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STYLE: The annual student art
show, with pieces ranging from paintings and ceramics like Black Bottle with Bowl Stopper features the best works from peers. 7 LIFE: Learn how The Pill gained its popularity as it turns 50 this month and proves to be one of the most used forms of contraception. 8
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VIEWS: Whether it’s a revolutionary like Che Guevara or a hoops star like Charles Barkley, don’t apply the label role model to just anyone. 11
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 • VOLUME 87, ISSUE 11
Athletics maintain gender balance EDUCATION: Passage of Title IX provides equal opportunities for males and females in college sports. By Kathie Espinoza el Don Editor in Chief Female athletes at How It Helps many colleges are still • In the last five not receiving equal years the gap treatment or opportubetween male and female athletes nities to participate in grew from 1.13 to sports 35 years after the 1.25 million passage of Title IX. Over the last five years • More male teams are being added the gap between male rather than dropped and female athletic parwhile male involveticipation grew from ment continues to 1.13 to 1.25 million, grow at colleges according to a report from the Women’s Sports Foundation. This is not the case at SAC. Athletics officials have done as much as possible to keep men and women’s athletic programs equal. Teams rotate
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New veterans center open for business
Fashioning a cause Story by Michelle Wiebach • Photos by David Dayfallah
Makeovers, clothes help women get ready for interviews during economic hardships
For one day, sophomore Karla Alvarado felt like Rachel Zoe, the Hollywood “it” stylist to the stars. Her client, Flor Anorve, enters the stage to the pulsating beat of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance.” Anorve stands proud, shoulders back, and struts onto the catwalk in a striking black skirt suit, stilettos, and beaded necklace with her dark hair slicked into a low ponytail. “This is my client, Flor, and she is interviewing to become a fitness manager or instructor,” Alvarado says to the audience of friends and family. This is the Runway Fashion Society’s annual event, where this year Anorve and 33 other women received makeovers and three outfits comprised of used clothing donated by Santa Ana College faculty, staff and students. Student stylists worked with one or more clients and assembled around 100 outfits from the donated clothing. In previous years, the SAC Fashion Club held an annual student show limited to SAC students. This year, the club wanted to help women from the community who are trying to return to the workforce by providing business chic outfits they can wear to future job interviews. Women were selected from applications received at the El Salvador community center in Santa Ana, SAC’s financial aid office and from acquaintances of students
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Campus: Resource programs provide counseling, financial aid, referral and employment assistance. By Meg Faulkner el Don Staff Writer After twelve years in the Navy, Jeremy Roybal wanted to go to college. Under the G.I. Bill, Roybal was entitled to education benefits that would cover his tuition, but couldn’t access them without submitting an education plan to the Veterans Administration. When Roybal approached Santa Ana College’s counseling department, he was frustrated to learn it would be two months before they could assist him with his education plan. “I knew I was driven enough to succeed in college,” Roybal said. But even after waiting two months, he received a plan that didn’t Jeremy Roybal meet VA standards. “I was getting the runaround.” That was a year ago. Today, Roybal is one of four work-study veterans who work at the new Veterans Resource Center, helping other active and retired military personnel transition to college.
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COMMUNITY PROFILE
SECRETS of THE silk road REVEALED
Mummies, artifacts on display at the Bowers Museum By Mike Organistko el Don Staff Writer
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Nearly 4,000 years old, The Beauty of Xiaohe, is a startling example of mummified remains found in Western China.
Three well-preserved mummies exhibited for the first time outside of Asia are now on display at the Bowers Museum. The mummies have European features and Western artifacts were found buried with them. Nearly 4,000 years old, the flaxen-haired Beauty of Xiaohe lies wrapped in a finely-made woolen shroud above a boat-shaped coffin made of curved poplar flanks. Secrets of the Silk Road also features the mummies Yingpan Man, found buried in Persian garments, and an infant girl mummy. She is wrapped in a blanket of red wool and wears a blue felt bonnet. The Silk Road was an interconnected series of trade routes from China to as far as the Roman Empire. The artifacts shown in the exhibit exchanged hands several times along the Silk Road. Hundreds of mummies were found buried in the Tarim Basin in the Far Western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China in the early ‘90s. The exhibit is on loan from the Chinese government. A skillfully-woven basket containing grains of wheat was found next to the Beauty of Xiaohe’s head. “Wheat is a Western import, suggesting she had contact with
the West via the Silk Road,” said Victor Mair, professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Mair is one of several experts who contributed their professional opinions. Buried in the fourth or fifth century, Yingpan Man is clad in the most affluent vestments of the three mummies. He wears a white-painted mask illustrating his strikingly European features. “The prominent nose doesn’t resemble the noses seen in Chinese descendants,” Mair said. Yingpan Man’s trappings, or ornamental clothing, “are definitely of European origin. Besides his rich clothing, Yingpan Man was buried with lavish goods including a necklace, bow and arrows, and a Roman glass bowl,” Mair said. The infant girl mummy died in the eighth century B.C. Little blue eyestones were found over each eye. “The fact that blue stones do not occur in this region in any quantity suggests that they hunted far and wide to find these stones. There is a tiny bit of hair that shows that she was sort of a strawberry blond,” professor Elizabeth Barber, a textile expert from Occidental College, explained in the museum’s audio tour. Secrets of the Silk Road will be on display until July 25. For more information visit the website at www. bowers.org.
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Graduation Santa Ana College’s Commencement Ceremony for the class of 2010 is Thursday, June 3, at 6:30 p.m. at Eddie West Field. Line-up begins at 6 p.m. Caps and gowns may be purchased for $25 in the SAC Don Bookstore. High heels are prohibited on the field and flower-filled vases and balloons are not allowed in the stadium. Parking opens at 5 p.m. and costs $5. The field is located at 602 N. Flower St., Santa Ana, CA 92703. -Felipa Penaloza
Sonic Drive-In
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Jump in your car and head on down to America’s Drive-In: the first Sonic in Santa Ana has arrived. Located at 3531 S. Fairview St., Sonic is known for its old school carhop service and specialty items you won’t find at any other fast food restaurant. Favorites include Texas Toast sandwiches, chili cheese hot dogs, tater tots and more than 168,000 drink and slush combinations. Sonic is open from 6 a.m. to midnight. -Allison Lujan
Santa Ana College offers free technical support for students who need help with computer-related issues. I-Tek is located in the Cesar Chavez building in A-117, and is open Monday through Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon. Services are provided on a first come, first serve basis. If technicians are unavailable, students can leave a message at 714-564-6111. -Felipa Penaloza
Transfer Fun
Voices In Tune
A celebration for transferring students is being held Thursday, May 27, in the Phillips Hall Theatre. A Faculty Transfer Advocate of the Year will be awarded to a nominated winner. Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. For more information call the University Transfer Center at 714564-6165. -Felipa Penaloza
Listen to the harmonization of Santa Ana College’s choirs. The choirs will perform under director Dr. David Lopez. The second of the two shows will be in Phillips Hall Theatre, Saturday, May 29, at 8 p.m. -Michelle Wiebach
Soulful soles International shoe charity Soles4Souls has opened a number of international trips to the general public to help distribute, fit shoes and work on various projects. Volunteers can travel to six locations during the 2010 calendar year, including Haiti, Mexico, Los Barriles and Honduras. Individuals will experience first-hand the impact a single pair of shoes can make to underprivileged people. Soles4Souls has donated more than 8 million shoes worldwide. For more information visit soles4souls.org. -Michelle Wiebach
Dates to Remember
Acting with emotions
Take a break before finals start. Monday, May 31, is Memorial Day, which means classes will not be in session. Final Exams Week begins the following day, June 1, with June 6 being the last day of class. -Felipa Penaloza
The Theatre Arts Department presents its last spring showcase of the semester, Wednesday, May 26. The showcase will be in room P-105 at noon. The event is free to all who attend. -Michelle Wiebach
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Finding her way home
Rhonda Wolf overcame personal struggles to succeed By Portia Bode el Don Staff Writer
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Rhonda Wolf, 40, found help with her dyslexia when she enrolled at SAC where Disabled Student Services began providing resources she needed.
She holds the class assignment close to her face, but the words appear backward. Frustration colors her face pink as she struggles to read and pronounce the words. Despite her dyslexia, and with the help of Disabled Student Services, Rhonda Wolf can complete her coursework. Dyslexics struggle with spelling, reading, learning letters and how to speak, making it difficult to succeed academically. In its more severe forms, dyslexia qualifies a student for special support services. But throughout her childhood Rhonda did not get the educational support she needed. When she was 11, she entered the first of ten foster homes. She recalls that the first home was abusive. Several homes later, Rhonda and her siblings were placed with an AfricanAmerican family although she is Caucasian. This determined which gang she joined. She started doing drugs in part, she says, because she thought that no one loved her. “So, the gang reached out and showed me what love is, but it was a totally different kind of love that I wasn’t looking for,” she said. Next she was sent to an all-girls group home, where she had no choice but to stay out of trouble. By her senior year, Rhonda was planning on attending UCLA on a basketball scholarship, but she injured her knee. Unable to play, she lost her scholarship. When she moved back to Long Beach,
where she grew up, she got involved with the same people from her past. Then one night she unwittingly got involved in a crime and found herself in jail, before she was later released on probation. She had time to think about her life. It was time to change. At 40 years old, Rhonda started attending Santa Ana College, where she finally got the help she needed. Disabled Students Programs and Services Coordinator Maria Aguilar provides support services for Rhonda. “She is the definition of determination and motivation,” Aguilar said. “You can tell she puts a lot of love and pride into what she does.” The DSPS provides software called Kurzweil, which reads text out loud. Although homework and other assignments take longer to complete than for most students, Rhonda’s learning disability no longer stops her from acquiring the information she craves. Genice Gilreath, a SAC reading professor who has had Rhonda as a student for the past four semesters, said, “I’ve seen her growing in many different ways, not just as a student, but as an individual.” Currently undeclared, Rhonda wants to be a counselor for girls in junior high and high school who have had life experiences similar to hers. In April, she received recognition from the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) for earning a 3.67 GPA. Her main motivation for doing well in school, though, is her three children. She wants them to be proud of her.
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Show: free clothes brings style to fashion runway Continued from Page 1 involved in the fashion club. Planning the makeover event started last semester when the fashion design merchandising, promotions and coordination classes created the new makeover concept: providing assistance to women seeking jobs at a time when California’s unemployment rate is at about 12 percent. The challenge for the event was making it work with only $200, which is the budget given to clubs at SAC. Student Manny Cocina, who handled publicity for the event, said the club had to be resourceful, reach out to the community and “find other ways to not financially eat away at the school.” Professor of fashion and club adviser Karen Conrad Warner helped the club’s students. The fashion design merchandising and promotions class secured a location at Westfield Main Place Mall, at the entrance of the Macy’s department store, by calling the Main Place coordinator and obtaining approval from Student Activities on campus. “It’s a tough time these days and we wanted to give back to the
community,” Warner said. “With a regular fashion show, women wouldn’t have been able to keep the clothes.” Another challenge was matching the used clothes to different client body types, Warner said. The fashion club also sought support from Hair California Beauty Academy, which is associated with Santiago Canyon College. Student volunteers from the beauty academy assisted with hair and makeup. Cosmetics store Sephora donated goodie bags that framed the stage, with makeup samples for each client. Shopper Mandy Eamello noticed the women receiving makeovers and said she believes the runway program is good for people seeking an interview and increases the chance that these women will land jobs. Eamello said she knows how difficult it can be in these current economic times because she has been searching for a job herself. Club president and event coordinator Nancy Barajas said that working on the event hands-on was better than reading about fashion and merchandising out of a book, and it proved to be a bonding experience.
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Stephanie Machowski, a student at Hair California Beauty Academy, applies makeup to a client.
Kimberly Nguyen and student stylist Mayra Suarez share a moment as they look at outfits assembled from used clothes.
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Title: not all colleges agree with older regulations Continued from page 1 turns at playing during peak hours, have the same amount of hours with athletic trainers, are allowed the same transportation opportunities and have identical locker rooms. Santa Ana College is in compliance with federal Title IX regulations, according to a self-survey conducted by Dean of Exercise Science and Athletics Avie Bridges. SAC abides by, catering to the interest and ability of women’s sports since women are the underrepresented gender. Some feel that Title IX has changed since it took action in the mid-70s. “I have two daughters, I am all for women’s sports, and I want women’s sports to flourish, but let’s keep it fair. Numbers are now unbalanced and the playing field is not level,” Dick Gorrie, men’s golf and football running back coach said. In 2005 the Bush Administration enacted a policy that allowed schools to use surveys as their only proof of compliance. That policy was repealed this April and schools are now required to take a more comprehen-
Title IX ensures women and men equal access to programs
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sive approach in the implication of Title IX “We were given money to build a new men’s locker room, which was obviously not fair, given the condition of the women’s locker room at the time. The board of trustees voted to use Measure E money to build a new women’s locker room as well so both teams would be working in the same conditions,” Bridges said. Many critics of Title IX argue that it is the reason for cuts to men’s teams at some educational institutions. The recent suspension of women’s tennis was because of a lack of participation in the sport on the part of students. Men’s track, cross-country and swimming were suspended as a result of the budget. The suspension and eventual return of these programs have no effect on the school’s compliance with Title IX. “Women’s tennis was canceled because a lack of interest. It would be easy to get enough people off the street to fill up programs like tennis, but we need to make sure these people who want to participate are able to participate at the college level,”
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Bridges said. The future of Title IX at SAC continues to receive support from coaches, directors and board members. “I can’t see us not being in compliance with Title IX as long as we have the programs, faculty and board of trustees that we have,” Bridges said. Signed into law by President Richard Nixon in June of 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments
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requires that all academic institutions that receive federal funding, with the exception of military and religious schools, shall not discriminate or exclude any individual from an educational activity on the basis of gender. The law was renamed as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act for its principal author, Patsy T. Mink, after her death in 2002.
SAC accused of not being in compliance of following Title IX
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Women’s soccer is one of eight female sports active on campus.
The Obama administration revises Title IX policies
VRC: soldiers get their own space began to take shape. Academic counselor John Acuna, himself a The VRC, now open in the U veteran, was permitted to dedicate building at SAC, is intended to part of his schedule to the new serve veterans by providing assiscenter, as was Dorothy Nacita, a tance with VA paperwork, counsel- certified financial aid counselor. ing, financial aid, and community With certified staff in place, the VA referral services. Veterans can also could establish a work-study prouse the center as a quiet place to gram in the VRC, assigning four study, with access to computers part-time employees to the center. and printers. Now, when veterans enter the Associate Dean of Student VRC, they meet someone who’s Services, Jane Mathis, said the been in their shoes and can show VRC was developed in response to them how to navigate the comthe increasing number of men and plicated process of developing an women returning from Iraq and educational plan, applying for VA Afghanistan and seeking to enroll benefits and beginning their colat SAC and SCC. Together, the col- lege experience. leges serve more than 350 veterans, Response to the program has many of whom have been away been overwhelming. from an educational environment The VRC hosted a grand for 10 years or more. opening celebration on May 12. “Just walking onto a college cam- Representatives from local governpus after being away for so long is ment offices and community orgaincredibly overwhelming,” Mathis nizations such as the American said. “A lot of these men and Legion and the Santa Ana Elks women were getting so discourattended the event, which featured aged they were just walking away.” a resource fair for veteran students. While the need was obvious, the Mathis continues to seek funding solution wasn’t. In light of the curfor the VRC through community rent financial crisis, funding for grants and by establishing a partnew programs doesn’t exist. nership with the Santa Ana College Mathis sought grant funding Foundation. She anticipates that but faced a catch-22. “People told the demand will continue to grow me, ‘We’d give you money if you as more veterans become aware of had a program,’” Mathis said. “I the VRC. said, ‘Give me money and I’ll have “These are amazing students a program’.” to have on campus,” Mathis said. By sharing resources with other “They’re very motivated and they departments, the fledging VRC have an incredible work ethic.”
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Associate Dean of Students Jane Mathis presents a certificate to SAC campus safety and explains how the resource center is beneficial to veterans.
“People told me, ‘We’d give you money if you had a program.’ “I said, ‘Give me money and I’ll have a program’.” Jane Mathis Associate Dean of Student Services