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Kick offThe Pirates are ready for the new season with an attack style offense.

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VMA VIPReporter Michelle Mendez got up close to celebrities at the star-studded event.

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Beginning in the spring and through the summer, students may have noticed new construc-tion rising on campus, overshad-

owing much of Orange Coast College’s mostly single and two story campus in the Adams Ave-nue Parking Lot.

The last big building con-structed at OCC was the ABC building, which was completed about two years ago and hous-es allied health, biology and consumer health. In the spring walkway barriers started to ap-pear again.

Fences force students to re-trace their paths to parts of the campus as construction workers

build the college’s Interdisci-plinary Center. The 75,000-sq. ft. three-story building will be the home of mathematics, busi-ness and computing – otherwise known as the MBC building. The total cost for the structure is $36.7 million.

Kevin Ballinger, executive dean of instruction, said build-ing designer LPA Corporation allowed OCC’s historic Neu-tra-styling to influence the cen-ter’s architecture through the building’s practical layout and

geometry. Richard Neutra is the famed architect credited for designing much of OCC.

The highly angled building includes a large circular wing protruding on the east side of the main building. This area will be the new open computer lab. The lab is large and surrounded by a ring of classrooms and features two lecture rooms in the middle.

“LPA architects designed this for OCC, and they love Neutra as well, so when they talk about this building, they say that this has

features that Neutra would have, such as how to let air and light in, walkways, and shaded areas, sustainability considerations —all features that they think that Neutra would have been proud of,” Ballinger said.

In the second phase of con-struction, the LPA architects will create two more buildings along-side the MBC. The structure, which will be 85,000 sq. ft., will house facilities for the Literature and Languages department and the second will be the Social and

Behavioral Sciences department.The new MBC building will

allow a significant expansion in space and facilities compared to the space currently used by the old computer center, the busi-ness wing and the math wing. A relocation of the mathematics department and an expanded fa-cility for the business education department will offer more seats and learning utilities to students than ever before, Ballinger said.

Photo by Sean Miller

Orange Coast College’s new 75,000-sq.-ft. MBC building rises in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot. The building will house classrooms for math, buisness and computing.

Orange Coast College stu-dents eased into the new school year with a wider variety of classes and dramatically shorter waitlists.

Coast started its fall semester on last week with 7,145 more seats available for students than last year. This semester is offering 81,532 seats—a nearly a 10 percent increase compared to 74,357 seats from fall 2013.

College officials have also in-creased the number of high-de-mand classes required for four-year transfer students and asso-

ciate degree completion. “We look at student needs,

we look at things like waitlisted classes, we look at the classes that close the earliest and we’re hoping to target some of our growth to help students move along faster that way,” Kevin Ballinger, interim vice presi-dent of instruction said.

The last couple of years, the ongoing budget woes left many students struggling to get enough classes to carry a full load, transfer on time, or even finish certificate programs within reasonable timelines.

With the recent seat increase at Coast, classes this fall are 80.3 percent full thanks to the 1,924.3 newly added sections.

This schedule expansion has also alleviated waitlist length. The waitlist is down about

New building begins to take formThe futureInterdisciplinary Center will house math, business and computing classes.BY JOHN HAZELTONSTAFF WRITER

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Classes up, waitlists down by about 8,000OCC adds courses to its schedule, which has more seats being filled this semester.

BY KYLEE PICOSTAFF WRITER

Teacher passion can make class a must Pirates name popular sections from Italian to Humanities to Public Speaking.BY MAYRA MARESSTAFF WRITER

The start of a new semester can bring with it a longing for things past — and for some Or-ange Coast College students that means reflecting on some of their favorite classes.

Cristina Rodriguez, 20, an undecided major, said her fa-vorite class was Introduction to Humanities with instructor Helen McComb.

“She made it very interesting and was interactive with the stu-dents,” Rodriguez said. “She was very passionate about it.”

Rodriguez isn’t the only one who said a teacher’s love and passion for the subject is what contributes to it becoming a fa-

vorite class. “I’ve had some teachers not be

passionate and it made the class boring,” said Katelin Lally, 20, a biology major.

Lally said some of her favor-ite classes at OCC have been Interpersonal Communications, Chemistry and Introduction to Humanities.

Nazz Cantiveros, 20, a kine-

siology major, said her favorite class at OCC was her philosophy class with instructor Charles “Chaz” Otwell because he was engaging and had been a hippie.

Along with having a passionate attitude toward the subjects, stu-dents agree that the environment the teacher creates is what makes a class a favorite.

Zyaire Levesque, 22, a com-munications major, said that some of his favorite classes have been Interpersonal Communications, Public Speaking, Essentials to Argumentation, and Professional Selling.

“The professors’ way of being and the open environment they create,” Levesque said is what has contributed to his love for the classes.

Austin Nguyen, 22, a market-ing major, said that his favorite classes have been Intrapersonal Communications and his mar-keting class because the things he learned there can be used in

real life.Johny Bedolla, 20, an undecid-

ed major, said his favorite class so far has been English 100 with instructor Ginny Komenda.

“I liked the way she taught and was involved,” Bedolla said. “She saw I was struggling and she went out of her way to help me.”

While many students at OCC have been here long enough to pick favorites, some OCC new-comers shared what their favorite class has been so far.

First year Yanet Fierro, 18, a theatre major, said that her fa-vorite class so far has been her astronomy class because her in-structor makes it very interesting and relatable.

Luis Cantu, 28, a chemical engineering major, said that his favorite class has been Italian with instructor Susana Salessi.

“It’s about also culture and not just the language,” Cantu said. “She’s also from Italy so it’s like first-hand experience.”

“I liked the way she taught and was involved. She saw I was strug-gling and she went out of her way to help me.”

Johny Bedolla20, undecided

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District names chancellor, deans at OCCSeveral resignations lead to changes at the top and searches start for permanent posts.

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS

The Coast Community Col-lege District Board of Trustees appointed Tom K. Harris as the District’s interim chancellor, replacing former chancellor Andrew Jones after he abruptly resigned just weeks before fall classes started.

Harris started his new position last week.

Harris has more than 50 years experience in education, much of it in Southern California. Most recently, Harris served as the interim president at West Hill College in Coalinga and previ-ously served as the chancellor of the North Orange County Community College District. He has also held several interim positions since retiring in 1999.

Harris has a doctorate and master’s degree in higher edu-cation from the University of Southern California, a bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Jose State College, and an as-sociate’s degree from Compton

College.He lives in

McCall, Idaho and will tem-porarily relo-cate to Orange County as a n a t i o n w i d e search for a new chan-cellor gets underway.

“Dr. Har-ris brings a great deal of e x p e r i e n c e to Coast col-leges,” board P r e s i d e n t Mary Horn-buckle said. “ W i t h h i s combination of recent ex-perience and his history of educational l e a d e r s h i p i n O r a n g e C o u n t y, Dr. Har-ris is very capable of successfully leading the Coast District and its three colleges.”

In a welcome letter to faculty

Kevin Ballinger

Tara Giblin

Tom Harris

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CRIMEBLOTTER

Threat reportA male student filed a report

alleging he was threatened by another male student who was holding a knife in the Student Center Lounge on Aug. 27, Chief of Campus Safety John Farmer said.

The victim said the alleged threat began last semester but he didn’t report it until the suspect brandished the weapon in the lounge this semester, according to Farmer.

The suspect was holding the knife out and told the victim that he’d better be careful, Farmer said.

A report is going to the dean of students for review.

Let’s go outsideA male staff member in the

Fitness Complex reported be-ing threatened by a male stu-dent while he was processing students for class on Aug. 27.

According to Farmer, the student told the instructor he was missing a required paper for enrollment but it was in his car and he was not going to get it.

The instructor repeated that the paper was required for class enrollment and the stu-dent told the instructor that anytime he wanted to settle the matter they could step outside, Farmer said.

Another staff member told the student that he can’t go around threatening staff mem-bers and the suspect left the building.

When the instructor’s shift was over he walked out and saw the student. The student told the instructor they could resolve the issue right there, according to Farmer.

A report is going to the dean of students for review after Campus Safety was called.

Bitter biterAn assault and battery was

reported in the Merrimac Way Parking Lot on Aug. 21 between 11 a.m. and noon.

The female victim reported declining then answering a phone call from a male friend. The friend said he would “die” if she didn’t meet him on cam-pus to talk, Farmer said.

The victim agreed to meet the friend and got into his car in the parking lot.

According to Farmer, he grabbed her cell phone to get a number of a friend and bit her upper right arm when she tried to take back the phone.

The suspect apologized for biting her and said he won’t hurt her again, Farmer said.

She didn’t press charges but a report has been sent to the dean of students.

Text the ERA male skateboarder was in-

jured in Adams Avenue Parking Lot at 1 p.m. on Aug. 25 when he crashed into a moving car while allegedly texting, accord-ing to Farmer.

A male student was driving at 5 mph to 10 mph in the park-ing lot when the skateboarder, who is also a student, allegedly rolled out in front of the car, Farmer said.

The skateboarder hit his shoulder on the car’s driv-er side front quarter panel. A Campus Safety officer reported a scratch and dent in the panel and a smashed windshield on the passenger side of the car, according to Farmer.

The skateboarder was taken to Hoag Hospital.

—The Crime Blotter was compiled by Sean Miller from Campus Safety reports.

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Orange Coast College alum-na Carmindy has published a new book geared toward youngsters, but any young women on campus could prob-ably benefit from the celebrity make-up artist’s tips.

The book, “Bloom: A Girl’s Guide to Growing up Gor-geous,” is the latest from the pen of former TLC’s “What Not to Wear” resident make-up artist Carmindy — a Newport Beach native and former OCC student.

Born Kathryn Bowyer, she is also the creator of the Carmindy & Co. cosmetic line and author

of three other books.Carmindy attended OCC in

the early 1990s and took make-up classes from OCC theatre instructor, David Scaglione. In an interview with the college’s newsletter “Coast to Coast” earlier this summer, Scaglione praised the author and make-up artist and commented on her positive attitude and person-ality.

“She was an amazing stu-dent. You could see that she had a great talent and aptitude for makeup,” Scaglione said. “Plus, she possesses a great personality. She treats everyone with respect and courtesy, and that comes across in her TLC show.”

In her new book, Carmindy gives teens beauty tips and skincare fundamentals. Her unique style of emphasizing the face’s best features, instead of trying to cover up flaws, is easy-

to-follow and budget-friendly. She covers other issues such as

how to wear glasses fashionably and tips to cover up blemish-es. She even gives advice on

bullying and all with a positive outlook on life, typical of Car-mindy’s style.

The book is in color with pho-tos on how to apply make-up.

A new book gives women the beauty basics of looking their very best.BY KATHLEEN KORTSTAFF WRITER

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Students can play an active role on campus as a member of the Associated Students of Orange Coast College’s many committees.

ASOCC, which is led by the

student government and repre-sentatives, has several commit-tees still accepting applications.

“Students can have their voices represented by applying to be a part of committees on campus that work with administration and fac-ulty,” ASOCC President Grishma Patel, 19, an English major said.

There are currently positions open on the College Life Com-mittee, College Life Volunteer Team members, Fiscal Affairs Council, Shared Governance Committee, InterClub Council

and Orange & Blue Spirit Crew. Applications for committee po-sitions are now available in the ASOCC office with deadlines on Sept. 19 at noon and Oct. 2 at 5 p.m.

Appointments will be made by the Student Senate.

Student Senate President Cris-tian Salazar, 20, a psychology major said that it is highly en-couraged for students not already affiliated with the student gov-ernment to participate as mem-bers of these committees. This

gives them the opportunity to be involved in helping to address any concerns that they may be passionate about, as well as give them an idea of what the student government is like.

“Many students may not even be aware that there is a student government,” said ASOCC Vice President Lynn Hua, 19, a polit-ical science major. “Students are welcome to join the ASOCC Sen-ate meetings every Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. as a public forum to find more information.”

ASOCC looking for volunteersStudents can apply for leadership positions on various government boards.BY CRYSTAL NGUYENSTAFF WRITER

The Orange Coast College Foundation announced an all-

time record of cash gifts total-ing $4,343,652 for 2013-14, according to Doug Bennett, Foundation executive director.

Leading the list of donations was an anonymous gift of $1 million for the college’s as-tronomy program, $480,000 from the estate of Ruth Miller and $511,920 from the CIFE Foundation for a friction stir welding machine, which will arrive in early 2015.

In addition the Foundation reported an anonymous gift of $100,000 for the School of Sailing and Seamanship and $194,000 from the estate of Giles Brown, a founding fac-ulty member.

“This has been a banner year in many ways with the OCC Foundation Board reaching a new benchmark in providing scholarships for students and in advancing the technology

in the classrooms,” said OCC President Dennis Harkins. “It is this support at time when funding for higher education is facing many challenges that allows OCC to be accessible to larger number of students and to contribute to the lives of our students.”

In total, the Foundation re-ported 2,666 cash contribu-tions. Another 101 of “in kind gifts”— boats, equipment and other non-cash item — brought the overall gift total for the year to $4,880,911.

The previous best was in 2004-05, when Orange Coast received $3,331,402 in cash gifts.

“We are pleased at the diver-sity of gifts in terms of sources and types of gift,” Bennett said. “We are honored that our donors are so generous in their support of OCC students.”

The OCC Foundation works with a board of directors made up of community leaders.

The OCC Foundation was established in 1985 with some $1 million in assets. The Foun-dation currently has over $21 million in assets, including $17 million in cash assets.

At present, the Foundation’s major project is raising funds for OCC’s new $18 million OCC Planetarium.

Groundbreaking for the Plan-etarium will take place next summer.

“Annually, we are in the top five in California community colleges in terms of our fund-raising achievements,” Bennett said.

For more information about gift giving opportunities to support Orange Coast College, contact Bennett at (714) 432-5126.

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The MTV Video Music Awards was a night to re-member. I saw many of my favorite art-ists and got to high five Ed Sheeran after he won Best M a l e A r t -ist.

While most people watched the VMAs on TV, I was there front and center as Nicki Minaj spread her legs in front of my face as she performed on stage in Inglewood on Aug. 24.

I was given pit tickets, along with 200 lucky fans, by 1iota, a company that provides fans with free tickets to shows like “Good Morning America” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“1iota saved my life and my bank account,” Courtney Evangelista, 19 said. “I was able to go to the VMAs for free and it was the best experience of my life.”

I had a chance to stand by the celebrities because I looked trendy enough for the cameras. I wore a black dress and a leather jacket with Dr. Martens.

Of course, with free tickets came rules: no jumping up and down when the camera came, no touching the celebrities un-less they reach out and no cell phones.

The show opened with Ari-ana Grande singing her current single “Break Free,” which

transitioned into Minaj rapping “Anaconda” followed by Jessie J coming on stage and the trio singing “Bang.” Big stars such as Iggy Azalea, Rita Ora, Usher, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, 5 Sec-onds of Summer and Beyonce took the VMA stage as well.

“I was looking forward to seeing Beyonce perform, she always leaves me in awe,” Nataly Silva, 18, an undecided major said.

Beyonce performed a melody of her recent album, giving the performance of her career. She won the Michael Jackson Van-guard award which was handed to her by her husband Jay-Z and daughter Blue Ivy.

The most anticipated award of the night was Artist to Watch, re-minders were given all through-out the show for people to vote between Charli XCX, 5 Seconds of Summer, Sam Smith, School-boy Q and Fifth Harmony.

The winner, Fifth Harmony, was the second girl group to win a VMA since 2008. Dinah Jane Hansen, 17, an Orange County native, is the youngest woman to receive the Artist to Watch award.

Fifth Harmony taking the award was the highlight of the night for Ashley Torres, 19, a theatre design major.

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Michelle Mendez Staff Writer

No iPhone, no life

It was the first week of class this semester and I stood in my usual spot, leaning against the booth shading the green bus stop bench, waiting for my ride — the 79 bus — to approach. Just like every semester, when the bus finally arrived I hopped aboard, paying my fair for the slow grind to campus.

It would not be until after the bus departed and I reached for my phone to check the time did I see that the battery life was down to 5 percent.

I never realized how de-pendent I had grown upon my iPhone until I had to spend an entire day at Orange Coast College without one.

Almost everything has an on-line variant. There’s no need for phone books or bus schedules thanks to the Internet. Weather has been consolidated to a single app.

In my many previous trips to campus, making transfers from one bus route to another wasn’t such a painstaking process.

Normally, I would text a number to the Orange County Transportation Authority, give the bus stop number and route from any stop, any time of day, and within seconds I would have the next three times the bus was scheduled there in the palm of my hand.

Instead, I had to ask each bus driver, on every bus I traveled,

for a hard copy of the schedule to look at and memorize, or write down the specific times I would need to know, or else I would forget and would have no choice but to wait at the stop until the next bus got there. This could be over an hour.

Throughout the day, whenev-er I thought of doing something I was smacked by the realiza-tion that I was without a phone. What articles could I read to pass the time? None. I need a phone for that. What time is it? Could not tell. I had no watch. Who could I text or call for a ride? No one. I had no phone.

Time on campus, outside of class, was a solitary experience. I didn’t have any means to pass the time other than what I could read from the library.

Should there be any accident from a friend or relative, I would not hear of it until I got back from class.

Being separated from that kind of instant information, I had never realized what a priv-ilege it is to have immediate access.

It was like being transported to a bygone era before the inter-connectivity of the Internet and social media made the world a smaller place.

It was a strange, surreal expe-rience to be so disconnected for the first time in a while. There was a feeling of vulnerability having to travel with complete strangers knowing you had no means of contact with anyone familiar.

Being unable to escape into a phone, I had to live in the mo-ment with whoever was around me at the time.

The most bizarre part of the experience was not that I felt

this smaller place, but rather that a time not too long ago, liv-ing without this technology was considered perfectly normal.

Practically no one had cell phones in the 1980s and ear-ly 1990s, except for the few who could afford them, and those phones looked like cinder blocks that couldn’t do any-thing but make calls without a landline.

By contrast, now practically everyone can afford a phone that can not only make calls, but essentially can substitute any form of entertainment or utility imaginable, including but not limited to, cameras, video and calculators.

Is it good for us to be so reli-ant on a single handheld device to do so much for us?

Possibly, but then again life before this technology cer-tainly didn’t come without its shortcomings as I experienced firsthand.

It seems like every genera-tion becomes accustomed to some new form of technology and can’t conceive of living without.

People from the 1950s prob-ably looked at life in the 1930s before television the same way I currently look at it before iPhones.

So on that day without a phone, after having spent enough time on campus, I made my long trek home through a combination of lucky guesses and some memorization. Hav-ing bus times written down is not useful if you have no means to tell time. I would frequently scout around the campus clock tower or ask strangers for the time to keep myself on track of where I needed to go and when.

By some miraculous chain of events, I ultimately managed to make it home without use of any digital technology. Be it frustrating at times, I am glad I was put through this uninten-tional experiment.

It is good to give yourself a break from technology from time to time, if for no other reason than to keep you on your toes, and remind you that the simpler times were not very simple at all.

A dead cell phone leaves a student with no bus schedule, the time, or friends.

BY MILES WHITESTAFF WRITER

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A ride on the bus to the first week of classes turns into a punishment when a student realizes his phone battery is drained.

The first week of school can be overwhelming with an unfa-miliar schedule and intimidat-ing syllabi. To offer some relief for the weary, an assortment of shows are slated at Orange Coast College.

The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pa-vilion is currently showcasing two art exhibits. One exhibit features works dedicated to art dealer Kiyo Higashi and the other is a tribute to the late Julia Klemek.

Best known for being an art dealer with an abstract taste, Higashi is credited as an im-portant supporter of the Mini-malistic movement.

The Main Gallery will pay

homage to Higashi with ab-stract artworks and paintings from notable Minimalists such as Larry Bell and Florence Pierce.

“Representing artists is not a casual commitment for Kiyo Higashi,” instructor Trevor Norris, who is also the gallery director wrote about the ex-hibit. “Instead, she ‘lives and breathes’ art exhibiting and dealing.”

Also housed in the Pavilion, the Second Gallery showcases sculptures and drawings by Klemek.

As an award winning artist in the community, Klemek taught at OCC until she died last year.

The tribute presents memo-rable art pieces that reflect her awe-inspiring life and work — from her renowned public sculptures in Laguna Beach to personal drawings and sketch-es, each creation is given a spotlight to shine, according

to a press release from Orange Coast College.

Both exhibits will close on Oct. 2. They are open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from noon to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Exclusively on Sept. 6 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. artists from the Higashi’s exhibit will be at the gallery.

If contemporary paintings and sculptures are not one’s cup of tea, then come to the Studio Theatre on Sept. 12 through 14 and enjoy the fourth annual Scene Night performed by the OCC Theatre department.

The show gives student di-rectors the chance to cast and recreate famous scenes, either from popular movies or classi-cal plays, such as Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma.”

“It is a cross section of world theater, [the show] has some of the best theater literatures and it’s impressive to see the talent the students get to offer,” Theatre Arts professor Rick Golson said.

The performances range from dramatic to comedic, and are intended for mature audiences.

Admission is free and the shows start at 7:30 p.m. Parking is also free during weekends.

“It’s a nice evening out rather than sitting in a dark movie theater like you have many times before,” Jay Ponder, 30, a theatre arts and biology major said. “Scene Night gives you a better exposure to more aspects of life so it’s a really good thing to check it out.”

Enjoy the artistic side of Orange CoastClear the calendar and check out these artsy campus events.

BY QUY HUASTAFF WRITER

Julia Klemek

Photo courtesy of Susan Nelson Art Gallery

Julia Klemek, a noted sculptor and OCC faculty member who died last year, is remembered in a show at the Frank M. Doyle Art Pavilion.

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QUESTION of the WEEK What class are you most looking forward to this semester?

“Jazz. I like dance and it’s a good way to get in shape.”

Heather Frankeny21, business

Michael Honar18, computer science

“Philosophy. It gives me a broader perspective on life.”

Evan Carol19, chiropractics

“Java Programming. I want to major in computer science.”

Becca Frankeny18, film

“Hospitality because I’m doing business hospitality.”

Emohni Raymond17, culinary arts

“Human Sexuality because it sounds fun.”

Max MayerStaff Writer

If anyone e v e r s a y s that appear-ance doesn’t matter, they are wrong. As much as I dislike it and think it is an incor-rect way to judge some-o n e , t h a t doesn’t diminish the fact that people will judge others based on how they dress and how they present themselves.

Knowing this, while also keeping in mind that we live in a nation where we have the right to dress and act the way we would like within the law, people have no right to turn around and get upset when they are judged by others.

I have learned to be tolerant and accepting of all races, religions, sexual preferences,

clothing and tattoos, but many people judge purely on what they see. This is obviously a shallow way to view people, but just because it is wrong doesn’t mean that it isn’t real.

I remember near the begin-ning of the summer, I saw on the news that a homosexual high school student was suing his school district because he claimed that the administra-tors and teachers failed to prevent his classmates from bullying him.

They then showed the teen-ager walk into a media room wearing a pearl necklace and a dress.

I realize the bullying proba-bly wasn’t due so much to his sexual preference as it was the way he presented himself on a daily basis. If I had showed up to high school wearing such apparel, I would have looked like a leopard by the end of the week with all of the bruises

everywhere on my body.I think the same concept

applies to visible tattoos. It’s perfectly fine and complete-ly legal for someone to get tattoos all over their body, but knowing how judgmental humans are, I don’t think such tattooed individuals should act offended when someone crosses the street to walk on the other side when they see him or her.

There is a reason business-men wear suits and ties and why people try so hard to look as presentable as possible for job interviews. In the pro-fessional world, as well as in the educational world and the street world, people will judge others everywhere.

Jus t keep that in mind before you make impulsive decisions others might find inappropriate or offensive that might alter your appearance in a negative way.

Looks do matter

S t e p h e n Curry of the Golden State Warriors blew up on a nation-al level in the 2008 NCAA Division 1 bas-ketball tourna-ment, but be-fore that, many fans, scouts and players didn’t recognize his incredible potential.

I remember University of North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams saying in an interview that he never really remembered seeing Curry play and if he did, all he would have thought about was his ridiculous small stature as he was much shorter his senior year of high school.

Other coaches also failed to recognize his ability as no Division 1 basketball school gave him any offers other than Davidson Col-lege, a small school close to home in North Carolina. Along with the lack of believers other than family and close friends, Curry also faced many roadblocks and obstacles on his journey to NBA stardom.

For much of his high school

career, Curry shot from his waist. His father, former NBA athlete Dell Curry, told him that he needed to change that part of his game and shoot from above his head to avoid shot blocking if he wanted to be successful at a higher level. He even has mentioned how frustrating that period in his life was, as it was extremely difficult to alter a shot he had been using for his whole life.

Also, after he began to turn some heads in the NBA, Curry had severe ankle injuries, which allowed him to actively participate in only 26 games in the 2011-12 season. He already had seven ankle sprains over his first three seasons in the NBA. Despite this, Curry was able to recover from his injuries and come back better and more confident than ever.

I remember hearing a man speak about how he helped at a Kobe Bry-ant Nike basketball camp during Curry’s college career. He said Curry was the least touted name there, but that he knew Curry would be a future NBA star.

It was because of his work eth-ic. During the camp’s three hour workouts, Curry would already be taking set shots from different spots

on the court 30 minutes before the workouts began while everyone was still getting dressed and ready. He was in a full sweat by the time the workout actually began, metic-ulously trained during the workout and went back and did something if he did it incorrectly the first time.

The man went on to say that the most impressive part was at the end, when he would not leave the court until he swished five consecutive free throws, which is ridiculously difficult.

Curry proves that success is not an accident, but a choice. He is arguably the best jump shooter on the planet because he has made the choice to be successful. His work habits are on par with his future goals, which set him up in a perfect fashion to attain those goals. He has proved the nonbelievers wrong through hard work and his passion-ate pursuit of his dream.

I think this can be directly related to real life situations, because it shows that if one puts in the work and refuses to give up on a some-what realistic dream, then they can have the potential to achieve anything.

Success is not stumbled upon, it is one’s choice.

Success is no accidentMAX PERFORMANCE

Max Mayer Views Editor

It has been three years in SoCal since I entered Orange Coast College and it gave me a lot of memories that I enjoyed and regretted.

When I was in high school in Kumamoto, Japan, I have gotten an interest of studying abroad. I desired to move some-where else, especially America. I was definitely influenced by the drama series “The O.C.”

Since I’ve never been to other countries at the time and I had no idea what to do, I decided to enter a language school in Tokyo first to prepare for a foreign college education before coming to the United States. In the school, I developed the standard essences of students in America such as making essays, note-taking and developing listening skills. Then I

took TOEFLI got enough score to enter

Orange Coast College as an inter-national student.

After spending one and a half years in Tokyo, I came to the United States in 2011. My college life started with business admin-istration major. Everything was new to me.

I started doing homestay with a family at the first time. The family members treated me well. They showed me around and in-troduced me to their friends and acquaintances.

So as on campus, friends I made introduced me new ones. In my first semester, I hanged out a lot with Asian friends especially Taiwanese people.

It was very fresh for me to hang out with people whose nationali-ties are various besides Japanese people. Most of them were pretty open-minded and did dance a lot. It was a culture shock that they hug a lot, shake hands in some unique ways and don’t care even if other

people see them dancing in public. Almost all my greatest mem-

ories in my college life were happened in the first year. For example, unlike these days, bon-fire on the beach didn’t have strict restrictions at the time.

For living, I had many struggles. I changed the place to live four times. After the first semester, I quit doing homestay and tried to live in a shared house to cut some costs.

At first, I moved to a house but there are so many bugs showed up all day all night. A few months later, I moved to a house which another family lives. After I moved in, they confessed that they had been committed robberies several times before from the window in which I was living. “Watch out,” they said. I moved out in a month since I couldn’t sleep enough.

After I got tired of finding places to live by using Craigslist, I lived by myself in an apartment which located next to OCC. I lived there for a year. I felt confidence because

only I was in the room. However, since the room was the cheapest one in the apartment complex, I got some inconveniences which were poorly ventilated and a warn-ing alarm woke me up because of the hotness in the room.

After that I ended up by living in a shared house with Japanese people.

For education, at first I was plan-ning to graduate from a commu-nity college as soon as possible so that I could transfer to a four-year university faster than the average that usually people graduate in two to three years. I assertively took particular classes which were for business administration. It was a mistake.

I took economic class and ac-counting class when I was a fresh-man. I regretted that I should’ve considered more about plans how I take classes throughout my college life.

I should’ve taken general ed-ucation classes first before start taking classes of my major because

not only English was not my first language but also I didn’t get used to a college life.

As a result, my first year was completely failed. I was actually traumatized by failing the classes again. Therefore, I used academic removal to erase those bad grades. I had to change my major.

Thinking about my major, I wanted a unique one. Then I found it interesting that there is a journal-ism major which doesn’t exist in Japanese universities.

Not to fail like me, I recommend freshmen to see a counselor at least once a semester to make sure they are on the right track.

This fall semester would be my last semester. After graduating from OCC, I would like to take optional practical training, which gives international students a working visa that the job should be related to the people’s major, or I go back to Japan to make money to come back to the Unit-ed States to achieve a bachelor’s degree.

A semester for your success

Welcome t o F a l l 2014 at Or-ange Coast C o l l e g e . W h e t h e r your sum-m e r w a s spent trav-eling, tak-ing classes, working or preparing for your first year of college, I hope it was worthwhile and enjoyable.

You have made a great choice on where to go to school.

Our facilities are second to none and continue to get better. Our staff is dedicated to helping you get the class-es you need to succeed.

OCC remains the top transfer college in Orange County to the CSU and UC systems. Our faculty is some of the finest in the state and we have the widest vari-ety of programs, courses and services available including one of the best student life programs around.

Getting a college edu-cation is a big decision. Whether you are coming right out of high school or returning to the classroom after some time, I want you to know that we at OCC do not take the choice you have made lightly.

We are here to support you in your educational and personal growth.

While you are on cam-pus make the most of the opportunities a college at-mosphere provides. Make friends, join a student club, attend sporting and per-forming arts events but most importantly get to class.

Education is a partnership between the student and the institution.

We also understand that

school, while a priority, is just one of many things you are focusing on your life.

Part of our responsibility is to provide the services you need to keep you on the path to success; your job is to take advantage of those services.

Work with our tutoring services, use the group study rooms in the library or a qui-et corner of the horticulture gardens to study, meet with your educational counselor and your instructors during their office hours, do your homework regularly, be sure that you have a current stu-dent education plan on file to maintain your priority reg-istration status, and always keep the reason you are in college always in your mind.

It is rare to get through the college experience without needing to ask for help.

If you get to a point where you are feeling overwhelmed we are here for you then too.

Our Student Health Cen-ter, Student Success Center and Veterans Center have staff and services on hand to assist in those moments.

They a l l have regular weekly hours that you can drop in and speak to some-one or you can make an appointment. They are all part of the team that will help you achieve your goals.

On behalf of the faculty and staff I congratulate you on your choice to continue with your education and most especially on your choice to attend Orange Coast College.

We will do our part to support, encourage and mo-tivate you to complete your goals and look forward to watching you do your part to attend class, study hard and succeed.

Have a great fall semester.

PRESIDENT’S WELCOME

International students struggle with culture, change

Shotaro Hifumi Staff Writer

Dennis Harkins

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Get ready to dust off the Or-ange Coast College apparel sports fans and students, because football season is just around the corner.

Coming off their fourth straight losing season and finishing 3-7 in 2013, OCC’s 2014 football sea-son will feature a change at the head coaching position, with the hiring of former San Bernardino Valley College head coach Kevin Emerson.

“I like to run our team like a typical four-year school,” Em-erson said in an interview with the OCC Pirates online website in the spring. “The number one objective year in and year out is to get our players to the next level.”

His past success of sending 176 players to the four-year level has him ready for the next chap-ter in his coaching career here at OCC. Emerson, who compiled a 29-23 record in five years at San Bernardino Valley College, took a team that went 0-10 in 2008 to playing in the Patriotic Bowl and finishing the season 8-3 in 2013.

With changes in coaching come changes in play calling and

often new philosophies on one or both sides of the ball.

“We will run a fast-paced, no-huddle, attack style offense and we will take what the de-fense gives us,” Emerson said to the OCC athletic website. “It’s a style I’ve had success with in the past and it’s a system players really enjoy playing in.”

Emerson’s offensive scheme has served him well in the past, as his San Bernardino Valley College squad led the state in scoring with 41.5 points per game in 2010.

While the new man in charge wants to win right away, he along with Michael Sutliff, dean of kinesiology at OCC, believe it will take time for the rebuilding process to be in full affect.

“Ask Coach Emerson, he’d be the first to tell you that he wants to go 10-0 and win state right away,” Sutliff said. “We both know that in order for us to be successful, it all starts with recruiting and coaching these players to become top student athletes.”

According to Sutliff, one of Emerson’s plans in improving the product on the field and bringing OCC football back to competing for state titles is reaching into the community for quality players.

Along with a committee of about a dozen others, Sutliff was blown away by Emerson’s new ideas.

“It’s a fresh look at some things,” Sutliff said. “Sometimes when you bring in a fresh face with a fresh idea and a fresh phi-losophy, there’s new momentum that can be garnered from that, so now I’m hoping recruits that would have left for other places will come back to us.”

Sutliff is on board with Em-erson and his plans in recruiting by reaching out to high schools around the area, getting football players to come to OCC.

When it comes to performance on the field, however, Sutliff does not have a timetable for when he wants to see the program get back on track.

“We’ll make progress this year, but I’m more interested in building and establishing an extremely strong foundation for success,” Sutliff said. “I want to give the coach time to do it.”

Sutliff not only wants to see more success and energy from the football program, but from students and the local community as well.

The attendance rates for OCC football games have the athletic director scrapping for ways to get people to the games. According to Sutliff, last year’s attendance was at about one-tenth capacity

at LeBard Stadium.“We have to do a better job

at marketing games to kids on campus and for the entire com-munity,” Sutliff said. “There are people who drive past OCC every day and don’t realize we have a football team.”

While Sutliff wants many students to attend as well, one student doesn’t seem excited

about the upcoming season.“As much as I enjoy watching

football, there is nothing about OCC’s team that has me excited,” Colby Lewis, 19, a communica-tions major at OCC said.

Winning brings fans and stu-dents no matter the sporting event, according to Lewis.

“If the team has success I would go to a game or two,” Lewis said.

Pirates football head coach Kevin Emerson begins new era at Orange Coast.BY BRANDON ROSSSTAFF WRITER

OCC ready to kick off a new season

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The Orange Coast College football team is heading into its 2014 season with a new head coach, Kevin Emerson, and new philosophies, including a fast-paced, no-huddle, attack style defense.

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Kevin Emerson

The Orange Coast College men’s soccer team is gearing up for another season under head coach and newly named athletic director Kevin Smith.

Last year, the Pirates took the Orange Empire Conference title, its first conference cham-pionship in 22 years.

This year, the team is back and ready to defend its confer-ence supremacy.

“I’m really excited about this season,” head coach Kevin Smith said. “We just have to take it one game at a time. Any team in conference can do well when it comes to conference play.”

One of OCC’s key return-ing players is goalie Nathan Brown. Brown, who was named the OEC’s Co-Most Valuable Player, only allowed 10 goals last season and also had a 0.78 goals-against average as well.

Another one of OCC’s key

returning players is defender Blake Mooney.

Mooney, who made the all OEC first team, helped anchor OCC’s defense significantly, as OCC only allowed 11 goals in its 14 conference matches.

“Our goals are to win the conference championship a second time and make a deeper run into the playoffs,” Mooney, 20, a philosophy major said. “We only have a few returners starting this year. We’re going to need to build team chemistry and keep playing as a unit.”

Last year, OCC lost in round one of the playoffs to Rio Hondo.

The Pirates are hopeful that they can return to the playoffs and go further than round one this upcoming season.

“We just have to keep hus-tling and do better than last year,” Max Aceves, 19, an un-decided major said. “We have great team chemistry and we just have to watch out for every team we play against.”

OCC kicks off its season to-day at 4 p.m. on the road against Rio Hondo and will play Friday at home against LA Harbor at 2 p.m. on the field between Ad-ams Avenue and Monitor Way.

Orange Coast College men’s and women’s soccer coach Kevin Smith was named the college’s new athletic director this summer.

Smith, the only one who applied for the position, will also continue to coach OCC’s men’s and wom-en’s soccer team along with his athletic director duties.

“I wasn’t expecting to be named athletic director. I love all sports at OCC and I love working at OCC in general,” Smith said.

According to Smith, he looks to make all of OCC’s athletic pro-grams grow. On June 4, OCC fin-ished second in the National Alli-ance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators Cup which awards points for on-field successes.

“OCC has great coaches and I want to support them as much as I can,” Smith said. “It’s a real privi-lege to be named athletic director.”

Chris Ketcham, OCC’s men’s

and wom-en’s assis-tant soccer coach and men’s ten-nis coach, said Smith is a great fit as the athletic di-rector.

“I’m very excited for Smith. He is a very good leader and the athletic program here is going to shine with him,” Ketcham said.

Former athletic director Michael Sutliff, who is now the dean of kinesiology and athletics, said that Smith is a fantastic fit as the athletic director.

“Kevin understands the big pic-ture. He communicates well with everyone, is properly organized and he cares deeply about the success of our athletic program,” Sutliff said.

Prior to being named athletic director, Smith coached OCC’s softball team last year. He no longer coaches the softball team, and will replaced by Jodie Legas-pi-Kiaha.

Pirates look to repeat winning waysMen’s soccer works to build off last year’s success when they won the conference.BY TERAN RODRIGUEZSPORTS EDITOR

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The Orange Coast College men’s soccer team are going into the new season as last year’s Orange Empire Conference champions.

Smith takes over as athletic directorMens and women’s soccer coach Kevin Smith tapped for OCC sports top spot.BY TERAN RODRIGUEZSPORTS EDITOR

Kevin Smith

“Go back eight years and then go forward 10 more years and we will have spent a billion dollars on this campus for improvements. That’s possible through measure C, state bonds, measure M and more state bonds,” Ballinger said. “The plan is, that we will be fully operational by fall of 2015.”

As the new building rises older, worn facilities will be torn down, including the old math, business and computing

facilities. In fact, there is more space in this one building than in all the old facilities combined, Ballinger said.

But as the campus moves for-ward some campus assets will be retained, especially OCC’s unique auditoriums — the Rob-ert B Moore theatre, the Forum and the Science Hall.

“We’ve always planned on keeping those facilities as exam-ples of Neutra,” Ballinger said.

The next project slated to be built on campus is the planetar-

ium, and future ideas call for a mall in the center of campus.

”We’re hoping for an effect where people can look right in from Fairview road, and see just how big this campus is,” Ball-inger said.

While students can expect modern resources and expanded class seating opportunities by next fall, there is more to come. Planned in stages, construction will proceed until the campus is fully modernized and the grounds are transformed.

BUILDING: NEW Interdisciplinary Center is taking shape.

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and staff, Harris promised to visit each of the Coast colleges on a regular basis.

In other changes, Orange Coast has named Kevin Ball-inger, dean of the Consumer and Health Sciences division for the past 18 years, its exec-utive dean of instruction.

He replaces John Weispfen-ning, who left Coast to become president of Santiago Canyon College in the city of Orange after two years at OCC.

Ballinger will take over re-sponsibility for all instructional activities at OCC, including curriculum, scheduling, accredi-tation, assessment and academic planning. He will administer a budget of $52 million.

Ballinger has a master’s degree in education administra-tion from National University.

He completed a bachelor’s of education in occupational edu-

cation at Cal State Long Beach. He is also a graduate of Or-

ange Coast College, where he completed his associate degree and a certificate in neurodiag-nostic technology.

After working as a neuro-diagnostic technician for five years, Ballinger joined the OCC faculty in 1985.

Until a permanent vice presi-dent of instruction is appointed, Sheri Sterner, director of Insti-tutional Research, will offer assistance and take on a larger role related to policies and pro-cedures and add the duties of Accreditation Liaison Officer, reported OCC President Dennis Harkins.

Finally, Tara Giblin, for-mer dean of humanities and sciences at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., is the new dean of Orange Coast College’s Math and Sciences division.

She replaces Robert Mendo-za, who retired after 21 years

with Coast Community College District. For the last four years, he led that division.

Giblin, who was dean at Ste-phens College for the past two years, was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Nepal from 2011 to 2012.

Before that she was an as-sociate professor, department chair and Kimball Endowed Chair in molecular biology at Stephens College for five years. She began her career at Ste-phens as an instructor in 2001.

She earned a doctorate in bio-chemistry at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and com-pleted a bachelor’s of science in biology at the University of Illinois-Urbana.

She was a research chemist for the U.S. Department of Ag-riculture and also was involved in post-doctoral research at the University of California-River-side from 1998 to 2001.

HIRES: New top administrators appointed at district and OCC.

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8,000 less than last fall, accord-ing to Ballinger.

“The first two semesters I attended OCC it was pretty much impossible to get into general education classes. I eventually got bored of taking elective classes and took a full year off. Coming back to school this semester so far has been

encouraging. I finally got into all three core classes without even dealing with waitlists,” Karen Barrera, a 21-year-old communications major said.

Coast’s schedule expansion has been a result of an increased state budget. With a healthier California, Coast looks forward to the continuing efforts to build community colleges back up.

“After taking a year off

school, I feel extremely mo-tivated being back on campus and finally getting through my transfer plan is extremely encouraging and exciting,” Barrera said.

Through the help of student education plans and analyz-ing waitlists, Coast hopes to continue to fill the needs of its prospective graduates and transferring students.

FALL: Classes up leaving less students on waitlists.

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