In one of the more unusual days in Orange Coast College’s recent history, classes were cancelled for the afternoon and evening last week when a cam-pus-wide blackout caused ofi-cials to send students home for the day.

An email was sent to students at 3:19 p.m. Thursday informing them that any further classes for the day had been cancelled.

Power to the entire campus shut down shortly after 2 p.m. Oficials determined it was too hot in classrooms to contin-ue classes and there would be no light available for evening classes.

Mark Goode, director of OCC’s Maintenance and Oper-ations said that as far as he is aware this was the irst time the entire campus had to be shuttered due to a lack of power.

“There has never been a cam-pus wide power outage. Eight

or nine years ago the Chemistry building had a bad cable and shorted out, but I haven’t seen anything like this in my 30 years,” he said.

Other officials on campus echoed that, including Executive Director of the Orange Coast Col-

lege Foundation Doug Bennett.“I’ve been here for 29 years

and we had one (blackout) in the summer back in the late 1990s when there weren’t many students on campus but power came back on in two hours,” Bennett said. “This is the irst

time that something like this has happened.”

Goode said the blackout was caused by a transformer that mal-functioned due to high demand and hot temperatures. Tempera-tures reached a record high of 100 degrees that day.

“Transformers need to release heat and when it’s too hot it over-heats,” Goode explained.

The area surrounding OCC didn’t lose power and no other businesses were affected.

Goode said the power was out for about 10 hours after which most of the campus’ systems came back online and nothing major was damaged. Southern

California Edison apparently supplied OCC with a spare part for the transformer and was able to deliver and install the part to bring power back to the campus.

Students said they were in classes or in other campus build-ings when the power suddenly switched off. A major trafic jam was reported in school parking lots as a mass of students tried to leave at the same time, but no other damages or problems were reported.

Students received an email message at 5:41 a.m. Friday in-forming them that power had been restored to campus and school would resume as normal.

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El Nino our last esperanza

As rain fell on Tuesday, south-ern Californians were hopeful that the predicted El Nino had arrived.

Meteorologists have predicted the phenomenon known as the El Nino to hit southern California this winter due to diminishing westerly winds and warming waters in the Paciic Ocean.

An El Nino is signiicant be-cause it’s a natural occurring event in the equatorial region which causes changes to the world climate. The changes associated with a strong El Nino are events such as warmer than normal sea surface temperatures, flooding rains and torrential downpours in southern California.

Although a lot of these events have not hit southern California

yet, experts say we’re already seeing some environmental indi-cators associated with it.

“We’re in El Nino already,” Karen Baker, marine science instructor said about the phenom-enon. “The water’s warmer and we’re seeing higher sea levels.”

Baker stressed that the sea surface temperatures in the Pa-ciic Ocean indicate how strong it could potentially be and how long it could possibly last.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a 90 percent chance of it continuing to develop into the

upcoming winter season and well into the spring.

The thought of consistent rain and downpours in southern Cal-ifornia sounds great in terms of alleviating the current drought but that might not be the case. Southern California was origi-nally engineered to drain rainfall into the ocean to prevent looding.

“Sure, we’re going to have the

potential to get rain,” Robert Ellis, instructor of marine science said about the El Nino alleviating the drought, “but we’re more engi-neered to pack snow not catch water.”

It’s hard to say which strategies California will utilize in terms of saving rain water, but letting all the rainwater go to waste is not an option, he said.

The recent reports from the Na-tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of sharks in Or-ange County are due to El Nino because it’s warming our waters. Marine life typically associated

with warm waters has followed the currents, which have brought them to the southern California coast.

“We’re seeing more and more ish out here that we don’t usually see,” Ellis said, “and it’s a result of the warming waters.”

El Nino occurs every two to eight years and is projected to last through spring of 2016.

Photo courtesy of the state of California

Californians are hopeful that Tuesday’s rain is just the begin-ning of a strong El Nino that can help the state’s drought.

The growing weather system could help ease the drought.

BY JULIAN MUNIZSTAFF WRITER

“There has never been a campus wide power outage. Eight or nine years ago the Chemistry building had a bad cable and shorted out, but I haven’t seen anything like this in my 30 years”

Mark Goodemaintenance directorBY NATHAN RUSINIAK

STAFF WRITER

Officials shut down the college after a blown transformer causes an outage.

Tempers lared and oppo-nents took up sides during a community meeting last week to present plans for the future of Orange Coast College.

At the forefront of the heated debate was the conlict between past and present, then and now — and at the center of that was famed mid-century architect Richard Neutra.

Local architect John Linnert came down on the side of his-tory and Neutra, while Student Government of Orange Coast

College president Alex Rojas was decidedly in favor of an Orange Coast College of the future.

Plans for expansion and change at OCC call for the pos-sible demolition or repurposing of several Neutra-designed buildings, including the math

NEUTRALIZING

NEUTRA

Photos courtesy of OC Register and blog.archpaper.com

Several Orange Coast College buildings designed by famed architect Richard Neutra could face the wrecking ball if expansion plans are approved.

OCC buildings designed by the famed architect face an uncertain future.

BY NATHAN RUSINIAKSTAFF WRITER

New labs under waterBY NATHAN RUSINIAKSTAFF WRITER

Burned books the topic of exhibitThe gallery will hold an opening reception with the artist today.

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS

See NEUTRA Page 2

Windows were splattered with water droplets, floors littered with puddles and the entrances to the brand new Math, Business and Computing Center were draped in yellow caution tape Tuesday when a much-need-ed rainstorm caused havoc on campus.

Students arrived to classes only to find the Computing Center shut down because lood waters had entered the building. The new MBCC just opened this semester and has only been operational for a few weeks.

Georgy Marrero, a student as-sistant in the Computing Center, said he arrived around 9:30 a.m. but missed most of the action. He said his supervisor was the irst to arrive and noticed the looding.

Students huddled around the center in the morning expecting to use the new computing center but many were agitated when the staff informed them the building

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The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion will host a show titled “Ellipsis” by Matthew War-ner-Davies through Oct. 8.

An opening reception is scheduled for today at 5 p.m. and will feature a guest talk by Warner-Davies.

The sculptural installation will explore the deterioration of the book as an object. The ex-hibit is intended to explore the theme of freedom of speech and tolerance with burned books.

“For me, the act of book burning is an access point into the tension of honoring books while marring their intended function to ultimately inter-rogate systems of knowledge,

memory and toleration,” War-ner-Davies said.

The show is made up of four material narratives and employs the processes of molding, print-ing, embalming and gluing the forms and ashes of books to reconigure what it means to remember, look and read.

“Ellipsis” will be open from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Mon-days, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Admission is free.

Among the many concerns of irst-year college students is transferring to a four-year uni-versity once classes at Orange Coast College are inished.

At OCC, the Transfer Center staff is a students’ resource for learning about educational plans to successfully pursue a bachelor’s degree.

Giovanni Castelan, 20, a business major at OCC, is a student assistant at the Transfer Center. He shed some light on the various routes available to transfer.

First, the Transfer Opportu-nity Program is for underrepre-sented groups, including Afri-can-Americans, Native-Amer-icans and Latinos. It can help with inancial aid, scholarships and even offer workshops for academic success.

“You have to be an incom-ing freshman to be in TOP, go to orientation and meet with a counselor and sign up for Counseling 105 (Strategies for College Success),” Castelan said.

There are additional beneits to joining the program which is currently being used by more than 330 students.

“The TOP office has quiet space for studying and comput-ers for students in the program too, so they can see a counselor whenever they need to. You don’t have to make an appoint-ment,” he said.

Jessica Garcia, 18, an unde-

cided major at OCC said she didn’t know about the program but wouldn’t have been quali-ied to join it anyway.

“I didn’t know it even exist-ed. I can’t join, my parents went to college. But at least there’s more help for other Hispanics like me. That’s cool. I need to just decide where I want to go,” Garcia said.

Though not everyone qualiies for the TOP program, there are several other options for students in need of a plan.

The Transfer Admission Guarantee degree is for anyone wanting to transfer to six of the University of California schools: UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine.

There are also transfer agree-

ments with the California State University system which are associates degrees for transfer and guarantee admission to a CSU campus. There are also some agreements with out-of-state schools.

Each program has its own unique requirements and it’s up to students to speak to the Trans-fer Center staff and a counselor about choosing the most com-prehensive plan for their needs.

The associate degree for transfer is one of the most pop-ular for CSU-bound students, oficials said. There are many majors available under the plan and they have already been articulated for students. Some of the degrees are journalism, English, communications, the-atre arts, computer science and

business administration. For more information go to the

second loor of Watson Hall to visit the Transfer Center or check them out at orangecoastcollege.edu for more information.

The presence of homeless people on both the Orange Coast College and Coast Community College District campuses raises safety concerns not just for stu-dents and employees but for the homeless as well.

The issue of homeless people

setting up camps at OCC and at the district has been an ongoing problem and according to the District Director of Public Af-fairs Letitia Clark, the main con-cern is the safety issues it raises.

“We’ve had some people sleeping on the roof and that is just not a safe place,” Clark said. “If they’re in harm’s way like near the air conditioning it is important for us to address these unsafe conditions.”

When issues involving the homeless arise either on campus or at the district office, OCC’s Campus Safety office is the first to receive a call because it can respond quickly.

According to Chief of Cam-pus Safety John Farmer, the presence of the homeless on campus or at the district office is not the main issue. The issue develops when the homeless start setting up camps, leaving behind debris and urinating on the grounds.

The procedure for Campus Safety to remove people from the campuses, according to Farmer, is to go over and confront them and ask them politely to leave. If faced with resistance or other conflict, Campus Safety will contact local authorities.

“We had one guy who had set up a hammock in the trees on

campus and he was probably there for a few weeks until a groundskeeper saw him,” Farmer said.

According to Farmer, these instances are not frequent, and in fact there have only been a few issues reported within the past year.

The most common indicators that arise are the presence of a mattress and garbage around it, so Campus Safety will patrol the campus and district office to make sure that situations are handled properly.

In the event that a homeless person on campus is an OCC student, Campus Safety follows a protocol to send students to the Student Health Center.

“If it is a student, they have a bunch of contacts that can help them out,” Farmer said.

According to the U.S. De-partment of Housing and Urban Development, 578,424 people

were homeless on any given night in 2014. Nearly one-quar-ter of all homeless people were children under the age of 18, and 10 percent were between the ages of 18 and 24.

The Student Health Center offers nursing, medical and mental health services to students enrolled at OCC. Every OCC

student pays a student health fee when they register for classes and that money goes to help fund the Student Health Center.

“It seems like an appropriate way to deal with the issue, seeing as how we pay the student health fee every semester,” 19 year-old communicative disorders major Sierra Kent said.

Campus

CRIMEBLOTTER

Medical MishapMedical aid was requested

on Sept. 9 near the C&L class-rooms at 10 a.m.

Campus Safety was initially contacted by an unknown stu-dent who reported a female in distress outside of the Library. When they arrived, however, the library staff was unaware of anyone in need of assistance. The oficers were then tipped off to a victim in front of the Fine Arts building in need of assistance. When they arrived there was no victim in sight, said Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer.

Campus Safety was inally able to locate the victim at the C&L classrooms through the assistance of a student. The victim was being assisted by the paramedics at their arrival.

The victim complained of dizziness during class and was escorted out of the classroom by a classmate to get fresh air before being caught by her classmate just as she fainted, Farmer said.

According to Farmer, after the paramedics checked her vi-tal signs they concluded that it would be necessary to transfer the victim to Hoag Hospital for further evaluation.

Stolen WalletA theft was reported on Sept.

8 in the Allied Health building. The victim, a female staff

member, was reportedly in and out of her ofice and classroom when her wallet was stolen.

According to Farmer the victim had allegedly witnessed many people coming in and out of her classroom at the time of

the theft. The victim described it as

a light brown wallet that con-tained cash, two ATM cards, her driver’s license, a checkbook and movie tickets. The victim valued the contents of the wal-let at $200.

There are no suspects or witnesses.

Ticket TrapA car was impounded on

Sept. 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the Ad-ams Avenue Parking Lot.

An oficer took notice of the gold four-door Honda Civic and through further inspection found that the vehicle had a total of nine outstanding tickets. The citations amounted to a total of $243.

The vehicle was towed away soon after.

Graffiti gaffe A case of vandalism was

reported on Thursday at the Fieldhouse.

Campus Safety was made aware of the grafiti inside of both the home and visitors men’s restrooms, Farmer said.

The graffiti was reportedly found inside stalls and on the mirrors.

Campus Safety contacted the Maintenance and Operations de-partment to remove the grafiti.

According to Farmer, pictures were taken of the vandalism and are being kept on file in case of another incident. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

—The Crime Blotter was compiled

by Sarahi Fernandez from Campus

Safety reports.

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Transfer plans at OCCTransfer Center offers students educational plans for transfer.

BY HAVA CASTANEDASTAFF WRITER

Transfer Agreement Guarantee (TAG)

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WHERE: Watson Hall,

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WHEN: Thursday 11 a.m.

CALL: (714) 432-5894

Campus, district can be a haven for homelessPeople setting up camp on school ground is a health and safety issue.

BY LOGAN CARTERNEWS EDITOR

Photo courtesy of Coast Community College District

Orange Coast College’s Campus Safety office is the first to respond if the homeless set up camp on district property.

Top five transferring colleges

OCC transferred more than 1,830 students in the 2013-2014 school year and is the top transferring community college in Orange County. OCC also ranks 2nd in Southern California and 3rd statewide.

1. De Anza College

2. Santa Monica College

3. Orange Coast College

4. Diablo Valley College

5. Pasadena City College

UC AND CSU TRANSFERS

2,152

1,763

2,083

1,839

1,833

NEUTRA: Some OCC buildings designed by a famous architect could meet the wrecking ball.

wing, the planetarium and the business education wing. Ad-ditionally, plans call for the swimming pool, gymnasium, recycling center, and various oth-er structures to be restructured.

New buildings will include student housing, a solar-paneled parking area and a new plane-tarium.

Linnert voiced his concerns

about the demolition of buildings designed by Neutra.

“He was a master architect building into the idea that archi-tecture can affect human psyche and its dependence on nature, which was revolutionary at the time,” Linnert said, adding that an outside architectural firm has deemed OCC’s buildings of national importance.

On the other side of the issue was Rojas, who Linnert said

was “only saying things I’ve heard from administration and she seemed very closed minded.”

Rojas couldn’t be reached for comment.

Vice President of Administra-tive Services Richard Pagel said changes need to be made at OCC but history can also be preserved.

“The campus feels like we’ll respect our history but move forward. Some still want to keep it in 1957,” he said.

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With more than 20,000 students to serve on campus, Orange Coast College has found a way to provide satisfying food to serve the masses.

There are nine food and drink locations on campus that provide either on-the-go or sit down services that will please just about everyone.

The Captain’s Table Restaurant, run by culinary arts instructor Bill Barber, provides hands-on training for culinary students in a gourmet dining environment. The 75-seat restaurant is open for lunch and dinner on Thursdays only and costs $14.

“I run the kitchen and another instructor handles the dining room,” Barber said. “I set the menus and come up with the recipes.”

The menu varies from week to week, but American regional cuisine is served in the fall, while international selections are available in the spring.

This semester marks the first time the restaurant will offer a dinner service and is the best option for students and staff looking to sit down to enjoy a proper meal. Reservations can be made at (714) 432-5876 ext. 22.

The Coast Snack Shack strives to serve healthier organic options when it comes to breakfast, lunch and dinner, officials said. Ranging anywhere from breakfast burritos to burgers to sweet potato fries, the variety offers ample options.

The coastal inspired shack uses eco-friendly packaging as well as natural and hormone free meats and cheeses. This conscious effort to provide healthier eating has resonated well with many students.

“I like eating here because it

has healthy alternatives and a popular range of foods,” said Haley Burg, 18, a political science major.

If you do get tired of the traditional menu, try changing it up and take a peek at the secret one offered online.

The menu includes ten new options that don’t appear on their normal signage. It offers multiple salads, sliders, sides and more vegetarian options.

For the complete menu look online at the OCC website under Student Life.

For those looking to satisfy their coffee cravings, stop by Starbucks or one of the espresso carts to get your caffeine fix.

The Starbucks is located near the Art Center Parking Lot, while the carts are placed in front of the Associated Students Bookstore and in between the Literature and Languages building near the Home Economics building.

The BBQ at the Grove is set up outside between the bookstore and Watson Hall. The BBQ serves the standard barbecue classics, deli sandwiches, fresh fruits and salads. Set up under a large covered patio, the BBQ serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.

For another cookout favorite, try stopping by the OC Hot Doggs cart located next to the Art Center.

The Student Center Café and the Quick Corner are two food options available in the cafeteria that serve students and employees on campus. Fear not, they both produce a high volume of food, so a shortage is very unlikely.

The breakfast menu offers have 20 choices for breakfast including pancakes, omelettes and breakfast burritos.

The lunch and dinner menu offers more than 50 choices including pizza, sandwiches, salads, wraps and a pho station.

Both eateries show diversity, ranging from American to Baja inspired dishes. All nutritional facts are available on the OCC website.

was not it for use. As early as 9 a.m. workers in

yellow vests were handling hoses and machines that spewed the ex-cess rainwater from the building.

“Janitorial staff has been evacuating water all morning. It seems like the architects didn’t take into consideration for what would happen if it were to rain,” Marrero said.

One campus official said sump pumps used to pump water from basements may not have been hooked up properly.

Staff members were posted

at both entrances to inform students of class cancellations and warn them not to enter the building as the wet loors posed a safety hazard.

As of press time Tuesday oficials were hopeful that com-puters in the center hadn’t been affected by the water.

“As of now we don’t know the extent of computer damage. We’ll wait a couple days to turn them on,” Marrero said.

As of late Tuesday oficials weren’t sure when the computer lab would reopen.

There are computers and printers available in the Library available for student use.

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Math Anxiety?Do you struggle with math and fear it will interfere

with your success in college?

Are you taking Math 005, 008, or 010?

Are you willing to work toward overcoming your fears?

If so, please consider joining O.C.C.’s new learning community:

Becoming Math

Confident AcademyCounseling A199 (2 units) starts in Fall 2015 on Sept 22

Class meets every Tuesday from 6pm-9pm

To enroll in the late starting Counseling A199, you MUST be taking a math

005, 008, or 010 class in Fall 2015 AND be planning to take a math class in

Spring 2016. You will get to learn key skills for overcoming your fears,

study skills, and receive math anxiety counseling.

Interested? Please see Martha Guevara in the Counseling File Room in Watson

Hall, Room 352 and ask about the Becoming Math Confident Academy.

Call 714-432-5142 for information or e-mail at mguevara@occ.cccd.edu

Campus Dining GuideOptions range from the quick and easy to full service gourmet.

BY ALLIYAH HILLSTAFF WRITER

Photo by Payam Shahsavandi

Students take a break from classes to grab some food at the the Student Center Cafe which features more than 50 lunch options.

• Totally Awesome $3.50

Side of fries and sweet potato fries with grilled onions, cheddar and chipotle ranch

• The Cheese Barrel $3.50

Hamburger bun with three slices of white cheddar or pepper jack cheese, grilled to perfection.

• Maui $5.00

An Impact burger with guacamole, grilled onions, tomato, lettice pickles and chipotle ranch dressing.

• The Van Dam $5.00

Basically a double Impact burger with iceberg lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle chips.

• Stoked $3.75

Cheese quesadilla on wheat tortilla, choice of salsa and organic sour cream.

• Triple line-up $6.00

Natural mini slider hamburgers

Secret MenuSnack Shack

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For information on most campus events,

call (714) 432-5880.

Lectures

Theatre

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Oct. 9 to 11 and Oct. 16 to 18: Tom Bruno directs the William Shake-speare classic but with a Western twist. Starry-eyed lovers, cowboys, miners and native spirits romp and frolic under the moonlight in this timeless tale of mis-taken identity and love. In the Drama Lab Theatre. Curtain 7:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 18. Admis-sion $10 advance, $12 at the door. Student and senior discounts available.

“10 Minute Play Festi-val,” Oct. 25 to 27: A fes-tival of very short plays that promises drama and theater in 10 minutes or less. In the Drama Lab Studio. Curtain 7:30 p.m. Admission $5 advance, $7 at the door.

Dining

Art Shows

Workshops

UC application work-shops, Sept. 23: For stu-dents planning to transfer in spring and fall of 2016. Reserve a seat by call-ing the Transfer Center at 714-432-5894. In Watson Hall third floor confer-ence room. At 1 p.m. Free.

“Ell ipsis ,” through Oct. 8: Art by Matthew Warner-Davies employs various techniques to re-configure what it means to remember, look and read. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. Free.

“Applied Pressure,” through Oct. 8: Part of West Coast Drawing, 25 southern California artists working in drawing meda. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. An artists’s talk is scheduled for Sept. 30 at 5:30 p.m. Free.

Captain’s Table restau-rant, Thursdays through December: The instruc-tional on-campus restau-rant kicks off the semester with offering dinner in additon to its traditional lunch. Lunch, Thursdays at noon, dinner Thurs-days at 6 p.m. Reserva-tions at 714-432-5876, ext. 22. $14 per person.

Pilates Guest Speaker Series, Sept. 23: Vik-tor Uygan will speak on Improving Your Pi-lates with the Konnec-tor and demonstrate the device. In the OCC Art Center room 148. At 1:30 p.m. $20 for the public.

Transfer Agreement Guarantee (TAG) work-shop, Thursday: For stu-dents planning to transfer in spring and fall of 2016. Reserve a seat by call-ing the Transfer Center at 714-432-5894. In Watson Hall third floor conference room. At 11 a.m. Free.

Thousands will congregate hand-in-hand to create a hu-man chain between the Balboa and Newport piers to celebrate International World Peace Day Sunday.

The Peer-2-Pier Challenge, organized by Team Kids, will require about 2,500 people to cover the 1.7 mile distance between the two piers. So far, Newport Beach firefighters, police oficers, life guards and hundreds of volunteers are al-ready on board.

Team Kids is an Orange County-based non-proit orga-

nization that started in 2001. Its goal is to empower children and help them grow by getting them involved in charity at a young age. This mission can clearly be heard in the motto, “It’s all about the kids.”

The event will be in honor of Martin Richard, who was trag-ically killed during the Boston Marathon bombings. Richard was only 8 years old when he died said Team Kids CEO Julie Hudash.

“I hope that seeing this many individuals standing together will move peoples’ hearts and see peace the way people like Martin did,” Hudash said.

“To him, peace meant things like togetherness, compassion, teamwork, fairness, sports-manship, inclusion and being kind,” Hudash said.

After the human chain is complete the day will continue with a pancake breakfast, live

music and interactive and in-formational booths that will be set up by sponsors and partners of the event.

Other organizat ions in-volved include the Ben Carl-

son Foundation, the Martin Richard Foundation, Oakley and more.

“I’m both incredibly proud and excited for this event,” said Francesca Apollonio,

Team Kids marketing manager. “It’s going to be great for both the kids and the city.”

The event begins at 8 a.m. and is free. For more informa-tion go to www.teamkids.org.

Volunteers will join hands across 1.7 miles

No Chipotle for you, OCC

A partnership between the college student favorite Chipo-tle and the app Tapingo to pro-vide food delivery to college campuses in California doesn’t include Orange Coast College in its list.

Even though the app is al-ready used by OCC students to avoid lines at Starbucks and other food service outlets on campus, Tapingo won’t include Chipotle delivery to OCC in its options. The only college cam-pus that will receive deliveries in Orange County will be Cal State Fullerton.

Chipotle announced earlier this month that by spring its burritos and bowls will be delivered to more than 100 campuses nationwide. Accord-

ing to some news reports, it is Tapingo that decides when and where to expand, but there are no further details on how the app is making these partnership choices.

“Chipotle has been popular with students going back to our very irst restaurant near the University of Denver, and we are always looking for ways to better engage with them,” said Mark Crumpacker, chief creative and development of-ficer at Chipotle. “Tapingo, which has been well received by students where its services are available, knows how to connect with these younger customers.”

OCC aspiring preschool teacher Helena Alonso, 19, said that she would rather drive to Chipotle and spend some more money on gas than eat a chicken bowl in the cafeteria.

“Chipotle is my favorite fast food restaurant not just because of how delicious it is, but also because it focuses on non-GMO and cruelty-free food.

The nearest Chipotle to OCC

is about four minutes away on Harbor Boulevard — or is only 12 minutes by bike.

Business student Matt Arnal,

23, said Chipotle is his favorite place to eat when he does not have enough time to cook be-cause it is easy, affordable and

healthy. “The fact that the partnership

excludes OCC is disappoint-ing,” Arnal said.

Boston bombing victim will beremembered at local event.

BY JOSH SELLERSSTAFF WRITER

Photo courtesy of Team Kids, Inc.

Thousands of volunteers will join hands Sunday in the first ever Peer-2-Pier Challenge to cele-brate International World Peace Day.

Burritos from the fast food chain will be delivered to some colleges.

BY SCARLETT LOBO HERRERASTAFF WRITER

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QUESTION of the WEEK If the world ended tomorrow what would your last meal be?

“Nothing because of my beliefs.”

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“I love steak and fries.” “Roscoe’s chicken and waffles.” “Spaghetti.”“An In-N-Out Double Double with animal fries and a neopolitan shake.”

The end of the world as we know itAccording

to self-pro-c l a i m e d prophet Efrain R o d r i g u e z , Earth will be destroyed by a giant asteroid between Sept. 21 and 28.

Rodriguez claims to have a vision that an asteroid 2.5 miles long will hit Puerto Rico and cause havoc across the planet.

His prediction alludes to the Blood Moon prophecy which is a sign of the end of the world as described in the Bible in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12. The proph-ecy claims that disaster will fall upon us when a lunar eclipse is followed by six full moons.

Now, luckily for us, NASA has stepped in and said that not a single known object has a chance of hitting our planet in the next century. Still, my biggest problem is that we believe these hoaxes that we stumble upon on the web.

In my 19 years of existence, I have gone through a few end of the world scares. Everytime a part of me believes it and the other part of me just shrugs it off.

I was 5 during the Y2K scare. Everyone was going crazy, stock-ing up on food and supplies. People thought computers would get confused going from 1999 to 2000 and completely shut down trafic lights, airports and basical-ly anything that used computers.

Well, the clock struck midnight and nothing happened.

Some predicted that June 6, 2006, or 666, was the mark of the beast and would be the end

of the world. The Book of Revelation

claimed the world would come to an end with the birth of the anti-Christ and the coming of the Apocalypse. Satan would harvest souls of the bad and Jesus would gather up all his good hearted people and save them.

Let’s be honest, I’m glad that one didn’t happen because my soul would be gone so fast.

The most popular one was when the Mayans predicted the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012. It was supposed to be this huge doomsday and when it didn’t happen I was very upset because

now I had to go and buy Christ-mas gifts for everyone.

Now Rodriguez’s asteroid end of the world thing didn’t really scare me. I was very skeptical be-cause one asteroid can’t possible blow up the entire Earth. I hope.

We shouldn’t believe every-thing we see on the Internet

because when it doesn’t happen, we might just be disappointed or dumb because we spent all our time and money thinking we were actually going to die.

Hopefully, we are still alive by next week.

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Despite claims by self-annoited prophet Efrain Rodriguez, domesday warnings need to be taken with some reservations.

Michelle Mendez

Arts & Culture Editor

T h e N e w England Pa-triots is the team all foot-ball fans love to hate. But why? Because they bend the rules? Because t h e y h a v e been good for years?

The Patriots have been one of the best teams in the National Football League for years and have won four Super Bowls in the last 13 years. That is more than any other franchise. They have also been in headlines for cheating scandals more than any other team in that span of time.

The scandals revolv ing around them consist of Spygate in 2007, where the Patriots were discovered recording play calling signs of other teams, as well as Delategate earlier this year, in which balls were found to be under inlated per NFL regulations. And now there are more allegations that the Patriots have again been found cheating and stealing other team’s playbooks.

Whether the Patriots actually did what they are accused of, whether it affected the games or not, and whether how they were punished was just, just like all

things, it comes down to how they executed on the ield more than anything.

Despite how well they play on the gridiron, the Patriots have become one of the most hated teams in the NFL. But are they really the ones we should be looking at to change?

With all the scandals the Patriots have been involved in, the NFL’s good name is quickly being tarnished. Is this due to a lack of respect for the league from the Patriots? Possibly, but most likely not.

These issues are simply not being handled with inesse by the league.

The NFL Commissioner Rog-er Goodell failed to punish the Patriots properly in 2007 with Spygate and could potentially have been looking to gain back some of the public opinion with his rulings on Delategate which eventually got overturned by

United States federal courts.Clearly, between not punish-

ing them properly in the past and then arguably giving too severe a punishment and having it revoked, Goodell’s authority needs to be questioned more than the Patriots antics.

The NFL needs a committee which specializes in the punish-ment of players and teams who break the rules.

I am not looking to bash Goodell in any way because he has spoken for this idea and is willing to relieve himself of the stress that power brings him.

Fans of the NFL should look more to the administration of the league for changes in how it runs more than to the offend-ing teams because despite the Patriots being the ones so often caught cheating, there may be many more things yet to be discovered that other teams are doing as well.

Other NFL teams may be just as guilty of cheating

Zach Law

Staff Writer

The stock market could be one of the brightest and most promis-ing financial tools available to the millen-nial generation.

The stock market is ba-sically this for millennials: an alternative instru-ment of inance and savings for a generation who has come into adulthood without the guarantee of a savings fund with growth.

The baby boomers had their 401Ks and their Social Security funds, but all that can and prob-ably will go away for us.

The truth of the matter is that millennials are afraid of the stock market.

The fear of this inancial market comes from what younger gener-ations know as a failing market — with the 2008 market crash, subsequent recession and the re-cent historic 1,000-point decline.

Fear also comes from a lack of understanding of how the market operates and how stock trading actually works.

The basic thing to know about the stock market is that it is now almost entirely electronic, which means it is driven by technology.

In the stock market you have to trade on publicly-known infor-mation. The college equivalent of this is having your professor tell you that you can use your textbook on all your tests.

What this means is that you are able to use instruments like Google to research companies and analyze information, and thus make an informed risk on a stock. I do believe that with all this information available to the

individual, one is able to reduce the risk of investing, if only slightly, by knowing what kind of company they’re putting their money into.

This brings us to realizing the leverage that anyone in the millennial generation has over the current typical Wall Street investor — we are all tech savvy.

Unlike the baby boomers, we grew up in a technological-ly-driven world. This brings us an advantage because we realize the value of the resources we have available to us. A prime example of these resources is Robinhood.

Robinhood is a basic app. It literally puts the entire stock market at your ingertips — Nas-daq, New York Stock Exchange, you have it all. Basically, what you do is link this application to your bank account and then you’re off to trade. And here’s the best part — it’s completely free.

You could be sitting in your bathroom or in line at Starbucks, it doesn’t matter. What Rob-inhood does, in my opinion, is close that inal gap for a younger generation and it strips away all the confusing charts and line graphs, leaving them with something they can understand It’s as easy as push-ing a button — literally.

Take this and Google and you’ve got all you need.

When you step aside and take the rules, the technology and the app elements into consideration, the stock market no longer seems like a completely intimidating inancial institution where you’re bound to lose money. Instead, it seems more like a complicated casino where you’re allowed to count cards and use math.

That sounds a lot more prom-ising, no?

The market calls

Sarahi Fernandez

Staff Writer

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Week 2 is deinitely not the time to panic if y o u e n d -ed up tak-ing a loss last week. Don’t start trading your star players away just because they had a bad week. For this week I have compiled more players that have a good chance to break out, as well as some players that have bust written all over them. Here are my week 2 sit and starts.

Quarterbacks: START: Tony Romo should

be a solid player to start for week 2 considering the weap-ons that surround him and the fact that he is going up against an average Philadelphia de-fense.

START: This week, just like last week, Ryan Tannehill should be a must start going up against a weak Jacksonville defense.

START: Ben Roethlisberger had some troubles inding his rhythm in week 1 but I am conident he will turn it around and beat up on what’s left of San Francisco’s defense.

SIT: Peyton Manning is a big name a lot of people think they have to start, but he is going up against a very tough Kansas City defense that is relentless when it comes to getting after the quarterback. Mix Kansas City’s impressive ability to rush the QB and an untested Broncos offensive line and you have a potential disaster for Manning.

SIT: Cam Newton doesn’t have many weapons to work with and he is facing a Houston defense that headlines JJ Watt. I would avoid giving Newton the start in week 2.

Running Backs:START: Justin Forsett is

a dark horse when it comes to fantasy football running backs. Nobody really thinks about him at all but he consis-tently produces every week. If you have Forsett you need to start him this week. He is going up against one of the weakest rushing attacks in Oakland.

START: DeAngelo Wil-liams proved that he could carry the load for the Steelers while Le’Veon Bell serves his two game suspension. You can expect him to get around 20 carries once again for this week. Another plus is that he is going up against a San Francisco unit that is currently rebuilding.

START: I would put Lamar Miller in my starting lineup just considering the match-up against Jacksonville this

week. Miami has a young, up and coming offense that can be explosive at times. Miller should be a very solid play.

SIT: The Broncos’ C.J. Anderson has serious bust potential this week matching up against a tough Kansas City defense. I guess what I’m trying to say is to avoid Broncos in week 2.

SIT: A lot of people have been really high on Frank Gore this season considering he is in a brand new system and has always seemed to put up decent numbers. Gore is going up against an under-rated Jets defense in week 2. I am assuming Gore is your lex player or a RB2, so he should not be too hard to sit this week.

Wide Receivers: START: With Jimmy Gra-

ham out of New Orleans and Marques Colston later in his career, it opens up the door for Brandin Cooks. He has a week 2 matchup against a Tampa Bay secondary that gave up a ton of fantasy points last year.

START: Vincent Jackson should have plenty of oppor-tunities to score points in a juicy matchup against New Orleans. A lot of people will be on the fence all year about wanting to start him or not, but I believe this is one of those weeks to start him.

START: Steve Smith, Sr. is lying under the radar because people believe he is past his prime. He proved to us last year that his age has not yet caught up to him. He has a good matchup against a weak Oakland defense this week.

SIT: I don’t think I can say conidently that you should bench T.Y. Hilton, but con-sidering he will be on Revis Island I would be nervous playing him.

SIT: Brandon Marshall doesn’t have anyone to throw him the ball this year. He will obviously still produce some weeks, but this week he is up against an Indianapolis defense that didn’t give up many points to receivers last year. I would avoid playing him in week 2.

Tight End:START: Heath Miller is a

must start tight end for week 2. He is going to get a good amount of targets against a weaker San Francisco defense. The Steelers have too many weapons for the Niners to contain so there is a good chance for Miller to have a great game.

SIT: I would say to sit Jor-dan Reed just because the Washington quarterback sit-uation has been a nightmare. This week you should avoid any player from Washington against a tough St. Louis de-fense.

TYLER’S TEAMS

Don’t panic or trade if you lost

Tyler Hylton Staff Writer

Pirates come up short against Falcons

The Orange Coast College football team showed some progress in its non-conference game against Cerritos College Saturday, and although it posted its second loss of the season, the team played a better game against a strong team.

The Pirates started off slow, giving up a touchdown only a

minute and 33 seconds into the game which would contribute to its 34-31 loss.

The team continued to strug-gle on offensive with quarter-back Mason Dossey getting sacked on third down of the Pirates first time on offense. Kody Whitaker, who started the irst game of the season, didn’t see any action.

Things started to pick up for the Pirates as defensive end Cody Meddaugh picked up his first of many sacks, causing Cerritos to punt the ball. Mo-mentum shifted and Dossey started making better decisions and passing the ball instead of running, leading the defense

to gain mo-m e n -

tum as well.

Cornerback Derrick Worthy led the defense with six tackles and three assists. Worthy helped the momentum of the game when he caused a fumble that would help lead Orange Coast to its first touchdown of the game -- a 7-yard run by running back Kyle White.

After the game Worthy said he was glad he caused the fum-ble by tipping the ball but would have preferred an interception.

“I hate tipping the ball, I feel like I should have gotten the whole ball. No tips out here. We got to get everything,” Worthy said.

Cerritos pushed the ball all the way down the ield before defensive back Brandon Wor-thy intercepted the ball in the Cerritos red zone.

OCC’s running backs had trouble all night, starting with a fumble by Daniel Rodriguez that should have led to the coach take him out of the game and give one of the other three running backs a chance.

The running plays of the game were not solid and

forced Dossey to pass a lot throughout the game.

Dossey went 27-of-36 with 406 yards, and three TDs and no in-

terceptions, a huge difference from last week’s game against Chaffey.

Head coach Kevin Emerson was pleased with the performance of the players.

“We were able to run the ball,

we were able to pass the ball and we

were able to do ev-erything we needed

to do to be success-ful,” Emerson said.

With a minute left in the irst half, Dossey con-

nected with wide receiver Marcus Durham for a 31-yard touchdown pass, putting OCC up 13-7. Cerritos was going

into halftime down by 6 when they rallied back and scored a touchdown with 0 seconds left in the irst half.

Doug Smith, the Pirates of-fensive line coach, said the game was going well and much better than last week.

During the second half the Pirates came out with guns blazing on defense and offense, scoring three minutes into the third quarter with a 60-yard pass from Dossey to wide receiver Stefan Derrick.

“The most intense thing about being on offense is just being consistent. Offense is all about consistency and eficiency, we have to keep our defense off the ield and try to score every time,” Derrick said.

The more than 10 penalties also played a factor in the game. The penalty the caused the most heartache for the Pirates came half way through the third quarter when Brandon Worthy picked up a blocked punt and scored a touchdown. Moments after the Pirates and their fans started cheering oficials would call off the touchdown and give the ball back to Cerritos.

Cerritos went on to score its third touchdown putting them up 21-20. Shortly after that the Pirates defense gave up another touchdown with 28 seconds left in the third quarter.

The fourth quarter was a rally back and forth between teams, starting off with OCC scoring a ield goal and closing up the scoring gap.

OCC got two 15-yard pen-alties, leading Cerritos to yet another touchdown with 5:49 left in the fourth quarter. One minute later the Pirates scored, putting them only down by three at 31-34.

The Pirates went into lock-down mode not letting Cerritos score and getting its offense the ball back quickly but not quickly enough to score.

Orange Coast will be back in action Saturday at home against Moorpark starting at 6 p.m.

OCC loses by three against Cerritos in the second game of the season.

BY JUSTIS ZIMMERMANSTAFF WRITER

Women’s golf places second

The Orange Coast College women’s golf team shot a team score of 345 and inished second overall at last week’s Orange Empire Conference matchup, hosted by Cuyamaca College at the Sycuan Golf Course.

After placing ifth in the sea-son opener at Soboba Springs, Coast picked up seven big wins and were topped only by Mt. San Antonio College, who shot a 330.

College of the Desert inished third with a 347. Irvine Valley followed behind with 351, Palo-mar with 355, Mt. San Jacinto with 356, Saddleback with 382,

Cuyamaca with 388 and Ful-lerton rounding out the socring with 442.

Emily Lewis was the low scor-er for the entire event, shooting a 3-over-par, 75.

Only two other golfers, Des-ert’s Kabrea Rosas with a 77 and Mt. SAC’s Victoria Rodarte with a 78, managed to score in the 70s among the entire ield.

Other scores turned in by the Pirates include Nicole Jenkins (85), September Mirghanbari (90), Minh Ngo (95) and Made-line McCloskey (116).

Coast will return to action on Monday at Ironwood Country Club hosted by the College of the Desert at 10 a.m.

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The Orange Coast College women’s volleyball team opened the 2015 season with three wins in four matches at last weekend’s Cerritos College Women’s Vol-leyball Tournament.

The Pirates opened the tourney with a pair of three-set sweeps over Victor Valley (25-18, 25-

22, 25-15) and Long Beach City College (25-23, 25-23, 25-16) Friday.

On Saturday, Coast lost in three sets to Cypress College (15-25, 15-25, 13-25) before bouncing back for a hard-fought ive-set win over Yuba College (23-25, 25-21, 17-25, 25-18, 16-14).

Coast was led by its 1-2 offen-sive punch of sophomore outside

hitters Lehua Alama-Jordan and Danyelle Brown, who combined for 90 kills over the entire two-day event. Brown, who earned All-Tournament honors, had 20 kills and 15 digs in OCC’s marathon win over Yuba, while teammates Kerrigan Hecht add-ed 11 kills and Chloe Kuhen chipped in 10.

Libero Alisa Ricciardi notched 59 digs throughout the tour-

nament, while setter Measha Lindstrand notched a whopping 147 assists.

Coast will host a pair of four-team events this week inside the Peterson Gym.

Coast will take on South-western today at 2 p.m. and San Bernardino Valley at 4 p.m.

The Pirates will host Glendale at 2 p.m. and Rio Hondo at 4 p.m. on Friday.

Women’s volleyball opens strongFROM CAMPUS REPORTS

The Orange Coast College men’s soccer battled Rio Hondo with lots of heat, a steady down-pour, several yellow cards and a few high-quality scoring chances Wednesday. The only thing miss-ing was a goal.

The Pirates (0-1-1) and Road-runners (4-0-2) just couldn’t ind the back of the net and the two squads had to settle for a 0-0 tie.

It was a solid effort for Coast, which bounced back well from a 3-1 season-opening defeat at the hands of Chaffey College.

OCC’s best chance of the af-ternoon came in the 31st minute, when a beautiful pass into the penalty box was headed by fresh-man forward Peter Marquez, but the Costa Mesa HS grad’s con-nection rang off of the crossbar and out of play and the match remained scoreless.

Fighting a surprise rain storm

for most of the irst half of play, neither team racked up a ton of scoring opportunities, but in the second half, the Roadrunners had the better of things, but the Coast defense was up to the task.

In the 60th and 65th minutes, two RCC shots came from point-blank range, but Pirate netminder Ryan Brown picked up two of his eight saves at the right time.

Six of Brown’s stops came in the inal 45 minutes of play as

the Coast defense, led by sopho-more Ty O’Connor, showed vast improvement from last week’s matchup against the Panthers.

Finally, in the final minute of the match, OCC sophomore forward Curtis Taniguchi ripped a shot on goal, but the shot just missed the frame and both teams settled for the stalemate.

The Pirates will return home Sept. 22 against East Los An-geles inside LeBard Stadium at 7 p.m.

Soccer results in a scoreless drawFROM CAMPUS REPORTS

The Orange Coast College men’s and women’s cross coun-try teams performed well at the Palomar College Invitational Friday.

The OCC women won the meet with 48 points, while the men took third overall with 80 points.

On the women’s side, fresh-man Alyssa Allen was the top

runner for the Pirates, inishing fourth overall with a time of 20 minutes, 36 seconds.

Sophomore teammate Janes-sa Reyes placed sixth overall with a time of 21:04, while freshmen Bethani Heising (8th, 21:16), Rebecca Ross (16th, 22:42) and Nikala Andreasen (19th, 23:09) earned top-quality points for the Pirates.

Other strong OCC times were turned in by Tarah Buck-els (23:55), Alicia Carbajal

(24:11) , Jennifer Romero (24:35) and Jackie Escolero (27:31).

On the men’s side, three OCC runners cracked the top-10 in the event, including fresh-man Danny Dominiguez (5th, 21:57), Galyn Nash (eighth, 22:01) and Eamon Smythe (ninth, 22:09), while Oscar Salas (27th, 22:59) and Jose Armendariz (23:10) earned points for Coast.

Other strong Pirate times

were had by Jacob Bourgeois (23:37) , Joseph Mart inez (23:42), Alex Perez (24:17), Cameron Smith-Ray (25:07), Adolfo Cruz (25:32), Daniel McNabb (27:09) and Ken Na-kama (27:28).

The Pirates will return to action on Friday at Mission Bay Park for the 2015 SoCal Preview Meet at 10 a.m. Then again at the Rose Bowl on Sept. 26 at Rose City Invitational 8 a.m.

Pirates run hard at Palomar meetFROM CAMPUS REPORTS

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS