vol47, issue 12 (march 18, 2015)
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MOST VALUABLE: Saddleback forward Dusty Baker, who was named MVP of the state tournament, drives past an East Los Angeles player.
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JUBILATION: The Gauchos celebrate with a championship photo.
in the lead. Another three minutes of turnovers and good defense had the score at 45-42 with 4:38 remaining in the game.
Saddleback played fantastic de-fense down the stretch, only allowing the Huskies two more points the entire game. Bournes alluded to this after the game, explaining that Ground had stressed playing good defense.
“Like my coach said, as long as we play defense, great success will hap-pen,” Bournes said.
The Gauchos took the lead for the first time since early in the first half when forward Dusty Baker hit a shot with 1:28 remaining to make the score 46-45. Baker got a layup on Saddle-back’s next possession and gave the Gauchos a three point lead with just over a minute remaining
After two free throws by the Hus-kies the score was brought back to 48-47. Saddleback guard Maleke Haynes came up clutch on the Gauchos next possession when he made an acrobatic layup with just 11 seconds to go in the game to make the score 50-47.
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The Saddleback Gauchos men’s basketball team won the 2015 Cali-fornia Community College Athletic Association state championship after defeating the East Los Angeles Col-lege Huskies 50-47 Sunday. This is Saddleback College’s second state championship in five years and third overall.
Gauchos head coach Andy Ground, who has coached in all three champion-ships, was proud of his team’s effort.
“It feels pretty good,” Ground said. “The guys really battled hard and the other team was a really good oppo-nent. We never quit, never die. We are going to play until the game ends and the buzzer rings.”
The Gauchos started the game slow, falling behind 10-2 after three three-pointers by the Huskies. Sad-dleback then went on a 7-0 run and took the lead midway through the first half.
East LA would take that lead right back and go on a scoring stretch that brought the score up to 26-17 with 6:07 left in the first half.
Saddleback once again bounced back, this time with some ferocity, and at halftime they had cut the lead to three with a score of 28-25. Saddle-back guard Andrew Bournes was the scoring leader for the Gauchos at the half with nine points. Center Conor Clifford was close behind with eight points.
“It was definitely a team effort,” Bournes said. “We worked hard and we didn’t get down at all, not one min-ute in the game.”
When the second half began, East LA got out to another great start, quickly scoring five points and tak-ing a 33-25 lead. The teams then went back and forth with Saddleback gradu-ally coming back with around 12 min-utes to go, tying the game. East LA hit a big three-pointer their next posses-sion, causing Ground to call a timeout with East LA leading 39-36.
Once again the teams battled. No-body took a significant lead and nei-ther team budged. After four minutes the scoring was at just 44-40, East LA
The Gauchos finish on the highest note, winning their third state championship in college history
Saddleback stole the ball a few seconds later, but Haynes turned the ball right back over to East LA, giving them one more chance to tie the game with just 0.6 seconds on the clock
On the ensuing inbound pass, Bak-er stole the ball and the game was over. Baker, who was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament, gave most of the credit to his teammates after the
game. “Can’t say enough about our guys
and we worked hard since June, and it all paid off,” Baker said. “We have high character guys who don’t give up and keep playing until the end of the whistle. A lot of guys are banged up at the end of the season and not feeling well, but we gave it all that we could and luckily we held out.”
Bournes shared similar thoughts, also praising Ground for his coaching throughout the season.
“We knew as long as we stuck to-gether it would come out great for us,” Bournes said. “We knew exactly what it was going to take to reach this lev-el. Coach Ground did an amazing job coaching us and we just worked hard everyday.”
Haynes, who hit the final shot in the game, was extremely happy about winning the championship.
“It feels awesome, best feeling in the world,” Haynes said. “We just stuck together, man, the whole sea-son we just stuck together and took it game by game and it feels great.”
Saddleback is in a select class now having won three state champion-ships. They are only the ninth commu-nity college with three or more titles in the state of California.
This is also the only state champi-onship this year for any Saddleback athletic team.
It is no secret that gas prices in Southern California are tempera-mental.
California state government offi-cials do play a role, but they are not the main factor in gas price fluctua-tion. State government policies and taxes are more responsible for the steady high prices that Californians have come to expect.
California adheres to a strict reg-ulatory process, limiting the amount of foreign oil consumption.
Foreign oil is less pure; therefore, it is more harmful to the environ-ment.
California’s oil must also undergo a thorough inspection process before it is refined; which is one of the con-tributing factors in the high price of gasoline.
Under Assembly Bill 32, passed in September 27, 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) planned to es-tablish long term greenhouse gas emission reduction plan for the state of California. Hopefuls were esti-mating an unrealistic “12 or 13 cent
price increase per gallon,” according to U-T San Diego.
State taxes are a key factor, con-tributing to approximately 11.9 per-cent total cost per gallon, whereas federal taxes are responsible for an overall increase of 4.7 percent total cost per gallon.
Local gas fluctuations are effect-ed by internal conflicts such as the explosion in February at the Exxon Mobile plant in Torrance, California, which just so happens to contribute 20 percent of Southern Californian
oil supply.According to GasBuddy.com,
Orange County, with an average of $3.498 per gallon, has the third high-est average gas price in the Unit-ed States below Ventura County at $3.507 per gallon and Los Angeles County with an average $3.515 per gallon.
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FILL ‘Er Up: Filling up at the pump can be an expensive affair in California.
Courtesy of Carmenmara hernanDez Bravo
OLé: Saddleback Spanish instructor and one of the supervisors of study abroad opportunities, Carmenmara Hernandez Bravo (right), stands with students at the Carnival of the Bull in Salamanca, Spain.
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If you ever walk around Saddleback College you’ve very likely encountered the Gaucho, Saddleback College’s mas-cot. He still resides in places like the gym, athletic centers and the Student Services Center. Though innocent look-ing and cutely illustrated, the Gaucho is a part of an ongoing controversy and fascinating history.
A quick deductive look should an-swer why. The Gaucho, rather than looking like an actual gaucho, looks like a bandito. The little f ellow’s image is very ethnically insensitive and histori-cally inaccurate.
Students brought the issue to the Ac-ademic Senate in 2010, said Kenneth Brady, the Secretary of the Academic Senate. After much deliberation, senate
members voted to pass a resolution to ban the image from use. The motion was passed and the Gaucho was removed from campus.
But Gaucho images continued to linger. Students noticed, and filed an-other petition for removal. As reported by the Lariat, on November 5, 2013, the Associated Student Government and the Consultation Council repeated their vote to reiterate their position to ban the Gaucho. Unlike last time, the gaucho has stayed up.
English instructor and Academic Senate secretary Kenneth Brady, was at a loss to understand what the holdup is. He even nicely offered to “donate a gal-lon of paint or a bottle of white out” to help get rid of the image.
Dan Walsh, the President of the Ac-ademic Senate, was at a loss to explain it too. What they are both sure of is that the image is offensive to multiple cul-tures. For that reason alone, they both agree, the image should be removed.
If that’s true, why is the image still up? It’s now February and the gaucho still remains up despite it no longer be-ing allowed on campus. There’s been
no set date for removal and no direct at-tempts at erasing him. Practically noth-ing has been done to remove the gaucho.
That’s where the real problem lies. The continuing debate over the Saddle-back Gaucho is hiding a blatant failure of the college administration to do one simple thing: finish what they start. Stu-dents and teachers, no matter the school, are entitled to proactive administrators who can act. That’s not what’s happen-ing at Saddleback College as this deba-cle over the Gaucho shows.
As reported last year by the Lariat, the Academic Senate voted, starting next semester, to ban the use of cig-arettes, both tobacco and electronic. The ban will be campus-wide at both Saddleback College and Irvine Valley College. That should make a num-ber of questions pop up. Chief among those questions should be this one: if the school can’t swiftly accomplish their goal of removing an image cam-pus-wide, how can they be expected to do the same with cigarettes or any other issue for that matter?
Of Gauchos and AdministratorsContinuing problems with the college’s mascot hide a bigger problem
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LET ‘Er BUCK: Despite a campus-wide ban, images of the Saddleback College Gaucho can still be seen. For in-stance, this image can still be found inside the Student Services Center overlooking the front entrance doors.
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“The 10 sports news events from break” on the front page referenes Jake Long when it should say Kyle Long.
The last issue’s “Campus Comments” gave incorrect in-formation regarding the third student from the top. The stu-dent is Brenna Miller. She is 19 and is currently studying for a degree in nursing.
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Our role models should be those who can admit to having made mistakes and are okay showing the world they aren’t perfect.
Katie Richcreek is a freshman journal-ism major from Southern California. She doesn’t go anywhere without Burt’s Bees chapstick, and aspires to be the next Lisa Ling.
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Micheal Scott is a junior com-mucation studies major from New York. He freelance writes for the Conservative Voice and The Klaz. He is aslo still very confused by the ending of Lost.
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Coach gets milestone win Saddleback head softball coach Nick Trani got his 500th win earlier this season and believes his team is very good
Saddleback College’s softball team is off to a fantastic start this season and it is much to the credit of head coach Nick Trani. Trani recently got win number 500 at Saddleback and his team is
a whooping 5-0 to start the season. Coach Trani wants the credit given to his players though, because he says that they are the ones playing and winning the games.
“It really is all about the players and getting them signed,” Trani said. “The players are the ones that win the games”
Trani was however humbled for the chance to be recognized for his feat. He even joked about his long tenure at Saddleback.
“It’s nice to be recognized and it’s a coaching milestone,” said Trani. “500 to me probably means I have been doing this for too long.”
On the field, the Gauchos have been outstanding, only allowing eight runs in five games and having scored more than 15 runs in two different games. Trani believes that this combination of hitting and pitching excellence could get the Gauchos deep into the regionals and possibly a championship, which would be Saddleback’s first softball title since 1987.
“We really have all of the weapons and I think it’s just a matter of putting it all together,” said Trani. “We have everything it takes to be successful. If we show up and play our game, we are going to beat anybody we play.”
Trani also thinks very highly of his pitching staff, even going on to say that he believes that thy are the best pitching staff in the state.
“First time I can remember having an actual pitching staff, where you don’t have to rely on one person,” said Trani
Trani also praised freshman pitcher Kaylee Cranmer who has been the winning pitcher in four of Saddleback’s games.
“She has pretty much been unhittable to this point.” said TraniSaddleback will look to remain undefeated when they play Palomar College on Tuesday, Feb.
10 and Golden West College on Wednesday, Feb. 11.
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Intramural stats
1. the killersWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
2. the replacementsWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
3. dan marino’s childrenWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
4. the ex-sealsWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
5. the pirahnasWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
6. the superherosWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
7. the mad scientistsWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
8. the Funky BunchWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
9. samson’s oFFspringWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
10. the DeFenDeRsWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
11. the great whitesWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
12. the carrotsWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
13. the YOu gOt seRveDsWins:2/Losses: 4/ Next Game: Friday, September 3
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2 Wednesday, march 18, 2015 Opinion LarIaTneWs.cOm
Of the problems that plague the world, hunger remains on top. Accord-ing to a 2014 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Approximately 805 million people in the world go underfed.
It gets worse. According to the lat-est report by the National Resources Defense Council, 40 percent of eatable food produced in America is thrown away. Such behavior has contributed to one-third of the world’s food – ap-proximately 1.3 billion tons – going to waste every year, the United Nations Environment Programme reports.
As many leaders still refuse to deal with this problem, people are turning to direct action. One group is leading the charge: college students.
A story by NPR last February has brought attention to students fighting against the epidemic of food waste. Students have been giving food to local agencies to prepare and provide to the poor. If the food can’t be saved then it’s used as compost for gardening.
Higher education students waste an average of 142 pounds a year according to Recycling Works. College campuses throw out 22 million pounds of food annually, the Food Recover Network Reported this month.
Colleges have begun to deal with the problem. For instance, James Gau, caf-eteria manager at Saddleback College, has said much of their food is been pre-vented from going to waste. This is due to the level of diligence the cafeteria practices regarding food. Gau has esti-mated only a handful of popular foods like salads and burritos go to waste.
Despite all of this, the food waste problem has yet to shrink. It doesn’t help also that food rescuing has met numerous hurdles. Though aids, such as the Good Samariatan Food Donation Act, have helped their efforts, privacy laws still exist that can indiretly penal-
ize attempts to salvage wasted food. Even if done with good intentions and even despite the fact that previous own-ers have abandoned them, punishments are given ranging from fines to arrests.
The stigma of garbage picking also remains. The potential health risks of doing this naturally pop up and are definitely reasonable. What isn’t how-ever is that the idea of digging through trash, even if done for a good cause, is still seen as a demeaning behavior.
Hunger’s still here and it’s not going away. There’s a finger being pointed at a solution to it and it’s being ignored, and if not ignored then demonized.
It is a conflict of interests to go af-ter people who try save food for good causes. It is time to start looking at peo-ple trying to recycle food as a motiva-tion to act against such waste.
We must start acting on visible solu-tions and making better ones. Food waste has to be dealt with. It is a prob-lem we need to address directly and with haste.
The Elephant in the dumpsterA way to help fix hunger in America can be found in the most obvious place
Photo Courtesy of foerster from Wikimedia Commons
culinary casualties: This garbage bin contains a collection of uneaten food much of which is still salvable. The photographer of this photo notes more was found at the bottom such as a carton of bananas.
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One of the many popular Dana Point Festival of the Whales events that drew in dozens of spectators was the Whale of a Clam Chowder Cook Off at Baby Beach Park.
This was the fourth annual chowder cook off and consist-ed of 12 different competitor booths ranging from individual cooks to local restaurants. The local police department even had a stand to see how their clam chowder competed.
While the chowder re-mained the most embraced aspect of the event by competitors and tasters alike, each team focused their attention on both the design of their booth as well as the taste of their dishes.
This was because there was a total of three awards given; a best designed booth award, peo-ple’s choice award and Mayor’s choice award which was presented by the Mayor of Dana Point, Carlos Olvera.
Tasting began at 10 a.m. on Saturday as patrons began filing into the Baby Beach park to find their favorite booths. For only 10 dollars a tasting packet could be purchased which included a sampling cup, spoon and unlimited samples from all the booths.
All benefits made from the cook off were giv-en to Fish for Life, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the lives of special needs chil-dren through fishing and other ocean activities.
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Jazz ensemble hosts a night of nostalgic music Joey Sellers conducts student musicians in playing a number of jazz songs in the McKinney Theatre
Dana Point hosted 44th annual Festival of Whales spanning two weeks
Underwater enthusiasts gathered at the 44th Annual Dana Point Festival of Whales for two weekends in a row to commemorate the 5000-mile migration of California Gray Whale from Alaska to Mexico.
Some patrons came exclusively for whale watching excursions, while others were more interested in the festivities onshore.
From 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. there were loads of activities from classic car and boat displays to clam chowder cook-offs.
The city offered a free shuttle service to the festival, which was beneficial to those who indulged in the beer and wine garden.
Face paintings, henna tattoos, kona shaved ice, sand sculpting competitions, bounce houses and bocce ball contests took place surrounding the harbor.
All hands were on deck in making the festival possible. A variety of volunteers helped maintain cleanliness both on and off the shore.
The art fair harnessed the attention of people roaming through the harbor, where all facets of art were held.
Wandering through the 87 degree salted air, there was an array of booths that displayed the work of local artists and students.
Silke Turner, mixed media artist, jeweler and photographer, brings new life to natural elements that have fallen in her path.
As a member of the Ocean Defenders Alliance, she collects debris from the ocean and uses the weathered materials to form her work.
“The only material I won’t use is plastic,” said Turner, of Laguna Niguel.
However, she does repurpose the bones of marine life, wood and degraded metals.
Turner mentioned that she uses Native American techniques when disinfecting and preserving bones.
“The method of the Native Americans was to use cornmeal,” Turner explained.
The range of textures and colors in her works were inspired by our ecosystem and natural surroundings.
Turner was a fine example of how it is possible to do what you love for a living, when dedication is applied to your passion.
Julie Setterholm is the face of Copper Feel, and uses her welding background to fuse
Jazz studies instructor Joey Sellers and his students moved to the beat in the McKinney Theatre at Saddleback College on March 9.
The night began with an orchestrated rendition of Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple from the Apple.”
The strains of the song set the tone for the rest of the night.
After the piece Sellers welcomed attendees to the concert
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CONDUCTING: Joey Sellers led the ensemble of jazz students.
sing the night’s final vocal piece, “Lover Man,” by John La Touche and Duke Ellington.
Sellers finally took time after this composition to introduce the individual musicians of his jazz lab, which was met with firm applause from the audience.
This final mid-song interlude was then followed by the last song of the night, “Room 219,” by Benn Clatworthy.
Gil Olinger, an audience member and father of guitarist Ethan Olinger was very impressed by the concert.
“I enjoyed the show,” Olinger said. “I’m particularly proud of my son being around such fine musicians,” Olinger said.
copper, bronze and colored enamel to form works of art and jewelry.
Her work is vivid, and the blended pigments are that of a fairy tale.
The colors leak into each other which creates a liquefied effect on an inflexible piece of metal.
Adriane Tomik of Costa Mesa was astonished by how resourceful all of the artists were.
She saw sea glass being repurposed into hand woven textiles and crocheted jewelry inspired by Peruvian culture.
“The festival had so many unique artists displaying their beautiful pieces,” Tomik said.
“I’m so excited about my purchase especially since the artist conveyed so much passion behind the work. It was a goregous day to walk aroud and admire the art.”
Setterholm, along with other artists, patrons and families, felt fortunate to share the sun and her artwork with the community.
“It was a wonderful day and location to enrich peoples lives with art,” Setterholm said.
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STRIKE A POSE: Julie’s masterpiece on display.
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WINNING: The Shwack Grill won the people’s choice award for the second year in a row.
Clam Chowder cook off at Baby Beach
vera who explained to the crowd his favorite type of chowder.
“I’m a New England clam chowder kind of guy,” Olvera said as he delivered the award to RJ’s Cafe who’s chowder was rich in taste and full of diced potatoes and bacon.
Cannons Seafood Grill took home the Best Booth award thanks to their Hawaiian themed booth and dressed up chefs.
The people’s choice award was presented by last years winners The Shwack Beach Grill who seemed reluctant to give up the award.
“I just wanna keep it,” said The Shwack’s chef.
Lucky for him the Shwack took home the peo-ple’s choice award for the second year in a row.
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and thanked them for attending. The concert continued after
this brief pause with the musicians being led by Sellers in playing John Coltrane’s “Blue Train.”
This was followed with an upbeat playing of Art Blakely’s “Free for All.”
Sellers then introduced vocalist Laurie Lewins to the stage.
Lewins and the band perform a catchy rendition of Vernon Duke’s classic song “Taking a Chance on Love.”
She continued to perform alongside the band with “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” by the Gershwin Brothers.
Lewins left the stage as the band played “Yardbird Suite” by Charlie Parker.
Sellers then welcomed Lewins back to the stage again to help
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The men’s tennis teams at Irvine Valley College is playing at exceptional pace and is off to one of their best starts in its history. The Lasers are a perfect 10-0 to begin their campaign and are currently ranked num-ber one in Southern Califor-nia. Led by a cast of European players, IVC is beating teams by wide margins almost every match.
The Lasers started their sea-son by defeating El Camino
College, 8-1, Grossmont Col-lege, 6-3, and Cerritos College, 7-2 to begin the season. IVC then got a 19-day break from play after their match against Los Angeles Pierce College was cancelled.
The pause in play benefited the Lasers greatly, as they came out and dominated their next two opponents. They shut out Fullerton College and River-side City College on the road and were 2-0 to start confer-ence play.
The Lasers went on to beat their rival Saddleback by the score of 7-2 and thrashed Or-ange Coast College, 8-1 to im-prove their conference record to 4-0 and overall record to 7-0. The first four conference games and five out of their first seven games were on the road,
making their undefeated streak even more impressive.
IVC defeated their first non-conference opponent since Feb. 3 when the shut out San Diego Mesa College, 9-0. The Lasers went on the road again for a conference match and shut out Cypress College, 9-0.
IVC finally played a confer-ence opponent at home, hosting OCC and beating them 9-0 to extend their shut out streak to three matches and get to a 10-0 overall record.
The Lasers have five match-es left and four home confer-ence matches to attempt and complete their perfect regular season before heading into the playoffs.
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Head coach Andy Ground has been with Saddleback for all three state championship victories
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Champs: Saddleback head coach Andy Ground (center) celebrates his third state championship with Kyle Hoag (far right), Conor Clifford (right), and Hayden Frederick (back left). Ground has been on the Gauchos coaching staff for all three titles, once as an assistant and twice as head coach. Saddleback’s overall record was 33-2, just one win shy of tying the team record of 34 set in 1980.
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