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Former Orange Coast College art professor Bob Wendell used to create life-sized drawings of fellow artists, depict them as bums and display the portraits around his office.

The retired professor died earlier this year and the art de-partment struggled to find a way to commemorate their colleague who they remember as a talented and fun-loving man who spent 35 years of his life teaching a subject he loved.

When members of the art de-partment became involved with the International and Multicultural Committee’s inaugural Day of the Dead at OCC, they decided it would be fitting to create an altar to commemorate Wendell’s life.

The event will be celebrated on campus Wednesday with a display of student-made altars at the Stu-dent Center with presentations at 12:45 p.m.

Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday where friends and family celebrate the lives of those lost, and an altar is a staple of the holiday tradition.

Usually the altar is surrounded by things that represent those who are being remembered and typically includes their favorite foods.

The food placed at the altar is important because that is where a person’s soul is believed to return from the afterlife and visit friends and family, according to event officials.

“I think he needs something

a little more official in a sense, but I think with his sense of hu-mor he would probably like this more,” said assistant art profes-sor Holly Topping.

Art professor Irini Rickerson, who knew Wendell for 20 years, and Top-ping will work on Wendell’s altar that will be displayed Wednesday.

Other students and faculty

will also work together to cre-ate altars for loved ones who impacted them in their field of study for display at the Student Center Lounge. Visitors will have an opportunity to vote for their favorite altar.

“By doing altars our idea was to bring the whole college to-gether. We were hoping that each

department would do an alter that would honor someone from the discipline,” Rickerson said.

The celebration of death in the Day of the Dead holiday may be a sharp contrast with the way other cultures see death, but Spanish professor Denise Cabanel-Bluer said she believes it is actually a healthy way to view death.

“I think what’s so wonderful about it is that there’s a lot of humor integrated into the holi-day. It’s a solemn occasion and it is important to honor the loved ones, but there’s also a lot of joy in bringing back the people and remembering them,” Cabanel-Bluer said. “I think that’s a really good environment for children to

learn about death.”Rickerson will discuss the life of

famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at the event, while ethnic studies professor Juani Funez-Gonzalez will give a presentation on the his-tory of the Mexican holiday.

The event will be held in the Student Center Lounge today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

After a fierce competition with other schools in California, Orange Coast College’s Manu-facturing Technology Depart-ment was awarded first place and $450,000 to use toward new machinery, staff training and cur-riculum development.

There will be enough money to fund five or six new computer numerical control (CNC) ma-chines and simulators. A small percentage will go toward staff training for the CNC machines and curriculum development, according to Douglas Benoit Dean of Business, Computing, Technology and Career Services at OCC.

Benoit said the application process for the grant was com-petitive and extensive against other schools statewide.

“We found out two weeks ago we would be awarded the IDRC Grant,” Benoit said. “The com-petition for the grant is fiercer now than years before.”

Part of the grant is expected to be available in November and the second half of the grant money will be received next

year, according to Al Cervantes, instructor of manufacturing technology.

“We are hoping to receive about $280,000 by November,” Cervantes said.

OCC was previously awarded the grant in 2008 for its Solar Energy Program, according to Benoit.

Cervantes said the use of the machinery will positively impact students by preparing them for careers after leaving OCC.

“This is going to benefit stu-dents to improve their skill lev-els,” Cervantes said. “We like to have equipment in the labs that students will most likely use in A majority of college students

cheat and some faculty members may be letting them get away with it, according to recent published media reports and a study released by the Center for Academic Integrity in 2005 and U.S. News and World Report in 1999.

Studies show that more than 70 percent of students have ad-mitted to cheating on exams and 66 percent have also admitted to some form of plagiarism. Ad-ditionally, 44 percent of 10,000 faculty members surveyed said they didn’t report students who cheated in their courses.

“Academic dishonesty is not as addressed as it should be,” said Rendell Drew, a social sci-ence instructor at Orange Coast College. “Instructors do not ad-dress it as they should because

there is a major problem with a lack of ethics from both instruc-tors and students.”

Academic integrity means students upholding a set of stan-dards for doing their own work, having good study habits and not cheating on assignments and exams, according to Drew.

To succeed, students must be virtuous and honest, he said.

But according to recent studies and published reports by the New York Times, students who cheat have higher GPAs, and with comparatively lenient policies at California community colleges, cheating may not seem like such a bad idea to many students.

California community col-leges, including OCC, are not allowed to fail students for the class if they cheat, but are only allowed to fail students for an assignment, according to Kate Mueller, dean of student services at Coast.

OCC’s policy regarding cheat-ing is if it is the student’s first offense, they are required to do a reflective essay as an educa-tive approach to learn from their

mistakes. If they want to get in good standing with OCC, they are invited to take a free semi-nar on academic integrity. On the second offense, the student faces 11 days to two years of suspension from OCC, according to Mueller.

However, many four-year uni-versities, including Cal State Fullerton and the University of

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Altars, like this one set up at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, are adorned with flowers, skull figures, and notes that people write to their departed loved ones.

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The first Dia de los Muertos event at OCC features an alter to a professor.

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Southern California, have a zero-tolerance policy and the consequences can result in ei-ther a reduced or failing grade for the assignment or course, as well as removal from the school permanently, according to school policies.

When students cheat, they use a variety of ways to ac-complish their goals, according to officials.

“There are both high tech (smart phones, photography, mp3) and low-tech (baseball caps, water bottle, cheat sheets) forms of cheating,” Mueller said. “Students from all walks of life cheat.”

Instructors should be trained in academic integrity as well as in the new high-tech ways

of how students now cheat, ac-cording to Drew.

Some services instructors can use to deter plagiariz-ing include TurnItIn.com and Blackboard Safe Assign, which are websites that compare as-signments against other docu-ments to determine if it has been plagiarized.

While a majority of students admit to cheating, even more be-lieve it is necessary to get ahead, with 85 percent of them saying they think cheating is essential, according to the U.S. News and World Report survey.

Along with performance concerns and the need to excel at any costs, other reasons stu-dents cheat may stem from a lack of effort because they did not attend class, study or do the reading and when the opportu-

nity presents itself, students are compelled to cheat, according to a study conducted by Point Loma Nazarene University.

Some students coming into college are unprepared and lack the integrity to be responsible enough to do their own work, Drew said.

“My advice for students is don’t do it,” Mueller said. “Students have the ability to change behavior patterns and if they start early and budget their time, they would not feel compelled to procrastinate. No-body should be self-sabotaging themselves.”

While a majority of students may have cheated and feel it is necessary to get ahead, most regret cheating with only 16.9 percent of students surveyed saying they don’t.

their careers.”The new CNC machines will

help by cutting wait time in labs that is currently an issue for student. It will also be more efficient for hands-on work

for students, according to Cer-vantes.

Mike Lannom, 26, a welding technology and construction technology major, said he is looking forward to the improved changes in his classes.

“One of the major problems

in that class is lack of machines. There’s always students wait-ing for the machines and this will reduce backlog,” Lannom said. “Everyone will get more hands-on time and I’m hoping we will have the machinery by next semester.”

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OCC readies for vetsVeterans center and health services plan for return of soldiers from Iraq war.

BY ELIZABETH SCHMIDTSTAFF WRITER

With the war in Iraq set to draw to a close by the end of the year, Orange Coast College is preparing to deal with a large influx of troops going back to school and reinte-grating into civilian society.

Sylvia Worden, associate dean of Student Health Services, and Efren Galvan, who oversees the veteran’s center at Coast, are pre-paring for the change.

Worden said Student Health Services has doubled its capac-ity and Galvan said he has been anticipating the influx for several years.

“All community colleges, CSU, University of California and pri-vate institutions across the country and in California are currently in transition phases for our troops and veterans who are being released from active duty,” Galvan said.

OCC, like other community colleges and universities, will be assisting veterans when they go back to school.

“What we’re hoping to do is provide our veterans an opportu-nity to make a smooth transition from being in the military into what is considered civilian life. We try to offer that by offering veterans counselors here at OCC,” Galvan said.

Part of that counseling involves directing veterans to all of the various support structures that are in place for them at the college,

such as counseling, assistance with student aid and other services.

According to Midge Hill, an admission and records technician at the Veteran’s Service Center, the center assists military personnel who are coming back to school by administering their GI bill educa-tion benefits as well as help them complete assessments, schedule appointments with an academic counselor and evaluate transcripts from other educational institutions they attended while they were in service.

“We’re generally their first point of contact that a student will have when they come back to school,” Hill said.

Unlike the World War II veterans who returned home to a booming economy, veterans from Iraq will have to find work in an economy experiencing slow growth and with an unemployment rate hover-ing around 9 percent.

In turn, this can often make it difficult for some veterans to cope with their transition back into civilian life.

Worden said Student Health Services helps facilitate veteran’s needs. If for example, veterans need counseling for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they can seek help at the Student Health Center.

“We have a wonderful mental

health program that I basically doubled the size of this year. I’ve added three doctoral interns and one social work intern, so we’ve doubled our hours,” Worden said.

Worden is also currently work-ing on a new program called AMVETS, with the aid of an AMVETS representative.

AMVETS is one of the nation’s foremost veteran’s service organi-zations and works as a influential advocate for American veterans on issues ranging from employment, government-provided health care and other benefits to which they are entitled, according to the AM-VETS’ official website.

District offers big money for big idea

The Coast Community College District is trying a new approach to student success by launching

a new contest to award $10,000 for innovation.

The Coast Launchpad Initia-tive is designed to be a creative contest to reward innovation with student success as the pri-mary objective.

The contest offers a chance for district staff and faculty to team up and come up with a pre-sentation to show how they can improve student success.

“All of the teams will be in-vited to come and present their idea. There are no restrictions,” said Martha Parham, director of marketing and public relations at the district.

Potential teams, which will be decided when all the applica-tions are turned in on Nov. 18, will work together to prepare a

proposal and present it in front of a panel of judges which will include the chancellor of the district.

“We told the potential appli-cants that they could even sing a rap or do a video if that’s what they want. We give them all the options for their presentations,” Parham said.

Each team has to have a mem-ber who works at one of the three colleges in the district — Or-ange Coast College, Coastline Community College and Golden West College.

“The chancellor’s initiative to make student success more common at the CCCD campuses is to have an increase of student success to 60 percent by the year 2014,” Parham added.

“At the end of the day, it isn’t about competing, it’s about everyone engaging together to help our students obtain their goals and find their success,” Parham said.

The winning team will be an-nounced on March 23, with the best proposal to boost student success getting a $10,000 prize to split among the team mem-bers. The prize money all comes from the district’s foundation and is made up of private funds and donations.

In addition to the prize money, the team’s idea will be proposed to the board and possibly implemented into the curriculum at all of the Coast Community College District’s colleges.

BY AVA AMIRISTAFF WRITER

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With the withdrawal of troops from Iraq set for the end of the year OCC is planning on an influx of veterans on campus. The Veteran’s Center is designed to help them ease back into school.

CRIMEBLOTTER

Window shopper

Suspicious activity in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot was reported Thursday around 5:30 p.m.

A suspect, described as 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, between 220 pounds and 250 pounds and 20 and 24 years old, was seen looking into vehicles and walking around in the parking lot by an unknown witness.

John Farmer, chief of Cam-pus Safety, said he saw the suspect later in the parking lot and the suspect ran away. Farmer and two others saw him again but the suspect ran away again and lost him in-between the cars.

Costa Mesa Police were called but could not find him.

Scattered about

A male staff member from the Allied Health building reported

that objects in the building’s office, such as documents and materials, were thrown across the room on Oct. 24.

Farmer said the vandalism was probably done over the weekend by someone who had access to keys. No suspects have been identified.

There was no damage done and nothing was stolen out of the office.

Table assault

A male student was hit in the head while moving a table near the Associated Students office around 3:50 p.m. on Oct. 21.

The blow left a one-half inch cut and medical aid was summoned.

Other students helped the person until medical aid ar-rived and sent him to the Stu-dent Health Center for further evaluation.—The Crime Blotter was compiled by Krystal Fisk from Campus Safety reports.

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Due to reporting errors, there were several mistakes in the article “Students stuck in Black-board and Sprint” that ran in the Oct. 26 issue.

The story stated that the feud between Sprint and Blackboard is putting students at a disadvantage because they can’t access the pro-gram with other mobile carriers but in fact students who have an iOS device, such as an iPhone or iPad can access the program through WiFi.

Sprint alleges that an agree-ment it signed with Blackboard gave it exclusivity provisions that were violated once Blackboard launched a version of the tech-nology for Apple users, which would allow non-Sprint subscrib-

ers to access Blackboard from their smart phones and tablets via WiFi.

The article also mentioned two options educational institutions can use to access Blackboard. Due to a reporting error, the quote by Anne Duke was not complete. The no-cost program is available only to Sprint subscribers or iOS device users who have access to WiFi. The latter was omitted.

Also, according to Blackboard officials, 15.5 million courses using Blackboard have been viewed on Blackboard Mobile Learn apps and was utilized in more than 60 countries last year.

The Coast Report regrets the errors.

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Tai Danh is an American-born Vietnamese student who finds musical inspiration from his past heart breaks.

Danh, an 18-year-old mar-keting major, said he loves to spend his time playing piano. He said that a situation with a girl he loved back in high school has been a theme in his music.

“I couldn’t bring myself to ask her out,” he said. “Someone else asked her before me.”

According to Danh, he learned how to play the piano when he was 10. Before that he attempted to play other instruments, such as the flute and clarinet.

Danh said that while other instruments were challenging to learn, playing the piano came naturally to him.

When Dinh was in high school, he participated in the color guard. Although it was a hobby that he enjoyed be-ing a part of, he does not plan

to pursue it in college.Danh said his educational

goal is to transfer to the UC Irvine. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, he wants to become a business owner.

Danh said he grew up watching his parents manage a donut shop of their own called Sofia’s Donuts. He looked up to them and hopes to follow in their footsteps by starting a business of his own.

“Even though my parents shop went out of business I still want to be as successful as they were,” he said.

Danh spent last summer working at Fullerton Fast Steel Company where he worked on plane parts. He said that while he misses his former job he doesn’t want to work this semester because it could interfere with his coursework.

“I would rather focus all my time on school,” he said.

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A helping hand for hounds

Long floppy ears, big droopy eyes, furry bellies and kind hearts await Nancy Timmons every day as she goes to work at the Bas-set Hound Rescue of Southern California.

Timmons, who retired as OCC’s scholarship coordinator in 2008, now spends her time saving basset hounds from what could ultimately be horrible fates.

“My favorite part about res-cuing basset hounds is keeping them from being euthanized and finding great homes for them,” Timmons, 58, the rescue’s trea-surer, said.

She has been rescuing basset hounds since 1980, but joined the basset hound organization in 1998. Timmons has rescued 13 hounds in the last 30 years, seven of them being foster hounds.

“Nancy’s dedication to the bassets is to be envied. Many of us feel that she is our inspira-tion,” said Jillian Dunaway, the organization’s foster and trans-port coordinator.

Timmons said she rescues bassets because she has always loved the breed. She got her first basset in 1978 and has loved them ever since.

“Many breeds need help and if you do an Internet search you will find breed-specific rescues all over the U.S.,” Timmons said. “It’s a matter of helping the breed you are drawn to.”

Since January, the organiza-tion has rescued 114 hounds and is continuing to rescue more each day.

“Being a part of rescue brings out the compassion in people and it is incredible to see what we are able to accomplish with the help of Nancy and all of our amazing volunteers,” Melissa Ruthenbeck-Chiaramonte, Bas-set Hound Rescue of Southern California’s president and medi-cal liaison said.

None of the volunteers are paid, therefore all the work they do really comes from the kind-ness of their hearts and the love they have for the dogs they are saving on a daily basis. Putting in countless hours is only part of the job, but Timmons does it because she really loves bassets, she said.

“[Timmons] has a gentle and calming presence with the hounds. You never doubt that

OCC retiree volunteers with a rescue group and saves lives.

BY ALLISON PALMERSTAFF WRITER

Courtesy of Nancy Timmons

Nancy Timmons, a former scholarship coordinator at OCC, now works with a nonprofit organization to save basset hounds.

Film students bring light to the abused

A woman sat, pale white, anxiously speaking out against

the abuse she had endured in a previous marriage and shared her story of survival with Orange Coast College film students Nick Ybarra and TJ Luck.

Suddenly this had turned into more than just a class project.

The project began last fall se-mester when film professor Bob Lazarus pitched a documentary about Human Options, a non-profit organization designed to

help battered women and their families, to his advanced film class [Film 265] to familiarize his students with working for a client.

“It started with two representa-tives from Human Options com-ing to our class and talking about the organization and their vision for the documentary. Right off the bat I went up to Bob after class and told him that I wanted

to produce the project,” Luck, an OCC film program graduate said.

As for the director of the docu-mentary, Ybarra, also an OCC film program graduate, stepped up to the plate.

Both Ybarra and Lazarus had similar opinions on what the rough structure of the documentary

A class project helps nonprofit organization gain recognition.

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Art

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

Music

“Symphonic Hol ly-wood,” Nov. 5: The Orange Coast College Symphony along with guest artist Beth Hanson will perform pieces from movies that have been nominated for Academy Awards. OCC music professor Ricardo Soto will direct the sym-phony through pieces from movies like “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Indiana Jones.” Tickets can be pur-chased at www.occtickets.com, at the Bursar’s Office or at the door for $10.

“Classics: Part Trois,” Nov. 6: The Orange Coast College Wind Ensemble, directed by Dana Whea-ton, will perform several symphonic pieces adapted for winds like Handel’s “Water Music” and a piece written by Samuel Barber. Tickets can be purchased at the Bursar’s Office for $5 in advance or for $7 at www.occtickets.com or at the door.

Culinary

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

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

When Battlefield 3 does what it knows, it’s a superb game, but the new territory it tries to cover treads murky waters.

The much-hyped “Battlefield 3” is a war game that attempts to take down the current king of the war-game genre, the “Call of Duty” series, and it succeeds in some respects.

The weakest link of the game is definitely the single player. It tries too hard to directly battle with the current top dog of war games, “Call of Duty,” by nearly ripping off its serious style entirely.

The campaign tells the story of Staff Sergeant Blackburn and his five-man squad as they fight their way through droves of bad guys to stop a possible nuclear threat.

It’s a real shame, because de-veloper Dice’s previous game, “Battlefield: Bad Company 2,” had a bright-in-dark-places sense of humor going for it, which set it apart from the rest of the pack.

Aside from the tone, the solo campaign is very ho-hum with bad guys spawning in and shooting at the player, con-spiracy plots and everything a gamer would expect from a war game. Sections of flying jets and helicopters do break up the game a bit, but it can’t be ignored that the meaty first-person sections of the game are very dull.

Couple this with a stereotypi-cal plot, and “Battlefield 3” has a one-player mode that is best left ignored.

A set of co-op missions are also included in the game, and while they are not as good as the ones included with Infinity Ward’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2”, they are very en-joyable.

A neat benefit of co-op is unlocking weapons for the competitive multiplayer mode - the part of the game that makes it a must buy.

With sprawling 64-player maps, many usable vehicles and aircraft, and the wonder-ful effects of the Frostbite 2 graphics engine, multiplayer is a gorgeous and exciting ex-perience. One of the strongest points of the game that should be emphasized more is the fan-tastic graphics.

Trees sway from the shots of tanks, soldiers react realistically to the terrain, airplane artillery

leaves black scars on the ground and buildings get blown to bits bringing a new level of immersion to the multiplayer experience.

It might be a little hard to find a gaming experience that is as intense as dodging a tank behind a building, only to have the building demolished by the tank itself.

The multiplayer has a class system, with each class pos-sessing a unique ability that is essential to a team’s victory.

A satisfying and simple lev-eling system is included in the multiplayer as well, where the class one plays as the most un-locks new weapons, so a player doesn’t find himself constantly unlocking useless weapons for classes that he rarely uses.

Only one major flaw is pres-ent in the multiplayer. The mini map is probably the most useless thing to ever be seen in a competitive game. Going for a bright, futuristic and pretty style over actual functionality is a pretty massive screw up on the developer’s part.

Overall, this minor misstep is but a scratch on the armor of a superb multiplayer experi-ence. It’s a real shame that the single player doesn’t nearly live up to the multiplayer, because “Battlefield 3” would be a fan-tastic game if it did. Instead, it consists of only one part incred-ible and one part mediocre.

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Coast student reveals river control

Photography major Daniel Kintz, 24, has been snapping photos ever since he was a teen, and now has his own ex-hibit in the Student Gallery in Orange Coast College’s Fine

Arts building.He said his interest in photog-

raphy flourished while he was in high school as he discovered why he really enjoyed taking pictures.

“I was fascinated with the idea that in photography, you start with the entire world on your palette, and through ar-tistic choices you constrain and focus the image. It’s a subtrac-tive art form,” Kintz said.

Kintz’s favorite subjects to shoot are landscapes, which are shown in his photographic series on the Santa Ana River

flood-control project. “I enjoy scouting locations

and waiting to photograph it in the right light and the un-predictable nature of it,” Kintz said.

Brandon Plummer, a 23-year-old art history major, admired the photos from afar and up close, and said he was astounded by the series.

“I can see his artistic ability through this series of photos. The lighting and the angles all create such great depth to the photographs. He really captured the moments at the

perfect times with the perfect lighting,” Plummer said.

Kintz was inspired to pho-tograph the Santa Ana River structures because the Santa Ana River is the biggest flood risk west of the Mississippi River.

“The flood-control system provided by the Santa Ana Riv-er structures is the focus of this photographic collection, which emphasizes the stark, concrete control placed on the river in favor of a thriving commercial region,” Kintz said.

Kintz’s photographs show

that the Santa Ana River now has dams to help prevent dan-gerous floods, and that the areas around it prosper from the safety afforded by the flood-control system.

“What I like about it is that he put it all together. It kind of tells a story, but what I like about it is the images by them-selves are rather – they’re sort of seen as abstractions. Seen individually, they’re very about graphic pattern and shape. It’s not an easy thing to do,” Rick Steadry, Kintz’s photography instructor at OCC, said.

The Santa Ana River is the subject of a new photo exhibit at OCC.

BY ANDREA DINHSTAFF WRITER

Theater“10 or Less Festival,”

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

“Batman: Arkham City,” the long awaited sequel to the “Bat-man: Arkham Asylum” game, was released this month and does not disappoint.

You can choose to play Bat-man, or other characters like Robin and Catwoman. Each character comes with unique attack combos and gadgets which makes playing the game very addictive.

The camera controls and graphics in “Arkham City” are of great quality. The lighting of every scene is always clear. The game is also filled with

incredible slow motion effects that make the game play very entertaining.

The game begins with Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alter ego, get-ting captured and thrown into Arkham City, a prison located in Gotham City that holds all of Gotham’s most violent thugs and infamous super villains.

Batman’s objective is to find out who is taking over in Arkham City and stop them. The game is filled with familiar villains such as Mister Freeze, Two-Face, Penguin, The Rid-dler, Hugo Strange and The Joker. Each one of the villains fights to gain control of the prison city.

Batman, a superhero with no superpowers, takes on all of Arkham city’s bad guys to make sure that justice is served to those who deserve it.

Within every mission there a set of clues and riddles that makes the game last longer and makes it worth purchasing for $60.

“Batman Arkham City,” will definitely be appreciated by loyal Batman fans and gamers.

Loyal fans will want to visit ‘Arkham City’BY ISAAC MENDEZSTAFF WRITER

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Famed guitarist Randy Pile held a free concert Wednesday at the Or-ange Coast College Arts Pavilion, and let’s just say finding a seat in the room wasn’t an easy task. Students and faculty alike were bustling to find an empty chair to relax and enjoy Pile’s performance.

It was amazing how knowledge-able and well versed he was with each and every piece performed. Pile would start off with some his-tory about each song and would entice the audience both story wise and musically.

His graceful, yet powerful play-ing set a very calm and confident tone in the room. His natural finger movements and fluid play style clearly demonstrate his understand-ing of the guitar.

It was interesting to hear the chosen pieces because each one had a story about it that you had to understand to truly appreciate the music. Pile calls his unique style, “Story of the Guitar,” which pretty much translated a story into music and told it through notes and sounds instead of words and sentences.

Pile earned a doctorate at the University of San Diego while working closely with the late, great Joaquin Rodrigo. He attributes his influences and inspirations to Rodrigo and based his disserta-tion on a revision of his works. A Spanish and often renaissance or baroque sound can be heard during his sessions.

Occupied with two classes of his own at OCC, Pile has been teaching basic guitar and fundamentals of music for six years on campus.

Guitar stories told at CoastBY TOMMY NGUYENSTAFF WRITER

ABUSE: Film students produce documentary that draws attention to abused women.

what is best for the hounds will al-ways be first,” Dunaway said.

Timmons said she is a proud “dog mom” and that she likes to brag about the rescue and the services they have provided to unfortunate hounds.

“Nancy is incredibly dedicated to the hounds and is always there to remind everyone it is all about the dogs,” Ruthenbeck-Chiara-monte said.

Timmons recently received a plaque to honor her years of service with the rescue. The background of

the plaque is a collage of photos of all the hounds that the rescue has saved throughout the year.

“There’s a light in her eye when she’s working with the bassets. I sat in amazement as she named every single one of the bassets [pictured on the plaque],” Dunaway said.

The basset hound rescue has touched not only the lives of the hounds, but also the lives of Tim-mons and all who work with her.

“I’ve met some people who have turned into my best friends while in the process of saving lives,” Timmons said.

“Break the Cycle” should be – a way of reaching out to women in abusive relationships and giving them of a way to break free of it.

“We were lucky enough to speak with graduates of the program – former victims of vio-lence who have emerged and are now doing great – those whose lives have been turned around. That, to me, was the meat – the real heart of the issue,” Ybarra said.

Nora Caldwell, associate di-rector of fund development and graduate of the Human Options program, contacted many of the graduates to interview for the documentary, Luck said.

Caldwell herself agreed to an interview, and while Luck had conducted many of the in-terviews, he said that hers was among the most difficult because of the things she shared for the documentary.

“It was a tough thing for me and Nick to work on while we were shooting and interview-

ing some of the people because your heart is constantly being broken,” Ybarra said.

Lazarus said that the emotions present in the interviews were used in the documentary in the hopes that it would make a dif-ference in the lives of women in need of help who watched it, and allow them to find the strength to leave the abusive relationship they were in.

The screening of the documen-tary was in September and re-ceived a lot of positive feedback from victims and the organiza-

tion itself, Luck said. So much positive feed-

back in fact, that Lazarus said he received an email from Caldwell inviting Luck, Ybarra and him-self to an honorary luncheon in December.

“It’s kind of humbling actually, because the recognition goes to Human Options. What makes us happy is to hear that they are benefitting from the video,” Lazarus said.

The documentary can be seen at tinyurl.com/OCC-Human-Op-tions-Film.

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QUESTION of the WEEK

It is a subject that is not talked about enough. You may hear something about it on the news every once in a while or see a statistic here and there, but it seems like domestic violence is never on the front page unless it happens to be someone famous.

We would like to think that the lack of news coverage on a subject means it is not hap-pening but sadly that couldn’t be further from the truth.

According to domesticvio-lencestatistics.org domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women --more than car accidents, muggings and rapes combined. Every nine seconds in the U.S. a woman is assaulted or beaten.

As a society we chalk this up as just another crime, in a slew of crimes, which will just always occur. But there is a significant difference – the trauma is experienced repeat-edly. After a typical violent crime like a mugging or car-jacking a person can get help and move on, but victims of domestic violence usually see no end in sight.

Domestic violence happens over and over to the same people, and any move toward healing is often derailed by another beating.

On top of that the women getting abused aren’t the only victims. According to domes-ticviolencestatistics.org more than 3 million children are witness to domestic violence in the U.S. each year.

The statistics on the site also

say kids that witness domestic violence are shown to suffer high levels of anxiety, and post traumatic stress, as well as other health problems. Also perhaps even more disturbing is the statistic that males that witness domestic violence as a child are more than twice as likely to abuse their own wives.

As outsiders looking in, the solution may seem simple – if these women are being beaten why don’t they just leave?

In the video “Break the Cycle,” (see “Film students bring light to the abused,” Page 3) the women speak about how leaving isn’t as easy as people might think.

The women explain how they were threatened with more bodily harm or even death if they were to leave or tell anyone about what was going on.

The women go on to explain how they felt ashamed and em-barrassed and that it was some-how their fault. They thought other people in their lives knew what was going on. All of these things lead to them not talking about it to anyone.

According to dvrc-or.org one in every four women will suffer from domestic violence in their lifetime.

There may be a woman in your life that it going through this or it may be you yourself. If so, know that there is help, there is a way out and you are not alone.

National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) or visit the website Helpguide.org

Living in fearEDITORIAL

Have you ever cheated and why?

Michelle Nation20, film

Jose Sanchez18, business

Andie Ritchie23, childhood development

Tanya Aqueveque38, nutrition

Tommy Gonzalez24, photography

“I’ve cheated on homework because it was busy work.”

“Yes, I worked for a clinical trial company and I went around a certain protocol to help another employee get

into the trial.”

“I’ve cheated once because I didn’t study before and I panicked.”

“Yes on science homework the an-swers were all the same, and I didn’t

think I would get caught.”

“No, because cheaters never prosper, and you don’t get the right answers in the

future if you don’t study them.”

Blindfolded justiceA hold was

placed by a federal appeals court Oct. 17 on a decision to release the Proposition 8 trial video re-cordings to the public. That hold should be lifted.

Proposition 8 was passed in California during the November 2008 elections, adding a new provision to the state’s consti-tution, stating that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

The constitutionality of the proposition was subsequently challenged in court. In the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Vaughn R. Walker, former chief U.S. district judge, overturned Proposition 8.

That isn’t the issue here. The is-sue is that the video recordings of that trial are being withheld from American citizens, who have a

right to be fully aware of the pro-ceedings of the trial. That right is being denied.

Some argue that the videos are not being disclosed so that testifiers are protected. That’s understand-able. It’s a valid fear. It’s always possible that those unsatisfied with the outcome of the trial would vent their frustration on the people who were seen as responsible for it.

However, that’s a valid concern with every trial, and it doesn’t change the rights of the American people. Court records should be viewable by the public in the inter-est of full disclosure and account-ability for the legal system. Bearing that in mind, the hold barring the public disclosure of the records should be lifted.

Proponents of Proposition 8 do not want the records viewable by the public. By and large, they are the ones claiming that witnesses will likely face harassment for testi-fying if the videos are made public, despite the lack of actual evidence of a threat to those witnesses.

They have also said that the rea-son for the judge’s decision was his own bias rather than the evidence. If that’s true, they should be willing to let the public view the recordings to prove their own claims.

Likewise, opponents of the proposition naturally assert that the decision stemmed from ob-jective court proceedings. They also tend to support the release of the videos.

Whether or not Walker’s de-cision was just and regardless of if Proposition 8 is constitu-tional, America is still a free society. Such a society has the right to see its justice system in action.

According to a 1947 Su-preme Court ruling, “What transpires in the courtroom is public property.”

People should be able to de-termine for themselves whether the trial was fair, rather than infer it based on the accounts of the privileged few who were actually there.

If you pick up any maga-zine you are likely to see one or more gruesomely skinny mod-els with no flaws and a so called per-f e c t f i g u r e that realisti-cally is quite sickly. Modeling just isn’t pretty anymore.

Today’s standards of super models are set by the fashion industry. They think that their fashions look better on mod-els that are super skinny and flawless. How are consumers supposed to know how that fashion will look on them if the industry is showing it on highly photo-shopped super models?

Women and girls compare themselves to these supermod-els but what the media doesn’t tell you is that almost all of those ads are edited in one way or another. Nobody re-ally looks like that in real life

and if the average woman tries to they could end u p m a k i n g t h e m -selves sick.

A c c o r d i n g to the Nation-al Center for Heal th Sta-tistics there a r e a b o u t 27,000 an-n u a l d i s -c h a r g e s from hos-pi ta ls be-c a u s e o f eat ing dis-orders such a s a n o r e x i a a n d b u l i m i a . People are really dying to fit in to today’s perception of beauty.

I t’s not purely our fault that we want to look this way. Print media is everywhere and i t is defining today’s perception of beauty. I believe that beauty is in the eyes each per-

son. Everyone looks different, has different body types, and our genes are not the same.

As long as we are healthy and happy in our own bod-ies who cares if we look like supermodels? Nobody can achieve that look – not even the models themselves.

With Photoshop capa-bilities pretty much anyone could be a print model. I’m naturally skinny and I can still pull some fatty flesh on me. I want to be the kind of

model that women and girls look at and say “hey she looks a lot like me.” I don’t

want to be some super skinny model with no smile lines or freckles.

This issue needs to be brought to the attention of the fashion industry and print media compa-nies. They need to realize what this is really doing to women. Maybe then these companies can start to use real people like the ones you see walking down the street every day. Fortunately some are already pushing this and our perception of beauty is slowly changing.

Like the ma-jestic swallows flocking back to San Juan Cap i s t r ano , McDonald’s elusive McRib sandwich has triumphantly returned to res-taurants nation-wide and into my stomach where it belongs.

For years the franchise’s legend-ary boneless barbecue sandwich has teased customers like me for a limited time during the winter before going back on its 11-month hiatus the rest of the year.

For some, changing weather and the approaching holidays signal the start of winter. But for me, it isn’t

winter until my hands are covered in the McRib’s tangy barbecue sauce.

I still remember eating my first McRib. It was everything I loved about ribs but without the pesky bones that pose a choking hazard. The boneless sandwich filled a void that I didn’t even know existed.

At the time I thought offering the sandwich for a limited time was huge mistake, but the more I thought of it I began to see just how clever McDonalds was for using such an ingenious marketing technique.

After not seeing it on the menu for so long, I almost forget about the sandwich during the rest of the year. But the joy of seeing its picture plastered on the menu, confirming it can be mine once again, never gets old.

On Oct. 24th, McDonalds of-ficially announced the McRib was making its annual comeback, but thanks to a website that offers a U.S. map that fans can use to locate their beloved sandwich, sightings confirmed that multiple restaurant chains had in fact broken the street date and offered the item days earlier.

It’s this kind of enthusiasm from ribheads that drives the McRib culture, and it upsets me when I hear people besmirch its name with ludicrous rumors of it not being made from an animal or denounc-ing its healthiness.

Then again, no other fast-food sandwich in the U.S. has received such critical acclaim from fans or been as divisive as the McRib, which speaks for itself.

Now that Halloween is over, the busi-est travel pe-riod always co-incides with the holidays being right around the corner.

A l t h o u g h Generation 9-11 is aware that there are now more travel delays for those who fly, people generally do not take these precautions set forth by the Transportation Security Admin-istration [TSA] for our general safety.

Flying can be quite stressful, and because of the incompetence of many inexperienced flyers, I usually find myself at wits end before I get to the TSA checkpoint. People go through the metal detec-tors with their keys in their pockets and attempt to bring water bottles and large toiletries with them in their carry-on only to have it taken away.

There is a way for you to prevent yourself from being recognized as one of the travelers the rest of fly-ers loathe—the solution is to be a stealthy Airport Ninja.

You see them every time you fly. They are the ones who fly through airport security with such stealth. They know all the travel secrets, and now this self-proclaimed Air-port Ninja is going to spill the beans.

Airport Ninjas know how to dress for the airport. You can save time and stress by dressing ap-propriately. Since you know you are going to have to take your belt, shoes and jacket off before you go through the metal detectors, my advice is to keep those items in your carry-on bags (apart from shoes,

which should be able to come off and on with ease).

Another rule of thumb is to have all metal items in your bag, and to have your laptop and cell phone already out, and in the tray so they can go through X-ray screening.

Airport Ninjas know to bring only what they need. This ninja knows that unless he is going to be gone for an extended period of time, he is going to travel with only carry-on luggage.

Also, it is highly recommended that you do not bring toiletries or liquids unless you absolutely have to. When that occurs, already have them in a quart-sized zip-lock bag that is easily accessible. With this already done before you get to the airport, all you have to do is check in, and you are on your way.

As a traveler, I usually find that unless if I am flying with an airline with which I have no miles, I go to the check-in coun-ter because I have enough miles to qualify to the 1K status.

The glory of being a 1K mem-ber entitles me to first-class upgrades, complimentary Wi-Fi on flights, and a separate line to go through security. If you are just the average traveler, the recommended thing for you to do is check in online, and if you have bags, check them in online as well so you can expedite the process and reduce stress from your end.

One last bit of advice from this skilled Airport Ninja is always arrive to the airport earlier than recommended. You never know what may happen, and as Mur-phy’s Law predicts, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Now that you know some of the best kept secrets of the Airport Ninja, you now find that travelling will be a breeze.

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Orange Coast College baseball head coach John Altobelli will host the fifth annual Pat and Phyllis Memorial Fundraising Tournament with a new twist - poker - in remembrance of his mother and mother-in-law.

His mother, Pat Altobelli, died at the age of 70 with her family by her side. Two days after his mother’s death, John Altobelli’s mother-in-law, Phyllis Reuber,

died at the age of 54 due to sur-gery problems.

Altobelli said he felt he needed to do something to embrace his love for both women and their passion for the Pirates. With the state’s approval, Altobelli creat-ed the Pat and Phyllis Memorial Fundraising Tournament.

“I hope friends and families will continue to support this event as they remember the hap-piness Pat and Phyllis brought to our lives,” Altobelli said.

For the first four years, OCC praised the idea of John Altobelli

hosting golf tournaments to raise money to renovate the college’s baseball field.

“The past four tournaments have become successful as they averaged of about $30,000 and 100 participant golfers,” Doug Bennett, director of the OCC Foundation said.

Marking its fifth year, the Pat and Phyllis Memorial Tourna-ment shifted from golf to a poker tournament. The poker tourna-ment will begin on Nov. 12 at the Orange Coast College Sailing Center, 1801 Pacific Coast High-

way in Newport Beach. Texas Hold ‘em registration is

$100, Blackjack is $50, Bunco is $50 and dinner is $25. There will also be sponsorship tables rang-ing from $250 to $2,500.

A buffet dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and poker play will begin at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds will be used to finish the new entrance to the baseball field that will feature a snack bar, press box and bathrooms. Donations will also be accepted.

“Players complained about the lack of bathrooms and how they had to walk over to the Fitness Complex just to use the bath-room,” Altobelli said of the field.

The construction is expected to be finished by November.

To sign up for the tournament contact the Orange Coast Col-lege baseball office at 714-432-5892 or email John Altobelli at [email protected].

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The Orange Coast College women’s soccer team displayed an offensive showcase Friday when it pulled off a 6-0 shut-out win against Irvine Valley College in an Orange Empire Conference match.

Emma Pridmore led the Pirates (11-3-4, 8-2-3 in OEC) with two goals and two assists. The other four goals were scored by Cindy Rubio, Nicole Vanderlaan, Jessi-ca Parker and Brooke Springer.

“It was pretty exciting because it’s not every day that a sweeper gets to score -- especially on a corner,” 19-year-old human/child development major and Coast team captain Parker said of her score off a corner kick.

Pridmore got things started scoring the first goal and the

Pirates kept it coming, eventu-ally finishing the first half with a 4 to 0 lead.

“The goal definitely pumped me up because it set the tone of the game, but it would’ve been cooler if I scored another,” 19-year-old nursing major and midfielder Pridmore said.

Jessica Amaral got herself a pair of assists while Parker, Vanderlaan and Shannon Bolo-tin earned an assist every now and then.

The last time these two teams faced each other, the score was also 6-0. The only difference is this was a home game.

It was as if the Pirates were looking in a mirror. Nonethe-less, the Pirates proved they are a force to be reckoned as they outshot the Lasers 20-1.

It was a game in which the Pirates set the tempo from start

to finish, especially since Pirates goalkeeper Katelyn O’Banion ef-fortlessly came up with one save.

The Lasers can’t seem to buy a vowel as they fall to 2-11-3 overall, 1-9-3 in conference.

The Pirates will return to ac-tion on Tuesday at Santa Ana College beginning at 3 p.m. The Pirates next home game will be on Nov. 11 against Riverside at 3 p.m.

Miss Karlee Riggs

Orange Coast College’s Karlee Riggs has been killing it this season for the women’s volley-ball team.

The freshman out of Tustin High School leads in kills this season, averaging 16.2 per game for the year.

With 33 kills in a game against Fullerton College, Riggs tied former Coast players Kiwi Win-kler’s (2006) and Katja Muller’s (2001) eighth place all-time single-match kills.

“Our number-one goal is to win state. I have great confidence in our team that we will be the champions,” Riggs said.

The Pirates are 11-2 overall for the year, and 6-1 in league.

“We have a tremendous group of athletes, and to top that off a lot of us have played club ball. Also our perseverance toward everything makes us mentally stronger in matches,” Riggs said of her teammates who she said are like family to her.

The outside hitter said she has been playing sports like soccer, softball and volleyball since she knew how to walk, and they have always been a part of her life.

“My vertical has increased a good amount and I am leaner and faster than I have ever been,” Riggs said

Riggs said after high school she had no idea which direction to take. She considered OCC as a last resort and now considers it the perfect move.

“It was the best choice I could have made,” Riggs said. “It let me figure out exactly what I wanted and really get a feel for what college was really about.”

Now she is deciding what her major should be. She said her fa-vorite subject is communications which allows her to learn about other people’s behavior as well as her own. Her hope is to be able to travel and write about things from her own unique perspective.

Riggs said her scholastic goals include a scholarship to USC where her grandfather went to college.

Outside of OCC, Riggs coach-es at the Brea Volleyball Acad-emy, hangs out with friends and writes or draws at the beach — her home away from home.

Her long term goals include writing a book and combining her athletic skills with her love for the shore. She wants to be a professional volleyball player.

Her sports hero is beach vol-leyball player and Olympic gold medalist Misty May.

“I started watching her on TV ever since I started playing volleyball. She had a confident attitude and knows what she wants out of herself and expects herself to achieve whatever that may be,” Riggs said.

“She is a stud and I really hope that one day I can train to become something like her,” she said. “I hope that I can be Karlee Riggs and people will know my name just like they know hers.”

After its double overtime win against Southwestern College last week, the Orange Coast College football team (3-5 overall,1-2 in EC) fell short against top-ranked College of the Desert(6-2 overall, 2-1 in EC) resulting in a 28-24 loss in which late but crucial calls may have been the difference.

Freshman running back Do-menic Betts finished the game with 147 yards and two touch-downs on 27 carries. Unlike his typical breakaway plays to the end zone, Betts may have been limited to short yard gains, but he still managed to bulldoze his way through numerous tackles.

“He played well, especially since this was a big game for him because he was originally at Col-lege of the Desert,” head coach Mike Taylor said.

Quarterback Mike Frank threw 11 for 23 passes for 141 yards and a touchdown along with one interception. His main target was wide receiver Tyler Duncan who caught five passes for 49 yards.

As for the Roadrunners, running

back Jai Steib ran for 93 yards and two touchdowns while quarter-back Charles Fortis threw for 253 yards and two touchdowns and overcame a couple of interceptions to throw for 253 yards and two TDs on 21 of 40 passing.

Derrick Romo and Dex Homer each had interceptions on defense for the Pirates.

On the Pirates first drive, things didn’t end well as Ricky Carroll ran into a predicament in which his punt was blocked and then recovered by the Roadrunners putting them on the Pirates 5-yard line. The Roadrunners capital-ized on the Pirates’ error as Steib rushed in for a Roadrunner touch-down giving them a 7-0 lead.

Both teams went at it back and forth, Duncan caught a touch-down pass making the score tied at 7 all. Then Fortis countered with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Ivory Washington making the score 14-7.

After that, Josh Hawkins ran for a 60-yard punt return, giv-ing the Pirates a boost. But that drive resulted in Mike Frank throwing a pick into the hands of linebacker Cade Cowdin.

Still, the Pirates found a way to score as running back Betts ran for a 5-yard touchdown tying the game at 14. Thanks to the Pirates defense and Ross Pitsenberger, who made a big fourth down stop, the Pirates were set in field goal range. Kicker

Jackson Dionne kicked a 42-yard field goal, making the score 17-14, leaving the Pirates with momen-tum at the half.

The start of the second half was no different than the first as the Roadrunners opened with another big play as Tyewan Johnson carried the ball for 44 yards and took back the lead, 21-17.

The Pirates caught a break when Roadrunner kicker Brett Symonds missed a 28-yard field goal. That resulted in an 11 play, 80-yard scoring drive that ended with Betts carrying the ball into

the end zone for a touch down, putting the Pirates up 24-21.

The Roadrunners bounced back with 3-yard touchdown run by Steib making it 28-24. The Pirates continued to fight back as Josh Hawkins returned the ball for 30 yards.

“I felt every time I touched the ball I got us some positive yard-age, whether it was on kick re-turns or at the line of scrimmage,” running back/kick returner and 21-year-old mass communica-tions major Josh Hawkins said.

The Pirates got to the Road-runner’s 30 yard line, but due

to a high snap the Pirates had to settle with a 6-yard loss. With the Pirates on fourth and 16 and time not on their side, they had no choice but to go for it. With little time left, the Roadrunner’s Deonte Florence picked off a pass intended for Jeremiah Rideaux.

Near the end of the game, the Pi-rates had hoped to get the ball back to possibly make something out of nothing, but due to a new NCAA football rule the Roadrunners got the win, but not the way fans as well as players anticipated.

A penalty was called against the Pirates taking 10 seconds off

the clock. Since the clock was still running and the penalty was initially called, the Roadrunners didn’t even need to run a play leaving the Pirates in disbelief.

“It was an up-tempo game, but we just have to come back to practice next week and study film and work harder, “running back/kick returner and 20-year-old communications major Denzel Hawkins said.

The Pirates face Golden West College next on Satur-day at LeBard Stadium in the annual West Coast Show-down for the Victory Bell.

Photo by Chris Doesburg

Karlee Riggs had 33 kills in one game against Fullerton.

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Jessica Amaral (left) passes by an Irvine Valley College opponent. The Lady Pirates shut out Irvine with a 6-0 win on Friday.

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Big soccer win for Lady Pirates

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College of the Desert had several key plays that helped them secure the lead and final score of 28-24 against OCC on Saturday.

College of the Desert beats Coast in disappointing loss on Saturday.

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