INSIDETHIS ISSUE

Scan the QR code with your iPhone or

Android device to see the video.

ONLINE

NEWS

Students plan for coastal future

Orange Coast College oceanography students drum up plan for the future of Southern California local beaches.

See Page 2

FEATURES

A cookie cocktail for Christmas time

Coast report staffer presents a creamy holiday mixed drinkall adults can enjoy.

See Page 3

A&C

OCC students gets jazzy

The Orange Coast College Jazz Ensemble got funky during its winter concert Monday that featured saxophonist David Moody.

See Page 4

December 5, 2012 www.coastreportonline.com Volume 67, No. 13

Coast Report

Math at your own pace

Talk of dorms begins

Talk of student housing coming to the Orange Coast College campus is circling around --and it’s more than just a rumor.

The Coast Community College District and the Associated Students of Orange Coast College have discussed the potential of adding housing to campus, and a survey was emailed to about half of the students at OCC about two weeks ago asking for opinions on the matter.

And many students are all for the idea.

“I think it would be cool. I think it would add a different dimension to a community college when there are students who are housed there,” Hassan Rassmy, 19, a political science major, said.

According to Rachel Gajardo, ASOCC vice president of communications, a presentation about student housing was made during a student senate meeting about two weeks ago and the question of how student housing would be funded was discussed.

“That was one of the major concerns that were brought up. They said it would have to be investigated more thoroughly,” Gajardo said.

According to Kolby Keo, president of student government, the college is looking to expand its Vision 2020 plan, or the campus’ master plan, which is set for the future development of OCC.

The district hired a consulting

The fall semester is coming to a close but the spring semester is right around the corner, which means buying textbooks again.

The Associated Students Bookstore at Orange Coast College is the most convenient option available to students for book buying, but it doesn’t mean students are always given the most competitive prices compared to other solutions.

Jeff Delaney, the textbook acquisitions clerk at the bookstore, said students can access the bookstore’s website to check what materials they need for next semester. Teachers send in what books they need and Delaney creates

a database of the books needed. The compilation process is about 70 percent done, he said.

“Books are based on history. When I’m ordering for the spring [semester], I look at last fall and last spring,” he said.

Sara Foss, 27, an English major, said she sometimes shops at the bookstore but said no establishment is perfect.

“If students want to have their books on time, order your books two weeks beforehand,” Foss said.

She said she needed a textbook by her next class meeting on Wednesday at the beginning of the fall semester and went to the bookstore to purchase it. The bookstore was out of stock, but when

Massive earthquakes, enor-mous tsunamis and incredible hurricanes are just a few of the things we might experience on Dec. 21 as the world is torn asunder by natural disasters that will spiral humans to the end of their existence.

Reports indicate that one in 10 people believe that the end of the world will occur on Dec. 21 and base their belief on several dif-

ferent theories, the most popular being the Mayan calendar.

“As much as I admire the classic Maya,” William Breece, an Orange Coast College anthro-pology professor said, “I don’t think they predicted the end of the world.”

Breece said the Mayan Long Count calendar, which is the one people believe is predicting the end of the world, is just one of the three calendars they created. The other two are ongoing.

“The calendar goes back to

their (the Maya’s) mythological beginning and has 1,872,000 day-long periods,” he said.

It is not surprising that at some point they would stop adding to it, he said.

“They also had a 260-day calendar that seems to judge pregnancy pattern and one to ap-proximate the solar year, which are both still going, so I see no validity that the end of the long count predicts anything,” Breece said.

The Mayan calendar’s end is

not the only cause of concern for people. In fact, the world was supposed to end in May 2003 when Nibiru, a planet allegedly discovered by the Sumerians, was headed for the Earth.

When nothing happened the date was pushed back to Decem-ber 2012, which coincidentally lines up with the end of the Ma-yan calendar.

“Nibiru, or Planet X, is a dwarf planet that is supposed to interfere with us but 4 billion miles is the closest it will ever

come to us,” Nick Contopoulos, an astronomy professor at OCC, said. “If it were that close [to Earth], we would have picked up on it in the last decade.”

There is also a theory that the planets will align leading to natural disasters on Earth.

“Planetary alignments don’t cause natural disasters,” Con-topoulos said. “‘Natural’ means it happens naturally with no prediction.”

The end of the world is rapidly approaching

Bookstore creates profits, headaches

Amid the fires of kilns and vats of glaze, ceramics students have been hard at work crafting artwork for the Orange Coast College Ceramics Sale Dec. 7 and 8.

The Mudslingers Club has been running the sale for 36 years and has provided artists with the opportunity to showcase their work in a receptive marketplace.

Kevin Myers has been the head of the ceramics department since 1999, and he said he has been impressed by the level of talent that goes into making the works of art.

“Our artists create a lot of high quality and diverse work,” Myers said. “All are welcome.”

Robby Giangregorio, a sophomore art major, has been the president of the Mudslingers Club for three semesters and has been integral in helping to organize this year’s sale.

“This sale is important to us because, one, it gives money back to the students in the Kaleidoscope Fund, and two, it gets the word out about

ceramics,” Giangergorio said.

According to Giangregorio and Myers, the Kaleidoscope Fund benefits non-student helpers who volunteer their time to the Ceramics department.

Students and volunteers have been working on pieces for months in preparation for the sale. Some students enter items they have made for class-related assignments but most are side projects the artists have created in their free time.

According to Myers, the items at the sale can range from human sculptures to useful or decorative

From mud to artPhoto by Lisset Mendoza

Heather Lott, 21, an art major puts the final glaze on her ceramic mug for the annual OCC ceramics sale.

Textbook purchasing alternatives

Photo by Bryan Shinoda

Brett Guerrero, an OCC bookstore employee, buys back a book from a student.

BY JENNIFER LANEFEATURES EDITOR

Photo by Lisset Mendoza

Marine science major, Jordan Law-son, 20, prepares his piece for sale.

Orange Coast College’s bookstore earnings make up a large portion of the Associated Students of OCC’s annual budget.

As the contract between ASOCC and the bookstore comes to its scheduled ending in 2014, the student government’s budget will be reduced unless a new contract is negotiated.

Follett Higher Education Group, the bookstore operator, pays the Associated Students of OCC a guaranteed $750,000 a year to run the campus bookstore.

Officials said that figure is 12.75 percent of the profits up to $7 million go to the

ASOCC, or 13.75 percent after $7 million.

However, Kolby Keo, pres ident of ASOCC, emphasized that they have not been told that they’re losing any money yet.

“It hasn’t been brought up at any meetings. The district hasn’t mentioned it yet, so we’re not really worried,” Keo said.

Currently, ASOCC is continuing to work with the bookstore to advertise to students and find profits.

The likelihood of losing bookstore profits can’t be speculated on because they’re still not sure, Keo said.

If they were to lose the funding, ASOCC’s budget would be affected

BY ANTHONY LEESTAFF WRITER

Revenue helps student programs

Sale will help fund and spread the word about ceramics classes.

BY JOSE CUETOSTAFF WRITER

See CERAMICS Page 6

The district is starting to ask students about student housing at OCC.BY LISA STEPHANIANSTAFF WRITER

See DORM Page 2

BY SANDY PHAM AND STEPHEN EVERETTSTAFF WRITERS

See REVENUE Page 2See ALTERNATIVES Page 2

See WORLD ENDING Page 6

she checked the online website, she found it in stock and said she decided to pay $18 for overnight shipping.

When Foss didn’t receive her order the next day, she said she called the bookstore only to find out there was a 48-hour processing time.

Upon inspection of her original receipt, the shipping method said it would arrive the next business day and the only disclaimer was

that her order total could change depending on her book condition preference.

Foss said she didn’t receive her book until Friday of that week.

There are alternative methods to purchase textbooks, and it can’t hurt to do a little homework over winter break.

Fairview Textbook, a bookstore located a few blocks away from OCC, aims to offer competitive prices for students who need to buy textbooks straight away.

If you prefer to shop online,

there are countless sources you can buy from such as Half.com, a subsidiary website operated by eBay Inc., Amazon or even Craigslist..

Half.com is a website that deals with movies, games and books, unlike its big brother Ebay Inc. Books can sometimes be scored for a penny plus shipping.

Amazon, a popular shopping venue of the 21st century, can sometimes offer extremely competitive prices.

depending on how much funding is cut.

“It depends on how much is re-negotiated for and it depends on how much the new vendor is willing to give [to us],” Keo said. “The bookstore may be able to fund us at the same rate, or it may not.”

If ASOCC’s budget were to be affected, they intend on sending a request for proposals. Regarding the issue, ASOCC has not yet talked with the district about the bookstore, but they intend to attend

meetings to inform the district, Keo said.

While Keo will not speculate on the chance of the student government losing some bookstore funds, the ASOCC has been preparing for cuts, last year asking for 10 percent cuts from all programs despite not having a reduction in funding. Last year ASOCC’s budget increased slightly from the year before.

And while ASOCC doesn’t know what the future of the bookstore may hold, last semester the vice president of student services, Kristin Clark, said that she doesn’t

know why Follet continues to pay the college a lump sum instead of a percentage.

Follet’s profits have decreased in the last few years; in 2010 they dipped by about 10.5 percent, according to a February 2011 report.

If a renegotiated contract included a percentage instead of a guaranteed lump sum, decreasing bookstore revenue could negatively impact ASOCC’s budget unless bookstore profits were to pick up.

--Editor in Chief Josh Francis contributed to this report

Home runA male student reported

damage to his vehicle on cam-pus sometime between 2 p.m. and 4:10 p.m. on Wednesday in the Fitness Parking Lot.

John Farmer, chief of Cam-pus Safety, said officers were contacted by a male student who claimed his 1992 black Acura sedan was hit with a baseball. The victim reported that when he parked his car at 2 p.m. and returned at approxi-mately 4:10 p.m. his wind-shield had been cracked.

The officer retrieved the victim’s insurance information and said that in fact, base-ball practice was in session. Ultimately, the officer gave the student the Coast Com-munity College District’s risk service’s phone number so that he can contact the district and repair the damages.

Air headA female student reported

a grand theft attempt in the Library on Nov. 27 between 5:55 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

The victim said she was studying on the second floor when at about 5:55 p.m. she left her belongings to go to the Student Center, Farmer said. When she returned to the library at about 6:30 p.m. her Apple MacBook Air laptop, valued at $1,200,was gone.

As she talked to Campus Safety a friend call to say he had found her laptop, Farmer said.

The friend reported that sometime between 6:15 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. he saw a white male in his early 20s drop the laptop on the first floor of the Library as he was walking past the elevator.

The suspect has dark bushy hair and was wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt, dark blue RVCA pants and gray high-top

sneakers.

Making a sceneA student was reported as

loud and disruptive in the EOPS office on the first floor of Wat-son Hall on Nov. 26.

Farmer said a female student was being helped by staff with filling out her paperwork online when she became loud and dis-ruptive. The student had asked staffers a question regarding a financial aid issue that they did not know how to answer.

Staffers told the student that she would need to ask the peo-ple in the financial aid depart-ment that question and that’s when the female became very rude and loud and was asked to leave, Farmer said.

Orange Coast College re-ports show that the female student has been suspended in the past.

Pain in the...A male bookstore employee

received medical aid on Nov. 26 at 8:40 a.m. in the bookstore warehouse.

Farmer said the victim was reportedly lifting up a box of scantrons from under a 5-foot shelf unit when he reported having back spasms and then fell to the floor. Fellow work-ers helped him lie down and applied ice to his back.

Paramedics responded and transferred him to Hoag Hos-pital.

Look out belowCampus Safety has issued

a look-out for people stealing catalytic converters from un-derneath vehicles in lots.

Two reports have been made about stolen converters on cam-pus and Farmer asks students to report suspicious activity.

CRIMEBLOTTER

2 CAMPUS DECEMBER 5, 2012

— The Crime Blotter was compiled by Cassie Hammond from Campus Safety reports.

SWAP MEET

oCC

SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS8AM TO 3PMFree Admission & ParkingPark ONLY in Lots A, B, C on Fairview Rd. & Lots D & E on Merrimac Way

WANT TO SELL?PRESALE: SATURDAY: $35; SUNDAY: $40per space purchased BEFORE the date of the swap meet.

AT THE DOOR:Saturday: $40 and Sunday: $50(Spaces limited on Sundays)Info: 714-432-5866

CASH ONLY

OCC BURSARS Office: 714-432-58802701 Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa

Monday: 8am - 4:30pm

Tuesday: 8am - 2pm

Wed. & Thurs.: 8am - 6:30pm

Friday: 8am -4:30pm

Saturday: 6am - 2pm

Student makes wavesOCC students are making their voices heard in an effort to save coastal life.

Orange Coast College ocean-ography student Matt Marlow anchored the Southern California Bright and Urban Ocean Plan at the beginning of this semester, a program which will highlight major changes that need to take place in local coastal regions.

Marlow was inspired to take part in the project after his ocean-ography professor Dennis Kelly, who worked on the Preparation for Coastal and Marine Special Planning at the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, sug-gested that the project have a youthful outlook.

“It is going to be our future and our ocean so we wanted a student perspective,” Marlow said.

The Southern California Bright and Urban Ocean plan will project a scenario for 50 to 100 years in the future. Marlow, along with OCC oceanography students Ilan Penn and Priscilla Mazzi, agreed with Kelly that the professionals work-ing on the project in Long Beach would not live to see the results of their work, and the project would need to be continued by the next generation of oceanographers.

Marlow, Penn and Mazzi set out

to survey 180 community mem-bers and 150 students, who were informed on the pre-existing Long Beach Aquarium Final Scenario Report. The survey focused on two important questions: What would life be like for coastal residents and what would the Southern Califor-nia coasts look like if no actions were taken to correct current nega-tive patterns, and alternatively, what would things be like if there was a plan set in motion to change current standards?

“I stepped forward for students to get involved with this and find out how important our life is,” Marlow said.

When the student results came in, a large percentage agreed that Southern California coasts and their oceans should have a rich va-riety of healthy productive coastal and marine ecosystems, as well as have clean beaches and coastal waters, according to Kelly.

Kelly said that survey respon-dents were then asked to come

up with strategies on what actions can be taken to ensure local coasts have these robust ocean econo-mies, what issues will be faced in these accomplishments and how to overcome those obstacles.

Compilation of the information is expected to be done next semes-ter, when Marlow will submit a final report to Kelly and have it published in the OCC Library, OCC Marine Science Publica-tion and possibly the Long Beach Aquarium.

BY SARAH BOREANSTAFF WRITER

Photo by Sarah Borean

Matt Marlow, 19, an undecided major, has a genuine interest in animals and the ocean and is spearheading the OCC Marine Science, Marine Coastal and Spatial Planning Project.

Bookstore burden for studentsIt amazes me sometimes that

Orange Coast College’s Associated Students Bookstore can stay afloat while its reliability and customer service seem sub-par in every con-ceivable way.

Now keep in mind, the book-store is managed by Follett Higher Education Group, which oper-ates college bookstores on about

930 campuses in the United S t a t e s a n d Canada.

I assumed that I would receive only t o p - n o t c h service, but I found quite the opposite.

When the se-mester began and I had to purchase a math book, I went to the bookstore’s website to order it online. I was able to purchase it, but five days later, the time in which it should have arrived, all I got from them was an email letting me know they were out of stock.

The following day I went into the bookstore to speak with an employee. The first woman I talked to didn’t know how to resolve my issue and told me to wait for the manager. I waited there politely

until he was off his lengthy phone conversation.

When he was finished with that I was able to tell him my pre-dicament -- that classes have now started and I have not yet received my book.

He apologized for any inconve-nience it had caused me and set up an order for pick-up of my book. After another four to five days I did not get notified that my book had arrived so once again I went to the bookstore to resolve this issue.

I waited out back at the book pick-up warehouse; it’s more like a shack of sorts. The line took about 20 minutes despite only two students in front of me.

When I got to the front of the line and told the employee about my problem she told me to wait while they looked up my order. After about 10 minutes she came back to tell me that they won’t have any more in stock until they get more from the publisher but they said

there is no way for them to find out when that would be.

So, I cancelled the order and took my business down the street to Fairview Textbooks. They had my math book in stock despite it being a custom OCC edition and it only took a few minutes out of my day.

I previously attended Santiago Canyon College, which manages and runs its own school book-store independently. I usually purchased my books from SCC’s bookstore despite sometimes being able to find better deals online. Besides that there was no inconvenience to me. They always had the book I needed in stock and when I bought a book online from them, it showed up on time, just as expected.

Three of the four classes I will be taking next semester require textbooks. I will be getting them at Fairview Textbooks, or I may just buy them online.

Sean Miller

Staff Writer

From Page 1

group called Public Private Ventures, or PPV, to look into OCC’s land use, Keo said.

“They’re looking at how we can best utilize the land to bring profit to the school, but also to provide expanded services to students,” Keo said. “One of the ideas was student housing.”

Orange Coast College has the highest transfer rate among community colleges in California, as well as being home to an influx of international students.

Some students travel more than an hour to get to campus, Keo said.

OCC’s student government hasn’t voted on the idea of student housing.

“It seems like just from around

the table, everyone’s [ASOCC] kind of excited about this prospect,” Keo said.

The results of the survey have yet to be determined .

According to both Gajardo and Keo, student opinion will be strongly considered in the decision.

“If students don’t like it, why build it?” Keo said regarding student housing.

DORMS: Survey to show what students think of campus housing.

REVENUE: New contract could mean less cash for ASOCC.

ALTERNATIVES: There are other options when it comes to buying textbooks.From Page 1

From Page 1

FEATURESDECEMBER 5, 2012 3

There are thousands of parking stalls on campus and each day they are packed with students. This week

the Coast Report found out a little bit more about ...

Robert Montreal

PARKING LOT DIARIES

To some, patriotism stems from one’s history.

For Robert Montreal, 20, a history major, his fam-ily history involves sev-eral members serving in the military.

Montreal himself plans on joining the Navy after his first year of college is complete.

He will follow in the foot-steps of his two brothers and sister.

“It’s a tradition that’s been carried on for years and I plan to follow it,” Montreal said.

Montreal is also skilled in acoustic guitar and piano .

He hopes to one day pro-vide lessons on those in-struments as well as give

vocal lessons.He is fluent in English,

Spanish and Portuguese and he will soon be adding Ital-ian to the list.

“I’m passionate for lan-guages because I feel it helps me learn about differ-ent cultures and communi-cate with people all over the world,” he said.

He also spoke of his goal in language learning.

“I hope to become a poly-glot by the time I’m 25, which means I’ll be able to speak four or more dif-ferent languages fluently,” he said.

Montreal hopes to help his country while learning about and experiencing the world through different eyes.

DEREK HERNANDEZSTAFF WRITER

Finish Your Bachelor’s Degree at

Azusa Pacific University

AZUSA | HIGH DESERT | INLAND EMPIRE | LOS ANGELES | MURRIETA

ORANGE COUNTY | SAN DIEGO | VENTURA COUNTY | ONLINE14181

It’s time to complete your degree. Contact us today!

(626) 815-5301 | aps@apu.edu

www.apu.edu/go/degreecompletion

B.A. in Liberal Studies19 months to complete On campus and online

• Gain a strong background in the liberal arts and sciences grounded in a Christian worldview.

• Advance your career in a variety of fields, including K–12 teaching, counseling, human resources, and social work.

B.S. in Organizational Leadership15 months to completeOn campus and online

• Learn relevant strategies that empower you to become a leader in today’s competitive market.

• Benefit from practical, hands-on training for careers in management and administration across all industries.

Earn your accredited degree on campus or online.A college graduate earns an average of nearly $22,000 more per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. APU’s accelerated programs can help you complete your degree in less than two years.

CHOOSE FROM:

John Cena ’12B.S. IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Think of each beat as

your heart’s way of

cheering you on for

staying physically active.

Want a standing ovation?

Try keeping your diet

low in cholesterol and

saturated fat too.

For more ways to lower

your risk of heart attack

and stroke, visit

www.americanheart.org or

call 1-800-AHA-USA1.

This space provided as a public service. © 1999, American Heart Association

B (2.25´́ X 10´́ /120 line screen)MW00-6

You knowthat noiseyour heart

makeswhen youwork out?

IT’S CALLED

APPLAUSE.

Following her dreams

Emily Satterlee has 10 days to make her dreams come true.

Well, maybe not only 10 days, but that’s how long people can donate to her indiegogo.com ac-count to help her record her first studio-produced extended play (EP) album.

Indiegogo.com is similar to kickstarter.com, where the public can donate money to help out an artist. Unlike kickstarter.com though, Satterlee doesn’t have to reach a certain goal. Anything will help.

“It is super simple,” Satterlee, 27, a music business major at Orange Coast College said. “You go to the site, sign up, log in and then you become involved by picking up the first single, ‘What’s Left Now,’ for just a buck.”

Satterlee said she works two jobs and attends school, and all of her money goes toward recording her album.

She has given up a lot, putting traveling and going out to the side, so all of her money and time can be spent performing, writing

and recording. “I am reaching out to my fel-

low students at OCC, as well as teachers and staff for support,” she said. “As much as I would like to do this on my own, I can’t let my pride get in the way. Sometimes it’s OK to ask for help.”

Satterlee started writing mu-sic six years ago after her first heartbreak.

“Going through my first love and heartbreak was the inspira-tion for my first songs,” she said. “I think it’s some of my best work because of the content.”

Satterlee said that while her original songs had more of a Taylor Swift or pop sound, her newer stuff is more modern.

“Music was different five years ago,” she said. “There isn’t as much kid pop now - it is more

bigger instruments and grown up lyrics.”

While she loves writing music, it isn’t actually fame she is after.

“I don’t necessarily want to be a big-time star, but if it happened I would embrace it,” she said.

Satterlee wants her songs to be used in television and movies by licensing them out, but she said

An OCC student is accepting donations to help her produce her first album.

BY JENNIFER LANEFEATURES EDITOR

Photo courtesy of Emily Satterlee

Emily Satterlee, 27, is trying to build up her music career, and her first single can be purchased for only $1 at indiegogo.com/helpemilysing.

Christmas cocktail with a crunch

The Oatmeal Cookie cocktail is a creamy, milky drink that tastes just as it sounds. This is a great cocktail to enjoy after a Christ-mas dinner or just lounging and hanging out with several of your friends and family.

I would recommend buying these items at Bevmo or Total Wine because most of the ingre-dients wouldn’t be at your local grocery store. If you buy the 750 mL bottle of each alcohol, you should be able to make about 25 cocktails.

Necessary items and ingredi-ents:

JagermeisterGoldschlagerBailey’s Irish CreamButterschappsFrangelicoCocktail shakerIceBucket glassNilla Wafer Cookie (not nec-

essary just used as a garnish)Chocolate syrup

Step 1.- Measure 1 oz each of Jager-

meister, Goldschlager, Bailey’s

Irish Cream and Butterschnapps.- Measure ¼- ½ oz of Frangel-

icoStep 2.- Pour all contents in Cocktail

Shaker- Fill with iceStep 3. - Shake cocktail for about 10-15

secondsStep 4.- Drizzle chocolate syrup around

the inside of the bucket glassStep 5.- Pour everything into a bucket

glass including the iceStep 6. - Garnish with a Nilla Wafer

Cookie

BY BRYAN SHINODASTAFF WRITER

See MUSIC Page 6

OCC speech team takes secondThe Orange Coast College

Speech, Debate and Theater Team won second place at the annual Fall Championship Tournament. OCC was awarded second place overall and second place in Community College Sweepstakes.

The competition was held at

Cerritos College last weekend. The regional championship tournament was attended by 36 schools and played host to hundreds of students com-peting with more than 1,000 speeches.

Forty students from OCC competed in a variety of speak-ing events and 21 students advanced to the final rounds of

competition. “At the beginning of the sea-

son, we had lost a lot of talented speakers who graduated and transferred to other schools. Fortunately, we have a small group of returners and a lot of enthusiastic newcomers who really stepped it up,” Assistant Coach Shawn O’Rourke said.

For the first time in more than

10 years, Irvine Valley College won the regional champion-ship.

The awards presentation on Sunday began with a surprise: OCC’s Director of Forensics Ben Lohman was presented with the Wyman-Howe Award for Coaches, which is presented to one coach each year in recogni-tion of service and leadership.

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS

I never thought white noise would give me some of the best night’s sleep I ever had -- and no, I’m not talking about that movie from 2005.

White noise, as defined by Dictionary.com, is a steady unvarying sound that may be electronically produced or the sound of rain that is used to mask unwanted sounds.

Honestly, I don’t really un-derstand the science myself but the reason I decided to use this is because there are too many nights when I lie in bed for 30 minutes to an hour and

just can’t get to sleep. I’m not nocturnal, either.

The app I use to simulate the sounds is called White Noise by TMSOFT, and it really does help me sleep. The best part is that it’s not addictive.

There are other apps, such as Relax and Sleep, but I found this one to perform and sound better. There are free versions available, so try them all before pulling the trigger and purchas-ing one if you choose to do so.

With the full version of the app, you get a number of more sounds and have the ability to add more for free as they become available on their web-site.

My favorite sounds are brown noise, which sounds like a dull, muffled rain, the running show-er, which sounds delicate like a vertically dropping shower head, and the sound of rain falling from a tin roof.

The free version is known as White Noise Lite and it comes with 10 of the most popular

sounds from the full version, which includes, beach waves, crickets chirping, white noise and airplane sounds.

None of these were exactly my choice of noise preference but white noise is definitely the best available from the free version.

I tried the airplane sound and it did get me to sleep, but it isn’t as effective for me as sounds I do prefer, like rain.

At a high volume, to me, white noise sounds like a reasonably strong flash rain hitting solid concrete. It can actually be quite soothing at lower volumes.

4 DECEMBER 5, 2012ARTS & CULTURECampus Events

Art“Facts and Figures” till Dec. 15: All artwork was submitted by OCC faculty and staff members. In the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pa-villion. Mon Tue and Thu 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wed from 11 a.m to 8 p.m. Ad-mission is free.

“ A n O l d - F a s h i o n e d Christmas Melodrama and Ice Cream Social,”: OCC’s Repertory The-atre Company, Friday through Dec.16 on Fri-days, Saturdays and Sun-days. Directed by OCC Theatre Arts Professor Rick Golson. Includes music, vaudeville acts, a holiday sing-along and the play “The Toy Mas-ter General,” written by OCC theater instructor David Scaglione. In the OCC Drama Lab Theatre. At 7 p.m. each evening with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets $7 for adults and $5 for children and seniors in advance and $9 and $7 at the door.

Featuring bacon burgers, bacon cocktails and bacon brownies, plus a huge selection

of craft and local beers on tap.

This finals week, fuel yourself with bacon.

TM

Open late with free wifi!Anaheim Hills •6362 E Santa Ana Canyon Road

Huntington Beach • 8082 Adams Avenueslaters5050.com

The modern-day mob movie “Killing Them Softly” lacks an interesting plot but the movie is filled with solid acting, mostly done by Brad Pitt.

Other actors such as Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Ben Men-delsohn, James Gandolfini and Scoot McNairy all did excellent jobs with their roles.

The movie is directed by Andrew Dominik, who worked on movies such as “Chopper” (2000) and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”(2007).

In this film, Dominik did an amazing job in capturing the lives of street thugs during the economic collapse of 2009.

He uses great imagery to put the audience in the shoes of these thugs during the hard economic times -- images of deserted neighborhoods and run-down buildings come up throughout the movie so the audience can really get a feel for the time.

Dominik also does a fantastic

job showing the audience how the street thugs act and behave through funny dialog and intense action scenes

The movie is about three idiotic crooks that rob a mob-protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

Pitt plays the enforcer and is sent to find these three criminals and restore order in the mob.

The plot of the movie is very simple and the ending doesn’t explain much.

I would have liked to see more twists and unexpected surprises throughout the film. Once you think the movie is getting good, it ends suddenly with unanswered questions still lingering.

Pitt steals the spotlight with

his cool, calm and collected behavior while tracking down and killing his targets. Pitt plays the enforcer Jackie and he could have not done a better job. He plays the role with unique style and coolness, which makes his character seem slick.

Gandolfini also did an ex-cellent job in the film playing Mikey, who is Pitts’ partner. Gandolfini is mostly known for his acting in “The Sopranos” and brings a lot of that character with him.

This loud high-tempered thug adds comic relief in some parts of the movie.

“Killing Them Softly” offers a weak storyline, but it is made up for by good acting and great imagery.

Even crime suffers during recessionsThe cast in the new film really delivers despite the movie’s weak storyline.

BY JAMES FANTUZOSTAFF WRITER

Photo courtesy of Plan B Entertainment

“Killing Them Softly” is out now in theaters worldwide.

For information on most campus events,

call (714) 432-5880 or toll free at

(888) 622-5376.

OCC’s Annual Juried Student Photography Exhibit, till Dec. 11: Stu-dent photography will be displayed and the exhibit will be judged by inter-nationally renowned pho-tographer Philipp Scholz Ritterman. In the Fine Arts building and Art Center. Admission is free.

Photograpy

Theater

BY ANTHONY LEESTAFF WRITER

A night of beautiful music

Jazz speaks to the soul. It is heart-warming, enchanting and has an essence of romance.

Each song performed during the Orange Coast College Jazz Ensembles’ gig Monday night on campus lit up the theater and exerted fun and pizzaz.

The concert showcased an eventful night of the jazz musi-cians’ exceptional skill.

The production was direct-ed by Paul Navidad and Dana Wheaton with David Moody as their special guest.

Moody performed the saxo-phone and was a sensation throughout the night. Moody has played alongside some of jazz music’s biggest names such as Jimmy Smith, Willie Bobo, Sonny Stitt, Richard Groove Holmes and many more.

The concert opened with OCC music professor and jazz artist Navidad directing the song “Big Bruiser,” played by the Jazz Studio ensemble using their saxophones, trumpets and trom-bones. Immediately the room was filled with good vibrations and excitement.

The group had the audience smiling with their eyes stuck on the stage showing their delight for the jazz studio pieces.

Vocalists Harold Cannon, Cathy Ann Laurie, and Johnnie Maurer were a huge success performing “You Made Me Love You,” “A Lot of Living to Do” and “Downtown.” Each vocal performer executed a

strong voice with so much soul illuminating the stage.

Following the Jazz Studio, Dana Wheaton took over, in-troducing the Jazz Improv En-semble with jazz songbirds Kim Garrison and Shauna Toh singing “Watch What Happens,” person-al favorite “Red Clay” and best-loved “The Peanut Vendor.”

According to Wheaton, for years, the song “The Peanut Vendor” has been a big hit for the Balboa Peninsula and has been a popular request since then.

“The program started in 1967 and has been ongoing since,” Navidad said. “At one point there were six ensembles back in the hey-day of the school, how-ever, due to budget cuts, now we are only left with one.”

The group on stage varied from a younger generation of instrumentalists and older gentlemen who each distributed their incredible raw talent in performing such deep music.

The amp guitarists made the entire show feel alive and sent chills down my spine because their instrumentals were just that good. The music was soothing to my ears and the musicians demonstrated their passion for the jazz music and it was evident through their performance.

“I played in the first band tonight and my favorite piece to play was ‘Grand Slam,’” Jazz Studio Ensemble bass player Bart Broadnax said. “It was very fast-paced and a good challenge for the band, but they pulled it off.”

For anyone devoted to the culture of jazz music or just interested in spending a fun evening appreciating a different genre of music then this is an event to see.

OCC will host another con-cert for the spectacular jazz ensembles next year during the spring semester.

A good night’s sleep can be easily found through iPhone apps.

Sleep tight at night

Photos by Sarah Borean

Harold Cannon belts out some lighthearted tunes on Monday night in the Robert B. Moore Theatre, during the Studio Jazz Ensemble preformance.

Guy James on guitar (left), Roy Levy on piano (middle), Raymond Genovese on drums (right) along with Bart Broadnax round out the rhythm section for the Studio Jazz Ensemble. Right: Special guest David Moody pre-formed the saxophone with the Studio Jazz Ensemble.

The OCC Jazz Ensemble was an amazing show and an event to not be missed in spring.

BY VANESSA ESTRADASTAFF WRITER

T o s o m e people , they may think that Marvin Miller was jus t an-other average Joe in the work force. But to a baseball fanat-ic like me, this loss is seen as a giant part of baseball history.

On Nov. 27 , the Major League Baseball organization lost one of its key benefactors and friends. Marvin Miller was baseball’s Head Union Chief and he was the one who created the free agent system after a person’s contract ended.

Marvin Miller was born on April 14, 1917 in the suburbs of the Bronx. In the year of 1968, Marvin led a commit-tee of players that negotiated

the first collective bargaining agreement in the history of professional sports, according to mlbplayers.com.

This negotiation between the players eventually made the famous free agent trade. This program would let the owner of an organization pay the player a certain amount of money for a certain amount of years, and he was eligible to play for any team.

In fact, in the year of 1974, there was a giant argument over Charlie Finley, the owner of the Oakland Athletics at the time and Catfish Hunter, their prized right-handed pitcher. Finley argued that Hunter had not met his standards of his contract with the team.

The Athletics ended up drop-ping Catfish from the roster. He was then picked up from the Yankees later on for more

money than he was making with Oakland. The other play-ers in the league saw that they may make more money if they were free agents.

Over the years, Marvin man-aged to make a better living for all the players in the associa-tion by increasing the players’ salaries progressively over the 20-25 year span that he was working for the MLB.

Though he may not have made it to the baseball hall of fame, only falling one vote short, he still managed to be inducted to the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on April 26, 2009, according to jewishs-ports.org.

This will live on with me forever, as it should with you. If he wasn’t alive, the game of baseball wouldn’t be as it is today.

W e a l l s o m e w h a t k n o w t h e t rue origin o f C h r i s t -mas, but how many of us actually re-member the true meaning o f C h r i s t -mas during C h r i s t m a s time?

Nowadays most people are absorbed by the pressures soci-ety and the media put on them, beginning in late November. All

of the attention goes into buying gifts and planning Christmas parties for people who have no emotional connection with us.

It has gotten to the point where even people who claim to be of a Christian background now take Christmas as a ma-terialistic holiday and ignore the true symbolism of their religion.

Just a few decades ago, it was common that in America most families that normally attended a church or that were part of a congregation would attend a mass on Christmas day and celebrate with family and

friends.The difference is that now,

Christmas has become a lot more commercial, and people of all ages have become almost selfish in a way and focus all attention to the material part of the season.

It may sound a bit childish to say, but in reality, the true spirit of Christmas is disappear-ing and more and more people are forgetting what this special holiday truly means and how future generations will not have the chance to experience Christ-mas the way it is supposed to be celebrated.

N o b o d y panic, Christ-mas i s no t canceled this year. Nothing will happen on Dec. 21.

In case you h a v e b e e n living under a rock these last few years, I’ll recap the lat-est end of the world prediction for you. Someone discovered an ancient Mayan calendar which ends on Dec. 21, 2012.

Many have taken this as a prophecy of the end of the world. However, if the Mayans could predict the future, they have a funny way of showing it. If you try and look for any Mayans today, you will be hard pressed. Apparently this civilization that

is supposedly so good at predict-ing the future failed to predict their own downfall.

Apologists will say that there has been a mistake in the trans-lation of calendars, therefore if nothing happens it’s because we messed up on the date.

I sit and think to myself, does anybody remember Y2K?

And for that matter, what hap-pened to the hundreds of other end of the world predictions since 1901?

I’d be very surprised to find someone who legitimately thought that the world was go-ing to end on the 21st, but there are doubtless at least a few.

It’s a good thing that very few people actually take this serious-ly. There hasn’t been any hysteria this year. No rushes to the store to buy all the bottled water, no one building bomb shelters. I guess

it’s safe to say that people have learned their lesson from Y2K and this prophecy is just the butt end of a joke at a party.

At this point I am hoping that some part of this year’s prophecy will be correct. What a sight it would be to wake up on the 21st to learn that the Earth is now aligned with some black hole and the aliens have decided to land on the White House lawn.

At the end of the day these prophecies are tiring and possibly dangerous. There are many un-stable people out there who could take this kind of thing seriously. I’m reminded of the infamous Heaven’s Gate suicides in 1997 when 39 followers killed them-selves to reach an alien spacecraft they thought was following the comet Hale-Bopp.

I’ll be relieved when I wake up on the 22nd.

With Measure M’s narrow approval in the recent election, Orange Coast College will re-ceive a portion of $700 million divided among the college, Golden West and Coastline Community College.

So far, the district’s official position on what the money will go toward is the right one to have. That is, new facilities will be constructed, old ones will be upgraded and technology will be updated. It will not go toward salaries or pensions.

District officials should be careful, however. Historically, the solution to failing educa-tion systems has been to throw money at them and hope for the best. This is not effective unless that money is spent efficiently.

Spending on improvements and new buildings is good, but ultimately not sustainable. The money should go toward ventures that will pay for themselves and then continue to generate revenue, such as the arcade machines that the student government has de-bated opening on campus.

There have been arguments that new and improved aca-demic buildings will work that way by attracting more paying students to the school. That would help, but OCC already has almost too many students to handle, with over 24,000 competing for classes that are shrinking in availability, and many of those students receive financial aid.

OCC’s share of the Measure M funds should first go to at least one money-generating venture. Corporate billboards

or similar advertisements, while likely unpopular, would provide much-needed income. New cafés or other small restaurants could be allowed to open on campus, and be charged a certain percent of their earnings. This would provide new conveniences for students and make the school less dependent on windfalls and tax dollars.

After making any such investments, the rest of the money should go toward the district’s Vision 2020 plan. The current priority in that vision is a math, business and comput-ing building. That should be No. 2 on the list.

First, economical student housing should be constructed. Something cheaper to build and maintain than most local studios and apartments (hint: cheap utilities) would provide another valuable service to students, many of which are on a ramen-a-night diet, and could generate more money for the district.

That revenue could then, along with remaining Measure M funds, go toward the new math, business and computing building, as well as upgrading current buildings and updating old technology.

These are just a few sugges-tions, but whatever the money goes toward, it has to be some-thing that will make the district less dependent on the state and donations. Otherwise, sections and salaries will keep having to be cut - except for district board members, of course. If all else fails, OCC can at least open a bar, a tattoo parlor and a tattoo removal clinic in the Quad.

Coast Report

Member: California Newspaper

Publishers Association, Journalism Association

of Community Colleges and the College Press Service.

Josh FrancisEditor in chief

Andrea DinhManaging editor

Jennifer LaneFeatures/Arts andCulture editor

Ashley LitwinNews editor

OpenViews editor

Dean NothsteinCopy editor

Sarah BoreanPhoto editor

OpenSports editor

Cathy WerblinFaculty adviser

Alicia LopezEditorial assistant

Staff WritersJake BurleyJose CuetoVanessa EstradaDerek HernandezAnthony LeeSean MillerRodolfo MontelongoSergio OlmosSandy PhamLisa StephanianColleen SpenceJames FantuzoCassie HammondJacob BennettStephen Everett

PhotographersNate AshtonSarah BoreanLisset MendozaBryan Shinoda

Contact Us

Newsroom(714) 432-5561Advertising(714) 432-5673Fax(714) 432-5978Adviser(714) 432-5094Offices/ DeliveriesJournalism 101E-Mailcoastreport@gmail.comWebsitecoastreportonline.comEditorcoastreporteditor@gmail.com

Articles, comments and editorials are those of staff members and edi-tors and do not reflect the views of Orange Coast College, its adminis-tration or student government or the Coast Community College District. California law states that college journalists are assured the same First Amendment rights as profes-sional journalists. Their work cannot be subjected to prior restraint and the law prohibits college officials from disciplining a student for activities related to speech or press related endeavors. Coast Report welcomes letters from readers. Guest Commentaries are the views of the writer and don’t reflect the views of the Coast Report, OCC or the district. Letters must be signed and are subject to editing for taste, length or libel. Letters are limited to 350 words. Advertising claims are those of the advertisers and do not constitute endorsement by the newspaper. Coast Report reserves the right to reject any advertising for any reason. The newspaper is not liable for return of unsolicited materials.

VIEWSDECEMBER 5, 2012 5

QUESTION of the WEEK

Alex Gabler23, business

Ethan Hahn18, music

Riel Stephenson19, sociology

Duri Outlaw23, undecided

“The Magic Bullet.”

What is the best present you have ever received?

“The book ‘12 Naughty Things.’”

“A Fender Dreadnought acoustic guitar.”

“A Bach Trumpet.”

Spend wiselyEDITORIAL

Vanessa Herrera20, sociology

“A new Honda Accord.”

Bookstore optionsHow much

money wi l l you have to pay for your books next se-mester? It is a question all of us have to answer every semester.

W h e n i t comes to buy-ing books there are solutions to the price you pay and avoiding the lousy customer service of the campus bookstore. If you need a last minute Scantron or pen, then the campus bookstore is great, but for expensive books there are other solutions.

As the semester winds down, I already find myself thinking about what has become the

daunting task involved with buying textbooks. I am not cer-tain what books I will need for next semester but I do know that I will not be purchasing them from the bookstore on campus.

For students, it is cheaper to buy your books elsewhere, such as off-campus bookstores and online.

The online option can save students money since they tend to offer lower prices and some also offer a textbook rental program. Amazon.com has dis-counted book prices, provides a rental option on some books and unlimited two-day shipping for $29 per year for students, all of which can really make the sav-ings add up.

Another great attribute of shopping online for textbooks

is that you don’t have to stand in the ridiculously long lines at the beginning of the semester and with the Amazon shipping option you can get your books in just two days. Avoiding the poor customer service is another great thing about not shopping at the campus bookstore.

Shopping for your textbooks at local off-campus bookstores offers low prices and they tend to have a good selection of used prices. If you plan on selling your books back at the end of the semester, you will get more money back by selling to an off-campus local bookstore.

Every college education costs money so if you save on text-books, it is well worth trying these other options for buying textbooks.

Colleen Spence Staff Writer

There is no end in sight

Stephen Everett Staff Writer

A loss for the baseball family

Meaning of Christmas diminished

Rudy Montelongo

Staff Writer

Jake Burley Staff Writer

ASOCC CORNER

At the beginning of the aca-demic year, the Associated Stu-dents of Orange Coast College set a precedence to lead the way in being more environmentally friendly and to investigate more ecologically sustainable prac-tices.

During last week’s Student Senate meeting, Senator Jordi Medellin offered an in-depth sustainability presentation re-garding the paper dispensers currently on campus.

When asked how he arrived at this particular project, the senator said, “I noticed that the bathroom’s trash cans were consistently overflowing from paper towels.”

In his quest for an alternate solution, Medellin counted a total of 123 restrooms on site with an estimated 229 paper roll dispensers and 65 multi-fold paper dispensers. Medellin then approximated the yearly cost of the dispensers and found that the numbers were startling.

According to his calculations, supplying the 229 paper roll dispensers on campus came out to be an estimated $51,511 per year (805 cases of paper rolls per year at $63.39 per case). Additionally, providing the 65 multi-fold paper dispensers was

approximately $13,650 annu-ally (750 cases of paper towels at $21.75 per case). The cost of maintenance was another esti-mated $13,000 per year.

Realizing that Orange Coast College’s approximated grand total for supplying and maintain-ing paper towel dispensers on site was a staggering $78,000 annually, Medellin then chose to investigate electronic hand dry-ers as a potential solution.

He examined two top-of-the line hand dryers: the Xelera-tor and Dyson Airblade. Both models dry hands in 10 seconds and use up to 80 percent less energy than traditional warm air hand dryers. The Dyson Airblade, which is more costly, also removes 99.9 percent of the mold and bacteria from the air it ingests.

Some concerns included a decrease in cleanliness as well as the noise. The biggest concern, however, seemed to be the cost of installation. Estimates for installing either of the models could be in the hundreds of thousands due to equipment and rewiring fees on top of the initial cost of purchasing the hand dry-ers themselves.

While this eco-friendly av-enue still needs to be explored further, it illustrates progression and advancement for a greener campus.

Orange Coast going greenBY RACHEL GAJARDOVP OF COMMUNICATIONS

Read the Coast Report

Dive into the depths of OCC

6 SPORTS DECEMBER 5, 2012

ADVERTISE WITH THE COAST REPORT

Call Kate Mann at 714.432.5673

OCC CLASSIFIEDSTo place an ad call 714-432-5673

TUTORING SERVICES, grade 7-adult. Experienced,

multi-degreed tutor. Details at www.glenbaker-privatetutor.com

(949) 701-2227

TUTORING

Advertise in the Coast Report.Contact Kate for more

information at (714) 432-5673,or email coastreportads@yahoo.com

ADVERTISING

Attention softball players … The Orange Coast College softball team is look-ing for players to come out and compete for the Pirates in 2013! OCC will begin its season Jan. 24 so contact the Pirate coaching staff immedi-ately if you want to try and be a part of it! If you are interested in playing for the Pirates, please

contact Head Coach Kevin Smith at (714) 402-0271, or assistant coach Kevin Holguin at (949) 354-1058.

Need some help with your COLLEGE APPLICATION PERSONAL STATEMENTS or ESSAYS?

Get some assistance from an expert writing coach! Website: www.jklearningresource.com Email: jklearningresource@gmail.com

Phone: 949-698-4989 Qualified instructor: Graduate of Columbia Law School

(4th in the nation) and UC Berkeley. Experience writing, editing, and coaching students to find their unique ideas

and ways of writing the best personal statement they can. Give yourself the advantage!!

quick cash

flexible hours textbook discount

Apply for a temporary

position today!

visit www.snagajob.com or apply in-store

OCC Bookstore 2701 Fairview Rd. Costa Mesa

Pirates take third at CuestaThe Orange Coast College

women’s basketball team posted a 2-1 record at the Phillips 66 Basketball Classic to take third place last weekend.

In the opener on Thursday, Coast topped Allan Hancock 72-36. OCC’s defense forced 33 Bulldog turnovers and held the opposition to just 16 first-half points.

Dayanara Armenta led OCC with 28 points on 11-of-17 shoot-ing from the floor (6-of-11 from 3-point range). Michelle Angel added 11 points and four assists, while Jalecia Wilson added 10

points and nine rebounds.In the championship semifinals,

the Pirates fell to Sierra College, 74-68. Armenta again posted a big offensive game with 24 points and five rebounds, while Angel tossed in 14 points and Jessica Johnson added 12.

The loss dropped the Pirates down to the third-place game and there they made quick work of Butte College, 90-41. For the third straight game, Armenta led OCC with 18 points and was named to the All-Tournament Team. Angel and Brittany Bal-lard each added 13 points, while Johnson chipped in 11 and Wilson tossed in 10.

OCC (3-4) will now have some

time off before retuning to the friendly confines of the Peterson Gym for the 2012 Erin Tomlinson Coast Christmas Classic. The Pirates will open the tournament against Cuesta College on Friday, Dec. 14 at 5 p.m.

The rest of the opening games for the tournament are:

1 p.m. -- Southwestern vs. Chaffey

3 p.m. -- Irvine Valley vs. Canyons

7 p.m. -- Saddleback vs. Palo-mar

Day 2 of the tournament will have games at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. 7 p.m. with Day 3 action taking place at 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS

Photo courtesy of Orange Coast College

Brittany Ballard passes the ball during the Phillips 66 Basketball Classic tournament last week-end. The Pirates took third place and look forward to another tourney Dec. 14.

Riggs kills it and is named MVP

Sophomore outside hitter Kar-lee Riggs was named the Orange Empire Conference’s Most Valu-able Player, as voted on by the head coaches at their end-of-the-year meeting.

Riggs, a Tustin High school grad who will be attending the University of Hawaii in the spring, notched 373 kills and 195 digs in 2012. Her outstanding play also earned her a spot on the 2012 All-State Team. As a fresh-man, Riggs earned first-team, all-conference honors with 375 kills and 192 digs in 2011.

Riggs finished her two-year career at Coast with 748 kills, second all-time in school history behind two-time All-American Kiwi Winkler’s 895.

A pair of Pirates earned first-team, All-Orange Empire Con-ference honors -- sophomore setter Allison Lumsden and sophomore middle blocker Mor-gan Link.

Lumsden (Brea Olinda High school), a two-time, first-team all-conference selection, dished out 698 assists this year and fin-

ished her Coast career with 1,456 assists, good for fifth all-time in OCC history.

Link (Woodbridge High School) finished 2012 with 115 kills and 39 total blocks, giving her 253 kills and 82 total blocks for her Pirate career. She was also a two-time, all-conference selection.

Sophomore libero Andi Frisina and sophomore opposite Isabel Emrich each earned second-team, all-conference honors.

Frisina (Brea High school), a two-time, second-team selection, finished 2012 with 270 digs and ended her Coast career with 655

digs, third-best all time in school history.

Emrich (University High School), another two-time, sec-ond-team selection for the Pi-rates, finished 2012 with 64 kills, 51 digs and 19 total blocks. Em-rich finished her career with 180 kills, 187 digs and will continue her athletic and academic careers at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Freshman middle blocker Kourtney Chadderdon (Mater Dei High school) was an all-con-ference honorable mention after totaling 45 kills and a team-best 41 total blocks in 2012

Several other OCC players are named to first and second team this season.

FROM CAMPUS REPORTS

Photo courtesy of Orange Coast College

Outside hitter Karlee Riggs was named the most valuable player in the Orange Empire Conference and ends her OCC career with the seond most kills in the school’s history.

dinnerware. Some of the plates, bowls and cups that can be purchased are dishwasher and microwave safe.

Joe Lee, a 34-year-old culinary arts major, said that the craftspeople

take great pride in their work. According to Lee and other

artists, there is a strong connection between the craft and the crafter.

“We put so much energy into these pieces that they almost become like children you are willing to part ways with,” he said. “People say

the nicest things about the work we make. We love speaking with customers and hearing what they have to say.”

The sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 7 and 8 in the ceramics area of the Art Center on campus.

CERAMICS: Students prepare their work for sale.From Page 1

MUSIC: OCC student works to make her first EP.

that the music production board wouldn’t take anyone seriously unless they have a profession-ally recorded sound.

“That is why I need to record this EP,” she said. “Having a professional sound is what sets you apart these days.”

Gary Gray, a music producer, has taken Satterlee under his wing and is teaching her about the profession as well as helping her produce the album.

“One day she said to me, ‘Gary, I’m a songwriter, you know. I’ve written these little songs, they’re not much, re-ally, but I’ve been using what

you’ve taught me and I’ve been recording some of my song ideas at home on my home stu-dio,’” Gray said. “She played me several recordings. I was blown away. But it made total sense. A person with strong character and deep wisdom is like a magical weapon. The world tends to change around such people.”

Gray said that Satterlee is one of the truly gifted songwriters which are rare in the industry.

“Her lyrics are engaging, thought provoking, poetically crafted and original,” he said. “I find myself getting caught up in the meaning of her songs -- from beginning to the end of the song

-- while I’m producing her in the studio. And that doesn’t happen very often.”

Satterlee said that she has of-ten been compared to the main character in “Coyote Ugly,” who plays her song once and someone hears it and LeAnn Rimes ends up recording it, but real life doesn’t work that way and is definitely not that simple.

“Following your dreams isn’t always the easiest road to take,” Satterlee said. “But when you’re passionate about something you have to at least give it a try.”

To help Satterlee with reach her goal, visit indiegogo.com/helpemilysing.

From Page 3He said every 120 million years the sun crosses the galactic plain and aligns with all the planets, but it also depends on how aligned they are.

There is even a supermassive black hole sitting in the middle of the galaxy, but it is still 30,000 light years away, he said.

All in all, Contopoulos said planetary alignment will have very little effect on us.

Erik Bender, a geology profes-sor at OCC, said that magnetic reversal is another thing that is predicted to cause the end of times, but it will not harm us.

“Basically we aren’t looking at anything out of the ordinary,” Bender said. “Magnetic field has been decreasing for years and we know it periodically reverses.”

He said there have literally been hundreds and hundreds of reversals throughout the history of the planet.

“Average return on a magnetic reversal is every 750,000 years and in the last 10 million years

there have been four or five rever-sals per million years,” he said.

Bender said the only harm to the reversals is the fact that the magnetic field is our protective barrier from the sun’s cosmic rays.

“Cancer rates will increase slightly because the magnetic field blocks the sun’s radiation,” he said.

While there are plenty of skep-tics, there is a website dedicated to information about the disaster and end of times, december212012.com, and loads of believers.

The website states in its FAQ that while the world may not cease to exist, it could be the end of the world as we know it, meaning something drastic could change and human beings would be greatly affected -- be it a social or economic downfall, or even the loss of technology.

It also acknowledges that Y2K was supposed to happen and explains it as Y2K being a man-made phenomenon, while Dec. 21 is based on events far beyond human control or understanding.

As to why people seem to go along with apocalyptic theories, Breece said he believes some people are just doomsdayers.

“There is always someone on top of a mountain with a bottle of water just waiting for the end to come,” he said.

Bender said he believes that it isn’t gullibility that causes the be-lief in end of the world theories.

“Why do people believe in lots of things?” he said. “There is a desire to make sense of things and usually they go with the super-natural rather than science.”

Contopoulos said he believes that some people believe because everything in the news is so nega-tive that it isn’t hard to think it could be the end times.

“Belief is a belief and you can’t change a belief,” he said. “When things are bad sometimes you just look for worse.”

For more about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world attend archaeologist and Mayan expert Edwin Barnhart’s lecture Monday at 6 p.m. at the Robert B. Moore Theatre.

WORLD ENDING: Doomsday prophesies are debunked.From Page 1