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Area gas leak causes street-wide shut-down

BY NATALIE SANCHEZ

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Natalie Sanchez, Editor in Chief Joe Medina, Los Angeles Country firefighter, uses a gas meter to check the gas levels in the air on Oct. 9 at the entrance of Citrus College.

A gas leak at the corner of north Citrus Avenue and Foothill Boulevard led to students and faculty evacuating the Student Services building and caused traffic backups in the surrounding parking lots.

Campus Safety, the Azusa Police Department and the L.A. County Fire Department blocked off the west entrance to Citrus College at about 11:45 a.m. Oct. 9.

The gas leak was started by construction workers who burst a gas pipe as they were doing construction on north Citrus Avenue, said Buddy Burton, firefighter for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

“When they were doing construction, they actually hit a gas pipe,” Burton said. “As soon as they (construction workers) hit a main they called us automatically.”

Evacuation of the SS building began at about 11:40 a.m.

“We were told by admissions and records, the staff over there, that we were evacuating. We did not get the word from Campus Safety. The director (Gerald Sequeira) came out and told us to evacuate,” said Denise Beatty who works in the SS building. “...We were just told by the president and the CFO that it was safer inside and the smell was better inside than outside. We weren’t told about the leak at all.”

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Drug crimes take a fall Report shows decline in camus drug and alcohol violations

BY JAMES DUFFY V STAFF REPORTER

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THE SWING IS THE THING HAMMOCK HANGERS HANG OUT IN THE TREES BETWEEN THE AD AND ED BUILDINGS. READ MORE ON PAGE 4

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With contract signed, Gold Line grows Metro and city officials approved the final plans to expand the Gold Line from Glendora to Pomona

BY LYDIA EGAN A&E EDITOR

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The Foothill Gold Line finalized its plan to extend from Glendora to Montclair at the contract signing press conference on Oct. 4 at Pomona City Hall.

According to a press release by Chief Communications Officer of the Foothill Gold Line, Lisa Levy Buch, the expansion will cost $2.1

billion.

The plan is a part of Measure M, to reform public transportation through the San Gabriel Valley and create more jobs, help traffic congestion and build community.

Mayor of Pomona Tim Sandoval said the plan will help the economy flourish.

“This project has been proven to be a true economic catalyst,” Sandoval said in his speech at the press conference.

Though the Gold Line is seen as a symbol of success, it took awhile for the plan to be set due to funding.

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Felise Alaichamy, Photography Editor Mike Hillman, Citrus College ceramics professor, explains his involvement in the artistic design of the Glendora Station of the Foothill Gold Line extension on Oct. 4 at Pomona City Hall.

Citrus College Campus Safety reported no hate crimes, aggravated assaults or vehicle thefts for four years in its annual security report released Oct. 1.

Campus drug policy violations fell from 2017. The categories of drug law arrests, drug law and liquor law violations have also dropped since 2016.

Campus Safety Director Ben Macias credited his division’s work for reducing drug and alcohol policy violations.

“Those specific statistics, that decreased significantly, by approximately by 81 percent,” Macias said. “I would attribute that to the overall campus’ campaign to make sure that students are aware that one there’s no alcohol allowed on campus, and (no) marijuana allowed on campus.”

The division’s campaign with Student Life helped spread awareness of campus policies and crime, Macias said.

“Those collective efforts have a huge impact,” he said. He also praised students’ use of the Guardian mobile phone app.

“People do utilize that, which is good,” Macias said. “That’s just another platform, to engage our community and keep those lines of communication. “ Macias said because Metro Gold Line commuters exit at Citrus, and because Citrus is an open campus, many policy violations and crime comes from non-students.

The trend follows Azusa Pacific University’s Clery Act as well. APU’s drug and alcohol policy violations dropped significantly from 2017 to 2018.

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OWL CAFE MAKEOVER Chef and manager bring new approach to on-campus restaurant with menu revamp

BY ASHLEY ECONOMOU STAFF REPORTER

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The Owl Cafe has been a part of the Citrus College campus for years, but this past spring the cafe’s menu has been totally revamped.

Under the new management of Maria Arquin, manager, and Rory Dwayne Lara, head chef, the Owl Cafe has made some huge changes and students have noticed.

Citrus College communications major Kaylee Holley, 21, said she noticed a change in the food quality.

“I didn’t eat (Owl Cafe) a lot a few months ago, but I feel like, yes, it’s a bit better. It’s almost more like, I don’t know, it’s almost more like homemade kind of tasting if that makes sense,” she said as she dug into her burrito.

Food quality at the Owl Cafe hasn’t always been what it is now.

When asked about whether the previous chef used frozen or premade food, Lara responded, “Whoever was running this before, they were doing that because, again, it’s cost effective and if you don’t like what you’re doing you’re just going to try to find shortcuts. Eventually you’re going to have so many shortcuts that it’s a circle.”

Lara said he wants students to know there are more options than they think available at the cafe.

“I’m trying to tell the kids you don’t have to just get the chicken tender plate,” Lara said. “Let me know what you need and I’ll help you walk through it so you can get other flavors.”

For students who have special dietary needs or preferences, the Owl Cafe offers vegan and vegetarian options.

Lara has the ability to make any food item for special cases.

“I make my own aiolis,” Lara said. “I make my own vinaigrettes for the catering for the faculty. So it’s always like if somebody asks me about it, I have the experience to do it.”

The Owl Cafe does not use any peanut products in their cooking and tries to avoid products with heavy amounts of gluten.

Lara is open to suggestions from students and encourages students to let him know their opinions.

“To me it’s like if I’m not hearing any feedback, then I’m doing something wrong because they’re not talking about it.” Lara said.

He prefers to experiment with his menus and flavors and wants to challenge people’s taste buds.

Arquin is the manager who opened the Owl Cafe, under Pacific Dining’s management, and

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Student worker Victor Ureno was inside of the SS building when the evacuation began. He said prior to the evacuation, he smelled something weird in the building which caused him to have a headache.

As students and faculty from the

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campus like Citrus, but even those numbers have declined.

APU’s campus alcohol policies were more closely followed: from 122 violations in 2016 and 2017 to 73 in 2018.

Campus safety officer Todd Dickson monitors this year’s crime reports. He said Citrus’ relatively crime free streak continued this year.

“We’re there,” Dickson said. “They’re still zero staff or students vehicles stolen yet as of 2019. Aggravated assault, zero.

So we continue to keep it very peaceful.”

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Ashley Economou, Staff Reporter Rory Dwayne Lara poses for a photo on Sept. 24 at the ordering area of the Owl Cafe. Lara has been working at the Owl Cafe for a long time before becoming head chef at the on-campus restaurant.

has been in charge for two and a half years.

Arquin said her position as the general manager puts her in charge of everything that happens: purchasing, hiring, payroll, menus and dealing with customers.

Arquin’s passion for cooking started at a young age.

“My mom and dad, they used to have a catering company, so since I was little, they used to have me peel potatoes and carrots and as I grew I used to have to help them with the dishes,” Arquin said.

Before working at the Owl Cafe, Arquin worked at Keck Hospital at the University of Southern California as a supervisor of the dietary department for 16 years where she helped plan patients diets.

Arquin said she loves working at Citrus and the atmosphere the students foster.

“I like working with young people,” said Arquin.

“It’s different; every day is different.

You get to see a lot of kids, what’s going on, so I really like it, I love the environment.”

Arquin’s vision for the Owl Cafe is to, “have more customers, have kids come in and come and eat here more often and see what they like.” Arquin said she wants to hear more from students and see what they would like the cafe to do differently.

Arquin’s favorite food at the Owl Cafe is the chicken tender plate.

She encourages students to voice their opinions about the menu.

The Owl Cafe’s chef has prepared food for the past 12 years.

“I lead by doing it myself,” Lara said.

Lara started his career as a dish washer and worked his way up from there to become a chef.

Lara took over the kitchen at the Owl Cafe in late spring of 2019.

Before working at the Owl Cafe, Lara worked at BJ’s, several corporate restaurants and opened all of the Five Guys restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley.

Lara enjoys working at Citrus and likes “the fact that for the most part the kids are real friendly.”

Competition against chain restaurants helps the Owl Cafe step up its game. “We have to compete with Chick-Fil-A and Popeyes and Jack in the Box and now In-n-Out and it’s hard to compete against those guys,” Lara said.

“At least when they come here, they know it’s consistent, it’s good, and it’s as least expensive as I can make it.”

Lara works at the Owl Cafe

from Monday to Thursday every week. He also has his own catering business on the side called Tia Comfort Catering. “My catering business is all word of mouth.

I don’t advertise, I don’t put banners out,” Lara said.

Tia Comfort Catering is entirely booked almost every weekend.

The Owl Cafe’s message to students is: “Come visit us, I’d love for you guys to come over,” Arquin said. “If there is something that is in my hands that I could make or bring I’ll be more than happy to do it, if you have any complaints or concerns please ask for me or my supervisor, Mary Bell, and we will be more than happy to take care of it.”

SS building waited outside, Ureno said there were multiple people feeling sick from the smell of gas.

He said people were complaining of headaches.

When the LACoFD arrived to the scene, they immediately began to inspect the gas leak.

“We blocked off the whole street so nobody is walking in here. There’s a guy there, he has a gas meter in his hand and he’s

reading the percentage of gas per air, parts per million,” Burton said.

Burton said the fire department did not want anyone in the parking lots on the west side of campus or near the Campus Safety building.

The fire department also ensured that everyone in the trailer park was OK. A fire engine headed west down Foothill Boulevard to monitor the gas and to check if the wind

continued to blow east rather than west Burton said.

The smell of gas was prominent on the west side of campus through the early afternoon.

“We have a breeze here,” Burton said. “The breeze is helping us because gas is bad when it’s in… a cold spot. But as long as the breeze is blowing, it dissipates it, so we don’t have that ratio of gas to air mixture.”

Ashley Economou, Staff Reporter Head Chef Rory Lara prepares an order on Sept. 24 in the Owl Cafe’s kitchen.

Lara and new manager Maria Arquin recently took over the on-campus restaurant to improve the quality of the food.

Back in 2008, a ballot proposal of Measure R was placed and stated it was a project that planned to raise sales tax to fund public transportation in Los Angeles.

Then in November 2016, the plan for Measure M proceeded to extend the Gold Line from Glendora to Montclair. The project is more than 12 years in the making.

The plan for the Gold Line extension took years to process and the design was facilitated by the Metro. Since the point of the Gold Line is to help public transportation, getting the Gold Line to extend through the numerous Metro stations through the San Gabriel and Inland Empire was crucial to the foreseers of the project.

“The design and construction has to conform to the Metro criteria,” Gold Line Deputy Director of Engineering John Sarah said. “Each station has an artist so it’s all integrated with the system to make sure it’s efficient and serves the purpose of getting people from one place to another, but also blended with the community.”

Michael Hillman, ceramics professor at Citrus College, contributed to the plan of the Gold Line extension.

Having done numerous art projects around the Glendora area, Hillman was chosen 12 years ago to be the artist of the Glendora station. He said he was in charge of all the aesthetic decisions of the Glendora station.

Duane E. Smith, resident of Pomona, is in support of the Gold Line extension.

“I’m here in support of the Gold Line,” Smith said. “I’m here in support of the process by which it is being funded.”

Smith has been a Pomona resident since the early 1970s.

He said he has seen Pomona change for the better in the past few years in terms of the new Pomona Homeless Outreach and now the Gold Line extension.

“I’m in favor of putting the community back together for just about anything,” Smith said.

The press release by Buch stated the expansion from Glendora to Pomona is projected to be completed by 2025 and the expansion to Montclair will be completed by 2028, if additional funding of $381.3 million is secured by October 2021.

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OCTOBER 17 - ON CAMPUS EMERGENCY DRILL An emergency drill will take place, followed by a campus-wide evacuation drill as part of the ongoing emergency preparation, in conjuction with the state’s Great Shakeout drill. All faculty and staff are requested to direct people to DROP, COVER, and HOLD for one minute. The emergency drill will occur at approximately 10:17 a.m.

OCTOBER 17 - DREAMER ALLY TRAINING The Office of Student Affairs is hosting a Dreamer Ally Training for students and employees to advice about laws and policies affecting Dreamers, resources available to Dreamers, and to effectively support Dreamers.

Attendees will also receive a Dreamer Ally sticker and label pin after the training to promote support for Dreamers at Citrus College. The event will be held from 2:30-4 p.m. at the Campus Center in room 104 OCTOBER 29 - JOB PREP POP-UP The Office of Student Life and Leadership Development, in collaboration with the Career/Transfer Center, EOPS/CARE, and CalWORKS, is hosting a workshop to review resumes, demonstrate a speed mock interview, makeup and hairstyle tips provided by the Cosmetology Club, headshot photo for Linkedin profiles, and free interview clothing. Bring a copy of your resume and be photo ready. The workshop will be held in the Campus Center, East Wing from 12 - 2 p.m.

OCTOBER 30 - EMAIL ETIQUETTE WORKSHOP A workshop hosted by the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development will be teaching formalities of writing emails. A $20 gift card to the Owl Bookshop will be given to students who attend the workshop.

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OCTOBER 31 - ARTSY HALLOWEEN COSTUME AND PUMPKIN CONTEST The Visual Arts Center is hosting their annual pumpkin and costume contest. The costume needs to be related to a specific artwork, art historical style or be a creative artistic costume. Drop-off the carved, painted, or otherwise decorated pumpkin. Contest will be held in the Visual Arts Courtyard from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

NOVEMBER 14 - COSMETOLOGY AND ESTHETICIAN OPEN HOUSE An Open House for the Cosmetology and Esthetician program will be presenting demonstrations for cutting and styling hair, skin treatments, hair coloring, and make-up application. Athletes are also welcome to bring one registered guest. Email registration to tdouglas@citruscollege. edu including name, email, phone number, and name of guest. The open house is at the Technology Center in room 208, starting at 4:30 p.m.

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Con: Sports suck; ban them He was railroaded out the NFL for defying its ritual of national fawning. Patriots criticize; lackeys repeat what they’re told.

Professional team owners and coaches are dominated by white men. The NBA had six black coaches during the 2018 playoffs.The

BY JAMES DUFFY V STAFF REPORTER MLB has four minority head coaches, as do JDUFFY@CCCLARION.COM major college programs. The NFL has four minority head coaches and a single minority If I were the U.S. emperor, sports would general manager overseeing a league in which be prohibited for one year. A sporting about three quarters of the players are black. moratorium frees Americans from an eightSports are making America stupid again. hour-per-week habit.

Sports encourage physical competition, While meat-heads praise sports for benefits rather than wit or diplomacy. Thomas to awareness, health or socializing, legions of Jefferson wrote to a friend, ”If the body is children are forced into athletics demanding feeble, the mind cannot be strong.” But a allegiance, encouraging violence and class strong brain is trained in thinking and cannot hierarchy. perform without exercise.

For its part in mindlessness, systematic College athletes practice an average of 30 racism and glorified violence, banish sports. hours per week, depriving Sports are pointless them of college’s main delusions. benefit — intellectual Time spent in front of The same people exploration. Jefferson said TVs drooling over jocks’ he exercised 14 hours political gaffes could be angry at flag protests weekly. invested in education in claim they would In 2015, Inside Higher political economy, labor or Education reported defend speech to the African American history— college athletes take easier topics sports entertainment death.” classes to fit in. Players are avoids and obscures. encouraged to take easier Group exercise offers the classes. same benefits without the baggage of violence Leading research institutions UC Berkeley, or racism. Students would learn more about UCLA and Stanford spend millions on a fitness and socializing from choreographed sports subculture to draw revenue. Despite dance than from manipulating balls or the wealth fans waste on their teams, colleges bashing heads with helmets. neglect of their educational mission.

Professional athletes’ post game interviews UC Berkeley ran a $30 million deficit in are often gibberish — see Bleacher Report’s 2018, but spent $20 million on athletics. In 100 Dumbest Things Ever Said in Sports for 2017, Bloomberg reported many college examples. athletics programs, including Cal, are crushed A society should try to understand by debt. academics not athletes. Sports are L.A. Business Journal reported taxpayers antintellectual. Try reading a book at a game will cover up to $270 million in overruns and count the taunts and interrogations. for the 2028 Olympics. Voters should have Professional sports perpetuate systemic decided how that money was invested. racism.

L.A. has 38,000 unsheltered residents.

Racial stratification is baked into Remember how well Rio De Janeiro’s low professional sports. The NFL did not have a income community were treated during by black head coach until 1989, and now has two 2016 Olympics developers. owners of color.

Professional sports endorse conservative In 2013, TMZ reported L.A. Clippers values. owner Roger Sterling scolded his wife for Professional sports nurture nationalism. attending a game with a black man, Magic Most professional sporting events hold a Johnson. Sterling was expelled, but diversity in military salute, where a veteran stands to be ownership did not change. applauded. While generally heart warming, During the controversy, FiveThirtyEight the practice camouflages the shame wars reported one team out of 92 professional bring to America. sports teams had a principal owner of color.

Crowds humming “the land of the free” Sports tout their integrationist icons, in unison miss the irony. The same people Jackie Robinson, Jack Johnson and angry at flag protests claim they would defend Kenny Washington. But teams resisted speech to the death. integration longer than other professions.

League owners collude to suppress wages African American doctors, lawyers and and exclude players who complain, call mathematicians lived a century before for better contracts or protest institutional baseball’s integration. violence.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, nationalist displays are Team owners are comprised of billionaires imposed on all attendees. Black players who and multi-millionaires. Owners represent object to flag salutes are despised in a country themselves as realizing the American dream, that humiliates, cages and kills its black while stifling their workers’ earnings potential. underclass.

Sports have saddled the American people Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback with an intellectual and moral debt. Ban Colin Kaepernick led his teams to two NFC sports, boycott them or look upon them with championship games and one Super Bowl scorn. appearance.

Athletics corrode American society

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Pro: Participation in sports is essential for human life

BY JACOB LUEVANO STAFF REPORTER

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On a sunny Sunday afternoon at a baseball field, 10-year-old, Aaron, hits his first single. He smiles and pumps his fists in the air as he reaches first base. His friends and teammates cheer from the dugout as his parents take pictures from the bleachers.

This is why kids play sports, for the love and joy of the game. Sports allows everyone, not just kids, a way to share their passion for a sport with people they know.

Typically, a parent and child bond over sports, and it can be a way for them to get closer. But playing sports can bring friends closer together, and also be a way to connect with new people.

I have met so many different people through sports: coaches, close friends, or other people who have made an impact on my life.

Aaron just got his first hit and he stomps on first base to see his teammates cheering from the dugout. He could not help but feel like his role model Mike Trout.

Trout has established himself as arguably the best baseball player of this generation, earning himself a 12 year- $430 million contract prior to the 2019 season.

He was drafted by the Angels in 2009 and has won the American League MVP twice in 2014 and 2016, and has come in second place four times.

The way Trout plays and hustles, how he always gives back to the community, and his desire for the game is a positive lifestyle for kids to look up to.

Children all around the world hope to play and be just like Trout. A kid who has a positive role model is said to, “have greater self-esteem and perform better in school than teenagers without role models in their lives,” according to livestrong.com A lot of young children look up to Trout but also other athletes in a various amount of sports. For example, Serena Williams has become a symbol of and for strong women.

She has shown women that a woman can be strong and as successful, if not more successful, than a man. She revolutionized

tennis and holds the record for most Grand Slam titles since 1968.

Another example is Jackie Robinson.

He was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in 1947. Robinson broke the color line as he. He is still remembered every April 15 when every player and coach in MLB wears his retired number, 42, on the field.

An athlete can be more than just a role model, but a representation of a movement or a symbol for a group. These athletes can teach everyone a lot, especially children, but the sports themselves teach life lessons.

Sports can teach people how to lose and how to learn to deal with it. We all lose, and for children to lose in sports at a young age teaches them how to control their emotions. This can help them deal with obstacles in their lives, not just in sports.

However we aren’t children forever.

The older an athlete gets, the more talent there is and the more serious sports are taken. At this point, athletes learn discipline and respect for authority.

Coaches begin to give criticism and make their players work out and condition as well.

Athletes now learn to take constructive criticism and understand sports are not just about playing. Sports are also about preparing.

Players begin to condition to get stronger and play better, which is beneficial for the body and heart. The repetitiveness of practice, working out and conditioning leads to success in sports. Athletes cannot just show up and expect success, just like in life.

The amount of dedication athletes need for sports is truly something special.

And with hard work and dedication, Aaron may one day be standing at first base at Angel Stadium, where Trout once stepped.

He is waving at his parents in the crowd, because Aaron just got his first major league hit.

And then as he ages, he can share his moments and joy for the game with his children and grandchildren.

The life lessons, passion and fun brought to the lives of children and adults make the love for sports timeless.

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FEATURES

THE SWING IS THE THING Between classes ‘hammockers’ are relaxing under trees

BY CASSIE SAMPSON FEATURES EDITOR

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There is a recent trend of students hanging hammocks between trees on campus.

Hammocks can be spotted around campus and have drawn many onlooking eyes to this new fad.

Raven Moise, a 22-year-old biology major, and Kole Carnegie, 19, like to nap in the trees between the AD and ED buildings.

“This is the best spot because anywhere the sun is, you’re in the shade,” Moise said.

Moise has a five-hour gap between her classes and doesn’t have enough time to go home. Her solution-- hang her hammock up and chill out.

While Moise is an experienced hammocker, Carnegie is new to the scene. He was inspired by Moise who brings two hammocks to campus to sit in for herself, Carnegie and their friends.

“It’s really chill; I’m loving it so far,” Carnegie said.

Moise is from Washington and used to hang in a hammock all the time when she lived there.

Moise said everyone hangs their hammocks wherever they want in Washington, especially hikers. She noticed the atmosphere here is different because it is not common to see a hammock hung up on a school campus.

Moise has noticed people staring at her in her hammock on campus and warned Carnegie on his first day of hanging with her.

“People will take pictures or videos as they’re walking by and I’m like you’re not slick, I see you,” Moise said. “Some people will even come up and ask questions about it, like, why we’re hammocking and stuff like that.”

Moise also experienced a high school tour stopping near her hammock indicating the new hammock trend to the high schoolers.

Sean Bradley and Dereie Blow had never sat in a hammock before Moise invited them over, after she noticed them staring.

“I like when people come up and ask if they can get in because it’s something that I would share with everybody because it’s really fun and relaxing,” Moise said.

Bradley and Blow had an unfortunate experience for their first time in a hammock on campus.

They sat together in one hammock which ended up breaking the carabiner that attaches the hammock to the string tied around the tree.

They plummeted to the ground but laughed at the experience.

Cassie Sampson, Features Editor Raven Moise watches in shock as Dereie Blow and Sean Bradley fall to the ground while trying to sit in a hammock together on Sept. 18 between the Administration building and Educational Development Center at Citrus College.

Blow hit his head on the ground which knocked off his hat but “had fun swinging while it lasted.”

Moise usually sleeps in her hammock although she does find time to write essays while she hangs.

Carnegie said he finds the hammock fun to swing in but hard to focus on schoolwork so he likes to listen to music and scroll through Instagram in his hammock.

Carnegie used to sit in his hot car before he started to hang in his hammock.

“It’s nice and breezy out here so it’s much more comfortable than my car,” he said.

Moise notes that she has tried to flip a hammock while she’s in it and has fallen out a couple times but she hopes to achieve this one day.

She and Carnegie also want to try to stack a bunch of hammocks on top of each other with a bunch of friends but the issue of safety made them reconsider.

Moise said she would love to see more people hammocking on campus but is afraid of people stealing her spot.

Students like to hang out and relax between classes, but some colleges are banning hammocks because of tree damage.

The main reason for banning hammocks is because students are leaving their hammocks up for others to use which leaves the tree exposed to the damage the ties can cause when a hammock is up for hours.

Moise checked with campus security before she started hanging up her hammock and they said it was OK because she is not hurting anyone.

Cassie Sampson, Features Editor Raven Moise sitting in the hammock talks to Dereie Blow and Sean Bradley after Blow and Bradley’s hammock fell on Sept. 18 between the Administration building and Educational Development Center at Citrus College.

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Nicole Mariona, News Editor Tom Eiland, center, English professor and adviser of the club, is intrigued by members Alisandra Duran, left, and Layla Jimenez pointing out a quote from a book on Oct. 9 in LI 120, a classroom on the outside corner of the Hayden Library.

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English professor takes on new ‘adventure’ with Book Owls club

BY NICOLE MARIONA NEWS EDITOR

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A professor has taken on a new experience by becoming the adviser for the Book Owls Club.

The Book Ows Club emerged from the recent loss of English Society, becoming the singular literature club on campus.

“They came up to me and said ‘Hey, would you like to be the new faculty adviser?’” said the new adviser for the club Tom Eiland.

“And then I said sure, not knowing what it entailed.”

Eiland has taken on a new role and he has plans to provide the right advisement for the club to continue to grow.

Eiland said the Book Owls club celebrated its triumph of becoming a new club by promoting it through flyers around campus.

“When you’re trying to start something from scratch; having somebody who is good at getting people to pay attention to something that didn’t exist before is a great benefit,” Eiland said.

Eiland said the new club has started to expand. He said the first meeting had three attendees, one of those attendees left the club, but three more people joined at the following meeting.

Alisandra Duran, president of the Book Owls, said that she became president because “someone had to step-up.”

“As president I delegate duties to my vice president and my secretary as of now,” Duran said.

Duran said she hopes the club is able to run elections for club positions once they have more members.

Layla Jimenez, member of the Book Owls Club and aspiring secretary for the club, said she

Nicole Mariona, News Editor Alisandra Duran, right, president of the club, and club member Layla Jimenez represent the Book Owls club on Oct. 9 LI 120, a classroom on the outside corner of the Hayden Library.

heard about the club through the president in the children’s literature class taught by Eiland.

“I just thought it would be a really cool thing to do, to be able to hear what other people think about literature, and to get a discussion going is really important,” Jimenez said.

Duran said she hopes the club will host events on campus during the process of finding their identity.

“Our current long-term goal is to make the poetry contest happen annually. That’s what’s pushing us forward,” Duran said.

“We’re a club placed in LI 120, a hidden classroom right around the corner of the library; it’s the perfect spot for introverts who like exploring literature,” Duran said.

Duran also said she thinks the club is for anyone interested in conversations about all types of

literature mediums, whether that be books, graphic novels, poems, and even songs.

“I like having people to talk to about it (literature), and I feel like that’s the whole idea of the club,” Duran said.

Eiland said that his job is to advise on two levels: talking to, “...x, y and z” in order to organize the events and offer general advice for activities such as how and where to host them.

“I give advice, that’s why I’m called an adviser,” Eiland said.

Eiland said he is also in charge of protecting the school’s reputation by making sure “the club is not doing something in the name of Citrus College” that would be inappropriate or unacceptable for the school.

“Let’s see what happens. It’ll be an adventure,” Eiland said.

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Azusa Golden Days celebration enters 71 years Community members gather for carnival, games, celebration

BY DEBLI CHAVES STAFF REPORTER

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he parade finalizes the weeklong celebration compromised of events sponsored by a variety of civic and business organizations.

Every year it starts on the first Saturday of October.

The Golden Days Parade started in 1949 and was designed to bring together organizations in the community to celebrate Azusa. The parade started from Foothill Boulevard down San Gabriel Avenue.

The recreation and family services department and Azusa Golden Days presented this years theme as “The Golden Heart of Azusa.”

They also held the annual bike ride and 5K/2K family run and walk on Oct. 6. The run and walk event was for kids, families and schools in Azusa also participated.

The races and bike ride began at Azusa Pacific University’s Felix Event Center this year. All who participated received a T-shirt, medal and a race day gift pack.

The event was sponsored by the Rosedale Community in Azusa.

The annual Golden Days Carnival was held at Memorial Park from Oct.11-13 and featured food vendors, live entertainment, rides and games for the whole family.

Adrian Alirez was the carnival coordinator and had encouraged groups to open up a booth to raise money for their organizations and be part of the community.

The week was full of events.

On Oct. 5 the Azusa Women’s Club held the Golden Days kickoff, which consisted of painting, wine and socializing.

Azusa Chamber of Commerce presented “Taste of Town” at the Lagunitas Brewing Company and they held a live and silent auction on Oct. 8.

Azusa Leaders for learning education foundation held Golden Days designer bag auction which included dinner, show and a DJ on Oct 9. All proceeds went to the students and staff of the Azusa Unified School District.

Daniela Navarro, Staff Photographer A youngster aims at a target during the Azusa Golden Days Carnival on Oct. 11 in Memorial Park, Azusa.

Daniela Navarro, Staff Photographer A boy smiles during the Azusa Golden Days Carnival on Oct. 11 in Memorial Park in Azusa.

Debli Chaves, Staff Reporter Ballet Folklorico Azteca marches at the Azusa golden Days Parade on Oct.12 in Azusa.

Daniela Navarro, Staff Photographer Children look at rubber duckies during the Azusa Golden Days Carnival, Oct 11th in Memorial Park, Azusa.

Daniela Navarro, Staff Photographer A youngster gets prize bag during the Azusa Golden Days Carnival on Oct. 11 in Memorial Park, Azusa.

Debli Chaves, Staff Reporter The Downey High School Marching Band changes direction at the Azusa Golden Days Parade on Oct. 12 in Azusa.

Daniela Navarro, Staff Photographer Members of the community gather during the Azusa Golden Days Carnival on Oct. 11 in Memorial Park, Azusa.

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Men’s Soccer (0-10-2) Citrus Owls men’s soccer continues to struggle with a 3-0 loss to the Santa Barbara Vaqueros on Oct. 8. Two goals from Vaqueros’ midfielder Saul Sosa was more than enough to obtain the victory.

Women’s Soccer (7-4) Citrus Owls women’s soccer finds themselves in midst of a five game winning streak, with a 3-1 win over the Santa Monica Corsairs on Oct. 11.

Berenice Mancinas helped propel the Owls to their victory with two goals.

Volleyball (5-13) Citrus’ volleyball team played Antelope Valley and was unsuccessful in defense. Citrus’ Nia Nix put up 15 kills in the first two matches.

Men’s Water Polo (1-14)

Men’s water polo felt a tough blow against LA Valley in a harsh loss of 21-7. The Owls scored two goals in the first and second quarter.

Matthew Roebuck scored 3 of Citrus’ seven goals.

Women’s Water Polo (1-14)

Citrus’ women’s water polo is positive in their 14-5 record. In the Citrus vs. LA game, Valley Rachel Sherman scored eight goals both assisted and unassisted.

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Citrus’ women’s golf team has is placed fourth in the Western state conference, holding 10 out of the total 25 points collectively.

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OWLS FLY HIGH AND UNDEFEATED Citrus football team extends win record

BY JOSEPH DURHAM SPORTS EDITOR

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The Citrus football team is on a winning streak of five games and is going into the next games with confidence in its roster and pressured style of play.

Citrus’ football program is intense with its style of play in both offense and defense.

The offense consists of running plays to get in about a 20 to 30 yard distance of the end zone.

From here the Owls will usually go for a passing play to score a safe touchdown and if this pass is not there then they will usually head for a run straight into the end zone.

The Owl defensive game usually consists of a half and half of blitz and coverage.

Typically Citrus’ defensive line will continually put pressure on the quarterback either forcing a sack or causing the quarterback to fumble.

In either case the Owls are effective in their moves toward regain possession of the football.

Despite the seemingly strong and connected team, the offensive coach, Tanner Farwell, does not think that the two collectively play like a team.

“We are off to a good start but yet have not played a complete game as a team with offense, defense and special teams clicking on all cylinders,” Farwell said.

The players on the team themselves are not the problem, the problem lies in how the different players on the teams click with each other. This is a problem that Farwell needs to be fixed in

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order to continue on their good streak.

“We have flashes of a great team, however in order for us to keep this streak going we will have to worry about one game at a time and getting better in all three phases as we continue through our conference,” he said.

Citrus’ football program has turned around its luck with a roster comprised of only nine studentathletes who played in another state.

The majority of this year’s players are coming from schools near Citrus and in southern California.

The Citrus College Owls have not performed well in recent years.

Last year their record was 7-4 in regular league play and 4-1 in conference.

Citrus’ football team seemed to find their groove only in recent years because since 2014, excluding last season and this season, Citrus’ football program went negative three consecutive seasons.

The last time Citrus has played in this caliber was in the fall of 1990 when Citrus’ football program went on a streak of eight consecutive wins. The 1990 season ended with Citrus going positive in the

regular season and undefeated in conference.

If the Citrus Owls can hold their record, they could very well be on their way to an undefeated season.

The level of a teams’ commitment to the sport is a big identifier of the teams’ effectiveness.

“It always comes down to a commitment issue,” said Head Coach Ron Ponciano.

The chemistry this team is the reason for the success, the obstacle that remains to be fixed is the commitment of a small group within the team.

This group of 20 young men are lowering the chances of the teams’ success.

“It’s always discouraging to see this,” said Ponciano.

Despite the small size of the twenty men compared to the 100 member team, the morale sky rockets or plummets at the slightest turn.The obstacles most pressing to this team are not all physical.

Commitment, hustle, and work ethic are deciding factors too.

“Obviously it’s great to be where we’re sitting right now, but we have to get better,” Ponciano said but, “it always comes down to a commitment issue.”

The team’s chemistry is not the problem, it’s the work ethic and the amount of hustle mentality the team has.

Ponciano said there are 20 players on the team who are not showing the necessary amount of work ethic. Whether it’s missing Friday morning workouts to not giving 100% in the games, members of the team need to be fully dedicated.

Work ethic is the most difficult opponent this team needs to overcome in order to succeed.

Smash Bros. cultivate community in the Campus Center Video game players hang out between classes

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During school days in the Campus Center, there is an assortment of activities going on club meetings, studying, and various games being played throughout the center.

Most days, you’ll see the same faces, at the same spots, spending time there. One of those spots is occupied by a group of gamers that all enjoy the same thing, playing each other at the Nintendo Switch’s Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. is a series of crossover fighting games from various Nintendo franchises.

The primary objective of the game is to knock other players off of the game stage until there is only one player left standing.

“We play every Monday through Thursday, usually either between classes or after class,” said Citrus student Shawn Sparks. “Ever since I’ve been going here, people have been bringing gaming setups, since then we’ve just been playing.”

A mixture of individuals, some new to these friendly tournaments and some veterans, undergo a test of combat via controller to see who will end up on top.

“Sometimes we’ll play other games when I get the other guys to

Nick Vargas Staff Reporter Ethan Uy, left, and Emanuel Cardenas, right, battle in a two-versus-two match of Super Smash Bros. on Oct. 7 in the Campus Center.

change games, but other than that, it’s just been Smash Bros.,” student Ethan Uy said.

These gamers not only go in a one-versus-one style tournament, but modes of many types.

Some days they’ll solely play on versus one, and other days they will mix it up, sometimes two-versustwo or all out five character brawls.

“Sometimes we can go nuts with all items on, but most of the time we play tournament style,” said Citrus student Jack Jenson.

What these items do in the game is give the player any number of

advantages, from extra health to more damage when hitting an opponent.

Some of these students use this campus gaming center group tournaments as practice for actual tournaments.

Sparks has been to a few tournaments during his time playing at Citrus.

“I’ve only gone to smaller tournaments, but in the ones I’ve been to, I’ll place top three in them,” Sparks says. “I play some pretty good people here, and it’s good experience.”

Other Campus Center gamers like Jack Jenson says it’s also good to play Sparks, because of how good he is, it makes them better in return.

A lot of these guys that now game here, had gaming groups in high school.

They have found the Campus Center a place to play some competitive gaming while they wait for their classes to start.

The Campus Center has allowed these types of groups to flourish, and allows people to do what they enjoy at school.

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