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Instructors seek bathroom policy change for transgenders
Changes coming to priority registration
Saddleback faculty, who are part of the Equity and Diversity Committee, hope to update the college’s bathroom policy to better accommodate the trans-gender community according to math instructor Karla West-phal.
Transgender alumnus, Nata-lie Smith, dance major, was told by the campus police that she would be arrested if she used the woman’s restroom earlier in the spring semester.
Smith said she left Saddle-back and waits for a policy change in order to continue her dance classes.
“It’s 2013, we should basi-cally be able to accept and go into change, ” Smith said. “I think community colleges and colleges alike should have a policy change when it comes to issues regarding gay, lesbian, transgender issues and when it comes to policy standards for those transgender individuals like myself.”
Some faculty members agree and have looked into fix-
ing this issue. “Several faculty members,
myself included, looked into what we needed to do to en-sure that transgender and gen-der non-conforming students can safely and comfortably use public restrooms on campus,” Westphal wrote to the Lariat in an email.
Smith is adamant about graduating from Saddleback but said she’ll have to wait for the policy change to continue her education.
“I want to see policy change for when I step back on cam-pus,” Smith said. “I don’t want to be taking a workout class next to the gym area and need
to use the restroom and run into the same issue.”
Anthropology instructor Claire Cesareo-Silva was upset when she heard how Smith was treated.
“Many of us were kind of outraged by what we read,” Cesareo-Silva said about the previous Lariat article on the issue.
“We want to make sure that the college does have a policy of some sort stating that trans-gendered individuals should be able to use the bathrooms that they feel most comfortable us-ing in accordance with their gender identity.”
Cesareo-Silva said that fac-ulty immediately spoke to the Saddleback College President Tod Burnett, took the issue to the Academic Senate. ASG has yet to respond.
“I’m not upset, again it’s 2013, and with it comes change and that change might be a while, but I have the time,” Smith said. “I have all the time in the world.
angie l . p inedaEditor-In-Chief
MIChAEL GRENNELL / LARIAT
Some Saddleback faculty have protested for gender rights and equality. Instructors hope to accommodate the transgender community so that trans-genders may feel more comfortable using the restroom.
ON THE WEB• California Senate President Pro Tem Steinberg proposes bill to ensure quality online courses.
• North Korea threatens South Korea with missiles
• Saddleback vs Golden West April 4 at 2 p.m.
• Scan QR code to view video on Bathroom policy changes for transgender students.
Two hikers went missing in the Trabuco Canyon hills Sun-day around 8:25 p.m. The Or-ange County Sheriff’s Depart-ment deputies responded to a call regarding the hikers.
For some time, the Sheriff’s Department were in contact with the Costa Mesa residents. Nich-olas Cendoya, 19, and Kyndall Jack, 18, but due to a low cell phone battery, communications were lost. Deputies tried to lo-cate the two on foot with blood-hounds, but were unsuccessful. The air search was requested, but delayed due to low clouds and visibility. Search and rescue are still on the scene.
The department asks for the publics help for any information regarding these lost individuals.
—Compiled from Orange County Sheriff’s Department press release.
The 10th Annual Math, Science, and Engineering Aca-demic Triathlon saw 10 winners split almost $4,000.
Students met in the Sci-ence and Math building on Fri-day afternoon to compete in the 10th annual Academic Triathlon sponsored by the Math, Science, and Engineering Division.
The competitors had three hours to complete the 250 ques-tion test, with subjects ranging from math to anatomy to com-
puter sciences. The top scorers would each receive a portion of the $3,800 the department re-ceived from the ASG.
Kacie Smith, 22, physics major, was one of seven win-ners to receive $300 from the competition.
Smith said that when she first walked in, she didn’t think she would win anything.
“I actually thought I was go-ing to embarrass myself,” Smith said. “I haven’t taken any biol-ogy classes, or astronomy, or geology, or anything that was on that test except math, phys-
ics, and chemistry, and so I guessed on almost everything. I was totally surprised when I got the email saying I won.”
Now that she is $300 richer, Smith says she isn’t planning on spending her winnings soon.
“I just applied for transfer, so I am saving everything I make,” Smith said. She is hoping to get accepted to either University of California, Berkeley or Univer-sity of California, San Diego, and plans to double major in bi-ology along with physics.
Michael grennellStaff Writer
California Community Col-leges announced priority regis-tration changes that will be in effect fall 2014.
On Wednesday morning, California Community Colleg-es Vice Chancellor for Student Services and Special Programs Linda Michalowski spoke to members of the community col-lege student newspapers on the new changes.
Passed during the Board of Governors meeting last Sep-tember, the proposed changes to the Title 5 regulations in the California Education Code are focused on moving students through the system, allowing students to quickly finish their requirements to move on in their education, while freeing up room for more students who are com-mitted to their academics.
Current ly, priority regis-tration is given to veterans and active duty members of the military, current and former foster youth and then students that are a part of the school’s Extended Opportunity Programs and Ser-vices (EOPS) or Disabled Stu-dents Programs and Services (DSPS).
With the new changes, first-time students, who have com-pleted orientation and have made student education plans, as well as continuing students who have not been on academic probation for two consecutive terms, will also be eligible for priority registration.
The changes to priority regis-tration will also affect some stu-dents negatively. Under the new regulations, students who have spent two consecutive terms on academic probation or students with 100 or more degree-appli-cable classes will be denied pri-
ority registration. “We are say-ing it’s time to move to the end of the line,” Michalowski said in the teleconference.
In regards to the 100 unit limit, the revisions state that “...units for non-degree applicable English as a Second Language or basic skills courses...” will not apply toward the limit.
“If a student is in a situa-tion where they are losing en-rollment due to extenuating circumstances, that is a basis
for appeal,” Michalowski said.
M i c h a -lowski said in the tele-c o n f e r e n c e that one of the major problems for C a l i f o r n i a Community Colleges was that the num-ber of stu-
dents who wished to enroll in classes has been greater than the number of students that the state could fund.
According to a press release issued later that day, budget cuts in the state of California, “…have shut nearly 500,000 stu-dents out of community colleg-es since the 2008-09 academic year,” as well as cutting course offerings by 24 percent.
This spring, students who are near the units cap or are in danger of losing priority regis-tration status will be notified by the community college districts as required by the Board of Governors. For the full story go to www.lariatnews.com.
Michael grennellStaff Writer
COURTESy OF CA.GOV
“I’m not upset, again it’s 2013, and with it comes change and
that change might be a while, but I have the
time, I have all the time in the world.” - Natalie Smith
MIChAEL GRENNELL / LARIATCompetition: math, science, and engineering academic triathlon at full force.
Students test wits in Academic Triathlon
COURTESy OF ORANE COUNTy ShERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
(left) Kyndall Jack and (right) Nicholas Cendoya went missing Easter Sunday.
• The sheriff’s department asks that if anyone has any information found on these individuals to please call (714)-647-7000.
Hikers missing in Trabuco Canyon
“The policy is designed to ensure
classes are available for students seeking
job training ... ”-California Community Colleges Vice Chancel-lor Linda Michalowski
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“In my opinion, the students who are able to progress and transfer are the
ones who take advantage of counseling,” Barr said.
With a total of 322 degrees and certificates offered at Saddleback, 98 at Irvine Valley College, and a campus-to-campus combined student population of over 40,000, students may quickly find them-selves lost or confused when creating and devel-oping their educational and four year university transfer goals.
Thankfully, both IVC and Saddleback offer support services to assist students in their quest into the depths of academia (A place much like mordor, but with less trolls).
Students should have a plan, and they should have the resources available to follow through with that plan. Since Saddleback and IVC do offer such extensive support services, there is no excuse for being unpre-pared.
Although some may already use these services, many students at IVC and S a d d l e -back Col-lege remain unaware of the many tools avail-able to as-sist them in reaching their goal of transferring in a timely manner.
For one, Saddle-back students are en-couraged to create an “Academic Plan” upon completing matric-ulation. This academic plan, completed online through MySite, includes developing a full list of the courses that the student will need to take before transferring.
As of now, completion of this is merely a great suggestion, but is not required. However, according to Saddleback general counselor Pam Barr, starting in 2014 students will be required to complete this online academic plan within their first year of attending.
Just because it is not required yet does not mean students at IVC and Saddleback shouldn’t think twice about making a plan and meeting with a school coun-selor at least once every semes-ter.
This is especially necessary during a student’s first semester.
“In my opinion, the students who are able to progress and transfer are the ones who take advantage of counseling,” Barr said.
During a one on one meeting with his/her counselor a student can cover all of the following: where to transfer, what classes to take in order to transfer to that school, and also if he/she is cur-rently on the right track to reaching that goal.
Interested in transferring to a University of California cam-pus? Be sure to mention the word “TAG” to your counselor. This program, known as the Transfer Admission Guarantee, does just what it says: guarantees a student admission to a campus of his or her choice as long as he or she completes the program’s specified courses with sufficient grades.
To assist students in the tough decisions involved with trans-ferring, both Saddleback and IVC hold transfer fairs on campus throughout the academic year. IVC holds two transfer fairs every
fall semester, a crucial time for transfer students who are sub-mitting their four-year applications.
Events like this give students a chance to gain firsthand knowledge about potential schools of choice; California State Universities, Universities of California, private col-leges, and even out-of-state colleges. Typically each col-lege will work a booth with one or two knowledgeable representatives trained in answering crucial student questions.
“It’s a good networking tool to get to know these [college] representatives,” said Derek Zara, IVC Transfer Center specialist.
On the other side of the spectrum, students who are in danger of not reaching their transfer goals
aren’t left in the dust. Saddle-back and IVC are con-
tinually supportive of them as well.
A new Saddleback pro-gram, known as the “No F’s” pro-
gram, focuses on stu-dents in their first
semester of academic
proba-t i o n . A
student will be
placed on a c a d e m i c probation if he or
she is tak-ing 12 or
more units and earns a final grade point average lower than 2.0 that semester.
The No F’s program then takes effect that following semester. For example, if a student earns less than a 2.0 GPA in the fall, the program for that student will take effect that spring.
What does the program do exactly? No F’s forces students on academic probation to do one of two things before being able to register for classes again: sign up for and attend a scheduled
academic probation workshop, or meet with a counselor.
Once either the workshop or counselor meeting is finished, students are then free to regis-ter for courses and re-take any class he or she failed previous-ly (course repetitions are lim-ited to three times per student).
An important note for students who are taking classes for a second or third time: one’s GPA will not automatically be adjust-ed at the end of the semester to accommodate the new/improved grade. To finalize the new grade for official approval, students must fill out a Transcript Repeat Notation, available at Admis-sions and Records.
According to this form, “the original substandard grade must remain on the transcript: however, it will not be included in the GPA.”
Whether a student is in danger of flunking out or ready to make the next step toward transferring, IVC and Saddleback of-fer extensive support services every step of the way, especially when they make an academic plan early in the game.
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As students of Saddleback College, we enjoy the op-portunities presented to us at this fine institution. A friendly student body, helpful teachers and well-organized extracur-ricular activities are among the many perks of being a gaucho. But as Bret Michaels told the world in 1988, “every rose has its thorn,” and Saddleback’s “thorn” is parking.
Why is it so hard to find a parking space? Are there too many students? Are there not enough parking spaces? Why did I buy this parking permit? These are the questions that Saddleback students are ask-ing themselves when sitting in a line of cars practically stretched out to Avery park-way.
According to the College Board and Saddleback’s fac-ulty website, Saddleback is a medium sized college with over 26,000 under-grads and 571 faculty members. Accord-ing to Andrew Craven, parking director, there are 3507 desig-nated student spaces, 696 staff spaces, 116 disabled spaces, and 51 metered daily parking spaces, making a total of 4370 parking spaces. This means that there are 7 students for ev-ery designated student parking space and 1.2 spaces for each designated staff member.
For those 3507 spaces, the school has issued an un-disclosed amount of permits. Without any reliable data,
let us try to make some ra-tional hypotheticals. Say for instance one-fourth of the students who attend Saddle-back actually plan to use the parking facilities, while the other three-fourths of the body either walk, take public transportation or carpool. One quarter of our student body is approximately 6500 hundred students. In this hypothetical, the amount of students look-ing for spaces is still nearly double the total amount of spaces on campus.
“I don’t understand why they don’t build another level or something,” Javier Q, 20, business said.
Given the data, there is a real parking issue at Saddle-back. While ideas like build-ing a parking garage over lot nine do seem like a simple so-lution, It becomes much more complicated when one takes into consideration the reality of what the costs of such a job would be.
According to the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, the price of each parking space skyrockets about 5 times the original cost when upgrading a surface lot to a raised struc-ture.
Still, given the fact that the school charges students for parking, one would think this would be an excellent alloca-tion of school funding.
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ROAD BLOCK: Students with planning vertigo have more than a few places to turn to on campus.
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Service, fellowship and leadership sit at the foundation of Circle K international, and the branch at Irvine Valley College is no excep-tion.
“We offer community service for members and it’s great for networking,” Club President Marlene Smith, 19, kinesiology said. “They build leadership skills.”
According to their webpage, “Circle K is an international community service organization with over 12,000 members worldwide in over seven countries.”
There are different levels of the organiza-tion, including Key Club at the high school level, Circle K at the college level and Kiwanis at the adult level.
IVC Circle K was started by current faculty advisor, Nancy Ikeda in fall 2003, but was of-ficially charted in 2005. It is part of the Mag-
ic Kingdom division, with seven other schools, including: Saddleback College,
Orange Coast College, Santa Ana College, University of California Irvine, Chapman College, Whittier College and California State University
Fullerton.Under the sponsorship of Irvine
Kiwanis, IVC Circle K helps the campus and the community with fun-draising, like the can food drive they did during the holidays.
“I love that we’re not just club members, but friends too,” Jessica Salvador, 20, sociol-ogy said. “Not only do we participate in fun events and raise money for charities, but we also hang out outside of school and do fun social events like hiking, spirit night and cos-mic bowling.”
Smith said they often just recruit members on meeting days, but you also have to fill out an application. The membership fee is $40, but if you bring a friend, then it’s only $30.
Their next event will be on Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in Hollywood.
“We’ll be the live studio audience of a show called “Friends with Better Lives,” Smith said. “We get a certain amount of money for each person we take. These funds help us discount fees for members who want to attend large dis-trict events, like the fall training conference.”
The 40-member club meets on Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Psi Beta is an honor society in the two-year level with 140 chapters across the na-tion, where students can gain experience and knowledge in the world of psychology.
IVC has an active chapter for Psi Beta. In Psi Beta, students get to participate in a number of projects, activities and commu-nity service projects. They also have many guest speakers from the field of psychology who speak to the students on a regular basis.
What makes this club stand out against many others is the separate research group they have after the Psi Beta meetings.
“After our regular meetings, students break out into the research group,” said Kari Tucker, Psi Beta advisor. “Those who are in-terested then peruse a topic and many end up presenting their research at a conference.”
Every spring, they take a group of stu-dents to a professional conference where students in the research group
present their topics in the form of poster presentations or even oral presentations as part of a panel.
“They learn a lot about cutting edge research,” Jer-
ry Rudman, Psi Beta advisor said. “ They learn a lot about career oppor-tunities in psychology and academic programs.”
To become a member of Psi Beta, you do need to meet the minimum require-ments: to hold a 3.25 GPA, have complet-ed 12 units at the college level and to have one of those classes be a psychology course where you needed to have completed it with a B or better. Once you pay the $50 lifetime membership fee, you become a member. This then gets noted on your transcripts
Even though this is an honors society, they allow any students to join in their meet-ings and take part of events they hold.
Psi Beta meets the first and third Friday a month from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room BST118 at IVC. In the next couple of weeks, they will be holding a call for applicants to become members in Psi Beta for the next year.
If you’re in the mood for a good laugh, then you have to see the Saddleback Quip-sters in action. The Quipsters, is what the guys in the Improv Club call themselves. They’re quick witted and comical, a couple qualities that are needed to join the Quip-sters.
The club meets every Tuesday and Thurs-day from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Business and General Studies building, Room 356.
Branden Truman, president of Improv Club, puts exercises together each practice for the guys to run through. Truman arrang-es their practices with a bunch of interactive, but quick thinking exercises.
If you see them in action, you might rec-ognize a few of the exercises from a certain show.
“A lot of our inspiration comes from ‘Who’s Line Is It Anyway’,” Brandon Sloan, 21, theatre arts Mayor said.
The club’s advisor is Ma-ria Mayenzet, who Sloan said is an ex-Hollywood actress ,and a current film and acting instructor at Saddleback Col-
lege.The Improv crew welcomes any-
one who can keep up with their quick witted personalities to join them dur-ing their club meetings.
If you think you’re quick witted and funny, then you should definitely stop by and join in on the fun.
ImprovPsi Beta Honor Society Environmental Awarness The Environmental Awareness Club is
a student-run organization which seeks to promote an earthly conscience not just at Saddleback College, but in the surrounding communities as well.
Club member participation ranges from anything from just attending scheduled club meetings (Mondays 10:30 - 11:30 in the Advanced Technology and Applied Sci-ence building [TAS] 225), to volunteering in more extensive events outside of campus.
One such recent event consisted of a beach cleanup day at Doheny Beach in Dana Point. The Club hosted this cleanup on Feb .23, during which a total of approximately 30 volunteers gave their time to pick up trash along the coastline.
The club’s next big event is Earth Week, beginning April 22.
“We aren’t activists, we don’t want to shove environmentalism down any-
one’s throats. We just want to educate,” said President Drew Yearwood
Being a member of the En-vironmental Awareness Club
doesn’t necessarily mean committing to a radical social cause or a concrete agenda; moreover, involvement with this club just gives students the op-portunity to learn more about some-thing that impacts our quality of life
each and every day: earth’s environment.According to its mission statement, this
club merely aims to, “expose the beauty of nature to anyone and everyone,” and “to support humans living peacefully with the planet.”
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Aclamo is a student club at Saddleback College, which helps Chicano and Latino students remove educational barriers in many different forms. It does this by of-fering outreach programs, taking trips to universities and creating a support system.
“The overall goal is to increase trans-fer rates within our community, we’ve done a couple campus trips just to see what’s out there,” Tania Carillo, 20, cultural anthropol-ogy, said.
Carillo explains they have representatives from the University of California Irvine sister club and the University of California Merced give motivational speeches to members.
“We go to schools and outreach to their se-niors, so that when they transfer they can have a support system,” said Carillo.
The Aclamo club has been a part of Sad-dleback for two years, they have taken trips to colleges intended to give the
members motivation to at-tend these universities. They are currently planning a trip to the University of California Berkeley, the trip is partially funded by
the Inter Club Council and also self-funded by the club.
“It has helped me speak up more. I was always shy but I’m not afraid
to speak out in public as much any-more,” said Marco Madariaga, 21, two-year member of Aclamo.
Madariaga explained that Aclamo has given him opportunities he would not have expected such as giving him a job in the out-reach department of the club, which is intend-ed to scout new members.
The club recently hosted their first, “Com-ing out of the Shadows” event in March. The event empowered the movement of undocu-mented students on campus as they separated the myth from the truth. The myth being that undocumented workers do not contribute to society, which in fact they do.
Saving the world one event at a time, the members of the Global Activist Club (GAC) voluntarily participate in local events that involve other, more popular global organizations such as Invisible Children, that help ones in need at a world-ly standpoint.
This club collaborates with other or-ganizations, representing the Saddleback College community.
Abby Freeman, President of GAC, 22, child development said, “The club is for anyone who wants to be a part of their global community. We take part in our Southern Orange County community, as well as things going on in different places of the world. We’ve had events for Invis-ible Children, Liberty in North Korea, and next week we’re having an event for El
Salvador activists. They’re going to be speaking on different topics ranging
from living through a war to advocating for rights inter-nationally.”
With Invisible Children, the Global Activist Club currently has a team fund-
raising page that benefits the or-ganization by raising money for the cause. They are more than half-way-there to their goal and
are still looking for more donations. If interested, visit: http://www.stayclassy.org/fundraise/ic-team?ftid=2881 for more information on donations.
“We’re definitely taking it easier this semester and are really just helping out with an even that the Social and Behav-ioral Science Division is hosting [Social Activism and the Arts in El Salvador],” Abby said.
This event, hosted by Fredy Granillo and Rosemary Ramsey, starts April 8-9 in room SSC 212. There are different top-ics discussed starting at 9 a.m. in hour and a half intervals. Some topics include, “Women and Violence in El Salvador: Civil War and its Aftermath” and “Global Change/Local Action” where the Global Activist Club comes in.
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Have you ever wondered if the uni-verse is conscious, how the size of a star determines the way it will die or about the astronomy of the southern hemisphere?
The Saddleback College Physics and Astronomy Club has, and they’ve recruit-ed experts to help satisfy their curiosity.
About once a month, those experts (typically instructors from local colleges) appear as guest speakers who lecture on various topics. Those lectures occur in Room 104 of the Science and Math build-ing.
Dr. Joseph Oliva, an associate profes-sor at Irvine Valley College, will be giv-ing the next lecture on April 13, at 7 p.m., concerning extra-solar planets, or planets not orbiting the sun.
Lectures are free, open to anyone and he club provides food and beverages for those in attendance.
“We try to get peo-ple involved,” said Sky Phillips, 35, astrophys-ics. “We love physics, we love astronomy and we want to share that
with others.”During Club Rush last Thurs-
day, the Physics and Astronomy Club teamed up with the Chem-istry 4 Life Club to celebrate Na-
tional Bubble Month. The clubs explained the chemical structures of soap molecules and why bubbles take spherical form.
They brought out a telescope during the Club rush, where attendees were able to view the sun through a filtered lens. Phillips invited interested visitors to join the club and gain access to Saddleback’s observatory when they meet to study the night sky.
The club’s publicist Gannon Gesiriech, 20, electrical engineering, described the club as, “a group of intellectuals who en-joy examining the intricacies of the uni-verse here at Saddleback.”
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The Veterans club is a place where transitioning veterans can go for sup-port. They meet Wednesdays at 3 p.m. at Saddleback College and have vary-ing ties with the Vet club at Irvine Val-ley College.
The club’s main focus is to work as a group to support veterans and their families as they transition back into civilian life.
Most members are in the transition-ing phase. There are currently 1300 veterans on the Saddleback and IVC campus, but not all are members of the club.
“Transitioning is one of the hardest things I ever had to do,” member James Frohlic said. “It was harder than boot camp and harder than
combat in some aspects, because I felt like I went from having a title to
having nothing.” He explains being in
the club, having friends and other outlets has helped him adjust, and
he wants to help be there as an example to others while they ad-just too.
There is rumor that the two schools will be playing a
football game in the near future as a fundraiser.
You do not have to be a Veteran or a veteran family member to get in-volved.
The Veterans Are you interested in learning martial
arts but aren’t willing to pay the expen-sive gym fees? Join the Saddleback MMA club that’s free, informative and fun.
The MMA club doesn’t require any previous knowledge of mixed martial arts. The members will work with you in every way possible to make your experience fun and informative.
The styles of fighting that are prac-ticed are boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Savate, Wing Chung and Philipino martial arts. There is sparring in the class, but if you’re not comfortable with that, then you don’t need to participate. The sparring will go at the pace most suitable for you.
Mettings are an hour and 15 minutes long.
“We start off with weapons, we’ll start out with a knife (a small rub-
ber stick) we will move to the stick, bringing out certain attributes” Ernest Raheb, club president said. “De-pending on the curricu-
lum, whether we are working on Brazilian Jui Jitsu or some Wing Chung or Pilipino martial arts, we will do some drills, then we will do some live sparring.”
S o if you’re interested in learning the ways of martial arts, then go check out Saddleback College’s MMA club. They operate out of two locations from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., either at PE Room 306 or Vivos fitness in Dana Point.
Mixed Marshal Arts
The Landscape Designers Club meets under the shade cloth in the Saddleback College Nursery. They meet every other Thursday from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.. Lunch is included.
“The charter is to provide education for its club members who are current students of Saddleback, with interest in horticulture and landscape design.” Fred Velijanian, club president said. “So far, most of our members are enrolled in various horticul-ture classes, however the club is open to all students and staff. We provide mean-ingful projects for our club members to practice the art and science of horticulture and landscape design through real world projects, with supervisory oversights by two professors, Robert Farnsworth and Ken Lee.”
Even though the club only came alive this spring, it was resurrected
from one that had been defunct for a number of years. It is getting off to a good start with six proj-
ects already in the concep-tual stage. A vote was taken and the club name was established.
“We are going to have guest speakers ranging from sustainable practices to hand drawing tech-niques.” Farnsworth said. “It’s an
opportunity to learn more about plants and landscape design, and intermingle with others that are interested in the same thing.”
Upcoming events include: Earth week on campus, featuring California native plants in April, design demonstration for Mission Viejo Arts Alive 2013 on May 4 and 5 and the Orange County Fair in July.
Lee raised many legal issues concern-ing their projects and how to proceed with the necessary information in preparation for presenting their concepts to clients. Lee announced at last Thursday’s meeting that the La Habra Fire Department is offer-ing an unpaid internship.
You can get involved by showing up for the meetings or visiting their Facebook page.
Landscape Designers Founded in 2011, Saddleback College’s
We Speak English Club (WSE) is a commu-nity of English and non-English speakers, who want to learn and enhance the English language through the act of communication.
The club meets from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday in the Learn-ing Resource Center (LRC) Room 107, and every Wednesday in LRC 104. The club’s demographic is anyone from the ages of 16 to 26, who are in the process of learning, al-ready know the English language or want to practice conversing.
“You can learn so much in the classroom and teachers do a great job. I can’t do that,” said Matt Wright, founder of WSE and for-mer Saddleback student. “But what they [non-english speakers] don’t get, is prac-
tice.”At meetings, diverse cultures engage
in every-day conversations, so that those learning English can become more comfort-able in social environments and situations.
“English is a very impor-tant language in today’s world, be-cause you can connect to so many people in cultures with it, and create so many ties,” Wright said.
WSE strongly believes that it is important for people to not just connect, but to also build a friendship within the club. By doing so, those who are learning can be comfortable with others and not be afraid to make mistakes when practicing.
“We want people to be a part of some-thing bigger than themselves by bringing cultures together,” Wright said.
The We Speak English Project also has a club at the UCLA. Hoping to expand to other campus over the summer, the project is cur-rently focusing their attention on spreading the English language through social media.
The We Speak English Project’s official site, wespeakenglishproject.org has blogs, Skype lessons, and videos available for all English learners.
Starting with a meeting of five people in 2011, the Saddleback campus now has more than 20 members.
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LIFE CLUB EDITION
The Entrepreneurial Business Club is a club at Saddleback focused on community and professional development that meets once a week on Thursdays at Saddleback in Business General Studies Building in room 235 at 5 p.m. The founder, Susan Ray, 23, Political Science began at the University of Arizo-na as Business Marketing before pursuing other directions in California and. During a Spanish class, Instructor Carmenmara announced opportunity for mentorship in Math and Science. When Ray asked for mentorship offer-ing in business, Carmenmara said there was not that she knew of, but that she should “start a club.”. The club’s vision intends to thus con-nect ambitious students with mentors in the community with experience in the
industry of their pursuit. The other intent of the club is to connect business or entrepreneurial-minded students with each other to help build a professional network.
Anyone is welcome and students of undecided majors are especially en-couraged to join. Every week there is a different guest speaker to talk about their industry.
At a recent meeting guest speaker Jamil El-Jurdi, a VP at AXA Financial came to share his journey and pearls of wisdom. “There is a difference between working hard to accomplish a goal and working just to accomplish that goal, no matter what it takes,” El-Jurdi said.
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Documentary will take a deep look into the origins and impact of chicano studies on Latino students in college.
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Regan Building will get art mural
The Saddleback Arts and Technology Division is pre-senting an open Mural Design Contest. The design winner will have their art feature on The Ronald Regan Building.
The mural will be 30’ by 40’ and painted on the round exte-rior of the Ronald Regan Build-ing near the Health and Sciences Building.
The theme for the mural is
addressing the Historical Land-scape in Saddleback College. Students are encouraged to re-search the history and progress of the college for increasing their chances of having their art featured.
Only original artwork will be accepted in the contest. Graphic and posterized ele-ments are suggested to include in the mural design.
The deadline for the con-test is Monday, April 15. The
contest is open only to current Saddleback students. Submis-sions will be submitted through JPEGs to Drawing Instructor, Veronica Obermeyer.
Further question concerning the mural design contest are en-couraged to speak with Drawing Instructor, Obermeyer who will be looking over the submission process.
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casing one more week of The Women of Locker-bie, a poetic drama directed by Olivia Trevino.
A mother from New Jersey roams Lockerbie Scotland, in search for her son’s remains due to
the crash of Pan Am 103 in 1988. April 2 through the 6 at 8 p.m. and Sunday at
3 p.m. will be your last chance to see this perfor-mance.
“I felt that the performance was heartfelt and inspiring,” stated Danielle Salhus, 21, anthropol-ogy.
This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre between the baseball field and the village classrooms.
For more information on the play go to: http://www.saddleback.edu/news/arts/wom-
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The Women of Lockerbie
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Saddleback College applied psychology instructor, Dr. Pe-ter Espinosa will showcase a special test viewing of “Forbid-den Roots,” April 18 at noon in Business & General Studies, Room 144.
“Forbidden Roots” is narrated by Dr. Espinosa and edited by Saddleback film graduate, Tyler Morales. The documen-tary deals with the origins, exploration and the recent attacks on Chicano Studies in America.
The film features interviews from Latino students who will share their experience of chicano studies as well as the impact it has made on their lives. The film will also feature music from multi Grammy Award–winning Chicano musical group, Los Lobos. The film will be both in English and Span-ish with English subtitles for interviews in Spanish .
The film is a grassroots project which has been in devel-opment for nearly two years. The film is being presented as a test-showing to the college audience. Students in attendance will have the opportunity to critique the film after viewing it. Offering suggestions for improvement is welcomed. The film is being planned to be submitted for upcoming film festivals
this year. Espinosa has taught in Saddleback College for 30 years
and teaches chicano studies as well as History of Ancient Mexico in Cal State University Fullerton. He credits his ex-perience in a Chicano Studies course while a student in Cal State University Long Beach for giving him guidance and direction.
“It made a big impact in my life,” he said. “At the time I was excited and angry,” said Espinosa. “I
was excited that I was going to finally know about my fam-ily’s ancestry, but at the same time angry that it had never taught to me through the public school system considering that we are neighbors with Mexico.”
The inspiration for the project began in 2010, when the anti-immigrant law, SB 1040 was passed into law in Arizona. A few days after the law was passed, conservative groups tar-geted ethnic studies programs with HB 2281.
“I was inspired by what happened in Arizona. When I read the news article, it grabbed me,” he said.
Espinosa was moved to producing the film when HB 2281
was signed into law by Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer. The law bans the teaching of all ethnic studies in the state. Since then ethnic studies programs are illegal in Arizona’s public school system.
Espinosa hopes that the documentary will reach a large audience and showcase the contribution and importance of ethnic studies in America.
“A Chicano study has had a great legacy for Latino stu-dents. It has had a pretty good track record and is important for the success of Latino and non-Latino students,” he said.
The film is dedicate to the memory of former Saddleback history instructor, Rey Reyes who passed away in 2007.
Forbidden Roots will start at noon April 18 in the BGS building room 144.
For more information on HB 2281:www.saveethnicstudies.com
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With a loss in four sets to the Grossmont Col-lege Griffins, the Irvine Valley College men’s vol-leyball team find themselves on the outside look-ing in for a playoff spot.
The IVC Lasers only managed to win in the second set, as they dropped the match 17-25, 25-23, 15-25, 17-25. In a press brief on the IVC ath-letics website, Coach Ki Yi said that consistency has been a problem for the team so far this year.
With three games remaining on their schedule, the Lasers are going to need to win all of them in order to have a shot at the postseason. Their next game will come on Friday when they host the San Diego Mesa Olympians. The Lasers and Olympians are currently tied for fourth place in the conference.
Continuing on their path to the Southern Cali-fornia playoffs, the IVC men’s tennis team took down the Saddleback College Gauchos 5-4.
The Lasers swept the Gauchos in the No. 2, 3, 4, and 6 singles matches. Rafael da Luz was swept in two, hard fought sets in the No. 1 singles match, as he lost 7-6, 7-6. The Gauchos took the No. 1 and 3 doubles matches to tie with IVC, but the Lasers took the No. 2 set 8-4 to give them the win.
IVC is currently in second place in the Orange Empire Conference. If they hold onto that spot, they will make it into the Southern California playoffs set to start on Apr. 9.
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Lasers tennis wins close match against Saddleback
In an action packed game the Gauchos man-aged to hold off the San Diego Mesa College Olympians just enough to pull out the win despite Mesa’s late rally.
This Saturday when the Gauchos met the Olympians, Saddleback was firing on all cylin-ders straight from the get go. “We just wanted to be aggressive early” said Coach McCartney. With shortstop Josh Fuentes giving the Gauchos an early lead with his solo home run at the bottom of the first inning, the aggressiveness was showing.
Saddleback managed to put up another point on the board in the very next inning. With right fielder Brandon Cody leading off the inning with a triple into right center field. It didn’t take long to get him home with Case Bennett grounding out to shortstop, scoring Cody.
The third inning was when Mesa started to pull it together. With Mesa getting two players on base their second baseman, Tyler Timmer, was able to hit a single through the left side scoring both play-ers.
The Gauchos quickly regained the lead in the fourth inning. It all started with Eric Ehlow being able to reach base due to a throwing error, then the pitcher walked Jeff Butler.
Following a balk by San Diego Mesa pitcher Sean Coughlin that moved two runners into sco-rine position, center fielder Brett Thompson hit a sacrifice fly to center field scoring Ehlow and re-gaining the lead for his team.
With the aggressive style Coach McCartney has been implementing on his team, Jeff Butler stole third base, putting himself in easy scoring position. Slate Miller then come to the plate and singled to center field to bring home Butler, but Miller was called out at second base after trying to stretch the hit into a double.
With the Olympians putting up no points in the fifth inning to answer the Gauchos, Saddleback went on the offensive again, this time putting up four points. With a single from Bennett scoring Josh Fuentez, along with a three run home run by Ehlow scoring Fuentes and Bennett.
Looking as if the Gauchos had won the game because of the 8-2 lead they had built up, the Olympians weren’t going down without a fight. Due to poor defensive play by the Gauchos and Colby Sims hitting two players, the Gauchos
didn’t look like the team they were just a few in-nings ago. Due to all the free bases given by the Gauchos, Mesa reduced the lead to only two runs from their four run rally.
With that inning acting like a slap in the face for the Gauchos to wake up, they managed to put up another run on the board from Fuentes sin-gling down the right field line to score Bennett. With that insurance run and more comfortable three run lead, Anthony Shew managed to get his fourth save this season by securing the win for the
Gauchos.With seven players left on base throughout the
entire game by the Gauchos, Coach McCartney said, “we got to do a better job of scoring runs, driving guys in when runners are in scoring posi-tion. That’s one area we have to improve.”
This victory gave starting pitcher Tyler Brashears his fourth win this season and even though Brashears “didn’t have his best stuff to-day” said Coach McCartney, he still managed to get the win bettering his record to 4-2.
Next game for the Gauchos is on April 4th at 2 p.m. against Golden West College.
Coming into the final streach of the season with only 10 games left to play the Gauchos can’t let up at all. In these final 10 games they play the number one team in the confrence, the Fullerton College Hornets twice as well as the number two Orange Coast College Pirates.
Gauchos wrangle the Olympians
The IVC baseball team struggled again as they extended their losing streak to three games in the 6-1 loss to the El Camino College Warriors.
Lasers starter Enzio Perez was lit up for six earned runs on 11 hits in 5 2/3 innings. It was the fourth start without a win for Perez after he started the season 3-0. The Lasers offense was only able to put together five hits against Warriors starter
Rafael Ramirez. The Lasers lone run came in the top of the ninth inning when third baseman Daniel Poe scored on a wild pitch from Alex Navarrete.
The loss dropped the Lasers to 8-17 on the year (3-8 in conference). The Lasers next game will be Apr. 4 when they travel to Fullerton College to take on the Hornets.
Offensive struggles continue for Lasers baseball as losing streak extends to three games
ADAM KOLVITES / LARIATThird baseman Daniel Poe drives the ball down the left field line in a game earlier this
season. He scored the Lasers only run in the 8-1 loss.ShOt tO left:
Colby Sims trying to pitch his way out of the eight innings in which he gave up four runs allowing Mesa back in the game. SEAN BYRNE / LARIAT
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