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A NEW PATH: OCTA plans to make changes to routes due to decreased use in public transportation.

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DOMINATION: The Gauchos and cheerleaders celebrated beating Long Beach City College, 43-17. Saddleback led at halftime 30-3 and never looked back. Quarterback Johnny Stanton was named the MVP of the game and Jeff Holsinger was named defensive player of the game.

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Gauchos headed to state championships

Students flood transfer fair

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OCTA to change its bus routes

Strands drama may finally be over 2 OC demands more low-cost homes 4

Angels for the Arts bring their mosaic bear project to the Saddleback campus 6

Del Mar celebrates Christmas 6

The Orange County Trans-portation Authority plans to cut routes across Orange County. The changes also affect routes that pick up passengers at Saddleback College.

Cuts to the routes come as a response to lower ridership throughout Orange County. This has caused OCTA to take this measure. According to Joel Zlo-tnik, Manager of Public Infor-mation, Since 2008 OCTA has gone down from approximately 69 million riders to 48 million resulting in a reduction of about 30 percent.

“Orange County’s bus rid-ership has plummeted in recent years,” Zlotnik said. “OCTA needs to make changes that grow ridership and make the bus system more efficient and cost-effective.

Otherwise, major service cuts and fare increases could be made in the future that would worsen the ridership decline trend.”

The changes, under the pro-posed 2016 Draft Bus Service Plan, aims to increase ridership by offering faster, more conve-nient service in areas that the bus is most used. Routes which would see cuts or, in some cases, be to-tally eliminated.

Four routes specifically stop to pick up and drop off passen-gers and students at Saddleback College: 82, 85, 91 and 191. Out of these four, three would be

changed according to Zlotnik.“Under the draft proposal

Route 82 would be cut back south of Santa Margarita at Antonio Parkway because of low ridership and Saturday would be elimi-nated,” Zlotnick said. “Route 85 would be cut back south of Alicia Parkway at Crown Valley Park-way, service would be reduced to every 60 minutes and Satur-day service would be eliminated, Route 191 would be eliminated.”

Route 91, which runs from San Clemente to Laguna Hills

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With another semester com-ing to an end, many Saddle-back College students may be starting to wonder which col-lege they would like to transfer too.

The Transfer College Fair presented an opportunity for students to come face to face with admissions representa-tives from a wide variety of four-year colleges on Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. through one p.m. in the campus’ main quad.

Students asked about admis-sion and financial aid require-ments, college majors, campus life and gather other vital col-lege-planning information.

Each admission representa-tive worked at a college table or booth with a collection of handouts and brochures, and an occasional highlighter give-away.

Most of the students at-tending the fair have been at

Saddleback for a couple of years who want to achieve their desired transfer goal. It is important for the representatives to consider where the students have been, in order to best help them determine where they should be heading.

Kaitlin Murray, a 21-year-old sociology major, said she was surprised to find a uni-versity that she never would have considered attending, was

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In the Opinion section of the Sept. 23 issue in the ‘How Trump are You’ article, Madi Hawksley was misquoted saying her opinion was option B, when in fact it was option A.

SADDLEBACK COLLEGE POLICE★BLOTTERThe following are selected in-cidents as reported from the daily media log, courtesy of the Saddleback College Police department.

Lot 10Monday, Nov. 16, 7:19 p.m.A CSO came up on a vehicle with a male sleeping in it with an odor of marijuana emanating from vehicle.

Learning Resource CenterTuesday Nov. 17, 12:07 p.m. Informant states he left sunglasses in a classroom, went back and saw a female sitting in the seat he was in and sunglasses were miss-ing. She was asked if she had seen them and said no. They suspect she stole the sunglasses and request-ed an officer to assist. No other reports were taken.

FA 300TuesdAy, Nov. 17, 3:25 p.m. Officers received a call about a subject refusing to leave the classroom, causing trouble. No oth-er reports were taken.

Student Services CenterTuesday, Nov. 17, 3:41 p.m.The bookstore called to report that a theft had occurred. No oth-er reports were taken.

LoT 9A BowLwedNesdAy, Nov. 18, 6:58 p.m. Informant wanted to re-port a suspicious barefoot male walking between staff vehicles checking them looking like he was under the influence. Contact was made, he was advised and released.

LoT 10moNdAy, Nov. 23, 2:46 p.m. An illegally parked car was check for registration of vehicle.

An ongoing battle between the Dana Point City Council and California Coastal Commission over two public access routes to Strands Beach may finally be over.

The city council voted unanimously this month to keep the electronic gates that limit public access to Strands and extend their hours of operation to one hour before sunrise and one hour after sunset.

The lengthy legal battle between the city and Coastal Commission began in 2009 when the city of Dana Point built gates at the central and mid-Strands access points. They also began locking them from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. from October to April and 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. from May to September.

The Coastal Commission opposed these actions and claimed the gates vio-lated the Coastal Act of 1976 and Local Coastal Program and responded by requir-ing the city to file a Coastal Development Permit to warrant these actions.

The city challenged these claims in 2010 and issued a nuisance abatement or-dinance that stated the city maintained the right to regulate the access to Strands with

gates, in order to protect against potential criminal activities in the Strands Head-lands development neighborhood.

After five years of court proceedings a decision was finally made this September by San Diego Superior Court Judge Randa Trapp, who ruled in favor of the Coastal Commission and declared that the Dana Point City Council unlawfully passed the abatement ordinance and that it was passed in an attempt to avoid the Coastal Act requirements.

This judgment granted the Coast-al Commission authority to overrule any further closures to the mid-Strands access point whether it be by electronic gates or restrictive hours.

The city council responded to the ruling this month by unanimously ap-proving a coastal development permit that will keep the electronic gates at the central and mid-Strands access points, but lengthen the hours of operation to one hour before sunrise and to one hour after sunset.

It is unknown how the Coastal Com-mission will respond to the cities CDP, but it is safe to assume more litigation may be in store, considering the electronic gates are still in place and functioning.

The CDP that was adopted by the Dana Point city council is similar to one that was approved by the Malibu City Council and Coastal Commission and is viewed by

Dana Point as a plan that takes everybodies interests into consideration.

Dana Point local and Saddleback stu-dent Connor Dunlap disagrees with the city council’s decision and feels unregu-lated access to public beaches should be a freedom community members deserve.

“It’s good they extended the hours the gates operate, but I personally don’t think they should be there at all,” Dunlap said. “They make it seem like wanting to be on the beach at night is a crime rather than a right.”

Dunlap is referring to the testimony of a Dana Point police representative iden-tified only as Mr. Greenwood at a previ-ous city council meeting in an attempt to justify the gates and restrictive hours along with the nuisance abatement ordinance. Greenwood claimed removal of the gates and restrictive hours could result in “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.”

These were the speculations that Judge Randa Trapp dismissed and found to be “a good theatre against the backdrop threat of litigation from the Coastal Commission, but not rooted in reality.”

With the city council's approval of their CDP this month, the next step in see-ing what happens to the gates will be to see how the Coastal Commission responds and whether or not they agree with the ex-tended hours and continued gate closure at night.

Niko Labarbera GATES STAY OPEN: A homemade sign reading ‘open’ has been placed over the restictive hours portion of the Central Strands access point gate after a San Diego Superior Court judge ruled Dana Point City Council cannot lock out ocean access.

Five years of litigation may have finally come to an endNIKO LABARBERA PHOTO EDITOR

and back, would remain completely unaf-fected under the changes.

A draft of the plan still remains in pend-ing status until put up for a public review this January.

Based on public input, the OCTA board enacts the final draft of the plan in February.

If passed, Zlotnik said OCTA hopes for many positive changes.

"Ninety-two percent of riders will see ei-ther improved bus service or no change in service,” Zlotnick said. “The benefits include increased bus frequency and quicker travel

times for passengers in the areas of the coun-ty where the service is most heavily used.”

To those impacted by the new changes, Zlotnik said he understands the frustrations of passengers affected but explains the ne-cessity of the plan.

"Change is always difficult and we know this plan may disrupt bus service for some people,” he said, “But it’s something we have to consider for the future health of our transit system.”

Student Don Ambrosio, 60, said if the bus routes are cut, this will create difficulty as riders don’t always have alternative trans-portation as a backup.

“We are all affected by the [cutting of the] bus routes, especially those who take the bus

often,” Ambrosio said. Zlotnik said that OCTA understands the

plight of students who depend on the bus for travel and are affected by the changes.

He said OCTA is currently working with cities to gauge their interest in operating bus routes tailored specifically to commu-nity needs to cover some of the areas that would no longer be served by OCTA buses.

The final draft of the OCTA’s plan, as well as its changes, once approved, take ef-fect starting this June and October. OCTA wants to hear from riders about the pro-posed changes. Detailed booklets with sur-veys will be placed on buses, passengers will be able to comment online at www.octa.net//2016BusPlan.

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ampusWhere were you and/or what were you doing when you heard about the terrorist attack on the twin towers?

“Personally I’m not affected, but I could see why this would be a really big problem for a lot of people. Really, the pub-lic transit system has been a really big problem right now, because it’s losing money.”

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Not learning from our mistakes? Or is history repeating itself?

It really is a small world, af-ter all. Technology has opened windows and doors connecting just about everyone, especially students. When it comes to learn-ing about foreign languages and cultures, the Internet has helped a great deal.

Statistics show that by 2018, one in four students will enroll in an online foreign-language class. In a quantitative study conducted in 2012 by the NEAD, it showed 80 percent of students achieved a B or higher and a concurrent qual-itative study showed students felt confident in reading, writing and speaking the foreign-language.

However, a recent survey by U.S. News of professors shows that “nearly half of those who had taught an online course felt that online students received an inferior education” compared to lecture-based courses.

So, what’s better? A high pass rate for a substandard education or a better education, period? I would say that a better education, period, is better. Who cares if stu-dents do well in a mediocre class? Schools that only want to show high statistics, maybe, but their students deserve better.

Here in the United States, peo-ple have seized upon the oppor-tunity to speak and act negatively against the Syrian refugees and Muslims in general. In the polit-ical realm especially where, sur-prisingly, there’s bilateral agree-ment between political parties.

And it isn’t good. Both Dem-ocrats and Republicans in Con-gress have voted to pass the SAFE Act, a bill that experts say will make the already hugely re-strictive and bureaucratic process of being vetting even more bloat-ed, unbalanced and unfair.

As students, one thing we are required to study to attain a degree is history. Even if its not relevant to our majors, it’s an un-derstanding

In fact a quick glance back at history shows that the U.S. is no stranger to being very discrimina-tory towards immigrants.

A notable example was 1882 when the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act due to the general fear of huge numbers of people from East Asia coming to totally wipe out America. The primary reason was immigration due to the coercive imperalism of for-eign powers such as Europe and America.

Worse still, the act was con-stantly adding to by both federal and local laws which eventually reached their zenith with the Im-migration Act of 1924. Moving from beyond limiting just East Asians, the act greatly restricted all immigrants of non-U.S. coun-

A political cartoon from 1882, showing a Chinese man being barred entry to the “Golden Gate of Liberty”. The caption reads, “We must draw the line some-where, you know.” (Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, vol. 54 (1882 April 1), p. 96 | Public domain, Library of Congress)

The ISIS-led attack on Paris has resulted in a global-wide onslaught of different reactions and buzz about solutions to prevent another terrorist attack. However, not all of them could be classified as rational or fair.

tries. Only a maximum of just two percent of people from that country, who were already living in the U.S., could be admitted un-der the law.

This law resulted in the Amer-ican government, during 1939, to refuse to accept 908 German ref-ugees escaping Nazi persecution traveling aboard the MS St. Lou-is ship from being admitted into America. The two percent quota had been reached. The American government forced the ship to leave without allowing any refu-gees to disembark.

Passengers instead disem-barked at Belgium, France, Ant-werp and the Netherlands, all of which became heavily bombard-ed and 227 are estimated to have died due to the attacks.

It’s 2015 and like in 1882, the wave of Syrian immigrants can be owed primarily to the blow-back of consistent and needless foreign intrusion into the Middle East by many foreign societies such as America.

This has taken the form of

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factors like ISIS who continue to drive immigrants from their country in great droves to seek solace in others. Like in times before, people seek to keep them out, rather than seeking rational solutions to ensure the right peo-ple get in.

Putting a lock on the door or making that door hard to open for

immigrants, especially those flee-ing Syria, is not reasonable

We need rational, sane and grounded solutions to make sure we ensure fairness and it is im-possible to achieve those if fear, ignorance, xenophobia and most of all, a refusal to learn from past mistakes possess our minds.

Online, offline: teach me your waysIt’s not fair to offer only online

classes for certain courses, espe-cially in the foreign-language de-partment. How is it possible to re-ally learn about a new language, a new culture, online? How can a student get the real experience of what the country may be like by staring at a computer screen?

Despite these legitimate con-cerns, Saddleback College has still decided to only offer an on-line class for French 2 for the Spring 2016 semester.

From an informal conversa-tion with classmates in a lec-ture-based French 1 class, I found that the majority of students are very concerned about being able to truly grasp a foreign language in an online learning setting.

In an online class, how can students practice conversation and really work on their accents? By video conferencing with the professor? Is that really a good solution?

I know from personal ex-perience (I took four years of high school Spanish, I’m taking French now, and I learned He-brew all throughout elementary and middle school) that perfect-ing the accent of a foreign-lan-guage is just as important as mastering the grammar and vo-cabulary of the language. No one takes you seriously if you sound like an American trying to speak French or Spanish or Hebrew.

Let’s say you go to France, after learning French through an online college course. You thought you had mastered the

language because you knew the vocabulary and tense structure. However, you hadn’t practiced speaking very much.

Upon arrival in France, you went to one of the best-rated restaurants in Paris. You tried to order, in French of course, and while you thought you sounded amazing, the waiter’s response was not at all positive or encour-aging.

“Sale Americain!” was the lovely waiter’s response, which translates roughly to “dirty Amer-ican” in English.

Now, you only received such a terrifying response because your French accent sounded so abys-mally American. If you had actu-ally taken a French class with a real teacher, this humiliating ex-perience may not have happened.

Let’s say you next traveled to Israel and found yourself in the outdoor market. In this outdoor market, if one comes across as foreigner, with a foreign-sound-ing accent, the shopkeeper can definitely tell. Most likely, since the shopkeeper assumes that you are foreign, he will think that he can get away with charging you double the amount that you would pay if you sounded native.

The best place, in my opin-ion, to perfect your accent is in a real classroom, with a real live teacher, in order to get the best feedback without the pitfall that you would receive in the actual country.

So, the moral of the story is save money later and go to class, now.

Online classes have only gotten more popular, but are they worth their digital weight?

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W CLASSIFICATIONHUD categorizes low-income households as low income - 80%, very low income - 50%, and extremely low income - 30% of area’s median annual income figure.

INCOMELow-income units become available to households with annual incomes at 80 percent (low-income), 50 percent (very low-income) and 30 percent (extremely low-income) all of which are eligible for a public housing unit.

SECTION 8Section 8 households one’s income may not exceed 50 percent of the area’s median income.

DOCUMENTATIONOne needs to verify their income with HUD to be eligible for low-income housing. IRS tax returns can be used to verify eligibility.

CONSIDERATIONSJust because you are eligible for low-income housing in one area does not make it so in another.

Affordable housing by the numbers

ELIGIBILITYJust because you are eligible for low-income housing in one area does not make it so in another.

participation: 400,000 housespopulatiuon: 38,802,500area: 234.0 sq. mi

reaches of the socioeconomic spectrum, however, but to even average college stu-dents, veterans and disabled with little in-come.

About 400,000 houses participate in the affordable housing program, which pro-vides the original house’s landlord with government payments, known as housing vouchers, on the behalf of low-income ten-ants for a portion of the rent’s monthly cost.

Another method the government can step in and aide low-income tenants is by imposing “rent control,” where local gov-ernments can limit how much landlords may increase rent prices year-over-year for existing tenants.

The availability of homes which partic-ipate in the affordable housing program is expected to increase, too.

In June of this year, the California Su-preme Court concluded, in a seven to none ruling, that housing project developers can be required, as per the city’s or county’s it resides in discretion, to include some amount of affordable housing available to the public.

This ruling came at a time where Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote that we are among an affordable housing crisis which is of “epic proportions in many of the state’s localities” which has a “scarcity of affordable housing.”

Eligibility to affordable housing varies from county to county, however, most spec-ify the basic limits to income, documenta-tion and classification.

One needs to have a salary within a

specificed bracket to be eligible for low-in-come housing, with different amounts of in-come providing different levels of “income classification” relating to The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s, or HUD’s, guidelines.

Low-income units become available to households with annual incomes at 80 per-cent, or low-income, 50 percent, or very low-income and 30 percent, or extremely low-income, all of which are eligible for a

public housing unit. Regarding Section 8 households, howev-

er, one’s household income may not exceed 50 percent of the area’s median income.

“It helps diversify our community. We get all income levels, which is good” said Mayor Jerry McCloskey of Laguna Niguel. “It allows people to live in nicer neighbor-hoods typically.”

McCloskey said the anonimity provided to those living in low-income housing helps some of the stigma.

“Since the people who live in there don’t know which are the affordable units, [resi-

dents are] not stigmatized for their income level. It helps people move up in the com-munity and live in a nicer area.”

Daniel Vasquez, of Foothill Ranch, is el-igible for the program. He thinks some of the stigma surrounding affordable housing can be removed.

“Success is limited to one’s perception.The way I see it, is I’m paying less and I have a nicer apartment than anyone I know,” Vasquez said. “I could be living here and be

lazy and have no aspiration to ‘suc-ceed.’It’s not where you live or how much your rent is, it’s where your heart and mind is leading you.”

The city of La-guna Niguel is close to meeting its affordable housing

allocation, or Regional Housing Needs As-sessment (RHNA).

“Our RHNA was 73, we are at 67, and we’re only two years in. So we’re doing a really good job are providing housing for people who make 50 to 80 percent of the median income,” said Jonathan Orduña, the Laguna Niguel Senior Planner. “When you have affordable housing, there are obvious-ly jobs in the city that fall within the income ranges, so that allows the people that have those jobs to live closer to where they work, which reduces traffic in the area. That’s one benefit of affordable housing.”

by JULIA McCLOSKEYWe are amidst an affordable housing crisis and with some of the most expensive real estate present in California only becoming more expensive, people begin to question where our minds and money should go

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hat is “affordable hous-ing,” anyways? When most people think of the notion that something is “affordable,” they picture being able to buy and pay for things relatively with-in their spending level and affordable housing is not much different. California has some of the most costly hous-ing in the country, and trying to find affordable housing can be a signif-icant hurdle to low and middle-income families in areas such as South-ern California. Now, more than ever, “afford-able housing” is not just for those among the far

“Since the people who live in their don’t know which are the affordable units, they’re not stigmatized for their income level. It helps people move up in the community and live in a nicer area” when asked as to the benefits of affordable housing.”Mayor Jerry McCloskey of Laguna Niguel

PHOTOS BY NIKO LaBarBera

The Vintage Shores affordable housing units is located off Camino de Estrella in Capistrano Beach, California.

The Mendocino at Talega apartments leasing office.

Avenida Serrathe Avenida Serra Apartments are currently accepting aplications and will move the first renter in before the end of the year.

The entrance to the Mendocino at Talega Apartment guides off Avenida Pico Avenue in San Clemente, California.

Mendocino Talega apartmentsthe Mendocino at Talega Apartments have 185 affordable housing units, but they are all currently occupied.

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The opening of the San Clemente Outlets have sparked more fierce competition from the Downtown Business Association (DBA) of San Clemente during this years “Puttin’ on the Glitz.”

Avenida Del Mar was blocked off by The Orange County Sheriff’s Department and Youth Explorers for people to enjoy a safe stroll, shop small businesses and eat among the 13 restaurants on the street.

The city has also provided sev-eral food trucks such as Dogzilla, food stands like popcorn and chest-nuts, free films, photos with Santa

San Clemente raises the‘Glitz’Claus and Disney characters, horse-drawn buggy rides and other enter-tainment.

Local Erica Florimonte attended the 2014 and 2015 ‘Puttin’ on the Glitz’ and believes 2015 has been the best yet. Also, she says the DBA has stepped it up this year because of the new Outlets off Avenida Vis-ta Hermosa.

“There is a lot going on this year. There are more people, more photo booths and they even have a huge projector screen playing movies,” said Florimonte. “They have proba-bly done this so they can prove that smaller business can compete with the bigger outlet stores.”

The stores along Avenida Del Mar have seen an increase in prof-it and clientele from the previous year.

“It was crazy busy, I didn’t even have a chance to sit down, we were

BUSINESS ASSOCIATION /FILE PHOTOIN SOLIDARITY WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES: Merchants and locals stroll through Avenida Del Mar Saturday night to help support small businesses.

So Cal residents show support of small business owners in San ClementeJORDAN RANGELEDITOR IN-CHIEF

giving all the dogs cookies and re-frigerated treats,” said Hailey, a Three Dog Bakery Sales Associate.

Denise O’Donnell, owner of Three Dog Bakery, located on Avenida Del Mar, says that this year they did a little bit better than last year and that is because many of the shops also set up tents to become vendors in order to maximize their space on the street.

Other businesses like Hobie Surf Shop attracted customers by providing a bake sale that would benefit the Boys and Girls Club of America. In addition, customers could also donate to a specific child in need of financial assistance. As of Nov. 29 all children had been supported but one.

“I think people were stoked to help others,” said Bri Latendresse, assistant manager at Hobie Surf Shop, talking about their bake sale.

Vendors and business did not seem concerned or intimidated by the new stores opening in the Out-lets. In fact, some shops on Avenida Del Mar will use the Outlets as a way for marketing and plan to co-operate with them.

“Everything with the outlets will be positive, we plan on building a relationship with them and cross advertise,” said O’Donnell.

Latendresse doesn’t fear her cli-entele will shift to the outlets be-cause she has helped build routine customers to her shop.

“We will combat the Outlets by providing great customer service and top-quality products,” said La-tendresse.

San Clemente merchants can only wait to see if combat or coop-eration will further their dominance in the city.

Charlie Brown comes to Saddleback College

Gather the family and head down to Saddleback Community College to celebrate the holidays Charlie Brown style. Saddleback’s very own preforming arts and theatre crew will be preforming “A Charlie Brown Christmas” musical to celebrate the series 50th year anniversary.

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is based on the comic strip, “Peanuts”

by Charles M. Schulz. Although “Peanuts” has been a comic strip since 1950, it wasn’t until 1965 that it was televised. The first of the many seasonal “Peanuts” comics to be aired started off with the wildly famous “A Charlie Brown Christ-mas.”

It originally aired on CBS on December 9, 1965. Since then, the Charlie Brown Christmas special has been running every year during

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the holiday season. The series be-came so popular that it has one a se-ries of awards.

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” has won an Emmy award and the “Pea-nuts” series winning a total of four Emmy awards. In fact, “Peanuts” was declared second in a list of the greatest comics of the 20th century, commissioned by The Comics Jour-nal in 1999.

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Chris Fine plays Charlie Brown.

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Mosaic animal statues installed on college grounds

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AN ARTFUL GRIZZLY BEAR: The Angels for the Arts mosaic bear art instil-lation is currently located outside the Learning Resource Center. Statues there such as this one will remain presented for a limited time until this January.

Saddleback College has under-gone a number of transformations this semester and the newest addi-tion to campus is now on display outside the main entrance to the Learning Resource Center.

Nine life sized bears each repre-senting a different culture or ethnic-ity that makes up the Mission Viejo community now sit perched outside the LRC.

Joy Aldrich, teacher and found-er of Aldrich School of Art, along with Aileen May, a local artist and member of the Art Academy Alum-ni Association, were the master-minds behind the mosaic bear proj-ect which took over three years to complete (2012-2015).

Both Aldrich and May are mem-bers of the visual and performing arts fundraising organization An-gels for the Arts, who with help from the the city of Mission Viejo’s Friends of the Arts organization,

brought the Bear Project to Saddle-back College.

The nine bears were created by Aldrich and May, but were designed by over 1,000 community members with mosaics to highlight the nine different cultures and ethnicities that help make up the Mission Viejo community.

The cultures and ethnicities rep-resented include a Persian, Na-tive American, African, European, Margarita, Mexican, Asian, South American and Pacific Island bear each decorated in a unique way to express their cultural heritages.

Community members who par-ticipated in the art project ranged from infants to senior citizens as the Bear project brought together a wide variety of contributors in an attempt to “celebrate diversity that fosters unity” according to the An-gels for the Arts website.

The bear project is the second art instillation to be placed at Sad-dleback this semester following the Wonder letters that are currently lo-cated between the fine arts building and LRC.

The bears arrived to campus on Nov, 9 and will remain in front of the LRC until Jan, 10, 2016.

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Science lecture series ends with an exploation of bird life

The Science Lecture Series is a forum designed to allow Saddle-back students and the neighboring community to attend a science lec-ture hosted by leading scientists in their field of study. These lectures are approximately two hours and cover a wide range of topics, all carrying scientific relevance and value. This provides students with a chance to become more inter-active and informed about break-throughs and research advances within the scientific community.

For the final lecture of the fall semester Dr. Chris Clark an expert in animal flight, bioacoustics, bio-mechanics and courtship displays discussed his research on small birds, in particular hummingbird courtship displays that use biome-chanics to produce bioacoustics. His research began with the An-na’s hummingbird and the com-mon notion that all noises heard from the animal where vocal, like most other mammals.

A rather rare topic in the sci-ence community, one would won-der how an individual could take such great interest in the subject? A love for small birds, or sounds caused my aerial vibration?

“I had no interest at all,” Clark said. “It just fell into my lap.”

Through extensive hours in the field “literally,” Clark implement-ed many technologies and tech-niques to collect sound data and explain where it came from. His first scientific technique was to bait male hummingbirds using dead female hummingbirds perched on

a limb and observe the males court-ship display. This mating display is a swift dive by the male followed by a short bioacoustic sound. He later perfected his hummingbird catching techniques and began using live fe-males once the males realized their potential mate was unresponsive and quickly lost interest.

“ It was to interesting to pass up,” Clark said.

Clark captured the Anna’s hum-mingbird’s mating behavior using high-speed cameras, special mi-crophones and a science laboratory with a wind tunnel system. Clark would place a feather or feathers in the wind tunnel in what he later concluded was the wrong angle to measure the maximum vibration and sound particular tail feathers made. The wind tunnel experiment also tests the relation of the feathers structural relevance based on how the surrounding feathers manipulate the vibrations of another feather to generate a specific sound.

The use of this technology helped Clark conclude that the sounds made by the birds observed and test-ed were a result of the feathers and their unique structure to produce specific bioacoustics using biome-chanics while in flight.

The silent flight of owls was also briefly discussed which is thought to use the same principles discovered that make bioacoustics, can also be used to decrease sound as well.

While biomechanics has been widely studied, bioacoustics is a new filed of study with its findings still not yet making its way into new technological advances relating to sound vibrations and wind. With more research being conducted, bio-acoustics will carry many uses that will eventually be used to improve our technology and daily lives.

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The voice behind Saddleback sports PA announcer Steve Henkle has been the voice of the Gauchos for the past decade

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Gauchos axe Vikings, 43-17

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Saddleback sophomore Cody White (red, extending the ball) dives for his second touchdown of the game. The Gauchos will play City College of San Francisco for the state championship.

Saddleback routes Long Beach City College to capture SCFA championship

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good in the first half,” White said. “Me and Dominik had a height advantage and we knew we could make some plays on [their cornerbacks].”

On the defensive side of the ball, the Gauchos got big

plays from sophomores Zach-ary Wade, Kai Ross, Anthony Hickey and freshmen Karson Block and the defensive player of the game Jeff Holsinger.

“Everybody came together, we all did our parts, we stayed

true to the defense we were running,” Holsinger said. “We really grinded for this and we deserve it.”

In the second quarter, Sad-dleback continued their on-slot on the Vikings. They got a field

goal and a 13-yard touchdown rush from freshman running back Marvin Marshall to make it 30-3 at halftime.

The second half was more difficult for the Gauchos, but it was self-inflicted errors that caused most of it.

Saddleback fumbled on their opening drive, gave up a touch-down, missed a field goal, fum-bled again and gave up another touchdown. After all of that, the Gauchos lead was only 30-17 with 11:59 left in the game.

A big return on the ensuing kickoff would change the mo-mentum for Saddleback and they would march down the field and get a 5-yard touchdown catch from Collins who was practical-ly playing on one leg.

“I got my knee stepped on pretty good,” Collins said. “I had to suck it up, this could have been our last game, so you gotta suck it up and go hard.”

Saddleback never looked back from that drive and com-manded the game the rest of the way. When all was said and done the final score was 43-17.

“It feels great for this team, I mean this team really bonded and they played well as an en-tire team and I’m so proud of them,” said Saddleback head coach Mark McElroy.

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Out of all of the community college football teams in South-ern California, the Saddleback Gauchos are the best. This was proved Saturday when Sad-dleback (10-2) defeated Long Beach City College (10-2), 43-17 in the Southern California Football Association champi-onship game.

“This was really just the sec-ond week of the playoffs, so we’re really looking forward to that state championship,” said sophomore quarterback Johnny Stanton. “We didn’t look past Long Beach at all ... we knew this is more of a playoff game then a championship.”

The Gauchos dominated from the start, both offensively and defensively, getting out to a 20-3 lead after the first quarter.

Stanton had three touchdown passes in the quarter alone, connecting with sophomore re-ceiver Cody White twice and sophomore receiver Dominik Collins once.

“I thought I played pretty

It’s that busy time of the year again, but for Saddleback Col-lege’s public address announcer Steve Henkle, it isn’t just about the turkey—it’s about the sports.

Henkle is an avid sports fan whose favorite sports team’s include the Green Bay Packers, the St. Louis Cardinals and to his recent dismay—UCLA foot-ball.

Henkle’s career in PA an-nouncing began 10 years ago, starting only 3 days after his retirement when friend and cur-rent Saddleback Athletic Di-rector Tony Lipold offered him the job. Two days later, Henkle came in, filled out the paper-work and was announcing for Saddleback basketball that same week.

“I started PA announcing at Saddleback, all because of

Tony—if I had not run into him on that Saturday, I probably wouldn’t be here, just the way life works,” Henkle said.

However, Henkle’s path is not typical, transitioning into the world of sports announc-ing after 34 years of teaching English and government to the High School students of the Garden Grove Unified District. In fact, he even recounts that as a kid he would have never thought of doing a job like this.

“If you would of told me that I would be doing this as a kid, I would of said no way—I was so shy, I wouldn’t have had said 3 words,” Henkle said.

In Henkle’s case, his biggest weakness became his biggest strength. And by having two jobs that require speaking in front of people on a daily basis, it was clear that it was some-thing he had to overcome.

This is something that he attributes to one of his high school teachers, whom even though wasn’t particularly his favorite, was the key to the be-ginning of his success in public speaking. It was in this English class which Henkle says that the teacher would randomly call on students to get up to give ex-temporaneous little talks, where

they only had 5 minutes to pre-pare.

“I was just in eternal fear, just hoping that she wouldn’t call on me and sure enough one day it happened and she asks ‘what’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you’ and that was horrible,” Henkle said. “I just wanted to disappear and I

just didn’t want to be up in front of people that I knew, but I got up and told this story and people were laughing and I got through with it.”

It was in that moment in which Henkle realized that he had feared something that he would later find to be a lot of fun.

“That’s when I realized ‘wait a minute, it wasn’t all that bad and it was kind of fun’, so from then on—as I’ve said before if

it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger, you realize that all that fear was misplaced.”

From there on Henkle em-braced his fear and channeled it into a career in teaching. For him, teaching has brought per-sonal satisfaction in the fact that he could help a student really understand a concept or have

an “aha” moment. He had also loved being in the classroom as a student and cites his teachers as some of his biggest inspira-tions.

“I had some very good teach-ers that were really inspirational to me, and I thought these guys they’re doing the right thing, they’re giving something back,” Henkle said. “So that was al-ways my thing: ‘leave it better than you found it, pay it for-

ward’.”While still teaching, Henkle

had the opportunity to rack up experience in sports by not only coaching, but also announcing for his school’s teams. Through-out his tenure, he coached swimming, water polo, soccer and football. All while taking the time to announce for both football and basketball.

Henkle particularly enjoys PA announcing for basketball games, which he says is a bit easier to call than football.

“I like calling basketball, be-cause you’re a lot closer to the game—it’s a lot more connec-tion to what’s happening in front of you and basketball is an easy game to call, you just follow the ball,” Henkle said. “While football there is a rhythm to it—there’s play, there’s action, then it stops, then there’s play.”

Along with PA announcing, Henkle does radio. He says that on radio, the hardest sport to call is baseball simply because there can be a lot of dead time. However, Henkle solves this problem by adding a bit of en-tertainment value to it.

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“The game tells a story. There’s no doubt about that. It’s about the game. It’s about the people on the field, but you have to have some fun yourself and make it more entertaining and interesting for the audience.”Steve Henkle