Monitor 2011-10-27

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Women’s soccer victorious over Cañada College

OPINIONS

The ‘Great California ShakeOut’ that wasn’t

SPORTS

NEWS

FEATURES

Pre-Halloween events light up the night

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Vol. XLII No. 8

Fremont, California

October 27, 2011

Ohlone board member Nick Nardolillo resigns under criminal investigation scandal

By MANIKA CASTERLINE Editor-in-Chief

After 15 years of serving on the Ohlone College Board Of Trustees, Trustee Nick Nardolillo has handed in a notice of resignation to President Gari Browning amid a firestorm of residency allegations by the Alameda County District Attorney’s office.

Since spring, Nardolillo has been under investigation because he claims to be a Fremont resident, but has

been listing Livermore as his primary residency for multiple government documents, such as his tax return and board business.

In his letter of resignation to President Browning, Nardolillo said that he was composing the letter with mixed emotions. In the pagelong letter, he omitted any discussion about why he was stepping down from elected office.

“I am so proud to have seen

the positive development of Ohlone in these past 15 years while serving on the board,” Nardolillo said. “The one project I had hoped to see completed before I retired from the board was the development of our frontage property.”

Nardolillo moved to Livermore in 2000 where he owns and operates White Crane Winery and Wild Vine wine and beer lounge.

Nardolillo said that he rented a room from a friend

in Fremont located on Oak Street.

However, when pressed on the issue of the Fremont residence this spring, Nardolillo could not recall the last night he had spent there; nor could the current resident.

His former fiancée Carole Wigren lived with Nardolillo at the Livermore vineyard from just after he bought in 2000 until 2003.

Nardolillo was unreachable for comment regarding

the allegations that has voter fraud. The phone listings for his Livermore businesses were disconnected and Wild Vine’s website domain name expired Oct. 23.

Nardolillo’s attorney Leon Mezzetti Jr. also was unavailable for comment on Wednesday.

Nardolillo was first elected to the board in 1996 and served as board president in 2000 and 2007. His retirement takes effect on Oct. 30.

Photo by Simon Tang A photography lesson was taught at St. Joeseph’s graveyard on Mission Boulevard on Oct. 15. Participants learned how to use long exposures in order to create light effects with glow sticks and flashlights. For more photos, see Page 4.

Board of Trustees to change election system

By MANIKA CASTERLINE Editor-in-Chief

Amid speculation that the Board of Trustees’ current election system is violating federal law, the board is looking at five possible options of changing it to be in compliance.

While the city of Newark only comprises 16 percent of the district’s residents, Newark is considered as being over-represented on the Ohlone board since two out

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Graphics courtesy Redistricting Partners Above: Redistricting Partners gave the Board of Trustees five options for redistricting Ohlone. Options A, B and C are split into two areas with five trustees in one area and two in another.

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Opinions

Should California offer free higher education?

By ASHLEY LAM Staff writer

In his time as governor, Pat Brown saw that with a large population, education was an essential part of success.

Gov. Pat Brown was active in the drafting of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, in response to the massive boom of public infrastructure.

He began to build one of the nation’s finest public university systems.

His actions were powered by the demand of quality education.

The main idea of the plan was that the youth would achieve some form of higher education regardless of their economic background. Thus, academic progress was to be fully dependent on an individual’s proficiency and drive.

The Federal Reserve polls have shown that there is an astonishing total of nearly $829.78 billion in student debt in student loans and calculated that on average, a college student credit cardholder has $3,173 in debt individually.

Nationaly, the average number of credit or debit cards per student is 4.6. Only 17 percent of this population pay off their entire balance each month.

With outrageously expensive books, room and board, and general tuition, the life of a college student is not always easy.

When students should be focusing on their education, they often have to take on low paying jobs on the side simply to get by.

Students should really be focusing on completing their

college degrees and educating themselves to the highest extent.

It would be easy to say that our government should go back to funding free higher education for all. Conceptually, this is the ultimate answer.

As important as education is, can the government truly fund free education for all?

With healthcare and unemployment issues already taking a huge toll on the federal government, the situation becomes more complex.

Overnight, we cannot suddenly have free education for all. Instead, we should slowly work our way into ways for students to have lower tuition rates.

We could follow the example of Deep Springs College. The college is agricultural based.

Its students have assigned labor positions on the ranch.

The students on average work 20 hours a week.

This college is self-sustainable and the concepts used to run the college eliminates excess costs.

College presidents get raise during deficit

By JAMIE LAM Staff writer

With the Arab Spring fomenting in the Middle East, it seems the entire world is beginning a series of revolutions to start bringing positive changes to corrupt governments.

Occupy Wall Street, started in New York, fights against the difference in wealth between the top 1 percent of the nation and the rest of the other

citizens. While there is no specific goal, it is clear they feel the funding put into the oil tycoon’s pockets should be transferred into the fundamentals of our country. For me, that means the education sector, which would strengthening our nation’s future.

Most recently, college tuition has been raised as the state reduces budgets, with California leading in the increase of college costs.

If students are receiving the short end of the stick, what justifies the actions of a board to give the president a raise?

Last January, President Gari Browning received a 14 percent raise in the wake of the recession. Despite the turmoil the government was facing as well as the public protests against California’s disregard toward public education, Ohlone College’s Board of Trustees had a vote

that agreed to allow Browning the increased paycheck.

While this was occurring, classes were being cut and Ohlone students were being denied opportunities. For the summer, Ohlone classes were cut nearly in half, forcing community colleges to brace for a possible $2 billion to $3 billion cut in enrollment revenue to the system for next year. It takes a team to turn the education system

around. Like board member Greg Bonaccorsi said, “While hundreds of students and employees are facing cutbacks in one form or another, the agreement will greatly increase the compensation of one person.”

The raise for President Browning had been delayed from the previous year when she said the time for the action was not appropriate and “would be poorly received by the Ohlone faculty and staff.”

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“$3,000 per year.”

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Five redistricting options go to Board for trustee election system to change Do you think I’m sexy?

Halloween is the one occasion where the predominantly feminine attributes of experimenting with makeup, having an excuse to go shopping and eating an irrational portion of chocolate becomes embraced by both genders.

All isn’t fair between the sexes though when it comes to the orange and black holiday’s costume attire.

From childhood, women are stereotypically more fashion conscious than their male counterparts and engage in activities such as walking clumsily in their mother’s high heels and putting on pink tutus in games of make-believe.

As women, the female gender goes from their mother’s heels to their very own pair of Manolo Blahniks – thanks to the influence of “Sex and the City’s” Carrie Bradshaw.

What Halloween is to women isn’t a night to dress up, but rather to dress considerably sexed up. A premise, which on its surface, allows males to objectify women as less than what they have the power to be, which is powerful.

Now guys have the option to be inspirational characters such as superheroes while women are limited to basically anything with the word sexy as the prefix.

Sexy witch. Sexy kitten.

Sexy nurse. This is the land of freedom and choice, so where are the non-sexy options? What’s up with wanting to bring all the sexy back anyway and why doesn’t it include guys?

A website created in 2010 called Take Back Halloween is a response to having people take back the holiday as something to be worthy of celebrating and features costumes such as Jane Austen and Diana Ross.

There are not the many opportunities for individuals to experiment with fashion and it’s easy to forget that fashion has the ability to transform. Fashion is an art form and aside from Fashion Week, Halloween is an occasion to celebrate creative artistry.

Even though Lady GaGa may wear a dress of meat, she also has worn lots of Alexander McQueen.

Post a picture of your own non-sexy costume at: http://www.facebook. com/pages/Ohlone-Monitor/139929860675

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of the seven board seats.

The release of the 2010 Census results prompted the Ohlone district to review its electoral procedure. The district was advised that it may be violating the 2002 California Voting Right’s Act, which protects minorities.

At the time, Ohlone had trustees run districtwide rather than in a specified area.

Ohlone also no longer allows challengers to chose which incumbent they want to oppose.

According to the firm Redistricting Partners that Ohlone contracted with to fix the election system, Asian resident have increased to 47 percent from 34 percent in 2000, Latinos have increased to 18 percent from 16 percent and African American to 4 percent from 3 percent.

The board plans to open up the public discussion on the matter of redistricting during the Nov. 9 board meeting and to assess the options that have

been presented by Redistricting Partners.

For instance, Option A uses the current framework for the districts, leaving the two-district configuration and adjusts the lines for population.

However, Newark will not be considered its own district and all the incumbents keep the seat in which they currently serve.This type of system would retain the status as “at large” under the California Voting Rights Act. Options A to C has two areas where trustees can run for a seat while D and E both require that the district be split into seven areas and have a trustee per area.

The general board consensus is that one of the A to C options be taken.

Board President Richard Watters said that the expected date for a vote on this issue will occur in December.

He said that the decision will be given to the Register Graphics courtesy Redistricting Partners of Voters in March to go into effect for next year’s election. Options D and E. The Board has five options.

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All the ‘stuff’ fit for an O’Connell seminar

By MANIKA CASTERLINE Editor-in-Chief

A popular question that parents ask their offspring when they return home from school is ‘What did you learn in school today?” The response is often concisely put as “stuff.”

Mathematics professor Jeff O’Connell has previously held seminars on the role of mathematics in entertainment and the golden ratio.

The stuff seminar is a total of everything that couldn’t equal a full seminar.

The seminar titled “Stuff” presented on Oct. 21 by O’Connell actually means that attendees did learn about stuff while sitting in the seafoam green lecture hall in room 3201, but stuff that happened to add up to a math-related equation.

For example, a principle of algebra is that when an individual multiplies a negative number with another negative number O’Connell explained this concept in two ways: the boring but true proof and the exciting but false proof. To break it down even further, there are things and there are people.

“Sometimes good things happen to good people. That’s good. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and that’s bad. Sometimes good things happen to bad people and that’s also bad. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and that’s good,” O’Connell said.

O’Connell prefaced his topic about Salt Lake City with that he needed to first complain about San Jose’s layout having Moorpark and Parkmoor avenues run right

next to each other and the same frustration comes from having Capitol Expressway run adjacent to Capitol Avenue.

This real world frustration made him curious about street names on a practical level.

He went on to explain an experience he had as a graduate student.

“You haven’t lived until you’ve been to a math conference. Math teachers know how to party. It was absolutely insane and crazy,” O’Connell said. “At the end of the evening when everyone is wild and out of control we say, ‘Hey, let’s go up to the roof and throw the furniture into the pool.’ But, we really don’t throw it – we calculate it.”

The car full of mathematicians found that navigating their way through downtown Salt Lake easy because the

streets were appropriately named East and West this or that and the system of inputting X and Y coordinates could be applied.

Like many people that are directionally impaired O’Connell has a GPS in his car, which he said he loves.

O’Connell wanted to learn how a GPS operates and turned to Google for an answer.

“On the Earth where my GPS is, there is a whole lot of gravity. Out in space where the satellite is, there isn’t. The time of each is also different.

So, there are constant adjustments that have to be made,” he said.

“Just know that there’s a hell of a lot of math and physics going on in that cute little box that’s telling you how to get to the restaurant where you’re meeting your friend for lunch.”

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FEATURES

Halloween Events Calendar Annual Imagination Parade, Kidango Ohlone Lab

When: Oct. 31 Where Bldg. 7 Second Floor Time: approximately 9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

There will be 100+ costumed Kidango children on parade! Everyone is invited to come see the parade and hand out treats.

Contact: JoyDawn Olla, special programs assistant, DSPS; 510-659-6079

Candle Lighter Haunted House

When: Oct. 15-30 Where: The Chadbourne Carriage House, at the Fremont Hub on Fremont Boulevard at Mowry, Fremont Time: Mon.-Thurs. 6 p.m.-9 p.m.; Fri. 6 p.m.-10 p.m.; Sat. 1 p.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 1 p.m.-9 p.m.

Admissions: $2 Contact: www.candlelighters.com

Pirates of Emerson

When: Oct. 26-Oct. 31, 2011 Where: Alameda County Fairgrounds Corner of Bernal & Valley Avenues Pleasanton Time: Wed.-Thurs. 7:05 p.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. 7:05 p.m.-11 p.m.; Sat. 7:05 p.m.-midnight; Sun.-Mon. 7:05 p.m.-10 p.m.

Admissions: $20-$70 Contact: http://piratesofemerson.com/

Halloween Massive Blackbeard’s Haunted Shipwreck

When: Oct. 29 Where: 128 King St., Across AT&T Park San Francisco Age Limit: 21+ Tme: 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Admissions: $79 - $139 Contact: http://www. halloweenmassive.com/index2011.html

SuperNatural Halloween 2011

When: Oct. 29 Where: 55 Music Concourse Drive Golden Gate Park San Francisco Time: 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Admissions: $30-$50 Contact: info@calacademy. org or http://www.calacademy.org/events/halloween_2011/

Photo by Amy Scott

East Bay gets ready for Halloween

Photos by Simon Tang

On Oct. 15, night-time photographers “haunted” the Saint Jospeh Cemetary in time for Halloween. Free lessons taught aspiring photographers how to take long exposures to get a creepy effect. On Oct. 22, Simms Ink tattoo shop in Hayward held a Halloween party. At left, the owner of the shop, Dane Simm, sports a Dorothy wig and a pink tutu. The party was open to all customers, such as the Día de los Muertos costumers in the lower right-hand corner.

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Shake it out: Fire alarm drill leads Ohlone to back out of ‘Great California ShakeOut’

By JAMIE LAM Staff writer

On Oct. 20, Ohlone College was scheduled to host an earthquake drill on the “Great California ShakeOut Day” along with a majority of the rest of this earthquakeprone state.

But due to an electrical problem with the board on the fire alarm system, the earthquake drill was cancelled.

Two earthquakes occurred along the Hayward Fault later that day, which impacted Northern California.

While no real damage was done, both earthquakes had the magnitude of around 4.0.

Had it been a serious event, said Steve Osawa, chief of campus police services, safety and security, the campus police would have come in with bullhorns

and made announcements to the campus and gone to every room and office to conduct a check and order an evacuation if necessary.

The recent bill of Measure G at Ohlone College was working on upgrading campus facilities to ensure safety for the community regarding any earthquakes or fire hazards.

Passed in 2010, the effects of the measure have yet to be fully implemented on retrofitting the main Ohone campus in Fremont.

“The company that manufactures the equipment has been contacted and a replacement part has been ordered and installed,” said Osawa.

“The alarm system is checked at least monthly and as anything, things break down or fail. That is why we have drills and testing.”

“If we had not had that drill and a real emergency had occurred, we would not have known that there was a problem,” said Osawa.

“The reason that everything on this campus is tested and monitored is to that if a piece of equipment breaks or fails, it can be repaired or replaced immediately.”

“You must learn and practice what to do so that when an event occurs, you are ready to respond,” Osawa said.

“Students often ignore fire alarms and verbal announcements. It would be helpful if students would pay attention and learn what their part is in an emergency.”

To ensure further problems will not occur, the alarm sysPhoto by Theodore Domingo tems will be operated during a weekend to check that Problems with the electrical board on the fire alarm all systems are functioning system led to Ohlone to cancel the “Great California properly, Osawa said.

ShakeOut” day on Oct. 20.

Ohlone’s bookstore: A year under Follett Inc.

By ASHELY LAM Staff writer

Just a year ago, the Ohlone bookstore became privatized under Follett.

Both faculty and the bookstore manager have two very different viewpoints on the changes.

Since last year, there have been a few changes that directly affect students.

Mona Farley, the manager of the Follett bookstore said

the Follett’s Rent-A-Text program is one of the major new changes of the bookstore.

“Follett’s Rent-A-Text program saves 50 percent or more off the cover price of the nation’s most popular textbooks,” she said.

Another definite change since last year is the addition of the yearlong book buy-back system.

“Students are able to sell their books back at the bookstore anytime of the year with

the exception of the first week of each semester,” Farley said.

“The optimal time for a student to sell back their books is towards the end of each semester. Based on the book information the instructor has provided, we will begin to source those books through the student via buyback and through our wholesaler. When we are purchasing a book that is needed for our future term we will pay half of the original price (i.e. $100 gets $50) and

anything else deo faults into a wholesale value.”

Professor Alan Kirshner, political science and history professor who is on the bookstore Advisory Committee, said, “ I prefer the way the bookstore was run before because when you hire people from within the community, there is more interaction and closeness.”

Kirshner said there are differences in the pricing of the books.“Books are now sold

on what amounts to a fixed 40 percent markup. Follett likes to call it a 25 percent margin of profit that covers up the actual markup. The Ohlone bookstore varied the markup and it at times could be negotiated in house. This is difficult to do with an outside private for-profit corporation.”

“I must admit that besides questioning the profit margin, I do not feel a great change.

That is a good sign,” said Kirshner.

the proposal to the ICC and discussion there was positive.

Ron Travenick vice president of student services said, “I am very impressed on how serious you took this.”

The ASOC also approved two other money requests: one in the amount of $3,000. The other in the amount of $345.

The first was for the Freshman Connection event.Ohlone counselor Jesse MacEwan outlined the event for the

ASOC members.

The multiday recruiting event to bring new students to Ohlone will take place in the spring and is expected to reach approximately 400 to 800 students.

It will introduce them to Ohlone College, according to MacEwan. The funds from the ASOC will be used to offset the cost of a new recruiting video and other promotional items.

The funding request was ap-

proved in a 21-5 in favor of funding the event.

The second fund request in the amount of $345 went to the Math League for its national competitive exam.

The exam will take place at the Fremont campus this Friday and is open to any Ohlone student.

The funds will go towards the gift card prizes awarded to students based on their performance on the test.

According to Tawney Warren, ASOC treasurer, Ohlone ranks in the top 10 on this exam ever since they started offering prizes.

Several senators voiced their concern on the funding of the event.

The full amount was approved in a vote of 18-5 in favor for funding the event.

The next ASOC meeting will be Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Building 7.

Student health center fee increase approved

By JOE NICHOLS Opinions editor

The Associated Students of Ohlone College agreed to support of the proposed increase of the student health fee from $16 to $17.

It was a unanimous vote to support the proposed fee increase. According to Nabeel Naqvi ASOC vice president and chairman of the Inter Club Counsel, he said he presented

Letter

Writer says Monitor misquoted her in trash story Editor: I am responding to the “Does Ohlone look trashy?” article in your Oct. 20 issue.

I was attributed with bringing up the issue of trash on campus. I did not bring up this issue.

The question of what the Sustainability Committee

members had seen recently on campus regarding trash was posed to all of the members. I did respond that I thought it was the worst that I have seen in years or possibly ever . . . which is a true statement.

On the Quad, since the beginning of this semester I have continually picked up

and properly placed in trash cans, items that should have been placed there by those using the items.

I was also quoted as having said, “it could be a result of some of the construction, because of the construction, the campus looks messy to begin with.”

I did not make this state-

ment.

I think that the construction companies on campus have done a valiant job to keep noise, dust and disruption to a minimum while completely picking up after themselves.

I would like to also praise our Facilities Team for the incredible job they are do-

ing on both campuses with only minimal staff.

I find it curious that I was never interviewed for this story, but, I was quoted twice in the article.

Donna Ireland Executive Assistant to the AVP, IT

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Lady Renegades basketball looking to 2011 season

By KYLE NORDEEN Sports editor

The 2010-11 season was another strong year for the Lady Renegades.

The women’s basketball team followed up back-toback undefeated conference seasons with an 11-1 Coast Conference record and an overall record of 21-8.

The team had some momentum heading into the postseason having won their last three conference games and earning a No. 6 seed in the CCCAA Regionals.

Ohlone drew Butte College, but were delivered an early exit when they lost 58-54.

“Looking back on that, I think the biggest thing was our ability to show up every day,” said head coach Julia Allender.

“If you watched the game film, having seen us play before, we just didn’t play well.

Whether that be pressure with a young team, mentally kind of checking out because of that, too much anxiety or anxious-

Photo by Kyle Nordeen Head Coach Julia Allender has the Lady Renegades poised to continue their success in the 2011. ness on wanting to perform well…”

The conference that the Renegades play in isn’t the strongest for women’s basketball.

Not to discount the accomplishments of the team or the quality of their competition, but having a 35-1 record in conference over the past three seasons can give a team some problems come playoff time.

“We don’t play in the strongest conference, so leading

up to a playoff game, it’s just tough,” said Allender.

“Keeping them mentally checked in… [we] really needed to demand perfection. Not trying to ride the high horse… we’re not challenged enough every day, in that sense, in our conference.”

The constant turnover of having some athletes for only two years — and sometimes for just a single season — can make it difficult to translate success from year to year, but

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28 - Men’s Soccer Skyline College (home) 4 p.m.

28 - Women’s Water Polo - College of San Mateo (home) - DH 4:30 p.m.

29 - CSU San Bernardino Open House at Calfornia State University, San Bernandino 1:30 p.m.

29 - UCLA Theater, Film & Television Information Sessions UCLA James Bridges Theater in Los Angeles 10 a.m.

29 - John F. Kennedy Fall Open House at JFK University 10:30 a.m.

Allender has been making it work, having compiled 40 wins during her first two full seasons as head coach.

“I enjoy being successful.

I enjoy working very hard…

It’s how you transfer that to the kids that you have… You kind of start from ground zero every single year.”

Maintaining a strong core not only for preserving talent, but displaying leadership qualities, is essential to a team’s success.

When the younger, newer squad members see how the veterans carry themselves at this level of competition, their new teammates want to imitate that behavior.

“Our returning core is better in the sense of, skill-wise [for one], work ethic [for two] and leadership where I have four kids who everyday, every drill, everything we do, they just go all out.”

“Their consistency is good and its bringing the rest of them up to that level.”

The Renegades will be without the services of one of their bigger players, Alexis

Robinson, who decided to not return this season. Her motivation to leave is unknown to Allender, but her absence will make the team much smaller than last year.

“That brings our size down.

That bring our post play [down],” said Allender. “She could play, for sure.”

With Robison’s departure, Allender plans on a lot of guard play and a being a much quicker team that likes to get in transition.

“We like to get to the rim.

We attack very well off the dribble. I think we share the ball really well. My guards see the floor very well,” said Allender “We need to create a lot of our offense defensively. To get out and run.”

This season is shaping up to be another strong campaign for the Renegades and Allender is ready to hit the court.

“It will be an interesting year for us,” she said. “Expectations are high.”

Their season begins on Nov. 8 when they play Fresno City College at home at 5 p.m.

1 - Dia De Los Muertos Campus Celebration Cafeteria, Building 5, second floor Noon

1 - Women’s Soccer Chabot College (away) 1:30 p.m.

1 - Men’s Soccer - City College of San Francisco (home) 4 p.m.

2 - Faculty Senate Meeting Room 7101 3:30 p.m.

October 27 - Careers in Communication Panel Discussion Room NC-1100, Newark campus 10 a.m.

27 - Soul Surge Cafeteria, Building 5, second floor 11 a.m.

27 - Men’s Baseball Fall 2011 Scrimmage - College of San Mateo (home) 2 p.m.

27 - Movie: Temple Grandin (only for Ohlone students and staff) Room 2204 3 p.m.

27 - Exploring Private Colleges as a Transfer Option Room 8206 3:15 p.m.

28 - Financial Aid Basics for Transfer Students Room 3201 11 a.m.

28 - Men’s Baseball Fall 2011 Scrimmage - Laney College (away) 2:30 p.m.

28 - Women’s Volleyball De Anza College (home) 6:30 p.m.

28 - Dr. Anthony Pratkanis, “Selling FlimFlam” The Social Psychology of Influence (Psychology Club Speaker Series) Jackson Theatre, Smith Center Tickets: General Admission $10 - buy tickets at the Smith Center Box Office 7 p.m.

29 - CSU East Bay Preview Day at California State University, East Bay 8:30 a.m.

30 - Picture Yourself at UC Berkeley (Transfer Event) 2 p.m.

31 - Inter Club Council (ICC) Meeting Room 7101 4:30 p.m.

November

1 - Facilities Committee Meeting Room 7101 10:30 a.m.

1 - ASOC Meeting Room 7101 4 p.m.

2 - UCLA - University Rep. Visit Transfer Center, Building 7, 3rd Floor Lobby 10 a.m.

2 - UCLA Transfer Workshop Room 7101 Noon 2 - Dia De Los Muertos Altar Display & Reception Library, Building 1, third floor Noon

2 - Women’s Volleyball - San Jose City College (home) 6:30 p.m.

3 - San Francisco State University - University Rep. Visit Building 7, 3rd floor lobby 10 a.m.

3 - St. Mary’s College of California Transfer Info Session at St. Mary’s College of California 3 p.m.

3 - General Advising Sessions for CSUEB Nursing Program Admission at California State University, East Bay 4 p.m.

3 - (Ohlone College Employees Preview) Fall 2011 Theatre Production: Servant of Two Masters NUMMI Theatre, Smith Center 8 p.m.

SPORTS

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Men’s basketball eager to move on from 2010

By KYLE NORDEEN Sports editor

The 2010-11 men’s basketball season was a massive disappointment.

While making the CCCAA playoffs should be seen as a great accomplishment, a spot in the postseason has become the norm for the Renegades.

The team has secured a playoff spot every season since Head Coach John Peterson took the reins in 2001, except for the 2004-05 campaign.

The men’s team finished last season with a less than stellar 16-12 overall record — the lowest win total since the 2004-05 season — and a mediocre conference record of 7-5.

“I’ve thought about [last season] a lot, actually,” said Peterson.

“I did a bad job putting the team together, misevaluated on some guys in terms of talent and of character, and we just weren’t very good.”

“We couldn’t rebound, didn’t guard, average point guard play… It was a frustrating year; a hard year.”

together as a team rapidly and know that the team’s accomplishments take precedent.

“Total turnaround; complete turnaround… Just a really, really coachable group.

I think the talent level is better, the commitment level to being a good student and being coachable is 100 percent better.”

“They get along a lot better as a group; [team chemistry] is way better.”

One player that will definitely be missed from last season’s squad will be Lavon Gray. Gray was essential to Photo by Kyle Nordeen the bits and pieces of success that the team enjoyed last year.

Head Coach Jon Peterson and the rest of the bas“I think [Gray] is the one ketball team are yearning to get back on the court. we’ll miss the most,” said While the team managed to weren’t great students; they Peterson.

“You know, two-time firstmake the playoffs, they were didn’t want to go to class.”

“All the way around it team all conference guy, was ousted in the first round by Reedley College by a score of wasn’t up to the expectation an honorable mention all-state 69-56 — the second largest that we normally have here.” guy… He was good.”

“He could guard multiple But with what is essentially point-deficit suffered in the a brand new team, things look positions and you knew he was last five seasons.

“We just didn’t have enough like they will be getting back going to go get eight rebounds a night.” guys that bought into what we on track in a hurry.

“What remains to be seen is Of the 14 players on this were teaching,” Peterson said.

“They had their own agen- season’s squad, 12 are new if we can replace the producda. We had guys that just players, but they have come tion… but I think we can do

it with a group of guys.”

Strong defense has been one of the defining qualities for the team since Peterson’s arrival, consistently ranking in the top four in the state in points allowed per game.

Despite having a practically entire new squad, Peterson plans on going back to a defensive style of play that helped establish the program into what it has become today.

“We haven’t been able to press the past couple years,” he said.

“For the first seven or eight years I was here, that was all we did… we’re certainly going to defend better than we did last year.”

“The tempo will be up a little bit, for sure, I think we have those kinds of guys that we can go back to playing that way.”

The men’s basketball team launches its season at home on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. with the eighth annual John Wallace Tournament and Peterson is anxious to get back out on the court.

“Can’t wait.”

Women’s soccer glides past visiting Cañada

By AMY SCOTT Features editor

Ohlone took charge of Friday’s women soccer game against Cañada College, defeating the visitors with a score of 4-0.

“We pretty much dominated from the opening whistles all the way through. I thought the girls worked hard, played well as a team, created some really quality scoring opportunities,” said Head Coach Larry Heslin.

Early in the first half of the game, the Renegades scored their first two goals against Cañada.

Ohlone’s first goal was scored by Ashley Strother in the beginning of the game.

Heidi Moreno assisted Strickland in getting the first of many goals over Cañada.

Cheyenne Kisthardt and Stephanie Costa followed soon after, scoring another goal in the first half.

However, Cañada had only 10 of its players available to play. The team was unable to change out its players or rest players who were playing with injuries.

The fact that the team was unable to rest those injured players hurt them greatly in

Photos by Theodore Domingo Above: Cheyenne Kisthardt plays a ball upfield during Ohlone’s 4-0 thrashing over visiting Canada College.

Above right: Birthday girl Celia Ochoa celebrates the victory after the game with Kisthardt. the game.

Ohlone kept possession of the ball and pushed Cañada back into their half of the field.

The Canada team struggled to break through Ohlone’s offense to give their team an advantage over the Renegades.

Coach Heslin was aware of Cañada’s players and the team shortage.

“They were in a little bit of a tough position. They only had 10 players. They’ve had a tough season.”

Despite the team’s short-

comings, Cañada played a good game of soccer with almost half of a team.

The Renegades were still able to take something from the game, such as one-two passing.

“We were able to get the girls got some quality playing time,” Heslin said.

In the second half, Cañada kept the Renegades from scoring early on as they had in the first half.

But, towards the middle of the second half, Ohlone triumphed once again.

Heidi Moreno aided teammate Ariana Strickland in scoring the third goal of the

evening.

The final goal was scored during the last few minutes of the game.

Celia Ochoa scored the last goal of the game, while being assisted by Heidi Moreno.

The women ran to the center field, enthusiastically calling it Ochoa’s “birthday goal.”

Overall, Heslin was happy with Ohlone’s victory against Cañada.

“Defensively, we were very organized, worked well as a unit, and communicated well. Overall, they played very well.”

The Lady Renegades also earned a 1-0 victory against Las Positas College on Tuesday, giving them five wins out of their last six games, an overall record of 12-4 and a conference record of 9-2.

The team had a confernce record of 6-5-1 last season and an overall record of 11-8-2.

The team has a bye on Friday and looks to continue their winning ways when they visit Chabot on Tuesday at 2 p.m.