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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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