Covering Orange Coast College since 1948
C OAST REPORT
Volume 65, No. 10
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
FEATURES
November 10, 2010
CSUs accepting spring transfers Students now have a second chance to send applications through November. BY GARRETT MARSHALL STAFF WRITER
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Cal State officials recently announced that 15 of its 23 campuses have reopened for spring 2011 applications, and have urged students to jump on the golden opportunity. Cal State Bakersfield, Chi-
co, Poly Pomona, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Humboldt, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Monterey Bay, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Sonoma and Stanislaus are among the campuses accepting transfers again. “Students have a once-in-alifetime chance to get into these very competitive campuses,” said Cheryl Arnold-Jupiter, Orange Coast College’s Transfer Center director. The passing of the state budget has increased funding to the CSU
system, opening a window for more students to pass through and breathe easier for the coming semesters. This window is small however, and students are urged to apply everywhere they can through www.csumentor.com quickly, since most of these campuses will only be accepting applicants through the end of November. “We want to make sure our students can get the information so they can apply on time,” said Hue Pham, dean of counseling. Students said this development
has come as great relief to them. Students who could not get their applications in when the system closed in earlier months now have a chance to reapply. “I missed the deadline for spring by a day—kind of messed up my plans,” Tyler Wood, a 19year-old computer science major said. “But I can do this.” The transfer center said the timing of the reopening has come with some logistical confusion to students and staff however. “We have people who are applying for fall and applying
Blue Bell Foundation for Cats in Laguna Beach provides a home for felines in need.
A new look for Coast
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DISTRACTIONS
‘The Walking Dead’
Many buildings will be given new names and new tenants in spring.
AMC’s new drama series is a exploration of human struggles in a zombie apocalypse.
BY FRED RANDALL STAFF WRITER
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SPORTS Photo by Arturo Franco
Lisa Korpos, an Orange Coast College student, tattoos a fellow OCC student at her shop, Above All Tattoo in Fullerton on Sunday.
Football suffers a loss The Pirates three-year run as owners of the Victory Bell came to an end at Saturday’s game against Golden West College. See Page 6
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Both sides of the gun Tattoos can leave a deep impression on both artist and recipient alike. By Taylor Hamby When fine arts major Lisa Korpos feels the need to express herself artistically, sometimes she’ll pick up a paint brush or a pen and other times she’ll pick up a gun. The 23-year-old Orange Coast College student is a tattoo artist at Above All Tattoo in Fullerton. She explained that using the human body as a canvas and a tattoo gun as a medium for her art is just
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for spring,” Arnold-Jupiter said. “They have two applications in the system.” Regardless, the transfer center hopes students will take this opportunity. They recently sent out e-mails to more than 23,000 students to spread the word. “All we can do is encourage our students to apply to more than one institution, to get the highest GPA they possibly can and just be more flexible,” Arnold-Jupiter said. “Apply for spring, but apply for fall too. And please check your e-mail.”
a natural extension of what she’s always done. “I have been drawing since I could hold a crayon,” Korpos said.“When I was bored in math class I would grab a Sharpie and doodle all over myself and the people around me.” She has been tattooing for three years. For her, tattooing is a perfect, portable, medium for her migrating tendencies. She said that she can’t stand being confined to one loca-
tion and is too much of a free agent to work at a regimented job. Korpos was also drawn to tattooing because of the permanence of it. “Tattoos are just so worthwhile to so many people. Having your artwork permanently immortalized in someone’s flesh is amazing,”she said. Despite the rewards that go See GUN Page 2
No place for a princess Roller derby gets out aggression with plenty of strength and athleticism. BY ANNIE KIM STAFF WRITER
In the back of a large warehouse in Huntington Beach, the smell of Icy Hot emerges as women in tights and short skirts, many donning arm tattoos, race around a track in their roller skates.
OC Rollergirls is a local roller derby league started in 2006 by Heather Shelton, also known as Disco Dervish, and follows the rules and regulations of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association. According to the association’s website, flat track roller derby is a contact team sport that is fast-paced and requires both strategy and athleticism. “Every woman should be powerful, not a princess,” Deborah Monterrosa, better known as Dirty Deborah Harry, said. According to Monterrosa, a
Long Beach resident and one of the training managers for the OC Rollergirls, the league is open to all women at every skill level. “There’s a position for all different sizes,” Monterrosa said. “The oldest player is 58 and the youngest is 10.” In fact, mothers and daughters are joining the league together. Atomic Betty and Motown enrolled their daughters, ElectroCute and Olivia, respectively, in the junior roller derby league See PRINCESS Page 3
“I feel like I get emotionally attached to my clients. Especially when they are getting memorial tattoos.” Lisa Korpos OCC student and tattoo artist
For more on tattoos see question of the week on Page 5.
By spring 2011 the Orange Coast College campus may look like a completely different school for students—and some building names could be completely new as well. With the construction and opening of the ABC building projected for spring, other areas on campus will also receive a fresh new look and, in some cases, a fresh new name. To make the campus a little easier to navigate, several departments will change their building names and some buildings will be removed. The most important piece of the equation is the new ABC building, which has been an ongoing project for OCC since December 2008. The building will be split between three different departments -- allied health, biology and consumer sciences. With these three departments moving into the ABC building, there will be plenty of space on campus for departments that lack space of their own. For instance there are two Home Economics buildings on campus that will be empty when the classes change their names to Consumer Sciences classes in the ABC building. “We haven’t used the term Home Economics in a long time -- Consumer Sciences is more up to date,” Rich Pagel, vice president of administrative services, said. In Spring 2011 the Home Economics buildings will be split between journalism and English. See BUILDINGS Page 2
Many literature and language
Photo by Annie Kim
Members of OC Rollergirls, a local roller derby league, race during one of their practices at a warehouse in Huntington Beach.