Keeping a collective group cohesive means chemistry and comaraderie are without a doubt evident.

For the women of Orange Coast College’s soccer team, the cutting edge that allows the squad to stay together and keep common goals is acquired through many means of moti-vation.

Enter Kamille Cawley.Cawley, a 24-year-old kine-

siology major, is a member of OCC’s soccer team.

When Cawley was just 4

years old, doctors noticed a tumor growing on her leg. This tumor, which was mutating on the side of her left thigh, stripped her of her ability to walk.

After surgery at the age of 5 and trip after trip to the hospital through the age of 7, she was not only able to walk again, but also find herself back on the pitch and become a prolific, highly motivated athlete.

“It definitely motivated me in life,” Cawley said, “Mostly because I was told there was a chance I would never walk again.”

While the prognosis could have been devastating, Cawley used this as an opportunity to prove she could overcome anything.

Cawley grew up in Chino Hills, where she played soc-cer for both Chino Hills High School and St. Lucy’s, an all-

girls school. Her bond with Orange County began when she was also suiting up for Slam-mers Soccer Club in Newport Beach.

“[Playing in] high school was fun,” she said, “Playing for Slammers was where I competed.”

It was during her time at the Newport-based club that she attracted the eyes of universities and was offered as many as a dozen scholarships, including a full-ride to NCAA Division I school Stony Brook University in New York.

A mixture of indecisiveness put her soccer hopes on sabbat-ical, leaving her with a full-time job and a couple of classes at Mt. San Antonio College.

Fast-forward half a dozen years from her senior year in high school and her ties with Orange County would rekindle.

Cawley decided to attend Coast because she was “used to coming to Newport” from her club days. Of course, coming

from Diamond Bar, where she

Parking woes may soon be over, or at least improved, for Orange Coast College students after the district

takes the first step toward building a parking structure.

The Coast Community College District Board of Trustees unanimously ap-proved on Wednesday a proposal for an estimated $35-million, joint parking structure with the Orange County Fair and Events Center. The initial proposal calls for a four-story, 1,500 to 2,000 space structure to be built on the OC Fair-grounds, off Fairview Road

and Arlington Drive.“Everybody sees it as a

win-win,” said OCC Vice President of Administrative Services Rich Pagel. “It’s a win for the fairgrounds. It’s a win for the college. It will improve traffic for the college and the local community.”

The proposal is the first step in the planning process, said district spokeswoman Martha Parham. The district has hired a firm to estimate

the cost of the project, Pagel said.

The parking structure is expected to be open for the 2016 fair.

“It will be a great service to students of OCC,” said ASOCC President Rachel Gajardo.

The parking structure is part of the Vision 2020 Master Plan, which is the goal for what the campus will look like by the year 2020, Pagel said.

Funding for the project will come from Measure M, a voter-approved ballot measure that passed in No-vember 2012. Measure M granted $698 million to the Coast Community College District, of which OCC re-ceived $400 million, Pagel said, adding the college could get more from state funding.

Measure M funds can only

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BY MELISSA GRAUSTAFF WRITER

Photo by Karina Ortega

Orange Coast College honored those who served the country with a Veterans Day event on Wednesday in the Quad. The event featured a flag-raising ceremony, the singing of the “National Anthem” and a performance of “Taps” on trumpet.

CELEBRATION OF HONOR

‘Tis the season to help oth-ers and at Orange Coast Col-lege, students, staff and the community can do just that by participating in the 29th annual Angel Tree Drive.

The Angel Tree Drive, sponsored by ASOCC, is collecting gifts for needy

children and senior citizens and encourages all students to participate in the event, which runs through Dec. 13.

Christmas trees are placed in various locations throughout campus. The trees are deco-rated with gift tags that have the name, age and gender of the gift recipient. Students can leave gifts in the decorated col-lection box next to each tree or be dropped off at the ASOCC office in the Student Center.

Gifts should be new and unwrapped. For more in-formation, students can call (714) 432-5072.

The college hosts its annual gift drive for local children and seniors.

BY MELISSA GONZALEZSTAFF WRITER

OCC looks to Angels for cheer

Photo by Karina Ortega

Kamille Cawley, 24, brings motivation to the soccer team.

Kamille Cawley finds motivation from when she couldn’t walk.

BY IGNACIO CERVANTES JRMANAGING EDITOR

Photo by Ben Wightman

Students can visit any of the Angel Trees around campus to select a needy child or senior to buy Christmas gifts for.

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A town hall meeting is planned to explain the card’s intricacies.

BY MELISSA MYERSSTAFF WRITER

24-year-old soccer star overcame childhood leg tumor

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Studentgov. toclarify Higher One

Students who opened their mail to find a Higher One card inside will finally get answers about what exactly it is.

The Associated Students of Orange Coast College is hosting a town hall meeting at noon on Tuesday in the Student Center Lounge to discuss the Higher One card and its use, and answer any questions. Higher One is the company contracted to handle financial aid disbursements.

Student Government of Orange Coast College regional delegate Sam Mahdad will host the event, which will cover the pros and cons of using the card, the fees attached to it and ways to avoid those fees.

It’s important that students are aware of what usage of the card entails, including a fee of 25 cents per transaction if used as a debit card, and a fee that is assessed if the card isn’t used for 45 days.

More information will be provided at the meeting. The town hall meeting aims to arm students with the information they need to keep the money that is disbursed to them.

be used toward facilities, new construction and electronics.

The project will be managed by Doug Lofstrom, the interim chief executive offi cer of the fairgrounds, and district Chan-cellor Andrew Jones. At the meeting, both were appointed as project negotiators, Parham said.

How the parking structure will be shared is not entirely known at this time.

If there is a special event in the fairgrounds, then the stu-dents may not be able to park, but those details are still being worked out,” Pagel said.

Additionally, Pagel said stu-dents will need a parking pass to use the structure, but no additional fees are anticipated.

The next steps in this process are a series of meetings to work on the operational agreement. An environmental impact study needs to be completed before

construction can begin. Addi-tional details need to be worked out with the fairgrounds, main-ly the operations, security and maintenance details.

Passed outA male student passed

out in the green room of the Robert B. Moore Theatre at 8:55 p.m. on Nov. 5.

An instructor called Or-ange Coast College Campus Safety, and an offi cer found the student lying on the ground, said Chief of Cam-pus Safety John Farmer.

The offi cer asked the stu-dent questions and he was responsive and answered very clearly. The student explained that he had to take a certain amount of his anxiety medication. He did not want paramedics called, and he said that he would be fi ne in a few minutes.

A class friend walked around the room with him until he was feeling better.

Getting helpA male student was re-

ported having suicidal thoughts on Wednesday night.

His instructor said he looked upset and escorted him to the Campus Safety offi ce after he said he was overwhelmed and wanted to “end it,” Farmer said.

OCC officers talked to the student and he told them that he was feeling stressed out over work and school and had no one to talk to. The offi cers then asked if he was interested in talking to a counselor on the phone, and he said yes, Farmer said.

After talking to him, the

counselor then spoke to the offi cers and requested that the student be transported by ambulance to the hospital to see a mental health special-ist, and the student agreed, Farmer said.

Costa Mesa Police De-partment offi cers were then contacted. They asked the student if it was all right and he voluntarily agreed to go.

The next day, the student called Campus Safety to thank the offi cers.

The Student Health Center on campus offers mental health aid and counselors for all students, Farmer said.

Arrest’emThe Costa Mesa Police

Department arrested a man outside the P.E. Divi-sion Offi ce at 2:58 p.m on Wednesday.

The man allegedly ap-peared to be drunk and was lying on the ground, Farmer said. A Campus Safety of-fi cer got him to respond by asking him in a loud voice to “get up.”

The offi cer said the sub-ject’s eyes were pinpoints and his speech was rapid and slurred, Farmer said. The man appeared to be under the influence of a narcotic, Farmer said.

The Campus Safety of-fi cer called the police de-partment, who knew the man by name because they had been looking for him all day.

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The Orange Coast College community got their cheeks swabbed for a good cause.

Be The Match was on Orange Coast campus on Wednesday in front of the Library. The non-profit organization collects cheek swabs from donors and sends them to a registry in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to help blood cancer and blood-disease patients.

The initial donation of DNA is non-invasive. Vol-unteers sign papers and they swab the cheek.

If you get chosen to be a donor based off your ge-netic information, Be The Match will call and ask you to donate either blood or bone marrow.

“We are signing up donors into the national blood stem cell and bone marrow reg-istry,” said Janet Higgins, a community outreach spe-cialist for Be The Match.

OCC isn’t the only col-lege where Be The Match seeks donors.

“Every day I go out to different colleges. We have bone marrow registry drives and we sign up donors onto the registry,” Higgins said.

After donors are selected as a possible match, they will need to go through a few processes before the donation procedure.

“They’ll go through some testing and blood work. They’ll go through a phys-ical, they will be asked to do either a peripheral blood stem cell donation or bone marrow donation,” Higgins said.

In the case of a blood stem cell donation, the donor is conscious and can even watch movies.

“We fil ter their blood through a machine to filter out some stem cells,” Hig-gins explained.

In the case of giving bone marrow, the donor is in for a lot more.

“Bone marrow [donation] is a surgical procedure. We do take cells from the top of the pelvic bone. The donor is anesthetized for one and a half to two hours,” Higgins said.

Although the odds to be

chosen are a lot higher than winning the lottery or being struck by lightning, they are still rather slim.

“One out of every 560 people who swab the i r cheek and sign up actually go on to be a donor,” Hig-gins said.

Being young is a benefit when it comes to being a do-nor, so Be The Match seeks venues where they can find as many of them as possible.

“The reason we come to a lot of colleges is we really like young donors, 18 years old to 44,” Higgins said.

Be The Match is no longer on campus this semester. Higgins said interested par-ties can sign up at its offices in the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte in northern Los Angeles.

The Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society hosted the

Wednesday event.According to Higgins,

even though donors’ full DNA is being collected in the cheek swabs, the registry is not a full DNA database.

“It’s not a full DNA regis-try, it’s an HLA tissue-typ-ing registry, it goes onto the national bone marrow database,” Higgins said.

Donors are more likely to match a patient with similar characteristics, like race and ethnic background.

Higg ins sa id Be The Match hopes to help people who have tried to find a do-nor match with a close fam-ily member, but couldn’t.

“When they have a trans-plant and they search the Be The Match registry for a donor, it’s their very last option available,” Higgins said.

Orange Coast gets cheekyBe The Match was at Orange Coast collecting cheek swabs of potential blood donors.

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I’m not t y p i c a l -l y o n e t o w i s h s o m e -t h i n g i l l on others. A s m a l l part of me, however, hopes this man comes down with explosive di-arrhea and craps himself.

Preferably while on a job interview, family wed-ding, first date or anything really important.

I realize that at this point, nothing should sur-prise me about China, yet I was completely stunned and shocked when my friend and I found our-selves lost in Huángshān.

The word Huángshān literally translates to Yel-low Mountain and is a mountain range in the eastern part of China.

Being a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most famous mountain range in China (almost 15 million tourists visit each year), I was beyond excited to vis-it the 100-million-years-old landscape that was carved by glaciers.

The mountaintops are more than 6,000 feet tall with stone staircases that hug and wrap around the mountains and cloud formations resemble the ocean, earning it the name the Sea of Clouds.

The scenery was also the inspiration for James Cam-eron’s 2009 film “Avatar.”

Knowing all this, I an-t icipated being blown away and left breathless at the incredible beauty I was going to encounter.

What I did not antici-pate though, was getting lost in the mountain range slopes because a Chinese man thought it was OK to sell foreigners an outdated and inaccurate tour map.

I mean really, who the hell does that to someone?

Again, I hope karma brings him explosive and painful diarrhea.

I became conscious of the fact that my friend and I had gone astray only after finding ourselves separat-ed from the other visitors.

Grasping that we would

not make it back in time before darkness if we turned around and went back the way we came, we opted to continue moving down the mountain in hopes we would find an exit.

Maybe not the smartest idea, but the alternative option of hiking 6,000-foot mountain peaks in the dark seemed even more unwise and dangerous.

Thankfully, our deci-sion to continue down-ward paid off when we found ourselves in an enclosed campground of park staff that lived and worked there.

Upon our arrival, all you could hear were peo-ple screaming “laowai,” which is a Chinese word that means alien and an often derogatory descrip-tion of foreigners.

Regardless of the usage though, my friend and I were both overjoyed to have found other human life, even if they did think we were aliens.

Having no clue where we were, we were in-structed to call a number that would produce a car service to take us back around the mountain to the main entrance.

B e i n g t h e i g n o r a n t “laowai” that I am, this task seemed easy enough to accomplish, until we discovered that we were in no position to negotiate pricing of the car service and found ourselves being ripped off.

It took us three different cars (they kept making us switch cars and pay each time), one bus and three hours of driving to finally reach the town we were staying in.

While I was not expect-ing such an adventure upon visiting Yellow Mountain, the overall experience was absolutely incredible and the mountainsides, cou-pled with the views, were phenomenal.

Sadly though, I will never look at a “map-sell-er” the same way again but will likely envision five words instead: ex-plosive, painful, fire-like, agonizing diarrhea!

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Orange Coast College alum-nus Gustavo Arellano was born a nerd. Now a grown-up with glasses, Arellano has a thing or two to show nerds how to make it big.

The Orange County res-ident , who was born in Anaheim, is editor of the OC Weekly and a popular writer known nationwide due in part to his success of his “Ask a Mexican” column, which he published as a book.

“The funny thing about “Ask a Mexican” is we never thought it would go outside of Orange County, ’cause we figured the only newspapers in the country with the guts to publish something as outland-ish as this was the OC Weekly or a white supremacists news-paper,” Arellano said.

Arellano came to Orange Coast College on Oct. 30 to talk to a Journalism 110 class about his experiences in the field and how he found his passion for writing.

Initially Arellano wanted to make films and get his associates in arts degree in film. After attending Coast, he transferred to the private Chapman University, he told the class.

He soon realized he had neither the time nor the money needed to make films so he switched to film studies major.

It was while working on a

political campaign at Chap-man that he saw a magazine in the trash and picked it up. It was the OC Weekly’s April Fool’s Day issue filled with fake stories, like the one about five Latinos who were really racists, that caught Arellano’s eye.

He wrote a letter to the editor to over-emphasize the joke and to his surprise the letter was published and he was offered the opportunity to write for the alternative newspaper, Arellano said.

Arellano began writing mainly political stories for the OC Weekly. At just 21 years old, he was writing with great potential and was given a sto-ry on lucha libre (wrestling) fights happening in Anaheim.

Since he was the only one on the paper who spoke Spanish, he covered the story extremely well and what started as an 800-word story turned into a 3,000-word story.

He soon began writing food reviews and covering the

Spanish rock movement.In 2001, Arellano was ac-

cepted into graduate school at UCLA for Latin American studies. After initially decid-ing he wanted to drop out, he took a two-year scholarship with his editor’s encourage-ment that the degree and improvement in his writing would lead to a job.

Finally, he graduated in 2003 and got a staff writer position for the OC Weekly and became the food editor.

He wrote about White supremacists and sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Arel-lano realized the Weekly didn’t cover all of Orange County and so he began to cover the Muslim and Viet-namese communities.

He said he became the best and only reporter on the scene. His main beat was Latinos because he was the only Latino on staff.

“I started covering immi-gration from different angles. I would do investigative piec-es, first person testimonials...

[I] interviewed illegal im-migrants and interviewed people who opposed illegal immigrants,” he said.

In November 2004, Arel-lano’s editor saw a billboard for a Mexican DJ and thought the DJ looked like he could answer any questions about Mexicans and that is where the idea for “Ask a Mexican” came from.

The editor thought that only in Orange County would people be stupid enough to need an adviser for Mexicans, Arellano said.

What initially started as a joke got a lot of mixed reac-tions but people actually read it. People started sending him questions about Mexicans and nine years later the questions never stopped.

The column is now syn-dicated, published in 39 pa-pers and has become a book. Arellano has been a guest on various shows such as “The Colbert Report,” “Chelsea Lately” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Popular columnist Gustavo Arellano spoke to a journalism class.

BY MARITZA MEZASTAFF WRITER

“Ask a Mexican” at OCC

Photo courtesy of the New York Times

OC Weekly Editor and popular columnist Gustavo Arellano came back to Orange Coast College in October. The OCC alumnus is best known for his column “Ask a Mexican.”

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Music O C C S y m p h o n y,

Saturday: Ricardo Soto, conductor. Featur-ing work by two of the greatest composers of the Romantic Era, Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 and Antonín Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances. In the Robert B. Moore The-atre, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15 and $10 with a student ID.

Art“Pinups,” Nov. 20:

First annual student holiday show and sale. Opening reception and tree trimming Nov. 20, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Closing re-ception with live music, Dec. 7, noon - 4 p.m. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion.

TheatreAn Old-Fashioned

Christmas Melodrama and Ice Cream Social, Dec. 6-15: Directed by Rick Golson. Boo the villain and cheer the hero in OCC’s holiday melodrama and sing-a-long. Fun for the whole family! A special visitor is also expected… In the Drama Lab Theatre, times vary. Tickets are $7 in advance, $9 at the door. ($5/$7 for students, seniors, children).

Theatre “Elephant Man,” Nov.

8-Nov. 17: OCC’s fall the-atrical performance takes on the Tony Award-win-ning play based upon the real life of John Mer-rick. In the Drama Lab Theatre, 7:30 p.m, and 2:30 Sunday matinees. Advance tickets are $10 for adults, and $6 for stu-dents at the OCC Bursar’s Office, or online at www.occtickets.com; $12 and $8 at the door.

If you’ve been feeling like the last 10 years could have been improved by another movie with Keanu Reeves Kung Fu fighting, you’re in luck.

Allow me to present my one glaring bias right off the bat: I am in a select minority of peo-ple who, without irony, love the work of Keanu Reeves. I have a litany of reasons but mostly, I think he has one of the most overwhelmingly varied and interesting bodies of work in Hollywood.

For those that would argue that he’s a bad actor, I’d sug-gest that rather, he’s just high-ly stylized, in a similar way that John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart were stylized.

In “Man of Tai Chi,” Reeves is back with a self-aware movie that honors its own Hong Kong pedigree.

It’s modern, while main-

taining a traditional Chi-nese sensibility. For the past month, the film enjoyed a pre-theatrical release via On Demand and iTunes, and was released in theaters on Nov. 2.

The film marks Reeves’s directorial debut and stars “The Matrix” stuntman “Ti-ger” Chen Hu in the lead role – also called Tiger. The dialogue is partially in Mandarin, partially in Cantonese, and partially in English with subtitles when necessary. The plot revolves around Tiger, who is a hum-ble delivery man and the last practitioner of a particular form of tai chi.

Now Americans know tai chi as that slow-motion mar-tial art practiced by 80 year olds in the park. While that’s definitely involved, tai chi can be used “hard style” as an effective fighting method.

In order to save his temple from certain doom, Tiger is lured into an illegal fight club run by the brooding and sin-ister Donaka Mark (Reeves). The action follows Tiger’s descent into darkness, from a tender innocent to a dark and lost soul, and the redemption

he ultimately seeks.It’s typical stuff for a pic-

ture in this genre. No molds were broken in the plot, but it twists and turns enough to keep it fresh.

This film has about 14 fights. Yuen Woo-Ping – who was responsible for choreo-graphing the fight scenes in the “Matrix” films and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” among others – pro-vides stunning fights. The fights mostly pit Tiger against various martial arts styles. He faces off against everything from Kung Fu to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Reeves’s directorial choices are fitting. Clearly he has an extensive visual vocabulary, and a sense of humor.

Unlike many films in the same genre, “Tai Chi” es-chews many of the super wide shots and crazy wire stunts of the Kung Fu films that have come before it. In-stead, cinematographer Elliot Davis keeps the camera tight to the action, so much so that it doesn’t seem physically possible to achieve some of the angles.

There are a number of times

where Reeves directly calls back to his own career. An MMA fighter in one shot delivers a kick to the pro-tagonist and stands there for a moment, on one leg, foot extended, just like Neo in the hallway at the end of the first “Matrix.” The theme of temptation and redemption is one on which Reeves himself has trod heavily throughout his 30-plus-year career.

This f i lm could have slipped into self-importance, but it never gets so far as to take itself too seriously. It breaks the fourth wall in a few instances, and though it takes place in a modern

environment, recalls its roots. The plot is a lightweight

framework to rest a bunch of fantastically filmed and cho-reographed fights. It shows off the talents of the performers in a slick, attractive setting.

The most exciting moment for me was the final fight, where Reeves and Chen en-gage in a brutal and satisfy-ing climactic fight. Reeves, at nearly 50 years old, still brings it in a fight scene. That alone is worth the price of admission.

This film comes highly rec-ommended. The script is min-imalist, but the action is top of the line. This film is rated R.

Fans of Hong Kong-style Kung Fu movies have a lot to love.

BY MELISSA MYERSSTAFF WRITER

“Man of Tai Chi” film proves itself worthy

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Keanu Reeves stars in and directs “Man of Tai Chi,” a Kung Fu movie that moves from Mandarin to Cantonese to English.

Eva Perón is coming to Orange County.

“Evita” centers on the life of Argentina’s most powerful woman, who was loved and adored by her people and de-spised by those who craved her power. The Segerstrom Center for the Arts will present the musical starting Dec. 10 and it will run through Dec. 22.

The audience follows Perón from her humble beginnings, using her charm and ambition to rise to power, her foundation that was used to help the poor and her unfortunate death.

The musical opens with a somber tone starting with the moment Perón is pronounced dead and the news is revealed

to the country of Argentina. The stage is dimly lit as au-dience members watch per-formers on stage — as well as real life Argentines from the 1950s projected onto a screen — mourn the death of their beloved “Santa Evita.”

The movie screen is cleverly used throughout the musical to see the impact she had on her country and around the world as well as showcasing just how powerful Perón was and how much her people adored her.

Caroline Bowman, who portrayed Perón in the role at the Hollywood Pantages Theater, did a flawless job of embodying the historical heroin. Her melodic and powerful voice soared in mu-sical numbers like “Buenos Aires,” “I’d be Surprisingly Good for You,” and the al-ways beautiful “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.”

Bowman’s costars Josh Young, who plays Che, and Sean MacLaughlin, who por-trays Juan Perón, also gave a

remarkable performance.The most notable was Young

with a wide vocal range that was proudly displayed in mu-sical number “And the Money Kept Rolling In.”

Since “Evita” first made its

Broadway debut 30 years ago, it has won seven Tony Awards along with numerous profes-sional tours and worldwide productions. The musical also was turned into a Golden Globe-winning movie, fea-

turing Madonna and Antonio Banderas in 1996.

The musical recently fin-ished its tour in Los Angeles.

At the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, tickets start at $29 and can be purchased at scfta.org.

Powerful voices bring the classical musical to life in flawless show.

BY MELISSA GONZALEZSTAFF WRITER

“Evita” lives up to expectations

Photo courtesy of the Hollywood Pantages Theatre

Caroline Bowman did a flawless job playing Eva Peron in the classic musical “Evita” at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. The show is coming to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in December.

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With talk of an imminent smoking ban in the air, I feel as though it’s proper to speak out for those of us who enjoy being able to light up on the Orange Coast College campus.

The dangers of secondhand smoke are the main reason why some people don’t want others consuming tobacco products outdoors on campus. The school already does not allow smoking within so many feet of building entrances for obvious reasons.

A total campus-wide ban is not a good idea for a few reasons.

Secondhand smoke is of no harm to anyone when it’s outdoors, because it dissipates so quickly and is never con-centrated. Most people take in many more toxins on a daily basis then they may be led to believe — ones much worse than any outdoor secondhand smoke.

The smog you breathe in while close to a road or highway is similar in risk to secondhand cigarette smoke — if not great-er. I don’t see people scared to

breathe while driving their car or walking down the street, and last time I checked they have not yet banned recreational driving because others don’t want to inhale their gas fumes.

The neurological and car-cinogenic risks associated with aluminum chlorohydrate and aluminum zirconium tetrachlo-rohydrex gly in antiperspirant deodorant and also aluminum oxide in the so-called “chem-trails” or chemical trails that the United States and many European countries have been spraying from planes since the 1980s will have a much worse impact on one’s health than outdoor secondhand smoke ever will.

The cancer and organ failure risks associated with eating any genetically modified or-ganism can be much great-er than outdoor secondhand smoke. Many countries in Europe have outlawed GMO foods, and there have also been studies that found a surprising-ly high percentage of rats that ate Monsanto’s GMO corn developed massive tumors vs. no tumors in rats that ate natural corn.

With most corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. being GMO, and corn and corn products encompassing every corner of grocery store shelves, it’s no

wonder why so many young Americans are growing mali-cious cells.

The last argument someone would have in favor of a smok-ing ban is the unsightly smell it creates.

Outdoors, the smelly smoke dissipates, and a current ban keeps smokers away from areas where smoke will get indoors.

One objective of this ban is

to stop students from smok-ing, but as seen in Ronald Reagan’s “War on Drugs,” this tactic of implementing bans on people’s activities backfires immensely.

Students will just take to the parking lots to get their lung can-cer, as seen at any community college in the area besides OCC.

You have to ask yourself what’s worse, the slight smell

of tobacco here and there on campus every once in a while, or 40 youths all standing in the parking lot, smoking, blocking traffic, causing accidents and being an overall liability and nuisance for anyone who goes here.

If they ban smoking on cam-pus, going to school would be a lot like the song “Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room” by Mötley Crüe.

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QUESTION of the WEEK

How would you define feminism?

“Women’s rights.”

Michael Miranda20, biology

Raul Renteria21, pharmacy

“Women’s equality. Women like enforcing women power. Earning the same pay and being treated the same

in the work field.”

Julie Reyes20, business

“People that want equality for women.”

Jason Tasason20, welding

“The excessive rambling of penis envying.”

Michael Haviv18, business

“I don’t know, like woman’s equality in school and work

and social community.”

The terms feminism and feminist have been loose-ly th rown around for years now, so much so that it seems a large major-ity of people have forgot-ten what it actually means.

Let’s clarify — feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men. A feminist is a person, female or male, who support the ideals of feminism and ad-vocates equality.

When women, especially celebrity women, publicly state that they are not a feminist, but believe in equality for women or when they say they love men too much to be a feminist, do they realize what they are saying?

Believing in equality for women is being a feminist and nowhere in the definition of feminism does it say women must hate men. There is an actu-al term for man-haters and those women are called misandrist.

There is always some truth behind every stereotype and the stereotype feminists have acquired through the years of being anti-family, bra burners, masculine and unattractive, which comes from the fact that very early feminists were like this.

Their extreme nature was to make a point, change how they were treated and be recognized as an equal in a man’s world. Since the 1920s, when women finally gained the right to vote, women have slowly backed away from that stereotype.

Today many women identify themselves as being feminist and they certainly don’t fit that stereotype. Feminists can be girly and wear high heels, be working mothers and have good relationships with men.

Feminists today are not as angry as they were before, but they still have some work to do. Women are still being paid 77 cents for every dollar a man makes while state and federal officials are still trying to pass laws that restrain women when it comes to birth control and abortion rights.

Still, when it comes to femi-nism, it seems like women are the worst offenders. With com-ments like, “I’m not a feminist but,” they distort the true mean-ing and turn it into something uglier than it is.

When women who have huge platforms publicly denounce feminism, they do not realize the damaging effects it may have on the young girls who look up to them.

They also do not realize just how many women before them have been ostracized for the feminist movement, when it is what allows these women to be as powerful and influential as they are today.

Melissa Gonzalez

Staff Writer

T h e O r -gan i sa t ion for the Pro-hibition of C h e m i c a l W e a p o n s was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

While the winners cer-tainly are worthy of their award, there is one other person who may have been even more worthy.

Malala Yousafzai.At only 16 years old, she

has defied death, challenged her greatest enemies and has created an organiza-tion aimed at giving girls in developing countries an opportunity for success through education.

This young Pakis tani schoolgirl was denied ed-ucation when the Taliban invaded her hometown of Swat Valley. She stood up to her bullies and continued going to school and soon began blogging for BBC News.

By being an outspoken advocate for girl’s educa-tion, the Taliban made her enemy No. 1 and on Oct. 9, 2012 the Taliban shot her and two other girls on a bus.

One year later, Malala is

alive and well and stronger than ever.

Her story of courage, peace and education has captured the world’s atten-tion.

She has spoken at the United Nations Assembly, been honored at the Clinton Global Citizen Awards and most recently released an autobiography titled “I Am Malala.”

Had Malala won the No-bel Peace Prize, she would have been the youngest recipient of the award.

The work that the Organi-sation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is doing is also commendable.

Their efforts to take chem-ical weapons out of Syria and keep them out should be recognized, but whether their work will be success-ful or not is unknown. It won’t be realized until a couple of years from now.

Malala’s work, on the oth-er hand, has already made an impact globally.

Her efforts in rais ing awareness for education has given her worldwide attention. Her organiza-tion, Malala Fund, also has been raising money to build schools in developing countries to give girls an education.

Rapidly, she is accom-plishing her goal and is putting a spotlight on ed-ucation, making it her top priority and proving how effective the power of ed-ucation is by her actions, speech and courage.

As her star rises, there is a fear she is also making more enemies.

The Taliban has already issued a statement saying if given another chance, they would try to kill her again.

Still, if there is anything Malala is not is a coward. Her bravery is evident and her message is clear.

For a young girl who has been thrust into the spot-light, she handles herself with dignity and respect and is living proof that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Don’t ban smoking at Coast

Sean Miller

Features Editor

File photo

A current proposal for a campus-wide ban on smoking would include outside locations, such as this area. Secondhand smoke compares to many of the other “dangerous” chemicals.

An education in courage: 16-year-old Malala

Photo courtesy of the Guardian

Malala Yousafzai

Melissa Gonzalez

Staff Writer

Clarifying feminism

The Orange Coast College women’s volleyball game against Riverside went a lot shorter than the last time. The last time these two teams met, it went the dis-tance, fi ve sets.

Orange Coast (11-5 over-all, 6-5 in conference) swept Riverside (7-12 overall, 3-8 in conference) 31-29, 25-19,

25-20 on Friday at home.“What worked for us in this

game was our serving and our defense,” head coach Chuck Cutenese said.

In the first set, it looked like OCC was not prepared for Riverside, as they fell behind 22-16. Orange Coast, however, didn’t give up and eventually won a wild fi rst set 31-29.

“The players that impacted our team in this game were Kellie Kleszcz and Kiana Nicio. They played great offense and defense against Riverside,” Cutenese said.

In the second set, OCC cleaned up their act and never

trailed en route to winning set two 25-19.

“Our team had really good serving and blocking and that led to us winning. We now have a mindset to win games like this,” Kellie Kleszcz, 18, a communication major, said.

The third set looked just like the second. OCC never trailed and fi nished set three and the match 25-20.

“Our team had a lot of heart against Riverside. We knew more about Riverside and we were able to take advantage of their mistakes,” Nicio, 19, a business major, said.

OCC’s next game will be tonight at home at 7 p.m.

against Irvine Valley College (16-0 overall, 11-0 in confer-ence).

“If we want to beat Irvine Valley, we’re going to need to serve aggressively and dig a lot of balls,” Cutenese said.

Nicio also added what she and her team are going to need to do against the unbeaten Irvine Valley.

“Defense, defense, defense! We also need to let Irvine Valley make their mistakes instead of us forcing them to make mistakes,” Nicio said.

As well as facing Irvine Valley tonight, OCC will be on the road against Santa Ana on Friday at 7 p.m.

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SOCCER SCORES

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A display of execution and hardwork earned Orange Coast College men’s soccer team a 2-1 victory over Santa Ana Col-lege at home. Following the victory, OCC moved four points clear at the top of the Orange Empire Conference with one game remaining, as of press time. OCC closes conference play at 3 p.m. on Friday on the road against Norco College.

The Pirates lose to Fullerton in a stinging fashion.

BY TERAN RODRIGUEZSPORTS EDITOR

The Orange Coast Col-lege football team came into Saturday’s game as the underdog against Fullerton, who was ranked first in con-ference, first in Southern California and second in state. Fullerton (9-0 overall, 5-0 in conference) lived up to their reputation and stung OCC (3-7 overall, 1-5 in conference) 63-21.

“Fullerton is a really good team. Their record shows that they play great foot-ball ,” head coach Mike Taylor said.

In the first quarter, Ful-lerton scored three touch-downs while holding OCC’s defense to no points. Fuller-ton led 21-0.

“We had a lot of injuries on our team and our offense didn’t click. That’s why we didn’t beat Fullerton,” Cameron Biedgoly, 19, un-decided, said.

Biedgoly put OCC on the board with a touchdown pass finding A.J. Holman early in the second quarter, but Fullerton outscored OCC in the second quarter 28-7. OCC trailed 49-7 at halftime.

“We didn’t have a whole lot of consistency against Fullerton. We also lacked character and we made too many mistakes,” Lorenzo Williams, 20, sociology, said.

In the third quarter, Ful-lerton scored seven points, wh i l e OCC scored s ix

thanks to Jon Newsom find-ing Darren Hambrick for a 38-yard touchdown pass. Fullerton led 56-13 at the end of the third.

“Fullerton played hard, but overall I’m glad of how hard our team played,” Biedgoly said.

OCC outscored Fullerton 8-7 thanks to Newsom find-ing Brandon Guillory on a 43-yard touchdown pass. Newsom also found Angel Holmes on a two-point conversion, but it wasn’t enough.

Just like that, OCC’s sea-son ended losing to Fuller-ton, 63-21.

“I’m proud of how the team played against Fuller-ton. They played until the last snap,” Taylor said.

Taylor also summed up his football team’s overall season.

“We finished 3-7 over-all and personally that’s not a good season. I’m still proud of the team, but if we’re going to have a better season we have to keep players around in the offseason, considering that certain players quit after their freshman year,” Taylor said.

OCC’s last game of the season also was the last for the 20 sophomores on the football team. Biedgoly, who is a sophomore, talked about what he’s going to miss from OCC’s football team and what his future plans are.

“I’m going to miss the people, the camaraderie and the moments I had with this team,” Biedgoly said. “I’m going to get my AA and transfer to play football at a different college.”

Season ends for football

Women’s volleyball cleans up in quick match on Friday at its home court.

BY TERAN RODRIGUEZSPORTS EDITOR

Orange Coast sweeps Riverside

now resides, is never fun, but it’s worth it, she said.

She now plays for head coach Kevin Smith, who has estab-lished a consistent squad in his past fi ve seasons in charge.

“When Kamille fi rst came in, she was out of shape,” Smith said, understandingly as she was gone from the game for more than fi ve years. “But three weeks into practice, she became the most match-fi t player on the team.”

For someone who has played in multiple teams at a time, it’s evident that losing your groove rarely happens, but fi t-ness comes with hard work in practice. And with girls around

her, such as captain Anmarie Moreno, who has a tireless work rate at any point in time, vigor was never going to be a problem.

Cawley made her point clear about just how well Moreno’s work rate and leadership rubbed off on her.

Moreno “works her butt off and never stops,” Cawley said.

Sharing accolades given is something this group is keen on expressing. The cordiality between the team is as good as any.

“We’ve become really, really close,” Cawley said, “We’ve gone to baseball games and most girls hang out together on weekends.”

The ultimate prize of winning

is motivation enough for a true competitor.

For Cawley and the team sharing the title together with this unifi ed clique of determined athletes has been motivation enough all season.

Motivation for Cawley comes in the added form of a scar.

A scar that is ‘tattooed’ on the inside of her left leg that reminds her every day of what it’s like to not be able to walk. It’s easy to walk away from things when you can – but when you leave too soon, it may take years to realize what you’ve been miss-ing all along.

And thanks to the scar, Caw-ley found out six years later the importance of what she surrendered.

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