Issue 2, Sept 15, 2011

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International club recruits new members Budget

finalized Ashley Marie Patterson Staff Writer

After two hours of dispute and discussion, the EC faculty and president Tom Fallo finally came to an agreement as the college’s budget was finalized.

Discussion and arguments from the public and unions delayed the approval, as many faculty members and employees joined the audience to refute the budget.

“This budget has been reviewed over and over again by the administration and the budget committee,” Fallo said.

“I think this plan holds a lot of integrity and I am proud of the hard work the committee has put into creating it,” he added.

As the year passes, there will always be room for corrections, he added.

Please see ‘BUDGET’ Page 2

Vanessa Adams /Union Helping his friend get involved, Anthony Diaz, 22, sign language interpreting major, asks International club volunteer, Richard Luers, about the club, while two others listen.

New trustee appointed for Compton College Tayani Davis Staff Writer

A newly appointed interim special trustee for Compton Community College District, has been determined.

With Henry in place, President Fallo notified Chancellor Scott that the agreement between CCCD and EC has been finally resolved.

Friday, it was announced that Henry will be the new interim special trustee, but those who previously knew him know he’s not an unfamiliar face around campus. Henry actually worked as a trustee for Compton College before and now he has returned.

Some people believe Henry will be the one to pull this college back where it needs to be, including Saul Panski, Compton Center Academic Senate president.

“He has a vast wealth of experience in these types of situations,” Panski said. “With his experience in aiding

other colleges and even grade schools K through 12 that were also in this same situation, I believe Henry will be the one to get this college on the right track,” he said.

President Tom Fallo said he was not pleased with how Compton College was not accredited and that its accreditation was revoked.

However, Fallo said even with Henry’s hiring, Compton College is going to have to go through a long process to attain accreditation.

Panski wasn’t the only person who supported the Chancellor’s decision in appointing Henry. The new appointee also had support from colleagues at the EC campus.

“I am confident that the returning Special Trustee Tom Henry and EC President Tom Fallo will have a strong working relationship that will benefit the fiscal soundness and academic progress of the Compton Educational Center,” Christina Gold, EC Academic Sen-

ate President, said.

According to the Compton Educational Center (CEC) Academic Performance Profile, a new category of transfer rate has been added to the peer group report this year using newly available data from the Chancellor’s Office. Tracking first-time, full-time transfer-directed students through six years, Compton College’s transfer rate has steadily increased over the last three years.

“The EC Academic Senate is pleased to see clear academic gains made at the Compton Center since the beginning of the partnership,” Gold said.

“As far as the agreement between EC and Compton College, it will remain the same and in good standing now that they found a replacement,” she added On another note, no one formally said that Compton College was moving toward its accreditation but that did not keep Panksi and Gold from believing that the college can work its way there

toward being an accredited college.

“With Henry’s experience, I see good things with Compton College, and I see us obtaining accreditation in the near future,” Panksi said.

With Gold in agreement she added that, “it will be a long journey back to accreditation for the Compton Center, but our faculty colleagues at Compton are making steady progress and Torrance campus faculty is here to support and assist them.

Gold also said that EC and Compton College are now in “good standing” after finding a new trustee.

Faculty members, including Panski, at Compton College can now look forward to growth, change and a better future with Henry there to assist.

“I believe the chancellor chose Henry because his past experience in working with troubled school districts, he is knowledgeable of the situation, understands accreditation and partnership,” Fallo said.

Club aims to make campus green Ashley Curtin Arts Editor

Aluminum cans and plastic bottles are mixed together with slimy banana peels, used ketchup packages, dirty napkins and half eaten sandwiches in the trash bins throughout campus.

With the Associated Students Organization’s (ASO) recent approval for the Sustainability Committee, several students are working to bring environmentally sensitive practices to campus.

“We want to focus on the initiatives we can do to make progress and teach the community how to reduce the ecological footprint,” Irene Graff, director of institutional research and staff organizer of the sustainability group, said.

This group put together a progressive aluminum can and bottle recycling program as well as launching a successful waste management project, Dave Murphy, computer lab specialist of the Business Division and Sustainability Committee member, said.

Please see ‘RECYCLING’ Page 2

Winter session gets reinstated after a year of debate Andrew Lim News Editor

Winter session is back. Well, kind of.

While last year’s winter session had more than 150 sections, this year’s winter session was reduced to 75 sections.

“Finally, the administration did what all the students, the faculty at EC and the faculty at Compton College said had to be done and that was to offer a winter program,” Lance Widman, political science professor, said.

The reinstatement came after a new budget deal was approved from the legislature and the governor, which freed up money for the community colleges, Widman said.

“The administration determined that we would be allotted more students,” Christina Gold, Academic Senate president, said. “We would be get-

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ting more money from the state next year than we and that things are tenuous. thought. So they were able to rebuild some of the Even though some of winter has been reinstatclasses.” ed, Widman said Jeanie Nishime, he is still not “Finally, the administration did what all vice president of pleased with the Student and Comamount of secthe students, the faculty at EC and the munity Advancetions in winter faculty at Compton College said had to ment, said that there session. be done, and that was to offer a winter were three different “I’m not program.” budget scenarios and pleased with depending on what the magnitude happened, it would of the offering,” —Lance Widman, political science determine how many Widman said. professor students EC can “For my money, serve; she added that I don’t think offering 75 sections is viable.” the budget was not as bad as was expected.

However, Nishime also said that the latest reHowever, Joe Holliday, Honors Transfer Coorports indicate that another budget cut is possible dinator, said that his honors students are ecstatic

about winter session coming back.

“Winter classes have the highest success rate and the highest retention rate,” Holliday said.

“That’s our mission statement. That’s what we’re all about, which is to get students through classes.

And by having them shorter, it is a really good way for students to get through.”

According to the overall success and retention rates of 2010, which was put together by Institutional Research, winter session has a success rate of 83.8 percent and a retention rate of 91.6 percent.

With still a lot of unknowns with the current economy and the budget, Holliday said that a vast majority of the students want winter and that their needs should come first.

“Decisions on campus are always in a state of flux,” Holliday said. “And this is the biggest of them all.”

Financial Aid Online Workshop to take place

Transfer workshop for students is today

ICC Club Mixer to take place in Activities Center

Workshop for CSUs will be next Thursday

The Financial Aid Office will have a Financial Aid Online Workshop Monday at 2 p.m. in the Student Services Center Room 204-G. It is designed to help students complete the financial aid application online.

Students who are looking for guaranteed admission can go to the Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) workshop today from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Math and Computer Science Building Room 8.

The Inter-Club Council will host the ICC Club Mixer on Sept. 23 at noone. It will take place at the Activities Center East Lounge. Students will be able to socialize with different club members from the campus.

The CSU Basics Workshop will be next Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Music Building Room 211. Students will learn about the different admission requirements as well as transfer tips and strategies.

-Jorge Camarillo

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NEWS

September 15, 2011 / El Camino College Union

POLICE BEAT

Fines around campus aimed to keep EC safe

Officers respond to unruly male

Tickets are being handed out; anything from parking without a permit, or riding a skateboard or bicycle on the inner campus will have students’ wallets feeling a strain.

With almost three weeks of the fall semester in the books, the cadets and the officers on campus are going to start cracking down harder on students with different fines around campus.

“Right now, in the fall semester, we have new students coming from high school,” Sgt. Dal Toruno of the El Camino Police

Sept. 12, 2 p.m.—Officers responded to an unruly male student at the Schauerman Lbrary basement. The student was reminded of the college code of conduct. The student had a previous misdemeanor arrest warrant. Officers gave him a citation to appear for the warrant

Officers pull over a driver who was drinking Sept. 10, 3 a.m.—An officer pulled over a driver for speeding at the intersection of Crenshaw and Manhattan Beach boulevards. The driver, who was male and a non-student, admitted to drinking. He failed the field sobriety test and he was arrested and transported to the Torrance Police Department.

Officers respond to a medical emergency Sept. 7, 3 p.m.—Officers responded to a female student on the softball team who was practicing and began to experience difficulty breathing. Officers notified paramedics, who arrived on the scene. The student was transported to an area hospital.

—Ashley Marie Patterson

Andrew Lim News Editor

Department said. “We don’t want to slam these students. We want to educate the students.”

“I’m sure these students don’t have two hundred fifty bucks to give away, but we gotta balance it out with the safety issue. We have a job to do,” he added.

Joseph Rojo, 20, administration of justice major said that there are also other ways to avoid fines.

“People should help each other and trade off the two dollar parking permits when they are done with them at the end of the day,” he said.

Although there are numerous signs around the campus telling

Recycling Continued from Page 1

But a few of these recycling programs came to a halt and the group eventually disbanded.

“It was said that things got messy and people were leaving more trash next to the recycle bins, which caused more clean up so they were removed,” he said.

Recycling bottles and cans has proved to be a costly program to the district and many private recycling companies saw no visible profit, Murphy said. Instead, people from the outside are allowed to come on campus and take these bottles and cans for their own use.

“There is no policy that encourages or prohibits them from coming on campus,” Tom Brown, assistant director of facilities, said. “But as you can see, bottles and cans get recycled quite often on campus.”

EC monitors what comes into the campus and what goes out; bottles and cans are the smallest group of recyclable products on campus.

While visible recycling might not be evident through recycle bins, there are other programs in place that helps to reduce the college’s waste and increase sustainability.

Some of the programs already in place include green waste composting and many other waste management projects including

students not to ride their skateboards and bicycles, some of the new students, including Kent Nishiya, 18, undecided major,

“We want to educate the students.”

—Sgt. Dal Toruno of the El Camino Police Department

did not know that it is against the rules .

“Now that I know that the fine

the recycling of building materials, e-waste, liquids and different types of paper among batteries, concrete, asphalt, cardboard and printer cartridges, Brown said.

“Besides bottles and cans, we look at the big volumes that go to the landfill,” he said.

From 2002 until present, the campus was in compliance with the state waste management requirements. The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) requires state institutions to divert 50 percent of solid waste from landfills since 2004, Brown said.

Jasmine Hormati, 19, biology major and co-chair of the Sustainability Committee, she said is eager to continue promoting and spreading the word about waste management around campus.

“We are working really hard to address any recycling needs, create green events around campus and teach the community,” she said.

One of its main goals is to come up with an aluminum can and plastic bottle recycle program as well as looking into a solar powered compactor that will take a can or bottle and crush it, Hormati said.

As the Sustainability Committee looks to find an aluminum and plastic bottle recycle program to improve the campus’s efforts, it will also create a systematic inventory of what is already in place, Graff said.

“We want to create visibility so people will be proud of what our campus has done thus far,” she said.

is so high, I won’t be skating on the inner campus,” he said. “I will be carrying my skateboard .”

Already with the poor economy, some of the students think the fines are a little too excessive.

“I think (the fines are) too high,” Giovanni Islas, 23, undecided major, said. “We still have to pay for classes and books and most of us don’t use financial aid, so money comes out of our own pocket.”

Although Toruno emphasized that the cadets are there for the safety of the students, one student did not have a good experience when he came across a cadet.

“I was skating on campus and

Budget

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“The reserve fund is important for us in the future years, not just this (year),” Fallo said during the meeting.

“We do not know what will happen in the next few years, but with a large reserve, we will be able to cover the cost of sudden expenses, mishaps and breaks from Sacramento,” he added.

However, before approving the budget, the board addressed the concerns of the public.

Gerry Turner, an administrative member, who was unable to attend the discussion, wrote a letter to the board concerned about the many of the cuts, William Beverly, president of the board of trustees, said. The letter commented on, what Turner thought, were unnecessary cuts to salary benefits, he added.

“It is important that we adopt a budget,” Beverly said.

“There is always room for change and corrections, however the first and foremost, we must create a budget. How we do that is based upon negotiation and estimates from the preceding years,” he added.

Beverly said the budget approval creates conflict among students, teachers, employees and administra-

I was going really fast when suddenly, a cadet stepped in front of my tire of the skateboard,” Kacey Runningbear, 21, art major, said.

“And then he said, ‘You can’t be riding that.’”

Although the economy has been hurting a lot of the students’ pocket books, Toruno said that he and the other cadets and police officers still have a job to do on campus and that is to keep students safe.

“For skateboarders and bicycle riders, it’s a big liability issue,” he said. “We’ve had people doing some Tony hawk moves and their flying skateboards and they can hurt somebody.”

tors, because they all have different interests.

He said the labor unions are worried about their benefits that may be affected.

“Unfortunately, a small portion of employees are affected because of the medical plan they chose,” Beverly said.

“They have chosen a more expensive plan. The problem for them is that we will still pay the same percentage of the lower plan, but they will have to pay the extra or regular costs,” he added.

Many people are also opposed to the amount of reserve the college has, Beverly added.

The college has almost $23 million in the reserve fund, according to the California Community Colleges unrestricted general fund transactions report from fiscal year 20092010.

But while EC has met the requirements of the state, saving between 1 and 5 percent of their general fund expenditures, Fallo said the reserve fund should be saved for future needs.

“With the possibilities of midyear cuts and increased fees, we have worked well with what we have and have predicted what may come,” Fallo said.

“We will be prepared for any uncertainty,” Fallo said.

FEATURES 3

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HPV

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the disease you probably have and don’t even know it Dilia Perez Staff Writer

They’re called the silent diseases. They can cause infections, infertility, or raised cauliflower shaped warts. Symptoms may not show up for days, months or even at all. Right this instant, you might have a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and not even know it.

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and human papillomavirus (HPV) are a few of the most widely spread STD’s among college students.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of those sexually transmitted diseases, HPV is the most transmitted disease on college campuses.

“I believe this disease is spreading at an alarming rate because of several factors,” Dianica Manzano, pre-nursing student, said. “HPV has very few symptoms, if any at all, and we tend to focus on diseases that we wrongfully believe are more important.”

Stanford University’s Sexual Health Peer Resource Center states that an estimated one in four college students has a sexually transmitted disease.

“I kind of expected numbers like that,” Jessica Rusnanto, 19, business major, said. “Students don’t protect themselves because they think ‘Oh no, nothing will happen to me,’ but they really need to be more educated.”

Although condoms are a mostly effective form of protection against some STD’s, according to the Cornell Daily Sun, the 2002 National College Health Assessment also reported that only 54 percent of students regularly use condoms during vaginal intercourse, 29 percent during anal intercourse and only 4 percent during oral sex.

“Use protection and get vaccinated,” Holly Fall, nurse practitioner at the Health Center, said. “Those are the best methods of prevention for the sexually active.”

The CDC states that the majority of people with HPV do not always develop symptoms or health problems from it.

It added that there are more than 40 HPV strains that can infect genital areas, the mouth and throat. Most people who become infected with HPV do not even know they have it.

According to Nursingschools.net, some HPV infections resolve themselves while others can cause warts and cervical cancer.

“In ninety percent of cases, the body’s immune system clears HPV naturally within two years,” stated the CDC. HPV infections that do not clear on their own can show symptoms such as genital warts and RRP, which is a symptom in which warts grow inside the throat, according to the CDC. “Warts can appear within weeks or moths after sexual contact with an infected partner, even if the infected partner has no signs of genital warts,” stated the CDC website.

Every year, 1,500 women are diagnosed with HPV-related vulvar cancer and 500 women are diagnosed with HPV-related vaginal cancer. While every year 400 men are diagnosed with HPV-related penile cancer and 5,600 men are diagnosed with HPV-related throat cancer, it added.

Most people infected with HPV do not realize that they are infected, let alone that they are passing the virus on to their sexual partners.

HPV is passed through genital contact, most often during vaginal sex, according to the CDC. “You never know and even if you’re not showing symptoms now,

they can always show up later,” Rusnanto said. “I get tested twice a year.”

MedScape Today, a website which is a part of WebMD Health Professional Network, stated awareness of HPV is limited.

“Being aware of the signs and symptoms or even better being aware of what we can do to protect ourselves from it would make a really big difference,” Manzano said.

Although HPV is the most prevalent STD in college students, according to the Daily Breeze, recent studies show that in the Torrance health district 1,383 cases of chlamydia were found last year; twothirds of those diagnosed were black or Latino females and 80 percent were under the age of 29.

It added that much like HPV, chlamydia can go undetected for years

+ Only 54 percent of students regularly use condoms during vaginal intercourse, 29 percent during anal intercourse and only 4 percent during oral sex.

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one in four college students has an STD.

Information taken from the 2002 National College Health Assessment and the Stanford University’s Sexual Health Peer Resource Center.

because symptoms are usually mild or completely absent, particularly in men.

However, if a student is showing symptoms or suspects they may have contracted an STD, there are testing options available on campus.

“I don’t think people know about the clinics on campus,” Rusnanto said. “I tell some of my friends, but they don’t know. They should try to inform more students about it since they are paying for health care.”

There are free STD clinics from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Health Center every Tuesday.

“The test is not intrusive at all and is completely confidential,” Melanie Bronstein, nurse practitioner in charge of the STD clinic, said.

“Students just have to walk in and take a little urine test and fill out a short questionnaire. It takes only one week to get results and if you test

positive, we offer antibiotics to treat it for you as well as your partner for free.”

For women interested in being tested for HPV, full examinations and pap smears are also available on campus, Bronstein said. They cost $21 and can be scheduled at a convenient time for the student.

“By the time a woman is fifty years old, there is an eighty percent chance she will have had HPV,” Bronstein said. “We really push for students to have safe sex so they can avoid unplanned pregnancies and contracting any STD’s.”

Along with STD clinics and examinations, the Health Center even offers Gardasil, a vaccine that helps protect both males and females against several types of HPV. According to Gardasil.com, the vaccine is the only one that helps protect against four types of HPV. The website explains that Gardasil contains a protein which helps the body’s immune system produce antibodies against HPV. The website also states that the HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 cause the most HPV-related diseases in males and females.

For young women who have not received the shot, they suggest getting vaccinated between the ages of 13 and 26.

According to the CDC, the vaccine can also be given to males ages 9 through 26.

“It helps prevent against the types of HPV that are responsible for eighty percent of the problem,” Fall said.

It is crucial to get vaccinated because other methods of protection are not as effective, Fall said.

“Condoms don’t always cover the infected area,” Fall said. “And irresponsibility and multiple sex partners are the reasons besides unawareness, that HPV is increasing so rapidly among college students.”

Gardasil would be the best method of protection, Fall added.

Gardasil is a series of three shots. After the first dose, for best results the second dose must be received two months after the first, and the third should be four months after the second.

The entire series of shots can be received at the Health Center for $140 each. There is a fee waiver for qualifying students upon request.

“I know some people say they don’t like the way sex feels with protection,” Arthur Arana, 21, business major, said. “I just try to give them advice so they’ll do something to protect themselves against STD’s and pregnancy.”

According to the CDC, it is also recommended for females to have regular Pap tests, even if they have been vaccinated, because the vaccine protects most, but not all cervical cancers.

“Never make assumptions,” Manzano, said.“ Assuming that someone has no STD because they show no symptoms could be your worst mistake.”

The Health Center offers free STD clinics everY Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m.

It also offers examinations and pap smears for women for $21. For more information Interested Persons May contact the Health Center at 310660-3643

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Recycling plan could benefit EC in the future We recycle printer cartridges, compost and batteries, but we can’t figure out a way to recycle bottles and cans on campus.

For more than a decade, groups on campus have been trying to start a recycling program, and we can’t understand why this is difficult or a bad idea.

The construction on campus has proven that we are interested in going “green.”

Some of the new buildings are up to “green” standards and are meant to reduce the college’s carbon footprint.

For example, according to the president’s newsletter, the new Social Science Building uses recycled and eco-friendly materials wherever possible.

If we put that much money and effort into making eco-friendly buildings, we should put money and effort into getting some recycling bins around campus.

The reason the administration says we don’t have a recycling program for bottles and cans is due to people not utilizing them correctly and leaving more trash than there was before.

It has been said that anyone who wants to, can go through trash bins and take whatever recyclable goods out for their own use.

But if every student just took the extra second to put their bottle or can in the proper place rather than tossing it on the ground or in the nearest bucket, we might be able to get this recycling program up and moving.

Illustration by Diane Vay

The issue:

EC has been attempting to bring recycling bins on campus for the past 15 years.

Our stand:

Being an environmentally friendly campus should be a top priority on campus.

It won’t take much time and effort, and would greatly help the environment overall. Other community colleges around the L.A. area have gone green and have more environmentally friendly campuses.

Why shouldn’t EC follow that as well?

EC should be a leader and set an example that is environmentally friendly.

For whatever reason, it has not yet happened; maybe the recycling bins can be placed on campus as a trial run.

Since it has been 15 years that faculty and students have tried getting bins on campus, maybe it is up to the students to take matters into their own hands and recycle on their own.

Save water bottles and cans until you get home to dispose of them properly.

Bring your own environmentally friendly water bottle and reuse it whenever possible to eliminate the piling up of cans and plastic bottles around campus.

Remember, this is a campus that is here for students and their education.

No one wants to attend a filthy campus.

—See related article on Page 1

Skateboarding ban on campus causes more than just student fines Current skateboarding fines on campus are not deterring students from riding them down walkways.

Looking every which way he can, he speeds up his walking, dodging oncoming student traffic.

With five minutes to spare before his test begins, he dashes for the Music Building.

Getting closer to his destination, he spots a student on a skateboard speeding across the quad heading towards him.

Clutching his textbooks closer to his chest, he stops in his tracks with no time to move and collides with the skateboarder.

As if walking traffic on campus isn’t bad enough, there are student skateboarders on campus contributing to the crowd.

Luckily for students and faculty, there is a present ban on skateboarding on campus.

Even though there is a ban on skateboards, many students are choosing to ignore it.

Many think that there is no harm using a skateboard on campus, however, with so many students on campus daily, it can be dangerous.

Yes, using a skateboard or bicycle is faster and time saving when getting to a class, but the trouble and money it can take is not worth the risk.

Currently, for those students caught skateboarding or bicycling on campus, there is a $250 fine which also includes court fees.

The campus police also think that it is a nuisance, considering that the fines have gone up by almost 40 percent since last fall.

It is true that each semester, there are a number of new students on campus.

However, the excuse of not knowing or being aware of the rules and laws on campus is inexcusable.

There are signs throughout campus that show that the

usage of skateboards, rollerblades, bicycles and scooters is illegal.

Although some people think this $250 fine would stop riders in their tracks, it isn’t as many are ignore the law.

All these tickets and hassles can be avoided by doing a couple of simple things.

Coming to campus at least an hour earlier can solve most of the problems.

By coming to campus earlier, there will be plenty of time for students to find parking, get to classes and maybe even get a little studying done. If they take the time, they won’t have to get to places in such a hurry, and will be able to avoid a hefty fine.

With the economy in a plunge and with gas prices also rising, it seems to be a good idea to avoid these senseless fines and just follow the rules on campus.

In the end, no one wants to have to pay a fine, no matter what the amount is, and everyone wants to be safe.

—See related article on Page 2

Student transfer has new college experience Fantasy football leagues are more than just a game I blinked and I missed it.

We’ve come a long way from bookies in the me personally by my COMMENTARY A little more than two years ago, I stumbled onto CAMPUS basement of a dingy downtown restaurant. professor’s butler on the EC campus with wide eyes for the first time.

Fantasy sports are the new sports betting, and a silver plate. be exempt from gambling legFresh out of high school, I had just the slightest in- INSIGHT as an industry that grosses roughly $1 billion a Meanwhile, anislation. kling of what I wanted to do: write.

I had heard that majoring in English was a risky decision, so I took a leap of faith that plunged me into the gamble that was the journalism world.

I stepped into Kate McLaughlin’s Journalism 1 class and was hooked for better or for worse.

Those next four semesters fortified my belief that I wanted to write, and now, in the fall of 2011, I am at California State University, Fullerton, majoring in communications with a concentration in journalism.

Where I was once the news editor of a campus at which I knew all the ins and outs, now I am nothing but a mere freckle on a mammoth university’s behind. The change hasn’t been all that seamless.

There are a number of differences.

I developed a sense of comfort walking among the mute androids that prowled the EC campus every day; nobody was in any rush to make friends.

That sounds negative, but to me, EC was a place of business before a place of pleasure.

That line is blurred at CSUF. I feel like I’m walking around a small city where nobody is really taking anything seriously.

Those thoughts go away once I go to my classes, where it is indeed all business time, but it’s distracting when I get hit up by 50 different fraternities on my way to school.

One of my classes has about 250 people in it.

No roll is taken: when I am paying more than $2,000 a semester for tuition, I want my lectures handed to

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other one of my classes has just 15 people in it and I get personal assistance every class meeting.

It’s a disjointed mix of class quality.

You would probably think Eric Farrell I hated my new university by Journalism Major reading all of this.

That’s not necessarily true; while I miss certain facets of EC life, I do enjoy qualities that CSUF offers that I would never get at a community college.

The biggest change is that there is simply more to offer at a university; it makes me feel like I barely scratched the surface during my time at EC. There aren’t a whole lot of stab-happy seedy types staring you down when you walk to and from your classes. Perhaps best of all, there is a food court like you wouldn’t believe.

I remember my Journalism 1 class like it was yesterday. I remember the veritable roller coaster ride that ensued. It’s time to strap in again.

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year, it’s not going anywhere.

Research conducted for the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) showed that the number of fantasy sports players in the United States has increased 60 percent since 2007.

That means a whopping 32 million people are playing fantasy sports.

It’s not hard to see why it’s so popular when you consider how inexpensive it is and how crazy people can be about the teams and sports they love.

For some, watching sports like football, is a passive and enjoyable time. For others being part of the sport is even better.

Why simply watch the game when you could be a part of it by playing fantasy football?

The biggest appeal of fantasy sports has to be the bragging rights and being able to draft your own team with the players you think are number one.

What could be better than making what you think is the best sports team and watching them destroy your friends and teammates?

Fantasy sports has grown into more than just head-to-head teams and picking the winners based on a point spread.

There are cheat sheets, fantasy draft kits and auction guides.

Believe it or not, people will pay for help when it comes to drafting their fantasy teams.

Fantasy sports weren’t always legal, though.

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Now however, it is an accepted game that millions enjoy.

According to the FSTA, “College educated, full-time Samantha Troisi employees are more likely to Managing Editor take part in fantasy sports than their less educated and lesser employed counterparts in both the United States and Canada.”

That means 18 percent of college educated people are playing fantasy sports, so people better be prepared for some stiff competition in that fantasy football league.

Though men are dominating the industry now, more women are joining fantasy and pick’em leagues every day.

Research said it’s because of our boyfriends and husbands, or wanting to learn the lingo, but I think it’s safe to say we’re just simply fans.

It’s a game that anyone and everyone can join.

So, next Sunday when you’re out watching the game, just take a look around at all the people sporting their favorite team’s jersey.

If you’re not one of the lucky people playing in a fantasy league, it’s safe to bet that the majority of people watching with you aren’t just cheering for the team they love. They’ll constantly be clicking refresh on their phones, updating their scores, hoping their fantasy team will score just one more point for them to take the lead.

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OPINION

September 15, 2011 / El Camino College Union

UP FOR DEBATE

Should e-readers replace textbooks?

Textbooks are everlasting and easier to find.

Matt Simon Sports Editor

Viridiana Vaca-Rios Editor-in-Chief

e-readers are cost efficient and easier to carry.

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Jasir Soomro President Muslim Society Association Club (MSA)

Since 1450, when Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press, books have been a part of daily life.

It is easily the most used invention ever along with the car, television and the radio.

Therefore, there are several reasons ereaders shouldn’t and will never replace textbooks.

Textbooks are something concrete and are potentially indestructible, unless someone is careless with them.

E- readers are small and lighter, but are very susceptible to breaking. One drop could spell doom for your investment, which in some cases could cost you more than $200.

E-readers are still too expensive and you can’t get cheap second hand copies.

Or for that matter, expensive first edition copies.

Whereas, if you drop a textbook, it is more likely to bend a few pages instead, of breaking a screen as with an e-reader.

Along with stability, textbooks also provide more cost efficient alternatives, such as libraries, where you can borrow the book or you can rent the books online at websites such as Half.com, or Amazon. com.

E-readers as of right now do not provide a lot of rental services where you can rent the books while you need it and then return it when your class ends.

Along with being more accessible, textbooks don’t need to be plugged into a wall in order to function. As long as you have some light, you will be able to read wherever you are.

Imagine the unfortunate student who owns an e-reader reading a section before for a big test and his charger breaks, and the battery on the e-reader dies. Leaving him with no other option.

With textbooks, students will never have to worry about that. All you need is to carry the book with and you can study wherever and whenever you would like.

Textbooks have been around for thou-

sands of years, and they provide the most reliable source for students of all ages.

Textbooks provide the most cost efficient alternatives for students who are on a short budget and need something that won’t cost them a lot of money.

Paper books just feel good in your hands, even the best designed e-reader is a cold, lifeless contraption by comparison.

Reading is an important part of a student’s college career and with the costs of textbooks getting higher, one should consider having e-readers replace textbooks.

An e-book reader, is a portable electronic device that is designed for reading digital books. Most students spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks a semester.

According to the College Board website, students in the US spend on average

$1,137 per year on textbooks in public colleges.

That is why textbooks should go digital.

During this economy, people try and find the best deals and what works best for their wallets.

While students cannot control how much tuition and other things costs, they can have control over how much they spend on their textbooks.

Many students try websites such as Amazon, Craigslist and Half.com to find the necessary textbooks at a cheap price, but the time waiting for them to get mailed can take anywhere from three to seven business days.

While it is true that textbooks allow students to highlight, write and physically turn the page with one’s fingers, the benefits of having e-reader’s replace textbooks are greater.

First off, the price of a textbook found at the EC Bookstore can range anywhere from $19 to $220.

Some classes don’t only require one textbook, but two or even three. With the e-reader, you pay a one-time fee for the device, itself, with prices starting from $200 to $400.

Although the reading material itself won’t be free of cost, the price for any required textbook would be minimal compared to the hundreds of dollars for one textbook.

Some say that reading and studying would be difficult because of the amount of time spent glaring at a screen, making it uncomfortable for the eyes.

However, don’t students do that with laptops, cell phones and let’s not forget, TV’s?

According to the Review Relay, a website designed to review new technology gadgets, “the display on e-readers is not displayed with backlighting like LCD monitors are, and the e-ink is much easier on the eyes.”

Meaning that the time spent staring at an e-reader won’t hurt the eyes and make studying and reading easy to do.

Illustration by Diane Vay

Student workers are being mistreated at their jobs Countless times students are being mistreated at their minimum wage jobs. Some students work to pay the bills, others to pay for schooling. Our jobs remind us why we want an education in the first place, so we can get out and get a “real job” in our future dream career.

College jobs include cashiering at retail stores, working at fast food chains, or customer service. Most employees claim to admire students who are wiling to work with a flexible schedule and sure, most of these places understand that school is a priority. They tend to give us all of the days we want off, but on the days we are scheduled to work, they think it’s OK to abuse us.

It’s as if they know how badly students need the job and therefore our bosses push us to extreme limits, knowing we won’t quit, because how else will we pay for college.

It is incredible how these places manage to get away with these injustices. Countless amounts of times my coworkers, who are also students, have gone without a break for more than 5 hours.

As incredible as it sounds, this is happening everywhere. What are these people thinking? Do they think we are unaware of labor laws that require a break after certain amount of hours on the job? We understand that they don’t want to provide us with health insurance and certain

benefits, why can’t they understand that we get tired as well.

Heck, we as college students are probably more knowledgeable than half of the staff members they put in charge.

Aside from breaking laws, these places are constantly putting us down. Yelling at us for a simple mistake made. Humiliating us by giving us all the dirty work. Pin pointing all Dilia Perez our mistakes, and sometimes even igStaff Writer noring us when we need help.

Aside from being mistreated by our supervisors and bosses, we also have to put up with many nagging customers. Customers constantly shout at us for things we really have no control over. They are constantly complaining about how they cannot get a discount, how their meal is too expensive, why there is no shoe in their size, or my favorite, why their coupon is expired.

These customers appear to think that just because we are working at what they consider a dead-end job we must be uneducated and happy to have a job at all. They use this idea to have their way.

Are you kidding? We have no control over that! Let us

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CAMPUS VIEWPOINTS

Nancy Cortez, 18, nursing major

Miles Hayward, 18, fire and emergency tech major

Angelica Chaires, 18, criminal justice major

“Yes. It would be easier because we won’t have to carry textbooks and it would be more convenient.”

“Yes. You don’t have to wait for your books in the mail. You can just download your books on an e-reader.”

“No. Having a textbook is easier.

The Internet is a distraction and you are more focused reading a book.”

see how the customer feels on the other side of the counter.

Would they speak to us the same way? Would they give us such a hard time for no reason? I don’t think so.

Since we are educated adults, we decide that would rather be the bigger person by simply giving a polite smile, apologizing, and basically brown nosing to satisfy the customer in order to keep our job.

I find it absurd for students to have to put up with all this abuse, I also find it very admirable that we do. I cannot tell you how many times I have felt sorry for my friends, co-workers, and myself while I am at work. We are students, we are working as equally as hard and deserve better.

I constantly have to tell my friends and remind myself that these jobs are simply stepping stones in life. The only reason our bosses treat us the way that they do is because they are unhappy, knowing that they will always be working there and we students have a future ahead. As harsh at it sounds, many of the student workers know this is true.

Good luck to all the student workers. We all know what you are going through and soon enough you will look back at your minimum wage jobs and laugh about it. Keep in mind you will only be doing this for a couple more years.

Just remember that the people who mistreat you in your current job could even be working for you one day.

Jasir Soomro is the president of the MSA club. With 20 active members, the club meets in the Humanities Building at 12:50 p.m every Thursday.

How long have you been the president of the MSA? This is my first semester as the president of the MSA; it is also my first semester in college.

What are some of the benefits of joining?

You can come in and talk to people from different backgrounds and engage in deep religious conversations. You may also learn about the importance of Islam and how to relate it to everyday life on campus.

What are your goals this semester compared to last?

Our main goal is to clear up any miscommunications of Islam and enrich the quality of campus life.

How does the club contribute to campus and community?

We contribute to volunteer service, keep the environment clean, and promote tolerance on campus.

Why was the club founded?

To strengthen the unity of Muslims on campus, and to represent our religion as a welcoming way of life.

Are there any events the club will be arranging on campus this semester?

Yes, there will be informational Islamic booths. We will have certain documentary video sessions with other clubs and promote awareness of Islam.

What responsibilities do you have as club president?

I supervise over all other positions and make sure everything is running smoothly.

What are the requirements for joining the club?

There are no requirements at all. Feel free to come on in!

The MSA is open to everyone, non-Muslim and Muslim students as long as they’re willing to engage in dialogue.

How long has the club been on campus?

It’s been on campus for around 10 years.

What do you discuss at your meetings?

We will be discussing Islamic issues, certain Islamic teachings and we also will be having some sort of discussion on Islamic thought.

—Eman Elshiyab

Should e-readers replace textbooks?

By Diane Vay

Don Santos, 21, psychology major

“Yes. Eventually students will have to cope with technology.

But you won’t get any value after purchasing an e-reader.”

Dalena Tran, 18, neuro pre-med major

“No. People think e-readers are easier to use as textbooks, but I think it’s a hassle. I would rather have the textbooks physically.”

Chris Fletes, 18, undecided major

“Yes. e-readers are convenient for everyone. But books are cheaper because you can buy them used.”

6 ARTS

September 15, 2011 / El Camino College Union

ON THE SCENE Music

Handel and Fireworks at the Hollywood Bowl Take a bus ride from the Hermosa Beach Community Center to the Hollywood Bowl for an evening of brilliant fireworks matched to Handel’s “Royal Fireworks Music” in a concert performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The bus departs at 5:30 p.m. today from the Hermosa Beach Community Center located at 710 Pier Ave and returns at midnight. Tickets are $15 and include event access. For more information interested, persons may call 310-318-0280.

Film

Discovery film series in Marsee Auditorium Venture into the Caribbean island of Cuba and awe at relics from its rich past in the travel film, “Cuba: A Road Trip from Havana to Santiago de Cuba.”

Creator Marlin Darrah narrates the journey between the two cities in a 1950s black Buick.

The film will show at 3 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Marsee Auditorium. Tickets are $7, or $6 with an ASB discount, For more information, interested persons may call 800-832-ARTS.

Art

‘Earth and Sky’ opens in the Art Gallery The exhibit features the artwork of former Fine Arts Professor Emeritus Carson Gladson.

Painting the landscape of California for over 40 years, the soloshow consists of both abstract and classical paintings along with digital photography.

The art exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and from 12 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

Admission is free. For more information, interested persons may call 310-660-3010.

Dion Santos /Union Matthew Prak, 24, respiratory care major, admires the brightly colorful and Latin influenced artwork of Michelle Huarez-Taylor, featured in the Schauerman Library throughout the month.

Exhibit celebrates Hispanic heritage month Former student brings her artwork and influence back to campus.

Ashley Marie Patterson Staff Writer

Bright yellows, blues and reds radiate from the vibrant and vivid paintings that give color to the white walls inside the Schauerman Library.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Michelle Huarez-Taylor, artist and former EC student, brings her Latin influence to campus.

The unnamed exhibit, which opened last week, displays a variety of Huarez-Taylor’s paintings along with other pieces that represent her personality.

“I did not put a name on any of my paintings this time, nor did I name the entire exhibit,” Huarez-Taylor said.

“I think it is important to let the viewer interpret the art themselves,” she added.

Under the artist name “Pinche Nichi,” Huarez-Taylor said she first started taking art classes at EC and eventually became influenced by Hector Silva, a well-known local artist, who inspired her to become involved in many art festivals and exhibits throughout the South Bay. After many shows and much success, she is especially happy to have her work showcased on campus.

Huarez-Taylor said her art is a representation of her history and culture as well as a tribute to some of her favorite artists and musicians, including Diego Rivera and Billie Holliday.

“My art is just a reflection of myself as a person and my personal world,” she said. “I think it is important that people let out their feelings and emotions in their own personal way.”

“Everyone should have space to be creative and let their own imagination flow,” she said.

Hispanic heritage isn’t the only influence on Huarez-Taylor’s art; she said she is greatly enthused by folk, contemporary and underground artists.

These styles give her a burst of inspiration and emotion, she said.

“I don’t paint everyday. In order for me to paint, I need to have a burst of emotions or inspiration,” Huarez-Taylor said.

“I tend to procrastinate at times.”

Not only is Huarez-Taylor well-versed in pop, contemporary and classical styles, she also uses many medias in her work

including acrylics, charcoal and oil paints.

“Once I get to a point where I am ready to burst or I need to release that emotion, then I paint,” she said. “Especially if there is something important going on around me.”

Many of her paintings also reflect world issues.

One of her paintings titled,“El Mundo,” explains the transformation from an agricultural way of life to an industrial lifestyle, and how a young boy was affected by this change, she said.

As an acknowledgement to the children of the Middle East who have been lost in the midst of a war, she painted “Baby of the World.” With different races reflected in the painted hands holding a child, the message is that it takes a village to raise a child, Huarez-Taylor said.

And since the library looks

‘Apollo 18’ is a far-fetched excuse Sheila Broussard Staff Writer

Film

‘Transcendent Man’ is followed by Q-and-A Titled “Transcendent Man: The Life and Ideas of Ray Kurzweil,” the feature-length documentary explores the daring theories of the renowned inventor, futurist, and best-selling author.

The Katy Geissert Civic Center Library will present a special screening of the documentary at 2 p.m. on Saturday in the Community Meeting Room located at 3301 Torrance Blvd. Admission is free. For more information, interested persons may call 310618-5959.

Music

Fourth Nikkei Choral Festival held at EC Performances by Cappella Opus, Cosmos, L. A. Men’s Glee Club, Mori-no-Kai, Donkarakku and Sakura Chorus are all part of the choral festival sponsored

by Nikkei Choral Federation of Southern California.

The festival takes place at 3 p.m. on Saturday in the Marsee Auditorium. Tickets have a suggested donation of $8. For more information, interested persons may call 310-618-1185.

Art

Local artist has soloshow in Redondo Beach Illustration artist, Jantzen Lennon Peake, is known for his comic strip in the CSULB newspaper “Crabby Times.”

Peake’s solo-show will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Green Roast Coffee located at 1300 Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach. This is a free event and the coffee shop will offer 10 percent off food and drink during the reception.

—Natalie Sripongkosol

to showcase local artists, Albert Romero, library technician and a member of the library art organization, chose Huarez-Taylor’s art because of the cultural message it carries.

“We thought her work was great for Hispanic Heritage Month,” he said.

With a passion for painting, Huarez-Taylor said she enjoys learning about people and incorporating that knowledge into her art.

“It gives me room to grow as a person and artist,” she said. “I am blessed to be in a time where everything is available and open.”

The artwork is on display throughout the month.

The library’s hours of operations are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Michael Botica /Union Janet Davids, art studio major, takes her passion for sculpting to the classroom where she works on her art projects.

Boat sculpture wins ‘Best in Show’ Eman Elshiyab Staff Writer

Ready to burst into tears, she grabs her sunglasses to cover her eyes and starts explaining her journey of becoming an artist.

A recent winner of “Best in Show” at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) for her abstract sculpture of a boat, Janet Davids, art studio major, refused to listen to critics and instead followed her gut feeling when entering the contest.

“Everyone told me they didn’t understand my art and that I should try something else,” she said. “I went with my intuition.

Sometimes you just don’t know where it’s going to take you and you just go with it.”

Titled “Adieu mon Coeur” (farewell my heart), the sculptured boat symbolizes the progressions of a journey of freedom, Davids said.

At 7 feet long, the weathered sculpture is made out of 275 pounds of stoneware with ash glazes covering its entirety.

“My large ceramic boat is an expression in the course of life

where you say farewell to your heart, whether it is to family, friends or a lover,” Davids said.

Featured among 500 professional and amateur artists in the art exhibit, “Open Call LA 2011,” Davids not only won $500 in prize money, but she said her ultimate reward was realizing that professional artists had validated her work.

“I was completely dumbfounded that my cathartic experience was conveyed to other people in

RISING

STAR some form,” she said.

But Davids wasn’t always an artist.

“When I was seventeen years old, I wanted to pursue art, but my parents weren’t having it,” she said. “So for many years, I was an undecided major but never finished my degree.”

After a career in the financial industry and raising her children to do what they love, Davids re-

alized she wasn’t practicing this motto in her own life.

She is now in her fifth semester here and found a passion in sculpting. Not only does she admire her professors, but Davids also credits them for her success as an artist.

“I especially thank Russell McMillin for believing in me and encouraging me,” she said. “I would have never done it without him.”

McMillin, fine arts professor, said Davids has accomplished so much in two years and that she instilled the knowledge gained from her previous professors into her current artwork to help her succeed.

“Janet Davids is an extremely hardworking, dedicated, and focused student,” he said. “There are so many talented students in the art department and it makes us professors so proud and honored to watch our students succeed.”

While Davids continues to sculpt, she is enjoying the early success it has brought her and is using it as motivation in her new art projects.

“As of right now,” she said, “I am just living in the present and going for the ride of my life.”

Houston we have a problem; there is another life form on the moon.

“Apollo 18” tells the story of a 1974 top secret mission to the moon through decades of found footage.

The film was footage from the NASA space mission and was found online.

The low-budget film, directed by Gonzalo LopezGallego, fails to build suspense and doesn’t live up to its sci-fi counterparts as evidenced by failure in the box office.

A sloppy and thrown together film tells the story of three astronauts, John Grey (Ryan Robbins), Ben Anderson (Warren Christie) and Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen), who were sent by NASA on a space mission to the moon. They were sent to set up devices to intercept Soviet signals when they encounter things they would never expect to find on the moon and the mission didn’t go as planned.

Funded by the Department of Defense, the mission was never disclosed to the general public because of its disastrous outcome.

But after an unreliable website got a hold of the 80 hours of footage from space, the secret was revealed on the big screen.

If this doesn’t create initial disbelief, the film itself will.

An uninteresting storyline and missing plot makes this a dull film. Without any tension-building scenes, there are hardly any scares and absolutely no surprises.

The first 40 minutes of the film was painfully slow and a bit confusing; the story

seemed completely make believe and the actors were all together confused.

But about an hour into the film, the action finally started when the two astronauts landed on the moon and discovered another life form.

At this point, it became a predictable horror film; the rock creatures were both deadly and monstrous. And, of course, they have the ability to take over the human body. Just as the film reaches this climax, it ends and the credits fill the big screen.

Not only is the film boring, it fails to educate the audience on the paranormal and never uncovers any of the mystery. Instead, it relied on the grainy, found-footage to create the horror.

Yet, the shaky camera work was far from gripping like similar films, “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity.”

The constant motion was annoying and made the film almost impossible to watch. Just as a thrilling scene might have captured the audience, all the shaking caused nausea rather than a scare.

And on top of all this far-fetched footage, the actual reason NASA has yet to send another person in orbit is laughable. But let’s leave that up to the film because it might just be the only real reason to see “Apollo 18” in theaters.

Stick to reading about this space mission in textbooks because the mission has surprising developments and the threat of an unknown life form.

And let’s hope there is no talk of a sequel to this drab science fiction space mission mishap.

SPORTS

September 15, 2011 / El Camino College Union

ON DECK CROSS-COUNTRY Orange Coast Invite Saturday at 8 a.m., at Fairview Park

FOOTBALL Saturday at 6 p.m. vs.

Golden West at Orange Coast College

MEN’S SOCCER Tomorrow at 3 p.m. vs.

Grossmont College

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL San Diego MESA Tournament tomorrow and Saturday at 7 a.m.

MEN’S WATER POLO Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. vs.

Long Beach City College

WOMEN’S WATER POLO El Camino Tournament Saturday at 1 p.m.

Wednesday at 3 p.m. vs.

Long Beach City College

—Shane Utton

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Volleyball team sweeps away competition Shane Utton Staff Writer

The women’s volleyball team defeated all competition at last Friday’s 5th annual El Camino Classic.

The Warriors’ victories included sweeps of Santa Barbara City College and Cypress College.

“Our team’s returning players are a big part of our success,”Le Valley Pattison, coach, said. “We have seven kids coming back this year with a year under their belt and they’re bigger and stronger.”

In the team’s first match, the Warriors swept the Vaqueros of Santa Barbara 25-18, 25-16 and 25-13.

Lauren Edwards, middle blocker, led the team with 11 kills, seven digs and three blocks.

“I talk a lot on the court. I try to help everyone out, if someone needs help, I’m there to help,” Edwards said.

The team will travel to San Diego Mesa College this weekend to play in another tournament.

“I feel good about this team going into this tournament,” Edwards said. “There are going to be some good teams like Pierce

Vanessa Adams /Union With a solid defensive block, Miranda Gagnier, middle blocker, and Kaitlyn Edwards, outside hitter, helped defeat Santa Monica College during the volleyball game last Wednesday at the South Gym.

College who won the championship last year and teams from our conference like Long Beach City College, so it should be a fun tournament.”

The first game was a backand-forth contest throughout.

Tied up at 3-3, Edwards served two straight aces and the Warriors

went on a 5-0 run to take a commanding lead.

Santa Barbara went on a run by scoring 10 of the next 14 points to tie the game at 18.

The Warriors then went on a rally of their own by scoring seven straight points to win the game.

The team took over the second

game, but the third game was a challenge.

The Vaqueros came out of the gate hot, jumping out to a 10-4 lead showing why they were ranked 9th last year in the state.

The Warriors fought back to tie the game, 13-13.

There were three lead changes

and the teams were tied six times, but the Warriors pulled out at victory.

Tulia Barnes led the team with seven blocks and six kills. Keely Stevenson had a team leading 14 digs.

During the second match of the day, the Warriors swept the Cypress College Chargers, who were ranked 3rd in the state last season, by a score of 25-19, 25-16 and 2518.

Edwards led her warriors again by stepping it up with 12 kills, 11 digs and three blocks.

Her twin sister, Kaitlyn Edwards, outside hitter, also added eight kills, seven digs and three blocks.

The Edwards sisters will look play a major factor this season and will be looked at to perform.

Miranda Gagnier, middle blocker, played as well by leading the team with six blocks.

Sarah McFadden, setter, and also another one of the returners from last season, had a great game distributing the ball with a team high 32 assists.

“I played all right, I can do better,” Mcfadden said. “It was ok, I can always improve.”

Men’s cross-country team finishes sixth at UC Irvine Invite Tayani Davis Staff Writer

Dark clouds, lightening and thunderstorms filled the sky last Saturday morning, but that did not stop the men’s cross-country runners from leading in the University Division Race at UC Irvine Invitational.

Even with uncontrollable weather, the cross-country men prepared themselves and remained focused as they competed against many of the top southern California four-year universities.

“This is actually perfect weather for the runners. Right when they’re done racing, the wind will cool them off and they will be ready for the next race. But these guys are so determined, they will run in snow and be perfectly fine,” Sean Sheil, coach, said.

Determined was only one word to describe sophomore runners David Rosales and Drew Griffie, who finished in the top five last week.

Rosales and Griffie kept a steady pace in front throughout the race before running into a couple of setbacks that caused them to fall behind.

“David Rosales and Drew Griffie were running well up near the front pack before suffering cramps and dropping back,” Dean Lofgren, coach, said.

Even after suffering cramps, Rosales and Griffie were not going to let their team down and both runners kept a steady pace all the way to the finish line.

In contrast, Anthony Lewis and Alex Villaescusa, both top returning runners

from last year improved their overall 2010 score.

“Top returner Anthony Lewis improved 25 seconds over his 2010 time in 23rd place 26:47,” Lofgren said. “Right behind was Alex Villaescusa in 26th place with 26:52, a 37 second improvement from 2010.”

As the race came to an end, the men used their last bit of energy to get in front of their opponent leaving the men to finish in sixth place.

The men finished sixth in the second of two men’s races with 140 points behind winner Cal Baptist’s 33 and just behind fifth place USC with their 125 in the 10team field, Lofgren said.

On the other hand for the cross-country women, only two runners were chosen to

compete in this race just to gain some experience.

“There was intermittent thunder and lightning as the races were about to begin,” Lofgren said.

Lauren Brown placed 120th in 23:44 along with Chloe Stager who placed 124th in 24:04; both are incoming freshmen this year.

The Warriors’ next race will take place at Fairview Park for the Orange Coast Invitational.

The women will compete in a 5,000 yard race at 9:30 a.m. with the men’s 4-mile race at 10:15 a.m.

“Running is not only a race but it is a sport I enjoy doing,” Stager said. “It’s good motivation.”

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Joshua Sherman /Union After sacking the quarterback in the third quarter, Timothy Ehinger, Warriors’ defensive end, screams into the stands in a home game against Grossmont College Saturday.

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Defense leads way in blowout

Sylwia M. Ozdzynski /Union

With the NFL season beginning, the Warriors had a suffocating defense that might remind some of the Baltimore Ravens.

The defensive front guided the team to victory after tallying nine sacks and one forced fumble.

The Warriors’ offense got off to a dull start after Omar Herrera, quarterback, was sacked three times.

The offense was in an unfamiliar situation in the first quarter, which saw the team punt on its first drive and then have an interception the next.

“We were kind of slow in the beginning, but we were determined to win,” A.J. Johnson, running back, said.

Women’s soccer team was unable to rally from a 2-0 deficit.

Sergio Reynoso Staff Writer

Warriors’ Sule Tate, safety, unsuccessfully tries to stop Grossmont College’s Joshua Bell during Saturday’s game at Murdock Stadium. The Warriors won the game 34-7.

Sheila Broussard Staff Writer

Warriors lose to defending champs

“That’s why we played so aggressively in the second half.”

A.J. was part of the Warriors rushing attack that ran for 293 yards and scored three rushing touchdowns.

Peter Walton starred for the Warriors’ three-headed monster at running back which features A.J. Johnson along with Ricky Johnson.

Walton got the offense going at the start of the second half with an 8-yard touchdown run to cap a 37-yard drive.

Walton wasn’t done yet, he followed that touchdown with a highlight reel, 67-yard touchdown run on the first play of the fourth quarter to put the Warriors up 27-7.

Walton would go on to rush for 124 yards on 12 carries and averaged a first-down for every carry. A.J. John-

son added a 15-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to bring the score to 34-7.

The teams lone receiving touchdown came at the end of the first half when Herrera connected with Jarrod Shaw for an 11-yard touchdown pass to cap a 58-yard drive.

The story of the game was the stifling defense which allowed an early touchdown, but went on to shutout Grossmont the last three quarter of the game.

“The tempo of the game was dictated by defense”, John Featherstone, coach, said.

Timothy Ehinger, defensive end, led the defense with two sacks. Along with Ehinger, Kellen Lockwood, Jordan Tavai, Jabari Mathieu, Dario Loz-

ano, Utoikamanu Sekona and Brandon Johnson each registered one sack.

The offense will be looking to improve when the team travels to Orange Coast College to face Golden West College on Saturday at 6 p.m.

“The offense did a lot of flopping around and had too many fumbles,” Featherstone said.

Featherstone had some other concerns which will be worked on during practice this week, which includes improving punt returns, discipline and playing as a team. The team will look to show these improvements this weekend’s game.

“Golden West is a good team, with good players and they will be a challenge, we have our hands filled,” Featherstone said.

In a hard-fought battle against the defending state champions, San Bernardino Valley College, the women’s soccer team (3-1-0) couldn’t overcome a 2-0 deficit.

The Warriors lost the close game, 3-2, marking their first loss of the season.

“We fought the entire game and it’s unfortunate that we didn’t win the game,” Jaymie Baquero, coach, said. “I couldn’t ask for more, there were a lot of positives that we can take away from playing the reigning champions.”

At halftime, trailing 1-0 the team was ready to make a comeback. The women were then knocked down a little bit after giving up a 2-0 lead only six minutes into the second half.

However, the Warriors did not let the score affect them.

The team answered back with goals

by Marilyn Cervantes and Itchel Guzman to tie the game 2-2.

Both goals were scored in the second half, one of which was scored off a corner-kick in the 58th minutes and the second which tied the game at 2-2 came only five minutes later in the 63rd minute.

“Being down just made us want to work harder. We definitely didn’t want to lose,” Guzman said. “Our coaches reassured us that we could come back and win the game.”

With about 13 minutes left in the game, San Bernardino Valley scored the go-ahead goal to give them the 3-2 win and stop the Warriors from making the comeback.

Even with the great performance against the defending champs the team are ready to work harder to improve and correct everything for the rest of the seaon.

“We went knowing it was going to be a tough game, but we never gave up”, Guzman said.

The women’s team will be looking to rebound, when it travels to Cuesta College Tuesday. The game will be starting at 3 p.m.

“It’s a learning experience and the loss just shows us what we need to work on as a team,” Baca said.

“We’re doing better than last year and I’m happy where we stand, but it’s a long season and were in a very strong conference,” Baquero said.

Men’s soccer team ties San Bernardino Valley College 1-1 after costly penalty Jorge Camarillo Staff Writer

With only a few seconds left in a battle with San Bernardino Valley, Christian Campos committed a hard foul on Marco Moreno of San Bernardino Valley and was awarded a penalty kick.

Moreno would convert the kick and give San Bernardino the 1-1 tie.

The kick gave away the Warriors opportunity for their first victory of the season.

“There wasn’t a game-changing play, we were ahead 1-0 and they tied it with after converting a penalty kick in the 90th minute,” Andrew Britton, assistant coach, said.

The men played well offensively and defensively, which helped them get a tie.

“They are a well-organized team and the goalkeepers played well and the front line played great,” Andrew Britton said.

This was a hard and physical game between the Warriors and SBVC. Both teams combined for 24 fouls and three yellow cards were handed out during the match.

The yellow cards proved to be the biggest downfall in the game where the team had to call upon some inexperienced players.

“The toughest part of the game was missing key players and we had some young guys come in to try and hold a 1-0 lead,” Britton said.

The team believes they can win if they continue to work on their fundamental skills.

“We need to take more of our scoring opportunity and our defense

has improved, since our disastarous first game,” John Britton said.

“We need to have our offense to score goals.”

The stars of the game were Aric Morales, defender, Michael Tostada-Moreno, midfielder,John Mota, defender/midfielder, Kelvin Alfaro, forward and Nolan Dean, goalkeeper.

“It was okay, we could have played better as a team,” TostadaMoreno said.

Mota was lost in the 70th minute after sustaining a sprained ankle which should keep him out for a week.

“The game was good, but I got hurt so it wasn’t great having to watch my teammates fromm the sideline,” Mota said.

The Warriors’ next game is tomorrow against Moorpark College at 3p.m. at Murdock Stadium.

“It’s our first home game and it’s against Moorpark, a physical team like us, so we won’t need to match their play,” John Britton, coach, said.

Wilfredo Figueroa and Nolan Dean have split time at goalie to start the first three games of the season and both have performed well at the position since losing 5-2 against Chaffey to start the season.

“We’ve used two goalkeepers and Nolan Dean made several game changing plays in the San Bernardino Valley game and he almost saved the penalty kick,” Britton said. “Figueroa has made several good saves for us especially in the Chaffey game.”

The men will look to practice more and finding more opportunities to get the ball in the back of the net.

They will also look to get better at closing out games and playing smarter soccer as the season progresses.

Vanessa Adams /Union Fighting for the ball, Matias Henriquez, No.13 central midfielder, goes head to head with a player at San Bernardino Valley College, on Friday, Sept. 9th. The game ended with a 1-1 tie.