like most athletes, he learned to play his favorite sport at a very young age. Fuentes’ father and his cousin were his biggest teachers and role models.
His father, Justo Fuentes, in-troduced him to the game when he was six years old. He has six
cousins, and they played almost every day whether it was Wiffle Ball in the backyard or bounc-ing balls off the garage.
“I was always around the game,” Fuentes said. His cousin Nolan Arenado plays for the double-A minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
“He taught me to play with fire and to want it more than anyone else on the field. That goes through my mind every time I step in between those lines,” Fuentes said.
Fuentes loves playing for the Gauchos and loves playing with his teammates and helping them win in any way he can. Coach Sommer McCartney would al-ways contact him telling him to go to Saddleback, and he decid-ed to play for the Gauchos.
“I love our team here at Sad-dleback. We have a solid group of guys who want to get better individually and as a team,” Fuentes said. “When I come to hit early, I always see guys strolling in to hit with me. We really gel.”
Fuentes’ favorite baseball team is the San Francisco Gi-ants, and his favorite player is Troy Tulowitzki of the Colo-rado Rockies.
“Troy plays with such fire and energy and that’s my game too. The way he plays defense inspires me,” Fuentes said. “My older brother loved the Dodgers and we were rivals, so naturally my team was the Giants.”
Fuentes’ goal is very similar to the majority of college ath-letes. His goal is to get drafted out of Saddleback or play at a four-year university.
“Getting an education is so important, and I would have no problem going that route, but if the opportunity of getting draft-ed arose, that would be a dream come true,” Fuentes said.
The Gauchos are currently 8-15 and are looking to improve themselves in every way pos-sible. Fuentes believes that any-thing is attainable.
“Every goal I have is an achievable goal for me,” he said.
“Nothing is out of reach. Per-sistence and being focused on the task helps to achieve it.
“Nothing is ever going to be smooth sailing. When you have setbacks, those who are persis-tent enough get back up and continue to tackle it and have success. I live by that,” Fuentes said.
Saddleback Men’s tennis ends title drought IVC men’s volleyball entered playoffs Tuesday night
Courtesy of IrvIne valley College
BlOCKer: Mark Metrakos.
Lasers reach playoffs with stunning comeback win
against Grossmont.