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Valentines’ Issue- Love Is In The Air!- V-Day, D-Day?- Welcome Back- Weather Station

Vol. IV Issue IV January 2012

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Street Buzz

This girl has to be down to earth, not high main-tence at all she has to be down for whatever.

Good conversations are always great, we would go to dinner then a movie. After the movie I would like to go for a walk on the beach, then we can do whatever she likes. I'm too lazy to pick so she can pick everything and ill just

show up and pay.

Brian Cirner, 22, Music

By: Nicole Herbold & Megan Morse

My boyfriend is very romantic and he has always been that way. I dont care too much about what we do or where we go as long as we are together and hopefully

we would get some cuddling in.

Mara Jentoft, 25, AA with an emphasis in Math and Science

I want someone fun who wants to take me out and have a good time. I re-

ally enjoy dancing so going to the club would be great. It is highly mandatory to eat after the club because dancing makes

me hungry. Nothing fancy, drive thru would be just fine.

Amy Tyson, 18, Undecided


I want her to be understanding. She needs to understand I’m a guy and I do not need to constantly affirm my feelings. On

Valentine’s Day we would do something unmundane. A really well planned blanket picnic after visiting the La Brea Tar Pits

would be unmundane.

Keith Conner, 50ish, mortuary science

My perfect Valentine is smart, kind and generous of course and let's me be a man.

There's nothing worse than a girl on a power trip. She is pretty and knows it but doesn't flaunt her attributes. Most impor-tantly she has to have a good personality, I like a girl I can joke around with and not have to worry about hurting her feelings,

she earns major points if she can make me laugh. Our perfect night together would start off with the cheese and chocolate

fondue from The Melting Pot because every girl likes a little dessert first. Then I would

take her to see a live concert, hopefully someone she's never heard of. I really en-

joy introducing new things to girls and it's a great way to make a memory together. After the concert I know I'll be hungry so we will go to Harbor House Cafe in Sunset Beach because they have everything and are open 24 hrs. After we finished eating we would take a nice walk on the beach and I'll watch her do cartwheels and back tucks if she can do them. I'm hoping she can because that

would be really cool but if she can't then we would have a very stimulating conversa-

tion. Lastly, I would take her home and as I was walking her to the door I would whip

out the concert t-shirt I bought her while she was in the bathroom. Hopefully she'll be so overjoyed by our night together and I'm feeling a bit lucky, she just might give

me a kiss before she closes the door behind her to officially end the night.

Austin Gludt, 19, Undecided


From Divergence

Editorial Staff Nicole Herbold Editor-in-Chief Jessica Canales Copy Editor Adam Clease C.C.M.N. Manager Jessica Myers Ad Manager Maria Ong Cychron Editor Samantha Islam Literary Editor

Cypress ChronicleCypress College 9200 Valley View St.

Cypress, CA 90630Cychron.com

[email protected]/CychronReports

February is the month of love. There is Valentine’s Day which is one of the most romantic holidays there is, there is Black History month, and this year it happens to be a Leap Year!

With these holidays happening there is also events that are tak-ing place on the school campus to help get students more in-volved. There was the welcome back event put on by A.S. that had a great turn out.

As we have seen in the past tuti-tion is still rising! Now the cost to attend a community college is up to $46 a unit. As the price per unit continues to rise so does the cost of everything else related to school, whether it be books, sup-plies or even access codes.

School is definitly not a cheap

place to spend time, but it has been said that in the end it will pay off. But will this still be true if prices continue to sore and reach an unbelievable new price if these trends of going up each semester continue to happen.

With all that said I hope every-one is ready to get back in the swing of things with their new class, and are ready to take on this semester the best way that they can. -Divergence

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Table of Contents

6 PhishingIs your Identity being stolen? Find out about one of the many ways this could be happening to you.

12 Summer TwinsLocal girls from the Riverside area are making it big in the music industry.

8 Welcome BackNew year, new semester here at Cypress. Let theactivites begin.

14 Love is in the AirIs there a special someone in your life? Then the Valentine Grams are just the thing for you!

18 Print MakingVery talented artist brings his show case to let students as well as faculty view it.

26 Broken Fire HydrantFiremen, Police, and residence all saw sight when a fire hydrant was backed into and was gushing out water.

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During the winter break the col-lege’s email server was Phished.. Phishing is a way of acquiring personal information such as usernames, passwords, social security, address, bank informa-tion, etc. by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electron-ic device.

Mike Kavanaugh, head of Aca-demic Computing at Cypress College, says that nothing has been majorly affected by the emails, but a staff member was hacked. Several phishing emails were sent out to various staff members over the course of the attack. However, Kavanaugh could not release exact details on who was hacked due to privacy policy issues.

“Our computer systems are subject to attack from so many places…We’re all subject to at-tack if we’re not careful,” said Robert Simpson, Cypress Col-lege executive vice president. He says that a similar situation oc-curred about a year ago.

Simpson’s biggest concern is keeping personal life separate from business when dealing with electronic communication. Doing

that would help to curb some of the phishing emails and other personal identity theft attempts said Simp-son. “Keeping those lives separate

is a good idea.”

You have probably seen one of these appear in your spam box, but sometimes they will weasel to your inbox. Such emails usually appear legitimate at first glance as they are

using names of companies such as Chase, AT&T or even the FBI.

In textbook fashion, they will give some type of warning such as an account has been hacked or your identity is in jeopardy and you need to provide personal infor-mation to them via email. All the aforementioned organizations will never ask for such personal infor-mation through email and their privacy statements clearly state this.

The Federal Trade Comission has provided some guidlines on inden-tity protection. The best thing an individual can do is to learn the different types of identity theft and be alert for them.

So what to do if you think your identity was stolen? The FTC says to check your bank statements regularly and if you have online banking, check the account for suspicous activity everyday. How-ever, most conusmers don’t realize they were victims until it was too late.

If you fall into the later category, the FTC says the best thing to do is to file a police report, which is an Identity Theft Report. The report opens legal rights to credit card

Phishing, A Form of I.D. TheftBy: Courtney Theobald

Photos by: Justin Fitzpatrick

Linna Buckovecs didn’t changes her email password when told, she lost all

the money in her bank accounts.

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Megan Morse didn’t changes her password, now she has no more facebook!

reporting companies to block fraudulent informa-tion from appearing on your credit report.

The Identity Theft Report also gives the credit card companies the ability to block all fraudulent charges and erases any debt that was incured due to identity theft.

Identity recovery is a timely process that can take anywhere from a couple months to years to regain. As the FTC said, the best thing an individual can do to protect themselves is to gain knowledge on the tactics of identity theives.

For more information regarding the identity protection and recovery, visit the FTC’s website: www.ftc.gov and go to the consumer tab. They also have links to other government websites that will help you recover your identity.

-D

The sweet smell of food filled the air as students roamed the pond area, spoke with different clubs, played games and scored free food during the Welcome Back event on Feb. 1st and 2nd from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. The event, which is sponsored by the Associate Students (AS), is designed to give clubs a chance to spread their name and recruit new members. It also gives AS a chance to explain to everyone what they do for the students for purchasing the AS sticker.

Students lined up for free hamburgers, salad and kool-aid before the grills were even fired up. On Thursday, the second day, Student Trustee Jennifer Caspellan ran out of cooks and had to recruit members from the different clubs in attendance to man the grill. During the course of the two day event, Caspellan ran events and games such as musical chairs, chubby bunny and a dance contest. She said that the event was a success and many students were expressing interest in joining AS and other clubs.

Student Brian Quinones said, “It’s been great! I’ve enjoyed my time here.” Quinones, a history major and member of Honor society, added, “Personally when I think of the atmosphere at Fullerton College I feel like it’s based more on social life, whereas, at Cypress it’s more about your academics and getting involved.”

While the Honors Society was busy recruiting new members at the event, Quinones explained that joining the society was a “life-changing experience…I never really knew the whole college experience till I joined.”

Welcome Back Sports

Fan!!!

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Dancing is a major part of the welcome back event.

Story by: Monica Ruvalcaba & Spencer CustodioPhotos: Maria Ong

The other clubs have similar sentiment. Charles Shin, computer science major and math club member said that you don’t have to be good at math to join the math club. “It’s all about helping each other understand certain material and working together.” Shin explained that the club participates in mathematic competitions, but its core focus is helping all the members with various areas of study within the mathematic field.

Welcome Back was considered a success by the AS and differ-ent club leaders, as there was much foot traffic. Through the marshmallow filled cheeks of chubby bunny contestants and the organized chaos of musical chairs, the event was effective in giv-ing clubs a chance to reach out to the students and interest many in extracurricular activities. -D

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Free BBQ!

Joey Lundeer, Chem Club Pres. and Lu-pita Ruiz Cleb Lead joined in on the fun.

Jennifer Capellan is very enthusiastic while talking to Cyn-thia Eleazar.

Cynthia Eleazar and Tonia Stephen get close.

By: Luis Torrico


It’s not a surprise this recession is affecting our education, classes being cut, long waiting lists, tak-ing up to four years to transfer when usually it would take two, paying more for classes. Is there something we could do to fight back?

I don’t know about you but I am tired of tuition raising their prices like if it was gaso-line. There is a way to fight back and even better make your voice be heard.

The associated students at Cypress College cre-ated “Where’s The Funding?”(WTF). This is for all those students who want to be heard, for all of us who are fed up with ever increasing tuition. Alie Patel, vice president of external affairs is the head of “WTF” and we at Divergence talked with her about this event.

Divergence: What is "WTF" about?

Patel: Wtf stands for where is the fundings? It's a campaign ran by associated students to promote awareness of the cuts to educa-tion. Most students are unaware

of the just how drastic these cuts are until they are unable to get classes. The purpose of it is to get the word out and to also hear the students stories. In addition to classes being cut, cuts to the pell grant; the bogg waiver is also be-ing cut. There are new restrictions being implemented on it which will cause several students to have to pay for their tution.

Divergence: How is this going to help the students?

Patel: This campaign will help the students as they will be more aware of what is taking place in the education system. Also by writing letters to their legislator students are able to express their

voices. This will influence our representatives to be more favor-able to our community college system.

Divergence: After writing their letters and sending them to the legislature would there be a dif-ference?

Patel: Yes! At the end of the day we are our state represenatives constituents and try do represent us. How ever in order for them to listen we need to be united as students.

How many letters are you guys expecting to get?

Last year we only got 192 but this year were aiming for 500. We hope students really do take the five min-utes of their day to write a letter so they dont risk loosing their education.

If anyone would like to write their story and have it heard there is a simple way to do so. Simply just write an email and send it to [email protected]. -D

Where is Our Funding Going?Photo Credit: Sam Islam


“Simple Chicken Soup”Ingredients: ■ 2lbChicken■ cupofFrozenVegetables■ 2clovesofGarlic■ 2Potatoes■ Water■ BayLeaf■ Salt/PepperfortasteUtensils/Facilities::■ Stovetop/Microwave■ Knife■ Fork■ Pot/Microwavesafedish

Stove Top Directions:

1. PokeholesintochickenwithFork2. Salt&PeppertheChicken3. Peelandchopthepotatoesintolargechunks4. FillaPotwithwaterandplaceoverthestoveonhighHeat5. AddPotatoesandcupofVegetablesintoboilingwater.6. Add in the Chicken into the pot7. Addateaspoonofgroundbayleaf/orasinglebayleaf8. SaltandPeppertotaste9. Lowerheattomediumheatandcoverfor20to25minutes.10. Turnoffheatandreadytoserve.

MicrowaveDirection1. Cut the Chicken to manageable chucks2. Salt&PeppertheChicken3. Peelandchopthepotatoes4. PokeholesinboththepotatoesandtheChickenpieces5. Halfwayfillamicrowavesafedinnerdishwithwater6. AddtheChicken,PotatoesandfrozenvegetablesintotheDish7. AddtheBayLeaf,SaltandPepper8. Placeintomicrowaveandcookfor7to10minutes.9. Carefullypulloutandreadytoserve

“DinnerBreadPudding”

Ingredients: ■ 3largeEggs■ CanofEvaporatedMilk/CupofMilk■ Breadofchoice(StaleBreadistheBestBread)■ 2Potatoes■ CupofShreddedCheese■ SaltandPepper

Utensils/Facilities:● StoveTopand/orOven● Bowl● Whisk/Fork● Pan

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Ready To Serve~

Hungry are we?By: Dyana Ortiz

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Summer Twins, a local Riverside band of sisters Chelsea and Justine Brown are a band to look out for this year.

“Justine and I first started playing in our early teens. We pretty much just decided that we wanted to start a band, so once that was settled, we picked up our instruments and learned to play by covering songs by the Ramones and the Buzzcocks” said Chelsea, the guitarist and singer that has effortlessly flaunted her beautiful voice.

Chelsea strums her guitar and har-monizes with her sister Justine as she drums, and their similar sounding voices work well together.

They began in 2008, after the split of an all girl band they were in for a few years. For having only been together for four years, Summer Twins are do-ing quite well, they have already played 7 shows this year.

“Justine and I kept playing because we enjoyed it, so it wasn’t until we had a few songs that we decided we should start a new band. We had a few friends come join us, and I think we officially established ourselves as Summer Twins in 2008,” explained Chelsea.

Since Summer Twins are from River-side, I was curious as to whether or not their origins influenced their music, and if there is a good scene in that area.

“I wouldn’t necessarily say that there’s

a good music scene in Riverside, but that doesn’t mean there’s not some good bands. There’s talent here, but there’s not enough venues to play and there’s not much of a community” Chelsea explained.

This reigns true with a lot of bands cur-rently developing their selves as artists in the current independent music scene.

Los Angeles and Orange County hold all of the frequented venues, which bands have to play at to get their music heard. This is exactly what Summer Twins are doing.

Chelsea stated, “No one comes to Riv-erside looking for music, so we really had to branch out to Orange County and Los Angeles to get our name out.”

Besides sharing your music to people who hopefully love it, one of the most important things to a band is connec-tions.

Chelsea shared, “It was really tough at first, since we didn’t know anyone, but we’ve worked hard in the last few years and played lots and lots of shows to build a following. We still love Riv-erside though. It can be tiring playing out in L.A., so it’s comforting to come home.”

When people start a band on their own without any initial help from labels, producers or managers, acquiring con-nections as you go along is critical.

Summer Twins worked hard at playing shows, and getting to know other bands and people important to the music scene, which helped them share their dream-like upbeat pop music with us. This year will hopefully be a success for Summer Twins, since they are fol-lowing through with their current goals.

“So far we’ve reached two of our goals, which were to release an album and to go on tour, so that’s really exciting,”

said Chelsea.

Summer Twins released their self-titled album on January 24th through Burger Records, the wonderful Fullerton label and record store.

They are touring the United States all through March, but they hope to tour Japan too, “One of our big goals is to tour Japan. A label called IRMA Re-cords has released our album out there and we’ve been trying to build some connections, so it’s definitely possible! It would be a dream come true!”

So what’s next for Summer Twins in 2012?

The sisters say, “We want to film some music videos, maybe release a 7”, and tour some more.” Summer Twins have upcoming shows February 11th at The Smell in Los Angeles, and the 25th at the Family Music Room in Moreno Valley. If you can’t catch them this month, you definitely should venture out to The Echo in Los Angeles on March 7th! Visit their website for more information, at summertwinsmusic.com

Local BandS: Summer Twins & tHE lOVELY bAD tHINGS

Stories & The The Lovely Bad Things photo by: Alyssa Curtius

Enjoying their time in the sun.

Time to roller skate!

Hanging out is one of the things they love to do.

Summer Twin photos by:Joy Newell

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The Lovely Bad Things, an alternative Surf-Punk band from La Mirada, were kind enough to sit down with me for an interview. What is intriging about this band, is that they have only been to-gether since October of 2009, and they’ve already accomplished so much. We met up in their garage where they practice and play shows, which they call The Lovely Bad Pad.

Divergence: How did you guys meet and what prompted you to start The Lovely Bad Things?CAMRON WARD: Well, Brayden and I were in a band with our friend Wesley before we met Lau-ren. I think Brayden and Lauren met at school…LAUREN CURTIUS: Yeah, Brayden and I met at La Mirada High School when we were 14 and I met Camron soon after that. We all had a com-mon interest in music and I went to every one of their shows after that.BRAYDEN WARD: We all met Tim a little later when our first band played a show with his band and we all started hanging out. Unfortunately, Tim’s first band broke up but it gave us the oppor-tunity to extend an invitation to him to join our band as the rhythm guitarist. TIM HATCH: Then that band broke up about the time Brayden and Lauren graduated high school because our bassist Wesley wanted to focus on school.LC: After that, the story is basically that I got a random text message from Camron one day, ask-ing me if I wanted to start a band. CW: And it was obvious that Brayden and Tim would be apart of it too because at this point the four of us were spending so much time together already. It just made sense. D: What are your major musical influences?CW: Oh god there are so many.. I think we all have really different tastes in music. LC: We all love the Pixies though. Brayden’s favorite band is Modest Mouse.BW: Tim’s is Sonic Youth.TH: And Camron loves Dinosaur Jr.LW: I think those bands influence us individually because whatever instrument we end up playing on a particular song, we write the parts for that instrument alone, and then whoever has a melody in mind puts vocals on top of that. So we kind of end up with this big random mix because we switch around and write on a different instrument every time we write a song. D:Do you all go to school and work? If so, do you find it hard to prioritize with school, work, and a band?LC: Yeah, that’s definitely always an issue. Brayden has a full-time job and so does Tim. I work part-time and go to school full-time. TH: It gets really hard when you have to make decisions and reevaluate your priorities because big opportunities come up sometimes with this band and school and work have to be put on the back-burner. I had to take off school this semester because we’re going on tour basically the whole month of March.

LC: Yeah, it’s impossible to be absent for a month out of a class, let alone 5 classes. I’m taking all online classes this semester to open up my avail-ability.BW: But we’re all lucky to have jobs that are un-derstanding and give us time off when we need it. D: Would you say your hard work is paying off in The Lovely Bad Things?CW: Definitely. We all work extremely hard at this and I think sometimes people have a miscon-ception about us that great shows just get handed to us.LC: I agree. I am working my butt off every day with this band. We just signed with a label and got a publicist but everything we’ve ever gotten up took a lot of doing our own press, our own book-ing, everything on our own. BW: We’re practicing and writing a bunch as well, and we play as many shows as we possibly can. D: You all seem pretty close knit. Spending so much time together, do you ever get into argu-ments?TH: Of course we argue a little bit when we’re really stressed or someone’s having a bad day. Brayden and Camron probably get into little tiffs the most since they’re siblings.LC: The rest of us don’t really fight very much, we were so close before we started this band that we had time to get used to one another and understand everyone’s eccentricities. D: Would you say you all contribute to song writing equally, and are on the same page?CW: I would definitely say that. That’s basi-cally the entire phi-losophy of this band and why it works so well.BW: Everyone con-tributes and no one is confined to write on just one instrument for all the songs. TIM HATCH: Yeah, we all just play whatever instrument we feel like play-ing and it works out because everyone is in agreement. It gives us the freedom to say, you know, I’m not working out on guitar for this song--I can’t really think of anything-- and I can go ahead and take a stab at drums. D: Are there any new

releases coming out soon?BRAYDEN WARD: Our newest release New Ghost/Old Waves comes out on vinyl on March 13.CAMRON WARD: Burger Records already released it on cassette in July 2011 but Volcom Entertainment is doing the vinyl. We’re super stoked! D: What are your goals as a band, for 2012? TIM HATCH: Just to be able to keep going at the rate that we’re going now. We want to be able to keep doing this. LAUREN CURTIUS: We’re really excited to be going to Austin in March for SXSW Festival, and hopefully that will take us somewhere we want to go. We don’t really know what’s going to happen but we hope it’s as fun as it’s been so far. The Lovely Bad Things are playing at The Echo in Los Angeles on March 6th, and at Burgerama Festival in Santa Ana on March 24th. To learn more about the band, their upcoming shows, and to listen to their music, visit their website: http://lovelybadthings.tumblr.com/

Members of LBT pose for a photo opt.


With Valentine’s Day around the corner, now is the best time to purchase Valentine’s Day Grams for your loved ones. AGS are selling presents for only $4.00. Feb 9th is the last day to buy gift for your loved ones. A section will be set up by the pond in the afternoon where AGS will be selling Valentine’s Day grams. Help sup-port AGS and surprise your loved ones.

After your purchase you will be told when to pick up your present. Along with the present you will also receive an envelope with a to and from note. It’s a great way to get Valentine’s Day shopping out of the way as well as get a great deal.

Story by: Kristina Sigala & Brittany CalderonPhoto by: Amanda Makary

Love is in the Air!

Pankti Parikh, Mignonne D’cruz, and Jenna Abando are all smiles while saling the grams.

Everybody loves balloons!


Come support AGS- Honor Society by buying a valentine’s gram for your loved one. They are sure to LOVE IT! This is cute gift includes a mailbox cupcake of your choice, Red Velvet or Vanilla, and a love letter to write a special message to your special someone.

Come by the fountain area in front of the student center building, to purchase your grant. Grants are only $4. You can come by 12-3pm February 9, 2012 this is the last day you can purchase your grant so hurry up and get yours!

Grants can be picked up on Valentine’s Day Feb-ruary 14th at the same location between 12-3pm, or you can be someone’s secret admirer by having an AGS member drop off the grant to your loved one during class on Tuesday, but you must buy 2 or more grants!

Jonathon and Felix, AGS- Honor Society mem-bers, will be happy to help you with your purchase.

Here is an inspiring quote just in time for Valen-tine’s,

‘’Love is a necessity you can’t live without.’’ By Felix Awayla (AGS member)

-D

These cute little grams are being sold for only $4 and they even include a CUPCAKE!

This sign says it all.

Ever-changing and virtually unpredictable: the weather, everyone’s favorite conversation filler, af-fects day-to-day life more than one might imagine. Should I take an umbrella to school today? Will a tank top do, or will I need a cardigan for the cold? Luckily, it’s now much easier for students of Cypress College to answer these questions thanks to the Cypress College Weather Station. Weather data taken directly from the sta-tion positioned atop the Humanities Build-ing is now available online.

“I didn’t know we had a weather station!” Zaira Burgos, a biology major, told Diver-gence. Indeed, publicity about the weather station has not been widespread, but the Geography Department has been doing its part through a few of its classes.

The Announcement

Divergence was able to interview Les Doak, professor of Geography at Cypress College, who is currently working on this project. Doak, who has traveled to

a number of countries to experience

and study different weather patterns, had the weather system’s test site up and running by last spring.

Doak says that some of his students are en-couraged to observe and chart the data taken from this site. “If anyone’s dealing with anything in Earth Science, they’ll want to know what’s happening. They’ll learn to read it, and they’ll learn to look at trends, and that sort of thing.

It was only over the recent term break, however, that the site’s availability was an-nounced.

“I inquired with the IT people during the break: is [the site] robust enough so that we could ask the dean to send out a broadcast to all faculty and staff,” said Professor Doak.

Upon their maintenance and operation crew’s approval, Dean Nina DeMarkey of the Social Sciences Division sent the announcement via e-mail. The memo not only encourages the staff to check the test site for the weather, but also boasts of the weather station’s top-of-the-line scientific instruments.

A WeatherStation

FixationStory and Photos by Gerard Avelino

Geography, Grants, and (Rain) Gauges

“We’ve always had a weather sta-tion,” continues Doak. “We just upgraded it when the building was completed.”

He goes on to explain that these new, digital, weather data-collecting instruments have been acquired not with district or college funds, but with grant money awarded to the Geography Department.

He says that the department has around $3 million in industry support and grants for its various programs, which include not only the weather instruments, but also Geographic Information Systems (GIS) classes.

“Professor [Armando] Mendoza and I did more research to support our weather station, so we’re paying our way over this stuff with money we’re bringing in.”

These weather instruments, located on the roof of the Humanities Build-ing, may look fairly simple. However, they can definitely be relied-upon for accurate data collection. The instruments measure temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, and the amount of rainfall, among others.

“You don’t get anything better un-less you get your own doppler radar, which is a bit much,” says Professor Doak.

A Community Weather Station

In the short time since the announce-ment was made, Doak reveals that a number of faculty and staff now rely on the test site for the weather.

“It uploads every 30 minutes on the website,” he explained. “It tells you if the campus already has had an inch of rain. You might want to have... not your normal shoes, and maybe an

umbrella!”

“Anybody that’s living in Cypress would sure like to know what’s hap-pening in Cypress. Anybody going to school would like to see it,” Doak added.

He encourages not only the fac-ulty and staff, but also students, and other residents of Cypress City to bookmark the page for their weather needs.

The Future and SWAG

“In terms of the science, by observing [the weather] over time, you begin to see how you can more effectively predict what’s going to happen.” Says Professor Doak. “It is a SWAG, every weather prediction is a SWAG: A Sci-entific Wild-Ass Guess. It’s the best damn guess you can make.”

Luckily, what’s in store for the Cypress Weather Station isn’t a wild guess. Doak expects that the weather station would eventually get its own dedicated server to upload and store the data received from the instru-ments.

Also, a better, more user-friendly graphical interface is expected to be developed for the site in the future.

“It does need to be something that people could look at without saying, ‘Uh, what the hell is that?’” He fur-ther explained that they would like to avoid an overly-sensational, “cutesy and pre-packaged” presentation, as that would merely distract from the scientific data.

Could a mobile application soon be available that connects directly to the Cypress College Weather System?

“We have that capacity,” says Profes-sor Doak. “All it takes is the time to do it all.”

The current local weather, together with information accumulated from the few months the test site has been active, can be accessed at http://old.cypresscollege.edu/~ldoak/Current_Vantage.htm.

-D

Febuary 2012

Professor Doak shows Divergence the Cypress Weather System’s test site.AVELINO/DIVERGENCE

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Whether it’s hair style, clothing, or choice of music the desire to be origi-nal is unanimous. Everyone has their own interests. It’s all about original-ity. Yet, somehow originality got lost

somewhere in the art world. The Cy-press College art gallery is comoating the lack of originality through amazing exhibition that found a way to mesh the original simplicity of printing art with an urban style everyone can relate to. Bringing back printing methods that are hundreds of years old the simplistic

beauty of art.

The exhibition “Original Copy” will be displayed February 23rd from 6-9 pm till March 22nd located in the art de-

partment on campus. Featuring artists: Zoltan Janvary, Whyne Kimball, Chris Natrop, Rozanne Sexauer. “Original Copy” isn’t your average gallery show. This gallery premiere is all about inter-acting with the art itself and remember-ing that it doesn’t take a fancy com-

puter and crazy technology to make a great piece of art work. There are four different types of printing methods that will be displayed as one cohesive col-lection, some of the artists will be there alongside their work. Attendies get the

opportunity to leave with their own designs that will be hand-pressed on to a t-shirt for $10. There will be Ameri-can Apparel shirts avaliable in different colors for purchase or shirts may be brought from home.

Simply OriginalBy: Amanda Makary

Flyer is constructed by Professer Carlton Christy. Just goes to show you don’t need to use any techonlogy to make an awesome print. Just two hands and the right tools.


Lithograph, metal plate engraving, wood-block printing, and paper-stencil screen-printing are all version of print that will be displayed in its own light and open for interaction with the students, the more contact and involvement the better for everyone.

The masterminds behind the brilliant ex-hibition are professor Carlton Christy and Professor Sarah Jaffray. “I want the show to be fun and a real energetic, interacting experience. The most exciting print mak-ing show as possible.” states, Mr. Christy, who is pumped about the show and wants everyone to focus on the immense vibe of the gallery.

Neil Schield will be keeping true to the original theme by turning on a vinyl set. Neil Schield is the owner of Origami Vinyl Record Shop; check out on face book page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/Origami-Vinyl. Along side of the great music and amazing prints will be finger foods for everyone to fill your tummies while filling your minds!

This show is defiantly going to be a cam-pus event that you do not want to miss. It will guarantee to give you a new percep-tion on printing methods, that most may have considered old and dated. Just goes to show that despite the fact that we are con-stantly bombarded by all this technology in our daily life simplicity truly is key. It is possible to look back on our original roots and bring them back better than ever.

All ages are welcome to enjoy the gal-lery. If you have any questions on the event contact professors Mr. Christy and Mrs. Jaffray. Or check out the events facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/302204653171198/. -D

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Student ArtThe Cypress College Art Department, Concrete Walls Projects, and SDS Skateboards teamed up to create a collaborative project in the hopes of building a better community in the greater Los Angeles area. SDS themselves sponsored Devon Tsuno’s 2D De-sign class’s midterm project by giving students skateboard decks, where the students were to use design and color theory to create an original design that targets a “niche” market closely related to their own personal interests.

Photos by: Victoria CardenasBy: Sam Islam

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Lunar Sanctum Pt. 2By: Sam IslamHeath scratched his head, confused. “That’s strange. . .” He opened up all the folders the laptop had, but could find no files whatsoever in any of them. Not a single file was saved on the laptop. Not even a simple picture was found.

Kaoru crossed his arms over his chest. “Well if there were any doubts that these disappearances were connected,” he said grimly, “they are all gone now. The previous three girls had their histories and files wiped clean as well.” He turned to one of the crime scene in-vestigators. “Hey Ryo-san,” he called. The black-haired man turned to him, all ears. “Have Pata-sama go through the hard drive on this computer.” He gin-gerly handed the bag to him. “I want every single nuance found on it sent to my office. Same thing goes with the other victims’ laptops. I don’t care if he just finds shitty music downloads. I want every single thing sent to me.” He paused. “And let me know if a thumb drive or anything of the sort turns up. I want any files that can be linked to Cari and the other three victims sent to me.” Ryo bowed his head. “Will do sir.” With the bag in hand, he placed it securely in a box labeled “Forensics.”

There was no doubt in Kaoru’s mind now that these four girls were all vic-timized by the same mysterious fiend. The similarities were too abundant; the victim descriptions pretty much matched, the timing of the disappear-ances were similar, and now the very few clues they had collected from each case are begining to line up. Now to figure out what direction to go in. . .

“All we have left to do now is vicitm profiling,” Heath said, interrupting Kaoru’s train of thought. “Since no one saw anyone suspicious near the hotel rooms around the time the girls

were booked, then all we can do is dig deeper into their time here.” He smiled reassuringly at the younger detective. “I’m sure we’ll be able to find them Kaoru-san,” he said comfortingly, pat-ting him on the shoulder.

Kaoru sighed, returning the smile wan-ningly. “You’re quite the optimist,” he said. “I guess I should start picking up on that, ne?” He looked out the win-dow near the bed. “Hey Heath?”

“Yeah?”

“. . .it’s going to be a full moon tonight isn’t it?”

Heath paused, cocking his head to-wards the window. “Yup. Just like the last three times.”

Kaoru gritted his teeth. What was this, some medieval horror novel? he thought bitterly. “I’m getting sick of these games Heath,” he said, his voice filled with irritation. “I’m going to catch this bastard if it’s the last thing I do.” With that final thought floating in the air, Kaoru walked out of the hotel room.

***As a young student at the prestigious Genshoku University in Saitama, Matsumura Kiriha knew that majoring in music would be no walk in the park. Sure he was an accomplished guitarist by some standards, and he could even play the drumset pretty well. He’s writ-ten music before, albeit metal songs, but he has penned them down on staff paper nonetheless. So far this year, Kiriha had managed to snake his way past the hellish assignments handed down by his closet-sadistic profes-sor Yasuhiro Yamato-sensei, or better known as Yamato-sensei. But it seems like his time has finally come to suffer with the rest of his fellow students.

You see, Yamato-sensei was no ordi-nary music professor. He seemed to enjoy putting his students through hell just to get that degree they desired so much. Everything from writing an entire score to a movie by ear to even attending drum corps workshops was thrown at his pupils. The Tokyo Phoe-nix instructors seemed highly amused by the fear the college students exuded during these workshops. If Kiriha learned one thing from that experience, it was this: Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off percussion tech. Thankfully, he got through those nightmarish work-shops with his sanity intact. He had thought that he had finally got through the worst his devilish teacher had to throw at him. Boy was he wrong, ex-cept this time Yamato-sensei hit his stu-dents where it truly hurt: Their prides and their wallets.

“I can’t believe I have to do THIS SHIT and buy THIS SHIT!” Kiriha exclaimed before his forehead met the stone table with an obnoxious thud. He sat near the school’s enormous pond, fit with a marble statue of a grand samu-rai, with his sword on his side and a hand placed on his hip. Grabbing his laptop from his black messenger bag, he set it on the table, turned it on, and began his quest to find good deals. Yes Yamato-san. I can just shit money and buy myself a fucking French horn, Kiriha thought bitterly. His professor had decided that his students were not strong enough in their musical versatil-ity, and upon this realization ordered that his students pick up a completely different instrument of his choosing and play it for their next recital in a few months. Great. And on top of that, he had to buy more music theory books for the upcoming semester. Way to pick the most expensive instrument for me Yamato-sensei, Kiriha muttered

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Little Dark SecretBy Victoria CardenasWhat are you hiding?

Is it who you use to be?Is it a memory that’s slowly been dying?

Or is it simply the key?The key that holds the truth,

The one thing that will release your demons from the past

Everyone has at least one little dark secretThey never want to admitThey’re too scared and lost

About telling their secret and what it would costLosing everything is the risk some might have to

takeYou can’t run from it

That little dark secret you hate to admit.

Wake up little one, wake upThe rest of world isn’t going to wait

for you There are many things to be done

Wake up little one, wake upYou’ve got big shoes to fill

Time to put them on and see how they fit

Wake up little one, wake upAwaken from the land of dreams,

hopes and desiresYou’re too young to conceive of such

things

Wake up little one, wake upBack to corporate society where you

belongA pawn on a chess board, a cog of a

machineThe whole world will fall apart with-

out youOr maybe, you’ll be simply replaced

The Real World

inwardly. Too bad the college didn’t lend out instruments like they did back at his old high school. Kiriha was bet-ting on just simply renting the damn thing from some local music store, and hopefully for cheap. He knew the books were already going to cost him a fortune. The addition of renting a brass instrument was not easing his econom-ic woes in the least bit.

Oh why couldn’t he just play his guitar for the recital and call it a day?

Ugh. . .the cheapest one here goes for fifty dollars a month, Kiriha mused to himself as he went through link after link. Okay so fifty dollars for three

months, which adds up to about $150 until the recital, and the books will cost. . . Kiriha took out his notebook and opened to a page he marked with a sticky note. $200. Great. He sighed, ruffled the back of his shoulder length, wavy, dirty blond hair, and put the notebook down. I have no idea how I’m going to be able to pay for all this! Kiriha fumed inwardly. I’m a full-time college student with no job and no source of income! How the hell am I going to pull this off?! He let out a groan, then slammed his head back on the table. All this for the love of music. Well, there goes his career.

“You’re going to get a fucking concus-

sion from slamming your head on a stone table so many times,” a low tenor voice called from behind Kiriha. He lifted his head and turned around to glare at the origin of that voice. “Shut up Ikuto. Maybe if I hit my head hard enough money will start pouring out of my ears.” He stuck his tongue out at the brown-haired young man and proceeded to, yet again, slam his head on the stone table.

Something had to give for the young musician, and he was going to have to figure out what to do sooner or later. His train of thought was rudely inter-rupted when suddenly a strong hand grabbed the back of his shirt,. -D

By Romel Baniago

Whether you’re plans for Valentines Day include using it as an excuse to finally muster up some cour-age to make contact with a massive unre-quited crush, orches-trating a romantic evening at a swank restaurant, or kill-ing a whole a pint of mint chocolate chip while watching Dirty Dancing, the students at Cypress College will definitely be paying their respects to the holy day of lovey dovey-ness this February 14.

Back then, the Ro-mans got their love fest on by celebrating the Feast of Luperca-lia from Feb 13-15. Noel Lenski, a his-torian at the Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder stated that the Romans observed the day by, “ sacri-ficing a goat and a dog, then the men whipped the women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.” Today it’s a little less carnal than that, well most of the time.

Some view V day as a close

second to D Day, others view it with utter nonchalance, and many with excited anticipation; but it’s a wonder how people continue swooning into gift-buying and making reservations every year.

The Cychron took to the halls of Cypress College to probe the minds of it’s inhabit-ants.

Christian Jimenez, 20 confessed his dream date would entail “going to ride horses on the beach, very romantic-like, then after we ride, we’d ride away from each other and then run towards each other in slow motion to jump and hug.” Very romantic-like indeed.

When approached, Naomi Ignacio, 19, expressed a slight apathy towards Val-entines Day stating,

“It’s whatever. If there’s someone, there’s someone.”

Art professor Nathan Rolander, 38 shone some light on Valen-tines Day from a less sentimental point of

view saying that Valentine’s Day is “society’s commercialization of a day to sell cards and candy and things like that, but it’s a nice excuse to tell someone you care about them.” Rolander’s Valen-tine’s Day plans to have a date night with his wife.

VDAY...DDAY? By: Ashley Chang

Naomi Ignacio does not really care about Valentine’s Day.

Jeffrey Yeh, 20, told the Cychron his ideal Valentine’s date was Scarlett Johansen. When asked if he thought Valentine’s Day existed he replied with a cerebral, “Yes, It’s very real, its out there, it’s a holiday. It’s not really up to the corporate world to tell you what love is. It’s sort of something you define yourself.”

Perhaps it is the undeniable fact that us humans just want to be loved or have simply been watching too many reruns of Shot of Love with Tila Tequila, but we all know we’d be lying to ourselves if we said that this time of the year doesn’t unearth burgeoning feel-ings and a whole lot of ‘maybe ifs.’ We’ll leave it up to you guys on whether or not you’ll observe Valen-tines Day this year.

-D

Nathan Rolander who is a professor here at Cypress plans to have a date night with his

wife!

Jeffrey Yeh is falling for the lovely Scar-lett Johansen.

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Water spurted nearly 50 feet into the air and onto local homes near Cypress College after a fire hydrant was broken by a hit-and-run driver.

Water pooled around and flooded some apartments on the east side of the 9200 block of Valley View Street.

After hanging up her cell phone, Judie Esparanza said her apartment and the one located next to it were getting flooded. She pointed to two boys who were witnesses of the incident.

Kevin Simons,12, and Cody Loera ,13, said a gray U-Haul truck backed into the fire hydrant. The truck then drove away from the broken hydrant. The two boys described the driver as a male in his 40's with long black hair.

Flor Mora confirmed the two boys came up to her home and told her a gray Ford truck had backed into the hydrant and caused the whole flooding.

Brandon Gandy was inside his home when the incident oc-curred. He said he did not notice what had happened until his sons, who were doing homework, pointed out that their front yard was being flooded.

Water, Water, Everywhere!

Fire Department arrived on scene within 15 minutes.

Aftermath of a broken fire hydrantFiremen working to fix the issue

Story by Dyana OrtizPhotos by: Maria Ong

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Gandy was not concerned due to the fact that the gardener was coming over and thought the gardener would handle it. It wasn't until he walked out of the house that he grasped the gravity of the situation. He called 911 and was told that public works would come take care of the water.

The officers immediately arrived at the scene. The fire department arrived 15 minutes later. The fire depart-ment apparently shut off the geyser.

Cypress police officers waited for the water to be shut off and then began interviewing residents. The Chron-icle videotaped an uncomfortable exchange between residents and a police sergeant.

The sergeant appeared to be attempting to make a con-nection between the alleged u-haul truck and someone saying they "just moved in". Gandy said he just moved in last December and later said he now realizes what the sergeant was asking.

Jorge Llanos and other crew members from the Golden State Water Company quickly repaired the damaged hydrant . A little filing, a new gasket, hollowed bolts and old-fashion elbow-grease were the only things used to complete the repair.

-D

Police arrived immediately

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